Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM/KARS Family,

May God be with you and yours this day and all days……..

Arise, cry out in the night

from the first watch of the night.

Pour out your heart like water

before the Lord’s presence.

Lift up your hands to Him

for the lives of your children

who are fainting from hunger

on the corner of every street.

Lamentations 2:19

Oh my Lord what a Word for this day!

Let us be in constant prayer for Billy Graham………….

Evangelist Billy Graham is being treated for pneumonia at an Asheville, N.C., hospital.

Graham, 92, was admitted Wednesday morning after having breathing difficulties the night before. Initial tests suggested he has pneumonia.

His grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Ann Graham Lotz, says the family is relying on its faith.

“He’s in good health and good spirits,” Lotz said. “But certainly for somebody who’s 92 years of age with all the health concerns that he has, all the mileage, all the years on him, I would say he’s doing pretty well and we’re just keeping an eye on him.”

Graham rarely appears in public now.  Age-related conditions such as macular degeneration and hearing loss have kept him at his home in western North Carolina.

Graham’s wife, Ruth Bell Graham, died in 2007. Family friend Glenn Wilcox says the evangelist misses her greatly.

“I do know he is ready and he’s anxious to go to heaven to be with Ruth, but he said ‘I don’t need to go right this minute,'” Wilcox said.

Testing shows that Graham’s heart is normal and doctors say he’s clinically stable.

“It’s amazing to me how sharp his mind is and how he can talk intelligent about a lot of things,” Wilcox said.

“His physical body is just worn out,” he said of Graham, who was also hospitalized in 2008 after a fall at home.

Dr. Lucian Rice, Graham’s primary physician, says there’s no date set for his release but that he’s “resting comfortably and is fully alert.”

“Although this condition is not life-threatening, we are sure Mr. Graham and his family would appreciate your prayers,” Graham’s publicist said in a statement.

I love Billy Graham so much! WOW! When I took my first job in radio back in the 70’s at KGCX in Sidney, Montana, one of my jobs was to do the Sunday morning shift and play Gospel music and also programs like Billy’s Hour of Decision. It really helped me get going in my walk with Jesus! And over the last 35 years Billy continues to impact my life. Oh my! How I pray for the day when a Fiery Pastor like Billy will arise again and travel the United States and help Revive America. I remember when I would listen to him in the 70’s, he was so full of FIRE!!!!! His rallies were so AWESOME!!! he never Preached a sermon when he did not Preach on sin…….as Pastor Don Kimbro said last night on NM News and Views many Pastor’s are afraid to preach on sin because many people in the pews will not come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way we still play the Hour of Decision Sundays on KKIM at 1:30pm.

I was on the phone yesterday with New Mexico Archbishop Michael Sheehan’s secretary and I told her how I was so thankful for the Archbishop and the Catholic Church’s stance on issues regarding life and marriage. How I was thankful how the Archbishop came out a month or so ago about people living together that are not married, “shacking up”  He took a lot of heat for that! I told her, “The Archbishop has a lot of “Godly Guts”……..she chuckled at that……..Well, that is the truth, we need more men like the Archbishop to speak out! Fmr Congressman/Pastor Bill Redmond helped introduce me to the Archbishop at the Worldview Biblical Conference, where Evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics came together for Jesus Christ. A lot of ugly, un Godly legislation has been stopped in New Mexico because of all coming together. The Catholic Church in New Mexico has been very active on Marriage, Abortion, Education and Health. It was the Archbishop at the Worldview Biblical Conference who was sounding the ALARM about the drop out rate in New Mexico Public Schools, having reached 46%. He has helped get this state focused on that awful problem. I am praying that we will have the Archbishop on NM News and Views soon.

The top story in Albuquerque is the cutbacks the school system is having to go through. (Hear more this morning on KKIM/KARS with Frank Haley and on our web site www.mykkim.com) What is interesting to me since I moved here 16 years ago APS has always had major problems…it is a district that has failed long ago…but continues on life support despite so much dysfunction. As long as we have School Board member’s like Paula Maes(How about accepting personal responsibility Paula, how long have you been in office?, There is still that good old boy and girl club here in New Mexico!!)) who just want to blame the Legislature, blame others, not accepting personal responsibility,we are stuck with this dysfunction. Why should we tax payers continue to support such a mess? God has been kicked out of our Public School system……..until we bring God back in Public Schools will continue to wither and we the tax payers will be dropping money into a rat hole.

We need to embrace each other…..and work with each other………on these vital issues…..the issues that are so vital to God.

Before we get going further……how about a FUNNY BONE!!!!

You gotta love this story from Frank Haley!

Subject: This cowboy needs a loan

A cowboy from Wagon Mound, New Mexico (near Texas) walked into a bank
in New York City and asked for a loan officer.� He told the loan
officer that he was going to Paris for an international rodeo for two
weeks and needed to borrow $5000…and he was not a depositor at the
bank.
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The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of
security for the loan, so the cowboy handed over the keys to a new
Ferrari.� The car was parked on the street in front of the bank.
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The cowboy produced the title and everything checked out.� The loan
officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and
apologized for having to charge 12% interest.� Later, the bank’s
president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the cowboy from
New Mexico (Texas) for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a
$5,000 loan.� An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the
bank’s private underground garage and parked it.

Two weeks later, the cowboy returned, repaid the $5,000…and the
interest of $23.07.� The loan officer said, “Sir, we are very happy to
have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very
nicely, but we are a little puzzled.� While you were away, we checked
you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you are a highly
sophisticated investor and multimillionaire with real estate and
financial interests all over the world.� Your investments include a
large number of wind turbines and oil wells around Lovington, NM..�
What puzzles us is…why would you bother to borrow $5000?”

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The good ‘ole New Mexico cowboy just laughed and replied, “Where else
in New York City could I park my car for two weeks for only
$23.07…and expect it to be there when I return?”
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Don’t mess with New Mexico (Texas)  cowboys!!

LOL! LOL! Good one Frank, to start off our Thursday! Maybe that Cowboy could be our next President, or at the very least manage the finances of the Unites States! WOW! We had a great discussion on Facebook yesterday that carried over to NM News and Views! Please join us on Facebook! Anyhow it was a take off on the new A.P. Poll showing that the President had reached an approval rating of 60% since the death of Bin laden. Part of the discussion was on praying for our leaders but at the same time being the Salt and Light and reporting the truth and holding our leaders accountable. Check us out on Facebook.

Pastor Don Kimbro of Nuggets of Truth joined us and we talked about prayer and revival. Many in the Church do not understand Revival. Revival starts with prayer…….Don loves Church history and so do I! We can learn so much from the History of the Church and the Revivals that happened years and years ago in our Country and all over the World. I had a lovely lady ask me the other day who is a regular Church goer, “What is a Revival?” I am so thankful she was willing to ask the question. First off, We have been trying to share on the Great Revivals of the past to show you how the Holy Spirit moved so powerfully…….like the Prayer meetings in NYC…..the Holy Spirit was moving so strongly people coming into NY harbor by boat were overcome with the Holy Spirit and over 200 came to Jesus, in that boat that was off shore, because the Holy Spirit was moving all around that area brining people to their knees! People were groaning in prayer. There is nothing like the WAVE of the Holy Spirit……..oh my Lord when Your Spirit moves..oh my!

I really don’t know if we know how to pray anymore…..

I think we have to go back and study prayer…..I never thought I would be encouraging people to study prayer!!!!…..but we must learn..as many pray weakly…..

The prayer in which we throw our whole heart, the prayer of intense earnestness is the prayer that prevails with God, and is the Holy Spirit who inspires us that intense earnestness in prayer. Oh, how cold and formal we are in many of our prayers. How little intense longing there is in our souls to obtain the thing that we ask. We pray with much indifference even for the salvation of the lost, though we ought to realize that if our prayers are not heard, they are going to spend eternity in hell. But men and women whose prayer life is under control of the Holy Spirit pray with an intense earnestness; they cry to God; there is a great burden of prayer in their hearts; and they pray sometimes with “groaning’s” which  cannot be uttered.

Taken from R.A. Torrey’s book on The Power of Prayer The Prayer of Power.

AMEN! I have had much burden of prayer for our Country and many people……so much I ache! I weep inside…….I cry inside and out at times……..I am seeing miracles everyday……Oh my friends please be in prayer…….deep prayer……..everything from our school systems, to abortion, to our President, to individuals that need Jesus…….for lives to change

 Now this is more on Prayer and Revival that Pastor Don Kimbro sent to us……….please read and pray over this……..save it so you can refer to it………

Prayer and Revival – J. Edwin Orr1
Dr A. T. Pierson once said, ‘There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.’2 Let me recount what God has done through concerted, united, sustained prayer.
Not many people realize that in the wake of the American Revolution (following 1776-1781) there was a moral slump. Drunkenness became epidemic. Out of a population of five million, 300,000 were confirmed drunkards; Profanity was of the most shocking kind. For the first time in the history of the American settlement, women were afraid to go out at night for fear of assault. Bank robberies were a daily occurrence.
What about the churches? The Methodists were losing more members than they were gaining. The Baptists said that they had their most wintry season. The Presbyterians in general assembly deplored the nation’s ungodliness. In a typical Congregational church, the Rev. Samuel Shepherd of Lennos, Massachusetts, in sixteen years had not taken one young person into fellowship. The Lutherans were so languishing that they discussed uniting with Episcopalians who were even worse off. The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, Bishop Samuel Provost, quit functioning; he had confirmed no one for so long that he decided he was out of work, so he took up other employment. The Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall, wrote to the Bishop of Virginia, James Madison, that the Church ‘was too far gone ever to be redeemed.’ Voltaire averred and Tom Paine echoed, ‘Christianity will be forgotten in thirty years.
Take the liberal arts colleges at that time. A poll taken at Harvard had discovered not one believer in the whole student body. They took a poll at Princeton, a much more evangelical place, where they discovered only two believers in the student body, and only five that did not belong to the filthy speech movement of that day. Students rioted. They held a mock communion at Williams College, and they put on antiChristian plays at Dartmouth. They burned down the Nassau Hall at Princeton. They forced the resignation of the president of Harvard. They took a Bible out of a local Presbyterian church in New Jersey, and they burnt it in a public bonfire. Christians were so few on campus in the 1790’s that they met in secret, like a communist cell, and kept their minutes in code so that no one would know.
How did the situation change?  It came through a concert of prayer.
There was a Scottish Presbyterian minister in Edinburgh named John Erskine, who published a Memorial (as he called it) pleading with the people of Scotland and elsewhere to unite in prayer for the revival of religion. He sent one copy of this little book to Jonathan Edwards in New England. The great theologian was so moved he wrote a response which grew longer than a letter, so that finally he published it is a book entitled ‘A Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of all God’s People in Extraordinary Prayer for the Revival of Religion and the Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom on Earth, pursuant to Scripture Promises and Prophecies…’  Is not this what is missing so much from all our evangelistic efforts: explicit agreement, visible unity, unusual prayer?
1792-1800
This movement had started in Britain through William Carey, Andrew Fuller and John Sutcliffe and other leaders who began what the British called the Union of Prayer. Hence, the year after John Wesley died (1791), the second great awakening began and swept Great Britain.
In New England, there was a man of prayer named Isaac Backus, a Baptist pastor, who in 1794, when conditions were at their worst, addressed an urgent plea for prayer for revival to pastors of every Christian denomination in the United States. Churches knew that their backs were to the wall. All the churches adopted the plan until America, like Britain was interlaced with a network of prayer meetings, which set aside the first Monday of each month to pray. It was not long before revival came.
When the revival reached the frontier in Kentucky, it encountered a people really wild and irreligious. Congress had discovered that in Kentucky there had not been more than one court of justice held in five years. Peter Cartwright, Methodist evangelist, wrote that when his father had settled in Logan County, it was known as Rogue’s Harbour. The decent people in Kentucky formed regiments of vigilantes to fight for law and order, then fought a pitched battle with outlaws and lost.
There was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister named James McGready whose chief claim to fame was that he was so ugly that he attracted attention. McGready settled in Logan County, pastor of three little churches. He wrote in his diary that the winter of 1799 for the most part was ‘weeping and mourning with the people of God.’ Lawlessness prevailed everywhere.
McGready was such a man of prayer that not only did he promote the concert of prayer every first Monday of the month, but he got his people to pray for him at sunset on Saturday evening and sunrise Sunday morning. Then in the summer of 1800 come the great Kentucky revival. Eleven thousand people came to a communion service. McGready hollered for help, regardless of denomination.
Out of that second great awakening, came the whole modern missionary movement and it’s societies. Out of it came the abolition of slavery, popular education, Bible Societies, Sunday Schools, and many social benefits accompanying the evangelistic drive.

1858-1860
Following the second great awakening, which began in 1792 just after the death of John Wesley and continued into the turn of the century, conditions again deteriorated. This is illustrated from the United States. The country was seriously divided over the issue of slavery, and second, people were making money lavishly.
In September 1857, a man of prayer, Jeremiah Lanphier, started a businessmen’s prayer meeting in the upper room of the Dutch Reformed Church Consistory Building in Manhattan. In response to his advertisement, only six people out of a population of a million showed up. But the following week there were fourteen, and then twenty-three when it was decided to meet everyday for prayer. By late winter they were filling the Dutch Reformed Church, then the Methodist Church on John Street, then Trinity Episcopal Church on Broadway at Wall Street. In February and March of 1858, every church and public hall in down town New York was filled.
Horace Greeley, the famous editor, sent a reporter with horse and buggy racing round the prayer meetings to see how many men were praying. In one hour he could get to only twelve meetings, but he counted 6,100 men attending. Then a landslide of prayer began, which overflowed to the churches in the evenings. People began to be converted, ten thousand a week in New York City alone. The movement spread throughout New England, the church bells bringing people to prayer at eight in the morning, twelve noon, and six in the evening. The revival raced up the Hudson and down the Mohawk, where the Baptists, for example, had so many people to baptize that they went down to the river, cut a big hole in the ice, and baptized them in the cold water. When Baptists do that they are really on fire!
When the revival reached Chicago, a young shoe salesman went to the superintendent of the Plymouth Congregational Church, and asked if he might teach Sunday School. The superintendent said, ‘I am sorry, young fellow. I have sixteen teachers too many, but I will put you on the waiting list.’
The young man insisted, ‘I want to do something just now.’ ‘Well, start a class.’  ‘How do I start a class?’ ‘Get some boys off the street but don’t bring them here. Take them out into the country and after a month you will have control of them, so bring them in. They will be your class.’ He took them to a beach on Lake Michigan and he taught them Bible verses and Bible games. Then he took them to the Plymouth Congregational Church. The name of that young man was Dwight Lyman Moody, and that was the beginning of a ministry that lasted forty years.
Trinity Episcopal Church in Chicago had a hundred and twenty-one members in 1857; fourteen hundred in 1860. That was typical of the churches. More than a million people were converted to God in one year out of a population of thirty million. Then that same revival jumped the Atlantic, appeared in Ulster, Scotland and Wales, then England, parts of Europe, South Africa and South India anywhere there was an evangelical cause. It sent mission pioneers to many countries. Effects were felt for forty years. Having begun in a movement of prayer, it was sustained by a movement of prayer.
1904-1905
That movement lasted for a generation, but at the turn of the century there was need of awakening again. A general movement of prayer began, with special prayer meetings at Moody Bible Institute, at Keswick Conventions in England, and places as far apart as Melbourne, Wonsan in Korea, and the Nilgiri Hills of India. So all around the world believers were praying that there might be another great awakening in the twentieth century.
In the revival of 1905, I read of a young man who became a famous professor, Kenneth Scott Latourette. He reported that, at Yale in 1905, 25% of the student body were enrolled in prayer meetings and in Bible study. As far as churches were concerned, the ministers of Atlantic City reported that of a population of fifty thousand there were only fifty adults left unconverted. Take Portland in Oregon: two hundred and forty major stores closed from 11 to 2 each day to enable people to attend prayer meetings, signing an agreement so that no one would cheat and stay open. Take First Baptist Church of Paducah in Kentucky: the pastor, an old man, Dr J. J. Cheek, took a thousand members in two months and died of overwork, the Southern Baptists saying, ‘a glorious ending to a devoted ministry.’ That is what was happening in the United States in 1905. But how did it begin?
Most people have heard of the Welsh Revival which started in 1904. It began as a movement of prayer. Seth Joshua, the Presbyterian evangelist, came to Newcastle Emlyn College where a former coal miner, Evan Roberts aged 26, was studying for the ministry. The students were so moved that they asked if they could attend Joshua’s next campaign nearby. So they cancelled classes to go to Blaenanerch where Seth Joshua prayed publicly, ‘O God, bend us.’ Roberts went forward where he prayed with great agony, ‘O God, bend me.’  Upon his return he could not concentrate on his studies. He went to the principal of his college and explained, ‘I keep hearing a voice that tells me I must go home and speak to our young people in my home church. Principal Phillips, is that the voice of the devil or the voice of the Spirit?’
Principal Phillips answered wisely, ‘The devil never gives orders like that. You can have a week off.’  So he went back home to Loughor and announced to the pastor, ‘I’ve come to preach.’ The pastor was not at all convinced, but asked, ‘How about speaking at the prayer meeting on Monday?’  He did not even let him speak to the prayer meeting, but told the praying people, ‘Our young brother, Evan Roberts, feels he has a message for you if you care to wait.’  Seventeen people waited behind, and were impressed with the directness of the young man’s words. Evan Roberts told his fellow members, ‘I have a message for you from God.
You must confess any known sin to God and put any wrong done to others right.
Second, you must put away any doubtful habit.
Third, you must obey the Spirit promptly.
Finally, you must confess your faith in Christ publicly.’
By ten o’clock all seventeen had responded. The pastor was so pleased that he asked, ‘How about your speaking at the mission service tomorrow night? Midweek service Wednesday night?’  He preached all week, and was asked to stay another week. Then the break came.  Suddenly the dull ecclesiastical columns in the Welsh papers changed:
‘Great crowds of people drawn to Loughor.’  The main road between Llanelly and Swansea on which the church was situated was packed with people trying to get into the church. Shopkeepers closed early to find a place in the big church. Now the news was out. A reporter was sent down and he described vividly what he saw: a strange meeting which closed at 4.25 in the morning, and even then people did not seem willing to go home. There was a very British summary: ‘I felt that this was no ordinary gathering.’ Next day, every grocery shop in that industrial valley was emptied of groceries by people attending the meetings, and on Sunday every church was filled.
The movement went like a tidal wave over Wales, in five months there being a hundred thousand people converted throughout the country. Five years later, Dr J. V. Morgan wrote a book to debunk the revival, his main criticism being that, of a hundred thousand joining the churches in five months of excitement, after five years only seventy-five thousand still stood in the membership of those churches!
The social impact was astounding. For example, judges were presented with white gloves, not a case to try; no robberies, no burglaries, no rapes, no murders, and no embezzlements, nothing. District councils held emergency meetings to discuss what to do with the police now that they were unemployed. In one place the sergeant of police was sent for and asked, ‘What do you do with your time?’ He replied, ‘Before the revival, we had two main jobs, to prevent crime and to control crowds, as at football games. Since the revival started there is practically no crime. So we just go with the crowds.’
A councilor asked, ‘What does that mean?’ The sergeant replied, ‘You know where the crowds are. They are packing out the churches.’ ‘But how does that affect the police?’ He was told, ‘We have seventeen police in our station, but we have three quartets, and if any church wants a quartet to sing, they simply call the police station.’
As the revival swept Wales, drunkenness was cut in half. There was a wave of bankruptcies, but nearly all taverns. There was even a slowdown in the mines, for so many Welsh coal miners were converted and stopped using bad language that the horses that dragged the coal trucks in the mines could not understand what was being said to them. That revival also affected sexual moral standards. I had discovered through the figures given by British government experts that in Radnorshire and Merionethshire the illegitimate birth rate had dropped 44% within a year of the beginning of the revival.
The revival swept Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, North America, Australasia, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Chile.  As always, it began through a movement of prayer
1James Edwin Orr (January 15, 1912 – April 22, 1987) was a Baptist minister, lecturer and author. At the time of his death, J. Edwin Orr was professor emeritus of the history of awakenings at Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of World Missions. He had been born in the North of Ireland of American-British parentage. He had a Ph. D. in history from Oxford. He traveled to 150 countries in a ministry promoting church revival and renewal.
Of him, Billy Graham wrote: “Dr. J. Edwin Orr, in my opinion, is one of the greatest authorities on the history of religious revivals in the Protestant world.” He was influential in the Campus Crusade for Christ and was one of the five original board members of that organization.
2Arthur Tappan Pierson (March 6, 1837 – June 3, 1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor, early fundamentalist leader, and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland and England. He was a consulting editor for the original “Scofield Reference Bible” (1909) for his friend, C. I. Scofield and was also a friend of D. L. Moody, George Müller (whose biography ‘George Muller of Bristol’ he wrote), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and C. H. Spurgeon, whom he succeeded in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, from 1891 to 1893. Throughout his career, Pierson filled several pulpit positions around the world as an urban pastor who cared passionately for the poor

Let us be in constant prayer……….if you ever want to talk to me on this or anything, just email me, we are here for you.

Let us be praying for each other and our Families…….I have to tell you, I am seeing miracles everyday around me through prayer!!! PRAISE GOD!

In the Love of Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family