Friday 4/24/15 Love or Hate!

Dear Father in Heaven: I love you very, very much. Thanks for taking care of me yesterday an each day, dear Lord. Father, after my writing the other night about fear, I laid it all out to You and was very relaxed. Father, thanks for all You do for all of us, and Lord, please help me to keep trusting in You for everything. Thanks for taking care of this line, and I pray today for all who use it. I pray for the families of all who use this line, and I pray that those reading this line will witness to others about Your love of all of us. Please, Lord, help our country come back to You. Please, Lord, help us to love and not hate. Help me today with a message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, thanks so much for covering me with your love and prayers. All that fear I had for naught!! God is so good, and I want to give Him all the glory. Yes, brothers and sisters, I have some pain, but not nearly as much as our Lord and Savior took for me. Next Saturday I, God willing, will be on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg for the annual Support the Troops Rally. It is on Saturday, May 2, 2015, and it starts at noon and lasts one hour. Again, thanks for covering me with your prayers and also for the ongoing support of the missions of Carry The Light Ministries. Tomorrow, two new families are coming for food, referred to us by my doctor as people who have "fallen on hard times."

Coming soon at Carry The Light Ministries, a clean-up day. A lot of people say they want to help. I will be posting the date very soon. Did I tell you lately that I love you? Well, brothers and sisters, I really do love you. And God has pointed out to me today about "Love or Hate."

Friday: April 24, 2015: Love or Hate! (Day One)

1 John 3:11 - This is the message you heard from the beginning. We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. (NIV)

From the beginning of time we are told that we should love one another. God first showed His love for us when He created the universe and everything listed in the story of creation. The last thing God created is man, Adam and Eve, and God then turned everything He had created over to them for them to take care of. That, brothers and sisters, was the very start of love. You will recall that God made Adam first and then, even with all else Adam had, he still needed someone to hold and love, so then God made Eve. And how did Adam and Eve show their love for God? By not obeying Him. So let me fast forward to our scripture in 1 John. We need to love one another. We know that Cain murdered and that is not love. Cain made a choice to walk with evil and Abel walked with God. So today I must ask you. Where do you walk? You cannot both love some people and hate others. I don't care who the people are, we need to love them. However, we do not nor should we approve of the sins of others, or our own sins as a matter of fact. In this scripture it talks about how we love our brothers, and brothers here means "fellow believers," male or female. But we must also love those who do not love God, who are not believers, as God has told us to love God and love our neighbors. I am going to be writing more about love in the coming days as God gives those messages to me. We must start loving each other. All you need to do is watch the news on television and you can see the hate. So this weekend when you are standing in front of your mirror doing whatever you do looking into the mirror, I ask that you address yourselves as I am also going to do the same thing. Here is what I want you to ask yourself when standing looking at the beautiful face looking back at you. Do I love everyone, or am I hating someone? Really, we all need to do this. Then we need to talk to God and ask Him to help us love others, all others, even if they hate us. I did not say this would be easy, but necessary if we really want to be "heaven bound" in the end. Let's pray about this.

Dear Father in Heaven, You have loved and still love us so much, and we so often do not appreciate it. Lord, make our love stronger for You and also for others. Teach us, dear Lord, point out where we are falling short in our Love for Others. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now pray and go forth trying your best to love others even more and I will try and do the same, and why? For we need to do this for God as it is what He has commanded us to do. Love ya. And please pass on my love also.

Pastor Dan