Dear Father in Heaven, I love You, and I really appreciate You. Thanks for watching over me, and Lord, thanks for dying for me. I know You love me, because I can feel Your love. Dear Lord, I confess to You that some days I don't act like I love You, but I do. Thanks for working on Patsy, for Lord, she is out of that bed and sitting in a wheelchair. Thanks, Lord. Oh, and Lord, thanks for bringing Eleanor back home. Lord, please keep Your hand upon our families, not just mine, dear Lord, but all families including the families of our ministry. Lord bless those who help us and bless those whom we serve in Your name with food. Help me in days I struggle. And Lord, thanks for that big load of bread that we received this morning. I thank You for forgiving me of my sins, and I pray that You will now help me with the message and then help me dispatch it without my computer going down. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Hi, brothers and sisters, it is "empty hotdog day." Yes, it is, the day hollow wieners come for candy. A lot of Christians do not get involved with Halloween and even Santa at Christmas. I have learned over the years, back to the days when I was first saved, that almost anything that you have can be used for a tool to talk to folks about Jesus. Tonight I will sit at the end of our driveway in our hearse (yes, we have two of them) and give out candy. I will give the parents one of our ministry cards so if they need food they know they are welcome.
Praise report. Patsy got out of bed yesterday, now we keep praying she will be able to walk again and then go back home to be with Burt. Please pray for Craig to find a job, and please pray again for our son Matthew. Oh, I need to tell you this and I forgot. On Sunday in church, thee is a time when I tell folks to tell their neighbor that they love them and to pass it on, and I go and start with Dolores at the piano. She told me her fingers were so tight (they are twisting) she could hardly play the piano, and I held them and prayed for them, asking Jesus to heal them. She told me after church that she could feel the heat go through her fingers so she could play the piano. No glory for me, all to Jesus, folks. HE STILL HEALS, FOLKS. And Jesus does love me and you also, so let me get to the message.
Sunday Morning at 2:00 AM, turn your clocks back one hour.
Thursday, October 31, 2013, Jesus Loves Me, Day Three.
Psalm 36:7 - How priceless is Your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings. (NIV)
Psalm 36:10 - Continue Your love to those who know You, Your righteousness to upright in heart. (NIV)
Psalm 40:10 - Do not hide Your righteousness in my heart; I speak of Your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal Your love and Your truth from the great assembly. (NIV)
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NIV)
Okay, brothers and sisters, let me look at the scriptures that Jesus pointed me to for today. Let me start with Hebrews 13:8 which is one of so many that I really, really love. I am point it out again so that we can look back in those Psalms and know that when David was talking to "The Lord," he was indeed talking to Jesus, for indeed, "Jesus is Lord." I pointed that out so all of you know that thee Psalms are good for us today.
In Psalm 36:7 - "How prices is Your unfailing love!" The Love of our Lord Jesus, the unfailing love, meaning love that never fails us is priceless, meaning it is not for sale, it is free, priceless. It came without cost to us, but it cost Jesus His life and He did it for us. While we need to work for Him to show our love for Him and that we are saved, no amount of money, or even Mac and Cheese can buy that love. (People tell me I count dollars in Mac and Cheese. In fact I sold a car one day for 300 boxes of Mac and Cheese.)
That same Psalm tells us that the Love is for both high and low among men (women). To me that means regardless if one would be rich or poor, the love of Jesus is the same, and it is the same for those of us who love Him and those of us who hate Him. Think about that, does He not send blessings to all of us? If your neighbor hates God and you love Him and you both have a garden, does He not send rain on each?
In Psalm 36:10, we are asking Jesus to continue His love on those of us who know Him. However we also know we are to pray for those who don't know Him, and again he love them. The difference comes when we pass from this earth, we had better have Jesus locked in our hearts. You know, be Born Again.
In Psalm 40:10, Do not hide Your righteousness in my heart. That to me means help me to get it out, get into the fields of Harvest and tell about Jesus, and what are we to be telling? The Good News of Jesus, of course. You can see that David was telling the Lord that he speaks of Him and His faithfulness and salvation. Brothers and sisters, is not His love, faithfulness and salvation the "Good News?" And David is saying he will not conceal The Love and Truth from the great assembly ... And brothers and sisters, what might the great assembly be? Think about it. It is those fields of Harvest, it is our neighborhood, it is our family, it is all we meet, it goes to all the corners of the earth. SOMEONE SHOUT PRAISE THE LORD.
Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the message of today and thanks for saving me, and thanks for the Good News for us to share. Thank You, Jesus. I love You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya, pass that on, please. Pastor Dan
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