Dear Family of Jesus,
Thank you for stopping by for this late CUP!! I got called away from the Ranch early this morning!
Look at what Randal Thom posted:
Trusting GOD in everything is the softest pillow on which to rest and the hardest rock on which to stand!
AMEN PRAISE GOD!
Jesus says “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will also; and greater works than these he will do.”
AMEN!
This is not a verse we hear preached on much, not sure why. Jesus makes it pretty straightforward. Maybe some Preachers have a difficult time believing that something that sounds so good could actually be true.. Yet Jesus plainly said, if you believe in Him, you are going to do stuff that even He didn’t get to do on earth. Tony Evans in his book, Kingdom Man says this is a POWERFUL reality that you don’t want to miss! That is Kingdom Truth! We must have FAITH my friends……We must believe the promises of God.
God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride.
One area where I Praise God I have grown so much in is discernment! OH MY!!!! It is one of the greatest gifts the Lord gives us!!! Holy Spirit thank YOU! I am so thankful for this gift, it keeps me out of trouble, keeps me from doing something stupid! The Lord speaks to me, guides me throughout my day….not letting my flesh take over………The Discernment of our Lord is lacking in our society!
We have been talking a lot about Faith……….let’s share on Discernment!
Here is John MacArthur of Grace to You weekdays on KKIM at 8:30am…….
In its simplest definition, discernment is nothing more than the ability to decide between truth and error, right and wrong. Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth. In other words, the ability to think with discernment is synonymous with an ability to think biblically.
First Thessalonians 5:21-22 teaches that it is the responsibility of every Christian to be discerning: “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.” The apostle John issues a similar warning when he says, “Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). According to the New Testament, discernment is not optional for the believer-it is required.
The key to living an uncompromising life lies in one’s ability to exercise discernment in every area of his or her life. For example, failure to distinguish between truth and error leaves the Christian subject to all manner of false teaching. False teaching then leads to an unbiblical mindset, which results in unfruitful and disobedient living-a certain recipe for compromise.
Unfortunately, discernment is an area where most Christians stumble. They exhibit little ability to measure the things they are taught against the infallible standard of God’s Word, and they unwittingly engage in all kinds of unbiblical decision-making and behavior. In short, they are not armed to take a decidedly biblical stand against the onslaught of unbiblical thinking and attitudes that face them throughout their day.
Discernment intersects the Christian life at every point. And God’s Word provides us with the needed discernment about every issue of life. According to Peter, God “has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence” (2 Peter 1:3). You see, it is through the “true knowledge of Him,” that we have been given everything we need to live a Christian life in this fallen world. And how else do we have true knowledge of God but through the pages of His Word, the Bible? In fact, Peter goes on to say that such knowledge comes through God’s granting “to us His precious and magnificent promises” (2 Peter 1:4).
Discernment — the ability to think biblically about all areas of life — is indispensable to an uncompromising life. It is incumbent upon the Christian to seize upon the discernment that God has provided for in His precious truth! Without it, Christians are at risk of being “tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4:14).
By John MacArthur. Used by permission. This article originally appeared at Grace to You.
I was so blessed to take part in the Festival of Love in Los Lunas . This Revival headed up by Pastor Jim Montoya was so AWESOME! I Preached on God and The United States of America! WOW! BABY!!! Left my voice in Los Lunas and found it this morning!!! the FIRE of the HOLY SPIRIT was roaring away!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Denise who listen’s to KKIM and Husband Steve came from Albuquerque so Denise could be baptized at the Revival!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!
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Jim Hofflander wanted to listen to my sermon yesterday so he did by listening by phone from Mankato, Minnesota!!!
Happy Birthday to Pastor Paul Holt!!! When I grow up I want hair like him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL
I say once again sorry for the delay in getting the CUP Out!!!!!!!!!!
let’s check the mailbag………..
God Morning Dewey, i have a prayer request. Laurie Johnson Lund from Windom has been recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She is the youngest daughter of Johnson Hardware family, anyways, I have had her on my heart the past month, you see they have a cabin next to my sister place on fish lake and yesterday when i was out at fish lake i was able to walk over and talk to her. It was then that she told me of her battle she is just beginning . This morning at 9 am she begins her second chemo treatment. She is a beautiful woman of God and believes in the power of prayer, i was blessed to hold her in prayer yesterday afternoon and told her i would bring other prayer warriors on board. please post in the DDC her need for prayer for strength to keep the faith, for God to deliver her from this disease, that God puts a hedge of protection around her from a guy that has been making her life totally miserable, that her friends and family step up to help her in this time of need. I am looking forward to reading bout the revival preaching .. Randal Thom
We are praying Randal!!!
Curtis’s sister, Marlene meet her savior today ,please pray for our family as we mourn our loss. Love, Brenda
We are praying for you all!
From Sam…………
Dearest Dewey, just catching up on my reading. Oh Dewey, this ‘Cup’ was Not Uncomfortable to read. It was Full of Truth’… We as a Nation have to first off Start with ourself, each and every individual must look at themself.. then our Town, the our State, Then our Nation. But to leave our Lord out of it is Senseless… The decisions made lately in D.C. is Beside me too Dewey. But as my husband has said, the pendlum always swings. And somehow that gives me hope. I Know this Nation was built on Christian Values. We must have faith as a Nation to repent and do away with the Evil of this World. ….. But Truth Never makes me Uncomfortable Dewey. Un-Truth Always DOES… TY for the Truth!! God’s Peace
An Update on my Boy Ron and his Friend Jim.. I say Boy! he will always be my ‘Baby Boy’. No matter his age! He has given me two Wonderful Grandchildren that are in their Twenties, but He is still my baby boy! 🙂 …. We made it home and even tho Ron is Not Talking to anyone, he’s not ready to talk about the accident or Hear them tell their horrible Accident Stories, his mind is on his friend and His Hard Road that is changing his entire Life.. My son has the reputation of having a Heart bigger than Himself. He crys and Laughs with people, as tho he feels the pain himself. He has almost Never driven Past a car that is broken-down on the road. He is just a Good Man. Of course ‘I’ have always known it, but People go out of their way to Tell me all the time what a Good Man he is, so others see it also…. Our Lord has had Mercy on Him again, And I can NOT Praise Him enough for that miracle! Ron may still lose the ends of his fingers, but he feels that is so Unimportant.. He refuses to take Pain Pills, he is taking Advil, with a Smashed Hand! that is in a cast.. I must be a total Wimp Dewey! 🙂 that makes me cringe. I cry over a bruised toe I just dropped a Pot on!! 🙂 ….. Jim will come to a Rehab Hosp. not two blocks from his home! and it has a Great reputation. His wife will be right there for him, as will all his friends and family. Ron is already planning on getting Jim’s home ready for him. Jim and him have already gotten the plans going!! Them being in Construction, Ron told him ‘he’ll do it’…. I guess they have people that will come to his home and walk thru it with Ron and tell him what to do to make it ‘Wheelchair friendly’. … Well, I will stop this ‘Book’..:) All my Love, and TY Prayer Warriors!! Once more a Nightmare has been touched by the Peacefulness that Only Our Lord can Bring to us!.. God’s Peace, Sam
We continue to Pray Sam!
Frank Haley is praying…………
Just got around to reading this cup. I’ve been a little busy lately. I just prayed for the 2 young men hurt in the California desert accident. I am standing in the Gap for both of them. A broken back and lost fingers is not ‘minor’ but my God, whose Name is JESUS, is used to dealing with impossible situations. I’ll keep praying until my prayers are answered. Frank Haley cjf
Frank is doing excellent in his rehab from hip replacement PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
When I Preached Sunday at the Revival I spoke also on the Holy Spirit and that recent survey’s show from 45% TO 65% Christians do not believe in the Holy Spirit, How can you call yourself a Christian if you do not believe in the Holy Spirit? This is great from Billy Graham………..
Does the Holy Spirit Live in You?
May 1, 2009 – The Holy Spirit can come and indwell you right now. You can start over again. You can become brand-new, with the Holy Spirit pulsating spiritual life through you and in you. The Bible says, “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:27). It is impossible to understand the Bible, Christian living, the structure of the church or our own relationship with God without understanding the Person and work of the Holy Spirit
We should always be conforming more to the image of Jesus Christ, and it is the Holy Spirit who helps us in this growing process.
by Billy Graham
The Holy Spirit is not an “it.” The Holy Spirit is a Person. The Bible says that He is not something, He is Someone. He is God. There are three Persons in the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is all-powerful. We read in Micah 3:8, “I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord.” The Bible says that God is present everywhere. No matter where we go, He is there. “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). The Holy Spirit can be in both your heart and my heart, even though we may live a thousand miles apart.
The Holy Spirit has all knowledge. The Bible says, “The Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10). It is the Holy Spirit who teaches us and takes us deeper and deeper into God’s truth as we go along in our Christian life. We are to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ, but we can grow only by the help of the Holy Spirit.
The moment that we receive Christ as Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to live in our hearts. Our body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit helps us live the Christian life. There is not a person anywhere who can be a Christian without the Holy Spirit. There is not a person who can follow Christ without the help of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees everything that goes on. He knows what goes on in our hearts. He knows what goes on in our minds. Nothing is hidden from Him. And in Hebrews 9:14 the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is eternal.
The Spirit is called holy. The Bible says, “Be holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). And one of the Holy Spirit’s ministries is to help make us holy. We ought to be more holy today than we were yesterday. We should always be conforming more to the image of Jesus Christ, and it is the Holy Spirit who helps us in this growing process.
Conviction of Sin
First, the work of the Holy Spirit is to convict us of our sin. Jesus said, “And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (John 16:8). The Holy Spirit uses a mother’s prayers, a tragic experience, a pastor’s sermon or some other experience to convict us of sin and of our need to turn our lives over to Jesus Christ. He points to us and says, “You are a sinner. You need to repent.” We don’t like to hear that, but that is the work of the Holy Spirit. Without that work we could never have our sins forgiven. We could never be saved. We could never go to Heaven.
New Life
Second, the Holy Spirit gives new life. The Bible says that we are dead in sins and trespasses. Our spirit within us, made in the image of God, is dead toward God. Mankind needs life. All have sinned. Therefore, all are dead toward God. The Holy Spirit gives us new life in Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). You must be born again. And the Holy Spirit is the One who does the work of making you a born-again person. It is a supernatural act.
Paul said to Titus, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). Our good works and all the good things that we have done are not going to save us. We are saved by the mercy of God, by the grace of God. It is something I didn’t earn, something I didn’t work for. It is the gift of God, the gift of salvation.
Indwelling Spirit
Third, the Holy Spirit indwells us. Many of you are spiritually dead and are completely immersed in our hedonistic culture. God says, “I will put my Spirit in you. I will come to live in you.” Your body becomes the temple where God dwells by His Holy Spirit.
That is the reason we should never take anything unclean into our bodies. That is the reason we should discipline our bodies. God loves your body. He doesn’t want it polluted by fleshly lusts and the things to which you give yourself. The Bible says, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).
Power to Serve Christ
Fourth, the Holy Spirit gives you power to serve Christ. “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me” (Acts 1:8). I couldn’t do the work I am doing without the power of the Holy Spirit. I am a communicator of God’s message. He called me and gave me that gift. What counts is the message that—according to Scripture—Christ died for our sins, He rose again, He is coming back again and He is ready to come into your heart by the Holy Spirit and make you a new person. That is the Gospel.
The Holy Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit, which is “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). There are people whom you may not be able to love easily. But the Holy Spirit will give you the power to love them. Love is the greatest evidence that you know Christ. The Holy Spirit can love through you.
There are times I feel that I don’t have joy, and I get on my knees and say, “Lord, where is the fruit of joy in my life?” I find that the joy is there, down deep. It is a deep river. Whatever the circumstances, there is a river of joy.
The peace that passes understanding comes from the Holy Spirit. Whatever the circumstances, I have peace in my heart. I know where I am going, I know where I have been. And I know why I am here—by the Holy Spirit.
Do you know Christ? The Holy Spirit comes to magnify, to glorify and to exalt the Son. Jesus said the Holy Spirit shall not speak of Himself. He comes to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ. He comes to glorify Jesus Christ (John 16:13-14). And the Holy Spirit is pleased when you glorify Christ in your life.
It is the Holy Spirit who draws you to Christ. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts you of your need of Christ. There is only one way of salvation, and that is Christ. It is a dangerous thing to resist the Spirit. “Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:28–29).
I am asking you to give in to the call of the Holy Spirit. I am asking you to say, “I want Christ in my life, to be my Lord and my Savior.” I know thousands of churchgoers who need to come to Christ, led by the Holy Spirit. You need to say, “I want Christ in my heart.” Say, “I want to know I am going to Heaven. I want my sins forgiven. I want to start a new life.”
The devil has one main goal: to turn us away from God and instead make us his slaves. And he will do everything he possibly can to achieve this goal. This is why the Bible commands us to “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” (Ephesians 6:11).
Yes, temptation is certainly one of the devil’s main weapons — and it takes many different forms. He’ll try, for example, to tempt us with sins of the flesh — immorality, pleasure-seeking, destructive habits, and so forth. But if those don’t work he’ll tempt us with sins of the heart or mind — evil thoughts, wrong motives, anger, jealousy, and so forth. He’ll also attack us spiritually — trying to fill us with doubts, attempting to convince us that God doesn’t care about us, filling us with pride, and so forth.
How can we combat his schemes? The first step is to be sure that we have given our lives to Christ. When we come to Him we are no longer citizens of Satan’s kingdom; we are now citizens of the Kingdom of God! Let this great truth strengthen you every day.
In addition, when Satan tempts you, recognize it for what it is: an attempt to turn you away from God. Then combat his lies with the truth of God’s Word, and with prayer, and with the help of other believers. The Bible says, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
Here’s Dr. Joe……..
Continued: The Truth about Insulin and Insulin Safety
If you take insulin to manage diabetes, you’ve probably wondered if insulin can make you gain weight or affect your quality of life. It shouldn’t. Insulin is safe and effective when used properly. Here are some more myths about insulin that can be cleared up for you:
True or False: You Need to Take Insulin for Life
Fact: Not necessarily. Yes, you’ll need insulin for life if you have type 1 diabetes, but with type 2 diabetes, you can start on insulin and still be able to switch to other diabetes medications at another time. Although it’s not common, some people may even stop medications altogether if they manage to get their blood sugar under control by losing enough weight and making other healthy changes.
True or False: If You’re on Insulin, You Can Eat as You Please
Fact: Nope. Medications like insulin are just one part of diabetes treatment. You still need to eat right to help control your blood sugar. In fact, unhealthy eating habits can mean you’ll need more insulin to keep your blood sugar levels stable.
True or False: Insulin Gets in the Way of a Normal Life
Fact: It doesn’t have to. Taking insulin injections does require that you plan ahead according to your diet and physical activity levels, but people living with diabetes who take insulin can still travel, eat out, and live very active and independent lives. Speak to a diabetes educator if you’re concerned about how taking insulin fits into your life.
Myth: Insulin Makes Your Blood Sugar Too Low
Fact: It can. The concerns about hypoglycemia are valid, but you can avoid this potential side effect of insulin by learning the symptoms of low blood sugar and treating it promptly. Ask your diabetes educator for tips to avoid low blood sugar when taking insulin.
True or False: You Should Wait as Long as Possible to Start on Insulin
Fact: Earlier may be better. A recent study in the journal Diabetes Care suggests that starting type 2 diabetes patients on insulin at lower A1c levels (8.2% vs. 9.2%) improves their chances of reaching an A1c goal of 7% and increasing their glycemic response. Ask your doctor if starting insulin sooner – even before your blood sugar has spiked into extremely unhealthy ranges – can help get your blood sugar under control faster so you can meet your blood glucose goals.
In Tuesday’s Medical Bag, I’ll share with you how to monitor your blood sugar level at home that helps you gauge how well you’re managing your diabetes.
God Bless you Dr. Joe!
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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