Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM/KARS

May the Strength, Peace and Wisdom of our Lord be with you and yours forever and ever!

I get many notes saying that you save the CUPS and read them again and again or have them translated to another language and then forward them.WOW How God works! How God uses us! AMAZING! Just give it all to God.

I loved the work of Paul Harvey……and one of the things that made him such a great broadcaster was he stressed points and did not hurry on………I encourage you not to hurry today as you read the CUP….let the words of wisdom I am sharing with you soak in………

D.L. Moody, “Give me a man who says, This one thing I do…. not These fifty I dabble in.”

Please pray for Grace’s friend Sarah, whose Mother passed away.

Please pray for all those being effected by the flood waters in Tennessee. I was texting back and forth with Chuck Bates of IRN/USA Radio located in Memphis and he was keeping an eye on the Network and watching the flood waters in the area.

“We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.” AW Tozer

The following quotes come from The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham………Thanks again to Pastor Don Kimbro………this book has helped me so……I refer to it often.

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God, not because they are faultless, but because they know their own faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them and are ever ready to correct themselves. Mohandas Gandhi AMEN AMEN to that!!!

Leadership requires awareness of one’s own emotions and depths; awareness of multiple forces shaping perceptions and drives; awareness of the dark and the light and the large consequences of one’s acts.

I have to tell you…….many it seems to me..do not think of the consequences of their actions.

We see the necessity of the burning purpose in a leader and the humility to balance it out!

Now with that…this is one my favorites if not my favorite from the book……..this is how I feel with all the accolades that come my way……..

Billy said, “The one thing I want you to pray for is this: That I will not take credit for the successes of these things whatsoever, because if I do, my lips will turn to clay.”

Billy Graham………so much wisdom………and still giving……….

Love this one two………and this seems to be a huge problem today………Leaders chasing two rabbits at once……..both will escape.

We all really are leaders, in our families, at work, at Church…….etc…….

I encourage you to read, The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham by Harold Myra and Marshall Shelly

I leave you with this today…this is another book that Pastor Mark Scales gave me, The Heart of a Great Pastor by H.B. London Jr. and Neil B. Wiseman

I also share this with you to show that the Body of Christ is such a blessing……..I have had so many people give me resources to be a excellent Pastor. I am so thankful for their love and care.

Just like the Congregation at Cross of Hope adopting me as a leader in the Community to pray for me everyday……….that blows me away IN GOODNESS……..God is GREAT…..I am always blown away when I find that people have been praying for me…….they just don’t say it……..THEY ARE DOING IT!!!! THE POWER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST WHEN IT COMES TOGETHER LIKE HERE AT THE CUP IS AWESOME!!!! Love ya much Kay!

This is one of my motto’s everyday……..

THE TIME HAS COME TO SPEAK TO THE DEEPEST NEEDS OF HUMAN BEINGS AND SECULAR SOCIETY WITH SOUL SERIOUSNESS AND SUPERNATURURAL BIBLICAL AUTHORITY.

AMEN!

Let us pray…………

Lord, Thank you for the Body of Christ…….Thank you for the wisdom you give us……..the insights…….the boldness……..In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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Who you are………..is who you attract.

Who you are……………………is who you attract.

Who is around you?

That is what you have become.

Dear KKIM/KARS Family,

May the Peace, Strength and Wisdom of our Lord be with you and yours forever and ever!

I was texting Chuck Bates of IRN/USA Radio last night in Memphis to see how they were doing with all the flooding in that area. Tennessee has been hit hard. Please keep this in your prayers. Arkansas has been hit also.

I got a Tweet from Greg Fast who lives near Nashville and they had knee deep water.

Getting ready to preach this morning at 11am at www.loslunaschurchofgod.com

Make sure and tune in our TV program tonight at 7pm on KAZQ CH 32 on Comcast 22.
Pastor Larry Moss is our guest. Next week Pastor Garland Moore.

Here is a thought for you………Pastor Larry Moss was talking weeks ago on how he knows that I was called by God to come to KKIM/KARS. To have the Calling of God is so AWESOME…….it is what drives me everyday.

Let me stop right here and Give Thanks to Our Lord for all the Godly people HE has surrounded me and Sharon with to help us in our walk with Jesus Christ. Responsive People who are always with us. We all need Godly people to be around us……..I pray you have the same. This is what the Body of Christ does for each other!

Larry told me to read the book “The Call” by Os Guinness.

Read this: To be sure, calling is not what is commonly thought to be. It has to be dug out from under the rubble of ignorance and confusion. And, uncomfortably, it often flies directly in the face of our human inclinations. But nothing short of God’s call can ground and fulfill the truest desire for purpose.

Have you been called by God to do what you are doing?

Many just go through life and have no idea about the calling of God………Paul tells us to pray all the time. When we pray and walk so close with the Lord we will know if we are answering the Call of God. I pray all the time……what do you mean Dewey? Yes I do! Prayers to our Lord do not have to be done kneeling..sitting…….in a pew… .prayers can be done when walking….running…working..all the time! Seek the Lord’s Will in all you do! I also will be still………..and listen.

To be walking so close to the LORD……your Spirit will be disturbed when you are going down the wrong track! Your Spirit will be lifted UP when you are on the right track……you will know.

So much confusion in our Society……..because people do not know their calling from God.

God has put forth such a simple plan for us……..and it starts in HIS WORD.

Karen Rowe who is on KKIM/KARS Thursday’s at 2:45 is such a women of God. She has answered her call from God to share from her heart………and she does that again this morning with this………

Meekness of Wisdom

Before I begin, I looked up the word meek in the dictionary.
Meek: gentle, courteous, kind; humbly patient or docile, as under provocation of another

2 Corinthians 10:1 “By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you…

My recent revelation…Revelation is something that God reveals to us through HIS word as we come to a more complete understanding. Through every trial with revelation we have a great opportunity to receive change in our life.

James 4:13-
“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”

Vs 16 “As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil…

This was the verse that prompted this writing!

I DID THIS!!! And I didn’t even know it…My revelation has changed how I approach my day … Vs 15 “Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

I proudly proclaimed that I knew that my son was to go to a certain school because God’s peace was with me from the minute that I walked in the door. Certainly God’s peace was with me that day, but for that day and for that purpose.

HOWEVER, when I decided that this was definitely the school that I wanted my son to be in, it became my own selfish desire…and I linked God’s peace from that visitation day to confirm God’s blessing on this decision.

I wanted my son to go to this school and this school fit all the criteria for a district transfer. …This was my justification …There were chairs available, I was told that it shouldn’t be a problem for a transfer to this particular school and I had good reason for a transfer based on proximity…However, one person seemed to be standing in the way and it seemed that this person was lying to me.

Truthfully, I don’t know if this person lied to me or not, it doesn’t matter now, because God knows! I was so bent on making this happen that I failed to hear God. I was so busy making this happen and protecting our position in this transfer that I could hear lies louder than God’s truth…Lies that hide the truth…and I started be become manipulated to hide behind these lies. Certainly, there was/ is still truth in my justification…but those truths were twisted in many way(s) as a crafty weapon against me that used my son as the bait!

A crafty weapon had formed against me …and grew to the point of confusion that I couldn’t even see the truth in my own reasons for seeking the transfer…

Honestly, the major issue that drove me was that his district school had a bad reputation and I had listened…I had made up my mind that my son would absolutely NEVER attend this district school…hummmmmm I wasn’t open to see the Lord’s will…so how could I trust God “completely” ??? My selfish desire overshadowed complete trust…

A battle created itself within me that I found myself fighting in an attempt to appeal a decision that denied him this right…a right that seemed justified, but it was a fight without peace.
I was confused, because, complete peace was not with me in this fight.
I failed to seek God in why(s) that HIS peace was not with me in my pursuance of this appeal, because I didn’t want to consider that I was wrong.
I wanted and thought that I needed to make this happen for the good of my son…I could see no other option and I stood firm on the peace that existed on that visitation day, even though God’s peace was not with my in this battle…

Honestly, I was so busied up that I didn’t have time to look up to ask God…hummmm
And

Situations arose that caused me to lack in trust in the system and so I blamed another who appeared to be purposely standing in my way…

2 Corinthians 10:4-5
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Vs7 “You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.”

My freedom in Christ came with full peace when I remembered this truth…Now, today, I find it in the written word to share.

When I choose to look beyond my selfish desire to remember that my job is to love, and pray for another; as well as the situation at hand, immediate peace from God came into me and I was certain…

God had shined a light on the truth for me through prayer and in that prayer, God illuminated the weapons of lies and deception that had been manipulating my thoughts. Lies that were purposely designed and used as a personal weapon intended to take me away from living in the love and the word of God.

Thank God I didn’t slander this person, but I certainly hinted that direction…and I definitely had thoughts of this person’s ‘probable’ dishonesty and ‘possible’ misuse of their control over something that affected my son’s future. These were all lies.

God IS over my son’s future…this was only a test of my trust in God…
A HUGE lesson and I learned the hard way…
I learned the hard way, BUT GOD CARRIED ME THROUGH HIS WAY! : )

Satan actually was very crafty to push buttons that created ANTI love inside of me toward this person…Love is patient, kind…(1st Cor 13)…

I like to go through every characteristic of LOVE to see if I am remaining in Jesus…
I was coming up short…and my peace reflected that!

James 4:14 “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is you life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Our time is here for a time and a purpose to love; a life in which we are to learn and persevere.
Trials won’t last long…our purpose is great…our time is short…
Did I show love toward this woman? I think so…I hope so, but in my hidden closet inside my soul I didn’t. I didn’t even think to pray for this person when I was entertaining thoughts about their attitude.

When I prayed for God to open this person’s eyes to see in these areas that I sensed as wrongful…

God shined a light on the lies that Satan had twisted in my head to show me that they were not true… I was freed from guilt, worry and concern (meaning that I was searching for a way to make right if I had done wrong) …(which by the way, I had not…It was all part of this battle that Satan had created in me… and I was falling prey for some of the lies to worry)…Satan had me balled up inside in a mess of tangled lies.

The truth is, even if I did wrong, which I am sure that my behavior was laced with hints of disrespect and a desire to gossip that I’m sure was noticed; a desire that was held down by what seemed to need a team of wild horses to keep my mouth shut, but only possible by the real love of God in my heart.

The truth is…God forgives and washes sins away…All sins. God is powerful in HIS forgiveness and Jesus is the truth that sets us free. Guilt is not part of God’s plan…

The craftiness of evil deception…never wins when we stay tight with God!

God’s truth set me free! HE shined light on the truth and I knew that God knew the truth in me and my heart! I trusted God to handle what I could not, and as far as it depended on me, I was now only concerned about pleasing God.

My prayer turned over any (potential) ill wrongs against us to God…which allowed me to stop fighting a battle that never existed… I could just rest and be still knowing that God was God and that HE was over all.

“Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lords’ will, we will live and do this or that.”

I was proclaiming that it was in God’s hands, BUT I was certain that there was only one decision and it was going to be the one that I wanted!
(Notice the “but” just canceled this situation out of God’s hands…as I put my problem in my own hands…trying to make happen what I thought was best for my son)

I continued to struggle to make that peaceful moment at that school become God’s plan for my son’s destiny and it was easy, because it lined up with what I wanted…AND I was willing to fight every battle to win with determination…
BUT, I failed to recognize that I really wasn’t seeking God’s will…I was trying to drag God along with my thoughts of what IS best for my son.

I failed to remember that God uses us to connect with HIS purpose…I failed to care about a greater purpose …All I could see was 2 feet in front of me!

I failed to remember that God will be with my son where ever he is because God loves my son. My job is to trust that God knows all tomorrows that I can’t know…and simply follow (in peace) and in the joy and love of Jesus.

16 “As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.

I didn’t even realize that it was a boast or brag, but in the way that I thought, spoke and acted…I was boasting that I knew God’s tomorrow for my son…and I was trying to make it happen. Thank God HE understood and God helped me see the error of my way. God build my faith and trust a little/ A LOT stronger through this trial.

To finish this particular learning experience, I recently drove to the district school to turn in my sons Kindergarten registration. I prayed for God’s will to be known to me in a way of true and real acceptance that this district school very well may be God’s will for my son.

COMPLETE peace was with me that morning as I drove and when I arrived at the office. I was moved to tears as I witnessed such an outpour of support for a child in recognition for all of his hard work as his mom was on the speaker phone telling him how proud she is of him…

The principle was there and introduced her self. She said, so we have a new student arriving? I won’t lie! It’s against God’s WORD…a lie is against God’s truth…Lies entangle…The truth sets us free…

Knowing that I was appealing the district decision, I said, “Yes, but honestly, this is his district school, but this other school is closer…it’s all in God’s hands…) this time I was humbled to truly mean that it is all in God’s hands… I meant it and she knew it. I asked her to keep us in her prayers in this decision…

That is a God moment for my desire to change in that moment to line up with God’s desire! : ) My will needed to align with God’s will and the peace of Jesus that is with me is so wonderfully full in my heart that trust and love are just natural.

The principal came over to me after 3 or 4 minutes and with a Jesus smile, she said, “You’re in the right place, you’re in the right place and said, I’m principle so and so and you’re in the right place.” I knew…I looked at her enveloped in peace and said, “I am…aren’t I?” And with a nod of acceptance, I said, “I am..”

So for today, this it the day that the LORD has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it, trusting God in this day…God already has tomorrow covered.

17”Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”

Thanks be to God our Father because HE gave me rest! HE directed my path! HE revealed the truth to me in my rest, which was my trust in HIM!

When I TRULY turned my son’s destiny over to God in COMPLETE trust, God revealed to me that I was wrong. God is always right! Why did I fail in complete trust?

Satan tempted me with the most valuable thing in the world to me, …MY SON!
I was like a mama bear that was going to make happen for my son what I knew was best for him… I thought on that statement as I read James 4

It is always God, who knows best.

My shaky peace slowly lead me to immediate complete peace when I came to full acceptance to seek God’s will.
My complete peace swelled when I opened my eyes to see that God knew best all along and HIS plan very well may be for the school that I was fighting so hard to avoid at all cost!

There is a difference between experiencing peace and attaching that peaceful moment to tomorrow!
There is a difference in complete peace over a situation while trusting God…
…And trying to hold on to a past peace that is not complete.

I learned and the reward is GREAT!
I thank God for that learn! I didn’t even know all the wrongs that I was committing against the WORD of God, until I saw it in James 4…I was getting bits and pieces revealed to me, but the ENTIRE revelation didn’t come until GOD REVEALED HIS WORD TO ME THROUGH HIS WRITTEN WORD AND THROUGH THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!

Praise to God, God is worthy of all praise….and trust…which is rewarded with peaceful living that carries us through it all.

James 4 and James 5 have been powerfully revealing wisdom to me all month!
James 3:17 from a paraphrase in The Daily Bread:
When James spoke of the “wisdom that is from above,” he described it as “pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy”

Final thought to ask someone…
“Do you know that God loves you?” …
“How do you know that God loves you?” …
We show our love to others in the way we see God shows his love toward us…It is good!

Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
www.hopeintoday.webs.com

If it is the Lord’s will, I hope to use this revelation for the next June show that I record. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. HE raises me up and renews my strength! This is the day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. God bless…I hope that you were blessed by this. : )