Friday, July 25, 2014

WAR DANCE!



"Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing
 praises unto him with the timbrel and harp."
(Psalm 149:3)







We are in the battle of our lives! Huh?  It's the last hour, the last days, the final triumph, the day of exploits and power, the moments of victory before the Rapture of the Church, the gathering of the Harvest, the Spirit upon all flesh, the PUSH to BIRTH, the watch for the Thief, the end time prophetic release, the end of the Age, the time to MOVE into action to bring the Spirit; it's the time for the saints of the living God to show the devil who reigns, to show the world we mean business; it's TIME for the "WAR Dance!"



"A time to weep, and a time to laugh; 
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
(Ecclesiastes 3:4)



"What does dancing have to do with War?" you ask.  It's the MOVE before the MOVE!  Huh?  God has a reason, a purpose, and an end result for everything.  Before miracles, there was always an action needed on the part of the miracle recipient, ie the man with the withered hand was told, "stretch forth your hand;" the lame man was told "rise and walk;" the lepers were told "go and show yourselves to the priest;" the miracle of the loaves and fishes required a human action of providing "a lunch;" the leprosy was healed when he "dipped seven times."  It comes down to God's principle of "If you will, I will."  So, what about the dance?  MOVE in the flesh, and He will cause us to MOVE in the Spirit; a dance in the flesh precedes a dance in the Spirit!  Ah, you oughta' be shouting right about now!  God is about to do it!  What?  Bring the BIRTH, AWAKEN the "dust," open the windows of heaven, and know this  ...  the WAR is won by unsuspecting means  ...  Do you win a WAR with a dance?  You betcha!

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do,
 do all to the glory of God."
(I Corinthians 10:31)


Remember those dance hall days?  Remember how wild we were when we were not living for the Lord?  Remember the lack of inhibitions we exhibited when we danced for fleshly pleasure and seduction?  Well, it's time now to turn the things we gave all to in the days of living unrighteous, and present them in a holy way as an offering to the Lord of Lords and King of Kings and do it with all of our might.  David danced before the Lord with all of his might, much to his own wife's chagrin; she made fun of, and mocked, David.  God made her barren because of it.  We must be careful not to look down on another's way of worship  ...  God accepts the offering of the heart, and especially when it is flamboyantly presented to Him in worship!

"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of 
your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring."
(Acts 17:28)

Ah, there it is!  "In him we live, and MOVE ..."  MOVE it for Jesus; dance because you "have" and dance because you "have not;"  give Him the worship due His name; rejoice in the Lord always; do the two-step that causes His onset; praise Him with the whole body, soul, mind, and spirit; and honor Him with fanatical worship!  He IS the lover of our souls, the keeper of our sanity, the depth of our walk, the reason for our talk, the solace of our sadness, the beauty for our ashes  ...  HE IS!

Are you in pain?  Is your life full of heartache and rain?  There's an answer and a solution  ...  This is War; show the devil you're not defeated and Dance til you get it; then, dance because you got it!



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Pastor Kenneth Phillips
(He's MOVING the Nations for Jesus Christ!)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas
Services Sundays 10:30 am and Wednesdays 7:15 pm
~~~~~Live Streaming~~~~~

Thank you for joining us in worship of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Please send us your prayer requests, and if you would like to 
sow seed into holy ground that prays and SEES miracles, 
you may give online @ promiselandchurch.net.  God bless you, 
and I know that He surely will!

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YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS A SINGLE SERVICE!
WE'RE MOVIN' IN HIS SPIRIT!



PromiseLand Church!
We pray before the Lord, fast before the Lord, 
worship before the Lord, dance before the 
Lord, and we have His heart  ...
"It's All About Souls"

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

"Faith Under Fire"



"You and all your troops and the many nations with
you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like
 a cloud covering the land."
(Ezekiel 38:9)




Do you want to see the Lion of Judah roar?  It's about to happen.  What?  The great battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39, the prophetic attack coming in Israel's near future.  We have lived to see that ominous occasion, and We, Christians, will know what it means to have "Faith Under Fire."

"Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day
when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?   And thou shalt come from thy
place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses,
 a great company, and a mighty army:  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel,
 as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land,
that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 
 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants
the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them?  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against
the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.  For in my
jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a
great shaking in the land of Israel."
(Ezekiel 38:14-19)


All of these things are unfolding right before our very eyes.  Have you not heard the threats made to destroy Israel?  Have you not seen the headlines?  All is being prepared.  For what?  For The End of the Age, the end of another dispensation, called Grace, which will lead us into the period of judgment, the Seven years during the Great Tribulation; then, the millenium, the thousand years of peace when the devil will be bound  ...  But, wait  ...  after the thousand years, satan will be loosed again!  Why?  We'll get to that  ...



Get the picture?  What does all this mean for you and me?  You say, "Hey, I'm just trying to make a living here; why should I be concerned; there have always been wars?"  You are correct; however, there has not always been "The End of the Age."  There has not always been the fulfillment of prophecy in our headlines; there has not always been the very words of our Bible in the very words of our newspapers and magazines.  It means we must prepare; we must be ready for "the moment in the twinkling of an eye."  Huh?  "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."  This is the "catching away" of the Almighty God's Church, the bride, as stated in the Book of I Corinthians 15:52-53. 




If we are this close to the Gog and Magog war of Ezekiel 38 and 39, how close are we to the Rapture of the Church?  Are you ready?  Have you repented, been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and received the Holy Ghost and spoke with tongues as the Spirit gives utterance?  That's what it takes to be ready!  Ready for what?  The Rapture of the Church; then will come the Tribulation, seven years of judgment such as the world has never seen, but WE, who were ready, will be with our Savior, spared from the Tribulation period.
 
Then, the Lord will return, and the devil will be bound in the Lake of fire, and WE will enjoy 1000 years of peace  ...  There will be no devils, no wars, no pain, no tears, no evil, no pornography, no abuse of people or animals, no terror  ... just PEACE, wonderful Peace, and the lion will lie down with the lamb; and the Lord will reign in Glory and splendor.  It will take only One angel with one chain to take care of our accuser!  All the horrid hissing, tempting, railing, deception, attacking, will be over for "us," but the cast out one, the doomed one, will burn for 1,000 years!  Hallelujah!  Almighty God, our omnipotent Lord Jesus Christ, wins ALL THE TIME!    

After 1000 years, the devil will be loosed again for a time.  Why?  Why would God do that, when people have lived in holiness, beauty, purity, and peace for so long?  The people born during the millenium will have never been tempted as we were; they will have never had to make a choice to serve Almighty God or not; all they knew was God.  It is, and forever will be, about the heart of man, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ  ... or not  ...  God must know; He has to know if Eden, and back to Eden, for a 1000 years, was enough.  Enough of what?  Enough years of the Love of God to convince man to choose Good over evil  ...  it will be the end again  ...  the end of What?  "the end of the Age," and He will know once and for all how mankind handles "Faith Under Fire."


(Visit promiseLandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

Pastor Kenneth Phillips
Teaching the nations about "Fath Under Fire"

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas
Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm
~~~~~~~Live Streaming~~~~~~~

Thank you for joining us in worship of our Lord Jesus Christ!  Please
send us your prayer requests, and if you would like to sow seed into
holy ground abounding in miracles, you may give online @
promiselandchurch.net.  God bless you, dear one, and I know He will!

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PromiseLand Church!
We're exercising our "Faith Under Fire"

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Saturday, July 12, 2014

"A Bride From His Side"


"But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced 
his side, and forthwith came there 
out blood and water."
(John 19:34) 

Almighty God has a reason for everything that is done under heaven.  When the spear was thrust into the side of Jesus Christ at Calvary, blood and water flowed out simultaneously.  The medical explanation is that hypovolemic shock causes fluid to gather in a sack around the heart and lungs.  The fluid gathered in the membrane around the heart is known as pericardial effusion and the fluid gathered around the lungs is called pleural effusion.  The piercing of the lungs and heart by the spear then caused blood and water to flow from the side of Jesus.    

The blood and water coming from the pierced side of Jesus Christ was also symbolic of two things:  As God took a rib from Adam's side to form a woman, so God gave us blood and water from His side to institute His Church.  Adam was in a deep sleep when the rib was taken from his side to create Eve, so the blood and water came forth from Jesus' side after His death. 


Clarke's Commentary states the Roman soldier threw the spear into Jesus' body to determine if he was, indeed, dead.  "They moreover tell us that this man was converted - that it was he who said, Truly this was the Son of God - that he traveled into Cappadocia, and there preached the Gospel of Christ, and received the crown of martyrdom." 


The Bride of Jesus Christ, His Church, goes forth with the Gospel: the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ manifested by repentance (symbolic of Jesus' death), baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (symbolic of Jesus' burial, ie immersed in water), and the infilling of the Holy Ghost (symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus by the Spirit giving us newness of life).  It all adds up to the beautiful equation: "A Bride From His Side." 

"Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and
behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it
into my side: and be not faithless, but believing."
(John 20:27)


Thomas wouldn't believe Jesus was alive without touching His spear-scarred side, much the same as people today have trouble believing the Holy Bible, the gospel, and that Jesus Christ is coming again.  How is the matter settled?  Receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and You will feel Him in Your hands, in Your feet, in Your heart, in Your spirit, and when You speak in tongues as the Spirit gives You utterance.  It Is Real!  Then, when You are baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, You are ushered into His Church, His Bride  ...  You will become new, washed in His blood, with rivers of flowing water buoying You above the "You" that once was, but now Your sins are forgiven and You are alive in His presence and glory  ...  You're His bride!  



The Bible states every time a new soul comes to Jesus and receives His Spirit, the Angels desire to look into it.  It is a phenomenon the world is looking into!  The Holy Ghost is being poured out in every denomination, every Nation, every kindred and tongue.  Why?  People are hungry for more!  They want to know that there is more to God than stained glass and Church steeples; they want to feel Him, hear Him, know Him, and the Holy Ghost and fire does that.  

When Thomas touched the Lord and felt His scar, He said, "My Lord and My God!" (John 20:28)  You will say the same thing when You feel His Spirit living in You!  His whispers will console You; His Spirit will sustain You; His love will embrace You; His presence will awe You, and His protection will convince You that you are His bride  ... He Lives!

"This is the one who came by water and
blood--Jesus Christ.  He did not come by
water only, but by water and blood.  And it
is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit
is the truth."
(I John 5:6)

The Lord Jesus Christ, the soon coming King, is the Savior, the Redeemer of the world.  I John 5:8 says, "And there are three that bear witness in the earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."  Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin; the Lord Jesus Christ took our place on the cross and His blood was shed for all mankind.  We receive Him as our Savior and His blood washes us clean; our sins are cast as far as the east is from the west; we are innocent as a newborn babe when we burst from the waters of baptism in the name of Jesus Christ; and we converse in God's own language when we are filled with His Spirit and speak in tongues. 

We're the apple of His eye, the light of the world, His beloved; 
we are: "A Bride From His Side."


(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

Pastor Kenneth Phillips
(He's bringing the Nations into the "Bride," the Church!)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas
Services Sundays 10:30 am and Wednesdays 7:15 pm
~~~~~~~~~Live Streaming~~~~~~~~~

Please send us your prayer needs, and if you would
like to sow seed in holy fertile ground, give online 
@ promiselandchurch.net.  Thank you, and may 
God richly bless you; I know He surely will!

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     We magnify and glorify the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Please join us on Sunday for a special
"Love & Family" service!

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