Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for watching over us on the road today and thanks for the good reports we received today. Dear Father in Heaven, be with all those on our prayer list from yesterday. All honor and glory to You, dear Lord, for another day on this earth. Lord, thanks for watching over family and friends. Please, Lord, help me with the message today, and yes, Lord, I am running late again. Lord, then after the message, please help me get it dispatched. Lord, please provide Your children with a great night's rest. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, what a beautiful day. I am just thrilled that God has let me here for another day. For those who follow the line, my dear friend Dave, who is now with the Lord, had an antique school bus, which was gifted to me. It is now safe on our property. God is good. Please keep praying for our son Matthew. I will try and get caught up with prayer requests tomorrow, tomorrow on Salvation Wednesday.
Safety tip: It is spring. If a ball rolls onto the street, be ready to stop, as the kids come next. Here is one more. HANG UP AND DRIVE! Now to the message, God's Second Greatest Gift.
Tuesday: May 6, 2014, God's Second Greatest Gift (Day Two)
Genesis 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth and the flood gates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah, and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, today as I talk about God's Second Greatest Gift, which in my humble opinion is "mothers," I want to call to your mind four ladies whom I don't even know their names. Now why would I ever bring up these four ladies, who were all mothers, although while on the Ark only one of them would have been a "birth mother" at that time? The reason I brought them up is "because God pointed them out to me.
While I could go on and on about Noah and the great flood, this week it is about mothers and what they did. Think about this! The first thing I can think about is how they "stood by their man." Think about it, this family worked tirelessly on the Ark and it was family. While maybe the men did most of the driving of the nails, and those parts, I would think the ladies would have held the other end of some boards, and would do cleaning up after the men, and of course they would do the cooking and when the Ark would have been near finish I would think that the ladies, the mother of the three boys, and their wives and mothers-to-be would be loading the Ark. Then once aboard the Ark, all the animals needed tended, and you just know that those men needed someone to clean up after them.
Again today I want to set forth an example of this as I call it "standing by your man." I do want to point something out right now. According to the Bible there were only eight humans who survived the flood. If you want to reference it go to 1 Peter 4:20 and 2 Peter 2:5 and you will see it.
Back in the days of Noah the women were not named, but today I want to tell you about a couple that I know well, that work closer to each other than any other couple I know. I am sure there are others out there, but just let me tell you about one couple. I don't remember the exact date this couple came into my life, but I have watched them over the years, and it seems like each knows what the next one is going to do. Most all of the time the gentleman will take the lead, and his wife will support what he is doing. Oh,and yes, she even cleans up after him, when he does let the mess. Like the "Noah Family" I have seen with my eyes this couple work from sun-up to sun-down, and they do this while serving the Lord. Now I could go on and on about them, and I will tell you they are not as old as Noah, and while they act like spring chickens, their bones hurt as they push on. Okay, it is time to tell you who this mother is, and again it is about this mother, not about the "Noah" she stands beside. This mother did not have three sons, as a matter of fact she had four daughters. The mother I picked for my personal entry today is "Wanda Crockett." Her daughters are Tonia, Sonia, Beth, and LeaAnne, and her "Noah" is my friend Grant. By the way, none of the Crockett family knew I was going to write about them, for it was after God gave Noah's family of mothers that He gave me the story about Wanda.
Ladies, there are times when you indeed must take the lead. There are times when you must walk on forth. Sometimes you mothers are "single mothers with a family to raise. Think about the wives of Noah and his sons' wives. Think of how that had to go forth and increase in numbers. Also think about this. As in the days of Noah, when God got really upset, He destroyed what He had made. Only eight humans made it out alive. Here we are later, and some will say, God will never destroy the earth again. If you think that you are wrong! He said He would never destroy it again with a flood. Let me ask you this today. If the Lord returns today, would you be on the inside of the Ark or on the outside? What is it in Lehman's language? ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?
Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya. Please pass on that love.
Pastor Dan
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