Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and today I give thanks to You for our veterans and also our current military and I ask that You have Your hand upon each one of them, not just today but everyday. It is our Salvation Wednesday and our Veterans Day, dear Lord, help us, help me to reach out through this line to talk to others about Salvation through our Lord Jesus. Lord, I will need even more help today with this message, and I ask in the name of Jesus that You please help me and also help me to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Dear Veterans, and all my brothers and sisters: It is Salvation Wednesday on this line, and it is Veterans Day. This morning I received a big hug and kiss from a veteran, and I did not even need to leave home to get it. While I will never be able to name all the veterans on this line, I do want to just thank a few, and some might not even be on the line. From my class of 1959, Marine Sargent Major Grant Beck, Air Force Pilot John Zimmerman, both still with us, and Army Chopper Pilot John Holtz, shot down and killed in Vietnam shortly after we got out of school. Now let me thank one of my best friends, Grant Crockett, US Army, served in Vietnam. Glenn Gamber, Army WWII. My son Glenn Daniel Lehman, served on the Flying Fish and the Daniel Webster, they are submarines. (My middle name is Webster. No, the sub was not named after me.) Here are a few others. Air Force: Charles Wotring, Dolores Lehman. Navy: Sharon Saylor, Oliver Ogden, Tom Mozer. Former Air Force 193rd Chaplain Pastor Major Richard Denison. Two others I want to bring out. The late Glenn Witmer and Harold Goddard, both Navy and home with Jesus. Again, I can't remember them all right now, so if I missed an old friend, I am sorry. I plead old age.
Brothers and sisters, the best thing the very best thing we could do for our veterans is to be sure they have Jesus in their hearts, be sure they are saved and are going home to be with Jesus. Now let me get to the message. At the end of the message there will be a reprint of something I wrote this past Independence Day.
Salvation Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Veterans Day: Assignments (Day Eighteen)
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)
Brothers and sisters, it looks to me like our assignment for today from God is to turn from our sin and pray and seek the face of God, which means to me, come to the cross and bring Jesus into your life and get filled with the Holy Ghost. Here are a few questions.
Does our land need healed? It should be an easy answer, just watch the news one day and you will know our land needs healed. That is what happens when we throw God out of places like our schools, our government buildings, stores, and even now Starbucks who took Christmas decorations off their coffee cup. Brothers and sisters, are you afraid to say the name of JESUS in public? I am not afraid to say Jesus wherever I might be. Jesus is my Lord and Savior, and He saved my soul. With that said, we also have a lot, a lot of men and women who gave up their lives to keep our country free. Jesus keeps and protects our soul, our military protects our country. Last night outside of the place where the Republican debates were held, some people burned an American flag. Here in America that is called free speech. Also two people were shown on tape taking down our flag and the POW flag, one was up the pole
Dare an old pastor say this on this line one time? This is bullshit!!! There, I said it, forgive me, Lord, if that was wrong. We need to support our veterans and also support those who will be veterans soon. I am not a veteran, but that does not mean I can't support them.
Morning Mayor of WHP 580 radio R.J. Harris was born on Veterans Day, but he is not a veteran. I do not know of any one person who is not a veteran who supports our veterans and our military more than R.J. does. Thanks. R.J. Here is the reprint from summer with a few updates. We will sign off and sing after that.
Today we are TRULY ONE NATION UNDER GOD, and I love it, don't you?
America, One Nation Under God, from its fields of rich earth, filled with lots of good things to eat, from its mountains filled with beautiful trees and lots and lots of wildlife, with fresh springs feeding into streams, then into creeks and into mighty rivers and then our oceans, all filled with lots of fish and such to eat.
America, One Nation Under God, where large cities have been built, and small towns still strive, where Andy can still be sheriff after all these years. From factories that build cars and trucks to offices that house doctors and nurses. You get the picture, or at least you should.
America, One Nation Under God, where folks of all sizes and colors have come together to live. Sort of reminds me of that song I learned in Bible School. Red and yellow, black and white, they are special in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. And you can find God's children from all over the world calling America home. I am one of those kids.
America, One Nation Under God, and He blessed us well. We could survive on what God has given this country and would not need to bring in anything from other countries if we cared to do that. We would also have enough left over to help other countries who either don't have things to eat or would sooner fight each other than learn to grow their own food.
America, a country that only could be built by God but needed so many men and women to keep us free.
America, on this Independence Day, 2015, I would like to say thank you to all those who have served in our military from the beginning to this day. Brave men and women who fought in battle or supported those who did. My daddy, who did not go into the military, but gave up his teaching job during WW2 to make tires for airplanes. Some people say today that our veterans are getting few and far between, and that is NOT SO. The fact is we have many veterans, some of whom have lost their arms and/or legs fighting in the wars we are in right now. Some of them are just 18 years old! Some are in their 90's or even older. And some gave their lives!
America, One Nation Under God, and I wish to thank God this day for my personal freedom, for God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, gave me that, and NO ONE, I SAID NO ONE, CAN TAKE IT AWAY. My Salvation is sealed with the Blood of our Lord Jesus. Is yours?
America, One Nation Under God, and today I want to thank all of the fine men and women of today's Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy. I wish to thank the fine men and women of our reserve units, the 28th and 193rd and others from this area.
America, One Nation Under God, and today I would like to thank all of those people who work to support those warriors of America. Let me start with the families of our military and then move on to those who work hard on the military bases, like those in our area. Those who work and study at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA. And those who work at the Army and Navy supply depots in our area. Also those who work and train at Fort Indiantown Gap. I also want to thank the men and women who work at Military hospitals all over the country and pray that service would improve. I want to thank ladies like Sharon Saylor and Dolores Lehman who refer to each other as Navy and Air Force. Both retired, but out of respect Dolores calls Sharon "Navy" as she is a Navy veteran, and she calls my wife "Air Force" as Dolores served our country in the Air Force and the 193rd.
America, One Nation Under God, where a few, just a few, of the people who are free because of God and all of our military want to have the name of God removed from our Pledge to Our Flag. Folks, look back up over the list, for if it were not for God there would be no America, none, and if it were not for the men and women of our militaries over the years we might be speaking another language. MIGHT? Might nothing, we would be!
America, One Nation Under God, where each day hundreds of people are trying to sneak in and others are trying to kill us out of rage for what we have, and have protected, and yes, what we give away to others.
America, One Nation Under God, only in America where a young Army Major named David would stop and check in on us on his way from Carlisle to Fort Indiantown Gap to say thank you to us for helping the needy and to say thank you to me and others for the things he learned in Vacation Bible School where I met this Major.
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, look around you today and maybe just right now take time to say, THANK YOU, GOD, FOR AMERICA, AND THANK YOU, GOD, FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE PROTECTED IT. Please remember the police and firefighters who keep us safe on the homefront and those Merchant Marines who transport the goods to our warriors.
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, where you can STILL PRAY OUT LOUD, even when some people want to change it to silent prayer. Say it with me, please. THANK YOU, FATHER!!
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, Stand up for her or if you don't like it, I invite you to leave, no one is holding you back get out if you don't like it and I dare you to find a place that is better. And after you have been to any other country in the world, please write and tell me if it is better or not. I invite you BACK TO AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD. Welcome Home.
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD. YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER, AS LONG AS WE STAY ONE NATION UNDER GOD. For when the time comes we trash God too much, no military, not even the best of the best, our United States Military, will be able to protect us from the "WRATH OF GOD." And I think we get close to that on some days. People shooting up churches to cause race to come against race. Kids shooting each other in our cities and even Sheriff Andy would need to wear body armor today.
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, I LOVE YOU, LORD. I LOVE YOU, JESUS, AND YES, I LOVE YOU, AMERICA. And I love all of you.
Pastor Daniel W. Lehman: Independence Day 2015: Updated for Veterans Day 2015
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Okay, back live today. Pray with me please.
Dear Father in Heaven, we really need You and today I pray all on this line are praying for our land to be healed. Lord, please start by healing our hearts and then our land. Help us to stand arm in arm with our Jewish brothers and sisters in our homeland, the place where our Lord Jesus walked. Help us, Lord, please help us. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Please go forth now, loving and serving Jesus and thanking our veterans. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Please join me with this.
The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, 1779-1843)
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air
gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave
o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
AMEN
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