Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for healing me from whatever I had yesterday and last night. Thank You so very much for the beautiful great grandson that You gave to us yesterday. What a great looking child, and I pray for "Kolt" this day that he will be healthy and You will keep Your hand upon him. Please keep watch over the rest of the family. Lord, please lay Your healing hands upon the following people: Patsy, Burt, Barbara (York) and Barbara (Florida), and Lord, touch Vicki and her mother also. Please heal Dolores and check in on me too, Lord. Be with Glenn and Marie, and help them. Please lower the stress level for Grant. Thanks for bringing Charles and Janet home safely. Lord, it is time I get to the message. I have been messing up when it comes to them. I have been tired, Lord, so very tired. Please give me a shot of "go juice" and help me now with the message and then help me, please, to dispatch it. Help it fall where needed. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, it has been hit or miss for me and my writing for awhile, and I am sorry. It seems like the days are running together. Anyway, Dolores and I are so blessed as once again our family has been added to. Kristy and Keith Jr. had their second son yesterday. He weighed in at over 9 pounds. Everyone is healthy. All praise and glory to God for this special gift, a special gift, a child of God. Now let me get to the message, The Old Road Map. Let's see where the road goes today.
Friday: July 25, 2014, The Old Road Map (Day Two)
Psalm 15:1 - Lord, who may dwell in Your sanctuary? Who may live on Your holy hill? (NIV)
Once again our Road Map is taking us to "Sanctuaries." Here we find the asking of our Lord who may dwell in His Sanctuary. My first answer would be the ones who are living for Christ and who have asked Jesus to have a one-on-one personal relationship with Him. In Psalms we see it like this.
Psalm 15:2 - He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from the heart 3 and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman, 4 who despises a vile man, but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his oath even when it hurts, who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken. (NIV)
I condensed it a bit and will do that again. If you really want to live in the Sanctuary of our Lord, you in my opinion should walk in the path of the Lord and live the very best you can daily to be like Jesus. Do you remember these words from your Sunday School and Vacation Bible School days? "Lord, I want to be like Jesus, in my heart, in my heart. Lord, I want to be like Jesus, in my heart. Lord, I want to be a Christian, in my heart, in my heart. Lord, I want to be a Christian, in my heart." Now you can add words and verses to this. Just remember to live in His Sanctuary, you must live like you belong there.
Psalm 63:2 - I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and Your glory. 3 Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You. (NIV)
Psalm 134:1 - Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the house of the Lord. 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. 3 May the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion. (NIV)
Last evening when Grant, Wanda, and I were driving out to do a food drive, we were talking about those of us who raise our hands in praise in church and other places when we praise the Lord. I talked about how I was in churches where I would lift my hands in Praise to God and some people from that church would look at me like I was strange. You see, they did not lift their hands in praise, but I did. We talked about it being in the Bible, so I thought today I would point it out to all of you. Psalm 134:2 - Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. I just love it, don't you?
PLEASE, PLEASE, brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to lift your hands and hearts to the Lord in praise, and folks, I want to bring this up today. You do not need to be in a sanctuary of a church to be in a Sanctuary. I oftentimes go out to our "Rock of Hope" and sit at the feet of the crosses and lift my holy hands and praise the Lord. You can make a sanctuary wherever you want to make it. Just go there, talk to the Lord, invite the Holy Spirit and make like Jesus, invite Him to you, to come over you through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Tomorrow I am going to be talking to you about your body, your body becoming a sanctuary. Yes, tomorrow I want to go to scripture, then go to Christ, and we are going to clear the trash from our body. We are going to clean it up. We are going to vacuum your body like those who clean the church vacuum the church. That is it for today.
Now go forth and share your blessings, and yes, I know tomorrow is Saturday, but I need to do some catching up. By the way, a family of tomatoes was walking down the street, and the baby was in the back walking very slow. Papa Tomato went back and told Junior to move it out. After awhile he just got tired of it, and he went back and stepped on the baby tomato and said, "Catch Up." Okay, go forth and share those blessings. Love ya, and please share that love with others.
Pastor Dan
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