Salvation Wednesday 7/3/2013 Weapons of Mass Destruction

Dear Heavenly Father, thanks for another great day.  Lord, I want You to know that I appreciate all of them that You bless us with.  Each day You supply us is truly a blessing.  Dear Lord, we have an additional prayer request.  Please look in on and heal Tom Collins who I understand has injury to his leg.  Please keep Your healing hand on Patsy and Burt and also on our neighbor Elaine.  Thanks, Lord, for taking care of Dolores and also me.  Lord, please watch over our prodigal children that we have listed.  Thanks, Lord, on the eve of our Independence Day, we thank You for blessing America, and I am sorry that our country as a whole does not seem to appreciate what You do for us each day.  So I pray that our people of our country wake up and start living by Your word and stop abortion and stop the gay marriages, and that they stop trying to take Your rainbow when they do not even know what it means.  Lord, thanks for trusting me to work for You, forgive me of my sins and please forgive others as they ask this day.  Now, dear Lord, please bless me with Your word again today and the dispatch it for me.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Pastor Dan's Safety Tip:  Let the fireworks to the professionals and just enjoy them.

Hi, brothers and sisters.  A reminder about the picnic.  Saturday, July 6th.  Tim starts singing at 11:00 A.M.  We eat at noon and then back to more gospel music.  Location Willow Mill Park.  Call me for additional information -- 717 991 0754.  Please add Tom Collins to your prayer list.  I understand Tom has injured his leg.  Keep praying for our prodigal sons/daughters to return to the Lord.  Thanks for praying for Dolores and me.  It is appreciated.  God is good, and He will heal us.  It is also Salvation Wednesday on this line and the day we pray for the unsaved and for renewal for we who are saved and for God to use us to help bring in the lost.  Pray and put feet on your prayers and go to work for God.  AMEN.  Now to the message.  And today, in my opinion, the biggest weapon of Mass Destruction ...

Salvation Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Weapons of Mass Destruction (Day Three).

James 3:5 - Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.  Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.  6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.  It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire and is itself set on fire by hell.  7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, 8 but no man can tame the tongue.  It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.  9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who have been made in God's likeness.  10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.  My brothers, this should not be.  11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?  (NIV)

Let me start today by making this statement.  Your very own fingers are also in the same league as your tongue if you are the one who emails,does texting, or use facebook.  Remember that once something comes out of your mouth, once those words are out, you cannot put them back in.  Same as in sending messages.  Once you hit the send button, it is out there.  Also, please remember this.  God hears it all and sees it all.  He can hear even your heart.  I need to confess that sometimes my worst sins are in my thinking.

Picture this, it is winter and it has snowed and maybe still snowing.  You are at the top of a hill and you make a snowball and get it rolling down the hill as to make a part for a snowman.  The more that snowball rolls the bigger it gets.  It is the same with words out of your mouth.  Gossip is a sin and once a story is out, the gossip can hurt people and hurt them badly.  That is why I refer to the tongue as a weapon of mass destruction.  Wars can be caused by untamed tongues.  Think about that, folks.

Have you ever said something that hurt someone?  Maybe even your parent or a child or a trusted dear friend?  Did you even have someone tell a lie about you and you had to try and set the record straight?  Even if the person who told that lie comes clean, the  hurt has been done.  Sometimes during an argument between a husband and wife, things get said and some hurt really badly, and brothers and sisters, you can say "I am sorry," but the damage is still out there.  I know I have said words more than once I wish I had back in my mouth.  When I get to heaven, I am going to hug my mamma and tell her that I am sorry about some of the things I said as a teenager to her.  I remember once coming back to our home at 730 S. 27th Street in Harrisburg, PA, in one of my cars, and I had three of my buddies with me.  I was bringing back my Ford Coupe and getting the old Oldsmobile convertible so we could put the top down.  She came to the back porch and said hello to my friends who loved my mamma dearly.  She said to me, what are you doing, Danny?  And I made a smart remark, like, what's it to you?  And I know that hurt her, even knowing I was  joking.  So the top went down on the car but my friends said they were not getting in until I told my mamma I was sorry.  I told them I was joking and that was not enough, so I went up on the porch and gave her a hug and a kiss.  She said I was forgiven, and we shed a tear or two.  Gosh, I wish I was not such a brat growing up.  Brothers and sisters, use this as a guide ... "If you cannot say anything good about someone, do not say anything."  And also do not be a story teller (tell lies).  When you speak the truth you can remember it, but when you lie, each time you tell one it grows.  Over the years, words have started fights, ruined friendships, caused marriages to fail, split or divided churches and even started wars between great nations.  Reporters doing stories must check their facts over and over again, but sometimes wanting to be first out with a story, all the facts are not in and the story is wrong.  Sometimes when one makes up a story about another the story even gets in the paper and really causes problems.

God has given us a body with lots of parts, and we cannot go wrong if we always use them ALL FOR GOOD AND FOR GOD.  Remember, "get into the Word, NOT into the World."  Use your Bible as a fact checker.  Now go forth and share your blessings with others.  You cannot go wrong sharing your blessings, in fact you will be rewarded with even more great blessings.  Praise God from whom all blessings flow.  Amen.  Love ya.   (Pass it on.)

Pastor Dan

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