Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for watching over this line and protecting it. Please be with all Your children today and thanks for watching over ours. Please be with our President and other leaders and help them, Lord. I pray for President Obama, first praying he is saved and then that he would come to You with all things before he brings them to the nation or anyplace else. I know You are in charge of all things and I pray he would understand that. Watch over all of our military and please, Lord, watch over our police officers. We see just how fast they can come under attack. Thanks for taking Elaine through her surgery and we ask You work with her in her recovery. Be with Anna Marie and help her, dear Lord. Thanks for the sunshine and the Sonshine today, Lord. Please help me now with the message and to dispatch it. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
My dear brothers and sisters, it is a truly beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Please keep praying for Carry The Light Ministries as we move forward with our planning. We are working on other things, and we need to be covered with prayers as we move forward. Pray as always for God's will to be done. I will tell you this, if it is God's will for us to do what we are praying about, it is really exciting, really exciting. I need to be making a few more contacts. Thanks for your prayers and ongoing support of Carry The Light Ministries and the missions of the ministry. Please cover our police with your prayers. Today I want to wrap up on being Contagious and will be starting a new subject. What is it? I don't know, God did not point it out to me as of this time. Let me get to the message.
Thursday/Friday, October 23-24, 2014: Contagious (Day Four)
Titus 3:1 - Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2 to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and to show true humility toward all men. (NIV, New International Version)
Titus 3:1 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work. 2 To speak of evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. (KJV, King James Version)
Titus 3:1 - Remind your people to obey the government and its officers, and always be obedient and ready for any honest work. 2 They must not speak evil of anyone, nor quarrel, but be gentle and truly courteous to all. (TLB, The Living Bible)
The Apostle Paul wrote this to Titus, a man that he had led to the Lord.
Today I want to pass this information on to you for this will help you in being "Contagious" in leading people to the Lord. So today I remind all of you to be subject to rulers and authorities, which means our leaders and our police officers. I think this is so important that I typed out three different versions of the Bible for you to look at. Let me line up a few things.
One, no one ever said it would be easy to be a Christian and follow after Jesus and not sin. We are all sinners, and even after we are saved, "born again," and have been washed in the blood of Jesus, we will sin, we should try our best not to, but when we do, we need to confess those sins to the Lord and keep going on working for Him. Titus was a pastor after he was led to the Lord. There was only one man who never sinned, and that was Jesus. I used all three versions to point out to you what must be done. No, not easy. We are to be obedient, peaceable, considerate, speak no evil of any man. Do not be a fighter, but gentle. We are to be courteous, do good honest work and help others. We are also to be humble.
I think there was a country song that started like this. "Oh, Lord, it is hard to be humble when you are perfect in every way." Well, brothers and sisters, Jesus was perfect in every way and He was the most humble man who walked the face of this earth. He never bragged about His work. In fact, He did not want others to tell people of His work back then. He was humble indeed. When we look at all the translations and it tells us we are to obey our government and its leaders, sometimes you think you just want to go out and hold up a protest sign against them. We need to stand up for Jesus and put no one else down. Remember we are working for our Lord, our King, our Savior, and we are trying to get others to come to Him, and we do not want to drive others away doing it. We need good pastors and churches and people need to get to those GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCHES FOR FUEL. But remember those of us on the outside of the church walls need to be working to get people to Jesus to be saved and then on to a church to grow in faith. One really hard-working man for Jesus that I know and love dearly came to Jesus at his home watching television. Yes, my dear brother Doug Boyer came to God watching the Couriers on television as they were singing and preaching. Doug and those men of the Couriers, plus Tim Beitzel and a few others, helped me become deeper and deeper into Jesus after Dolores introduced me to them.
You see, these men were and are still Contagious for the Lord, and we need to keep adding more and more people who are contagious for the Lord, for evil is growing and growing all around us. We need not know when Jesus will return, we just need to get all those we can to be saved before He does return.
Please, brothers and sisters, don't get all worried over things like Ebola. Gosh, if you are going to get worried over something, think about all the people on the road texting while driving or driving drunk, and still you can't go through life worrying over a lot of things. Cast those burdens to the Lord and try not to take them back. That is hard to do.
The Bible tells us to be working and do honest work. I will tell you the same. And please love our Lord above all others, above your spouse, your children, your parents, and then love all others next. Even those you think you need to hate, you are commanded to love. You do not need to hang out with them, but you need to friend them. Maybe, just maybe, you will be the one leading one of those you do not like to the Lord. Once that happens they will never be the same. And in closing, let me tell you once again, we are all going to mess up.
Remember this, Jesus was sent to have our sins cleared from before, for today and forever. In other words, our sins are cleared once you come to Jesus. Now go forth and share your blessings, while being that Contagious person for Jesus and know that He loves you, and I love ya also. Please pass on the love of both of us.
Pastor Dan
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot come down a chimney up?
No, it is not Santa Claus. It is an umbrella.
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