Dear KKIM Family,
It is so AWESOME to be with you today!
Praise God!!!
Oswald Chambers said, “I don’t care what God does. It’s what God IS that I care about.”
Think about that…………pray over it………
Chambers said that in response to his wife asking what God was going to do about a severely sick friend. Biddy, Chambers wife, knew her husband cared deeply about their sick friend, but he knew that God’s actions could be very confusing, while the Lord himself never was.
Read that again……….please pray over it for a better understanding.
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Let us pray over these needs………
On the road today to Amarillo for a graveside funeral with Grammy, grandkids, Zach and Libbie. Please pray for us as we travel.
Praying for each of you and your families.
God bless.
Leonard
Let us pray for Vern who is dealing with issues that are effecting her life in so many ways.
Gary has a prayer need………..
My grandson’s other grandpa just died yesterday (heart-attack/45yo)…his I only talked (briefly) with one of his (two) daughters…of course, she is dealing with this as well as expected.
Gary W./Orr Shreveport Auto
Let us be in prayer this day and everyday for each other!
Here are some thoughts from our trip to Estes Park, Colorado…….
The Pastor who did the wedding was AWESOME!! What a heart for the Lord. Baptist Pastor Tom Hovestol whose Church is in Longmont, Colorado. I spend about a half hour talking to him. He told me that he had been to Israel 7 times.or was it 8?……I showed him an email I had just gotten from Pastor Don Kimbro who had just returned from Israel. Pastor Tom said that the Arabic Christians are subject to much persecution. He told me that when I get to go to Israel, My walk with Jesus will even become more clear to me.
Pastor Tom also had the line of the day to Bride Michelle when the rings were exchanged, “Some say the ring cuts off the circulation……..yes, you are now out of circulation!”
Lot of Michelle’s family farm in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. It was so interesting to get their feedback on the current affairs in Washington. Of course they said if they spent money like Washington they would be out of business. The consensus was that Washington, both parties, are out for themselves. That is a huge comment because of those states are mostly democratic.
One of those that shook is head was 85 year old Victor from Iowa, who was 6 miles from Berlin when WWII ended. He still runs three farms. He said that he cannot believe this is the United States that he grew up in and fought for. He just shook his head in disbelief.
The feeling I got from this wedding, or you could even call it a Town hall meeting, was that people are so discouraged with their government and so called leaders they really do not know what to do. Many are just hoping and praying that things turn around.
Very clear to me that most of our leaders are out of touch and 67% of them are not holding Town Hall meetings, and some that do, the meetings are staged, like the Presidents.
I find it so wonderful to get out and talk to people and to feel what they feel. remember these polls that are taken very few, if any, get to have a face to face lengthy discussion with the party they are polling!
Have you ever met a Politician that really cares about you? Really cares?
If you have, you are blessed!
God needs to be brought back into the United States and we will heal our land.
I look at what is happening to the Lutheran Church and it makes me sad. I grew up in the Lutheran Church.
Please read Romans.
The first skirmish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s churchwide assembly was won Monday night by those advocating for the acceptance of gay and lesbian clergy, but people on all sides of the issue said that there still is much arguing to come.
The ELCA’s weeklong meeting at the Minneapolis Convention Center eventually will consider a proposal to repeal a ban on gay and lesbian ministers from leading churches unless they promise to remain celibate. At issue in the first plenary session Monday night was a push by opponents to have the vote on that matter changed from a simple majority to a two-thirds supermajority.
The motion was rejected by 57 percent of the voters, but supporters of the gay clergy proposal warned against reading too much into the result. This was a parliamentary issue, not a vote on gay rights, said Emily Eastwood, executive director of St. Paul-based Lutherans Concerned/North America, a group that supports the change in rules.
“Most of the representatives are able to make a distinction between the voting procedure and the clergy issue,” she said.
In a news conference before the opening of the assembly, Bishop Mark Hanson agreed that the evening’s vote “might provide something of a landscape but shouldn’t be considered a predictor of what is to come.”
One thing he knows is coming: By the end of the week there are going to be some ELCA members who are “deeply and profoundly disappointed” by the vote on the clergy issue.
“Do I expect that reaction?” he asked rhetorically. “The answer is: Yes. But the bigger question is what form that disappointment is going to take, and that is a conversation that I am committed to have and keep having as long as necessary.”
A similar issue threatens to divide the U.S. Episcopal Church, something that Hanson, the Minneapolis native who leads the ELCA, is determined to avoid.
That is taken from the Mpls Star Tribune.
We have so many books on the Christian way of Life……..one book that is getting overlooked even by the Church is the Bible, God’s Word’s to us.
Man has made such a mess of things here in the United States, because of chasing God out. The Church is even guilty of that.
Have you ever been to Estes Park, Colo? That is where the wedding was and it is our favorite part of America. There is even snow on the top of the Rockies right now.
Had the door open and sitting and listening to God Saturday morning with the wind blowing and water from the river running. It was so peaceful to hear God in those moments.
Be still and know that I am God.
Many of the people running our Government do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We the Church, as Pastor Mark Tross says, “Need to keep giving them a piece of heaven.”
Here is a write up by Rick Warren that I think is so timely……….We are to serve and not to be served……..
We Are Here to Make a Contribution
by Rick Warren
“It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others” (Ephesians 2:10 LB).
God calls you to a service far beyond anything you could ever imagine. You were put on earth to make a contribution.
You weren’t created just to consume resources—to eat, breath, and take up space. God designed you to make a difference with your life. You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
The Bible says, “God . . . has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10 TEV). These “good deeds” are your service to the world. Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God and fulfilling one of your purposes (Colossians 3:23–24; Matthew 25:34–45; Ephesians 6:7).
What God told Jeremiah is also true for you: “Before I made you in your mother’s womb, I chose you. Before you were born, I set you apart for a special work” (Jeremiah 1:5 NCV).
When most people think of this “special work,” they think of pastors, priests, and professional clergy, but God says every member of his family is to minister. In the Bible, the words servant and minister are synonyms, as are service and ministry. If you are a Christian, you are a minister, and when you’re serving, you’re ministering.
Have you ever wondered why God doesn’t just immediately take us to heaven the moment we accept his grace? Why does he leave us in a fallen world? He leaves us here to fulfill his purposes. Once you are saved, God intends to use you for his goals. God has a ministry for you in his church and a mission for you in the world.
Is there anything holding you back from accepting God’s call to serve him?
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Let us pray……….
Lord, We pray that we will remain strong in YOU! That we will stand by Your Word! In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
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