Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As 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 all
and to build up and edify in 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.
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 them
out to the bros for prayer, if privacy is needed I will send in a discreet way. There will be
hundreds standing in the gap with you and for you, what a blessing to know that your prayer
is being lifted up by so many on your behalf. Every bro that receives these prayer requests in
their email always tells me that they pray for each and every prayer request as soon as they
receive them. As bros in Christ it is such a privilege also an honor to be able to pray and lift
up the needs of the body of Christ to our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ that His Will would be
done in each and every situation and that He would be glorified.

MAY 2009
“TRUST IN THE LORD”

Nahum1:7 The LORD [is] good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who
trust in Him.

It seems in this day that we live in it calls for us to trust in God more than ever.
Yet sometimes that can be the hardest thing we can do. Why is that? Is it our
pride, wanting to handle everything our way and saying yeah we are just
trusting in the Lord all the while forcing and manipulating our plan to make
things happen in a way that is favorable to our liking and then saying it’s the
Lords way? And then always going to the Lord after the fact when we have
exhausted our own self will and saying we have waited and trusted in You alone
Lord. If the Lord is truly good and He is, we all know that, but having said that
and read that in the above scripture why can’t we truly trust Him fully and wait
on Him? I believe it is our self will and wanting our self centered way right now.
We have this notion that we can handle everything and that we are up to the
task and maybe don’t want to bother God with trivial things so we just go about
everything with the perception and attitude that we are doing things Gods way
because it seems good to us. But is it good to God? Have you ever noticed when
we do wait on the Lord and He hears our cries and pleas for help in whatever
situation, that He is so good to us that we can hardly stand it. One thing I can
compare it to would be like a Basketball game and your team is down by two
points and the end of the game buzzer is going to go off in two and half seconds
and out of nowhere Jesus shows up you didn’t think He would show up in fact
you thought you would try and win the game without Him... But from outside
the three point line, really I mean half court He stops takes aim with less than
one second to go then closes His eyes turns around backwards with His back to
the basket and chucks the ball over His head backwards to make a three pointer
and win the game for you, it is like that always when we let the Lord take control
He always delivers us it seems in just a nick of time in some miraculous way
and His timing is always perfect. He always delivers us in a way we could never
imagine or fathom and it always seems so simple and something we never
thought of before, we kind of go through all of the scenarios in our mind that we
think will fix the situation and as each one of these or our so called ideas for
deliverance passes by, we are like saying Lord what are you doing this would
have been a perfect way to deliver me, but Gods ways are not ours. I mean I
have been blessed and delivered like that so many times by Gods three pointers
and I just cry because God is so good and so merciful and so wonderful He just
blows me away every time He loves us so much and I just can not fathom how
good He is and I keep crying and thanking Him and praising Him for His
goodness. He is faithful even when we are faithless. Bros I know many of you
have been blessed like this and it is like a gentle iron grip of love, mercy and
grace that can never be loosened from us, that He has on us with His goodness
in the day of trouble; he surrounds us with His incredible grace. When we fully
trust in the Lord and He knows when we are letting go of our ways and looking,
waiting, searching, wanting, longing for Him to bless us in that day of trouble He
knows those who trust in Him. He’s our stronghold bros, what else is there, we
have all lived in the world and for the things of the world and there never was
anything that could help us out there. The things of the world controlled us in
the past, they are not good, never will be good nor can they be relied upon or be
a stronghold in a time of trouble, we see the finance’s of the world gone in a
second and so many have put their trust in those type’s of things and now they
are broke and broken, shipwrecked with no life Savior to hang on to. But we
have the Lord, He is good, He will protect us in the day of adversity what can
man do to us. The Lord knows us better than we know ourselves, so He does
indeed know those who trust Him. Bros lean on the Lord cast your cares and
burdens on Him, trust Him to help you, believe in Him, rest in Him, wait on
Him, seek Him, and search with all your heart for the One you can always trust.
He is Good, He is God and He will never leave you or forsake you. Psalm 46:1 …
God [is] our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Ephesians 3:20-
21 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask
or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him [be] glory in the
church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Trust Him, pray, seek, wait, watch and rest in Him,
Daniel Wright
Iron Man Oikodome
Proverbs 27:17
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