Sunday 5/31/15 Old Man, Old Story! (15)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for saving me and thanks for watching over me and thanks for answering prayers. Father, please be with the Biden family as they grieve the death of their son Beau. Lord, comfort them and stand with them and Lord, please be with all of our nation's leaders as they come together in support of our Vice President and his family. Lord, thanks for Your healing hand upon me through the night and I really appreciate what is going on in my body. Lord, I know what is ahead, I will need Your loving hand to do this. Please, Lord, help me now with a message and then to get it dispatched. Please, Lord, watch over all those who use this line and their families. In Jesus' Wonderful Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, please keep Vice President Joe and Dr. Jill Biden in your prayers. Their 46-year old son Beau passed away on Saturday.

Sunday has been very different here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. I want to pick that up in the message. Please follow this.

Sunday: May 31, 2015: Old Man, Old Story (Day Fifteen)

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.

James 5:13 - Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well, the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned he will be forgiven. (NIV)

I went to bed late Saturday night, which is very different for me. I laid down and turned on gospel music which I let play throughout the night. I talked to God a lot last night, and He was speaking right back to me. Did I do the right thing writing what I did on Saturday? I went over and over that with God, and He planted over and over again on my heart, yes you did. Then He told me to be patient and He will heal my knees. I could not sleep, three hours of Jimmy Swaggart music and then two hours of a rerun of Joel Osteen. At 6:00 AM I got out of bed and something was different. I slipped into some jeans and out of the house to the crosses and our rock of Hope to pray some more. I came back in and knew things were different. I started to praise the Lord, I mean praise the Lord. Dolores was still asleep. Over and over God keeps telling me to have faith, He is going to heal my knees. I have been told the cartilage between my knee joints is gone and my knees are bone on bone. My knees have been injected over and over again, and last night He told me to lay off the injections and let Him work at them. I was reminded that He still heals and the only difference between when He walked the earth and now is that we have changed. He is still the same.

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

Still something was different. MY PAIN WAS GONE!!! I was singing, my pain is gone, my pain is gone. I had no pain and still have no pain. I pray often for even a day off pain, but today is different. I have been here before, the constant pain went away for over three months years ago after being prayed over at church. The pain returned when I did heavy lifting.

Now I need your prayers. Please pray for the pain to stay away and for me to not do something dumb. Please pray I can back out of the drugs on my own and keep praying that God will heal my knees so I can get off the power scooters and walk again. I am still holding onto things to walk, but it is great when I can do it with NO PAIN.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!! Praise God, Praise God!

Now pray and go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.

Pastor Dan