Wednesday 2/18/15 Keeping Safe (3)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please, dear Lord, forgive me of my sins and thank You for doing that for me. Dear Lord, please be with Andy and his family as all of them are sick. Please be with those on the highway as the weather is once again going through. Please, Lord,  help us all to appreciate what we have and to learn to look around us at what others do not have and help them. Please, Lord, help me to be able to read and understand what I have read. Lord, I want so much to read a complete book and I struggle to do that. Thanks for opening Your Word to me and letting me work for You writing the daily message. Please, Lord, be with all those folks in Boston, and help us just get through the cold. Protect pipes from freezing and again watch over those working in the cold. Lord, please help us to lead others to You on this our Salvation Wednesday. Please help me now with the daily message and to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Good Salvation Wednesday, my dear brothers and sisters, and yes, I am getting the message out in the evening when Salvation Wednesday is about gone. Same rules apply daily. Please, warriors, pray for Andy Bendzin and his family as they all have been sick. I know some of you know this, but I do not know how many. I cannot read and understand what I have read. I can read the daily paper, however, if the article is long, I cannot even finish it. Sad to admit, I have never read a complete book in my life. I get through a few pages and I do not understand what I read. My marks in school showed just that. My report cards looked like I took the submarine course, as my marks were below "C" level. When I went to school, a "D" was passing. When studying to get my driver's license, I started way early, long before I turned 16 and would go over and over the questions. God has blessed me with a great memory over the years, but as I am aging that is slowing down. Why am I telling all of you this? Because I would like you to pray for me that God might open my mind to read, understand and help me to remember. Those who know me also know that I can ask them a question and before they even get a chance to answer, I have moved on to the next subject. In other words, I am thinking about a lot of subjects at once and while that is not bad, I just can't seem to put them in line. So let me ask you to pray for me to be able to read the new book I just got. The book is about Joseph. That is enough about me today. Please pray for all those who are suffering through this weather. As we think about how cold it is, please try and remember how it is in Boston. And brothers and sisters, with all the ice on the rivers, we need to know that warm days of sunshine and cold nights will help the river ice break up slowly. And above all we need to just remember that GOD IS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. We just need to pray "His will is done."

Last day for Keeping Safe. Please pray that God gives me a new subject for tomorrow.

Salvation Wednesday: February 18, 2015: Keeping Safe (Day Three) Ash Wednesday

Psalm 34:18 - The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and Saves those who are crushed in Spirit. (NIV)

Psalm 34:18 - The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking; He rescues those who are humbly sorry for their sins. (TLB)

In writing about keeping safe, you will notice that all things lead to us being "Born Again" or saved. The scriptures are about getting out safe. So I want to point out a few things. You are in a house, the snow is really heavy as in Boston, you know the roof of your house is covered with snow and you are calling on the Lord to keep you safe. The roof falls in and you are killed in the collapse of the building. How did the Lord keep you safe, you ask? If you are truly Born Again, you will be safe at home with Jesus. If you wanted to be safe and remain here, maybe you need to get some of the weight of the snow off your home or go to a lower level of your home.

But let's talk some more about keeping safe and you must help God do it. Yes, putting feet on those prayers by helping yourself as you pray. It is very cold and it has snowed, so you get in your car and pray for God to keep you safe and protect you. After that you put your car in gear and pull out from your home and hit a power pole. Why did God not protect you? He would have been able to do a better job of it if you had cleared the snow from your car!! Oh, and you have this, you clear the windows really well, but it is cold and you have ice and snow on the roof of your car. Your car heater warms up the car as you drive, and when you stop or slow down, all the snow on the roof comes off and down on your windshield.  Or, it goes off the roof and onto the next car behind you. So to help God keep you safe, you clean your car. Okay, so what about that big rig ahead of you or a bus? Well, you can help keep safe by just dropping back. Do not tailgate. I feel bad for the people who drive the big rigs. Being from that school bus business, how do you get all that snow off the roof when it snows overnight and you need to go out in the morning on your route? Drivers cannot reach the top of their school bus. Well, those feet need to be on the ones who drive the buses. Looking back over the years, I can remember just a few times where I talked to the powers that be in the early morning hours and told them, we need to call off school, for it is just not safe for the drivers and we cannot have the fleet ready. Praise God we had people who understood that. But the bottom line when going out on the road and asking for God's protection is always in the hands of the driver. If unsafe, the drivers either should not go or pull off the roads as they get slick. I can remember one time the ice came in while the buses were on route, and I just told the drivers in the bad areas to try to get the bus to the next point of safety and stop.

Now what happened when those jets were hijacked on 9/11/2001 and you were either on the plane or in the buildings? If you were "Born Again," you would have been safe because you would have been taken home to Jesus. Oh, and I would bet that a lot of people became "Born Again" right there and then. That would be called a "Bed-side Conversion" in my mind. So my dear brothers and sisters, why would you wait until a bed-side conversion is needed, when on this Salvation Wednesday you can come to Jesus? There is more to it than just saying this prayer. I believe that God is giving me the next subject. After being born again, what must we do? I will pray about that for now. Let me again go to God for that one that might really want to come to God right now.

Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins. Please wash me clean of my sins with the Blood of Jesus that was shed on the Cross. I do believe in You, Jesus, and I believe You died on the Cross and on the 3rd day were risen from the grave, and I confess that with my mouth and believe it in my heart. In Jesus' Name, I ask to be saved this day. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings and the love of our Lord Jesus. Love ya, and yes, please share my love as you share the love of Jesus.

Pastor Dan

P.S. We have a few pilots of aircraft who are on this line. One was a pilot of the big jets and even flew the late Lyndon Johnson. I am going to ask him to write to me with permission to use it, what was done if he would hit bad weather, did he have a plan and did he ever find the need to be calling on God to get him through. I will let you know when he responds and after he is finished I will put it out as a special.