Tuesday 3/11/14 It's Sharp 1

Dear Father in Heaven.  I love You.  Please forgive me of my sins.  Please be with all those on our prayer list.  Lord, thank You for a really beautiful day.  I pray today that our hard winter is over.  Thanks again for helping us and the beautiful day and for a great sing-along.  Please, Lord, I pray You will now bless me with  another message and then help me to dispatch it.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, it is time to get ready for Easter and for our Easter food distribution.  We are going to "pick and pack" food bags on Saturday, April 5th, starting at 9:00 AM.  We will be packing about 50 to 60 sets of 5 bags full of food.  (We will not be packing as heavy as Christmas.)  We also will need help to sweep up and clean up around the entrance to the food pantry.  We should be done no later than noon.

On Saturday, April 12, from 9:00 AM to noon, we will have our annual Easter distribution.  This is the fun day of the two.  We will need prayer warriors for on the driveway, people to help load vehicles and others to help with the bread and other goodies we have to give out.

Please call us at 691-8200 or 991-0754 if you can help.  Please also pray for the day.  We are expecting about 50 families that day.  Lunch will be furnished.  (How do you like your hot dog?)  Now to the message.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, It's Sharp (Day One).

Exodus 4:10 - Moses said to the Lord, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to Your servant.  I am slow of speech and tongue."  11 The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his  mouth?  Who  makes him deaf or mute?  Who gives him sight or makes him blind?  Is it not I, the Lord?  12 Now go:  I will help you speak and will teach you what to say?"  (NIV)

Here we find Moses talking with God as Moses is getting ready to lead his people.  Moses said he was not eloquent!  He did not say he had a speech impediment, but the fact he was slow, not a great speaker or would not know what to say.  God spoke to Moses and told  him He would help him.  I love how God sums up the fact that He, God, made man, gave him a mouth and makes  him able to hear, talk, and see.  Each week as I get ready to preach and teach, I talk it over with God asking Him to give me the words one at a time.  Regardless of my notes, I ask God to give me the message straight from Him one word at a time.  I would think that all pastors, Sunday School teachers, and even the public and private school teachers would ask God to sharpen their subject and skill to get it off their tongue and that God would help them to sharpen their tongue.  In all we do, we need to talk to God about it first.  You see, once we put the word out there, and folks, remember this for Facebook and even email, you need to be sharp when you do it.  This week we are going to keep looking at this "sharp object" and see how it can do good or even hurt others.  Please join me.

Now go forth and share your blessings, and remember to pray first.  Love ya, and please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan