Tuesday 5/19/15 Old Man, Old Story ! (9)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very much. I am indeed a sinner and I really appreciate that You went to the cross to forgive me of my sins. I am not worthy of that and I really am sorry that I am a sinner. I confess that I do sin and need help in repenting. I try harder and harder to get near to You and please, Lord, help me with this. Thanks for trusting me to work for You, dear Lord. Please help me again this day with a message and please help me get to the computer more regularly. I confess that I indeed need some healing for at least the time I am at the computer as the pain is taking away my power to think. Please, after You help me with the message, help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, as you can see in my prayer, I would appreciate your prayers covering some pain issues. We need to also be praying for our country and for our President to start to respect our police officers. Yesterday President Obama put an order out that police should not be using riot gear and armored vehicles. I wonder how he would feel if the secret service agents would not be around him or be unarmed when they were. This all makes no sense to me. Pray, warriors, pray. I want to get to the message, Old Man, Old Story.

Tuesday: May 19, 2015: Old Man, Old Story (Day Nine)

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.

1 John 1:5 - This is the message we have heard from Him and declared to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as He is the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us for all sin. (NIV)

Exodus 20:16 - You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. (NIV)

The people from our generation were taught not to lie. At my home, if I lied I would find there was a price to pay. Most often the punishment was the same as if I cursed. My mamma would wash my mouth out with soap, and she used homemade soap for that. In fact I think they named that soap for me, it was called lie soap. Anyway, there was a saying my mamma taught me. "Confession is good for the soul." Well, that saying comes right from the Bible. First, we are told in scripture not to lie. This is pointed out in Exodus 20:16 which of course is one of the Ten Commandments, and again that is also brought forth in 1 John 1 starting with verse 5. The Bible talks in many places about confession, and one other place that I want to bring out today is from ...

Romans 10:9/10 - That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that yo confess and are saved. (NIV)

My mamma used to ask me this. "Danny, are you lying?" And sometimes before I had a chance to answer she would say, "Daniel, don't you lie to me. God knows and I talk to God." Everything we ever did, God knows about. However, once we confess our sins over to Him, He puts that away, you are set free from it. "Confession is good for the soul." Did you ever do things growing up and then you would worry so much that your parents would find out you finally went and told on yourself? I think this is a good day to confess to God that we are sinners and ask God to clean us up. If you have never done this before, this would be a great day to give yourself over to God. Let's do it!

Dear Heavenly Father, please forgive me of my sins. I love You very much and I believe that You died for me and were risen from the dead. Please clean me and place my name in the Lamb's Book of Life. In Jesus' Name, I give thanks and praise. Amen.

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

Pastor Dan