Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please, Lord, bless me with a fresh start today. Thank You for watching over those we have been praying for, and all glory to You for a blessed event in Myerstown, PA. Again, all glory and honor to You. Lord, please be with our country each day, and we do pray for the events of tomorrow on this date that some in America have already forgotten. Lord, help people to return to You as they did after that event. Please help me now with the message and then help me to get it dispatched, and may it always be written to please You. In the Name of Jesus, I pray and give thanks. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, please, please pray for our nation and for people to come back to Christ. The events in Myerstown that we prayed for went well. All honor goes to our Lord Jesus. Please also pray for our cities and towns. Harrisburg, PA, my hometown, needs lots of prayers. Let me get to the message, When All Else Fails.
Thursday: September 10, 2015: When All Else Fails (Day One)
Psalm 89:28 - I will maintain my love to Him forever and my covenant with Him will never fail. (NIV)
Dear brothers and sisters, back in the days of my childhood, "when the streets were still dirt," I grew up in Harrisburg, PA, and went to city schools. I started first grade at Melrose School, and was moved to D.A. Marshall in fourth grade when that school first opened. Back in those days school opened with the reading of the Bible and a prayer. Starting in fourth grade we had to read from our own Bibles. Our Jewish brothers and sisters read from their Bibles, our first testament, and our Catholic brothers and sisters read from their Bibles. I could not read and when it was my turn to read it was either Psalm 23 or Psalm 100 which my dear late mamma helped me learn and memorize. I would go up and open my Bible and recite the scripture. It did not hurt anyone to hear the Bible, pray, and then pledge our flag. Along the way something happened!
We threw God out of school! Now let us fast forward to today. Take a look at our schools! What a mess! School shootings over and over again and it has happened a lot. And when it does, what happens? People, even the President of the United States, calls on people to pray. YES, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, we call on God, we call on our Lord Jesus for comfort and support,and we should, but WHY NOT DO IT FIRST? Why not get enough people to form a circle around that school and pray for God's protection? Oh, I forgot, that would not be politically correct, that would offend someone.
On September 11, 2001, our country was hit by the terrorists on our World Trade Center buildings in New York City and our Pentagon in Washington, DC and where that plane went down in Somerset County, PA. Then there was a call out for God. People were called to prayer by then President George W. Bush and people responded. Churches were filled, people started going to church or back to church. Yes, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILED, we went back to our Lord God.
Now we see it again, church attendance is down compared to those days after 9/11/2001. Must we wait for something else to happen again to call on help from our Lord? Hey, you don't need to just look at the big events, sometimes we just need to look over our own selves. Do we pray to start the day? Or do we wait until things start to go wrong? When all else fails, we tend to go to God! Why not go to Him, our Lord and Savior, before something fails? Or better yet, let us do as David did in our scripture today. I will bring it down for you.
Psalm 89:28 - I will maintain my love to Him forever and my covenant with Him will never fail. (NIV)
It is time that we all make a covenant with Him, our Lord and Savior, and do our part so it will NEVER FAIL. To do that it will take daily prayer, a lot of daily prayer.
Proverbs 11:14 - For lack of guidance a nation fails, but many advisers make victory sure. (NIV)
Our nation is failing, and why, we have walked away from God as a nation. Our country needs many advisors, but I ask you now, how many of them seek out God before they do things? How about the agreement going on with Iran? They are going to get a nuclear bomb, a big one for sure. Americans, Christians, we need to stand arm in arm with our Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel for that is OUR HOMELAND. Come on, brothers and sisters, and pray!
2 Chronicles 7:14 - If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)
Let us pray and let God heal our land. Amen.
Will you join me today and make a covenant with God and do your very best to stick with it?
Dear Father in Heaven, today, today I want to make a covenant with You to love You until the very end. I want to walk with You daily and talk with You daily, and more so I want to listen for what You are telling me to do and honor You by doing those things. In Jesus' Name, I pray and make this covenant. Amen.
Now go forth and pray and pray and pray while you serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
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