Month: August 2025

Testing the Gold

On By francesrogersIn GOD'S GLORY, GOD'S GRACE, GOD'S WORD, HUMILITY, TRUTH, Uncategorized5 Comments


 “And He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, 
unless you are converted and become as little children, 
you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matt. 18:3

Through trials, temptations, tribulations, traumas, travails, turmoil, threats, tensions, tumults, thundering, toxins, trepidation, trouble, teasing, transgressions, trespasses, talk, technology, tangles, thistles, thorns, tripping, trappings, trajectories, tragedies, trivia, tangents, turbulence, transitions, twisting, trembling, treks, tasks, tears, tides, trenches, torture, and tunnels, our Father is teaching, training, testing, and turning us into transparent, thoughtful, tender, and triumphant troopers of truth — for His name’s sake, His kingdom, — and for our joy in Him.

“Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.”
Ps. 8:2

He does not need us, but He has chosen us, created us according to His everlasting covenant made with His Son “before the world was” — to make us His children, to love us, and bless us in this world which we will inherit when He has gathered all His children in Christ and finished His work here.

We can praise Him through whatever we must endure because we have an inheritance of eternal life which Jesus secured for us. By the things He suffered for us, making us joint heirs with Him, He will work in us all that is needful for us to accept the circumstances He is bringing us through. 

It is through our weakness that He, by His power, accomplishes His plans in us — and all to His glory alone. We have little need of His grace until we find ourselves helpless.
In this state, humility becomes our hope for Him to fulfill His covenant in and through us.
The new birth — born of the Spirit — born of God — is necessary for us to praise Him as the “little children” we become in our conversion.

“I will bring the one-third through the fire,
Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Zach. 13:9

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Do not fear;
Zion, let not your hands be weak.
The Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zeph. 3:16-17

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EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANT LIFE

On By francesrogersIn Uncategorized4 Comments

Our new book Exceedingly Abundant Life: The Transforming Power of Our Father’s Love from the well-loved passage in Ephesians 3;14-21 is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH37SGLL

I ask that you praise the Lord with me for bringing me through these past five years of mourning and enabling me to write and publish again. 

During the last three years this book project has been evidence of our Father’s presence with me and the reality of His Spirit’s working again to share what He is revealing through His Word and written on my heart.

What I experience and write is witness to the Life He desires for all His children. Many have no understanding of this fellowship for which we were created and for which we have been redeemed by the sacrifice of His Son. Such are His blessings, that any proceeds — all for His kingdom — are used for seminary scholarships, missions, charity or wherever He directs..

For the next few weeks, the ebook is .99 cents while I secure reviews on my product page. I would be blessed if any of my readers would help get this new book out for those who need it.. After publishing fifteen books, this is the first one I have asked friends to review.  I am bold in my old age as I trust what our Father has given me to be worth promoting for His glory and joy.

Something to consider is that it’s acceptable for you to just read a chapter or two. There is no need to read the entire book in order to leave a review. You can finish it at your leisure, since the main thing at this point is for reviews.

Feel free to skim over and move through it however you’d like. 

Whatever your decision, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and/or seeing a review.

If our Lord so leads you, here is the process.

Step 1: Log into your Amazon account on any internet browser (chrome, safari, edge, etc)

Step 2: Click the URL https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH37SGLL and then download for .99 cents, 

Step 3: Leisurely scroll through at least 2/3rds of the ebook (slowly and gracefully asking insight from the Holy Spirit)

Step 4: Read/Skim through at least two full chapters. They are not long.

Step 5: Wait three to four days before posting the review.

Step 6: Write and post your review on Amazon.

Please note, if ordering the paperback, wait until it physically arrives at your house! In fact, if you do this, and you take a picture of the paperback, then Amazon is almost 100% guaranteed to approve your review.

Also, it is impossible to download the ebook through the Amazon App. Not to worry! You can purchase and read the ebook when logged into your Amazon account via your browser (Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, etc).

I ask our Father’s blessing for your participation in this special event, if you so choose — for which I would be very grateful,

From His glory, through the riches of His grace in Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit in the work of our hands,, “to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen..”  Eph. 3:21

Much love and many blessings for you,

Fran

The Power of our Father’s Word

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Yesterday morning when I woke up I realized the date — August 1.

My next thought — “I’ve been here in this body for 86 years! I then began to drift back through those years and decades, delighting in visions of our heavenly Father’s presence through childhood, through difficult paths.

By His grace and through my knowledge of His eternal presence, He enabled me to remember the precious times lost in the mire of the adversity and my rebellion. I praise Him that He is still training me to adjust my thoughts by the power of HIs Word and His Spirit.

The Word of God is active and powerful for destroying the strongholds of our thinking, sharper than any two-edged sword — the sword of the Spirit — piercing to the division of soul and spirit — penetrating and permeating every crevice and perpetuating the power of the truth through every fiber of our being, bringing every thought captive in obedience to Christ. It is spoken as His witness through us of His mighty power working to unite us in Christ to Himself and to each other. (Heb. 4:12; 2 Cor. 10:4-5; Eph. 3:20)

He is doing a great and mighty work in His church even though we may not be able to see it. He is revealing His work in and through us individually and corporately.

What a blessing it has been to come through these latter years being held by His righteous right hand, guided by His counsel until the time He receives me into His glory. Ps. 73:22-26

I didn’t want to spend a lot of time writing about me, but just to bring any of you who have wondered how far He has brought me in the last 5 years of mourning.

I have gained much in my loss. After waiting for His timing, we are publishing our new book. I have been immersed these last few years in His Word. My mind has become a vault for what seems to be trillions of words and my heart a reservoir, waiting to pour out what He has been pouring in.

My next post will include a link to Amazon for any who want to read a sample of Exceedingly Abundant Life: The Transforming Power of Our Father’s Love. This is a witness of these years — learning to rest in His love as He has brought me through the loss.
If the apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and his prayer in 3:14-21 are familiar you may want to share this with your family and friends. It is packed with the truths and promises of His Word for those who hunger for the Life for which He created us.
Fran