Thursday 5/22/14 Wars 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very much.  Thanks for going to Calvary and dying so that I might live.  Please help me with the message today and Lord, help us to understand it, and Lord, please after You help me with the message, please then help me to get it dispatched.  Again, Lord, I love You very, very much.  In the Name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Good evening, my dear brothers and sisters.  Please, brothers and sisters, pray for Dolores and me.  Something has made a major change in my body since I fell, and it is all I can do to walk at all.  My pain level is very, very high.  So I welcome all your prayers.  Please storm heaven for us.  Also pray for the messages, and pray for our upcoming events.  Now let me get to the message, Wars and what causes them!

Thursday, May 22, 2014, "Wars and what causes them" (Day Two)

James 4:2 - You want something but don't get it.  You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want.  You quarrel and fight.  You do not have, because you do not ask God.  3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.  4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?  Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.  (NIV)

I am sure by now if you have been watching the news at all, you know that Pennsylvania is now one of the states that supports gay marriage.  It is so wrong and this scripture fits it so well.  I do want you to remember that God wants us to love all people but we must hate the sin.  Yes, a man taking another man for his mate is wrong and those who approve of it are wrong also.  Some think it is the right thing to do, but it is wrong, as in "shacking up."  For indeed a sin is a sin, and as Christians, as FOLLOWERS OF JESUS, we are to repent of our sins and try our very, very best to live without sin.  I think the Bible is very clear here that ANYONE who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.  The Bible is clear that we ask for things and we pray about them and don't get them for God is not going to give us what we ask for when we indeed ask for things that are against the will of God.  If we go back in history in the Bible, back to the days of Noah, we will find the same kinds of things going on back then as we see going on now.  People were married and given in marriage.  I watched on the news yesterday and saw a few pastors going through the people on the steps of the Capitol seeking out people they could marry.  The mayor of Harrisburg is offering to marry people in a tent this weekend at the arts fest.  Governor Tom Corbett said he did not approve of same sex marriage because he stands firm with his church.  He is Catholic and a good man.  He said there was no use fighting the law because you can't win.

We Christians might feel like we are losing this war, but we are not.  Please read the back of the Bible, in the end.  WE WIN, WE WIN, WE WIN.  When I see the rainbow in the sky, it still reminds me of what is in the Bible and not the gay movement.  People, regardless of how hard they try, cannot keep our Jesus down.  They tried that once and they failed.  Jesus still heals, He still takes care of our needs, He still carries our cross, and He did that while He went to His death on the cross.  He loves us, He is waiting on us and He watches over us even when we drift.  He loves us dearly, we are made in His image, and today He set forth in front of me a very, very large dish of Chicken Pot Pie.  Yes, He, our Lord God, supplied all the things needed to put in this wonderful Dutch Dish.

Tomorrow we are going forth with Wars and what causes them.  Have you figured it out yet?  What does cause it?  The word I am thinking of starts with "G."  Anyone want to enter a guess?

Go forth now and share your blessings that God has given to you.  Love ya, and please share my love with others.

Pastor Dan

P.S.  Please pray for our president and his family.