Wednesday 4/15/15 Yes, You Can! (1)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I ask that You give me a good scrubbing. I love that I can talk to You whenever I need to, but I am sorry, I do not do it often enough. Thanks for such a beautiful day, and thanks for watching over families and friends. This, Lord, is our day we call Salvation Wednesday. In doing this I pray that You will help us lead even more people to Your feet to be saved. Please help me now with the daily message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, what a beautiful day. Sorry about yesterday. The hackers were at the computers and it took awhile to get them working. When done, I started to write, but my head wanted to hit the keyboard, so I stopped and went to bed. Hey, it is Wednesday and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on the line and the day we work even harder to lead the unsaved to Jesus to be saved. Please keep Dolores and myself in your prayers for awhile. Satan is trying to bring us down. Also, next week, on Thursday, I need to have eight teeth removed, and that is all I have left. I am getting put to sleep (bad term) to get it done. One of our Yorkshires just had eleven teeth pulled and my bill was $400 and he was overnighted two nights and that was included. With what I am paying, I think I would sooner have our vet do them. Anyway, God is giving me a new message, and I am excited about it. Ready? I am.

Salvation Wednesday: April 15, 2015: Yes, You Can (Day One) Pay Those Taxes

Matthew 19:26 - Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (NIV)

Jesus was talking with His disciples when He made this statement. And while Jesus was talking about salvation, I want to look at that and some other things. As you are aware, Jesus is indeed the --

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

So with that said you will have an idea where I am coming from. You have heard me talk about "Salvation" many times and you have heard me say that I cannot save you, nor can anyone else, but God can. We can only lead people to Jesus to be saved. To that many people will say, I don't know how to do that, I can't do that, and to that I say, "Yes, You Can!" and why do I say that? Because with God all things are possible! He will give you on the spot knowledge for this.

I have learned that if I really work at it, I can do it. I have struggled with things, really struggled, and lately I have even said, "I can't do this," and then I keep trying and I pray harder and harder and I talk to God and even myself and then I hear this: "Yes, You can." And I try and remember what God said. I pray and He says, "Have faith for 'with Me all things are possible.'"

Where does this fit with  you? If you are talking one-on-one with someone and they need prayers, do you say, "I will pray for you?" Or do you say, let me pray with you right now? And you say, I can't do this and I say to you, "Yes, You Can!" For with God all things are possible. Now there are times when I am trying to do something and I pray and pray and I say I can't do this, and God will tell me, Yes, You Can, and I will help you, just call someone to help you lift it. Let's face it, folks, some jobs require more than one person, and sometimes we need to know that. But it is amazing what you can get done if you just don't look at the job and say, "I can't do this." For I will tell you, "Yes, You Can" and God will tell you that also.

I want to give you another example of something that happened today. I was outside and it was so beautiful, and I wanted to get into the school bus that is here at the house. I went to get up in and I just could not lift my leg high enough to get in. Help me, God, I said, help me work it out. So I pulled my handicap scooter near the bus, turned the key off, stood up on that and made the first step. Then I prayed on each step for God to give me strength to pull myself up into the bus. I had to think as God helped me, and as I said, I can't do this, He said, "Yes, You Can." After awhile I was saying I can do this, I can do this, help me, God, with You I can do this and I made it in. Then I had to figure out how to turn the key, it was hard but I got it done. So look, I know that a lot of you struggle in what you do, I know that and I also know that we all have limitations placed on us by God and that is why we are all blessed with different gifts. Yes, we are blessed with different spiritual gifts and we will talk about that more as we go forth with this subject for a few days. Today just remember not everyone is a plumber, even though most of us can use a plunger. I am afraid of heights, I am not now nor have ever been a climber. But Praise God, with His help, others can climb and help me with that.

Remember this one last thing as I finish up for today, before you start something, pray about it. Don't wait until you get stuck and then start to pray. And yes, I am writing that one to myself also. So in this order you should tackle the job. Pray first, before you start whatever you are doing, and then pray while you are doing the job. And this, the most important thing. Thank God when you are finished. Amen.

Okay, there is just one more thing today. If you truly are doing something that God really truly wants you to do, He will furnish you the tools to get it done.

Now pray and go forth sharing your blessings and loving all people in the name of Jesus. Love ya, and please share my love also.

Pastor Dan