Monday 4/7/14 The Entry

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You, and I thank You in advance for seeing me through this day.  Please, dear Lord, forgive me of my sins.  Thanks fr helping us through a very busy week last week, and Lord, today we need Your help again.  Please be with our president and please be with our veterans and our current military and keep them safe.  Please, Lord, bring peace to our nation.  I pray for those who are lost on the airliner and I pray they are still alive and You will show our leaders where they might be.  Be with their loved ones as they wait this out.  Please be with Carry The Light Ministry team as we enter into this very, very busy season and try and walk it with You and show others that they also need to walk it with You.  Please help us to teach the full and complete story of Jesus as we understand it from the Bible and by You planting it on my  heart.  Now please help me with the daily message and then to send it out.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I am praying that the messages that God gives me now will follow His footsteps on His last weeks on earth.  Please pray for me as I write these.  Thanks to all who came and  helped to pick and pack, and thanks to all who are coming to help this coming Saturday.  God is good, folks.  Amen.  Now let me get to the message.  Oh, and please be sure to pray for our president, and please pray first that he finds Jesus and takes Him into his heart.  Pray that President Obama talks things over with Jesus before he brings them to the people of the world.  And pray for our other leaders to be in touch with God also.  Our country NEEDS TO TURN BACK TO GOD.  Someone please say Amen.

Monday, April 7, 2014, The Entry (Day One).

Luke 19:28 - After Jesus had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  As He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of His disciples, saying to them, 30 "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden.  Untie it and bring it here."  (NIV)

Numbers 19:1 - The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:  2 "This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded:  Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke."  (NIV)

1 Samuel 6:7 - "Now get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.  Hitch the cows to the cart, but put the calves away and pen them up.  8 Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering.  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, I start this week on what I am calling The Entry which will lead later in the week to The Triumphal Entry and what we call Palm Sunday.  By the way, and I did want to mention this, I am trying hard to make the daily messages shorter.  You would think that it would be easier to make a short message than long, but when you  have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle, you tend to go on and on.  Anyway, with that said, let me get moving.

What I want to bring out to you on the scriptures that God pointed me to today is the one thing the same in each scripture is that what is needed for God to use has never been used before.  A virgin, if you please, as was Mary, the mother of Jesus.  I will indeed bring out more scriptures this week on the Donkey Colt, but for today I just want you to ponder on the fact that this little donkey colt was never sat on.  In the scripture in Numbers, the "red heifer" was never under yoke and was to be without defect or blemish.  In the scriptures in 1 Samuel, the two cows were never under yoke, meaning never hooked up as a team.  And if you noticed, even the cart where the Ark of the Lord was placed was never used.  What is this telling us?  What is Jesus pointing out to us?  We need to remember that Jesus, The Only Son of God The Father, was also without blemish, He was without sin.  I would like to say that He was not used, and He was not used until He was born, and now I would think that Jesus is used over and over and over again.  That statement is mine, of course, and to me it means that His blood was poured out to cleanse us of our sins and His blood is still flowing today, and Jesus is the same and each day He is used more and more.  Now, brothers and sisters, Jesus wants us to lean on Him, or to use Him, but I do not think He expects us or wants us to keep using Him.  I am sure He wants us to REPENT and stop our sinning and just coming back to be cleansed.  However, speaking on my behalf, I am sure glad that the fountain does not run dry.

Tomorrow we are going to dig deeper into The Entry, and I know He wants me to be sure to tell you this.  Please go forth and share your blessings, for God has blessed all of us well.  I love ya.  Please pass my love on to others.

Pastor Dan

And please remember to pray for President Obama.