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In a Word

Gallery 11 Jan 2017 Kathie Whitestone Thompson 1 Comment

Fellow bloggers have graciously shared their Word(s) for 2017. I commented to a long time blogger friend that I had not settled into 2017 quietly enough to get a word. She assured me it would come. She was right.

You Version. Y’all familiar? It’s a God-send to me. Especially this one: Destined to Win. This line in particular: “Authenticity means letting go of who others want you to be, so you can be who you really are.”

Authenticity.

Authentic.

That’s the me to be in 2017.

Not just with my people, those with whom it’s acceptable and comfortable to be me but others. Not the flesh me but the God-given Spirit me. The positive, believing-GOD this is going to work out me. The me that say yes I can see that is difficult but GOD promises this . . . if we will do this . . .

You get the idea? Me too. Scary it is I tell you!

Authentic! To be found authentically belonging, believing, trusting, loving, and sharing JESUS with all my world, including myself! Authentic, honest with myself about the me I am being on any given and every day of 2017. A young woman named Faith calls it being RAD.

She said this:

Slowly but surely I had to learn how to…

Reveal my sins.

Accept his Grace

Do not pick it back up.

That’s pretty… RAD… right?

Click HERE for more of Faith at A Messy Sanctuary.

Galatians 6:14-16 (TLV) ¹⁴But may I never boast—except in the cross of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Through Him the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything—but only a new creation. ¹⁶Now as many as live by this rule—shalom and mercy on them and on the Israel of God.  source

2 John 3  (NKJV) ³Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.   source

Christian Living

Trendy Christianity

10 Jan 2017 Kathie Whitestone Thompson Leave a comment

Let me share this young woman with you, especially this particular post. A young woman in her 20s! This 60 something woman is delighted to meet – Rad Faith! :)

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The Bible has no disclaimer saying “this might offend you, read with caution.” Similarly, this post will have no disclaimer at the end telling you that what you read is “to each his own.”

Let me tell you something, Christian to Christian, believer to believer. Maybe you are not a believer, but you have noticed this trend with your Christian friends. Here it is: WE (Christians) ARE MIRRORING THE WORLD.

What? Let me explain.

In trying to be inclusive and loving to everyone, which in itself is a good thing, we are becoming no different than the world around us, except for the big fat Christian label we place on ourselves. This is dangerous.

With that being said…listen. The church is not for us. It is not a sanctuary for ourselves. The church’s purpose is to glorify the Most High, the Father of the Universe, the…

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Realms

Gallery 9 Jan 2017 Kathie Whitestone Thompson Leave a comment

Despite what the calendar says 2017 for me began today. Yep. You see today is Monday. And it is the first Monday of 2017 that I woke up in my own bed in my own home with a brand new week in this brand new year just waiting for me to live it, LORD WILLING. So now that 2017 has begun let’s get to it!

Lets see the bed is made with clean sheets and I am dressed for the Y and I have talked to my Baby Brother and we have solved the world’s problems! That’s a fine start on this new year :)

And this it the text I’m pondering like so: 2017-01-09_07-56-14_000

I am standing at this one today, still and looking. Perhaps a door to open for a fresher understanding. Messiah’s community is of course Believers, followers, disciples. Yes disciples – those who are disciplined in Scripture and in prayer and in going about doing good like HE did when He was bodily here. The plan is for US to demonstrate, display, put it out there to be witnessed — the multi-faceted wisdom of GOD. US! But to whom? At first I thought rulers and authorities – world governments. Not that they don’t need to witness and not that I don’t want to tell them 😉but that’s not what it says: heavenly places. That’s the spiritual realm. That’s the demonic and of course Angels would witness too. They are ALL watching! So when we display the multi-faceted wisdom of GOD, the Angels rejoice and if not — well, the others do. This is not meant to brow beat us or defeat us it’s meant to encourage us, give us goals, a finish line for us to strive for and when we do, both realms will notice, right? This is huge!