SONSHINE: THE SEASON OF OUR JOY

Today is the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles as commemorated by the Jewish faith. What a blessing, that we who know the Subject of all Mosaic Law, can celebrate Christ Jesus in the Spirit of this current Feast. In between instalments of the "Day of Atonement" messages, I felt led to share this beautiful letter Joian and I received this morning from the Eliyah, Kai and the Schulz family. Although it is addressed to us, knowing Eliyah's heart, I believe she would be honored should I share it with all of you. I know had she your mailing address she would send this very blessed message to each of you. So with the belief that the Holy Spirit is leading I share the "Joy of Tabernacles" as expressed by our dear sister.

Good morning my dear brother(s) and sister(s)!

Well, we are finally taking off.....we have been so busy packing, cleaning, and shopping for groceries and at last we are done. We are packed to the gills as they say....from Zadok's G.I. joe army men to Elisha's 'my little ponies' and all the blankets & pillows and the back is full of groceries and a cooler and the luggage rack has got ONE BIG SUITCASE on top....lol.....but we are all so excited to go and fellowship with other believers and celebrate the Lord's Feast together.

The Feast of Tabernacles is called by many names.....Sukkot, Feast of Boothes, The Feast of Ingathering.....but the one I love the best is THE SEASON OF OUR JOY.

I love that the Lord says that He will choose the place where He wants His people to celebrate His feast. The first year He wanted us to celebrate it just with Him alone (how precious and romantic that our first Tabernacles was just with our precious little family and the King of Glory...). Not knowing anything about Tabernacles but just having a heart to obey and please our Lord we set up a tent in the backyard and had a fire pit and every morning we would go outside and fellowship with HIM....and every morning there was DEW on the ground....I was told that this is a beautiful sign that is present during Tabernacles signifying His presence.....and I was delighted to see that it was there for us too.....and His presence was so FELT during this precious time.....and at night the moon was full and we would talk about the Lord, sing, read, make smores, eat, laugh, and we even attempted to sleep out in the tent but MOMMY ended up gettin scared of what might be in the woods....lol....so around midnight we all headed back inside.....lol.....but the Lord even used that to gently show me that I still had fear that He wanted to overcome within me.

Last year was our 2nd Tabernacles and He showed us that He wanted us to go to a beautiful place in Arkansas.....the place where we went was named 'the FACE of God'....I did not know it until I looked up the meaning of the name of the town we were in.....and that is what it meant...whewww.....He surely does know how to pick the place!
We were still just our family and Him....but it was as if we had the whole park/lake to ourselves.....in fact we almost did....and the atmosphere was charged with His beauty, glory, and intimacy. One day we went out on a boat and we had the whole lake to ourselves and Lana 'accidentally' turned on the radio....and it just so happened to be on a Christian station....and the song that was playing was...."I just love you Jesus'....we had rented a party barge that had a upstairs.....so me and the children just danced on top of the boat with hands lifted high in a circle just praising our FATHER and wonderful LORD....right there in the middle of the Lake....and I could sense His pleasure and all the angels around us.....dancing with us..... the sky was shining and His glory was so powerful.....and this is the memory that I have the most about that trip.....for He did this for us....provided the most beautiful trip to meet with Him.

Tabernacles is an appointment.....a HOLY appointment.....and this year He has chosen a place that we are going to be with other believers.....and I rejoice!

.......... The Lord instructs us that during Tabernacles that we are not to EVEN THINK ON ANYTHING NEGATIVE....for it is a season of Joy....and we are told to celebrate and think on HIM.

I pray that your time this week will be soooooo full of HIM and HIS JOY.....no matter where you are....even if it is just right there in your living room.....and I am praying that He will surprise us all with the most wonderful visitation that we can ONLY IMAGINE!

I look forward to sharing with you when we get back....until then, please know that we love you ...... and are keeping you ........ ever before the throne.

All our love,
The Schulz Family

(Parenthesis ....... are

mine that Eliyah's message

be enlarged to equal the

size of her heart)

Joian Ruth Schroff

God is good. And Joian, more than any of us, knows this. Our sister, and my best friend, rests in the Father's bosom, today. Dear Joian's sojourn, on earth, ended early last winter, after a period of illness.

Together, Joian and myself began "SONSHINE" in "07". Last June, we took our rest from the blog.

Great battles, were waged this last year, by both Joian and myself. One was taken and one was left. Neither, the taking, nor the leaving, lacks in His perfect providence, afforded each. I can't explain, nor fully understand, how each can be perfect. Never the less, I do know, Joian understands it perfectly.

Today, Joian, more than any, knows God is good.

Jack

PS. Thoughts of your joyful rest relieve my tears, tonight. I miss you, my friend. I'll see you soon.

Great Quotes

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God, Himself. Madeleine L' Engle
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"If anything about my salvation or right standing with God depends on my faithfulness, I'm toast, damned to hell." Gavazzoni
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Any infinite Being who feels it is their duty to torture me for eternity, should switch to decaf. Joe
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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lennie Bruce
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"He took responsibility for all the evils that have befallen man that day He gave His life. This has never been adequately appreciated by religion. It needs to be appreciated." (Roy)
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"Isn't that what man always wants- a divine force he can control? That's actually the definition of witchcraft." (Florian)
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"Christianity is not about polyester and pot roast. It's about Christ and what He's doing in you and me at the moment." (Holly)
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"It's his life for ours. We die, he lives, and then the mystery is that we live again." (Joian)
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"God's Spirit, is a pure motive" (Cardinal)
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." (H. MacGregor)
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Pretty soon, everybody will get what they deserve, which is Salvation, Reconciliation, Restitution, Restoration, Immortality and Incorruption - now ain't that the coolest thing! (Keith)
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The bible is not an owners manual and trying to apply it to our lives reeks of salvation by works. (Cam)
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I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy rapture
I die every night (Novalis)
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Where shall we find an abandonment that is as comprehensive as the will of God. (Fenelon)
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He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.(description of Bro. Lawrence)
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The humility of the cross became more desirable to him than all the glory the world had to offer. (description of Bro. Lawrence)
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself upon power; it is misery seeking peace; it is unholiness embracing purity; it is hatred desiring love. Prayer is corruption panting for immortality; it is the eagle soaring heavenward; it is the dove returning home; it is the prisoner pleading for release; it is the mariner steering for the haven amid the dangerous storm; it is the soul, oppressed by the world, escaping to the empyrean, and bathing its ruffled plumes in the ethereal and the divine.(unknown)