Tuesday, September 28, 2010   — IDOK Devotion

Please see Notices Given for an full update on Todd Williams – God is answering prayers, Todd is much improved.

To review our Praying For These Names, please click here.

It is good to be reminded.  It is good to visit again lessons we have learned.  Here’s one worthy of re-visiting again and again from Beth Moore’s Believing God series.

1 God is Who He says He is.

Genesis 15: ¹After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Revelation 1: (New American Standard Bible)  ⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, ” who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

2 God can do what He says He can do.

Luke 1: (New American Standard Bible) ³⁷“For nothing will be impossible with God.”

3 I am who God says I am.

2 Corinthians 5: (New American Standard Bible) ¹⁷Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

4 I can do ALL things I am called to do in CHRIST JESUS.

Philippians 4: (New American Standard Bible) ¹³I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

5 God’s Word is alive and active in me.

Hebrews 4: (New American Standard Bible)  ¹²For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

John 15: (New American Standard Bible) ⁷“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Five Statements.  Say them, believe them. Believe God.

ABBA, I am grateful for this reminder.  I am grateful to travel back to a time and place and see what You have done and even see what I have not done and know it’s not too late.   HOLY SPIRIT, in the Name of JESUS my Savior I am asking You to confirm and edify our IDOKs with this message.  I am asking You to protect our IDOK Troops not just from hostile and friendly fire but from discouragement and loneliness.  I pray when they are seized with these temptations that they will resist and believe You.  I don’t know how many of our IDOK Troops actually have received You as Savior and LORD but any one that has not that is my urgent prayer that their heart be tendered and true and faithful witness be given to them in such a way they will believe and be saved. I am continuing to pray for America; for repentance and for election results that will reprove the ruthless and set in position those who will heed the voice of the Constitution and who will uphold it with their votes and voice.  I pray for Israel, for peace and for the coming together of Christians to love and help them.  Thank You for Todd’s improvement; we are grateful to have been of service in prayer and we pray for a full recovery for him.  We pray for Joann and Ed, Jackson and Melinda, and others — all others on our Praying for These list – we seek and request only Your Best for each one in the Name of JESUS and for Your Glory. Amen and amen.

Holy hugs, kt

Monday, September 27, 2010 — IDOK Devotion

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Have you considered that  taking Scripture apart word (or phrase) by word can put you together?  I think it is a good spiritual exercise and I am encouraging you to make it a habit.

John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

The Speaker here is JESUS.  He is speaking to the Disciples and to you and me.  At the time He voiced this The Helper had not come for JESUS had not returned to Heaven.  So for you and me, for every person who has received the Gift of Eternal Salvation provided ONLY in CHRIST JESUS, this verse means this (at least this is what I see):

I have a Helper.  Not may be; not hope so. I do!

He never leaves me. This is one of the times NEVER is appropriate to use.  I like it! More than like it I am DEPENDING on that ‘never’ to be EVER. :)

He is the Spirit of Truth.  He recognizes ALL lies and He is in me to reveal truth to me; to expose all lies so I can choose to reject them.

The world (all lost ones) does not have Him.  They do not recognize Him. They do not experience Him within them.  :(

But I do! :)

He lives within me!!!

Lets try another one.

Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from My sight, cease to do evil,  17 learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.

Now, obviously since our eternal salvation does not come by our works, this must be a Word to us after we have been Washed in the BLOOD of the LORD JESUS.  It must mean we have a responsibility to look in the mirror and see when we have a dirty face, dirty hands, feet, mind, lips.  And when we find that dirt we must take the initiative to come to Him to have that dirt washed away.  This looks serious to me . . . ABBA is dead-serious about sin.  He does not want to see us practicing it at all! I am so glad He knows it’s a process.

Do you know how I know it’s a process?  Verse 17.

He said LEARN to do good.  That’s my job.  To learn to do good.  And that’s not all.  He also expects me to SEEK justice.  That means when I see wrong, I am to seek a means to make it right.  Perhaps that means I only need to pray about, and perhaps not.  Perhaps I am to roll up my sleeves and do something about it.

Reprove the ruthless.  At first I thought it said remove the ruthless and my next thought was VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE.  Reprove – remove, I still think it fits. And if I needed a verse of Scripture to tell me as a citizen that DADDY GOD expects me to VOTE, well, I got it now!  You too?

Defend the orphan and plead for the widow.  People slapped down with grief and hard times  — in a word: HELP them!

I hope this little ‘Taking Apart’ helps in ‘Putting us Together’.

I like this exercise, ABBA.  Your Word is alive and it is life to us! And when this lesson  gets to the screens of our IDOKs I pray HOLY SPIRIT that You will direct the warm light of courage and encouragement upon us and even the hand of correction as we need it. I pray for visions and practical steps how we can reprove the ruthless and defend the orphans and plead for the widows.  I pray not one of us will believe the lie that we have no calling, no ministry; but know if we are still breathing here on this planet, You are not done with us — we can still build in Your Kingdom. You know our prayer concerns; we entrust them to You and thank You in advance for Your Mighty Hand that is moving on our behalf and all on our Praying for These list and our IDOK Troops. Amen and amen in JESUS NAME.

Holy hugs, kt

Dear Friends, this prayer request came in this morning about 11:00 while I was out of pocket, please pray as you get this.

Alisha and Cary Lowery’s newborn son is @ Children’s & Women’s Hosp. Waiting to be flown to UAB with a serious heart defect. He is a beautiful fullterm baby born yesterday by C-Section. He needs a miracle & family needs supernatural strength.

ABBA, You know the extent of the need and the cries of Alisha and Cary on the behalf of their son.  We ask You now to heal this child to glory of the Name of JESUS. Amen and amen.

Holy hugs, kt