Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for all the blessings You are sending our way. Thanks for another beautiful day, Lord. Lord, please be with our son Matthew in the hospital. Please also keep Your healing hand on Glenn and Marie, on Justine, and also on Julie. Praise You, Jesus, for answering prayers. Lord, please also be with Angel, our oldest Yorkshire. Thanks for hearing our prayers about all things we pray for, even our animals as You have trusted them to us for care. Lord, please bless me now with another message and please help me to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, please keep praying for those on our prayer list. Once again we ask for prayers for our son Matthew as he is going to a hospital. We will keep you posted. We think it is for medication adjustments. As for our Yorkie, she is in the doggie hospital. We had Martin, Martin, Jr. and Angel to the vet this morning and Angel is being held over for dental work. I wish I had gone to the vet for my teeth. It would have cost less than Aspen Dental. Brothers and sisters, it is still like summer, and you readers who are down south (Bobbie, Art, Elaine), want to come up here to keep warm? Well, I need to get to the message. Still working on Assignments.
Thursday: November 5, 2015: Assignments (Day Thirteen)
John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me. 2 In My Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back an take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am." (NIV)
Today I had a few earthly assignments, some are the same each day. Clean up after animals, feed them, and also feed the "wild cats," those cats nobody wants. (Yes, they have all been fixed.) Other assignments we had today, to take the dogs to the dogtor. Tomorrow, one assignment will be to pick up Angel.
Today our scripture talks about another assignment for us from Jesus, and also assignments from God The Father for Jesus to carry out. In John 14:1 Jesus is telling his disciples, and we are the disciples of today, our assignment. "Do not let our hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me." Again, we are told to Trust, and we are not to be troubled. In John 14:2, Jesus is telling us that in His Father's house there are many rooms, and He is going there to prepare a place for us. So we can clearly see that Jesus does not just give out assignments, He also gets them. And then this.
John 14:3 - "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL COME BACK AND TAKE YOU TO BE WITH ME." Praise You, Jesus, Thank You, Jesus. What a great assignment that Jesus has from God to come back for us who believe, and what a great promise that He gives to all of us who truly believe. I know that God has promised us many things, but coming back for us someday to me is one of, if not the greatest promise made to us. I would love to hear your opinion on that promise of Jesus. Look at this song:
Coming Again (Mosie Lister)
Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming.
Jesus is coming, He's coming again.
In clouds of glory, bright clouds of glory.
In clouds of glory, He's coming again.
We'll rise to meet Him, rise up to meet Him;
We'll rise to meet Him, He's coming again.
We shall be like Him, we shall be like Him:
We shall be like Him, He's coming again.
Oh, hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah!
Oh, hallelujah! He's coming again.
Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming.
Jesus is coming, He's coming again.
In clouds of glory, bright clouds of glory.
In clouds of glory, He's coming again.
We'll rise to meet Him, rise up to meet Him;
We'll rise to meet Him, He's coming again.
We shall be like Him, we shall be like Him:
We shall be like Him, He's coming again.
Oh, hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah!
Oh, hallelujah! He's coming again.
Dear Father in Heaven, help me to be ready and help me to witness to others so that when the day comes when You send our sweet Jesus back, we will be ready. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Jesus is coming; Jesus is coming.
Jesus is coming, He's coming again.
In clouds of glory, bright clouds of glory.
In clouds of glory, He's coming again.
We'll rise to meet Him, rise up to meet Him;
We'll rise to meet Him, He's coming again.
We shall be like Him, we shall be like Him:
We shall be like Him, He's coming again.
Oh, hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah!
Oh, hallelujah! He's coming again.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Salvation Wednesday 11/4/15 Assignments (12)
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.
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.
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.
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