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    Praise and Worship with Flags: Waging Spiritual Warfare in the Church and Home
    Praise and Worship with Flags: Waging Spiritual Warfare in the Church and Home
    Praise and Worship with Flags: Waging Spiritual Warfare in the Church and Home
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    Praise and Worship with Flags: Waging Spiritual Warfare in the Church and Home

    By Delores Hillsman Harris

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    Praise and Worship with Flags reveals the power of using worship flags under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
    Delores Hillsman Harris has been using worship flags for years, and first became aware of the Holy Spirit watching over her as she used them during a service in 2003. With a streamer in hand, she felt His power—and she remains a flag bearer and member of her church’s dance ministry.
    The author points the reader to the flags’ biblical truths, which have been understated, and takes you on a journey to discover these truths with Scripture.
    As you read, you’ll find out why to use flags and how to use them with power—as well as how to use them while worshipping at home. You will feel the power of the Holy Spirit and discover the power of God when he combines with color, prayer, and love.
    Discover the meaning, significance, and benefits of using worship flags and join the author as she celebrates the power of the Holy Spirit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2011
    ISBN9781449727673
    Praise and Worship with Flags: Waging Spiritual Warfare in the Church and Home
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    Delores Hillsman Harris

    Delores Hillsman Harris was a mathematics teacher at a public school before serving twenty-eight years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. She had several real-life encounters with the Holy Spirit between 1991 and 1992 while stationed in Germany. As a result, her faith, knowledge, and trust in the Holy Spirit grew as her relationship with Him deepened. She is a Bible Study fellowship student and lives in O’Fallon, Illinois.

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      Praise and Worship with Flags - Delores Hillsman Harris

      Copyright © 2011 Delores Hillsman Harris

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2766-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2765-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2767-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011917375

      WestBow Press rev. date: 11/02/2011

      Contents

      Permissions

      Forward

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      1. The Flag Bearer

      2. Love

      3. Biblical Uses of Flags

      4. Color

      5. A Supernatural Operation

      6. Prayer

      7. Flag Movements and A Practical Exercise

      8. Flag Construction

      Afterword

      Resources

      References

      Permissions

      Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2010 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      KJV Bible is public domain. Permission not required.

      The Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible KJV, World Publishers, Inc, copyright 1984 and 1991 Spiros Zodhiates and AMG International Inc, D/B/A AMG Publishers, quotes of study helps in brief review, Permission Not Required.

      "Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group."

      Sketched pose of flag bearer Melanie Carden from www.youtube.com web page Worship with Flags to Be Thou Exalted. Permission granted.

      All artwork created by Kathy Gomric. Permission granted.

      Photography by Crafty Eye Photography, Belleville Illinois. Permission granted.

      Flag Movement at Figure 4 Created by Minister Jamesetta Roach, JRO Ministries, St. Louis MO. Permission granted.

      Henry Drummond (1851–1897), The Greatest Thing in the World, Public Domain in USA.

      Unger’s Bible Dictionary, Merrill F. Unger, drawings by Robert F. Ramey, Moody Press Chicago, copyright 198, Third Edition, Permission granted.

      Website owners listed in Resources. Permissions granted.

      About the cover. The dark clouds represent the presence of God or the Lord Jesus. In scripture, 2 Samuel 22:12 (KJV) says, And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

      The author’s website is www.PraiseAndWorshipWithFlags.com.

      To those who praise and worship with flags

      The Lord is our Banner.

      Foreword

      I am honored to write the forward to this insightful, engaging work on the use of flags in worship. In this day when worship arts has taken its rightful place in our worship experience, Delores has written this book with clarity, practicality and application for pastors and those who want to take worship arts to a new dimension. Her determination to ground her work in scripture is only exceeded by the revelation she shares from the scriptures. Her theology is sound. Her biblical history is on point. All of this is done in a manner that anyone can understand. I so enjoyed the book that I am now going to use it as one of the teaching tools in our Worship Arts Ministry. Up to now, I have enjoyed the ministry of flags during worship. After reading Delores’ book, I now understand the purpose and power of flags in worship, and so will you. Finally, Delores takes us beyond our natural senses of enjoying flags in worship. She takes us to the biblical knowledge that flags can heal, deliver and set free in the context of worship. This seminal work is going to cause the kingdom to grow in worshipping and praising our Heavenly Father and it will cause you to grow as well.

      Bishop Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr., D.Min.

      Senior Pastor

      New Life in Christ Interdenominational Church

      Preface

      The Holy Spirit intervened visibly in my life on two occasions. First, while I was driving on the Autobahn in Germany, I got lost. I called out to the Holy Spirit, Help! Immediately my hands released the steering wheel. The wheel turned on its own, off the highway and onto the exit ramp, from the exit ramp onto a street. I then recognized where I was. My hands were given control of the steering wheel. I was surprised and amazed. I knew that the Holy Spirit had taken control of the car and me.

      A second incident showed me the Holy Spirit at work. While taking a shopping trip from Germany to Czechoslovakia, I had been sharing my experiences about the Holy Spirit with my traveling friend. She didn’t believe me. On the return from Czechoslovakia to Germany, in the wee hours of the morning on the Autobahn, my friend was driving while I slept. She woke me to point out something that was unclear and questionable in the fog down the highway. I could see taillights. I told her to move the car three lanes over, from the far left lane to the far right lane. I saw her hands on the steering wheel, turning the wheel to the right as we passed the unknown something on the highway. Then we heard loud crashing sounds behind us. We imagined there had been a pile-up of cars as they smashed into one another in the fog. My friend and I looked at each other. I said I was glad she had steered the car off to the right. She said she did not turn the steering wheel. I told her I saw her hands turn the wheel. She said she did not, and I told her the Holy Spirit did it.

      Twelve years passed after these two incidents in which the Holy Spirit had provided help and protection from danger. He then makes His presence known again with the flags.

      In 2003, while I was in church, praising God and dancing to music with one streamer in my right hand, the streamer—a form of a flag—took off on its own. It was no longer under my control. It was

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