Tuesday 6/25/13 Faith and Heroes

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for a great day, and Father in Heaven, the more we grow in You and the nearer we get, the more and more faith we have.  Help us show that faith to others by the way we live each day in our daily living.  People need to see Jesus in all of us.  Please be with my brother Grant and take way his pain and heal him.  Be with our neighbor Elaine and heal her leg and ribs.  Be with our neighbor Cristy and heal her painful back.  Be with our neighbor Dale and heal his knees, and be with us here as each day we step out in faith to help others.  Watch over our flock, both that at The Bridges and also our online flock, as I call the prayer warriors on this line.  Thanks, Jesus, for trusting me to work for You.  As I  have faith in You, thank You very, very much for having faith in me.  I have failed You often, and I pray today I will not do that again.  Please bless a message for me this day and then dispatch it.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Pastor Dan's Safety Tip:  MEN!!  For your own safety at our home and to stay out of trouble with your wife ... put that lid down when you finish and do not dribble on the rim, and if you do, lean it.  That is for your safety, men.

Hi, brothers and sisters.  Today I want to talk to you some more about some of our heroes of yesterday,and some from the Bible and maybe some others in our lives today.  Just to clear the air here, not one of these is ever above my Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Tuesday June 25, 2013 - Faith and Heroes (Day Two).

Hebrews 11:29 - By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.  30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.  (NIV)

Over the years we put faith in a lot of people here in America.  So my heroes of today are our veterans.  It does not matter if they saw action or were in during peace time.  They walked out in faith to support this nation, this one great nation UNDER GOD.  Thank you, veterans, for all that you have done to keep our country safe and free and to keep our country so we can preach and teach about our Lord Jesus.  Some of my heroes of today are our current military and all those serving our country today.

Lord, please bless them and keep them safe.  Thank You, Father.  Amen.

In our scripture of today we see them talk about crossing the Red Sea on dry land.  That is faith, folks, faith. Now in verse 30 of Hebrews 11 we see how the people marched around those walls of Jericho for seven days.  Let me ask you, have you ever gone on a faith walk?  I can remember when Pastor Paul and other church leaders from Christian Life Assembly had a vision of this place of land to put a church high on a hill.  There was such a piece of land up on a hill just above the prison in Camp Hill, PA.  I can remember going up there and walking around and around the property and praying over it, asking God if it was His will to see this property would someday have a church on it and be a beacon for all to see.  We walked and prayed and prayed and walked.  The land was purchased by Christian Life Assembly and a church was built on it.  As the church grew, more prayer walking in faith was done, and more land was purchased and additions were built onto the church.

By faith we must walk out for the Lord.  We can pray about something and then sit around until you hear about your prayers, or you can start walking out in faith.  Please, when you walk out in faith, keep your eyes on the Lord, keep your eyes on Jesus.  Don't give up if your faithwalk seems to take a long time, look at how the people marched around Jericho before the walls fell down.

When was the last time you walked out in faith for/with Jesus?  Have you ever walked out in faith?  What about when it comes to sharing your blessings?  Do you do that off the top of your blessings or off of the bottom of our blessings that come from God?  If you give to God from the bottom, it will seem like there is nothing left to give to Him, but if you walk it out in faith and give of your blessings from the top, and if you really do it in faith, you will come to enjoy God's math.  So who are my heroes from the Bible today?  Well, they are the people who had faith and walked across the Red Sea on dry land and also those who marched for seven days around Jericho.  So now you have it for today.

It is time to say step out in faith and share God's blessings.  Love ya, pass it on.

Pastor Dan