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DPM Update – 2017 Sept

Dear Friends

Partner with you

As you know, we never ask for money! So, after informing you of our upcoming Israel mission, it’s been especially fun to receive some spontaneous gifts from you. We will be making some sizeable and meaningful contributions to poverty-stricken families among the orthodox and ultra-orthodox Jews. (See the last post for more details) If this is similarly stirring in your heart, we’d be happy to partner with you in this venture. We’ll keep you posted.

40th year anniversary
Early this year Debbie said, “This year is our 40th anniversary… and you know… I have never been on a Mediterranean cruise.” I said, “You know… there are a lot of things we haven’t done!” 🙂 But somehow I just felt like it could possibly happen. After all, this wonderful lady has stuck with me for most of her life and I’m confident that God thinks she deserves a gold medal… or at least, something really special. Well, it wasn’t but a few months later that someone said, “We want to send you on a Mediterranean cruise when you go to Israel.” And there you have it… “God’s will is God’s bill!” So we settled on a multi-country cruise from Venice, Italy. Now, guess what? My lady’s happy! Yay!

Grands…
Our family is growing. We now have 7 GRANDchildren… and we LOVE being grandparents! Markus & Allison had baby #2 this year and live in Nashville, TN area. John & Cheryl and their 4 children live here in Kansas City, MO, about one block away from us. Chris & Lydia are in Redding, CA with baby #1. And just for the record, we’re hoping for at least 7 more!!!

He-Man camping
Sometimes you’ve just got to get away from it all! (even Jesus did) 🙂 So, we went on our 15th annual He-Man Camping trip recently. 3 days/2 nights… so easy… nature all around. During the day: caving, exploring with the kids, catching crawdads, building a raft, and fishing… and during the night: listening to raccoons, foxes, owls, crickets and tree frogs. Fun and relaxing. John & Cheryl and the kids… and Deb & I, all stayed in our big family tent. Here are a few pics.

Upgraded prayer
You may not know that we began a prayer meeting early in 2016… gathering every Thurs evening. The goal was to transition our prayer vocabulary from beggar / plaintiff / petition… to confident sons / co-reign-ers with Jesus. In other words, whatever Jesus would say over our situation, is what we say. He declared the status and mind of Heaven into the situation. Some words to describe this type of praying are: declare, prophesy, release, proclaim, loose, bind, etc. You see, all of these descriptives imply a strong sense of confident knowing of our position and authority in Christ. Here are a few articles that I’ve written about upgraded prayer in my blog: Beyond the Map.

That prayer meeting objective proved to be more difficult than we thought. Even though all of the 5 or 6 people who started with us are pastors and had been involved in the prayer movement for decades, none of us realized how hard it would be to ‘unlearn’ old petition-type vocabulary… and begin using confident declarations. Praying from a completely different position is intensely mentally laborious at first… not to mention trying to pray ‘in the anointing’. BUT something changed about 3 months ago. We’ve had some very powerful prayer meetings since then. I think we’ve ‘turned a corner’.

I firmly believe that God is inviting His people into this kind of prayer… “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracle of God.” – I Peter 4:11 What would happen if all God’s saints began to embrace confident joyful co-rulership with Jesus on this earth!?!??! WOW! I think God can hardly wait!!!! 🙂

‘Plying our trade’
Deb and I are still doing our stuff… traveling around, ‘plying our trade’ – being mothers and fathers where ever we go. Maybe that is part of the Malachi 4:6 verse which says, “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers…”. God is raising up men and women to ‘father’ and ‘mother’ an orphaned world. That’s where we all (you too) come into the picture.

Thought for the day
No matter the difficulty of any circumstance, God is SO much bigger than any ‘oppressor’. No matter the size, that oppressor is not even in the same league as our awesome God!

Lotsa love
Mark & Debbie

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