The enemy wants to divert our attention to defile our affection for God. Bill Johnson encourages us to focus on God’s Presence. It is always God’s intent to take us from glory to glory!
see all of you by faith
i i trust you’re there
how’s that i trust you there um
what an amazing opportunity to see the
goodness of the lord
i i’ve had a i’ve had an interesting a
couple of weeks just personally
experiencely with the lord and
and um so let me just get to it i really
don’t have a teaching i have
uh an exhortation an invitation
a something i don’t even know what to
call it
uh probably ten days ago i i
joined a school of ministry out here
under the tent
and uh we had a it was a wonderful time
of worship but something
started to happen um that maybe it
started previous to that but i became
uh unusually aware aware of
of the glory of the lord that began to
fill
that tent i could feel it tangibly i’ve
had these
experiences throughout throughout my own
personal journey
i remember when i pastored in weberville
i would i would take time
often just to walk through the sanctuary
back and forth when nobody was there i
would
just just just a worship just to pray
i remember there was a little piano
there and i would sit and play a bit and
just
just do whatever i could to give him the
best offering i could give him
i remember times where the presence of
the lord became so overwhelming
to me that i i’m embarrassed to say it
now but i quickly thought of something
else to do
i i quickly thought of things that
doesn’t mean when things come to mind
it’s necessarily the enemy sometimes the
lord brings things to mind that we need
to take care of but it wasn’t that
it was the the intensity of presence was
so
was so strong that i found myself just
getting nervous
just getting a little bit anxious
and uh and i didn’t recognize it
immediately it was it was later
i i started to see that there’s there’s
a measure of presence where
where all of us that all of us delight
in and measure presence that takes us
into great great discomfort
which is fine because he’s the comforter
so my opinion is
uh he makes you uncomfortable so that
you need the comfort
and uh and he’s pretty good at that
there was a story with moses where he
um he could go no further until he had
done what the lord
commanded him to do in in that cases to
circumcise his kids his sons
um he had gone to this distance and then
suddenly
what was a normal journey became life
and death and i
i i don’t mean to suggest life-and-death
decisions although i do think they exist
for us
um instead i i want to emphasize that
we’re on this relational journey and
they’re just come
they’re come there comes to us points in
time
where he has an agenda and mine won’t do
i mean you can have you know if you’ve
been in this a while
probably for all of us or you know 95
of the people that would be watching
every agenda you have
every agenda you have has been shaped by
scripture
it’s it’s not like it’s not like wanting
revival
is an evil desire it’s not it’s just
in the glory all my agendas all my
ambitions all my dreams as lofty as they
are
they all have to take place
another place outside of this glory
because in this glory
there’s only one thing that matters and
that’s the face to face with this one
i i’m not there as a pastor i’m not
there
as a speaker or a writer or whatever
else you’ve blank you’d feel and i’m not
there is that all
those hats are left outside the door
there’s only one hands they had of a son
it’s the only one that works
in there and
i’ve had this sense for quite a while
but it’s becoming more
uh tangible in the last especially the
last 10 days
where in in that
in that tent in that
time with students i started to
to rediscover something that
hadn’t been lost that would be wrong but
there was a there’s always a freshness
to his presence that makes
it almost makes you feel like you’ve
never had it before it’s so fresh you
know
there’s always something so new with
what he’s saying and doing it almost
feels like it’s the first time you’ve
ever heard him speak
and yet outside of that experience you
can see the history that brought you
here but in that moment it’s like
it’s like
it’s like hearing
hearing for the first time i
it reminded me of something oh goodness
it’d be
2010 2011 somewhere near eric
my son was was leading the second year
school of ministry
and there was a there was about a five
month period i don’t remember the year
but there was about a five-month period
they met over our twin view campus or
our second campus
and they were the the school uh the
second year school was there and i don’t
remember how many students there were
i would guess 300 maybe but anyway
that room was you know packed and eric
was
leading and and as one of the pastors i
have a
time slot where i i’d go over there and
and speak and it’s always an incredible
privilege to
to do so i remember
i would walk in there was this there was
this five-month period of time
where i’d walk in it was like walking
into a cloud
i mean it was it was it was
like walking into a cloud that’s alive
it wasn’t it wasn’t fog it was
walking into this to life itself
on a level that was
so wonderful and so overwhelming
i remember i would come in and back i
would i would come sit down
sometimes i’d make it to the run i’d
come and i’d sit down and
eric would be there and listen this
wasn’t led by
you know a great worship time those were
there and that’s
important we just had a wonderful time
now and
that kind of uh uh instrument that the
lord uses is very significant and
important but
but this was different it was it was
almost like
the holy spirit the choir director of
heaven
entered the room and he was he was
conducting something
wow
i remember sitting down next to eric and
he would look up at me
what do you want to do i said i’m not
touching this
i i have absolutely
nothing to say
there are times in the glory where
that’s what you do there’s a word
there’s a word of the lord it’s the
ultimate
moment i mean you want those moments i i
don’t want to suggest at all that
somehow when that
that manifest presence of jesus comes in
that measure
that we that we don’t speak and somehow
teaching goes out the window
i don’t believe that and and i’ve seen
the opposite happen
i’ve seen those moments that are so
overwhelmingly pregnant and filled with
god himself
in the room and then there’s a word and
and i i believe that but this wasn’t
this wasn’t that season it was it was
five months of coming
into a room where
where it just didn’t matter
strange strange to say you could have
this burden or this
vision or this desire or whatever to
preach this or to pray for this or to do
whatever but somehow
somehow in this in this
living cloud of presence
oh goodness it
it just doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter
and i
i remember during that period of time i
don’t even know how many times i
actually spoke
i did a few times but it wasn’t very
often it wasn’t very often but i
sure encountered jesus a lot i sure
encountered the love of god even through
people there was
such an unusual interaction in those
times you know you don’t
jesus said i gave them my glory that
they may be one there’s something
there’s something about the glory that
just makes everybody fit together
perfectly
it’s not through striving it’s not
through effort it’s not through
determination
it’s in the glory it fits and the reason
is
is that’s what we were designed for i
was designed
everything about me everything about me
that’s of him
was was designed to fit seamlessly
in the glory seamlessly
i’m actually wired in oh you are too
every born-again believer we’re actually
we’re actually wired to recognize him
and to respond to him and part of that
response is obedient so obedience is the
most natural thing in the world
in the presence you know if you can
imagine isaiah 6 where isaiah says i see
the lord he’s high
lifted up train fills the temple this
overwhelming
this overwhelming baptism of presence
where he sees the throne of god
and then he hears god say not to him
but in conversation in heaven who will i
send
see there’s something about in the glory
the glory is is not just to
absorb and walk away blessed it’s to be
impacted by so that we impact everything
around us
and and the lord asked this question he
said who will i send and i it says
i’ll go i can always tell when people
are truly in the glory because they want
to serve
now you can want to serve without being
in the glory but when you do
the heart of god is what launches you
it’s not it’s not my ministry goals that
matter it’s it’s not
you know it’s not me fighting to see my
gift expressed or appreciated or
whatever
all that stuff just dies it just dies
it’s so
unimportant in that moment it’s
embarrassing to discuss
because in that moment all you know is i
hear a heartbeat
and that heartbeat has become my
heartbeat
and something has shifted and changed at
least in this moment
how i see life and i remember
i remember that that five month period
of time
as there was yesterday because
it has become yesterday
ten days or so ago in the tent with the
students last sunday night
was the same kind of a same kind of a
moment
in the tent i don’t know maybe we’re
just built for tents
maybe maybe i don’t know maybe we should
just do the big old revival tent and get
it over with you know
there’s i don’t know there’s some i
don’t know what it is i i don’t
understand it at all but i know that
last sunday night i experienced it again
it was he he was there and that’s all
you know that’s what the glory is is to
manifest the presence of jesus
he was just there you say well he’s here
he’s with me now that’s true i i get
that
but there are so many dimensions of his
presence that
that no matter what you’re experiencing
there’s more
and the key to more is stewarding what
you’ve been given
it doesn’t matter if it’s money
anointing gifting doesn’t french
friends doesn’t matter what it is the
key to increase is always stewarding
what you have well
and there are there have been times in
my life where
as i stated earlier that that presence
that glory would come
so strong in that little sanctuary up up
in the mountains that
i would just become nervous and find
something else to do and so
i don’t say this in shame embarrassment
i’m just saying this is reality there’s
no increase in that moment i found my
limit
and so somehow coming into that place of
presence again
and again and again
with whatever in me needs to yield
so that there can be more
i can’t describe it but that’s the
journey
you see he’s got us on one track
there’s he has one ambition base you
know i mean
a lot of dreams for us i don’t want to
make it overly simple but
there’s this statement in haggai
chapter two i i will never forget when i
first
read this as a pastor in weaverville it
just
lapped at me it’s it’s haggai chapter 2
which is
one of the small little guys he’s kind
of hard to find him
if you get to matthew just turn left if
you get to daniel turn right he’s in
there
but he he says several things here that
i think would be
worth noting and then i want to talk to
you a bit about where we’re headed
where where where we’re headed according
to him
verse 5 according to the word that i
covenanted with you when you came out of
egypt
so my spirit remains among you
do not fear the presence of the lord
makes fear
illegal the presence of the lord
is a partnership with a foreign spirit
for thus says the lord verse 6 once more
it is a little while i will shake heaven
and earth the seed the dry land i will
shake all the nations
and they shall come to the desire of all
nations
my translation highlights this phrase in
this way desire referring to jesus as
the desire of the nations
and i i will fill this temple
with glory says the lord of hosts
the silver is mine the gold is mine says
the lord of hosts
and here’s our phrase the glory of this
latter temple shall be greater
than the former if god is in charge
there’s always an increase of glory
if we are we just build monuments to
what has happened in the past
we build them in our theology we build
them in our experience we build them in
our
routines our disciplines they all
shout to the past but there’s something
that is always expanding in the presence
it’s this
it’s this intangible thing called the
the glory of god that is always
deepening and always i don’t know
i don’t think we ever arrived to be
honest with you i
i’ve got a feeling that heaven is uh is
going to be one continuous journey
deeper into the glory and there is no
limit there’s not an end it’s not like
okay father says that’s all there is
sorry we’ll have to exist the next
hundred billion years just with what you
got
there it’s just this unending journey
into the presence into the glory
ephesians 2 talks about the riches of
his grace which is one of the
expressions of glory
and in that phrase in ephesians 2 he
says that in the ages to come
we would discover the surpassing riches
of his grace ages to come
the billions of years ahead of time off
in eternity in those
ages there would be the continuous
unveiling of yet a deeper level of this
mystery called grace
and that mystery of grace always
introduces us
to glory
we find different stories in scripture
that
um
that they they rock me uh i’m assuming
they do
you as well ii chronicles chapter five
is one of them
it’s this amazing moment in the
dedication
of the temple solomon had
well let me back up david his dad
had discerned that there was a shift
actually there was a shift in worship
but more specifically
david perceived a reality that existed
in heaven that was not discovered in the
law
it was not revealed in the law
and david started to realize in his
relationship with the lord that the lord
wasn’t interested in the blood of bulls
and goats it doesn’t mean it didn’t
count it was
important for that season but it had its
it had its limits it had its
its measure of impact it wasn’t the
it wasn’t where god’s people were going
to land was on the
sacrifice of animals that’s not the
landing point that was
the illustration that got them ready for
the real lamb of god that once and for
all settled the issue
but david somehow discovered this in his
journey with the lord and
the prophets nathan and gad confirmed
what he was picking up it says in
chronicles later
he picked up this shift in in worship
and and that the lord was actually
looking for the sacrifice of the heart
the contrite heart the yieldedness the
fruit of the lips that gives thanks or
praise to his name the lord is actually
looking for
for people to put themself on the altar
as an offering to him
and it’s not because he’s an egotist
that needs our affirmation he’s quite
secure
he’s he’s he doesn’t need anything i
hear people say well he
he he needs our like he doesn’t need our
love he doesn’t need anything he’s
he’s very self-sufficient while the son
holy spirit they make a real good team
they don’t need anything but they desire
many things
they desire many things they desire my
heart they desire
but it adds something to them that
nothing else and everything that they
have made
could add and he desires yours and it’s
that
wonderful that beautiful expression of
just turning our
our attention our affection towards him
see the war that’s been going on over
this last
year with the pandemic and all the other
stuff is it’s a war for attention
because the enemy wants to dilute your
affection it’s always
to divert attention to defile affection
and there’s something about this this
reconnection with presence
that is is home
it’s just home it’s it’s home it’s like
everything else is where i’m visiting
this is actually home
i’m set out from home i get to do all
this stuff but this is home
this seamless connection with this
manifest presence of jesus the seamless
connection between
my surrendered heart and his heart for
me is just the most
beautiful thing
and so when solomon becomes king he
builds a temple we
many are familiar with the story so it’s
a truly truly wonderful
story but he built it with the materials
that david
set aside for him you know solomon’s
given the credit for this extravagant
building but it was david’s wealth that
built it
he set the stuff aside as this
father-son thing it was like the only
time i could find in history
um where if i can call this revival what
david was experiencing
where a revival increased in the next
generation for solomon
now solomon didn’t sustain it tragically
or everything would be different but he
didn’t but for for a brief season
there was an acceleration and
where they learned the value the beauty
of
ministering directly to the lord not
just for the lord and
and you know they had to still do the
blood sacrifice
because there had to be that point of
obedience that they
never lost sight of that sin is only
dealt with through blood
it had to be established in their
thinking and yet here’s the rub
the blood of bulls and goats can’t deal
with it it only postpones the penalty
for one more year
and so there’s this constant reminder
they need the
lamb of god they need that the law was
given as a tutor a teacher
an instructor that that would lead them
to christ and so all of this is a part
of that journey
but throughout this journey they got to
taste
moments of grace
grace was not just introduced in the new
in the new testament
grace is seen all through the old
testament there’s just moments
there’s just moments where there’s no
other explanation but god just has mercy
on
abraham and considers him righteous
because he believed that’s grace
that’s great he said actually that story
became a new testament model it became
the prototype
for every new testament believer it
happened in the old testament happened
before the law it’s extraordinary what
takes place through
all these moments where there’s just
this like just little windows that open
to
let us see what grace looks like another
one i i’m thinking of is when
when there was this in nehemiah’s day
where he uh
in in nehemiah eight they they found the
scriptures again they had had it for
a generation or more and so they’re
they’re standing in the open square and
everybody’s there i mean everybody kids
babies infants
everybody is there and they’re all
standing at attention as the word is
read
and this there’s this there’s this
overwhelming conviction that comes on
the people because
they see god’s standard is here as the
word is read that they’ve not heard
probably in their entire lifetime
god’s standard is here and their
lifestyles down here and they begin to
weep
and to mourn because they didn’t qualify
and the priest ran among the people said
stop mourning this day is holy
i don’t know how you grew up but i grew
up thinking morning and holy were
synonymous
you know the more you wept the more you
were able to illustrate how holy the
moment was and
and it was it was it was actually the
tears of mourning
in that moment defiled the holiness of
god
and so the priest ran among the people
and they said stop it
stop it send portions
to those who have nothing grab your food
grab the meat grab the wine grab
all these things that you have in a
family feast get them together
and start rejoicing because you
understood the words
that’s stunning god’s standards here my
my lifestyle is here and god says the
time to rejoice
is when you understand it changes
everything
you actually rejoice your way into
maturity
sounds like a child most of us need to
grow down
instead of grow up
so here we are in this moment fast
forward to solomon’s day he builds this
temple and it’s time to dedicate this
i’m going to assume the most extravagant
building that’s ever existed
man i would love to see it
and so here’s this moment where the
priests have come together
and i remind you uh exodus 19
verse 6 and isaiah 61 verse 7
announce to the people of god you shall
be
priests under the lord second peter 2
verse 9 says you are
priests under the lord old testament
pointed to the future said it’s help
it’s going to happen
peter and the book of revelation chapter
1 i think it’s verse 5
announce it’s not coming it is now
you have the right and responsibility to
minister
directly to him so everything we see of
that
nature of that of that uh that function
in in the old testament is is to seed
the cloud just to give us insight and
so here we have um we have all these
priests gathered together
and we have verse 12 let’s just start
there says
the levites who were singing all those
of asaph and haman
and jeduthen with their sons with their
brethren stood at the east end of the
altar
clothed in white linen they had to wear
linen they couldn’t wear wool because if
they wore wool they would sweat
and there was nothing you could do on
your own works sweat
in the presence of god everything was to
be by grace
so here’s another glimpse you’re never
there by your works
and that was that was the insistence of
the lord they had
symbols stringed instruments harps and
with them 120 priests sounding trumpets
man that had to be something
i mean there were entire family lines
their whole job was just to play
trumpets
and you think about it almost seemed
silly a whole nother family line
they were singers a whole nother group
they were just symbol players the whole
point was they had to become excellent
what they were doing
and they were to carry on that mantle
throughout their family line
120 priests sounding trumpets verse 13.
it came to pass
when the trumpeters the singers were as
one
to make one sound
yeah but i want to stand out no you
don’t
no no you don’t you’re privileged to be
a part of the whole
it’s not about you it’s not about me
whenever as one to make one sound to be
heard in praising
and thanking the lord when they lifted
up their voice with the trumpets
and symbols and instruments of music and
praised the lord saying for he is good
for his mercy endures forever that the
house
the house of the lord was filled with a
cloud
so that the priest could not continue
ministering because the cloud for the
glory of the lord had filled the house
what did we read in haggai the glory of
the latter house will be filled
will be greater than the former it’s
always his intent to take us from glory
to glory
anything less is man’s influence
it’s always his intent to take us from
glory to glory
doesn’t come because it’s my goal
it comes because i surrender to his
so here in this moment we find i don’t
know how many are there there’s at least
120 there
that are playing trumpets then you’ve
got probably the same amount or more
that are singers you’ve got the symbols
you’ve got stringers you’ve got all this
stuff so you get this
massive massive crowd and they’re all
playing not for the nation of israel
they are playing
for the audience of one we are playing
to him directly
to him every strum
every clanging symbol every
every syllable that is lifted up in song
everything
is for the one and when that happened
and it became
a united sound when they sang as one
with horns
that’s a miracle right there when all of
that comes together
as one sound
the cloud the cloud came
and so filled the temple nobody had to
stand up and say i think it’d be
appropriate if we went to our knees
right now just to honor the lord
i i believe those moments are fine i’ve
done it and probably will do it again
who knows
day’s not over but it wasn’t that kind
of a moment it was an involuntary
i’ve got to hide my face from the one
who just entered the room
here’s the deal this all happened under
an inferior covenant and inferior
covenants
do not release superior blessings
if what happens in this context
happened in the old testament when they
were just
learning what it was to sing to the lord
and to honor him and
to give offerings of thanksgiving and
praise if
if it would happen in that environment
then how much more has he not
designed it to happen here with us
i remember a prophetic song we had in
weberville
prophetic songs were as the song of the
lord with the lord himself
is is singing i mean i didn’t hear his
voice but we
we heard through another voice i
remember the word he said did i not
fill the tabernacle of moses with my
glory
did i not fill the temple of solomon
with my glory
how much more should i fill the place
that i build with my own hands
my beloved i’m building you
no matter what we throw into the mix our
ambitions for
our families our countries our cities or
whatever just
put it all in the pile
it is all
profoundly impacted
the glory
where is this thing headed i
i can’t shake the fact that his goal
is for the whole earth to be filled with
his glory
now he’s god he can make that happen now
but it would be a military invasion it
wouldn’t be through partnership
see his longing is always to accomplish
the significant
things through co-laboring through the
yieldness of his people
those who’ve been made in his image
created in his image would respond with
likeness with the same heart as he has
to model to illustrate to release to
activate his will in the earth
and that’s the heart of god that’s the
heart of god that’s the privilege that
we have in this hour
we we know his heart i may be confused
by a thousand things but the one thing
that’s not confusing not if i read this
the one thing is not confusing is he has
got me on a track
it’s not a road where i can take
directions i want it’s a railroad track
you don’t turn the direction has been
set
you can stop you can go backwards but
you can’t change the assigned direction
the direction
is from glory to glory
from glory to glory
so i remember
i’ve been uh sentimentally stirred up in
the last
week or so just in my own private little
world
remembering i’ll never forget the sunday
sitting
right down there where brian my son
happened to be leading a worship that
sunday
he may have played two chords i’ve
always said it was one but it might have
he might have gone to a second chord but
something happened on that second
chord where he
filled the room
and we didn’t get to our first song for
40 minutes
and no one was keeping track it was
after a fact you look back
why because some something happens when
he comes in
everything that was important to you you
can’t even remember
it’s not like ah i’ll bring it up later
no you can’t remember it
in in the manifest presence of the king
of glory
suddenly there’s only one thing on your
mind it’s what i was born for
i i was born for this seamless
interaction
between the king of glory who has made
me qualified because i could never
qualify myself
he’s qualified me to be here in this
moment
and it’s in those moments we hear him
say
who shall i send and without even
thinking the hand goes up
people who tell me i love to worship the
lord i don’t like to
i don’t like to leave that place
i’m not sure they saw him yet
i’m not sure they actually saw him
because i’m not sure you can see his
heart
and not want to go i i don’t know if
it’s possible
to sit in that moment where where you
see him or
where there’s overwhelming sense of who
he is and what he’s like and
then he says who shall i ascend and you
find your hand going up said i’ll
i’ll do it you name it i’ll do it i’m
there
i don’t know what i’m doing but i trust
you go with me
i’ll go i i’m not sure that
anybody who wants to just sit there and
and do nothing has actually seen
what they claim to have seen
there’s there’s something about
who shall i send i’ll go there’s
something about that moment of going
where that glory never leaves you it’s
not like i’m departing the glory
it’s like i’m i’m going to now enter
into a greater realm of glory
because i will now be an instrument in
his hand
and perhaps that is how the whole earth
becomes filled with this glory as people
in the presence
carry the presence to bring change
i believe you know i i teach a lot
unfulfilled dreams and
you know the desires that we have i
believe they’re meaningful to god
i i do all that i haven’t changed my
tune at all
but i
i have been strangely apprehended again
for something that’s way bigger than us
i love us but this one’s bigger than us
this one’s bigger than us
i remember that one sunday morning where
brian hit i think it was the second cord
and and he just
i don’t know how to describe it you know
it’s afterwards in the moment you don’t
know what to do
you know afterwards you look back and go
man he just walked into the room
and that was that kind of a moment i’ll
never forget that we’ve only had that
happen on that level
one time in 25 years
but i remember a sunday night where the
worship team was playing and they’re
another one of those moments where the
glory just came in
and everybody up here just stopped
and everybody out here just stopped
and it was almost like we were suspended
in time
you know you know how people get nervous
when nothing’s happening you know like
somebody especially in
pentecostal circles somebody need to
pray in tongues or prophesy or
laugh or get out and dance or do
something you know it’s like we get
nervous with blank spaces there was no
nervousness with that blank space
because he filled the blank space
he he just came into the blank space and
all of a sudden
you didn’t have to tell people turn your
affection to him it’s just there was
just
silence i don’t remember ever hearing
silence
for that long in a in a crowd that likes
to make noise
it was like the ultimate offering was
just to shut up
but yet nobody said or suggested it was
just
it’s what you do when he enters the room
you find everything that you could think
of to say is completely meaningless
and i’m hungry for that again
i’ve had tastes in the last
10 days or so at levels
measures that i’ve not had
for a while and it tells me
that we’re being set up
and it’s going to be good
but it won’t be about you and it won’t
be about me
he has set something in motion
and he wants us to see that he was
absolutely
serious when he said it the glory of the
latter house
would be greater than the former the
context was there were people that
saw the temple before it was destroyed
and then rebuilt and they remember
both and the first one solomon was just
incredibly glorious and the second one
wasn’t near as beautiful
and so you had you had two groups of
people there some were laughing for joy
because look the temple’s built and
others were weeping man it’s nothing
like it used to be
and so that prophecy was very very
specific
in in other words this thing that you
see over here that’s not it
i’m going to do something in the earth
that is going to be way more glorious
than even solomon’s temple
which silenced and stunned the leaders
of nations god will do it again in this
house that’s you
and that’s me
i feel like there’s an invitation i i
wasn’t sure how to
how to label this talk this conversation
with you today but
to me i i can’t talk about it without
feeling invited
without feeling compelled
now dissatisfaction
is a holy holy gift
see sometimes our satisfaction
in the absence of revival is what
prohibits revival
as that i’m actually okay without it
sometimes the absence of the manifest
presence of the king of glory
sometimes my satisfaction in those
moments may be the very thing
that propels
that glory so here’s
here’s an invitation i’d like for
everybody watching
to join me in this very very simple
prayer
god i can’t make myself suitable
but i can surrender
and there are people right now watching
you don’t even have a personal
relationship with
with the lord jesus christ and this is
the most
unusual message ever to invite you into
the family but i’m going to do it anyway
in this moment you have this sense some
of you in your homes
there’s going to be this sense of
presence you’ve never seen before you’ve
never felt before you’ve never realized
before
but it’s happening now i had that sense
early this morning that there would be
this
encounters with the lord himself in your
home i love the corporate gathering but
there’s see it was in my one-on-one
stuff that helped me to realize the
corporate stuff
so wherever you’re at some of you have
never surrendered to jesus i want you
just to simply pray this prayer and in
in the online chat room tell somebody
what you’ve done
but it’s just praying this prayer of god
i give you my entire life
that you would be glorified do in me
whatever pleases you that your name
would be exalted
do in my family in my home
that which delights your heart
see the scripture says the lord speaks
at one point he says for i’m not ashamed
to be called their god
i would like everybody watching this to
have the lord shout
over your actual home the physical home
that you live in
i would love to see the lord of glory
stand over your household and shout to
everything that exists i am
not ashamed to be called their god
there’s something about to be released
in the earth
and it’s through surrendered people so
father we pray right now i ask that you
would use
this overwhelming sense of presence and
that you disciple us
this way you teach us this way that we
would never be
satisfied with anything less than you
again like moses we want to say if
you’re not taking us we don’t want to go
up from here we don’t want to go just
blessed we don’t want to go just with
favor and open doors
if you’re not going if your presence
isn’t that which makes us different than
everyone else and we don’t want to go
anywhere
so i’m praying that i’m praying that for
us us this tribe this family
the bethel family all over the world
mark us with the glory
god i invite you interrupt our dream
time
teach us what you like teach us open up
new
pathways of discernment and perception
in our
physical body our hearts our minds that
we just expand our ability to recognize
you the glorious one
and that somehow that would be the
contagious factor
not a pandemic not a virus but a
contagious factor called
the glory of god the glory of god has
become
known in the earth that’s what we want
so i invite you to do that with us as a
family and i
give you things amen
if if you invited jesus
into your life please tell someone on
the
in the chat room if you’re a believer
that has just really really really
find yourself fighting with what god is
saying and doing
you know pray with somebody on the in
the chat room as well
we just want everyone to have this
ongoing encounter with king jesus
amen god bless you thanks for joining us
love you much