Beginning Sunday, August 7th,

Kingdom Tabernacle will be worshipping at our NEW Location - The Samuel R. Chand Auditorium on the campus of Beulah Heights University. Our services will remain at 11:00 am and we will immediately follow our services with our KT Connection Journey/Growth Track fellowships for everyone who desires to connect to our growing church family. (Food will be provided!!!!)

The address of the school is: 892 Berne Street SE, Atlanta,GA 30316

For maps and directions to our new location for worship click here.

From Frustration to Praise

K Team, I am excited about how God is now making sense of my frustration. I now understand that frustration is just a vehicle that God uses to provoke us to move out into the vision that He has for us. The process many times does not make sense, but if we understand the power of our faith and the power of our ability to PRAISE HIM IN ADVANCE we can turn frustration into a powerful thing. Remember the danger of frustration is that it can turn into discouragement, but if we encourage ourselves in the Lord and make up our minds to praise God despite what we see, we confuse the enemy, create a confidence in our spirits and gain the ear of our heavenly Father.

This week as you pray, take some time to defiantly praise the God of your salvation for He is great and worthy to be glorified.

Blessings!

P. Shawn

Striking the Ground with Passion

Our journey toward God's increase can be a challenging one. Many times we find ourselves overwhelmed with adversity while trying to keep a positive attitude. Trusting God can sometime lead us to more questions and uncertainty. But if we look at God's record in our lives, we can be confident that he is going to work all things out for good. Many times, He is waiting on us to show a passionate faith and confidence that if God be for us, that is more than the world against us.

In 2 Kings 13, the dying prophet Elisha expressed frustration that Israel's king, who wielded an arrow as a token of God's supernatural delivering power, only used it passively instead of passionately. The king struck the ground 3 times when he should have struck it several times to show his passionate desire for God to move on behalf of his people. As kings and priests in the world today, God wants us to passionately pray and war in the Spirit to see His hand move supernaturally. There are doors that only God can open. There are things that need to be done that only our passionate prayers can do. Please join me in reigniting a fire in our prayer closets and I guarantee the results will be encouraging and right on time. Strike the ground and pray with excitement and passion and watch GOD MOVE!!!!!!

Trusting God beyond what we see

One of the cliches of our faith that we hear many times is "We walk by faith and NOT by sight". Although this is a truth for us all to appreciate, I often find myself struggling with what I see when it comes to making spiritual decisions. I can see that I don't have enough money for something I believe God is wanting to bless me with. I can see that the resources that I do have are not enough for the work that God is requiring of me.

There are other challenges that we all face in life that require us to go beyond what we see and trust God despite what we see. What I have learned however, is that true faith causes us to see things the way the God wants us to see them and we begin to trust God because we can really SEE what he is up to. This is what makes prayer so powerful. Prayer does not change God, it changes us! Prayer causes our vision to become different so that we can see what God is up to and join him in it. My prayer for us all this week is that our perception grow to a point where we can see things the way God sees them and trust him in the process of His work in our lives.

I am looking forward to testimonies of INCREASE, not just based on actual manifestations, but increase because our perceptions have changed and we see things they way God sees them.

Praying for a change

I am now home from our Wednesday evening prayer service and the focus of our gathering was "change". We don't always like change, but there are some changes that we do look forward to. I Corinthians 15:51 " I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."

There is a great change awaiting all of us who name Christ as Lord at the last day. I the meantime, there are other changes that God desires to bring into our lives. As we re-ignite our times of prayer as a body in this season, let us pray that God will bring the needed change and transformation into our lives as we continue to pursue fruitfulness and increase.

Deut 28 and Matthew 13

These 2 passages are critical as it relates to cultivating and expectation AND a manifestation of INCREASE in our lives. The most important ingredient for success in God is obedience. Did I do what God told me to do. I am in complete obedience in every area of my life. When I am not in obedience, I create challenges for the hand of God to operate. Many times we blame the enemy for things that are consequences of our own choices. Please make every effort to ensure that you give God your very best as it relates to following what he demands.

In that same light, Jesus wonderfully compares our acceptance of the word of God to the different types of locations and soils that receive seed that is planted. If I expect an enduring harvest, then I must be good and fertile ground for him to plant in. Good ground is obedient ground. Good ground is ground that rejoices in the things that God rejoices in. Good ground is ground that walks in the commandments of God to love Him with all of our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Ephesians 1

This is one of my favorite passages of the Bible. Paul's language is descriptive of the exceeding greatness of God's work and plan for us. However, words do not clearly convey the reality of the magnitude of what God has done for us through Christ. As we ponder and reflect on our assignment for INCREASE in 2011, it is essential that we grasp spiritually what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of HIS inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe.

God has already taken us from the lowest places to a place beyond our own comprehension. According to Paul it is not about situation (what we currently face), but it is about REVELATION (the eyes of our understanding). Once we see that we not just destined for greatness, but that greatness is already a reality for us to walk in NOW, we will begin to notice God's work of INCREASE all around us.

When God's Favor is on You

As we walk in this year of expectation and INCREASE, the passage for today in Numbers presents something very clear. Balaam, the seer of Beor had every intention of bringing frustration and disaster upon the people of God. But every time he opened his mouth a blessing came out. No matter what the enemy tries to bring your way to stop you, when you are in the will of God, You CAN NOT BE STOPPED!!!! As we discover the places God wants us to be and walk in His purpose, expect your opposition to become an ally in getting you into that place that God intends.

This is why Psalms 23 tell us the God prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies. God can use our enemies to feed us, not to stop us.

What is your Jerusalem?

As we reflect on Christ's command to be his witnesses, we must remember that we must start where we are. His focus of the mission began at HOME in Jerusalem and not to the uttermost parts of the earth. If we are to expand our influence and see God enlarge our territory, we must be aware that He expects us to start right where we are. If we are going to see financial increase, we must be faithful with where we are right now before expecting to see increase. If we want greater responsibility at work, we must make sure that we are faithful in the things already assigned to us.

Jerusalem represents that starting point that God will expand as we ask God to increase us while we remain faithful right where we are.