"Thy Word Will Not Return Void"

 

 

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."

(Isaiah 55:11)

"...His word is in my heart like a fire,

a fire shut up in my bones.  I am weary of

holding it in; indeed, I cannot."

(Jeremiah 20:9)

 



Thy Word, O Lord, is like fire shut up in my bones!  One can read the Bible hundreds of times, and each time, something new comes forth in the mind and spirit of the reader.  It is The greatest book ever written; there is no situation that can occur in life that does not have an answer in the Word of God, the Holy Bible.  It was written as men were moved on by the Holy Ghost and fire ...  there's that fire again  ...    

Your word is lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  Psalm 119:105

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.  Psalm 119:18

 

I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.  Psalm 119:16

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  John 1:1

"And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently

unto my commandments which I command you this day,

to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all

your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you

the rain of your land in this due season, the first rain

and the latter rain, and thou mayest gather in thy corn,

and thy wine, and thine oil."

(Deuteronomy 11:13-14)

Thank You, Lord!  Your Word gives hope, peace, love, comfort and prophecy!  We know what will happen to Israel from Your Word; we know the headlines before the hot presses print it; we know the end of all things; we have the blessed assurance of "escape" for the Christians; and we know what will happen to the accuser of the brethren.  We "leap" with the Joy Your Word brings  ...  Ah, Your Word, Oh Lord, is our most valuable treasure!

 

 

The Bible shows us the way to repentance: heartfelt, sincere, and sorrowful, a complete repentance to receive the Glory of the Lord, and be filled with His Spirit and speak in tongues as His spirit gives us the utterance.  Then, we are baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (Acts 2, Acts 8, Acts 10, Acts 19); it's all in Your Word, Lord Jesus, and we obey.

"For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and

floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon

thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring."

(Isaiah 44:3)

 

When the Lord Jesus Christ is your Savior, you will never thirst again!  "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (John 7:37-39) "This spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive," says verse 39.  Being filled with the Holy Ghost is refreshing, full of Glory, Joy unspeakable, beautiful beyond reason and explanation  ... It is rivers of living water  ...

Our lives are enlightened by the Holy Word of God!  Without it, we would not know the unshakable faith of Noah, building an Ark for 120 years amidst scoffing, laughter and ridicule, but he kept right on hammering; we would not know about the steel-eyed prophetic Moses, pointing and proclaiming "Let my people go;" we would have no knowledge of the ecstasy of words in the psalms of David, or his precision slingshot fired stone to the invisible bullseye on the head of Goliath; our faith would not be encouraged and boosted by the destined romance of Ruth and Boaz.

Without Your Word, O Lord, we would not know what "You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this" means from the book of Esther; Solomon's wisdom would be an unknown unfathomed pearl; Job's suffering ash heap and God's question to him, "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the world?" would be a direly missed exposition of courage under fire; we would never know of Daniel's slumber party with a den of growling hungry lions; we would have no "Don't Give Up" writings of profound words from the jail cell pen of mighty Paul; and we would have missed John's vision of "our future" while he was on the Isle of Patmos  ...  Ah, the Word of Almighty God  ... we love it; we cling to it; we absorb it; we digest it; we eat it  ...  we give it  ...

Your Word, Dear Lord, will not return void!

 

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(Sending the Word to the Nations)

 

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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"Naturally Amazing!"

"For as we have many members in one body,

and all members have not the same office: So we,

being many, are one body in Christ, and every

one members one of another."

(Romans 12:4-5)

 

 

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The gifts of Romans Chapter 12 are the "natural gifts" that every person in earth was born with.  The gifts that are noted in Chapter 12 of the Book of I Corinthians are Spiritual gifts obtained when we are filled with the Holy Ghost and speak with other tongues as the Holy Spirit gives us utterance.  The "natural gifts" in Romans is WHO you are as a person, how God made you  ... When we understand that, we suddenly know WHY we became an Accountant, or why we are a teacher, or why we are a President, or why we became a nurse or a missionary.  This is so interesting, because you finally realize why you think the way you do, why you do the things you do, and the reason you are drawn to certain things in life, such as occupations, interests, hobbies, etc.

 

 



"Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."

(I Corinthians 12:27) 

Would the eye say to the ear, "I don't need you?"  Or, would the hands say to the feet, "I can do without you?"  We all operate together as the body of Christ in the Church of our Lord.  Some may have several gifts or all of the gifts, and others may have predoninantly one of the gifts.  But, we are all moving together as God created us to be One body in Him.  The little voice within that has told you all of your life that you are "no good," that you are worth "nothing," that you don't have a place in this world, is a LIE! You were made by God and you possess at least one of those natural gifts listed in Romans above.  As such, YOU are very important to the work of God in the earth today.  Your natural gift is distinctly YOU, and even though there may be other teachers, others with mercy, others with prophecy; YOU present it with your gift that is solely YOU, and no one else is just like it.  That makes YOU very precious, indeed!  The Lord poured His creative gift into you from the womb; you are fearfully and wonderfully made!

 





"Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully

to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body."

(Ephesians 4:25)

 

We must use our natural God-given gifts to reach out to one another in love.  My Pastor's mother used to say, "Everybody's just a little bit pitiful."  It's true.  We all need help sometimes; we all reach a place where we need a shoulder; the trials of life leave us grasping for help in prayer many times; and there's nothing like a brother or sister who is there for us when we need them.  Whatever country or Nation in the world you are reading this from is not too far that my prayers can't reach you, that my love and the love of PromiseLand Church can't reach you; your cares are our prayers!  We weep together and we rejoice together; we dance together and shout Hallelujah together; we pray together and fast together; we climb mountains together in faith and we hold each other in the valleys  ...  We are a family, the body of Jesus Christ!

 



"And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;

and some, pastors and teachers; to prepare God's people for works of service,

 so that the body of Christ may be built up, till we all come in the unity of

the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,

unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

(ephesians 4:11-13)

 

 

"Built Up" are key words.  It's so that our joy may be full, that our faith may endure, that our walk may be secure, that our ministries may be bearing, that our knowledge of Christ is poured from vessel to vessel, and that the world may observe "our love one for another" and magnify our Lord Jesus Christ.  It's all about Him, living in us, reaching out to them, bringing them to Him, getting ready for Him, and taking them with us!  Where? To meet Him  ...  in the clouds on a day very soon when He will come for His Bride and remove us from earth, while He judges those who had not the love of Christ, nor love one for another.  Rejoice, therefore, in the Lord of your salvation and in the body of Christ, with whom you and I will live for all eternity!

YOU, my dear brother and sister, are "Naturally Amazing!"

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He's doing what He does to perfection: "Being a Brother")

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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"Standin' On Goliath!"

David said to Saul, "Thy servant slew both the lion and the

bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them,

seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God." 

  

David said moreover, "The LORD that delivered me out of

the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he

will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." And

Saul said unto David, "Go, and the LORD be with thee."

(I Samuel 17:36-37) 

David with Goliath's head

 

GO David!  Hey, no "uncircumcised Philistine" was going defeat one that comes in the Name of the Lord!  It only takes a slingshot if you have the Lord on your side; it doesn't matter if they're coming at you with an AK-47, a cannon, a spear, an armored tank, or an AR Drone Parrot; the Lord fights the battles of the sanctified just.  You say, "What do You know about it?"

 

It just so happens, many years ago, a man stood in front of me and he had a rifle pointed at me with the barrel against my forehead, and he was slowly pulling the trigger  ...  I was a Christian, but I was scared; I knew this man had no qualms about killing me.  I started to shake with fear, but I was calling on Jesus in my mind.  Suddenly, the Spirit of the Lord settled over me, and I felt an unbelievable calm  ...  I said, "Go ahead, because up there, I'll be with Jesus, and down here, He's with me; so either way, I win."  And, immediately after my words, God's love settled over me, and at the same time, the man started to shake uncontrollably  ...  FEAR settled all over him, and the look on his face was like he was seeing the worst horror movie possible; his fierce shaking caused him to drop the gun and he ran out!  I've always wondered what he saw; was an Angel poised with his sword drawn behind me?  Whatever it was; it scared him senseless!  I was in the Choir at my Church at that time, and I was dressed and ready to go, so I went to Church and sang  ...  I figured I had a whole lot to sing about!  No one ever knew what I had been through just a few minutes before.  It's called  ... "Standin' On Goliath!"

"What in the world does that mean, 'standin' on Goliath?" you ask.  It means you put Goliath under your feet!  What battles are You facing; what attacks from the enemy have you running and full of fear?  If You have the Lord; if You have been washed by His blood in repentance; if You have been immersed in the waters of baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; if You are filled with His Spirit and speak in tongues as His Spirit gives You utterance  ...  YOU don't need to run  ...  face it in the name of Jesus Christ, because You are surrounded!  ... He will be with You, and You will end up conquering Your giants, even if it's with a slingshot  ...  little is much in the hands of Jesus!

 

 



"Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and

with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts,

  the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.  This day will the LORD

deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee;

 and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls

of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that

there is a God in Israel.    And all this assembly shall know that the LORD

saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will

 give you into our hands."

(I Samuel 17:45-47)

 

"Giants" are everywhere in our lives  ... they are the things we have no control over: diseases, job layoffs, terrible marriage problems, teenager woes, financial problems, wars and rumors of wars, unrest all around and in our country, pain, sorrow, and the list goes on and on.  Some things, we get ourselves into, and some things are just life; some things are attacks of the devil, and then, there are some things that are tests of an Almighty God.  Nevertheless, if we belong to the Lord Jesus Christ; He takes our hand in His and we will rise again.  The Bible says He will not; REPEAT: He will not put more on us than we can bear.  "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (I Corinthians 10:13)

 

We are children of the King, servants of the most high God; we are priests and levites chosen of the Lord; we are soldiers for the gospel of Jesus Christ; we are warriors of the Faith; and we come in the Name of the Holy One of Israel, the mighty omnipotent and Holy Jesus Christ!  "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."  (Hebrews 10:23)  You say, "Well, that's all well and good for You, but You don't know what I'm going through."  Hey, I'll pray for you; send me your name in the comments on this blog, and we will fight together!  I know how to fight battles; I know what it means to lose homes, husbands, jobs and to be on my last dime.  Life is tough sometimes, but we serve an Awesome God!  He is a very present help in times of trouble.  He will rescue us, hold us, carry us, deliver us, and preserve us.  Why?  Because, He died to set us free; and He's coming back for us, that where He is, we may be also  ...  He loves You and me, and all of mankind, with an everlasting love.

 

Put every "Goliath" under Your feet, by the Name of Jesus, the Blood of Jesus, and the Word of Jesus. We will win! How do we know? We've read the back of the Book, the Holy Bible, and it says we win!  This is "War!"  It's a battle of the mind, the soul, the spirit, and yes, the body  ...  satan knows he has a short time, and his ploy is always to make us think that we have no help, that God will not be there for us.  LIE!  The Lord Jesus Christ will never leave us, nor forsake us  ...  AND, He has sent His angels to bring us the victory!

 

 

 

When the Lord Jesus Christ comes for us, like a thief in the night; may He find us faithful and true, enduring to the end, head held high clad in the full armor of God, walkin' and talkin' the gospel all over this world, unwavering in doctrine and truth, filled with His Spirit and dripping with anointing oil, holy and acceptable in His sight, climbing our mountains with steadiness, bearing the vallies and deserts with dignity, and finally, we've just gotta' be ... "Standin" On Goliath!"

 

 

Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.

 

Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(He stands on Goliath every day!)

 

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sundays 10:30 am and Wednesdays 7:15 pm

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