Dear Father in Heaven. Thanks for watching over us during the night. Thanks for answering prayers for my legs last night. Father in Heaven, please be with the Mummert Family and the Jones Family in their time of grief. Please watch over Ruby, Patsy, Burt, Eleanor, Sharon, Bob, Wanda, and Dolores. Please keep Your healing hand upon them. Thanks for watching over this line and all who use it, and please now, Lord, help me with the message. Plant the message on my heart and mind and then, Lord, help me to dispatch it. Lord, please forgive me of my mess-ups and Lord, help me to repent of my sins. Also, Lord, today is our Salvation day here on the line and we need to get busy bringing in the lost. Help us with that, please, Lord. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, it is cold at the Southern Location of the North Pole, and I am looking forward to spring. Each year without fail, our Lord brought forth spring, so hang in there, folks, it is coming. Soon the flowers will pop up their heads, the birds will be back and will hover over your car!! But that is okay, I would sooner wash that off than brush off snow. Brothers and sisters, it is Wednesday, and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line. Now, regardless of the weather, we need to get to the lost for Jesus. So let's get working on it. Amen. Now to the message.
Salvation Wednesday: January 22, 2014, "I Promise" (Day Three).
Luke 10:25 - On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 26 What is written in the Law?" He replied. "How do you read it?" 27 He answered: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and Love your neighbor as yourself." 28 "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live." (NIV)
Luke 11:9 - So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (NIV)
So have you made a promise today? Have you promised to do something worthwhile for someone today? I want you to really think about this. Before the end of today, you will more than likely either make a promise, keep a promise, or break a promise. Which will it be? Let's look at the scriptures for today, let's see what promises God has given us.
In our first scripture, we find if we love our Lord and love our neighbors we will "LIVE." Wow, that is a great promise. But look closely, we must love God with ALL of our heart, soul, strength, and mind. In other words, we must really, really love God, and remember from last week, God knows the attitude of our heart, so you cannot just say I love You, Lord, you must really love Him. And how about this loving your neighbor thing? What if your neighbor is different from you? What if you are a white guy and your neighbor is black? Are you going to still love him? What if your neighbor does not even talk to you, will you still love him? Oh, and your neighbor might be in some other part of the world. Veterans, here is a very hard question for you. Do you love your neighbor, and if you were in the Viet Nam war, do you now love those folks you fought against? You had better forgive and love them, for the way I read it, and in the words of Jesus, if you want eternal life you must love them. What about your ex if you have been married before? Can you say with all truth that you now love them, and brothers and sisters, I am talking about God's love here, not sex or anything like that. Let's face it, as we age, those birds of the air are not the only ones that have made doo-doo on us. Forgive them and get on with your life, and love God and love them and you will live, so saith the Lord.
Now the other scripture. Ask, Seek, and Knock. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" Danny from Mechanicsburg, PA. "Danny who?" "Danny Lehman!" "Sorry, I don't know you!" Of all the doors you want opened to you, I am sure Heaven's door is most important. But look beyond that, if you are out of work. Ask (pray about it, talk it over with God). Seek (yes, you got to get off the couch and go and look for the job.) And you might seek in more than one spot. Knock, and brothers and sisters, if you knock in the name of the Lord, the door will be opened. And brothers and sisters, when it is God's will, when you are at the place He wants you to be, THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED TO YOU. And when you get that job, and you promise to do a good job, keep the promise you made and go to work daily for them. And remember then to thank God.
Now this. Last evening I was out plowing, and I have been having a lot of problems with my legs. I have trouble walking and my legs really cramp up. Last night in the truck, my legs were cramping so bad I was crying. I was downing "Gator" drink and praying. I called home and asked Dolores to pray and call Grant and Wanda and asked them to pray. Within about ten minutes of my call, my cramps let up and I was able to finish up the plowing without the severe pain. ALL GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD for the answered prayer. Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya. Pass on the Love.
Pastor Dan
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