Greetings in the name of Jesus! I want to warmly thank you for visiting my Web site. Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Margo Franz. For the last few years I have been led to frame and decorate scriptures from the Bible. I would like to share with you my testimony.
In August of 1998 I went on a trip to Texas to visit my family. While I was at my sister’s home, she had a friend (Vicki) from her church come over and pray with me. While she was praying, she asked me:
“. . . Margo do you do artistic crafts and things? (I laughed when she asked me that, because I knew that only God would have revealed that to her because I have been doing crafts for about 15 years.) Well, this is what I am seeing. . .I don’t understand. . . what I am seeing is like the framework, of something without the substance. It’s like something that’s not all the way in the physical yet. It doesn’t really have the substance to it but I’m seeing it, so it’s got a structure and a framework. (She told me a little more, then added. . .) “I thank you Father, that you are going to give Margo some creative endeavors. I thank you, Father, they’re going to come from the heavenlies, Lord, and they’re going to, OH, YES, (anointing flowing in while she continued to pray) . . . Okay, there’s something that’s going to come about though that’s going to prosper you. He’s been seeding you. The things He’s been giving you, you’ve been giving back, and you’ve been giving to the body, you’ve been giving to the Church. “And I thank you Father, for her love of what you’ve given her and her abilities, Father, that she would not hold them for herself or for her own delight or keep them selfishly, but she has been seeding them back to you and giving them back to you. So I thank you, Father, that you bless her in that. It’s already there. It’s nothing that needs to be prayed through. I thank you, Father, for creative endeavors, Lord God, and I thank you Father that it’s something you are going to do and somebody is going to see it and go take it from there for you. I thank you, Lord, that it’s easy. Because you say “Well, I can do this, but I wouldn’t begin to know how to market it or what to do with it,” but somebody else is going to come in and do that. So I thank you, Father, I thank you, Lord. (she began to pray again) and it’s a blessed thing. It’s a thing from heaven. It’s a thing from heaven. It’s something that is going to be blessed and people who are looking at it will know it’s from heaven. I thank you Lord.”
Well, for the past 8 months prior to this I did not have any desire to do crafts. I remembered what Vicki prayed over me, and I had just put it at the back of my mind wondering what that craft would be. During that time our church had been in a state of revival and I have been pressing into and hungering for more of God in my life. My job stopped the end of April of 1999. During that time I had to learn to completely rely on the Lord and His provision, of which he showed me time and time again.
Then I received an invitation in the mail from our church. They were giving the Pastor’s father a “70th birthday” plus “55 years in the ministry” party. I said, “Lord, what in the world can I give this man?
I don’t have any money to buy a nice gift.” I was surprised to hear such a quick response from the Lord. He said, “Take the invitation and cut it, using your decorative scissors, put it on mat board, decorate it and frame it.” I went, “Ohhh, but isn’t that kinda dumb?” Then I realized Who I was talking to and immediately said, “I guess if it’s coming from You, it isn’t dumb, but won’t he think it’s dumb?!” Well, I did what the Lord told me to do and it turned out lovely.
A few days later I got up early in the morning because I couldn’t sleep. I got a cup of coffee and sat at the table crying my heart out to the Lord, asking Him what I was to do. I knew that He had shut the door to my job and I wondered what in the world He had in mind for my life. I said, “Lord, I can’t expect for my friends to pay my bills every month. I told Him I would work if he just would show me what He wanted me to do. Then I reminded Him of what Vicki had prayed over me the year before. I said, “Lord, last year you told me that you would give me a craft that would come from you and that people would know that it came from you and it would prosper me. I haven’t had a desire to do crafts in 8 months. All I want is You. Please tell me what that craft is.”
Then I went to lay down on the sofa. I began to reflect on the frame I had just completed for the Pastor’s father. At that moment the Lord spoke to me. He said, “Now take “My Word” and do the same thing!” My mouth must have opened in awe when that thought came to me and I realized that He had been leading me in that direction with the invitation I did in the frame. I was so surprised when He answered me so quickly when I asked Him what I was to give the Pastor’s father. It was as if he had been waiting for me to ask that question. It was as if he was putting me in a place when I would finally cry out to Him for help. I couldn’t wait to get started. I had a couple frames at home that I tried out with this new idea. I got on the computer and found a nice script and found scriptures that spoke to my heart. The first couple of frames were nice, but as I progressed, they became more beautiful with His creative Spirit guiding me. As He guided me over the months that followed, His direction began to untold. If you will look at the frames you will notice that each frame has a theme to it. The Lord has given me scriptures to go with each frame. I have been making these uniquely-framed scriptures for the past 3 years and the Lord has blessed the work of my hands.
It has only been recently that the Lord answered another part of the prophetic word spoken over me concerning that fact that I didn’t know how to market these frames and that the Lord was going to put someone in my life to do this. How thankful I am to the Lord for putting that “someone” in my path. That “someone” is Herb Fogler, a dear brother-in-Christ, whom I have known for over 20 years. It is by the skill and knowledge the Lord has given to him that you are now visiting this web site.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I pray that it will give understanding as to why I began to make these frames. I pray blessings upon you as you read His wonderful Word which He has designed to put into frames—His Word which goes forth and will not return to Him void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which He pleases and purposes, and it shall prosper in the thing (my frames) for which He sends it –Isaiah 55:11
