"Trifecta"



What a Sunday this will be!  It is Honor to those who fight for our freedoms and those who have died to preserve our freedoms; it is the celebration of the Day of Pentecost when Almighty God poured out His Spirit and tongues of fire set upon each of them and they spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance; and it is the Day to celebrate the Graduates who are moving from one phase of life to a higher phase of "becoming."  It is likened unto our Lord Jesus Christ: His death, life, and resurrection; His death on the cross that we Honor for paying the cost for our sins and washing them away with His precious blood shed for all mankind; the newness of life He gave by pouring upon all flesh His Spirit, the Holy Ghost and fire; and finally His Resurrection when He rose on the third day, symbolic of the graduates finishing one part of life to rise to the greatest part of their life yet to come.  It is a mighty and powerful "Trifecta."

   

Life, death, and resurrection point back to the cross and the empty tomb of our Lord Jesus Christ; we pray always for our mighty men and women soldiers in uniform continually and we honor those who gave their lives carrying the torch of freedom for our great country in war.  Lives are given, and life is poured out in the Spirit coming down, while graduation hats are cast to the heavens as an offering of thankfulness to begin a new journey of resurrection.  So are the stages and occurrences of life.  Life doesn't really ever end; it begins again in another place for the soldier, in a new Spirit realm for the Holy Ghost filled, and in a new journey of destiny for the graduate.  But, through it all, our hands must hold tightly to the One who creates life and death, the One in whom our breath lies, the One to whom we look in the face, in life and death  ... 

"When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 

 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and

 filled the whole house where they were sitting.  They saw what seemed to

be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.  All of them

were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues 

as the Spirit enabled them."

(Acts 2:1-4)

Those who have gone on before us would want us to live life to its fullest, and to do that, we must be filled with the Holy Ghost.  We are living in the "Day" of Pentecost, because over 580 million people worldwide have received the Holy Ghost and spoken in tongues, and that number is growing minute by minute.  The power of Pentecost IS a fire spreading from Nation to Nation, East to West, and North to South.  "Why?" you ask.  Because Life and death are in the power of the tongue. (Proverbs 18:21)  The Bible says the tongue is the most wicked member of the body (James 3:6); therfore, it must be tamed; it must be given over to the One who controls all things, the Lord Jesus Christ.

How do you know when you have received the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ?  You will speak in other tongues as His Spirit gives you utterance.  "Does everyone do that ?" you ask.  Ten out of ten do!  When we repent of our sins, and we ask Him to fill us with His Spirit, He will, and He does, every day, every minute of every day, all over the world.

You don't want to miss it!  The PromiseLand deeply

honors death, celebrates and rejoices in life, and

resurrects spirits every service. 

We honor you: Memorial Day, Pentecost and Graduation!

(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wed. 7:15 pm

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