Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear Family of Jesus,

Want to let you know that at www.fggam.org we have begun to post my commentaries on The World We Live In. It is a spin off of the program I used to host on KKIM. Many have asked to hear my thoughts on World events, and with the Help of Jannetta, Lars and Isaac we have our first one posted! We will update these broadcasts as much as we can. I still use the term Broadcasts, because I am just an old radio guy, with a face for Radio! When you visit us at www.fggam.org just click on the Globe for my commentary.

This is my testimony to you this day my friends……….

Romans 8:26………

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

The Lord stirred me from a sleep at 12:30am today.I went downstairs to pray for the healing of Baby Eden. Grandma Jeanell had sent me an email that the Doctor’s are concerned that Eden is losing weight. I prayed till 3:30am……….I prayed over several things the Lord brought to me. I find at times that my Spirit groans for those in pain, enough to awake me.

Yesterday on the CUP we talked about being filled with the Holy Spirit and God given Discernment. Today we have three write ups on this.One from Bible-Knowledge.com, Pastor Louie Giglio on being FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT and also Ras and his devotional. The following write up on the groaning of the Spirit was just written today and posted at Bible-Knowledge.com! It is a wonderful explanation of where I am at in my life and what God CAN do with us. My prayer is that we all will be more in the Holy Spirit, filled in the Holy Spirit….be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. That we do not live a life full of what I want, or how I feel in the flesh……..but a life filled with the Holy Spirit. We could turn this Country of our’s back to God if we all were filled with the Holy Spirit……We could once again as a nation achieve great Godly things if we were all filled with the Holy Spirit. We would cut down on divorces if we we filled with the Holy Spirit.AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Groaning in the Spirit

his next manifestation that is possible to receive from God through the Holy Spirit may be the one that may considered to be the most unpleasant. To have God manifest Hislove, joy, and peace to you through the Holy Spirit are very nice and pleasant manifestations to receive from the Lord. However, when God decides to manifest His sadness or pain to you, this can be very uncomfortable.
Some of you have already had these sadness manifestations from the Holy Spirit. This is where God will manifest His sadness, not your sadness, on a particular issue that you may be dealing with.
Again, the way that you know that it is His sadness and not your own natural sadness, is that His sadness is much deeper and much more intense than your own natural sadness. After you receive a few of these sadness manifestations, you can usually become quite adept in discerning when these manifestations are coming in from the Lord or when they are just coming in from your own natural emotions.
However, this next manifestation – groaning in the Spirit – is not as easy to handle. In this manifestation, you are not only feeling God’s sadness on a particular situation, but you are also feeling Hispain. This pain is so intense, that you can actually feel a groaning within the actual manifestation itself.
This manifestation is definitely not for everyone. When this manifestation comes in on you with any kind of intensity, it will flatten you. What happens is that when your human body comes into physical contact with God’s manifestation of pain, it seems to overwhelm the circuits in your body. Your energy levels will immediately decrease and your ability to focus and concentrate will be impaired. If you are lying down when it occurs, you will not want to get off the couch. You will just want to lie there until the manifestation subsides.
When God does allow you to experience His pain on something, He will respect your limits and He will pull the manifestation off you if you ask Him to do so. When you ask Him to pull it off you, it will disappear in 5-15 seconds. It can come off you that fast. So if anyone of you receives this manifestation anytime in the near future, remember, God will pull it off you the second you ask Him too. You do not have to worry about God overwhelming you past your own personal limits.

Scripture Verses

1. This first Scripture verse, where God is showing you that He can manifest some of His emotions to you through the Holy Spirit, is the one I stated in the last article on“Laughing in the Spirit.”For the purposes of this article, I will go ahead and restate this verse for you.

“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him andmanifest Myselfto him … and We will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:21)

Again, I believe the words“manifest Myself”to him is literal interpretation, and shows that God can manifest Himself and some of His emotions to us through the Holy Spirit if He should choose to do so.
2. This next verse shows us that Jesus Himself had this groaning in His Spirit when He came upon the death of Lazarus. As you already know, Jesus ended up raising this man literally from the dead once he arrived on the scene. Here is the verse:

Then when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at his feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, Hegroaned in the Spiritand was troubled … Then Jesus, againgroaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lie against it … now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out …” (John 11:32-44)

Lazarus had been dead for 4 days by the time Jesus arrived on the scene. If you will notice when He first arrives on the scene, Lazarus’ sister Mary is weeping along with the other Jewish people who were with her. They were all crying and weeping over the death of this man. When Jesus sees all of these people crying over this man, He then starts to get the groaning in His Spirit. He obviously was feeling their pain to the same degree they were and it was causing Him to groan with this severe and intense pain.
It also says that Jesus“groaned in Himself”a second time when He actually entered the tomb that Lazarus had been buried in. I believe what was happening was that both Jesus and the Holy Spirit were feeling and experiencing severe and intense pain over the death of this particular man.
When Jesus saw Lazarus’ sister andfriendscrying and weeping over his death, I believe God the Father allowed Jesus to raise this man from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit just due to the fact that Jesus was feeling such intense sorrow and sadness for the grieving they were all going through.
This dramatic story right here shows us that God can and does actually feel our pain, sadness, and sorrow when we are faced with a real sad or traumatic situation. Many of the times when we are crying, God is crying right along side of us. However, most of the time we cannot see or feel God crying with us on a sad situation unless He decides to manifest His sadness and pain to us through the Holy Spirit.
In my opinion, when God does decide to manifest His sadness and pain to you on a particular situation where you can actually feel what He is feeling – this is an incredible privilege, blessing, and honor – because God is sharing with you His feelings on the matter, even if it is feelings of sadness, sorrow, and pain.

Analogy

If God’s pain is so intense and so uncomfortable to handle for any length of time, then why would any of us want to experience this particular unpleasant manifestation?
The answer is an analogy that I feel that the Lord gave to me to be able to understand all of this. The analogy is the “husband-wife” or “lover” analogy.
When two people are truly in love with one another, they are willing to share the good times with the bad times. When your lover is crying over a sad situation, you are feeling your lover’s pain because of the close, love-bond that exists between the two of you. You are so in tune with your lover’s feelings and emotions, that sometimes you may be able to feel their pain to the same depth and degree they are.
Imagine your father has just died and you are really grieving over his death. Then all of sudden your lover or spouse says to you they will see you later after all of your grieving is over because they cannot deal with the pain that you are going through. How would that make you feel?
When true love is entered into between two people, you have to be willing to stand by your partner during the sad times, and be willing to feel and share some of their pain during their times of sadness.
The same analogy also applies to our personal relationship with God. Remember, the number one thing that God wants from each one of us is that we establish a loving, intimate, personal relationship with Him. And in this personal relationship with God is our desire to want to share our thoughts, our feelings and our emotions with Him, just like two people will want to do in a normal human love relationship.
And then God wants to be able to share some of His thoughts, some of His feelings, and some of His emotions with us just like we will want to do with Him. And sometimes when God decides to share a feeling or emotion with us, He will literally manifest that feeling or emotion right up to us through the Holy Spirit.
You will thus be receiving an actual manifestation from God Himself. You will literally be feeling His actual emotion on something. He is sharing that emotion with you when He does this. He is allowing you to feel what He is feeling for that short period of time.
Do you see what an incredible privilege and blessing this is – to be able to feel, through an actual manifestation, what God is actually feeling about something? This is true sharing. This is what true love is all about.

If we can share our emotions and feelings with our natural lovers, then why can’t we be willing to share our emotions and feelings direct with God Himself – and then allow God to share back with us His feelings and emotions on any particular situation?

Conclusion

I know some of the above may sound too deep or too heavy to get into for some of you, but it really isn’t. Some of you have had the basic love stirrings from God through the Holy Spirit. This is just the next step up the ladder. You are simply allowing God to manifest His other emotions to you in addition to the love that you have already felt through the normal stirrings.
For those of you who would like to try and venture into a little deeper water with the Lord on this, simply go to Him inprayer, and ask Him, if it be His will to do so at your present level of spiritual development with Him, to release some of these other emotional manifestations up to you through the Holy Spirit. Tell Him that He has a green light to manifest any of His other emotions anytime that He will want to do so with you.
For those of you who are willing to give it a try, I guarantee that you will get to know God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit much better than you already do now. When you start feeling what They are feeling, and you allow God to start to share His feelings and emotions with you within this manifestation realm, it will simply draw you that much closer to God in your own personal relationship with Him. It will help increase the love that you already have for Him because you will really see how much God really does love and care for all of the people who are in this world.
It’s one thing to know that God does love and care for all of us because the Bible tells us so. However, it’s another thing to be able to actuallyfeelGod’s love for us through some of these manifestations that He is capable of giving to us through the Holy Spirit.
One time I felt like the Lord gave me a powerful word about 12 years ago. He said to me:“Do you know how dry your walk would be with Me if from time to time I did not manifest Myself to you?”
I then received an immediate analogy of the lovers again. Imagine a love relationship with no physical intimacy, no touching, no hugging, no hand holding. The love relationship would dry up without the physical touch. It’s the same way in our personal relationship with God. God does want to“touch us”from time to time with these manifestations. They will help keep us from drying up in our walk with Him.
However, we always have to keep all of this in proper balance. Some people would go overboard with these manifestations. The only thing they wouldseekafter would be these manifestations because of the intensity of them and because they make you feel so good when you do receive them. I believe God will hold these manifestations back from these types of people because He will lose them due to them getting too flaky and too out of balance with all of it.
Remember, it’s the Word and Spirit working together that will cause true spiritual growth to occur in a born-again believer. If you have all Word, but no Holy Spirit, you will dry up. If you have all Holy Spirit, but no Word, you will blow up. However, if you have both the Word and the Holy Spirit – you will grow up.
The two will go perfectly hand-in-hand with one another when you stay in proper balance within these two realms.

Read Morehttp://www.bible-knowledge.com/groaning-in-the-spirit/

Pastor Louie Giglio has this wonderful write up…………

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Dear Family of Jesus,

Karen Rowe

Patience = Knowing that God knows what HE is doing ALL of the TIME!

*We Think … that we know best ♥ and are very good at justifying WHY
*We Want … for all “our” right reasons ♥ and are very good at justifying WHY

…We are Impatient Because We Justify WHY our Reasons are Right, based on how we feel and how it effects “me”!

…We CaN bE pAtiEnT when we Trust God and Believe that God has a Purpose for us to be Right on HIS Time!

* AET in pAtiEnT btw = Almighty Eternal Trinity = A God we can Trust in! ♥

…& in the end, we always have a Testimony of how God is greater!

Please be in prayer for Karen as she and her husband Rob prepare to host the Revival in Efland NC this week! I will be flying out on Thursday! PRAISE GOD!!!!

Brenton Franks

In God’s economy you sow…you wait…then you reap, but be assured you will reap. There are no ways around the Laws of God. Galatians 6:7-8 7 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. (NLT)

Dewey and staff,

I just wanted to say that I love reading the CUP everyday. So many times have a I read something in the CUP that I needed to press on toward Christ, who is my goal. Thank you for being a support and an encouragement to me and many others. I often share the CUP with my family and friends in need. I love you all! 🙂

Danielle Bennett

Patient Care Coordinator
NEH ENT/Audiology/Cleft Palate/Peds Allergy/Vascular Surgery Clinic

I thank you for that encouragement here at the CUP and FGGAM! Danielle! Your words are like honey—-sweet to the soul and healthy for the body Proverbs 16:24 We are receiving much God given encouragement as we go forth here at FGGAM! Much response from the CUP, TV program, our Preaching, and our personal one on one visits with folks. We are now praying to our Lord for the Words to be given at the Revival this week in Efland, NC Please pray for us and with us! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday we Preached at Rock Rio Church in Rio Rancho! WOW WEE! Did the Holy Spirit move on Pulpit Freedom Sunday!

This is what was posted on our facebook page last night by Jesus First:

Thank you for the awesome but tough message today….. words we need to hear……..

Please be in prayer for Baby Eden, I just got this from Jeanell……..

Karen’s parents continue to speak words of life to her every day. We stand firm beside them in their faith.
Baby Eden is going thru another down cycle; the Doctors are concerned because she has lost weight. We stand firm believing the she is already healed.
Praying for you in your new journey.

Jeanell

Let us continue to pray for healing for Baby Eden AMEN!

It was the Words that the Lord gave me! I have been told by many of you that you miss me on radio! Thank you for that! But I can tell you I am right where I need to be! This is where the Lord has me and is using me and Sharon for His purpose not mine! Sharon now is going to be speaking at a Women’s event at Rock Rio, the Lord is using both of us! AMEN! What we need to understand in this walk with Jesus it is not always where we want to go!! One of the biggest gifts Sharon and I have received in our relationship with Jesus Christ is discernment.

First Thessalonians 5:21-22 teaches that it is the responsibility of every Christian to be discerning: “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.” The apostle John issues a similar warning when he says, “Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). According to the New Testament, discernment is not optional for the believer-it is required.2

I have noticed many are saying God has told me this or that….or He has shown me this for you……..be careful my friends ……..beware of false Prophets……

If you would like help in this area please contact me.

To detect, To define, To discriminate.Three D’s that define Discernment.
Put simply: Open your eyes! Be observant. Pay attention.
Define what you see. Discriminate, decide….what is the Lord telling you?

There is nothing like be filled with the Holy Spirit and have God given Discernment. Without, we are lost. We will never gain what God has put before us. You cannot move forward in Jesus Christ without His Discernment.

When I look back on my life and look at all the mistakes I have made they are because of the lack of Discernment. The last couple of days I have been asked to help people who have threatened suicide. In talking to one of those who was on the edge and her family members, and the other family, I have not talked to their son yet, The Lord showed me this is what I want you to do……help these folks…….be Salt and Light….tell them about Me….and the Holy Spirit and My discernment…walk this World sharing My story, my Word…….

The key to an uncompromising life is to use God given Discernment in every area of your life.

We must take the time to listen to these teachings of Jesus Christ. We must absorb the teachings of Jesus into our hearts, minds and souls.

Peter says, “God “has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence” 2 Peter 1:3

What we must share in being Salt and Light is that through the “true knowledge of Him” we have been given everything we need to live a life a Christian life in a fallen world.

Enough of what you or I think……..be it all of God…not of me..but of God.

Everyday Press into GOD…….Press into HIM…….less of me more of GOD……

Read HIS WORD…….I have started to lay my Bible on myself when I rest……….I call it my blanket of peace.

What The Lord Is Saying Today

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A bath towel for your Christmas gift. Or perhaps a roasted chicken for Christmas dinner. These are inexpensive, but make Christmas really special to our families in the Philippines. See below for how you can help. October 8, 2012. Storms come and storms go. As a child, I lived in a tornado zone of my home state. My parents dug into the ground and made a storm shelter that we ran to if a tornado was coming. Somehow I learned in those days to have no fear of such weather. With no fear, I could wisely asses any maneuvers needed to avoid injuries. Somehow in all that learning about storms, I realized God had given me faith that He was my covering and protection. This was not the case with the disciples whose boat was about to sink in a sea storm. However, they learned quickly the power of Jesus to save. Be at peace and be wise in the storms of your life. Matthew 8:23-27 (MSG) “Then he got in the boat, his disciples with him. The next thing they knew, they were in a severe storm. Waves were crashing into the boat-and he was sound asleep! They roused him, pleading, “Master, save us! We’re going down!” … Then he stood up and told the wind to be silent, the sea to quiet down: “Silence!” The sea became smooth as glass. The men rubbed their eyes, astonished. “What’s going on here? Wind and sea come to heel at his command!” Ras Robinson Subscribe to “What the Lord Is Saying Today” October 8, 2012. There was no idea what was ahead, but at the time you were being led by My Spirit. There was no fanfare. You just did what was in your heart. Even now without being particularly aware of it you again are being led by My Spirit. This is a way you know your heart is good. Someone told you that your heart was deceitfully wicked, and it was then, but that is before I gave you the new heart. The one you now have is made of flesh and is pliable in My hands. It is not resistant to My will and you can trust it when it is completely given over to Me. Ezekiel 11:19 (AMP) “And I will give them one heart [a new heart] and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony [unnaturally hardened] heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh [sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God],” Bev Robinson Scroll down to see “Photo of the Day” from our ministry to children in the Philippines. October 8, 2012. Can you see how foolish you appear to others? It is as if you are having schoolyard fights over silly dogmas. Step back from situations clogging your mind. You have spent so much time arguing about what Scriptures say that you have wasted time you can never regain. Ask yourself if My love is prevailing. Or are you warring among yourselves about senseless matters. Extend grace to one another. Remember, at one point before you received revelation, you could not see clearly. Surround yourself with peacemakers not dividers. Can and will you receive one another, or must you insist on having your way? Choose My way! My way is life everlasting. Titus 3:8-11 (MSG) “I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It’s obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off.” Kevin Robinson

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Dear Family of Jesus,

Do not be in such a hurry today that you miss the Lord and Holy Spirit……..

If Satan were to stand before the Lord right now, would your character be such that God would boast of you to him?

Thank you for stopping by for a CUP! I just love having a CUP with you! In this CUP you will find a Posting on Pulpit Freedom Sunday which is this Sunday. I will be Preaching at Pastor Tom Bozone’s Rock Rio Church in Rio Rancho at 9:30am. www.rockrio.net Saturday at 6pm on KAZQ Ch 32 on Dewey and Friends Pastor Leonard Navarre will be my guest and we will talk about being Salt and Light and Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Dewey and Friends also airs on KTVS Ch 36 Monday thru Friday at 1pm.

I also want to remind you that I am working part-time at KAZQ/KTVS and if your are interested in having a program or message on KAZQ/KTVS I can help you. Please call me 505-681-0331 or email me. I am very thankful for this opportunity that Pastor Ray and Brenton Franks have provided me.

We also ask for your prayers here at www.fggam.org for the upcoming Revival in Efland, NC with Karen Rowe of Hope In Today Ministries. I will be heading there on Thursday!

As I go about my days people ask me how is it going? As my Dear friend Karen Rowe was posting yesterday, she said she was trying not to get ahead of the Lord! AMEN! Let us all follow in the footsteps of the Lord. Be filled with the Holy Spirit in everything we do , every second of the day! I was screaming of joy yesterday in the car as to what the Lord is doing with the Revival in Efland, NC! The Revival is already underway!

Please keep the Moede family in your prayers as we continue to walk in faith! We are so thankful for your support of our efforts for Jesus Christ. Please visit us at www.fggam.org ;

My Life verse is Acts: 20:24…But I don’t place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

This morning I open with the tearful story……….Let us be in prayer……..

Oakland Athletics and former Twins relief pitcher Pat Neshek said that his newborn son has died.
The right-hander posted on his Twitter account late Wednesday night, Oct. 3, that he and his wife lost their first child 23 hours after his birth “with no explanation.” He asked for prayers, and words of support began flooding Twitter.
Neshek took a flight home to Florida to be at the birth of Gehrig John Neshek on Tuesday.
Neshek is a graduate of Park Center High School in Brooklyn Park.
“Our hearts go out to Pat and Stephanee, and we share in their sorrow of losing their young son,” the A’s said. “The entire A’s organization will keep the Neshek family in our prayers and thoughts, as they try to come to grips with this tragic occurrence in their lives.”

Matthew 18:1
“At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2 He called a little child, and had him stand among them.
3 And he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.”
Matthew 19:13
Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
15 When he had laid his hands on them, he went on from there.
and this from Godvine……………

Tell Them Some 14 years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our opening session in the theology of faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. He was combing his hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders. My quick judgment wrote him off as strange – very strange. Tommy turned out to be my biggest challenge. He constantly objected to or smirked at the possibility of an unconditionally loving God. When he turned in his final exam at the end of the course, he asked in a slightly cynical tone, “Do you think I’ll ever find God?” “No,” I said emphatically. “Oh,” he responded. “I thought that was the product you were pushing.” I let him get five steps from the door and then called out. “I don’t think you’ll ever find Him, but I am certain He will find you.” Tommy shrugged and left. I felt slightly disappointed that he had missed my clever line. Later I heard that Tommy had graduated, and I was grateful for that. Then came a sad report: Tommy had terminal cancer. Before I could search him out, he came to me. When he walked into my office, his body was badly wasted, and his long hair had fallen out because of chemotherapy. But his eyes were bright and his voice, for the first time, was firm. “Tommy! I’ve thought about you so often. I heard you were very sick,” I blurted out. “Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer. It’s a matter of weeks.” “Can you talk about it?” “Sure. What would you like to know?” “What’s it like to be only 24 and know that you’re dying?” “It could be worse,” he told me, “like being 50 and thinking that drinking booze, seducing women and making money are the real ‘biggies’ in life.” Then he told me why he had come. “It was something you said to me on the last day of class. I asked if you thought I would ever find God, and you said no, which surprised me. Then you said, ‘But He will find you.’ I thought about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at that time. But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told me that it was malignant, I got serious about locating God. And when the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really began banging against the bronze doors of heaven. But nothing happened. Well, one day I woke up, and instead of my desperate attempts to get some kind of message, I just quit. I decided I didn’t really care about God, an afterlife, or anything like that. I decided to spend what time I had left doing something more important. I thought about you and something else you had said: ‘The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you loved them.’ So I began with the hardest one: my dad.” Tommy’s father had been reading the newspaper when his son approached him. “Dad, I would like to talk with you.” “Well, talk.” “I mean, it’s really important.” The newspaper came down three slow inches. “What is it?” “Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that.” Tommy smiled at me as he recounted the moment. “The newspaper fluttered to the floor. Then my father did two things I couldn’t remember him doing before. He cried and he hugged me. And we talked all night, even though he had to go to work the next morning. “It was easier with my mother and little brother,” Tommy continued. “They cried with me, and we hugged one another, and shared the things we had been keeping secret for so long. Here I was, in the shadow of death, and I was just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been close to. “Then one day I turned around and God was there. He didn’t come to me when I pleaded with Him. Apparently He does things in His own way and at His own hour. The important thing is that you were right. He found me even after I stopped looking for Him.” “Tommy,” I added, “could I ask you a favor? Would you come to my theology-of-faith course and tell my students what you told me?” Though we scheduled a date, he never made it. Of course, his life was not really ended by his death, only changed. He made the great step from faith into vision. He found a life far more beautiful than the eye of humanity has ever seen or the mind ever imagined. Before he died, we talked one last time. “I’m not going to make it to your class,” he said. “I know, Tommy.” “Will you tell them for me? Will you . . . tell the whole world for me?” “I will, Tommy. I’ll tell them.” Amen! and this…………….. Be careful [anxious or distracted] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication [be specific] with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. – Philippians 4: 6 Although we are going to focus specifically on the first part of this verse, most Christians do not realize that the key to getting answers to prayer is not only to believe, but to be SPECIFIC. I know of a woman who prayed to God for an apartment with curtains. But ‘curtains’ just wasn’t enough – she wanted red curtains. Guess what color the curtains were in the apartment she found? The world is designed to make you anxious and distracted and to take your peace away from you. People, by their own free, will choose to be evil and to lead a lifestyle that mostly contradicts God’s statutes. This results in anxiety. Let me give you an example that may surprise you. Did you know that your mind can think on only one thing at a time? Try thinking of a car and a computer AT THE SAME TIME. You cannot do it. God designed your brain this way. By thinking of only ONE thing at a time, and knowing and applying God’s Word in your life, you can experience peace, the peace of God which passes all your understanding. That’s the next verse that follows Philippians Chapter 4: 6 above. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall [absolutely] keep [guard] your hearts and minds [thoughts] through [in] Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4: 7 Apparently, the peace of God is available to people today. Can you imagine how profitable and in demand a pill would be that could promise peace? It will never happen. Only God’s Word will guarantee true peace. Amen and Amen! Brothers and Sisters!! Hello Everyone: Once again, it is time for the Body of Christ to gather to ENGAGE in a victorious warfare prayer rally for this city, state & nation. Attached is our flyer. “THE OCCUPATION”: SATURDAY, 10/6/12 — 10:00 AM – 12:00 noon PLACE: 1600 5th Street, NW (corner of 5th & Bellamah) Please mark your callendar to attend. Let us join in united prayer for the healing of our nation. Looking forward to praying with you. Forever His Co-laborer, Barbara Gould AWESOME Barbara! Barbara is also a Board member of FGGAM! We are praying for this pray gathering! This Sunday is Pulpit Freedom Sunday and as I have already shared with you I will be Preaching at Rock Rio Church in Rio Rancho at 9:30am and on Dewey and Friends this Saturday night at 6pm on KAZQ Pastor Leonard Navarre is with me to talk about it also. Dewey and Friends also airs Monday thru friday on KTVS CH 36 at 1pm. John Hancock 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence “Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” This is a story posted by CBS News……….

On Sunday, a group of pastors led by Skyline Wesleyan Church’s Jim Garlow will turn explicitly political on the pulpit as part of “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” Some will directly endorse a presidential candidate – most likely Mitt Romney – while others will tell their congregation they should vote based on issues like abortion or same-sex marriage.

The event, in its fifth year, is designed as a provocation to the Internal Revenue Service in order to challenge the legal prohibition on tax-exempt organizations engaging in partisan politics under the Johnson Amendment. The pastors plan to record their sermons and send them to the IRS in order to encourage an audit – which they would then challenge in court in hope of getting the law to be declared unconstitutional. Garlow estimates that 1,500 or more pastors will participate.
I spoke to Garlow on Thursday. A transcript of our conversation, which has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity, is below. A Pew survey earlier this year found that a majority of Americans (54 percent) believe that churches should keep out of politics, while 40 percent say religious institutions should express their views on social and political matters.
How, in your mind, does the law violate religious liberty?
GARLOW: The Johnson Amendment in a sense changed 166 years of freedom in the pulpit, when there was no speech restrictions put on pastors at all. That, of course, changed on July 2, 1954, and the history of it very simply is that Lyndon Baines Johnson, then senator, returned from Texas upset with two businessmen who had opposed him through their 501(c)3s – their not-for-profit corporations. And since there was a tax overhaul going through the Senate at that time, Johnson added what would become later known as the Johnson Amendment, a very short statement that 501(c)3s cannot endorse, directly or indirectly, or oppose a candidate.
There are 29 different categories of 501(c), but the speech restriction was put only on 501(c)3, that one category. Johnson’s chief legislative aide would later admit that they didn’t have churches in mind at all, he was directly wanting to impact the two businessmen in Texas, but churches obviously were swept into it. And that changed the dynamics. Prior to that time it had never been questioned whether or not the church had full, complete separation from the state, and there was no capacity on the part of the government to control or censor any kind of speech on any topic. Religion, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, guaranteed with the first amendment was unquestioned at that point. We have evidence of pastors all the way back to Thomas Jefferson’s election, 1800, where they spoke out very strongly from the pulpit, either in opposition or in favor.
But churches can engage in partisan activities now, if they’re willing to give up their tax-exempt status. Would you be willing to give up that status in exchange for the right to endorse a candidate from the pulpit?
GARLOW: The presupposition of your question is in err. There was no trade-off ever done, there was no exchange that ever took place where pastors said, ‘OK, we’ll be silent on political speech in exchange for tax exemption.’ That is not at all the way it occurred. The tax-exempt status occurred from our founding fathers. That predated 1954 by a long time. It predated the founding of the IRS – that was around 1862. Tax-exempt status stems from the founding fathers’ understanding of the separation of church and state. The Supreme Court would rule that to tax the church would be able to control or destroy the church.
Isn’t there a concern, though, that if the church has a tax exemption and can also be an explicitly political organization, then the church is getting a subsidy for its free speech? Something other folks that are engaged with an explicitly political organization that’s not affiliated with a church aren’t getting?
GARLOW: Quite the contrary. There are, as I indicated, 29 different categories of 501(c). And they don’t have speech restrictions on them. A labor union, for example, does not. There’s a host of other organizations. And if you’re going to have the government dictating to the church what it can say, then you’re going to have to have a device for monitoring. If you’re going to have to monitor, there’s 300,000 churches, you’re going to send pulpit police to go around and check what pastors are saying. The core of the question is who decides what’s going to be said on the pulpit. And it’s either going to be the government, or it’s going to be that local pastor and that local congregation. And we believe that the Constitution grants to those pastors and their congregations that authority, based on the first amendment.
Is there any downside to inviting an IRS audit?
GARLOW: Well I suppose there would be any time you go to court. The challenge is that it’s not been to court. It is intriguing, is it not, that in 58 years the law has not been successful in getting it to court? And why would that be. When the IRS challenges a church, some churches simply say, ‘ok, ok, we won’t do that again.’ When a church lawyers up and says, ‘we’ll meet you in court,’ what has happened is the IRS has simply at that point backed away after a period of time and said we’re going to close your case.
Part of the reason that an administration or a government wouldn’t want to be critical of a church that does this is they wouldn’t want to be accused of going after a religion. You and your supporters are largely conservative. Is this at all in any sense about the notion that the Obama administration is engaging in a ‘war on religion’? And if they went after you, would it amount to a ‘war on religion’?
GARLOW: Well, you’re incorrect. This first occurred before Obama was even elected. This was started before the 2008 election. So this didn’t start because of Obama. And you’re also incorrect in the assumption that this is only for conservative churches. We have a number of churches of a liberal mindset signed up for it, and we strongly encourage them to do so. Our contention would be a pastor could speak out on the opposite side of the issues that I might share. The point is he has freedom in the pulpit as much as I do. Jeremiah Wright – I disagree with his content, but I support totally under the First Amendment his right to say what he wants from his pulpit, and what he feels that God has directed him to say. That is what freedom of religion and freedom of speech is all about in this nation.
A pastor now can talk explicitly now about an issue and allow people to draw their own conclusions – they can say, for example, that abortion is murder. Why isn’t it enough to talk about the issues and let people come to their own conclusions? Why do you have to be able to specifically say, ‘this is the candidate you should support’?
GARLOW: And why would you suggest that I couldn’t? Why should you limit my speech at all?

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The children in the Philippines need your help. Good things are possible for even the poorest of the poor of them. They need nutrition and education and Jesus. Just a little from you will help a lot. October 5, 2012. Jesus has been my Chief Physician for many years. In my forties, my doctor discovered hypertension and in effect said I might not live long. Thirty years later, another doctor told me he could do nothing else for me. Today, I got the results of an extensive blood test. All measurements were amazingly normal with a few marginal concerns. I will talk to my Chief Physician about these as I watch and take care of myself with good personal care in nutrition and exercise. By the way, I have been fasting and praying since September 28 on my way to November 6. Praying keeps me connected with my Chief Physician. It also allows me to pray for others with power. Lord, protect my saltiness! Matthew 5:13-14 (MSG) “Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? Ras Robinson Subscribe to “What the Lord Is Saying Today” October 5, 2012. There are fears you have. They have been simmering within you but you have told no one. They have been reinforced by some recent news. You don’t have to tell anyone but Me. But you do need to tell Me every fearful thought that has come across your mind no matter how small it is. Don’t allow those thoughts to rumble around in your head. Get them all out in the open to Me. Most have no power at all unless you let them. Even then the fear itself is not destructive, but the thought of it is. The ones that are destructive I will take care of. Trust Me. Isaiah 41:10 (NIV) “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”Bev Robinson Scroll down to see “Photo of the Day” from our ministry to children in the Philippines. October 5, 2012. In the natural my nose is very limited in smelling odors. I can primarily smell foul odors and briefly smell pleasant aromas. Supernaturally I can strongly smell the sweet floral, fruity presence of my Lord at various times which delights my spirit. The Lord says, “You carry within your innermost being the wonderful fragrance of Me. In the Old Testament people offered burnt offerings to honor and bless Me. Being part of the old covenant it was pleasing to Me, but not completely sufficient. My Son came to minister the new covenant to you and you’ve become a sweeter aroma to Me filling the earth and the heavens.” 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 (NIV) “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God. Kevin Robinson For God’s Glory Alone, Dewey Sharon and Family www.fggam.org www.deweysdailycup.com www.kazq32.org www.windomnews.com www.facebook.com www.twitter.com If you have friends or family you think would like to share a daily cup of inspirational coffee with Dewey please forward this email and encourage them to join Dewey’s Daily Cup. All they have to do is send an email saying “Sign me up!” to radiodewey. If you do not wish to be on this email list please kindly inform Dewey by sending him an email titled REMOVE at radiodewey@aol.com – we will take you off this email list asap.