Even though the weekend is upon us, I am hoping some of you will read this post and pray for Gracin.  She is a beautiful little girl about three, I think.   Below is her Mom’s request.  Thank you, love and holy hugs, Kat…

Hello…
Gracin is having surgery on Monday May 3rd at Rex Healthcare at 8:30am. Our check-in time is 6:30am. She is having her adenoids and tonsils removed in hopes of helping with her sleep apnea. She will be staying overnight.

Please pray for her, me, and our family. Pray for the doctors, nurses, transporters, OR staff…everyone we will come in contact with. May she be a light to them and may God lead them in all they do. While praying myself I’ve been led to pray for her vocal cords. Sometimes they can get damaged from the tube they use when they put a patient to sleep. Please join me in praying for her vocal cords.

Please feel free to share this with others that you know will pray.
In His hands….Nikki Adams

IDOK Devotion for Friday, April 30, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

Got word late in the afternoon that Bill’s doctors are amazed at the difference – Bill is picking up his heals today — literally.  Remember yesterday he could not walk.  God is good!!

Potpourri: a miscellaneous collection.  That will be today’s devotion I think.

Beth (Moore) said on Wednesdays With Beth that ‘every wrong will be made right.’  That’s got to encourage somebody today!  Somebody today will surely experience a memory slipping from the closet of her mind; a vivid memory of a malicious deed and words saturated with hate.  And it will hurt again.  Somebody needs to know that DADDY GOD will make right every wrong done to you.  Please take that memory to Him in faith and give Him time to vindicate you and make right what was so wrong! Romans 12:¹⁹Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.

Joyce Meyer had some really good Words on Wednesday too.  And as I think about too good for just a snippet from me.   The title of the message is Taking the I out of Me – Part One.  The date of the broadcast was April 28, 2010… take a listen when you can.

In the meantime, let me give you two statements (paraphrased, of course): The embryo of Christ was placed in us at our salvation. What do embryos do in the womb of their mother?  They grow!  What a spiritual picture! Embryo. Infant. Toddler. Adolescence. Young Adult. Mature Adult.   How’s that for explaining the range of Christians’ behavior?  And I wonder what stage of development I am.  Don’t you?   Some days all in the same day I see me act like a two year old brat and a fairly mature adult — it depends on the issue at hand, the stage of my healing in that area, and how much of His Word I have allowed to abide in me.   Oh, what a patient Father He is!

And she (Joyce) said, Only the Word of God will divide the soul from the spirit. Hebrews 4:¹²For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Culturally,  two-edged sword means something cuts both ways.  And the Word of God does.  Read it and we’ll find good news and bad news!  But more than that we find it is ALIVE.  And the Word of God in the ‘hands’ of the Holy Spirit applied to the heart of a soul will cut away the cancer of sin  perfectly clean.  Not even the most  skilled surgeon in the land with the best crafted, sharpest, most expensive scalpel known to man can even come close to such precision.

Thoughts and intentions of the heart – as well as I know my beloved, I cannot KNOW his every thought and intention.  I cannot divide and sort through the recesses of his mind and heart; but The Word of God can.   For sure, for sure, only the Word of God can fully know and reveal to me who I am and who I can be.  With such a treasure, such a tool, such a gift so freely given to us, why do we not wear the covers off a Bible every year?  Why – indeed!

To review the list of names for prayer, please click here.

That’s a good question, ABBA, and there was a time I spent more time between the covers of a Bible than I do now.   I was desperate then, my soul was raw and wounded, broken, scattered, near death.  I don’t want to be raw and wounded and broken and scattered like that again but I am inviting You to give me such a hunger for You and Your Word that I  come to the table to dine with You that eagerly, consistently, abandoning and curtailing other things to be that devoted to You.   This late hour in the day is clear evidence to me that some curtailing went undone today.  But your mercy is fresh, I accept; to do less would be pride, wouldn’t it?  Thank You, LORD JESUS.  You as so good to me.

And we have some names, lots of names and each one of them needs to know and hold tight to Your Goodness.  They need to know that You are good; that You have not forgotten them; that You are not neglecting them; that You ARE for them.  And, Holy Spirit, I pray You will deliver that very message to their hearts and if there are people that You’d like to work with in this, I pray we will hear Your Call to service and will say yes LORD I’ll go.   Yes, LORD, send me.

And that good news about Bill!  Thank You so much.  I pray You will continue his recovery and he will soon be walking well again. We pray for our IDOK Troops; renewing our petition for their safety and well being and for their families to be well cared for and conducting themselves with honor.

Father, You know the concerns that have been made known to this ministry today.   The discouragements that friends have shared and I pray for them, for all of us that You, Holy Spirit, will encourage us; that we will allow You to encourage us. That we will receive Your encouragement.  That we will not look at what others are not doing but trust that You ARE doing something, that You are doing what is needed, what is right; not only in the churches but in the political arenas  too.  Please send revival.  Please, Holy Spirit, gather and bring in one accord Your people all over this world to pray, confess and repent of our sins and pray and pray until You send revival to the Body of Christ and the gift of repentance to the lost around us.  It can’t be too late, LORD, we are still here, please, Holy Spirit, blow on us with fresh wind and fresh fire and this I ask on the merits and in the Name of Jesus. Amen and amen.