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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.

FEBRUARY 2009

“TEMPLE OF GOD”

1Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God
dwells in you?
Bear with me bros for a moment, allow me to contrast something that in a lot of ways can be
compared to us in how we might be living our lives right now or maybe lived in the past and
have been delivered from by the grace of God- Praise the Lord or maybe it is something that is
not listed here or something many are still struggling with today and have forgotten that God
is still on the throne and He knows everything we are doing with this body He gave us and
what He says about our bodies. Let’s suppose for a second, most all of us have rented a house
or an apartment at one time or another and more than likely a lot of us are still renters. Can
you imagine if you rented a place and then told the landlord that you were going to be dealing
crack or some psychedelic or psychotropic drug out of the house they are renting to you or
you were going to use their place as a house of prostitution, or maybe a porn movie theater or
porn movie rental place or some other ungodly, immoral and illegal type of activity that goes
against the laws of God, our land and their rules for tenants and also knowing they are
watching you all the while you are doing this type of activity, almost like how God sees our
every move. Or maybe you just tell them you want to abuse their house or apartment by doing
some radical things to it, like not taking care of it, to totally annihilate it by doing things that
it obviously was not designed for, like storing large amounts of toxic chemicals in the house,
soaking the place down with booze everyday, manipulating and contorting the place to make
it do things it was never intended or designed by it’s creator to do, you know overloading the
load capacity, putting things that go against the law of God, nature and man into the house to
please yourself for a brief moment knowing that it could destroy the place instantly but,
putting that aside so that you can enjoy it in that context for a brief second or maybe two....
Destroying the value and purpose of the house for your own pleasure not thinking about the
impact it may have on the real owner. Think the landlord would be cool with that kind of
stuff happening to their prize possession rental property? Can you see those types of items in
lease agreements saying they are OK to do? On a rental lease agreement if you violate the
terms or conditions they can evict you out of the place, but if we have broken the law of God
He has a provision whereby we can be fully exonerated from our sinful failures and restored
to a right standing with Him but most likely not with a landlord.
Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our
weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore
come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time
of need.
Bros would you consider doing things with your body that you would not even do with a
rental unit knowing the property-Owner wouldn’t approve or want His temple used in that
way…
But that is exactly what we do with this body God gave us, yet it belongs to Him. Think of the
greater value your body “The temple of the living God” means to Him who created you. He
doesn’t require any rent on it, He gave it to us to use while we are here on earth, we can use it
till it wears out and falls apart or He calls in the loan… No strings attached, it’s free, He
doesn’t even make us follow Him or love Him or anything, and He gives us freewill to do what
we want…, but there are eternal consequences with that freewill choice. He does say some
things about our bodies in His word that we ought to think about and maybe look at following
a little closer if we are truly His. He says our bodies are the temple of the living God, to
separate ourselves from these idols, these things that keep us bound up day after day, month
after month, year after year and separate us from the Living God. Bros the Lord wants us to
walk away from whatever is trying to take residence in our hearts, minds and in our bodies,
that is unholy, that goes against God and His Word, it does not belong there in the first place
and He does not want us to continue to pollute His temple with sin, He wants us to be pure
and to not touch what is unclean and He will take delivery of us. Listen to the One who
created you and me and owns this tent we dwell in, we shall be one with Him forever. He
holds the lease on our very lives forever, He dwells in us, so the property- Owner is always
present with us to claim us and be our God, we are His property, He paid for us on the cross
at Calvary, He is our Father and we are His children, so we are His personal property and He
will protect His investment with all His Love, Mercy and Grace, He made you bro and He loves
you and He wants to inhabit in you.

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you
are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I
will be their God, And they shall be My people." 17 Therefore "Come out from among them And
be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you." 18 "I will be a
Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty."

In Christ,
Daniel Wright
Iron Man Oikodome
Proverbs 27:17

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