Dear Father in Heaven: Please forgive me of my sins and please forgive me for not getting the message out yesterday. I really need to put the message on the front burner and I need Your help with it so I get up early in the morning and get to it. Thanks for watching over family and friends and the ministries of Carry The Light. Please, Lord, help us each day to walk with You in this uncertain world. Thank You, God, for answered prayer and healing the doctor so he could return to work. In Jesus' Name, I pray and trust. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, I got a wonderful email and reminder from a young lady named Karen who reminded me that back in the day she also helped me with my homework. Thanks for that reminder. If it were not for help, I might still be in my senior year. That would mean I would be the "senior senior." Praise report in as one of the doctors we prayed for is well and back to work thanks to Jesus. Sorry about yesterday, and I really hate to miss a message on Salvation Wednesdays, I think we really need that charging in mid-week. However, time got away from me and until I was done with the chores, it was about 5:30 PM and I went to bed. So let me get to the message right now. By the way! "What Time Is It?" It is time to get to the message. Don't you just love it?
Wednesday/Thursday, October 9-10, 2013, What Time Is It? Day Three!
Acts 1:4 - On one occasion, while He was eating with them, He gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." 6 So when they met together, they asked Him, "Lord, are You at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know THE TIME OR DATES the Father has set by His own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes to you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth." (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, "What Time Is It?" It is time that we get to work for our Lord Jesus in all that we do. I know that some of us have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time, while others can do many, many things at once. Just a couple footnotes on that statement, I have trouble walking and if I chew gum, my lower jaw goes up and down, but my teeth seem to stick together and get all "gummed" up. One other thing that people are doing is trying to drive and text at the same time. I think there should be something built into cell phones so that they do not work inside a car when it is running. Okay, but what I am going to talk to you about that you can do while you are working on other things:
First: In whatever we are doing and wherever we are doing it, we can be walking in the footsteps of Jesus or trying our very best to act as Jesus would act. We should be thinking "What Would Jesus Do? Yes, those letters, WWJD. I wear a wrist bracelet that has this on it. W.W.J.D. Years ago, this really neat young family walked into Hope United Methodist Church. A young couple, a good-looking man and a pretty lady and they had thees two little guys and the youngest, and maybe both, but the youngest of them had a ponytail. They were dressed really neat and the kids looked so cute. This was the Fortney family, folks, David, Joanne, Arthur, and Sean. Well, back then Sean gave me a WWJD bracelet which I still have and Artie gave me one also. I wore the one from Sean for years and years and I still have it, but now I wear the one from Artie. A very simple gift one might think, but it made me think. Over the years this family traveled with Carry The Light and when we would sing, they got involved. First, setting up and taking down equipment and then singing with us. I remember how those boys loved the song, "Can He, Could He, Would He?" Well, Dave and Joanne, so you know and all honor and glory to God, your little ones made an impression on me. A simple gift back then that is still giving today and I can use the simple gift today to relate to others, to witness to others that things we do, even what might be so simple at the time, can make a lasting impression on someone for Jesus, or if done wrong, the impression could be used for evil. Brothers and sisters, I often look at the bracelet and think about just that, What Would Jesus Do? Put Jesus first in your life in all you do and never let Him get out of that number one position.
You say you try and keep Jesus on your mind all the time? Yes I do! Even when I am in the bathroom, for I have had some really good talks with Jesus while on the toilet. Sort of like a "throne to Throne" talk. Look, He understands, after all He made us, and He made us that we all need that toilet time, and maybe just maybe, He knew that some of us, given that time, might just talk to Him. Folks, why keep a car book or a home and gardens book next to the pot when we could have our Bible and a prayer book? Look, we could even have an old Hymnal in there and you could sing while you go, and maybe once in awhile you would get a "base note." (Did I really say that?) So now how do I tie all of this into "What Time Is It?" Oh, and I guess I could say it is Potty Time, but folks, what I really want to say about "What Time Is It?" is this, It is time to stop wasting time.
Brothers and sisters, it is "time to be working" for Jesus in all we do, and when we get some downtime from other things, that is a good time to plan ahead for what you are going to do next for Jesus. What Would Jesus Do?
I would think that when Jesus first woke in the morning when He was here on earth, He would tart His day talking with His Father (Our Father) Who Art in Heaven. I would think that Jesus would talk to His Father often and we should talking with Him also. Jesus was sent here to earth with a mission and here that mission statement is:
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to SAVE THE WORLD through Him." (NIV)
So now Jesus was sent to this earth to save us from our sins, and to save all of us, not just you and me but all who would believe. Now since God knew us before we were in the womb, He also h ad a plan for each of us, a good plan, and if we would have lived as He wanted us to, He would have revealed that plan to us. Today I have gotten long, so tomorrow I will bring out the scripture for you that shows how God had/has plans laid out for us. So that we do not waste time until tomorrow, let us start now with some prayer and get talking to and with Jesus.
Dear Father in Heaven: When I was in school, I wasted a lot of time, and since I have been out of school I have wasted a lot of time by not knowing or understanding it was indeed time to be working for You. Today I ask that You send the Holy Spirit upon us and through us so that we may fall in love with the Holy Spirit and keep it growing in us day after day. Please help us with this, and help us to walk with Jesus, talk with Jesus and to follow Jesus in all we do. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Now go forth, walking, talking, praying, listening to Jesus and of course sharing His blessings and loving on Him and on everyone you see or meet. And also know this. I love ya. Pass that on, please. Pastor Dan
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