Friday 1/24/14 "I Promise!" 5

Our Father Whom Art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the glory, forever.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, once in awhile it is nice to use the prayer our Lord Jesus taught us to pray.  It covers most all we need to pray about, and once in awhile we need to really look it over to be sure we are praying it and not just talking it or saying it.  Today I would ask that in your personal prayers you might pray for all those who are going to be working for Jesus this weekend.  Pray for pastors, missionaries, lay leaders, those who work clearing the parking lots at the churches, and pray for God to really bless those who are preaching the true and complete Word of God.  Now let me get on with the message of Friday when we talk about "I Promise!"

Friday:  January 24, 2014, "I Promise!" (Day Five).

Psalm 84:11 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.  (NIV)

The promise of God, He is a sun, now look at this.  God made the sun, and it is the great light,and the Bible is telling us He is a sun, meaning tome, He is a Great Light, for Jesus is indeed the "Light of the World."  I never really looked  at it that way, but it is how God gave it to me today.  And the Word also tells us He is a shield,and to me a shield is something that will protect you.  Think about it, you have a wind-SHIELD on your car.  On my helmet, I had a face SHIELD.  Above our stoves there is a heat-SHIELD and I could go on and on about God being a shield.  Let's just look at Jesus and He could be our personal Heat-SHIELD, for if we come to Him, He will shield us from the fires of hell.  Now look at this, if we walk with Jesus, walk with The Light of The World, NO GOOD THING WILL BE WITHHELD FROM US.  Listen to that promise, my dear brothers and sisters, if we just walk with Him, "NO GOOD THING WILL BE WITHHELD  FROM US."   And that, my brothers and sisters, is a promise from God.  So I ask you today, are you walking with Him and will you do it daily?  Have you made promises today that you will break?  You know if all of us could turn back the hands of time,and we cannot, but if we could, I think all of us would change how we worked on our promises.  All we can really do is go forth from here and get better at the promises we make to others and promises that we even make to ourselves.  Because God has made us so many promises we will be working on more of them next week.  

Hey, time for me to tell you this, and this is a promise to all of you.  I love ya.  And please, please pass on the Love.

Pastor Dan