Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

My times are in Your hand. Psalm 31:15

Many of you already know that one of my favorite scriptures is………

My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. Acts 20:24

Just got this PRAISE NOTE…….Many of you tell me that you keep your prayer list going and going………thank you!

Dewey,
I’ll still be praying for you. God Bless you and have missed talking to you.
FAITH is the priority of life.

Wanted to let you know that Gail is done with Chemo and in remission at this time Praise the Lord and thank you to all and your family for the prayers. She looks better than ever.
Love and many Blessings to you all.
Nicole

Thanks to you all who have written to me and Sharon with your love and prayers about the house in Los Alamos. The things you wrote made us cry! The inspection was delayed until today.

I am taking the day off………but I am having a cup with you because the Lord gave me the words and information that must go out today.

Please drink this whole CUP with the entire KKIM family that now reaches all the way to Malaysia!!! Hi Tan!

There is so much to share with you today……..Spiritual Warfare…..Leadership………..the folding of the American Flag………….the Bataan Death March………….AND WE ALL NEED A VACATION……..FOR OUR HEALTH…DR. ALAN MINER HAS A POSTING FOR US ON HEALTH AND VACATIONS………Also Shona Neff gives us a run down of what transpired at the Beth Moore Conference last weekend……..Miki shares with us a letter from Tony Perkins.

Drink the full CUP, but if you can’t….. warm it up in the microwave after awhile! HA! Many of you tell me that you save the CUP’s and read them over and over! PRAISE GOD!!!!!

As we shared last time………Uncle Joe says people need to get back to the word of God instead of their own will. We were in James in the last post..and now Paul sends us to Hebrews………..

Hi Dewey:
Always good to see your messages. I’m not much of a tech guy, so don’t pick them up often. (And don’t know how to use twitter, tweeter, or whatever it is.)
Glad to read your note about the book of James, which I agree is so great for Christian living. I’ve been praying and meditating on Hebrews 4:12 before my Bible study lately.
The big news around Sioux Falls lately is the Lifelight Festival over the labor day weekend. Believe that the Newsboys will be the headliner this year.
Hope all is well with you and your family. May God Bless you richly.
Your friend in Christ,
Paul

Paul, It is so good to hear from you……….

Let us look at Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Psalm 147:15 says………

He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.

Ephesians 6:17 says………

And take the helmet of salvation, and His sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Let us pray over these word’s from our God. Paul thank you for sharing. You are a wonderful man of God! I use the King James Bible, myself.

Leadership and Spiritual Warfare certainly go together. I ask my Pastor Friends much about Spiritual Warfare. Many Christians do not believe in it or know what it is. It is my attempt today to share with you what God has laid on my heart about it………

It’s so cool to be in the Lord….. He speaks to us through the Holy Spirit…….So the Lord sent me to a book called, “The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham”.

Keep in mind the meaning of this word………

cru·ci·ble (krs-bl)n.
1. A vessel made of a refractory substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting and calcining materials at high temperatures.
2. A severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial.

Here we go………..pages 32-33

What a strange alchemy great leadership is! A potent combustible pressured into a person’s life——like high octane fuel: once dark decay drawn from the deeps but suddenly in new form, ignited and powerful.
The furnace that forges leadership burns steadily, and this is particularly true among those charged with very large responsibility. Billy was a friend and counselor to many American Presidents during time of crises. All these chief executives experienced extreme personal testing. One can read in each of their lives, from Eisenhower through George W. Bush, growth through immersion in the crucible.

For instance, Ronald Reagan biographer Peggy Noonan uses just that word to describe the period when the future President, as a young actor, experienced a string of calamities, including near-death in a hospital, the fading of his acting career, and the loss of his marriage. Jane Wyman’s filing for divorce devastated him. And yet this is a man whose legacy is his optimism, the man who stirred the morale of a nation with his upbeat charm. (WOW! Don’t we miss him! sadly, many never know him!)

“these days were the crucible,” writes Noonan, “the essential experience of his adulthood, the great educator, the time that formed him and that he referred back to all his life.”

In the same way that Theodore Roosevelt modeled his life after his evangelical father, who had lived with such vigor and love, Ronald Reagan modeled his after his evangelical mother, “a little tornado of goodness,” to use Noonan’s phrase. (My models where my Dad, Mom, Grandpa and Grandma Caraway and Uncle Joe)

The great test came for Reagan came when, retuning from service in WWII, his career opportunities wilted, and he eventually found himself in a different war. As President of the Screen Actor’s guild during the McCarthy blacklist battles, (Most Americans can’t tell you anything about this time in our history) Reagan stood firmly opposed to the brutal tactics of the Communists, yet stood firm against the unfair accusations. he was caught in the middle, but the experiences toughened him, taught him, enabled him to take in stride unfair accusations and avalanches of press criticism. It also made him more intently a man of prayer!!!

Just one final part of the book I want to share with you………

During his time in office as President, Reagan reached out to Billy Graham, who was going through what was perhaps the evangelist’s greatest strategic crises. In 1982 it seemed the media and all America had turned against him for agreeing to travel to the Soviet Union, and seemingly being used by the U.S.S.R. for propaganda purposes. President Reagan took Billy aside. “You know what’s been in the press,” he said. “I believe that God works in mysterious ways. I’ll be praying for you every mile of the way.”

History now depicts both Reagan and Billy as heroes in those struggles in the early 1980’s with the Soviets. But at the time, both had to meet those tests with the endurance of the tested leader.

Out of crucibles, positive leadership. paradox. Leadership requires awareness of one’s own emotions and depths; awareness of multiple forces shaping perceptions and drives; awareness of the dark and the light and the large consequences of one’s acts.

WOW!!! AMEN!!!! Thanks to pastor Don Kimbro for giving me this book, Don is one of my mentor’s.

As the deer pants for water, so my soul pants for you, O God. Psalm 42:1

Send me an email if this info has touched your heart.

Now let’s turn to Pastor Leonard Navarre on Spiritual Warfare……going through that furnace………

We are at war, spiritually. Any time we start moving closer to God’s will and our obedience, the evil ramps up the war effort.

“Greater is He that is in YOU, than he, who is in the world”. Great and mighty is the Lord our God.

praying for hedges of protection to surround you.

Leonard

Leonard wrote this………
Some thoughts on spiritual warfare adapted from David Jeremiah

The Spiritual Attack

Adapted from David Jeremiah’s

Spiritual Warfare

Satan uses militaristic structure to carry out his war plans against the work of God. Paul calls them “wiles of the devil”. Ephesians 6:11

“Wiles” means “organized conduct”, “plans of war”, “strategy” or “methodology”. I have said for years that we are not in a game of “tiddle winks”, “Play Station” or “Wii”. This is serious stuff. Satan is coming against all who belong to God in a power on slaught of powerful devices with goal of destroying anything and everything that belongs to God.

Paul gave a stout warning to the Corinthian believers about being “ignornant of his devices”. Remember in the Old Testament where Satan led Lot into Sodom, drove Abram into Egypt and tricked Peter into denying Christ Jesus. It was Satan who made Ananias and Sapphira lie to the Holy Spirit. It was Satan who even attacked and tempted the Lord Jesus Christ. If Satan is so bold as to attack Jesus, he certainly will not hesitate to attack you and me. Peter says, “be self controlled, be alert, for the enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whomever he can devour.” I Peter 5:8

Remember, friends, that spiritual warfare is being carried out on Satan’s territory, not ours. This world lies in the power of the evil one, for John wrote, “…and the whole world is under the control of the evil one.” I John 5:19

So, what is Satan trying to do. He has 3 primary goals.

1) He wants to destroy your life, my life and every Christian.

2) He strives to destroy unity, purity and oneness in every family and Christian homes especially.

3) It is his top priority to destroy and work of the body of Christ, the church, by embarrassing it publicly, eroding her ministry, discrediting her leaders and wiping out her finance base.

When Peter describes the work of Satan as a “roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” we are talking serious business. The word for “devour” is the same word translated “drown” in Hebrews 11:29. Satan wants to completely engulf and overwhelm every Christian, every home, and the entire body of Jesus Christ, the church. He wants to drown, to extinguish the fire of my faith, your faith and the church so that there is no influence left. And, he will use every device and deception to his advantage to destroy the bride of Jesus Christ.

So, my friends, be alert, be on guard. We must control our minds and our actions and bring them under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and be warriors fighting for our families, for our friends and for the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. Fight, stand. Don’t give up. Don’t give in. NO compromise. Pray for one another.

Leonard Navarre

Frank sent this to us………..it is so AWESOME!
Meaning of Flag Draped Coffin

All Americans should be given this lesson. Those who think that America is an arrogant nation should really reconsider that thought. Our founding fathers used GOD’s word and teachings to establish our Great Nation and I think it’s high time Americans get re-educated about this Nation’s history. Pass it along and be proud of the country we live in and even more proud of those who serve to protect our ‘GOD GIVEN’ rights and freedoms

I hope you take the time to read this….. To understand what the flag draped coffin really means…. Here is how to understand the flag that laid upon it and is given to so many widows and widowers.

Do you know that at military funerals, the 21-gun salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?

Have you ever noticed the honor guard pays meticulous attention to correctly folding the United States of America Flag 13 times? You probably thought it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies, but we learn something new every day!

The 1st fold of the flag is a symbol of life.

The 2nd fold is a symbol of the belief in eternal life.

The 3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans departing the ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of the country to attain peace throughout the world.

The 4th fold represents the weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in time of war for His divine guidance

The 5th fold is a tribute to the country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, ‘Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong.’

The 6th fold is for where people’s hearts lie. It is with their heart that They pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States Of America , and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

The 7th fold is a tribute to its Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that they protect their country and their flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of their republic.

The 8th fold is a tribute to the one who entered into the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.

The 9th fold is a tribute to womanhood, and Mothers. For it has been through their faith, their love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great has been molded.
The 10th fold is a tribute to the father, for he, too, has given his sons and daughters for the defense of their country since they were first born.

The 11th fold represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon and glorifies in the Hebrews eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The 12th fold represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in the Christians eyes, God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.

The 13th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost reminding them of their nations motto, ‘In God We Trust.’

After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington, and the Sailors and Marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones, who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for them the rights, privileges and freedoms they enjoy today.

There are some traditions and ways of doing things that have deep meaning. In the future, you’ll see flags folded and now you will know why.

Share this with those who love what is referred to as, the symbol of ‘ Liberty and Freedom.’

MAYBE THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD READ THIS EXPLANATION BEFORE THEY RENDER THEIR DECISION ON THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. FORWARD IT; MAYBE SOMEONE WITH THE NECESSARY POWER, OR POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL INFLUENCE, WILL GET IT TO THEM.

IN THE MEANTIME, MAY GOD PROTECT US ALWAYS.

ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

Now let us follow up that wonderful story on the flag…………with another reason to fly the flag………this is a part of American History that many AMERICANS have never known or have forgotten about………

By John Blake CNN

Ben Steele hated the young man as soon as he saw him.

Ben Steele at a Japanese coal mine prison camp in 1944.

The man’s almond-shaped eyes, dark hair and olive skin — Steele had seen those Asian facial features before.
He saw that face when he watched Japanese soldiers behead sick men begging for water, run over stumbling prisoners with tanks and split his comrades’ skulls with rifle butts.
“Men died like flies,” Steele says. “I thought for a while I would never make it.”
Steele, now 91, is one of the last survivors of the Bataan Death March.
During World War II, the Japanese army forced American and Filipino prisoners of war on a march so horrific that the Japanese commander was later executed for war crimes.
Steele returned home to Montana after the war to teach, but he still had something to learn.
When he saw a young Japanese-American student seated in his class one day, he felt both anger and anguish.
What, he wondered, do I do with all of the hate I’ve brought home with me?
‘The worst war story’ he ever heard
Steele’s answer to that question can be found in the new book “Tears in the Darkness,” a searing depiction of the Bataan Death March.
The book details how Steele found help through an unlikely source. But he would first have to survive one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history.
In December 1941, Japanese forces attacked an army of American and Filipino soldiers in the Philippine Islands and forced them to surrender. They captured 76,000 prisoners, double what they had expected.

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The Japanese forced the POWs to march 66 miles under a tropical sun to a railway station for transport. They shot, bayoneted and beat to death prisoners who couldn’t keep pace.

At least 7,000 soldiers died during the march. More died later. The brutal conditions of the march contributed to the subsequent deaths of an estimated 25,000 Filipinos and 1500 Americans in Japanese prison camps, says Michael Norman, a Vietnam veteran who wrote “Tears in the Darkness,” with his wife, Elizabeth.
“It’s the worst war story I’ve ever heard,” Norman says. “What they [the Japanese] did was monstrous.”

Prisoners were forced to bury others alive and work as slave laborers; some were executed for sport. One Japanese soldier, who later became a Buddhist priest, told the authors that he is still haunted by what he did on Bataan.

Some Filipinos who live today near the march’s route say that they, too, cannot forget what happened, Elizabeth Norman says. “They would tell us that when they lay awake at night, they thought they could still hear the trampling of the men’s feet on the death march,” she says.

Why Steele survived

The death march was filled with villains, but the authors also found a hero: Steele. The march is told through his eyes and drawings. Steele was a cowboy from Montana who could ride a horse, rope cattle and shoot by the time he was 8 years old.
“I thought that if anybody gets out of here, I’m going to be one of them,” says Steele, who was a 22-year-old Army Air Corps private when he was captured.
At times, though, Steele wondered whether he was being too optimistic. He was bayoneted, starved and beaten. He was constantly ill, and his weight fell to 112 pounds.
Steele found a way to preserve his mind even as his body wasted away: He drew. He started sketching pictures of what he saw during his captivity.
“I felt an obligation to show people what went on there,” he says.
Steele was released after three years of captivity when World War II ended. He returned to Billings, Montana, where he became an art professor at a state college.
“I had a lot of anger when I got home,” Steele says. “We were beaten for so long. I hated [the Japanese].”
Steele meets his ‘nemesis’
Steele’s hatred smoldered for 15 years. It threatened to spill out into the open in 1960, when he walked into his classroom on the first day of the semester and saw a Japanese-American student.
In “Tears in the Darkness,” Steele says that his “heart hardened and filled with hate.” But he was so anguished by what he was feeling, he returned to his office after class to think.
He told himself that the war was over; he wasn’t a prisoner anymore, and he had to treat the Japanese-American student like anybody else, because he was an American, too.
Then he did something else. He invited the student to his office for a talk.
The student’s name was Harry Koyama, and he, too, had been marked by the war. His family had been imprisoned at a “relocation camp” in Arizona during the war.
Steele also discovered that he and Koyama had something else in common: a passion for drawing Montana’s rural life. By the end of the semester, Koyama was one of Steele’s best students.
Steele says that talking to Koyama helped his hatred evaporate.
“We had a discussion and finally came to an understanding that we liked each other,” he says.
Today, Steele and Koyama remain in touch.
“We’re the best of friends,” Koyama tells CNN from his Montana art studio. “We see each other regularly.”
Koyama says he can’t remember exactly what he and Steele talked about first, only that Steele had always treated him well. Steele did tell him later that their relationship helped him recover from the war, he says.
“I was just there,” Koyama says. “I just happened to be there for him to use my presence as a way to overcome his dark time.”
Koyama says he is still amazed by Steele’s survival story.
“Just to be a part of his life is an honor,” Koyama says.
Steele’s voice is still strong and his mind sharp. He’s been married to his wife, Shirley, for 57 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren.
Steele says Bataan taught him to treasure small pleasures, like a drink of cool water and a warm bed at night. “I’m thankful that I have a plateful of food,” he says. “I can remember when that plate was empty.” He still remembers tiny details from the death march as well. He constantly draws pictures of his friends and tormentors on Bataan. Their faces fill his sketchbooks. Steele’s hate may be gone, but the death march lingers.
“I think about it every day,” he says. “It’s in my mind, and I’ll never get it out.

Shona Neff, heard Saturday mornings on KKIM at 7:30 has this report for us on the Beth Moore Conference this past weekend………Sandy Harrington and Shona represented KKIM……..

The Beth Moore conference was a true blessing. Women started lining up well before the event started and scurried to get good seats once the doors opened! (I hope they were all Christian on their quest for awesome seats.) Actually, there was no a bad seat in the house. The Santa Ana Star Center is a very user friendly venue once you find it in the boon docks!

The event started with wonderful worship music and Beth Moore gave an incredible message based on 1 Samuel 1-3. Her message was spot on and she introduced one of her special new friends who had come from Wyoming to hear her in Albuquerque. Without going into too much detail, it turns out that Beth’s new friend spent 5 years (from age 3 to 8) in Dokkow Concentration Camp. When they were liberated by American forces, Beth Moore’s dad was one of the guys who assisted the children. It seems a very special bond came full circle and it brought the crowd of 3000 to their feet as we praised God for an incredible journey that only He could orchestrate.

Sandy and I were blessed to meet many of the women who attended and stopped by to visit the KKIM table and sign up for the free gift pack we were giving away. One especially fun moment for me was reconnecting with my best friend from high school who I had not seen for 8 years (last time at our 20th high-school reunion.) We had a great time catching up on the lost years.

I also want to share this with you………….

Dr. Miner’s Weekly Wellness Wisdom
Last week I had the pleasure of going on vacation with my family. My wife Wendy and I took our 2 year old son Landon and our 7 month old daughter Verity to San Diego. This was the first time in a year that we took a week off and within a couple of days I realized how much my mind and body needed the break.

Early this week one of our clients brought in a research paper about the importance of time off.

Researchers from the State University of New York at Oswego conducted a survey of more than 12,000 men ages 35 to 57 who had participated in a large heart disease prevention trial. The results, presented last March at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Savannah, suggest that men who take vacations every year reduce their overall risk of death by about 20 percent, and their risk of death from heart disease by as much as 30 percent.

To their surprise, the researchers discovered that some of the men surveyed didn’t take any vacation time over the five years surveyed. But instead of being rewarded for their dedication to the job, they suffered the highest overall death rate and highest incidence of heart disease of any of the participants.

So whether it is a vacation or a staycation, plan some time off to rest your body and connect with your family. Time off from work is one more part of your optimal health plan.

Love and Health,

Dr. Allen Miner
Health Quest Chiropractic

Also Miki got this letter from Tony Perkins who is on KKIM weekdays during New Mexico News and Views………

Dear Miki,

On Wednesday, July 15, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on
a bill that will allow public funds to be used to pay directly for
abortions in our nation’s capital. If this measure passes, taxpayer money
appropriated by Congress will be sent directly to the abortion industry
in Washington , D.C.

Tell your member of Congress to oppose this change in the law and to
vote against the passage of H.R. 3170 if it continues to allow the use of
locally generated tax revenues – public money – to be used for the killing
of innocent human lives in the womb.

Since 1988, except for a short period under President Clinton, the
Congress of the United States has adopted language known as the Dornan Amendment that
limits the use of tax funds to pay for abortions in the nation’s
capital. This amendment has been applied to both federally and locally generated tax
revenues – in short, all public funds – that are appropriated by Congress to the
District of Columbia . This amendment has protected women in Washington
, D.C. from the abortion industry and led many to choose positive alternatives
for themselves and their babies.

Now, pro-abortion members of Congress want tax funds used for abortion
again. If they succeed in doing so on H.R. 3170, this will open the door for the
repeal of nearly two dozen other federal laws that have similar limits on
the use of public money to pay for abortions, including through the pending
health care reform. The stakes could not be higher. Please contact your member
of Congress now and tell him or her to oppose H.R. 3170 if it allows the use
of locally generated tax funds for abortion. Please act now as the vote is
likely to happen on Wednesday, July 15.

Thank you and God bless you.

Tell your representative to oppose H.R. 3170 if it allows public funds for
abortion in Washington, D.C.
https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=CONG_DIR_LEG_FRC&f=AL09G07&jump=LK09G45
Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

Please also check www.mykkim.com for more info and our story on another great candidate for Gov. of New Mexico.

Let us pray………..

Lord, as it says in Your Word……..Everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing You. Let us all grow in our relationship with You. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!!!!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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