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A Very Small Remnant

Posted by appolus on May 24, 2026

“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.” — Isaiah 1:9

Isaiah does not speak as one observing a slight disorder, but as a prophet standing before a people whose whole condition has been laid bare by God. The whole head is sick, the whole heart faints, and from the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness, only wounds, bruises, and putrefying sores. This is not merely ancient Israel; it is the world as it now stands before God. There is no nation that can rise up and distinguish itself as righteous. The disease is universal, the wound is deep, and the whole order of things lies under the shadow of judgment. Yet judgment has not fallen in its fullness. Why? Because the LORD of hosts has left unto Himself a very small remnant. Not a movement, not a great institution, not a religious machine with silver and gold in its coffers, but a remnant. They are small in the eyes of men, but precious in the sight of God. They are the hidden salt, the lamp that has not gone out, the last living witness in the midst of a corrupt and collapsing age. Were it not for them, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Christendom, as a system, has become a forsaken house. Its glory has departed, though its buildings still stand and its treasuries may still be full. It has learned to worship the works of its own hands, to function without the presence of God, and to clothe spiritual poverty in religious success. To such a people Isaiah still cries, “Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the glory of His majesty.” The proud shall not endure that day. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and all that has been built in the strength of flesh shall tremble before His appearing. But the very small remnant shall not flee from the glory of His majesty; they shall flee into it. What is terror to the proud is refuge to the broken. What is judgment to the self-sufficient is life to those who have no confidence in the flesh. His glory is their high tower. His majesty is their life blood. His presence is not an ornament to their religion; it is their breath, their bread, their very existence. And in a world without soundness, that remnant is the mercy of God still standing in the earth.

He has stretched out the heavens like a curtain, and the stars light up at His command. His ministers are a flaming fire. The clouds are His chariots, and He walks upon the wings of the wind. He looks upon the earth, and it trembles beneath His gaze. He hides His face, and the whole world is troubled. His glory shall endure forever, though the kingdoms of men rise and fall like dust before the storm.

And yet His hand, for this brief and trembling moment, is still stretched out to an undeserving people. Mercy still calls. The door still stands open. The voice of God still cries out to the proud, the religious, the self-satisfied, and the blind. Shall the haughty humble themselves? Shall they cast down the idols of their own hands? Shall they forsake the dead traditions of centuries, those polished pathways of men that have led them farther and farther from the fountain of all life?

For there is no life outside of Him. None. All else is shadow, dust, and death dressed in religious garments. When He arises to shake the earth, and surely He will arise, what then shall become of the proud? What then shall become of those who loved their systems more than His presence, their traditions more than His truth, their own works more than His living glory?

Will He be a terror to you in that day? Will you flee from the glory of His majesty when the mountains tremble and the works of men collapse before Him? Fall down now and live. Bow low now and find mercy. Kiss the Son while His hand is still extended. Or else enter into the rock, hide yourself in the dust, and see whether the caves of the earth can shelter you from the terror of the Lord when He comes in the fullness of His glory.

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Face To Face With The Cross-The Story of Calvary

Posted by appolus on May 21, 2026

This album of ten songs seeks to lift up the many faces of the cross and the wonder of Calvary.

From the suffering, to the sacrifice, to the mercy that flowed from His wounds, each song is offered as a reflection on the love that bled, the grace that reached, and the victory that was won.

I pray it blesses you.

Bro Frank

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Testing and Faithfulness

Posted by appolus on May 21, 2026

There is an unfathomable mercy in the way God deals with men. We enter our lives in Christ with our plans, our expectations, our presumptions about ourselves, our strengths, our usefulness, even our spirituality. Yet sooner or later the hand of God permits the furnace, the trials and the tribulations and all the confidence of the flesh, often masquerading as spirit, begins to collapse beneath the weight of an often crushing reality.

Scripture declares, “The Lord tested Abraham” not to destroy him, but to reveal what could only be wrought through trial. The great saints were not men preserved from breaking; but, through brokenness, they were led into a deep fellowship. Much is spoken about victory, but very little about the wildernesses through which God forms a man.

Moses is not merely led into the wilderness, he is led to “the back of the desert.” There, stripped of ambition, hidden from the eyes of men, he encounters God in the fire. Typically, its in the fire, that the Lord can truly reach us. And there the Lord speaks the only promise that ultimately matters: “Certainly I will be with thee…….and this to you will be a sign.” (Exodus 3:12 NKJV).

The tragedy of modern Christianity is that many seek the promises of God without desiring the awful (full of awe) presence of God. Yet the true servant of God reaches the place where even the promised land itself means nothing apart from Him.

Moses stood before the Lord after Israel had fallen into corruption and idolatry after only 40 days, and when God declared that He would send an angel before them, Moses answered with holy boldness: “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here” (Exodus 33:15 NKJV).

That is the language of a man who has gone beyond religion, beyond ministry, beyond ambition, and has discovered that God Himself is the inheritance. Moses himself would not enter into the promise. In the end, for Moses, it was not about the promise, rather, it was about the presence. Can we say that? Or to one degree or another is our relationship with God still transactional?

Moses and David stand before us as two broken men stripped of every confidence except the mercy of God. Moses stands amidst the ashes of Israel’s idolatry, with judgment hanging over the camp, and does not presume upon previous promises, but ratger cries out and appeals to the mercy of God “If I have found grace in Thy sight, show me now Thy way.” He does not demand the presence of God because Israel had been chosen, nor because he is their appointed leader. He pleads as a man conscious that unless God Himself goes with them, then none of the journey has any true meaning.

David also understandsthis. Before the throne, before the crown, before the full appearing of the promise, there was the long years in the wilderness. The rejection. The persecution….the testing….and then…. Ziklag, that dreadful place where everything had turned to ashes.

Scripture says, “David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep” (1 Samuel 30:4 NKJV). He cried until there were no tears left to cry. And even his own men, those broken rebels and rejects, who had followed him, spoke of stoning him. Yet there, in that crushing hour, “David strengthened himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6 NKJV).

Later, in the hour of Absalom’s rebellion, David flees Jerusalem barefoot and weeping beneath the shadow of his own failure and the rebellion of his son. Yet when the priests bring the ark to follow him into exile, he refuses to cling even to that sacred symbol. “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, He will bring me back” (2 Samuel 15:25 NKJV). There is something profoundly beautiful in that surrender. There is in both men the same holy trembling before God, the same refusal to presume upon divine mercy.

Neither man attempts to compel heaven by office, anointing, history, or sacred things. Moses cries for the presence of God; David leaves the ark behind. Both understand that the outward symbol is empty if the Lord Himself withdraws. This is the profound difference between true faith and religious presumption. Presumption demands that God stand with man because of position, ministry, inheritance, doctrine, or past experience.

But the man who has truly seen God no longer bargains with Him. He casts himself wholly upon mercy. Moses pleads, “Show me Thy way.” David says, “Let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.” Here is the deep work of the cross in the soul, a man emptied of self-defense, stripped of spiritual pride, no longer seeking to use God, but surrendering himself utterly to Him.

And this is where grace is truly discovered. Not in the triumph of self-confidence, but in the collapse of it. Not in demanding that God vindicate us, but in yielding ourselves to His sovereign will. David does not defend himself before God, Moses does not presume upon Israel’s standing.

Both stand upon mercy alone. Such men discover that grace is not merely God giving blessings , it is God giving Himself. For when every outward support is shaken, when religious certainty, symbols, strength, and reputation are stripped away, the soul discovers that its only hope has always been the presence of God Himself.

And this is the mystery few understand until they walk through suffering themselves: there are revelations of grace that cannot be discovered in ease. The Apostle Paul speaks of “the power of Christ” resting upon him in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV). Not merely visiting him, not giving him fleeting moments of blessing, but resting upon him.

The Greek word carries the idea of Christ’s power tabernacling over a man , spreading itself over him like the holy covering of God. It is the presence of God coming down and abiding, like the cloud over the tabernacle, like the fire in the wilderness. There is a communion found only in the fire, where the clouds descend low upon the soul and the presence of God becomes more real than earthly comfort, reputation, or success.

I know something of this myself. In the midst of stage four cancer, with my body ravaged by disease and chemotherapy, the power of God came down and rested upon me. I was not merely touched by a passing sense of His nearness; I walked in the cloud of His presence by day. I walked in the fire of His glory in the night watches. I discovered grace not as a doctrine, but as a living, sustaining, overshadowing reality. It was a masterclass in grace, and I would not trade that holy nearness for anything this world could offer.

The three Hebrews discovered this in Babylon, for it was only in the furnace that they found “One like the Son of God” walking in the midst of the flames (Daniel 3:25 NKJV). And so the saint learns at last that the ultimate gift of God is not escape from the trial, but Himself in the midst of it. “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee… when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned” (Isaiah 43:2 KJV). That is the inheritance of the tested man: not the absence of suffering, but the abiding presence of God in the midst of it.

Scriptures: Exodus 3:12; Exodus 33:12–17; Exodus 34:8–9; 1 Samuel 30:4–6; 2 Samuel 15:24–26; Psalm 51:16–17; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Daniel 3:25; Isaiah 43:2.

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Face To Face-The Story of Calvary-pre-save the album-release date May 21st

Posted by appolus on May 18, 2026

Click on link below for notification from Spotify. There are ten songs on this album, glorifying God and the Lord Jesus. I believe they will richly bless you. I wrote these songs over a period of more than 20 years. You will be able to purchase these songs on the various streaming services, but Spotify is free therefore they can be listened to for free and many can be found, for free, on my youtube channel……..bro Frank

PRE SAVE ALBUM- FACE TO FACE- MAY 21ST

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Modern Grace?

Posted by appolus on May 17, 2026

One of the subtle dangers of much modern talk about grace is that it can become a refuge for the flesh rather than a pathway to the Cross. Men speak of grace while quietly building for themselves a license to avoid the painful confrontation of sin before a holy God. They presume upon forgiveness without ever passing through brokenness. Yet Scripture never presents grace as God’s permission to remain unchanged, but as His divine provision for the man who has come to the end of himself. “My grace is sufficient for you” reveals the sufficiency of Christ in the life of one who has been emptied of self-reliance.

David understood the nature of grace in Psalm 51. He did not discover grace while defending himself, justifying himself, or minimizing his sin. He discovered it after exposure, after collapse, after the unbearable weight of conviction had brought him low before God. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart.” It is there, in that secret place of inward dealings, that grace becomes more than doctrine. There the soul encounters the mercy of God not as a theological idea, but as a living reality that cleanses, restores, and renews. Grace is sweetest to the man who knows the bitterness of his own corruption.

The tragedy today is that many wish to speak continually of unconditional love while fleeing the very dealings that would bring them into intimacy with God. For true intimacy is never born through presumption, but through surrender. The Holy Spirit does not expose sin to destroy us, but to bring us to the place where Christ alone becomes our righteousness, our cleansing, and our sufficiency. Grace never comforts the sinner in his bondage. It is the love of God, revealed in mercy and grace, that breaks the sinner when he realizes that despite his state, and despite the horror of being exposed before a holy God, this same holy God has extended His hand to lead him out of bondage and into life.

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SPIRITUAL INDIGESTION

Posted by appolus on May 16, 2026

There are foods I used to eat in my youth growing up in Scotland that seemed to carry very little consequence. Rich foods. Greasy foods. Things deep fried in oil and soaked with heart clogging grease. They tasted very good going down, and for many many years I was “strong,” enough to bear the effects.

As I got older I compensated. I kept medicines nearby. Tums, Pepto Bismal and so on. I would take something before the meal and then something afterward to manage the indigestion which was getting worse. I learned to manage the consequences while still indulging the appetite.

But time has a way of exposing reality.

Eventually my body no longer tolerated what once seemed harmless. The medications lost their power to shield my system from the effects. I had my Gall Bladder taken out. What once brought pleasure began to bring immediate distress. I came at last to a simple conclusion: “I cannot eat this food anymore.” Not because the food ceased to taste good, but because the cost became too great and was often immediate.

So it is with the flesh.

There are indulgences of the old nature that I may have tolerated in earlier years of spiritual life. Words spoken in pride. Reactions born of self. Ambition clothed in spirituality. Vanity. Bitterness. The subtle and oftentimes less than subtle exaltation of self. For many seasons these things may have appeared manageable. The conscience was disturbed, yet not deeply enough to produce true abandonment. I continued indulging the flesh to one degree or another while attempting to quiet the inward consequences through religious activity, self delusion, explanations, emotion, or outward devotion.

But the Holy Spirit is faithful.

As Christ gained ground within me, the inward man become increasingly sensitive. What once scarcely registered now grieved my soul almost immediately. A wrong spirit leaves an inward bitterness. A spiritual indegestion. A careless word clouds fellowship with God. A movement of pride becomes unbearable to the heart that longs for Christ alone.

This is one of the marks of true spiritual growth.

The worldly man sins freely because he feels little. The immature believer can still indulge the flesh while imagining recovery will come easily. But the man who walks with God discovers something terrible and wonderful at once: the flesh and the spirit can never dwell together in peace. Quenching the Holy Spirit has real consequences in our lives.

The deeper life…. is not learning how to better manage the flesh. It is coming to the Cross concerning it.

There comes a point where I no longer ask, “How far may I go and still recover?” but rather, “How may Christ be fully formed within me?” And to be honest, I never once thought “how far may I go,” but in practice it amounted to the same thing.

For the Spirit of God does not merely oppose the outward acts of the flesh; He wars against its very principle. Self-life in all its forms must eventually come under the sentence of the Cross.

And thus I have learned, often painfully, that some things simply cannot continue. Not because they are no longer pleasurable to the natural man, but because they now wound the inward fellowship with Christ too deeply to be tolerated. The pleasure one gets out of indulging the flesh, has ever diminishing rates of return for the man or woman who is determined to walk in the depths with the Lord.

“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other.”
— Galatians 5:17

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Love Is The Wound That Bleeds

Posted by appolus on May 11, 2026

” Love is The Wound that Bleeds,” is a song from my upcoming album called “Face to Face With The Cross-The Story of Calvary.”

“The Wound that Bleeds” is a meditation on the love of Christ revealed through suffering, sacrifice, death, and resurrection.

From the crown of thorns… to the cry of abandonment… to the empty tomb… this song follows the path of redeeming love all the way to victory over death itself.

“Love is the blow taken in my stead…” He took it all for you and for me.

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For I am Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Posted by appolus on May 7, 2026

For I Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ.

When Peter the Apostle stood before the crowd after being filled with the Holy Spirit, how did he preach? Did he not declare that they had crucified the Christ? And were they not cut to the heart when they heard it?

And what of Stephen? When he addressed the religious leaders, did he soften his words, or did he call them stiff-necked, resisting the Holy Spirit? We know how it ended for him and for Paul the Apostle as well.

Paul himself said he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because it is the power of God unto salvation. So the real question is this: what is the Gospel? The whole Gospel, not just the parts that carry no offense.

The cross is an offense to those who are perishing. The Gospel confronts those who remain in their sins. When truth is spoken, it pierces the heart. If it does not, then perhaps what is being preached has been stripped of the weight and guilt of Calvary.

It may be that part of the weakness we see in the church today, particularly in places like Britain, comes from generations raised to avoid offense at all costs. A faith that fears offending anyone, even when truth is at stake, becomes hollow.

At the very center of the Gospel are the words of Jesus:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

There is no way to present that truth without it offending a world set against it.

Now, if a man speaks simply to offend, his heart is wrong. But if there is a fire within him, lit by God Himself, then he must speak. And if that truth unsettles, if it troubles the comfortable, then so be it.

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Feeding our Faith

Posted by appolus on May 2, 2026

George D. Watson writes:

“But God designs to concentrate our faith in Him alone by removing all other foundations, and one step after another, detaching us from all other supports. There are many souls which cannot endure this utter desolation of secondary supports, which would be more than they could bear, and they would react into open rebellion; so God allows them to have a junior faith, and to lean on other things more or less.

He allows all sorts of disappointments, the death of bright hopes, the removing of earthly friendships or body and mind, the multiplied infirmities, the destruction of property, the misunderstanding of dear ones, until the landscape of religious life seems swept with a blizzard, to compel the soul to house itself in God alone.

And thus our faith is strengthened by disappointment, until it reaches such perfect union with God that it never looks to anybody, or anything, or any mode, or any old channel, or any circumstances, or any frame of mind, or any meeting, or any set of feelings, or at any time or season; but keeps itself swung free from all these things, and dependent on God alone.

This degree of faith can never be disappointed, can never be jostled, because it expects nothing except what God wills, and looks to no mode except infinite wisdom. Its expectation is from God only.” (George Watson)

For those who long to walk in the holiness of God, to behold and to live within the beauty of His holiness, brother Watson is unveiling nothing less than a divine stripping. Not a stripping of sin alone, but of every secondary support that subtly competes with total reliance upon God. These things are not evil in themselves, yet they divide the heart and weaken that absolute dependence for which we were created.

So God, in His mercy, removes them.

One by one He loosens our grip on all that is not Himself. Whether for a season or for a lifetime depends upon His sovereign calling upon each life. But make no mistake, the narrow path is a lonely path. It is a path where lesser comforts fade, where familiar supports fall away, and where the soul is brought into holy isolation with God alone.

Yet this is not loss, this is the refiners fire. And more often than not, at some point we are restored to those places from whence wr came, blessing the Body of Christ with what we learned in the wilderness, the place where we were taught to fully rely upon God and Him alone.

The apostle Paul declared that he had learned the secret of contentment in all things. Not because his circumstances were easy, but because his attachments had been severed. He counted the loss of all things to be nothing in the end, rather the overwhelming desire of his heart was to be found in Him. He was no longer anchored to this world, rather, he was intimately connected to His singular source of strength. Everything that could be shaken had been shaken, and what remained was Christ alone.

This is the life, to be unmoved, yet not untouched.

We feel the sorrow. We feel the weight of loss, the sting of disappointment, the deep ache of separation. But none of it has the power to move us from the Rock upon which we stand. Christ is our foundation, unshakable, immovable, eternal.

And this is revealed in us by a quiet, immovable peace and a singular, unwavering focus.

So then shall we not press onwards and upwards toward this place?

Shall we not hunger to stand as Paul stood, unmoved by circumstance, unshaken by storm, undistracted by the fleeting shadows of this world?

For when our eyes are fixed upon the unseen, upon that which is eternal, we begin to walk beneath the undeniable weight of His glory. We step into the reality of His Kingdom. Walking in Kingdom power.

The alternative is to walk in mediocrity.

Caught up in the visible, entangled in the temporary, anchored to that which is passing away. In this place, faith recedes, typically replaced by fear. Anxiousness rises. We see only what the world sees. We begin to sound like the world. We complain, we grumble. Oftentimes we present our fear as compassion. Our complaints are passed of as virtues. They are not, and its very best, its humanism and humanism has no place in the realm of God.

Come up a little higher brothers and sisters. The flesh is anchored to the ground, the spirit has wings are we are called to high and lofty places where the Lord dwells with the lowly and contrite and the broken.

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I SUFFER LOSS….

Posted by appolus on May 1, 2026

I suffer loss gladly because….

There was a time when I counted things as gain. I measured my life by what I could hold, what I could build, what I could claim as mine. But I have seen something greater. Those things I once held so tightly, I now count as loss for Christ.

Not reluctantly. Not with hesitation. But with a burning passion that drives me forward. The fire is His, He lit it inside of me, but I have been called to fuel the fire. To diligently seek Him is fuel. To forgive is fuel. To love and to show mercy is fuel. All of these things, exercised, inflames the passionate fire of our heart.

Yes, I count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.

There is nothing that compares to knowing Him. Not knowing about Him but knowing Him. This is not head knowledge. This is not mere doctrine. This is an intimate knowing. A living union. A relationship that deepens as everything else falls away.

I suffer loss……. that I may gain Christ.

And what a gain that is.

To be found in Him not standing in my own righteousness, not clinging to anything I have produced but clothed in a righteousness that is not my own, given by God through faith in Christ.

I lose what is mine, and I receive what is His and there is no comparison.

There is nothing I could ever lose that could measure up to what I have gained. I have gained Christ. And in gaining Him, I have gained everything.

I suffer loss that I may know Him……

To know Him not from a distance, not as an observer but to walk with Him, to be known by Him, to live in Him. And in that knowing, there is life. Real life. Abundant life.

I suffer loss…… that I may know the power of His resurrection.

Because it is in the dying of my flesh that His life rises within me. The more I let go, the more He lives. The more I die, the more He is revealed. When I am weak then He is strong in me.

This is not some theory. This is life out of death. This is the light that God has commanded to shine forth from darkness. When I surrender, surrender to God and tge life He has called me to, then light and life bursts forth. It may be on a mountaintop, but its more likely to be in the depths of the valley.

I suffer loss……. that I may enter into the fellowship of His sufferings.

This is “the way,” He walked.

He left the glory of heaven. He took on the form of a servant. He walked this earth as a man of sorrows. He was rejected. He was despised. He suffered loss at every step not because He had to but because He chose to fulfill the will of the Father. This was our Lords ministry.

And this is our calling, to walk that same narrow way.

Not chasing comfort. Not seeking ease. But entering into that same fellowship that same life that same surrender.

Because it leads us back to God.

I suffer loss …….that I may be conformed to Him.

That His image would be formed in me. That my life would reflect His. That the old man would be crucified, and Christ would be seen.And in this, I learn something.

It no longer matters what state I am in.

We have been called to learn to be content. Its the burning force of Christ in our hearts that steadies the ship. Its His passion in us that is our anchor in the storm. This immovable foundation, the anchor of our soul

In Him I know how to be brought low. I know how to abound. I know what it is to be full, and I know what it is to be hungry. I know what it is to have, and I know what it is to lack.

And in Him, none of it moves me.

Because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

This is what I have been given strength for not to avoid loss, but to endure it. Not to cling to life, but to lay it down.

To suffer loss until loss itself has no hold on me. Until whether I have or have not, whether I am full or empty, clothed or stripped bare it makes no difference.

Because when I have come into the place where Christ walked, then this is how I walk.

And in that place, that place of loss, thst place of suffering I have found great gain. Whether dancing on the tops of mountains or in the depths of the sea, the only thing that matters is that He is with me. This is why we are called to count it “pure joy,” when we face trials of many kinds. For in the midst of those trials He is never closer to us, and proximity to the Lord leads us in the path of holibess

And in finding Him in the midst of life, I have found everything.

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