Sunday 1/17/16 The Big Trip (27)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I really appreciate Your willingness to hear our prayers anytime we pray. I am sure You think that I don't pray enough, and I am sorry about that. I really do appreciate Your forgiveness of our sins when we ask, and I am thrilled that You provided all of us a way out of sin with a final escape plan to go to heaven. Lord, while so many right now are working to get to Washington, DC, I am working to get in Jerusalem DC. Thanks for helping all of us do that, and please bless me with a message and help me to dispatch it. Thanks to You we got to hear Matthew's voice for just a few minutes  today. Lord, he really needs Your healing hand. Giving praise and glory and sending up my prayers in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, I was very serious in my prayer above. I do pray that as you read that opening prayer you are praying along as you read. You might be thinking that you know those running for office want to get to Washington, DC, but what is Jerusalem, DC, and why are we working to get there, Jerusalem, David's Capitol? Yes, I picked that up from Jimmy Swaggart this morning. Please pray for me about tomorrow. I would like God to give me a message about Martin Luther King, Jr., who in my opinion was a truly great man. Today more on that big trip.

Sunday: January 17, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Twenty-seven)

Jesus is tempted!!

Matthew 4:1-4 New International Version (NIV)

4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. 3 The tempter came to Him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. 4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

As we take a look at scripture and we see how Jesus was led by The Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted or tested by Satan, we see Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights, and yes, He was hungry. I want to bring this out right now. If you are a true believer in Jesus, a real follower of Jesus, you will NOT fast for forty days and forty nights, for that could indeed cause you to die. If you are a true follower, you will try and be like Jesus by trying to live without sin. Satan told Jesus "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus would not do that. Do you know that "breakfast" means you are breaking a fast? You have  fasted while you were sleeping. Some of us get a snack each time we wake up. I keep cheese and crackers in the headboard of my bed. So fasting for forty days could cause your system to shut down.

We also see that Jesus is letting Satan lead Him around to a point, and then Jesus really was witnessing to Satan. However, that did not work. While Jesus let Satan lead Him around, we are NOT STRONG ENOUGH to just let Satan lead us and that is just another reason why we need to be "Born Again" and get protection from Jesus to help fight off the master of evil. We know without doubt Jesus could have prayed to His Father in Heaven and it would be done. The rocks would have become bread. After all, they did furnish that "manna" which kept Moses and  his followers fed for forty years as they wandered around in the desert. Now let us take a look at the next verse. I will bring it down.

Matthew 4:4 - Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God.'" (NIV)

This is true today also, but maybe you would think of it like this. Man shall not live on steak, lobster, potatoes, salad, pie, cake, ice cream, pizza, and bread alone. I said that to just point out to you how really blessed we are when it comes to food. Yet with all that said, we need to be living on "every Word that comes from the mouth of God." But Pastor Dan, we can't always hear Jesus talking to us!! Listen up, He speaks to us through His Word which is WRITTEN IN OUR BIBLES. A Bibles is the inspired Word of God. Also we need to be listening when our pastors speak, and brothers and sisters, if you do not understand it, talk to them about it, and have them show you where to find it in scripture. If what you are hearing in church is NOT FROM THE BIBLE, get up and walk out. NO, GET UP AND RUN OUT. Yes, we need food to eat to live, but we need the Complete WORD OF GOD TO SURVIVE!!

Does the name Pastor Rick Warren catch your ear? He is from that big church in California. Years ago we handed out some music with his words on it. Do you know he has just signed on with the Muslims saying that we worship the same God. THAT IS SO WRONG. Do you remember Robert Shuler Sr. at the Crystal Cathedral? He signed on to this also, and that big house of glass went bankrupt. My source on this: In the news and featured on Jack Van Impe Ministries with Doctors Jack and Rexella Van Impe.

Brothers and sisters, there is no other way to Heaven except through Jesus, and Mohammed is not now nor ever was or will be our Lord Jesus who is God, as in the trinity. God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit. AMEN. Shout that out, please!!

Dear Father in Heaven. We need You, we need You around the clock to keep us going. Thanks for the food we eat, and thank You also for the food we hear and read. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Now brothers and sisters, go forth loving Jesus and walking nearer and nearer to Him each day. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

Just a Closer Walk

I am weak but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong.
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk, close to Thee.

Just a closer walk with Thee;
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea.
Daily walking close to Thee.
Let it be, Dear Lord, let it be.

Just a closer walk with Thee;
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea.
Daily walking close to Thee.
Let it be, Dear Lord, let it be.