Friday 6/24/16 Romans 8:28

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I seek Your forgiveness of sins. Lord, I just want to praise you and praise You for hearing and answering prayers. Please help all those with daily struggles, and please be with those who are living in areas hit by storms and fires. Please watch over those working with the neighborhood gardens growing things to help the hungry. Please protect Janet in her travels. Please touch Don Coffin and help him, Lord. Thanks for helping me this week with health issues. Please, Lord, help me with a message and to get it dispatched. In the Mighty Name of Jesus, Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, I just wanted to give you an update on why I am not writing daily. One reason is the room our computers are in does not have air conditioning and it gets really hot some days. I also have some health issues that most of you are aware of. So if you readers would keep Dolores and this old man in your prayers  it would be appreciated. We are indeed trying to serve God by working for Him in some way each day. Now let me get to the message God is giving me for today:

Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them who love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. (KJV)

When I was first introduced to gospel music by Dolores back in 1981 or 1982, I can remember hearing a gospel song that started like this:

"All things work together for good for those who love the Lord." And that song stuck in my mind and heart and is still there today. If you know the tune you might go ahead and sing it or hum it today. However, in my early years I was listening to the music and not looking in the Bible to find out what all this means and what might need done.

Romans 8:28 - And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, now there are times that things do not come together for good, even if you do love Him. Have you had that happen to you? I have had it happen to me. However, there are some reason that they did not. But I do want to tell you this, most have been worked out for the good, but sometimes we just think it should happen right when we pray. And then there are times He will bring things together for good when we did not pray. In other words, we need to be working for God all the time and even with that we will have some setbacks and I am sure all of you have had that happen. The older I am getting the more I appreciate all the little things that He works together for us for the good. When Dolores and I leave the house and come home from the food store it is a struggle to get things into the house. However, if we take our time and we pray, He has been working it all out for the good. God loves working things out for us, He really does. I hear some people that say, "All things work together for good," and more than likely might not even know that is in the Bible, or they might not use it.

It was not long ago when one of our loving animals was down, I thought she was going to die. We prayed and I called the animal veterinarian and she told me to trust her on this, and put a couple of drops of gasoline in their mouth. As fast as I could I got to my gas can and filled an eye dropper with gasoline and placed it in her mouth. In an instant this dear dog got up and ran around the house and ran and ran and ran. Then she fell over laying on her side. Dolores yelled at me, is she dead? And I replied, no, she just ran out of gas!!!

Okay, a made-up story to keep you reading, but over the years God has helped us with many of our pets, He has answered prayers for many a reader when we pray for their cat or dog on this line. And we know of His love for animals land we know that we are above animals. So as you sing the little tune, please remember to look at the rest of the scripture. Even when I write I cannot type it all out, so dust off the Bible and dig in. It really does help all of us understand it better.

God really does love us, and He has a beautiful place for us, that someday will reveal all those good works that are promised if we live according to His Word the best we can each day. And even after we are saved, we still need to pray daily for our sins to be forgiven, for indeed we are all sinners saved only by The Grace of God and The Blood of Jesus that was Shed on The Cross for all of us.

Maybe the song could go like this. All things work together for good for those who go to the Cross of Jesus to be saved. Amen.

Now, brothers and sisters, go forth serving Jesus and knowing He does work things out for good and have confidence knowing He will work for others as He does for you. You can tell everyone that you meet that. Amen. Love ya.

Pastor Dan