Dear Father in Heaven. Thanks for another night's rest and for waking us this day. Thanks for watching over us and watching over our families and friends. Lord, please be with Vicki, for it seems her plate is full once again. Lord, we here at Carry The Light Ministries need You to help us get some gas for in our tank to keep the pipes and food from freezing. Lord, please intervene for us. Lord, please, on this our Salvation Wednesday, help we who are saved to be working in the fields of harvest for You bringing in the lost to be saved. Help us with our work for You, dear Lord, help us to repent from our sinful ways and to walk in the light of Jesus in all we do. Now, Lord, if You would be so kind as to help me with a message and then help me get it dispatched, I sure would appreciate it. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters: In a country such as ours we should not be having shortages of fuel when the weather is cold. People are hurting, but thanks to years and years of people blocking companies who are trying to drill and get out the God-promised things needed to have fuel, we run short. Our president who wants to do things by just signing an order is blocking a pipeline and has been doing so for years. He just needs to sign it. Others want to run companies out of Pennsylvania by overtaxing them. (Companies do not pay taxes, end users pay taxes.) In our area people want jobs, but they do not want the business in their backyard, so they block it. And so it goes on and on. It is called being selfish, folks. Anyway, brothers and sisters, pray for Vicki and her problems and also pray that God will intervene and we will get some much needed gas. We will run out before the end of this very day. By the way, the company that tells us no gas also owns our gas tank so other companies would not deliver to it, nor would I call other companies, for I made a PROMISE that I would not. Speaking of a promise, let me get to the message.
Salvation Wednesday: January 29, 2014, "I Promise!" (Day Eight).
Psalm 33:12 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. (NIV)
2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)
Psalm 34:8 - Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. (NIV)
Psalm 50:14/15 - Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon Me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you, and you will honor Me. (NIV)
Psalm 77:14 - You are The God who performs miracles; You display Your power among the peoples. (NIV)
Promises, promises, and more promises, God has made so many promises to us and He keeps them. What about us? Do we make promises to God that we do not keep? After watching our president last night talk about things he has done and h ow he is just going to get out his pen and go around Congress, well, from that God pointed out scriptures to me from Psalms and 2 Chronicles that are pointed to promises that He (God) made to us as a nation. Well, tell me, how is our nation doing toward Him? You answer that question, please! Let me see, we tossed Him out of our schools and said no more Bible reading in school and no more praying in school either. And then years and years later when this old man and lady would go into schools as Santa and Mrs. Claus and tell the real story of Christmas, Jesus was once again tossed out. These scriptures are so important today after watching that speech last night that I would like us to go over them again.
Psalm 33:12 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. (NIV)
Look at Psalm 33:12 - BLESSED IS THE NATION whose GOD IS LORD. Then it goes on to talk about His inheritance, and well, folks, the way we act as a nation, I would think that after we put Him out of our schools and our government buildings and even chapels on our military bases, He, our Lord God, will strike us, the United States of America, out of His Will. We have been warned, and then I guess when we are removed from God's will (not the will of God), some will want to hire an attorney and try and "protest the will."
Brothers and sisters, the United States of America needs to get our act together and we also need to STAND SOLID beside our Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel. Right now I am not sure if I were the Prime Minister of Israel that I would trust President Obama. AMEN!! Please keep praying for President Obama to come to Jesus and pray hard, warriors, pray hard. Let the Lord hear us in Heaven. SHOUT IT OUT, WARRIORS!
2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)
Now we need to look at this, brothers and sisters, we who live in America, who love the Lord, and we are the ones called by His name, we need to humble ourselves, and we need to pray on behalf of our country, and we need to seek the face of God and we need to be seeking the lost and telling them they need to come to God to get into heaven, and we need to start to be seeking out politicians who love God and vote them into office.
CAN YOU JUST STOP AND SAY PRAISE THE LORD? PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD. My cell phone just rang, it was the dispatcher from the gas company. They are going to stop in today and bring us "some gas," not just fill the tank, but enough to keep running the heat. Answered prayers, my friends, answered prayers. Thank You, Jesus. Now back to the message.
Now look at these promises, all coming from the book of Psalms.
Psalm 34:8 - Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. (NIV)
If we seek refuge in God, we will be able to taste and see that the Lord is good. Think about it, folks, how do we know food is good? We taste it, so why not taste the Lord, feast on Him, brothers and sisters, feast on Him.
Psalm 50:14/15 - 14 - Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver you, and you will honor Me. (NIV)
Look at this one, if we fulfill our vows to Him, He will deliver us in our time of trouble. Does this sound like it is a TWO WAY STREET? Just like our nation, we need to come to Christ. I want you to think about something, if you had a few loans and you did not pay them, you just flatly would not pay them, how long do you think it would be until one of those companies would ever give you another loan? Maybe when hell would freeze over? Did I say that? Yet we sin over and over again and again and we ask God for things and guess what? He forgives us of our sins and comes to us, but I am sure He would bless us even more if we just would fulfill our vows to Him. In other words, fulfill those promises you make to God when you are praying for something you want. And tell me you don't pray to win the big drawing. Lord, if you just let me win, I will build You five churches out of the money, and I will give a million to the poor and needy, if only you would let me win. But when it is all said and done and the Lord looks in His collection plate, He, our Lord God, can really, "THE BUCK STOPS HERE!" God is truly the only one that can say that old saying and really mean it. "The Buck Stops Here!"
Psalm 77:14 - You are The God who performs miracles; You display Your power among the peoples. (NIV)
And God still works on miracles, He indeed is our miracle worker, just trust in Him. And now, folks, go forth and share those blessings, those miracles of God, and know that I love ya. Please pass on that love.
Pastor Dan
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