IRON MAN OIKODOME - "PLEASING GOD EVERYDAY"

8/14/2019 IRON MAN OIKODOME - "PLEASING GOD EVERYDAY"

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Dear Bros in Christ,

Brothers in Christ, this monthly email is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build up and edifyin the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart to send out a monthly

Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who love and follow Jesus Christ in

their walk with Him.

Romans 14: 19 Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may

edify another.Hebrews 3: 13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may behardened by sin's deceitfulness."

JANUARY 2007 Pleasing God Everyday

Bros as we start this New Year we have much to be thankful for to our Lord Jesus Christ. We could and should

spend the whole year being thankful for the many blessings God has bestowed upon us. We never had it sogood! God is good and His tender mercies, love and grace are more than we could ever imagine or ever deserve,

but yet He gives it to us freely and does not give us what we really deserve God seems to have a never ending

supply for each one of us, you know His mercy is like no other mercy, He is so full of leniency and compassiontowards us; His love can not be matched or fathomed, He finds us irresistible and cares for our every need and

then He still gives us more- Unmerited favor His grace abounds, oh so plentiful, yet we His own special

people so undeserving yet His grace abounds all the more. Only God can love us like that bros and I do not haveto tell you to go take a good long look in the mirror and ask yourself why He loves the man you see in the

mirror, there is no good thing in what we see in that mirror, no not me or you bro. Yet He says For I know the

thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a

hope. Jeremiah 29:11

Whatever our need or struggle our God, our Creator, our Provider deserves more than we can ever give. Our

worship cannot properly give Him the glory He deserves, nor our words the honor He deserves. He wants our

whole heart and sometimes there are many things that stand in the way in our hearts that stop us from givingHim our whole heart.

Maybe as we start this New Year there are issues in our heart that we need to hear from God on- likerelationship issues, people issues, ministry issues, serving issues, bench warmer issues, hardness of heart and sin

issues in our lives that God wants to deal with us and deliver us and heal us to use us and help us in all areas of

our lives. If we would just turn to Him, look to Him, go before Him, humble ourselves before Him, seek Him

and wait on Him. He wants to do marvelous things in and through our lives. Maybe just maybe this is the yearthat you can declare major spiritual victories in your walk with Jesus.

Maybe your heart will change this year so He can deliver you from that sin issue that has been dogging you and

always shows up like a dark shadow standing next to you when you try to stand in His light dragging you downand is keeping you down, but not allowing you to be down on your knees to seek Him and maybe keeping you

from being used by God in a powerful way for most of your Christian walk. If that is you, you are not alone weall have issues that God wants to deal with us on and deliver us from today. God desires to do a work in us, Hewants to deliver us, He wants to use us, and He also doesnt need us, but He loves us more than we can

comprehend.

But He wants your heart; the surest way to give Him your heart is to let Him have a 100% of your focus. GiveHim your heart by devoting your heart purely to Him. Letting Him bring you to that place where it is just you

and Him and maybe that place He has to take you to is the backside of the desert or the wilderness.

Where there is nothing that comes between you and Him during that time. Fasting, praying, seeking and waitingon Him is one of the most wonderful times you can have with God. A time where you have no demands or


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requests other than His perfect Will in what He desires to teach you and reveal to you during this time. It may

be just a time of closeness with the Lord and you may not know right away what He wants to do. But He willbegin to do a work in you that you can see as you focus purely on Him and as He empties your heart of the

things that are not of God. Ask God to speak to you about what He wants to do in your heart, give Him your

heart and see what He shows you. See what is pleasing to the Father, seek what is His will, wait on Him and Hewill show you.

May our fasting be to glorify God not us, not some empty ritual, but pleasing to God. Let us look at some

fasting that is pleasing to the Lord and some not so pleasing fasting to God and may the Lord guide your heart

and speak to you in a powerful and wonderful way as you consider Him during this New Year through worship,fasting, praying, seeking and waiting on Him. Be still before the Lord and see what He shows you

Fasting that Pleases God

Isaiah 58

"Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of

Jacob their sins.2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness,And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in

approaching God. 3'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls

and You take no notice?'

"In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers.4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do

this day, To make your voice heard on high. 5 Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul?Is itto bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast,

And an acceptable day to the LORD?

6 "Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let

the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? 7Is itnot to share your bread with the hungry, And that

you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hideyourself from your own flesh? 8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring

forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the L ORD shall be your rear guard. 9

Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.'

"If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10Ifyou

extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And

your darkness shall be as the noonday. 11 The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul indrought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose

waters do not fail. 12 Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the

foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets toDwell In.

13 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the

Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Norfinding your own pleasure, Nor speakingyour own words,14 Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I

will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The

mouth of the LORD has spoken."

Fasting to Be Seen Only by God

Matthew 6:16-18"Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For

they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their
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reward.17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,18so that you do not appear to men to

be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you*openly.

A Call to Repentance

Joel 2:12-13 "Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and

with mourning." 13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious

and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

Daniel's Prayer for the People

Daniel 9:3-5 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting

sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and

awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep Hiscommandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by

departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.Nehemiah Prays for His People

Nehemiah 1:4-6 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many

days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

5And I said: "I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Yourcovenant andmercy with those who love *You and observe *Your commandments, 6 please let Your ear be attentive and

Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for

the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against

You. Both my father's house and I have sinned.

May our fasting be real and pleasing to God and may our repentance be as equally real.

God bless you today & always and make you a mighty man of God in all things for Hisglory and honor,Daniel Wright

Iron Man OikodomeProverbs 27:17As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
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