Losses and Thwarted Hopes

Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Many lessons today! We love you all!

For you folks in New Mexico, we thank you for making FGGAM.ORG New Mexico’s Number One Christian News web site! Praise God! Thank you so much! We love you all! www.fggam.org WOW WEE! We are also gaining more and more readers from the World, that is why FGGAM.ORG is now available in different languages. Lord, we love you so, and thank you for guiding us in every step we take! It is all about God. My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. Acts 20:24 As Pastor Ray Franks taught me, Pray that the Lord’s Will be done! Amen!

Out of the Blue……

The last two days the Lord knew I needed encouragement, and out of the blue yesterday Evangelist David Johnson called me from a Revival he is doing in Texas. David spoke encouragement into me and my family. This morning out of the blue Missionary S.E. Coleman texted me words of encouragement, just our of the blue, saying: “Dewey I want you to know I give thanks to God for the Christlike man you are!” Just out of the blue, but we know, don’t we where that came from, God put me on the heart of David and S.E. and they listened and responded. This is how our God works! Amen! I had not heard from David in maybe a year! S.E. was in an airport for her flight home to Albuquerque. This is just another example how important the body of Christ is….Surrounding each other in love, encouragement and prayers. Taking time for each other and listening to the Lord and taking action when the Lord speaks to you. Also last night Angelo Winfield came over to the house and took our main FGGAM computer to his repair shop, Angelo has been a big help to me over the years, first at KKIM, he built the first web site the station ever had, charged the station NOTHING! Please pray for Angelo’s Mother, Floretta, she has cancer. Pray for healing! They are going to the Doctor today to get instructions on Chemo treatments. The cancer is in her lungs. We pray healing over Floretta, in Jesus name Amen! By the way if you live in the Albuquerque area and need a computer or computer service call Angelo at Computer Network Designs at 352-6645 and his lovely wife will answer the phone! Also this morning out of the blue Ricky Gordon showed up at our house to work on a better doggy door for Reno since his surgery! Out of the blue! Look at all those blessings! Amen! Thank you Lord! We thank you all for your friendship!

From the book, “The Circle Maker”

“There is a big difference between praying away and praying through. We’re often so anxious to get out of difficult, painful, or challenging situations that we fail to grow through them. We’re so fixated on getting out of them that we don’t get anything out of them. We fail to learn the lessons God is trying to teach us or cultivate the character God is trying to grow in us. We’re so focused on God changing our circumstances that we never allow God to change us! So instead of ten or twenty years of experience, we have one year of experience repeated ten or twenty times. Sometimes we need to pray “get me out” prayers. But sometimes we need to pray “get me through” prayers. And we need the discernment to know when to pray what. If we’re being completely honest, most of our prayers have as their chief objective our own personal comfort rather than God’s glory. We want to pray away every problem, but those shortsighted prayers would short-circuit God’s perfect plan. There are seasons and situations when we need to simply pray through.”

Yesterday I posted on losses and thwarted hopes. A tough pill to swallow for many, me included. I have churned over this all day yesterday and night. I “lost” 3 friends in the last 17 months since starting FGGAM. They never told me why they left our friendship, they never answered my calls or letters. God and Sharon and others told me to let go. I so love people, I am very sensitive. As Barbara Gould says, “Dewey you have the heart of a women.” I am learning to let go. I have a hard time with the “empty nest” syndrome. I encourage you all to communicate with your friends if they upset you, hurt you, communicate, it is biblical to go to the person that offended you. Nothing happens without communication. Forgive.

Let me share with you more of the devotion from Jesus Calling…….by the way I thank my friend Sonja Haldeman for introducing me to the Jesus Calling Devotional.

To live in My presence consistently, you must expose and expel your rebellious tendencies. When something interferes with your plans or desires, you tend to resent the interference. Try to become aware of each resentment, however petty it may seem. Don’t push those unpleasant feelings down; instead, let them come to the surface where you can deal with them. Ask My Spirit to increase your awareness of resentful feelings. Bring them boldly into the Light of My Presence, so that I can free you from them.

The ultimate solution to rebellious tendencies is submission to My authority over you. Intellectually you rejoice in My sovereignty, without which the world would be a terrifying place. But when My sovereign will encroaches on your little domain of control, you often react with telltale resentment.

The best response to losses or thwarted hopes is praise: The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Remember that all good things—-your possessions, your family and friends, your health and abilities, your time—–are gifts from Me. Instead of feeling entitled to all these blessings, respond to them with gratitude. Be prepared to let go of anything I take from you, but never let go of My hand!
Please read Psalm 139: 23-24, 1 Peter 5:6, Job 1:21

Praise God! Report from Pastor Leonard Navarre of Valley View Christian Church who is in India: We were able to give away many blankets and bags of rice to widows and families! Thank you for your prayers!
Thank you Pastor Leonard. We continue to pray for you and the people of India.
What can you and I learn from this? How will this change your day? How will this change your life? This should make also all reflect on our lives and our walk with Jesus Christ. Be thankful for your blanket.

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For God’s Glory Alone in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey, Sharon, Paul, Jo, FGGAM Board and families. Let us keep praying for each other and our families.
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