Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for watching over us. Thanks for watching over me. Please, Lord, keep watch over Matthew and also Noah. Please, Lord, be with President Obama and watch over him. Also please be with all of our veterans, our current military, our police and firefighters, and all the first responders. Please, Lord, be with the family of the lady who lost her life in a fire last evening. Also, Lord, please be with all those who were displaced by the different fires last evening in Lower Paxton Township and also Penbrook. Please, Lord, help me with the message and then please, Lord, help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters. Please enjoy your weekend. Spend time with God and enjoy the nice weather he is sending our way. I want to get working on the 23rd Psalm, so let me get started.
Friday: February 19, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Forty-two)
Psalm 23 (Day Four)
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waterrs.
3 He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Brothers an sisters, each day as I read through Psalm 23 while doing this writing on the Psalm, God keeps laying more and more on my heart about it. It is so much fun working for Jesus and I am so blessed over the years that God trusts me to work for Him. Today we are going to look at verse five.
Psalm 23:5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
In this verse God starts out telling me that He is going to provide me with food, maybe not always what I would like but always something that I can eat and it will help my body and soul. If you talk to people that have been in our military you will find out they did not always like the food sent them, but when out in a foxhole some of those quick meals were pretty tasty. A few years back we were given a lot of cases of military meals to hand out to those who were hungry and calling on Carry The Light Ministries for food. Before we gave an of them away, Grant and Wanda and Dolores and I sat down to lunch and had some of these military meals. And to all of us, we thought they were, well, really good. However, when we went to give them out, we had a lot of "so called" hungry and needy people who just turned their nose up at them. Would not even take them. We gave a lot of them to a scout troop who used them on a weekend campout and they loved them. Here is what I personally think about people who come for food, saying they have nothing and then refusing to take and eat what our military men and women get to eat while protecting America. I think they need to go hungry, really go hungry for a few weeks. We also had a few people who said they would take all we would give them. They tried them and really liked them.
I bring this up for these ready-to-eat military meals are prepared by those working for God and oftentimes those tables are set right in front of the enemies. I wonder sometimes how often did our men and women invite the enemies to their table to share this food.
Now as far as God anointing my head with oil, that was done many times to me and I also, working for God as a pastor, anointed others for God. In the Bible it tells us we should anoint with oil and pray for the sick to be healed. Let us look at that scripture. This from the book of James.
James 5:13-16 King James Version (KJV)
13 Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Psalm 23:5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
As for the last line of this verse, "My cup runneth over." Yes, my cup runneth over, meaning since I have been walking with Jesus, although I do slip and fall, my cup is never really empty, never even half empty, it is either half full, completely full, or just running over. How about yours? If your cup is not running over, maybe you are not giving to God, for He has made a promise and said we can even test Him on this. If you give to me in faith, I will bless you so much you will not have a place to store it. And yes, not a place to store it can mean my "cup is running over." Someone please say Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, please go forth now sharing the love of Jesus and telling others about the Good News and how your cup is running over. PRAISE THE LORD. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
What a Day That Will Be (Jim Hill)
What a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
And I look upon His face,
The one who saved me by His grace!
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the promised land;
What a day, glorious day, that will be!
What a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
And I look upon His face,
The one who saved me by His grace!
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the promised land;
What a day, glorious day, that will be!
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