Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I appreciate that You sent Jesus to die on the Cross to save me from my sins. I pray today according to Your Word in Psalms 143:10 to teach me to do Thy will for Thou art my God. And Father, I want to follow Jesus and Your Word and Your will for me. Please help me walk this day for You. I pray today for Grant and Wanda and I ask that You help them. I pray also this day for Noah and for You to cover him and heal him. I pray also today for Dolores and ask Your touch on her. Also, Lord, please heal Linda's cold and throat and also please be with and heal and comfort Buck Rambo, and also give strength to his wife Mae. Please help me now with the daily message and then, please, Lord, help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, please pray today for our grandson Noah, and also new today please pray for Gospel singer Buck Rambo as hospice has now been called in. Buck has cancer. Please also lift his wife Mae in prayers. Years ago when Carry The Light Ministries was on the road singing we had the honor of opening a few concerts for Buck when he was in the area. Buck's first wife Dotty was killed in a bus crash when her tour bus went out of control in bad weather heading to a concert.
If you have prayer requests, please be sure to send them and I will post them. Also, if you have praise reports, as we need to post them also. My dear friend and brother in Christ sent me one of his favorite scriptures which I used today in my opening prayer and will try and work into the message. What a great verse and I just love how God gives different scriptures to each of us to comfort us and get us also in line with His will for us. Thanks to Tom Sansoni for sharing one of his favorite scriptures with us. Now to the message, and please remember it is Salvation Wednesday on this line.
Salvation Wednesday: February 17, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Forty-one)
Psalm 23 King James Version (KJV)
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 waters.
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.
Dear brothers and sisters: Today as we look at the 23rd Psalm we are going to dig into verse 4, so let me set that out for us.
Psalm 23:4 - 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.
If you recall years ago Dolores and I rode motorcycle and we rode a lot. We traveled most every place we went on a big Honda Goldwing and pulled a trailer behind us. On the tank of one of the cycles there was a Bible painted there by an artist and it was the 23rd Psalm verse 4 and it read like this:
"Yea, though we ride through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil; for Thou art riding with us."
Over the years we got into some places that I was not sure we would get out of and without Jesus with us, more than likely we would not have made it. Coming out of Washington, DC, one night well after dark I made a wrong turn and we were in a neighborhood where I think everyone would have loved to take our ride from us, but God was faithful and the wheels kept turning and we got out safe. Another time we rode to church and after church we went for lunch. While there someone lifted the hitch pin leaving it open. We traveled out onto Highway 83 North and were running in the Harrisburg area when the trailer came loose from the cycle and was hanging on the safety chains. I told Dolores to pray and hang on as I tried to control the trailer. The cars behind us saw we were in trouble and believe it or not were holding the traffic back. I would slow down some until the trailer was ready to drag and then gas it to lift it, and I did this until I got the speed down to where I was ready to dump it onto the shoulder. I again told Dolores to pray and hold on and I put it on the shoulder and grabbed a handful of brakes and held onto the cycle. We stopped and not one scratch. All honor and glory to God. We put the stand down on the cycle and got off, went to the guard rail, and got on our knees and thanked our Good Lord. Then we hitched up and went on with our ride. The following week I got locks for those hitches.
Psalm 23:4 - 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.
So to me, it does not make a difference if you are walking, riding a cycle, driving a car, driving a big rig, or a bus, or even up in the front of a big airliner as a pilot as my friend Charles Wotring did for many years, if you are walking, riding, driving, or flying and doing it with Jesus you do not need to "fear any evil" for indeed God is with you and with us. Then it talks about His rod and His staff being a comfort to us. The rod and staff were to a shepherd tools to help him watch over his sheep, maybe hook in one that would be wandering away or even use it to chase away a wolf. To me, I like to think of His Rod and His Staff as tools to protect us. Think of this, our Father in Heaven has some great tools to protect us, and His staff includes but is not limited to God The Son, our beloved Jesus and also God The Holy Ghost, our comforter. So brothers and sisters, please look the verse over again and maybe you will see this verse as a comforter to you in times of trouble. And maybe as we take a look at one of Tom's most loved scriptures, we can include it as one of ours. Here that is in full:
Psalm 143:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 - Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God: Thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for being a comforter to and for us and thanks for watching over us each day. Teach us to try and follow Your will for us daily in all we do. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen
Now go forth loving Jesus and sharing the comforting Good News as found throughout our Bibles. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
One of the best comforters we have is the Holy Spirit, and I know we have used this song before, but it is a good one for today:
Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome (Dottie Rambo and David Huntsinger)
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace:
Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace:
Thou art welcome in this place.
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