Tuesday 1/27/15 White As Snow 2

Dear Father in  Heaven:  I love You very, very much.  Please forgive me of my sins, and thanks for dying for me on the cross.  Lord, I am thrilled that I serve a risen Savior, a Savior that is alive and well.  Thanks for hearing and answering my prayers, even, Lord, when the answer is not what I wanted to hear.  I have come to respect You and to listen for Your answers.  Thanks for watching over families and friends, and thanks for watching over this line.  Please help me today with the message and then to get it dispatched.  I do love You.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, according to the weather services, we were to get a lot of snow.  I just love it when God makes it very clear that He is in control and still calls the shots even on the snow storms.  Some weather reporters make a statement like "I am calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow."  His statement should say, I am predicting 6 to 12 inches of snow.  Let's take a lesson from this.  God does the calling for and we do the predicting.  We can pray asking for nice weather or snow or whatever, but God will send what we need.  Yes, God will send what we need.  It may or may not be what we want, but in the end if we love Him, He will bring it together for the good, according to His will, not ours.  Now let me get to the message.

Tuesday:  January 27, 2015:  White As Snow (Day Two)

1 John 2:3 - We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands.  4 The man who says, "I know Him," but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  5 But if anyone obeys His Word, God's love is truly made complete in him.  This is how we know we are in Him:  6 Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.  (NIV)

You might wonder what "White As Snow" has to do with the scripture of today.  First of all, if we pray to be cleaned of sin, we will be white as snow.  The scripture tells us that if we want to be in Jesus and Jesus in us, we must follow His commands.  If we say that we are in Him "Born Again" and we do not obey His commands, we are a liar and of course if we are a liar, we surely cannot be "White As Snow."  Now I just love this part, if we really do know Him, if we truly are "Born Again," then we must obey His commands, and brothers and sisters, obeying His commands does not mean not breaking the Ten Original Commands as in Exodus 20, or the Two Great Commands that Jesus gave us, "Love God and Love your Neighbors."  We must obey all commands given to us, which includes walking in The Light, or walking in and with Jesus.

I must really point this out and the best way to point it out is to show it in scripture.  So here it is again.

1 John 2:5 - But if anyone obeys His Word, God's love is truly made complete in him.  This is how we know we are in Him:  6 Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.

Now if we truly obey God's Word, and I mean truly obey it, then God's love will be made complete in us.  To do this we just must walk with Him.  Now brothers and sisters, I never once said this would be easy, not once, for it is not.  Jesus was tempted along the way and we get tempted also.  There are also a lot of temptations out there today and I could tell you a lot of them but I am sure most of you know them and have been tempted by them.  So just how do we get past the temptations?  First of course is to keep near to Jesus and we do that by reading our Bibles and pray and pray.  Some folks will say I don't know how to pray, and to that I just say just talk to Him.  After all, He is our Savior, He died for us, and brothers and sisters, the biggest thing is that He loves us very, very much.  The more we love Him, the more we stay in touch with Him, the easier it is to walk with Him.  We need to do planning and try to map out our daily walk.  Yes, I said we need to map out our daily walk.  We need to stay away from things we know will tempt us and stay away from people who do not walk with Him.  We need to  have friends who are Christians and that way we will have some strength in numbers.  And if we do mess up, we need to ask for forgiveness right away.  Do not put it off, do it right away.  Sometimes people get in a sinful way when they have too much free time on their hands.  Try doing things daily to help others and to serve Jesus that way.  Now let's get clean.

Dear Father, forgive me of my sins and help me repent and walk with You.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love.

Pastor Dan