Friday 8/9/2013 Love Each Other 4

Prayer updates:

Eleanor Saylor is out of  Intensive Care and is healing.  Sharon and Bob thank you for your prayers and asked that you keep on praying for their mother.  Robert Coburn came through surgery and is in recovery and ALL THE CANCER IS GONE.  Praise God.  Please keep praying for Patsy and Burt Emig.  Prayers also for a 24 year-old young lady to get her personal life straightened out.  Pray she turns 100% to Jesus for this answer.

Prayers for our work session tomorrow morning.

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for a nice day, a beautiful day, and thanks for supplying our needs and supplying food for those who came for food today.  Thanks for healing Bob Coburn of cancer and thanks for Your touch on Eleanor, Patsy, Burt, and others on the line.  Please touch the life of the 24 year-old girl and have her back in Your arms.  Now, Lord, please bless me with the message and then dispatch it for me.  In Jesus' name I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, what a great day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  We are looking for great weather for our short work session tomorrow.  Nothing heavy, we have a crew coming from Tree of Life Church in Carlisle to help clean the goat pens, the rest will be working to make more space in the food pantry.  No, we don't do it by eating all the food!!  We will be throwing out junk and relocating some other things to open up more shelves.  Let's get to the message about Love.

Friday August 9, 2013, Love Each Other, Day Five.

John 13:34 - "A new command I give you:  'Love one another' as I have loved you, so you must love one another.  35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, our Lord Jesus loved us so much He gave His life for us.  Now we who love Him, truly love Him, are His disciples of today.  The scriptures tell us that we must love one another if we truly love Him and want to be a disciple for Him.  Now when Jesus was telling His disciples back when Jesus walked the earth, Simon Peter asked this ...

John 13:36 - Simon Peter asked Him, "Lord, where are you going?"  Jesus replied, "Where I am going you cannot follow now, but you will follow later."  (NIV)

Now here is a bit of Good News for all of us, yes, for you and for me.  Again, we are the disciples of today, and while we must go out and love each other and spread the Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ, here is more Good News for us.  Like Jesus said to Simon Peter, He is now saying it to us.  It would go something like this today.  Dear Disciples, where I have gone you cannot follow me now, but I will, I WILL be back for you later.  SOMEONE SHOUT PRAISE THE LORD!!!

In other words, brothers and sisters, we have work to do for Jesus here on earth and we should be working for Him in all we do.  No age limit on working for Jesus, no retirement date, you do not retire from working for Jesus.  Before we leave this subject I want to bring out some other things about love.

Matthew 5:43 - "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'  44 But I tell you:  Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  45 That you may be sons of your Father in Heaven.  He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."  (NIV)

All throughout the Bible, brothers and sisters, we find love, and it all starts with our Father in Heaven and Him giving us His Son Jesus who gave His life for us.  His greatest gift that has been given to mankind is to be able to love.  Out of all the spiritual gifts God has given Love is number one, it is above all others.  I have heard people say, you cannot get into heaven unless you can speak in tongues, and that is not correct, but I will tell you this, you cannot get into heaven without loving Jesus and loving others, and that is a fact, folks.  It is not always easy to love those who do not like you, but we must do it, and do it over and over again.  We must forgive others and walk in the footsteps of Jesus daily.  Not one hour a week in church, we need to walk it daily.

Now go forth, loving on others, loving on Jesus, sharing your blessings, and knowing this ... I love ya, and please pass that part on.  Pastor Dan

Now sing your way out with this today:

Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou Art welcome in this place.

Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou Art welcome in this place.

Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou Art welcome in this place.

Love ya, Pastor Dan