Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please, dear Lord, forgive me of my sins and help me to repent. Please, Lord, watch over these two bus guys. Lord, please watch over Don Coffin and also Tom Kane. Lord, both of these gentlemen need the Master's touch. Both of them, Lord, love You dearly. Be also with Tom and help him as he leads the bus museum, and please, dear Lord, help get the feud over and done. Please, Lord, help grown men patch things up. Lord, please watch over Glenn and Marie Gamber and keep them safe and healthy. Dear Lord, help me with the messages that I believe You want me to write and then, Lord, help me to get them dispatched. Also, Lord, please help the man who killed the Pennsylvania State Trooper get caught. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters: This week, I pray God will keep me going on thee messages all week. These I believe are five very hard things that God wants us to do. Oh, and yes, there are more than five. I have just picked five. I will try and bring forth scripture on all five of these. Here they are in no particular order:
1. Forget your past!
2. Don't worry!
3. Love your enemies!
4. Repent!
5. Turn from sin!
Let's get moving on Forgetting your past!
Monday: September 22, 2014: Forget your past!
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. 18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." (NIV)
I used these scriptures today, first because this is where God directed me to go. I want you to look closely at the scripture. Look beyond John 3:16 and look at verses 17 and 18. God did not send Jesus here to condemn the world, and of course that means God did not send Jesus here to condemn you and me but to save us. So once we are saved, once we come to the Lord, once we give the sins of our past over to our Lord Jesus, He is not going to condemn us, so then why in the world do we want to still condemn ourselves? Yes, all of us, all of us, I SAID ALL OF US, have some things in our past, some things in our closet that we do not want others to know about. But brothers and sisters, we made our past, and God knew we would "have a past" so to speak, so He sent us Jesus who went to the tree for us, He gave His life for us so those things we had in our closet would be forgiven and forgotten. Jesus did not have things in His closet, but we did. But once we come to Him, once we ask Him to forgive us, our closet is cleaned. Our past has been wiped clean. Just please remember the good things and forget the past for surely Jesus is not going to bring them up again. So please stop beating yourself up over your past. Jesus has cleared you of your sins, now forget them yourself. And also that means, do not let others hold things over your head about your past. Remember, all of us "have a past." Remind people if they throw something in your ace, that God gave you a clean slate, and if they can't do that for you, then how can Jesus clean their slate? Do you see where I am coming from? Once you are forgiven and you are washed clean by God, then try your best to "REPENT" and to stay clean. Tomorrow, we will be looking at another one of those Difficult things!! And yes, it more than likely will be "Repent."
Now go forth and share your blessings. Get right with Jesus and then forget those bad things from your past. You will feel better about yourself, from the first time you start walking with Jesus. Now go ahead, get cleaned up by Jesus. Love ya, and please pass on my love.
Pastor Dan
Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of the sins of my past and wash me clean. Thanks for doing that for me today. I love You and I pray in Jesus Name. Amen.
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