Wednesday 5/14/14 Weak & Strong 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Thanks for a great day.  I would appreciate if You would wash away my sins.  Father, it is Salvation Wednesday, as we call it on this line, so Lord, I ask that You lead we who are saved so we can be used to bring in the lost to Your feet so they also might be saved.  Thanks for trusting us to do work for You in the fields of harvest.  Lord, I confess that I am weak with pain and I need You to give me strength to deal with it until You are ready according to Your will to remove this pain from my body.  Keep me strong and working for You, Lord.  Thanks for working out all the details in the Sansoni adoption, as only You could work it out.  Now Lord, please bless me with a message that will bless others.  Then, Lord, please help me to get it dispatched.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters:  Another beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  Went to the food store, and when going in the door a lady ahead of me had a tiny baby.  She told me it was a special child.  So I asked if I could anoint the baby in the name of Jesus and pray for him.  Yes, she agreed, and right there in the entrance of the Giant Food Store, we anointed this child.  GOD IS GOOD.  As you know, it is Wednesday, and that means it is SALVATION WEDNESDAY on this line, the day we pray for the lost and pray that they get saved through the awesome power of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is the one and only way to be saved.  Amen.  Now let me get to the message, "Weak and Strong."

Salvation Wednesday:  May 14, 2014, Weak and Strong (Day Two)

2 Corinthians 12:7 - To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.  8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  9 But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness."  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.  (NIV)

One of our readers, "Leslie," sent me a note today saying that "when she was at her weakest, God would be at His strongest."  The scripture supports what she has stated.  Jesus told Paul, "My grace sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness."  Paul sets a perfect example here as he is set down with a thorn in his flesh.  God tells Paul that he will be okay, and that His, God's, grace will be sufficient to carry him in his troubles.  It also shows the strength of God as He pulls Paul through this time when Satan is after him.

God also pointed this out to me.  Paul, while in great pain and being under attack from Satan, was made stronger and stronger because of God's strength.  As you folks know, for I have asked you to pray for me, I carry what I call a great deal of pain.  I have been on pain killing meds since a  motorcycle accident on 12/24/1990.  The pain seems to be getting much worse now, yet as the pain grows and grows, so does my love for Jesus.  Some days I wonder if He will heal me, yet He has never given me pain that I could not deal with.  There have been days when it seems to come close to that, but that is when I cry out for the Lord to show me mercy and grace and to give me added strength, and sure enough He, our beloved Jesus, gives me enough strength to overcome my weakness and step out for Jesus.  Some days Dolores and I talk about hanging up some of our missions for the Lord, and then it happens, He gives us more and more to do for Him.  So folks, when you seem to be weak, when it seems like God has deserted you, just rest easy knowing He is right in there pulling for you and giving you added strength to get past your weakness and get your work done for Him.  I love Jesus, and I am not switching sides regardless of how great the pain gets.  However, I will  keep praying for our pain levels to go down.

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

Pastor Dan