Monday 4/6/15 It Happened Along the Way (1)

Dear Father in Heaven: Thank You so much for such a beautiful day. Lord, I love You, and I give thanks to You for every day that You give me. Thanks for hearing prayers. Please, Lord, hear our prayers to heal David Hetrick, Dave Evelhoch, and the Emigs. Please touch Grant's back and heal him as new. Please be with our veterans, our current military, our police, firefighters, and all first responders. I pray today, Lord, for our leaders. Please be with Art and Elaine, Lord, and carry them and protect them. Please help me with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Well, Glory. Brothers and sisters, what a picture perfect day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. I love every day that the Lord gives me. However, if I could place an order for what I would like year-round, today would have been it. Please add these folks to your prayer lists. David Hetrick (VA Hospital), Dave and Betty Evelhoch (this couple had a fire in their home and lost everything, and add to that Dave is having brain surgery at Hershey Medical Center). Please keep praying for Patsy and Burt Emig and family and also my brother in Christ Grant Crockett (back problems). Please keep our veterans, first responders, military, police, firefighters, and others who help to keep us safe in prayer. Pray also for the  ministries of Carry The Light. Thanks and now to the message.

Monday: April 6, 2015: It Happened Along the Way (Day One)

John 20:13 - They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put Him." 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 15 "Woman," He said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking He was the gardener she said, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where You have put Him, and I will get Him." 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward Him and cried out in Aramaic "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher.)

In the next days I want to go over some of the events that happened after Jesus was risen from the dead. Today I ask that you put your feet in the sandals of Mary (yes, of course they will fit you) and think about this being you. Your Lord has been crucified on a cross and you watched, you saw Him die, you watched as He was taken down and the placed in this tomb and the tomb was sealed and even guarded. You witnessed those events on a Friday and here on a Sunday when you come to the grave site, a tomb, the stone had been rolled away, the group that had gathered all were leaving but you stayed behind, maybe kneeling and cleaning up things as your mind is really going a mile a minute thinking of what had happened. You look again and again, there is just no one in that tomb. He was gone. While we have the advantage of knowing Jesus was risen, Mary did not. Anyway, your friend, your Lord is gone, and you start crying, and then you hear a voice from behind you. "Danny." I put my name, you put in your name. You might not look around at first, you are busy in your thoughts, and you are crying. You might be thinking, let me alone, please do not bother me right now. "Danny." The voice calls out, you look around and you think it is the gardener. Then you take a good look and you see. It is Jesus. What  might be going through your mind? You cry out and you are excited. Rabboni! Teacher. Maybe Jesus. You jump to your feet. And what happens next? Well, for the scripture I will get into that tomorrow for the next step in what happened along the way.

Let me fast forward to now. I am sure you have been to a funeral service and most likely to the cemetery. You know the person was dead, and you were at the funeral. You hang around for awhile after the service at the cemetery and then you leave. The casket gets lowered, the lid goes over the casket, the ground goes back over the grave, and the flowers are put on top of the grave. A couple of days later you go past the cemetery and you walk to the grave site and it is opened, the heavy lid is tossed to the side, the top of the casket is open and your loved one is gone. Why? Who would want your loved one? Grave robbers? Then you look around and see other graves open. STOP. If this happened to you, if you went to the cemetery and found this, YOU MISSED THE CALL. Brothers and sisters, this is why, this is why you must be ready now, for we do not know when this event will happen, we do not know when but we do know it will. We know it because we have our Bibles and we have gone over this before and we have faith. Please do not wait a minute longer. Please come to Jesus now. Please.

Dear Father in Heaven, forgive me of my sins and ready me for heaven. I have faith and I believe in Jesus. Please place my name in the Book of Life. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya. Please share love with others.

Pastor Dan