Thursday 1/16/14 Attitudes 3

Pastor/Brother Dan,

PRAISE REPORT ...
I just wanted to update you on the young girl that was in that bad accident awhile back.  She is up at Hershey Med.  But she is progressing REALLY well.  Her (many) broken bones are healing.  She is learning to walk again and her speech is slowly but surely coming back.  There doesn't appear to be any long-term brain damage.  She knows what happened, knows what is going on.  Is eating by herself .. albeit VERY slowly!  It is looking like she will be able to come home in a week or two if all the doctors agree!  Her goal is to be home for her 18th birthday (Feb. 2).  She is still in for about a year or so of therapy.  BUT GOD HAS BROUGHT HER THROUGH A VERY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE!  And in classic Sarah form ... she is transforming lives (FOR GOD) in the hospital!!

Blessings, Brother Rick

PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD!!

Dear Father in Heaven, I just want to thank you for taking care of this young lady who was so near to death and You turned her around.  All honor and glory to You, dear Lord.  Father, thanks for another beautiful day and the donations that came in to the ministry today.  Dear Lord, we are so blessed this day.  Thanks for watching over family and friends, Lord.  Please, Lord, place Your healing hand on Kelsey and help her, and thanks for protecting her in a traffic accident.  Lord, Dolores really needs Your touch, she is so weak, dear Lord, and I ask in the name of Jesus, You heal her, please.  Now, dear Lord, if You would please help me with the daily message and then help me to dispatch it, I would appreciate it.  In Jesus' name, I give praise and honor and ask my prayers.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I posted that praise report just as I received it.  Sarah was not to make it after a very bad accident and if memory serves me, she was T-boned right into the door where she was sitting.  It is so important that we list praise reports.  We ask God to heal us, or heal a pet, or help feed us, and then when He sends help, be it directly or through the hands of others, we do not say thank you to our MASTER HEALER and Provider.  Brothers and sisters, if it is worthy of praying for, then it is also worthy of praise.  So, warriors, pray and give praise.  PLEASE!!  Now, let me get to the message.

Thursday, January 16, 2014, Attitudes (Day Three).

1 Peter 4:1 - Therefore since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourself also with the same ATTITUDE, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.  2 As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.  3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the pagans choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, do you see how the messages on attitudes this week are building?  We started with our own attitudes and talked a lot about them, and yes, I said some of our attitudes even smell like the old outhouse.  But you see as we are going through our scriptures our attitudes should, and I say should, be changing.  We are to take on a God-like attitude, we are to be walking in the light of Jesus.  You can see in the verse above we have done all those bad things, and now we are to MOVE ON.  Let me bring in another scripture here.

1 Peter 3:18 - For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. (NIV)

We find many places in the Bible where we can read that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins.  He died so we can come to Him (our choice) so we could get into heaven.  Here we see He died for sins "once for all," meaning He died one time for all the sins of the world.  And why, and the Bible makes it personal here.  "He died to bring you to God."  This was the plan of The Father when He sent Jesus to us, to save us from ourselves, it was to bring us, you and me, to God.  Just telling you what the Bible tells us, and of course what God is giving me today.  Please remember that The Word of the Lord is true today.  Let's go back now and look some more at ...

1 Peter 4:1 - Therefore since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourself also with the same ATTITUDE, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

We are to follow the lead of Christ, since He suffered in His body, we are to take on the same Attitude.  So if we hurt a tad, or even a lot, we are going to do some suffering, and yes, we should pray for the pain to leave, but think about this, how near would you be each day to God if you never had an ounce of pain?  You can start to see if we really do love God as we claim we do, our attitude should be Christ-like and His attitude is what?  Come on, I told you already, Jesus had/has and always will have an attitude of Love.  Oh, that is easy for Jesus, you say, He is Jesus and we are just human.  Excuse me, Jesus is not just God, He is also "human."

Maybe I should hold this scripture for tomorrow, but let's go with it now.

Romans 5:3 - Not only so,but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, 4 perseverance, character, and character, hope.  5  And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His LOVE into our hearts by The Holy Spirit, who He has given us.  (NIV)

And there you have it, brothers and sisters.  It comes down to Love.  So tomorrow we are going to take one more look at attitudes and do a lot of online praying about it.  Some good old suggestions for attitude adjustments, and maybe even a song or two.  But for now, get that attitude adjusted into sharing.

Go forth now and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Pass on the Love.

Pastor Dan