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Dear Bros in Christ,Proverbs 27:17As iron sharpens iron, So a
man sharpens the countenance of his friend.Brothers in Christ, this
monthly devotional is sent and meant to be an encouragement to
alland to build up and edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome
means "Builder". The Lord hasput this on my heart to send out a
monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to buildup and encourage
the men who love and follow Jesus Christ in their walk with
Him.Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is
called Today, so that none of
you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."PRAYER REQUESTS: If
you have any prayer requests please send them and I will send
themout to the bros for prayer, if privacy is needed I will send in
a discreet way.
JULY 2009
THE BIG MERCIES OF GODPsalm 57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be
merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And inthe shadow of Your
wings I will make my refuge, Until [these] calamities have passed
by.
I remember the Lords tender mercy as I cried out to Him; He did
indeed hear my pleas andindeed did show great and awesome mercy
beyond my understanding. You can never really ofully comprehend the
total mercy of the Lord when it is happening, it just comes gushing
fortand there is no way to turn it off- not that you would want to,
its too big, to massive, it hasthe power to bring you to your knees
and usher in unstoppable buckets of tears fromoverwhelming joy and
unbelievable heartfelt praise and thanksgiving. You stand in awe
andjust say Lord how did You do it or how can You do it or this is
too wonderful for me and whadid I do to bring such magnificent
blessings, (that answer is quite simple you did nothing) orwhy
would You bestow such miraculous incredible feats of Your
undeniable power of love andivine intervention. Words that are not
known by me or could only be hoped to be learned inmy lifetime and
then still they would not be fully adequate or wonderful or
beautiful enoughand even still could never ever fully describe the
ever-loving merciful God we serve. He is tooamazingly marvelous for
us to comprehend, understand or fathom, words cannot come upfrom a
lifetime of learning our language or going thorough a life that is
able to teach us orwould teach us how merciful our God is, it is
only from seeing and experiencing His tendermercies in our lives
that we can see His great love for each one of us. His great mercy
is ableto teach us and allow us to be able to see, feel, know and
say how beautiful and sweet andawesome and mighty our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ is to us even in the midst of greattrials,
tribulations, testing of our faith and sorrows.Bros, I know from
personal experience as I am sure each of you also do too, that the
Lord ismerciful and hears our cries as His children as a Father
hears the distress calls from thehearts of His children, we have
that heritage or birthright as His children that we can call on
Him anytime, anyplace and He will hear from on high. And answer
according to His Will;know that He is full of mercy, love, grace
and compassion for His children, His heart is setupon blessing you
and loving you and allowing you to come to Him in any situation,
His hearaches for you, for you to draw close to Him- that is His
desire and He is willing to wait for youin that time of your
despair and looking for you to call just as a parent waits for that
phonecall to hear from their child to know that all is well within
them, so to is He waiting to blessyou, to be merciful, to show His
great love and blessings to you, to pour Himself out for youas a
drink offering, to pour Himself into you to fill you with His
goodness and mercy, His loveand all that He is, and was and is to
come He gives to you because He loves you that muchbro.
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A few years back my dear sweet mom went home to be with the
Lord, man how we miss herand still love her so much and think of
her everyday. I often think of that season when theLord took her
home. His great mercy He had on our family to allow us all to say
goodbye toher and He gave us three days where we could share, cry,
laugh, pray, read scripture to her,love her and listen to her give
us that last advice that only a mom can give. I remember thatday
before this all began I visited my mom in the assisted living home
she was living and eventook her for an ice cream cone, Ill never
forget that day! The next day was Valentines day andwe had been
invited to come to a little party they were having there where my
mom lived, the
wanted me to bring my son as they so enjoyed having children
around, in fact they were soblessed by children. With the next day
came news that my brothers father in law had passedaway whom he and
my mom were the surviving grandparents from both sides of the
familyand shared the same grandkids. So I decided I better go in
the morning to share this newswith my mom as I did not want to go
to the party and break this sad news at that time, I felt would be
better to go first thing and then come back later for the party so
that she was able thave some time before hand to absorb this
difficult news. When I got there that morning Iwent to my moms room
and she was not there, so I headed for the den area, then the TV
roomand finally the dining area to no avail, she was not there, so
I thought maybe she is bathingor showering. I went to the front
lobby and inquired at the front desk and they told me shewas around
somewhere, so I searched again and still could not locate her.
Finally I wasgetting frantic; I asked what has happened to my
mother, so the gal looked through someclipboards and finally said
oh your mom was taken to the hospital last night at aroundmidnight
to my shock and disbelief. I asked why no one had called me, she
then said oh wecalled but no one answered, I said I have voice mail
and then if you called me and got noanswer why didnt someone call
one of my three brothers of which she had all the numbers,she
offered the excuse they called all the numbers. I said which
hospital is she in so she toldme, so I headed over there and called
my brothers as I drove and told them what hadhappened and none of
them had a received a call about our mom either.
When I got to the hospital and found my mom and saw that she was
in a confused state and
didnt really know where she was or what was going on, I asked
the nurses and Doctors whathas happened to my dear sweet mother.
They said she got sick at around midnight,complaining her stomach
was really hurting and she was very sick, they had done x-rays
andall that stuff and said she had a very large tumor in her
stomach and it was probablycancerous and at the time was thought to
be inoperable and eventually it was found that thewere correct in
their thinking. I couldnt believe it bros, just a few hours earlier
I was havingice cream with my mom and now she was on her deathbed I
was angry, hurt and with atorn heart. I tried to talk to my mom and
finally asked the Doctors why she was not herselfand why she was in
this coma like condition and why she did not respond when I talked
withher and even as she looked at me it was as though she didnt
recognize or know me her son.She was like this for a few days, by
now my brother had come from out of state as well as my
moms little sister whom she loved and her husband, with family
gathered around in the daysahead and much prayer being lifted up
asking God for His will and the grim news ever cominforth from the
Doctors, it was sad to see her and yet know she didnt seem to know
us or eveknow where she was or what was going on. My brothers and I
were praying and seeking theLord in that time as we were pacing
about between home and hospital and asking for Hismercy the Lord
suddenly brought my mom out of this coma like condition that had
coveredover her like a blanket that she was deep under, now she
knew who we were and we were ablto communicate with her. We were
able to share with her and relive old times together, topray with
her, to read the Bible with her, to have my son in law play his
guitar and sing toher, to tell her how much she meant to us and how
much we loved her; it truly was a miraclefrom God. She was still
able to dispense advice that only a mom can to her grown sons and
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her grandchildren, it was a sweet blessing from the Lord that
lasted a sweet three days andthen she drifted back to the original
state until the Lord took her home a few days later.
I share this with you bros because God in His wisdom and Great
abundant mercy gave us thblessing, privilege and honor of seeing
Him perform a miracle for us so we could spend a fewdays with my
mom and share, laugh and cry with her and say goodbye. The Lord
loves us somuch that He wanted us to be able to say goodbye in a
way that He knew we needed andreally blessed us beyond belief. He
allowed all my moms close family to be able come and be
there that three days so we could do that, so Bros know that God
loves us that much that Hecan and will do awesome an mighty things
for us and with us not because we deserve it butbecause He loves us
and He is a merciful God who loves you more that you could ever
knowor fathom and He showed us that great love in those days and
even today evermore does Hislove and mercy shine forth with each
new day.Just as David cried out that day and asked God to be
merciful to him and fled into the cavefrom Saul and God gave him
refuge in the shadows of His wings Davids soul trusted in theLord
and we can know that as the Lord gave David great comfort and
refuge from hiscalamities we can know that He will do the same for
you, even as He did for me and my familthat day until the
calamities have passed by as we made our refuge in the shadow of
Hiswings, (Psalm 57:1).He is faithful and full of mercy for you and
me and His desire is to put us under His waterfallof continuous
mercies washing down over us in that day, that we might rejoice
because He isour God, mighty and awesome is He and always will He
be all of that and more, for words thawe do not have to describe
His indescribable love and mercy for each one of us!
Psalm 116:5 Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God
[is] merciful. Amen!
Luke 6:36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is
merciful. Bros be mercifulalways just as our Father is merciful,
look for ways to be merciful, go out of your waytoday to be
merciful you will be blessed!
Matthew 5:7 Blessed [are] the merciful, For they shall obtain
mercy.
Thank you Jesus for your tender mercies!In His mercy and
love,
Daniel Wright
Iron Man OikodomeProverbs 27:17
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