IDOK DEVOTION FOR TUESDAY, August 31, 2010

FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE:

We have more news from Melinda re Jackson.  The good news keeps coming!! PRAISE THE LORD!! PRAISE THE LORD! Click here for a link to read the update.

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

ABBA, what a glorious day this has turned out to be and it is all because of You and Your wonderful, lavish, outlandish even, grace!  The news of pain relief for someone dear; Jackson not having that dreaded condition and his consistent improvement.  Thank You. Thank You.  And tonight at Satsuma First, the Voices of Mobile singing Your Word, Your Gospel of Salvation and Your imminent return for us!! Hallelujah to You.  What a day! And You know mid to late afternoon I needed so much of your grace and You gave it!  Thank You. Thank You.

And now I sit here at 9:05 P.M. with no devotional thought to bring. But this I know, YOU ARE AWESOME!  This I know, You love me.  You love us all.  This prayer will not show up on any screen that the person looking at it, is unloved by You. Not a soul is unloved by You.  There is no soul that You don’t want a relationship with; not a soul that you don’t want to be their God and them to be Your son or daughter.  And, ABBA, I really am sorry there are so many that don’t love You back.  I really would that all people love You and worship You.  And in this moment I am asking for time and conviction for those that I am acquainted  with that have thus far rejected You.  Holy Spirit, I pray You will tender their hearts however You need to so they will finally see they really don’t have a chance of making a go of this life without You. And in this moment I am thinking about people who go door to door and yet are blind; they have been blinded by the evil one.  I pray their eyes will be opened and they will see Your Gospel and will believe. And I pray for people who have so foolishly bought into the lie that there are no absolutes and moreover they ridicule us who know You are the ABSOLUTE.  And forgive me, ABBA, sometimes that is hard to take.  Sometime I want to wrestle those lies right out of them.  And You remind me that the enemy is not flesh and blood.  So I pray to put on Your Full Armor and wrestle and defeat the real enemy.

And JoAnn Webb.  I don’t personally know her but the testimony I have of her is that she is a precious saint; folks love her and she has a place of service.  It would seem to me that cancer would hamper and could even stop her from serving.  I’d like for You to heal her, so that is what I am asking You to do.  And there are many others on our Praying for These list and even on those days when we don’t read every name and we just bring the list collectively, we are trusting You to individually see and care for each one.

And, of course, my thoughts turn to Israel. I am so grateful for the consistency You call me to pray for them.  I am grateful for the love You have given me for Your People.  I am looking forward to the day they as a Nation receive You, Yeshua, as their Messiah. And as for America.  I don’t know what You plan to do with us but I am asking You for mercy and for space and grace to repent.  I am praying for You, Holy Spirit, to heap on, even flood this place with conviction, that we the people will become repentant and will turn to You for salvation.

And I am thinking about my own neighborhood.  You know my request there and I am looking forward to see what You do with this.   And I’m thinking about so many good services that You could do in us and I just pray to get out of the way so You in me can get it done.  And that reminds me of someone dear, bless her with peace and comfort and health and joy and her hubby too.

There’s so much but I think I’ll rest it here and leave room for our IDOKs to add their heart cries here and I know You will answer.  Thank You, ABBA.  In JESUS, My Savior’s Name I pray.  Amen and amen.

2 Corinthians 10 NKJV:⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Ephesians 6 NKJV:¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.