IDOK DEVOTION FOR MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009

The rain did my tulips good. In just a few more days or so I just may have homegrown tulips!!

As you can tell I am way late this morning. My beloved is already on his way to the office and I am just seriously at this. I say seriously because I came to the keyboard over an hour ago and felt ‘blank’. I looked for some reruns, nothing clicked. And then it was time to pack Jerry’s lunch and walk him to the car, and it was while seeing him off that I noticed the tulip foliage. And I thought about this weekend’s rain. There was a LOT of it! It is not always pleasant when it falls but there is something within it that can be retained to cause us to grow and blossom. You get the spiritual application there, don’t you? Things, unpleasant things, happen to us but God has a plan in allowing it. Keep trusting, keep believing and the ‘tulips’ will bloom.

I’ve also been thinking about a song, one that I have not heard in years. It’s Sail On as sung by the Imperials. Tickets to their concerts in the 70s were precious to me! Take a listen to this YouTube. Apparently, it has been around for a long time and not many folks have viewed it. So glad I found it this morning. Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqjENzumJ0&feature=related

Which gives me another thought: put the Word out there, anyway the Holy Spirit leads you and even if it does not take off like a wild fire, don’t fret. The day will come that it will be used!

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters,

For after many days you will find it again.

Which reminds me of another song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1cjG_inwPI&feature=related

Isaiah 55: 11So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

And if we will remember this, we will do this

12 “ For you shall go out with joy,

And be led out with peace;

The mountains and the hills

Shall break forth into singing before you,

And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

We have added more to our prayer list over the weekend. One is as described here:

This is from a dear IDOK Sister. I am giving it to you just as she phrased it.

I’m sending out this e-mail in honor of a little girl who was hit by a truck in Semmes AL on Monday March 9, 2009. Her name is Chloe Melissa Hennis, she is three years old. Her family does not have medical insurance and is in need our help in this terrible time. We are asking for your prayers for Chloe and her family. There will be a benefit held in Chloe’s honor on April the 4th in Wilmer AL. You can also make donations to Chloe and her family at any century bank starting on Tuesday March 17, 2009. If you or someone you know can donate items to be raffled off at the benefit please contact me at 251-214-5333 if I don’t answer please leave a message and I will return your call. Thank you in advance, Windy M. Keithley

P.S. Please forward this e-mail to as many people as you can the more that know about this the more help we can get for this family & in this troubled time in our world we understand not everyone can make a donation but please pray for this little girl and her family. Thank you again I know Gods people will come through.

Also take note of Trisha and Jayden. Brian and Ricky. These have serious situations. Satan is at work to destroy our children but ABBA is greater and we can work with Him in prayer!

ABBA, the hour for mailing is short; at least if feels that way to me. But even though I am late in Emailing and posting this to the web, I know in time You will use it. Your Word will do the work You have purposed it to do. Thank You for YouTubes. Thank You for the Internet. It seems strange to thank You for that but I am grateful. I know there is much, much evil contained in it and I ask You to protect us from it. I ask You to guide us away from it, protect our eyes and ears from those things that could grab hold and enslave us and I know as we are obedient, You will not fail to do this. And I pray that we will use the Internet for Your Glory, that we will more and more get Your Word out there. Allow us to get Your Word into more and more homes and lives through this media. Anoint the words and music in cyberspace that uplifts Jesus and Your message of salvation. Cause fingers on keyboards to ‘stumble’ upon Your Word and music and captivate them and deliver them from bondage and hell. And closer to home now, we pray for Chloe and her family. LORD show out BIG for Chloe in healing and provisions. Just WOW her family at Your Goodness we pray. And Trisha and Jayden, heal them too please. And Brian and Ricky, You know just what to do there and we pray for that to be. And Father, the man who was driving the truck, I heard he was so emotionally devastated that he had to be taken to the hospital too. Send someone with Your Word into his life that will bring peace to him and help him turn this what was clearly by the Evil One meant for Evil but You LORD have a plan for glory and we ask that plan be manifested. Minister too, LORD, to each other soul and situation listed here. Especially Linda and all of us who will be gathering to remember Bernie and celebrate the successful life You lived through him for 74 years. Walk with us and console as only You can. And we dare not end and send this prayer on its way without praying specifically for our IDOK Troops. We love them, we miss them and we pled the BLOOD OF JESUS over them today in protection of mind, body and spirit. And we pray too for Israel, for peace and deliverance from and victory over all their enemies. And for America I can only ask You for grace and space to repent. For we Your Church I ask You HOLY SPIRIT to pour Yourself upon us to cleanse us and anoint us with Your Fire as Instruments of Rescue. LORD some how make us useful. Some how make us effective in this world against the Evil One. Make us a successful Army advancing Your Gospel. Amen and amen. A SPECIFIC UNSPOKEN. Unspoken Requests – situations so close you can only speak to Father about. Trisha and Jayden. L. Brian T. Ricky M. Chloe Melissa Hennis. Linda and Family. Joe. Michael H. Linda W. Debbie W. Mike and Vickie. Family of Ann J. Moriah and her family. Natalie. Kathy and family. Tommy and Raye. Doug. Woman of Sadness. Frank. Jeanette. Mia and family. Joy and Evan. Gina. Francis T. Cathy T. Cathie R and family. Jacqueline and Sons (River and Jackson) Emily. Walt. Phillip. Margie and Craig. Sandra. Terry and family. Dot B. Julia O. Ann C. Stan and Jowanna and Family. Carolyn. Mary. Mabel. Amy, Kevin and Girls. Joan. David T’s Family. Kimberly. Shay and Emma’s Kids (orphanage in Zambia) Ministry. Susan D. Jason A and his mother. Wayne B. Melinda H. Trisha. Patti’s Family. Brennan and his family. Joshua. Branson. The O’Brien family. Kim and her Fiancee. Jonathan. Mabel’s Aunt Lou. Heather and Brandon. Darlene and Torkel. Edie G. Rachel. W C and family. Maggie and Family. Dylan. Joseph Toomey and Family. DeLois. Terri. Kim T. Kevin and the children. Katelyn (B). Janie B. Vickie. J Lloyd and family. Janet and Steve. Cathy. Caleb and family. Bay and family. Jennifer B. John and Carolyn and Family. Larry and Claudia and family. Taylor & family. David & Allison. Jeanette and Earl and family. Callie. Ruth. Cynthia. Martha F and Bob. Allyson and Glyn and family. Brittney and Kersten and family. Sheila and Andy. Carrie and Rachel and Jacob and family. Billy and Gina and boys. Lance and family. Grace and family. Tressa. Brad, Lindsay, Karah and Haley. Chuck. Windy and Jared and families. Helen and Dan and family. Jen and Larry and family. Mollie and family. Julia. Bobbie. Erin. Alan. Tj. Zack. Phillip. Jessica. Larry. Lance. Candance and Family. Laura and family. John and Sandy. Bill and Judy. Andrew and Daughters. Lee. Sharron and family, Linda and family, Bev and Family, Mollie B. Friends at work. Public and Private School Teachers. Every IDOK and every IDOK son and daughter and grandchild.

Every IDOK Pastor and Family. Every IDOK church.

IDOKs Military Families.

IDOKs Troops (foreign soil) – Ethan. Christopher. Raul. Robert. Billy. Buddy. Mark. Josh W. James. Bryan. Nick. Brant W. Christopher R. Joshua M. Brent. Drew. Justin G. Michael K. Sgt. Bozicevich. Bay N. T. Palin. John L. Richard M. Adam M. Bobby G. (added 12/16/08) Tommy T.

IDOK Troops leaving shortly for foreign soil: Brandon B. Kyle N. (3/26)

Serving Stateside: Jonathan. Jasmine B. Shaun. Bay. Danny. Lee. George. Travis N. Hawk. Justin G.

Injured: Lukas S. (11/30/08)

http://www.strafford1st.com/page25/page26/page26.html

Military at home – Tim. Mack. The 226. Troy. Brad. Tommy. Desi. Edward J. Lyndon A. Jason G. Captain Tran Josh.

And specifically those emotional/spirit wounds that only God and Time can heal

The Peace of Israel.

Revival in America.

As I post this it is 63°F and clear in Al Asad, IQ (Airport) & the time there is 4:53 PM AST on March 16, 2009.