Dewey's Daily Cup

Thank you for stopping by for a CUP!

We also thank you for praying for Pastor Larry Moss! It was great to hear from many of you that you are praying! People we had not heard from in a long time! It’s great to know you are still sharing a CUP with us! My day usually starts around 2:30am now. We are very busy here doing what the Lord directs us to do. I now am on the HUB of New Mexico twice daily at 11am and 3pm with a 5 minute message. Our counseling services are still in demand. The website is as popular as ever and still growing, we just rebuilt it with a new look. We now have 45 volunteer writers! Pastor Don Kimbro has encouraged me to ASK! I hate to ask…….we need your help, it has been a dry time in love offerings. Pastor Paul Holt asks, “Do you value FGGAM?” Pastor Don says it is biblically correct for me to ASK! I hate to ask, as I did that for years selling time on Christian radio. I have a hard time asking now. We have faithful givers that keep us above what I call “THE LINE” We do not owe any money. God told me when we started, never owe money! We know what God wants us to do and that is to increase our outreach, that is why we accepted the very generous offer by the HUB of New Mexico,(The HUB of New Mexico.com) Dan and Laura Rosecrans to air our program FREE!!! That is why I am up at 2:30 am to make sure you get the news and inspiration you need! We are going to Reserve this week to preach a funeral on Saturday and give the word of God on Sunday, We would like to add to our staff, we would like to make sure our travels and meals, and time of counseling, website costs, updates, living expenses, office expenses and other stuff that we pay for or we need to purchase like a new printer and brochures,are covered by the people of God. You see what God showed me when He called me and Sharon into FGGAM is to serve HIS people, people that cannot afford services, then refer them to a Church, Pastor or professional counseling, help those in DEEP need, the forgotten people. Let’s remember that only 7% of America goes to Church. REACH OUT……GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY FOR ME, the Lord told me, and we do, we have been in homes knee deep in filth. This is my story, and I am sticking to it, this is why I live. We take phone calls at 3am……we are here 24/7. We have the most popular Christian news and inspiration website in the state of New Mexico, we now have a news staff of 5 and have combined our forces with The HUB of New Mexico,THE FIRST CHRISTIAN INTERNET RADIO STATION IN THE STATE. We continue to grow in visitors from all over God’s world, including Israel! Help pay for what many of God’s people cannot pay for. If you are moved by God to support FGGAM, please go to FGGAM.ORG and click on the big banner on the fromt page to the right, that Pastor Paul made asking, “Do you value FGGAM?” People ask me, “When are you going to start your Church, Dewey?” God says no. There are to many empty Churches now. People ask, “When are you going to get your own building, Dewey?” God says no. NO DEBT! Go where my people are. We operate from our home and car, on the road for Jesus! AMEN! PRAISE GOD!

We are heavily invested in social media, this is the way to reach thousands everyday. Our podcasts that air on FGGAM.ORG, The HUB of NEW MEXICO, iTunes and other sources reach the world for JESUS!

My life verse God gave me is….”My life is worth nothing unless I use it foer doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus” Acts 20:24

I also ask this morning that you pray for the Frank and Laurie Vock family of Windom, Minnesota. Laurie has brain cancer and will be moved into hospice, just got that message from her brother Rod Byam. Laurie is the only woman Frank has ever loved, it is a true all-american, Godly love story!Please keep them in your prayers.

Good Morning Beautiful People, By FGGAM’S Angel Murchison

I just had to stop everything and write this morning about Faith. Actually, it’s been on mind for a while. It seems like I have been thinking about this even as I sleep. Sometimes life’s circumstances just don’t make sense. As I was chatting with the author of the book Diving Deep Into Faith, Kate Williams, a few days ago. I found myself revisiting the past several years’ life events. I admit, I get a little shaky at times over how the journey of diving deeper goes.
It is not always easy to believe the Word of God, it just isn’t. Romans 8:28 All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called to His purpose. As each of us step out into our own unknown, it feels sometimes that we are going to sink. Just a few days ago, I found myself questioning God himself. Lord, you said you would never leave me nor forsake me, right? Help, I cried out to him, I think I may be sinking, as I shared my burdens with him. The very next day the answer arrived. I like when the answer is early, but I’m learning, it’s His timing, not mine, but always right on time. Many days and nights, I talked with the creator of the universe about His timing and seasons. I asked him to forgive me for being filled with fear instead of faith. I try to be obedient and step out to walk on the water, whenever I sense he’s nudging. One thing I know for sure, he will never be mad at anyone for trying. His Word says He is our rear guard. (Isaiah 52:12)
I remember moving to an apartment for a season and a friend now living in Australia gave me a snow angel figurine that read Blind Faith. I placed it on the sill in the kitchen window, directly over my sink. Every day when I would do dishes, I would be reminded, I was walking by faith-blindly. I couldn’t see my way. The apartment was for a season and served a purpose. I remember my car that my sister had given me “blew up”, I felt so stuck nearly ten miles from town. I would go out on the deck and look at the road East 10 and West 10 and declare I am not stuck. I can walk in either direction. I have friends on both sides. I had a friend that loaned me her car, whenever needed, that summer. Wow, that was a tough time, but I made it.
As I reflect on this time in my life, I can remember so many blessings. Some of the most precious people that are still friends today, I met on that journey. The prayer meetings I held and the dreams I dreamed still convince me to this day that God orders our footsteps even thru difficult times.
Today, I don’t know what each of you readers are going through. One thing I know for sure, if you know Jesus, you are not stuck. You can stand inside, stand outside, stand upside down even and declare I am not stuck. Now believe it. Talk to your Heavenly Father, share your burdens. He will make a way for His children. You may not be able to see the plan, but believe He has one. He is Your Lord. (Make sure today He is).
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh within us. Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. John 14:6 Jesus told him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America, to crowds sometimes over 25,000. He spread the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War. Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography that George Whitefield’svoice could be heard almost a mile away: “He preached one evening from the top of the Court-house steps… Streets were filled with his hearers… I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard by retiring backwards down the street…and found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street.” Ben Franklin continued his description of evangelist George Whitefield: “Multitudes of all denominations attended his sermons… It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk thro’ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.” Sarah Edwards, the wife of Jonathan Edwards, wrote to her brother in New Haven concerning the effectsGeorge Whitefield’sministry: “It is wonderful to see what a spell he casts over an audience by proclaiming the simplest truths of the Bible… Our mechanics shut up their shops, and the day laborers throw down their tools to go and hear him preach, and few return unaffected.” George Whitefield had attended Oxford with John and Charles Wesley, who began the Methodist movement. In 1733, when he was converted, George Whitefield exclaimed: “Joy-joy unspeakable-joy that’s full of, big with glory!” When Whitefield confronted the established churches, doors were closed to him, so he resorted to preaching out-of-doors. Crowds grew so large that no church could hold the number of people. Ben Franklin helped finance the building of an auditorium in Philadelphia for Whitefield to preach in, which was latter donated as the first building of the University of Pennsylvania. A bronze statue of George Whitefield is on the University’s campus. The Great Awakening Revival resulted in the founding of Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers and Columbia Universities. Franklin printed Whitefield’s journal and sermons. Being Postmaster in Philadelphia, Franklin helped spread Whitefield’s his sermons through colonial American. In one sermon, George Whitefield proclaimed: “Never rest until you can say, ‘the Lord our righteousness.’ Who knows but the Lord may have mercy, nay, abundantly pardon you? Beg of God to give you faith; and if the Lord give you that, you will by it receive Christ, with his righteousness, and his all… None, none can tell, but those happy souls who have experienced it with what demonstration of the Spirit this conviction comes…” George Whitefield continued: “Oh, how amiable, as well as all sufficient, does the blessed Jesus now appear! With what new eyes does the soul now see the Lord its righteousness! Brethren, it is unutterable… Those who live godly in Christ, may not so much be said to live, as Christ to live in them… They are led by the Spirit as a child is led by the hand of its father… They hear, know, and obey his voice… Being born again in God they habitually live to, and daily walk with God.” Get the book America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations George Whitefield’s influence was so profound, that when there was a threatened war with Spain and France, Ben Franklin drafted and printed a General Fast for Pennsylvania, December 12, 1747: “As the calamities of a bloody War, in which our Nation is now engaged, seem every Year more nearly to approach us… there is just reason to fear that unless we humble ourselves before the Lord & amend our Ways, we may be chastised with yet heavier Judgments. We have, therefore, thought fit…to appoint…the seventh Day of January next, to be observed throughout this Province as a Day of Fasting & Prayer, exhorting all…to join with one accord in the most humble & fervent Supplications; That Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the Rage of War among the Nations & put a stop to the effusion of Christian Blood…” In 1752, George Whitefield wrote to Benjamin Franklin, who had invented the lightning rod: “My Dear Doctor… I find that you grow more and more famous in the learned world.” In 1764, George Whitefield received a letter from Benjamin Franklin, in which Franklin ended with the salutation: “Your frequently repeated Wishes and Prayers for my Eternal as well as temporal Happiness are very obliging. I can only thank you for them, and offer you mine in return.” In 1769, George Whitefield wrote Benjamin Franklin on the night before his last trip to America. In this last surviving letter, Whitefield shares his desire that both he and Franklin would: “Be in that happy number of those who is the midst of the tremendous final blaze shall cry Amen.” Franklin wrote to George Whitefield: “I sometimes wish you and I were jointly employed by the Crown to settle a colony on the Ohio…a strong body of religious and industrious people!… Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders?” George Whitefield died SEPTEMBER 30, 1770. As he was dying, he declared: “How willing I would ever live to preach Christ! But I die to be with Him!” George Whitefield had declared: “Would you have peace with God? Away, then, to God through Jesus Christ, who has purchased peace; the Lord Jesus has shed his heart’s blood for this. He died for this; he rose again for this; he ascended into the highest heaven, and is now interceding at the right hand of God.” Watch past FAITH IN HISTORY episodes for FREE American Minute – Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred Bill Federerwww.AmericanMinute.com wjfederer 314-502-8924 American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward, reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement

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A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family.
The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche.
My parents were complementary instructors: Mom
taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey.
But the stranger… he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major leagueball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn’t seem to mind. Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet.
(I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them.
Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home – not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our long time visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush.
My Dad didn’t permit the liberal use of alcohol but the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made
cigarettes look cool, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing..
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked … And NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first.Still, if you could walk into my parents’ den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.
His name?….
We just call him ‘TV.’
(Note: This should be required reading for every household!)
He has a wife now….we call her ‘Computer.’
Their first child is “Cell Phone”.
Second child “I Pod ”
And JUST BORN THIS YEAR WAS a Grandchild: IPAD
Submitted by Darlene Quiring
Pastor Dewey Note: This is an AWESOME lesson for us all! Be careful what you surround yourself with, be careful what you allow your children to be surrounded with!
What you surround yourself with, is what you become!

“Break The Cycle“ by Stephen Young, one of our top posts this week at FGGAM! So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (Romans 12:1-2, The Message)
In connection with yesterday’s post, the alarm that is sounding in your life is breaking the cycle you have been in. Do you feel like you’ve been in a cycle? Are there things in your life that seem to keep repeating themselves and you can’t move beyond them? God is breaking that cycle in your life.
I was led to the passage above and I love The Message version of it. Take your ordinary life, take the ordinary, daily cycles or your life and place them before the Lord. Embrace what God wants to do in your life. Don’t become so well-adjusted to the culture around you that you fit into it without even thinking. God is calling you to stand out! Fix your attention on God. He wants to change you from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. The culture around you drags you down to normal, God has called you to be beyond normal, He’s called you to be extraordinary and He wants to bring the best out of you and develop well-formed maturity in you.
Are you tired of the same old thing? Are you tired of going through the same old cycle? Respond to the sound of the alarm, fix your eyes on Him, and watch as God begins to shift some things in your life.
It’s time to break the cycle!
The Joy of The LORD! AMEN! I am blessed to be able to give the words that God has given me this Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Reserve, NM. I will be delivering a message on JOY! Nehemiah 8 is our text. Nehemiah’s rebuilding project was a tough one! Don’t give up! Don’t go dry on the love and laughter well. If you would like to meet before the 11am service just email me, counseling? Questions about Jesus? Do you want to meet Jesus? Do you want to be baptised? We welcome all to the Baptist Church in Reserve, I love all the folks! They are so special to me! If you want to meet me after Church email me, I will be meeting with people afterwards around town. I am here to serve! I love Reserve and Catron County! Amen! If you would like me to come preach at your Church or to speak an an event, just email. Love to all!
Pastor Don Kimbro had one of out top posts this past week………..The Lost and Found………

Now the tax collectorsand sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” — Luke 15:1-7 NIV
Where were you when Jesus found you? Probably in the same place I was—in the “lost” section of the spiritual Lost and Found. I try to remember that every time I get a little carried away with what I think are my accomplishments in my Christian life. We all battle with the pride of life but I have learned that I must stop frequently and go back to my roots and remember where I was and who I was, when Jesus came into my life. When I do, I find that I also have this one thing in common with everyone else in the body of Christ—I was totally lost when Jesus found me—and so were you. There are no exceptions.
Jesus was severely criticized by the religious leaders because of the type of people he hung out with. They were tax collectors, prostitutes, ignorant fishermen, beggars, the irreligious and a lot of very poor and very sick people. In answer to the criticisms of the Pharisees and teachers to that effect he told them a parable, as he often did, about a certain shepherd who was so concerned when the evening count of his sheep revealed that one was of them was missing that he immediately became a search party of one, leaving the other ninety-nine behind and set out to find it—and he did! When he returned with sheep in tow, the whole camp broke out in celebration, including the angels in heaven (Lk. 15:1-7).
I like the way the Bible describes the way in which the Pharisees voiced their disapproval of Jesus’ conduct with “sinners.” It says—they “muttered.”Isn’t it interesting how our human nature reacts when we don’t like something someone else is doing or when things aren’t going our way in the church or elsewhere. We’re much like the Pharisees—in that we all voice our disapproval when we’re unhappy about something but not openly, directly or out loud. No, we mutter. Now muttering is like whispering. It’s not speaking out about an issue clearly in debate or going to a person with whom we disagree to express our view, while we seek understanding. Muttering is a voice that’s just loud enough to be heard but silent enough to remain anonymous. Muttering is complaining with an attitude and one who mutters seldom has a solution—just a chronic complaint. I’m afraid we’re all guilty of being mutterers. Sorry, I better just speak for myself!
Jesus answered his critics using an illustration that they could all understand: a shepherd and his sheep. The Hebrews had been a shepherding people at least as far back as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Sheep were raised for their wool, their meat and later for the sacrifices at Jerusalem. A hundred sheep would be a normal size for a small farmer. At the end of the day, the shepherd would herd his sheep into a pen and as he did so he would count them one by one while inspecting them as they passed through the gate.
In this parable one of the sheep was found to be missing and the shepherd immediately left the others, no doubt in the care of his helpers, and went searching for the one which was lost. Notice that when he finds the sheep, the shepherd is so full of joy that he forgets about any finger pointing and blame. The emphasis Jesus is making in this parable is that when we search for someone that is very special to us—when they have been found—there’s a celebration, not a condemnation. God’s word says that’s the way it is in heaven when just one person repents or returns to the fold or is ready to come home.
There’s almost 7 billion people in the world today—and most don’t know of Jesus Christ. Now that’s a staggering number but did you know that it evidently only takes one of those unbelievers to have a change of heart to start a hallelujah celebration in heaven?
There’s another application here that I want us to see. Mass salvations are not necessarily the norm in God’s economy. In the beginning of the church, yes, we see the early church instantly become 3,000 on the day of Pentecost, then up to 4,000, then 5,000; but after God scattered them out of Jerusalem and persecution came, it appears that most redemptions were one-by-one, person-by-person, name-by-name. But praise God, it only takes one person to repent to make all of heaven smile!
I believe how we view this parable will have a lot to do with what our churches may look like a year from now—five years from now—or ten years from now. Is it not our responsibility to take care of the needs of the ninety-nine who are here today in our church family? Of course it is. But what about the one who is not here today—who once was a member but seldom attends anymore? Or the one who has never heard the good news?
What about our neighbors who surround us? How about the unbelieving mates of many of our members? What about generations x, y and z who are busy reinventing Christianity to their liking because no one will call them out? Who’s going to find them and bring them home? God says it’s up to you and me. We’re the shepherds in the parable. How are we doing?
Jesus said, “For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost” (Lk. 19:10), a commission which has been given to each one of us (Mt. 28:19-20). Church, there’s a celebration in heaven waiting to happen. Let it begin with us! Maranatha
— Pastor Don Kimbro