Author: Tammy Phillips

by Tammy Phillips
October 26, 2020

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; (1 Peter 2:9 NKJV)

You are a CHOSEN
You are a SELECT
You are an ELECT
You are a ROYAL
You are a REGAL
You are a HOLY
You are SPECIAL
You are HIS OWN

This is not a secret.  This is what God thinks of you.  This should be so exciting to you.  You are heir to  the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him.  When Jesus chose you and you chose Jesus, you entered the King’s Court.  You have direct access to God.  You became a child of the King. 

“The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:16-17 KJV)

You are a child of God.
You are and heir of God.
You are joint heirs with Jesus
You have a place at the table.  
You are meant to rule and reign in the kingdom of God our Father.   

This is great news.  It is meant to be shared with everyone.  God offers the same inheritance to all who come to Him.   “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9 KJV)

As kids of the King, we are not be proud in the privilege, but to proclaim, declare, yell out, publish and celebrate His praises, His excellence, and His moral goodness.  Really, there is no celebrity but the King of Kings.  He alone is worthy of all praise and honor and glory for the great and absolutely amazing things he has done for us.

I enCOURAGE you to sit upright.  Straighten your crown.  We are raised up together.  We are made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus because of God’s great love, mercy and grace.  Let’s act like the royal’s we were called to be and spread the name of Jesus, our King.

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, (Ephesians 2:4-6 NKJV)

by Tammy Phillips
October 25, 2020

1. We are a brand-new spirit creation.

Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)

2. Put on the new spirit man created in true righteousness and holiness

and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:24 NKJV)

God looks at your new spirit.  He sees the purity, holiness and the righteousness of Jesus. 

3. As Jesus is in the world, so are we

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (1 John 4:17 NKJV)

We must see ourselves as the as the Word says we are.   Our body and mind are not perfect but our spirt is created in the image of Christ.

4. We receive the gift of righteousness in Christ and reign in life though Jesus

 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17 NKJV)

5. Made righteous by the obedience of Jesus.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. (Romans 5:19 NKJV)

We were born with a sin nature thanks to Adam.  We were born again with a righteous nature, the nature of Christ, thanks to Christ.

6. Righteous through Jesus. He became our righteousness.

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption– (1 Corinthians 1:30 NKJV)

7. We are the righteous of God in Him

 For He made Him who knew no sin [to be] sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV)

8. It not us. It all Christ. 

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Galatians 2:20 NKJV)

God loves us more than we can ever imagine. God is not upset or mad at us. God does not hold anything against us.  We  cannot make God love us anymore than He already does.   He does not impute our sins to us. God thinks we are cool. God sees us as the righteousness of Christ. He looks at us just like He looks at Christ.  Our sin is not greater than God’s grace.  Satan has no right to accuse us because God does not.  We are right in God an that’s it.  Every time the enemy tries to accuse, our answer should always be Jesus.   When we really know who we are in Christ and finally see ourselves the way God sees us, we are untouchable in Him.  In the spirit we are as perfect and as complete as we will ever be.  Our mind just needs to be renewed to who we really are in Christ.  You are right in God’s eyes.   

I enCOURAGE you to change your picture.  It will change your life.   You are the righteousness of God in Christ.

by Tammy Phillips
October 24, 2020

When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God is for me.  –Psalm 56:9 NKJV

When we have any need, we have one responsibility.  We are to cry out to God as a little toddler crying out to its parent. Then God, not just any old parent, but God who created us and all things, immediately comes on the scene.  Picture God lifting us up under our arm pits and taking us from the midst of our enemies of sickness, lack, depression, etc.  They will turn back in the presence of our Father!   As we are raised above the circumstances in His loving arms, we should be yelling back at our enemies, “Do you know who my Daddy is?”  THIS IS KNOW!  Do you know this? THIS IS KNOW BECAUSE GOD IS FOR ME!  Say it! “God is for me.”   This is certain and this is true. 

Sickness you have to turn back!  I know this because God is for me.
Disease you have to turn back!  I know this because God is for me.
Sleeplessness you have to turn back!  I know this because God is for me.
Lack you have to turn back!  I know this because God is for me.
Stress you have to turn back!  I know this because God is for me.
Depression you have to turn back!  I know this because God if for me.
Confusion you have to turn back! I know this because God is for me.
Offense you have to turn back! I know this because God is for me.

God is for me.
God is good.
God is right.
God is kind.
God is merciful.
God is happy.
God is beautiful.
God is excellent.
God is supreme.
God is a promise keeper.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NKJV)

I enCOURAGE you to say to all these things that come against you, “GOD IS FOR ME!” You are a child of the Most-High, God Almighty and he is for you! You do not have to do one thing to earn His love or His help.  Simply, call Him and have the utmost confidence in Him as our Good Father.  His word can be 100% trusted. He is who He says He is and will do what He says He will do.  GOD IS FOR YOU!

by Tammy Phillips
October 23, 2020

In the powerful words of Isaiah 58,  God clearly outlines his plans, purposes, and  our assignment to repair, restore and rebuild.   We have an assignment in Christ to build up the broken down. 

 Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.  (Isaiah 58:12 NKJV)

1. GOD’S FAST and PURPOSE
   Is this not the fast that I have chosen? We fast…

• • • To loosen the bonds of wickedness?
    • To undo the heavy burden’s?
    • To let the oppressed, go free?
    • And that you break every yoke?
    • Share your bread with the hungry?
    • And you bring home the poor who are cast out?
    • When you see the naked exposed, cover him?
    • Don’t hide yourself from your own flesh and blood,

2. EFFECTS OF GOD’S FAST
   • Our light shall break forth like the morning.
   • Our healing shall spring forth speedily.
   • And our righteousness shall go before us.
   • The glory of the LORD shall be our rear guard.

3. THE LORD ANSWERS AND INSTRUCTS

Call, and the LORD will answer; cry, and He will say, “Here I am”.’ 
If you …

• • • Take away the yoke.
    • Stop pointing fingers.
    • Stop speaking emptiness, nothingness and wickedness.
    • Extend your soul to the hungry.
    • Satisfy the afflicted soul.

4. OUR OBEDIENCE WILL BRING
   • Our Light shall dawn in the darkness,
   • Our darkness shall [be] as the noonday.
   • The LORD will guide us continually.
   • He will satisfy our soul in drought!!!
   • He will strengthen our bones.
   • We shall be like a watered garden (flourishing).
   • And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

5. OUR ASSIGNMENT
   • You will REBUILD and RESTORE the old waste places, (the dry, desolate, drought stricken, parched by the heat of the breath of the enemy).
   • You shall RAISE up, erect, help arise, make RESOLUTE the foundations of many generations.

6. REPAIRER OF THE BREACH
   We will be called the:

• • • Repairer (Wall up, Build a wall, Hedge in, Fence in, mason) of the
    • Breach (Break, the Broken, the Broken Down, the Broken in pieces, the Gap)
    • We will Build up the Broken Down in Christ
    • We will be the Repairer of the Breach that stands in the gap, interceding, repelling the enemy. This is the act of the bravest soldiers who expose their lives to the most eminent peril.
    • “So, I sought for a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. (Ezekiel 22:30 NKJV)

7. RESTORER OF THE STREETS TO DWELL IN
   You will be called the Restorer. (Returner, Refresher, Renewer, Turner Back, Bring back, Repentance Publisher) of Streets (Path, Trodden Way, High Way)  Dwell In. (Continue, Abide, Remain, Sit)

    

8. EVERY DAY IS THE SABBATH, DAY OF REST
   • Turn away your foot from the Sabbath?
   • Turn away from doing what you please on My Holy Day.
   • Call the Sabbath a delight,
   • Honor Him.
   • Do not do your own thing.
   • Don’t go your own way.
   • Don’t find your own pleasure.
   • Don’t’ speak your own words.
   • Our walk with God should not be only defined by what we don’t do, but also what we do for the Lord.

9. RIDE ON THE HIGH HILLS OF THE EARTH
   • You delight yourself in the LORD, every day!
   • And he will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, The mouth of the LORD has spoken.” (Isaiah 58:8-14 NKJV) HALLELUJAH!

I enCOURAGE you to let God heal your broken heart .  Allow him into to restore, repair and rebuild you broken places.  Once you  know you are healed whole and complete in Him.  You can begin your job of helping the next broken person.  Start with yourself and pass it along.  It leads to a glorious life. 

by Tammy Phillips
October 22, 2020

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. – Psalm 51:10 KJV

A home needs to be cleaned and painted, a car needs to be washed and repaired regularly, and we take showers to rid ourselves of the grime of the day. Each of these are an example of renewal.

According to Websters Dictionary 1828, renew means: to renovate; to restore to a former state, or to a good state, after decay or depravation; to rebuild; to repair. to make new; to renovate; to transform; To revive; To make new; to make fresh or vigorous;

A perfect example of renewal is a tarnished piece of silver that is polished and brought back to its original state.  The treasure does not become tarnished as of reflection of its quality.  It is not a bad piece of bling.  It becomes tarnished as a reaction to the atmosphere and external forces in the air.  Left unpolished, it will eventually turn black. 

Our heart and mind are much like the piece of silver that becomes tarnished.  It becomes polluted from atmosphere we live in and the external forces from the prince of the air.  Like David, our daily prayer of repentance should be, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”

Our heart is cleaned and sanctified by the word of God.  We keep it from becoming tarnished by polishing it and renewing it in the word daily.  

“You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (John 15:3 NKJV)

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. (John 17:17 NKJV)

The word renewed in Psalm 51 actually means to make new, restore, the primary meaning is that of polishing a sword to original splendor.  God’s word is the polishing cloth to our tarnished hearts.

I enCOURAGE you “not to lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day!” (2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV).  God wipes away the sin and grime from our heart step by step and day by day.  He polishes and renews us with His word to reflect His glory.  It is the word that transforms us and keeps our heart clean. 

“Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old.” (Lamentations 5:21 NKJV)

 

 

by Tammy Phillips
October 21, 2020

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. (Jeremiah 31:25 KJV)

Feeling droopy? In this broken world if your tank is empty, running low, or just needs to be refilled for the journey, God is our refreshment.   He refreshes our soul. (Psalm 23:3 NIV) His promise is abundance.  He is not just enough.  He is God Almighty, El Shaddai, God of More than enough!  Go to Father God.  Go to His word. Get in His presence.

He will REFRESH. 

I love Websters Dictionary 1828 definition of refresh:  To cool; to give new strength to; to invigorate; to relieve after fatigue or suffering; to revive; to reanimate after depression; to cheer; to enliven; to revive what is drooping.

HEAR THE GOOD NEWS!

THE LORD:

• Satiates the weary soul
• Gives rest to the tired
• Refreshes the exhausted
• Satisfies the sapped
• Drenches the drained
• Quenches the thirsty
• Fills the faint
• Pours into the pooped

The LORD also:

• Replenishes every sorrowful soul
• Makes full every mourning mind
• Abundantly fills every pining passion
• Overflows every aching heart
• Fulfils the forlorn
• Refuels the downhearted
• Completes every soul that is melting

God is our source of infinite strength.  He does not grow weary.  His tank is always full ready to fill those who seek him.  “The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul.” (Psalm 19:7 NIV)

I enCOURAGE to seek the refreshing of the Lord.  Like a plant whose leaves are bowing down because they lack water, allow God to refresh you by pouring into every cell of your body, soul and spirit. Let the Lord revive what is droopy in you! Be refreshed!

 

by Tammy Phillips
October 20,2020

God has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ!  This means God has called us back to union with Him though Christ.  He wants to be friends with us.   God has restored us to favor with the Himself, our Father through His Only Son!  It was all Him.  Amazing sacrifice of love

He is not mad us.  He is not disappointed with us.  He gave an amazing sacrifice of love to restore favored relationship between the Creator and His beloved creation, us!  When He sees us, He sees Jesus.  God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.  When we were enemies of God, when we did not choose Him, He chose us!  Have you favored an enemy lately?  We were the offender and He did not take the offense. He gave instead.   We were reconciled and brought back to favor with God through the death of His Son.  He loved us that much.  It is hard to fathom.  However, it is His word and it is true.   He does not even count our sins against us in Christ!!! (see 2 Corinthians 5:18-20) He remembers them no more!

When we repent and trust in the atoning death of Christ, we receive the gift of restoration to the favor of God.  We then are charged with passing on the good word.  God committed to us the word of reconciliation and the ministry of reconciliation.  We are ambassadors for Christ.  It is As though God Himself is pleading through us and begging on Christ’s behalf…

“Be reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:18-20 NKJV)

We must not let anything stand between God and us.  It took Jesus’ death and atoning blood to bring us back together.  However, there is more! MUCH MORE…having been reconciled…

WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. We shall be safe and sound; whole, healed, and complete!

AND not only [that], but…

WE ALSO REJOICE, BOAST AND GLORY IN GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST through whom we have now RECEIVED the reconciliation!  Our glory is to God.  He is the Giver of all things!  It is all Him!   Reconciliation!  Restoration to favor!  Salvation!  Relationship with God! Friendship with our Creator! Rejoicing! 

I enCOURAGE you to really meditate on how amazing it is to “be reconciled” to God.  Then as an Ambassador to Almighty God, pass the word on…RECONCILIATION!   

 

 

by Tammy Phillips
October 19, 2020

“For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. – Matthew 26:28 NKJV

Jesus was sent to return and send back our sins. He was sent to cancel a debt we could not pay. He exonerated us from our crimes against God.

For by…
One gift
One offering
One blood sacrifice
One life

He has perfected
He made perfect
He completes
He accomplishes
He finishes

FOREVER!!!

those who are being…
Sanctified
Consecrated
Purified:
-cleansed externally
-purify internally by renewing of the soul
-purified by atonement

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD:
 “I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds, I will write them,”

then He adds,
“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Now where there is remission of these sins..
Where there is…
Forgiveness
Deliverance
Cancellation of debt
Release from bondage
Liberty from imprisonment
Letting them go is if they had never been committed!!!

there is no longer an offering for sin!
(a look at  Hebrews 10:10, 14, 16-18 NKJV)

We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.   We cannot earn salvation, sanctification nor purity.  We do not have to work for it.  We do not deserve it.  We cannot do anything to attain it.  All we have to do is to accept the One, Jesus as our gift.  He is the One who sanctifies us.  He is the one who purifies us inside and out.  He purges us, getting rid of the dross in our life. He purges away the pounds in our lives to make us complete in Him, whether it be physical pounds in our body, excess stuff in our homes, or burdens we have been carrying in our mind.  You know the burdens I am talking about.  The thoughts that run through the mind:

“I am not good enough.”
“I am not kind enough.”
“I am not faithful enough.”
“I haven’t given or served enough.”
“I am not or was not a good parent or spouse.”
“I don’t love well enough.”
“I am not skinny enough.”
“I am not fit enough.”
“House and yard are not clean enough.”

The problem is that all those thoughts start with “I” and not Jesus.  Jesus was enough.  He completes and perfects us by the renewing of His word written in our hearts and minds.  His word says He was enough!  He was the one payment for all of our “I am not enough’s!” His mission was the remission of our sins which reconciled us back to him!   (a study of Hebrews 10:10 14, 16-18 NKJV)

I enCOURAGE you to accept His mission of remission once and for ALL!  He does not remember your sins nor mistakes anymore!   He paid for them ALL.  Your debt is cancelled.  It is not your fault and you cannot pay anyway.   Why do you keep rehearsing and bringing them up?  Rehearse the truth.  Jesus was enough. 

by Tammy Phillips
October 18, 2020

 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NKJV)

I do not t know what it is with God and Hampton Inns!   It was 5:30 AM in Memphis.   I was sitting in the lobby asking the Lord what He had to say.  I could not hear Him because there was a young well-dressed man preparing the continental breakfast and playing his music so loudly that I could not think.  To be honest, I was a little irritated, however, I did not want to say anything because he was blasting upbeat, praise music.  He was getting his praise on loudly and early.

After the young man finished his morning duties, he returned to the front desk of the lobby.  I gave him a few minutes and then called him.  I ask him what the Lord had been speaking to His heart this morning.  I explained to him that I had a hard time “hearing” the Lord this morning.  He laughed and said he understood.  He was writing a book. I questioned his subject.  He said it was about the miraculous working of God. 

The young man, Damian, was 35 years old.  I learned that three years ago he survived 45 days in the hospital from kidney failure.  He went just because he did not feel well.  He was admitted   because he had a temperature of 104.5.  They further found that his kidneys were only functioning at twenty percent. During his stay his kidneys stopped functioning altogether.  The Lord miraculously healed him.  He is now whole and healed. He is also pastor and after working all night he will go preach today.  He is full of praise, laughter and joy.

This morning the Lord took the irritant that got into my shell and turned it into a pearl of blessing.  A natural pearl begins its life inside an oyster’s shell when an intruder, such as a grain of sand or a parasite, slips in between one of the two shells of the oyster.  In order to protect itself from irritation, the oyster will quickly begin covering the uninvited visitor with layers of nacre also known as mother-of-pearl, coat the grain of sand until the iridescent gem is formed.  It usually takes 6 months to form a pearl.   All things are possible with God.  He anointed this situation with the oil of gladness and created a pearl blessing from the irritant in just minutes. 

What is irritating you today? 

I enCOURAGE you to give it to the Lord.  Let him do his miraculous work and turn your irritation into a pearl of blessing for you.

by Tammy Phillips
October 17,2020

“For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), (Exodus 34:14 NKJV)

Worship is adoration. 
Worship is respect.
Worship is extravagant love.
Worship is saying God you are number one.
Worship is singing, shouting, thanksgiving.
Worship is desiring to be in the presence of God.
Worship is complete submission.
Worship is bowing the knee.
Worship is kneeling to the King of Kings alone.
Worship is a mind occupied with God, first and foremost.

Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the LORD [is] the great God, And the great King above all gods.
In His hand [are] the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills [are] His also.
The sea [is] His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry [land].
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
For He [is] our God, And we [are] the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. (Psalm 95:1-7 NKJV)

We shall worship no other god!

• • Spouse nor our house
  • Boys nor our toys
  • Wealth nor our health
  • Jobs nor our sobs
  • Pain nor our pleasure
  • Food nor our mood
  • Ball nor our mall
  • Me nor you

God is God.  He is good. He is full of grace.  “For the LORD your God [is] a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24 NKJV)
The LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

• • He is jealous. 
  • He is zealous.
  • He chose us.  
  • He took our shame.
  • He took our sin.
  • He bought us with his own blood.
  • He died so that we should not perish.
  • He took stripes for our healing.
  • He gave his life so we could live forever with Him.
  • He gave his only son for us.
  • He loves us.
  • He is jealous for us.

“He loves you so much that he cannot endure that anything should stand between your heart’s love and him. Be careful Christians, you that are married to Christ; remember, you are married to a jealous husband.”-Charles Spurgeon, March 29, 1863

I enCOURAGE you to “give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! (1 Chronicles 16:29 NKJV) Take great comfort in knowing that God is jealous for you.  He wants all of you.  Surrender to his great love.