Dear Father in Heaven, I love You. Thanks for bringing Eleanor home from the hospital. Thanks for taking care of Dan Stoner's cancer and putting it into remission. Father, I call remission healed. Lord, please watch over him and his family so they can get back in the plane and fly again for You. Thanks for watching over families and for watching over this line. Lord, please, if it is Your will, please bring forth an early spring. Lord, be with President Obama and his family, and I do pray that he will come to You and confess over to You and become born again if he has not already done that. Keep him safe, Lord, along with all of our other leaders. Now, Lord, if You would be so kind as to plant a message on my mind for today, help me write it out and then get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, help me to work each day for You and to walk in the light of Jesus in whose name I pray. Amen.
Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Another very cold week, and if you heat with gas, please do not let your tanks get low. Our gas supplier tells me that they do not have enough to bring us any. This is what happens when we keep putting off the "pipe line" and are now trying to shut down the shale drilling. Did you take notice that God does provide our needs; it is man who blocks the use of it and causes the shortages. Let me get started with the message, and maybe as we work on "I Promise!" we can talk about God supplying our needs.
Monday, January 27, 2014, "I Promise!" (Day Six).
Psalm 23:1 - The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. (NIV)
Isaiah 28:11 - The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. (NIV)
Philippians 4:19 - And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, our Lord God has promised to take care of our needs, our needs, and He does good even taking care of a lot of "our wants." Make no mistake about this, we so very often get our needs and our wants mixed up, and maybe sometimes it looks like God forgot to take care of our needs. However, if we look really closely we will find that there is never a time that He does not take good care of our needs. Think about it, how many people do you know right now that say they need a job, yet are very satisfied to sit at home and let others who work pick up the tab for them for work they do not do? I have heard with my own ears people say, "I can make more on unemployment than by going to work at McDonald's." Or, "If I take the job at McDonald's, the government will cut my food stamps." Every need supplied, my brothers and sisters, but again I must say that we need to be putting feet on our prayers.
God has never broken a promise to us, and He never will. Some, however, have not been carried out as of this time, and we just know that they will happen. Some of the promises also might have been carried out to you and not to me, or the other way around. Psalm 23 might be the most used scripture in the Bible along with John 3:16 and John 14:6.
Psalm 23:1 - The Lord is my Shepherd, I SHALL NOT WANT! (KJV)
Isaiah 28:11 - The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs. (NIV)
Philippians 4:19 - And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Now let me ask you a couple of questions. We are to be supplying food to the hungry, and that is in the Bible, so I ask you today, if God is using you to supply food to the hungry and you are not keeping your end of the deal, are you breaking a promise to God, or are you going to say, "no, I did not make the promise." In a way, I would guess you are correct, you did not make the promise, God just wants us to do some things for Him. Now think about this. If you depend on, say, electric to heat your home and the power goes out and your electric is down and your home is getting cold, is God breaking His promise? No, He has given man the knowledge to make the rivers that God made produce power. Now here is a question for you. What if all the people in the United States of America would take on the attitude (oh, that attitude coming again), but what if all the people working for the power companies would say, "I am not going out in the cold to fix the electric, let the people freeze, I have a generator at my house to keep us warm." What then? Makes us think, doesn't it? How about this one? When we sign on with a power company and we make a promise to "pay the bill" and then we do not pay it, we did not send it in on time, so it gets real cold, our bill is unpaid, and the power company shuts you off, who are you going to be mad at? Oh, there is a law against that, they cannot shut my power off, they cannot shut my power off! Did God break a promise? NO. Did the power company break a promise? NO. Did you break the promise? Why, yes, you did!! Brothers and sisters, God has made us a lot of promises and when we are done with these lessons, maybe by mid-February, one thing I would like to see all of us gain from the lessons is not just what God has promised, but how important it is for us to remember our promises and to keep them.
We have people who come to Carry The Light Ministries Food Pantry for food. Some get mad if we ask to see ID from them, some make promises to come and then do not show up or they just decide not to come and don't even call. Yes, each day, day after day, I want you to think about the promises you make and just how you would feel if someone breaks a promise that they made to you. Like what if you were promised food and when you came for it, none was given to you. And what if God would break His promise to you? It is really worth thinking about. Here also is something you should think about each day. I do not take this lightly.
Go forth now sharing your blessings that God gave you. I love ya. Please pass that love on.
Pastor Dan
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