Sunday 1/10/15 The Big Trip (23)

PRAISE GOD FOR SENDING A MESSAGE!!

Dear Father in Heaven: Your timing is so wonderful and I give You all honor and praise for the sign You are sending right now as I am just sitting down to start the message. Please forgive me of my sins and know that I really do love You. Thank You, dear Father, for a great service this morning preached by Jimmy Swaggart. Please, Lord, bless them. Oh, Lord, that beautiful big rainbow, help me write a message on that today.  Help me now please with that message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray and give You praise. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, I came out to our computer room after our church service this morning. We have church in our living room and use Jimmy Swaggart for the service. Anyway, after the service was over and we had our cooked meal for the day (homemade chicken veggie soup) I sat down at the computer. The sun was shining when all of a sudden a heavy rain passed through. Dolores had been out here with me and had just gone back into the house from the computer room, when I looked out my window and there was one of the most beautiful rainbows planted right there in the sky. I yelled for Dolores to come back out and she did, in time to see this beautiful sight of God. This changed my message for this day.

Sunday: January 10, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Twenty-three)

The Rainbow!

Genesis 9:8-17 New International Version (NIV)

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you - the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you - every living creature on earth. 11 I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will he waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." 17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between Me and all life on the earth." (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, if you don't think God talks to you, you ain't listening!! Read this, brothers and sisters. God made a covenant, a promise with Noah, and all of those listed above, including Noah's descendants, which we, WHICH WE, are. Yes, since everyone else was destroyed in the flood, it means we are all descendants of Noah. So we have a promise from God, and what is that promise? Never again to destroy everything? No, never again to destroy everything by water. Here it is again!

"I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

This, brothers and sisters, is a quote from God! Good, right? Yes, and what about that rainbow? Let us take another look at that.

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life."

Now I am going to upset some people, but I don't care!!! The RAINBOW sign has been hijacked by the gay community as their symbol. No place in the Bible does it say about any other use of the rainbow. In fact, if you look at the scripture, God Himself claims ownership of the rainbow!!! It has a purpose! It is a reminder, yes a reminder made by God, to remind Himself that He made this covenant, this promise, to all of us. Yes, look right above, I set it out this time, "A covenant for all generations to come." PRAISE THE LORD, THANK YOU, LORD.

17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between Me and all life on the earth."

Brothers and sisters, there is not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow like you have seen stories about, but there is truth in this. Somewhere over the RAINBOW, skies are blue. For as I am finishing up this message today, the sky has turned blue with hardly even a cloud in the sky. When was the last time that God sent you a message so strong that you knew it was sent just at the right time, when you really needed it most? Let me tell you this, God will do that!! Sometimes when you are feeling so low you feel like you are drowning, God will send you a sign, maybe a person, a friend, or even a perfect stranger. I want you to look back in your life and think of times you might have been really down. Who did God send to help you? All of you should start that answer by saying Jesus, for He has lifted us either directly, or by sending that other person to help Him help you. Have you ever heard the term, "they were God-sent"? Sure you have.

Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks again for setting that rainbow in the sky. It not only reminds You, but it also reminds us. Thanks again. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth and love and serve Jesus, and maybe today you could put this tune on your lips. I don't know all the words, but I do know these. I love ya.

Pastor Dan

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue ...