IDOK DEVOTION FOR TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

We’re on course!  I am fresh from listening (albeit late) to Beth Moore’s Mother’s Day message, speaking of the best gift mothers and grandmothers can give their children and grandchildren … to love the LORD our God with all our hearts and souls.    It gave me tear praises!   We are on course here at IDOK!   Click here to watch and listen.

I am most likely not the first to tell you that we cannot take the Words spoken in Scripture to Israel and make a doctrine out of it to suit us.  I say that to present to you Deuteronomy 30: 4 “if your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. Yet obviously I am taking the 30th chapter of Deuteronomy and holding on to it.  Not that ABBA is OBLIGATED to do it but rather because He loves us and that’s just Who He is.   And even as Israel had to meet the obedience requirement to receive the Promises; I believe if we meet the same obedience requirement we will receive the Blessings of these verses. So Mommas and Daddies, Grandmas and Papaws if we have children and grandchildren who are out there who knows where doing who knows what, let us set our hearts, souls and minds to obediently loving GOD and watch Him go to the ends of the earth to reclaim our ‘babies’.

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

Beyond obligation.  I see that You are not obligated to me the same as You made Yourself obligated to Israel in this 30th chapter of Deuteronomy.  But I trust You to go to the ends of the earth to reclaim those we bring to You in obedient life altering prayer.  Thank You for the saving faith You have given us but I ask You for another level of faith here.  I ask You for life altering faith.  The kind of faith that alters me and them — all those ‘thems’ in our lives that we IDOKs and Readers bring to You again and again.  We trust You, ABBA, when we feel this and when we don’t; when we are soaring and when we are low to the ground; when we see light at the end of the tunnel and when it’s pitch black all around — You, Oh LORD are the same.  Thank You.

ABBA, represented in the list we read there are multiple needs and people.  In this moment Leslie’s list and concerns come to mind, they cover many miles and varied hurts, illnesses and potentials for harm, uncertainties, a relocation and all that entails — it’s a lot to us but as I was reminded yesterday You are able.   What is big to us is not to You,  not in the same way – these things loom large over us but You stand over it all in complete and perfect ability and authority.  And even as I say this to You it’s not even close to Who You are and what You are for us and are willing to do for us just because You are LOVE.  Thank You.   Again we pray for our IDOK Troops for their safety and well being and for their families we pray their needs will be met and each will conduct him or herself in manners worthy.

In all places and situations that our IDOKs and Readers are in this very moment, I pray they sense Your Presence.  I pray yielding to You is what each of us will do in the small and the large of life.   And this I pray in the Matchless Name of Jesus. Amen and amen.

Holy hugs till Wednesday, Ya’ll, Kat…