Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for a great day and a beautiful day. Thanks for watching over family and friends and all who use and read this line. Please, Lord, on this Salvation Wednesday, help us to lead others to You. Lord, we are placing Andrew in Your hands for You to take care of him. Please, Lord, help me to write the message and Lord, please then help me to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Please keep praying for Andrew as he is still missing. Praise report: Our son Matthew is back attending church and sounding much, much better and has even helped me research some scriptures. Praise God and thanks for your prayers for Matthew. Salvation Wednesday and the day we work even harder to lead others to Christ.
I am going to try and keep the messages shorter; however, sometimes that depends on what the subject is. With that said:
Salvation Wednesday: March 30, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Fifty-seven): The Stone
John 20:1 New International Version (NIV)
The Empty Tomb
20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
Picture yourself walking along in the dark, with just the light of the night guiding your footsteps. You are heading to the tomb and wondering just how you might remove the stone to put spices on the body of Jesus. When you arrive at the tomb that stone is already moved!!! It had been rolled away!!!
PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD! Our Lord Jesus is still in the stone-rolling business. If you have a problem regardless of what it might be, talk it over with Jesus and let Him roll the stone away that is blocking what you need to do.
Sometimes the answer does not come overnight, sometimes you might think He is just not going to roll away the stone that is blocking you. There are times you can go to bed with a problem praying to God to awake and find the problem gone, that stone rolled away. More often than not, when you have a stone blocking you, after you pray to God The Father through Jesus The Son, you may need to start the project on your own.
Let me try and give you just a few examples. You lost your job and it was a good one and you really need a job. So you sit down and really pray for God to roll this stone away. Two months later you have not heard one thing about a job so you go back to prayer and pray even harder. Still no results. So you decide I will need to get off my couch (I could have used another word here) and go put in some applications. You need to help God help you!
Dear brothers and sisters, our Lord Jesus still rolls the stones away. He can help you in whatever your problem is, but you need to ask first and most of the time you must get out and start leaning on that rock to get it rolled away. Sometimes you need to ask God to just give you an idea of how to get it done. I want to give you this example.
You have heard me talk often of our "Rock of Hope" in our front yard. It is big and it is heavy. It came out of the ground when "Hope" Church was adding to their building a lot of years ago. A big backhoe had trouble picking it up, but when that operator got it, he placed it on my flatbed trailer and pushed it to the center so it would be riding over the dual wheels in the center of the trailer. I closed the back of the trailer and slowly brought it home. I pulled up in my front yard and said, now I need to get it off the trailer. Well, my yard is on a slant, so God gave me enough brains to know it would slide better downhill than up. So I got the trailer near where I wanted the rock and I tried pushing it off the trailer. That did not work. "Lord I need some help here." I jacked up the front of the trailer. That did not work. Got out pry bar and tried pushing it off. No good. "Lord, please help me, please, Lord." I sat down and the answer came from God. So I went and got some oil and put it on the trailer and left that run under the rock. I was sitting on the tailgate of my pickup truck when I noticed the rock starting to move. I picked up the wrecking bar, put it under the rock, gave it one push and God slid it right off the trailer to the place it sits today. Yes, a true story of how Jesus "Rolled Away this Stone!"
Brothers and sisters, whatever the problem, you can for sure work it out better with God than by yourself. Remember, four heads are better than one. Four heads? Yes, God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Ghost and you. Amen!!
Now please go forth sharing your love of Jesus and telling some others how He might have "Rolled Away a Stone" for you. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Isn't He Wonderful
Isn't He wonderful, wonderful, wonderful?
Isn't Jesus, my Lord, wonderful!
Eyes have seen, ears have heard:
'Tis recorded in God's Word.
Isn't Jesus, my Lord, wonderful!
Isn't He wonderful, wonderful, wonderful?
Isn't Jesus, my Lord, wonderful!
Eyes have seen, ears have heard:
'Tis recorded in God's Word.
Isn't Jesus, my Lord, wonderful!
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