Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

Please prayer for Pastor Vic Tafoya of TrueLife Fellowship as he goes in for surgery this Wed. The Doctor’s will remove a tumor from his arm. Please pray that it is not cancer. Pastor Vic was in my office on Friday and we prayed together. Pastor Mark Scales from Heights Christian Church was also in my office at the same time we all had a wonderful time of conversation and prayer.

Man Does not always have the answers…………

The other day on New Mexico News and Views we played a sound bite from Billy Graham’s 1949 Revival in Los Angeles. He said, “No man has the answers for these times.” That still holds true today. Jesus Christ is the answer.

That got me thinking about all the “Nothing Noise” going on with the election. It also got me to thinking about how quick we are sometimes to give an answer to someone who is going through a very rough time.

Many times we must just be quiet.

We always do not have the answer.

We must not pretend to have the answer.

We must wait upon the Lord.

Too many times we feel we need to speak and have an answer even if we are not confident it is 100% correct.

In Chuck Swindoll’s book on Job he writes………..

The Book of Job is not only a witness to the dignity of suffering and God’s presence in our suffering but it is also our primary biblical protest against religion that has been reduced to explanations or “answers.” Many of the answers that Job’s so-called friends give him are technically true. But it is the “technical” part that ruins them. They are answers without personal relationship, intellect without intimacy. The answers are slapped onto Job’s ravaged life like labels on a specimen bottle. Job rages against this secularized wisdom that has lost touch with the living realities of God.

The late(and I might add great) Joe Bayly and his wife, Mary Lou, lost three of their children. They lost one following surgery when he was only eighteen days old. They also lost the second boy at age five because of leukemia. They then lost a third son at eighteen years after a sledding accident, because of complications related to his hemophilia.

Joe writes in a wonderful book, The View from a Hearse, (Which has been changed in title to The Last Thing We Talk About):

I was sitting torn by grief. Someone came and talked to me of God’s dealings, of why it happened, of hope beyond the grave. He talked constantly, he said things I knew were true.
I was unmoved, except I wished he’d go away. he finally did.
Another came and sat beside me. he didn’t talk. he didn’t ask leading questions. He just sat beside me for an hour and more, listened when I said something, answered briefly, prayed simply, left.
I was moved, I was comforted. I hated to see him go.

Friends have done it right when those in the crucible hate to see you go.We must leave Job in his misery for now. We’re the onlookers. Had we lived in his day, there is no way we could say, “I know how you feel.” You don’t. I don’t. We can’t even imagine. But we do care. Our presence and our tears say much more than our words.

Words have a hollow ring in a crucible.

What a wonderful writer Chuck Swindoll is…….The other day on my show as I was talking to Karen Rowe live on the air……..I just stopped talking…….and started to cry………as my silence and tears said more than any words I could speak at that moment.

Silence……..Tears………Praying………..say it best many times.

Even if we do not personally know some one………have never met them……….Prayer is a wonderful thing to do for them………it brings comfort.

The answer is in Jesus Christ.

Thank you for stopping by and your prayers are much appreciated, even if we have not met!

In Christ’s Love,

Dewey Sharon and family

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IT’S THE WEEKEND!!!!
I have some goodies for you this morning………..Goodies to bring you peace.
Many of you have told me you are so sick and tired with all the hate with this election! I am right there with you.

So Let’s enjoy a Cup together………..

Is this not peaceful……………..

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong—-body and soul, in life or in death—-to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.

From Heidelberg Catechism.

Scripture for today and everyday……..

Thou will keep him in perfect peace,

whose mind is stayed on thee:

because he trusteth in thee.

Is. 26:3

O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

-From “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” by Isaac Watts

Read those words over and over and they will bring you peace and maybe some of you will sing them! Remember when people used to hum? I still do!

“No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer.” Billy Graham

“We receive our sweetest comforts in the times of trouble.” Charles Spurgeon

Now here is even more medicine for you…………..

Have you Got your FLU SHOT??? Please read this……..Sharon gave me mine the other day, please consider.
By MAURA LERNER, Star Tribune
October 29, 2008
As the daughter of one Minneapolis firefighter and the wife of another, Linda DeLude thought she knew the dangers that her husband, Barry, faced on the job.
The flu virus didn’t even make the list. Until one day in 2007.
In late January, Barry DeLude and his crew responded to a medical emergency at a nursing home. Two days later, he started feeling achy and complained of the worst headache of his life.
He was a healthy 44-year-old with two jobs, two kids and the strength of an ox. No one, least of all his wife, suspected that a bout of the flu would kill him.
“I hate the word ‘flu’ because it sounds so innocuous,” she says now, 20 months after Barry, her high-school sweetheart, died. Looking back, Linda DeLude believes her husband could have survived if he had had a flu shot. Since then she has become something of an evangelist on the subject. “I don’t want to see anybody go through what we’ve gone through,” she said.
This fall, she joined a campaign by the American Lung Association, called “Faces of Influenza,” sharing her story publicly to encourage people to get vaccinated. She is also volunteering at a flu-shot clinic starting today at a Minneapolis fire station to take the message to her late husband’s friends and colleagues. Last fall, she said, “I literally chased some of his friends down the hallway” to make sure they got their shots. “I have no shame,” she said. “It would just break my heart to see any of them get super sick.”
Flu shots weren’t even on her radar, she admits, until her husband fell ill.
She had heard the statistics: Every year, an estimated 36,000 Americans die of complications from the flu and more than 200,000 are hospitalized. But like many people, she said, she didn’t take the threat personally.
When her husband woke up on Feb. 2, 2007, feeling lousy and his head throbbing, he insisted on going to work anyway. He returned home at lunchtime “sick as a dog,” his wife said, but refused to call a doctor. Two days later, on Super Bowl Sunday, he collapsed in the bathroom. Linda called 911. The emergency responders all knew him and insisted that he go to the hospital. Doctors found that he had not only influenza, but pneumonia and a host of other infections that can flourish in the presence of flu. Sending him home on antibiotics, the doctors told him he’d “have to ride it out.” But within two days, he was back in the hospital struggling to breathe. Linda remembers seeing the terror in his “beautiful blue eyes,” before he lost consciousness. “He went into the intensive care unit, and he never came home.”
His death was caused by an infection in his blood stream, a complication of influenza.
Last month, Barry DeLude was honored at a national ceremony in Colorado Springs for firefighters who have died in the line of duty. Officials determined that he was probably exposed to influenza on the job.
At the home they shared in south Minneapolis, Linda DeLude still wears a bracelet with his name. She points with pride to the coffee table he built by hand, and admits she sometimes talks to his box of ashes, which she keeps on the fireplace mantle. Their sons Jake, 19, and Mark, 17, “miss him desperately,” she said. Last Sunday, as she returned alone from a family weekend at Jake’s college in Duluth, Linda remembers thinking: “This is ridiculous. Barry should be here with me.”
“Of course, I started to cry,” she added. “This is something you never get over. You learn how to live with it. Kind of.”
Maura Lerner • 612-673-7384

Here is a note from my Sharon to Cherie who wrote us a note last time here at the Cup about the passing of our nursing friend Linda and Cherie also expressed her thoughts on nursing……….

Dewey,

Please thank Cherie for me. That was a very lovely note she sent, not just to me but to all nurses worldwide.

We all go into nursing for different reasons, but our main goal is to serve and give back to the community we chose to work in. Some common problems for nurses as the years pass may be the feeling of frustration, (trying to make changes for the good of all with no support); exhaustion, (working long hours covering many areas, sometimes with little or no break and no compensation for our increasing age, the mental, physical and psychological stresses on our being); and dealing the question of why did we chose such a thankless job. Then something happens…an elderly patient may grab our hand and with tears of joy say, “Thank you God for sending this Angel to earth to help me”. Somehow those small moments seem to wash away all the years of stressors and give us strength to hang on for just one more day. So we go into work, (with less than optimal conditions due to the control of the insurance conglomerates, corporations that own hospitals to profit from our illnesses, and the lawyers for both that fill our lives with unnecessary paperwork that ultimately take time from patient care), put on our happy face and fill our hearts with joy and compassion to do our job for the sake of the ill we care for.

No, nursing is not glamorous, not easy, not filled with thanks, but we do it because of the love we have for others. That gets us through each day and with the Lord’s help…it makes us stronger.

Thank you Cherie for being one of the people that truly appreciate what we do.

Sharon Moede

Hi Dewey

Thank you for adding the prayer list to the Daily Cup. It will help so
much to keep me on track on my praying. And, again, thank you with
all of my heart for keeping Amy on the list as she continues with
treatment! We are so grateful. – Cherie

Check out the prayer list at www.deweysdailycup.com and click on prayer requests.

Just a reminder Billy Graham is coming up on birthday number 90 on Nov. 7th. You can send him birthday wishes by going to www.mykkim.com and clicking on his picture.

Here is a wonderful reading from our dear buddy Nik…………………

Another look at the fullness of the Lord’s Prayer…

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
heaven…”
— Matthew 6:9

This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit
of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can
say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit soon
perceives the grandeur of the Father “in heaven,” and ascends to devout
adoration, “Hallowed be thy name.” The child lisping, “Abba, Father,”
grows into the cherub crying, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” There is but a step
from rapturous worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a
sure outgrowth of filial love and reverent adoration-“Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Next follows the
heartfelt expression of dependence upon God-“Give us this day our daily
bread.” Being further illuminated by the Spirit, he discovers that he
is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats for mercy,
“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors:” and being pardoned,
having the righteousness of Christ imputed, and knowing his acceptance
with God, he humbly supplicates for holy perseverance, “Lead us not
into temptation.” The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to
offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious
desire for sanctification. “Forgive us our debts,” that is
justification; “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,”
that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the
result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise,
“Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever,
Amen.” We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in
grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of his
dominion there shall be no end. Thus from a sense of adoption, up to
fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts
the soul. Lord, teach us thus to pray.

And now our dear friend, Pastor Jesse…………….

Where do we turn in uncertain times? In times like these Psalm 121 brings a message of assurance: “I will lift my eyes to the hills–where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” The psalmist looked to a higher source of strength beyond what he could find on a human plane. His faith conquered his fears when he looked to God in his circumstances. And when we looked to God our circumstances dwindle to insignificance. Frankly God is definitely bigger any circumstance we could face.

Let’s continue to pray for each other!

Jesse Dompreh
PowerHouse Church
Rio Rancho, NM 87174

Get a load of this!!!!!!!!!

JERUSALEM (CNN) — An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he says is the earliest-known Hebrew text, found on a shard of pottery that dates to the time of King David from the Old Testament, about 3,000 years ago.

The shard — or ostracon — contains five lines of text divided by black lines.

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Professor Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says the inscribed pottery shard — known as an ostracon — was found during excavations of a fortress from the 10th century BC.
Carbon dating of the ostracon, along with pottery analysis, dates the inscription to time of King David, about a millennium earlier than the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the university said.
The shard contains five lines of text divided by black lines and measures 15 by 15 centimeters, or about 6 inches square.
Archaeologists have yet to decipher the text, but initial interpretation indicates it formed part of a letter and contains the roots of the words “judge,” “slave,” and “king,” according to the university. That may indicate it was a legal text, which archaeologists say would provide insights into Hebrew law, society, and beliefs.
The researchers say the text was clearly written by a trained scribe.
The shard was discovered at the Elah Fortress in Khirbet Qeiyafa, about 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem. The fortress, measuring 2.3 hectares (about 5.7 acres), is the earliest-known fortified city of the biblical period in Israel.
Excavations began there in June. So far, just four percent of the site has been excavated, the university said.
Because the ostracon is similar to that found in other Israelite settlements, and because no pig bones were found at the site, archaeologists say the site was likely part of the Kingdom of Judea. Jewish dietary laws forbid the eating of pork.
Among the artifacts found at the site are more than 100 jar handles bearing distinct impressions which may indicate a link to royal vessels, the university said. Such a large quantity found in such a small area is “unprecedented,” the university said.
The site of Khirbet Qeiyafa is located near the place where the Bible describes the battle between David and Goliath — the Elah Valley, which shares its name with the fortress.
Garfinkel said it is the only site in Israel in which to investigate King David.
“The chronology and geography of Khirbet Qeiyafa create a unique meeting point between the mythology, history, historiography and archaeology of King David,” he said.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the earliest-known copies of the Bible, some dating back about 2,000 years.
It is widely believed that the first set of Dead Sea Scrolls was discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd who ventured into a cave in the Judean Desert in search of a lost sheep or goat.
The texts, written on crumbling parchment and papyrus, were found wrapped in linen inside earthenware jars.

God Bless you all and please keep praying for each other and our families, Dewey Sharon and family!

Please keep us in your prayers with some very important meetings today.

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Erika came into the station yesterday to tell us her sister is cancer free! We started praying for her about a year ago also!!! PRAISE GOD!!!