"God Meant It For Good!"

"And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream,

 behold, a vine was before me;  And in the vine were three branches: and it was as 

though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought 

forth ripe grapes:  And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and 

pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.  And Joseph 

said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:  Yet 

within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: 

and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former

 manner when thou wast his butler."

(Genesis 40:9-13)

Oh, how Joseph longed for yesterday, when in the midst of the 

test and trial; he cried for the days of yore

If he could only go back to when the Lord was close, the tears

 were dry, and this prison was no more

Tests are a desert so hot and dry, loneliness is our companion

 and a stillness of the hovering heavens

It's a place where we come face to face with our inner being, a

 loudness of our own soul that deafens

Questions plague us, mourning cloaks us, depression seeks to

 overtake us, but our faith offers rebuttal

For every "Why?" our faith grabs hands with our soul and

spirit, and together they form a holy huddle  

It's a war against the flesh so bleeding and torn, seeking to rob

 our belief that Almighty God's still there

Even though we can't see Him, or touch Him; that faith

floods us like an epee, in the throes of a dare

We thought we had lost it in the middle of prison and despair, but

the Word rises up in a fight to the finish

Our own hearts are surprised, when we have no proof that we'll

live, but the hope will not be diminished

The fire shut up in our bones comes to our rescue in times of war,

 when God tells satan, "You can only go this far!"

It seems to be the only voice from above that we're sure of, and

it blows in the winds, shoving aside the stars

As we moan in gasping breaths, that we wish we hadn't been

born, the Lord emerges with Lion-like force

He says, "Where were you when I formed the foundation of the

world?" and lists His power, as a matter of course

We're suddenly humbled in arrogance of stature, realizing we're

but "dust," and God's hand's in the matter

It's clear now that it all began with accusations from the cast out

one, the doomed for the Lake of Fire adder

For Joseph, the trial is saved by a dream; to everything there

is a season, and a time to every purpose

When we belong to our God, our trials are in His realm; we

were bought with His blood, and purchased

Perspective comes into view, and the desert seems to have an

oasis; and it's cancelling our desire for the past

The presence of the Lord has brought a new angle to this test,

and we are enlightened to a new forecast

The times on the wheel only make us stronger, if we hold tight to

the horns of the altar, and refuse the devil a bow

We should know the trial is always about our faith, our stand, our

trust in the Holy One, to whom we vowed

As Jacob wrestled with the angel and wouldn't let him go, so

fierce was the battle, disjointing his thigh

So we must love our Savior, our Lord, through every test and

every "Why," with trust as ever our trial's cry

Joseph was innocent, and thrown in prison by a lie; but God gave

 him a gift to interpret dreams, to save him

Through every hardship, we must know that God has gone before

us to deliver us; we must not see it as grim

For we are His beloved, and every day in every way, the Lord 

 could spare us from trials, and you know He would

But, we might miss the blessing at the end, by seeing the devil

meant it for evil, but "God Meant It For Good!" 

  

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It happened exactly as Joseph's interpretation stated, but the butler forgot Joseph for 2 more years. Then, Pharaoh dreamed a dream no one could interpret  ...  and then providence, the butler suddenly remembered imprisoned Joseph, and he was finally brought before the Pharaoh and he interpreted the dream. Joseph was then delivered from prison, made second in command under Pharaoh, and saved his family and people from famine!  As we know happens with our God; "God Meant It For Good!" 

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sundays @ 10:30 am and Wednesdays @ 7:00 pm

~~~~~Live Streaming~~~~~

Precious child of God, whatever you're going through in life, the Lord Jesus Christ can turn it around.  Won't you give Him your life, repent of your sins, let Him fill you with His Spirit, and be baptized in His name.  Then, you will belong to Him and He will make a way where there is no way!  Go to promiselandchurch.net and tell us you're watching by streaming, and let us know your prayer needs.  We will hold you up in prayer!  If you would like to help us, please give online, and the Lord will surely bless you!

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 Coming Sunday, March 27th, the second presentation of 

our Easter celebration, "Sing The Savior's Love."  

Please join us; Live streaming @ promiselandchurch.net.

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PromiseLand Church!

We know that everything is made right 

in His Presence!  Thank You, Lord Jesus!

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"Hosanna!"

The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, 

"Hosanna to the Son of David; BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES 

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest!"

(Matthew 21:9)

It was a Holy and prophetic fulfillment, spoken of the

arrival of the One and only King of Kings 

With their palms waving and lively Hosanna's praising; 

it was, indeed, a joyous time to sing

Jesus Christ began His Entry at Jericho, ascending to 

the beautiful Holy City, Jerusalem

It was quite a ride, 3,000 feet of climbing on a donkey,

borrowed on that day, for the use of him
A passion was emerging from the crowd, the beginning of 
a Holy worship, and glorious convocation
It was a triumph for a lost world; the omnipotent God came 
to die, a heavenly, yet required, earthly oblation
He was the long promised Messiah, the Lord and Savior for 
His sinful created "dust," for all of creation
He was born of a virgin to live and to die, and then rise in a
miraculous, brilliant, splendorous manifestation
So, it was absolutely fitting to pave His path, with carpets
of garments laid, and greenery of royal fronds
For Jesus Christ embodies the power to break all chains,
 free the possessed, and loose all the bonds
He was God who gave life to that very tree, His nemesis, and
then it was His finished deed, His dying cross
But, He counted it worthy and fitting to be an instrument,
to cover the debt of Sin, the ultimate cost
The palm was the branch laid down to the One who reigns,
and who would forever set mankind free
 But, His hands are the palms of running blood, nailed in victory;
 it was an eternal ransom for you and me
As He rode upon that borrowed colt, His mind could see the cross,
the beating, the blood, the torture yet to be
The people didn't know the monumental day this was to be in all 
of history; they only knew it was a "Triumphant Entry."

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sundays 10:30 am and Wednesdays 7:00 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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PROMISELAND CHURCH PRESENTS:

"Sing The Savior's Love" @ 10:30 on March 20th and 27th!

Live streaming @ promiselandchurch.net!

Please join us for our powerful Easter presentations!

You will never be the same again!

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"Glory's Price"

         

The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain

and stay here, and I will give you the

tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have

written for their instruction."

(Exodus 24:12)

"And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got him up into the mount:

and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights."

(Exodus 24:18)

Moses waited, alone, on the cliff of a mountain, for forty days and forty nights in order to receive the Ten Commandments.  Waiting for the Holy God to appear is costly to the human being.  We are not accustomed to "waiting" for anything; we have fast food, fast remote controls, fast cars, fast microwaves, fast lines in the grocery store  ...  We are living in a generation which is not in sinc with a "tarrying" God.  We have much to learn about the cost of "Glory's Price."

The people of Israel got antsy waiting those forty days down at the base of the mountain, and they reverted to the sinful nature by molding a golden calf, stripping naked, and worshiping the calf, entertaining themselves with all sorts of erotic debauchery, while Moses was in a misty cloud like the Holy of Holies, the presence of God so thick he could barely see, in a realm such as people never enter; a holiness surrounded him and engulfed him so that he could scarcely breathe, so powerful was it that he was awed and fearful at the same time; it was the holy omnipotent angelic-abiding, ethereal climate-changing presence of the Almighty God.

"When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the

 mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who

will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt,

we don't know what has happened to him."

(Exodus 32:1)

"When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger

  burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to

 pieces at the foot of the mountain."

(Exodus 32:19)

Who could blame Moses?  He had spent 40 days and nights on a lonely cold mountain ledge waiting for the presence of God, and then when the God of eternity burst through the mist with a profound unearthly motion of writing upon stone in a whirlwind of flashing electricity, the friction of the Holy finger etching with lightning strokes of power the Ten Commandments ... Moses was struck mute and spellbound; this was a moment when he wondered if he was dreaming, or was he really seeing what he was seeing  ...  It was real, the tablets of the law were left hot, and still sizzling from the burning engravings, in his shaking anxious arms, and they let him know he was wide awake.  He had been in the presence of the Almighty Glory of God.

"So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up

 Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded

him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands."

(Exodus 34:4)

Moses reclimbed that mountain to present the new tablets to a waiting God.  It happens today, that we come out of the presence of our Holy God to be suddenly approached with the sins, wars, hatred, evils, and abhorrence of life in earth.  But, "Glory" has a price; it's called going back again, waiting, abiding, climbing, obeying, listening  ... spending time alone on a craggy aerie.  Moses dealt with the children of Israel and their sin, but the price of Glory went up when he broke the tablets.  The Lord commanded him to chisel out two more tablets and bring them to Him with a wooden chest.

 "I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets,

which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest."

(Deuteronomy 20:2)


This was the Ark of the covenant, the chest, and it is symbolic of our hearts.  We hide the commandments in our hearts that we might not sin against Him.  "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."   (Psalm 119:11)

  

"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."  (Proverbs 25:2)  "Glory" means a state of wondrous  splendor, magnificence, or honor.  God's hidden things dwell in a place high up, a place in the deep.  Huh?  God is high and God is low; we find Him as we bow low to steps one below the other; and we find Him when we climb the mountain and sit alone in the mist of cloudy aura; we see Him in the darkest midnight when His light breaks the ebony hues; we hear Him in the whispers of gentle breezes and in the shout of an oncoming collision; He IS the depth we must search and the height to which we must ascend; He IS.

You say, "What are you talking about?"  I'm talking about the price we must pay to see His glory.  Moses paid it, and He saw it; many today have fasted forty days, but then, just like Moses, we have to reenter  into the earth's atmosphere, and we're affected by earth's sin and evil.  Is it possible to reach a place of "in earth as it is in heaven" that continues on, that flourishes and blooms to a mighty crescendo, that produces miracles, signs, and wonders, that brings us to a revival such as earth has never seen?  If so, it will cost us all something, fasting and prayer; it will take from us, but it will give to us; it's "Glory's Price."

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sunday 10:30 am and Wednesday 7:00 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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We must obey Acts 2:38 and Acts 19.

Repent, be baptized "in the name of the

Lord Jesus Christ" for the remission of 

sins, and receive the Holy Ghost and speak

in tongues as God's Spirit gives you utterance.

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"She Prayed!"

Don't underestimate her prayers; they have years and years of

 experience in the realms of devils and angels

Her Bible has wrinkled smudged pages of excessive use, and her

 prayer shawl is just as worn as the nightlight candles

Heaven recognizes those groans in the Spirit and those calls to

 come to her aid and the aid of her family in need

She weeps for her own and she weeps for the world, because her

 love runs deep for those she loves and God's seed

The Angels come quickly; they're used to her pleas, and they know

 she doesn't give up until the answer is delivered

She's a Warrior of the faith; her wrinkled hands and brow prove

 her experience in warring battles and maneuvers

It may sound like a weak and weary voice from lips of wise age, but

 the sound shakes heaven, and casts out devils

She's accustomed to attacking the second heaven and storming

 through the Gates to reach the Throne room level

The Word is her power, along with The Name and the Blood of

Jesus Christ; she knows the way to the answer

She has defeated forces of evil, impossible circumstances, the way

 where there is no way, and diseases like cancer

Nothing is below her faith line; she continually rises above the

 snake line, and soars like the Eagle she is 

She knows her Lord, His name, and He knows her so very well; she

 is a vessel of Honor to Him, and she is His

She's a mama, and a grandma, and a lady of strength; she's fought

 many battles and won; a warrior like no other

It's not hard to understand; she's like a mama bear protecting her

 cubs; she's a fierce-fighting, determined mother

Don't you be fooled by the wrinkles; she can take you down in an

 instant, with her faith and power in the heavens

Her walk is sure; her word is truth; her fasting's are pure, and her

 power comes forth with bread that is unleavened

Stand when she enters the room, for she's a giant, even though her

 stance may be bent or small, and her hair is grayed

When she appears in your midst, you know 'All is well,' because she

prepared your way, you know "She Prayed!"

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Pastors Kenneth & Wanda Phillips

(They're telling the world about the good ole' days 

and Jesus Christ our Lord, the 

same yesterday, today and forever!)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Services Sundays @ 10:30 am and Wednesdays @ 7:00 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 blessed ground, you may give 

online @ promiselandchurch.net.  God bless you, 

 and I know He surely will!

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PromiseLand Church!

We feel the lingering presence of Jesus Christ, 

here and now; soon we'll live with Him forever!

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"Destined To Remember"

"And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and

said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you:

this do in remembrance of me."

(I Corinthians 11:24)

The flowing blood, the broken and ripped flesh, the spear in the side, the splintered cross, the soldiers, the mocking, the thieves, the robe, the tears, the lightning, the earthquake, the followers, the darkened clouds, and the cry, "It Is Finished."  That's what it's all about.  We, who are Christians, who love the Lord Jesus Christ with all of our hearts, souls, minds, and strength  ...  can scarcely think of anything else; our very existence and salvation depends on it; we live with the knowledge of it and thankfulness for it  ...  His death, burial, and resurrection; the price paid for our redemption, the kind of LOVE that has never been known, the sacrifice of God for our eternity with Him; the Lamb slain for all of mankind  ...  We are and will always be ever mindful of the eternal sacrifice; we are "Destined To Remember."

In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup

 is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever

you drink it, in remembrance of me."

(I Corinthians 11:25)

The wafer and the grape juice, the repentance and the tears, the heart's sorrow and joy  ...  it's a mixture of ecstasy and pain, as we remember; we are so thankful for His blood shed to erase our sins, yet as we drink the cup; we think of His torn, beaten ripped flesh and we think no one should have to be tortured like that  ... and we're suddenly mindful that it should have been us on that cross  ...  if not for "His" blood and "His" shredded flesh, we would have no place in heaven.  If not for our Savior, our Redeemer, our Lord and King, where would we be?  Thank You, Lord Jesus; we will never forget  ...  In sincere and heartfelt repentance, we ask for forgiveness of our sins, before we take communion  ...  We must not take it "unworthily," meaning 'in an unrepentant and uncaring way.'  We are never as saved as when we have just taken Communion  ...  if we do it right.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the Lord's supper, or the Holy communion, on the very night he was betrayed.  It would not be until the resurrection that He would again spend time with His beloved apostles.  What was Jesus Christ thinking on that night?  The crucifixion was imminent; the horror of what He must endure was before Him, yet His mind was on His disciples.  He wanted to make sure that they knew that He was the Passover Lamb, that He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, that His blood would be shed and His body broken for them, and for all mankind.  This was no ordinary supper; this was the night before the world changed forever; this was an "eve" that would be remembered for all eternity; this was the still before the storm, the calm before the war over Sin would end in the blood-stained eraser to wipe out Sin and evil forever.  The disciples had no idea of the magnitude of the bread and the cup  ...  but they would soon be overtaken with the blood, the name, and the Word of destiny  ...

Jesus Christ rose from the dead on

the third day; He is ALIVE forevermore!

Lord, Jesus, we will never forget; in fact, our witness is based on it; our love stems from it; our hunger originates in it; our very souls are anchored upon it; we take communion to remember and to rejoice in the salvation and redemption bought for mankind with Your blood shed and Your tortured body "given" on the cross for the souls of the entire world.  We will never, never forget!

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Tonight, City-wide Communion service @ PromiseLand with special guest minister, Dr. Kie Bowman!  Please join us by live streaming @ 7 pm and take communion with us!

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

Communion Service Tonight, 2/24/16, 7:00 pm

~~~~~Live Streaming~~~~~

Take communion wherever you are, with us!

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PromiseLand Church!

We will never forget, Lord Jesus!

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