Friday 5/15/15 Old Man, Old Story! (7)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I really appreciate Your love for me. I am surely unworthy of that love, but again I appreciate it. Please forgive me of my sins and help me repent of my sins. Thank You, dear Lord, thank You, dear Lord, for watching over us each and every day. Dear Lord, I ask that You place Your healing hand upon Francis Swaggart and heal her. Please also help that ministry reach its goal for the month to pay the bills. Please also  help the word about the cross to get out worldwide. Lord, please be with our military, our police, and all of our first responders and keep them safe. Please, Lord, help Dolores with her pain and suffering. Now, Lord, if You will please, help me with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters. After many, many prayers and discussing the many ministries of Carry The Light Ministries, I am so pleased to tell you that we are gearing up the food pantry again, and also Santa's House. Yes, we have people coming back for food again and we are doing a better job of controlling that. So we are going to be going out to build up our food stock and to start getting ready for the Christmas Food Distribution. After resting and getting a hold on the food pantry so we would be running it for the Lord and not those coming for food running us, God has once again given us the go-ahead to go full steam back into helping others with food. PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD.

God has been and I am sure still will be very good to us. While we have signed on to help Volunteers of America and place food in their houses, they are rebuilding that mission, it is just not enough and does not move along fast enough for us. So we will do both. We hope to clean up both the food pantry and Santa's House on our upcoming work day. We will also need to update a freezer and also change a few things in Santa's House as we are also going to make it into a wedding chapel. I ask all of you who have supported us in the past to weigh in on these missions that God has talked to me about. We will need prayer support, of course. We will need helpers as before, and yes, some financial support will be needed. Please let me know what your thinking is. Thank you for your ongoing support of the ministries of Carry The Light. We love all of you. Now let me get to the message, Old Man, Old Story.

Friday: May 15, 2015: Old Man, Old Story (Day Seven)

I Love to Tell the Story: (Catherine Hankey, William G. Fischer)

Chorus:

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

When I was young, in my teens, I would go to my pop and mamma for advice. Most often I did this after trying to work things out on my own. I can remember going to my parents when I wanted to purchase my very first car. I found this 1947 Oldsmobile Convertible at a car dealer and it was $250.00 and I had the money all saved up. My mamma could not understand why I needed the car two years before my 16th birthday. Pop, well, he was a little more understanding. Long story short, my pop went with me to the car dealer and talked the man down in price about $5.00 or $10.00 or about enough to cover the tags and title. Then mamma drove us back later that week and pop drove it home. The next day and also most every Saturday after that, my buddies and I would get together at my home and we would put the top down, wax the car which was black, and then start the engine, turn on the radio, and pretend we were driving around. One thing neat about all of these things was mamma would make us lunch, most often soup and toasted cheese sandwiches. She also got to talk to us about some Bible stories. One of these she brought forth came from the book of James.

James 1:2 - Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of any kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (NIV)

In James, mamma pointed out to all of us boys about seeking wisdom. She told me about how she and pop talked to God to get wisdom about me getting the car well before I turned sixteen. After talking to God about this and seeking wisdom, they figured if I were to purchase the car mamma would know where I would be. And she was right. She also got to teach us all how to pray before our meal and even went as far as to teach us that we should pray before we would take the car on the road. I had two years to learn this, and I was the oldest of our little group. There were many times I would take the car and later on take cars on the road without praying first. However, Dolores and I have made it a practice to stop at the end of the driveway, put the car in park, and pray before we hit the road. We want God to be on-board with us as we travel. One thing I want to point out today with this message is to try and get all of you to go to God first, seeking Him out for wisdom and understanding before you start something. I know many times I wished I had prayed first about something instead of praying later after I got myself into trouble trying it without God. If we would only learn to have faith and trust God ahead of time instead of walking out on a limb and after we have it half sawed off, we call on Jesus to see what to do next. Now I am praying that some of the old stories that this old man is passing down will help all of you.

I do want to tell you this! Everything we really need to know we can find in our Bible. We just need to look it up. Sing this chorus with me, please.

Seek Ye First (Karen Lafferty)

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness
And all these things shall be added unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah.

Ask and it shall be given unto you.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness
And all these things shall be added unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah.

Ask and it shall be given unto you.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah.

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

Now go and pray, then seek His wisdom and then go forth and share those blessings and share the wisdom you have learned. I love ya. Please share my love with others.

Pastor Dan