Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

Praise God that we can be together today!

Thanks for sharing a Cup with us with a bit of honey in it!

Let us pray for each other and our families!

One of the messages that God keep’s putting on my heart is to share about listening for God and talking to God.

As you know I love to read……and the book I am reading on and off again is Becky Tirabassi’s, “Let God Talk to You” Pastor Leonard has read it and says it is AWESOME!

Becky says, “It takes guts to say that God talks to you!” Many are afraid to state that!
I have to tell you that I love to hear the term “guts” when it comes to Christians, because we need to have GUTS!!!! I guess that comes from my childhood days!!!

Well, God does talk to me! AMEN!

Here read this:

Wait a minute! I have to share this, part of my growth in my walk with Jesus Christ is all those around me….all those around me and Sharon. Today in this CUP I mention Dr. Deb, Keli, Rachel, Pastor Barry Dickens, Pastor Leonard, all who have helped Sharon and I grow in Christ. We all need the family of God, it will rocket our growth in Jesus!!!

Okay…….

Andrew Murray (I am reading his works also) he is the 19th Century South African religious leader and author of a number of classics on prayer, teaching the concept of hearing God speak was never meant to be a complicated, strictly intellectual endeavor, reserved for those who aspired to or held positions of spiritual leadership. He taught that ANYONE could hear God talk to them if they would read God’s Word. He was adamant that reading the Bible was a necessary activity in the life of any man or woman who wanted to sustain a healthy, vibrant personal relationship with God. Murray found Psalm 119 to be a perfect place to SOAK up God’s Words, to hear Him counsel, guide, convict, lift, and comfort the reader.

Psalm 119:89 states, “Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens,” What doubts are demolished when you consider that God’s Word was before all time?

Psalm 119:114 professes, “Your Word is my only hope” On any given day, who does not need hope, guidance, or comfort?

Psalm 119:105 claims, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” Is there a day that goes by when you don’t need important and timely advice before making a decision?

Psalm 119:160 explains, “The very essence of your Words is truth” Whose words but God’s can be so fully trusted?

Becky writes……..

I encourage you to picture yourself having a personal, two way conversation with God as you read through all one hundred and seventy-six verses of Psalm 119. To acknowledge that God is talking to you, underline or paraphrase any verses that relate to your life, encourage your faith, or motivate you to do something specific. Eventually, read each of the psalms as if it were your own personal profession of faith and written commitment of trust in God and His Word.

At the bottom of this post………a segment on Marriage and Divorce please read.

Our Dear friend Keli from Carolina Media let us know that Rachel Green’s Dad has passed on. He is now home with the Lord. Rachel has become such a great friend here at KKIM and the CUP! I know she greatly loved her Dad.

I regret to inform everyone that Rachel Greene’s Father, Dr. William Crews passed on 11/29/09.

Dr. Rev. William R. Crews Sr.
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SPARTANBURG, SC– The Rev. Dr. William “Bill” R. Crews, Sr. of Spartanburg died Sunday, November 29, 2009 at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at Floyd’s Boiling Springs Chapel beginning at 1:00 p.m. Funeral services will follow in the Chapel at 2:00 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Robert McCurry, being joined by the Rev. Dr. Alvin O’Shields, and the Rev. Quinton Carter.

Memorials may be made to Bible Study Times, Inc, P.O. Box 1714, Spartanburg, SC 29304.
An online guest register is available at www.floydmortuary.com.
Floyd’s Boiling Springs Chapel

Our prayers are with Rachel and family. It is always so heart warming to see the Christian way of life passed from generation to generation! PRAISE GOD!

Let us also pray for the families of the four Police Officers who were shot to death in the Seattle area. Can you imagine, just going about your day and someone opens fire on you and kills you? You had just finished your shift of protecting Citizens.

Also please pray for Pastor Bob who has been having health challenges.

We at KKIM www.mykkim.com are so grateful to the Lord for all the wonderful local programming we have on the air. The Lord has helped us develop strong local Radio Ministry programs like Dr. Deb……….Please prayfully consider supporting these programs with a financial gift. That is how our National and Local programs are able to stay on the air. We are also very thankful for our National line-up of programs! We thank the Lord for the programs that He has brought to KKIM. Please help support them and please pray about supporting them on a monthly basis. It is all about carrying out the Great Commission. We need your help!

Hi, Dewey,
Here is the information about this week’s show.

Laurie Westlake is back as my guest. We will talk about women as God’s warriors and what that means. Laurie has a book ready for Christian women and she will tell us how this book came about and what it has to tell us. As always, it will be fun to talk with Laurie so be ready for a high energy show.

In obedience to Him,

Dr. Deb (Saturdays at 8:05am on KKIM)

Deborah L. Gunderman, D.Min.
Walking in The Way
It makes the difference in life!

P.O. Box 21283 Albuquerque, NM 87154-1283 505-385-7063 walkingintheway.com/

Thanks Dr. Deb! You are an angel!!!

Let me share a few things on my mind this morning……….

We as God’s people need to take a look at this…….and not just laugh it off……..Could God be speaking thru this man????
From the AP news Service:
John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the California ballot next year to ban divorce.
The effort is meant to be a satirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the argument that a ban is needed to protect the sanctity of traditional marriage. If that’s the case, then Marcotte reasons voters should have no problem banning divorce.
Okay, I believe there is a message in there for God’s people! I know first hand the destruction of divorce. Since I have become a Pastor I have people wanting me to marry them. None that have asked have a home Church. Before Sharon and I got married we went thru 6 months of counseling with Pastor Barry Dickens. He told us at the start that we could always get married but depending on how the sessions went he MAY NOT marry us. Barry dug up all the ugly and good of our past lives….. it has made for a strong marriage for Sharon and I. We as God’s people need to reach out to those that have no home Church, and welcome them in. Show them the love of God, see how Stern Pastor Barry was..but in a loving way..tough love, because he cared. We have to help prepare people to marry. I really believe in pre-marriage counseling sessions in a Godly way! Divorce would go down!!!!

ACCOUNTABILITY IS A MUST IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

Let us pray…………

Dear Lord, Thank you for this day to serve You in mighty ways.let us not waste the day away. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!!!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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Dear KKIM Family,

Let us pray for Brenda’s and Curtis’s Family………I got this note from Brenda late yesterday afternoon……..

Dearest Dewey,
Please have all the wonderful people that read the Daily Cup pray for Curtis and his family, his brother-in-law died from a heart attack on Thanksgiving morning, and his sister, Marlene is suffering from Breast cancer.. she is ill and lost her husband. Curtis is leaving for Philadelphia
tomorrow. I know the prayers will uplift the family.
In hope,
Brenda Towle-Younger

We are praying Brenda! Let us pray for Curtis and his family.

Please also pray for Jannetta who is our web master, she took ill over Thanksgiving, in her busy time of year at Albuquerque Rescue Mission.

Please pray for Jeff as he looks for a job.

Please pray for the growing number of homeless people in New Mexico and our Country and those 1 in 6 New Mexicans who are hungry each day. (that figure provided by The Storehouse and Roadrunner Food Bank)

Special interview at 6am Sunday on KKIM dealing with hunger in our State.

Please pray for Pastor Bob and family as they go about the Christmas season without Bob’s Dad who recently passed away, the same for Yvette who just lost her Dad, Orlando, and for Cathy whose Mother passed away.

We need to be in prayer for each other and our families.

As I got up this morning………I actually slept in till 6:30!!!! LOL!!! We have been having a ball with family! As I spent time with God this morning and listening to God speak to my heart…….He sent me to two things………I now I will share them with you as that is how it works…..

There are the results of a survey in Christianity Today Dec 2009 that Americans who pray daily is up from 54% in 1983 to 59% in 2006. Church attendance has gone down from 32% in 1983 to 26% in 2006 and there is a new survey that put’s regular Church attendance at under 20%! What is happening? I find more and more people who read the Cup and listen to KKIIM do not have a home Church. What does this trend mean? I find here at KKIM and the CUP people are spending more time in prayer and more time in God’s Word. I see lives changing, every week! I see it at my Church!

Maybe someone can share with me what the figures were for Church attendance in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s!

There are so many figures out there on everything…….so many surveys on all sorts of issues AND NON-ISSUES! It get’s down right confusing.

There is so much NOTHING NOISE out in the world today! Pastor Barry Dickens told me that years ago.

So we have to focus on what we know……..

We have an almighty God and we are called to put on His armor on everyday and fulfill the Great Commission!

(Dewey’s comments)

In his book, “Hearing God”, Dallas Willard explains that if we could envision ourselves in a Bible story, then we’d view the Bible less as dogma and doctrine and more like our own reality. (FOLKS, PLEASE READ THE BIBLE, LET THE LORD SHOW YOU WHAT HE NEEDS TO, THROUGH READING HIS WORD) Willard writes that Biblical men and women were no different than men and women of any generation, saying, “If we are really to understand the Bible record, we must enter into a study of it on the assumption that the experiences recorded there are basically of the same type as ours would have been if we had been there. Those who lived through those experiences felt very much as we would have if we had been in their place. Unless this comes home to us, the things that happened to the people in the Bible will remain unreal to us. We will not genuinely be able to believe the Bible or find its contents to be real, because it will have no experiential substance for us.”

Beck Tirabassi in her book, “Let God Talk to You”, encourages us to give it a try……

Put your self within the mix of the writers of the Psalms as their friends or family members were mocking them or their employers were hunting them down to destroy them. Can you relate to their struggles? Do you have similar needs or concerns? (I am sure we all do)

As you read the following passages, do they inspire you to direct these words toward the living, loving God or to make them your own?

Psalm 138, verse 3 says, “As soon as I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me strength”

Psalm 25 verse 14 says, Give me understanding……reassure me of your promise”

One hundred and fifty Psalms contain written conversation of those who knew God talked to them directly. This belief is evidenced by the way they POURED OUT THEIR HEARTS TO HIM, as if to say, “Talk to me!” Packed with verbal expressions of NEED, HOPE, AND INQUIRY, the Psalmists transparently and honestly relayed their utter dependence on a God they could not see but were convinced was always present and available to talk to them. Verse after verse of the Psalms has the ability to carry you away to a place of passionate, emotional, two way conversations with God.

PRAISE GOD! For God’s Glory Alone!

As Ronnie Floyd said, “Our personal walk with Jesus Christ determines everything in our life!”

He also states, “In this busy, fast paced, high tech, schedule driven world, (FULL OF A LOT OF NOTHING NOISE) we can lose our focus very easily. In other words, the lens can become very blurred.”

(Do not let your Biblical lens become partly cloudy!)

Floyd continues, “You cannot control the world, or even various facets of your own world! What you can do is focus in on one hour every day that will give you the potential to see things the way God does as He empowers you to live and minister supernaturally.”

So my friends, this is what the Lord wanted me to share with you today……..These are not my words, these words are delivered to me by the Lord and He directs me to share with you. THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!!!

So develop your personal relationship with Jesus Christ through reading His word and praying. Have a Pastor and Church family guide you along in this wonderful journey.

Next week, Lord willing, a God given post by Karen Rowe on prayer! I have read it , it is so AWESOME in our LORD!

Let us pray……………

Lord, we pray that we will develop a stronger, personal relationship with You and Your Word and be a shining light to all. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ,

Dewey Sharon and family

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Dear KKIM Family,

Today is God’s day…as all are……It is not BLACK FRIDAY…….The things man does…….

You must realize that your fulfillment in life is dependent on your becoming and doing what you were born to be and do. Anything less makes life your enemy and death your friend. It is essential, vital, crucial, and necessary that you understand this fundamental principle of purpose and pursue it with all your heart. For without purpose, life has no heart. Remember, those who don’t know where they are going will probably end up someplace else.

Dr. Myles Munroe

As I read those words this morning…….many thoughts went through my head……….

We were giving thanks last night for what the Lord has done in the life of daughter Gretchen….

She will graduate Dec. 18th from the University of New Mexico with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology.

It hit me last night……..looking back at Gretchen’s journey that she has had to overcome much………just like all of us!

It’s just that we all have different obstacles and twists in the road……..

Gretchen almost passed away at 8 wks in South Bend, Indiana, She was given her last rights by Father Ken. We were Catholic at the time.

She has been on a God given journey since and now our little “Pie” is about to graduate from UNM.

Friend Brian (Crash) Miller gave her that nickname because Gretchen is sweet as pie!

Gretchen surely knows where she is going…….it is my prayer that you do to!

We will close with this today……….

Romans 12: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;
11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.