Thursday 4/24/14 Seeing Jesus 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thanks for a great day.   Thanks for Your healing  hand on Dolores.  Please, Lord, keep healing her so she can come home.  Thanks for taking care of our families and friends.  Thanks, Lord, for Wanda standing in for Dolores today at the piano.  Lord, please be with Matthew, and thanks for watching over him.  Protect him from the outreach of Satan.  Lord, please travel with our president and protect him.  Lord, please be with the families of those Christian doctors who were shot by a Muslim guard in Afghanistan, and now, Lord, please help me with the message and then please  help me dispatch it.  Then, Lord, please give me rest for tomorrow will be busy again.  And Lord, please send my Dolores' cat home.  In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I don't know what this world is coming to, but I heard it just today that ABORTED BABIES are being burned to produce electricity.  I heard this today on Glenn Beck.  It is happening in one foreign country, and I think they said England, and it is also going on in one state in the United States.  If anyone hears more on this, please email me.

I am praying that Dolores will come home tomorrow, but no word on it yet.  We did get great news.  Our Lord God blocked the infection from going into her blood.  That means when she comes home she will not need a pic-line.  The ones shot in Afghanistan were/are Christians.  Three are dead, two wounded, one of the deceased is from Chicago.  These doctors all work for Cure International based here in Lemoyne, PA (about four miles from our home).  Now I must get to the message.

Thursday:  April 24, 2014, Seeing Jesus (Day Two)

John 20:15 - "Woman," He said, "Why are you crying?  Who is it you are looking for?"  Thinking He was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.  16 Jesus said to her, "Mary."  She turned toward Him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher)  17 Jesus said, "Do not hold onto me, for I have not yet returned to the Father.  Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.'"  18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news"  "I have seen the Lord!"  And she told them that He had said these things to her.  (NIV)

Yesterday I left you sort of hanging in wonder if Mary really knew Jesus when she first saw Him.  Well, we see that Jesus spoke to her and even asked "Why are you crying?"  But Mary thought He was the gardener until she turned around and saw Him.  So while she might not have known His voice, she did know Him when she saw Him.  AND SHE WAS EXCITED.

Just think about this, just think about how excited we are going to be when we first see our Jesus fact to face in heaven.  I am telling you we have exciting times ahead of us.  There are other things in this scripture that jump out at me.  Jesus sent Mary to go to His brothers to tell them.  Now we knew Jesus traveled with His disciples, so was He talking about just them?  Think about this, when we become Christians, are we not then all brothers and sisters in Christ?  Perhaps Jesus was talking about a small group back then, but since Jesus is still the same today, are we not the brothers and sisters today?  Does that not make us Christian brothers and sisters in Christ?  Yes, He is our Lord and Savior, and I think also our brother.  Also Jesus tells us this, "I am returning to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God."  This makes it pretty clear to me that when we pray Our Father whom art in Heaven, it is the very same that Jesus prayed to the night before He was put to death when He prayed in part "Thy will be done, not My will."

Again, our walk, our fellowship with our Lord Jesus, with our Heavenly Father, and the Holy Spirit, are "faith-based."  I am telling you, brothers and sisters, it is time we get right with Christ, it is time to invite Jesus into your heart.  Each day we see things or hear of things that make one like me wonder, just how long is He going to let it go on?  Not even Jesus knows this, just God "our Father."

I, Pastor Dan, have seen Jesus, He is in my heart.  I love Him, I believe in Him, and yes, I am a sinner saved only by His grace.  I am still a sinner, but working hard each day to get better at my Christian walk.  More tomorrow.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya, and please share my love with others.

Pastor Dan