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On Pearls

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  1. Kat Huff

    August 5, 2013 at 1:21 PM

    Frank, I deeply appreciate this post. The wisdom through lived experience can be read in your words. Thank you for always being willing to share your Gain with others.

  2. Cindy Stewart

    April 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM

    I love this book… From Eternity to Here. I am in the middle of Jesus to John and stopped to read the Bethany teaching. Thank you so much. The fig perspective open my eyes to an expanded thought process…

  3. Elielson Santos

    April 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM

    Hello Frank,

    By meditating on the suffering, remember that Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God who takes away the sin of the world was on the cross. Jesus of Nazareth was both capable of suffering and brought hope to our suffering. Look to the suffering of Jesus of Nazareth, is to look at our reality. We must break with our society and again being able to suffer. That is living in freedom! No handcuffs, no arrests! Being able to help others and put before us that suffering is part of our life while we’re on this earth. Know that it is not self-evident and natural when we are healthy and when the family is united and at peace. Jesus of Nazareth invites us to accept with gratitude both joy and sorrow, success and failure.

  4. Joel

    April 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM

    Thanks Frank! That really resonated with me and convicted me about my need to let the Lord deal with bitterness that I was suppressing. I can’t wait for Him to touch this hidden place in my heart now. Our Lord is so amazing!

  5. Marni

    April 21, 2010 at 11:40 PM

    Frank, thank you for posting about this today. It serves as a reminder of somethings I have recently gone through and have the opportunity to become very bitter over. It also serves as a reminder of the scripture we find in Matt 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” (ESV) These pearls that are created in us by our allowing of our relationship with Christ to create them, utilizing our pains, anger, hurts, sorrows, etc., need to be protected. We truly need to be careful whom we cast our pearls in front of, because these pearls are truly God’s – not ours. So thank you for the gentle reminder of Hid truth today about this. 🙂 I do appreciate it.

  6. Darin the Worship Leader Trainer

    April 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM

    As a worship leader, I feel I have had a ton of irritations in my time! Great to know that it is all worth it in the end! This will form part of my teaching on worship leading (see the website) because I think we all need to hear this!

  7. Chase

    April 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM

    This makes me think about times where I have not walked in Christ with my brothers and sisters thus becoming the “foreign substance” toward them.

  8. Michael Young

    April 21, 2010 at 12:11 PM

    So true, Frank. How many times I’ve had pearl being formed within me, and instead of embracing it as a working of God, I’ve tried to run from it. Realizing, only afterward, that it was the Lord Himself working within me to answer my most desperate prayer, “Lord, purify me!”

  9. TribeDad

    April 21, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    You mean I can’t just pray in toungues and tithe my way out of it! Darn! That’s years of waisted saliva and funds!

    Just kidding. Great word Frank.

    I love Watchman Nee’s “Release of the Spirit” on our Father’s workings to help us “die [to our life] to live [from His life]”.

  10. Joanna

    April 21, 2010 at 6:53 AM

    Thanks for that Frank, very timely. I mentioned before on your post “Life is Short, Making Things Right, and Eulogies”, there is an issue I need to move forward on and trying to see the right way to deal with it is hard. Seeing that it can end up a pearl in the end is helpful to keep pushing through on getting a God solution to the issue. I am not in despair over the issue, I just know that for the health of the body of Christ some sort of resolution is necessary and that is my main concern – I could just walk away from it but I don’t think that will solve anything in the Spiritual realm in the end.

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Frank is a bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, and blogger. He helps serious followers of Jesus know their Lord more deeply so they can experience real transformation and make a lasting impact. His blog – frankviola.org – is regularly ranked in the top 5 of all Christian blogs on the Web and his podcast – Christ is All – has ranked #1 in Canada and #2 in the USA on Apple Podcasts. He and his conversation partners also host The Insurgence Podcast. Frank’s books have sold over 600,000 copies and they’ve been translated into many languages.

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