Thursday 11/12/15 Assignments (19)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I give You all honor and glory for such a nice day with dear friends Grant and Wanda. Please keep them safe and please watch over their family. Father, please help us get Your Word out to all people, and please help me understand how some who say they are Christians do not even know what that word means. Please help me to be steadfast in You, and I know, Lord, I will slip, stumble and even fall, but I want to hang on to You. Please, Lord, help me now with the message and please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, I knew I would miss some veterans yesterday, and I must note two more today. United States Coast Guard "Spike" Michaud. Also Navy, Dian Lehman (sorry, Dian). Dian is my daughter-in-law. Above in the prayer, when I am telling the Lord I will slip, stumble and even fall, I am not talking about me falling and hitting the ground, I am talking about my walk with Jesus. I do, however, need prayers to keep me from slipping, stumbling, and falling, and so does Dolores. We are both "fall risks." God still has me looking at Assignments so let me get to the message and see where He takes me today.

Thursday: November 12, 2015: Assignments (Day Nineteen)

John 6:1 - Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee 2 and a great crowd of people followed Him because they saw the miraculous signs He had performed on the sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with His disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Feast was near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" 6 He asked this only to test Him, for He already had in mind what He was going to do. (NIV)

What were some of your assignments today? Did you have some from God and some from your boss? And of course you had some self-assignments, right? Today our dear friends Grant and Wanda stopped in and we had a great fellowship with them, but before they left, they had a few assignments that we asked them to do. We sat and talked, broke bread together, and before they left they lit the pilot light on our gas heater as I can no longer get on the floor to do that. They closed a few windows in my garage that I could not reach and a few other things. Dolores and I self-assigned to get lunch (hot dogs and beans). So we all can agree that we have self-assignments, assignments from others and assignments from God. Which are the most important? Your assignments from God, of course!!

What if you had people stop in about meal time and you did not have things prepared?

A long time ago I was cooking on New Year's Day, and yes, it was pork and sauerkraut, and I had a really big pork roast. I had it sitting out when Dolores' brother stopped in. He is home with the Lord now. Anyway, he said that smells good, and of course we had plenty so we asked him to stay. And he said no, but can I take some along, I invited a lot of people and did not have enough to feed them, so of course we shared it with him. Sometimes guests show up and you do not want to send them away hungry and neither did Jesus that day. So what did He do? Jesus was talking to Phillip and He just told Phillip to run over to the food store and pick up some fish and bread. No, He did not say that. Jesus said this, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" Jesus was testing Phillip as He already had a plan in place.

John 6:8 - Another one of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up. 9 "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?" (NIV)

The Bible tells us there were about five thousand men, women, and children there that day. Andrew was asking Jesus how far this will go. Then Jesus gave this assignment to His disciples.

John 6:10 - Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in the place, and the men (women and children) sat down, about five thousand of them. (NIV)

Then what happened? He said to them, wait until tomorrow to find out. No, I said that for this is enough for today. Do you know what happened? Please try and read John 6:1 through John 6:15 and you will know that answer. I can tell you this, tomorrow on Friday we will have fish.

So the disciples carried out the assignment of Jesus to have the people sit ... I can also tell you this, tomorrow will be sweeter than today.

Every Day with Jesus

Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus I love Him more and more.
Jesus saves and keeps me, and He's the one I'm waiting for.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.

Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus I love Him more and more.
Jesus saves and keeps me, and He's the one I'm waiting for.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.

Dear Father in Heaven, You really do get sweeter each day, and I thank You for that and for the message. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus I love Him more and more.
Jesus saves and keeps me, and He's the one I'm waiting for.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.