Thursday 10/9/14 It's Heavy

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thanks for this day.  I love You.  Please forgive me of my sins.  Lord, please be with our President and our military.  Lord, please bring peace to the troubled world and Lord, protect all people from the Ebola.  Lord, thanks for all that happened this day and for once again protecting me when I did something dumb.  Thanks for the delivery here today.  Thanks for watching over families, not just ours, but all families, and Lord, please watch over our Matthew wherever he might be, and I pray he comes back to You.  Now Lord, please help me with the daily message and then help me to dispatch it.  Oh, and Lord, please hear our prayers about Carry The Light Ministries.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Good evening, my dear brothers and sisters.  It was a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  I need to tell you how blessed I was today.  A car came and unloaded a brand new scooter, brand new, and left it for me.  My doctor purchased it for me and had it delivered.  I have been patching old scooters for a long time and recently purchased one out of a rental fleet for Dolores (we both use scooters).  The blessings never stop when you work for God.  Amen.

I am asking you all to pray about Carry The Light Ministries.  God has planted some exciting things on our minds.  Please, please pray.  Now to the message, It's Heavy.

Thursday:  October 9, 2014:  It's Heavy

Galatians 6:2 - Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  3 If anyone thinks he is nothing, he deceives himself.  4 Each one should test his own actions.  Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, 5 for each one should carry his own load.  (NIV)

The scripture today tells us that we need to help carry our brothers' and sisters' burdens, and this way, we are really working for Christ.  But let's not stop there, for this scripture also tells us that we are something.  The Bible tells us that if we think we are nothing we are deceiving ourselves, but let's go deeper, since we are all made in the image of God, would  that not also be putting God down?  Think about that, God did not put together junk, and there are people we need to take care of, but we need to be working for God.

The scripture also tells us that we need to take pride in ourselves.  Now do not get carried away with this.  Pride does not mean you stand in front of your mirror all day and admire yourself.  All of us should always take pride in what we do.  "Any job worth doing is worth doing right."  Also when we are doing things as Christians, we need to let people see the Jesus in us.  Now I want to point out this last verse and I am going to retype this one.

Galatians 6:4 - For each one should carry his own load.  (NIV)

Now you folks know I tell it like it is.  Folks, the cart is getting heavy, yes, folks, It's Heavy.  In America there are more and more people in the cart and at last report there are more people in the cart than pulling or pushing.  As you know we have been feeding the hungry for a lot of years, and it might not be over yet, so keep praying.  Anyway, we have a lot of needy people coming in for food, but we also  have a whole lot of people who just will not get out of bed in the morning and go to work for a living, just plain lazy and "riding the system."  There are a lot of  jobs in our area, a lot of them.  Now we need to take care of all those who are handicapped or cannot take care of themselves, and that needs done.  Look at this scripture.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 - For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:  "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."  (NIV)

Now that spells it out pretty clearly to me, but let me just repeat, we need to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.

Now look at this scripture:

1 Thessalonians 5:12a - Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you.  (NIV)

A lot of people have done crimes and it is hard for them to get jobs, very hard, but people have done this to themselves, we did not do that, meaning you and me.  Time for me to go, let me know what you think, and remember to keep praying for us.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya, please pass on my love.

Pastor Dan