Monday 10/7/13 What Time Is It?

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the rain You are sending us right now.  Thanks for all that You do for us each day, and thanks for forgiving me of my sins, because Jesus died for me.  THANKS, JESUS, I LOVE YOU!  Jesus, I just needed to shout that out this morning,  for indeed, I do love You, and thanks for loving me while I was doing a walk-about without You years ago.  Thanks for watching over our family, our ministry team, this line, and sending us so many blessings that we have plenty to share.  Now, Lord, if You would be so kind as to watch over our president and his family and all of our leaders in Washington and in our country regardless of how they lead or were hired to lead.  Bless our military men and women and please keep them safe and bring them home soon.  Now, Lord, please, please bless me with a message to write and then please dispatch it for me.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Good Morning, dear brothers and sisters.  Thanks for being part of this line and by doing that, being a part of Carry The Light Ministries.  I do have some sad news, I guess, because I have never done this before.  I have asked, over and over again, for folks not to just wholesale send things that have been forwarded over and over again and have these silly (and that is what they are), silly statements on the end that say send it to ten others on your list and back to the one who sent it and Jesus will give you special blessings.  Most of it has stopped, but sadly I am going to be putting a blocker on one or two people.  Sorry, but it was one of those that crashed my computers, and I want to protect them.  I hope you all understand.  Do these things bother any of you?  Some of them have been forwarded around for years and years and years.  Like the Pepsi thing that removed Under God from the Pledge.  That never happened.  Folks.  Okay, folks, please today pray for our leaders and our military.  Pray our president comes to God, that someone will reach him in the name of Jesus and that he would get on his knees to God and not bow down to other countries' leaders.  Our military needs our prayers, they really do, as do our police officers and firefighters.  Pray for them, please.  Let me get now to the message, WHAT TIME IS IT?

Mark 13:32 - "No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.  33 Be on guard!  Be alert!  You do not know when that time will come."  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, how long has it been since someone came up to you and asked, What time is it?  How long has it been since you went up to someone and asked them, "What time is it?  Maybe your Mickey Mouse watch that you purchased back in the days when you were in love with Annette broke.  Maybe Mickey's arm broke off.  Or like me, my fake Rolex broke; the hands fell off.  Even when I first retired years ago, I put my watch down.  Found myself asking over and over again, What time is it?  Friends would tell me, get a watch.  My cell phone has a clock on it, so I could check that time.  But if I were to ask you today, What time is it?  What would your answer be?

I think it would be nice if we who really love Jesus would have an answer that would go like this:

Someone says:  Pastor do you know what time it is?  And the pastor would say something like this:  Time to come to Jesus!!  There are some preachers who I refer to as "end times preachers" who spend a lot of time trying to figure out when Jesus is coming back.  That is a waste of time for if we could ask Jesus one on one, even He could not tell us for He does not know.  But I can tell you this, and I can say it because it is in the Bible.  So if someone comes to me and asks, Pastor Dan, do you know what time it is?  I could, and I think I will start saying it.  "It is time to repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!"  It is time to be "Born Again."  Since we do not know when Jesus will come again, our job, and when I say our, I am not just talking about pastors, priests, gospel singers, or missionaries, etc., I am talking about all of us, including you and me.  It is time we really get working on getting the word out, or telling others the good, good news.  And brothers and sisters, what is that Good, Good News?  It is Salvation through Jesus Christ.

Here is but one place in the Bible where I get to show people "What Time Is It?"  "Time to repent!"

Matthew 3:1 - In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the desert of Judea 2 and saying, "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near."  3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:  "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, Make straight paths for Him.'"  (NIV)

Then I go to:

Matthew 4:17 - From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near."  (NIV)

Now brothers and sisters, I like to put the scripture down for you and even type it out.  But please get out your Bibles and check me out. You need to always back up what you are told about Jesus by looking in the scriptures.  Dr. Charles Stanley tells those who watch him that same thing.  Take your Bible and to Bible study and look things up yourself.

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thanks for Your Word and thanks for all You do for us.  Thanks for the inspired Word, and Lord, thanks for inspiring me to write on it.  I love You, Jesus.  Amen.

Now, brothers and sisters, please go forth loving on Jesus and everyone else and sharing your blessings.  Love ya.  *Pass it on.  Pastor Dan.

*Pass it on. You may pass on anything I write, but it will not get you special blessings.  What I mean when I put down Pass it on, I am talking about passing on the Love of Jesus and you can do that by just loving others.  Amen