Dear Father in Heaven: It is Salvation Wednesday on this line, dear Lord. Please help us to witness to others so they come to You before it is too late. I love You, Lord Jesus, and I give thanks for another night of rest and another beautiful day here on earth. Thanks for hearing our prayers both silent and spoken. Thanks for this line and protecting it from the hackers. Please, Lord, keep that blessing upon us. Lord, please bless me with another message and please help me to dispatch it. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, another beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. It is time to put out the antique sleigh in the yard and it looks like summer. It is a bonus day when you do not need the AC or heat. You do know, of course, God hears our prayers even if they are silent prayers? However, when asked to just pause for a moment of silence in a group without bringing the prayer to an opening or a closing in the name of Jesus, to me is wrong. Today one of my earthly assignments was to see the trash was at the curb. Today was a day I needed also to bless our trash gentleman and trash lady. Yes, and they are both just what I called them. I was waiting for them as I had a lot of heavy things curbside, and I wanted to purchase their lunch. Have you ever tipped your trash haulers? You talk about serving others, hanging out on the back of those trucks in all kinds of weather. These are God's folks serving others. I look back to my days of childhood when we put all garbage in one can and all trash in another. The garbage went to feed the hogs. I also know about the pay on that garbage truck, it was $1.00 a day and "all you could eat." I just can't help myself some days. Up to the part of the pay, it was fact. The garbage went to a hog farm and fed the pigs. Now you cannot do that. Let me tell you pigs will not eat what might harm them. I know that for at one time we raised them. That was a long time ago. Anyway, I do need to get to the message or my assignment from God which is to write this line. It is Salvation Wednesday, so please work harder today to lead people to Jesus.
Salvation Wednesday: November 4, 2015: Assignments (Day Twelve)
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 by have eternal life." (NIV)
Today I already mentioned that one of my earthly assignments was to drag out the trash. I also have a daily assignment from God to write a message. I do not always get them done, but I really try hard to get six of them out a week. I can only do that with the help of God, for He is the One who furnishes me with the words to type. He has even sent others to help me learn to spell. Speaking of which, the daily messages are still retyped by Pamela Bower and posted on our blogspot. The blogspot address is www.carrythelight4jesus.blogspot.com. You can go there at any time if you miss a day and want to look back at what you might have missed.
With that said, I try and do my best to write things out as God gives them to me. Today in our scripture it tells us about how God loved us, meaning all of us, the whole big wide world that He gave His Son for us, which makes the most important part of why Jesus was sent to this earth. Yes, Jesus had assignments to carry out also, and they came from God The Father, who would be not just the Father of Jesus in Heaven, but the same Father who is our heavenly Father. How would you like to have an assignment which was to "go and die on a tree so others might live"? I know our military are assigned to go into areas where over the years so many have died for us, but none was just assigned to die.
The day the World Trade Buildings came down, so many, many lives of police officers and firefighters and first responders gave their lives, but their chief did not say, go in there and die. Those who went in gave of their lives and they are real earthly heroes, but again, only one was sent to die. And He was sent to die for everyone, everyone, everyone. His mission was to save us, to save all of us. We all know the rules, or should, to be saved. To take advantage of the assignment of Jesus on the cross, we must make up our own minds if we want to be saved. That is a no-brainer to me, but for some, they must think about it. Pastor Rick Denison once told me "he was asked by a youth when he had to be saved to get into heaven, and Pastor Rick told the youth, it must be done before you die." But since not one single one of us knows when that will come, please do not put it off until it is too late. And Pastor Rick told the youth something like that. In fact, today, once again I want to offer up the sinners' prayer, so if someone would read this who is not saved, today maybe will be their day. Please pray again today with me either to come to Jesus or to rededicate yourself to Him.
Dear Father in Heaven, I confess that I am a sinner and I also confess that I want to be in heaven someday with You. I believe in Jesus, I believe He died on the cross and I do believe that on the third day He was risen from the grave. I believe it and according to Your Word in Romans 10 verses 9 and 10 that if I confess and believe I will be saved. Save me now, please, I ask and I do that in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Jesus, Name Above All Names (Naida Hearn)
Jesus, Name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us! Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.
Jesus, Name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us! Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.
Have a great day, brothers and sisters, and please go forth and serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
P.S. While Pamela spell-checks before posting to the blog, Dolores is my spell-checker on the line. When things are messed up spelling-wise, I did it without them. Hit it again.
Jesus, Name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us! Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.
Jesus, Name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord.
Emmanuel, God is with us! Blessed Redeemer, Living Word.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Tuesday 11/3/15 Assignments (11)
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I give You all honor and glory for another beautiful day and for answering prayers along the way. You are so great and wonderful and all honor and glory to You for answering those prayers. Lord, we do have a few new prayer requests today for healing of Justine and for Julie. We want to praise You for Glenn being up and walking and we ask that You keep Your hand upon both Glenn and Marie and their family. Dear Father, without You I could not even begin to write messages. Please, Lord, bless me again today with a message and please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, two new names on the prayer list, Justine, who is our granddaughter, and Julie, who is our next door neighbor. Justine is going for tests tomorrow. Please keep her in prayers. Julie, our next door neighbor, a single mother of two teen sons, fell and broke her ankle. So pray, warriors, pray. Well, it was election day, and as we vote, we must remember that in all things God is in control. If I told you all the prayers that were answered for Dolores and me today as we traveled I would need to write a book. But I must tell you about a couple. Dolores and I went to vote, and coming out of the church where we vote we saw State Rep. Steve Bloom. Before he was elected for his first term a year ago I was in the yard on my tractor mowing lawn. He came behind the house and I prayed for him and anointed him with oil. Today we talked about it and he was with another State Rep. I do not know his name. The other one said I need prayers also and right there outside in front of God and all those coming and going to the polls were four people in a circle praying and two were state reps. PRAISE THE LORD, no one can tell us not to pray when or where we might be. When someone asks for prayer, grab their hand and do it. And all of you can do that. I do want to get to the message on Assignments, and today our earthly assignment was to vote. But what about one from the Bible? Come on, let us look.
Tuesday: November 3, 2015: Assignments (Day Eleven)
Matthew 6:15 - "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?" (NIV)
Well, brothers and sisters, the assignment to go vote was sure a lot easier to do than the assignment we get from the Bible. I mean we got up today, and yes, that is not easy anymore, to get up, get through a shower and get dressed and get out early, or at least not easy for us. But when someone tells you not to worry, well, that is a hard one. More so I think if you have children. While I know I have written about this in the past, I mean this one is hard.
Do not worry about your life, Jesus tells us. Well, I think we do all worry or should I say have concern about our lives, but all the worry cannot add a day to our lives. I mean while that is true, we still worry or have concern. When you have children you have these concerns about them as they grow up. You think when they leave home the worries will stop? No! They grow, however, as a parent, your concerns never go away, you always have these concerns. If you have parents, you are concerned about them also. Sometimes you can only pray for them and be there if they need you. Other times you can find ways to help. And these concerns grow. As a pastor, I have preached on this, I have told people to lay down the burdens and give them over to Jesus. I myself have been to the altar of churches with concerns and worries and laid them down, and it seems when we get back up we reach down and pick up the worries and take them with us.
Learning to trust Jesus to carry our worries and concerns is very, very hard, but we who believe know it is always best, and we should be praying for His will to be done. I can remember standing in a cemetery one day getting ready for a graveside service. I looked at the grace which was open. Then the funeral director pulled up and family gathered. The smallest casket I had ever seen was brought, inside two one-day old twins. Oh, this funeral was so very, very hard. Why, Lord, why? I said over and over again. Yet it was His will. There around that small casket I got to tell all those gathered about salvation. You see, those babies were already with Jesus, and my job became to tell others about salvation. Still I am sure not much comfort to the parents and grandparents and other family members. So we must learn or do our very best to put FULL TRUST IN GOD and try not to worry. Easier said than done, but we for sure must try. That day, all those gathered came to Jesus, as we prayed the sinners' prayer.
Hold tightly to Jesus, brothers and sisters. It is the best ride we will have until we get to heaven. Just one or two verses of this old hymn today.
Trust and Obey, John H. Sammis, 1846/1919, Daniel B. Tower, 1850/1919
When we walk with the Lord in the Light of His Word,
what a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
But we never can prove the delights of His love
until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows and the joy He bestows
are for them who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet,
or we'll walk by His side in the way:
What He says we will do, where He sends we will go.
Never fear, only trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Dear Father, please help us to learn more and more each day to trust You and to obey You in all that we do. We just need to lean on You more. Help us. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Now go forth and please walk and trust Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
One more time.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Dear brothers and sisters, two new names on the prayer list, Justine, who is our granddaughter, and Julie, who is our next door neighbor. Justine is going for tests tomorrow. Please keep her in prayers. Julie, our next door neighbor, a single mother of two teen sons, fell and broke her ankle. So pray, warriors, pray. Well, it was election day, and as we vote, we must remember that in all things God is in control. If I told you all the prayers that were answered for Dolores and me today as we traveled I would need to write a book. But I must tell you about a couple. Dolores and I went to vote, and coming out of the church where we vote we saw State Rep. Steve Bloom. Before he was elected for his first term a year ago I was in the yard on my tractor mowing lawn. He came behind the house and I prayed for him and anointed him with oil. Today we talked about it and he was with another State Rep. I do not know his name. The other one said I need prayers also and right there outside in front of God and all those coming and going to the polls were four people in a circle praying and two were state reps. PRAISE THE LORD, no one can tell us not to pray when or where we might be. When someone asks for prayer, grab their hand and do it. And all of you can do that. I do want to get to the message on Assignments, and today our earthly assignment was to vote. But what about one from the Bible? Come on, let us look.
Tuesday: November 3, 2015: Assignments (Day Eleven)
Matthew 6:15 - "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?" (NIV)
Well, brothers and sisters, the assignment to go vote was sure a lot easier to do than the assignment we get from the Bible. I mean we got up today, and yes, that is not easy anymore, to get up, get through a shower and get dressed and get out early, or at least not easy for us. But when someone tells you not to worry, well, that is a hard one. More so I think if you have children. While I know I have written about this in the past, I mean this one is hard.
Do not worry about your life, Jesus tells us. Well, I think we do all worry or should I say have concern about our lives, but all the worry cannot add a day to our lives. I mean while that is true, we still worry or have concern. When you have children you have these concerns about them as they grow up. You think when they leave home the worries will stop? No! They grow, however, as a parent, your concerns never go away, you always have these concerns. If you have parents, you are concerned about them also. Sometimes you can only pray for them and be there if they need you. Other times you can find ways to help. And these concerns grow. As a pastor, I have preached on this, I have told people to lay down the burdens and give them over to Jesus. I myself have been to the altar of churches with concerns and worries and laid them down, and it seems when we get back up we reach down and pick up the worries and take them with us.
Learning to trust Jesus to carry our worries and concerns is very, very hard, but we who believe know it is always best, and we should be praying for His will to be done. I can remember standing in a cemetery one day getting ready for a graveside service. I looked at the grace which was open. Then the funeral director pulled up and family gathered. The smallest casket I had ever seen was brought, inside two one-day old twins. Oh, this funeral was so very, very hard. Why, Lord, why? I said over and over again. Yet it was His will. There around that small casket I got to tell all those gathered about salvation. You see, those babies were already with Jesus, and my job became to tell others about salvation. Still I am sure not much comfort to the parents and grandparents and other family members. So we must learn or do our very best to put FULL TRUST IN GOD and try not to worry. Easier said than done, but we for sure must try. That day, all those gathered came to Jesus, as we prayed the sinners' prayer.
Hold tightly to Jesus, brothers and sisters. It is the best ride we will have until we get to heaven. Just one or two verses of this old hymn today.
Trust and Obey, John H. Sammis, 1846/1919, Daniel B. Tower, 1850/1919
When we walk with the Lord in the Light of His Word,
what a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
But we never can prove the delights of His love
until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows and the joy He bestows
are for them who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet,
or we'll walk by His side in the way:
What He says we will do, where He sends we will go.
Never fear, only trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Dear Father, please help us to learn more and more each day to trust You and to obey You in all that we do. We just need to lean on You more. Help us. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Now go forth and please walk and trust Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
One more time.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Monday 11/2/15 Assignments (10)
Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks for waking us this day and thanks for watching over us during the night. Dear Lord, we are so blessed and I just want to thank You for all You do for us. Dear Lord, please be with Matthew and heal him. Be with the family of Sally Oiler as they gather for her services. Lord, please be with Glenn and Marie and bless all their family. Please help me now with the daily message and please help me to get it dispatched. And Lord, thanks for these days when we can still have the heat turned off. I give praise and pray in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, what great weather. Hard to believe that it is November and I am still in shirt sleeves, no jacket. I put my snow plow on the truck and put it in the garage ready to go. I would love it if I never had to get it out. Anyway, please pray for the family of Sally Oiler. She went home to the Lord. Yes, she was saved. I had a great day on Sunday. Up early, had church in our living room, did a little work outside and came back in to see Jeff Gordon win the NASCAR race. I started cheering for Jeff years ago when he was really working for the Lord. Fifty-three days until Christmas. I've got to get the sleigh out. With that said, I need to get to the message.
Monday: November 2, 2015: Assignments (Day Ten)
Malachi 3:8 - Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'" "In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse -- the whole nation of you -- because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessings that you will not have room enough for it." (NIV)
One of our biggest assignments in life is to pay our bills. When we make earthly debts we need to pay for them. In life, I don't know how many times I have purchased something and was struggling to pay for it and had to sell something else to pay the bills. Often, and I guess this would be a confession, I would purchase cars and then sell them. Sometimes I would make a bad purchase and lose money. Other times I did well and made money. Anyway, we try hard to pay those assignments or contracts we sign on earth.
One assignment that we have from God is to pay Him, and you can see that very clearly in the scripture above. We are to bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. So what is God's storehouse? Just your church? No!! God's storehouse can be a lot of places. We are to be feeding the poor, so we can give to food pantries (please remember our food pantry is closed, so if you choose to fee the poor, find another or ask me and I will refer you to one). We support a lot of places spreading out those dollars. Example, today we called in to the Bible Thon at Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and sent out Bibles. By the way, their children's picture Bible is great for the little ones. Another thing I want to bring out is when it comes to tithing it is the ONLY place in the Bible where it tells us we can test God. Please read Malachi 3:6 through the end of Chapter 3!
In the first testament it talks about 10% tithe. In the second testament it calls for us to be a cheerful giver. I can remember being taught that by my mamma as a child. Then one Sunday she gave me a nickel and a dime. "Danny," mamma said, "One of those is for the collection place in Sunday School, and the other you can spend after church." When I got home from Sunday School and she got home from church, she asked me about the money. "Danny, what did you do with the offering, and why?" Mamma, knowing what you taught me, I put the nickel in the offering and spent the dime at the drug store after Sunday School. Mamma, if I did it the other around I would not have been cheerful. Brothers and sisters, that is a true story.
One other thing, if you pay your bills first, there is not always any left for God, but if you give from the top, or set back from the top, you will find it works so much better.
Dear Father in Heaven, You have blessed us well. Lord, may we always remember to give to Your work so that Your message can get out to the world. In Jesus' Name, I give thanks for what we have and ask You to guide our giving. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now please go forth and serve Jesus. More on assignments tomorrow. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Here is a short chorus to keep you singing.
Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome (Dottie Rambo, David Huntsinger)
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou art welcome in this place.
Dear brothers and sisters, what great weather. Hard to believe that it is November and I am still in shirt sleeves, no jacket. I put my snow plow on the truck and put it in the garage ready to go. I would love it if I never had to get it out. Anyway, please pray for the family of Sally Oiler. She went home to the Lord. Yes, she was saved. I had a great day on Sunday. Up early, had church in our living room, did a little work outside and came back in to see Jeff Gordon win the NASCAR race. I started cheering for Jeff years ago when he was really working for the Lord. Fifty-three days until Christmas. I've got to get the sleigh out. With that said, I need to get to the message.
Monday: November 2, 2015: Assignments (Day Ten)
Malachi 3:8 - Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'" "In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse -- the whole nation of you -- because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessings that you will not have room enough for it." (NIV)
One of our biggest assignments in life is to pay our bills. When we make earthly debts we need to pay for them. In life, I don't know how many times I have purchased something and was struggling to pay for it and had to sell something else to pay the bills. Often, and I guess this would be a confession, I would purchase cars and then sell them. Sometimes I would make a bad purchase and lose money. Other times I did well and made money. Anyway, we try hard to pay those assignments or contracts we sign on earth.
One assignment that we have from God is to pay Him, and you can see that very clearly in the scripture above. We are to bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. So what is God's storehouse? Just your church? No!! God's storehouse can be a lot of places. We are to be feeding the poor, so we can give to food pantries (please remember our food pantry is closed, so if you choose to fee the poor, find another or ask me and I will refer you to one). We support a lot of places spreading out those dollars. Example, today we called in to the Bible Thon at Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and sent out Bibles. By the way, their children's picture Bible is great for the little ones. Another thing I want to bring out is when it comes to tithing it is the ONLY place in the Bible where it tells us we can test God. Please read Malachi 3:6 through the end of Chapter 3!
In the first testament it talks about 10% tithe. In the second testament it calls for us to be a cheerful giver. I can remember being taught that by my mamma as a child. Then one Sunday she gave me a nickel and a dime. "Danny," mamma said, "One of those is for the collection place in Sunday School, and the other you can spend after church." When I got home from Sunday School and she got home from church, she asked me about the money. "Danny, what did you do with the offering, and why?" Mamma, knowing what you taught me, I put the nickel in the offering and spent the dime at the drug store after Sunday School. Mamma, if I did it the other around I would not have been cheerful. Brothers and sisters, that is a true story.
One other thing, if you pay your bills first, there is not always any left for God, but if you give from the top, or set back from the top, you will find it works so much better.
Dear Father in Heaven, You have blessed us well. Lord, may we always remember to give to Your work so that Your message can get out to the world. In Jesus' Name, I give thanks for what we have and ask You to guide our giving. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now please go forth and serve Jesus. More on assignments tomorrow. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Here is a short chorus to keep you singing.
Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome (Dottie Rambo, David Huntsinger)
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
Omnipotent Father of mercy and grace,
Thou art welcome in this place.
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