Friday 5/31/13 Promises 4

Dear Father in Heaven.  Thanks for all You do for all of us, thanks for all the promises that You will never break.  Lord, please be with all of those that we have on our prayer list and please heal them.  Lord, please bless me again with another message, and then guide it to the readers.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Pastor Dan's Safety Tip:  Right turn on red can only be made at intersections not restricted by a sign saying "no turn on red."  Then please NOTE, you must stop and check traffic before you turn right on red.  Failure to do that might cause you to be stopped by one of our fine police officers who will give you a neat little ticket which will cost you about $100.00.  Do you have that to spend to save ten seconds?  Stop on Red.  It's the law.

Good evening, brothers and sisters.  Please let me try and bring you up to date on our prayer list.  Patsy and Burt Emig and their family (all health issues).  Barbara, Barbara, and Barbara (all health issues).  Dick (breathing).  Donna (family issues).  Matthew (our son, keep praying, please).  Curtis (anger).  A veteran (depression).  Wounded Warriors (your daily prayers, please).  President Obama (salvation and safety).  A dear friend (depression).  Our food pantry (low on food). Vicki (many health issues).  God's workers (protection for all who work for Jesus).  For the masses (that people learn to love and not hate).

Folks, here is a suggestion.  If you receive prayer requests for many people, just lay your hand on that computer screen and pray for all of them at once.  God knows their needs and stands ready to hear your prayer.  Let me get to the message, Promises.

Friday 5/31/13, Promises, Day 4.

Exodus 19:5 - Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.  (NKJ)

Matthew 7:21 - "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."  (NIV)

Let's take a look at the Old Testament first.  His promise to us is that we will be a special treasure to Him.  However, HOWEVER, we must indeed obey His voice and keep His covenant.

Did you ever deal with a small child who might be a real brat?  My mamma dealt with one, me!  Now let me see, did my mother give me some ice cream and say now you be good?  Or did she say, if you are good and you listen tome,then I will buy you some ice cream?  If we went someplace and I was a brat, my backside sort of, well, "took a hit."  But if I listened all the time, and I do not mean for three minutes or until she counted to ten, I had to be good and listen to her, and back then might had to be a week.  Then the reward.  Now it seems bad behavior is being rewarded.  Not so with the Lord, as we can see in that scripture.  If we obey His voice and keep His commandments, then we shall be a special treasure, and brothers and sisters, God will not break His promise to us.  But we must earn that promise.

Now the New Testament:  Again we see about the same thing.  The promise is we will enter the kingdom of heaven, but after we do the Will of His Father who is in Heaven.  Yes, brothers and sisters, we have the greatest promises ever made to man, because they come from God, but not once does He promise that everyone will gain the kingdom of heaven without doing what is stated by God and recorded in our Bibles.

STOP RIGHT NOW AND PRAY.  OKLAHOMA CITY IS BEING HIT WITH TWISTERS RIGHT NOW.  PRAY, WARRIORS, PRAY.  8:00 PM EDST.

Okay, let me get this out.  Please, folks, be ready for our Lord, the next twister might take you.  We do not know when or how we will get called.  But we all will be called.  BE READY.  Share your blessings and come to Jesus.  Love ya.  Pass it on.

Pastor Dan