Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please forgive me of my sins this day, and I want to give You honor and praise for one of the trips being completed without trouble. I pray, Lord, for those others that are still traveling. Please, Lord, bring two of my dear friends together and help them work out their differences. Lord, You can read me and I just do not want to post the names of these two men who are having trouble in a museum setting. Thank You, Lord, for that. Lord, be with Andy's friends in Germany and help them. Lord, please be with Carman Walker and her family as her dear husband was called home to You. Lord, please help me now with the message and then help me to dispatch it.
Brothers and sisters, please keep Dolores and me in your prayers as we have been very, very tired. Seems I now put in more hours than when I was working. Also, pain levels are very high on both of us. Also, please keep praying that the hackers will not try scamming the computer. I just had a call from someone saying they were from my tech support company and someone was trying to hack my computer. Turns out it was the one calling saying he was from my tech people who told me they will never call. Ladies, here is a tip that might save you trouble. Do not let your purse sit in your shopping cart with the zipper open and your wallet there. Close your purse and if you must set it in the basket (in the child seat) take the little seat belt and put it through the handles on the purse and lock it in. Men, to keep that pick pocket from getting your wallet, put a comb across it. The comb will catch on your pants and alert you. Men, if you are one who carries a purse, use the ladies instructions (but please not their restroom). Please pray for two grown men to sit down over a coffee and work out problems and not do it on the computer. (No names needed.) Now let me try and wrap up the message for this week.
Friday: June 20, 2014 (Last Day of Spring) Heading Home (Day Three)
John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me. 2 In My Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going." 5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him." (NIV)
"Show me the way to go home, I am tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head."
Brothers and sisters, I am not going to finish that song, for that is the only line I remember. However, there are a lot of people who go to bars day after day after day and then go out on the road drunk and try and find their way home. Oftentimes they will find themselves in the back of the "Paddy wagon" which was a name once used for the truck that hauls one to jail. In the city back when I was a kid they had an old black truck that was called the "Black Maria" which stands for "Police Wagon." Anyway, there are many ways to get to your earthly home, and if you got a ride after drinking in the "Paddy wagon," that would take you to a lockup where you could call a friend or an attorney who would get you to your earthly home (with a lot less money than you had). Most of us know how to get to our earthly home, and I say most for, sad to say, some people who suffer memory loss might not do that, and the someone in the family needs to get brave and take some keys from them.
As for heading home to our Heavenly home, there is but one way, just one,and I will bring down the scripture from above. Let me bring it down and work on it.
John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me."
In this first verse, our Lord Jesus is telling us that we should not worry. Don't be troubled and we are to trust in God and also in Him. Now watch as we work on this, and you are going to see how Jesus is God.
2 "In My Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you."
In verse 2 we see Jesus talking about His Father's house, and that would also be our Father in Heaven. He is saying Father has a really big house, or a mansion, and it has lots of rooms. He is also telling us, and we need to remember, that Jesus always tells the truth. He is saying to us it is a fact and I am going to go and get it ready for you.
3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going."
In verses 3 and 4 Jesus is telling us that if He goes and gets the place ready for us, He will come back and take us to be with Him. He is also telling us that we now know the way. So right here we should be starting to see the way Jesus is getting us ready for when we need to be "Heading Home."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
Now we see Thomas saying, "Lord, we don't know where you are going," and Thomas could have said it many other ways. Now here is a man who traveled with Jesus and did not get it. We have an advantage over Thomas. Even though Thomas was with Jesus, we have the advantage of being able to read about it in our Bibles and hearing about all these events at a GOOD church and from those who write like myself. (Always, when going to church, carry your Bible and mark scriptures, and the same when I or others write, fact check us in your Bible.) And again I remind you that Jesus is today, as He was yesterday, and will be tomorrow, and that is in my words, and you can fact check that in Hebrews 13:8.
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
To me, one of the best verses in all scripture to be telling you about when "Heading Home" to your Heavenly home, that big mansion. Jesus is telling you NO ONE, I will say that again, NO ONE gets to Heaven without going through Jesus.
7 "If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him."
Look at this, plain as day. If you have seen Jesus you have seen the Father. Okay, one last thing I want to show you, for that we are going to ...
Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (NIV)
Our walk with Jesus is about faith. Our religion is "Faith Based." We just need to believe it and confess that to Jesus. Jesus paid the price, He is our roadmap, He is our GPS, He is who we talk to on a direct line to Jesus and His Father, our Heavenly Father. I also believe that if we do not close up our prayers in the Jesus name, our prayers do not reach the Father, and I base it on this: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." I believe that means in all of our business in Heaven before we get there, when we talk to our Heavenly Father, we need to put it through Jesus. I pray you can see my point here.
I closing I want to share this with you. None of us know when Jesus is coming back for all of us at once, or when He will call us home one at a time. Or maybe He was not calling right then but a truck hit you. Are you ready right now if it ended for you?
I got an email just yesterday from Carman Walker, a wonderful Christian business owner where Dolores and I get our eyeglasses. On Monday her husband died, and yes, she is so upset as they were married 35 years. But he was not sick, she walked into the kitchen and found him on the floor, dead of a massive heart attack. She is comforted knowing that Duane Walker was also a Christian and his soul went straight to Jesus. I did not ask her if I could write this, but I am that sure of her knowing if what happened to her could be used to bring one lost soul to Jesus, that she would say okay. Your prayers for her will also add to her comfort.
So now is the time. Do you know Jesus? I mean really know him, no games, no I think, I beg you to make your "Heading Home" plans right now. Please, pray with me. If you are saved, use it to clean up your mess of today.
Dear Father in Heaven, I love You and I confess I am a sinner and I believe You, Jesus, have been risen from the dead. Wash me clean this day and place my name in the "Lamb's Book of Life." Then, Lord, help me repent of my sins and walk with You daily. And Lord, help me learn that I am only forgiven by You, the way I forgive others. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings. Yes, Jesus Loves you, and I love ya also. Please pass on our love.
Pastor Dan
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