Dear KKIM/KARS Family,
May God be with you and yours!
We are so thankful you have gathered here at the CUP!
Today Sharon and I celebrate our Wedding Anniversary! PRAISE GOD! I thank my LORD for Sharon!
Yesterday we celebrated by going out and having a nice lunch!
We also celebrated the good news from Dr. Kelly, Buffy’s Cancer Doctor, that all of Buffy’s blood work and X-rays came back in excellent shape! PRAISE GOD!
Sharon and I thank you for your prayers for us and the kid’s and doggies! We are also thankful for your prayers for this Ministry!
On New Years Eve, Sharon and I married Jannetta and Jim. Jannetta has been a Dear friend for years, she is the mover and shaker at the Albuquerque Rescue Mission and keeps the ball rolling over there for Pastor Hill. She is also our Web master here at the CUP! I have been getting the opportunity to get to know Jim, what a peach he is! Please keep Jannetta and Jim in your prayers as they begin life together!
This email really got to me and Sharon…………seeing the results of this Ministry, the LORD allowed us to see this…….The LOVE that this son has toward his Mother is just so AWESOME!
Hello Dewey,
I wish the best for you and your family this coming year.
Just got back from a week in Indiana seeing the folks.
My Mom enjoys reading your daily email which I send her via FAX as she does not have email abilities, but set up a fax machine so she can get a fresh copy daily. She will be 93! next week.
Keep up all your Good work!.
Sincerely,
Your friend
rob
Thank you so much for sharing Rob….The Love you show toward your Mother is one I pray more will share…….The Love you show toward us is also so much appreciated, your note fills out tank, Much needed encouragement for everyone!
Kind words are like honey to the soul and healthy for the body. Proverbs 16:24
We also have a lady from Albuquerque that get’s the CUP and she translates it into Portuguese and sends it to her brother in Brazil.
We are not a fancy, dancy Ministry……many call us a grass roots Ministry, a down home Ministry, we are just here to serve our LORD and you.
We encourage you to forward the CUP to others…introduce them to the CUP……let them sip it…….let them taste it………you are helping carry out the Great Commission by forwarding the CUP!
We invite you to join us every morning at 4:30am New Mexico time for an hour of prayer each day, right from your home or work!
Please send us an email if you will be joining us at 4:30am New Mexico time for prayer wherever you are!
Starting your day without prayer is like going to work naked, LOL! LOL! Now that is very scary! It is like trying to drive your car without any gas in the tank!
You will find that in this hour you will have release,peace, and guidance. In this hour read God’s Word, read a bit then stop and ask the Father to guide you this day. Let the Word of God absorb into your heart, mind and soul. You will be amazed.
It is so important to put the Armor of God on each day!
You must do so.
I find myself having to wake up even earlier to put my armor on, as the challenges of this life know no time.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of HIS might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Eph 6: 120-12
SCRIPTURE
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” – Matthew 5:6
REFLECTION
As the renewed soul hungers and thirsts after righteousness, these holy desires break
out into prayer. – E.M. Bounds
PRAYER
Father God, my soul thirsts and hungers after You… create in me a pure heart and renew a right
spirit in me. Amen
This CUP is FULL of goodies….
From Kay Arthur, Karen Rowe, Dr. Joe and more……….plus an AWESOME story at the very end………Enjoy and sip slowly…..slowly…….
Why Did He Do It? Posted: 02 Jan 2012 10:01 PM PST He himself likewise shared in flesh and blood, that through death he might destroy the one who had the power of death, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were in bondage. Hebrews 3:15 |
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It’s a Choice Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:01 PM PST Be happy with those who are happy, and be sad with those who are sad. Romans 12:15
Here is Karen Rowe……. |
Subject: Inspiration from DDC … Hope in Today blog and FB ~ Shared from the inspiration from your Cup Dewey 🙂
Thinking of those who “think” they have no worth to God ~ Perhaps you? Did you know that God created all things, including you for a purpose to love and enjoy -and to be loved?
Disobedience to God allowed sin into God’s perfect Garden of Eden that he had created for us to simply enjoy LIFE with God. But now we have available this “Garden of Eden” on the inside of us. When we find this place of peace, we have another purpose and that is to love and pray for each other.
~ > ~ > ~ > How do you find this Garden of Eden / place of peace you may wonder? Simply put, by aligning your heart, values, morals and thoughts to be captive to God’s Holy Word -and change to become pleasing to God in your integrity, which is according to the values [Scriptures] taught to us by Jesus [see blog on Integrity]. ~ > ~ > ~ >
To live blessed is to experience God living in your life -Blessed IS a great accomplishment with great purpose! Near to God (the prayer of a righteous person) is where our prayers become powerful and effective because of whom God is and whom he created us to be!
This is not something new, but sometimes we need to remember that according to whom God made us to be, we have purpose and we have worth to someone in the power of prayer!
We come near to God in our purified heart …allowing Jesus to change our mind ~through the written Word; and change our heart through the living WORD -the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit’s purpose in part is to bring to our attention those things that are unclean in God’s sight [Convict our heart of wrongs] and be our confidence from God [our knowledge of good] …
The Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ brings to us OUR power to change for God.
Our purpose is to learn and our purpose is to grow -cleansing out negative thoughts & redirecting what we allow our mind to ponder on. There is a purpose found in ridding ourself from the sin(s) of our selfish nature and that purpose is to be blessed so that we can be a blessing.
Our worth is first found in Jesus Christ by accepting him as our Savior from death (total separation from God) to live with God forevermore, beginning with this day God calls Today!
Our worth from that moment on is found in Jesus Christ -accepting him as our Lord and being born again through the power of the Holy Spirit (whom convicts our heart to change).
Appropriate to share is from Dewey’s Daily Cup http://www.mykkim.com/ and Max Lucado……….
Now we do not live
following our sinful selves,
but we live following the Spirit.
Romans 8:4
Perhaps your childhood memories bring more hurt than inspiration. The voices of your past cursed you, belittled you, ignored you. At the time, you thought such treatment was typical. Now you see it isn’t.
Now you find yourself trying to explain your past. Do you rise above the past and make a difference? Or do you remain controlled by the past and make excuses?
Think about this. Your parents may have given you genes, but God gives you grace. Your parents may be responsible for your body, but God has taken charge of your soul. You may get your looks from your mother, but you get eternity from your Father, your heavenly Father. God will give you what your family could never give you!Below is a Bible Study I have shared, because it was the Holy Spirit who led me in this knowledge that I found a few years back on Wisdom. I hope you are inspired to study Wisdom and above all things get understanding … but first our purpose is to learn from the knowledge we have been given by God in the Bible.
Scriptures have been given to us by God for a great purpose to understand and seek Wisdom … and in Wisdom we find our Worth in Jesus to God.
Thanks Dewey for the inspirations!
Love in Christ Jesus,
Karen
karen
info
www.hopeintoday.com
www.thetrainwhistle.com
Thank you Karen! God Bless you!
Finding Peace in Times of Distress
Kay Arthur
Precepts for Life
When the hour is dark, when the situation is desperate, when we are humbled and brought very low, we finally begin looking and longing for God’s peace. Trembling, we grope through the darkness, longing to know that all will be well.
When the angel of Jehovah appeared to Gideon (Judges 6), he was crouching in the dark confines of a winepress, threshing wheat in secret to protect it — and himself — from the Midianite invaders. This was not a new way to thresh grain, it was cowardice. Listen to how the angel of the Lord addresses Gideon.
The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.” Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? …the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The LORD looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” (Judges 6:12-14)
At first Gideon questioned this angel of the Lord and complained about his circumstances. How could God really love Israel? How could God really care about Gideon when they were all in such distress, danger, and poverty?
Gideon did not yet know to Whom he was speaking. This angel spoke as Jehovah Himself, and when Gideon finally realized he’d been discussing politics and religion with God — face to face — he was rightfully terrified:
“Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.” The LORD said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it The LORD is Peace. (Judges 6:22-24)
When do we first encounter the name Jehovah-shalom? Where does God first reveal His name as The Lord is Peace?
In the presence of a man who is desperately afraid… a man who is literally walled in by circumstances… a man who is worried and discouraged and has no peace in his heart.
When Gideon’s eyes were at last opened to see that the Lord had taken a personal interest in his situation, that God was present with him in the midst of all this darkness and fear, he worshiped the Lord by a new name — Jehovah-shalom, The Lord is Peace.
In the days to come, the Lord was going to put Gideon in some very unpeaceful situations. In some ways Gideon would face more stresses and challenges than he had ever faced in his young life. Learning this business of being a “valiant warrior” wasn’t going to be easy.
But no matter what happened from this point on, Gideon could look back to an altar. He could look back at a moment in time when Jehovah-shalom said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear.”
Beloved, do you ever feel as if you’re trying to thresh wheat in a winepress? Surrounded by an enemy who presses in on you and tries to steal every grain of peace and gladness out of your life? Do you ever begin to wonder where your God is in the midst of your hurt and worry?
How rightly Gideon named that altar, The Lord is Peace. True peace cannot be found in any other place than in a right relationship with God.
We cannot base our peace in the circumstances and situations of life.We must not let our peace be centered in another man or woman — no matter how dear they are to us.
We dare not allow peace to depend on sunny skies, a full stomach, a balanced checkbook, a healthy body, or a harmonious home. I believe the Lord sometimes allows situations that strip away the shallow, surface peace on which we have come to depend. He allows us to be distressed and in turmoil and unable to find the answers we need from our husbands, wives, friends, or counselors.
In those times, as with Gideon, we need to discover that God is Jehovah-shalom.
As Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “He Himself is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). Once you really understand this and worship God as Jehovah-shalom, you can have peace no matter what storms sweep over the horizon.
Jesus told His disciples this very thing in the last few hours before the Cross. These men were in terrible turmoil, and things were about to get much worse. Here is Jesus’ promise:
“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” (John 14:27)
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
Where do you run when you need peace? Is your first response to go looking for a person or to pick up the phone?
Before you do, Beloved, run into the shelter of His name. When you find Him, you will find peace because…
He is Peace.
Kay Arthur has touched literally thousands of lives through her writing and teaching ministry. A well-known conference speaker and author of more than 100 books and Bible studies, she has a unique ability to reach people in an exciting, effective way — challenging them to change and equipping them to be used in the furtherance of the kingdom of God.
Great message from Kay Arthur
Enjoy this…………
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen.
She hoped, but never imagined, she’d see her Betty Jane again.
The cruel act of violence bore in Disbrow an enduring love for the child. She kept a black and white photograph of the baby bundled in blankets and tucked inside a basket.
It was the last she saw of the girl – until the phone rang in her California apartment in 2006 with the voice of an Alabama man and a story she could have only dreamed.
Disbrow, the daughter of Dutch immigrants, weathered a harsh childhood milking cows on South Dakota dairy farms. Her stepfather thought high school was for city kids who had nothing else to do. She finished eighth grade in a country schoolhouse with just one teacher and worked long hours at the dairy.
On a summer day in 1928 while picnicking with girls from a sewing class, Disbrow and her friend Elizabeth were jumped by three men as they went for a walk in their long dresses.
Both were raped.
“We didn’t know what to do. We didn’t know what to say. So when we went back, nothing was said,” Disbrow recalled.
Months passed. Her body began to change.
Disbrow, who had been told babies were brought by storks, didn’t know what was happening.
Her mother and stepfather sent her to a Lutheran home for pregnant girls. At 17, she gave birth to a blond-haired baby with a deep dimple in her chin and named her Betty Jane.
In her heart, Disbrow longed to keep her. But her head and her mother told her she couldn’t bring an infant back to the farm.
A pastor and his wife were looking to adopt a child. She hoped they could give Betty Jane the home she couldn’t.
“I loved that baby so much. I wanted what was best,” Disbrow said.
She never met them, or knew their names. But over the years, Disbrow wrote dozens of letters to the adoption agency to find out how her daughter was faring. The agency replied faithfully with updates until there was a change in management, and they eventually lost touch.
Disbrow’s life went on. She married a fruit salesman who became a wartime pilot and drafting engineer and they had two children. She worked as a dressmaker, silk saleswoman and school cafeteria manager in cities spanning from Rhode Island to Minnesota and Northern California before moving to the seaside town of San Clemente an hour’s drive north of San Diego.
Every year, she thought about Betty Jane on her May 22 birthday.
Five years ago, Disbrow prayed she might get the chance to see her.
“Lord, if you would just let me see her,” Disbrow remembers praying. “I promise you I will never bother her.”
On July 2, the phone rang.
It was a man from Alabama. He started asking Disbrow, then 94, about her background.
Worried about identity theft, Disbrow cut him off, and peppered him with questions.
Then, the man asked if she’d like to speak with Betty Jane.
Her name was now Ruth Lee. She had been raised by a Norwegian pastor and his wife and had gone on to marry and have six children including the Alabama man, a teacher and astronaut Mark Lee, a veteran of four space flights who has circled the world 517 times. She worked for nearly 20 years at Walmart – and especially enjoyed tending to the garden area.
Lee knew she was adopted her whole life, and grew up a happy child.
It wasn’t until she was in her 70s that the search for her biological parents began.
Lee started suffering from heart problems and doctors asked about the family’s medical history. She knew nothing about it. Her son, Brian, decided to try to find out more and petitioned the court in South Dakota for his mother’s adoption records.
He got a stack of more than 270 pages including a written account of the assault and handwritten letters from a young Disbrow, asking about the tiny baby she had cradled for a month.
He then went online to try to find one of Disbrow’s relatives – possibly through an obituary.
“I was looking for somebody I thought was probably not living,” said Lee’s now-54-year-old son. He typed Disbrow’s name into a web directory and was shocked when a phone listing popped up. “I kind of stopped breathing for a second.”
On the phone with her biological daughter, Disbrow was in disbelief. Her legs began to tremble. She couldn’t understand how a naive dairy farm girl without an education could have such accomplished grandchildren.
A month later, Ruth Lee and Brian Lee flew to California. They arrived at Disbrow’s meticulous apartment on a palm tree-lined street armed with a gigantic bouquet of flowers.
Disbrow couldn’t get over how Lee’s hands were like her mother’s. Lee was amazed at the women’s similar taste in clothing. They pored over family photo albums and caught up on the years Disbrow had missed.
“It was just like we had never parted,” Disbrow said. “Like you were with the family all your life.”
Since then, the families have met numerous times. Disbrow has gone to visit grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Wisconsin and Texas. She is planning to travel to Alabama in the spring, where they will celebrate her recently marked 100th birthday.
Disbrow has started sharing her story with members of her church and community. The Orange County Register ran a story about Disbrow’s journey in December. The family’s improbable reunion also made the local newspaper in Viroqua, Lee’s hometown in western Wisconsin.
“It has been such a surreal, amazing experience that I still think sometimes that I will wake up and it will just be a beautiful dream,” the 82-year-old Lee said.
Disbrow’s daughter Dianna Huhn, 65, of Portland, Ore., said the reunion has filled a void for her mother – one that for many years, the sharp, stylish woman with sparkling blue eyes kept a deep, dark secret.
“I have never seen my mother as happy,” said Huhn.
Photos by the Associated Press.
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In this Dec. 28, 2011 photo, 100-year-old Minka Disbrow is silhouetted during an interview with the Associated Press at her home in San Clemente, Calif. Disbrow, who was raped at age 16, has lived to be 100 – long enough to meet the daughter she gave up at birth 77 years earlier and learn about the six grandchildren she didn’t know she had. One of them is a space shuttle astronaut. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Let us hear from Dr. Joe and the Medical Bag……..
Household Cleaners
Detergents, cleaning solvents, and indoor fragrances sound like good ideas because marketers have worked long and hard to get you interested in buying them. But the bottom line is that many are toxic and can affect your health. Besides being loaded with chemicals, many household cleaners are labeled as “antibacterial,” which is just a fancy term for describing the active ingredient: pesticides.
Some scientists suggest that the overuse of cleaning agents, antibiotics, and antibacterial disinfectants to practically sterilize homes has significantly added to the number of childhood asthma and allergies cases. This is referred to as the “hygiene hypothesis.”
The following simple tips can protect you and your family from adding to your body burden when you clean your home:
– Dilute cleaning supplies with water, either as directed on the label or until you are happy with the results.
– Clean with windows and doors open so you don’t trap air pollution inside.
– Use gloves: cleaners and solvents can harm or penetrate skin.
– Never mix bleach with ammonia, vinegar, or other acids: these combinations can produce deadly gases.
– Avoid pine and citrus oil cleaners: they may smell pleasant, but these cleaners can react with ozone in the air, particularly on smoggy days, to produce cancer-causing formaldehyde.
– Skip acidic toilet bowl and drain cleaners: use a simple paste made out of water and baking sodas and when necessary use a mechanical snake to unclog the drain.
– Wipe down showers after each use to prevent mold and mildew growth.
– Forget air fresheners: they only disguise odors while pumping toxic chemicals into the air.
– Sweep and use a vacuum with HEPA filter frequently to remove dust, which often harbors household toxins.
– Dust with a soft or microfiber cloth and don’t use toxic dusting sprays.
Natural Cleaning Options:
– Baking soda: Absorbs odors and chemicals and can be used as a mild abrasive. It can remove stains from the bathtub or toilet and remove grime from a dirty oven.
– Borax: A mineral compound (sodium borate) that is a disinfectant, deodorizer, mold inhibitor, and mild abrasive.
– White vinegar: Cuts grease, deodorizes, and dissolves sticky buildup and mineral deposits.
– Lemon juice: Cuts grease, dissolves sticky buildup, and has a bleaching effect.
– Vegetable-based dish soaps: Use a vegetable based soap that is made out of olive oil, such as castile soap.
Thank you Dr. Joe!
Happy New Year, In the Love of Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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