Sunday 3/15/15 Love and Hate

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much, and I want You to know that I really appreciate You looking after this line and after those who we have on our prayer lists. Please, Lord, forgive me of my sins, yes, again. Please help me to repent, and thanks, Lord, for the gift You gave me this morning. Thank You, thank You, thank You. Thanks for taking care of families and friends, and Lord, we pray that our Matthew will return to You. Lord, we don't even know where he is or even if he is alive. We know he was not alive in You. Please, Lord grab hold of him and wake him up. Please, Lord, be with the lady that had a boat hitch through her body and heal her. Vicki also needs Your help, dear Lord. Please help me now with the message and help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I am excited, and it seems I get excited a lot lately. This morning about 3:00 AM I was sitting on the edge of my bed and I was praying and praying and really getting into the prayers and asking Jesus to send the Holy Spirit upon me. Jesus answered my prayers and I was overcome with the Power of the Holy Spirit. What a great feeling!! I must say I did not fully understand what was going on, but my heart was pumped and my mind was going full blast and I was praying and praying when I started praying in tongues. I was so full of the Holy Ghost. I am praying this places me nearer and nearer to our Father in Heaven and it makes my walk with Jesus stronger and stronger. I do know that my love for Jesus keeps growing and growing, and I also know that my love for all of you keeps growing and growing. Let me get to the message, Love and Hate!

Sunday: March 15, 2015: Love and Hate (Day One)

1 Corinthians 2:4 - My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (NIV)

Proverbs 6:16 - There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him. 17 Naughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. (NIV)

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." (NIV)

Dear brothers and sisters, I was restless last night and was sitting on the side of the bed and was watching Jimmy Swaggart and Jimmy's grandson was preaching at a Cross Fire Session (Teens and Young Adults). Gabriel was on fire for the Lord and talking about being saved and the cross. Talking about things we discussed in our last few messages. Then there was singing and a lot of it was about the Holy Ghost, and the Spirit of the Lord was coming over me, no doubt about that at all. Then I really started praying for the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) to come over me and my body. Yes, I was Baptized by the Holy Spirit and I was on fire. I have been pretty much in the Spirit all day. God gave me the title to work on about Love and Hate. Sometimes we think that God would not hate anything, or more so anybody. However, the Bible is clear that God does hate some things. I have listed a scripture that covers a bunch of them. Let us go and look at them again.

Naughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

So what does it mean to have "naughty eyes"? Well, we have talked about that before. Guys, you know what I am talking about. That short skirt, or that low cut blouse and our eyes are wandering. And ladies, I know that once in awhile your eyes will check out a "hunk." So what happens right after someone catches you looking, maybe even the lady that the man would be talking to when she might say, "my eyes are up here." Then comes the lying tongue when we say, "What, I was not looking!!" Of course we all know what shedding of innocent blood would be. Murder, fighting, assaults, etc. Then when we spend time trying to see if we can make money that does not belong to us. Easy money, and that might just mean "working the system." It also talks about us lying about others, let us call that one gossip. Then we also have those who like to stir the pot.

But with all those things our Father in Heaven hates, let me show you a scripture that tells us all about God's love.

It, of course, is John 3:16, and this is about that deep, deep love of God for us when He gave us His Son who died for us to save us from our dirty old selves. Yes, I will be writing about Love and Hate this week. How about sharing a few things you love and a few things you hate? For now that is enough.

One thing you all could do for me is pray for me, pray that the power of the Holy Ghost just keeps coming over me. I want to be on fire for Jesus 24/7/365 plus 1 extra every 4.

Dear Father in Heaven: Today is the day and I want to be on fire for You and with You. Please baptize me with the Holy Spirit. Please, Lord, do that for all who ask for that. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings and loving on Jesus and others. I love ya. Please share my love also.

Pastor Dan