All posts by Kathie Whitestone Thompson

Follower of Yeshua. Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother. Some call me a teacher. Some say I'm a prayer warrior. A few accredit me with some writing skills. Me? I say I'm a work in slow progress, looking for perfection in eternity and until then having all the holy fun I know how.
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The Fourth Thursday

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It’s been a fast November. I have a regret. I didn’t do my usual November thirty days of thanks and now The Thursday is almost here. 
So from our home to yours. 

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I celebrated today with my Office Family. I cannot thank Father GOD enough for His provision and favor upon us when He set me in place at Holt & Associates. We are grateful. 

When you gather in your respective places on Thursday, I hope your coming together will not be about just food and feasting; please sprinkle the day with generous helpings of thanks. 
I long for us, The Body of Christ, to experience celebrations with family and friends that are more than just eating holiday foods, laughter, family shenanigans, and afternoon naps.
I’m not frowning on those things — not at all! Let’s do all that but can we go deeper? 
Can we have prayer and worship too?
Can we sing songs together?
Can we encourage one another with the Joy of The LORD – recounting what He has done all year for us?
In other words, can we just flat-out GIVE THANKS? Lots of thanks for HE surely deserves it! 

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

2024, Colossians, Hebrews, Questions, Repentance

Sugar and Flour

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People I love dearly, including myself, 🥰 I have heard say, ‘I just can’t resist it; if it’s in front of me, I am going to eat it or drink it.’  We must repent of this.  how-to-store-flour-and-sugar-long-term-1697700912-1848960292

As Christians, we say that we have the Spirit of Almighty GOD living within us. The same Spirit of GOD who is so powerful that He raised JESUS from the dead.

Graveyard dead, y’all.

I mean His heart was not beating, respiration had ceased, there was no oxygen in His lungs, and His body was in full repose for THREE DAYS! This was the state of JESUS our Savior and Father GOD raised His body from complete deadness to Living, Breathing again!

And we as Christians say we cannot resist a bag of potato chips or one more piece of cake? How can we deny Him like this?! How can we do this in the sight of so great a cloud of witnesses? Hebrews 12:1-3.  I can only think it is ignorance at best and at worst . . . something else. 

Please join me in repentance! Please see with me that for us to consistently place empty, excessive, non-nutritious calories, and even harmful substances into our bodies denies the power of GOD that we say we have living within us. Yes, I am mindful that Scripture speaks of occasional feasting . . . it also teaches frequent fasting. How can GOD deliver, rescue, and redeem us from hell and damnation and be so weak He cannot give us victory over a second plate of boneless chicken wings? Don’t you see with me that we must NOW, today begin to live in victory? If we do not, what evidence do we have to offer people around us who do not know JESUS?

Let me say it this way: We must love The LORD our GOD more than we love sugar and flour.

I read this to my beloved and he replied that it’s not just food and drink, this could be applied to anything in our lives. I wonder if he meant football and golf?

23 Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Colossians 3 Source 

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