Sunday 10/19/14 Contagious

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very much!  Please forgive me of my sins and help me repent from sinning in the future.  Lord, I pray today for Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley and ask Your touch over  him.  Lord, I pray for safety for those on the roads as the colder weather comes in.  Lord, I pray for our President and his staff and all of our leaders. Thanks for our veterans, including one we call "Navy" on this her birthday.  Please watch over our troops and protect them and bring them home safe and very soon.  I pray that a cure is found for Ebola and all people are healed from it.  Please help me now with the message and then please help me to dispatch it.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters:  Have I told you lately that I love you?  Well, brothers and sisters, I am telling you now.  Yes, I know I sign off by saying "love ya," but I wanted to be sure you really know it.  Please pray for a cure for Ebola and please pray not just for Americans, please pray that the cure reaches out to those in other countries.  I know Dr. Stanley is 80 years old, but his health has changed.  Please pray for him.  Does anyone know what is wrong with him?  He is sitting down to preach.  As we make changes in Carry The Light Ministries, I have told all of you, giving up on working for the Lord is NOT an option.  Please keep praying for the ministry.  Thank you.  Now let me get to the message.

Sunday, October 19, 2014, Contagious (Day One)

Proverbs 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.  (NIV)

With all the talk about the Ebola and how "Contagious" it is, I just wanted to talk some about being contagious.  I love looking back to the days of my childhood, you know, streets of dirt and the Dead Sea still sick.  By the way, one of those two is true!  Anyway, I can remember a few things about what happens to prevent some from being contagious and some other things.  Back in those days we had to be vaccinated for Small Pox before we went to school and we had a vaccination mark to remember it.  I guess now kids get shots and parents keep the records.  I can remember my mamma taking me to drink some stuff in a cup to prevent Polio.  Those things were contagious for sure.  Then there as "Ringworm."  I had that, got it from the back of a seat in the movies.  You had to wear a scarf over your head and could not go to school (I loved that part).  Now there have been so many other things along the way and right now it is the Ebola.

I just want to tell you today that I WANT TO BECOME CONTAGIOUS!  Oh, yes, I do, I really want to become contagious.  Do you?  But hold on here, please hear me out.  I want to become a "Contagious Christian."  I want to infect others with the Love for Jesus.  I want to infect them so they will receive Jesus as their personal Savior.  Our scripture tells us that the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.  And what does it mean to be the fruit of the righteous and who produces it?  A really wise person will produce that fruit, and I pray that we who are the wise, we who really want to win souls, will make this fruit of righteousness so tempting that it will look as good to the unsaved as the fruit in the garden looked to Adam and Eve.  You know the fruit they were told not to pick.  Only in this case it is not a real tree, this tree of righteousness, it is we Christians who need to make The Word of God look really inviting to all the unsaved that look at us.

This week we are going to take a look at how we should look, how we should present ourselves to win some people over to the Lord.  We need to be getting these lost souls to the feet of Jesus.  Please come back this week and we will look at how we might do this.  But for now, it is time to say ...

Please go forth now and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love.

Pastor Dan

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