IDOK DEVOTION FOR THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

I am certain there is more to this than I am about to say, but it’s what came to mind when I read it this morning.  Job 29:24 “I smiled on them when they did not believe, and the light of my face they did not cast down. And the note I wrote in the margin of my new Bible (in those beautiful wide margins) was ‘oh to be one that others could not bring down with their negative attitudes’!  Can I get an amen from anybody?   That’s it.

Now I’ll do some more study and see what else we come up with to write.  Back soon.

This comforts me and I hope it does you: Job 28:24 “For HE looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. The GOD who is your Father sees everything that concerns you.  Nothing touches you or even near misses you that He does not see!  The note I made in the margin says: ‘He sees our hurts; He sees our pangs.’  And by that I mean not just our illnesses and our diseases but our pangs too.  You know what a pang is don’t you?  A sharp attack of mental anguish.  Anybody hearing me?

Whoa! Listen to this!  Job 30:24 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, or in his disaster therefore cry out for help? Let us not be a people who waits for ruin and disaster before we cry out to ABBA.

Oh, yes!! Job 33:24 Then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom’; Oh, yes; oh yes!  And that ransom is JESUS CHRIST and we do not have to live in a pit!  We can be delivered from ruin and disaster.  We can find help for our hurts and our pangs!  We can KNOW our ABBA, our Savior JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS is watching and hearing and working on our behalf.  BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!

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

ABBA, that was fun!  Thank You. Thank You for taking these 24s and pulling them together and now I ask you to minister these 24s to the hearts of Your people to give them courage and hope and confidence in Your great love and infinite power to keep us safe in this troubled world.   Amen and amen, You are the Great and Only Holy God.  Thank You for allowing us to love and worship You.

And now that we have reviewed our list of names, we remember again their requests, bringing them to You afresh and anew, knowing they are neither stale nor forgotten by You ever.   It is so neat that You let us in on what You are doing in their lives.  All of them,  including our IDOK Troops and their families here at home.  You have kept them all safe and we are so grateful and we pray for that same safety and watch care again today.  And, ABBA, as I am reminded right now there’s another church to add to yesterday’s prayer.  Another church filled with imperfect people who so need to heed You the perfect God; that need to look to You and not their own understanding; to be kind to one another; to seek Your will and not our own and so today I am praying this for three churches that I personally know with volatile situations and I’m not asking for a lid to be kept on it so it won’t blow I am asking You to do a work in the hearts of Your people so we will release all desires to have it our way instead of Your Way.  And I know, each would say it is Your Will they are seeking, I pray, Holy Spirit, You make that true in JESUS NAME. Amen and amen.