Thursday 3/27/14 Betrayed 3

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Please, dear Father, forgive me of my sins.  Please, Lord, I want to thank You for trusting us to work for You each day, and I would appreciate if You would keep us going so that we might keep working for You.  Thanks for lifting me when I am down and keeping me going so I can work for You.  Thanks for hearing our prayers on Barbara and healing her so she could go home from the hospital.  Thanks also for healing Glenn and Marie.  Thanks also for helping to empty the plate of Grant and Wanda.  Give them much needed rest, Lord.  Father, we are still calling on You to  heal our dear David and leave him with us, Lord.  Lord, please heal Patsy from the flu and also the staff where she is living.  Help them, dear Lord.  Lord, be with our president as he deals with the concerns of our nation.  And Lord, while he was with the Pope, I pray he turned his life over to Jesus.  Now, please help me with the message and help me then to dispatch it.  And Lord, please watch after families, and Lord, please watch over our Matthew.  In Jesus' Name.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I am so ready for warm weather, how about you?  Most all of our snow has now melted, just a few piles here and there.  I saw on the news tonight about a United Methodist church that was working together turning out Easter eggs to raise money.  The lady in charge when interviewed made the statement that they make eggs and get CAUGHT UP ON THE GOSSIP OF THE CHURCH.  So that brings me back to our subject again on being Betrayed.

Thursday:  March 27, 2014, Betrayed (Day Three).

Matthew 26:14 - Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and asked "what are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?"  So they counted out for him thirty silver coins.  16 From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand Him over.  (NIV)

Proverbs 11:13 - A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.  (NIV)

How much money would it take for you to sell out your best friend?  Do you know that most people will betray a friend for nothing at all and sometimes don't think a thing of it?  It is called gossip!!  Jesus was sold out for thirty coins by Judas when He was walking the face of this earth.  Today He is sold out for far less than that.  He was sold out by the United Methodist pastor who did the gay marriage.  Now what do you think about this statement?  I want to hear from you on this.  How much do you pay others?  Let me repeat that, how much do you pay others to betray Jesus?  Think about that, folks.  If you are putting your dollars into a collection plate at a church that supports things that go against the will of God, you are INDEED PAYING FOR THE BETRAYAL OF OUR LORD JESUS.  If you are sitting around at a church making candy eggs to support the work of your church and your church supports things that are against the will of God, who are you really working for?

What did you do today to promote our Lord Jesus?  And what did you do to betray Him?  Again I think that in a way we betray Jesus each time we sin, but when we support things with our voice, our vote, and even our dollars that are against the will of God, we are indeed supporting the betrayal of our Lord Jesus.  That's it for today, short and to the point.  Please do not support others who support the betrayal of Jesus or promote the work of Satan even if it is in your very own church.

Now go forth and share your blessings and your love of Jesus.  Love ya, and please pass on the love.

Pastor Dan

And please pray for our President.  (Like all of us, he needs it.)