Friday 5/16/14 Weak & Strong 4

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You, I love You, Lord.  Please forgive me of my sins, dear Lord.  Thanks for watching over our family and friends.  Thanks for trusting me to be in service for you, dear Lord.  Lord, please be with Bev and clear the infection from her body, and also Lord, please comfort her and give her some peace of mind.  Lord, be with all who are going into your fields of Harvest seeking out the lost.  Be with Pastor Tim up there in Indiana, PA.  Please bless him and his new flock, Lord.  Be with all pastors, missionaries, singers, and all who are working for You.  Bless them and Lord, please bless us also as we go out and work for You.  Help me now with the message and then help me to get it dispatched.  In the Name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, what a great day to turn 73.  I am so blessed, and all honor and glory goes to our Lord Jesus.  We have a praise report from Barbara in York.  Prayers, years of prayers have been answered as a lost son has come home.  Time to get to the message, Weak and Strong.

Friday:  May 16, 1941-2014, Weak and Strong (Day Four)

Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; 4 say to those with fearful hearts.  "Be strong, do not fear, your God will come.  He will come with vengeance; with divine retribution, He will come and save You."  (NIV)

"Be strong, do not fear."  These words of encouragement to Joshua are good enough for me these days.  It is interesting how God has pointed me to scriptures where He talks about "steady the knees," for my knees are "really barking" and also my hands are feeble, they have very little feeling in them.  When I fell a month or so back, I must have really rung a bell a notch or so.  It has in ways made me weak.  I am afraid of falling, I have trouble walking, I have been praying for God to make me strong, first in my mind is I lose this fear I  have of falling.  Right now I am weak, so I have been calling on my Lord for He is strong and I know where I pull my strength.

1 Corinthians 1:8 - He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  9 God who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord is Faithful. (NIV)

I pray and talk to God and can find strength in the scriptures.  I pray that all of you who right now are struggling, that are weak for whatever reason will use this time to come even nearer and closer to our Lord Jesus. Many of us who seem to be strong have weak moments.  The death of a loved one.  A loved one who has turned from God.  Old age, needing to go to a retirement home.  Whatever reasons that might have you down a tad right now, that have you weak, I invite you to turn to God in strength.  I think this Psalm might be just the right way to end this series.

Psalm 23:1 - The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.  2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters.  3 He restores my soul.  He guides me in paths of righteousness for His Name's sake.  4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.   5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.  You anoint my head with oil: my cup overflows.  6 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (NIV)

Psalm 24:8- Who is this King of glory?  The Lord STRONG and MIGHTY.  The Lord mighty in battle.  9 Lift up your heads, O you gates;  lift them  up, you doors, that the King of glory may come in.  10 Who is He, this King of Glory?  The Lord Almighty, He is the King of Glory.  (NIV)

And He will give you strength, He will make you strong, He will comfort you in all you do.  In whatever your weakness happens to be.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on your love.

Pastor Dan