Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

It is honorable for a man to stop striving, Since any fool can start a quarrel. Proverbs 20:3 How timely is that for this season!

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. Lord Chesterfield

Happy Birthday to our Dear Friend in Chama, NM Scott Flurry who is 59 years young today!!! One of the best radio broadcasters ever in New Mexico!

I was surprised to read the following in my new issue of Christianity Today……….

FAITH OF FEW WORDS That is the headline in a box in the Oct. issue……

McCain does not claim to be “born again” or to have been baptized. He says he is “just a Christian” who attends a Baptist Church in Phoenix.

I would suggest, if you can, to pick up this issue of Christianity Today it has a very good write up on both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama. Once again, like here at KKIM/DDC I suggest getting your news from a Christian source. Not the secular media.

The article brings out a lot of points about both candidates that have been lost in the secular media. I really think the best debate or conversation the candidates have had thus far is the event that was held at Rick Warren’s Church.

There is so much hate and anger going on with this election. We need to remember to put our faith in our Lord.

We will have tonight’s debate on KKIM at 7pm and then afterward post debate coverage with IRN/USA Radio network news.

Check out www.christianitytoday.com By the way this magazine was started by Billy Graham. Don’t you wish you could sit down and have a cup of coffee with Billy? You can wish him a Happy 90th Birthday by going to www.mykkim.com and clicking on the Billy Graham banner.

Kids’ poll predicts president: Every four years, the Scholastic presidential poll asks kids to vote. For the past 40 years, the result has been correct. This election the Scholastic Poll predicts a huge victory for Sen. Obama.
What do all those pictures tell us that appear on tv and in the newspaper of all those folks on Wall Street who are either looking so sad……….or so happy as they watch the rise and fall if the market?

I would love to wake up some day and see pictures of folks on tv and in the newspaper smiling and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Gilbert Larson is on live today on KKIM at 2:30 discussing the book of Job………….”Thinking Outside The Box”

Let’s get to our prayer needs from Dorothy and Amy…………

Hello from Sidney, Montana! Yes, we did have all that snow but we are Montanans so we can handle it, but it could have waited a couple months. I have a couple of prayer requests. My brother-in-law, Jim Paladichuk in Beaverton, OR, is on hospice. He has emphysema and not doing well so we are asking for God’s peace for him and his family. Jim’s wife, Gloria, has a sister, Clara Miller in Spokane, who is dying of cancer so the family has a lot on their plate right now. Gloria would love to see her sister one more time but does not want to leave Jim even though Brian, their son, took a week off of work to help with his Dad. We know God never gives us more than we can handle but they really need our prayers to help get them through all of this.

I continue to read your emails and enjoy them so much. Thank you. And thanks for the prayers for Jim and Clara and their families.

God bless.

Dorothy Paladichuk

Thank you Dorothy….we are praying…I would love to come back to Sidney soon and share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all! I remember you and your wonderful family!
Hi Dewey!
I am reading about the snow, and saw that you wanted to know when we get our first snow. Unfortunately, our last snow where I live was about 35 years ago! I live in Pasadena California, and every now and again, I do wish it would snow here! Instead I need to go traveling for my snow fix. Fortunately we are in the foothills, and snow is just about 45 minutes away when it comes.

I just wanted to give an update on my Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Once again, I so appreciate the prayers that are being sent out for me, and I’d like to ask that they continue, as they are working!

My insurance and employment situation is being worked out as we speak. In the school district I work for it could take up to ten weeks to know for sure, but my insurance continues until there is resolution. Fortunately my husband’s union has come through with insurance for him, and I will not even have to change doctors. That will take a week or two more to get me on the policy, but I am so grateful! My problems with the portacath (used to inject chemo) have pretty much been resolved. The new one is in place, we’re watching the old site for infection (please pray for the clean healing of all my little pokes and cuts!) but things are looking good.
Last report from the doctor on the scans I have done to check the progress of the cancer is good. There is still a small amount in my bones, but each time they scan there is less and less, and the bones are healing quickly and surely. The doctor says that is good news because it means that there is less room for the leftover cancer cells to reside. Hurray God! I still have 4 more months of chemo to go, and am a bit worried about going back to work before the chemo is done. I work with kindergarteners, the best job in the world, but unfortunately to someone on chemo a kinder classroom can be a toxic environment (sniffles, coughs, and working parents sending their kids to school sick because they can’t stay home from work….) please keep me in your prayers for God’s protection and intervention to protect me from illness, however that may work out!

Thank you so very much for prayers and support. Once again, you are all an important part of my healing team, and I pray that God bless and protect all of you, keeping you healthy and strong and walking in His path!

Amy Schultz, teacher in California battling Inflammatory Breast Cancer

We have been and will always pray for you Amy!

Monday I got a phone call from my dear friend Doug Scarbrough of Family Life Today as he was getting ready to travel here to the Duke City and begin plans for “Weekend To Remember” We had set a meeting up for next week. His office called yesterday and said that he was in the Hospital with an irregular heart beat. And his Dad was in the hospital with the same thing! Please keep Doug and his Dad in your prayers.

Let’s get to the mailbag and see what we have in it! I LOVE MAIL!!!!

Hey Dewey,

I thought you might enjoy this story. It’s great. So, take a moment to read it and it will make your day! The ending will surprise you…..

Your Friend,

John Jelso

My Son, please take my Son.

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.

When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.

About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands.

He said, ‘Sir, you don’t know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly. He often talked about you, and your love for art.’ The young man held out this package. ‘I know this isn’t much. I’m not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.’

The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture. ‘Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It’s a gift.’

The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.

The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings Many influential people gathered, ex cited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.

On the platform sat the painting of the son The auctioneer pounded his gavel. ‘We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?’

There was silence.

Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, ‘We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.’

But the auctioneer persisted. ‘Will somebody bid for this painting. Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?’.

Another voice angrily, ‘We didn’t come here to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh’s, the Rembrandt’s. Get on with the real bids!’

But still the auctioneer continued. ‘The son! The son! Who’ll take the son?’

Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. ‘I’ll give $10 for the painting.’ Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.

‘We have $10, who will bid $20?’

‘Give it to him for $10. Let’s see the masters.’

‘$10 is the bid, won’t someone bid $20?’

The crowd was becoming angry. They didn’t want the picture of the son.

They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.

The auctioneer pounded the gavel. ‘Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!’

A man sitting on the second row shouted, ‘Now let’s get on with the collection!’

The auctioneer laid down his gavel. ‘I’m sorry, the auction is over.’

‘What about the paintings?’

‘I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.

The man who took the son gets everything!’

God gave His son 2,000 years ago to die on the cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: ‘The son, the son, who’ll take the son?’

Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE…THAT’S LOVE

God Bless.

Thanks John!

Hi Dewey: No snow yet in Sioux Falls, SD. Supposed to be a high of 53 tomorrow. I’m just wondering about future baseball seasons if the world series will be snowed out when played in Minnesota. Pray for your ministry often.
Take care and God Bless,
Paul Dokken—–
Good to hear from you Paul!
My husband works in Bend , OR , and they have snow there! Guess winter’s on its way!

Thanks,
Ellie

Stay warm Ellie!

Four inches Saturday night, in Helena, all melted now…
Civil Emergency in Billings after repeated power failures.

–Jay in Helena, Montana

Jay and I used to do ball games together in LaPorte, Indiana at WCOE Radio!

Now Nik has some great things to share with us……………..
“I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”
— Philippians 3:8

Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot
know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance with him. No, I must
know him myself; I must know him on my own account. It will be an
intelligent knowledge-I must know him, not as the visionary dreams of
him, but as the Word reveals him. I must know his natures, divine and
human. I must know his offices-his attributes-his works-his shame-his
glory. I must meditate upon him until I “comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the
love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.”

It will be an affectionate knowledge of him; indeed, if I know him at all, I must love him.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning. Our knowledge
of him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Saviour, my mind
will be full to the brim-I shall feel that I have that which my spirit
panted after. “This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never
hunger.”

At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I
know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb
the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I
shall want the more as I get the more. Like the miser’s treasure, my
gold will make me covet more. To conclude; this knowledge of Christ
Jesus will be a most happy one; in fact, so elevating, that sometimes
it will completely bear me up above all trials, and doubts, and
sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than
“Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble”;
for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever living Saviour,
and gird me with the golden girdle of his eternal joy. Come, my soul,
sit at Jesus’s feet and learn of him all this day.

Tell Them

“I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ.” 1 CORINTHIANS 9:22 TLB

Josh McDowell writes “An executive ‘head hunter’ who goes out and hires corporate executives for other firms once told me, ‘When I get an executive I’m trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk about baseball, football, family, whatever, until he’s all relaxed. Then when I think I’ve got him relaxed I lean over, look him square in the eye and say – what’s the purpose in your life?’ It’s amazing how top executives fall apart on that question.’ Well, I was interviewing this fellow the other day, had him all disarmed with my feet up on my desk talking about football. Then I leaned over and said – what’s the purpose in your life, Bob? Without blinking an eye he said ‘To go to heaven and take as many people with me as I can.’ For the first time in my career I was speechless.”

There are basically five reasons why we don’t share our faith more often, and not one of them will hold up when we stand before Christ:

(1) We think it’s the preacher’s job.
(2) We aren’t sure of our salvation.
(3) We fear being rejected.
(4) We’ve never taken responsibility for learning how.
(5) Our love for Christ has grown cold.

But not Paul: he said, “Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him.”

Can you say that?

Araceli sent this in for us to enjoy……….
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WASH DAY!!!

Wash Day………..
Now, this is really a cute one. . … .and
I’ve not seen it before, either!! That is
Getting to be a rarity!!!
Monday Wash Day
Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and
Vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility
Through the week ahead.
Tuesday Ironing Day
Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles
Of prejudice I have collected through the years
So that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday Mending Day
O God, help me mend my ways so I will not
Set a bad example for others.
Thursday Cleaning Day
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults
I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart.
Friday Shopping Day
O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others
In need of love.
Saturday Cooking Day
Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly
Love and serve it with clean, sweet b read of human kindness.
Sunday The Lord’s Day
O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please
Come into my heart so I may spend the day and the
Rest of my life in your presence.
******************************************************
If this message has inspired you in any way or
You feel that it can brighten someone else’s day, please forward it.

‘Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you
Meet is fighting some kind of battle.’

God Bless you all, Dewey Sharon and family

www.deweysdailycup.com

www.mykkim.com

Hi KKIM Family, Put on that long underwear and snuggle up to the radio! HA! HA! Snow is on the way here in New Mexico and has already hit our friends in Montana. How you doing Anita, Craig, Jay, Dorothy???? All our KKIM family in BIG SKY Country! I wonder if Dean has snow yet in Watertown, SD? Let us know if it is snowing in Chama, NM Scott!

Here is the latest weather for New Mexico and a report from the Sidney, Montana newspaper.By the way I lived in Sidney, that is where I started my radio life…..Gilbert and Caralee Larson (Gilbert and Friends weekdays at 2:30 on KKIM) also lived in Sidney and so did Paul Elhis who was my boss at Citadel Radio in Albuquerque and Paul now lives here in the Duke City! Small World!

Let us know when you get your first snow of the season!!!

They are still harvesting sugar beets in the Sidney, Montana area………..by the way the area is known as the banana belt………the Sidney and Williston, ND area………because of the mild winters.

Right now at 7:48 am in the Duke City we are getting plenty of liquid sunshine! After this weekends storm here in which we had several leaks at the house, the family room ceiling fell in……we pray it does not rain to hard as the repairman are still working on our house.

(ALBUQUERQUE ) – Only a few weeks into fall a winter storm has set its sights on

parts of northern and western New Mexico.

Late Monday the storm was intensifying over Arizona and moving northeastward

into New Mexico. Moist air also is coming in from eastern New Mexico as cold

air moves south from Colorado.

Just after 10 p.m. Monday the National Weather Service in Albuquerque issues a

series of watches and warnings extending into late today:

A winter storm warning remains in effect for significant snow accumulation until

6 p. m tonight for the northwest mountains including the Jemez and Sangre de

Cristo mountains and the cities of Los Alamos, Red River, Taos and Santa Fe

A winter storm warning remains in effect for significant snow accumulation until

6 p. m. Today for the northeast highlands including the cities of Las Vegas and

Raton.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect for significant snow accumulation

until 6 p. m. Today for the west-central mountains including the cities of

Gallup and Grants.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect for significant snow accumulation

until 6 p. m. Tuesday for upper Rio Grande valley including the city of

Española.

Snowstorm hits area

Published on Monday, October 13, 2008 10:35 AM MDT

Bill Vander Weele

A rare heavy snowstorm in October resulted in much of Sidney not having electricity during Sunday.

Mark Hanson, Montana-Dakota Utilities, reports that much of Sidney lost power Sunday morning and it was returned mid-afternoon.

“From what I understand, everything is pretty much back on except for maybe a few distribution lines and a home,” Hanson said on Monday morning. “For the most part, the wet snow pulling down on branches and trees causes the power outage.”

Hanson added the snow and big leaves were just too much weight on the lines.

The National Weather Service in Glasgow reports that Sidney received 7 inches of snow through Sunday afternoon.

Other readings included 13.6 inches in Glasgow, 16 inches near Fort Peck Lake, 9 inches in Billings and 5 inches in Glendive.

The amount of snow in Glasgow broke the city’s record of snow total for the date. Glasgow received 11.5 inches of snow=2 0on Oct. 12, 1924.

The snowstorm caused a halt for the sugar beet harvest in and around Richland County.

“It definitely stopped it for a while,” Russ Fullmer, agricultural manager at Sidney Sugars, said on Monday morning. “We’re just waiting right now for it to dry up some.”

Fullmer noted that about 80 percent of the crop is in. He doesn’t have any definite goal of when he hopes harvest is complete.

“When it’s done, it’s done,” Fullmer said. “There aren’t a lot of acres left out there.”

He added some of the larger growers have a few acres left and the Savage area is a little behind because they couldn’t dig Saturday.

“Once digging starts again, it will take about a week,” Fullmer said. “A lot of people are already done.”

From Oswald Chambers……..this certainly fits these times and all times…………

It is appalling to find spiritual people when they come into a crisis taking an ordinary common-sense standpoint as if Jesus Christ had never lived or died. It is man’s personal relationship that tells. When he dies he can take nothing he has done or made in his lifetime with him. The only thing he can take with him is what he is.

Proverbs 19:21 says……..

There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel——that will stand.

PRAISE GOD!!!!!

Dewey Sharon and family

www.deweysdailycup.com

www.mykkim.com

During many of Billy Graham’s Crusade’s of the past the people would crowd around Billy’s pulpit until there was no more room………..Invariably the Evangelist stood back…..arms folded, almost as if he were stepping aside for the Holy Spirit. Often he said, “It’s not Billy Graham calling you. The quicker you forget my name, the better. It’s Jesus who is passing by.”

Friday I had an AWESOME day in the Lord………Please let me share…………

Lately I have not been able to leave Dodge (Albuquerque) yes I am talking like ol’ Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke, things just have been so busy………but I wanted to get in the newly painted and lettered KKIM Van and start handing out Voter Guides to folks and the Lord was telling me to go south where Cowboy Clarence lives in Socorro, NM. So I decided Friday was the day no matter what! I stopped in the Belen area first and also had lunch with Al and Krista of KARS Radio, it was a good time! The Lord had put Pastor Jose Luis on my heart to call him and have him come on this trip as a prayer partner……..to pray over people……Jose is the Pastor of the Spanish services for Hieghts Christian Church in Albuquerque, and whenever he prays over me I get such a charge from the Holy Spirit, I have to tell you my friends this man has a gift from God! Anyhow I got so busy that I did not make the call to Jose that the Lord was telling me to! Leave it to the Lord, as I was working on a few things at the KARS office and the front door was open……there was Jose!!! Yes he drove by the station and looked right at me and WOW! He was in Pastor Don Kimbro’s car as they were taking a tour of Belen. Pastor Don and his wife Dorthy and Jose and his wife Artecelli all were in the car. The Lord had told me to bring Jose with me and I didn’t, so he delivered him to me!!! WOW! We then went to the Kimbro’s and toured their new home and then Jose and I struck out for Socorro to meet Cowboy Clarence and hand out more Voter Guides! We stopped in a parking lot in Socorro and set up for a live broadcast. I called Clarence and he and his Dad came right over to meet us and then after our broadcast we made our way to Clarence’s home. The Lord had sent Jose because Clarence and his family not only speak English but they speak Spanish. Jose prayed for the whole family and prayed over Clarence. We then did our live broadcast from their home during New Mexico News and Views and Clarence spoke a few words to the KKIM family. It was a wonderful time in the Lord. Here is a note from Clarence……………

MY NAME IS CLARENCE MONTOYA. I AM A 22 YEAR OLD MAN WHO WAS BORN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY. MY FRIEND DEWEY HAS ASKED ME TO SHARE SOMETHING WIITH EVERYONE WHO READS HIS BLOG. BECAUSE I AM NOT USED TO SHARING FEELING IN WRITING, I HAVE ASKED SOMEONE TO HELP ME EXPRESS THEM.

FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, THAT LIFE WITH A DISABILITY CAN BE CHALLENGING, NOT JUST IN THE PHYSICAL SENSE BUT ALSO SOCIALLY. AT PRESENT TIME I AM QUITE CONTENT WITH WHO I AM. BUT IT WASN’T ALWAYS THAT WAY. WHEN I WAS YOUNG I USE TO WONDER WHY I COULDN’T RUN, JUMP AND PLAY LIKE ALL THE OTHE KIDS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT AS I HAVE MATURED AND THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF MY FAMILY AND OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, I HAVE COME TO BE THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT COMES MY WAY, EVEN MY CEREBRAL PALSY. YOU SEE, CEREBRAL PALSY MIGHT LIMIT MY PHYSICAL ABILITY, BUT IT DOESN’T LIMIT MY ABILIITY TO THINK POSITIVE AND EXPRESS MYSELF. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT IF WE LOOK AROUND US HARD ENOUGH, WE CAN ALWAYS FIND SOMEONE WHO HAS A GREATER NEED.

I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US THE GIFT OF LOVE AND WHEN WE COME TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEN WE IN TURN CAN SHARE THAT GIFT WITH THOSE AROUND US. I TRY TO DO THAT ON A DAILY BASIS WITH MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOR. AT FIRST WE ARE STRANGERS AND THEN WE BECOME FRIENDS. SOME PEOPLE RESPOND WELL AND OTHERS DON’T. BUT THAT’S OKAY. EVEN THE LONELIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD HAS A FRIEND IN JESUS CHRIST, THEY JUST NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

YOUR FRIEND IN CHRIST, COWBOY CLARENCE

I thank the Lord for friends like Clarence……….he is a wonderful friend and has lot’s to share with us all from his heart and soul. I thank God for the Radio Ministry of KKIM, the Daily Cup so that HIS people can share and be heard by the world..that HIS good works can be shared with others! I do not take this for granted!

I also thank the Lord for all the friends KKIIM and the Daily Cup have……….all friends in CHRIST! I thank you all for being part of the KKIM/DDC Family! PRAISE GOD!

By the way being from farm country……..Clarence lives as we say back in Minnesota, out in the country, and he lives near a HUGE pumpkin patch!!! It was fun to see the wonderful country side of that area of New Mexico.

We always need a laugh………..right?………Some folks have told me that want more Funny Bones in these times……….Sharon was sent this one……..

>>THIS IS A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH PARTIES!
>>NOT ONLY THAT– it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!!
>>
>>While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit
>>by a truck and dies.
>>
>>His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
>>
>>’Welcome to heaven,’ says St. Peter. ‘Before you settle in, it seems
>>there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these
>>parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.’
>>
>>’No problem, just let me in,’ says the man.
>>
>>’Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we’ll do
>>is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can
>>choose where to spend eternity.’
>>
>>’Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,’ says the senator.
>>
>>’I’m sorry, but we have our rules.’
>>
>>And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes
>>down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the
>>middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and
>>standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians
>>who had worked with him.
>>
>>Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him,
>>shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while
>>getting rich at the expense of the people.
>>
>>They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar
>>and champagne.
>>
>>Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy
>>who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such
>>a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
>>
>>Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises…
>>
>>The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where
>>St. Peter is waiting for him.
>>
>>’Now it’s time to visit heaven.’
>>
>>So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented
>>souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They
>>have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone
>>by and St. Peter returns.
>>
>>’Well, then, you’ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now
>>choose your eternity.’
>>
>>The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: ‘Well, I would
>>never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I
>>think I would be better off in hell.’
>>
>>So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
>>
>>Now the doors of the elevator open and he’s in the middle of a
>>barren land covered with waste and garbage.
>>
>>He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and
>>putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
>>
>>The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. ‘I
>>don’t understand,’ stammers the senator. ‘Yesterday I was here and
>>there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and
>>caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now
>>there’s just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
>>What happened?’
>>
>>The devil looks at him, smiles and says, ‘Yesterday we were campaigning.. ..
>>Today you voted.’

A need for prayer from our dear friend John Robb…………

“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” (John 15:7)

Dear Friends,

Gathering with prayer leaders from different parts of the world is always a renewing and encouraging experience because they are normally used to “letting God be God”, wanting Him to lead and speak when we meet. While we met in London for our two gatherings, I felt like John 15, the metaphor of the Vine and the Branches, was so relevant. Jesus told his disciples that they together (plural) needed to live in Him and He in them. Truly, our life, unity and fruitfulness in ministry results as we connect with the Vine and with one another through Him. If we gather with this kind of understanding, laying aside our personal agendas, we can be assured that it will always be a powerful life and ministry-transforming experience.

The International Prayer Council executive leadership met for a couple of days of clarifying our ongoing focus. We will continue to gather prayer leaders, especially those who mobilize prayer in their nations and regions, but we will also give focus to important initiatives that the Lord is stirring in His Body during these days such as the Global Gates, those powerful institutions such as the United Nations, Hollywood and others that exert such a prevailing influence on our world. We will also give special priority to the emerging prayer movements among youth and children, encouraging and resourcing them where we can. Such movements we believe are especially on God’s heart and will impact generations to come.

“Surf’s Up” is an international prayer initiative for the transformation of Hollywood during the American Film Market, November 5-12, 2008, that is in its final planning stages. I would like to ask your prayer support and personal participation in it if you are able to take part. Please pray for the following:

1) For deeper unity, intimacy with the Lord and clear, strategic vision by ministry and entertainment industry leaders .
2) For God’s wisdom for those providing leadership and for the provision of ministry helpers, finance and other things required.
3) For the success of Christian-run studios and film makers, such as Promenade Pictures, a new company producing films with a Christian worldview. Their beautifully done animated features on Biblical characters help teach God’s ways to children, and they also want these movies to aid the growing Children in Prayer movement.
4) For the spirit of Babylon, seduction and idolatry coupled with violence and immorality, to be broken over Hollywood so that actors, actresses, producers and others involved in the movie and TV industries can be liberated to know the Lord and produce films that bring blessing rather than harm to the nations.
(Note: If you would like to come to Santa Monica, California to serve as an on-site intercessor or in other ways during the week of November 5-12, please see www.gac4ca.com to find out how you can be involved.)

Please also continue to pray for the overthrow of violence against Christian and minority people groups by Hindu and Muslim agitators in several states of India. I just received news that Muslim mobs have attacked non-Muslim groups in the NE Indian state of Assam, burning homes and driving about 20,000 Boro and other people groups into seeking refuge in schools and camps. Pray for the swift and strong intervention of the authorities and for effective relief for those in need of food, clothing and shelter.

Finally, I rarely mention individuals needing special prayer, but ask you to remember Andrew, the son of my close International Prayer Council colleague, Brian Mills, who was involved in a terrible accident yesterday. The accident severed his spine in five places along with other injuries. Would you please pray for God’s healing touch and for Andrew’s recuperation?

Thanks so much and have a blessed weekend,
John Robb

KKIM’s Frank Haley passes this along to us……………..

This is worth viewing no matter what your religion or Party.

Go to this site and see what the Catholics have done to encourage their 67 million people on election day.. They don’t tell them how to vote but they sure do get their message across.

http://www.catholicvote.com/

Here is a couple of excellent reads from our Buddy Nik……….

If God is for you, if you believe He’s still on the throne and still has all power and you’re His kid then maybe we need to start acting like it and get rid of the whoa is me mentality.

If it wasn’t going to be hard then we would be trusting Him…somethings got to give and I believe that we need to let God continue to show us the way. You’ve already seen what man has done.

Do You Really Believe It?
Alan Riley
Dr. Howard Hendricks used to tell his Seminary students that when he listened to most preachers preach, he wanted to interrupt them and say, “You know, I don’t think you really believe what you are preaching.” He said when they assured him they did believe it, he would then keep on goading them until finally they cried out with great passion, “Yes I do! I REALLY do believe this with all my heart!!!”

Hendricks says then he would sit back down and say, “Great. NOW tell us about it!”

Dr. Hendricks makes a great point. Sometimes we come across as not fully believing what we proclaim. Sometimes we don’t “practice what we preach” as my grandmother used to say.

We say that we speak for a God Who is over all and knows all and is in all, yet we frequently don’t behave as if we are Children of the King. We say that our Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills, yet somehow His church has trouble coming up with operating expenses.

The world has been hearing some really depressing economic news this past week, and we’ve bought into it. This past week I’ve heard a lot of church folks talk about how the crisis on Wall Street is affecting the way people are tithing and consequently the way churches are allocating funds. I’ve heard several conversations where people are scared that their ministry would fall victim to the hard times we appear to be heading toward.

Something doesn’t add up here, folks.

I have a question for you: Has the current economic situation changed God? Is He less able than He was a few weeks ago? No! In fact, God knew this was coming. The drop in the Dow Jones average didn’t catch God off guard. And I am certain there is no in Heaven, and that God will continue to provide for us to do what He guides us to undertake!

If we really believe what we have been preaching all this time, this is not a time for the church to fold under the economic realities of the day! If God is our Source – and He is – and if God is leading us to do something, then we need to know that He will provide for it.

We need to practice what we preach!

With the trouble of the economy and families struggling to just make ends meet…we have to remember where our faith is. Is it in God or man? Even those who have saved for retirement are impacted. Earthly treasures are depreciating and if this current economic condition is considered to be the start of a depression then we’re not crying out loud enough for God to hear us as a nation.

Faith Works by Love
Bishop Keith Butler
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love. Galatians 5:6 (KJV)

As born again believers, we have to confront fear or it will become our terror and oppress us.

Now, the Scripture says that oppression and terror will be far from us, and that they won’t even come near us. But how is that possible? Well, it’s possible when we do not allow ourselves to function in fear. Fear is what allows terror and oppression to come to you. And overcoming fear is what drives them far from you.

Many, many years ago, I had a parishioner who was afraid to drive. Well, not only did I pray for him, but I also took him driving at five o’clock in the morning. He started driving and we went on the expressway. Now, of course, there wasn’t a lot of traffic then, but the point was overcoming that fear. Now on the expressway he was terrified, but I told him to say, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I will not fear. God is on my side.” Well, he started speaking the Word and after driving for a week, God delivered him from that fear.

You see, the thought of driving terrified and oppressed him. It also stopped him from doing what he should have been doing for his family.

Listen, fear leads to terror. Terror is the planned, organized use of fear to render its victim helpless to oppression. That’s why we cannot afford to have our lives run by any aspect of fear; it will lead to terror, oppression, and then bondage.

Now Isaiah 54:17 tells us how to handle fear. It says, “You shall condemn.” In other words, you have to open your mouth and speak to fear. You have to condemn it; you have to speak the Word over it and it has to go.

Then, the verse continues by saying, “for this is your heritage, your righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” You are sons and daughters of the Lord and you have a right to condemn anything that comes up against you.

So don’t be dismayed about anything you have to face today. God is telling you to fear not. He is with you every step of the way. When you decide not to fear, you release God to move on your behalf. God’s anointing is on you, in you, and it will produce victory in your life.

Scripture References: Isaiah 54:14-17; Hebrews 13:5: Matthew 28:20b

God Bless you all, Dewey Sharon and family

www.deweysdailycup.com

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