Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ

Please keep praying for Brooke, Frank Haley’s granddaughter…..We will update you as we hear.

Pastor Leonard Navarre is scheduled to fly out of India tomorrow……..please pray

Sharon and I have important meetings this week and maybe into next week……please pray for us.

Yesterday was Sanctity of Life Sunday……..Over 50 million babies have been aborted in the US since Roe vs. Wade…….Just think of that! God will not heal our land until abortion is stopped! Imagine how many leaders…teachers………Presidents……..for our Country that God had planned in his book of life…….and then we, the US, aborted them!

What would have happened to all that God had for you to do, and all those you have touched, your family, your friends, your Church, if you had been aborted?

It was great to see Kitty at our Church yesterday! She brightened our day!

Kitty why don’t we give away some of that chocolate leading up to Valentines Day on my show?

Doubt wonders, “Have I done enough to go to heaven?” Grace answers, “No, you haven’t. But Jesus has on your behalf.” Max Lucado

Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.~Albert Schweitzer

Who has done that for you? Sharon has for me.

I pray that you had an outstanding worship time yesterday. Oh, I pray that you have a house of worship that you attend……..it is all part of God’s plan for us to be together in Christ!

There is nothing like having a Church family!

I hear from many…..I tired that once and they chased me away…….or something like I did, but it got to be to clickish……etc.etc…..

I will help you find a Church home………email me…….

We have so many outstanding Church’s in the area! PRAISE GOD!

Yesterday I preached on God’s Favor and being a Bondservant for Christ…..

For many months now I have had people come up to me and say, “God’s Favor is with you.” or “The Favor of God covers you.”

When I would hear that I would be a bit embarrassed……also thinking, boy I sure do not want to do anything to mess this up!…….I just want to do what the Holy Spirit is moving me to do……..

My Pastor friends, my mentors….. Keep me on my toes……….who does that for you?

So Sharon and I dug into God’s favor and being a Bondservant……..

When I would hear God’s Favor I would also think of people who go nuts and think God’s favor mean’s material things……..

This should not be looked upon as some sort of secret formula for getting everything we want. For purposes of His own, God sometimes takes those He loves through special trials. Job is the primary example but similar instances happen in the lives of many, like you and me. However as we have been saying for the longest time here at the CUP.the closer we walk with the Lord, we will come to dwell in His favor and His favor for life.

I have included plenty of Scripture here for you to study…….Sharon and I pray that you will take the time to read all of it.

Sharon and I are here for you………Let us all be Bondservants for Christ……..
Bond Servants

A Bondservant of Jesus by Oswald Chambers I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me . . . —Galatians 2:20

Is Christ living in you?

25% of the time?

Do you take him to work with you?

These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Jesus. Once I am at that point, there is no possibility of misunderstanding. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ or understand what He meant when He said, “. . . for My sake” ( Matthew 5:11 ). That is what makes a strong saint.

More on this at: http://www.bondservants.com/

What does having the favor of God mean?

To favor means to give special regard to; to treat with goodwill; to show exceptional kindness to someone. Sometimes, it means to show extra kindness in comparison to the treatment of others.

However, favor is not always used in a comparative way toward others. It sometimes simply means that the one favored is shown kindness and treated with a generosity and goodwill far beyond what would normally be expected. This is generally the favor that we receive from the Lord. We are treated much better than we could expect. Of course, every believer is favored to some degree. Therefore, we must understand God’s favor in degrees. The more we please God, the more we will be favored by Him. Also, it is important not to think of this favor in material or worldly terms. God’s favor most likely will be given in spiritual blessings more than in material blessings. Here are some of the ways by which we obtain the favor of the Lord:

By praying unto the Lord (Job 33:26).
By keeping the commandments of the Lord (Proverbs 3:1-4).
By seeking and finding God’s wisdom (Proverbs 8:35).
By diligently seeking good (Proverbs 11:27; 12:2).
By living righteously (Proverbs 14:9).
There are many benefits of being in the favor of the Lord. Here are some of them:

Our petitions are more likely to be granted (Esther 7:3).
God will compass us with a shield (Psalm 5:12).
We will receive life (Psalm 30:5).
Our enemies will not triumph over us (Psalm 41:11).
God will show mercy (Psalm 119:58).
We can grow in favor both with God and with man-as did the child Samuel (1 Samuel 2:26) and the child Jesus (Luke 2:52). The phrase, to find favor in the eyes of, or, in the sight of, came from the Old Testament. Every saint of God should desire and seek to have favor in the eyes of the Lord. We grow in that favor as we faithfully live for the Lord.

However, this should not be looked upon as some sort of secret formula for getting everything we want. For purposes of His own, God sometimes takes those He loves through special trials. Job is the primary example but similar instances happen in the lives of many. However, if we continually draw closer to the Lord, we will come to dwell in His favor and in His favor is life . Psalm 30:5

From the web site: http://www.learnthebible.org/favor-of-god.html

Let us pray………

Lord, thank you for brining us together for this day to serve You. Let us seek Your will today and all days. We continue to pray for little Brooke and her family, we pray for wisdom for the Doctor’s and nurses who are treating her. We pray for safety for Pastor Leonard. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

In the love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
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Dear KKIM family,

Please be in prayer for Frank Haley’s granddaughter……….

Dewey,
Please pray for Brooke, my grand daughter, the little twin, she’s at UNM Hosp. in critical condition with RSV Virus Pneumonia. She’s in ICU and will probably be in the Hosp. for at least a week. The other 3 girls are sick too, but not as bad. Thanks..

Frank (The Old Texan) Haley cjf

My life’s verse: Isa. 9:6

and

My “getting through the day” saying:

“When the sunshine of God’s love meets the showers of our sorrow, the rainbow of promise appears.”

Oh Lord, We pray for wisdom for the Doctors and Nurses….we pray for little Brooke…….we pray for Frank’s family………We love you Lord…….In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

Dear KKIM Family,

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ………..Gal 1:3

I just wanted to send you this CUP as the Lord put it on my heart……..

I also need to say to those of you like Trudy……..wanting to know where I preach……..The Church of God in Los Lunas just a short drive down 1-25

I will be preaching on God’s favor and being a bondservant for Jesus at 11am tomorrow. I hope to see you there.

Trudy said, that Los Lunas is so far…….. and that is a comment I get often …..Well, Sharon and I and Pastor Jim and Pastor Mark are constantly praying about starting a Church in Albuquerque. Would you then come? I really am a non-denominational guy………Just like KKIM…..we invite all………to come

Sharon and I are just trying to be bondservants for Jesus Christ……..we are praying and seeking the Lord’s Will everyday for our lives.

We had never thought that the Lord would have us doing what we are doing now!!! PRAISE GOD!!!

We have turned our lives over to HIM………

As you know my favorite verse is………

My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus Acts 20:24

I know one thing…. I am to be the Shepherd of KKIM, as long as the Lord tells me so…….

keep us in your prayers and give us your thoughts on starting a Church here in the Duke City?

Got this email from Eric and Chris after yesterdays event in Santa Fe……….

Shalom Dewey,

Sorry to report that Evangelical support for Sanctity of Life Day in Santa Fe today very low.

Pastor Bill Redmond and Bill Sharer did super duper jobs speaking. Pastor Bill’s talk was passionate, based on the Constitution – quite superb!

Our Catholic brothers and sisters still lead the way against abortion.

Love ya,

Eric and Chris

Yes Eric and Chris, Our Catholic brothers and Sister’s also are fighting for Godly marriage here in New Mexico. The Catholic Bishop’s play such an important role in preventing same sex marriage. They have stood strong!! They speak out!

Let us all SPEAK UP FOR JESUS!!!

let us all remember that God used Moses and Paul to remind us HE transforms “the least of us” to be light in darkness. AMEN!!!

Last night we got a call on NM News and Views from Mark Wallace who is in Albuquerque City Government……he called in on a contest and then gave his thoughts on Health Care and our Economy……Wise man…..he said we should form a group of Americans to study our health care and economy…….

and then this was sent to me……..heads up…….

I want to share this very interesting write up with you……..We need information…we will perish without knowledge……..
7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About
First Posted: 01-23-10 11:47 AM

An extraordinary series of articles recently appeared on the Nieman Watchdog Web site, anchored by investigative reporter John Hanrahan and mostly based on interviews with some of the nation’s most perceptive, prescient and prophetic economists. The series laid out a broad landscape of economic issues that have been largely overlooked during the reporting of the nation’s economic collapse — to our great peril.
Hanrahan’s articles explore key elements of the story that reporters should have been — and should still be — writing about. Among them: The endemic fraud at the heart of the collapse, the resultant need for a comprehensive dissection of some key financial institutions, how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have weakened the economy, the dramatic effects of the crash on domestic poverty and world poverty, and underlying it all, the critically important role of government spending in a recovery, be it through a second stimulus or expanded entitlements or jobs programs, all of which requires that deficits be seen, for the short run at least, as the solution, not the problem.
As a coda to Hanrahan’s series, here is a list of seven things all of us should be more alarmed by than we currently are, going forward.
A common theme underlying them all is that while our leaders — and the voices of conventional wisdom — treat our current recession as cyclical in nature, and are essentially mostly just waiting around for growth to pick up again, there is plenty of reason to believe that this crisis was instead an expression of structural problems. And if that is so, and we don’t take the proper action, then the wait could be a long one.
No. 1: The middle class may never be the same again
The full effects of the crash of 2007-2008 on the lives of regular Americans has yet to be fully appreciated. For most members of the middle class, their sense of financial well-being was largely based on the size of their 401(k)s and their equity as homeowners. After the collapse of stock prices and with the steep drop in home prices, many may never feel the same way again, or spend their money as confidently.
While 401(k)s have somewhat bounced back, about one in four homeowners now actually have negative equity — are “underwater”. A recent study by Barry P. Bosworth and Rosanna Smart for Brookings finds that American households lost $13 trillion in wealth between mid-2007 and March 2009, or about 15 percent in all. That decline badly hit baby boomers just as they’re headed into retirement. And middle-income families whose head is age 50 or younger actually have smaller net incomes today than in 1983.
Meanwhile, many American families spent much of the last decade (or two) living beyond their means, piling up debt on their credit cards, or “bubble borrowing.” Two University of Chicago researchers have found that the housing bubble hugely increased household consumption as homeowners borrowed on average $0.25 to $0.30 for every $1 increase on their home equity. Now that housing prices have crashed and credit is tight, the inevitable result, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi write somewhat euphemistically, is a “painful process of household de-leveraging.”
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Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren, an emerging hero among progressives in her role as chair of the congressional bailout oversight panel, sees the latest series of blows as the unfortunate culmination of a crisis that started taking form a generation ago. For long stretches of time, the growth in the nation’s GDP has gone almost entirely to the top 1% or less of the population. That has resulted in an dramatic shift in wealth away from the middle class, made the economy more vulnerable to disaster and made the toll of such a disaster more catastrophic to all but the wealthiest Americans. Warren writes:
America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security. Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety. Paying for a child’s education and setting aside enough for a decent retirement have become distant dreams. Tens of millions of once-secure middle class families now live paycheck to paycheck, watching as their debts pile up and worrying about whether a pink slip or a bad diagnosis will send them hurtling over an economic cliff.
She concludes: “America without a strong middle class? Unthinkable, but the once-solid foundation is shaking.”
No. 2: The recovery could take a really long time
Even assuming that we are at the beginning of an enduring recovery, there are many signs that it will be a slow one, and that it could be as long as a decade until most American families return to the standard of living they enjoyed before the crash.
Most notably, unemployment is widely expected to be astronomically high for at least another year or two — remaining around 10 percent through 2010.
And the recovery, such as it is, has been largely fueled by government money — not just the stimulus, but also the bailouts, targeted programs such as the homebuyers tax credit and “cash for clunkers,” and emergency spending on such things as extended unemployment insurance. What happens, however, when those stop? And none are designed to go on forever.
Washington Post financial columnist Steven Pearlstein recently put it this way:

My best guess is that the current upswings in economic output, confidence and financial asset prices are largely a reflection of the extraordinary fiscal and monetary juice provided by Treasury and the Federal Reserve, along with the natural rebound that occurs after a collapse in consumer and business spending like that which occurred in the first half of 2009. The surprising strength of the bounce-back testifies to the wisdom of the underlying strengths of the U.S. economy and the success of the policies, but is likely to peter out as the stimulus begins to wear off and the inventory correction is completed.
No. 3: The recovery could only be temporary
In an interview with Fox News back in November, Obama himself raised the possibility that the economy could once again head into a tailspin:
I think it is important though to recognize that if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the US economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.
This is the classic Wall-Street influenced worst-case scenario — with government spending as the villain and interest rate increases as the ultimate horror, leading to doom.
But Obama may be worrying about the wrong side of the Wall Street/Main Street axis. The more likely reason the economy could tank again is because of insufficient demand.
For the past decade or so, the growth of the U.S. economy was primarily fueled by the credit and housing bubbles — which now turn out to have been illusory. So what will spur growth this time? Especially with so many Americans out of work? Where’s the demand going to come from?
Citing, among other things, the likelihood that the U.S. savings rate could go markedly higher in the coming years, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz warns that “we are not seeing a recovery of sustained consumption,”and says there is a “significant chance” of a double-dip recesssion for that reason.
One plausible growth model involves extensive government investment in infrastructure, public works and public goods; expansion of social programs; and a return to pre-Reagan era-style growth based on rising middle-class incomes, where wages grow with productivity.
Obama, however, captured as he is by the Wall Streeters and deficit hawks on his economics team, doesn’t seem inclined in that direction — nor, of course, does our utterly dysfunctional Congress. Obama and his advisers don’t seem to feel the need for a new approach to growth, or to explain where they think it will come from. Their posture is simply to hang tough until it returns.
But the current economic situation is more fragile that some would have it. One particular danger is that because of bogus accounting rules, banks aren’t properly recognizing their losses — and are in fact largely insolvent.
Clinton-era Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently speculated about what lies ahead for the economy. He wrote he see only a 10 percent chance of a double dip recession (vs. a 30 percent chance of a strong or solid recovery; a 40 percent chance of a jobless recovery; and a 20 percent chance of a stalled recovery). But his description of that particular scenario was particularly vivid:

The commercial real estate market craters, carrying with it hundreds of regional banks and exposing how much junk is still on the books of major Wall Street banks. This triggers a long-awaited “correction” in the Dow and pushes the nation into another recession. Job losses rise.
No. 4: Then what? This time, we don’t have the tools to get out of a recession
The recognized way of dealing with a recession is to lower interest rates in order to stimulate the economy. But the Federal Reserve can’t lower the rate to below zero, so that’s out.
The government can pour vast amounts of money into the economy, either through a stimulus or a massive bailout — or, as the case may be, both.
But next time around, that money might not be there. Not only could the political will be lacking, but there is an upper limit to just how much money the country can borrow and spend at one time without it doing more harm than good.
No. 5: The ‘very serious’ people in Washington are still obsessed about the deficit
In Washington salons and newsrooms, you are not considered a serious person unless you are very, very worried about the deficit. The principle that reducing the deficit is of the greatest urgency (and must come at the cost of entitlements) is for some reason firmly lodged in the halls of power in Washington. An example of just how uncontroversial deficit hawkery is among Washington’s elite was provided by The Washington Post earlier this month when it apparently didn’t think twice about turning over its news columns to an organization funded by Peter G. Peterson, the billionaire investment banker on a crusade to reduce the deficit by looting Social Security.
But deficit hawkery right now is not just ludicrous, it’s dangerous. As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman noted recently, “the calls we’re already hearing for an end to stimulus, for reversing the steps the government and the Federal Reserve took to prop up the economy, will grow even louder.” He adds:

But if those calls are heeded, we’ll be repeating the great mistake of 1937, when the Fed and the Roosevelt administration decided that the Great Depression was over, that it was time for the economy to throw away its crutches. Spending was cut back, monetary policy was tightened — and the economy promptly plunged back into the depths.
No. 6: Whatever is making the stock market go up could go away
The giddiness over the recovering stock market makes it easy to overlook some key questions about its rise. But what exactly has sent the Dow up almost 70 percent since March? Could it be another bubble? And could it burst?
Was it a function of the extraordinary liquidity pumped into the system, first through the bailouts and now through nearly zero-interest loans to the banks? Was it foreign investors attracted by weak dollar and low interest rates? Where’s all the money coming from?
No one seems to know. (Does anyone really care?) But whatever it was could presumably come to an end, devestating the market and the economy.
No. 7: The hugely irresponsible financial sector remains unchastened
Back in March, Obama described modern Wall Street as a “house of cards” and a “Ponzi scheme” in which “a relatively few do spectacularly well while the middle class loses ground.”
In his major speech on the economy in April, the president proclaimed that “we cannot go back to the bubble-and-bust economy that led us to this point.” He continued:
It is simply not sustainable to have a 21st-century financial system that is governed by 20th-century rules and regulations that allowed the recklessness of a few to threaten the entire economy. It is not sustainable to have an economy where in one year, 40 percent of our corporate profits came from a financial sector that was based on inflated home prices, maxed-out credit cards, over-leveraged banks and overvalued assets. It’s not sustainable to have an economy where the incomes of the top 1 percent has skyrocketed while the typical working household has seen their incomes decline by nearly $2,000. That’s just not a sustainable model for long-term prosperity.
He was right.
He even used powerful biblical imagery from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount to liken the boom-and-bust economy he inherited to a house built on sand and the future U.S. economy he is working toward to one built on a rock, that could weather a storm.
But the big banks, with their enormous political clout, appear to be managing to duck the re-regulation that seemed inevitable a year ago — and they are now in fact more powerful than ever. The ultimate litmus test is that the banks that are “too big to fail,” rather than being broken up, are now making huge profits — and paying astronomical bonuses — based on the implicit guarantee that the government will pay their debts if they ever face bankruptcy. Indeed, that government backstop gives them every reason to place riskier bets than ever. Even Obama’s latest, much more assertive and populist proposal to limit bank activities does not break up those banks — and faces an uncertain future in our nearly paralyzed legislative branch.
Economist Simon Johnson (the subject of one of Hanrahan’s articles) recently said on CNBC:
The conventional wisdom is you can’t have back-to-back major financial crises. I think we’re going to push that, we’re going to have a look and see whether that’s true. And the next 12 months could really be exciting. People could be very positive, but we are setting ourselves up for an enormous catastrophe.
Indeed. By Obama’s biblical analogy, our economy is still very much built on sand –and the next big storm might not be very far away at all.
Dan Froomkin is Washington Bureau Chief of the Huffington Post, and also Deputy Editor of NiemanWatchdog.org, where this post first appeared.

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May the Peace and Strength of the Lord be with you and yours, Dewey Sharon and Family