Dewey's Daily Cup

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Good Morning KKIM Family,

A beautiful day after the snow fall…..Even Dallas got snow, 1.2 inches..most ever in 24 hrs.!!! More Global Warming!!!!

Let me share these Tweets to you from my twitter account……I pray more of you will join us on Twitter!

@MaxLucado:pray 4 DC lawmakers.”The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord. Like rivers of water, He turns it however he wishes”pr. 21:1

The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need 2 sign the death certificate of our sin nature Oswald Chambers

People learn more from your admission of weaknesses than faking strengths. It builds hope that God could use them too. Rick Warren

PRAISE GOD! Love to you all, Dewey and Sharon

Dear KKIM family this is from Kay……….

Here is the clearest description I have heard of this clever smoke-and-mirrors tactic to pass the Obama health care bill against the will of most of this country’s citizens, and why it is dangerous. (This video is democrat Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking to the House Ways & Means Committee.) http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000012271.cfm

My heart is both sad and angry to see how most of those we have trusted to govern us have proven themselves unworthy of our trust. I have searched the Psalms to see how the innocent David responded to the King who spent 17 years chasing him down to destroy him for doing good. He did not pray “Lord., bless the King.” But He prayed earnestly for justice and righteousness for the powerless. Out of my sorrow and anger has come this prayer for our government officials and for ourselves. Perhaps it might help you express what is in your heart to the God who sees our tears and hears our pleas for righteous government.

~ Kay

Appeal to a Righteous God

O Lord, nothing is secret to you and no one can hide their deeds from the eyes of the One who sees all.

You calmly watch and wait to see the foolishness that wicked men devise. You are not worried about their lies and their plots. For You have all the power and might and You will have the Last Word!

No one can fool You. No one can claim, “It isn’t my fault! You can’t blame me – I didn’t do it!” You know the heart of every man and woman and you have promised to repay each one of them according to their deeds. You have said that their own words will convict them when they stand before You for judgment. No one will escape the justice they deserve.

But here on earth Lord, the righteous suffer for the evil deeds of corrupt government officials. The innocent are trapped and suffer at the hands of the guilty. Those who should represent us in the making of righteous laws have become our enemies. We are the victims of their greed and arrogance. While their bank accounts are full and they gorge themselves on delicacies, countless thousands scramble just to get minimal necessities of life. Thousands want employment to support their families, but unjust officials have deprived them of the opportunity to earn a living. Other millions have worked hard, only to see their paycheck shrink in its buying power due to the foolish or selfish decisions of the powerful.

Lord, when the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

We have no other hope, Lord. There is no one who can save us from our own government but You. O Lord, have mercy upon us! Hear our groaning. Pay attention to our cries for righteous government and courts that mete out true justice.

Forgive us for our own sins, Lord – our laziness and neglect. When we could have taken action to make a difference, we were busy pursuing pleasure or being distracted with our everyday activities. Forgive us for tolerating abuse of power and for foolishly electing officials who promised to give us every thing we want. Forgive us for neglecting the hard work of checking the backgrounds and decision trails of candidates. Forgive us for voting for superficial reasons and neglecting to consider which candidates would honor You.

We throw ourselves upon your mercy Lord. We admit that we do not deserve to have our requests considered for we too have sinned. Guide our steps into paths of repentance. Wash us with Your precious lifeblood. Cleanse our hearts and purify our motives. Transform our hearts so that we long to be like Your magnificent Son Jesus.

Draw us to hungrily feed upon Your Word of Truth as starving people who know our very lives depend upon it. Light the fire of devotion within us that will inspire us to obedience out of sheer gratitude for Your undeserved favor. Then our words of correction to our government officials will come from pure lips and righteous hearts (not perfect hearts but hearts who find no greater delight than in pleasing You).

Then we can hold our officials accountable without hypocrisy. Then we can teach sinners Your way of living, which will set them free from meager selfish striving.

For now, O Lord, as our president and congressmen and senators plot to deceive us and bind us with burdens too heavy to bear in this onerous and unjust Health Care Bill, we ask for Your intervention. Glorify Yourself by causing those who delight in deceiving and trickery to be caught in their own traps Lord. Don’t let them get away with this Lord!

Remember how they have flaunted their imagined rights and ignored the righteous statues created by men who honored you. Record that they have betrayed the trust of those who elected them and broken their vows to uphold the Consitution. Take note how the innocent are trampled upon and how the resources that the honest have earned are forcibly taken to give to the lazy who work not.

Father God, the wicked are not just our enemies, they are Yours, because they ignore their accountability to You. They pretend to themselves that there is no God who will hold them accountable. They congratulate themselves for their cleverness in tricking the naïve and the ignorant and the powerless and laugh because they believe that they can get away with it.

But they have not reckoned with the God who sits in the Heavens Who sees and Who knows all, even the hearts of everyone who has ever lived. Remember that You have promised to take vengeance, Lord, to pay back the wicked. We trust You to do it right, as we cannot in our humanity.

Now O Lord, rescue us from the hands of our enemies. Provide for us in proportion to our trust in You. Meet the needs of Your people who obey and honor You. And, as You promised, give us extra so we can share with those who don’t have enough.

Bring glory to Yourself through this miscarriage of justice and mockery of government. May the eyes of everyone be drawn to You O Lord, for You are the only One who deserves all praise.

Amen.

Dear KKIM Family,

I got a very loving Tweet from Karen Rowe this morning………..

It really made me think and pray……..

And then the Lord sent me to Ronnie Floyd’s book, “10 Things every Minister needs to know”

How timely the Lord would have me read these words of Floyd…….prompted by the message from Karen…….

Most Christian are more interested in being right than they are about being Christ-like. When we always have to have our way or have the last word in a debate over an issue, we may lose people on the vision path because we do not operate with Christ-likeness. As Ministers, we can add to the fire at times, rather than serving as the vessel of peace in the midst of the storm.

Wounded Christians lay on the brink of becoming spiritual carnage on the side streets of our churches because a minister or an employee or a church leader “just had to be right.” Someone did not have the wisdom to let go, but stayed on it too long to bring lasting benefit.

The Christian life is not about being right. It is about being Christ-like. I heard this said years ago and I have never forgotten it: IF SATAN CANNOT GET YOU TO DO THE WRONG THING, HE WILL GET YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING THE WRONG WAY.

This satanic ploy has limited, jeopardized, or ruined many ministries.

When you think you always have to be right, you will die on needless hills.

Being right and being Christ-like do not have to be competing forces. Rightness is doing something the way Jesus would do it. Jesus not only did what was right, but He always did it in the right way.

He is a picture of godliness and holiness, and He brought glory to God the Father.

Words of wisdom from Pastor Ronnie Floyd. I will be forever and ever grateful to Pastor Don Kimbro for giving me this book! AMEN! PRAISE GOD!

Thought for the day……….

Meekness does not stand for weakness………it stands for POWER UNDER CONTROL

POWER in our relationship with our Lord!

Pray on today’s message! Read it over and over..show your Pastor! Love you all, Dewey and Sharon