Wednesday 5/28/14 Growing 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You!  Thanks for going to the cross for me, and thanks for covering my sins with the Blood of Jesus.  Thank You, Jesus, I love You.  Please be with those who use this line and protect them and the line.  Lord, please be with Vicki and heal her.  Touch Bobbie Jo and take care of her cancer.  Lord, please be with all those on the highways and help put an end to road rage.  Lord, please be with Burt and Patsy and please keep Patsy working for You in the retirement home.  Lord, be with the families of Carry The Light Ministries.  Bless Grant and Wanda and watch over them.  Lord, help us all to keep growing in You.  Now, Lord, please help me with the message of today and then help me to get it dispatched.  And again, Dear Lord, I love You very, very much.  Now send we who are born again out to Your fields of Harvest and keep us working today.  In Jesus' Name, I give praise and thanks and place my requests.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters:  It is a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  It is Wednesday and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line.  The day we who are Born Again work just a tad harder at bringing in the lost, getting the word of Jesus into places where you travel.  And if by chance you are not saved, please call me on my cell phone and let's talk about it.  My cell number is 717 991 0754.  Please pray for families this week and also please pray that as I write about growing, you will grow in Christ also.  Let me get right to the message.

Salvation Wednesday:  May 28, 2014, Growing (Day Two)

Deuteronomy 4:37 - Because He loved your forefathers, and chose their descendant after them, He brought you out of Egypt by His Presence and His great strength.  (NIV)

Isaiah 40:28 - Do you not know?  Have you not heard?  The Lord is everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He will not grow tired or weary and His understanding no one can fathom.  29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.  30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 30 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.  (NIV)

Yesterday we talked about how to get your garden to grow and we talked about water and fertilizer and I stated I think prayer can be one way we can water and fertilize our growth in God.  Let's face it, if we are going to grow in Christ, we need to be talking to Him about it, and how do we talk to Him?  We pray!!  So today we want to grow in God some more and what are we going to use today for our water and fertilizer?  Today we add to prayer our Bible and scripture.  We need to open the book and read it.  Today I pulled scripture from Isaiah and it tells us in Isaiah 40:28 that our Lord God is everlasting.  It means He is here forever and ever.  We, of course, will check out, and if we are born again, we will check into heaven.  The Creator of all things will be here at the end also.  I am the beginning and the end, He said.  When we want to grow in God, we see that if we are weary, we can go to Him for strength.  Isaiah 40:29 - He gives strength to the weary.  Yes, He gives strength to we who are weary.

If you do not have a Bible, please let us know.  Carry The Light Ministries will see that you have one right away.  Please do not be shy about this.  Again, use my cell number and just tell me, Pastor Dan, I do not have a Bible.  771 991 0754.  Brothers and sisters, it might be a good used Bible, and some of those are really great for they have "notes in them."  You also should have a good study Bible.  This way you can search out scriptures.  When you go to the doctors, don't look for a good magazine, look for that Bible.  The Gideons' Bible can be found in a lot of doctor's offices and they are great Bibles, and they will help you find subjects.  I am telling you, if you want to grow in Christ, the place to look is in the Bible and then talk to God about it.  Today as we grow we are looking at strength.  We want to grow our strength, and let me tell you, you do not need to go to the gym to grow in strength, you do not need to pump iron to get strength, what you need is your Bible.  Talk to God, pray a lot, not just when you are in trouble.  Talk to God before you start a project, and talk to Him while working on the project.  None of us can do things without Him, we only think we can.  Isaiah 40:31 - But those who hope in the Lord, will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles, they will  run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

So you want to grow in God, let's get going with the fertilizer.  When growing tomatoes, we put on water and some Miracle Grow.  When we want to grow in God, we can use Miracle Grow also, for God is indeed the Master of Miracles.  Today we grow in God by talking to God, praying and reading about God, The Bible, the Inspired Word of God.

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

Pastor Dan