Thursday 12/3/15 The Big Trip (3)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. It is great to  have the sun coming in to our window and The Son in our hearts. We are thankful that Matthew is out of the hospital land back to his home. Thanks for watching over us and over this line. Please be with families of those who have lost their lives and also please heal those injured in the attacks by the terrorists in California yesterday. Please, Lord, help those in Washington wake up and understand this is a war against a Christian nation. Please, Lord, bring forth a good qualified leader for the United States next year, or better yet, dear Father, please send Jesus back to get all who love Him. Also, please help us to keep working to get more people to come to Jesus. Help me now with the message and may the messages that You permit me to write on this line help to lead people to the Cross to be saved. Please help me to also get the message dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, sorry about yesterday. Feeling better today and trying to remember that so many people have  more pain than I do and that Jesus also went through a lot of pain to save my sorry self from my sins and mess-ups. Please pray for peace, world-wide peace. Please pray also for our police officers for it is a war out there and all they keep showing us is when one police officer might do something wrong. Well, let old Donkey Dan get started with the message.

Thursday: December 3, 2015: The Big Trip by Donkey Dan (Day Three)

Luke 1:16 - Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. 18 Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years." 19 The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. 20 And now you will be silent and will not be able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time." (NIV)

Wow, when Gabriel speaks we had better listen. Speaking of angels of the Lord, I just read in an obituary today that "this lady just passed on to become "an angel for the Lord." While that might sound nice in the paper, it is just not a fact. What would have sounded good would have been, this lady was "Born Again" and believed what Jesus did on the cross, and she accepted that.

When Zechariah questioned the angel Gabriel it was like he was questioning the very words of God. How often do we, yes, how often do we question the word of God? I want you to really think about that. How often do we not trust what He tells us in our prayers, and also when we read the Word of The Lord? I am going to spend some time this day addressing myself about this. Maybe you might want to do it also. Look at some of the commands He has given to us. One is that we are to go into the fields of Harvest and help harvest the crop. This crop we are to harvest is the crop of the lost souls or the crop of the lost people, or the crop of the non-believers. You know I better watch my step when I am walking, I would not want my Hee Haw to be taken away. How long has it been since you just flat out asked someone, are you Born Again? Once I was talking to a neighbor,he since moved, but I asked him if he knew Jesus as his personal Savior, and his answer was "I believe in the man upstairs." If you ask a question of someone about knowing Jesus and that is the answer you get, you need to be working on that person.

Another way we might not be trusting what God tells us is when it comes to our giving or helping of others. Think about that one. If everyone was treated just like Zechariah was when he questioned the messenger of the Lord, it sure would be a very, very quiet place to live. Think about this, Zechariah was very old, there were no medications back then to help an old man, and his wife Elizabeth was also up in years. Old Zach, instead of questioning it, should have just said, WELL, PRAISE THE LORD!! And went forth and really enjoyed the blessings of God. Think about it, when we are really being blessed by God, are we not enjoying those blessings? Maybe we better get to a song before God makes us silent.

Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know (Lela Long)

Jesus is the sweetest name I know,
and He's just the same as His lovely name.
And that's the reason why I love Him so.
Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know!

Jesus is the sweetest name I know,
and He's just the same as His lovely name.
And that's the reason why I love Him so.
Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know!

Dear Father in Heaven, please help me to be obedient to all you ask, be it in my prayers and my listening for an answer, or be it in Your Word written in our Bibles. Help us to always carry out the instructions from You to the very best of our ability. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now please go forth serving Jesus and loving Him and all others. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

Jesus is the sweetest name I know,
and He's just the same as His lovely name.
And that's the reason why I love Him so.
Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know!