Tuesday 4/7/15 It Happened Along the Way (2)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. Thank You for a very, very rewarding day. I am so excited about what happened today. Thanks for watching over this line and keeping the hackers out of it. Please continue that blessing. Thanks for watching over our families and friends and I ask that You please continue that blessing. Lord, please watch over the following who need that special touch to be healed. Pastor Larry and Luella Hale, Pastor Ed, Annamarie,, Grant, Dave Hetrick, Dave Fortney, Brenda, Dr. Cox, Fred, and Lord, those who have been on our list lately. Thanks, Lord, for all the examples You set for us. Please help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, today was an exciting day, and I am going to incorporate it into the message. I need to apologize to Charles Wotring as I did not get his additional writings out yet, they are coming. This, if you recall, will be about safety in the air.

On our prayer list today we have Pastor Larry and Luella who have whatever is going around. Grant Crockett, same thing, Dave Hetrick, pray hard, in the VA Hospital. Dave Fortney, still recovering from his fall. Brenda, to have a healthy baby. Dr. Cox, for his practice. Fred, and we have a lot of Freds on this line, and I should have his last name and I do not. He has the start of the disease named for a ball player. Annamarie has ALS. Okay, I want to get to the message. You will for sure want to read this one.

Tuesday: April 7, 2015: It Happened Along the Way (Day Two)

John 20:17 - Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that He had said these things to her. (NIV)

Once again I invite you to read the scriptures we are using and keep up-to-date with me. Yesterday I talked about Mary finding the open tomb and how we might feel if it happened to us. I want to pick it up with Jesus talking to Mary. "Do not hold on to me." I believe Jesus was trying to get Mary moving along so she could take the message to His disciples. Jesus also talked about He had NOT YET returned to the Father, letting her know again that He was going back up to Heaven. Again we have the benefit of this being history to us and recorded in the best history book ever, THE BIBLE. AS we look into the scripture deeper we see Jesus tells Mary to "Go to His brothers." Here we find Jesus referring to His disciples as His brothers. Now what is that telling me? Since we are the disciples of today, Jesus is indeed our brother. Now watch this, folks. Jesus then tells Mary to tell them, "I am returning to My Father and to your Father." You see again pointed out here as we have talked about in the past, Our Father in Heaven is indeed our Father, and yes, we have an earthly father. Please note the large F in Heavenly Father and the small f in earthly father. And then He points out about God being His God and our God. Now these things all Happened Along the Way with Mary and she followed what Jesus had told her to do, and there is more on this story, but I must tell you what happened along the way with me today.

This morning I had a doctor's appointment and I rose very early to start getting ready as I move really slowly anymore. I was up at 4:30 AM and put the dogs out and made coffee and then left the dogs back in. From there it was into the shower, and it was not even Saturday night! After my shower and taking care of other things in the bathroom (we all do these things) (no, I did not shave!) ... I went to get dressed and I pulled from my closet my "red work clothes." My off-duty Santa suit, you might say. I went and prayed with Dolores and then went outside to get ready. I had packed my small bag, no, it is not a purse, but I carry my stuff in a bag so I don't drop it. After climbing in my truck, I pulled to the end of the driveway and prayed for safety for Dolores at home and me on the road. I opened my bottle of soda and placed it in the holder, fastened my seat belt and off I went. Today was about a forty-five minute drive, taking my time and enjoying the ride. The first event, I saw a van backing down a driveway so I slowed to a stop and sure enough it backed onto the street. God is good, I saw it coming. No problem. I arrived at the doctor's office and when I placed my truck keys in my pocket I noticed I had anointing oil in my pocket, which I most always carry but had forgotten to pick up today before I left home. It was left in my pocket from before Christmas when Santa married a couple in "Santa's House" here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Hang in there. I signed in and waited in the doctor's waiting room and it was very busy, very busy. I got to talk to a few people in there and to some children who were looking at me like I was "Santa." Then Doctor Cox's nurse came and got me and took me to the scale and took my temperature, and then I followed her slowly down the hall. She is always so sweet and loving as it takes me forever to walk. Into the little office where the nurse whose name is "Brenda" took my vitals which were perfect. "Praise God" for that, right? After looking at a child's picture book of Bible stories, the doctor came in with his nurse "Brenda" at his side. He asked me to pray for her and if I had anointing oil along to anoint her. In my pocket was that anointing oil, as God must have planned all this. Brenda had asked the doctor the day before to get me to pray for her. I ask all of you to pray for Brenda and her family including the NEW BABY IN THE WOMB. Yes, she pulled up her top enough so I could anoint the baby in the womb and then Brenda. Then we held hands and prayed and prayed for the baby and Brenda. Brenda then departed the room crying with tears of joy. Please keep praying for Brenda. She has been trying for a long time to get in the motherly way. Then the doctor went over my reports and blood tests from before, injected my left knee and told me to go home and get off my legs so the injection would work. All other tests done before were perfect, praise the Lord for that. I prayed with Doc as always and went on to check out.

Hey, do not leave me yet, it gets better. After checking out and going out to my truck and getting into it, I was just calling Dolores to let her know I was leaving when a young couple, younger than me anyway, asked me if I ever heard the song about the Statue of Liberty. You see, on the back of my truck I have crosses with the Statue of Liberty behind them. This song written by singer-songwriter Neil Enloe, and yes, of course I started to sing it to them. After that I called Dolores and then left for home.

Oh, please do not leave me. As I left I had two ways to come home, up the interstate or the back roads. I was thinking the interstate, but when coming to the intersection, I said to myself, I am going the back roads. On the way back home I pass a place that sells Amish buildings and when passing I looked to my left and saw the man who delivered my double garage two years ago. I was past the place and it was like God told me to turn around and go back. I had not seen this man for two years and I wanted to see  him. I pulled in and he called me by name. I did not remember his right away. He asked me about Dolores and how she was doing. As you know, the Amish do not drive. I asked him about the Fishers, David and his son David. The more I talked with the driver, the more I could h ear he had trouble speaking. I asked him how he was, and up to now he was leaning in the right side of my truck. He told me he does not use the name of the that the ball player had but I knew right away what he was talking about. I asked him to come around the truck and then I reached into my pocket and out with that anointing oil, you know, the bottle that I would not have had along if I had not had on my red suit. I anointed him with oil and was praying when I had to be reminded his name was "Fred." (Please add Fred to your daily prayers.) This man is also on fire for Jesus. We talked for awhile, and I asked him to pass on our love to the Fishers. And I left. I was really in touch with God the rest of the way home. I stopped for gas, picked up a sandwich at the drive-in window, and came home to find that my prayers were answered as Dolores and our home were okay, and I had a safe trip.  YES, THAT HAPPENED ALONG THE WAY TODAY. Please do not tell me that God does not put you where he wants you to be. PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD.

Now go forth letting God lead you and sharing your blessings along the way, and never be afraid to pray with someone. Once you do it, each time it gets better. Love ya, and please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan