Dear KKIM/KARS/SHINE Family, May God be with you and yours………. The theme of the CUP…Proverbs 11:14 “For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure” Father, Thank you for providing guidance in my life. Lead me to choose my advisers carefully, and may I provide wise advice to those You have placed in my circle. In the name of Jesus, AMEN! That is the theme of this CUP..enjoy…..this has been specially brewed for you! Today is Flag Day! I encourage you to fly the flag today! WE do every day at our Home and the Radio Ranch! Thanks to Chris and Eric for the flag they gave us! See Ernie Belanger’s post on flag day at www.newmexiconewsandviews.com Ernie has been with us before, he is retired US Air Force Special Opps. Outstanding Godly work on his write up about Flag day..you will be blessed. Flag Day is not only a very special day in America, it will always be special for me as Flag Day is the day my Dad, Wally Moede was born on. My Dad one year bought me my first new bicycle on his birthday, that is the kind of Dad I had, always giving to others, even on his birthday, that is one of my favorite stories. That taught me a valuable lesson, to always be giving, even on a day when traditionally we are to receive, keep giving. That was my Dad, he made a lifetime of giving and sacrificing. I am now 55 years old and those lessons have stuck with me to this day, and that it was one of the main reason I keep going, as my Dad always told me to keep going with both barrels……you see my Dad grew up in extreme poverty, he never had many of what would be considered the basic things in life. he grew up in a family of 13 kids. A family of Godly love, but they never had money, even thou Grandpa Chris worked hard and then he died when my Dad was just 13. Grandma Moede did the best she could at this point and the older kids, like Uncle Joe helped take charge of the family. Many kids are growing up without the Godly role model’s I had…….so they do not have the foundation, in fact they will at first look at me, at least some of them, that I am talking Greek to them, a foreign language to them, when I am talking about role models, and how I grew up. I wish I could take many men back to my days in Windom, and show them how I was raised up by Mom and Dad and entire community of love. I come from a Town where in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s it was a community effort from the Mayor, to the Sunday School Teacher, to the Shop owners that helped keep an eye on us kid’s. That is so valuable. Not many can relate to that anymore. Someone told me once, “Dewey sounds like you grew up in Mayberry!!! “(Andy Griffith show) I believe that is where my foundation was built to love my God, God’s people. Also a special love for small communities, small Church’s, farm country, earthly people, the smaller things in life. What appears to be big for other’s, in many cases, is small to me. I was taught, one at a time……one person has my attention that is all I need to focus on at the time, not the masses. I will never forget when I was home for Dad’s funeral, we heard a car drive up in front of the house, and a little boy on crutches with his Dad started to come up the walk, he was one of the disabled children that Dad took special care of and made sure he got on the right bus each day, (Dad was transportation Dir. for the Schools) anyhow this little boy asked me when I opened the door if he could have one of Wally’s hat’s!!! He just wanted one of Dad’s hat’s that he wore, Dad always wore what would be called ball hats, like the guys wear now, that is the kind of impact my Dad had on children. My Dad focused on this little boy everyday…..as an individual……. Thank you for allowing me to share about the impact my Dad had on me and many other’s, Dad was born on June 14th 1927 and went home to the Lord the week he retired on April 19th, 1992 Easter morning that year. Just a final note on that, My Dad and the other Man who impacted my life so, Uncle Joe Moede, I am now crying as I type this, Oh Lord thank you for my Dad and Uncle Joe, …………..They both grew up as I say in poverty, many years without their Dad who died young, and also went through the Great Depression and WWII. They both grew up in a Christian home. They became stronger through all that, not weaker, never used it as an excuse. So what are we complaining about? I am sharing with you this morning from my heart my friends. Thank you so much for allowing me to do so…….My heart is burdened for all those leaving their homes because of the fires, last night on New Mexico News and Views the fire in Raton, NM had gone to about 7,000 acres and many people were being evacuated from their homes and one witness said, “Trees are exploding” Then as I was ending the news, we got word of another fire, around 500 acres near Carlsbad Caverns. Resources are being spread so thin here in New Mexico, firefighters from our City and County are now headed to the Raton Fire. Officials have said what has happened in Arizona could happen here in New Mexico because of extreme drought, we are already seeing part of that in Raton. Please constantly pray for Rain. Many of our firefighters are just plain tired, let us not take them for granted. Be not afraid to trust God utterly. As you go down the long corridor of life you find that He has preceded you and locked many doors which would you and I would have entered; but be sure that beyond those that have been locked are those the He has left unlocked. Open it and enter, and you will find yourself face to face with a bend of the river of opportunity, broader and deeper than anything you dared to imagine in your sunniest dreams. Launch forth on it. When God prepares us for a life for Him, He includes what we would rather omit—–a period of silence, a time of waiting…….oh yes, it could be 9 years or more or less…….I waited 9 years for the KKIM job to happen, 9 years! The second thing is God makes us wait, hiding us under his shadow, He shows us we’re not indispensable. That makes us humble. One major reason the Lord removes us and has us wait is to remind us we are not the star attraction! I am just a humble servant of my Lord or as James described himself, a slave to Jesus. James was a humble servant but he was known as a leader also. Yesterday I did my best to humbly describe to you the healing of the lady in the wheel chair, it was hard at first to tell the story, but the story must be told for God’s Glory alone…..I did not heal that lady, the Lord is the one and only and we need to tell that to others. Many will discount that story because many so called Christian leaders have messed that all up. God heals, not men. God hides us way at times and reveals new dimensions of Himself and new insights regarding our lives. That makes us deep, and we are living in a time where many people are so shallow. God gives us deepness in Him. Many Christian are shallow in their belief. How deep are you? What we need right now, is we need not smarter people……not busier people….in the Church and in America…..we need deeper people in our Lord. That is the difference, that will turn our Country around for God. We have to many educated fools in this Country and not enough deep people in our Lord, where they swim with the Lord every second of their day. Who do you swim with everyday in your thoughts? God deepens us through time spent waiting on Him. When God finally uses us, it comes at a time when we least expect it! I know, I know!!! I have been through all this…..and am still going through it. I get a kick out of Christians that say… I think God is taking me here, and I am going to get this job, and I am going to do this..and I am going here and there.and God is going to place me in this job now…….. WOW! I have to tell you, Read James 4……..also it is the TRUTH…..When God finally chooses to use us, move us..it is when we least expect it! That is why we must be ready to move for God at any moment. And you will not know any of this if you do not have a Personal relationship with Him, where you hear Him. Otherwise you will be on a wild goose chase your entire life. I am sadden by Christian’s who run around like a chicken with their head cut off running in all directions….they are not hearing God. God is not a God of confusion. So be watchful for that OPEN DOOR………and listen……….and pray………and read God’s Word……..The Holy Spirit will come upon you like never before! How do I know? I have experienced it and still am, it is the only way to live for God. Now I need to share with you this, I call it God’s puzzle…….. He put’s our life together like a puzzle board. I was never good at a puzzle board because I did not have the patients of God and the smarts……… I always admired people who could do a puzzle………. But God put’s our life together like we would have never dreamed…..He is the Master! Where we think pieces of our life will not fit..He put’s us right there in the center stage! Or he may put us at the bottom of the puzzle for years…….out of eye sight. One man who has taught me much about OPEN DOORS and my relationship with Jesus Christ, is my Pastor Jim Montoya. I will never forget the day Jim came storming through my office door, and I say that with full description, he did not walk through my office door, he stormed though it! From that first day Pastor Jim has taught me about OOPEN DOORS, he has pushed my learning of God’s ways……Sometimes Jim and I butt heads…….yes you get nothing but the truth here at the CUP!!! LOL LOL LOL! making ourselves vulnerable in our Lord. Too many Christians do not make themselves vulnerable, Yes Jim and I butt heads, no blood has been shed!!!!!!!! LOL LOL…..My point in this is that YOU AND I ALL OF YOU NEED A PASTOR! A MENTOR, and Jim has helped me grow in leap’s and bounds. Pastor Leonard Navarre and Pastor Paul Holt, Mark Tross, Larry Moss……. same way…..This is the world I grew up in where I have always had several mentor’s…I have always been surrounded by many Godly wise people, making myself vulnerable. Too many Christians don’t even talk to their Pastor. They don’t have a relationship with their Pastor. I ask some folks if they talk to their Pastor and they say…..no, he is too busy…….. I encourage you to have a solid Biblically sound relationship with a Pastor. God desires that for you. Too many Christians are going around without that, not good. These are the Words that the LORD gave me this day…….. To help you grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ, to hear Him, to know Him fully…..to fully see the OPEN DOORS…..you need the aide of a Godly Pastor…….. I leave you with this, shared by Bob Pate………. When Brother Gary Milliron was with us at the Los Lunas Church of God in May a word was brought forth and Brother Milliron had the interpretation. “I want to be with you 10 times, a hundred times more than you want to be with me. I will prosper you, I want to be with you. Learn to hear my voice. My sheep know my voice. Study, Read, Know My Word. Get to know Me. I will guide you, go this way, don’t go that way. I will show you favor. You will be surprised and amazed how I work, prosper, and bless. Feel My Love!” In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family www.mykkim.com www.shine977fm.com www.newmexiconewsandviews.com www.deweysdailycup.com www.facebook.com www.twitter.com
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