Monday 11/3/14 Anointed 2

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Please forgive me of my sins and wrongdoings and help me repent.  Thank You for a beautiful day.  Please, Lord, comfort the family my friend Tom talked about.  Please, Lord, be with those running for office tomorrow that most respect You and Your word.  Please keep the voting places safe.  Please help me with the message and then help me to dispatch it.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, tomorrow, November 4, 2014, is election day.  Please remember this, if you do not vote, you added one to the other person's side.  Yes, Dolores and I will go out and vote, and we vote who lines up best to the Word of God.  We vote life, marriage between a man and a woman.  Yes, we support Tom Corbett for Governor, because he supports life.  As I have told you before, when I asked him if I could pray for him and anoint him with oil, he welcomed that, and it happened three times on the Capitol steps.  Your vote is up to you, of course, but I really do ask you to consider VOTING LIFE!!!  Stephen Bloom, running for state house in our area is also a pro-life family man and he also welcomed my anointing of oil right here at our home.  I was asked to pray for a family whose son took his life.  Please, without me putting down a name, pray for them.

Monday:  November 3, 2014:  Anointed (Day Two)

1 John 2:20 - But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.  21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know the truth.  22 Who is the liar?  It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ.  Such a man is the anti-Christ -- he denies the Father and the Son.  23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.  (NIV)

1 John 2:7 - As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you.  But as His anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit -- Just as it has taught you, remain in Him.  (NIV)

As we talk about anointed, or anointing or being anointed by someone with oil, I wanted to bring out that there is an anointing that does not mean that you must be anointed with oil.

Today's scripture is a letter written to Christians, not one Christian, but to all Christians which would include us today.  We do agree that the Bible, the Scriptures, are the inspired word of God, and are as good and true today as ever, right?  Now if you agree to that and you are indeed a Christian, a true Christian, a follower of Jesus, then you have been anointed by the Holy One, through the power of the Holy Spirit.  And why are you anointed?  YOU ARE ANOINTED TO DO GOD'S WORK.  This scripture also talks about the non-Christian being the anti-Christ.  John also talks about the anti-Christ already having been here.  Think about it, how many non-Christians have fit the bill of the anti-Christ?  How many non-believers have come and gone?  How many have you run into over the years?  A true non-believer.  Look at this.

1 John 2:18 - Dear children, this is the last hour and as you have heard that the anti-Christ is coming, even how many anti-Christs have come.  This is how we know it is the hour.  (NIV)

So what am I saying here?  I am saying that when we accept Jesus, when we really get serious about being "BORN AGAIN," when we shout out for Jesus to come into our hearts and we do our very, very best to live for him, then we have been anointed by Him through the power, the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to do His work.  Listen, Christian brothers and sisters, we have a job to do, if we believe in The Word and we have truly taken on Jesus as our personal Savior, then rise up, Christians, and get ready to fight, get ready to do battle in God's Army.  Onward, Christian Soldiers.  Okay, let's march it out.

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Christ the royal Master leads against the foe.
Forward into battle -- see His banners go!

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Like a mighty army moves the Church of God,
brothers, we are treading where the Saints have trod;
We are not divided, all one body we.
One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,
but the Church of Jesus constant will remain;
Gates of hell can never 'gainst that Church prevail.
We have Christ's own promise, which can never fail.

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Onward then ye people!  Join our happy throng;
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud, and honor unto Christ the King;
This through countless ages men and angels sing.

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.  (Just one more time.)

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
with the Cross of Jesus going on before.

I pray you are already anointed by Jesus and have accepted His work assignment laid out for you.  If not, we need to address that.  Let us do that tomorrow.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love and please get out and vote.

Pastor Dan

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