Tuesday 11/4/14 Anointed 3

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thanks for a great day.  Thanks for blessing us every step of the way.  Thanks for walking with us.  Thanks for a chance to see friends where we voted.  I love You, Lord, and I ask for forgiveness of sins.  Thanks for hearing our prayers about the election, and I know You heard them and answered them even if it might not be the way I wanted.  I will honor Your will, Lord, in all things.  Lord, please be with Phyllis, both of them that follow this line.  Lord, please help me with the message and then please help me to get it dispatched.  In the Mighty Name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters:  Please keep praying about the missions and ministries of Carry The Light Ministries.  Dolores and I, along with a lot of others, have been praying about where the Lord might lead us next.  I keep praying and I keep hearing, you need to keep feeding people.  I hear it over and over again, yet I know we must change the way we do this.  At our age, having people stop at our home for food is getting risky for us.  All the details are not worked out.  The only thing I am really sure about is that God just does not want us to stop feeding the needy.  Keep praying, warriors, please keep praying.  The next thing is about my knees and how I have needed surgery.  I have decided to walk it out in faith.  I have decided to wait on the Lord to heal my knees and to do it in His time.  I want to start writing about this soon.  In short, our Lord Jesus took a lot of pain for me and still does.  This has been humbling to me.  And I will, by the Grace of God, make this.  Now let me get to the message, Anointed.

Tuesday:  November 4, 2014:  Anointed (Day Three)

Acts 10:37 - You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with Him.  (NIV)

Luke 4:18 - "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."  (NIV)

On Sunday I talked about being anointed with oil and how that is done and by whom and under what authority.  Yesterday I talked about how we who are "Christians," followers of Jesus, have been anointed to do His work.  This anointing is not done with oil.  Today in our scripture we see that Jesus Christ was anointed by God the Father and was anointed by the power of The Holy Spirit.

In Acts which was more than likely authored by Luke, it was pointed out how Jesus was anointed and He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil.  We need to remember that as we work for the Lord, if we are going to follow in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus we should be asking Him to guide us to those who need the messages.  And we are to do that without judging, so to speak.  We are to be speaking to those who are "under the power of the devil."  Sometimes I feel like I need to have a big mirror sitting beside me as I am writing these messages to you.  Not once that I can remember did I ever try and tell you that I do not need the messages.  In fact I think a lot of times Jesus is telling me, why don't you just address this to yourself?  If any one of us who works for Jesus, and I want to work for Him daily, thinks they are better or above those they are speaking to, they need to take a step back and re-look at themselves.

WE ARE ALL SINNERS SAVED ONLY BY THE GRACE OF GOD.  And all God's people said Amen!

Look at the Words of Jesus, recorded in Luke:  "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."  This is Jesus, He is being quoted.  Jesus is telling us how He was anointed by His Heavenly Father.  Listen to these words from Matthew.

Matthew 3:16 - As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water.  At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove and lighting on Him.  17 And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased."  (NIV)

We can see how God The Father, that would be our Heavenly Father, looked down on His Son Jesus, our Savior, and said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased."  I long to hear my dear Lord Jesus say to me, I am well pleased.  Oh, I have heard Him tell me He loves me, and He has picked me up so often, but I would love to hear Him plant in my heart that He is WELL PLEASED.  As I wind up this short series on Anointed, I think it should be a goal of all of us to "please our Lord and Savior," and work really hard at it.  There are times that we do not please Him, because we might be trying to please someone on earth.  What do you think?  I think each day we should try to do better working for the Lord than the day before.  And when we do mess up, we need to try and rebound quickly and get right back to work for Jesus.  Sort of like riding a horse.  You have heard that term, if you fall off a horse, get right back on and ride it.  After the closing I will tell you about the time I fell off a horse.

Now go forth sharing your blessings, working for the Lord, and loving even those who might not like you one bit.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan

The day I fell off the horse:  After years and years of riding motorcycles, someone asked me, "did you ever ride a horse?"  My answer was no.  Then one day I decided to try it.  I knew to get on the left side of the horse, and I put my foot in the little thing that holds your foot, my left  foot, then holding onto the saddle horn, I went to put my leg up over the horse.  All at once the horse started to run, and run it did.  My head was just a few inches from the ground, and I was screaming and screaming.  It was not pretty.  Then it happened, and then it happened.  This nice lady came out of K-Mart and unplugged that horse.