Friday 2/13/15 Saved (3)

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You and I appreciate You.  Please forgive me of my sins and  help me work even harder on repenting.  Thanks again for all You do for us and for watching over us.  Please keep watching over families and friends, and Lord, I am not just praying for my family but families worldwide.  The same with friends, Lord, I pray You are watching over not just our friends but friends of all those we pray for.  Lord, Your healing hand is still needed on all those who have been on our prayer list.  Lord, I want to lift our veterans to You this day, those who over the years have given so much for this country You loaned to us to use while we are here.  I ask protection over our current military, our police officers and all first responders.  Please, Lord, be with Chief Coburn as he, along with so many men and women, are running into buildings we others are running out of.  Lord, Bob is just one example of so many like him.  Lord, please also be with those who fly the medical choppers.  Lord, I pray for President Obama and also Governor Wolf this day.  Lord, first I pray for their salvation that they indeed would come to You.  Lord, as the news is coming of all those who are going to run for president, I pray today that You will  help one win that indeed loves You and believes in life and marriage between one man and one woman.  Lord, I pray that all pastors will preach The Word, Your Word this weekend.  Now, Lord, if You would help me with the message and then get it dispatched, I wold appreciate it.  Beside that, I just cannot do it without You, I know for I have tried.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, it is Friday the 13th, and if I could have done it and I would have walked under a ladder, drove on a road after a black cat crossed it.  What am I saying?  Jesus takes care of me so I do not believe in that other junk!!  For all of you who read this, try your very best to stay warm. Spring is not far away, but it is going to be a cold weekend with high winds.  Pray for those up in the Boston area and pray that some of those who think we have global warming live up that way.  And may I add this?  COME ON SPRING!!  Each year I pray that if the Lord will get me through the cold, I will not complain about the heat of the summer, and I don't.  Let me get to the message.  After the message I will tell all of you how to ice fish if you want to know.

Friday:  February 13, 2015:  Saved (Day Three)

1 Chronicles 16:23 - Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim His salvation day after day.  (NIV)

As you all know I love to sing and I really miss going out on concerts after all the years.  I want you to think about what it might be like if you went to church and there was no music, no singing.  I want to sing and shout and raise my hands in praise, how about you?  Also, it tells us point blank we are to PROCLAIM His Salvation day after day.  But first you really need to be saved, and if you are not, you will get your chance to ask God for that at the end of the message.

Psalm 13:5 - But I trust in Your unfailing love, my heart rejoices in Your salvation.  (NIV)

Again today in another scripture we see that the love of our Lord God is unfailing, meaning it never stops.  I want to bring out here that God loves everyone, but that does not mean everyone will make it to heaven.  Try and think what it might be like for our Lord Jesus who loves all of us, and how some of those He loves will be turned away when they try and enter heaven.  That is one reason to come to Jesus now, to save Him some heartache and grief.  In the second part of the scriptures it tells us how our heart rejoices in His salvation.  Brothers and sisters, let your heart rejoice, come to Jesus now.

Acts 4:10b - It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth who you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.  11 He is "the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.  12 Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other Name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved."  (NIV)

Here we find the author of Acts, which is more than likely Luke, telling those who crucified Jesus that they need to come to Jesus.  He points out here that God raised Jesus from the dead, and in verse twelve we see that "Salvation is found in NO ONE ELSE."

I want you to think about something, I want you to think about this.  If each one of our sins was a nail, how many nails have you driven into our Lord Jesus?  Think of how each one of our sins must hurt Him still this day.  I want to tell you that if it would be like this, I, over the years, would have had so many nails driven into Jesus that there would not be room for even one nail from you.  HOWEVER, when we some to Christ, when we come to Christ, when we come to Jesus, PRAISE GOD, THE NAILS WE HAVE DRIVEN IN ARE REMOVED, they are pulled out, they are gone.  Oh, yes, I still drive a few in, and that is why each day I pray to my Lord Jesus asking Him to forgive me of any sins that I might have done, either known or unknown to me.  Think of it, brothers and sisters, we are holding a claw hammer, and we drive in nails and if we are saved, He will turn that hammer around and pull out the nails.  SHOUT AMEN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, FOR OUR LORD JESUS LIVES.  Are you saved this day?  I want to be very, very clear about this.  I cannot save you, your pastor or priest cannot save you, only Jesus can save you.  Others can only point the way and lead you.  Today I want to not just pray the sinners' prayer for a first-time believer coming to Jesus but for Jesus to clean all of us up and refresh us.  In other words let's all ask Him to remove all the nails again.  Are you with me on this?

Dear Father in Heaven, I am a sinner saved only by Your grace and I want to come to You today and confess my love to You to be saved, and Lord, for we who are saved, we all surely need cleaned up.  Please, Lord, wash us white as the new fallen snow and pull out those nails we have driven into You.  All of us want to see You face to face someday.  Please help us to be ready.  Until that time, please help us work for You each day.  In Jesus' Name, I pray and say Lord, I am sorry for my sins.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings, and by all means spread the love of Jesus and my love to others.

Pastor Dan

May I remind you that you are welcome to forward anything I write, no need to ask, the choice is yours.  Now how to ice fish.

Three men along with their wives went out ice fishing and on the way to the location (a frozen lake) the men were telling the ladies that they could catch more fish than they could.  So a bet was made.  In the morning the men went one way and the women went another on the lake.  In the evening the ladies came home with a really big catch of fish, and the men had none.  On the second day it was the same, the ladies came home with a big catch and the men had zero, zip, nothing.  On the third day one of the men decided to follow the ladies to see what was going on.  Then after looking he ran to the other two men and informed them the ladies were cheating.  How is that, one man asked?  Well, the ladies cut a hole in the ice.  (So much for a fish story.)