Friday 10/11/13 What Time Is It? (4)

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thanks so much for another day and thanks for the rain that is filling our wells.  Please protect Your people that are near the rising waters.  Thanks for waking us and thanks for taking care of our family and also all those who use this line.  Love on them, dear Lord, love on them and please teach us all to love.  Lord, be with those on our prayer lists, and Lord, please help me with the message and then help me dispatch the message, Lord.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen

Hey, brothers and sisters, What time is it?  If you live in our area, it might be a good time to learn to swim.  We have had a lot of rain, but fear not, you do not need an ark.  If you did, you ore than likely could not get the permit to build it because the government would be closed.  I think if the government is closed then we should also park AIR FORCE ONE and TWO.  Anyway, it is Friday and the day we should pray for our president and for our military folks, and police and firefighters.  Pray also for  pastors and all those who know it is time to go into the fields of Harvest and be fishers of men.  (Amen)  Let me get to the message, "What Time Is It?"

Friday, October 11, 2013, "What Time Is It?" Day Four.

Jeremiah 3:4 - The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.  (NIV)

John 10:36 - "What about the one whom the Father set apart as His very own and sent into the world?  Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'?  37 Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.  38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father."  (NIV)

Again today I want to point out to all of you, What Time It Is!  It is time we get our lives in order and then after we have our lives in order get out into the fields of harvest for our Lord Jesus and tell the folks the good, good news.  Sometimes I think we pastors sound like broken records, and we keep repeating and repeating ourselves, but the bottom line is this, while we have many jobs to do for the Lord, our main job is to be sure that each soul we reach, we reach for God.  If we feed a person's body and not their soul, what good have we done?  If we put clothes on their backs but no fire in their belly for Jesus, what good have we done?  God has given us many commandments to follow, not just the ten original and the two from Jesus, but so many including but not limited to going into all the corners of the earth to preach and teach the good news.

Mark 16:15 - He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.  16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."  (NIV)

The scripture from Jeremiah shows us that Jesus knew us before we were in the womb, regardless of how we got into the womb.  He also set us apart from others, and that means our work for Him was all planned out ahead of time.  I want you to think about this.  All of you know how I feel about abortion.  I think it is out and out murder and against God's will.  Think of all those who God already knew that their lives were taken before they had the chance to work for Him.  Brothers and sisters, do not be alarmed if He also changes your work schedule for Him.  You might really love where you are in your walk with Jesus, you might be a pastor and love your charge when God sends you somewhere else.  Maybe you have completed your mission for Him and now He is sending you out on another mission.  Not long ago I was talking to Duane Nicholson (world's best tenor singer), and he is making his final tour with the original Couriers.  I told him he cannot retire, for nowhere in the Bible does it talk about retiring from working for Him.  It does not say, "Go into all the world and teach and preach the good news until you are 70 and then stop."  No, maybe just shift to a different gear.  I am 72 and change and I feel I am just getting started working for Him.  So again as I finish up the message today, "What Time Is It?" ... It is time to go into the fields of Harvest and work for the Lord.  It is time to work for Him.  So how about it?

Dear Father in Heaven, send us forth this day, working for You.  Open doors that we might enter and tell all those there the Good News and tell them to repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.  Help us, Lord.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Go forth, brothers and sisters, and share your blessings and keep on loving Jesus and all others.  Love ya.  Pass it on.  Pastor Dan