Thursday 2/12/15 Saved (2)

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You.  Please cover my sins and mess-ups of today.  Lord, please watch over and heal from cancer Freda Eitnier.  Lord, please help those who were attending the church on Earl Dr. find a new church.  It is sad when churches close, Lord.  Please help them grow.  Please bring peace in workplaces, Lord, and please be with all the drivers on the roads on these slippery days.  Please protect Your children from the extreme cold that is coming forth this weekend.  Please keep Your healing hand on Jan Enloe.  Please give traveling protection to Pastor Larry and Luella, Lord.  Please also protect the Stoner family as they spread Your word in Togo, West Africa.  Please touch the eyes of Ruby, and also be with Barbara.  Your healing hand is needed with the Emig family.  Please watch over families, friends, and all those who use this line.  please keep Your hand of protection on the line.  Now, Lord, if You would bless me again with a message and help me to get it dispatched, I sure would appreciate it.  Thanks, Lord, for trusting me to work for You.  In Jesus' Name, I pray and go forth.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters, the small Assembly of God Church on Earl Drive east of Harrisburg has closed.  I have no idea why.  Pray that those who lose their church home find another where the Word is preached.  New to our prayer list is 80 year-old Freda Eitnier who welcomes all the prayers you can give her.  Freda is "Born Again" and has led many people to Jesus to be saved.  Jan Enloe has double pneumonia and is showing improvement.  Please put the Daniel Stoner family on your daily prayer list.  They are in Togo, West Africa.  I am not sure if Dan is back flying yet, but he is a trained pilot that flies into those hard-to-reach places.  Time to get writing for the Lord.

Thursday:  February 12, 2015:  Saved (Day Two) (President Lincoln's Birthday)

1 Chronicles 16:34 - Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.  35 Cry out, "Save us, O God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your Holy Name."  (NIV)

This scripture is telling us that we need to GIVE THANKS.  I think so often we pray asking our Lord for something and then we forget to give thanks.  Yes, I am guilty of that and more often than I like to admit.  Dolores and I pray before we leave our property when going on the road.  I back out of the garage, and we pray as the doors are coming down.  We ask God to protect our home and animals when we are out and to give us a safe out and a safe back.  All too often when we come home, we pull the car into the garage, we get out and go into the house, and we forget to just say a short prayer, like "Thank You, Jesus, for watching over us and keeping us safe.  In Jesus' Name, Amen."  The scripture tells us we should give thanks for HE IS GOOD, and HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER.  I confessed, how about you?  Do you stop and take time to give thanks for those prayers that He answers day after day?

In verse 35 we are told to "Cry out," "Save us, O God our Savior."  How long has it been since you have really cried out or just called out for God to save you?  And again like in scriptures of yesterday this might not just be to be Saved as in Born Again, you just might be needing help.  There are many times in life that we need to call on the Lord.  I know I did it often before going to meetings at the school and when we leave.  Regardless of the results we should give thanks.  Next scripture ...

Psalm 28:9 - Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; be their Shepherd and carry them forever.  (NIV)

Again people are asking to be saved and also blessed.  Let's look at this.  God saves us when needed.  We might not need saved everyday (unless you do dumb things like I do).  God will be there when needed.  Now as for the blessings, they go on all the time.  I mean all the time.  All at once now, take in a deep, deep breath of God's air.  And that is just for a starting point.  We just cannot do anything without being blessed by God.  I want you to really think about that.  Some days we might be blessed more than others like next Tuesday on a day we call "Fat Tuesday" or "Donut Day" and there I go thinking about food.  And we are so blessed in this country that we can go to the fridge, open the door and the thing is full and we can't find anything to eat.

This verse also asks God to be our Shepherd and to carry us forever.  Now let me see, in that first scripture we read His love endures forever, and now in this scripture for Him to carry us forever.

Now brothers and sisters, He will indeed carry us forever if we just come to Him and ask for Him to do just that.  Just one more scripture today  Hang in with me.

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."  17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,but to save the world through Him."  (NIV)

I will go fast here.  Yo all know John 3:16 so I want to point out once again that word ETERNAL.  And how long is eternal?  It is forever and ever and ever.  It goes on after we die, it is forever.  God did not send Jesus to us to condemn us but to save us.  Yes, to save us, as in "Born Again."  Now folks, I am going to tell you that forever is just that, forever, and gosh, we have a choice where to spend it.  HEAVEN OR HELL.  Your choice, and once again, I invite you to make it now.

Dear Father in Heaven, I love You and I do believe in You.  I confess with my mouth my sins and that I love You and I believe it in my heart.  I am serious about this, Lord, this is my day, Lord.  Please place my name in the Lamb's Book of Life.  I ask this in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please share the love of Jesus and yes, my love also.

Pastor Dan