Friday 2/28/14 Repent 5

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Please forgive me of my sins and help me each day to walk in Your light and help me please to repent of my sins.  Please be with Jim as he travels  home.  Please, Lord, touch Donna and heal her.  Please keep Your healing hand on Glenn, Marie, Ted, Dave, Beverly, "Little Luke,", Jayley, Patsy, Burt, Barbara, Bob, Eleanor, Sharon, Dolores, Matthew, Dan Stoner, and Dan, as in me, Lord.  And Lord, forgive me, for I think I missed a few.  Now, Lord, if You would be so kind as to help me with the message and then help me dispatch it, I sure would appreciate it.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, the only updates I have are on Glenn who was moved from the hospital to rehab, and improving, and on Jayley who needs more prayers, and on Dave who is still not doing well at all.  We will keep praying and praising the Lord for all things.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR NATION.  THINGS DO NOT LOOK GOOD IN RUSSIA.  Pray for our president, and pray God gives him wisdom to know that now is not the time TO CUT OUR MILITARY.  So you know on Jim who we are praying for in traveling home.  Keep praying, I do not want to post the travel plans, just tell you he is coming out of a war zone.  I am sure I am missing things, but I need to get to the message.

Friday:  February 28, 2014, Repent (Day Five), Tomorrow we March Forth.

Acts 2:38 - Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.  And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."  (NIV)

Repentance was very important to John The Baptist, to Jesus, and also in the directions Jesus gave when He left.  I also want you to again notice that there is a great promise here that if we do repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins, we will receive the gift of The Holy Spirit.  Please note it is a gift, but again it comes with attachments; we need to repent.

Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.  (NIV)

Once again we see instructions that we should repent, then turn to God.  And you see again we need to repent and then our sins will be wiped out.  Repent and turn to God.  How many of us have come to God before we repented?  We can see how important it is to be talking to the Lord about repenting and asking for His help for us to get it done.

Acts 17:29 - Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone - an image made by man's design and skill.  30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent.  (NIV)

The Bible tells us we are all God's offspring, and we should not worship false idols and such were often made of gold, silver or stone by man's design.  It also said in the past God overlooked some of this because of ignorance.  But no more.  We are all commanded to repent, if indeed we want to get into heaven.  You know in all laws today it is said "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law."  If you are going to drive a car you need to know all the laws first, and you are tested on them.  If you break one and say, hey, I did not know that, you will be held accountable.  We are being told here in the scriptures that we need to repent, and if you have not read the scriptures, shame on you.  That is why it is so important to get out the good news and make sure others know the RULES to get into heaven.  Repent and be saved.

Okay, so ends another week and another month.  Spring is not far off, hang in there.  At one time when I had my Exxon station in Progress, I would post on the reader board, "spring is just around the corner, go three lights and turn right."  People would ask what does that mean, I said go and find out.  Well, you went down to the third light and turned right and there was SPRING Street.  Okay, go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on that love.

Pastor Dan