IDOK DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

Chris Robinson, a local ‘boy’ will soon be leaving for foreign soil and his Mother, Carol, has asked that IDOKs pray for her son.

ABBA, thank You for the privilege You have given us to pray for Chris.  We do not thank You that it is necessary for Chris to go but since it is we thank You that he is willing to go.  We pray not only for his safety and protection from all manners of harm, we pray that we as a body of people we be sensitive to You, Holy Spirit, and will collectively and individually pray for Chris as You lead us in JESUS name. We pray for courage and peace for his mother and others waiting here for his safe return.

Joshua’s Mother writes in part: Joshua did very well in surgery! Praise the Lord! His heart function & numbers were good prior to surgery & that really helped him. We also know that he was covered in your prayers, which helps so much! Thank you!

Joshua has a Care Page where you can read more, click here for a link.  (You will need to set up a user name and password of your own to read his mother’s posts.)

I am borrowing this morning from Journey, a LifeWay Publication.  This morning’s devotion is a warning to consider our choices carefully.  As we are contemplating an action and we get a check in our Spirit it is wise to heed Him and it is sin to ignore Him.   He may be telling us it’s NOT just lunch.  In the story Meg was lonely, feeling sorry for herself, feeling neglected – her husband was out of town – so she said yes to Daniel’s invitation to lunch; telling herself it was only lunch.  It wasn’t ONLY lunch to Daniel.  The Holy Spirit knew that!  He always knows.  And we are only wise when we heed His warnings, not just about lunch with a co-worker of the opposite sex, but ALL the choices and actions of our daily living.

Journey (in part) reads: “Our society’s standards of what is and what is not appropriate have changed over the years, sometimes blurring the line between right and wrong.  As Christians, we need to be clear about where we stand and to remember that we represent the King of kings.  Some things that are innocent in the world’s eyes may be areas in which the LORD calls us to a higher standard.

If you find yourself flirting with a situation that could be harmful, ask the LORD to give you strength to resist temptation. “

I Corinthians10: ¹²Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. ¹³No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. ¹⁴Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Yes, 14 does follow 13.  When we willfully ignore that check in our Spirit and do what we KNOW is sin, we have set up an idol and have bowed down to it. I don’t like it anymore than you do; but truth is truth.

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

ABBA, I ask You to translate this message from what is written here to what is needed in each of our hearts and cause us to desire and receive from You the strength to escape temptation, rather than erecting idols.   Thank You for Your faithfulness to us again this morning and every morning.  You know I hastily scanned our list of names this morning, even so I bring them all to You and pray for them to have Your peace today in all their situations.  I pray that too for each of our IDOKs and Readers. And I pray for our IDOK Troops that You will again today keep them safe and protected from all harm.  I pray for the peace and protection Israel needs.  I pray for churches, three in particular, and ask Holy Spirit that You correct us, that NO idols be set up but rather ALL be torn down in JESUS Name. Amen and amen.