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IDOK Devotion for Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Good Pleasure

            Of this I am certain, as many important things as I have to do today, as many important things as you have to do today, there is NOTHING more important than one on one time with Jesus.  Moreover, living this life successfully is in direct portion to the time we spend one on one with Jesus in prayer.  I am more convinced of that this morning than ever before I think.  You all are so very important to me.  I have a sense of responsibility and accountability to you that I don’t even know how to explain.  I often have a sense of urgency to get something on this screen to send to you.  And when the morning comes and there is nothing on the screen, I become way concerned.  Such was the case this morning.  And I came to the screen first – that was not good.  I was so concerned about having something to write to you that I sat to write before taking my prayer journal in hand and walking out one on one time with Jesus.  The good news is I got up from here — and now I’m back and now I can say to you, of all the important things you have to do today, the most important thing you have to do today before you greet the world, before you even say hello to those hungry babies that you have to get out the door, if you want to live this life successfully, you better grab and hold on to at least a few minutes of one on one time with Jesus before you do anything else.  If we want to live successfully, He better be the FIRST person we speak to.  We better ‘see’ His holy Face before we see the face of any other.  I’m just saying … if you don’t have at least a few minutes of one on one, ‘Face to face’ with JESUS first thing in the morning, every morning, even before your first cup of coffee, — well, it ain’t good!  I’m not fussing.  I’m just saying, I got some experience going here.  And this morning He told me to tell you it is His good pleasure to tend to you.  It is His good pleasure to look upon you with love and grace and mercy.  He is in love with you.  Luke 12: 32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 
        ABBA, You’ve made me smile this morning and this lesson, oh it feels so good – Your Good Pleasure to love me.  Oh my goodness, how good You are to me.  Thank You!  Holy Spirit, I pray You will open up our IDOKs and Readers and tuck this little message into their hearts and it will grow into beautiful, delightful, nourishing fruit. Thank You ABBA in Jesus name.  Amen and amen.
Kathie
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The Glorious Adventure – HE Knows! (again)

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IDOK Devotion for Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Glorious Adventure – He Knows!
            While listening and watching a Special on Daystar Television – The Life of Jesus Christ – I gave Clap Praises and thought to myself and said aloud to Him that to look upon His Face, meet His Eyes with mine, and have Him smile at me, without a doubt, is and would be the greatest thing to ever happen to me.  I honestly can think of NOTHING greater.  May it be so for each of us!
            I was so impressed yesterday with the fact that God Knows.  Beth’s (Moore) daughter put it this way:  He knows it’s scary to be us. I urge you to take the time to listen and view yesterday’s Wednesdays with Beth segment.  Here’s a link, be patient with the loading of it – the message is worth the wait. http://lifetoday.tv/qt/2010/03/100324.htm
            For today let me give you a key statement from Jesus Lives by Sarah Young found on page 16 (Jesus speaking, of course): I want to make your life a glorious adventure, but you must seek to know ME in greater depth and breadth instead of striving for a safe lifestyle.
            I’ve read Psalm 63 in various Translations and Paraphrases (I really like The Message version) but I have chosen The Amplified to share with you here this morning.  We should allow this Psalm to take a reading on our hearts  — how abandoned to THE Glorious Adventure are we?
            Psalm 63 (Amplified Bible)
1 O GOD, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.
2 So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.
            3 Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.
            4 So will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
            5 My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips
            6 When I remember You upon my bed and meditate on You in the night watches.
            7 For You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings will I rejoice.
            8 My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.
            9 But those who seek and demand my life to ruin and destroy it shall [themselves be destroyed and] go into the lower parts of the earth [into the underworld of the dead].
            10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a prey for foxes and jackals.
            11 But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him [that is, who binds himself by God’s authority, acknowledging His supremacy, and devoting himself to His glory and service alone; every such one] shall glory, for the mouths of those who speak lies shall be stopped.
 ABBA, it helps, it feels good to know that You know and that You care more than we have believed.  It feels good to experience You ‘reading my mail’.  It feels good for You to ‘look over my shoulder’ so to speak.  It feels good to experience You tending me, especially when You are correcting and disciplining me.  And this Glorious Adventure, I’d like to experience that more with You.  I am trusting You will get me to the place of abandonment so I can.  And not just me but every one of our IDOKs and Readers that will sign up to go along with You.  Make it so.  Make it so.
            You know the cries of our hearts today.  You know the needs of the people we bring here today.  You know how scary it is to be us, to be in the places we are. Some scary places and people in them are coming to my mind in this moment – a family having set their minds on divorce – it’s so sad, they are opening a door that they do not know –  I pray they will hear You and will repent and refuse to walk though that door.  Families with financial needs come to mind too – that’s a scary thing for us but it can be a good thing, can’t it?- if we let it train us to depend on You.  So I am asking You to provide for their debts to be paid and above that to bring them to the place of trust and correction and a brighter financial future.  And there are multiple families with chronic and severe illness and disease – these are so very scary and taxing and draining and consuming of life and we’d rather these things just go away and we all be well and restored and healthy and free but not our will but Your Will be done.  And some of us have a pain in the neck, help us work that out.  And our IDOK Troops, as always we pray for them and thank You so much for this ministry to them, asking You to daily protect them, daily comfort and encourage and yes correct and discipline and provide support to them, spiritually, emotionally and physically and for their families too.  And I have not forgotten, Your House is to be a House of Prayer – keep calling us to prayer and help us come and pray in Jesus Name. Amen and amen.
Kathie
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No Flake Outs Please (again)

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IDOK Devotion for Monday, March 29, 2010
No Flake Outs Please
The days since we last met at this screen have been FINE days – I have enjoyed the company of my beloved and my BELOVED.
I think I will be brief this evening – morning as you read. 
Exodus 13:17 HCSB When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road to the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearby; for God said, “The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war.”
When we find ourselves guided the long way around, it’s because DADDY GOD knows were He to take us the short way, we’d run out on Him before we reached that place of maturity, that place of blessing He desires to take us.  When we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place and we are there through no fault of our own, we have to KNOW that ABBA has purposed it for our good.  And even when we are in a wilderness of our own doing and the road out is long and hard and hot and dusty, we can be sure it is thus because our GOD knows if it were any other way we’d wind up back in ‘Egypt’ in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.  Contrary to the opinion of some (not any of us, of course) God does not enjoy seeing us suffer; nor does He EVER allow us to suffer just for the sake of suffering.    
Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
How glorious to be as mature as was Paul here … Lets not flake out on DADDY GOD on these long, dusty roads and we will get there too.  Be encouraged – you are not alone.
          I’ve enjoyed these days, ABBA.  I enjoyed the sermons I heard today.  And I am grateful for this message too.  Holy Spirit, I pray You will use it to encourage and give strength and courage to our IDOKs and Readers. And we come bringing all these others too.  Thank You for the good gifts You have for each of them and we pray we will open our hearts and our arms to receive them.  I ask for rest for our IDOKs and Readers.  I ask for protection and safety for our IDOK Troops and their families.  And, Holy Spirit, I ask that You revive us, mature us and motivate us to worship and tell everybody we know that JESUS is ALIVE and COMING AGAIN. Amen and amen.
Kathie
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Three Times! (again)

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Continuing some search and clean up operations I found this one:

IDOK Devotion for Thursday, April 8, 2010
Psalm 46 (NKJV)
1 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,
Even though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
Selah
4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,
The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.
6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
Who has made desolations in the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
11 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
Did you notice that three times in eleven verses God said He is our refuge?  Do you think He wants us to get it? I am reaching way back this morning, all the way to high school English grammar classes, or was the junior high?  Whatever — bear with me here.  Do you remember learning about superlatives?  Good, better, best. Crabby, crabbier, crabbiest. Cuddly cuddlier cuddliest.  deep deeper deepest.  zippy zippier zippiest.  holy holier holiest.  However, I am told the Hebrew and Greek languages do not have such superlatives, so when ABBA wants to say something to the greatest degree of emphasis, He says it three times: holy, holy, holy.  Get it?  HE IS OUR REFUGE!  Selah. 
You will also note the word Selah is used three times in these eleven verses.  Perhaps we should take note of that too.  I have been told for years that Selah means ‘pause and calmly think about that’.  I have also been told that in poetry it denotes an interlude, a pause.  But I like what I found this morning.  Selah, [celah], is from the primary Hebrew root word [calah] which literally means ‘to hang,’ and by implication to measure (weigh). This is readily understood because in Biblical history, money, food and other valuables were ‘weighed’ by hanging or suspending them on a type of balance (the equivalent of our measuring scale) to determine their value.
So seeing that this Hebrew word [calah] means to ‘measure,’ as in weighing something in the balances, we better understand how the word Selah [celah], which is derived from it, is illustrating that we should measure or value what has been said.  Taken from URL address:
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/selah.html
So this is what I think.  To the highest degree of emphasis ABBA has said: ‘I AM your refuge and I want you to weigh this.  I want you to see how heavy I am with this toward you.’  Do we see here that He is serious?  And that we are to NOT take it lightly – HE IS OUR REFUGE.  ACT LIKE IT!  So what would acting like it, look like in you (and me) today? Selah!  

Again, I like this, ABBA.  And I like that it is not yet 8:30 Wednesday morning and Thursday’s devotion has come.  I am so delighted!  Let me not be so delighted that it has come that I do not see what it is that has come! You are my refuge – complete – none higher, none stronger, none wiser, none better.  This is important.  Holy Spirit, apply it, plant it, grow it in us I pray.  And I pray now for our IDOKs; I want them to be protected today; protected from the evil one, the world and particularly their own flesh.  I want them to make right decisions today.  I want me to KNOW that You can be trusted today.  I want them to KNOW they CAN believe You.  They can be victorious today.  They can make right decisions today.  They can overcome their own fleshly desires today.  They don’t have to give in to themselves.  They can give themselves to You to experience Your Strength, Your Brilliance, Your Glory and Goodness.  Me too, ABBA.  Me too.  Protect too our IDOK Troops; keep them safe from stray and intended hostile or friendly fire; surround them.  Cause it to be that they receive You as their complete refuge today.  And their families too.  And all the Body of Christ, not only in America but around the world today.  Tend the ill, the dying, the living, the wayward, the rebellious, the undecided.  Thank You, ABBA, in Jesus Name and for His Sake. Amen and amen.

Kathie