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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
Christmas

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 

You raised me up to walk on stormy seas — those were the words I heard walking through the kitchen this morning.  I stopped to listen and I’ve been rejoicing since.

He raised me up to walk on stormy seas.

HOLY SPIRIT, help me put on this screen what You have lavished in my spirit with the words of this song!

HE RAISED ME UP — JESUS the CHRIST has not come to put us down! He came to raise us up! Storms come. Storms come to every life. Lost or saved lives, storms come. Storms come to you. Storms come to me.

BUT JESUS came to raise us up to WALK on those tumultuous seas!

Not to drown.

Not for the life to be choked out of us but for us to WALK on those contrary waters!

Those gale-forced wind-tossed seas.

Those deep, dark, icy cold seas.

Yes, those seas!

Those very gale waters that are ripping around us right now.  Look up and get up!

Right now GET UP in JESUS’ Name GET UP and Walk on them!

It’s your heritage! It’s His will for you! In JESUS Name rise up and walk, rise up and stand!

Romans 8: (New King James Version) 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

But that’s not all I heard. I heard, ‘You raised me up to more than I can be.’

You raised me up to more than I can be.  Yes! Yes, HE did!

He has raised us up for more than we have ever dreamed we could be! That is His heart for you. That is His heart for me – for us to be more than we alone can be!

1 Corinthians 2: (New King James Version)9 But as it is written:

“ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Yes. Hear HIM today.  He has raised you up for more than you are today! Believe it! Live it! That’s why He came! Hallelujah!

HOLY SPIRIT, I ask You to do what only You can do, make this message come alive in the heart in the spirit of each reader. Speak this song, speak this Scripture to each soul, help them believe and receive this lifting, the raising up that You so desire to do for each one of us. Peel back the darkness and show the glorious Light, the truth of this Gospel that You came LORD JESUS to raise us up.  In You, we stand on mountains. In You, we walk on stormy seas. In You, we are more than we have yet to dream! In YOU LORD JESUS. In You!

Blessings and holy hugs, kt

Christmas, Guests

Widen Those Margins!

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — IDOK Devotion.  Day 7 of our Countdown to Christmas.  Song 4.  Hallelujah! Light Has Come!

I’ve been shedding a few tears this morning over a missed opportunity.  Right about 5:00 PM on Saturday the big screen flashed “Siestas come to the Sound Booth.”  Siestas is blog-land code because only those who frequent LPM Blog know they are ‘Siestas’.  But TIME  and FEAR won out and I left the arena, and not by way of the sound booth. This morning as is my custom I stopped by LPM and there I read:

“Hey, Darling Things! I have you on my mind because I’ve just seen 80+ of you this weekend backstage at Deeper Still.”

Yes, you read it right! I could have been one of those 80 + to say hello and thank you to Beth but I missed that opportunity thinking about T I M E.

And this morning I have come to this conclusion: I have spent too much time thinking about time! :)  Perhaps I’m not the only one.

But there’s more and it’s worse! It’s F E A R.  I missed that opportunity listening to such trash as this:

What if I am wrong? What if YOU are not really one of those SIESTAS that screen is signaling? Who do you think you are? Just because you read and comment at LPM, does that make you a Siestas to Beth Moore?!

And obviously I answered in the negative.  Am I alone in this? Perhaps not.

So today I am relying again on Romans 8:28.

Romans 8: (New American Standard Bible) 28And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Seeing that flash upon the screen was a gift from my ABBA but I let TIME and FEAR keep me from receiving it.  And so from this platform of Romans 8:28 I am encouraging us, you and me,  to STOP IT!  To stop talking ourselves out of opportunities and gifts that our DADDY GOD offers us! To stop missing out because of TIME and FEAR on encounters that very well could advance the Kingdom of our Great God and King and bless some Siestas and Sisters and Brothers in the process!

As Beth said under point 4. ‘Our treasure gets lost in the same trash as our time.’, we need to put some margins in our lives! And by GRACE, my margins are beginning to widen! :)

Yep! The Deeper Still messages were for me and this gift I failed to unwrap at the conference just got re-wrapped and presented to me again in Romans 8:28.  No more tears over what was missed, otherwise I’ll miss more missing this one.  Anybody know what I mean? Widen those margins!!

ABBA, Thank You. You keep teaching and in JESUS Name I’ll keep learning and so will our IDOKs.  Thank You.   Bless You and thank You for our Praying for These and for IDOK Troops – we are entrusting them all to You and praising You for Your goodness and mercy and answers to all their needs.  Amen and amen.

Christmas love and blessings with holy hugs, kt