Monday 6/10/13 Even More Promises

Dear Father in Heaven.  Thanks for the rain this day, the rain sent to us from You to help with our food supply, drinking water and being able to wash.  Yes, Father, thanks for supplying our needs this day, for Lord, we know they all come from You.  Thanks for watching over us and taking care of us.  Dear Father in Heaven, please each day increase our faith in You, and help us to grow in You by increasing our faith.  Lord, be with our veterans and our military and also our leaders in Washington, DC, and in each state house across this land.  I pray today for peace, peace on earth, not just in America but world-wide peace. Yes, Father, please send Jesus back to us.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters:  While it is raining here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, it is welcomed because it comes from God.  Once again I have been pointed by God to keep on working on the promises He has made to us.  Please center your prayers today on our veterans and military, and also our leaders who run our governments.  Pray for peace.  Also if you have been watching the news, you will have heard that your phone calls are being taped, your Facebook, your Twitter accounts, and even each stroke you make on your emails. Yes,it is by our very own government, and yes, for sure they are looking at these messages.  I PRAY ALL OF THEM TO BE SAVED.  I pray they will read all I write about.  I guess some are worried about "Big Brother."  I am NOT, for I have "JESUS."  Let me get started with a couple more promises.  I will try for two a day.

Monday 6/10/13 Even More Promises.

Ephesians 2:11 - For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, 9 not by works so that no one can boast.  10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.  (NIV)

More than one promise in this scripture, brothers and sisters. First of all,it is a promise that we are saved because of Grace.  No one can earn their way into heaven by working for God.  It does not make any difference who you are, no amount of work can get you into heaven.  That is a good thing.  Our Father in Heaven sent His one and only Son down to this earth to save us.  (John 3:16/17)

We need to come to Jesus to be saved.  (John 14:6)  Now we are saved by the Love and Grace Jesus gave to us while on the cross, and it is through our faith in Him doing this.  This is a gift of God the Father delivered IN PERSON to us.  The reason no one can work their way into heaven is so that no one can boast about what they have done here on earth.

I would think that all of you have seen work being done even in your very own church where some try to be, dare I say this, more holy than someone else, and while we need good workers in the church, they first need to be doing it for Jesus, to help others, and not seeking glory on their own.

Now that, folks, is one promise.  Yes, the promise of Grace and Salvation.

Now let's look on to ...

Ephesians 2:10 - For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Look at this promise, we have been created in Christ Jesus to do good works, and we have been prepared in advance by God to get this job done.  So brothers and sisters, each of us has been created and prepared in advance, not just those saved, but all people.  However, those who do not have faith in God, and maybe some who do, do not know they have been prepared in advance to work for Him.  WELL, NOW YOU KNOW.  And it is right here in our Bibles.  That does not mean all of us will be great missionaries or preachers of those big churches, we all have been called and prepared in advance to DO GOD'S WILL.  All of us have different gifts and we should be using those gifts for God.  We have been gifted by God and also given free will.  We need to pray that we will use our free will to do the will of God for us.  If your gift is to pastor a church, then by all means if God is calling you do just that.  If your gift is to clean the toilets at your church and you are called by God to do that, then by all means get it done.  And it might be that He will assign you to both jobs.  After all, we are to serve God and serve our brothers and sisters.  Amen.

You know, around Easter some churches have feet washing services.  However, if you really think about it, weekly churches need "seat washing" services.  Someone please laugh ... or maybe even say amen.

Okay, got to go, have a really blessed day, and remember, God has promised you many, many things, one is that when you share your blessings and do it in faith, you will be rewarded.  So please share your blessings.  Love ya. Pass it on.

Pastor Dan