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My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.

December 28, 2012 by radiodewey@aol.com Leave a Comment

Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Good Morning! Happy New Year!

My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him. Psalm 62:5

I still love this from yesterdays posting! AMEN!

Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us a fortress and a high tower. Psalm 62:8

Please read all of Psalm 62 before you go on this morning to soften your heart as we go……

I read Psalm 62:8 to our friend Dave yesterday, he is looking for a job…….please pray for him and his family.

Purity in the heart produces power in the life.

Can you imagine the mountains that would be moved with Purity in the heart by all people!!!!!!!!!!

We pray that you will enjoy the CUP today. Please pray for our Board meeting here at www.fggam.org Today our AWESOME team of Pastor Bill Ruhl, Wanell Pate, Barbara Gould, Don Kimbro, Kathy Garcia, and Kay Hendrickson meet to review the last 4 months and take a look at what the Lord is showing us for 2013. We also have a team of Advisers to the Board made up of Pastor Leonard R Navarre and Ernie Belanger. I thank the Lord for the people of God who have surrounded FGGAM with love and care. Thank you all for your support. Please pray about giving a year end love offering to FGGAM to help fuel us into 2013 and beyond. You can give from our web site or mail to PO BOX 65516 Albuquerque, NM 87193 Your prayers and support mean so much to all the people we are touching for our Lord. We try to keep you all posted on all our activities through the CUP, our web site, tv program and podcasts and on facebook. Lord willing we are entering our 15th year of Dewey’s Daily CUP! God Bless you and yours forever and ever! AMEN!

This Sunday I return to the First Baptist Church in Quemado, NM 10:30am, I will be Preaching on the life of Paul. Next Sunday we are back at Rock Rio in Rio Rancho with Pastor Tom Bozone and his lovely wife Becky.

Cowboy Clarence is my guest on Dewey and Friends along with Rebecca Shuman talking about people with disabilities Clarence does not let cerebral palsy stop him! Dewey and Friends a presentation of www.fggam.org 6 pm Saturday nights on Kazq ch 32

Praise Report Update, Dewey…
My Mom has been moved from ICU to the
Step-Down Wing and is breathing on her own. She’s “catching a healing” from Congestive Heart Failure & Pneumonia.
She says that she hopes that EVERYONE
had a BLESSED Christmas and will have a
An EQUALLY BLESSED 2013!!!

Gary W./Orr Acura Infiniti Bennche

AMEN! PRAISE GOD GARY!!! Wait until you read the story about RJ this morning from his Mother Leslie Mouser.

One of the heroes of the first Gulf War has died. Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf, 78 years of age, passed away in Tampa, Florida. Let us pray for the family.

Let us pray for the Health Care in our Country, I asked Marian if I could post this………..

Marian Wimberly Peace

about an hour ago

Well, ObamaCare is already raising it’s ugly head. John called the pharmacy on Monday for a refill for the medicine that is used for his Nebulizer treatment (breathing). There were no refills left, so the pharmacy had to contact the doctor for approval. They didn’t hear back even by yesterday morning, so John called the doctor’s office to see if he could expedite the request. The doctor’s office said they had to submit it to a ‘panel’ and it will take 24 to 48 hours for approval.

John just called the pharmacy again and they still haven’t heard back from the doctor’s office. He has one more vial left – sometimes he uses it twice a day. Our only option is to return to ER if he has a problem, which costs us more money – just to get a refill on a prescription that the doctor already said he needs.

How does this make our health care better? It doesn’t. And this is just the start.

We all had better plan ahead on prescriptions that have no refills left to allow time for the ‘panel’ to approve it. Unbelievable!!! They’ve already started taking the patient care decisions away from the doctors.

Let us be in prayer.

“I said to the Lord, ‘But suppose I preach healing, and the people come, and they don’t get healed?’ And the Lord responded, ‘If people didn’t get saved, you wouldn’t stop preaching the gospel.”

God’s Generals, The Healing Evangelist
F.F. Bosworth

“We never figure the odds against, only the odds for something to occur. Our lives in Christ have more trust, more faith and more fun attached than we often realize!” Graham Cooke
As Christians, we don’t mourn hopelessly–we mourn hopefully. Greg Laurie
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ W. Churchill

Now let us read about the miracle of RJ from his Mother Leslie Mouser, I remember praying with Leslie for weeks during RJ’s hospital stay, It’s now 3 years ago………

December 27, 2009, 10:36 pm EST, I was at church feeling quite anxious. I had just recovered from liver and kidney failure resulting from an acute pancreatic attack. My recovery was a true touch by God. On December 19, when I was diagnosed with liver & kidney failure, the doctors told me there was nothing more they could do for me. On December 21, I came home fully recovered. I was set to go back to my work at our church’s café on December 28th. I just reasoned with myself that the anxiety was due to having to go back to work and was a little nervous about it all. Little did I know, my oldest son, RJ, would soon have his life (as well as ours) changed in a blink of an eye.
December 27, 2009, 10:37 pm EST, the car that RJ was a passenger in, crashed off the side of a rural Connecticut road. It was estimated that the car was traveling in excess of 100 mph. The driver, RJ’s dad, was thrown from the car and killed instantly. RJ sustained life threatening injuries, including a compound fracture of the femur (thigh bone), Ulna & Radius (wrist bones), every bone in his body was fractured, traumatic brain injury as well as multiple orthopedic and internal injuries. When EMTs responded, he had no blood pressure or pulse. A young EMT thought he could intubate him and proceeded to try. He succeeded (only after RJ woke from a 7 week coma, did we realize the intubation caused him to lose his front teeth which is a small price to pay for life).
Within 24 hours, I was at RJ’s bedside leaving behind, my husband, my father (who was living with us on hospice) and my three other younger children. They were awoken in the morning by their dad explaining that mom had left to go to Connecticut and RJ wasn’t doing very well and they needed to pray. The doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital would not rate RJ’s condition. It was beyond “grave”. Only after he woke from his coma at 7 weeks, did they classify him as critical. I stayed with him until he could come home with me (4 months).
Through the God’s amazing power and grace, RJ was saved. On the anniversary of this tragic event, I’m not really sure he feels he was saved. He’s living with a brain injury, enormous ortho and muscular pain. But, for a kid who wasn’t given a chance by doctors, God gave him a second chance.
December 27, 2012, RJ is working as a Sous Chef at Terra Bistro. He was a Sous Chef before the accident. During his recovery, RJ couldn’t even feed himself. Through months of intense physical and occupational and spiritual therapy, RJ can talk, walk, and do the many duties of a Sous Chef.
God is awesome and powerful, gracious and merciful. Since the accident, God provided us with abundant blessings…healing for RJ, work & home for RJ, employment for me since I had to leave the café, and provisions which are so abundant, I do not have sufficient words to express them all.
You might be facing something today which seems insurmountable. But, if you truly submit yourself to our loving father, He will and can make the impossible possible. After all He is the Creator…if you believe that you must believe he can “Create” a second chance for you!
We gather here at the CUP on a daily basis to come together in prayer and love! AMEN! God is still in the miracle making business! AMEN! Thank you for sharing Leslie! We love you all! I will always remember having RJ on my radio program to share about the miracle God performed in his life! AMEN!
From John Bloom………….

“…when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away” (1 Corinthians 13:10).

Another year is passing away. Thank God. Not only for the massive amounts of unquantifiable grace we have received from him, but also because we are one year closer to the passing away of this partial age and all of its incumbent sorrow and weariness.
“When the perfect comes.” Those inspired words stir up deep longings for a time we have never known and yet desperately want.
Paul may have been talking about spiritual gifts when he used that phrase in 1 Corinthians 13, but we know because of Romans Eight that “the partial” means so much more. Right now even the best things are not what they should be. And so much goes so very wrong. In this partial age, our bodies, our loved ones, our careers, our creations, our investments, and our plans are all subject to the forces of futility (Romans 8:20). This age is marked more by suffering (8:18), longing (8:19), groaning (8:23), and hope (8:24) than by fulfillment.
So at year’s end, especially if what we feel at its passing is another disappointment, we must remind each other that the partial, this age that is all that we’ve ever known, is passing away and the perfect is coming.
To all you road-weary travelers who have found that the way that leads to life (Matthew 7:14) is harder than you ever imagined, the perfect day of rest is coming (Matthew 11:28).
To all you who find yourself at the end of this year poor in spirit (Matthew 5:3), humbled, desolate, and in desperate need of what only God can provide, the perfect day of the all-abundant kingdom is coming.
To all you who are mourning the loss of a precious one (Matthew 5:4) and finding it hard to press on under the heavy cloak of sorrow, the perfect day of death’s death (1 Corinthians 15:26) is coming.
To all of you who are growing tired in the relentless struggle to hold back the flood of unrighteousness, both from within and without, and who long deeply for a time when all is made right (Matthew 5:6), the perfect day of your satisfaction is coming.
To all of you who have been injured by the maliciousness of another and have responded with a tear-filled mercy (Matthew 5:7), the perfect day of restoration is coming.
To all of you who whose soft heart (Matthew 5:8) is tormented over the sin-hardened, sin-infected world around you, the perfectly pure day is coming when you will see what your soul most longs for.
To all of you peacemakers who are blessed of God (Matthew 5:9) and yet find this blessed work heartbreaking, misunderstood, and under appreciated, the perfect day of reconciliation is coming.
To all of you who find yourselves in a disorienting darkness that feels unbearable and wonder if God has abandoned you (Psalm 88:14), the perfect day is coming when the Light, in whom there is no darkness (1 John 1:5), will shine upon you (Numbers 6:25).
And to all of you who increasingly love and long for Jesus’ appearing (2 Timothy 4:8), who have an inconsolable homesickness for a country far better than any that exists here (Hebrews 11:16), your perfect home, a home prepared especially for you (John 14:2), is coming.
When the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. The promised “soon” (Revelation 22:20) is getting sooner. Let us keep encouraging one another with these words (1 Thessalonians 4:18). Let us hold fast to the hope set before us (Hebrews 6:18). And let us press on to know the Lord (Hosea 6:3).
And may the Lord cause these words to come true: next year in Jerusalem!

Oh my, oh my, I became ill in the spirit by reading this……..this is why we must be Salt and Light and carry out the Great Commission and Occupy until He returns……..

CNN host Piers Morgan said he believes the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are “inherently flawed” and asserted that it’s time for the Bible’s position on gay rights to be amended.

“It’s flawed,” Morgan said during an interview with evangelical pastor and author Rick Warren. “Both the Bible and the Constitution were well-intentioned, but they are basically, inherently flawed – hence the need to amend it.
“I do not believe the Bible is flawed,” Warren said. “What I believe is flawed is human opinion because it constantly changes.”
The British-born talk show host held his ground during a lengthy conversation about the Bible and gay rights.
“But you and I know the Bible is, in many places a flawed document,” Morgan said – a point of disagreement with Pastor Warren.
“My point to you about gay rights for example – it’s time for an amendment to the Bible,” Morgan told Warren. “You should compile a new Bible.”
“Not a chance,” Warren replied. “I willingly admit, willingly admit that I base my worldview on the Bible which I believe is true. And my definition of truth is – if it’s new it’s not true. If it was true a thousand years ago, it’ll be true a thousand years from today. Opinion changes but truth doesn’t.”
“We’re going to agree to disagree on that,” Morgan said.

Robert Jeffress, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas, Tex., told Fox News that Morgan was incredibly off-base with his remarks.
“For Morgan to label God’s divine revelation as ‘flawed’ because it doesn’t confirm to his own opinion is the epitome of arrogance,” he said. “My guess is that the Bible will be around a lot longer than Morgan’s program.”
Paul Kengor, the executive director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News that to doubt the Constitution is one thing, “but to assume the infallible authority to judge the words of God is something else altogether.”
“It’s quite ironic that at this sacred time of year, Christmas, we’d be talking about truth allegedly changing and the need to amend sacred Scripture,” Kengor said. “It’s also remarkable to watch secular liberals like Piers Morgan assume unto themselves the extraordinary authority to divine what in the Bible is true and what is not, what is flawed and what is not, and where certain “amendments” supposedly need to occur. Do they fully realize precisely what powers they are proclaiming?”
But Jeffress did find a silver lining in Morgan’s comments.
“At least Piers Morgan recognizes what many Christians fail to comprehend– that both the Bible and the Constitution define marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” he added.
The CNN host has been under fire in recent days after he launched a crusade for gun control laws in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
He used his Twitter account to call Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle, a “dangerous, dim-witted, deluded menace to American safety.”
During an interview on his CNN program Morgan called Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt a liar and an idiot.
“You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you?” Morgan asked Pratt.
“You don’t give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America?” Morgan asked. “You don’t actually care.”
That encounter led to the creation of a petition on the White House website calling for Morgan to be deported. Tens of thousands of people have signed the petition alleging that “British citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment.”
But it appears there may be some people in England who would prefer that Morgan stay on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean.
A second petition on the “We the People” website was launched called, “Keep Piers Morgan in the USA.”
“There are two very good reasons for this,” the petition states. “Firstly, the First Amendment. Second and the most important point, no one in the UK wants him back.”
The petition was reportedly started by a Briton and now has more than 5,000 signers.
A third petition calls for the White House to keep Morgan in the country to protect his Constitutional rights. That petition has more than 1,000 signers.
Let us pray for Mr. Morgan to see the light of Jesus Christ. To amend the Bible, oh my! Lord have mercy on him.

For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
Happy New Year!!

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Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people pour out your hearts to Him

December 27, 2012 by radiodewey@aol.com Leave a Comment

Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us a fortress and a high tower. Psalm 62:8

Please read all of Psalm 62 before you go on this morning to soften your heart as we go……

Purity in the heart produces power in the life.

We pray that you have been well and are having a blessed Christmas season.

We are all set, Lord willing, to begin our 15th year here at Dewey’s Daily CUP! PRAISE GOD! We thank you for your prayers and love! We are set to begin our first full year at FGGAM! www.fggam.org The out pouring of your love this Christmas season has been so AWESOME! We heard from so many of you! Many of you made a love offering to us for Christmas, we are so thankful for your ongoing support, which is so important in going forth. You all brought tears to Sharon and I, the faith and trust you have placed in this Ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ and the mission He has given us. For God’s Glory Alone!!!!

Sharon and I are so blessed to live in a wonderful Christian neighborhood!!!!!! We are especially thankful for Tom and Joan, and Oscar and Veronica! We are so blessed to have their love!

Yes, a Christian neighborhood and my prayer is that we all have a Revival for our Lord Jesus Christ in our homes but it spreads to our neighborhoods! Christian neighborhoods! This is how revival for our Lord starts!!! AMEN!

Do you know your neighbors?

Pardon me for taking three days off…..but It was very AWESOME to spend with family and friends!

Let us celebrate the TRUE meaning of Christmas everyday of the year!

Got this inspiring note from Roy, he has read the CUP for years and now he and LeeAnn have reached this point in their journey………..read on………

A very MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and family. Thank you for the cup. A week ago Sunday the wife and I were both saved. Being Baptized is next. Praise the Lord.

Roy & LeeAnn

PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!

Former President George H.W. Bush is in guarded condition as he fights a fever in ICU at a Houston hospital. A spokesman for Bush says the former President was moved into the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital on Sunday and is on an all-liquid diet. The 88-year old Bush has been hospitalized since November with a bronchitis-type of cough. Bush’s fever has been worse over the past few days.

Let us spray for Former President H.W. Bush……

Over the last couple of weeks much sickness and death and loss of work has come to people we love very much. When I preached at the First baptist Church in Quemado, NM this past Sunday I shared about the loss of little 5 year old Lenya Lusko Chip Lusko’s granddaughter, the loss of former Minnesota Twin and Christian Broadcaster Frank Pastore. In the last week we have received news of our beloved Karen Rowe being diagnosed with breast cancer and also our Dear friend Jolene. Our Dear friend Dave lost his job. This does not count all the hurting people we are helping here at FGGAM. We have two young people that we are praying for right now Gina and Luke. Gina left her children and went to Texas with a man and left behind her two little boys. She is suffering from Bi-polar. Luke has kicked everyone out of his life and ran away to Arizona. The heart break in these families is enormous. I have to add that in these two families of Gina and Luke are shining the light of our Lord brighter than ever! Our faith either weakens during these times or strengthens. The following three write up’s helped me and Sharon strengthen our faith and gave us encouragement………….These three write up’s are by Greg Laurie, Michael Gerson and Karen Rowe, We pray they will strengthen you and yours, this is what The CUP is all about, bringing the Body of Jesus Christ together for prayer and encouragement. I especially thank my Dear Sister in Christ, Karen Rowe for sharing as this strong women of God is such a strong testimony of faith to all of us……..Just one final note here..this is a, as Pastor Leonard says from time to time to me, A CUP worth Preaching on! I believe Pastor’s and Church leaders will take the following to Preach from it and many of you will share this CUP!

For God’s Glory Alone!!!!!!!!

Dealing with Sadness during the Holidays.

December 21st, Greg Laurie.
Last night,my friends Levi and Jennie Lusko said goodbye to their little girl Lenya for the last time on earth.

This sweet little one had a server asthma attack and died in her parents arms.

It’s so very,very sad.

Please pray for the Lusko family as they face what I believe for a parent is a fate worse then death. .

The loss of a child.

This last Monday,I also saw my friend,Frank Pastore,host of the Frank Pastore show die after having spent a month in a coma after a motorcycle accident.

Please be in prayer for Frank’s wife,Gina and his two children as well.

I understand the pain of these families as I too had a son named Christopher die four years ago.

I will be at both their memorial services and will miss them both with all of my heart.

What makes this even harder,is this happened in the Christmas season.

It seems in many ways,as a nation we have been collectively mourning in the wake of the shootings of 20 children at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut.

Perhaps you are personally mourning the loss of a loved one right now.

When a loved one leaves this world for the next, we are torn apart inside. So we cry and mourn.

A deep sense of loss and sorrow is an indication of deep love.
The apostle Paul spoke of deep sorrow over the possible loss of a friend:

“Meanwhile, I thought I should send Epaphroditus back to you. He is a true brother, a

faithful worker, and a courageous soldier. . . and he was very distressed that you heard

he was ill. And he surely was ill; in fact, he almost died. But God had mercy on him—and

also on me, so that I would not have such unbearable sorrow.” Philippians 2:25
Paul is saying, “If Epaphroditus had died, I would not have been able to bear it!” That’s how you feel

when someone you love dies: you can’t bear it.
So don’t impatiently say to the mourner, “Don’t cry” or “You’ll get over it!” There is a place for this

process of mourning, and it must happen. The Bible says, “There is a time to mourn.” If you don’t mourn

properly, you will not heal properly. I did not fully understand this principle until it happened to me.
But for the mourners out there, I would say, let’s keep a proper perspective,

like the psalmist in Psalm 42:3–6:
“Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me,

saying, ‘Where is this God of yours?’ My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to

be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house

of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration! Why

am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise Him

again—my Savior and my God!”
The psalmist is honest here. He speaks of how he has had “only tears for food.” I know exactly what he

is talking about. But then he asks himself a question and gives himself an answer:
“Why am I discouraged? Why so sad?

I will put my hope in God! I will praise Him again—my Savior and my God!”
Grief is like wiping out on a wave. When you are out surfing, and get caught in a set, and go over the

falls, you lose perspective. The thing you must avoid is panic.
You have to roll with it and remember that it won’t last all that long. But sometimes, when you’re in the

whitewater, you lose your perspective. You literally do not know which way is up, or how to get to the

surface. This is where your leash comes in.
Your leash is attached to your board, which always goes to the surface due to its buoyancy. So, you grab

your leash and follow it to the surface. The Scripture is like that leash; it gets us “above the surface,”

where we can get a heavenly perspective.
Sometimes, I get my head above water and everything is clear. Everything, in a way, almost makes sense

for a few moments. I will think, “The Lord is leading me in His perfect plan. I have a son on earth and

another son in heaven. I will see him again.” But then the waves of pain and grief and sadness come and

I go under again.
I will surface and sink again many times in one day—again, again, and again. That is mourning. But we

still have hope.
The Believers in Thessalonica were wondering if they would ever see their loved ones again who had died as Christians.Paul wrote these comforting words “And now, brothers and sisters, I want you to know what will happen to the Christians who have died so you will not be full of sorrow like people who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with Him the believers who have died . . . Then we will be with the Lord forever”

(1 Thessalonians 4:13–17).

So,yes we as Christians mourn.

We mourn deeply.

But we have hope of seeing our loved ones who have preceded us to Heaven again.

It will be a wonderful Heavenly reunion.

Both little Lenya and big Frank are spending their first Christmas in Heaven!

May God extend his comfort to their families all of you who are feeling deep sadness this Christmas season.

People ask me,”Is there a book that could help me at a time like this?”.

Listen. ..You don’t need a manual,you need Immanuel!

God is with you.

That is the message of Christmas!

By Michael Gerson, Published: December 24

This is a Christmas season shadowed by sorrow. We know, of course, that human beings, even small ones, sometimes die in horrible, unfair ways. But all the horror and unfairness seemed to arrive at once in Newtown, Conn., where some parents wake on Christmas Day, if they slept at all, to mourn their absent children.
These events brought to mind a sermon by William Sloane Coffin, delivered 10 days after his son Alex was killed in a car accident. “When parents die,” he said, “they take with them a large portion of the past. But when children die, they take away the future as well. That is what makes the valley of the shadow of death seem so incredibly dark and unending. In a prideful way, it would be easier to walk the valley alone, nobly, head high, instead of — as we must — marching as the latest recruit in the world’s army of the bereaved.”

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Nation mourns for victims in Newtown: The last of the public funerals are held for the victims of the Dec. 14 shootings in Connecticu

This army is easy enough to join. All of us build imaginary worlds of security that can be smashed in a moment by a drunk driver, a cancer diagnosis or an unnoticed patch of ice on the road. The death of a child may be the worst of our fears. But many of us find tragedy of some sort, with a little patience. It is the sad reality of grief: each loss infinite but not unique. And each loss sharpened during the holidays. A dark thought in a season of light.
There are no easy philosophic or theological explanations for unnatural death — no greater, cosmic good that neatly justifies unfair suffering. And those who try to find God’s will in an earthquake, a cancer ward or a mass killing are engaged in a particularly cruel and arrogant exercise. Coffin would have none of it: “Nothing so infuriates me as the incapacity of seemingly intelligent people to get it through their heads that God doesn’t go around this world with his fingers on triggers, his fists around knives, his hands on steering wheels. . . . The one thing that should never be said when someone dies is, ‘It is the will of God.’ Never do we know enough to say that. My own consolation lies in knowing that it was not the will of God that Alex die; that when the waves closed over the sinking car, God’s heart was the first of all our hearts to break.”
Death is not the expression of a just moral order but its violation. And the proper response is not explanation but friendship. “Immediately after such tragedy,” said Coffin, “people must come to your rescue, people who only want to hold your hand, not to quote anybody or even say anything, people who simply bring food and flowers — the basics of beauty and life — people who sign letters simply, ‘Your brokenhearted sister.’ ”
Grief is particularly difficult at Christmas, as the best memories can be the hardest ones. But the hope of Christmas is broad enough for joy and sorrow.
The strangeness and scandal of the season get easily lost in its familiar rituals. In Christian belief, the boundless, timeless God became, in J.B. Phillips’s phrase, one of those “crawling creatures of that floating ball.” From the beginning, many of the reasonable and pious found the whole idea to be nonsensical or blasphemous. But it is the central tenet of an enduring faith. Instead of setting out a philosophy to interpret the human drama, God joined it. He became “God with us” — a God with a face. In the process, he both shared and dignified ordinary human life, with all its delight, boredom and suffering. The Christmas story revels in this blasphemous elevation of the ordinary — a birth in second-rate accommodations under a cloud of illegitimacy.
The story is also shadowed by sorrow. In one of the odder moments of the narrative, a random stranger at the Jerusalem Temple predicts a mother’s grief. “A sword,” Simeon tells Mary, “shall pierce through your own soul also.” As it did. As it has for many mothers and fathers who have followed.
The point of Christmas is not a sentimental optimism about the human condition or even a teaching about the will of God. It is an assertion that God came to our rescue, and holds our hand, and becomes, at the worst moments, our brokenhearted brother. It is preposterous, unless it is true. And then it would be everything.

Now as we continue to drink this CUP and having just read the excellent write up by Michael Gerson, I want to share with you a write up from our beloved Karen Rowe who has been recently diagnosed with cancer………..

Christmas is not a season. By Karen Rowe

Christmas is not a season; Christ is the reason we have a Christmas-time!
I hope to share something that will glorify God and make a difference in the focus of your holiday traditions.
After Note: I struggled about whether to share this, but then I would be making the decision for you. Instead I put this in the good Lord’s hands and do my little part. This began with a recent revelation about a specific part of the Lord’s Prayer, “lead us not into temptation” –I have always wondered why we are taught to pray to God and ask him not to lead us into temptation, because God does not lead us into temptation –God leads us to be blessed! God also teaches us that above all things we get to get understanding! The Holy Spirit brought understanding to me; and as always, just as I needed to know! When we pray, Father, Lead us not into Temptation, we are praying for spiritual discernment and God’s divine Wisdom to lead us away from temptations that will come to us! In ministry, I recently needed to learn this and a greater understanding come to me –and I was protected; I learned a valuable lesson!Also, with this Christmas message, I have recently been diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and I wanted to share the joy of Christmas that is with me through this difficult time; and this is how it all flowed from my heart! Afterwards, I found this quote from the Daily Bread –it just seemed to perfectly fit. I hope this will be a blessing to you. Let us begin with The Daily Bread:
–From the Daily Bread Nov 16, 2012:
“Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make each day your masterpiece. Pray for guidance, and give thanks for your blessings every day.”
“Jesus, in what we often call the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), taught us to approach our heavenly Father each day; it’s not something to be said once and forgotten. Through it we offer God praise (v.9); seek His kingdom and His will (v.10); trust His provision (v.11); and ask for His forgiveness, power, and deliverance (vv. 12-13).”

Let us pray The Lord’s Prayer–will you join me in saying the Lord’s Prayer –as I lead from the Scriptures and my heart as I listen and pray in detail. Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version (KJV)
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Hear our Honor and Praise, dear Father, which is to you –and is to your holy, powerful and wonderful Name!
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Your Kingdom has come –Jesus come near; and live in me and I in you. Father, Your Perfect, Honorable, Noble, Righteous and Trustworthy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven; and we trust you –we roll our works upon your Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ –for His Yoke is easy and His burden is light –as we commit and trust our works wholly to the work of the Holy Spirit –and then we know our thoughts will become agreeable to your will Father God! We confess that our mind will try to plan its own way, but we submit our will to yours Father –Lord direct our paths and keep them straight.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Give us this day, which Father God, you have called Today, our daily bread –the Gospel of Jesus Christ; Your living and written Word made perfect through Jesus Christ, Your Son –and our Savior and Lord.
12 And forgive us our debts, …
By our knowledge of your Perfect Will, bring to our mind our knowledge of our debts / trespasses that have led us away from your Kingdom. Lord Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit show me any err of my ways that may have lead me away from your Perfect path in step with the Holy Spirit, so that I can walk strong with you in the Kingdom of Righteousness –which is possible and is the only path made in absolute and complete truth, by the blood of Jesus Christ –your Son! Thank you dear Lord Jesus!!!

… as we forgive our debtors.
NOTE: you can skip the next couple of pages and continue praying the Lord’s Prayer of “deliver us from evil” … if you have no issues with patience with people or patient endurance through situations.
I personally take my time to walk through my heart with God’s eyes. If my heart comes out clean then great, but if it comes out purified in Jesus then wow, I stand in awe of God for bringing to my attention my blindness, so I can see the truth in my heart and be set free by God’s grace alone!
I share because I care…not to put down, but rather to stand tall together as we together search our hearts with God, according to be lead in the Lord’s Prayer. God’s truth is this powerful!
My life motto is: I don’t have it all figured out, BUT God does…Follow Jesus” & I wish I could apologize for the length, but instead I don’t take credit, so I can’t apologize either. Blessings as you Lord willing continue to read and pray in the Spirit of God.

12 And forgive us our debt, as we forgive our debtors.

Thank you Father for my complete forgiveness (atonement for my sins) and the absolute freedom in the Spirit of Truth! And as we know these things, still Father we know our weakness is our ignorance by nature (our lack of knowledge to know… until we know to do better), so we take this time to pray, but mostly listen for your voice to reveal our own heart to us, so we can change and experience Christmas joy year round.

Now that we know our forgiveness Father, according to your Living and Written Word, we know we need to (first) ask for your help in forgiving others, our debtors –please bring to our mind those we (also) need to forgive –as we let go of that hold and give it all to you –like you have already made our way of forgiveness for us …
We ask for Your Wisdom from heaven, which is first of all pure –thank you Holy Spirit for empowering and equipping us! There is a real love you pour into our hearts, which flows with power and freedom to overcome all things! Father you do not leave us double-minded like the wisdom from below will … we submit our will to your thoughts Father God!

Help us and teach us so we can learn how to simply trust you Our Father God and follow your Son, as our friend Jesus!

Thank you Father for giving us also your Word! – As we also pray in the Spirit, it is good to read the Scriptures –Study/Reference Scriptures for Today: James 3:13-18, [wow and James
1] and also John 14:1; Proverbs 16:9-11! Thank you Father for your Word –The Bible truly is our instruction to help to us in all things!

Father, we confess it is hard sometimes; and we need your help. We can love like you –a love which clearly says to us – If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone (Romans 12:18-NIV) and we confess we know you say, Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone (NLT).”
Lord Jesus, help us not to judge people when they fall short of our expectations, because it affects me, others and my ability to pray for others. Judgment is Yours God! –Instead, we ask for discernment in our own behavior; and with our higher knowledge in our Father’s Knowledge, we can be patient with others and reflect patience through all situations.
Let nothing I do cast judgment on another head to hold them down or make them feel unworthy to come to you, as far as it depends on me. Lord, we desire to be obedient to the Holy Spirit in all ways –and to forgive those who have trespassed against us. Just as I have asked in your kind and patient love for your Kingdom’s Presence in my soul, spirit and household, I also pray for those who have offended me …
Lord show me if there are any bitter roots or motives in my heart of envy or selfish ambition –that I may hold that is keeping me against your Kingdom’s pureness –and by your power who lives in me, I will rise above!
Father we know that we are equipped for this kind of love and forgiveness through the power of the Holy Spirit, whom has come to us by the blood and life of Jesus Christ our LORD.

We confess that we need to first know the agape (unconditional)love of our Father,
and then also to show –kindness and patience (patient endurance), which is sacrificial love toward others (goodwill toward men)
–As we remember Matthew 5:24 in which you teach the importance of a pure heart…
and also reveal to us the need we have to be purified
–as we pass through every test and trial
–we can remember to do the right thing always …

The Word of God:
“leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” And Romans 14:19, “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).
A Smile in Jesus …
“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes (Mark 9:23).”
“No temptationhas overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it (1 Corinthians 10:13).”
“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us (Romans 5:5).”
Father help us to show this great love you have poured into our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit –to those with a “lack of spiritual knowledge to know to do better”, “the spiritually sick”, “the weak in spirit”…humm, come to think of it, those who are just like me without you.

I have had to pray these words …
We don’t pray Father “pick me” –we know you love all you have made! Let us not do anything to complicate our reflection of your love for others; let us not make your love reflect as conditional!
What better time than Christmas time to celebrate forgiveness in JESUS CHRIST –the greatest gift of unconditional love sent by God, whom we are free to choose to live in grace with God every day and have freedom in this life with our gift of Peace (Jesus Christ) on earth as it is in Heaven!

Celebrating the Word of God whom has equipped us in all things!
Proverbs 16:9-11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.
10 Divinely directed decisions are on the lips of the king; his mouth should not transgress in judgment.
11 A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights of the bag are His work [established on His eternal principles].

Father we confess and we know we have a human nature that can be tempted, but we choose to overcome:
We purposely put off Pride and self-righteousness that get in the way! In nature it is far easier to make excuses or justify our behavior, but we choose to confess that we need Jesus.
At times we sin and don’t even realize it, because we are ignorant with lack of knowledge to know to do better –or forgetful of the scriptures, or we have become callous; soften our heart to hear your voice speak to our heart to change because of Jesus-because we seek a relationship with you Father!
Thank you Jesus for teaching us to pray with knowledge! –Sin creates a barrier between us and God –and repentance and confession, play a critical role in overcoming temptation!

13 And lead us not into temptation,

Thank you Father –for this is a Revelation from you, this part of the Lord’s Prayer is in effect asking for Wisdom and spiritual discernment!

Father God, Lord Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, thank you –you do not lead us on an emotional path astray from your walking spiritual path –with your discernment we can keep in step with the Holy Spirit, which is straight and narrow and with good purpose always! With discernment and Wisdom we are not led into Temptation; we are lead through tests and trials to learn how to live in the Kingdom (in Jesus) and gain understanding of how much we need Jesus –a knowledge that brings strength that we need to know for a purpose we are called for!

Get Your Word from God then Refuse to move from it! Temptations will come to test you … “Did God really say…” and your emotions will answer, “yeah, because I’m not feeling much like ….” Well sure, God has spoken –all we have to do is seek HIS Word of Truth and Trust HIM!”

We pray, Lead us not into the temptation of our emotions

Temptations come to us by our emotions in the form of different spirits that will purposely appropriate emotional manipulations that can be effective against us –even seemingly innocent –However, we call it what it is, evil; and we can stay in Step with the Holy Spirit with a higher knowledge of remembering the gospel!

Peter was not evil –but he did speak at least once from an emotional spirit and Jesus said, “Satan, get behind me!” Jesus recognized the Temptation to run in fear and the temptation to feel sorry for himself; and so must we!
Father, Lead us not into temptation is Jesus is teaching us to pray for spiritual discernment and Wisdom to over-ride our emotional pull to react in the way we want to!

The word of God:
“Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Matthew 16:23

Father, help us to resist the temptations that feed on our emotions of how we feel in the moment of situations –like Jesus did: Jesus was emotionally scared of the horror he faced, and he wanted to run! That temptation was right on, BUT Jesus knew we needed what only He could accomplish!
We need to remember that Jesus died for everyone! We can trust God to follow in step with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit alone; and sometimes that means to be still (in patience) –knowing that God is God; and that everyone who will believe John 3:16 is God’s gift from Jesus. We are learning and growing at the same time, but at a different pace …by God’s leadership alone!
- We want to help, and feel emotional sorrow… but if God is not calling us to help (YET) then we are just prolonging another’s growth in Jesus and enabling Satan’s ties for a bit longer. (We do not make a difference alone…only God does the work that changes)…
- As an eagle stirs its nest to make it uncomfortable to get the baby birds to fly, so does God allow the stirring of our life to get us to fly and grow into full maturity in Jesus!
- As a baby Chicken must work to hatch so that it shall live, so must we all persevere to learn this great trust in God alone!
- We have things we could fear, but Greater is He who is in us than he that is in the world!
- As an egg shell is created so strong that it amazingly cannot be crushed when squeezed end to end –so are we created that we have the strength of God from end to end in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit!
- Satan knew that God’s Son was wrapped in human skin –and that Jesus had a very real situation that he could fear –Satan also knew Jesus had a high position with purpose! Satan knows God’s love for you as well!

–BUT, all Satan could /can dois tempt emotions and create diversions!
But we can remember that Jesus walks on water and so can we walk with Jesus above our troubles!

Jesus didn’t tell Satan he was hungry in the desert –hunger was obvious! After 40 days of no food or drink, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Jesus was hungry! Satan knows your troubles too –But Jesus tells us “do not LET your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and Trust also in me (Jesus).” God knew Jesus was hungry too (and God cared), but our all-knowing WISE Father God through the Holy Spirit led Jesus in the desert to be tempted so that he could overcome and teach us how!

When the truth was presented to Jesus, by Satan, Jesus didn’t have a conversation with the devil about being hungry –or about any of the real concerns he might have felt during his walk on this earth! Awe, instead, Jesus threw the Word of God back in Satan’s face –The truth…And so must we!

Temptation’s purpose has never changed, but temptation’s angles will adapt to your situation…
NOTICE the differentiation: Temptations vs. God’s Call on our life:

God walks with us leading in peace and His righteousness has gone before us –we just follow in faith with the assurance of peace. We walk with God in step with the Holy Spirit!
Evil scurries around us creating distractions, diversions and frustrations, which will be feeding real emotions leading us to jump in emotions to run out of the Spirit of God –with a purpose to get us to run away, run from or run too fast –from God’s purpose that HE has put in us –and into some form of destruction of God’s purpose …destruction that is demised as an evil plan with multiple incidentals of trickery purposely placed in front of us to get us there –However, we can stop and turn around and reconnect with peace!

Purposely refuse to focus on the spirit of fear or the spirit of feeling sorry for someone / or for yourself to become worried and troubled in your thoughts that will consume your heart.
Jesus resisted!
Jesus has already overcome every temptation from the evil one …by the power in the Truth: The Word of God!
Jesus spoke the truth and refused to sway to the right or the left from the truth!

Christmas is the celebration of the gift of knowledge as much as the gift of Salvation, which is also gifted to us through believing knowledge of John 3:16 & 17! Father “lead us not into Temptation” is a daily prayer so that we can live in this life Christ was born into, died for and rose again for complete victory over all things that come against God as long as God allows this day to be called Today. And Today, Jesus brings us peace and joy with purpose, promise and hope!

Friends in Christ are a Christmas gift too!
The Lord’s Prayer is to be prayed together. OUR Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by thy name! We need God’s help to discern our emotions and we need friends in Christ to talk out real emotions …to get harmful emotions from growing bitterness on the inside of us –out of our heart to God: Confess –Honest communication with a good listening ear is good!
We can Resist Temptation–Resist Reacting in emotions and purposely Act with God! Emotions are a gift from God for us to control / not for them to control us! And …Acting with God is faith walking in step with the spirit of God to keep us in our purpose that is set by God:
Remember John 11 and the story of when Lazarus died? Jesus didn’t rush in human thoughts or emotions, but rather remained in step with HIS purpose to show up in God’s time for God’s glory alone!

The Purpose of Christmas is remembering Jesus! There are 2 kinds of wisdom that come to us; we need discernment to act with God! God is love | Remain in Love and we are remaining in Jesus –remain in Jesus and He will remain in you! LOVE IS an sacrificial action to remain in the Freedom of peace and Joy, but where you have bitter envy and selfish ambition there you will find confusion, disorder and every evil practice! Align up to LOVE (1 Co 13:4-8).
“The root of bitterness is hate; the symptom of bitterness is sarcasm; and the result of bitterness is manipulation –using people instead of loving them
–from the discovery series ‘Joseph –Overcoming Life’s Challenges’, by Bill Crowder.
If you are struggling this may be a good booklet for you to read.
Insight from the Daily Bread: “The lesson for us today is to be diligent in searching for our spiritual blind spots. The Christian life is one of self-scrutiny and midcourse correction by the power of God.”

A prayer within a prayer –because if we are struggling with forgiveness / agape love, then we know we need to stop in our love sacrifice to God in the Lord’s prayer (KNOWING: if we do all things good, but have not charity/love, then we are just a sounding gong to God’s ear)… we can pause; and allow the Holy Spirit to mend our heart before we continue on with the Lord’s Prayer:
Father, we desire to reveal you to others who may not know you, through the power of our peace and joy – in Jesus Christ our Lord! We desire to act in YOUR love and not react in emotions! We desire to act in faith and not react in fear! We desire to look beyond how anything affects me and instead look up to all Jesus has done for us all!
Father, thank you for Your Son, who also gave us this prayer that we can act according to YOUR Word of all that is authentic and genuine; the trueness of all that YOUR agape love is! Father we know that love is not weak, but power under control and with purpose (the power of humility)! Thank you Jesus, we are equipped by the power of the Holy Spirit, who does all the work!
We desire to walk with love –with YOU, with power and authority in your Kingdom to reflect Your tender love and great mercies –Father it does depend on us to remain in your peace, but it is You that does the great work in us and also in them! Thank you Father!
May we serve you well Today!
Now that our hearts are clear of bitterness, we continue to pray the prayer you taught us to say with such simplicity…

…but deliver us from evil:

So with our knowledge from God and our discernment from the Holy Spirit –we can continue to pray evil away:
Father, Lead us not into temptation to act on our own based on emotions, give us discernment of the spirits –one of which is the spirit “of feeling sorry for people” –there is a difference between compassion and emotional sorrow –which will derive from a selfish agenda –Father give us Your discernment of the spirits that come to us with a purpose to lead us to act against your will and away from your purpose and power to accomplish any good thing –even that our emotional heart may be full of good intentions, but we need our heart full of your Word to make a difference in this world!
Our own thoughts prolong and hinder, instead of helping…Ultimately, we do nothing –it is God doing the work through the power of the Holy Spirit –we just plant little seeds and water the plant! So emotions can lead us away from our purpose to glorify God.
Father, help us to remember to do our little part –Protect us/Deliver us from evil (lead us not into a place of busy-ness or a place of danger (Father, we ask for your discernment (Wisdom) in our faith walk).

Jesus resisted –and so must we! Jesus didn’t come to take our emotions from us, but rather to teach us how to control them “Self-Control is a fruit of the Spirit” –and use emotions for the good and produce the good fruit from the perfect tree.
(To evaluate if the good fruit is active or inactive in your life: Galatians 5:22-26).
What has caused you pain? When we lose those we love (or when those we love hurt us) and our life is turned upside down –loss of love causes us pain.
Could you be blaming God? To be blunt, How is blaming God working out for you? To be honest, rejecting love is reacting in emotions and is a release of pain, but if our words and motivations are impure, then the pain will not heal. Love heals / loss hurts, but love overcomes all things.

Recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and after seeing too much via media search on my treatment, fear set in for a moment and very real thoughts would pop up in my mind from time to time –my pain release was to shout out “dang it!” –but I found that in saying curse words I was cursing my peace away and thus my strength and courage; not to mention my condition. I prayed to God for a new word to release pain and fears, but a word that would equal in power, but would bless instead of curse my situation in which I have a great need for God in! The Holy Spirit gave me my new words: “Trust God!”
YES, I shout out “Trust God” instead of “dang it” and find a great power over my fears and great strength and courage with wonderful peace and joy in my situation, by just changing my complaint to a prayer of praise – just 2 little words made all the difference for me and so they will for you too!
“The root of bitterness is hate (Matthew 5:21-22)”. Hate stems from pain. God’s message is simple: LOVE!
More from the Discovery Series: It is easy to say, “It’s okay. Everything will turn out all right in the end.” But look at immediate pain that can flow from a family eaten up with hate…(See Genesis) The root of bitterness will produce tragic Fruit – From the Discovery series “Joseph Overcoming life’s Challenges.”

Father we Resist the emotional Spirits of Envy and Selfish Ambition (yes, Father, lead us not into temptation) in all forms that can be intentionally used by the evil one to lead us on the wrong paths –which are noteworthy path(s) away from our path of peace and joy that is full in God’s Kingdom! Above all things we get, Father we seek to get understanding of your Kingdom’s way of Truth and Life that is with You!

Read Luke 10:18-20: We have been given authority to overcome all the power of the enemy…However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you –the great triumph is not in our authority over evil, but rather we rejoice that our names are written in heaven! It is not what we do for God, but what God does for us –this is the agenda for Rejoicing!

Remember His blessings
Respond to His call
Rejoice in His presence

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever…
Thank You Father for Your Word –the written Truth, Your Holy Spirit –your living Truth in us to know with precise discernment of Your thoughts and Your ways that we choose to follow alone; and thus Your will be done!
…Amen.

Jesus refused to leave the Kingdom of God –and so must we! We must love God and love people! Jesus walked forward and UPWARD–on water looking up, with a purpose, in which He was fully prepared for –focused on God and God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven, because Hallowed be thy name!
Tis the season to be jolly, we can sing fa la la la la…la la la la with a heart full of peace and joy all year round, even (especially) on our way in the hospital or … in any scary or painful situation –OUR joy in the LORD is where our power in Christ is found and seen for God’s glory alone!
What is the worst thing you are going through Today? I am going through Breast Cancer right now. If you take out the “r”, it spells “beast cancer”  Cancer is not from God, but God allows us to go through things for a purpose. In all things, Remember:
For my God, you are the Kingdom, and the glory and the power forevermore!
Oh my LORD, God loves us so much; and so does Jesus Christ, our Lord! We are Christ’s gift to God! Wow! And just as Jesus was prepared for HIS purpose –so are we fully prepared and equipped to go through things to get us to our purpose! Jesus did everything for us that day!

IN CONCLUSION:
The Lord’s Prayer is the summary of the whole gospel! This prayer is the foundation of further desires, according to understanding our purpose is to live according to our knowledge that God has purpose in all things we do and go through –for the Spirit to teach us and for us to learn!
We feel the things of this world, and God gives permission for Satan to test our faith, but not without God’s Righteous hand being before us and with us and not without love and assurance of Holy Peace with us –peace is a choice to remain in Jesus when we don’t feel like it –and joy depends on us and what we choose to set our mind on (things of God or how we feel)!

Read in the Train Whistle page 3 (I believe) in the Sub-Chapter called the Great Reveal, this word from God gave me great strength in the waiting room before my 2nd Biopsy!
The Scriptures speak an awesome Truth Message from God:

“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10).”
We must remain faithful to God when it seems like He is not there –because in faith we know HE IS and God IS God –We can’t grasp divine logic, but we can know God’s grand and powerful love that is for us –not against us!

Christ in Christmas IS peace and goodwill toward men! Our job is to remain in Peace –awe, REMAINING in Jesus…with Joy in the Lord alone! I am telling you the truth: I heard the voice of the Lord speak to me a couple of years ago:
“Remain in me and I will remain in you. God is love. Remain in love and you are remaining in me –and he brought 1 Co 13 to my mind!”

What a wonderful Christmas-time it is! The true JOY in Christ is found in the giving of our hearts according to living prepared in the Lord’s Prayer. Christmas is not about the fake things that hang on a tree or the tree that will surely wither and one day die. Christmas is about God loves you and Hallowed be God’s Holy Name!
Peace and Joy in the Lord can be with you through all things –seek the face of God from the feet of Jesus and the Lord’s Prayer is the foundation to aligning our mind to God’s thoughts.
This Christmas, I have peace “going through a medical thing” – I am not that great –I just experience the living Lord God in my life and I know 2 things: 1) God blesses me beyond human comprehension! And, 2) nothing comes to me unless God has given His permission for a test or trial to come to me … So I smile with a genuine knowledge of Jesus; and am so happy and full of peace and joy to share how much my God loves me and is with me –I share to encourage your walk with my God –whom is also your God, to resist all temptations and never give away your Spirit of Peace!
Jesus died and rose again with a purpose to equip us to be near to God in the blessings of grace and with grace through all things! Remember, God didn’t leave the 3 Hebrew boys in the furnace –the Son of God was already in there ahead of them to bring them out, but they had to trust God and love God enough to see what God would do ….
Everything is according to God’s purpose and God’s motive has always been good and of agape all-knowing love! Don’t ever feel like you have to hide from God or run from your purpose! Walk with HIM and experience HIS peace and joy with great power and authority over all things! We CAN trust God and trust also in Jesus!
As the Spirit leads, these are the words that God wanted shared Today –or I would not have had them flow out of me and I could have walked away.
If your life appears not perfect –measured up to the ways of the world …or wow, sometimes people try to measure their faith up to mine, let me say that God has given you your perfect measure of faith, just as he has given my faith to me! I am not perfect either and I get weak just like you, but we can all know the Perfect One and grab His hand in our weakness. It is in our weakness that we can see HIS strength!
The world is watching Christians closely at Christmastime!
Don’t put up the lights until you first allow Jesus to light up your heart! Do it all for the glory of God –or don’t do it at all! It is our heart that matters to God!
What will “they” see “as far as it depends on me” when things don’t go “my” way? –will the world see us reflecting our desire to adhere to God’s holy way unconditionally? Will the world see something different in us –a confidence in trusting God, experiencing the true meaning of Christmas –good will toward men!
Praise is to God in the Highest! Our Jesus Christ has come! The Kingdom has come –on earth as it is in Heaven!
Merry Christmas! And may God’s peace, whom is Jesus Christ, be with you in every step you take – which is for God’s glory alone!
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
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God has blessed us richly-by His grace! Remain in the joy of the Lord! Jesus Christ was purposed born with purpose; and He lived and died and Rose again –and HE lives forevermore!
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God Bless you Karen, we love you and yours and we are praying!!!

In the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray so that you do not fall into temptation, the words of our Lord.

December 21, 2012 by radiodewey@aol.com Leave a Comment

Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Thank you for stopping by for a CUP! Merry Christmas!

Please stop now and pray with me and picture this scene

From Luke 22: 45-46.When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”

Let us not be asleep, let us awaken for God’s Glory Alone! Let us not fall to the temptations of this world!

“Everyone has disabilities.” The words of Cowboy Clarence Montoya on the taping of Dewey and Friends. It was a very emotional day at KAZQ yesterday as “The Cowboy” as we call him came to be with me on a taping of the program. He is 26 years old and has cerebral palsy. I met Clarence years ago when I was on the Board of Dir. of the Arc of NM. At that time the Director was Rebecca Shuman, who was also with us yesterday. Clarence became a best friend, he lives his life in a wheelchair, but he does not let that stop him from serving the Lord. He prays for all and when we would have our fund drive for Orphans in Mozambique twice a year on KKIM, he was the first to give! When Clarence stated at the top of the program that everyone has disabilities, it really hit me. We all have a disability. I had to wear a leg brace for a year and a half when I was 4 1/2…….but I also have had and do have other disabilities that come into my life. Sin is a disability.
Herein lies the greatest disability of all—spiritual inability. But praise be to God. He has not left us in our sins, but has provided the remedy in Jesus, the Redeemer. “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:6-8).
Cowboy Clarence shows us the “purity” in our walk with our Lord Jesus Christ. He says he does not let his disability get him depressed! He calls me, to encourage me! He never complains about spending his life in the wheelchair. Our friend Veronica has to do 9 hours of Kidney Dialysis a day, never complains, she is always cheering others up in our Lord, giving of herself just as the Cowboy does!
When I look into the eye’s of the Cowboy and Veronica I see the bright eye’s, the clear eye’s, the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is speaking to us through them.
The Medical experts say that the Cowboy has “Learning Disabilities”, but as Howard of KAZQ said after the taping yesterday, “That Clarence is one smart guy!”
I encourage us all to look at our disability this day as we approach the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, what disability in your life is preventing you to “GO ALL THE WAY” in your relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, giving it all to Him?
What is preventing you from letting go of these so called treasures here on earth, that are really a disability? Let go and serve our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us invest in people, let us be Salt and Light to the world.
Today I would like you to think of Clarence sitting in his wheelchair at his home in Socorro, NM and calling up people and just asking them, ” Hey, Dewey how are you today? Hey, Dewey I am praying for you and your family.”
This man of God does not have a disability in our Lord.
What are you doing in your life that is going to have an eternal impact?

‎”Cheer up: You’re a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you’re more loved than you ever dared hope.” (Pastor Jack Miller)

December 20, 2012. Your godliness is being watched by your family and offspring. The Lord has chosen you as His vessel, filling you with glory and light. Surely you have noticed that even people in public places glance and look at you. Not to worry. They are seeing Me in you and they are fascinated. This is your open door to share why the glory and light shines through your face and eyes. They see the glow and gravitate to you. Now let your integrity of heart emanate with that glory and light. I will use you as my surgical instrument to cleanse and heal the broken hearted. Your walk of integrity will bless generations. I love and am so proud of you.

Proverbs 20:7 (NLT) “The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.” Ras Robinson

Here is a PRAISE NOTE FOLKS!!! PRAISE GOD!!!

Dewey,

Just wanted to let you know, God answered our prayers for Andrew Knutson. I sent her the little email forward below…it is definitely for you & Sharon & your ministry which lifts me up daily…love ya! Leslie

Thank you all for praying for Andrew!

Here is another PRAISE NOTE:

I talked to Pastor Larry Moss for the first time in weeks, he is able to talk now as his bruised vocal cords are healing. We had such a Godly conversation full of God’s love! Larry is healing! AMEN! PRAISE GOD! It was the best Christmas present to be able to talk to Larry!

Graham Cooke…..

“The enemy’s darkness is so pervasive that he will continually misinterpret events and miss the point of what God is doing. He seeks to make us vulnerable to that which he is subject – misapprehension. The enemy wants to develop blindness in us so that we are in the dark about the purposes of God towards us.

We are in Christ who is our light and life. We fight the darkness best by remaining in the light.”

Smith Wigglesworth

‎”If, as some people suggest, the ministry of the supernatural ceased with the apostles, how do they explain that the twentieth-century man, Wigglesworth, ministered with the same power as did the apostles – even to the raising of the dead, the casting out of devils, the healing of the sick, and other creative miracles?”
– Albert Hibbert, Smith Wigglesworth, The Secret Of His Power, pg 61

Chuck Swindoll…….

It takes real guts to stand with integrity in a culture weakened by hypocrisy. I applaud every one of you who does it!

Sharon and I are so blessed with all the Christmas Cards we are getting, all the letters of Testimony that we are getting, For God’s Glory Alone!!! Yesterday we posted Rick’s letter of love today we share with you a letter from John Lay who works with Dr. Kyle Martin of Time To Revive in Dallas, Texas…….These letters are the Lord’s way of affirming and also paving the road for us as we go forth for HIM. The love of our Lord is just pouring into FGGAM, and we are so thankful, so very thankful. Also in sharing letters like this is what Pastor Barry Dickens call’s, BOASTING IN OUR LORD!!!! look at what HE is doing! PRAISE GOD! Hallelujah!!!!

It is difficult in life to find someone with whom you can relate, share burdens, give and receive encouragement, and simply download. It is even more difficult to find someone who possesses all of these and you can trust them. The Bible says in Proverbs 20:6, “Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, But who can find a trustworthy man?” A trustworthy man is a precious find.
When I met Dewey Moede, I made a precious find. Dewey is a prophet for today who is worthy, trustworthy, and willing to stand on Truth when others are falling away. I thank God for Dewey in my life. I love Dewey.
If you need to be emboldened in your faith…if you want to see how relevant the Bible is to the events of today…spend a few moments with Dewey Moede and experience the encouragement he brings.
In Christ,

John Lay
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John Lay

P. O. Box 835943
Richardson, TX 75083-5943
Office (214) 295-4277
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My buddy Cowboy Clarence Montoya along with Rebecca Shuman are with me for a segment that will air Dec 29 on Kazq Ch 32 6pm The Cowboy with the quote of the year, “We all have disabilities.” Amen Cowboy!! Clarence does not let his disability stop him from serving Our Lord!!!

This Saturday our Christmas program 6pm Kazq Ch 32 Dewey and Friends with Sister Barbara Gould What an awesome message Barbara brings forth!!!!

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer awoke December 25, 1943 on a hard wooden bed. It was the first of two Christmases he would spend sequestered in a Nazi prison.
This first Christmas would be celebrated in a lonely prison cell in a place called Tegel. He had been there for nine months, and he would be there for nine more until he was transferred to his final home, a Nazi concentration camp.
Bonhoeffer had hoped to be released for the holiday, but that was contingent on his personal lawyer who proved unreliable. His hope of spending Christmas with his family quickly evaporated into the cold silence, and his only connection with his parents would come through letters.

Inside Tegel

In the Tegel prison, Bonhoeffer and his 700 fellow inmates were treated as criminals irrespective of trials and verdicts. The men were underfed and verbally harassed, and frequently the warden refused to turn the lights on, adding to the dark and depressive spirit of the place. Bonhoeffer was assigned to a cell surrounded by prisoners awaiting execution. He writes about often being kept awake at night by the clanking chains of the cots as the unsettled, condemned men tossed and turned.1
But it was within this suffocating suffering that Christmas seemed to take a deeper meaning for the 37-year-old pastor-scholar. “A prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent,” he wrote to a friend. “One waits, hopes, does this or that — ultimately negligible things — the door is locked and can only be opened from the outside.”2

Two Sides to Christmas

For Bonhoeffer, there are two sides to Christmas. There is a hopeless precursor side to Advent. Until God arrives, we have no hope for release from this imprisonment of our own sin. We are stuck and condemned, and the door is locked from the outside. We depend completely on Someone from the outside to free us.
And yet on the other side of Christmas, on the other side of the birth of Christ the King, we find suffering remains. We find freedom and hope, but the suffering is not washed away. As Martin Luther says, “God can be found only in suffering and the cross.”3 It is in the suffering of the Son of God that we find God.
From his birth in a despised manger, to his death on the cross, the Son of God suffered. Christ was acquainted with pain (Isaiah 53:3). And because Christ was familiar with it, we too are made familiar with suffering (2 Corinthians 1:5, 1 Peter 4:13).
The wisdom of God in the suffering of his Son baffles us. Christ became weak and vulnerable in order to suffer for us in his full payment of our sin (Philippians 3:9). What this means is that the child of God suffers, but not because God has withdrawn from him, but because God has drawn close. We are united to Christ and we share in his sufferings (Philippians 3:10).

A Christmas More Meaningful and Authentic

Which brings me to Bonheoffer’s Christmas letter from the Tegel prison to his parents Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer on December 17, 1943. In it he asks that they not worry or fret about their separation. He will find joy in their enjoyment of the holiday. They will feast together, and he will feast on the memories of precious Christmases past.
At one point, Bonhoeffer writes this:

Viewed from a Christian perspective, Christmas in a prison cell can, of course, hardly be considered particularly problematic. Most likely many of those here in this building will celebrate a more meaningful and authentic Christmas than in places where it is celebrated in name only.
That misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others, and for him this is truly good news.
And to the extent he believes it, he knows that he has been placed within the Christian community that goes beyond the scope of all spatial and temporal limits, and the prison walls lose their significance. . . .
With great gratitude and love,
Your Dietrich4

Suffering Brings Meaning to Christmas

Ironically, we can miss this meaning of Christmas if our celebration is only wrapped up in comfortable warm fires and the fellowship of friends and family. We can miss the memory of our desperation that required the Son of God to suffer for us. We can miss the personal desperation met in the manger. And we can miss out on the fellowship of his sufferings.
As we have recently explored, Christmas and suffering are deeply interwoven themes in Scripture. Personal suffering brings deeper meaning to Christmas. And in a season of suffering, the child of God discovers that he suffers not because God has drawn away, but because God has drawn close to us convicts, drawn close through a manger, drawn closer to us than the hard prison cell walls of a cold Nazi prison.

WOW! What a message for all of us!
It’s been an AWESOME CUP in our Lord! AMEN!
Please pray for me as I travel to Quemado, NM this Sunday to preach at the First Baptist Church. I will be preaching their for 2 Sundays.

For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
www.fggam.org
Merry Christmas!

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