Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for a really great day, dear Lord. You are so much a blessing, Lord, and I love You so much. Father, thank You for taking Glenn and his crew safely to the hospital and back. Thanks for being with our comings and goings today, and Lord, please hear our prayers for Carry The Light Ministries. Father, thanks for those special blessings today. You are wonderful. Please help me now with the message and then to dispatch it. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Well, it is Wednesday and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line, the day we want to walk the extra distance to lead people to Jesus. I do want to get right to the message this evening so I can get it out and into your hands. I do ask that you keep Carry The Light Ministries in your prayers. Again I want to point out the changes we are making with the blessings of our Lord Jesus to grow the ministry, not cut it back. As I said before and will say again, we are not planning to retire from working for the Lord. Now to the message, Building Our Faith. I will be picking up again in the book of Mark:
Salvation Wednesday: October 8, 2014: Building Our Faith (Day Four)
Mark 5
21 - When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at His feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with Him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." 24 So Jesus went with Him. A large crowd followed and pressed around Him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind Him in the crowd and touched His cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch His clothes, I will be healed." 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
31 "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at His feet and, trembling with fear, told Him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher anymore?" 36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, "Don't be afraid; just believe." 37 He did not let anyone follow Him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." 40 But they laughed at Him. After He put them all out, He took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with Him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means "Little girl, I say to you, get up!"). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, I left you on Monday (I took Tuesday off) with the first part of the scripture above and showing you the great faith the woman had by just believing if she could touch Jesus or even His clothes she would be healed, and yes, that happened. It was Jesus, of course, who healed her, and why? According to the scriptures, it was her great faith.
So why then do some people with great faith get healed and others do not? I wish I could answer that one, but that is up to our Lord and Savior. However, I want to point out again that Jesus does still heal, and we just need to keep our faith and hang in there. We also need to remember that we need to pray and pray as Jesus did the night before He was put to death on the cross. You all remember this, right? Jesus prayed to His Father in Heaven, who is also our Father in Heaven, that His will was to be done, not the will of Jesus. I did want to finish up the scripture in Mark because I wanted all of you to see that Jesus can still raise up the dead. Do you believe that one? I do, not let me tell you that I have seen that happen!!
A few years back, and I do not remember how many anymore, but I can remember the night ... the call came in, there was a bad accident, and it involved some of our family. In short, my granddaughter Brittney, was in a vehicle that was struck by a state plow truck, the plow not being on the truck, the hook where the plow would hang hit her in the head. The roads were bad. I started for the hospital, Dolores started calling people to pray, and prayers were answered. Brittney had stopped breathing, but right behind that plow truck was a vehicle driven by a "first responder" who restarted Brittney right there on the street. The weather was that ad that the chopper could not fly so she was taken to the hospital by ambulance. She was in bad shape, even had a broken leg which was found during x-rays. They said she could need surgery later after she got stronger to repair the leg. When it came time to operate on her leg, it was not broken anymore.
Again, why does one get healed and not another? All I can say to that is, Thy will be done. Amen. That story is true. Brittney is our granddaughter. Oh, and within the last year she had a daughter.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Shout Amen!
Go forth now and share your blessings. Love ya, and please share my love with others.
Pastor Dan
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