Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins and help me to walk nearer and closer to You. Thanks for watching over family and friends, dear Lord. Father, please watch over our President and please be with our military wherever they serve. Thanks for them, dear Lord, and thanks for the work they do in protecting the United States. Dear Lord, please help people tell the truth, all of us, including those in Washington, DC. I pray today for peace, world-wide peace. Please, Father, send Jesus back for Your children. Dear Father, please help me now with the message and then to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Wow, the last day of September already, and it is summer-like here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. It is just beautiful. If only the news was as good as the weather. Please pray for our leaders and for our military and also for our police. Please pray for the Pennsylvania State Police as they are still in the manhunt looking for the person who ambushed the troopers about two weeks ago. Brothers and sisters, we need to be talking to our Lord God and working with Jesus and welcoming in the Holy Spirit and we need to be working hard to get the word out. TIME IS WASTING, brothers and sisters!! How long is God going to let all this garbage keep going on? PRAY, WARRIORS, PRAY, and then pray some more. Now to my message.
Tuesday: September 30, 2014: Five Difficult Things (Day Five)
Matthew 7:25 - "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (NIV)
Out of the "Five Difficult Things" that I have been writing about, I personally think this is the most difficult. I don't know about you, but I think we could make a list of a lot of things that we worry about not counting food and clothes. The examples that our Lord Jesus give are great. His word tells us not to worry about food, clothes and drink. But do we listen? We have had people call us and say they do not have one thing in their house to eat, not one thing. So we tell them to come in on that same day, maybe five hours later. Then they do not show up, we call them and they say "they forgot." How do you forget to get food, free food, when you have kids and say you do not have food? You lied, that started it. I confess I have gone to the fridge, opened the doors, and looked in at the very full fridge, and said, "We don't have anything here to eat." Meaning I was being a snoot!!! But I was not worried about it. However, let me look at a list of things that I think most of us worry about.
Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, aging parents. Grouped together we will say family and friends.
Money, bills, do we have enough to pay our taxes, pay our electric bill, our gas bill for the house and the car, the fuel oil bill, water and sewer? Let me group them together and call them household bills and the auto bills.
Then the cell phone, the TV cable, and our second cell phone, and the car payment and car repairs. And a whole lot of things we might not really need.
Then there is food, clothes, drinks, etc. Oh, that's right, we need not worry about these things.
Oh, and what about those credit cards that are due? How many do you have? One to use for emergencies? Two, one to pay the bills that you can't pay by heck? Five of them, maybe ten? When you get behind in credit cards, it is hard to catch up. The interest is about 25%.
Now I could go on and on and on, and yes, all these things can cause worries. And while we should not get ourselves into a place where we need to worry, we will always have concerns. I have done this, I have taken all of my worries, all my problems, all my troubles, and I bundled them up, and then I carried them to the altar at the church, I prayed about them and then laid them down, giving them over to our Lord Jesus. Then after being anointed with oil and being prayed over, I got up, reached right back down, picked up my bundles of worries and concerns and took them back to my seat and on home. I am telling you, this one is hard. One thing we must do is trust in God, really trust in God, and even with that said, the worries will still keep coming. So we can call them concerns, but the fact remains we must not just pray about them, we really must "put feet on our prayers." Now how do we put feet on them? Well, I am going to pray about writing messages on this subject starting tomorrow. There are some ways that by faith and using the thing between our ears called our brain, we can tackle some of these worries and concerns. That's it for now.
Remember as you go forth to share your blessings, pray a lot, love on Jesus, and remember Jesus loves you, and I love ya also. And please pass on the love of Jesus and also my love.
Pastor Dan
P.S. Please pray really hard for our President.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Monday 9/29/14 Five Difficult Things 4
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Please forgive me for not showing it very well as I have been slacking in my daily writing. I offer up no excuses, Lord, except that I am a sinner and in need of forgiveness of my sins. Please help me, Lord, to get back into writing and get my head to think about working for You and off my pain level. Dear Lord, please grant traveling protection to Alan, Patty, Pam, Art, Elaine, and others who will be in the air or on the roads. Please watch over John who has had a knee replaced. Please also be with his friends, Tom Kane and Don Coffin, as they all need Your healing hand, Lord. Lord, please be with the Saylor family, the Emig family, the Crockett family, the Lehman family, our family and flock at The Bridges, and our flock on this line. Now, Lord, please help me with the daily message and then to get it dispatched. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, I am sorry I have been messing up and not getting messages out in a timely fashion. I have not been to the computer since last Wednesday. The only excuse I can even come close to offering you is that my pain level has taken over my whole being, including my little brain. Let me bring you up to speed on the messages on Five Difficult Things. Here are the five, and I know there are many more, but these are the five I am writing about now.
1. Forget your past!
2. Don't worry!
3. Love your enemies!
4. Repent!
5. Turn From Sin!
So far I have covered number one, Forget your past, number four, Repent, and number five, Turn from Sin.
Today let me get back to work and go to number three, "Love your enemies."
Monday: September 29, 2014: Five Difficult Things (Day Four)
Matthew 5:43 - "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (NIV)
"Love your enemies" is really a very difficult thing to do. Ask any person who has been through a hard divorce. Ask them what they think about their ex. Some hold grudges for a long, long time. I can truthfully say that I love my exes; yes, there are two of them. What is so neat is that Dolores loves them also. Some of loving your enemies goes back to forgetting your past once it has been forgiven by God. I want you to think about this. Our Lord God hates sin, but He really loves us, we who are sinners. That lesson we need to learn when we talk about people who are living in sin or a lifestyle that we do not agree with. We need to be like our Lord God and love the sinners and hate their sin. Sometimes it is difficult. Think about this, a few people will stand up and say they do not believe in God, they might make the statement, there is no God. Then this God-hating person plants a garden and God makes it rain. Does it not rain on the garden of the one who does not believe? God sure does set good examples of how He expects us to live. Our job for our Lord God is to get that non-believer to turn around and be a believer.
We need to first get over the fact that "love is not sex." Making love with someone does not mean you had "sex with them." Making love with someone might be just talking with them when they are down or sharing your love of Jesus with them. What better way is there to make love with someone than to get them to come to Jesus? Think about that one, folks, think really hard about that one.
One of the great commandments is to "Love your neighbor." But what if your neighbor is one really nasty person? It really might make your job as a Christian stronger, God might have planned it this way so as to strengthen our love for Him. After all, if we can love this nasty neighbor, pray for them and do nice things for them, would that not make our love stronger for our Lord Jesus? I want to give you some homework. Do you have anyone in your life that you have been avoiding, someone that you could easily not like or maybe even hate? Someone doing something you disagree with, and it might even be happening at PTA or maybe even where you go to church. Over the years many churches have split because of in-fighting at the church, and it got so bad that even Jesus could not get it straight. But if Jesus did come in, He surely would love everyone. Think about some pastors in these cases, in-fighting gets started and then first one side then the other goes to the pastor to straighten it out. More than likely caused by families who have been going to that church for a long, long time. Think about it, brothers and sisters. For your homework, think about those who you might not like, or you might even hate, and start praying with them, and also at the same time pray for yourself to work things out. Yes, it is Difficult, but our Lord Jesus tells us if we want to get to heaven, we must do these things. Let me know if you need help.
Now go forth and share your love and blessings with others, even your enemies. Love ya. And please pass on my love.
Pastor Dan
Brothers and sisters, I am sorry I have been messing up and not getting messages out in a timely fashion. I have not been to the computer since last Wednesday. The only excuse I can even come close to offering you is that my pain level has taken over my whole being, including my little brain. Let me bring you up to speed on the messages on Five Difficult Things. Here are the five, and I know there are many more, but these are the five I am writing about now.
1. Forget your past!
2. Don't worry!
3. Love your enemies!
4. Repent!
5. Turn From Sin!
So far I have covered number one, Forget your past, number four, Repent, and number five, Turn from Sin.
Today let me get back to work and go to number three, "Love your enemies."
Monday: September 29, 2014: Five Difficult Things (Day Four)
Matthew 5:43 - "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (NIV)
"Love your enemies" is really a very difficult thing to do. Ask any person who has been through a hard divorce. Ask them what they think about their ex. Some hold grudges for a long, long time. I can truthfully say that I love my exes; yes, there are two of them. What is so neat is that Dolores loves them also. Some of loving your enemies goes back to forgetting your past once it has been forgiven by God. I want you to think about this. Our Lord God hates sin, but He really loves us, we who are sinners. That lesson we need to learn when we talk about people who are living in sin or a lifestyle that we do not agree with. We need to be like our Lord God and love the sinners and hate their sin. Sometimes it is difficult. Think about this, a few people will stand up and say they do not believe in God, they might make the statement, there is no God. Then this God-hating person plants a garden and God makes it rain. Does it not rain on the garden of the one who does not believe? God sure does set good examples of how He expects us to live. Our job for our Lord God is to get that non-believer to turn around and be a believer.
We need to first get over the fact that "love is not sex." Making love with someone does not mean you had "sex with them." Making love with someone might be just talking with them when they are down or sharing your love of Jesus with them. What better way is there to make love with someone than to get them to come to Jesus? Think about that one, folks, think really hard about that one.
One of the great commandments is to "Love your neighbor." But what if your neighbor is one really nasty person? It really might make your job as a Christian stronger, God might have planned it this way so as to strengthen our love for Him. After all, if we can love this nasty neighbor, pray for them and do nice things for them, would that not make our love stronger for our Lord Jesus? I want to give you some homework. Do you have anyone in your life that you have been avoiding, someone that you could easily not like or maybe even hate? Someone doing something you disagree with, and it might even be happening at PTA or maybe even where you go to church. Over the years many churches have split because of in-fighting at the church, and it got so bad that even Jesus could not get it straight. But if Jesus did come in, He surely would love everyone. Think about some pastors in these cases, in-fighting gets started and then first one side then the other goes to the pastor to straighten it out. More than likely caused by families who have been going to that church for a long, long time. Think about it, brothers and sisters. For your homework, think about those who you might not like, or you might even hate, and start praying with them, and also at the same time pray for yourself to work things out. Yes, it is Difficult, but our Lord Jesus tells us if we want to get to heaven, we must do these things. Let me know if you need help.
Now go forth and share your love and blessings with others, even your enemies. Love ya. And please pass on my love.
Pastor Dan
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday 9/24/14 Five Difficult Things 3
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins and help me repent and turn from my sins. Lord, I pray for our nation today. I pray for the safety of our warriors and those who have control and supervision over them. I pray for all of them that they are saved. Please protect them on their missions and bring them back safe. Lord, please watch over all those on our prayer list and please also carry some of the pain that has crippled up both Dolores and myself. Lord, please lead the lost to us. Help us seek them and find them and witness to them and try our very best to get them to the feet of Jesus to be saved. Now please help me with the message of this day and help me to dispatch it. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, it is Wednesday and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line and the day we work extra hard to help bring the lost to the feet of Jesus. First, take a good look in the mirror and address yourself. Now let me ask you this question. Are you saved? Are you really saved? If not, let's tackle that one first. We know of course that we need to come clean of sins and then confess that Jesus died for us and we need to believe that Jesus went to the cross and died for us and we also must believe that He was risen from the dead. By Jesus being risen from the dead, that is how we know we will also be risen from the dead when Jesus comes back to claim us. So let's get clean first. And if you are saved, well, a "good bath" never hurts.
Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins and help me to repent and try to walk away from my sins. Thanks, Lord. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now let me get started with today's message.
Salvation Wednesday: September 24, 2014: Turn From Sin (Day Three)
John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)
Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, Salvation through Jesus involves inward belief, which means we believe it in our hearts, and I want to add we must also believe it in our "gut." If you ever were "church shopping" and you went to several churches before you decided which one you like and wanted to go back and find out more, more than likely you got that "gut feeling." As for me, more often I got the "gut feeling" when I would find that something just did not seem right. I think you all know and understand what I am talking about when I talk about a "gut feeling." I have been in churches over the years and wonder why we did not hear messages about Salvation. I watch the pastors on television and have been to many churches where the complete truth about Jesus is preached and the messages from the pastors in the pulpit always lead to salvation. I know my messages always lead to salvation. When we truly want to follow our Lord Jesus and His commands then we will do these difficult things such as repenting of our sins, turning from our sins, walking with Jesus and telling others of our walk. It is very important that we set a good example or try our very best to set that example when we are working to "win one for Jesus." You need to remember that our job is to bring in the crop, harvest the crop as Jesus puts it, and then after we do that, Jesus will do the saving of the soul. Remember, we can only bring in the crop, we cannot put it up. God Our Father in Heaven lined up Salvation through Jesus. Our job is bringing in the lost. So now as I end the message for today, let me close this way.
Now go forth "bringing in the lost." That is one of the great blessings you can share with others. You share the love of Jesus when you witness to the lost. So go forth, finding the lost, and sharing the love of Jesus with others. Love ya. Now go forth and share my love with others.
Pastor Dan
Brothers and sisters, it is Wednesday and that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line and the day we work extra hard to help bring the lost to the feet of Jesus. First, take a good look in the mirror and address yourself. Now let me ask you this question. Are you saved? Are you really saved? If not, let's tackle that one first. We know of course that we need to come clean of sins and then confess that Jesus died for us and we need to believe that Jesus went to the cross and died for us and we also must believe that He was risen from the dead. By Jesus being risen from the dead, that is how we know we will also be risen from the dead when Jesus comes back to claim us. So let's get clean first. And if you are saved, well, a "good bath" never hurts.
Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins and help me to repent and try to walk away from my sins. Thanks, Lord. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now let me get started with today's message.
Salvation Wednesday: September 24, 2014: Turn From Sin (Day Three)
John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)
Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, Salvation through Jesus involves inward belief, which means we believe it in our hearts, and I want to add we must also believe it in our "gut." If you ever were "church shopping" and you went to several churches before you decided which one you like and wanted to go back and find out more, more than likely you got that "gut feeling." As for me, more often I got the "gut feeling" when I would find that something just did not seem right. I think you all know and understand what I am talking about when I talk about a "gut feeling." I have been in churches over the years and wonder why we did not hear messages about Salvation. I watch the pastors on television and have been to many churches where the complete truth about Jesus is preached and the messages from the pastors in the pulpit always lead to salvation. I know my messages always lead to salvation. When we truly want to follow our Lord Jesus and His commands then we will do these difficult things such as repenting of our sins, turning from our sins, walking with Jesus and telling others of our walk. It is very important that we set a good example or try our very best to set that example when we are working to "win one for Jesus." You need to remember that our job is to bring in the crop, harvest the crop as Jesus puts it, and then after we do that, Jesus will do the saving of the soul. Remember, we can only bring in the crop, we cannot put it up. God Our Father in Heaven lined up Salvation through Jesus. Our job is bringing in the lost. So now as I end the message for today, let me close this way.
Now go forth "bringing in the lost." That is one of the great blessings you can share with others. You share the love of Jesus when you witness to the lost. So go forth, finding the lost, and sharing the love of Jesus with others. Love ya. Now go forth and share my love with others.
Pastor Dan
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