Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please forgive me of my sins and help me each day to walk in Your light and help me please to repent of my sins. Please be with Jim as he travels home. Please, Lord, touch Donna and heal her. Please keep Your healing hand on Glenn, Marie, Ted, Dave, Beverly, "Little Luke,", Jayley, Patsy, Burt, Barbara, Bob, Eleanor, Sharon, Dolores, Matthew, Dan Stoner, and Dan, as in me, Lord. And Lord, forgive me, for I think I missed a few. Now, Lord, if You would be so kind as to help me with the message and then help me dispatch it, I sure would appreciate it. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, the only updates I have are on Glenn who was moved from the hospital to rehab, and improving, and on Jayley who needs more prayers, and on Dave who is still not doing well at all. We will keep praying and praising the Lord for all things.
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR NATION. THINGS DO NOT LOOK GOOD IN RUSSIA. Pray for our president, and pray God gives him wisdom to know that now is not the time TO CUT OUR MILITARY. So you know on Jim who we are praying for in traveling home. Keep praying, I do not want to post the travel plans, just tell you he is coming out of a war zone. I am sure I am missing things, but I need to get to the message.
Friday: February 28, 2014, Repent (Day Five), Tomorrow we March Forth.
Acts 2:38 - Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (NIV)
Repentance was very important to John The Baptist, to Jesus, and also in the directions Jesus gave when He left. I also want you to again notice that there is a great promise here that if we do repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins, we will receive the gift of The Holy Spirit. Please note it is a gift, but again it comes with attachments; we need to repent.
Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. (NIV)
Once again we see instructions that we should repent, then turn to God. And you see again we need to repent and then our sins will be wiped out. Repent and turn to God. How many of us have come to God before we repented? We can see how important it is to be talking to the Lord about repenting and asking for His help for us to get it done.
Acts 17:29 - Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone - an image made by man's design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent. (NIV)
The Bible tells us we are all God's offspring, and we should not worship false idols and such were often made of gold, silver or stone by man's design. It also said in the past God overlooked some of this because of ignorance. But no more. We are all commanded to repent, if indeed we want to get into heaven. You know in all laws today it is said "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." If you are going to drive a car you need to know all the laws first, and you are tested on them. If you break one and say, hey, I did not know that, you will be held accountable. We are being told here in the scriptures that we need to repent, and if you have not read the scriptures, shame on you. That is why it is so important to get out the good news and make sure others know the RULES to get into heaven. Repent and be saved.
Okay, so ends another week and another month. Spring is not far off, hang in there. At one time when I had my Exxon station in Progress, I would post on the reader board, "spring is just around the corner, go three lights and turn right." People would ask what does that mean, I said go and find out. Well, you went down to the third light and turned right and there was SPRING Street. Okay, go forth and share your blessings. Love ya. Please pass on that love.
Pastor Dan
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Thursday 2/27/14 Repent 4
Dear Father in Heaven, I love You. Please forgive me of my sins and sinful thinking. Thanks for Your healing hand on Marie and for sending her home from the hospital. Thanks for bringing Glenn through his surgery. Lord, please place Your healing hand upon Dave, Beverly, Ted, and Glenn. Also, please be with Jim Orner who needs a job, and his wife Bev who broke her arm. Your touch upon all of our families is appreciated, Lord. Please keep watch over Jim as he travels home. And Lord, please watch over our Matthew. Protect the homeless in this cold weather. And Lord, please help me with the message and also to dispatch it. In the Wonderful Name of Jesus, Amen.
Hi, brothers and sisters. Thanks for praying for those so near and dear to Carry The Light Ministries. Dave Cernugel is a dear friend, and even has an antique school bus. He is in very, very serious condition in the hospital. Dave's mother, Beverly, also needs prayer, as does his wife Linda. I will update you as I get information. While I had a really great, really great day, I am getting tired, so I am going to get right to the message, Repent.
Thursday, February 27, 2014, Repent (Day Four)
Luke 15:8 - "Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.' 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who REPENTS." (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, I sure can relate to losing things and then rejoicing when I find them. It seems the older I get the more things I lose, and I hunt and hunt, and then pray about it, and then soon after I find what I had lost. Two things on this! One is I should have prayed first, and really practiced what I tell you folks. (I am learning also.) Next, I do praise God when I find the lost thing. If it is worth hunting, it is worth asking God to help you find it and then praising God and rejoicing over it.
I can remember one day when my mamma gave me two dimes when I left for Sunday School, one for Sunday School and one to spend for a soda after Sunday School. On the way to church, I was flipping one dime and I dropped it and it went down the storm drain. Darn, I said, there goes God's dime down the drain. (You can tell that is old, people might still put a dime in the offering plate, but try and get a soda for a dime.)
Anyway, we see again in this scripture what Jesus tells us about Repenting. Today I saw on the news that an Eagles football player got a five-year contract for 25 million dollars. Now this would cause lots of rejoicing at his house, I would think. But even with that much money in heaven there will still be more rejoicing over that one lost sinner who REPENTS and comes back to Jesus. STOP!
I just now, 8:26 PM, received a call from Nicole Corle that "little" Luke (her son Luke Corle) must go see a cardiologist as it was discovered that when he runs and plays his heart races. He will be tested for a leaky valve. This is my little buddy who just got the two goats. Please, let's just stop right now and pray.
Dear Father in Heaven, please take this little guy in Your arms and love him and heal him. Please, Lord, touch him even before he sees the doctor. His family all love You, including Luke. All honor and glory to You, dear Lord. I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.
I was writing and talking about Jesus from the book of Luke when Nicole called me. Right now I am going to just go to James.
James 5:13 - Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you SICK? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, with so many of Carry The Light Ministries team getting sick, I just needed to go to this scripture right now and look it over. As you know, I have faith in God's healing hand and I know also that when we confess our sins we also must repent. So all of you look this over, and don't be afraid to ask your pastor to pray over you and anoint you with oil according to the scriptures in the Bible. If your pastor will not pray with you and anoint you with oil, may I dare say YOU NEED ANOTHER CHURCH. Now I know Luke goes with his parents to a good church, "Tree of Life" in Carlisle, PA. Please, I ask all of you to pray for our Ministry and those who help. It seems like maybe the devil might be trying to invade. When you go to bed tonight, please pray.
I will pick back up on Repent tomorrow. Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya, and please pass on that Love.
Pastor Dan
Hi, brothers and sisters. Thanks for praying for those so near and dear to Carry The Light Ministries. Dave Cernugel is a dear friend, and even has an antique school bus. He is in very, very serious condition in the hospital. Dave's mother, Beverly, also needs prayer, as does his wife Linda. I will update you as I get information. While I had a really great, really great day, I am getting tired, so I am going to get right to the message, Repent.
Thursday, February 27, 2014, Repent (Day Four)
Luke 15:8 - "Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.' 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who REPENTS." (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, I sure can relate to losing things and then rejoicing when I find them. It seems the older I get the more things I lose, and I hunt and hunt, and then pray about it, and then soon after I find what I had lost. Two things on this! One is I should have prayed first, and really practiced what I tell you folks. (I am learning also.) Next, I do praise God when I find the lost thing. If it is worth hunting, it is worth asking God to help you find it and then praising God and rejoicing over it.
I can remember one day when my mamma gave me two dimes when I left for Sunday School, one for Sunday School and one to spend for a soda after Sunday School. On the way to church, I was flipping one dime and I dropped it and it went down the storm drain. Darn, I said, there goes God's dime down the drain. (You can tell that is old, people might still put a dime in the offering plate, but try and get a soda for a dime.)
Anyway, we see again in this scripture what Jesus tells us about Repenting. Today I saw on the news that an Eagles football player got a five-year contract for 25 million dollars. Now this would cause lots of rejoicing at his house, I would think. But even with that much money in heaven there will still be more rejoicing over that one lost sinner who REPENTS and comes back to Jesus. STOP!
I just now, 8:26 PM, received a call from Nicole Corle that "little" Luke (her son Luke Corle) must go see a cardiologist as it was discovered that when he runs and plays his heart races. He will be tested for a leaky valve. This is my little buddy who just got the two goats. Please, let's just stop right now and pray.
Dear Father in Heaven, please take this little guy in Your arms and love him and heal him. Please, Lord, touch him even before he sees the doctor. His family all love You, including Luke. All honor and glory to You, dear Lord. I pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.
I was writing and talking about Jesus from the book of Luke when Nicole called me. Right now I am going to just go to James.
James 5:13 - Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you SICK? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, with so many of Carry The Light Ministries team getting sick, I just needed to go to this scripture right now and look it over. As you know, I have faith in God's healing hand and I know also that when we confess our sins we also must repent. So all of you look this over, and don't be afraid to ask your pastor to pray over you and anoint you with oil according to the scriptures in the Bible. If your pastor will not pray with you and anoint you with oil, may I dare say YOU NEED ANOTHER CHURCH. Now I know Luke goes with his parents to a good church, "Tree of Life" in Carlisle, PA. Please, I ask all of you to pray for our Ministry and those who help. It seems like maybe the devil might be trying to invade. When you go to bed tonight, please pray.
I will pick back up on Repent tomorrow. Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya, and please pass on that Love.
Pastor Dan
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Wednesday 2/26/14 Repent 3
Dear Father in Heaven, I love You. Thank You for the message You just gave me for Tuesday, and now, Lord, please bless me with another message for this our Salvation Wednesday, and please, Lord, guide us to the unsaved so we may tell them the Good News about Jesus. OI pray for our president today that he is saved and knows You. Help me also dispatch this message. In Jesus' wonderful Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, in my message on Tuesday I asked for prayers for my little friend Luke and his two goats. Luke is the son of Jason and Nichole who help us here at Carry The Light Ministries. Luke purchased a pygmy female goat, with a two-week old kid at her side. He did this with his Christmas money. People could learn a great message from parents who let their children have animals and also make them take care of them. Last summer this family including "little" Luke came and cleaned out our goat pens and this little one helped. At one time years and years ago we had a small farm, and each Saturday morning after a good breakfast, we cleaned out the barn and pig pens and the kids helped.
Okay, folks, it is Salvation Wednesday and a really great day to pray for those who are unsaved and to pray for God to use we who are saved to get the Good News of Jesus Christ to the unsaved. Remember to repent and say worthy words. Now let me get right to the message, Repent.
Salvation Wednesday: February 26, 2014, Repent (Day Three).
Luke 15:3 - Then Jesus told them this parable. 4 "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who REPENTS than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent." (NIV)
Just one long scripture on this Salvation Wednesday. I love this story and those who know me from my day is at Central Dauphin Transportation might remember the picture of Jesus holding the lost sheep on His shoulders that was on my wall. Yes, a picture of Jesus hung on my wall at my office in transportation from 1984 until I left in 1993. I pictured myself as that lost sheep and the Lord looking for me, and I came to Him and He saved me. This scripture also supports what we do on Salvation Wednesday and what we should be doing daily. We who are saved need to be looking for those who are still lost.
I could use Dolores and myself as another example of this verse. We have many animals, and we have rescued dogs and we also have indoor cats. We over the years have done "bed checks" on the dogs and cats. We have a fenced-in yard with a dog door but even with that, we want to be sure those indoor animals are truly indoors. When we leave to go away even for an hour or two we find all the animals and make sure they are in the house. When we had as many as sixteen rescue dogs at one time it would take awhile. We now have nine after our dear Martha Mary passed away and we still account for all of them to be inside. At night when we close up the door where the dog door is we take "inventory." We have a really dark colored cat who will hide in the house. We do a role call sometimes. Is Morgan (21 years old and blind) in his bed? Where is Missy, the dark cat? We ask each other. I have Martin, Jr. Where is Mike? Anyway, I could go on and on about this, and if one is missing and we find them, we call out PRAISE THE LORD. I found him, he is under the chair or I found her, she was hiding in my closet.
This is how those in Heaven rejoice when a person who is lost, living without Jesus, comes to Jesus and we need to be searching them out. And I want you to remember this, not all those sitting in church are saved, sometimes the lost are right under our nose and the only way we know for sure if they are saved is to ASK THEM. Even with that we might not be sure. Some pastors are not saved, and while I am not to judge, I do ask this. How can a pastor like the one who was defrocked be saved when they are preaching and teaching a message that is so wrong? How can they preach that gay marriage is okay with God when it is so wrong according to the Bible? Folks, let me tell you here that God loves everyone, He also loves those who are saved and not saved, and I am sure cries when one is lost, or passed away before they came to Him. God hates sin and so should we. WE also need to love all of our brothers and sisters regardless of their sin, but we need to HATE the sin.
Please remember that we are all sinners, but we need to REPENT of those sins. We have all heard the saying they are preaching to the choir. Brothers and sisters, sometimes the choir needs preached to. We who do pastor would love to think that all who come before us are saved, but the fact is some of them might be seeking the Lord, so those who are saved in churches need to be setting good examples. If a person comes to a church, one who is seeking God, and in that church there is "in-fighting," might the one seeking say "if this is being a Christian, I don't want to be like them?"
Also, others watch how Christians live. Are we only a Christian on Sunday morning for an hour or two? Do we walk our talk? Listen, I know it is hard not to mess up, but when we really repent, if we really repent, we must really work at walking with Jesus and not just saying we do. Daily I pray for God to forgive me of my sins, for there are times we sin and might not give it a thought. Now you all know I tell it like it is, and how often, guys, are we talking in the food store, or someplace else, maybe even in church, when a good-looking lady walks by and we think to ourselves, "nice butt" or "nice legs" or "nice chest" (yes, I cleaned up the word chest), and ladies, you might be the same, you look at a man and say wow, "nice butt" or "nice arms" or maybe you are the one who wears that diving neckline and it is attracting those wandering eyes. Yes, there are times we sin without thinking about it, and we all get caught up in those little sins, but a sin is a sin is a sin, brothers and sisters.
REPENT AND BE SAVED.
Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya, and please pass on that love.
Pastor Dan
P.S. I got my scooter fixed with used parts.
Brothers and sisters, in my message on Tuesday I asked for prayers for my little friend Luke and his two goats. Luke is the son of Jason and Nichole who help us here at Carry The Light Ministries. Luke purchased a pygmy female goat, with a two-week old kid at her side. He did this with his Christmas money. People could learn a great message from parents who let their children have animals and also make them take care of them. Last summer this family including "little" Luke came and cleaned out our goat pens and this little one helped. At one time years and years ago we had a small farm, and each Saturday morning after a good breakfast, we cleaned out the barn and pig pens and the kids helped.
Okay, folks, it is Salvation Wednesday and a really great day to pray for those who are unsaved and to pray for God to use we who are saved to get the Good News of Jesus Christ to the unsaved. Remember to repent and say worthy words. Now let me get right to the message, Repent.
Salvation Wednesday: February 26, 2014, Repent (Day Three).
Luke 15:3 - Then Jesus told them this parable. 4 "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who REPENTS than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent." (NIV)
Just one long scripture on this Salvation Wednesday. I love this story and those who know me from my day is at Central Dauphin Transportation might remember the picture of Jesus holding the lost sheep on His shoulders that was on my wall. Yes, a picture of Jesus hung on my wall at my office in transportation from 1984 until I left in 1993. I pictured myself as that lost sheep and the Lord looking for me, and I came to Him and He saved me. This scripture also supports what we do on Salvation Wednesday and what we should be doing daily. We who are saved need to be looking for those who are still lost.
I could use Dolores and myself as another example of this verse. We have many animals, and we have rescued dogs and we also have indoor cats. We over the years have done "bed checks" on the dogs and cats. We have a fenced-in yard with a dog door but even with that, we want to be sure those indoor animals are truly indoors. When we leave to go away even for an hour or two we find all the animals and make sure they are in the house. When we had as many as sixteen rescue dogs at one time it would take awhile. We now have nine after our dear Martha Mary passed away and we still account for all of them to be inside. At night when we close up the door where the dog door is we take "inventory." We have a really dark colored cat who will hide in the house. We do a role call sometimes. Is Morgan (21 years old and blind) in his bed? Where is Missy, the dark cat? We ask each other. I have Martin, Jr. Where is Mike? Anyway, I could go on and on about this, and if one is missing and we find them, we call out PRAISE THE LORD. I found him, he is under the chair or I found her, she was hiding in my closet.
This is how those in Heaven rejoice when a person who is lost, living without Jesus, comes to Jesus and we need to be searching them out. And I want you to remember this, not all those sitting in church are saved, sometimes the lost are right under our nose and the only way we know for sure if they are saved is to ASK THEM. Even with that we might not be sure. Some pastors are not saved, and while I am not to judge, I do ask this. How can a pastor like the one who was defrocked be saved when they are preaching and teaching a message that is so wrong? How can they preach that gay marriage is okay with God when it is so wrong according to the Bible? Folks, let me tell you here that God loves everyone, He also loves those who are saved and not saved, and I am sure cries when one is lost, or passed away before they came to Him. God hates sin and so should we. WE also need to love all of our brothers and sisters regardless of their sin, but we need to HATE the sin.
Please remember that we are all sinners, but we need to REPENT of those sins. We have all heard the saying they are preaching to the choir. Brothers and sisters, sometimes the choir needs preached to. We who do pastor would love to think that all who come before us are saved, but the fact is some of them might be seeking the Lord, so those who are saved in churches need to be setting good examples. If a person comes to a church, one who is seeking God, and in that church there is "in-fighting," might the one seeking say "if this is being a Christian, I don't want to be like them?"
Also, others watch how Christians live. Are we only a Christian on Sunday morning for an hour or two? Do we walk our talk? Listen, I know it is hard not to mess up, but when we really repent, if we really repent, we must really work at walking with Jesus and not just saying we do. Daily I pray for God to forgive me of my sins, for there are times we sin and might not give it a thought. Now you all know I tell it like it is, and how often, guys, are we talking in the food store, or someplace else, maybe even in church, when a good-looking lady walks by and we think to ourselves, "nice butt" or "nice legs" or "nice chest" (yes, I cleaned up the word chest), and ladies, you might be the same, you look at a man and say wow, "nice butt" or "nice arms" or maybe you are the one who wears that diving neckline and it is attracting those wandering eyes. Yes, there are times we sin without thinking about it, and we all get caught up in those little sins, but a sin is a sin is a sin, brothers and sisters.
REPENT AND BE SAVED.
Now go forth and share your blessings. Love ya, and please pass on that love.
Pastor Dan
P.S. I got my scooter fixed with used parts.
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