Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for stopping by for the CUP. Today we pray for Randy Thom, cover him in your prayers this dear man of God and also pray for Jeremy Cave stage 4 cancer, I pray that I get to visit with him today, pray for Sammy also this day. Let us pray for each other and our families each day! AMEN!
Do you have a Christmas verse? Most of you know my life verse Acts 20:24
Here is my Christmas verse, it’s all from Jesus…….and we can see from this verse why our County is in a mess……..
Jesus said to Pilate in John 18:37……
“You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
Too many are listening to the “NOTHING NOISE” of the world.
I encourage you all to have a life verse, and a Christmas verse and repeat it throughout your days.You will become that verse if you do so,
A wonderful start to the day at 3:30am to pray, listen for God, read, and to write the CUP. The Lord is showing me we all need to pray, listen to Him and read His Word more…..AMEN! Let us be joyful people of God!
This morning as I talked with a hurting friend, I sat in the rocking chair that my Mom would sit in as her life was passing away here on earth because of cancer, that’s been over 18 year ago. I remember my Mom’s Bible being all wrote over and underlined. She believed. At her funeral she had prepared for the Pastor a message to us kid’s…..directly aimed at us kid’s to follow God. So as I settle into my home office now and sit in that rocking chair each day I remember those word’s that my Mom spoke to me the day of her funeral through Pastor Zeh. I thank the Lord for the Christian heritage that was handed down to me.
The 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour, which took place 70 years ago on 7 December 1941, catapulted America into the Second World War. Altogether, 2,390 Americans lost their lives in the attack. Twelve ships sank or were beached, and nine were damaged. The US lost 164 aircraft. On the Japanese side, 64 people died, five ships sank, and 29 planes were destroyed.
Picture: History / Alamy
This is from Pastor Steve Stucker……..
Morning Inspiration: And now that I am away you must be even more careful to put into action God’s saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him. Philippians 2:12-13
Paul makes several important points: God’s saving work in our life Must Be “Put Into Action”! We can’t just Think about the Ideas God places in our hearts, we must DO Something about them! God gives us the Desire to Please Jesus, AND the Power needed to accomplish the task. Do something to Please your Creator & Sustainer today!
Thank you Pastor Steve!
Love this verse thought I would share it with you. Be blessed! Praying for you!
I Thessalonians 2:4
“But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who examines our hearts.”
Leonard
Thank you Pastor Leonard!
Please watch Dewey and Friends this Saturday night at 6pm on KAZQ CH 32 as Pastor Leonard is my guest in segment number two of our Christmas message! Remember you can also watch live on line at 6pm Mountian Time at www.kazq32.org ;
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Through it all, this is what I’ve learned recently…..”Some of the biggest blessings, come with the biggest burdens. The key, is to give the burden to God…then the only echo of the blessing is goodness.”-Vincy from WFRN radio South bend/Elkhart, In. Vincy is such a talented Radio announcer and writer! She shares her testimony daily on WFRN with Doug Moore. www.wfrn.com ;
Dewey,
This quote reminded me of you.
“In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.” Will Rogers
You definitely know what you are doing, like it and believe in it guided by the Holy Spirit.
I pray you have a blessed day.
Wanell
Thank you Wannel and your words…..this is part of my testimony to you this day……
“To go as I am led, to go when I am led, to go where I am led”, A.T. Pierson once wrote, “it is that which has been for twenty years the one prayer of my life.”
That has become my prayer here at www.fggam.org my calling from our Lord Jesus
Christ,
My life verse, and I pray we all wrap our minds around this verse today…….
My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus Acts 20:24
I am thankful that the Lord has taught me to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, I was awaken from my sleep earlier than normal 3am…….drug my feet but got going at 3:30am……then a message to me on Facebook from a friend that was in need of talk and prayer……called him…we spent about a 45 min on phone……..this was no coincidence, it is God’s appointed time, divine appointments, this is
my Testimony to you this day, not to boast of myself, no way, to Boast in our Lord and what it means to have a personal relationship with Him, so we can be sensitive to the movement of the Holy Spirit, so we can make ourselves available to help others in their time of need. Is this not what the Jesus of the Bible teaches us in His Word, to make ourselves available at all times?
Affection—the nonverbal communication of closeness—is among the most important experiences we share with our children. Chuck Swindoll
Don’t live just for yourself; it will never turn out good. Joyce Meyer
Okay before we go any further, I just love the Funny Bones we are getting! This is one from Minnesota, Mt. lake, Minnesota and Darlene Fick Quiring……..today google Mt. Lake and read about the beautiful history of this town…….
There were three country churches in a small Texas town: the
Presbyterian church, the Methodist church and the Baptist
church. Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels.
One day, the Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide
what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and
consideration they determined that the squirrels were
predestined to be there and they shouldn’t interfere with
…
Gods divine will.
The Methodist group got together and decided that they were
not in a position to harm any of Gods creations. So, they
humanely trapped the squirrels and set them free a few miles
outside of town. Three days later, the squirrels were back.
It was only the Baptists who were able to come up with
the best and most effective solution.
They baptized the squirrels and registered them as members
of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter
Here’s a writing from Darlene…………
What is the difference between God’s sovereign will and God’s perfect will?”
When speaking of Gods will, many people see three different aspects of it in the Bible. The first aspect is known as Gods decretive, sovereign, or hidden will. This is Gods “ultimate” will. This facet of Gods will comes out of the recognition of Gods sovereignty and the other aspects of Gods nature. This expression of Gods will focuses on the fact that God sovereign ordains everything that comes to pass. In other words, there is nothing that happens that is outside of Gods sovereign will. This aspect of Gods will is seen in verses like Ephesians 1:11, where we learn that God is the one who works all things according to the counsel of His will, and Job 42:2, “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. This view of Gods will is based on the fact that, because God is sovereign, His will can never be frustrated. Nothing happens that is beyond His control.
This understanding of His sovereign will does not imply that God causes everything to happen. Rather, it acknowledges that, because He is sovereign, He must at least permit or allow whatever happens to happen. This aspect of Gods will acknowledges that, even when God passively permits things to happen, He must choose to permit them, because He always has the power and right to intervene. God can always decide to either permit or stop the actions and events of this world. Therefore, as He allows things to happen, He has willed them in this sense of the word.
While Gods sovereign will is often hidden from us until after it comes to pass, there is another aspect of His will that is plain to us: His preceptive or revealed will. As the name implies, this facet of Gods will means that God has chosen to reveal some of His will in the Bible. The preceptive will of God is Gods declared will concerning what we should or should not do. For example, because of the revealed will of God, we can know that it is Gods will that we do not steal, that we love our enemies, that we repent of our sins, and that we be holy as He is holy. This expression of Gods will is revealed both in His Word and in our conscience, through which God has written His moral law upon the hearts of all men. The laws of God, whether found in Scripture or in our hearts, are binding upon us. We are accountable when we disobey them.
Understanding this aspect of Gods will acknowledges that while we have the power and ability to disobey Gods commands, we do not have the right to do so. Therefore, there is no excuse for our sin, and we cannot claim that by choosing to sin we are simply fulfilling Gods sovereign decree or will. Judas was fulfilling Gods sovereign will in betraying Christ, just as the Romans who crucified Him were. That does not justify their sins. They were no less evil or treacherous, and they were held accountable for their rejection of Christ (Acts 4:27-28). Even though in His sovereign will God allows or permits sin to happen, we are still accountable to Him for that sin.
The third aspect of Gods will that we see in the Bible is Gods permissive or perfect will. This facet of Gods will describes Gods attitude and defines what is pleasing to Him. For example, while it is clear that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, it is also clear that He wills or decrees their death. This expression of Gods will is revealed in the many verses of Scripture which indicate what God does and does not take pleasure in. For example, in 1 Timothy 2:4 we see that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, yet we know that Gods sovereign will is that no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day (John 6:44).
If we are not careful, we can easily become preoccupied or even obsessed with finding the will of God for our lives. However, if the will we are seeking is His secret, hidden, or secretive will, we are on a foolish quest. God has not chosen to reveal that aspect of His will to us. What we should seek to know is the perceptive or revealed will of God. The true mark of spirituality is when we desire to know and live according to the will of God as revealed in Scripture, and that can be summarized as be holy for I am Holy (1 Peter 1:15-16). Our responsibility is to obey the revealed will of God and not to speculate on what His hidden will for us might be. While we should seek to be led by the Holy Spirit, we must never forget that the Holy Spirit is primarily leading us to righteousness and to being conformed into the image of Christ so that our lives will glorify God. God calls us to live our lives by every word that proceeds from His mouth.
Living according to His revealed will should be the chief aim or purpose of our lives. Romans 12:1-2summarizes this truth, as we are called to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. To know the will of God, we should immerse ourselves in the written Word of God, saturating our minds with it, and praying that the Holy Spirit will transform us through the renewing of our minds, so that the result is what is good, acceptable and perfectthe will of God.
Thank you for sharing Darlene! Merry Christmas!
Sharon would like to share this oldie but goodie with you………..
vThe Wooden Bowl
I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now,
a year from now.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson.
The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered
The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and
failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor.
When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth.
The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess.
‘We must do something about father,’ said the son
‘I’ve had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor.’
So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner.
There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner.
Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl.
When the family glanced in Grandfather’s direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone.
Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food.
The four-year-old watched it all in silence.
One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor.
He asked the child sweetly, ‘What are you making?’ Just as sweetly, the boy responded,
‘Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up.
‘ The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.
The words so struck the parents so that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done..
That evening the husband took Grandfather’s hand and gently led him back to the family table.
For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family… And for some reason,
neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.
On a positive note, I’ve learned that, no matter what happens, how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles four things:
a rainy day, the elderly, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life..’
I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back sometimes.
I’ve learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you
But, if you focus on God, your family, your friends, the needs of others,
your work and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
I’ve learned that every day, you should reach out and touch someone..
People love that human touch — holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
AMEN! I love to learn……That is why I am up here at 3:30 reading, praying and writing to you!!! The Lord is teaching me everyday! AMEN!
Merry Christmas to you all!
For God’s Glory Alone in the love of Jesus Christ our Lord, Dewey Sharon and family
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