Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins and help me to walk nearer and closer to You. Thanks for watching over family and friends, dear Lord. Father, please watch over our President and please be with our military wherever they serve. Thanks for them, dear Lord, and thanks for the work they do in protecting the United States. Dear Lord, please help people tell the truth, all of us, including those in Washington, DC. I pray today for peace, world-wide peace. Please, Father, send Jesus back for Your children. Dear Father, please help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Wow, the last day of September already, and it is summer-like here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. It is just beautiful. If only the news was as good as the weather. Please pray for our leaders and for our military and also for our police. Please pray for the Pennsylvania State Police as they are still in the manhunt looking for the person who ambushed the troopers about two weeks ago. Brothers and sisters, we need to be talking to our Lord God and working with Jesus and welcoming in the Holy Spirit and we need to be working hard to get the word out. TIME IS WASTING, brothers and sisters!! How long is God going to let all this garbage keep going on? PRAY, WARRIORS, PRAY, and then pray some more. Now to my message.
Tuesday: September 30, 2014: Five Difficult Things (Day Five)
Matthew 7:25 - "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (NIV)
Out of the "Five Difficult Things" that I have been writing about, I personally think this is the most difficult. I don't know about you, but I think we could make a list of a lot of things that we worry about not counting food and clothes. The examples that our Lord Jesus give are great. His word tells us not to worry about food, clothes and drink. But do we listen? We have had people call us and say they do not have one thing in their house to eat, not one thing. So we tell them to come in on that same day, maybe five hours later. Then they do not show up, we call them and they say "they forgot." How do you forget to get food, free food, when you have kids and say you do not have food? You lied, that started it. I confess I have gone to the fridge, opened the doors, and looked in at the very full fridge, and said, "We don't have anything here to eat." Meaning I was being a snoot!!! But I was not worried about it. However, let me look at a list of things that I think most of us worry about.
Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, aging parents. Grouped together we will say family and friends.
Money, bills, do we have enough to pay our taxes, pay our electric bill, our gas bill for the house and the car, the fuel oil bill, water and sewer? Let me group them together and call them household bills and the auto bills.
Then the cell phone, the TV cable, and our second cell phone, and the car payment and car repairs. And a whole lot of things we might not really need.
Then there is food, clothes, drinks, etc. Oh, that's right, we need not worry about these things.
Oh, and what about those credit cards that are due? How many do you have? One to use for emergencies? Two, one to pay the bills that you can't pay by heck? Five of them, maybe ten? When you get behind in credit cards, it is hard to catch up. The interest is about 25%.
Now I could go on and on and on, and yes, all these things can cause worries. And while we should not get ourselves into a place where we need to worry, we will always have concerns. I have done this, I have taken all of my worries, all my problems, all my troubles, and I bundled them up, and then I carried them to the altar at the church, I prayed about them and then laid them down, giving them over to our Lord Jesus. Then after being anointed with oil and being prayed over, I got up, reached right back down, picked up my bundles of worries and concerns and took them back to my seat and on home. I am telling you, this one is hard. One thing we must do is trust in God, really trust in God, and even with that said, the worries will still keep coming. So we can call them concerns, but the fact remains we must not just pray about them, we really must "put feet on our prayers." Now how do we put feet on them? Well, I am going to pray about writing messages on this subject starting tomorrow. There are some ways that by faith and using the thing between our ears called our brain, we can tackle some of these worries and concerns. That's it for now.
Remember as you go forth to share your blessings, pray a lot, love on Jesus, and remember Jesus loves you, and I love ya also. And please pass on the love of Jesus and also my love.
Pastor Dan
P.S. Please pray really hard for our President.
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