"Keep Our Eyes On The Prize"

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." 

(Hebrews 12:1)

 

It's not so hard to run the race when we can see where it is we are going.  Feast your eyes, Children of God, on the photograph above taken by NASA's Hubble Telescope on December 26.  In 1994, a researcher was smuggled one top-secret photo which was taken and presumed to be "heaven."   In an interview about the photo, Dr. Masson states, "From what I understand, the first images it received were nothing more than kaleidoscopic bursts of color and light.  As adjustments were made and the focus sharpened, NASA analysts couldn't believe their eyes.  After checking and rechecking the data, they concluded that the images were authentic."  The Race has a Prize; the Prize has a throne; the throne has a King; and the City has a Gate  ...  Keep running, Saints; we must "Keep Our Eyes On The Prize."

We, who are running the race, are not surprised.  John, on the Isle of Patmos saw the New Jerusalem and heaven in a vision and recorded it in the Book of Revelation.  We had a description from John and we've basked in our own imaginations of what "that City," to which we are going, looks like.  But now, our Lord Jesus Christ has sent a photo to urge us on.  Run, children, run; the image is complete, and the Prize is in view!

"Where were you when I laid the

foundation of the world?"

(Job 38:4)

How small is "man" in the scope of things.  God, space, the mighty, huge universe, and the vastness of "forever," are things humans must remember when we think "we" can run our own lives, when we think we have no where to turn, when our woes and troubles overwhelm us, when we think our lives do not matter.  Your Creator wants to say to you who are reading this, who think you don't want to live, or who have a debilitating disease and you've given up hope:

  YOU SHALL LIVE AND NOT DIE!

The Lord Jesus Christ, our Holy God, has created a place for us so lovely; we can only dream of its Glory.  He did that for you and me.  Your life has purpose.  He asked that question, "Where were you..." of Job, because He was trying to show Him that he was not in control of his own life or problems, that there is ONE higher, greater, mightier than he, who rules the world, who creates and makes alive, who heals and delivers, who performs miracles, and restores  ...  He IS God! 

Give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, tell Him you're sorry for every sin you ever committed, and the sin of "wanting to die;" ask Him to fill you with His Spirit, and go and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ  ...  then, watch Him lift you from your ashes to a place of beauty and Joy.  He Will!

I Pray for you now:  Lord Jesus, please touch every

person who is reading this message.  I rebuke and curse

 cancer and every disease to its roots; I speak to tumors

and command them to dry up and disappear by the Name of

Jesus, the Blood of Jesus, and the Word of Jesus.  I

speak to finances, people without jobs, wayward children of

families, and struggles with teenagers: line up with the 

Word of God; you will have jobs - go apply again, teens

will turn around, and finances will be blessed - go give

something, however little it may be, to someone else in

need, and watch!  What you sow, you will reap.  I speak

to those who do not want to live -  Taking your life will

take you to a place you do not want to be; I speak Hope

into you now!  Call out to Jesus Christ, and Live!

"Solar System" by NASA Hubble Telescope

"The Eye of God" by Hubble Telescope

 The heavens declare the Glory of God!  All we have to do is look into the eternal space, stare in awe at millions of stars on a dark twinkling night, be drawn to the moon's glowing awe on a lonely eve of query, gaze with wonder at the painted hues of an orange and purple splashed sunset, and smile at the thrill of the cascading rainbow after a raging thundering storm, to realize that this is not all there is.  There's a Holy hand that paints, draws, and splashes the heavens  ...  maybe it's to draw our eyes "up," to beckon His creation to their Creator to cause us to yearn for His arms reaching down, or maybe it's His heart of love grasping through the heavens for those He died for and longs for them to be with Him for all eternity.

The Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty God, loves You and me with an everlasting love; we cannot fathom the depth of His love for His creation.  He's impatient for His Bride, the Church, to begin her honeymoon, and we must hasten His impatience; the Bride sets the wedding date  ...  Run faster, Saints; we must gather the sheaves quickly and "Keep Our Eyes On The Prize."   

             Every now and then, our Bridegroom sends us a love note

in the sky above:

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 Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He keeps our eyes on the Prize)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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"Whisper's Voice"



"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life  for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 

(Mark 8:34-37)

What does the Creator of the universe think about?  When He whispers, what is His motive?  If He could only say one thing for all eternity, what would it be?  It would be the scriptures in Mark noted above.  "How do you know?" you ask.  The consensus of the Holy Bible tells us so.  The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us; Jesus Christ has One goal  ...  to reach every soul with the redemption message.  He suffered for it, died for it, rose again for it, He's coming back for it, He'll wake us up for it, He'll shake the earth for it, Your auditory channel should be tuned for it, it's the sound of the hour  ...  "Whisper's Voice."

"But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,

neither have entered into the heart of man, the things

which God hath prepared for them that love him."

(I Corinthians 2:9)

The ponderings of the One who sits upon the circle of the earth, and longs for the days of the Garden of Eden, before the fall of man, are the sounds echoed in the breezes of springtime, 2013, to a world doing its own thing, not hearing the call of the whisper in the wind.  The soulful  melancholy drippings of a lonesome God are borne in the showers from heaven upon a clambering bustling earth in the midst of the season  ...  What season?  The season of Birth, the time of life, the moment to bring forth, the blooming of the fig tree, the time of deliverance  ...

"Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy

in the presence of the angels of God over

one sinner that repenteth."

(Luke 15:10)

It's been thousands of years since the virgin birth, the death, the resurrection, but to our Lord Jesus Christ, a day is as a thousand years; so, to Him, it was just like yesterday, and it was all for "one sinner that repenteth.".  He was just a baby, but He was God, and He remembers the smells of the stable, the Holy light emitting from Him; then, the day He preached to gaping-mouthed Doctors in the Temple, and on to the aroma of fresh wood shavings in the carpenter shop; the days turned to years, and there was the marriage at Cana and the water turned to wine.

Jesus Christ is overtaken with moods of nostalgia as He recalls the multitudes so hungry for the Word that they stayed and stayed, so He fed them with miracle food; He is moved with a thrust of compassion as He replays in His mind all the miracles, raising Lazarus, and stepping through seagoing waves to get to His disciples.  He shutters with the feel of blood flowing from the thorns in His brow, the pain of the nails being driven, hammered deep into His hands and feet, and the spear like a steel girder being slammed into His side; then, "It Is Finished."

He glows with Glory as He relives His resurrection; He would do it all again, He thinks, as He considers the salvation of the world  ...  And now, as He dispatches angels as this one and that one repents, in Africa, Asia, Europe  ... it's like wildfire as He pours from Himself, and His Spirit erupts in tongues of fire in Nation after Nation  ...  He stands upon the circle of the earth and says, "Come Unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
  

"Verily, Verily, I say unto you, He that '

believeth on me hath everlasting life."

(John 6:47)

It started with a baby, a Holy miraculous birth  ...  it was the wonder of a "thought" perpetuated for all of creation and reciprocated with simple words of depth of soul, "Be it unto me according to thy word."  It was a visit from beyond that stayed for all eternity, reliving and reviving in the hearts of men from moment to moment, day to day, resulting in Spirit outpourings of tongues of fire, rained down from that baby who grew up to be quite a Man.
  

The rustlings in the treetops beckon the curious seeking hungry ones to listen for a sound, an answer, a solution, a result, a sweet nothing, from the lover of our souls.  What is God thinking? Does He know I'm alive?  Can He feel my pain?  Will He answer my cry?  Does He see my tears?  It's the query of all those sitting at His feet, waiting for His response, seeking His face, and longing for Him.  Leave not your position, dear one; the answer comes in the duration and patience of your wait  ... it comes in a treasured moment in time, it's the sound of Your Lord, Your Savior, Your Redeemer and God; it's "Whisper's Voice."

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He's taking THE "Voice" to the Nations)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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"Marked By Blood"

"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and

 take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.  And ye shall

take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel

 and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go

out at the door of his house until the morning.  For the LORD will pass through

 to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two

 side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer

 to come in unto your houses to smite you."

(Exodus 12:21-23)

 It was a night like no other, blood was on the doorposts, a Passover lamb, and a staff in hand; the exodus was coming after the death angel passed; Israel would be freed to the desert sands.  It is rather like today; the Blood of Jesus pardons our sins; and the Bride stands ready at a moment's notice, to be freed from earth's gravity and meet her groom in the air, floating like a lily pond lotus.

The Passover lamb was to be eaten in haste, per the Lord's

instructions and protective orders

The Israelites' hard bondage was about to be over, and

they would finally leave the Egyptian borders

Girded and shod, Israel for the first time, ate the lamb in

full readiness for the journey ahead

The night would be a long one, with the wailing and cries,

as the death angel struck the firstborn dead.

Israel was spared because of the blood; it would not be the last time that blood would be holy, for The Lord Jesus Christ would come, as a Lamb slain, and bleed for the sinful and lowly.  Lord, one more time, we pray, cover us with Your blood,  pass over, and give us pardon; we anticipate the day, when we will rise to inhabit again, the glory and beauty of Your Garden.

So, we scan the night skies, even as did the ready Israel, 

looking for the sign that freedom was nigh

And we, then, will be caught away from earth's bondage, to

meet You in the clouds, and together we'll fly

Lord, You delivered beloved Israel as they moved in

obedience, with a lamb and a prayer

Now, thousands of years later, we believe in the blood of the

 Lamb, to ready us for Rapture in the air.

It's the blood that covers the Sins, and every drop that You shed, Lord, was for redemption of mankind.  We obey Your Word; we're filled with Your Spirit, and baptized in Your name, to be properly aligned.  Time is short now, we must set our sails with the winds of destiny, and move like a determined scud; for You are coming for Your own, those that are sanctified, who are wearing Your name and who are "Marked By Blood." 

BUT, SUNDAY'S COMING!

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He's bringing the blood of Jesus to every Nation,

kindred and tongue)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:15 pm

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"ALIVE 13"

Easter Sunday, 3/31/13, 10:30 am

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