Salvation Wednesday 4/27/16 Great Again!

Dear Father in Heaven: I love  You. Thank You for going to the cross for all of us. Thanks for watching over family and friends. Please, Lord, be with Tyler and Dione as they come together in marriage on Saturday. Please, Lord, furnish them with great weather at the wedding as it is outdoors. Thanks, Lord, for sending someone to weed around the Rock of Hope. Thanks, Lord, for the computer tech to retrieve files for us. Please  help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters. Yesterday it was 80, today it is 50. Don't know to keep the long johns or not. Update. Thanks to Gary Crawford of Hope United Methodist Church for taking care of the area around our "Rock  of Hope" yesterday. Your help was/is really appreciated. Bible update. Carry The Light Ministries has now handed out 70 Read-N-Grow Children's Picture Bibles. Also about 80 Bibles have been sent to foreign countries. We have also furnished study Bibles to several people and also passed along a lot of Gideon Bibles that had been removed from motels. The Gideon Bible is a great look-up Bible. ALL HONOR AND GLORY TO GOD!!! Yesterday at the polls we handed out three Read-N-Grow Bibles. Speaking of the polls, I am a tad upset about this election and some of the sayings used and how each and every candidate is going to make this country better. Of course Donald Trump is always saying he can make this country great again. This brings up my subject for our Salvation Wednesday, "Great Again."

Salvation Wednesday: April 27, 2016: "Great Again"

My dearest brothers and sisters, I want you to know that I love America, I really do, and regardless of who is elected come November, I am not leaving America. The Reverend Al Sharpton stated if Donald Trump is elected he is moving out of America. Maybe he will find it like Madalyn Murray O'Hara who started this whole thing about Bibles in Church and sued on behalf of hers on William Murray. As William grew up he did find Jesus and was "Born Again." I heard him speak about his mother once and how they tried to defect to Russia, but Russia would not take her!!

When I look back over my life I can see how in some things America has really turned bad, while in other things, well, some of them have gotten a whole lot better. One things that has improved just since I was born back in 1941 is there are good paying jobs now. My first job after my six years as a "paperboy" was at a gasoline service station, and I was paid 50 cents per hour. Gas was selling for 20 cents per gallon. So you could get 2.5 gallons of gas for an hour's work. Now as is about 2.30 per gallon and the pay is about 10 bucks an hour so you can buy more gas now for an hour worked. (So how else do you think a car guy would figure pay?) Other things that were better were neighbors were not shooting at each other. You could sit out on your porch and even sleep out all night and not get shot. Now I want to be clear about this, since I never walked a mile in my black brother's or sister's shoes, I don't know how they were treated. But I am sure it was not easy back in my early life and especially in some areas of this great nation. As for right now, I think America has gone backwards.

I also want to make this statement. No one politician or even a group of them will make this country "great again." Why? Because over the years we have thrown God out of places, out of schools, out of public buildings and other places. I mean you all have seen it. Tell me this makes sense to any of you. Harrisburg, PA, my hometown, has a lot of crime going on. Recently they received a six figure grant to help study the crime problem. I think the grant was about $150,000.00 and on the same day that was announced "beer week" was started. Nine days of featuring beer and booze of all types. Am I wrong, but when people are pouring the booze down their mouth, does not the crime rate go up? Yes, at the start of that same week, a lady, hit with her car, a mother and young son crossing Walnut Street in Harrisburg. The lady driver was drunk.

So again all these elected officials want to make America "great again" and most think it can be done with more money or higher taxes. Well, all of you elected officials and others who are interested, I will tell you where to start. GET OUT YOUR BIBLES, and then come back to God. Listen to this scripture.

2 Chronicles 7:14 - If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)

Okay, politicians, start by getting on your knees and bowing down before God and confessing yourself over to Him, then really humble yourselves before God and those who elected you. Then you leaders of America ask those who supported you to join with you in prayer and tell them this. If I or anyone else wants to make this country "great again," I, along with the others (including you and me) must turn back to God. Brothers and sisters, it is the only way and it is clear that is where we need to go. We must start putting God back in America. We must work through Jesus Christ in stopping abortion, stopping all the mass drinking, etc. So my dear brothers and sisters, and all of you politicians out there, and all of you news people, will you join me this day? Right now? In prayer, asking forgiveness first as a person, and then collectively as a nation to seek out God and turn from our wicked ways. Will you start it out with me and then please keep it going in some way spreading this message and scripture? Maybe it will even go viral. Please join me. Our Country needs God and so do each one of us. AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven: I come to You this day, humbling myself before You and seeking forgiveness of my sins, and I also come before You as a citizen of the United States of America, asking You to forgive our great nation. Please, Lord, today I pray for all of our present leaders and all those running for office who say they want to make things better. I pray that it will weigh heavy on their hearts and souls that they do need to come back home to God. Today, Lord, I want to be one who is humbling myself for our Nation and I want to do all I can do to get God back into our country, America. Amen.

Now go forth, my dear brothers and sisters, and tell people about the only way to make America great again is by coming back to God. Show them and tell them about our scripture for today: 2 Chronicles 7:14. Join me in singing a verse of Onward, Christian Soldiers.

Onward, Christian Soldiers (Sabine Baring-Gould and Arthur S. Sullivan)

Onward, Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,
With the Cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle: See His banners go!

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the Cross of Jesus going on before.

Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the Cross of Jesus going on before.