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.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Saturday 10/31/15 Assignments (9)
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, and I want to thank You for being with me today and also with members of my late brother's family as they gathered together for the funeral service of Stephen Lehman. Thanks for the safe out and safe back. Father, please be with those who we have been praying for this past week. Please, Lord, be with the families of those lost in the airplane crash. Lord,please help us to reach others before it is too late. Please, Lord, I want to be part of that through this line. Lord, so many think heaven is automatic. Thanks for dying for all of us, Lord, and forgiving all who ask. Lord, please help me now with another message and then please help me to get it dispatched. In the Name of Jesus, I give thanks and praise. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, today we all have one assignment that is the same. Okay, more than one, but one here on earth. Tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM, we turn the clocks back one hour. I was told that you gain back the hour that we lost in the spring. That is just not true. Wanting to do things right, I set my alarm for 2:00 AM and in the spring I wake up and set it to 3:00 AM and lose 1 hour sleep, right? Right! In the all I did the same thing, I set my alarm at 2:00 AM and when it went off, I got up and turned the clock back an hour. Then at 2:00 that clock went off again, so I got up and turned the clock back an hour. Then at 2:00 AM that darn old clock went off again, so I got up and turned it back an hour. And so it went, until I noticed it was daylight and I must have been doing something wrong. Worst night's sleep I ever had. Okay, so I made the story up, and yes, I have been telling it for years, and you are indeed welcome to use it. I have learned since then to just turn it back before going to bed. But wait, be careful, sometimes if you turn it back, it just might be turned back again since a lot of things are automatic. Well, getting into heaven is not automatic, so let me get to another assignment from God.
Saturday: October 31, 2015: Assignments (Day Nine)
Mark 12:28 - One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked Him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" 29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one, 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'" 31 "The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." (NIV)
Two more great assignments from our Lord Jesus Christ. Which one might be the harder to do? If we would learn to follow these two assignments they would indeed cover all ten of the ones we talked about yesterday. Think about this real hard. Which of these two must we really follow if we are going to go to heaven? Both of them, of course. There are a few things I want to point out about both of them.
In verse 30 it tells us we have to Love the Lord that would be Jesus Christ, and we must do it with ALL of our heart, soul, mind and strength. It does not say some of it or part of it, or every now and then, this means all the time, ALL THE TIME. Once we really fall in love with Jesus that gets a lot easier to do, but sometimes we slip on it. Oh, the love goes on, but some days maybe our heart is not in it like it should be. Maybe we are having a bad day. But that is when we should come nearer to Him. Some days our minds might wander or take a walk so to speak, and don't tell me it never happened to you. And as for our strength, and this is now how strong your muscles are, this is tied in with your mind. This is why we must use them all together, our heart, soul, mind and strength, to love our Lord Jesus and it needs to be done 24/7.
In verse 31 it talks about Loving your neighbor as yourself. Now I talked about this one some time back. First things first, we need to love ourselves. Yes, that does not mean we put ourselves ahead of others, but we do need to love ourselves. So go take a look in the mirror and tell yourself, I love you! I mean if you hate yourself, how could you love someone else? Now let us look at who our neighbors are. They are not just the person next door or across the street. They are not just the ones living behind you, they are worldwide. This morning an airliner went down. Everyone on-board was killed. I do pray they knew Jesus. All of those on-board were our neighbors, and I understand all were from Russia. Your next door neighbors are those of different colors. Remember the song from Vacation Bible School. Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE, they are precious in His sight? Now there are blended families, and we need to love them all.
So our assignments from God today, Love God and ALL others, including our very own selves. Amen.
Dear Father in Heaven, please help me to love, and t love more and more each day. Help me learn that the greatest gift that You gave to all of us was/is love, for You sent Jesus to die for us, and Father that is great love. Thanks for doing that for us. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, let us go out singing that Vacation Bible School song. I am going to do the words by heart, and it has been a long time since I went to Bible School.
Jesus love the little children, all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black or white,
they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Jesus love the little children, all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black or white,
they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
How did I do? Can you believe today is the last day of October? Fifty-five days until Christmas. I wonder, can I be a bear and sleep from Christmas to Easter?
Dear brothers and sisters, today we all have one assignment that is the same. Okay, more than one, but one here on earth. Tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM, we turn the clocks back one hour. I was told that you gain back the hour that we lost in the spring. That is just not true. Wanting to do things right, I set my alarm for 2:00 AM and in the spring I wake up and set it to 3:00 AM and lose 1 hour sleep, right? Right! In the all I did the same thing, I set my alarm at 2:00 AM and when it went off, I got up and turned the clock back an hour. Then at 2:00 that clock went off again, so I got up and turned the clock back an hour. Then at 2:00 AM that darn old clock went off again, so I got up and turned it back an hour. And so it went, until I noticed it was daylight and I must have been doing something wrong. Worst night's sleep I ever had. Okay, so I made the story up, and yes, I have been telling it for years, and you are indeed welcome to use it. I have learned since then to just turn it back before going to bed. But wait, be careful, sometimes if you turn it back, it just might be turned back again since a lot of things are automatic. Well, getting into heaven is not automatic, so let me get to another assignment from God.
Saturday: October 31, 2015: Assignments (Day Nine)
Mark 12:28 - One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked Him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" 29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one, 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'" 31 "The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." (NIV)
Two more great assignments from our Lord Jesus Christ. Which one might be the harder to do? If we would learn to follow these two assignments they would indeed cover all ten of the ones we talked about yesterday. Think about this real hard. Which of these two must we really follow if we are going to go to heaven? Both of them, of course. There are a few things I want to point out about both of them.
In verse 30 it tells us we have to Love the Lord that would be Jesus Christ, and we must do it with ALL of our heart, soul, mind and strength. It does not say some of it or part of it, or every now and then, this means all the time, ALL THE TIME. Once we really fall in love with Jesus that gets a lot easier to do, but sometimes we slip on it. Oh, the love goes on, but some days maybe our heart is not in it like it should be. Maybe we are having a bad day. But that is when we should come nearer to Him. Some days our minds might wander or take a walk so to speak, and don't tell me it never happened to you. And as for our strength, and this is now how strong your muscles are, this is tied in with your mind. This is why we must use them all together, our heart, soul, mind and strength, to love our Lord Jesus and it needs to be done 24/7.
In verse 31 it talks about Loving your neighbor as yourself. Now I talked about this one some time back. First things first, we need to love ourselves. Yes, that does not mean we put ourselves ahead of others, but we do need to love ourselves. So go take a look in the mirror and tell yourself, I love you! I mean if you hate yourself, how could you love someone else? Now let us look at who our neighbors are. They are not just the person next door or across the street. They are not just the ones living behind you, they are worldwide. This morning an airliner went down. Everyone on-board was killed. I do pray they knew Jesus. All of those on-board were our neighbors, and I understand all were from Russia. Your next door neighbors are those of different colors. Remember the song from Vacation Bible School. Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE, they are precious in His sight? Now there are blended families, and we need to love them all.
So our assignments from God today, Love God and ALL others, including our very own selves. Amen.
Dear Father in Heaven, please help me to love, and t love more and more each day. Help me learn that the greatest gift that You gave to all of us was/is love, for You sent Jesus to die for us, and Father that is great love. Thanks for doing that for us. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, let us go out singing that Vacation Bible School song. I am going to do the words by heart, and it has been a long time since I went to Bible School.
Jesus love the little children, all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black or white,
they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Jesus love the little children, all the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black or white,
they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
How did I do? Can you believe today is the last day of October? Fifty-five days until Christmas. I wonder, can I be a bear and sleep from Christmas to Easter?
Friday, October 30, 2015
Friday 10/30/15 Assignments (8)
Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for another great day. Thanks for safety on the highway. Lord, please be with the family of Stephen Lehman in their time of sorrow. Father, please be with our leaders and with our country, and please help people learn more and more each day how to love You and to love each other. Thanks, Lord, and all honor and glory to You for a great report from the surgeon today. Again, Lord, all honor and glory to You. Please help me with the message and please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I give praise and pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, great news this day as I had my final check on the surgery from October 5th. All is good, with a warning not to lift anything heavy. I did not get to the computer yesterday as I was sitting out front watching for "empty hot dogs," you know, "hollow wieners." I had about ten bags of candy, had two people stop, but it was nice as some deer were within 25 or 30 feet of me, and a couple of feral cats jumped up on my lap as I sat on my scooter. As for the leftover candy, I think I am on a sugar high today.
I am loving these messages God has been giving me on assignments. We have not even touched on the best ones yet. Are you getting your assignments done, both those here on earth and also those laid out in our Bibles? Let me get to the message.
Friday: October 30, 2015: Assignments (Day Eight)
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)
Brothers and sisters, please get out your Bible and read Exodus 20:1 through 17. These would be what we know as the "Ten Commandments." For today let me refer to them as the "Ten Assignments" coming right from God. One television program that I like is Family Feud and on one show the question was how many of the Ten Commandments have you broken? The lady answered "seven." Of course the host made a big joke about it. As for me, I got to thinking how many of them over the years have I broken? No, no, I am not going to tell you, I confess to Jesus, but let me tell you this right here and now. I am glad I serve a Savior who forgives us of our past. Right now someone should be thinking "me too."
But as I looked all of these over they are indeed assignments from God. I also want you to notice that God used the same tool on these commandments as He did when He formed the earth. I did ask you what that tool was and today I will tell you that it was His tongue as He spoke creation in the beginning and He spoke the Ten Commandments. I know you folks were thinking He must have used "Facebook" or a cell phone but really they were not made yet. I wonder if our younger generation knows that.
Do you ever wonder what it must have been like to have everything you ever needed and messed up and lost it all? Think about it, do you know anybody at all, past or present, that had everything they needed in life and lost it all? And when they messed up and lost it all, it caused everyone in the world a problem. Might you know who I am talking about? If you know who, tell me, please. Yes, I do know who it was.
Okay, let us go out singing today. I know you just love to sing.
This is the Day (Les Garrett)
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
Dear Father in Heaven: Indeed this is the day You have made, because You make them all. Please, Lord, forgive me of my sins, and Lord, help me to Love You more and more each day. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Please go forth and serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Let's go out singing.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
Dear brothers and sisters, great news this day as I had my final check on the surgery from October 5th. All is good, with a warning not to lift anything heavy. I did not get to the computer yesterday as I was sitting out front watching for "empty hot dogs," you know, "hollow wieners." I had about ten bags of candy, had two people stop, but it was nice as some deer were within 25 or 30 feet of me, and a couple of feral cats jumped up on my lap as I sat on my scooter. As for the leftover candy, I think I am on a sugar high today.
I am loving these messages God has been giving me on assignments. We have not even touched on the best ones yet. Are you getting your assignments done, both those here on earth and also those laid out in our Bibles? Let me get to the message.
Friday: October 30, 2015: Assignments (Day Eight)
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)
Brothers and sisters, please get out your Bible and read Exodus 20:1 through 17. These would be what we know as the "Ten Commandments." For today let me refer to them as the "Ten Assignments" coming right from God. One television program that I like is Family Feud and on one show the question was how many of the Ten Commandments have you broken? The lady answered "seven." Of course the host made a big joke about it. As for me, I got to thinking how many of them over the years have I broken? No, no, I am not going to tell you, I confess to Jesus, but let me tell you this right here and now. I am glad I serve a Savior who forgives us of our past. Right now someone should be thinking "me too."
But as I looked all of these over they are indeed assignments from God. I also want you to notice that God used the same tool on these commandments as He did when He formed the earth. I did ask you what that tool was and today I will tell you that it was His tongue as He spoke creation in the beginning and He spoke the Ten Commandments. I know you folks were thinking He must have used "Facebook" or a cell phone but really they were not made yet. I wonder if our younger generation knows that.
Do you ever wonder what it must have been like to have everything you ever needed and messed up and lost it all? Think about it, do you know anybody at all, past or present, that had everything they needed in life and lost it all? And when they messed up and lost it all, it caused everyone in the world a problem. Might you know who I am talking about? If you know who, tell me, please. Yes, I do know who it was.
Okay, let us go out singing today. I know you just love to sing.
This is the Day (Les Garrett)
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
Dear Father in Heaven: Indeed this is the day You have made, because You make them all. Please, Lord, forgive me of my sins, and Lord, help me to Love You more and more each day. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Please go forth and serve Jesus. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
Let's go out singing.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made,
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it,
and be glad in it.
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.
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