Tuesday 4/8/14 The Entry 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very much.  Please, dear Lord, forgive me of my sins and help me repent.  Help me also to walk with You daily and live for You each day.  Please put your arm around Linda and her family and comfort her.  Also comfort Beverly.  Lord, please place Your healing hand on Pam and touch her back.  Your touch on Patsy, Burt, Barbara, Dolores, Gabby and her family, Vicki, the young man hit by a truck.  Lord, please be with pastors as we are coming into Holy Week.  Please be with us in Carry The Light Ministries as we have many services also.  Lord, I am humbled that You would trust me to do work for You, and I want to tell You that I appreciate that trust and I am sorry I did not get started with it in my younger years.  Please, Lord, now bless me with a message and help me to get it dispatched.  Again, Lord, I love You, and thanks for a beautiful day.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Good evening, brothers and sisters.  If you want to look back over a writing you might have missed, you may so so at www.carrythelight4jesus.blogspot.com where you will find all my writings posted.  We could use some helpers this Saturday to help load out cars, pack potatoes, fill bread bags, etc.  We need our helpers here between 8:00 AM and 8:30 AM.  We start our distribution at 9:00 AM.  This is a fun time.  God is good.  Amen.  Now let me get to "The Entry."

Tuesday:  April 8, 2014, The Entry (Day Two).

Revelation 3:20 - "Here I am!  I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."  (NIV)

Matthew 7:7 - "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, I want to take a side trip today on "The Entry."  As you might have expected I would be going forth with "The Entry" as in going on to Jerusalem and making The Entry there.  I want to speak to your heart and talk to you just a tad about "The Entry" into your heart by our beloved Jesus.  If you have seen the picture of Jesus standing at the door and knocking, you will find there is no doorknob on the outside of the door.  In other words, the door has to be opened from the inside.  Brothers and sisters, I want you to picture your heart like this.  No knob of any type to open it from the outside. I pray that all of you have already given your heart over to Jesus and are "born again."  I pray that you have confessed your love to Jesus and asked Him to forgive you of your sins.  However, if you have not, I want you to picture this.

I want you to picture Jesus standing in front of you and knocking on your chest.  On your heart, so to speak.  This is what these scriptures mean, it means that Jesus wants into your heart and has even DIED TO GET THERE.  However, He is not going to "let Himself in."  You must invite Him in.  Remember, the door has no doorknob on the outside.  You are the same way.  Jesus is not going to "force Himself" on anyone.  He wants you to invite Him in.  Trust me, once you make this choice and you invite Him in and He dines with you and you with Him, this meaning you are living now for and with Jesus, your life will change.  Hear me again on this.  Once you invite Jesus into your heart, YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE.

I don't know how many of you in your life have gone "church shopping," meaning you maybe have moved and you are looking for a good church, a new church for you.  You will find that some churches will have ushers there to open the doors for all folks and you will be treated special as a visitor.  While other churches will have no greeters and maybe nobody will even talk to you.  Don't feel alone on this, these same churches treat Jesus the same way.  Some will welcome Jesus, and others you would wonder if they even have Jesus stop in.  So folks, I want to take you now to a few different scriptures.  However, before that I do want to make this statement.  Jesus is the only way to heaven.  Your church, your pastor, your friends, your father, not even your mamma, can get you into Heaven, just Jesus.  While all the others can lead you, either toward Christ or away, only Jesus can get you home.  Now let me back it in scripture.

John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  (NIV)

Now here is what you must do, and again I am going to the scriptures.

Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.  (NIV)

Now I could have saved the day's message until Easter, however, if you are not saved and you go into Easter already saved, you will enjoy it so much more.  And if you by chance do not make it to Easter, at least you have heard about the way into Heaven and I pray today you will make the commitment to God and to yourself.  It starts with a simple prayer and then just getting out your Bible and learning to lean on Jesus.  And if you have questions, please by all means call me or email me.  Phone 717 691 8200 or icarrythelight4God@msn.com.  Now will you pray with me, and if you are already saved, "born again," please pray along and get renewed.

Dear Father in Heaven, forgive me of my sins, and please come into my heart and heal my heart and take me as Your child.  I want to live for You, and yes, I do believe in You and have faith in Jesus.  Save me, Lord, please save me.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya, and please pass on that love to others.

Pastor Dan