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Dear KKIM family,
Please pray for Becky Franks the treasured wife of Pastor Ray Franks……..
We are praying Pastor Ray……..We love you and Becky so much.
Please pray for a miracle for Becky and Ray!
Dear KKIM Family,
We are Family!!!!!!!!! In our Lord!!! AMEN!!!
Every true pastor’s passion: “They glorified God because of me” (Gal. 1:24). And every true Christian’s. John Piper
We have started our effort to aid Children in Haiti with Cross International! Please go to www.mykkim.com and ray about giving to this effort. Our Friends at Cross are back again to help us! WOW WEE 97% of the money you give goes right to the kids! Cross is an excellent organization of our Lord! Please pray about helping with this effort!
Can you donate a computer to Dewey’s Daily CUP???? ….You know we don’t ask for much here at the CUP, but old Betsy is dying .I we need someone to step forward and donate a new computer to us! The CUP is getting harder to send out because I have to keep shutting the computer down…..etc……This has been going on for months and the LORD has shown me to be BOLD and ask for HELP!! Please pray about helping, we have been offered an old computer but we need a top notch computer to keep us perking along! We are just a simple Ministry working everyday for our LORD and we need some support. I also would ask you to help us with some of the costs for our 40th Birthday Praise and Worship Service, please contact me if you can help. Please pray on these needs. I know there are so many needs out in our World, I see and hear about many, many each day. Love to all of you! It is tough for me to ask for support, but the LORD has shown me to ask and shout from the roof top HELP US be Salt and Light!!!!!!!!!
It is very dry here in New Mexico and Colorado. Over the weekend we had a fire in Chimayo,NM that destroyed one home and three other buildings, yesterday a fire near Santa Rosa,NM and a wildfire near Denver…….
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/27/10880041-colo-wildfire-kills-one-900-homes-ordered-evacuated?ocid=twitter Please pray for rain for our area, we may be in for a long hot dry summer. Sunday we set a record here in Albuquerque with 83 degrees old record dates back to 1896! here's a note from Sam after yesterdays posting..........
Dear Dewey, I was touched by Darlene’s ‘Jesus’s Death is 60 second? I forget the headline of it. BUT I have a question, it says that the nails were not in His hand but in His wrist? could you or someone give me scripture where i may find that? I have been looking for awhile and can’t find it.
Thank you in advance my dear friend. ………..sam
Pastor Leonard is here to answer this……..
Hi Sam,
Dewey asked me to respond to your question about the nails in the hands of Jesus or in the wrists. Well, we really don’t know for sure but I have attached a couple explanations that might help.
If only nails were used without ropes then the hand probably cannot support the weight of his body. The nail would have had to be placed just below the wrist towards the elbow for that cross bone to support his weight. but if ropes were used which was common in Jesus’ day then the nail in the hands would make sense.
Hope the attachment helps.
Blessings.
NAILS:
One answer is that we don’t know for sure. There were millions of people crucified by the Romans. Crassus lined the “Appian Way” with crucifixions formiles during one slave revolt. The idea that only one method was used in millions of different crucifixions obviously isn’t likely. From archeology, we know the most common method by far was through the wrists in the space between the radius and ulna bones, thus breaking no bones. But that doesn’t mean other methods like nailing in the palms in between the philanges (bones in the hand) weren’t also used. Some have doubted the nailing through the hands thinking that such a place would not be strong enough, but the executioners most likely used rope to secure the wrists of those nailed in this manner so they could not pull their hands through the nail head.
According to some, the most likely situation is that Jesus was nailed through the wrists, not through the palms of the hands. The Bible, however, says Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross, and that He had nail wounds in His hands. To the believer, the Scripture is the highest source of information and truth.
Contrary to popular belief, when hands are mentioned in the Bible, it actually refers to “hands,” not hands and wrists or just wrists. Here are just a few examples in the Old Testament of the use of Hebrew words:
khaw-bak’ A primitive root; to clasp (the hands or in embrace):-embrace, fold.
khib-book’ a clasping of the hands (in idleness):-fold.
kho’-fen From an unused root of uncertain signification; a fist (only in the dual):-fists, (both) hands, hand [-full].
yaw-daw’ literally to use (that is, hold out) the hand; physically to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively to bemoan (by wringing the hands):-cast (out), (make) confess (-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank (-ful, -s, -sgiving). maw-khaw’ A primitive root; to rub or strike the hands together (in exultation):-clap.
Here are examples in the Greek, the language of the New Testament writers:
ap-on-ip’-to ; to wash off (reflexively one’s own hands symbolically):-wash.
dee-akh-i-rid’-zom-ahe to handle thoroughly, that is, lay violent hands upon:-kill, slay.
ep-ith’-es-is ; an imposition (of hands officially):-laying (putting) on.
khi-rop-oy’-ay-tos manufactured, that is, of human construction:-made by (make with)- hands.
pee-ad’-zo to squeeze, that is, seize (gently by the hand [press], or officially [arrest], or in hunting [capture]):-apprehend, catch, lay hand on, take.
poog-may From a primary word, πύζ pux, (the fist as a weapon); the clenched hand, that is, (only in the dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing):-oft.
hrap-id’-zo From a derivative of ῥέπω rhepō, a primary word, (to let fall, “rap”); to slap (with the palm of the hand):-smite (with the palm of the hand).
pso’-kh to triturate, that is, (by analogy) to rub out (kernels from husks with the fingers or hand):-rub. (Note all definitions are from Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries.) These are just some examples of how Hebrew and Greek words were very distinctive in describing things done by the hand. The idea that the wrist was not distinguished from the hand in those times was simply untrue.
The strongest evidence that Christ was nailed through his hands is found in the words of Jesus. Luke 24:39 (KJV) “39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. John 20:24 – 29 (KJV) 24But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 27Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” The Greek word used by John the Apostle was: Khire the hand (literally or figuratively [power]; especially [by Hebraism] a means or instrument):-hand.
Another view: We know that crucifixion was invented by the Persians about 300 or 400 years B.C. It was among the most painful and excruciating form of punishment leading to death ever contrived by man for man (women were never crucified). If we trace the word “excruciation” back to its origins we find that it is inextricably linked to the act of crucifixion: Latin excruciatus, past participle of excruciare, from ex- + cruciare to crucify, from cruc-, crux cross(Merriam Webster Dictionary).
Contrary to popular notion the nails which held Jesus to the cross must have been driven into His wrists and not his palms. Jesus’ nails would have been made of heavy, probably square, iron material, 7-9 inches long. Many great painters from the past have depicted Jesus being nailed through His palms to the cross; it is a medical impossibility for this to be the case. You may have to really work your mind to grasp the enormity of what was going on here. The weight of a fully grown man was going to be suspended by three nails.
Not all crucifixions were carried out in the same way; some victims were tied to the cross while others were nailed. Jesus was nailed. He was made to carry the cross-bar to the place of His execution. The upright post (stipe) was a permanent fixture. The crossbar (patibulum) was always carried to the location, not the complete cross as is often depicted. When Jesus got to the place of His execution, He was placed on His back with His arms outstretched. The nails were first driven through small wooden disks to eliminate any chance of the heads pulling through the flesh. The site of the incision in the arm was critical; the Romans had perfected the procedure, a very specific procedure. The legionnaire who had been given the task felt for a specific spot, the nail had to be driven in-between the bones of the forearm up close to the wrist while not severing any major arteries or veins. There is a space between eight small bones which is structurally suitable to permit a full body weight to be supported for a time. If the nails had been driven into the palms of the hands, under the extreme weight, they would have ripped out between the fingers.
First, a nail would have been driven into His arm on one side, and then the other. The legionnaire would make sure that His arms were not pulled too tightly, allowing flexion and movement. With this done, the patibulum was then raised and affixed to the stripe. The next stage involved the nailing of the feet; this was also a deliberate action. The third nail had to be driven through both feet, which were turned outward so the nail could be hammered inside the Achilles tendon. With His knees slightly flexed Jesus was now crucified. As He slowly sagged down, He would have tried to support His weight with the muscles of His legs, an impossible position to maintain. In some cases, the victims’ legs were broken, so that they couldn’t support themselves in this way. Eventually more and more weight was placed upon the nails. The method the Romans had perfected ensured that crucifixion victims would hang painfully until their diaphragm went into spasm and they literally suffocated to death.
Leonard
God Bless you Pastor Leonard!!!!
Eddie B is part of our Family……here is a note from Sandi B…….
Please take a minute and vote for Eddie B’s song called “I will make it”.
This is the link
http://www.indieheaven.com/fanfaves.php
Or
You can follow the directions that fallow:
Step 1: www.indieheaven
Step 2: Fan Faves
Step 3: Look for Eddie’s song “I will make it” (It should be number 1)
Step 4: Click on the 5th Star
Thank you for sharing Sandi!!!!!
From the Teachings of Charles Spurgeon……
When we know that we have eternal life, we do not fret about trials of this passing life. I could point
to the brethren here this morning and I could mention sisters at home who amaze me by their endurance of pain and weakness. This I know concerning them, that they never have a doubt about their interest in Christ. And for the this cause they are able to surrender themselves into those dear hands that were pierced for them. They know that they are the Lord’s, and so they say, “Let Him do what seems good to Him” 1 Sam 3:18
Last night I talked to a friend who only had bread to eat yesterday. He was eating it before he went to bed to fill up his stomach. He has no money until pay day for food. many in America are in the same boat. By contrast I read a story yesterday that the Texas rangers Baseball Team is going to be selling a ONE POUND HOT DOG for $28.00 at the ball park this season! Greed? Overeating? Money! Money! What a disconnect with the common folk of this country! Much greed at the ballpark! Much greed in our society, and by selling this hot dog they are contributing to the poor health of people!
My friend, was not concerned at all about his well being…..he said he would be okay until friday, which is pay day. With Gretchen and Lars both in school my heart goes out to them because they struggle to have enough money to put food on their table, both work, but it is a challenge. Many others are in the same boat. Let us pray.
There is a huge disconnect in the Unites States of America between the rich and poor.
Spurgeon goes on in his teaching………
Let us never tamper with the truth of God. I find it as much as I can do to enjoy the discomfort of the truth and to learn the spiritual lessons of God’s Word without setting up to be a critic upon it.And I find it immeasurably more profitable to my own soul to believingly adore than unbelieving to invent objections, or industriously to try to meet them. The meeting of objections is an endless work. When you have killed one regiment of them, there is another regiment coming on, and when you have put to the sword whole legions of doubts, doubters still swarm upon you like the frogs of Egypt! It is poor business. It has no practical end. It is far better to firmly believe what you profess to believe and to follow out to all the blessed consequences all the truths of God that, in your own heart and soul, you have received of the Lord.
Please now read John 5: 24-29……..get out your Bible and please read……..AMEN!
At our Birthday Worship and Praise Service at Legacy Church on April 13th we now have over 150 prizes we are giving away!!! PRAISE GOD!! Included in this is many books from Dr. Charles Stanley heard weekday mornings on KKIM at 8:05.
Dr. Stanley says this about our walk with Jesus………
Make prayer and meditation on God’s Word daily priorities…….
Psalm 1: 1-3
Meditation simply means reading a daily passage of the Bible and talking to the Lord about it, asking
Him questions and seeking understanding, direction, or encouragement. Since the Lord knows what you’re going to face each day, it’s best to do this in the morning so you’ll be strengthened for whatever lies ahead. In fact, this was the pattern that Jesus followed, rising early in the morning to be alone with His Father (Mark 1:35, Folks this is why I have a CUP early in the morning with you, first I get up and pray and read……then the Lord shows me what to type to you this day) If you diligently fill your mind with the Word each day, the Lord will quip you for whatever He’s called you to do (Josh 1: 7-8), and you will be able to better discern His will for your life! AMEN! PRAISE GOD!!!
Day 36 of our 40 day Journey………
Psalm 22: q14-15 Old Testament Prophecy
My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones have slipped out of joint.
My heart melts like wax inside me.
My strength is gone, dried up like shards of pottery;
my dry tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
You lay me in the dust of death.
Mark 15: 44-45 Fulfilled in Jesus
Pilate could not believe Jesus was already dead, so he sent for the Centurion, who confirmed it.
Let us be in prayer………..
Let’s now hear from Karen Rowe, Thursdays at 2:45pm on KKIM………
“It is not what I do, but what God has done ~ That our name is written in the Book of Life in Heaven –This is the agenda for Rejoicing!” (Luke 10:20)
so it is also, not what we do or do not do …
For God is the JUDGE …
The Holy Spirit CONVICTS …
Our JOB is to LOVE and PRAY for each other…
IT IS THE JOB OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO DOES THE WORK … so we don’t fail…we just love and pray …
The Holy Spirit Convicts and God’s Word will not come back void….YET IN GOD’s TIME and in God’s WAY….
God has got a lot of teaching all along the way…so we are taught to BE PATIENT with EACH OTHER and PERSEVERE THROUGH ALL THINGS>…..
Lean not on your own understanding, but in all ways acknowledge HIM and HE will direct your path…
In all things…We must discern good from evil (James 3:13-18)
In all things …we are not to take the opinion of man or woman ALONE, but to open the Bible and find out what God has to say about that … humm u know what I am referring to? …. WITH A WiLLING heart to walk forward or away … whatever we learn God’s will to be …
Cuz sometimes opinions make sense and fear will and is intended to stop us from doing the will of God ….. so communication is VITAL between all children of God…and in all relationships…
do not deny the truth, but test every thing and all things for the TRUTH of God…
I hope this was a blessing to you…cuz this is my area of learning right now and this has first blessed me.
Much love to you Dewey!
Blessings Dewey,
Karen
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March 27, 2012. Mornings are a good time for you and Me to meet face to face. Other times of the day are fine as well. Our times together not only bless and quicken you but they benefit Me by the pleasures they bring. It means so much to Me that you have learned to visit Me face to face. Many of My children think they cannot seek My face. Others have unhealed relationships with their earthly fathers and, at times, project their hurts from him onto Me. I am a loving and healing Father beyond what you have experienced. Come to Me now. My arms are open. I love you so much.
Psalm 26.8 “When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.” Ras Robinson
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March 27, 2012. You are out of touch with something important going on. You don’t know what to do about it. Right now it is bothering you. Get control of yourself. Be at peace. I have everything under control. Have faith in Me. You are tending to have faith in faith. That is misplaced faith. I always know what is best. I will always do the right thing for you and the other people involved. Their anxiety is picking up on your anxiety and now it is going round and round. You are close to chaos. Exhibit self – control. This is the fruit of My Spirit. Trust Me and be at complete rest.
Galatians 5:22-24 (NASB) “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Bev Robinson
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March 27, 2012. What is the mark you wish to leave when you leave this life? What is your greatest pursuit? Is it fame, fortune or some other quest to establish your identity? Only you and I know the real answer. Your obituary or epitaph on your tombstone might really depict what sort of legacy you truly have left behind. Establish right now what really is most important in the scope of life. I walked an undeniable path of righteousness in My time upon the Earth. What path are you pursuing? Is the impact you are making temporal or eternal? Chose today whether you will serve Me or mammon. Establish righteousness in your walk.
Proverbs 22:1 (MSG) “A sterling reputation is better than striking it rich; a gracious spirit is better than money in the bank.” Kevin Robinson
Let’s get our Medical bag from Dr. Joe!!!
Over the weekend, former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an apparently successful cardiac transplantation. He’d been waiting about 20 months for a heart to become available. He last made the news when he received a left ventricular assistive device (LVAD) to help his weakened heart pump blood. This was being used as a temporary device, much like dialysis that’s used to keep someone alive, until they can receive a kidney transplant.
Cheney suffered multiple heart attacks since his first at age 37 (very young for a heart attack). His most recent, in 2010, was his fifth myocardial infarction. He had cardiac bypass surgery in 1988, with two follow-up angioplasties to clear recurrent narrowing of the arteries. In 2001, he had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest, and then the special LVAD.
Vice President Cheney is alive today because of the constant progress of medical science. He’s been fighting most of his life against a truly horrendous genetic problem regarding his heart. Yes, he’s an extreme case, but regardless the truth is, it’s much better to prevent heart disease than to fix it.
Although organ transplantation is among the most technologically advanced surgeries performed, Mr. Cheney is taking immune suppression drugs (for the rest of his life) to prevent his body from rejecting the transplanted organ, which is, of course, foreign protein to his body.
The most common heart disease is coronary artery disease, or CAD. This is caused by progressive blockages growing within the walls of the heart’s arteries mostly caused by inflammation. When the blockages begin to cut off the supply of blood to the heart muscle, the patient may develop chest pain (angina), or a heart attack (myocardial infarction), if the blood flow is suddenly and completely cut off.
Death is the most common first sign of this disease and it remains the number one cause of death in the USA and most developed Western countries. It is treated by medical or surgical means.
Surgically it’s unblocking the arteries with a catheter (a thin tube, passed through the groin or arm into the affected coronary artery). This called an angioplasty. To keep the artery open, the cardiologist may insert a stent, a metal (titanium) mesh device, often coated with special drugs that inhibit coagulation of blood, to keep the artery wedged open.
At other times, the chest may be opened in a “real” open surgery, called a thoracotomy, where they crack the patient open like a lobster with the heart exposed. The blocked arteries are bypassed with a segment of vein, harvested from the patient’s leg, or an artery from the underside of the chest wall. This procedure requires great precision, skill, and speed on the part of the surgeon.
The bottom line to all this is that there IS something you can do to prevent the most common of the heart problems, which is coronary artery disease. With a few simple changes in diet, activities, supplements and breathing, you can make a profound difference in your personal risk profile, even if your genetics are not the strongest when it comes to your heart.
You make the commitment to live a much healthier life style and you can lower your blood cholesterol and triglycerides, you can reduce (or possibly, even reverse) plaque formation inside the walls of your coronary arteries, you can thin your blood so it’s less likely to clot off a narrowed vessel and precipitate a heart attack, you can reduce inflammation which triggers a heart attack, and you can increase oxygen utilization in your lungs which will increase your cardiovascular reserve capacity.
Of course, I can’t guarantee that you’ll never have heart problems. But I will tell you that if you take care of your health you will dramatically reduce your cardiac risk factors, improve your odds of avoiding a serious heart problem, and increase your chances of survival if you do.
But nothing good happens if you DO nothing. If you want to be around for your children and THEIR children, and all your loved ones…then take some positive action…today.
Thanks so much Dr. Joe!!!!!!!!!
In the Love of Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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Dear KKIM family,
God Bless you all for stopping by for a CUP this day! I look forward so much to our visits!!!!!!!
We love you all and pray over your names each time.
Please pray for daughter Gretchen as she is traveling back to Portales today!
Please pray for Buffy as she goes into for a cancer check-up
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” —2 Corinthians 5:17
“I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.” -Elisabeth Elliot
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. ~ C. H. Spurgeon
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
From Karen Rowe…
Do not let you heart be troubled…
So what? God is still in control…ask God so what…
God still has you
God is still God
God is still capable
God is still able
God is still on your side
Let it go and just walk in and out with HIM
God allows it, but God replaces 7 x better
Trust HIM through it all…Cuz this is not a problem for God.
Rest well.
It was a year ago this day that my Uncle Joe passed onto to heaven! He is with me everyday as I am reminded by those things that he taught me.
When I think of Joe everyday like I do……I go to Proverbs 4:20-27
My son, pay attention to my words;
listen closely to my sayings.
Don’t lose sight of them;
keep them in your heart.
For they are life to those who find them,
and health to one’s whole body.
Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.
Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,
and don’t let your lips talk deviously.
Let your eyes look forward;
fix your gaze stright ahead.
Carefully consider the path
for your feet.
and all your ways will be established.
Don’t turn to the right or to the left;
keep your feet away from evil.
My Uncle Joe led a simple life in our LORD, His life helps ground me in Jesus Christ! What I mean by simple life, he did not let man darken is doorstep. he and Aunt Mary had 38 foster Children 8 of their own, he served our Lord in many ways. Joe mentored many!
It shows again how important it is to have Godly mentor’s in our life!
Who do you surround yourself with?
Thank you LORD for my Uncle Joe!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s a couple of prayer notes………
Please pray for Shonda Savage Whitworth’s son Stephen. His sentencing hearing begins today. This is taking place in Midland, Texas. Pastor Brandon Navarre, (son of Pastor Leonard Navarre) is based in Midland and Brandon’s Church like many are surrounding Shonda’s family in prayers. Thank you all for your prayers for this wonderful family.
Please pray for little Gracie……..The granddaughter of Diane Markins……..
Our granddaughter has a bronchial infection and is only 4 weeks old. Scary stuff and appreciate prayer for healing and peace.
Pray for Gracie. They just told us we’re here for the night. Doing ok but still on oxygen.
We are praying Diane, please keep us posted.
Please pray for Kathy Robbins, she is asking for our prayers for matters she is dealing with.
Please pray for Cathy and Ernie as they are going through a very tough time.
Let’s get an update on Mary from Taunya……
Dewey, I can not thank you enough for posting the prayer request about my beautiful sister Mary and her concerns over the lump in her breast ~ all results came back negative upon biopsy ~ PRAISE GOD!!! Please continue to pray for healing in her hips as she is in tremendous pain, awaiting more surgery. Also ~ late last night I received a prayer request via the prayer support group at my daughter's school; a young man they referred to as 'Dion' was wanting to end his life last night ~ they asked for prayer that 'Dion' be touched by the Holy Spirit and recognize/feel the love of Christ surrounding him. I will keep you apprised if I hear of any news regarding this, but please keep him in prayer. God bless you and each and every one of your readers/listeners/prayer warriors, Taunya Thank you for the update Taunya and we are praying for Dion. Day 35 of our 40 Day Journey together......... Psalm 31:5 Old Testament Prophecy I entrust my spirit into your hands. Luke 23:46 Fulfilled in Jesus Jesus shouting Loudly:FATHER I ENTRUST MY SPIRIT INTO YOUR HANDS!!! As prophesied by the psalmist and seen in the Gospels, Jesus entrusted His life fully into the Father's care. Even in death, He offered it up to God on our behalf with total trust and confidence that God is faithful.
Darlene Quiring sent this very timely reading into us…………
JESUS DEATH – 60 SECONDS
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you’re doing and take this opportunity!
Let’s see if Satan can stop this…
THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS
At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.
At the time crucifixion was the “worst” death. Only the worst criminals condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus,
for unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was nailed to the cross by His hands and feet, rather than tied…
Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.
The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There’s a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.
The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the Wrist, that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use
His back muscles to support himself, so that He could breathe.
Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross.
Jesus could not support himself with His legs for long because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching
His back and using his legs just to continue to breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.
Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.
Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.
From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side… But do we remember the many wounds made to his body.
A hammer driving large nails through the wrists, the feet overlapped and a nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear.
And… before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body.
The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face.
The crown of thorns (two to three inch thorns) cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.
He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 5 liters (just over a gallon) of blood.
Jesus poured all 5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His body; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His
chest..
All these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd
spat in his face and threw stones (the cross beam was almost 30 kg of weight, to which His hands were nailed).
Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you may have free access to God.
So that your sins can be “washed” away. All of them, with no exception! Don’t ignore this.
JESUS CHRIST DIED…FOR YOU!
Thank you for sharing Darlene…………
Let us pray……….
Father, help us to trust You with our lives the way Jesus trusted You with His. help us to see that there is nothing to fear in life or death because You are always faithful to Your children. Today, this day, We once again offer ourselves to You. Do with us as You desire for we are fully Yours. In Jesus name, AMEN!
Let’s now hear from Ray, heard weekdays on KKIM at 7:35am……….
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Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him Never again would any follower of Jesus need to follow the false headings of guilt, shame or fear, which leads to the dead end of spiritual failure. Grace is how we know we are headed in the right direction because it always points to Jesus. Scuba divers have to trust their instruments in low visibility water. Heading in the wrong direction can be deadly. If you dont rely on your instruments in low visibility water you will think up is down and down is up and you have no idea where north, south, east or west is. Something strange happens and our senses will lie to us about where we are headed. Left alone to our senses in low visibility water we will die. This is a perfect analogy to our life as followers of Jesus. Satan stirs up the waters in our life and makes it so murky we cant tell up from down and down from up or where we are headed. We have to focus on our grace compass in order to survive the moment and orient back to our true heading of Jesus. When we follow our emotions instead of Jesus we follow the false headings that satan inspires. By functioning out of guilt, shame, fear or anger; our life heads in the wrong direction. Satan gets us off our Jesus heading and with the strong currents of life, drags us out to a sea of hopelessness. This is when satan gets us to operate out of fear instead of trusting Jesus. Lets go back to our owners manual and see what It has to say about the false heading of fear and how reliable our compass is for pointing us back to the love of Jesus when it feels like God is punishing us with our circumstances. Fear is a crippling emotion that leads us off course and prevents us from standing firm when satan attacks. God gives us power and love that results in sound thinking, which redirects our heading back to Jesus. Please explore our website at miningthetruth.com, where I will maintain a blog as well as archives of radio broadcasts. Thanks for your support, Ray Sturdivant |
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March 26, 2012. You have little to no idea how precious you are to Me. I think of you all the time. You are never out of My sight because I will not let harm nor your enemies attack you. More and more I am looking to reveal My goodness and kindness to you. Both flow through you like a sieve to others around you. You could not even count the number of people who have looked and who look for guidance and restoration through what they see and sense through you. You are in a phase of your life now where you are out of control. It is now as it should be. You have made Me your Lord and have stepped down from the throne of your life. You are My precious one.
Psalm 36:7-9 (NLT) “How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights. For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.” Ras Robinson
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March 26, 2012. You are making the right choices. You have consistently insisted on doing the right thing, even in the face of opposition and with many of those around you making poor choices. They don’t care what others are going through, but you see and care. This gives Me great pleasure. I know what you have been up against and I am so proud of you. Some others don’t see what they are doing… how they are not caring. Some will see you as an example and change some of their ways. Keep making right choices and doing the right thing. Your actions and the changed actions of others will change the atmosphere.
1 Chronicles 4:9-10. “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.” Bev Robinson
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March 26, 2012. Dream big. Go for the outlandish things in life. Take time to experience the fullness of life along the journey. For a long time you have squelched your earnest desires for the seemingly unattainable. You have set aside your goals and aspirations for the sake of others. Many have told you that the sky is the limit for your dreams. I’ve given you the heart and mind that yearns for the unreachable. Believe. Nothing is holding you back from searching for and achieving goals you thought were out of your grasp. Begin to share your dreams with those closest to you. Allow Holy Spirit to invigorate those thoughts into reality.
Joel 2:28 (NASB) “And it will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.” Kevin Robinson
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March 25, 2012. How long will you be and remain faithful to serve Me? You know I have called you with abundant gifts and talents. So far you have used them well. I am wondering if you will finish strong. Because you have a good heart, the one I gave you, you will finish strong even if you at times need more assistance than you ever thought possible. You have always been a strong and powerful warrior in My kingdom. You will face a day when I will test your humility to let Me call others to carry you about to places you do not wish to go. Even now I have some tests before you to see your resolve. I tell you today that you will remain strong and faithful with a full and long life. Face it! You no longer belong to yourself but to Me.
John 21:18 (AMP) “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, when you were young you girded yourself [put on your own belt or girdle] and you walked about wherever you pleased to go. But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will put a girdle around you and carry you where you do not wish to go.” Ras Robinson
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March 25, 2012. Something has been announced and you wonder if the right choice has been made. You think it may be premature. It came as a surprise, something completely unexpected. Someone has been passed by and you aren’t sure this is good. This is something you are going to have to trust authorities about. Don’t express yourself until you give it some more thought and prayer. Just because it doesn’t seem good is not reason to get in an opposition mode. Take your thoughts captive to Me. Don’t go underground and say things you will be sorry for later. Don’t spread strife in any way. Rest in absolutely thorough peace with Me.
Proverbs 28:25-26 (AMP) “He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the Lord shall be enriched and blessed. He who leans on, trusts in, and is confident of his own mind and heart is a [self-confident] fool, but he who walks in skillful and godly Wisdom shall be delivered.” Bev Robinson
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March 25, 2012. Recently the computer on which I write this word lost its Internet connection. I tried several different combinations in an attempt to resolve the issue with the portable modem. I downloaded software trying to make the system operate properly with no success. Finally I tried another computer and found a trial version of a word program to complete my daily task. Though it is somewhat delayed, I hear the Lord saying, “Persist in your pursuits. Don’t give up. Many have stopped short of the blessings I have and have had in store for them. Trust Me to deliver to you the provision I have promised.”
Psalm 119:81 (NASB) “My soul languishes for thy salvation; I wait for thy word. Kevin Robinson
Let’s get today’s Medical Bag………..
The Shocking Truth about What Really Causes Heart Disease
The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a concept shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
The long-established old dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takesexpensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year. This is a terrible tragedy!
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated – it is very simply your body’s natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition called chronic inflammation occurs. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the “recommended” mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Again: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest offenders of chronic inflammation?
They are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compoundinginto more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring all-out war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with the way out of proportion and therefore bad omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.
How does eating a doughnut create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation?
Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
Let’s get back to the doughnut. That innocent looking great tasting goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are also soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential – they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell – they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with an “innocent doughnut” quickly turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates the horrors of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.
The Answer to the Problem
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation – causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.
Saturated Fat is OKAY
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
Your Foods Will either Kill You or Heal You…it’s Your Choice
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.
Thank you Dr. Joe!
In the Love of Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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