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IDOK DEVOTION FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009

Our visit was so good; a sweet blessing; and, yet it’s good to be home!!
I have been praying this morning for hearts to soften and spirits to be receptive to HIM. If you need that for yourself or for someone you love or someone you are called to love but are finding it difficult, latch on in faith and see ABBA do it in His Time … Maybe even before this year is out.
Lifting a phrase out of context is not a common practice for me nor even a good one I think but today it seems right. Joel 2: 14 . . . [Giving you the means with which to serve Him]
This says to me and I believe is intended to say to you that the HOLY SPIRIT supplies to you and to me what He knows we need to perform the service He has given us to do. Let us not dishonor Him today by saying we cannot do today what He has called us to do. Certainly, alone we cannot but He has said in His Word, He has PROMISED, that He has given us what we need to get the ‘job’ done. Don’t say we can’t! In HIM we can
 Psalm 145:
17 The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious and merciful in all His works.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth. 
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DADDY GOD, You have already heard us as we have been praying. Thank You for always hearing us. ThankYou for always answering us. Thank You that Your answers are always what is best for us, now and forever. Thank You that You do not change, You are always loving us and always doing what is best for us. Thank You that You have promised us here in Your Word that You have given us the means to serve You. Open our hearts and minds to receive Your Means today we pray. Comfort the grieving listed here, bind up and heal the broken hearted, encourage and comfort and build up the weary; infuse them with renew strength and confidence that You are supplying all provisions for holy and righteous living for, in and through them and us today. Protect again today our IDOK Troops, give peace of mind and protection of body and spirit. Please bring each of them home safe and sound and more in love with You than when they deployed. And all the rest of the things on our hearts and minds we give those things and entrust those people to You. Amen and amen.
Unspoken Requests – situations so close you can only speak to Father about. Gina. Francis T. Cathy T. Cathie R and family. Emily. Walt. Phillip. Margie and Craig. Sandra. Terry and family. Julia O. Ann C. Stan and Jowanna and Family. Carolyn. Mary. Mabel. Joan. David T’s Family. Kimberly. Shay and Emma’s Kids (orphanage in Zambia) Ministry. Susan D. Jason A and his mother. Wayne B. Melinda H. Trisha. Patti’s Family. Brennan and his family. Joshua. Branson. The O’Brien family. Kim and her Fiancee. Jonathan. Mabel’s Aunt Lou. Heather and Brandon. Bernie. Darlene and Torkel. Edie G. Rachel. W C and family. Maggie and Family. Dylan. Joseph Toomey and Family. DeLois. Terri. Kim T. Kevin and the children. Katelyn (B). Janie B. Vickie. J Lloyd and family. Janet and Steve. Cathy. Caleb and family. Bay and family. Jennifer B. John and Carolyn and Family. Larry and Claudia and family. Taylor & family. David & Allison. Jeanette and Earl and family. Callie. Madie. Ruth. Cynthia. Martha F and Bob. Allyson and Glyn and family. Brittney and Kersten and family. Sheila and Andy. Carrie and Rachel and Jacob and family. Billy and Gina and boys. Lance and family. Grace and family. Tressa. Brad, Lindsay, Karah and Haley. Chuck. Windy and Jared and families. Helen and Dan and family. Jen and Larry and family. Mollie and family. Julia. Bobbie. Erin. Alan. Tj. Zack. Phillip. Jessica. Larry. Lance. Candance and Family. Laura and family. John and Sandy. Bill and Judy. Andrew and Daughters. Lee. Sharron and family, Linda and family, Bev and Family, Mollie B. Friends at work.
Public and Private School Teachers.
Every IDOK and every IDOK son and daughter and grandchild.
Every IDOK Pastor and Family. Every IDOK church.
IDOKs Military Families.
IDOKs Troops (foreign soil) – Ethan. Christopher. Raul. Robert. Billy. Josh. Buddy. Mark. Josh W. James. Bryan. Nick. Brant W. Christopher R. Joshua M. Brent. Drew. Justin G. Kyle N. Michael K. Sgt. Bozicevich. Bay N. T. Palin. John L. Richard M. Adam M. Bobby G. (added 12/16/08) Tommy T.
IDOK Troops leaving shortly for foreign soil: Brandon B.
Serving Stateside: Jonathan. Jasmine B. Shaun. Bay. Danny. Lee. George. Travis N. Hawk. Justin G.
Injured: Lukas S. (11/30/08)

Military at home – Tim. Mack. The 226. Troy. Brad. Tommy. Desi. Edward J. Lyndon A. Jason G. Captain Tran
The Peace of Israel.
Revival in America.
As I post this it is 58°F and haze in Al Asad, IQ& the time there is 4:29 PM AST- on January 19, 2009.
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Professing Make-Believers

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IDOK DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009

How peculiar is this! A sister IDOK e-mailed me with concern for news she had heard on Power 88 regarding attempts to remove GOD from the inauguration. (That’s not the peculiar part – keep reading.) So I googled it and landed on a Washington News Page. And sure enough there it was with a picture of an older man (certainly old enough to know better) holding a sign that said God was make believe. (I have a question. How do you remove HIM if He doesn’t exist? Why are they wasting time protesting someone who does not live?) And so having read my fill of that, I clicked the x to close the page and it would not close which prompted me to do a control-alt-delete which gave me a most telling message: ‘atheists … Not responding’. I thought how true. Atheists are non-responsive. Early this morning, long before sitting to write this IDOK edition, I viewed a youtube video.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=17849695
And since viewing it, I have stumbled and stammered for words to describe it — still can’t. A video with pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and a message from Louis Giglio. A superb presentation setting forth that we have no idea of the HUGENESS of GOD! Obviously, atheists have never looked up. And by refusing to look up, refusing to see what is right there for ALL to see, is it any wonder they are non-responsive? With willful intent, choosing to be blind, is it any wonder the poor man held a sign, God is make believe? Oops. I was wrong. Atheists are not non-responsive, they have chosen to respond to the wrong being. They have responded to the Prince of Darkness rather than the Prince of Peace. Scripture is right!
Psalm 53: 1 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity;
There is none who does good.
But I can’t leave this devotion like this. I can’t end it here. Not with fools. Not with poor souls holding signs saying God is make believe. We must do more than pity them. More than look upon them as poor benighted souls. And neither are we to fear them or their numbers or their agenda. Our fear meeting their hate will only fan the flames of hell for them. Prayer is needed; prayer for us to exercise the wisdom of God when we encounter them and prayer for them. We can form a prayer for them from Ezekiel 36:
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness; and from all your idols will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.
Will we be able to reach all of them? No. I don’t think so. Will we even have a platform or an opportunity to reach them all? Probably not. Are some of them too far gone in their delusions? Probably. But that is not for us to judge. That is ABBA’s call. He knows the heart of every man. (2 Chronicles 6:30 Then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know; for You, You only, know men’s hearts,) Do you personally know a ‘professing make-believer’ – one who is making believe God does not exist? I have one dear to me. His picture sits here on my desk. Intellectually compared to him, textbook-wise, I am a moron. His intellect is ‘off the charts’ so to speak. Yet he is still a professing ‘make-believer’. For all his intellect, he just does not get it. He just does not comprehend: ‘Jesus loves me, this I know for the Bible tells me so’. And this I know, a spiritually condescending tone (attitude) will not evidence to him the love of God. Only God can lead me in this; only God knows his heart; only God knows the way to replace that stoney heart for a heart of flesh. My job is to pray, my job is to love. The Holy Spirit can do both of these things in me. Do you know a ‘professing make-believer’? Whatcha gonna do about it? You can’t be non-responsive, you know?
My love to you all. Be safe. Be holy in your conduct. Enjoy your weekend. We will be traveling. Prayers appreciated.
 Psalm 145:
17 The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious and merciful in all His works.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth. 
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Great news: Kay E went home from the hospital!!
Another one LORD. Another one giving us a call to action. And we want to act upon this. I do. And I am pretty sure that our IDOKs do too so I am praying for them and for me that we will respond to You, to any prompting You give us here. I pray we will not respond in fear or anger or disgust or in any condescending way but in holy love for Jesus sake and for the sake of every ‘make-believer’ we encounter. I don’t know the man holding the sign, don’t know where he is, don’t know the degree of hardness to his heart but this I do know if there is a spark left You will be gracious and You will speak and so I am counting on You to do that. And ABBA You know the precious one in my family who says You don’t exist. You know I don’t believe him. I think he is mad at You about something and rather than confront You with it, he just says You are not there. I think he thinks You were not ‘there for him’ in the multiple of tragedies that hit his family and so therefore, You must not exist. I know You have not forsaken him and so please continue to woo him LORD and if I can do more than pray just move me to do so. I tell You now by faith and grace I will obey You.
And we pray for our list. All of these here. Lots of stuff here, lots of needs, disease and pain, fears and much more; but, You are able and You are willing to do the best for each in the individual need. I just want them to know that with all their hearts so that is my prayer for them – Your Best and for them to believe You. And we are specifically naming our IDOK Troops. It is so special to pray for them and You have been so gracious to them, to all the families. And we desire to see this grace and protection continue today, keeping them safe in mind and body and spirit. You know our prayer for Israel, for America, for the leaders of this Nation – LORD Thy will be done. Amen and amen. Unspoken Requests – situations so close you can only speak to Father about. Gina. Francis T. Cathy T. Cathie R and family. Emily. Walt. Phillip. Margie and Craig. Sandra. Terry and family. Julia O. Ann C. Stan and Jowanna and Family. Carolyn. Mary. Mabel. Joan. David T’s Family. Kimberly. Shay and Emma’s Kids (orphanage in Zambia) Ministry. Susan D. Jason A and his mother. Wayne B. Melinda H. Trisha. Patti’s Family. Brennan and his family. Joshua. Branson. The O’Brien family. Kim and her Fiancee. Jonathan. Mabel’s Aunt Lou. Heather and Brandon. Bernie. Darlene and Torkel. Edie G. Rachel. W C and family. Maggie and Family. Dylan. Joseph Toomey and Family. DeLois. Terri. Kim T. Kevin and the children. Katelyn (B). Janie B. Vickie. J Lloyd and family. Janet and Steve. Cathy. Caleb and family. Bay and family. Jennifer B. John and Carolyn and Family. Larry and Claudia and family. Taylor & family. David & Allison. Jeanette and Earl and family. Callie. Madie. Ruth. Cynthia. Martha F and Bob. Allyson and Glyn and family. Brittney and Kersten and family. Sheila and Andy. Carrie and Rachel and Jacob and family. Billy and Gina and boys. Lance and family. Grace and family. Tressa. Brad, Lindsay, Karah and Haley. Chuck. Windy and Jared and families. Helen and Dan and family. Jen and Larry and family. Mollie and family. Julia. Bobbie. Erin. Alan. Tj. Zack. Phillip. Jessica. Larry. Lance. Candance and Family. Laura and family. John and Sandy. Bill and Judy. Andrew and Daughters. Lee. Sharron and family, Linda and family, Bev and Family, Mollie B. Friends at work.
Public and Private School Teachers.
Every IDOK and every IDOK son and daughter and grandchild.
Every IDOK Pastor and Family. Every IDOK church.
IDOKs Military Families.
IDOKs Troops (foreign soil) – Ethan. Christopher. Raul. Robert. Billy. Josh. Buddy. Mark. Josh W. James. Bryan. Nick. Brant W. Christopher R. Joshua M. Brent. Drew. Justin G. Kyle N. Michael K. Sgt. Bozicevich. Bay N. T. Palin. John L. Richard M. Adam M. Bobby G. (added 12/16/08) Tommy T.
IDOK Troops leaving shortly for foreign soil: Brandon B.
Serving Stateside: Jonathan. Jasmine B. Shaun. Bay. Danny. Lee. George. Travis N. Hawk. Justin G.
Injured: Lukas S. (11/30/08) http://www.strafford1st.com/page25/page26/page26.html
Military at home – Tim. Mack. The 226. Troy. Brad. Tommy. Desi. Edward J. Lyndon A. Jason G. Captain Tran
The Peace of Israel.
Revival in America.
As I post this it is 36°F and partly cloudy in Baghdad, IQ & the time there is 8:11 AM AST- on January 16, 2009.

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IDOK DEVOTION FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
I read it yesterday and I am reading it again today. And it is SO GOOD! Joel 2:
12 Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].
13 Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].
The first thing I noticed was the LORD saying Turn. That is His call to humans. To the lost ones, He says TURN and believe and I will save you. To those of us who have already believed, He says KEEP ON COMING TO ME. And to those who have believed but who have practices that do not honor Him (which, by the way, is ALL of us), HE is saying TURN AND KEEP ON COMING TO ME. And in that turn and in the coming to Him we are to come with all our hearts, with fasting, with weeping, with mourning until every hindrance is removed. OH I LOVE THAT! It’s not the necessity of turning that I love BUT that it is offered and moreover by His GRACE we can accept! We can have those hindrances that impede our faith walk removed. We can be restored to fellowship. And it has occurred to me that ‘with fasting’ could be more than we generally think of fasting. Generally we term fasting as foregoing food and the like for a period of time in order to give ourselves more to prayer. And that is certainly appropriate and must be done when we are so led by the Holy Spirit; however, I see something else here. I think we need to fast everyday. Fast from, that is put away and keep putting away, those things from which we turned away from to turn to Jesus. I think we need ‘fasting hearts’ that have turned and keep on going and going to Jesus about everything. And doing so will remove the hindrances to walking in faith and will keep the fellowship with our LORD sweet and fresh.
And weeping and mourning? Well, America needs to do some weeping and mourning over Her sins. I don’t think She will though until you and I do some weeping and mourning over our sins.
And then there is the phrase ‘rend your hearts and not your garments’. The first tearing of clothes I found was in Genesis. As you most likely know the tearing or rending of one’s garment (clothes) was a demonstration of grief as in Genesis 37 when Reuben returned to the pit that he and his brothers had thrown Joseph into and Joseph was not there. And a few verses thereafter Jacob tore his clothes and put on the sackcloth of mourning because he thought Joseph was dead. And there are other instances of ‘rending’ in the Old and New Testament. The Pharisees in Matthew and Mark tore their priestly garb to show their offense and rejection of Jesus. Remember they called Him a blasphemer? Oh what a ‘show’ they put on that day! They tore their garments to evidence to ‘the world’ that they were ‘righteous’ and were appalled on Yahweh’s behalf over the SIN of this blasphemer. Obviously, only their garments were torn. Certainly, not their hearts. Obviously, their hearts were anything but repentant toward Jehovah. They torn their clothes away but they were keeping their sins ever so close in their hearts – their hearts of stone that they would not ‘rend’. This is what I believe the LORD is admonishing us against today. Tear away anything and everything from ourselves that is sin and tear it away in truth. Tear it from our hearts. Do not be like the Pharisee. This world does not need one more ‘showy’ Christian. This world needs ‘naked-hearted’ Christians! Naked hearted before our God. Nothing in our hearts separating us from Him! And it is possible and it is commanded in Joel 2 that we do it. Will we? We can. We can TURN and KEEP on Turning to Him and day by day HE WILL GET US THERE! Amen and amen. Cause it be so, LORD.
A prayer request: My friend Gina needs prayer again. She returned to doctor today with another pain. She has appendicitis and a blood clot in her leg. Don’t know at this time, when surgery will be. Thanks, Linda P.
Father, thank You. Again, I think this is much needed. A naked heart before You, what a priceless gift. We know from Your Word that You know all our hearts and nothing is hid from You but I understand that it is we who hid things from ourselves, don’t let us do that anymore. And don’t let us be showy. Don’t let us do anything for show. If we are not real in it, don’t let us get by with doing it. Help us turn to You and keep on coming to You. Thank You for giving us this insight into Your Word. We are glad to have it and now we want to be doers of it and not just hearers of it. And now we pray for Gina. Appendicitis and a blood clot, to our thinking both of these are serious, just having one of them but she has both. Her family must be worried. They love her and are concerned. You can heal her LORD and we pray You will. Thank You that Kay E is doing better. We are grateful and we desire a complete recovery for her. Thank You for good news for Steve yesterday and You know our continued prayers for him. Do the balancing LORD that will give him relief. Continue to minister Your grace to Bernie and Linda. Our desire for his healing has not changed and as best we know how we are waiting upon You.
Thank You that Dot is doing well. Thank You for all these good reports. Thank You that Callie’s report is encouraging too. And LORD for all these listed here who are still waiting for good news we pray for strength to believe and wait upon You. You have told us we will reap if we do not faint and we pray for strength to faint not.
Please protect our IDOK Troops, keep them safe in mind, body and spirit. Supply their needs, physical, emotional, spiritual. Thank You for what You have done for them and shall yet do.
We pray for Israel and for America – LORD, they will be done. You have blessed us today. Thank You. And now I commend our IDOKs to you for strength, for conviction and correction where needed, and for encouragement, for a deepening and widening love for You and people. Amen and amen.
Unspoken Requests – situations so close you can only speak to Father about. Gina. Francis T. Cathy T. Cathie R and family. Emily. Walt. Kay E. Phillip. Margie and Craig. Sandra. Terry and family. Julia O. Ann C. Stan and Jowanna and Family. Carolyn. Mary. Mabel. Joan. David T’s Family. Kimberly. Shay and Emma’s Kids (orphanage in Zambia) Ministry. Susan D. Jason A and his mother. Wayne B. Melinda H. Trisha. Patti’s Family. Brennan and his family. Joshua. Branson. The O’Brien family. Kim and her Fiancee. Jonathan. Mabel’s Aunt Lou. Heather and Brandon. Bernie. Darlene and Torkel. Edie G. Rachel. W C and family. Maggie and Family. Dylan. Joseph Toomey and Family. DeLois. Terri. Kim T. Kevin and the children. Katelyn (B). Janie B. Vickie. J Lloyd and family. Janet and Steve. Cathy. Caleb and family. Bay and family. Jennifer B. John and Carolyn and Family. Larry and Claudia and family. Taylor & family. David & Allison. Jeanette and Earl and family. Callie. Madie. Ruth. Cynthia. Martha F and Bob. Allyson and Glyn and family. Brittney and Kersten and family. Sheila and Andy. Carrie and Rachel and Jacob and family. Billy and Gina and boys. Lance and family. Grace and family. Tressa. Brad, Lindsay, Karah and Haley. Chuck. Windy and Jared and families. Helen and Dan and family. Jen and Larry and family. Mollie and family. Julia. Bobbie. Erin. Alan. Tj. Zack. Phillip. Jessica. Larry. Lance. Candance and Family. Laura and family. John and Sandy. Bill and Judy. Andrew and Daughters. Lee. Sharron and family, Linda and family, Bev and Family, Mollie B. Friends at work.
Public and Private School Teachers.
Every IDOK and every IDOK son and daughter and grandchild.
Every IDOK Pastor and Family. Every IDOK church.
IDOKs Military Families.
IDOKs Troops (foreign soil) – Ethan. Christopher. Raul. Robert. Billy. Josh. Buddy. Mark. Josh W. James. Bryan. Nick. Brant W. Christopher R. Joshua M. Brent. Drew. Justin G. Kyle N. Michael K. Sgt. Bozicevich. Bay N. T. Palin. John L. Richard M. Adam M. Bobby G. (added 12/16/08) Tommy T.
IDOK Troops leaving shortly for foreign soil: Brandon B.
Serving Stateside: Jonathan. Jasmine B. Shaun. Bay. Danny. Lee. George. Travis N. Hawk. Justin G.
Injured: Lukas S. (11/30/08)

Military at home – Tim. Mack. The 226. Troy. Brad. Tommy. Desi. Edward J. Lyndon A. Jason G. Captain Tran
The Peace of Israel.
Revival in America.
As I post this it is 35°F and partly cloudy in Al Asad, IQ & the time there is 7:18 AM AST – on January 15, 2009.
 Psalm 145:
17 The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious and merciful in all His works.
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth. 
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We are glad you are here; stay a while, look around, and be encouraged. We estimate there to be over 3,000 posts here at The White Stone Blog. Please know my hope is ALWAYS to help and NEVER harm. I have voiced many opinions and thoughts here since 2007 and by now I MAY NOT EVEN AGREE with all of them and some of my grammar and punctuation likely needs editing. But this is changeless: JESUS is our ONLY Savior and Hope. Do you KNOW Him?