Friday 6/14/2013 More promises from God!

Dear Father in Heaven.  Please forgive us for our sins, please forgive me for my sins.  Thanks for all You do for all of us.  All glory and honor to you, dear Father, all glory and honor to You.  What a perfect day this is, dear Lord, and I pray that You will watch over those we have been praying with and for those who just need Your touch this day.  Now lord, please, if You will bless me with another message and see that this old computer will dispatch it.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Pastor Dan's Safety Tip:  Two ducks were swimming in a lake and watching humans swimming in the area that is marked for people to swim. One duck said to the other, I pray those humans will not pee in our lake.  The safety tip.  If you have a place along a river or lake and you have small children, put a life jacket on them, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT IN THE WATER.  Kids have a way of just getting out of sight.  Let a life jacket be part of their summer fashion when you spend time at the beach.

Dear brothers and sisters.  Dear friends of mine had a small section of an island along the Susquehanna River.  When their kids were little, they were in a life jacket all the time.  Even at night when they were in their mobile home, the kids had them on, just in case they woke up and would go down to the river.  Their mother, Judy, drove bus for Central Dauphin School District and was a trainer working for me at the district.  She used that same safety standard in her driving also.

One last day working on Promises from God.  I am nowhere finished for God has promised us so much, if we just love Him, but I have been praying for a new subject and look forward to see what He might lay on me for next week.  Let me get to those promises of today.

Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.  27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.  Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.  29 Then God said, "I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.  They will be yours for food."  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, please take time to get out your Bible and just take time to read all of Genesis Chapter One.  I am just not typing out all of that.  If you DO NOT have a Bible, do not be ashamed to let me know, and Carry The Light Ministries will see that you have one.  For you who have children in school, you need them to be armed with the creation story, for it is the TRUTH.  The promises of all of this, God took a week, six days in all, to create all of the things we have today, or He made the things necessary and gave man/woman the brains to make things out of what He made.  Example, the computer.  Think about this, my dear brothers and sisters, God made all of these things for US, yes, He made it all for US.  He had everything set up that we would ever need, in other words right from the start He supplied our needs.

After God made all of these things, He then made man and woman, starting with man.  And brothers and sisters, He made us in His image.  So when you want to see what God looks like, LOOK IN THE MIRROR, and if you want to see how God wants you to act, LOOK YOUR BIBLE!!  What great promises are found in this very first chapter in our Bible.  And brothers and sisters, God did make this world and all that is in it and He made the heavens and all those stars in the sky, He made it all and He did it in six days.  And please do not try to tell me that days were longer back then.  No, it is the same sun and the same moon on the same rotation, so folks, just read your Bible and enjoy it.  And then, folks, GOD gave it all to us, He gave it all over to man and then woman.  And right here, folks, is where you know that God wants a marriage to be between man and woman, one man and one woman, for that is what He put on the earth and then said go forth and increase in number.  Listen to those promises.  He made all of this and then gave it to us to take care of.  And then what happened when we did not take care of it, and we did not live up or try to live up to what God wanted for us, what happened then?  Maybe someday He will give me that message again.  But let's say we had one MAJOR rain event.  God gave us a lot, He gave us everything we have that is good, for all things good have come from God.  So that is the first promise that I want to review with you today.

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.  (NIV)

So this promise from God is that He sent His Son to us, and folks, this happened and it is history, but you will not find it in a history book other than The Bible or in books written by those who love God.

The promise here is that Jesus came to save the world, not condemn it.  And how is this one man going to save the world?  Listen to me here, He is going to save this world ONE SOUL AT A TIME.  This saving is between Jesus and the one being saved. Yes, we who love Him will work for Him and try to get people to the feet of Jesus to be saved, but Jesus and only Jesus can save you in the end.  Brothers and sisters, we will have eternal life, we can enjoy it with Jesus in Heaven, or we can burn forever in Hell.  You need to make the choice.  Now let's wrap this up with one last promise and maybe the very best of all.  They say you save the best for last.

Revelation 22:7 - "Behold, I am coming soon!  Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."  (NIV)

Revelation 22:20 - He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."  Amen, Come, Lord Jesus.  21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people.  "Amen."  (NIV)

Revelation 22:12 - "Behold, I am coming soon!  My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done."  13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."  (NIV)

So what is this great promise I leave you with, as I wrap up this series of Promises from God?  Here it is, I am going to tell it to you right now ...

Jesus is Coming Back and that is a promise right from Him.  Did you hear me?  I said JESUS IS COMING BACK!  Are you ready if it happens today?  Once again, did you hear me?

I said:  Jesus is coming back!  Jesus is coming back!!  Jesus is coming back!!!

Now go forth and share your blessings and be sure to tell everyone this.  Jesus is coming back and that is a promise, not by me, but by Jesus Himself.  He really is coming back.  Please do not wait a minute longer to ask Jesus into your heart.  Ask now.  Dear Father in Heaven, forgive me of my sins and save my soul, come into my heart and my life and live and Jesus, help me follow your Word in all I do.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

I love ya.  Pass it on.

Pastor Dan

And remember ... JESUS IS COMING BACK, HE PROMISED