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.

IRON MAN OIKODOME BOX TOP 026 "So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which [was] in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire. (Jeremiah 38:6 NKJV) LIFTED BY THE LORD Bros can you imagine being thrown into prison or a dungeon no less, actually they lowered Jeremiah down with ropes into the dungeon which was a mud pit- deep mud. How many times we have served the Lord and been so blessed? I know every time I set out to serve God and His people I end up getting so blessed, somehow God reverses the blessing so to speak. We try to point it in one direction and He turns it back on us in some awesome way and blesses both ways and directions. He uses you to bless and serve and then He is blessing you at the same time How different it must have been for the Prophet Jeremiah serving God and being thrown in prison a few times, his life threaten all the time, persecuted by his own family, plotted against by his own hometown (Homies), he was abused and beaten constantly, arrested and accused of treason, fed only bread and this time he gets lowered into the mire. Cold stinking miserable mud, I imagine this mud was just nasty where prisoners were left to die and maybe there were skeletons deep in that mud when Jeremiah sank into it. The point is Jeremiah was subjected to humiliating, extreme hardships by just speaking God message he was hated, everyone despised him and when it seemed hopeless and all was lost as Jeremiah sank down in the mire that slippery deep pit. God used a eunuch named Ebed-Melech to send word of Jeremiahs situation to the king. And our King used king Zedekiah to send thirty men with the eunuch so that Jeremiah could be lifted out of the dungeon before he dies. God sent Jeremiah to warn the people to turn back from their sins and idolatry and they did not want to hear it, the messages he delivered were very unpopular and unbelievable how in these twelve graphic messages that Jeremiah gave lists the causes of Judahs coming judgment and they were ignored. Wow look at all Jeremiah went through to get them the message of prophesy from God, The Lord just wanted to save them- from themselves, for them to repent and to turn back to Him, to forgive them, to give them a future and a hope, He sent His messenger Jeremiah to tell them back in the day, just like He sent Jesus to tell us. Look what they did to His messenger, God loved them so much He gave them chance after chance but they rejected it. Bros in our present times there may be those who reject God or what He has called us to do or say to them or the message of His forgiveness and sharing His love when we are serving and following God. It seems we only need to remember back to the forerunners of Gods message or the Gospel of how good we have it and no matter what happens to us whether we get blessed or not for serving God or delivering Gods message to the unsaved, whether they reject Gods truth or not- WE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD! We need to remember if we sink or have already sank in the mire of life, or ministry where God has called us that He will lift us out, He will send help in times of trouble. God lifted Jeremiah out of the mire when he sank and He will do that for us wherever we are at He knows the situation. God calls, God sends and He provides even if we get muddy He will lift us up-Amen!
Daniel Wright Iron Man Oikodome Proverbs 27:17

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