Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Brothers in Christ, this weekly encouragement 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.

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Beloved, I beg [you] as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that
when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by [your] good works which
they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.[1Peter 2:11-12 NKJV]
VISITOR
Bros we are foreigners here in this land basically just visiting or passing through this is not
our homelandWe are on our way to a Holy place where the Streets are paved with Gold and a
place where our admission to get in was paid for in full and could only be bought by the Blood
that was surely shed by Christ our Lord for our sins.
So bros we ought to behave like we are as a guest visiting in a place thats not our home and
was never intended to be our home, we are simply passing through We are encouraged to
abstain from fleshly lusts, lusting after something that is not ours, never was intended to be
and shouldnt even be on our radar especially since it wars against the soul! Yet we see
many in the church taking major social liberties just to be hip, slick and cool and strangely
promote the flesh. God never intended to feed our flesh in any manner, other than physical
nourishment with food. To try to satisfy our fleshy lust is just purely insane especially since it
is that which cant be satisfied! That is why we dont start feeding it in the first place. We
abuse what He created and take it far from His original intent or design and find a way to turn
our flesh on to it then the flesh takes off with it to lust with our perverted hearts and
desires... Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.[Proverbs
27:20 NKJV]
Jesus encouraged us to deny our flesh not to feed it or cater to it, or to allow it to exist but to
deny it! Then He said to [them] all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. [Luke 9:23 NKJV]
Its not ours to feed with lust, we can say as new born babes this does not belong to us, it
wont nourish us or grow us only lead to certain death. We are given something greater and
should desire the pure milk of the word that we may grow. Bros if we are behaving like the
dying world how can we be life, light and a witness to a dying world? How can we be a light if
we are not abstaining from fleshly lusts?
We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a Holy nation, and His-own special people. We
are royalty in and thorough Christ not that we are puffed up in our flesh but its undignified
and not honorable for us to behave any other way. We must have honorable conduct, acting as
a holy priesthood of believers that they may see us and glorify God. They can say evil things
all around us and about us but it will be baseless when they compare it to the honorable
witness we have put forth that would glorify God because of what He put in us His Son-amen!
Agape,
Daniel Wright
ironmanoikodome.org

Proverbs 27:17
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