Dear family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for stopping by here for a CUP with us! AMEN!
I am so FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT this day I may EXPLODE into GLORY!!!!!
Proverbs 8: 32-35
“Now therefore, listen to me, my children,
For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Hear instruction and be wise,
And do not disdain it.
Blessed is the man who listen to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at the posts of my doors.
For whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains FAVOR from the LORD;
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.. AMEN!
We are going to share about the FAVOR of GOD today and being a servant, not expecting to be served! AMEN!
Sharon is sharing today at the Hospital on compassion, please pray for her message! AMEN!
“Most trials and tests are teaching us more than one thing. Every circumstance provides an opportunity for Christlike behavior to emerge. Those who understand and practice this become good at passing tests and are able to grow quickly and properly.” Graham Cooke
Oh my, Oh my…..Sharon and I have and are learning much in our walk! Is it not wonderful to LEARN the ways of GOD???? It takes total surrender. I want to thank two people who have played a big part in this learning experience, in this new walk at FGGAM and in our lives in general, Tom Johnson and Ben Lucero.
From those two I have learned, Patients and a wise man knows when to speak and when to shut up! I also have learned your walk is truly a Testimony to others, it is what the world see’s and it is the Bible, God’s Word in action or not. Are you who you say you are?
Pastor Ton Bazone says, “Most Christians are scared to totally rely on God.”
Yesterday I was invited by Pastor Tom Bozone to go to a conference to hear Graham Cooke! WOW! PRAISE GOD! Iv’e never met him in person, I have read some of his writings and listened to some of his videos, but to attend a conference he is heading up??? WOW Thank you Lord!
One of the HUGE things I have learned from Graham Cooke is, in my words, we are not grabbing (in a nice way) or absorbing, or not realizing the POWER of GOD! The GREATNESS of GOD! The POWER HE promises believers. It’s like GOD is a Billion and Billion and Billion Watts Power Plant and some of us are only using 1/2 a watt!
Why is that? don’t believe God’s Word? Don’t understand all of God’s promises to the fullest? You don’t think you are worthy?
Read your Bible today and look at all of God’s promises.
Pictured below here is my Dad and me from the early 80’s….
Wally Moede, my Dad spent all his life serving others, as a fireman, head usher at Church and Transportation Director for the schools, sports writer for the newspaper, our Country as Sgt in Marines WW II serving in China and Pearl Harbor Dad lived Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve . Part of my passion here at FGGAM is to serve and share what a good Father is all about and help those that do not have a Dad around. Back home they called me, “Wally’s shadow”, where Wally was, Dewey was.
”You don’t get to make up most of your story. You get to make peace with it.
You don’t get to demand your life, like a given. You get to accept your life, like a gift.
Beginnings and middles, they are only yours to embrace, to unwrap like a gift.
But you get the endings. You always get the endings.
You get the endings and you get to make them a gift back to the Giver.” Ann Voskamp
This morning we come to pray for Sister Karen Rowe who undergoes cancer surgery Thursday. We pray for healing! AMEN! We stand with this strong Women of God, on the Word of God! AMEN! We grab all the POWER that GOD has given us in HIS Word!
We continue to pray for Vickie and Jolene who are undergoing cancer treatment. We are standing on the Word of God against all cancer!
We pray for Reno as prepares for cancer surgery. Reno has been healed! AMEN! We are standing on God’s Word against all diseases!
We pray for Paul and Rene Dokken as they head off on a mission trip today!
Dear Ones-
We are asking for your prayers as we leave town and head off on our mission trip on Thursday. The trip involves 21 hours of flight time.
We have had a lot of spiritual warfare coming against us and we realize that and are standing strong in Him. I will not give the enemy any credit and list what has taken place- it’s gotten to be funny at this point. We can see what he is doing and we know that he is already defeated. That he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world!
This is a great opportunity to serve the Lord and for him to refine and grow us. We are excited about this and he has been speaking into us regarding this.
Please pray for;
- protected health
- joy in serving the Lord
- peace
- providence- flights that would go off with out a hitch
- strength in the Lord
- a sure and certain knowledge of the Lord’s sovereignty over everything
- growth in our relationship with the Lord and each other
- The desire of our hearts- to be a team knit together in the Lord for His service.
Blessings and joy in the Lord to all of you,
Rene’ and Paul
We are praying!!! God Bless you both for fulfilling the Great Commission! AMEN!
Let us share on the Favor of God….at the start of the CUP you read Proverbs 8: 32-35……..please read that again before going forth……
I. A Clear Definition of Divine Favor
To have the peculiar signature of God’s favor placed on you so that
when he sees you there is a special value he has for you.
Favor is the special affection of God toward you that
releases an influence on you, so that others are inclined to
like you, or to cooperate with you.
What does this mean? It means that God likes you—He loves you—
and He wants you to be successful in the plans that He has for you.
He has provided FAVOR to help you!
When He likes you, there is such an influence that comes upon you
that the charisma of God himself rubs off on you which makes other
people like you or cooperate with you whether they like you or not!
The blessing and favor of God are synonymous.
The grace of God and favor of God are also synonymous.
Favor is like being dipped in honey so that the blessings of God
stick to us.
Favor is the aligning of His blessing and grace on us that
brings a supernatural influence into our lives and those
around us
The POWER we have available to us in GOD’S FAVOR IS AMAZING!!!!! DYNAMITE!!!!!
Leaders cannot show the way until they know the ways of God!!!!!
God’s Favor
Filed under Favor | Written by Duane Vander Klok
Favor is God’s “I’m for you” attitude. It is the amazing, undeserved benefit of being His child, yet many believers never tap into its fullness. Why? One reason is that we simply misunderstand His favor.
Biblically, favor can be defined as “the friendly disposition from which kindly acts proceed to assist, to provide with special advantages, to receive preferential treatment.” That is God’s heart toward us. He wants to bless, help and promote us. He wants to treat us “special.” In Romans 8:32 (TLB), we are asked the hypothetical question, “Since He did not spare even His own Son for us but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also surely give us everything else?” God’s answer is a resounding “Yes!”
Examples of Favor
It has been said that one day of God’s favor is better than a thousand days of labor, and this has been proven throughout the Bible:
Ruth asked for and found FAVOR with Boaz (Ruth 2-4), and became the great grandmother of King David.
David found FAVOR with Saul (1 Samuel 16:22) and with God (Psalm 30:7). Despite his failings, God refers to David as “a man after My own heart” (Acts 13:22).
Esther found so much FAVOR (Esther 5:2) that the King offered her up to half his kingdom.
Mary found FAVOR with God (Luke 1:30) and became the mother of Jesus.
Jesus disciples’ had FAVOR with both God and men (Acts 2:47), and the church grew.
God never intended His favor to be found by just a handful of people. Every believer – you and me included – can find His favor and do things that could not be accomplished without it.
Jesus, Our Example
Jesus possessed many traits that should be part of every Christian’s character. From His youth, He was interested in spiritual things (Luke 2:49). He lived unselfishly, and served others (Matthew 20:28). He focused on accomplishing His Father’s will every day of His life (John 6:38). Without a doubt, He left us an example so we could follow in His steps (1 Peter 2:21).
When Luke boils down the first thirty years of Jesus’ life, he writes, “Then He [Jesus] went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them [His parents]. But His mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke 2:51-52 NIV). The four areas that we are told Jesus grew in – wisdom, stature, favor with God, and favor with men – are all areas that we also can grow in.
This type of growth is not so different from building our muscles. While each of us already has all the muscles we need – there are over 600 of them in the human body – most of us have not exerted the effort it takes to build them to their potential. As a result, we are not nearly as strong as we could be.
In the same way, God has already provided for all of the favor we will ever need. However, just like Jesus had to grow in favor, so do we. It does not happen automatically any more than our muscles automatically become strong. As we train ourselves in the principles of favor and put them into practice, we can expect to grow in favor with both God and men just as Jesus did.
Raising Your Expectations
Our expectations have a lot to do with what happens to us in life. If we expect the worst, that is generally what we will get. There is a scriptural principle that says, “as we think in our hearts, so are we” (from Proverbs 23:7). It follows that the level of favor we experience in life will rise to our level of expectation. There is no way around it; if we are to grow in favor with God and men, we are going to have to raise our expectations and believe that God wants us to be blessed with His favor.
What should we expect this favor to look like? Psalm 103:2-6, 17-18 lists several effects of God’s favor. We should expect (or regard as likely to happen) that God will forgive our sins, heal our diseases, redeem us from destruction, crown us with loving kindness and tender mercies, provide for our health and strength, give us justice when we’re oppressed, and extend His righteousness to our children’s children as we keep covenant with Him. And, that’s just scratching the surface of what God’s children can, and should, expect!
Believe It Is For You
Even those who do not have a problem expecting that God will release His favor on His children, sometimes have a hard time believing that God’s favor is for them personally. They say, “It sounds good, but it doesn’t work that way for me. I believe in God, pray, and go to church, but I still don’t experience God’s favor.” They believe in God’s favor, but they don’t believe for it. They need to know that, not only is it acceptable to expect God’s preferential treatment, but that they should believe God for it.
Believing has two parts. Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” We need to believe that God exists, and that He will reward us when we seek Him. Each Christian has a need to personally accept God’s promise of favor as being true, genuine, and real – and each has a need to believe for His favor in their life.
It is God’s will for you to experience His favor. Every promise He makes is for you, and as Jesus said,“According to your faith will it be done to you” (Matthew 9:29 NIV).
Confess Favor
Favor is not found by following a formula, and it is important to remember that we are not changed by what is in our head, but by what is in our heart. In Matthew 12:34, we are reminded that, “…out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” When we expect and believe for favor, it affects both our heart and our speech.
What we say has the power to unleash God’s favor in our lives. Jesus said, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says” (Mark 11:22-23). There is no better way to express our faith in God than to say the same thing as His Word says. These scripture-based confessions on favor are an example of how you can confess God’s favor over your life:
• God surrounds and protects me with favor like a shield (Psalm 5:12).
• The Lord is a sun and shield. He bestows favor and honor, and no good thing does He withhold from me (Psalm 84:11).
• I actively seek and live by God’s wisdom; therefore, I am highly favored and esteemed in the sight of God and men (Proverbs 3:1-4; Proverbs 8:33-35).
• God’s favor brings promotion and causes me to increase daily (Esther 2:17; Psalm 75:6-7).
• My enemies cannot triumph over me because the Lord has favored me (Psalm 41:11 AMP).
Finally…
God’s favor can make an extraordinary difference in your life, but it will not happen automatically; it has to be “turned on” in much the same way as you turn on the lights in your house. The power of electricity is always there, but the lights won’t come on until you turn on the switch. As a believer, you need to release the power of favor that God has already made available.
God wants to bless you, personally, with His favor. As you enlarge your mindset to expect and believe for His favor, and as you open your mouth to confess God’s promises, you can find favor with God and man!
(All scriptures are from the New King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise stated)
PRAISE GOD FOR THIS MESSAGE!!!!
January 23, 2013. The pre-dawn morning sky today is beautiful with randomly placed clouds like cotton balls floating around. The Lord says, “Fill the air with your words of prophecy today. All are to prophesy, night and day. Let My words through you float at will to bless all who can receive them. Some will build up, others will stir up while yet others cheer up people around the world. All media are available to you for this purpose of declaring My word and message. When My words are on your lips angels rush to your aid to carry those words to fruition. Perhaps you write, speak, create as an artist or an infinite variety of channels in broadcast. But whatever the means edify, encourage and comfort at every opportunity.”
1 Corinthians 14:3 (NASB) “But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.” Ras Robinson
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January 23, 2013. A new realm of service is on your horizon. It will be up to you as to whether or not you enter in. You will need to examine it thoroughly, before you make up your mind. Yes there will be some problems if you do, but what else is new. Any new realm you enter has its own set of challenges. This is a good move, one I am in but I am telling you ahead of time this will be demanding in ways you have not seen before. This is one of the most important things you will ever do. I am with you. You will experience rewarding victories.
2 Samuel 8:14-15 (NLT) “He placed army garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. In fact, the Lord made David victorious wherever he went. So David reigned over all Israel and did what was just and right for all his people.”Bev Robinson
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January 23, 2013. Dance with Me. Place your hand in Mine. Let Me guide you along the way. Feel the tenderness and warmth of My gentle touch and soft embrace. Surrender your will to Me and let Me lead you with every step. You delight My soul more than you can and will ever imagine. Listen to My affectionate whisperings within your ear. Take note of My wonderful selection of music for you. Let your cares be swept away with My song. Let Me minister to your innermost being. Relax and surrender to My movements. Gaze into My eyes and get lost in My love for you. You and I make awe-inspiring music together.
Isaiah 51:3 (NLT) “The LORD will comfort Israel againand have pity on her ruins. Her desert will blossom like Eden, her barren wilderness like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.” Kevin Robinson
For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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