Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM/KARS Family, May God be with you this day and all days……. As you read the CUP……..pray on this………. God alone can bring change. God alone, who gave us the Holy Spirit, can restore His power into our lives. God alone can strengthen us “with might by His Spirit in the inner man” Eph 3:16……… Do not hide from the problems of this world……….pray on them…..pray on them……. Let us be in prayer…….. URGENT PRAYERS PLEASE: Brad Hill has been having complications from an infected tooth since Friday. He went to the doc today who immediately sent him to Kaseman Hospital. There they found complications from the infection. Kidneys weren’t functioning properly and now Tammy has called and said his tongue has swollen so large he can’t breathe. So they have taken him into surgery to try to help him breathe. PRAYERS ARE NEEDED URGENTLY AT THIS TIME FOR BRAD and pray for Tammy for courage and support. Please continue to pray for Brad Hill. He has been stabilized and is on route to Presbyterian to their I.C.U. unit. Also your prayers for Tammy and family are greatly appreciated. I will update as needed. We will be rounding up help for Tammy and Brad (meals, etc) as soon as we know what direction this illness is taking. God bless and thank you for praying! — Leonard Leonard Navarre Valley View Christian Church Licensed Church Consultant P.O. Box 990 Edgewood, NM 87015 Special Reporter: www.mykkim.com www.valleyviewnow.org leonard@valleyviewnow.org www.navarreministries.com 505-980-0141 We are praying Leonard! Here is a note that we got from a KKIM/KARS Daily CUP supporter in California………We all should be alarmed by this story……… About four days ago, a San Diego Calif newspaper printed a story you can find by going to ASK.COM: Hezbollah sets up Base on Mexico Border. Dewey we are talking about a very well organized Terrorist Group that also works with Hamas another Well organized Terrorist group. They are right on the Border here in Calif. So if they have been discovered here, I’m sure they are in many Border States, not just Calif. An undercover agent working with the Cartel came to a SD Newspaper to get it Known, I’m assuming because his boss’s ignored it..? But not one Local Media has covered it. Not one National Media has covered this story. We have Terrorist training Bases on our borders and No one is talking about it. Well. I have taken it on myself to send that story to Many different places. One man is trying to put it out there for the American People to hear. But the more that will bring it to light the closer we would be to pressuring our president to act. even to pressure the Mexican president to do something about it. They working hand in hand with the Drug cartels according to the officer. So we went digging and found this story by the Fox news station in San Diego…….. Hezbollah Sets Up Base Near Mexican Border A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News. The former agent, referring to Shi’a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, “They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings.” Some of the group’s bombings include the U.S. embassy in Beirut and Israeli embassy in Argentina. Let us be in prayer about this situation. We had Our Foreign Affairs correspondent, Pastor Larry Moss on with us last night on NM News and Views and he simply stated that the present administration is not watching what is happening in Mexico. There is a war that has been going on in Mexico for years and we avoid it…..Sunday 12 Cartel thugs were killed in a shoot out with the Mexico Navy and one Mexico Naval officer was killed. It took place on the United States and Mexico border on Falcon Lake. I asked Larry on the program if he ever thought he would see Hezbollah setting up shop just to the south of us and he said, NO! The question now becomes, how many other Terrorist groups are set up in Mexico? Why does our Country avoid what’s happening in Mexico…..because of Drug cartels? Drug Money? Where is our Foreign Policy? The President and much of the Country is so consumed in the death of Bin laden…….we are not paying attention to details, well, that was happening before the death of Bin laden…….we are helping bomb Lybia…..is that smart? In Syria they are now putting civilians in soccer stadiums as prisoners… That was being reported yesterday……And in Egypt you have Muslims killing Christians and burning down Churchs……and now to the South of us here in New Mexico in the United States of America we have Hezbollah setting up shop in Mexico. Larry Moss stated that President Obama is way over his head in all this. He is not capable. And another item we need to be in prayer about……. Washington (CNN) — A preliminary U.S. Navy plan to allow its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels after the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” has fired up congressional opposition. All services are moving forward with the transition from the present ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in uniform. Top Pentagon officials are expected to sign off on the new rules and the progress of training in coming weeks. An April 13 memo from the Navy officer in charge of chaplains says they “may” officiate at same-sex marriages or civil unions, depending on both local laws and their religious organization. It is not clear if the other services would have a similar provision. I think it is very apparent we need another Great Awakening here in the United States of America……….. The Time for Prayer: The Third Great Awakening During the Third Great Awakening of 1857FF1859, 10,000 people in New York City alone gathered together daily—even left work—to pray. The same thing was taking place all over the country, in small towns as well as in great cities. July 1, 1989 By 1820 it seemed that the Second Awakening was waning; yet within a few years it had sprung to life under the ministry of Charles Finney. His enormous success inspired a large number of “professional evangelists” to come to the fore from the ranks of every major denomination. By 1840 the concept of large campaigns led by preachers who were not pastors of specific churches was generally accepted. From 1840 until the 1870s numerous preachers entered the ranks of traveling evangelists. Despite all this, the religious life of America was in decline from 1840 to 1857. Many causes were responsible. Agitation over the issue of slavery in both the North and South had reached fever pitch, and hatreds boiled. Great numbers were disillusioned over spiritual things because of the extremes of the Millerites, a radical group that had widely proclaimed that Christ would return to earth between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844. When this did not happen, William Miller, the leader, reset the date at 22 October 1844, and again those who had trusted his prediction were disappointed and infuriated. So widespread was the clamor that even the general churches who had nothing to do with the Millerite delusion were mocked. In October 1857 a financial panic occurred, with banks failing, railroads going into bankruptcy, and financial chaos arising everywhere. A civil war seemed unvoidable to many because of the slavery question. America tottered on the brink of disaster. Canadian Harvests Meanwhile, in Canada an awakening was starting. From June through October 1857, Dr. Walter Palmer and his wife Phoebe conducted camp meetings in Ontario and Quebec with crowds of 5,000 and more. They then went to Hamilton, Ontario, where they had to wait for a train connection to New York City. Hearing that they were in town, Samuel Rice, a Wesleyan minister, invited them to speak at the McNab Street Wesleyan Methodist Church. The meeting was so well received that the Palmers were invited to speak again the next evening, and 21 people were converted. Due to the response, the Palmers stayed for several weeks, during which time 600 people professed faith in Christ. The Third Awakening had begun. Phoebe Palmer was usually the main speaker at meetings, while her physician husband assisted her. The revival was declared by both Canadian and American newspapers to be a model of orderliness. That winter the Palmers traveled to Oswego, Binghamton, and Union, New York, for meetings that drew interdenominational support. In August 1858 they journeyed to Canada’s Maritime Provinces. In St. John there were 400 conversions, and in Halifax, 170 professed faith. Next they went to Prince Edward Island, where 700 conversions were recorded under their preaching. As the historian Timothy Smith showed in his book Revivalism and Social Reform, there was an earnest expectation of awakening, and much prayer in many places for it in 1857. ln cities large and small there were interdemominational prayer meetings. One prayer meeting, held daily at 4 p.m. in Bethel, Connecticut, was attended by “farmers, mechanics, and storekeepers,” and claimed 400 conversions. Many smaller towns had similar daily or weekly prayer sessions. Closed on Account of Prayer So there was nothing unique about the weekly prayer meeting that Jeremiah Lanphier began on 23 September 1857 on Fulton Street in New York City. Lanphier was a 48-year-old businessman who began work as an urban missionary for the North Dutch Reformed Church in July 1857. Two days after Lanphier’s prayer meeting began, the Bank of Pennsylvania failed in Philadelphia, sending shock waves through America’s financial community. In a few days’ time, enough people were attending Lanphier’s meeting that it began to meet daily. On October 10 the New York stock market crashed, putting many stockbrokers and clerks out of work, and shutting down businesses everywhere. Many people went into bankruptcy; the panic shattered the previous complacency. Soon the crowds attending the Fulton Street laymen’s gathering overflowed into the nearby John Street Methodist Church. Charles Finney had declared that before this New York “seemed to be on such a wave of prosperity as to be the death of revival effort.” This attitude changed dramatically. The financial panic, it seems, was the catalyst that triggered the awakening. Within six months 10,000 people were gathering daily for prayer in numerous places throughout New York. In a short time the New York Times reported that the nationally known pastor, Dr. Henry Ward Beecher, was leading 3,000 people in devotions at Burton’s Theater. Once while he was reading Scripture, Beecher was interrupted by singing from an overflow prayer meeting crowd in an adjoining barroom! He then led the group in thanksgiving that such a thing could happen. Other major cities also developed prayer meetings. The form of worship was always the same: any person might pray, give a testimony or an exhortation, or lead in singing as he or she “felt led.” Although pastors such as Beecher often attended and lent their enthusiastic support, laypeople provided the leadership. Little planning was done for the meetings, the chief rules were that a meeting should begin and end punctually, and that no one should speak or pray for very long. In Chicago, the Metropolitan Theater was filled every day with 2,000 people. In Louisville, Kentucky, several thousand crowded each morning into the Masonic Temple, and overflow meetings were held around the city. In Cleveland, the attendance was about 2,000 each day, and in St. Louis all the churches were filled for months on end. Front-Page News What impressed observers, and the press, was that there was no fanaticism, hysteria, or objectionable behavior, only a moving impulse to pray. Finney commented, “The general impression seemed to be, ‘We have had instruction until we are hardened; it is now time for us to pray.’ ” Little preaching was done. As the people gathered they were largely silent; there was a great overarching attitude of glorifying God. One account tells of a European cargo ship that sailed into New York harbor during the awakening and was boarded by the harbor pilot, who was a Christian. As he guided the ship into port, he told the captain and crew what was going on in the city, and a great hush fell over them all, which seemed to him the power of the Spirit. By the time they reached the dock, most of the crew had committed their lives to Christ. In February 1858 James Gordon Bennett began to give extensive space to the awakening in his paper, the New York Herald. Not to be outdone, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, gave still greater coverage to the meetings, until in April 1858 he devoted an entire edition of the Tribune to a special revival issue. Other papers quickly followed suit in reporting the great numbers of people all throughout the nation attending the prayer gatherings and professing faith in Christ. Copyright © 1989 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine. Click here for reprint information on Christian History. Just think from 1857 to 1859 10,000 people would gather daily in NYC alone…..and many others in small towns and large cities all over the United States of America…..We can do the same today….we just need to pray……..and the Holy Spirit move. Yesterday, we talked about being BOLD……here is more on being BOLD in PRAYER! Praying Boldly Concluding thoughts on our great need to pray David R. Mains is director of the Chapel of the Air radio ministry, and was formerly a pastor at Circle Church in Chicago. He has written several books; this article is adapted from the chapter “Praying Boldly,” in his book The Sense of His Presence (Word Publishing, 1988) July 1, 1989 “Revival and prayer always go together. They are inseparably linked.” I have a conviction that to experience another day of awakening in the Church, leaders are going to have to model what boldness in prayer is all about. Boldness regarding prayer is mentioned frequently in the New Testament, and I’m convinced that boldness for the most part is lacking in the prayers of the Church and desperately needs to be rediscovered. Never has there been awakening without God’s people learning the efficacy of prayer. The Church knows boldness when all its people pray exactly as though they were talking to Jesus face to face. The less Christians sense his presence, the less bold or confident they will be when coming before him in prayer. This doesn’t take the deductive reasoning of a genius to figure out; why put a lot into a conversation if you think the person you’re talking to is not listening? Why be bold when your mind hasn’t been captured by the majesty of the One to whom you come to speak? The modeling of prayer in our worship services as little more than verbalizations says to observing people, “Don’t expect much, folks, because we don’t really sense that the King is near enough to be responding at the moment.” How would the life of the Church be transformed if we were all actually to hear Jesus say, “My subjects, I’m attentive and receptive right now to what you as a people have to say to me.” I often get a feeling, when people share their prayer requests, that the requests relate more to surface issues than to substantive ones. Seldom do the matters at hand touch in any way the deep concerns of the King who is being addressed. Instead, most of the requests expressed seem to center on the comfort of the subject voicing it. I believe that the church must learn to refrain from voicing requests that would sound silly were the King bodily present to hear and to respond. If our prayers in church were actually spoken as though we were talking to Christ face to face, sooner or later a spiritual reality would begin to make itself known. This authenticity would then be caught by Sunday morning attendees, and eventually would make its way into the small prayer groups in the church, as well as into individual prayer closets and private groanings before the Lord. God’s people would rapidly begin to know a new and mighty confidence and boldness. When we realize that this is the King of the universe and that he has truly given us his attention, that realization results in boldness. And before we know it, we see early signs of awakening. Revival and prayer always go together. They are inseparably linked. Some might think boldness in prayer means storming into heaven’s courts demanding attention. This is not boldness in the way Christ taught it or modeled it. Instead, boldness is the picture of a confident servant coming to his master in an attitude of praise. The mindset is one of wanting most of all to serve the Lord well. Knowing God’s will and doing it is the primary desire. How the Church today languishes for this kind of praying. And in order for us to know success in this area, I believe huge adjustments must be made. I challenge all concerned Christians to examine their personal and corporate prayer lives in this light. I suspect that the way to begin correcting this problem is in the privacy of our own times alone with Christ. And whether it’s a short session or a long season of prayer—the question of importance is this: Are you conscious that Christ is there in the room with you, or are you just talking to the walls? Are you bold in prayer? Copyright © 1989 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine. Click here for reprint information on Christian History.

Here is a note from Jannetta of Albuquerque Rescue Mission on the Foot Washing event that was held the day before Easter….. Hi there Dewey!.. thought you might like to see the video and photos from the event! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Albuquerque-Rescue-Mission/245881937013?ref=ts   Best, Jannetta

Let us keep praying for each other and our families………. In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family www.mykkim.com www.deweysdailycup.com www.facebook.com www.twitter.com