This one for our re-chewing pleasure comes from 2007. November 28 to be exact. Perhaps some of you will enjoy it for the first time today.

Jack Frost – Real or Fiction

Are you aware that the Father takes delight in you and that He thinks about you all the time?… Jack Frost

Names are important and what is associated with a Name is crucial. The quote today was spoken/written by Jack Frost. If you go to your Internet browser search window and type in just ‘jack frost’, the first page of links you receive has nothing to say about the author of our quote. But if you type in ‘jack frost author’, up comes Jack Frost – Christian writer.

Jack died this year on March 5 (2007) leaving his wife, children, grand-children and a couple of books behind.

‘Experiencing the Father’s Embrace’, and ‘Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship’.
Strange, isn’t it? Hardly a person is not familiar with the elfish creature who personifies crisp, cold winter weather and there’s a movie by that name as well. I believe Michael Keaton portrays him.

But how many of us heard of Jack Frost, Christian writer, before today?

Most of the people who occupy (past, present or future) this planet, live and physically die with little or no recognition, certainly not as much as Jack Frost, an imaginary creation.

Isn’t it GREAT to know that Father God has RECOGNIZED you and shall NEVER forget you?

Enjoy a portion of Psalm 139 and acknowledge by your thinking, talking and ‘walk’ today that YOU are on the Mind and Heart of the Creator of the Universe, even if only a handful of people know your name!

1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

We are in Awe of You Father Lord. You know each and every one of us, nothing about us is hidden from You and You love us still! Thank You Father.  . . .   And we pray for the Peace of Israel and the Repentance of America and all this we ask in Jesus Name.
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Revelation 2:17 — His Ministry to you,
Kathie

I scanned a few and selected this one. I think it may set as well again as it did in September 2008. If you would like to read it as it originally appeared click HERE.

Are We Convincible?

First I read this in Colossians 3:
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

This passage is so big how do we get our minds around it? Only the Holy Spirit Himself can speak to each of our hearts the impact He desires for these most powerful, promising words. And then I read these verses:

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

If you go back to verse 11 ‘God’s chosen people’ becomes clear.

11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

So WE, you and me, ALL who are IN Christ, are holy and dearly loved. Can you appreciate that today? Can you appreciate that you ARE dearly loved today? But not only are we dearly loved, we are holy in Christ Jesus. That’s harder, isn’t it? We think we are being humble if we refrain from seeing ourselves as holy, don’t we? Yet, He said we are a holy people. That is the way ABBA sees us. Who are we to refuse to see ourselves as He sees us? And what do we miss out on if we continue to resist this Word to us? Is it possible that we will go lacking in some crucial elements of holy living? I think so. Like compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. If we refuse to allow the Holy Spirit to convince us that we are holy, doesn’t it seem reasonable that we will continue to manifest unholy behavior? If we refuse to allow the Holy Spirit to convince us that we are dearly loved by ABBA, doesn’t it seem entirely possible that we will not love others or even ourselves as He has commanded us to love? If we refuse to allow the Holy Spirit to convince us that we are fully forgiven, isn’t it highly likely that we will not readily forgive others? Can we begin today to allow the Holy Spirit to wrap our arms around this TRUTH: that we in Christ Jesus are a holy people that Abba Dearly LOVES? I think really, really believing this just may be one of the greatest honors we can give our KING and Father. Do you agree?

Holy Spirit, our request to You today is that day by day we surrender to You and allow You to convince us more and more that in You Christ Jesus we have become a holy people, a people that You ABBA dearly love. A holy people that You desire to live through manifesting Your compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and forgiveness to this world.

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Revelation 2:17 — His Ministry to you,
Kathie

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