"Upper Rooms Rock!"

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they 

were all with one accord in one place.  And suddenly 

there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty 

wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of 

fire, and it sat upon each of them.  And they were all 

filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with 

other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

(Acts 2:1-4)

  

The Lord God, Jesus Christ, commanded them, all of His Apostles and Mary (His mother) among the 120, to wait in the Upper room until they were endued with power from on high. (Acts 1:4,13)  That's why, when we know what went on there, we can only say, "Upper Rooms Rock!"

Upper Room

When we think of Upper Rooms, we think cobwebs, antiques, dust, dingy, dark  ...  and ghosts.  Well, we're right about the "Ghost" part  ... the Holy Ghost and fire!  And, hey, what happens in an Upper Room DOES NOT STAY in an Upper Room!  When the Holy Ghost is poured out, it spreads like wildfire.  A "ghost" is a spirit of a departed one; the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He will pour out on all flesh (Joel 2:28).
 

All around the world, in every Nation, kindred and tongue, people are speaking in tongues, as the Lord pours out His Spirit.  It is happening NOW!  It is the Spirit of God within us, when we are filled with His Spirit, that will raise us to meet the Lord in the air at the Rapture of the Church. (Romans 8:11)  It's the simplest and most beautiful thing that could ever happen to a human being!  Repent sincerely of all sins, begin to worship the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will fill you with His Spirit!

Holy Ghost Infilling

Anywhere can be an Upper Room, and that means "anywhere" can rock with the power and Glory of God!  People have received the Holy Ghost in restaurants, on street corners, riding along in a truck, in homes, in parks, in stadiums  ...  anywhere there are hungry searching souls.  You can receive the Holy Ghost right now, while reading this blog.  All you have to do is repent of your sins, in a deeply honest and sincere manner, ask the Lord to fill you with His Spirit, praise Him and thank Him for His love for you, and tender mercies toward you.  Then, the next step is to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.  How do you know you have received His Spirit?  You will speak with tongues, or a language you have never learned.

  

You ask, "Why are 'tongues' important?"  The tongue, according to the Bible is the most wicked part of the body (James 3:6), and it contaminates the whole body, so when we are filled with the Spirit of Almighty God, and we speak in tongues, this is a taming or surrender of the most evil member of the body.  It is essential that you worship the Lord out loud, and while you are voicing your repentance and praise, words will come to your mind that you do not know  ...  just speak them out.  It will happen to you just like it did on the Day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts.

  

As you pray more, you will develop a prayer language, and you can eventually pray in tongues and sing in tongues.  The Apostle Paul said, "I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding ..."  He was stating he would pray in his own native tongue (his understanding) and he would pray in the Spirit (or in a tongue he did not understand).  When we are speaking in tongues, we are speaking directly to God; the enemy does not understand it, and cannot fight it. 

   

"For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but 

my mind is unfruitful."

(I Corinthians 14:15)

It is the most beneficial and refreshing thing one can do, to pray in tongues.  After one is first filled with the Holy Ghost (the evidence of the Spirit), one can develop and mature in his/her prayers and pray in the Spirit (or tongues) for hours.  "What is the advantage of that?" you ask.  Sometimes we don't know what to pray for; we are just mortal humans, and when we are praying in tongues, our spirit is praying.  Children can, and have, received the Holy Ghost and spoken with tongues.  The Spirit of Jesus Christ seeks to dwell in every human being in planet earth.  

Before long, the "world" will be an Upper Room!  Over 580 million people all over this globe have received the Holy Ghost and spoken with tongues  ...  and it's growing minute by minute.  You say, but I'm Baptist, Russian, Chinese, Muslim  ...  and the list can continue with countries, specific faiths or doctrines  ...  but, these things do not deter the Lord Jesus Christ.  He will fill anyone, everyone, with His Spirit, when they repent of their sins, and ask Him into their lives, and to fill them with the Holy Ghost.  It is a promise!

Do you want the fire, the power, the peace, the Joy, the guidance, the insight, the Gifts of the Spirit, and the attributes of the Spirit?  Life can give us a certain amount of happiness, but true JOY comes from the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Have you ever felt ecstatic soaring JOY, phenomenal peace like gentle breezes on a cool sunny day, faith that you could endure whatever comes against you, love that holds you and never leaves you, calm that passes all understanding, and an assurance of no fear of death?  These are just a minute glimpse of what the Holy Ghost brings to your life!

"You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by 

the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.  And if anyone does not

have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."

(Romans 8:9)

Those are pretty strong words, aren't they?  How do we know we have the Spirit of Christ?  We will speak with tongues as His Spirit gives the utterance.  You say, "I don't know if my family would approve of that, because I wasn't raised that way."  This is not an encouragement to go against those you love, but the Bible says we must all "work out our own soul's salvation with fear and trembling."  We, each, stand before God alone  ...  not with our family, not with our Pastor, not with our boyfriend or girlfriend, not even with our husband or wife or children  ...  we stand alone before God Almighty.  Prayer is from our own heart, our own lips, our own spirit, rising to the eternal Spirit of Jesus Christ, our Lord.  If you are reading this and you feel a tugging at your soul, a moving within you to pray and seek the face of God, do it!  He is waiting and ready to fill YOU!

Make wherever you are a place of God's power, His love, His Joy, His peace, and you'll discover, like half a billion others have, that "Upper Rooms Rock!"

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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"Your God Will Be My God!"

      

"But Ruth replied, Don't ask me to leave you and

turn back.  Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you

live, I will live.  Your people will be my people, and

your God will be my God."

(Ruth 1:16)

One can hardly think about Harvest time without thinking about the Book of Ruth in the Bible.  It happened over 3000 years ago; there was a famine in the land, and a man named Elimelech from Bethlehem in Judah went to stay in the country of Moab, along with his wife, Naomi, and two sons, Mahlon and Chilion.  Moab was on the opposite side of the Dead Sea and was a separate state, and the people there did not worship God.  

Names were very important in those days and had definite meanings; the name Elimelech means, "My God is King," The name Naomi means, very aptly, "pleasant."  The happenings in Naomi's life did not match her name.  It came to pass that Naomi's husband, Elimelech, died, and Naomi's two sons married girls from Moab, Orpah and Ruth.  The family stayed in Moab for about 10 years and then, Naomi's two sons died also.  News came from Judah that God had helped his people, so Naomi set out to go home to Judah.  Her daughters-in law were going with her, now that they had no husbands, and it was just the three of them, Naomi, Ruth and Orpah.  But, Naomi, realizing that her daughters-in-law should stay with their own families, told Ruth and Orpah to go back to their mothers in Moab, that she had no more sons for them and they would be better off there.  Orpah kissed her, wept and went back to Moab.  But, Ruth would not leave Naomi, and she said to her those forever famous words:





"Do not ask me to leave you or not to follow you.

Where you go, I will go.  And where you stay, I will

stay.  Your people will be my people and your God 

will be my God.  Where you die, I will die.  And, 

there they will bury me."

Naomi knew that Ruth was very serious, so they journeyed together on to the city of  Bethlehem.  Ruth chose to belong to Naomi's people and to worship Naomi's God.  The story rises to a Kingly crescendo: Ruth goes and gleans in the field of Boaz and eventually marries him; they have a son named Obed; Obed was the father of Jesse, who was the father of King David, who was in the lineage of Mary, the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ!  Oh, Ruth, when you chose to worship Naomi's God, you really said, "Be it unto me, according to thy will," the words of Mary ...

Naomi was a harvester, a soul winner, a woman, like David, one after God's own heart!  The "Jesus Christ" people see is the Jesus Christ they see in us.  Naomi had such character and consecration that her daughter-in-law longed to worship the God she worshipped.  Oh, that we could all be that kind of soul winner  ...  the "kind" that people grab us and say, "I want to worship Your God."  But, You say, "Everybody pretty much worships the same God."  Really?  Look at this:

"The number of major gods recognized around

the world and recorded in world history is

in the hundreds.  The number of religions, current

and past, centered on these gods, is in the thousands.

The number of lives lost in attempts to advance

or defend religious beliefs is in the millions.  The

number of humans negatively affected by this

cultural anomaly is in the billions."

(bibleufo.com/worldgods)

There is a world of Ruth's ready to be loved, ready to hear about the One true God, Jesus Christ our Lord, ready to hear the gospel: the virgin birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, ready to hear that He is alive and coming back, ready to hear that His arms are open wide to forgive the sins of the world for whom He shed His blood, ready to hear that they can be filled with His Spirit, ready to hear that they can be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, ready to hear  ...



You say, "I worship God in all I have been taught; does it really matter what God I worship?"  It infinitely matters!  The truth matters!  The "way" to eternity in heaven matters! 

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and

the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."

(John 14:6)

There is only ONE God and His name is Jesus Christ.  There is only ONE God who died and shed His blood for all mankind; His name is Jesus Christ.  There is only ONE God who rose the third day after death; His name is Jesus Christ.  There is only ONE God who will rapture, or catch away, His Church in the air; His name is Jesus Christ.  There is only ONE God who is coming back to earth to set His feet upon the Mount of Olives in the near future; His name is JESUS CHRIST!  It was a plan beyond all plans and the fulfillment is about to be complete.  We're waiting for the trumpet to sound; we working gathering the Harvest; we're reaching out to every Nation, kindred and tongue with the love of Jesus Christ, because He is not willing that ANY should be lost or perish! 

Before long, the whole world will say to the Christian the words of Ruth, because the harvest is "on;" the fire on the altar has begun; the fields are white; the door is open; the Regions are in place; the New Church Order is formed; the Father of the Nations has assumed position; and now will come the cry from every Nation, kindred, and tongue, because we're coming, the Church is coming; the Father of the Nations is coming to hear those words very appropriate for this hour: "Your God Will Be MY God!"

(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.)

Pastor Kenneth Phillips

(Introducing people to the One God, Jesus Christ, day by day)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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

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