DAY 5 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (MY PEOPLE) - MAY 29, 2012

May 29



2 Chronicles: 7:14


14and My people (who are known by My name) humbly pray, follow My commandments, and abandon any actions or thoughts that might lead to further sinning, then I shall hear their prayers from My house in heaven, I shall forgive their sins, and I shall save their land from the disasters.

DAY 5 - DAILY DEVOTION - MAY 29, 2012

May 29



Worship Is Your Weapon


2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NLT) “We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.  We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.”


I remember getting back from the oncologists office that Thursday back in August 2010 after just being told Bryan had the worst kind of stomach cancer.   As soon as we opened the front door of our home, we called for the girls and worshiped by dancing, singing, reading the Word, and praying.   We clapped aloud with our victory song.  The Bible tells us so many times that we have overcome and that we win.  So in our minds, why not worship because we have the victory.


You may be saying, Katherine, the devil won because Bryan died.  No!  Let me explain, the devil doesn’t have authority over life and death, God does.  Look at Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.”


The devil thought if he could just get Bryan to die then maybe we all would shut up & shut down, but what the devil didn’t know was that this huge mandate had already been placed on me and the girls long ago.   And, that mandate, got stirred up even more so after Bryan’s diagnosis & eventually death.  Now, there is no stopping us now!   We want to shake the foundations of the earth with worship.


All throughout the Bible there are so many examples about worship, to name a few look at:


Shad rack, Me shack & Abednego- wouldn’t bow down to worship anything other than Jesus.


Wasn’t it the Israelites who built golden images to worship while Moses was on the mountain?


And in Matthew 4, the devil tried to get Jesus to bow down & worship him.


What will you worship today? Why not worship the one true God and use your worship to defeat the devil.  God inhabits the praises of His people.  I encourage you to give Him all your praise & worship.  Don’t let anything get in your way of worshiping Him.


We are still worshiping even after all these months that have gone by since the death of Bryan.  Infact, what the enemy tried to annihilate us with has become our stepping stones.  I am more determined now to continue raising up a mighty remnant of worshipers around the world who will worship The Lord, and who will worship their way through whatever battle they are facing.


Will you be that worshiper? I live to worship Him.   Are you living to worship Him?  If you will, I can’t even begin to describe the freedom you will have when you use your worship as your weapon, and start shouting to God with praises in the midst of whatever you are going through.  I love what the Message Bible says in Galatians 5:1, “Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”


We are free to Worship Him because Christ has set us free from everything that would hinder us, or try to exalt itself above the one who is to be worshiped!  With that being said, I think its so fitting to do what Psalm 47:1 says,  “O clap your hands, all you people; shout to God with the voice of triumph.”


In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship


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DAY 5 - DAILY PRAYER (ISRAEL) - MAY 29, 2012

May 29



Prayer for  Israel

Blessed are you O G-d ,  our G-d the G-d of  our Fathers Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, the Father of Yeshua Ha Mashiach our Lord and Savior.

We humbly bow before the throne of Grace during these 40 days of prayer as we seek your face on behalf of your people called by your name, the people of Israel. For we know that it is at your feet where  we find the highest place of worship.

May your people called by your name see their promised Jewish Messiah who you spoke of through your prophets of old, may the eyes of their understanding be opened to see , recognize and accept Yeshua as the one promised by You in the Tanakh.

May your people come into a full knowledge of the revelation of the work of Messiah as He has made us one new man in Him. May your people welcome their Messiah home in the Land of Israel.

May the eyes of their understanding be opened. May they embrace Yeshua. May you establish the throne of David in our life time

May you kee p Her in your Shalom until the culmination of all things as you have set them forth in your providential plan. May she take her place as she reveals You to the Nations. We thank you Adonai that your plan for your people Israel will be fulfilled and all Israel will be saved.

Baruch Atah, Adonai Elohaynu, Melech ha-olam Amayn.

Blessed are you , O Lord our god, King of the universe Amen


Janice Stewart, Life in the Vine Ministries@ copyright 2003

DAY 5 - DAILY HISTORY - AMERICAN MINUTE FOR MAY 29, 2012

May 29



Awarded the Navy's medal of heroism during World War II and the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, he was the youngest elected President, serving just over 1,000 days before being shot. 


This was John F. Kennedy, born MAY 29, 1917.


Kennedy stated in his Inaugural, January 20, 1961: 


"I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. 


For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life." 


John F. Kennedy continued: 


"Yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." 


Writing to Brazil's President, Janio da Silva Quadros, January 31, 1961, John F. Kennedy stated: 


"Once in every 20 years presidential inaugurations in your country and mine occur within days of each other. 


This year of 1961 is signalized by the happy coincidence. 


At this time, each of us assumes challenging duties...


To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals."

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. Jan. 20, 1961, Inaugural Address. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States - From George Washington 1789 to Richard Milhous Nixon 1969 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office; 91 Congress, 1 Session, House Document 91-142, 1969), pp. 267-270. Department of State Bulletin (published weekly by the Office of Public Services, Bureau of Public Affairs, Feb. 6, 1961). Davis Newton Lott, The Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), p. 269. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court & Public Prayer (NY: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 193. Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America's Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), p. 146. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), Vol. XVIII, pp. 5-7. Lillian W. Kay, ed., The Ground on Which We Stand - Basic Documents of American History (NY: Franklin Watts., Inc, 1969), p. 296. Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 121-122. Bob Arnebeck, "FDR Invoked God Too," Washington Post, September 21, 1986. Vincent J. Wilson, ed., The Book of Great American Documents (Brookfield, MD: American History Research Associates, 1987), p. 84. Halford Ross Ryan, American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1987), p. 156. Jeffrey K. Hadden & Anson Shupe, Televangelism - Power & Politics on God's Frontier (NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1988), p. 272. Ronald Reid, ed., Three Centuries of American Rhetorical Discourse: An Anthology & a Review (Prospect Heights, Il: Waveland Press, Inc., 1988), p. 711. William Safire, ed., Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches in History (NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 1992), p. 812. Peter Marshall & David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg's Heart 'N Home, Inc., 1991), 1.20. J. Michael Sharman, J.D., Faith of the Fathers (Culpepper, Virginia: Victory Publishing, 1995), pp. 111-112.

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DAY 4 - DAILY BIBLE VERSE (REVIVES) - MAY 28, 2012

May 28



Psalm: 34:18 (The Voice)


When someone is hurting or brokenhearted, the Eternal moves in close and revives him in his pain.


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DAY 4 - DAILY DEVOTION - MAY 28, 2012

May 28



Conquering the Enemy of the Spirit of Death


I have to share another very personal message today.  I pray it ministers to you as you read it.


I believe the date was Wednesday, September 4, 2010.  I was driving my late husband to go lead worship for a major ministry in the Dallas area.  He was pale, slim and very sick with stomach cancer.  As I was driving, I remember looking over at Bryan lying back in the front seat of the car.  His eyes were closed from exhaustion from being up all night in severe pain & vomiting non- stop.  I had told him earlier that he didn’t have to go lead worship that the ministry staff would definitely understand him not being able to go.  He insisted on going.  Anyway, when I looked at him so frail with hardly any life, all of a sudden for a split second the devil told me to take a good look at Bryan because that is what he would look like in the casket.  My spirit man rose up with everything inside me & yelled, NO, death has no hold over him or me.  I began to worship God because I knew that Christ had already conquered death, so why did I need to fear death?   For me, it had been a strong hold on me, and at that very moment what the devil thought he would take me down with became a huge break through for me.  I realized no more did I need to allow the spirit of death to taunt me anymore, no more thoughts, or that churning in my stomach from fear.  I said, what can the devil do to me? Nothing!  I began speaking My God is greater & has overcome the grave!  Hallelujah, Jesus is Alive!


I don’t know what spirit of death that may have tried to take a hold of you.  Could it be that you have been given a grim report from the doctor, has your relationship with Christ shriveled up to nothing and you feel dead to Him, or has your marriage been dead & gone a long time.  I am here to tell you today that God has conquered the enemy of the sprit of death, so you can rejoice & live again!  Live with purpose knowing that Satan has no hold on you.  The price was paid a long time ago.


I must say it again, whatever has died in your life, it doesn’t matter what it was or is – Jesus has conquered death, hell, and the grave for you.  Hallelujah!!  Rejoice and start prophesying life back to your dead things!


I love Ezekiel 37:4-9 “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!  This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life.  I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ’” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.


I prophesy life over anything that has tried to bring death or the stench of death- thoughts in your mind, to the fears or situations that may arise?


I hear the rattling of God doing some incredible things in your life.  Can you hear the bones moving and life coming back?  I speak life over you now and to your situation that seems bleak.  I declare that you have conquered the spirit of death and you are alive in Him!  I speak the breath of God to refresh you now.  “You will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord!”


In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship


http://dailyliveworship.com/blog/conquering-the-enemy-of-the-spirit-of-death/