Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Jesus Christ,
May the GLORY OF GOD be over you and yours this day and all days! AMEN!
May you be an answer to someones prayer today!!! AMEN!! PRAISE GOD!!!!
I am a doer of the Word of God and I am blessed in my deeds. I am happy in those things which I do because I am a doer of the Word of God. James 1:22
Oh my friends this day and all days, speak the life of Jesus Christ into one another. AMEN!
My Dad Wally Moede Sgt. U.S. Marines WWII, this picture of my Dad in Nov. of 1946 in Chinwangtao, China after just getting done playing football! 10 years later on July 4th 1956 I was born to Mom and Dad.
It broke my heart when my Dad passed on suddenly 21 years ago this Easter morning Dad had a fatal heart attack the week he retired at age 64. People back home called me his shadow as I followed my Dad all over and learned so much from him, having grown up in the depression, going off to WWII, coming back and becoming Assistant Fire Chief, Transportation Director for the School, head usher at the Church for 39 years. I learned much from my Dad. My Dad is turning over in his grave as to what is going on in this World that he fought to defend. This day and all days, (Everyday for me is Veterans Day, I do not have to set aside one day a year to remember the sacrifices men and women have made and are making for this Country) My Dad had 6 other brothers serve in WWII also. My best friend back home growing up Roger Carey was killed in the Vietnam War. Roger enlisted and was killed 6 months later.
My Dad produced much fruit while he walked this earth, and now God has given me the opportunity to do the same through FGGAM! Dad was known back home as the Shepherd of little children. One day my Mom called me and said she just had listened to a Pastor on the local radio station KDOM in Windom, Minnesota as the Pastor was talking about the life of Wally Moede and how God had him here on earth to look after God’s children. That is where I get my compassion for children, that is where I get my drive to SERVE GOD and HIS people, from my Dad and also my Mom.
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It is so good to be back with you!
Further down in this CUP as you drink it this day you will find the story of a 12 year old who went off to war during WWII and became a hero! Also an important commentary by Barbara Gould of Emmanuel Ministries International and a Board Member of FGGAM.
This is my letter to you my friends this day……..
I have enjoyed a tremendous time of learning and Ministering.
Yesterday we ministered over a young lady who just lost her grandma and was traveling to Mesa, Arizona. Her grandma had been sick and then fell out of bed and hit her head on the oxygen tank and passed away. She loved her grandma so much! We also ministered to a couple who just arrived here in Albuquerque from Kentucky to visit their daughter who is going to school here. We had a very nice visit, they needed encouragement and we were able to share with them the words that the Lord gave me. They had just left their denomination and are going to a non-denominational church.
I also learned so much at this past weekends Mentoring conference with Dr. Paul Crites, it also was an AWESOME time of fellowship, making new friends in our Lord! AMEN!
The Lord has given me the freedom to GO for HIM! GO where ever HE calls me…….
We are thankful for all of you who support FGGAM through your financial gifts. Your seed that you sow into this Ministry grows and is producing much fruit! I am so excited in the Lord that you are helping me and Sharon reach people where they are at in life, like the young girl who just lost her Grandma, she has no Pastor, the couple that traveled to Albuquerque that needed encouragement.
Thank you to all of you who are helping spread the word about FGGAM! Thank you to you all who forward this CUP to others and introduce them to our Ministry that the Lord has given us Please, we need you help in spreading the word about FGGAM! This is not of me or Sharon, this is of God….of God! This is our calling, please help us fuel our calling with your help! Sharon just sent off an order for pamphlets on FGGAM, we will be getting them soon and pass them out all over!
Sharon is the guest speaker this Saturday night at 6pm on Rock Rio Churches Women’s Ministry meeting. Drop me an email if you are coming because they want to have enough food.
What is exploding for God’s Glory Alone right before my eye’s is that Sharon and I have become more close through this transition into full-time Ministry. Sharon is a treasure from God. Much compassion and wisdom The seed money that you are planting into FGGAM is as I stated earlier bearing much fruit, you are supporting a Ministry that has God’s favor on it, and I do not boast in myself, but in my Lord Jesus Christ because I can see what He is doing. It is that glory that you are helping move forward.
There is much NOTHING NOISE in the World, and we must not turn to the left or the right, we must stay on the path of the Lord, the path that He has paved for us, as the Lord goes before us.
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” Deu 31:8
Right now I see many who are looking for answers about our Country. I have people tell me that cannot believe what just happened in our recent election.
Here is a commentary from Barbara Gould of Emmanuel Ministries International who also is a Board member of FGGAM. We met for pray last week and I asked Sister Barbara to put down in writing for me her thoughts……..
Hi Dewey:
It was so good for Sonia and I to talk with you this morning. The Holy Spirit was being the mighty Counselor.
Like so much of America, I was disappointed and sad about the election results. So last night I asked the Lord. I said, “Lord, what happened here?” And immediately I received an answer. The Holy Spirit spoke to my heart that the president bears witness to the condition of our nation. We have become a nation that is LAWLESS, IMMORAL & NON-GOD-FEARING. The very conscience of this nation is seared–hardened and lawless and that was what elected the president.
Thank God, the Almighty is bigger than all of this. It is time for the Church to arise. That was the next thing He impressed on my heart. The Body of Christ has a Commander-in-Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Head. The Holy Nation of God (1 Peter 2:9) must arise in its authority and power and uncompromisingly speak what God says over this nation. We must represent Him well. We must take a stand for righteousness and we must declare His glory. We must take responsibility to be Christ’s representatives to establish God’s order, God’s plan and purpose for the restoration of this nation. We can no longer continue to build just our local assemblies– it is time to build His Kingdom. We have been set in the Kingdom for such a time as this. Regardless of how it looks we must declare that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF THIS NATION. We must declare that this nation is restored and is again, ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
“For you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.” (1 Peter 2:9)
“Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
“For behold, darkness will cover the earth,
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the Lord will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you…” (Isaiah 60:1-3)
Hearing this from our Commander-in-Chief has given me great peace and comfort. He, Jesus, is the Ruler of the kings of the the earth. Glory! Hallelujah!
Love and shalom to you and Sharon.
Forever His co-laborer,
Barbara
Let me now share this story with you that appeared in the Chicago tribune on June 17th 1994 about Calvin Graham who went to war at the age of 12 and became a hero!……….
Calvin Graham’s battles end Tuesday when the secretary of the Navy personally returns to Graham’s widow the last of the medals he won during some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, only to be stripped of them because he’d lied about his age when he enlisted in 1942.
He was 12.
Graham was only a few months away from a 6th-grade Houston classroom when he manned an anti-aircraft gun as waves of Japanese planes attacked the battleship South Dakota during the battle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.
He spent the last years of his life in a quiet crusade for his service decorations but came up a medal short.
His nephew, Dean Lowrey, visited Graham in a veterans hospital where he died Nov. 6, 1992, at age 62.
“Calvin told me, `You know I’m not going to be here much longer, my old heart’s fixing to play out on me,’ ” Lowrey said. “He talked about his medals. He’d gotten his Bronze Star and the others back, everything except the Purple Heart. He couldn’t figure why they’d held up that one. He said, `Maybe they’ll give me my Purple Heart after I’m gone.’ ”
Actually, the military’s stalling may be the easiest part of the story to understand. Bureaucracies move at glacial speed. U.S. Rep. Martin Frost of Texas, who seconded Graham’s cause, has a thick file of correspondences with Pentagon officials. So, too, does former House Speaker Jim Wright, who sponsored congressional legislation in 1988 awarding Graham $4,916.99 for the back pay and mustering-out allowance he didn’t get in 1943, when the Navy discovered how young he was and unceremoniously booted him out.
By way of making amends, Navy Secretary John Dalton will formally present Graham’s Purple Heart to Mary Graham at a naval recruiting center near Ft. Worth, where the Grahams made their home.
During World War II, Graham wasn’t the only American boy so eager to come to the defense of his country that he couldn’t wait until his 17th birthday, the minimum age for enlistees. Allan Stover, national commander of the Underage Veterans Association, reports that his group includes some 700 once-youthful patriots.
“Calvin was by far the youngest,” Stover said. “But for all our guys, the reasons were pretty much the same. We came from bad neighborhoods. We were looking for a little adventure. We had a lot of patriotism.”
In Graham’s case, patriotism was a family affair. Three older brothers had already volunteered for military service by spring 1942, when the war was going badly for the U.S. Much of our Pacific Fleet had been destroyed at Pearl Harbor. Japanese armies had overrun the Philippines, then starved and killed its captured American defenders in the infamous Bataan Death March.
“Calvin saw all that in the newsreels,” said Mary Graham. “He’d come out of the movie theater, thinking: `We could lose this war! I got to get in there and help.’ ”
There wasn’t much to hold him at home. Graham’s father had died in a car accident, and his mother, a hotel maid, had remarried. Her new husband and Graham didn’t get along.
“Seemed like every time our stepdad came home, he’d get on Calvin,” recalled his sister, and Dean Lowrey’s mother, Evelue Sharman. “My brother pretty much had to raise himself.”
After school, Graham shined shoes and sold newspapers on the streets of downtown Houston. Finally, those gloomy headlines got to him and to another newsboy-patriot. So when school let out for the summer, they concocted a scheme for getting into the service. Each signed the other’s enlistment papers where it listed “parent’s approval,” then they went to see a desk clerk in a hotel on their paper route.
“They told him there was a fire upstairs, so he went up to see about it,” Mary Graham said. “The boys knew he kept a notary public’s seal in his desk. While he was gone, they used it to stamp their papers.”
To explain his absence, Graham told his mother he was going to see his grandmother in Crocket, Texas, about 100 miles north of Houston. He surreptitiously borrowed a brown suit and a fedora belonging to his brother Jim, who was away in the service.
“Calvin had to tuck those pants legs up underneath,” said Evelue Sharman. “But that grown man’s outfit evidently was good enough to convince the recruiting officer that he was 17.”
Going into battle
After three weeks of boot camp, Graham was sent to Pearl Harbor for assignment to the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, which was being rebuilt. John Maag, of Welling, Okla., was part of the same transport of seamen apprentices. Graham and Maag wound up serving together on the South Dakota. Maag said lots of people had to know the baby-faced Graham, who had yet to shave, couldn’t be 17.
“Calvin got through boot camp because the petty officers didn’t care how old anyone was,” Maag said. “They needed to ship out men quickly. We’d suffered a lot of casualties, and the Navy needed to build up its crews.”
Henry Buecker of Cincinnati was a Marine stationed aboard the South Dakota. As the battleship was steaming for the South Pacific, he met Graham, who confided in him.
“Calvin asked me: `Can you keep a secret? I’m 15,’ ” Buecker said. “After that, he took me as his best friend. I didn’t find out he was only 12 until 35 years later.”
By fall 1942, the South Dakota was part of a task force patrolling the waters off Guadalcanal island, which the Japanese were trying to take from the Marines. In October and again in November, when the American and Japanese fleets fought major engagements, Graham was part of an anti-aircraft gun crew. Afterward, he recalled an attack by Japanese torpedo bombers for a writer for the American Legion Magazine.
“Seemingly, the pilot released his deadly cargo directly at me,” Graham said. “Was I scared? Plenty!”
The second of those engagements went on for three days, during which the American ships got the better of the battle, stopping the Japanese advance in the South Pacific. But the South Dakota was hit by at least 40 enemy shells, and its crew took heavy casualties. Graham was detailed to a rescue squad that braved enemy fire to pull wounded sailors from under the ship’s twisted superstructure. In a 1988 letter to Maag, Graham recalled the experience.
“I took belts off the dead and made tourniquets for the living and gave them cigarettes and encouraged them all night,” Graham wrote. “It was a long night. It aged me.”
The adventure ends
Graham was wounded. The impact from a Japanese shell knocked him from one deck to the one below, while flying shrapnel took out some of his teeth. Buecker saw him the next day.
“His face was all wrapped up in bandages like a mummy, so I didn’t recognize him,” Buecker said. “In a muffled voice he said: `I’m Calvin Graham.’ ”
The South Dakota had been so badly damaged it had to sail back to the U.S. for repairs. When the ship docked in New York, Buecker, who’d also been wounded, was taken to a hospital. Under heavy sedation, he thought someone told him that Graham had died.
“I felt so guilty, thinking I could’ve saved his life if I’d told the captain he was underage,” Buecker said. “For years, I always thought about that young boy who got killed.”
In fact, Graham was alive, though gone from the ship’s crew. His mother had recognized him in newsreel footage of the South Dakota and had written to the Navy. Graham was thrown into a brig, stripped of his medals and separated from the service.
But when he got back to Houston in 1943, he briefly was a hometown celebrity. Reporters interviewed him. Dean Lowrey recalls that when Pat O’Brien came to town for the opening of a war film, “Bombardier,” he had Graham come up on stage so the Majestic Theater’s audience could salute the young hero.
Then the fuss died down, though Graham’s life never quite got back to normal. Having been under enemy fire, he couldn’t see going back to grade school, and he spent the rest of the war as a defense-plant welder. He got married at 14 and divorced at 16.
A rough life
When the Korean War broke out, he joined the Marines, only to be hurt in a freak accident that left him partially disabled. He drove a cab for a while, then sold magazine subscriptions door to door. For a long time he put his youthful sailor experience quietly behind him.
“We met in 1967, when he stopped by a bar I ran called Mary’s Green Room, and we got to talking,” Mary Graham said. “But it was years before he said a word about having been in the Navy.”
But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter announced an amnesty program for those who avoided military service during the Vietnam War. Graham wrote in, hoping to clear up his military record. He never heard back, but that inspired him to write various Texas politicians, asking their help in getting his decorations returned. Occasionally his crusade made the newspapers.
“One day, my mother called saying, `Did you serve with a boy named Calvin?’ ” Buecker said. “She’d seen a story about him. I said he’d died. But she said that, no, he was living in Texas. I was on the phone in an instant.”
In 1978, with the help of Texas’ U.S. senators, Lloyd Bentsen and John Tower, the Navy was persuaded to give Graham back his medals, except the Purple Heart. A decade later, CBS aired a made-for-TV movie, “Too Young the Hero,” about Graham’s exploits. By then, his Marine injuries and heart problems had left him an invalid. He was worried about Mary having enough to live on after he was gone.
“Calvin hoped the movie would give us a nest egg,” Mary Graham said. “But after the agents and everybody else took their shares, our part of it was about $25,000.”
To the end, Graham also fretted about that Purple Heart. Maag and Buecker each repeatedly submitted affidavits testifying to having seen Graham wounded on board the South Dakota. But always the Navy replied that there wasn’t enough documentation, until it suddently reversed itself this May and, without explanation, announced that Graham’s Purple Heart would be returned.
Said Buecker: “They should’ve used Calvin for recruiting during the war, saying: `You guys ought to have enough patriotism to sign up. Look what a kid of 12 did.’
“Matter of fact, young people ought to know his story now. These days, all that most people know about patriotism is to stand up when the national anthem is played at a sporting event.”
AMEN! Great statement! I watched the movie of his life last night.
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November 12, 2012. “Well, you know how those people are. They are partakers in ________.” Hearing this recently in a meeting, my heart was saddened. Upon hearing it, I immediately thought of how many of the man-made laws and rules of Jesus’ day that Jesus himself broke. Could it be that today’s church might even reject Jesus if He were attending our churches? Read the passage below and ask yourself how many modern day prohibitions would survive the nitpicking test. Pray about it.
Matthew 12:1-8 (MSG) “One Sabbath, Jesus was strolling with his disciples through a field of ripe grain. Hungry, the disciples were pulling off the heads of grain and munching on them. Some Pharisees reported them to Jesus: “Your disciples are breaking the Sabbath rules!” Jesus said, “Really? Didn’t you ever read what David and his companions did when they were hungry, how they entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? And didn’t you ever read in God’s Law that priests carrying out their Temple duties break Sabbath rules all the time and it’s not held against them? “There is far more at stake here than religion. If you Had any idea what this Scripture meant-‘I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual’-you wouldn’t be nitpicking like this. The Son of Man is no lackey to the Sabbath; he’s in charge.” Ras Robinson
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November 12, 2012. Stay connected. There will come a temptation to pull away. At that time it will seem like the best thing to do. You won’t be sure what you should do and will start weighing the decision. I am letting you know ahead of time …don’t do it. Stay connected. There is coming a time you will need and want to be with those who don’t seem to be highly interested in what is going on in your life. They are interested but have many other things going on. You will forget about what I’ve said, but when the time comes the Holy Spirit will remind you and obedience and peace will come.
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 (MSG) “The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t, the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.” Bev Robinson
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November 12, 2012. Your attitudes and behavior are not very pleasing to Me or to those who know you best. You need to stop straddling the fence of dual residency. My world is black and white, right or wrong. Your beliefs are correct or they’re not. You’re dabbling entirely too much with gray matters thus making you indecisive. In fact, your lackadaisical attitude has hurt you immensely. Your double mindedness has become harmful not only to yourself but others as well. Stop relying on yourself to get out of the mess you’re in. Know that you are mine. Allow Me to change your mindset. Let Me do a complete makeover. The choice is yours.
Philippians 3:17-21 (NKJV)”Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame-who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Kevin Robinson
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