Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I really appreciate all You do for our family, our ministry team and their families and all those on this line and their families. I love and appreciate You more and more each day and pray that others do also. Please, Dear Lord, give us protection this day, protection from all things that You want us protected from. And Lord, I know I am unworthy of all that You do for me for I confess I am a sinner now saved by Your grace and I pray that each day I, and in fact all of us, do a better job of walking the line with and for You. Please protect our nation and thanks for answering our prayers that we have not gone to war again. Please keep Your hand on our president and help him, and Lord, I pray for his soul and that if he is not saved through Jesus, I pray that this is the day. In Jesus' wonderful Name, I give thanks. And Lord, I praise You for all things good. Again, I love You. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. I want to start by telling all of you that I love you. I do not say it lightly, and the love is not just because we are told to love everyone, I really love you. Today is Salvation Wednesday on this line, and the title of my message is Protection. Yes, this is the anniversary of September 11, 2001, when our country came under attack. I need to do updating on our prayer requests and I want to try and get them in line today. Please, if you have prayer requests, please put "Prayer Request" in the subject line. Let me get to the message.
Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday: September 11, 2013, Protection.
John 17:11 - "I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You, Holy Father, protect them by the power of Your Name, The Name You gave Me, so that they may be one as WE are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that Name You gave Me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled." (NIV)
John 17:15 - "My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one." (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, with all that is going on in the world today and in the United States of America, we sure do need protection, and while our military does a great job of protecting our country, we have watched on this date twelve years ago when our protection was down and we were hit hard by those who hate us. This happened other times, as some of you are old enough or have studied about that date, December 7, 1941, when we were attached at Pearl Harbor. Our police and firefighters also protected us but they cannot do it all as seen in Boston a few months ago. So where then do we go for protection? Brothers and sisters, we go to our Lord Jesus and that is for our personal protection. Yes, I know that even with our Lord Jesus we might not get protected from all things on this earth, but if someone gets to us, that protection He offers us through Salvation will protect us forever in our New Home in Heaven.
We look at the words of Jesus in the scriptures above and we see the protection He has prayed to our Holy Father for us to be protected. Remember again that these Words ring true today for us, as Jesus is the same. We are the disciples of today if indeed we are in love with Jesus and are working for Him. Once again I want to show you the scripture where the Bible tells us that Jesus is the same.
Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (NIV)
Now since this is Salvation Wednesday and we need protection, I think it is the best day to go back over some of the scriptures that point out to us "The Way Home:" By the way, you will not be able to plug an address into your directions thing you carry in your car to find your way to Heaven. Let's make our plan now and maybe you could not these scriptures and check them out. You should always back up what a pastor tells you with scriptures. Okay, let's make our plan of protection, our plan of Salvation, and map out our road home!
Who really need a Plan of Salvation? All of us!
Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (NIV)
Do sinners get paid? Yes, they do, let's look!
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)
What must we do to get into heaven? First, we need to repent of our sins. Let's look!
Matthew 9:13 - "But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners." (NIV)
Matthew 4:17 - From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." (NIV)
Why in the world would God want to save sinners? People, He made and gave us freedom to rule over everything, gave us free will to do what we want. So why?
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him." (NIV)
So as I said there is a price to pay for our sins and that is death, look back up at Romans 6:23. So then who paid the price of our sins? Let's take a good look at this.
Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NIV)
So why must we go to Jesus for His Saving Grace? Why not someone else? Let's look it up.
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)
So now we know all of this, what must we do? Yes, back to the Bible, the inspired Word of God!
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)
So there it is, folks, in The Word, right from our Bible. And NIV is the New International Version. So what is left to do? Well, it is time to pray, to confess and be sure we believe. If you are saved, you can surely, like I am going to do, and that is start fresh right now. Now I can't pray this one for you, so if you believe, be it a new believer or a long timer, please join me.
Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for sending Jesus to save my sinful soul, please clean me up today for indeed I do sin. Wash me white as snow and have me ready for heaven, and please help me keep clean here on earth. Help me walk it each day with You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth sharing your blessings, and yes, you may forward what I have written if it will help you to reach others in the name of Jesus. Be sure to give God the glory and not me. God loves you and gave you Jesus. I love you also. And you can pass that love on to others. Have a blessed SALVATION WEDNESDAY.
Pastor Dan
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Mon/Tues 9/9-10/13 Peace in Turmoil
Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another day, and Lord, please forgive me of my sins and any sinful thinking that I might do. Lord, please, please be with those on our prayer lists of the past, and please, Lord, forgive me for I am not being very timely with Your messages. Lord, please help me to get caught after and get the messages out on time. Please help me to learn this new computer and help me to get a printer and get it online. Lord, I really need Your help. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, I am still having trouble trying to get back in the swing with the new computer and how often it has gone down since I got it. Most of it has been the fact that I am really computer stupid. Anyway, we need to really be praying for our nation and being the eve of 9/11 the twelfth year since the events of 9/11/2001, and I am sure most of us remember that. Also, tomorrow is Salvation Wednesday on this line, and we really need to be working to get people to come to Jesus. So please now, after my personal prayer to start the message, please join me in prayer. WOW, when I typed in join me in prayer, the power went out, and that took the computer off line. Power came up at 6:10 PM and I just got the computer up and running. As I said, I just ain't all that smart when it comes to computer's. Let's pray.
Dear Father in Heaven, please, please bless our nation and please, please keep us out of a war. Please dump President Obama to his knees, Lord, humble him as we pray he will come to You. Lord, protect our nation, and of course we pray today for worldwide peace. Only You, Lord, can bring peace, and we would appreciate it. Now, Lord, help me with the message and then dispatch it for me. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, off to the message, and it should blend in with last week's Moral Authority.
Monday/Tuesday, September 9/10, 2013, Peace in Turmoil.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. (NIV)
This evening (Tuesday) our president is going to give another speech. He wants to go to war, I guess. Last week I talked to you all about Moral Authority and told you that the only Moral Authority is our Lord Jesus Christ. And I talked about why we in America are unworthy to act on Moral Authority. Now after looking at all the ways we can mess up and telling all of us, including myself, that we need to clean up our own acts before looking at others as if we are the Moral Authority.
On today's message God is pointing me to scriptures that will give us peace in turmoil, and indeed our nation and the world is in turmoil. What Paul wrote to the Philippians and is recorded starting in Philippians chapter 4 verse 4 seems to fit us as we walk the walk with and for Jesus Christ and will give us some added peace in turmoil that we need in the market place today.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! (NIV)
This is telling us that we need to rejoice in the Lord always. That means all the time. We should rejoice even when things are not going our way. We should be rejoicing in what is going on in our country only for the good things and God has only given us good things. We should be rejoicing in having food and clothes, etc., but we should NOT rejoice in the way our country is according to our lack of Morals. (If the shoe fits, wear it.) However, I pray you do get new shoes!! We are to be gentle people so all other people see that in us. After all, if we are true followers of Jesus. The Bible tells us also the Lord is near. Now, brothers and sisters, that to me has two meanings. First of all, He is near us always, because if we are indeed BORN AGAIN then He is living in us, and if we are not He is nearby waiting upon us to invite Him in. Of course it also means to me that the Lord is coming back, and I think it will be soon. Do you remember years ago driving through the country and seeing on the side of the barns, "Ye must chew Mail Pouch Tobacco." No, Dan, that is not it, I was seeing if you are awake. While some barn sides did say about Mail Pouch, what I was talking about was the barns which had written on them, "Ye must be Born Again." The scripture also tells us this ...
Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the Peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Here we are being told not to be anxious, in other words do not worry. The Bible also tells us in
Matthew 24:6 - "You will hear of wars and rumors f wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come." (NIV)
Yes, in the words of Jesus, my brothers and sisters, we are being told not to be alarmed, or another word for that is worry or be anxious. That is very hard to do sometimes, it is hard. We worry about lots of things and we are concerned about things for if we truly trust God He will indeed work it out for us. Now hold on, it does not always get worked out according to our will, but He does work it out according to His will. We pray that way, right? In the Lord's Prayer. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Thy will be done, not our will, folks. Just as Jesus prayed the night before He was put to death, as He prayed to His (ours also) Father in Heaven. Thy will, not My will be done. Now the last scripture for today.
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. (NIV)
Why is Paul telling the Philippians to think about the things in these scriptures? Why, and remember this filters down to us, would Paul be telling us to think about being true, noble, whatever is right, etc.? I think it fits well if we are thinking about these things and praising God for them we will not h ave as much downtime to worry and be anxious about things. In other words, when you are out and about, think good thoughts, think about Jesus because it does not get any better thinking than that. Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings and if you can, get on your knees and pray for this nation tonight or tomorrow. Love ya. And you can surely pass that on. Pastor Dan.
Once again I cannot find the spell checker.
Dear brothers and sisters, I am still having trouble trying to get back in the swing with the new computer and how often it has gone down since I got it. Most of it has been the fact that I am really computer stupid. Anyway, we need to really be praying for our nation and being the eve of 9/11 the twelfth year since the events of 9/11/2001, and I am sure most of us remember that. Also, tomorrow is Salvation Wednesday on this line, and we really need to be working to get people to come to Jesus. So please now, after my personal prayer to start the message, please join me in prayer. WOW, when I typed in join me in prayer, the power went out, and that took the computer off line. Power came up at 6:10 PM and I just got the computer up and running. As I said, I just ain't all that smart when it comes to computer's. Let's pray.
Dear Father in Heaven, please, please bless our nation and please, please keep us out of a war. Please dump President Obama to his knees, Lord, humble him as we pray he will come to You. Lord, protect our nation, and of course we pray today for worldwide peace. Only You, Lord, can bring peace, and we would appreciate it. Now, Lord, help me with the message and then dispatch it for me. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, off to the message, and it should blend in with last week's Moral Authority.
Monday/Tuesday, September 9/10, 2013, Peace in Turmoil.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. (NIV)
This evening (Tuesday) our president is going to give another speech. He wants to go to war, I guess. Last week I talked to you all about Moral Authority and told you that the only Moral Authority is our Lord Jesus Christ. And I talked about why we in America are unworthy to act on Moral Authority. Now after looking at all the ways we can mess up and telling all of us, including myself, that we need to clean up our own acts before looking at others as if we are the Moral Authority.
On today's message God is pointing me to scriptures that will give us peace in turmoil, and indeed our nation and the world is in turmoil. What Paul wrote to the Philippians and is recorded starting in Philippians chapter 4 verse 4 seems to fit us as we walk the walk with and for Jesus Christ and will give us some added peace in turmoil that we need in the market place today.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! (NIV)
This is telling us that we need to rejoice in the Lord always. That means all the time. We should rejoice even when things are not going our way. We should be rejoicing in what is going on in our country only for the good things and God has only given us good things. We should be rejoicing in having food and clothes, etc., but we should NOT rejoice in the way our country is according to our lack of Morals. (If the shoe fits, wear it.) However, I pray you do get new shoes!! We are to be gentle people so all other people see that in us. After all, if we are true followers of Jesus. The Bible tells us also the Lord is near. Now, brothers and sisters, that to me has two meanings. First of all, He is near us always, because if we are indeed BORN AGAIN then He is living in us, and if we are not He is nearby waiting upon us to invite Him in. Of course it also means to me that the Lord is coming back, and I think it will be soon. Do you remember years ago driving through the country and seeing on the side of the barns, "Ye must chew Mail Pouch Tobacco." No, Dan, that is not it, I was seeing if you are awake. While some barn sides did say about Mail Pouch, what I was talking about was the barns which had written on them, "Ye must be Born Again." The scripture also tells us this ...
Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the Peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Here we are being told not to be anxious, in other words do not worry. The Bible also tells us in
Matthew 24:6 - "You will hear of wars and rumors f wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come." (NIV)
Yes, in the words of Jesus, my brothers and sisters, we are being told not to be alarmed, or another word for that is worry or be anxious. That is very hard to do sometimes, it is hard. We worry about lots of things and we are concerned about things for if we truly trust God He will indeed work it out for us. Now hold on, it does not always get worked out according to our will, but He does work it out according to His will. We pray that way, right? In the Lord's Prayer. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Thy will be done, not our will, folks. Just as Jesus prayed the night before He was put to death, as He prayed to His (ours also) Father in Heaven. Thy will, not My will be done. Now the last scripture for today.
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. (NIV)
Why is Paul telling the Philippians to think about the things in these scriptures? Why, and remember this filters down to us, would Paul be telling us to think about being true, noble, whatever is right, etc.? I think it fits well if we are thinking about these things and praising God for them we will not h ave as much downtime to worry and be anxious about things. In other words, when you are out and about, think good thoughts, think about Jesus because it does not get any better thinking than that. Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings and if you can, get on your knees and pray for this nation tonight or tomorrow. Love ya. And you can surely pass that on. Pastor Dan.
Once again I cannot find the spell checker.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Friday 9/6/13 Moral Authority 3
Dear Father in Heaven: Thank You for another beautiful day, and thanks for helping me to try and understand what is going on with my computers. Please forgive me of my sins. And Lord, please be with Dale, Patsy, Burt, Eleanor, Bob, and Sharon Saylor. Heal also Bob Coburn. Touch our son Matthew, dear Lord, and be with our ministry team and all who support our missions and all who come to the food pantry for food. Please help us to keep the ministries of Carry The Light going. Lord, thanks for always being with us. Now, Lord, please help me with the message and then dispatch it for me. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Hi, brothers and sisters. I must tell you that Martin Martin, Jr., is about to be arrested. Yes, back when Martin Martin, Sr., was a pup, he chewed the tab off the mattress that says we cannot remove that tag. Well, guess what the pup did, yes, he chewed one of those tags up.
Okay, I made it up, folks. However, the pup did eat a five dollar bill today, and that is a lot of money, so I gave him a tad of cod liver oil and put him in the pen. What a mess. Never did get my five spot back! He could not pass it, it was counterfeit. Okay, I need to get serious now and get to the message. But first I must do some updating. As you know, my computer was trashed. It came in on a forward, I think. Please, until I get this mess cleaned up, please do not forward me things off the internet. Also, please do not forward things with a disclaimer on the bottom. Things like if you send this to ten people and one back to the writer you will receive special blessings. Sorry, folks, blessings come from God and He sends them all the time. So, no disclaimers, please. Thanks. And one more, I have over ten pages of emails backed up, so please do not feel hurt if I did not get back to you on something. I cannot get caught up.
Please, please pray for our nation, and please remember that this coming Wednesday is 9/11, so please be careful and pray for safety in our country. Now to the message.
Friday, September 6, 2013, Moral Authority 3.
1 Peter 2:1 - Therefore rid yourselves of all malice, and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander, of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. (NIV)
Staying along the subject of Moral Authority and it begins at home with each of us, we need to be really sure we rid ourselves, as Peter is showing us in the above scripture, of ALL malice and ALL deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Now you can see that I have put the word ALL in stand-out letters, for we might tend to not want to give it all up. Let me look at a couple of those things. Malice means of course to hurt someone, and please do not think that the only way to hurt or harm someone is by giving them a punch in the nose, in fact you can hurt more people by what you say, and trust me, it is going on daily on Facebook. Now let's look at deceit, and while we might want to say that Satan is the master of deceit, and he surely is, we can be very deceitful people also. Yes, how much deceit have you offered out today? You know, when you get right down to it, living for Jesus and walking that straight line is really not ALL that easy, but we must do our very, very best to do as Peter talks about. How about envy, do you envy others because they have more than you do? No need to envy others, folks, just keep on living for Jesus and trusting in Him, and giving from the heart. God will just take care of you. Of course slander is about the same as malice.
Peter uses the example that we should be like newborn babies who crave pure spiritual milk. A mother's milk is pure, be it a mother of our children or mothers of animals. You see, once man gets his hands on the milk then it is not pure, think nice here, I am talking about milking of animals by hand or machine, or a baby that has been turned over to formulas or even breast pumped milk. "Best coming from the source." That is what Peter is showing in the example, that we need to feast on The Lord and His Word which is pure, it is like that straight from the producer's milk, The Word of The Lord is the Truth.
I will be talking to the Lord over the weekend, I don't think we are done with this subject yet.
Go forth now, brothers and sisters, loving on each other, sharing your blessings and working on getting and keeping yourselves clean, and praying we do not get involved in another war. Love ya. Pass that love on.
Pastor Dan
Hi, brothers and sisters. I must tell you that Martin Martin, Jr., is about to be arrested. Yes, back when Martin Martin, Sr., was a pup, he chewed the tab off the mattress that says we cannot remove that tag. Well, guess what the pup did, yes, he chewed one of those tags up.
Okay, I made it up, folks. However, the pup did eat a five dollar bill today, and that is a lot of money, so I gave him a tad of cod liver oil and put him in the pen. What a mess. Never did get my five spot back! He could not pass it, it was counterfeit. Okay, I need to get serious now and get to the message. But first I must do some updating. As you know, my computer was trashed. It came in on a forward, I think. Please, until I get this mess cleaned up, please do not forward me things off the internet. Also, please do not forward things with a disclaimer on the bottom. Things like if you send this to ten people and one back to the writer you will receive special blessings. Sorry, folks, blessings come from God and He sends them all the time. So, no disclaimers, please. Thanks. And one more, I have over ten pages of emails backed up, so please do not feel hurt if I did not get back to you on something. I cannot get caught up.
Please, please pray for our nation, and please remember that this coming Wednesday is 9/11, so please be careful and pray for safety in our country. Now to the message.
Friday, September 6, 2013, Moral Authority 3.
1 Peter 2:1 - Therefore rid yourselves of all malice, and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander, of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. (NIV)
Staying along the subject of Moral Authority and it begins at home with each of us, we need to be really sure we rid ourselves, as Peter is showing us in the above scripture, of ALL malice and ALL deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Now you can see that I have put the word ALL in stand-out letters, for we might tend to not want to give it all up. Let me look at a couple of those things. Malice means of course to hurt someone, and please do not think that the only way to hurt or harm someone is by giving them a punch in the nose, in fact you can hurt more people by what you say, and trust me, it is going on daily on Facebook. Now let's look at deceit, and while we might want to say that Satan is the master of deceit, and he surely is, we can be very deceitful people also. Yes, how much deceit have you offered out today? You know, when you get right down to it, living for Jesus and walking that straight line is really not ALL that easy, but we must do our very, very best to do as Peter talks about. How about envy, do you envy others because they have more than you do? No need to envy others, folks, just keep on living for Jesus and trusting in Him, and giving from the heart. God will just take care of you. Of course slander is about the same as malice.
Peter uses the example that we should be like newborn babies who crave pure spiritual milk. A mother's milk is pure, be it a mother of our children or mothers of animals. You see, once man gets his hands on the milk then it is not pure, think nice here, I am talking about milking of animals by hand or machine, or a baby that has been turned over to formulas or even breast pumped milk. "Best coming from the source." That is what Peter is showing in the example, that we need to feast on The Lord and His Word which is pure, it is like that straight from the producer's milk, The Word of The Lord is the Truth.
I will be talking to the Lord over the weekend, I don't think we are done with this subject yet.
Go forth now, brothers and sisters, loving on each other, sharing your blessings and working on getting and keeping yourselves clean, and praying we do not get involved in another war. Love ya. Pass that love on.
Pastor Dan
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