Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins and even sins that just seem to come into my mind and do not surface except to me and of course You. I do love You, Jesus, I really do. Lord, thanks for having Your hand on Jeff and Dave and touching them. Thanks for the drop-in help yesterday. Lord, I pray today for all those who protect us night and day, those in our military, our police and those who serve as firefighters and first responders, most for no pay at all. Lord, watch over hunters that will be soon heading to the mountains to hunt deer. Please help the bounty not be wasted. I pray today for Al Sharpton and pray that he would start coming to You before he tries to lead protests and get people to riot. Please, Lord, humble him. Please also be with our President, and I pray he also comes to You. I need help now with my message and then to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray this day. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, I love all of you. Please remember two dates that are coming up in a real hurry. Saturday, December 6th, starting at 9:00 AM, when we meet to pack out food for about 75 or more families. Then again on Saturday, December 13th, when we need helpers here by 8:30 AM for distribution. We need loaders and people to help direct people, some to help keep the baskets rolling and the very most important job, we need prayer warriors, for here at Carry The Light Ministries Food Pantry, it is more important to feed the soul than to feed the body. We of course want to do both and do it right because w are doing it for JESUS. I don't know about all of you, but I get out-and-out excited about working for Jesus. I pray all of you are doing well and will come and join in the fun, for it is indeed fun working for our Savior. Someone could right now shout out AMEN.
Saturday: November 29, 2014: "Above All Else!" (Day Five)
1 John 4:19 - We love because He first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, who he has seen, cannot love God, who he has not seen. (NIV)
Our dear Lord God has given us so many blessings, beside supplying our needs, all of our needs He supplies so many of our wants and of course so many other things so that we have what we need to work for Him. God is love and He loves us dearly, and regardless of what we do He will always love us. The greatest gift that He gave us was Jesus and Salvation through Jesus, but to receive this great gift we must love Him. So He also gave us this great gift of Love. In fact the Bible tells us that love is the greatest of all gifts. He has also taught us or has tried to teach us that we must love Him and also our neighbors. Those are the two greatest commandments. We must love others, we really must love all others. That sometimes is very hard to do, but we can plainly see in the scripture above that if there is someone we do not love, then we do not love God either. Read it for yourself. If you hate your brother, which means your brother or your sister, and that does not mean a blood brother or a blood sister. If we truly love God then we will love all others regardless of their skin color, or even their religion. Of course those who do not love Jesus we need to love them and try to lead them to Jesus. Please do not get confused that as you love those others, you are not to love their sins. In fact we also need to take that lead from Jesus who loves all of us and hates our sins. In fact, He forgives us of our sins and of course we are to forgive the trespasses of others. Love, a great four letter word that means so much, so very much. So today I ask this "Above All Else," do you love God? And also "Above All Else," do you love others?
Revelation 1:17 - When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. Then He placed His right hand on me and said; "Do not be afraid, I am the First and the Last, 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades." (NIV)
Please take note in this scripture that Jesus tells us that He is the First. Yes, it was He who created Heaven and earth. And He is the Last, and because He will be the Last, we will get to be with Him forever for He, and look at this, He holds the keys to death and Hades. So we have this big decision that should be very easy to make. We can choose Jesus and love Him and follow His commands and we can live forever with Him in Heaven, or we could turn our back on Him, be a non-believer and be pitched into the lake of firer, known to us as HELL. Our choice, my dear brothers and sisters. Have you made your choice as of today? "ABOVE ALL ELSE." Have you made your choice and have you made the correct one? Did you choose Jesus? Did you choose love? Let's pray about this.
Dear Father in Heaven: Please forgive me of my sins and please know that I confess my love of You this very, very day. I believe in my heart that You died on the cross and that You were risen from the dead and I confess that with my mouth according to scriptures as found in Romans 10:9 and 10. Oh, how I love You, Jesus, please list me in the Lamb's Book of Life. Also, please list all those who ask today, and Lord, help us to get this word out to others. I love You very, very much, and I pray in Your wonderful name, Jesus. Amen.
Now go forth sharing your blessings and enjoying leftover turkey which is even better warmed up. Keep remembering to love all others and know that I love ya. Please pass on my love to others.
Pastor Dan
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