Category Archives: Assurance – Promise

Keep Singing

Please read with me the words of JESUS as recorded for us in

Luke 4:18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
18 “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,
via Luke 4:18 NASB – THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME – Bible Gateway.

Now recall with me that in Acts 16 Paul and Silas had been beaten and thrown into the inner prison. And this was no casual beating, they were stripped of their clothing and then struck with many blows. I am wondering if those blows came by a cat-of-nine-tails. And further more after the flogging their feet were placed in stocks there in a most inner dark, filthy, foul-smelling cell.

25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
via Acts 16 NASB – The Macedonian Vision Paul came also to – Bible Gateway.

And the prisoners were listening to them.

HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,  Paul and Silas were captives who had been set free – that is why they were praying and singing and it was to this that the prisoners were listening.

Prisoners- Captives will be listening to you and me today. What will they hear?

This is World Evangelism prayer day for me.  I’m still praying for Rapa Nui (Easter Island). For what place are you praying?

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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT together,
Kathie

Compost Pineapples

Well, it’s been Monday all day long! That’s catch up day from the weekend. And just so you will know — I’m not caught up.

I visited my compost bin today, most often for a long while now my beloved has been the one to take our contributions, but today I made the trek out back and you know what I found?

Life.

Life in a bin of decaying food scraps. Actually Jerry previously told me they were out there and today I went to see for myself. Not that I did not believe him, just wanted to see for myself, you know. And in truth there are four of them out there growing with no effort from us other than dumping into the bin the tops we whacked off four pineapples (at various times, not all at once) we brought home from our local food establishment.

Life in a dump. Who’d thought it? Goes to show if there’s a spark of life even in stinky surroundings something new can grow. That’ll preach don’t you think?

Isaiah 43:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 “Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.
via Isaiah 43:19 NASB – Behold I will do something new Now it – Bible Gateway.

Here are some pics. Three pictures are worth three thousand words. :)

So tell me, God doing something new in your life even amid some stinky stuff? Keep looking for those pineapples. You know the HOLY SPIRIT is all about producing fruit. :)

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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Owning Our Own . . .

As I was praying and working on my praying cards (which are index cards, some folks have individual cards with my desires for them and Scripture to pray over them) today a particular need came to the forefront – tithing. Not a favorite subject of many. But it is what it is – an act of obedience, a crucial one.

For sure, GOD does not need one thin dime from any one of us but we so need to give it. And how much? ALL of it! The tithe (10% of your earnings) is only a start. We should be faithful stewards NOT owners of all the monies in our coffers. You see owning our own money will make us very poor indeed.

Hear the Word of the LORD:

8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
11 Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD of hosts.
12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts.
via Malachi 3 NASB – The Purifier Behold I am going to send – Bible Gateway.

Did you get that?
And now here it gets uncomfortable for me just on the outside chance that not all The White Stone’s email subscribers are (Faithful) Stewards. Truth is if you are not the Faithful Steward as described above then you are the Robber described above. And did you also get that those outside the Faith see Faithful Stewards (Tithers) as Blessed People. Perhaps one of the reasons folks remain lost is because so many who profess the name of JESUS are Robbers of God. Pretty sad, isn’t it?

You see being a Faithful Steward (Tither) is all about faith and trust. We either believe GOD is faithful to His Word to us or we don’t.

I have one more Text to share before I close today.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the Most High God.
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the Most High God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
via Genesis 14 KJV – And it came to pass in the days of – Bible Gateway.

Do you see it? Do you see that Abram gave tithe with a willing, grateful heart? Do you see that he gave because the Most High God had been good to him?

Has the Most High God been good to you?

And now since for sure none of The White Stone subscribes fit into the not a Faithful Steward company, this nugget is for you.

Blessed be Abram of the Most High God.  (Spoken by Melchizedek to Abram)
Blessed be Kathie of the Most High God. (Spoken by GOD to me)
Let me tell that does something for me!!!

Go ahead. Try it on! Fill in your name.

Blessed be _______________ of the Most High God. (Spoken by GOD to You!)

Settle in under that today.

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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

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