IDOK DEVOTION FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

Praise Reports, Prayer Requests and Updates:

Can only tell you that some somebodies we love are scheduled to stand before an accuser this (Wednesday) afternoon and the accuser is guilty of all manner of evil.  It gives a ripe opportunity to practice righteousness. Prayer so needed!!

I started out this morning to read Deuteronomy 11 but verse 1 said ‘therefore’ so I had to go back to Chapter 10 to see why that therefore was there fore.

Deuteronomy 11 (New American Standard Bible) ¹“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

And when I got to verse 20 of Chapter 10, I’ve been hanging out there.

²⁰“You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.

See that word fear?  In Hebrew it is a primary root word.  See that word serve?  In Hebrew it is a primary root word.  See that word cling? In Hebrew it is a primary root word.

Fear.  ary in Hebrew. Transliterated yaw-ray.  Sounds a lot like Yahweh when pronounced.  And you know what?  Yahweh is the ONLY one you and I should ‘fear’ in this way.   That is according to my online Hebrew Lexicon to stand in awe of, to honor, to respect, to reverence.

Serve.   db[ in Hebrew. Transliterated ‘abad. And means do work, to make oneself a servant. I see NO compulsion here.  No twisting of the arm, no beating to performance.  I see choice.  Choosing to serve.  Choosing to because of the standing in awe, choosing to serve out of respect, reverence, honor for Yahweh.

Cling. And oh I like this one!   qbd in Hebrew. Transliterated dabaq and meaning to be joined together, stay close, stick to, keep close, follow closely, to pursue closely. I get the idea.  Don’t you?  But let me describe a picture that came to me to help illustrate.  Naturally an earthly word picture is never as good as the real in Heaven, but it helps.

When Jerry and I are in a very crowded place or a place that is unfamiliar to me, I stay really close to him.  I even join myself to him.  I slip a couple of my fingers in his back belt loop and I hang on.  When I get bumped and jostled by others in the ‘herd’ around us, I’m still connected.  No one separates us.  There have been times when the crowd has been so dense and close that I have had to actually step  behind him in the crowd because there was not room to walk beside him.

So slip your hand into DADDY GOD’s ‘belt loop’ and hang on!  And when that crowd of trials, troubles, hurts, needs gets so dense it feels like you will get trampled let Him be your Shield.  Slip right then in behind Him, right up next to Him, so you can feel His Shoulders  So Strong and know His Heart is beating with unconditional love for you.

That’s a good picture. That picture makes me tear up with JOY tears!!

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DADDY GOD, I am so thanking You for this picture.  So thanking You for Primary Root Words. Clinging to You is just what I want to do.  And this I know clinging to You makes ‘fearing’ You and serving You all the better! Even possible.  I pray for our IDOKs and our Readers that this lesson will inspire and aid them in clinging to You in all ‘crowds’.

I pray for our IDOK Troops.  We entrust them to You for Your Faithful Eye to keep watch over them.  We pray Holy Spirit for Your work in them and upon them to nudge them and lead them to increased faith, trust and love for You.

I pray for our people, we’ve reviewed the list together, their faces have come before us and You love them so much so we trust You to help and do what is best for each.  Holy Spirit, help them in their weaknesses in spirit, soul and body.  Lift them up, give them eyes to see the HOPE You have to give, the solutions, the provisions, all things they need. Help them receive.

And I am continuing to pray for America and for what I can do as an American to see You rain down conviction and conversion.  I pray too for Israel that beloved Nation, praying for peace and wisdom and protection and faithful allies.  All this in the Name of JESUS the RIGHTEOUS.  Amen and amen.