Saturday 11/7/15 Assignments (15)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I give You praise and honor for our great-grandson Emmett, who we got to hold today and pray for. What a beautiful child, Lord. Lord, we thank You for all of our family and we pray You will keep them all safe. Please, Lord, help me with a message this day and help me to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, our daughter Danelle, grandson Tyler, and our great-grandson Emmett stopped in today and besides a few other things we opened Santa's House. I put on the Santa hat and with Mrs. Claus beside me, Emmett got his picture taken with Santa, was anointed with oil and prayed for. He was also given a Bible.

Besides purchasing Bibles for other countries, we are purchasing the Read and Grow Bibles with Bible stories along with the pictures. What great Bibles. I want to move on with the message today. So let me get to it. What was your assignment today?

Saturday: November 7, 2015: Assignments (Day Fifteen)

John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)

God The Father gave an assignment to Jesus to show us all the way to get to Heaven. Besides confessing and inviting Jesus into our hearts, we also need to learn other things. This scripture points out a lot of things and I might have used it already in this series, and that is okay. Thee are many messages in one scripture verse.

Here we find Jesus who had comforted His disciples, and yes, we are His disciples also. He also had to tell them the way home, the way to Heaven.

My assignment today from Jesus is to be sure you also know the way  home and of course that is through Jesus. I also want to bring this out. So many people, when praying, and moreso if they are praying in public or at a meeting, they are told not to use the name of Jesus. I have heard many, many times people when they finish praying say something like this. "In His name I pray," and I will be saying "who's He?" Of course I know, but do all others?

When I look over this scripture, I personally feel that it does not just mean for when we want to go to heaven, we must of course go through Jesus, but I think it also means that when we pray, if we want Jesus to deliver that prayer to His Father, we need to pray to the Father and then "put it through Jesus." I mean after all, it does say, Jesus answered, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Does it not? Anyway, I feel that is what God wants me to tell you this day, so there it is.

Today as we look at a song, this one was my Mamma's favorite and one of mine. I oftentimes years and years ago when taking an early morning walk would sing this as I walked past the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery which was near where I worked. I also often go to our "Rock of Hope" in our front yard alone and I will sing this hymn. Will you please join me "In The Garden."

In The Garden (C. Austin Miles 1868-1946)

I come to the garden alone
while the dew is still on the roses,
and the voice I hear falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.

And He walks with me and He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

He speaks and the sound of His voice
is so sweet the birds hush their singing.
And the melody that He gave to me
within my heart is ringing.

And He walks with me and He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

And He walks with me and He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

Dear Father in Heaven, I love those quiet minutes with You when I can sing and hear Your voice. I seems when we are alone it is the very best time to listen to You. Lord, I do not do this often enough. Maybe others on this line, Lord, feel the same way and will spend more time with You listening and singing. I love You and pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

Let us sing it again.

And He walks with me and He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.