Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Please forgive me of my sins and please, Lord, help me to repent and do my very best not to sin. Please, Lord, be with our military. Be with our pilots flying missions, and please, Lord, above all else, please bring peace to our troubled world. I pray today for our President and I pray first of all for his soul. I do pray he is a Christian and follows and walks with Jesus, and if he does not, I pray he will do that and he will come to you and bring his family with him. Please, dear Lord, be with Tom Kane and Don Coffin, also with Burt and Patsy Emig, and with Eleanor, Dan, Bob, and Sharon Saylor. Please, Lord, have Your healing hand on Glenn and Marie Gamber. Please, Lord, help me with the message of Tuesday and today. And then, Lord, please help me to get them dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters: Another beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. As you know, I am working this week on Five Difficult Things we Christians need to do. There are many more than five, but I just wanted to make a week of it. Sorry that Tuesday is coming out on Wednesday, but Dolores and I had doctors appointments yesterday after which we went to the food store. And I must confess to you that those two things had me in so much pain that once we got home and put things away I came in the house, took Martin Martin Jr., Michael and Marvin and went to bed and did not even answer the phone. Keeping score, that would be I went to bed with two dogs and a cat. (None of us wet the bed!) Anyway, please pray for our nation, our President, and our Navy and Air Force, and those special forces on the ground in those bad areas. Pray also for peace, meaning pray for God the Father to send Jesus back. (The only way we will get peace.)
Tuesday: September 23, 2014: Five Difficult Things (Day Two)
Luke 3:4 - As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him. 5 Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. 6 And all mankind will see God's salvation. (NIV)
Matthew 3:1 - In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea 2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.'" (NIV)
Matthew 4:17 - From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is near." (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, REPENTANCE is one of the "Five Difficult Things" that Jesus wants us to do and what we must do if we are going to walk with Jesus, be a good witness for Him, and then expect Him to stand up for us when we appear at the Throne of God The Father. Jesus will either be our defense attorney or the District Attorney and He will be the one who would say, sorry, I do not know this person. Isaiah the prophet said we would need to repent. Then as Isaiah prophesied, the voice of one appearing in the desert would come and tell people to repent. Then along came Dan the Baptist. No, that would be "John" The Baptist, I only look a tad like John might have looked. Anyway, John left us with the message that Isaiah said he would leave, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." Then after that, Jesus came leaving the same message. "Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is near." Now brothers and sisters, along comes this other old rugged looking man with this same message for everyone. "Repent for Jesus is coming soon." Repent of your sins, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near. So now I am giving the same message to all of you, and yes, even saying it back to me. Repent we must do, all of us, and it is one of those Difficult Things we must do.
I don't know about you, brothers and sisters, but repenting of my sins was and is not easy. Why? I am a sinner by nature, and it is very hard to get rid of old habits. What habits? The habits of sin. I get up in the morning like the rest of you, and I pray that I will walk and follow Jesus and ask to be forgiven of my sins from the day before. Then I think, I did well yesterday, why am I praying for my sins of yesterday to be forgiven? I could say I just want to be sure all my bases are covered. I truly do not remember sinning yesterday, but wait a minute, I was at the food store and I remember thinking, wow, that lady is sure blessed, she is so pretty. And that was not a sin, for I was looking at my wife. (Got ya.) But sometimes at the food store it is hard not to sin. You walk all the way to a place where you just know is the product you want to purchase, only to find out the product has been relocated. Or you find yourself thinking, how can the price be so high? Well, don't you think sometimes that the price of something is a "sin and a shame?" So far I am doing well, and then I bend over the meat freezer in the middle of an aisle and on the other side a lady bends over and, well, she gave me a whole lot to look at, and I sinned and looked. So again I pray that my sins will be forgiven and I know, knowing Jesus the way I do, that He will indeed forgive me of my sins.
So in closing today, I want to say to all of you and also remind myself, that we need to repent, and we should be praying each day not to sin and also for God to help us to repent of any and all sins we do.
Now go forth and repent and also share your blessings. Love ya, and please share my love with others.
Pastor Dan
P.S. Please, please remember to pray for our President and for our military and pray for peace. Also pray that our President might learn to show respect for our military when he salutes them. A token salute while holding a cup of coffee to me shows a LOT OF DISRESPECT for our mighty warriors. And yes, I am sending a copy of this to the White House. Thanks, Pastor Dan
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