Thursday 4/10/14 The Entry 4

Let's start a tad differently today.  Please Pray for Reverend Timothy Beitzel, who has been assigned as pastor at the Full Gospel Assembly of God Church in Indiana, PA.  Pastor Tim's first Sunday will be Ester Sunday morning.  Congratulations, Dear Friend.

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Please forgive me of my sins as I start another message and please bless this message and help me with it.  Dear Father, please then help me dispatch it.  Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for opening a door for Pastor Tim, and I pray You will walk each step with him as he settles in out in Indiana, PA.  Dear Father, I also pray You healing hand on my dear brother Tom Sansoni and ask You heal his kidneys.  Please also be with and heal Patsy and Burt, Barbara and Vicki, and all others on this line who need Your touch.  Be with Grant and me as we go out for  hams tomorrow, and we also pray that potatoes come in.  We pray also for a nice weather day for our distribution for You this Saturday.  Again, Jesus, I just want to give You thanks for watching over our family and friends and the flocks You have assigned to us.  I pray and give thanks in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

Congratulations to Pastor Tim on his assignment in Indiana, PA.  This will be his first church assignment for the Assembly of God Church.  I wonder if those folks know they are getting a pastor with such a rich bass/baritone voice?  God be with you, Brother Tim.  Everyone on this line will be lifting you in prayer.  Now on to the message, The Entry.

Thursday:  April 10, 2014, The Entry (Day Four).

Luke 19:32 - Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as He had told them.  33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"  34 They replied, "The Lord needs it."  35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.  36 As He went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.  37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.  38 "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"  "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

Brothers and sisters, as we go forth toward Palm Sunday, we need to be looking into how the people praised our Lord Jesus.  We can see according to scriptures that the disciples who were sent ahead found the colt just as Jesus told them.  He also had prepared them for the questions that would be asked of them.  We also see how they brought the unused colt back and put their cloaks on its back and put Jesus on the animal.  Just as a side note:  On Palm Sunday I always wear a coat that needs to go to the cleaner, for each year in my message my coat gets used as an example.  Anyway, the ride of Jesus into Jerusalem has now started and for sure Jesus is worthy of the praise.  As His disciples were praising Him for the miracles they had seen as they traveled with Jesus, we also should be praising Jesus for the miracles we have seen in our lives.  So I say to you this day, please think back over your life and try and remember all the miracles you have seen.  Let me get you started by saying if you have children you have been witness to the miracle of birth.  You need to be praising God, praising our Lord God, our Jesus, for all He has done for us.  Let's do just a tad of that now before I sign out for today.  Praise You, Jesus, Thank You, Jesus, I love You, Jesus. j All honor and glory to You, Jesus.  Praise You, Jesus.

Now go forth praising Jesus and sharing your blessings.  Love ya.  And please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan