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However (again)

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IDOK DEVOTION FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
However
            I’ve been away from my computer most of the day and tonight since getting home I have played — talked on the phone, read some emails, done a little reading and now it’s time for bed and I don’t have a devotion written!   
            However! I am reminded just now that I had two points yesterday and only gave one.  Let me see if I can speedily develop point number two here.
            There once was a King in Judah and Jotham was his name. 2 Chronicles 27:1-9 says he did what was right in the sight of the LORD. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD; he built cities in the mountains of Judah; in the forests he built fortresses and towers; he fought enemies and defeated them; he built commerce – a really good guy. Right? Yes, BUT.  2 Kings 15:35 reads: However the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
            And so when Jotham was buried with his fathers in the City of David (verse 9 of 2 Chronicles 27) his son Ahaz assumed the throne and if you continue to read you will find that Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on those high places that his father did not tear down.  Moreover Ahaz’s debauchery continued and he wound up sacrificing his own child to idols.
            Jotham in his reign did some really great things; he was a good king BUT – Beth wrote it this way: The atrocity Jotham chose to ignore was the one that snared his own son. 
            What are we ignoring that will snare our children and grandchildren? It is not enough for us to do what is right, we have to do all we can to correct or remove what is wrong.

            ABBA, the hour is late, it’s time to post this and rest but I dare not until I come with our IDOKs and Readers to pray.  To pray for each other; to pray for those on our hearts; for their well being in spirit, soul and body; for the peace and prosperity of Israel; for weekend activities to be safe and fun and vehicles to communicate Your Gospel to those we see whom You have prepared to hear; and so many other things on our individual hearts.  And to thank You for just being You.  To thank You for the Bible – what a gift it is to us.  Forgive us for neglecting it and inspire us, oh more than inspire but even give us an insatiable appetite for it.  It would be so good if we craved Your Word more than we do meat, potatoes and chocolate.  It would be so good if we desired Your Word more than food or drink.  It would be so good if You were our food and drink. And so we do not come under a load of condemnation, which I know does not come from You, I thank You that we are making progress here.  You are increasing our appetite for You and I am delighted about it; but I don’t want to be satisfied with what we have right now tonight.  I want us to want more tomorrow, more and more.  You do too, don’t You?  You make me smile.  Thank You.  I love You, LORD.  Thank You so much.  Rest us, refresh us and point out to us individually and even collectively, the Body of Christ, when we choose political correctness over holiness and don’t let us be comfortable in compromise.  Have mercy on us and bless us with conviction and correction so we can better equip our children and grandchildren to live free and holy.  I don’t pretend to know what You are up to these days but You are up to something and I can’t wait to see You unfold it and I cannot thank You enough for including me  in it.  I am so glad to be Your servant. Let me, train me, anoint me to serve You more and more.  To love and serve Your Body more and to really, really care that people are racing headlong to hell – help me care enough to put up some roadblocks in Jesus Name.    Holy Spirit, please take this prayer, tweak it so that it agrees with You, that way I know You will answer it and we will receive Your answer.  I like what Joyce said, that she was gonna ask You for anything and everything she wants and be happy with everything You give.  I like that.  Make it so in me too, ABBA, and not just me but every one who prays along with us in agreement.  I know it’s time to rest.  Amen and amen.

Kathie

 

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Wandering (again)

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IDOK Devotion for Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Wandering
          If I have seen it before I have forgotten.  So it is new this morning.
Exodus 20:2-4 (NKJV)
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
            3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
          In verse 2 I see the word ‘bondage’. Verse 3 commands us to have no other gods before Him?  I am learning more what that means. For me, one thing it means is when I deny the Truth within me to please someone else, I have bowed in worship to a false god and it is as surely bondage to me as was building bricks in Egypt to Israel. ABBA, came down and delivered Israel from Egypt.  But obviously they were still in bondage, they still had other gods before them – hence 40 years of wandering!
          I’m tired of wandering! I want all my idols gone and all my chains of bondage broken.  And I know Who can do it.  I know Who is doing it – link by link.  All praise and glory to JESUS – the Greatest of ALL Liberators!
          Philippians 3:13-15 (NKJV)
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
Amen and amen – LORD anything to the otherwise, moment by moment reveal it to us and by Your Grace we SHALL turn away from it!  And all IDOKs and Readers said AMEN? Amen.        
            Holy Spirit, I ask You to do Your Thing with this.  It’s a fast written one but I pray it will linger long and will be an instrument of transformation in each of us.   We entrust each name spoken here.  We expect great things in each life and each situation because You only do Great, LORD.  We entrust our IDOK Troops for peace and safe keeping today.  We entrust the Call to Prayer to continue and grow and build strength in Your People.  We entrust the government and the people of America to You.  We entrust the People of Israel to You.  We lay it all before You this morning and we believe You are able.  We not only believe You are able, we believe You are willing – LORD JESUS, You have shown this.  Thank You.  Amen and amen.
Kathie
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Snakes and Birds

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This was written April 7, 2010 and to my searching I have not repeated it with you, so I shall today.

IDOK Devotion for Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Snakes and Birds

I am posting a response I received on Monday from a Sister IDOK.  I think you will find it encouraging.   I am meditating on your questions from this morning. I want to encourage you not to give up, or get discouraged, but to press on in prayer and in person. We cannot choose eternal destiny for others, we can only present the Good News and offer the gift of Salvation. The response is up to each person. But we can continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will hover over all of the lost and the Jesus rejecters, revealing the truth to them all!
Jeremiah 32:26-28 (NIV) 26 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 27 “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
I’ve also read the 3rd chapter of Micah in a few translations and I’ve decided we need an army of Micah(s) in America.
(The Message Bible) 8But me—I’m filled with God’s power, filled with God’s Spirit of justice and strength, Ready to confront Jacob’s crime and Israel’s sin.
See what I mean? Whose names would you fill in for Jacob and Israel? And how ready are we to confront?  How politically correct are we trying to be?  And why? Would you agree there’s a fine line to walk?  This Scripture has come to mind this week – do you think it fits?
Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
A little google-ing rendered this: serpents are prudent and discreet, cautious and avoid danger if at all possible. (http://bible.cc/matthew/10-16.htm )
            Now, harmless as doves: To be harmless is to lack the capacity to injure or to be free from inflicting physical or mental damage. Other translations use “innocent” or “inoffensive” instead of “harmless” for this verse.  Innocent means to be harmless in effect or intention. Inoffensive means to be giving no provocation.  Doves aren’t referred to as the birds of peace for nothing. Their temperament is calm and their disposition is sweet. Doves do not bite. At most they might slap you with a wing if they are guarding the nest or do not want to be picked up. Doves really are harmless.
 http://www.vcmagazine.org/article.aspx?volume=10&issue=9&article=harmless
          This is what I think — it is not too hard for God to enable us by His Spirit and His Might to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves and when we are we can do some good in this world!  We can even affect Washington.  Do you believe this?

 This is encouraging, ABBA, to be wise as serpents.  You know I’m not crazy about snakes but I do respect them and I agree they are cautious and they don’t go looking for trouble.  And doves, I can see that about them, calm and a sweet disposition.  Oh, my goodness, DADDY, what that would do for us – to be calm and have a sweet disposition.  How wonderful that would be if the Body of Christ was full of calm, sweet tempered, cautious, not looking for trouble but willing to stand and defend when Your Word is violated, people.  That is good.  This needs to be so in us.  And Your Word has already told us You can do it in us and through us.  Forgive us for being so distracted that we have not submitted to You for this transformation. I am presenting myself again for You to do this in me.  To empty me of me and fill me with You and I am praying for a bunch of IDOKs and Readers to do the same.   You are so good to us.  So good to never give up on us, and, ABBA, there’s a young man on my mind, he has done some really stupid, stupid, stupid things and now he is trapped, held captive and You are the ONLY ONE who can free him and at this point to my knowledge he is not going to cooperate with You.  But You said nothing is too hard for You, so I am asking You to get him to the place of cooperating with You.  He has a family that loves him; I don’t want to see him self destruct and I pray he will not.   And there are many, many other requests and You know better than I what they are and what is needed.  So we are trusting You to do what is best for all listed here.   I’m still concerned about American politics, America’s rampant sin practices, including greed and insatiable desires for power – the corruption is so bad that without Your help this Nation will be destroyed.  Please have mercy. Please raise up an army of ‘Micahs’.  I get so frustrated, so often – help me stop doing that and trust You and just simply wait upon You and watch You work in me and in my sisters and brothers.  I’m still asking You to raise up people to pray  churches into Houses of Prayer.  And I want in on it.  You know I could go on talking to You until I fall asleep but for this post let me close and ask You to give our IDOKs, visions, personal visions for each of them as to what You want them to do in regards to churches being Houses of Prayer and us being wise as serpents and harmless as doves in this corrupt land and I am asking because I am confident that this is what Jesus is praying for us too. Amen and amen.

Kathie