IDOK DEVOTION FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

I’m offering you the words of Beth Moore today found in her book Breaking Free Day by Day from page 162 for June 3:

Who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. I Corinthians 2:16

We possess the mind of Christ, but we still have the full capacity to think with the mind of the flesh.  We  are mentally bilingual, you might say.  But in order to experience liberation in Him, we must let His language become our native tongue.

Look at it this way: my older daughter is almost fluent in Spanish, but she still thinks mostly in English.  Why? Because she practices it more.  Her thoughts follow the language she uses most often.

The same concept is true of you and me.  We will think with the mental language we practice most: ours or Christ’s.

I’m not doing so good in this lately — prayers appreciated.

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

Thank You, ABBA, for Beth and the ministry You have given her.  I pray for strength, protection and a constant growth for her. I pray this for our IDOKs and Readers as well.

This oil spill thing is troubling; the waste of a resource that we often import from hostile lands – it seems sinister to me that it has not been sealed; it seems sinister to me that a clean up procedure was not immediately begun and by now be well in hand.  ABBA, forgive me and correct and enlighten me in my areas of ignorance; yet, I say I am so leery of people of ‘power’ in corporations and especially politicians.  I find it difficult to have any confidence in any of them to do what is right.  This is not good; not good for me and not good for this world.  Please help.  I pray for encouragement.  I pray for wills and skills to invoke and promote our capacity to think like You about these things, about all things both the troubling and the delighting.  I pray for our IDOK Troops, asking that You protect them and keep them safe in every place they are right now.  I pray for their families and loved ones to be strong and courageous.  We’ve read the names on our list, some requests we have specifically remembered, some not; some faces we know, some not.  Thank You for this ministry.  Thank You for allowing us to pray for these dear people and their many needs; oh the things they encounter daily, only You can empower and enable them and that is what we are asking You to do for them, in them and through them.  I am continuing to pray for Israel, especially in these times and  I have heard good reports coming from the Middle East that the Gospel is being told and received.  That blesses me so.  Thank You.  I pray for eyes to see what You would have me see and I pray for the people of Israel to see and I pray they will stand strong and refuse to give up anything more You have given them.  I pray for Churches to be Houses of Prayer and I pray, Holy Spirit, You will send Fresh Wind and Fresh Fire upon us for JESUS Sake and in His Name.  Amen and amen.