IDOK Devotion for Thursday, December 9, 2010

** Day 9 of our Countdown to Christmas **

Our Christmas Song # 6 is Come on Ring Those Bells.

I looked at more You Tubes than I can tell you to select our song for today — this is the one that did it for me. Hope it does you too.

(NASB) John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2. and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding, 3. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”  4. And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come. 5. His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

This just thrills me. Reading it has been so fun! Verse 3. Mary expected Jesus to care that the host family had run out of wine.  Moreover she expected Him to do something about it.  Do you? Do I?

Do you expect Him to care about what you care about? Do you expect Him to do something about what you bring to Him for His attention?

Well, do you?

You should.

I should!

Because He does!

Don’t you love that?!

Doesn’t that just make your day?

JESUS cares! And JESUS responds when we run out of ‘wine’!

Praying for These

Thank You, LORD, that You care and more than caring You are all power, all wisdom, all strength, all purity and holiness and yet You love us.  It’s more than we can comprehend, but we accept! And we are bringing our  need for ‘wine’ to You now — people we love with many and varied needs, needs for jobs and healings, peace of mind, wisdom and direction, ideas and motives to give and do for others, sacrifices of praise to come from our lips when our hands and feet are so weary, music in our souls, eyes and hearts to see and feel for the hurting and hands to help, and our IDOK Troops we dare not forget them and pray that family and friends will send material comforts and helps to them and that You, HOLY SPIRIT, will speak peace and safety to them. All these things we bring in Your Name LORD JESUS. And, ABBA, thank You for this ministry, for this IDOK Family, lavish us with mercy and grace so much so that we cannot help but splash it abundantly on others. Amen and amen.

Holy hugs and Christmas Grace and Peace to you all! kt

Update on Emory: Hi, Janet, .Well, Emory had the procedure we talked about.  They put a stint in the ureter tube to keep it open.  They can remove it in the Dr.’s office.  Within a few hours he was not having the pain in his side or as frequent urination.  Praise the Lord!  Also the CAT scan showed the colon was moving and looked good.  He walked down the hall 5 times today and his appetite is picking up.  If all goes well, he’ll come home Fri.  God has been so good to us.  Thank you and Steve for your prayers and thank you for putting him on the prayer lists.  Keep praying that he will continue to recuperate without complications.  Love, Gloria