Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family!

How are you today?

It is 5:15 and I am up having a cup with you!!! PRAISE GOD!!! Been reading in 2 Cor. Talked with my dear friend Cindy Russell yesterday and we were sharing with each other the lessons of Paul. I also had a visit from Jim Montoya Pastor of the Church of God in Los Lunas. A wonderful time of sharing. Pastor Jim talked about how God’s people need to push forward during these tough economic times and not retreat! Pastor Jim may be starting a Ministry program on KKIM, please keep that in your prayers.

Before I share more on the lessons of Paul this from Pastor Don………

THE SOLID ROCK

Read Matthew 7:24-27

My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ Name. On Christ the solid Rock, I stand, All other ground is sinking sand; All other ground is sinking sand. – Edward Mote, The Solid Rock (19th Century Hymn)

Maranatha!

You can hear Pastor Don weekday mornings on KKIM at 7:30 with Nuggets of Truth! PRAISE GOD!

Are we living on sinking sand?

Are we living in too much comfort?

Are we living on the foot of the Cross………..or on it?

How are we really living our daily lives for Christ?

Once a week? Once a month?

The Character of Paul’s Ministry………….

We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed. But in everything, as God’s ministry, we commend ourselves:

by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardship, by pressures,

by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors,

by sleepless nights,

by times of hunger,

by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness,

by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

by the message of truth, by the power of God;

through weapons of righteousness on the right and the left,

through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report;

as deceivers yet true;

as unknown yet recognized; as dying and look—–we live;

as being chastened yet not killed;

as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor

yet enriching many;

as having nothing

yet possessing everything.

We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide. You are not limited by us, but you are limited by your own affections. Now in like response—–I speak as to children—–you also should be open to us.

2 Cor. 6: 3-11

Let us Pray………..

Dear Lord, Let us read of the life of Paul and absorb it into our heart, mind and soul. Let us all be servants of your word. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

www.mykkim.com

www.deweysdailycup.com

Dear KKIM Family,

Our lives are a Christ like fragrance rising up to God. 2 Cor. 2:15 Bonus Reading 2 Cor. 2:14-16

This from Pastor Leonard Navarre……….

Keep in mind not what you are, But whose you are.

Psalm 95:6, 7 “O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.”

This from Pastor Don Kimbro……..

SEARCHLIGHT

Read Psalm 139:23-24

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh. – Francis de Sales (St. Francis)

Maranatha!

By the way if you are a Pastor we would like to hear from you! We would love for you to share!!!! We love hearing from everybody!!! PRAISE GOD!!!! We love to gather here at KKIM and the CUP for a CUP of love with you all!!!

Let us check some responses from yesterday’s posting…If the Lord moves you, we would love to hear from you………

Dear Dewey,

In my life I see it as one simple, yet deadly mistake. Not putting God first. The first step to be a Christian is accepting a gift, that very simple. We have to accept God’s salvation. So many of us do that then jump away or slowly drift away into things of this world. if a human had pulled us from the depths of a pit we would shower the person with thanks, gifts, and praise. We would tell all we saw, we would shout it to the news media. We would want everyone to honor this person as we did.

We do not step into Christianity that way.

We go to Church and sing songs of love and thanksgiving and honor and our minds replace God with a new love we have found. We think of someone we feel has wronged us when we sing of unworthiness.

We turn away from those we see as unclean and undesirable. Maybe for fear they will bring that out in us, maybe because that will prove to us that satin is very real. We dare not ask God to fill us with the Holy Spirit because we know we will never be the same. We will lose the self will to the deadly degree we have it. we can only have a surface Christianity and wallow in our dysfunctional misery.

We will have to look inward to find our discomforts and struggles. We will have to accept that life is not a bowl cherries if we believe all the Bible says. We read of the trials and tragedies and keep them separate from the Grace and Blessings. We see our gifts and earthly possessions as works of our own hands and we hoard them until they belong to the devil and they only bring us pain. We can easily accept that God spoke life into existence but insist on placing human limitations on Him from there on out. We are a lazy lot who daily chose fantasy to justify the pain and disobedience we show our Lord. If we admit we wholly and fully believe the Bible we have to admit we did not nor can earn a ticket to heaven. Who gives a gift to another without expecting one in return or to repay or say “thanks” for something? If we strive towards a true grasp that there is one who is immune to human limitations we have to become willing to build a really big boat in the desert.

Yes, the devil is very real and we will never keep him at bay on our own power. Yes, the Holy Spirit is real and if we let Him enter we will spend the rest of our time on earth trying to put and keep God first. Yes, Jesus was without sin, that is the only way there was enough room for the magnitude of sins us humans sent to the cross with Him.

Brenda Y.

Dewey and Friends of the Cup:

Jesus loves us so much that he keeps coaxing us to see that never, never, never is the SOLUTION to the problem “out there,” but always “in here.”

The problem described in the article you cite and that you ask for feedback about (about the percentages of Christians who believe this and that according to the survey) is not with what “those Christians out there” believe or do not believe, because what other believe is never within our control. The central problem happens whenever we want other Christians to agree with the outlines that we ourselves have… when we would rather be “right” than loving.

It comes down to the question of what is “real”. The devil is not a person, because the nature of evil is to “depersonalize” people. So a “person” who would depersonalize others is a self-contradiction. And for that matter, when people –us?– behave in ways that depersonalize other people –putting them down, ridiculing them for their strengths (as well as their weaknesses), mocking them, and so on… much less torture in all its forms… then we are “doing the devil’s work.” That is why some people say the devil is “not real.” They mean, maybe, that evil in the world always comes through people who are doing the devil’s work, and that the devil has no power over us EXCEPT as we give “it” power….

Jesus, for instance, in John 8, calls several men “sons of the devil”, because they fear the future. They are very religious men, going to their church (synagogue) very regularly and trying to obey all the laws of God as best they can. BUT, they do not want to change. They do not want to give up their way (which they have been taught for generations as “God’s way”) for the New Way that Jesus brings, and that Jesus IS. So religion becomes the main impediment to following Jesus.

And so it is, sad to say, in our times. The future is in God’s hands, and to fear the future is to refuse to trust in God. As it was said lately even on TV, in a drama, “The devil cannot give what belongs to God.”

So in John 8 and many other places, Jesus calls us NOT to stick to a set of principles and codes, even if they are taken from the pages of Scripture, but to follow the Living Spirit of God –the Holy Spirit, who very much IS real– the Spirit who asks US to change, or let God change us, over and over, on and on, all through our lives… so that we become better at loving other people… and at letting ourselves be loved by God and other people.

It may well be that we consider So’n’So to be our enemy, even within the church, because they are believing wrongly. OK. So, what does Jesus ask us to do, toward our enemies? Does he say, “Straighten out their crummy doctrine”? Does he exhort us to argue with one another? Rather, does not he tell us to love them, as he loves us, even when we are wrong… maybe ESPECIALLY when we are wrong…?

I know: many people teach in the church that we have a duty to straighten out one another’s wrong ideas. But they do not get that from Jesus. That is, if we think “teaching” is more important than loving, then we are not “teaching” about Jesus. As he says in Matthew, 17th chapter, I think, “You are teaching human precepts as if they were the Word of God.”

Dewey and friends, let us in these days use all the energy we have to love one another, and to love those outside the church as well. People do not come back to any given church congregation because of the teachings. They come back to those churches where they feel loved. And when in the course of events the leaders of a congregation stop letting love flow around, that church begins to wither and die.

My first pastor back in Odessa, Texas, used to say, “The Spirit is very patient. But if you grieve the Spirit too much, then the Spirit will leave you alone… to your own devices and methods… until you cry out to the Spirit again.”

This is the main thing wrong with the church as a whole in our times: that it is becoming outraged and attacking, rather than loving. When we get hit, we want to hit back, I know, but Jesus calls us to let him do something different, through us. That book “The Shack” has good illustrations of this at work in horrible situations.

I am not saying you are doing that “attacking” thing. I am saying, with John (1st epistle): “God is love. And whoever abides in love, abides in God, and God in them.”

The situations all around us seem awful. Odd as it may seem, they have been far, far worse in times past. God is not off watching sparrows someplace. God has the world, and us as individuals, in God’s hands. We may have blown “Plan A,” but there is a “Plan B”… and C… and so on… infinitely. “It is not the will of the Father that even one of these little ones should be lost.” The Will of the Father will prevail. “In the end,” someone said, “it will be all right. If it is not alright, it is because it is not the end.”

And again, “Trust God, trust me (Jesus).” (John 14)

Blessings,
Michael R (near Seattle)

Dear Dewey, Sharon and family,
It is proof that there are people that do indeed go to church, but do not read the Holy Words that there for the reading. Words of Wisdom, written so we will not falter, or believe those that come with enticing words, but full of misguiding.
Hollywood has done a lot of damage. Not just in the false belief that the Devil is not real.
Even though Our God created the Devil also. We can not take him lightly. We must always be on guard. he is always wanting to lead us down the wrong path. as he chose.
Dewey, I also woke up early this morning (with my painful neck) and watched the short film of Ted Haggerd. That he made willingly. My interpretation of it, is, I think he should be told to go to his closet and Pray. And with that Gods will be done. sam

Dear Dewey,

I think that you and Edwin (www.wfrn.com ) are doing many thing very right!

If this same survey were done among your listeners I am sure that the results would be very different and much more positive.

I wonder what it would take to get such a survey done?

Sincerely,

Clyde

Thank you all for your responses

Let us pray…………..

Dear Lord,

Keep us, Lord, from erecting artificial barriers to joining your family. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ,

Dewey Sharon and family

www.mykkim.com

www.deweysdailycup.com

Dear KKIM Family,

The last couple of New Mexico News and Views we have been discussing the results of the a new Barna survey. It is very discouraging. As you read this, you may have to read it over and over again…..I could not believe it!

Please give me your thoughts on the following info. Please email me.

Most US Christians don’t believe Satan, Holy Spirit really exist
by Jennifer Riley, Christian Post

The majority of American Christians do not believe that Satan is a real being or that the Holy Spirit is a living entity, the latest Barna survey has found.

Nearly six out of ten Christians surveyed either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil”, the survey found. Forty per cent strongly agreed with the statement while 19 per cent of American Christians somewhat agreed.

In contrast, about 35 per cent of American Christians believe Satan is real. Twenty-six percent strongly disagreed with the statement that Satan is merely symbolic and nine per cent somewhat disagreed.

The remaining eight per cent of American Christians said they were unsure what to believe about the existence of Satan.

Interestingly, the majority of Christians believe a person can be under the influence of spiritual forces, such as demons or evil spirits, even though many of these same people believe Satan is merely a symbol of evil. Two out of three Christians agreed that such forces are real (39 per cent agreed strongly, 25 per cent agreed somewhat).

Likewise, most Christians in the United States do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force. Fifty-eight percent strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”

Only one-third of Christians disagreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is not just symbolic (9 percent disagreed somewhat, 25 percent disagreed strongly). Nine per cent admitted they were unsure.

Interestingly, about half (49 per cent) of those who agreed that the Holy Spirit is only a symbol but not a living entity, agreed that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches. The Bible states that the Holy Spirit is God’s power or presence, not just symbolic.

“Most Americans, even those who say they are Christian, have doubts about the intrusion of the supernatural into the natural world,” commented George Barna, founder of The Barna Group and author of books analyzing research concerning America’s faith.

“Hollywood has made evil accessible and tame, making Satan and demons less worrisome than the Bible suggests they really are,” he said. “It’s hard for achievement-driven, self-reliant, independent people to believe that their lives can be impacted by unseen forces.”

But a large majority of American Christians agree that a person must choose to side with either good or evil. More than six out of ten American Christians strongly agreed (61 percent) with the idea that a person must either side with God or with the devil – that there is no in-between position. Another 15 percent somewhat agreed.

Just one out of ten adults disagreed somewhat (10 percent) and a similar proportion (11 percent) strongly disagreed. Only a few adults (3 percent) did not have an opinion on the issue.

Barna explained that because of the “sheer force of repetition” many Americans “intellectually” accept the idea that you either side with God or Satan and there’s no in-between, even though this idea does “not get translated into practice.”

Other survey findings include a significant number of self-described Christians believing that Jesus sinned when he lived on earth, contrary to the core teaching of Christianity that teaches the divinity and perfection of Jesus.

More than one-fifth (22 percent) strongly agreed that Jesus Christ sinned when He lived on earth, with an additional 17 percent agreeing somewhat.

However, nearly half of American Christians (46 percent) strongly disagreed with the idea that Jesus sinned, and 9 percent disagreed somewhat. Six percent did not have an opinion on the statement.

The Barna report is based on telephone interviews for two surveys among people who described themselves as Christians. A total of 1,871 adults were randomly selected from across the 48 continental states, with the first 873 interviews conducted in January and February 2008, and the remaining 998 interviews conducted in November 2008.

WOW!

How sad! Jesus sinned? No Holy Spirit and Satan is not real? What Bible are these people reading?

We have are work cut out for us………Even Church’s are getting away from God’s word.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,

And He delights in his way.

Though he fall, he shall not be

utterly cast down:

For the Lord upholds him with His hand.

Psalm 37 23-24

Let us march on with our Lord and spread the GOOD NEWS, the TRUE NEWS…….Let us share the word with others………Let us not only live at the foot of the Cross, but on the Cross!

When we face a major challenge, like this, we can do no better that to find courage in God and to ask the Lord to “do what is good in His sight.” The Lord loves to honor those who honor Him.

see 1 Sam. 2:30

For years we have complained about the Public School system and it’s failings to teach………where are we as a Church?

Let us pray………..

Oh Lord,

Where are we failing as witnesses to your wonders? Point out our failings to us Oh Lord. Let us correct them. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

PS Please email me with you thoughts.

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

www.deweysdailycup.com

www.mykkim.com