Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I appreciate all the prayers You answer for all of us. Thanks for going to the cross for us and shedding Your blood for me and others who ask to be saved and covered with Your still flowing blood. Thanks again for this line and I ask that You protect it from evil and attackers. Please always help me to use it to promote You, dear Lord. Please help me now with the message and then please help me to get the message dispatched. Lord, please help us on this day we call Salvation Wednesday to work hard to lead the lost to You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
My dearest brothers and sisters, thank you for all your prayers and concerns as we are going through some health issues. I have been cleared for surgery which is to happen this coming Monday at the Holy Spirit Hospital. It is to be outpatient and it is for a hernia. I have several of them but only one is being worked on at this time. I will keep you posted as to how things are going. Today, brothers and sisters, it is Wednesday and as always that means it is Salvation Wednesday on this line and the day we work extra hard to lead in the lost to be saved by our Lord Jesus. The Lord has pointed me to the book of Psalms and I just want to look to see what all this book tells us about Salvation. With that said, let us get started with what I am going to call Psalms of Salvation.
Salvation Wednesday: September 30, 2015: Psalms of Salvation (Day One)
Psalm 9:13 - O Lord, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death, 14 that I may declare Your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in Your Salvation. (NIV)
How often have you been placed under attack by your enemies and felt like you might be standing near the gates of death? Maybe your enemies might have even been of your own doing, and as an example I will use the over-use of credit cards. Maybe you had a debt load so bad you were thinking the only way out was your own death. You had debt collectors calling you all hours, at work, at home, all the time. Maybe your enemies were more real and maybe they came in a bottle of booze or a handful of pills even those given to you by doctors. You could see no way out, so you did what you know you should have done before. You called upon God and asked Him to have mercy on you and help you so that you might rejoice in His Salvation. Maybe it is one of those times when people say when all else fails, call on God.
Well, Praise God, Praise God, Praise God, for when you call on Him, He will be there ready to help you and then you can rejoice in His Salvation as pointed out in Psalm 9:14.
Psalm 13:5 - But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your Salvation. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, you know His love is unfailing, but do you trust in His unfailing love? Are you really rejoicing in His Salvation? The Salvation that Jesus gave all of us when He died on Calvary? If you are rejoicing in His Salvation, will you just sing this with me right now, knowing each day with Jesus is better than the one before.
Every Day with Jesus (Robert C. and Wendell P. Loveless)
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus I love Him more and more.
Jesus saves and keeps me and He's the One I'm waiting for.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Every day with Jesus I love Him more and more.
Jesus saves and keeps me and He's the One I'm waiting for.
Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.
Well, that was some fine singing. Let us look at another Psalm of Salvation.
Psalm 14:7 - Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad! (NIV)
Are you praying for the people of Israel? Our Jewish brothers and sisters? Brothers and sisters, Israel is our homeland. If you are indeed a Christian, a real follower of Jesus, then you know we must support our homeland, the homeland of our Lord Jesus Christ. Israel is surrounded by their enemies and with our current president we do not know where he stands on supporting Israel. I know I will pray for the Salvation of Israel, my question is will you?
Psalm 18:2 - The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress and my Deliverer, my God is my Rock in whom I take refuge. He is my Shield and the Horn of my Salvation, my Stronghold. (NIV)
Look at all those good names our Lord God, our Lord Jesus is to us. He is our Rock, Fortress, Deliver, God, Shield, Horn, Salvation, and He is our Stronghold.
Out of all those things mentioned in just this one verse, Rock, Fortress, Deliver, God, Shield, Horn, Stronghold, and Salvation, which one is the best of the best? To me Salvation is, for without Salvation, without Jesus going to the cross for us, we would have nothing. Accept the gift today, the free gift of Salvation and then share it with others. Will you sing this one with me and believe it also?
He's all I need, He's all I need.
Jesus is all I need.
He's all I need, He's all I need.
Jesus is all I need.
He's real tome, He's real to me.
Jesus is real to me.
He's real to me, He's real to me.
Jesus is real to me.
He's all I need, He's all I need.
Jesus is all I need.
He's all I need, He's all I need.
Jesus is all I need.
Dear Father in Heaven, you are indeed real to me, because You are real and You are alive. I pray today for the lost and that You would use us who are saved to bring in those lost sheep so that You might save them. Give us the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to get this job done for You. In Jesus' Name, I give thanks that I am saved and I ask in the Name of Jesus for You to help me leading others. All glory and honor is Yours this and every day. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday 9/28/15 One God!!!
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much and I give thanks to You for all things good this day. I give You praise, honor, and glory that Pope Francis has returned to his home safely. Please forgive all those who worshiped this man as if he was God or greater even. Father, thanks for taking me through more tests today and getting me ready for surgery. Lord, thanks for a chance to witness to others at my doctor's office today and even anoint a lady with oil and pray for her in Jesus' Name. Lord, please help me with the daily message and then please help me to get it dispatched. Please be with our veterans, our police, firefighters, and all others who work to keep us safe. I pray also today for worldwide peace. All praise and honor to You, Lord Jesus, as I lift my prayers in Your Name. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters: The message that God is giving me for today might upset a few people. As I have told you before, I try my best to write what God gives me. Today we are going to look at a couple of commandments. Let me get started.
Monday: September 28, 2015: Commandments (Day One)
Exodus 20:1 - And God spoke all these words. 2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." (NIV)
Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me." (NIV)
Exodus 20:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments." (NIV)
Dear brothers and sisters, maybe it was the last straw that broke my back this afternoon or maybe just a lot of things all added together. This afternoon a lady was interviewed on the local news. She stated that "The Pope was the nearest man to God in the world." I want to tell you this right now, and I know I am 100% right on this. If you are "born again," if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you are as near or maybe even nearer to God, our Loving Lord Jesus, as anyone else including the Pope.
I watched as many, many people bowed down to this church leader and I think he is a good man but what he is not, he is not God, period!!! People are saying because of him many will return to their church. I ask this, what good is it to return to the church if The Word is not being preached and taught ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE!
I watched and looked and listened to many of the masses that the Pope held and other than a lot of ritual I did not hear a message on Salvation and what Jesus did on the cross. I did see this commandment broken over and over again and again, and mot often by other priests.
Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me."
Over and over again people would say, I just want to touch his robe. As a pastor Pope Francis might have been given the "gift of healing" but I did not see him hold a baby and pray and pray for them, just give them a kiss.
Exodus 2:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."
A lot of people who went to Washington, to New York and Philadelphia, were bowing down and they made an idol out of him. Bobble head dolls, coffee mugs, you name it, they were buying it. And the news people falling all over themselves to get that story.
Let me tell you again, I watched and watched and received nothing from what I heard. Looking back in my life, back in the sixties, I can remember many a Sunday evening when I was picking up mail I would stop outside a "black church" at Fourth and Reilly Streets in Harrisburg and listen to my black brothers and sisters praising God and I got more out of those ten minutes each week, and in fact back then that was the only church that I would be near and the only Word of God I was receiving. Many years later in life Dolores and I traveled with some gospel singing groups, and at no time did any of them stand and take the glory away from God and always they would close their service or concert with a call for Salvation. And when on the road, we did the same thing. ALL GLORY AND ALL HONOR TO JESUS CHRIST.
Once again Jesus is the only way to our Father in Heaven. I can only pray that the Pope is indeed "Born Again" and I pray for all those who might follow him. You need to follow Jesus and not an earthly leader.
I need your prayers for healing, brothers and sisters. My pain level is so high that it is very hard for me to even sit at the computer.
Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Dear brothers and sisters: The message that God is giving me for today might upset a few people. As I have told you before, I try my best to write what God gives me. Today we are going to look at a couple of commandments. Let me get started.
Monday: September 28, 2015: Commandments (Day One)
Exodus 20:1 - And God spoke all these words. 2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." (NIV)
Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me." (NIV)
Exodus 20:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments." (NIV)
Dear brothers and sisters, maybe it was the last straw that broke my back this afternoon or maybe just a lot of things all added together. This afternoon a lady was interviewed on the local news. She stated that "The Pope was the nearest man to God in the world." I want to tell you this right now, and I know I am 100% right on this. If you are "born again," if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you are as near or maybe even nearer to God, our Loving Lord Jesus, as anyone else including the Pope.
I watched as many, many people bowed down to this church leader and I think he is a good man but what he is not, he is not God, period!!! People are saying because of him many will return to their church. I ask this, what good is it to return to the church if The Word is not being preached and taught ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE!
I watched and looked and listened to many of the masses that the Pope held and other than a lot of ritual I did not hear a message on Salvation and what Jesus did on the cross. I did see this commandment broken over and over again and again, and mot often by other priests.
Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me."
Over and over again people would say, I just want to touch his robe. As a pastor Pope Francis might have been given the "gift of healing" but I did not see him hold a baby and pray and pray for them, just give them a kiss.
Exodus 2:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."
A lot of people who went to Washington, to New York and Philadelphia, were bowing down and they made an idol out of him. Bobble head dolls, coffee mugs, you name it, they were buying it. And the news people falling all over themselves to get that story.
Let me tell you again, I watched and watched and received nothing from what I heard. Looking back in my life, back in the sixties, I can remember many a Sunday evening when I was picking up mail I would stop outside a "black church" at Fourth and Reilly Streets in Harrisburg and listen to my black brothers and sisters praising God and I got more out of those ten minutes each week, and in fact back then that was the only church that I would be near and the only Word of God I was receiving. Many years later in life Dolores and I traveled with some gospel singing groups, and at no time did any of them stand and take the glory away from God and always they would close their service or concert with a call for Salvation. And when on the road, we did the same thing. ALL GLORY AND ALL HONOR TO JESUS CHRIST.
Once again Jesus is the only way to our Father in Heaven. I can only pray that the Pope is indeed "Born Again" and I pray for all those who might follow him. You need to follow Jesus and not an earthly leader.
I need your prayers for healing, brothers and sisters. My pain level is so high that it is very hard for me to even sit at the computer.
Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Saturday 9/26/15 Open Line
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for watching over us, and thanks for watching over this prayer line. I ask, dear Lord, that You protect this line as there are people trying to wipe it out. Please, Lord, place Your firewall of protection on this computer. Lord, please be with Glenn Gamber and comfort and heal him. Watch over Marie also. Please continue to watch over Pope Francis and keep him out of harm's way. Dear Father in Heaven, please bless me now with the message and then please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
Hi, brothers and sisters. Sorry about not having a message on Friday. I went for some tests to get ready for surgery and when I got home I was, well, just worn out. So I took a nap, made dinner, and then laid across the bed to rest with Martin Martin Jr., Angel, Marvin, and Missy, and we all fell asleep. Glenn Gamber needs our prayers and while you pray for him, please include his family.
Help needed! Dolores and I could use a little help. What we need would take three or four people about an hour or two. We have what was a wooden porch in our back yard and it needs ripped out, sawed up and placed in trash cans. Our cats are getting stuck under it. It is also rotten and if stepped on one could break a bone or two. I have the tools to do the job, but my old body will not get it done. Then it would be nice to have steps made to get out of the house through that door if we had a fire or something.
Let me get to the message, Open Line.
Luke 6:27 - "But I tell you who hear me, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." (NIV)
I just love looking back. I can remember in my days of childhood going to my Uncle Lester and Aunt Romaine's with my dad and mamma. Pop and Uncle Lester were brothers, and God bless her heart, my dear Aunt Romaine is still on the green side of the grass and causing people to smile even though she has dementia. As I recall they had one phone in their farm home and it was a wall phone. And like our phone at home it was a party line. If you watch those old reruns of Sheriff Andy you might recall that he picks up the phone and talks to an operator, I believe her name was Sarah. Sarah, get me the diner, or Sarah, please connect me with Barney. Well, we did not need to ask an operator to place a call, but we did need to wait for an open line. Before you would dial you needed to listen to see if someone was talking on the phone. (My brother and I listened in on some neighbors' calls until mamma found out.)
Those lines were called "party lines" and almost everyone had party line phones. We shared our line with three other families, making it a four-party line. I think my Aunt and Uncle's was a six-party line. At one time if we wanted to call the other person on our line with us we had to call 1191 and hang up. When it stopped ringing we would pick up and have that neighbor on the line.
On Friday's one radio talk show host has Open Line Friday and of course his name is Rush Limbaugh. Now if you ever tried to call host Rush Limbaugh you know that most often the line is busy or you get put on hold for hours. Today when we call a business or a government office most often you are put on hold after going through a lot of pushing different buttons. I wonder what it might be like if God ran heaven like our government runs the phone system. Let us try.
1-800 Call God: Dialing. Ring, ring. Hello, you have reached Heaven. Please listen closely as our numbers have changed.
If you are calling to talk to the front gate, press one now.
If you are calling to talk to Angel Gabriel, press two now.
If you are calling to talk to Joseph, press three now.
If you are calling to talk to the Virgin Mary, press four now.
If you are calling to talk to Jesus Christ, press five now.
If you are calling to talk to God The Father, press six now.
To repeat this menu, press seven now.
For all other calls, please press zero now.
Or please call later as lines are busy now.
Well, that is what happens when you call the government or some businesses but that is NOT what happens when you want to call on God The Father. Now we know that Heaven has a party line, a big party line, but the line is never jammed up, the line is never busy, but it does require one thing. To talk to our Father in Heaven, we must place the call through Jesus Christ His Son.
Here is why.
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)
Some people pray directly to God, others pray through the "Blessed Virgin Mary" and would you believe it, some people do not pray at all. When I went to write about Open Line and praying, the first scripture that God pointed out to me was one about praying for those who mistreat you, praying for those who might want to come after you. You know it is easy to pray for those you love, but praying for people who hate you, well, that can be hard to do.
While we had six party lines, some even eight or more on a party line, God has millions on His party line,yet He has that Open Line and it is not just on Fridays. God's line does not shut down for the weekend nor is it just opened from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. It is open around the clock and all year round. And while God rested on the seventh day when He created the Heavens and the Earth, He never shuts off the prayer line.
So when you want to call on someone who always has an Open Line, please call on God and do it through Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
Dear Father in Heaven. I love that Your line is always open to hear our prayers, and I am so happy that You never tire of hearing from us. So hear our prayers this day as we place them in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Now please go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Hi, brothers and sisters. Sorry about not having a message on Friday. I went for some tests to get ready for surgery and when I got home I was, well, just worn out. So I took a nap, made dinner, and then laid across the bed to rest with Martin Martin Jr., Angel, Marvin, and Missy, and we all fell asleep. Glenn Gamber needs our prayers and while you pray for him, please include his family.
Help needed! Dolores and I could use a little help. What we need would take three or four people about an hour or two. We have what was a wooden porch in our back yard and it needs ripped out, sawed up and placed in trash cans. Our cats are getting stuck under it. It is also rotten and if stepped on one could break a bone or two. I have the tools to do the job, but my old body will not get it done. Then it would be nice to have steps made to get out of the house through that door if we had a fire or something.
Let me get to the message, Open Line.
Luke 6:27 - "But I tell you who hear me, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." (NIV)
I just love looking back. I can remember in my days of childhood going to my Uncle Lester and Aunt Romaine's with my dad and mamma. Pop and Uncle Lester were brothers, and God bless her heart, my dear Aunt Romaine is still on the green side of the grass and causing people to smile even though she has dementia. As I recall they had one phone in their farm home and it was a wall phone. And like our phone at home it was a party line. If you watch those old reruns of Sheriff Andy you might recall that he picks up the phone and talks to an operator, I believe her name was Sarah. Sarah, get me the diner, or Sarah, please connect me with Barney. Well, we did not need to ask an operator to place a call, but we did need to wait for an open line. Before you would dial you needed to listen to see if someone was talking on the phone. (My brother and I listened in on some neighbors' calls until mamma found out.)
Those lines were called "party lines" and almost everyone had party line phones. We shared our line with three other families, making it a four-party line. I think my Aunt and Uncle's was a six-party line. At one time if we wanted to call the other person on our line with us we had to call 1191 and hang up. When it stopped ringing we would pick up and have that neighbor on the line.
On Friday's one radio talk show host has Open Line Friday and of course his name is Rush Limbaugh. Now if you ever tried to call host Rush Limbaugh you know that most often the line is busy or you get put on hold for hours. Today when we call a business or a government office most often you are put on hold after going through a lot of pushing different buttons. I wonder what it might be like if God ran heaven like our government runs the phone system. Let us try.
1-800 Call God: Dialing. Ring, ring. Hello, you have reached Heaven. Please listen closely as our numbers have changed.
If you are calling to talk to the front gate, press one now.
If you are calling to talk to Angel Gabriel, press two now.
If you are calling to talk to Joseph, press three now.
If you are calling to talk to the Virgin Mary, press four now.
If you are calling to talk to Jesus Christ, press five now.
If you are calling to talk to God The Father, press six now.
To repeat this menu, press seven now.
For all other calls, please press zero now.
Or please call later as lines are busy now.
Well, that is what happens when you call the government or some businesses but that is NOT what happens when you want to call on God The Father. Now we know that Heaven has a party line, a big party line, but the line is never jammed up, the line is never busy, but it does require one thing. To talk to our Father in Heaven, we must place the call through Jesus Christ His Son.
Here is why.
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)
Some people pray directly to God, others pray through the "Blessed Virgin Mary" and would you believe it, some people do not pray at all. When I went to write about Open Line and praying, the first scripture that God pointed out to me was one about praying for those who mistreat you, praying for those who might want to come after you. You know it is easy to pray for those you love, but praying for people who hate you, well, that can be hard to do.
While we had six party lines, some even eight or more on a party line, God has millions on His party line,yet He has that Open Line and it is not just on Fridays. God's line does not shut down for the weekend nor is it just opened from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. It is open around the clock and all year round. And while God rested on the seventh day when He created the Heavens and the Earth, He never shuts off the prayer line.
So when you want to call on someone who always has an Open Line, please call on God and do it through Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
Dear Father in Heaven. I love that Your line is always open to hear our prayers, and I am so happy that You never tire of hearing from us. So hear our prayers this day as we place them in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Now please go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
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