Monday 11/9/15 Assignments (16)

Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks for a great night's rest. Thanks for waking us this day, and know, Dear Lord, that in this home, You are loved and You are head of this household. I do love You and give You praise for our daily bread, our daily food and for the use of this line. Please, Lord, hear our prayers for healing this day. For Glenn Gamber, Matthew Lehman, also Vicki and others on our recent prayer lists. Please, Lord, help me with the daily message and please, Lord, then help me to dispatch it. Thanks again for trusting me to work for You. In Jesus' Name, I give praise and ask my prayers. Amen.

Good morning, brothers and sisters, it is another beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Please keep praying for Glenn and Marie and their family. Our dear Matthew is back in the hospital. Please keep him in your prayers. I am still working on assignments. As you know, we have closed our food pantry. However, we are still finding ways to help others. God is good. Praise Him. Now to the message.

Monday: November 9, 2015: Assignments (Day Sixteen)

John 14:15 - "If you love Me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask The Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever." (NIV)

Dear brothers and sisters, we all have those earthly assignments and often they are the same day to day. You know, get up, get your shower, and don't forget to wash behind your ears. Then we have other assignments that we might not know from day to day what they are going to be. I think of firefighters, some paid, many doing it for the love of community. Assignments to keep the equipment clean and ready to go. And while that assignment might be the same some days, those men and women never know when that bell or alarm will sound. Out of bed in the middle of the night. Assignment, first to save lives, and then to put out a fire or help at an accident. Police officers never get the same assignments except to report to work. Different each day, and then the paper work. So we know about earthly assignments.

In our scripture today there are three assignments. One assignment is from Jesus to us, and the other is really for Jesus. Let us take a good look. Our assignment is simple, or should be. "If we love Jesus, we will obey what He commands." But wait a minute, I love Jesus, I really do, but every now and then I mess up and do not obey one of  His commands. That of course is then called a sin, and then if we really love Jesus and do not obey a command He forgives us, He cleans the slate for us. PRAISE GOD, THANK YOU, JESUS.

So what then is the assignment assigned to Jesus? "I will ask The Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever." It looks to me like Jesus is assigning Himself this job, to ask The Father and then it looks to me like Jesus is making an assignment for His Father in Heaven to carry out. Wow, that makes the third assignment. Do you look at it about that same way? Oh, I could preach on this one. Jesus is assigning Himself the duty of calling on His Father. And He knows of course His Father will listen to Him and carry out the assignment. The assignment of God The Father is to send us another Counselor, and that Counselor will be with us forever.

Trying to make this easy to understand when typing takes some time. You see, Jesus did leave us, and He went to be with His Father in Heaven. He is not here on earth with us, so when we ask Jesus into our hearts it is this other Counselor that will come in. Who is this other Counselor? You should know, but do you?

Tomorrow we will look at that assignment and have a song to sing with that. Also for tomorrow, Happy Birthday to our Marines, 240 years old.

Through It All, Andrae Crouch

Through it all, through it all,
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus.
I've learned to trust in God.

Through it all, through it all.
Oh, I've learned to depend upon His Word.

Through it all, through it all,
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus.
I've learned to trust in God.

Through it all, through it all.
Oh, I've learned to depend upon His Word.

Dear Father in Heaven, I have learned to trust in You and also in Jesus, but I need to build even more trust and more faith. Please, Lord, help me to grow in my love for You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth loving and sharing Jesus with others. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

Through it all, through it all,
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus.
I've learned to trust in God.

Through it all, through it all.
Oh, I've learned to depend upon His Word.