Friday 4/10/15 It Happened Along the Way (4)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please cover my sins, and please block the voice in the back of my head. Thanks for another day. We are so blessed. We are so blessed to have You to watch over us and I give thanks this day for Your doing just that. Please watch over families, dear Lord, not just mine but all families. Please be with the family of the man who was shot in the back and also the officer who shot him. Lord, I confess I do not understand a lot of what is going on, but I know a lot of it comes from the forces of evil. Please keep protecting this line and please help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters. I have watched this video with the police officer shooting the black man in the back until I am sick. What happened here was so, so wrong. If both of these men had used the brain God gave them, both would be alive today. In my opinion, this is what happens when we choose to walk away from God. This was a well-trained police officer, and I know that as I watched his car cam as he walked up on the car and left his thumb print on the back of the stopped vehicle. Then, well we all know the rest, and what happened after that was just SO WRONG. Two families have lost their sons, yes, two families, for one man is dead, and the other will and should spend the rest of his life in prison. As for the news, please stop running the clip over and over and over. By the way, I feel the same way about the event in Hummelstown, PA. Maybe they need to take a look at Harrisburg, PA, and their police Chief Carter, and see how he handled things recently. Again, this is my opinion, but I think what we are seeing is because so many people have TURNED THEIR BACKS ON JESUS. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, as we pray for our veterans, military, police officers, please do not just pray for their protection, which they need, but pray they use their brains, and yes, please for sure pray for crime to stop!! Now let me get to the message, It Happened Along the Way.

Friday: April 10, 2015: It Happened Along the Way (Day Four)

John 20:24 - Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were and put my  hand into His side, I will not believe it." 26 A week later His disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27 Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" (NIV)

Thomas, one of the original twelve, was not with the others, but his chance to see Jesus came later. When Thomas was told by the others that they saw Jesus he did not believe them. Again we have our Bibles, our history took, to fall back on, but how do you feel and how would you have felt back then? It is very easy for me to say right now that I 100% believe in Jesus because I really do love Him, but if I was asked this question before I was "Born Again," I am not sure what my answer would have been. I might have been like Thomas, and yes, this is where we get the term "Doubting Thomas." Again, we see Jesus just came and appeared coming in while the doors were locked. How did He get into the room? Don't dwell on that. The fact is, He was in the room. This shows me that no one will see the Lord until our blind eyes are healed. I would love to be able to touch the Lord and feel those hands and the GOOD NEWS on that is one day we are going to be able to do just that. After Thomas saw Him, he still had to touch Him. Then Thomas did believe. As Jesus said to Thomas, may I say to you, STOP DOUBTING AND BELIEVE!

John 20:29 - Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (NIV)

Okay, brothers and sisters, here it is for us today. Thomas saw Jesus and believed. However, we cannot see Jesus, not yet anyway, but we will be blessed because we HAVE NOT SEEN, and yet we believe. Yes, that is us. Where do you fit in on this? Are you a believer, a true believer? Or do you have questions? Do you believe what is in the Bible? All of it? I, my dear brothers, believe it all! From

Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning"

to

Revelation 2:21 - "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen."

And I believe each and every thing that is recorded in between. Some people tend to pick and choose. Not me, for how can you believe some things and not others? It either happened or it didn't, and I believe it all happened. Here is another neat thing. This also happened along the way.

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever. (NIV)

Yes, our Lord Jesus is the same, never changing, never different. We change, and I pray that all of our changes are that we are growing in Jesus. Are you growing each day with Jesus? Will your walk grow stronger? Let's pray!

Dear Father in Heaven. I want to grow in You each day, I really do, but Lord, for those who might not have come to You, I pray this is their day. Please, Lord, protect Your children. I ask this in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Pastor Dan