Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for stopping by for a CUP! Merry Christmas!
Please stop now and pray with me and picture this scene
From Luke 22: 45-46.When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”
Let us not be asleep, let us awaken for God’s Glory Alone! Let us not fall to the temptations of this world!
“Everyone has disabilities.” The words of Cowboy Clarence Montoya on the taping of Dewey and Friends. It was a very emotional day at KAZQ yesterday as “The Cowboy” as we call him came to be with me on a taping of the program. He is 26 years old and has cerebral palsy. I met Clarence years ago when I was on the Board of Dir. of the Arc of NM. At that time the Director was Rebecca Shuman, who was also with us yesterday. Clarence became a best friend, he lives his life in a wheelchair, but he does not let that stop him from serving the Lord. He prays for all and when we would have our fund drive for Orphans in Mozambique twice a year on KKIM, he was the first to give! When Clarence stated at the top of the program that everyone has disabilities, it really hit me. We all have a disability. I had to wear a leg brace for a year and a half when I was 4 1/2…….but I also have had and do have other disabilities that come into my life. Sin is a disability.
Herein lies the greatest disability of all—spiritual inability. But praise be to God. He has not left us in our sins, but has provided the remedy in Jesus, the Redeemer. “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:6-8).
Cowboy Clarence shows us the “purity” in our walk with our Lord Jesus Christ. He says he does not let his disability get him depressed! He calls me, to encourage me! He never complains about spending his life in the wheelchair. Our friend Veronica has to do 9 hours of Kidney Dialysis a day, never complains, she is always cheering others up in our Lord, giving of herself just as the Cowboy does!
When I look into the eye’s of the Cowboy and Veronica I see the bright eye’s, the clear eye’s, the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is speaking to us through them.
The Medical experts say that the Cowboy has “Learning Disabilities”, but as Howard of KAZQ said after the taping yesterday, “That Clarence is one smart guy!”
I encourage us all to look at our disability this day as we approach the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, what disability in your life is preventing you to “GO ALL THE WAY” in your relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, giving it all to Him?
What is preventing you from letting go of these so called treasures here on earth, that are really a disability? Let go and serve our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us invest in people, let us be Salt and Light to the world.
Today I would like you to think of Clarence sitting in his wheelchair at his home in Socorro, NM and calling up people and just asking them, ” Hey, Dewey how are you today? Hey, Dewey I am praying for you and your family.”
This man of God does not have a disability in our Lord.
What are you doing in your life that is going to have an eternal impact?
”Cheer up: You’re a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you’re more loved than you ever dared hope.” (Pastor Jack Miller)
December 20, 2012. Your godliness is being watched by your family and offspring. The Lord has chosen you as His vessel, filling you with glory and light. Surely you have noticed that even people in public places glance and look at you. Not to worry. They are seeing Me in you and they are fascinated. This is your open door to share why the glory and light shines through your face and eyes. They see the glow and gravitate to you. Now let your integrity of heart emanate with that glory and light. I will use you as my surgical instrument to cleanse and heal the broken hearted. Your walk of integrity will bless generations. I love and am so proud of you.
Proverbs 20:7 (NLT) “The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.” Ras Robinson
Here is a PRAISE NOTE FOLKS!!! PRAISE GOD!!!
Dewey,
Just wanted to let you know, God answered our prayers for Andrew Knutson. I sent her the little email forward below…it is definitely for you & Sharon & your ministry which lifts me up daily…love ya! Leslie
Thank you all for praying for Andrew!
Here is another PRAISE NOTE:
I talked to Pastor Larry Moss for the first time in weeks, he is able to talk now as his bruised vocal cords are healing. We had such a Godly conversation full of God’s love! Larry is healing! AMEN! PRAISE GOD! It was the best Christmas present to be able to talk to Larry!
Graham Cooke…..
“The enemy’s darkness is so pervasive that he will continually misinterpret events and miss the point of what God is doing. He seeks to make us vulnerable to that which he is subject – misapprehension. The enemy wants to develop blindness in us so that we are in the dark about the purposes of God towards us.
We are in Christ who is our light and life. We fight the darkness best by remaining in the light.”
Smith Wigglesworth
”If, as some people suggest, the ministry of the supernatural ceased with the apostles, how do they explain that the twentieth-century man, Wigglesworth, ministered with the same power as did the apostles – even to the raising of the dead, the casting out of devils, the healing of the sick, and other creative miracles?”
– Albert Hibbert, Smith Wigglesworth, The Secret Of His Power, pg 61
Chuck Swindoll…….
It takes real guts to stand with integrity in a culture weakened by hypocrisy. I applaud every one of you who does it!
Sharon and I are so blessed with all the Christmas Cards we are getting, all the letters of Testimony that we are getting, For God’s Glory Alone!!! Yesterday we posted Rick’s letter of love today we share with you a letter from John Lay who works with Dr. Kyle Martin of Time To Revive in Dallas, Texas…….These letters are the Lord’s way of affirming and also paving the road for us as we go forth for HIM. The love of our Lord is just pouring into FGGAM, and we are so thankful, so very thankful. Also in sharing letters like this is what Pastor Barry Dickens call’s, BOASTING IN OUR LORD!!!! look at what HE is doing! PRAISE GOD! Hallelujah!!!!
It is difficult in life to find someone with whom you can relate, share burdens, give and receive encouragement, and simply download. It is even more difficult to find someone who possesses all of these and you can trust them. The Bible says in Proverbs 20:6, “Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, But who can find a trustworthy man?” A trustworthy man is a precious find.
When I met Dewey Moede, I made a precious find. Dewey is a prophet for today who is worthy, trustworthy, and willing to stand on Truth when others are falling away. I thank God for Dewey in my life. I love Dewey.
If you need to be emboldened in your faith…if you want to see how relevant the Bible is to the events of today…spend a few moments with Dewey Moede and experience the encouragement he brings.
In Christ,
John Lay
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My buddy Cowboy Clarence Montoya along with Rebecca Shuman are with me for a segment that will air Dec 29 on Kazq Ch 32 6pm The Cowboy with the quote of the year, “We all have disabilities.” Amen Cowboy!! Clarence does not let his disability stop him from serving Our Lord!!!
This Saturday our Christmas program 6pm Kazq Ch 32 Dewey and Friends with Sister Barbara Gould What an awesome message Barbara brings forth!!!!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer awoke December 25, 1943 on a hard wooden bed. It was the first of two Christmases he would spend sequestered in a Nazi prison.
This first Christmas would be celebrated in a lonely prison cell in a place called Tegel. He had been there for nine months, and he would be there for nine more until he was transferred to his final home, a Nazi concentration camp.
Bonhoeffer had hoped to be released for the holiday, but that was contingent on his personal lawyer who proved unreliable. His hope of spending Christmas with his family quickly evaporated into the cold silence, and his only connection with his parents would come through letters.
Inside Tegel
In the Tegel prison, Bonhoeffer and his 700 fellow inmates were treated as criminals irrespective of trials and verdicts. The men were underfed and verbally harassed, and frequently the warden refused to turn the lights on, adding to the dark and depressive spirit of the place. Bonhoeffer was assigned to a cell surrounded by prisoners awaiting execution. He writes about often being kept awake at night by the clanking chains of the cots as the unsettled, condemned men tossed and turned.1
But it was within this suffocating suffering that Christmas seemed to take a deeper meaning for the 37-year-old pastor-scholar. “A prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent,” he wrote to a friend. “One waits, hopes, does this or that — ultimately negligible things — the door is locked and can only be opened from the outside.”2
Two Sides to Christmas
For Bonhoeffer, there are two sides to Christmas. There is a hopeless precursor side to Advent. Until God arrives, we have no hope for release from this imprisonment of our own sin. We are stuck and condemned, and the door is locked from the outside. We depend completely on Someone from the outside to free us.
And yet on the other side of Christmas, on the other side of the birth of Christ the King, we find suffering remains. We find freedom and hope, but the suffering is not washed away. As Martin Luther says, “God can be found only in suffering and the cross.”3 It is in the suffering of the Son of God that we find God.
From his birth in a despised manger, to his death on the cross, the Son of God suffered. Christ was acquainted with pain (Isaiah 53:3). And because Christ was familiar with it, we too are made familiar with suffering (2 Corinthians 1:5, 1 Peter 4:13).
The wisdom of God in the suffering of his Son baffles us. Christ became weak and vulnerable in order to suffer for us in his full payment of our sin (Philippians 3:9). What this means is that the child of God suffers, but not because God has withdrawn from him, but because God has drawn close. We are united to Christ and we share in his sufferings (Philippians 3:10).
A Christmas More Meaningful and Authentic
Which brings me to Bonheoffer’s Christmas letter from the Tegel prison to his parents Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer on December 17, 1943. In it he asks that they not worry or fret about their separation. He will find joy in their enjoyment of the holiday. They will feast together, and he will feast on the memories of precious Christmases past.
At one point, Bonhoeffer writes this:
Viewed from a Christian perspective, Christmas in a prison cell can, of course, hardly be considered particularly problematic. Most likely many of those here in this building will celebrate a more meaningful and authentic Christmas than in places where it is celebrated in name only.
That misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others, and for him this is truly good news.
And to the extent he believes it, he knows that he has been placed within the Christian community that goes beyond the scope of all spatial and temporal limits, and the prison walls lose their significance. . . .
With great gratitude and love,
Your Dietrich4
Suffering Brings Meaning to Christmas
Ironically, we can miss this meaning of Christmas if our celebration is only wrapped up in comfortable warm fires and the fellowship of friends and family. We can miss the memory of our desperation that required the Son of God to suffer for us. We can miss the personal desperation met in the manger. And we can miss out on the fellowship of his sufferings.
As we have recently explored, Christmas and suffering are deeply interwoven themes in Scripture. Personal suffering brings deeper meaning to Christmas. And in a season of suffering, the child of God discovers that he suffers not because God has drawn away, but because God has drawn close to us convicts, drawn close through a manger, drawn closer to us than the hard prison cell walls of a cold Nazi prison.
WOW! What a message for all of us!
It’s been an AWESOME CUP in our Lord! AMEN!
Please pray for me as I travel to Quemado, NM this Sunday to preach at the First Baptist Church. I will be preaching their for 2 Sundays.
For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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Merry Christmas!
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