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THE DEMINSION OF GLORY – BISHOP FRANK DUPRÉE

HOW TO RELEASE THE GLORY AUTHOR/SPEAKER LARRY THOMPSON

WHERE IS THE GLORY – MATTHEW DEVES LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE – PASTOR RYAN SUTTON CHASING THE SUN – DR. GLEN HARTLINE SEPTEMBER 2016- Published by Worship & Word Fellowship & Ministries, Inc.

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Thank you for viewing/reading our magazine this month! The writers this month will be talking about the Glory of God. What is the Glory? Where is the Glory? and many other questions you may have. I pray these and many more questions will be answered in this issue of Faith Unlimited.

Should you have any questions for any of the authors, you can see their contact information toward the back of the magazine, or you can send a note to me and I will pass it on at: Faye.faithunlimited@gmail.com … God bless you!

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Faye Hanshew Publisher Editor

Dr. Bill Hanshew Co-Publisher Co-Editor

Articles Drink in the Glory The Dimension of Glory Let Your Light Shine Where is the Glory From One Degree of Splendor to Another The Glory of God Revealed How to Release the Glory See the Glory Chasing the Sun The Fire of God – The Truth of God’s Word God’s Glory Works Miracles Teen Warriors --Will be back in October-Grace and the Whiz Kids The Apostles

Dr. Bill Hanshew Bishop Frank Duprée Pastor Ryan Sutton Matthew Deves Dr. Dan L. Corse Rev. Leon Gosiewski Author/Speaker Larry Thompson Pastor Kumar Raju Komannapalli Dr. Glen Hartline Evangelist Ernest Nelson K. Nanor Rev. Melissa Smith-Shepherd The Girl Next Door Grace Martin

Books and CD’s The Three R’s of Revival and Awakening Dr. Dan L. Corse The Power of Influence, Dr. Theodore Dones Being Fully Persuaded, The Power of Access, Decisions, Faith Worth Finding, and Works of Faith Wholeheartedly!

Genice Fulton The Fig Tree Has Sprouted, Rev. Leon Gosiewski Awake! Rise & Glow, and Christianity Mis-Sold Spread a Little Love, God’s Love Dr. Bill Hanshew Quotes of Inspiration from the Heart of God Treasures of the Messiah Amos Long Where Precious Gems Hide Katie-Anne Martin Destined to be Loved Matthew 4:4 Evangelist/Teacher Rick McKnight The Crocked Legged Foal Danielle Norris The Power of Grace Dr. Larry Ollison Decisions, Decisions, and more Decisions Nick Schneider The Gospel of the Glory Author/Speaker Larry Thompson What About Job? Tom Tompkins You Don’t Have to be Sick Anymore!

John Woolston

I received a testimony from a good friend in India who accepted Jesus. I am so very proud of him for his stand for Jesus Christ, and I am also very proud of him for giving this testimony in our magazine! God Bless You Soni!

Faye - Editor

I was born in a non-Christian family. I wanted to search for GOD. I believed in my heart that GOD loves me and HE is always with me. I read religious text of my religion and other religions too.

One day, I saw Christian testimonies on YouTube and I was attracted to the strong believers. My mind and my heart wanted to know who my GOD is. I searched for my GOD and HE showed me HIS love and care by giving me baptism on 1 January, 2016.

I accepted JESUS in my heart. I would be correct to say that JESUS is who accepted me. I feel proud to know my GOD. I know HE loves me and HE will always be with me in good or bad times. I love to worship HIM. His words give peace to my heart and makes me smile every day and every moment.

I pray to GOD that this wonderful magazine by sweet editor Sir Bill & Faye reaches to every person. May GOD make us all good humans and strong believers.

Please take care my dear family.

Soni A.

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Dr. Bill G. Hanshew

Genesis 3:7 says, “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”

Concerning “the glory of God,” or the phrase, “glory to God,” the first reference speaks of God’s Glory and the second speaks of our giving glory, honor and praise to God. Yet the word “Glory” may be used in many applications; such as, dignity, glory or glorious, and also means honor, praise or worship. At the very base of its meaning is the phrase “to show.”

In Exodus 33:18 Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory.”

This original word for “Glory” as used here speaks of weight, or to be heavy. It simply means that God wants “to show” you just how big He can be in your life. There is nothing that God loves more than showing off or demonstrating to you that He is God and that He loves you.

So how do we get this glory?

God’s glory comes the same way as your salvation does, which by grace, through faith and it is to be accepted or received as a free gift from God. At creation, God clothed man in His Glory. And even though Adam and Eve were naked physically, they were still clothed or covered in His glory. When they sinned, Genesis 3:7 says, “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.” In other words, the covering of God’s glory was

lifted, and out of the sin nature, Adam and Eve made natural coverings for themselves. Their supernatural covering was removed, so they attempted to create artificial glory. However, this did not change Father God’s opinion of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve’s perspective of the situation is what had changed.

Man’s mindset is what was really altered.

In the New Testament, Jesus came to restore the covering of God’s glory for those who will receive Him. And although God wanted close, personal, face to face fellowship with His creation, the new mindset had entered into man’s thinking. In John 17:22, Jesus said, “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them,” speaking of His disciples in that day. But today, we are His disciples. Then He says, “that they may be one just as We are one:” As Jesus spoke to His disciples that day, symbolically He was speaking to the church of today, saying that walking in His Glory will cause the church to “be one just as {the Father and Son} are one.”

God did not leave mankind, but it was Adam that walked away.

However, Adam and Eve were so one that scripture does not even record them having a cross word or a division between them. It should be that we today follow the same pattern of God’s design for wearing His Glory. This will cause you and I to dwell together in unity as believers and as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ should. And the same should take place in our marriages, extended families, friendships and

business relationships, once this knowledge is obtained.

Having this understanding of wearing or being clothed in God’s Glory is the requirement needed for you and I to graze upon or into the glory and continue being transformed into His likeness, inside and out. Jesus Christ made the ultimate sacrifice, which was required for us to be restored to the understanding of wearing God’s Glory.

The best way to survive in this life is to realize that Jesus went to the cross to restore the Glory of God to mankind. Jesus restored us to a right understanding of the Father’s love for us. When you received your salvation by faith, Jesus became your Savior and the Glory of God instantaneously enveloped you. From that moment forward, you are restored to a love relationship with God. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding {or ‘to gaze’} as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image {as Jesus} from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” This word “transformed” comes from compound word meaning the following. First “meta” which denotes accompaniment; and second, morphoo meaning to fashion through the idea of adjustment of parts. So the Holy Spirit will help your thinking to become fashioned into the image of God’s Son, as long as you are willing to receive His guiding adjustments as needed. And we all need some adjustments in life.

God will not force or make you change your thinking about anything.

However, this transformation comes as an act of your will, allowing the Holy Spirit to bring a change in your thinking, conforming to what God has done in Christ.

The path to any successful relationship begins with accepting Jesus and wearing or being clothed with the glory you were created to wear. And you do that by placing your faith in His finished work. It is the Glory of God that makes us one in Christ and it is the same Glory that keeps us one with Christ. And Christ Jesus will always be the common denominator.

Do you recall some of your experiences of being touched by the Glory of God? Treasure each moment, because when the Glory of God is manifested in you, the deposit that is left behind from what you see, feel or know in each of those precious moments, is called “His Glory” and that is when God, by the Holy Spirit steps into your time zone, out of the realm you were created to live in, just “to show” Himself big to you, as your Father God. Those are times when as your worship Him, you simply drink in His glory!

By faith, you have received the presence of your Father God – living and abiding in you each moment of your life. Adam and

Eve had regular visitations from God. But because of Jesus Christ, Father God desires to have a habitation with you and in you. Or in other words, God dwells in you, or lives in you. This means that when you were born again {or aware of God}, God moved in by you accepting Who you came from.

The nakedness of Adam and Eve was symbolic of our own flaws or shortcomings. But, God wants you to be more conscious of His Glory that envelops you, instead of your day to day flaws. So accept the fact that you wear the Glory of God and wear it well today, through your relationship with Jesus and fellowship with Father God. …Think about it!

by: Bishop Frank DuprĂŠe

In 2 Kings 6:8-17 we are told the story of how one of the enemies of Israel, the Syrians, surrounded Elisha in the city of Dothan. They had been searching everywhere for him because he kept getting revelations from The Lord and shared them with the King of Israel and all the Syrian battle plans kept being ruined. When they surrounded the City Elisha’s servant saw them as he began his daily chores and he cried out to Elisha: “What will we do?”

Elisha already had the peace of God and knew what The Lord was going to do and it tells us verse 17: “And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.

And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

This passage demonstrates the truth of “The Three Dimensions” 1.

The Natural World around us 2.

The Spiritual World; in ancient days this was called “The Heavens” 3.

And, God’s Heaven which is “the Heaven above the heavens”.

Elisha was one of those people who was familiar with all three dimensions. He knew that two of these realms or dimensions coexist side by side and that God’s realm is above them.

There is a powerful truth that we must understand if we want to understand God’s Glory…

Psalm 22:3 brings it to light. It says that The Lord inhabits our praises…

Inhabiting our Praises has a two meanings in Hebrew…

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Picture a lion crouches down in the bush waiting to pounce upon its prey.

That’s what it means. Just when the enemy thought they had them The Lord sent His heavenly hosts and ambushed them!

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Now picture a King sitting on his throne ready to pronounce a sentence on an offender. That’s what The Lord does when we praise Him. He sits on the Throne of Glory that our praises have built for Him and He throws our enemies into prison!

Here is another battle story to where this truth is brought out…

In 2 Chronicles 20 Hezekiah goes out against a superior army.

He sets the singers and musicians in front of the army and has them “praise the beauty of Holiness” and the Lord ambushes the enemy. God was inhabiting the praises of His people!

In the “Heaven above the heaven” we understand that is where the Throne Room of God is. You may ask; “What is the Throne Room of God?” Well, let’s think about it. Is it a place to relax, sit back and rest or hang out? No! It’s a place of business… Kingdom Business.

The Throne Room is in the third dimension; the Heaven above the Heavens.

When we are in our prayer room and we meet with God He may come in many different ways. He might come as our counselor, our

comforter, our guide, our teacher, our friend, etc.

BUT when we come together and praise Him a “Portal” opens up and we enter into “The Heaven above the heavens”. When God meets us in Corporate Praise He does not come to relax and hang out with us. No, He comes as The King of Glory! He comes to do Kingdom Business!

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Again we can look to the Book of Psalm 24:7-10 where it says: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and The King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.”

When we gather Corporately and lift up our heads in praise we move into another dimension and spiritually speaking, we are like gates that God comes through as the King of Glory.

Now, let me introduce you to THE GLORY MANDATE - THY WILL BE DONE… Have you ever thought about the Lord’s Prayer when Jesus told us

to say: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”? Now think about “Glory” Heaven is full of God’s Glory and God wants it to be on earth as it is in Heaven…

The Prophet Isaiah went into the Throne Room of God and there he beheld the seraphim worshiping God flying back and forth around the Throne crying: “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Now, in the Hebrew the next part of the verse is important to understand from the Hebrew… it literally says: “The whole earth is to become full of His Glory”.

Now, as they cried out in worship and praise the very doors of the temple shook and the whole temple became full of Glory of God and the Prophet Isaiah saw that Glory as a cloud of smoke.

THE EARTH MUST BECOME FULL OF GLORY In Numbers 14:21 the Lord says: “But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.” What the Lord is talking about is a day when the whole earth shall literally see the Glory

of the Lord.

LIFT UP THE GATES Ezekiel saw that day… chapter 43:1-2 he says;

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“Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east: And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.”

You’ll notice that when he saw this it was because he was brought to a “gate.” Remember this from the Psalms? “Lift up your heads oh ye GATES and the King of Glory shall come in”?

When we praise God we become spiritual gates for God to enter into the dimension of the earth.

GOD’S THRONE IS ACTUALLY MADE OF GLORY When God appears this way we see that He comes as The King of Glory. Why “The King of Glory”? Because it is in Glory that

He manifests Himself! In the Throne Room His “train filled the temple”. That’s His Glory! God in enthroned on Glory! His Throne is not made of wood or metal… it’s made of Glory! Hallelujah!

Just as the angels filled the house of the Lord with a cloud of smoke as they praised Him we can, with our praises, build a Throne of Glory for Him to come and sit upon for the Lord inhabits our praises, ambushes our enemies, fights our battles and His will is done “On earth as it is in Heaven”!

So, get when you gather in Church on Sunday or at a Prayer Meeting or any time at all PRAISE THE LORD and open those spiritual gates for The King of Glory to come in!

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by: Pastor Ryan Sutton

Ryan Sutton began preaching in March 1997, at the age of 14.

He surrendered to the call to preach under the ministry of Rev. B.H. Clendennen at Victory Temple in Beaumont, Texas. Shortly thereafter he attended Brother Clendennen's School of Christ International and then traveled with him to India and Sweden. Brother Clendennen's early influence left a lasting impact on Ryan's ministry.

Ryan has preached throughout the USA and internationally. He has traveled to 15 foreign countries including Russia, China, Africa, Ukrai ne, Mexico, and Latin America. He is a dynamic speaker who preaches with insight and anointing beyond his years.

His unwavering commitment to prayer is evident in challenging preaching that is consistently confirmed by the power of the Spirit. His challenging messages of faith and victory are under -girded with a fourfold emphasis: raising the standard of truth and holiness, rebuilding th e altar of prayer and worship, releasing the fire of revival, and restoring God's message of power, passion, and love.

Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 60:2, "Darkness as black as night shall cover all the people of the earth......"

I'm sure you would agree that some of that darkness is settling over the earth today. What should be the Christians' response?

Should we talk about how bad it is? How hopeless things are?

Anybody can do that. If the lights go out in a room you don't need a prophet to say, "It's dark in here!" You need someone to flip a switch and turn the light on.

There is a positive side to Isaiah's prophecy, "...but the glory of the Lord will shine from you."

He challenges God's people to, "Arise! Shine! For your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you" (Isaiah 60:1).

You can sit around and talk about how bad things are, how dark it is, if you want to. You won't help anybody and you will get depressed in the process.

I'm going to turn on the light. I'm going to do what Jesus said we should do.

"Don't hide your light! Let it shine for all; let your good deeds glow for all to see, so that they will praise your Heavenly Father" (Matthew 5:15, 16 LB).

When the world sees a person who is filled with God's light and glory living an abundant, spirit – filled life, it will take notice.

Christianity is not a religion to be studied and followed. It is a life to be lived - a glorious, resurrected life empowered by the Holy Spirit. It is a life of light and love.

The Apostle Peter tells us in 1 Peter 2:9, “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."

The church is a nation among the nations. Our government is in heaven. Believers are citizens of another country. We are foreigners, pilgrims passing through this world. But we are here with a mission: a mission to make Jesus known among every tribe, kindred, nation, and tongue. We are here with a mission to be the light of the world. We are here to reflect the glory of God (2 Corinthians 3:17 NLT). We are here to fulfill the Great Commission: an impossible task without the Holy Spirit. Consider the challenge faced by the disciples coming out of the Upper Room. They were charged to preach Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The people they preached to believed that Jesus had died.

Many of them witnessed His execution. But, they did not believe the Resurrection. None of them saw it. Peter preached a powerful message to the world outside the Upper Room.

But the three thousand who were converted didn't repent just because they had heard a

powerful message. They were converted because the Holy Spirit dealt with their hearts and convinced them that Peter was preaching the truth. Without the manifestation of God's glory and the anointing of the Spirit, Peter's words would have fallen to the ground and the disciples would have been driven out of town. The crowd that gathered that day was affected by the same power and glory that transformed the disciples in the Upper Room. The multitude believed because the gospel came not in word only but in demonstration of the Holy Ghost and power (1 Corinthians 2:4; 4:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:5).

Can you imagine what it would have been like to face that hostile crowd with mere human resources? What if there had not been a Pentecost? Would the church have been born? No! It took power to plant the church in a hostile world. The devil knew the stakes. Jesus, through Holy Ghost filled disciples, was making a move to displace him and replace his kingdom with a new order. The devil realized that this was the beginning of a

kingdom that would rule the hearts of men. Unless it was stopped, he knew that the words of the prophet would be fulfilled: "Of the increase of his government [rule] and peace there shall be no end" (Isaiah 9:7). He knew that if this thing ever got outside of Jerusalem there would be no stopping it.

He knew that the glory of the Lord would cover the earth as the water covers the sea (Habakkuk 2:14).

That's why he summoned all his forces to stop it in its infancy.

And he would have succeeded except for one thing: The Holy Ghost had come to take up residence in the hearts of men.

The veil of the temple had been rent from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51). The presence of God, His Shekinah glory, had moved from the holy of holies to the hearts of believers. Without this glorious experience, this

outpouring of light and power, the disciples would have never gone forth to challenge the devil's kingdom. They would have remained in hiding behind locked doors, trembling in fear (John 20:19).

That fear would have kept their mouths as shut as the doors they were hiding behind. The power of the Holy Ghost made the difference. The glory of God that took up residence in their hearts made the difference. It transformed fearful hearts into courageous hearts and thrust the disciples out of the Upper Room to confront the kingdom of darkness with boldness and power.

The baptism with the Holy Spirit filled the disciples with an inner resource sufficient to face fear and meet the challenge of life.

They became "strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might" (Ephesians 6:10)

through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Their inner life was raised to a higher level - a level adequate for the challenge of outer circumstances. Faith opened the doors and propelled them out of the Upper Room to boldly face the mob that had cried for the crucifixion of the Master.

We must operate with the same faith as these early disciples the faith of God (Mark 11:22).

We must arise and shine. Our light has come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon us. The glory of the Lord is abiding within us.

We must allow the Holy Spirit to manifest God's glory through us in a greater way than ever before. Darkness is covering the earth, but we are emanating God's light and reflecting God's glory. We are history makers and world changers! Let your light shine!

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Arise, shine; For your light has come!

And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

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For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth. And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, AND HIS GLORY WILL BE SEEN UPON YOU! Isaiah 60:1-2

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Dr. Andrezil Nickenson is not only a doctor, but also a Pastor.

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by: Matthew Deves

Matt Deves is a husband, dad, RN, teacher, and serial entrepreneur. He is cofounder of Two Guys and a Bible and the Fourteen 12 Radio Network. Find him by emailing matt@twoguysandabible.com

Please tell me that when you raised your hand and rushed to the front of the church to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior that the preacher told you that the very Glory of God was now going to take residence on the inside of you.

Tell me that the pastor said your spirit would be now filled with the same glory that Jesus had. 100%. Freely given with no take backs.

Regrettably, I’ll bet there’s not one of you reading this that can say you heard that from the pulpit. If you did, please give my contact details so I can personally thank them for telling you the Truth.

I like the definitions that Jesus gave the best. They are simple. Straight to the point, and the direct will of God. You might expect this kind of things to be in the red letters, like when Jesus was talking to His Dad in John 17:22: I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one. (Amplified) Has Given.

His Glory. Jesus gave you His Glory so you could be one in the Father.

That’s the Jesus explanation.

If you listen to the words of many modern-day worship songs, you may think that church folks are confused about the location of the glory of God. Songs that beg God to send his glory from heaven or to “show them His glory” may indicate to an outsider that

people think that God is keeping the glory in locked up in the heavenly vault only to let it out at special times. Don’t even get me started about letting the glory fall. Most of what you hear about the glory of God isn’t even in the Bible. The Holy Spirit isn’t into that. He likes the Jesus definition too.

Jesus completed His Glorygiving mission over 2000 years ago. In John chapter 14 He said that the Holy Spirit, “will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” People to this day plead with God to “show me your Glory?”

Father, I desire that they also whom You have entrusted to Me [as Your gift to Me] may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory, which You have given Me [Your love gift to Me]; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24 Amp) So according to these words of Jesus, wherever He is, that’s the location of the Glory. The whole earth saw His Glory. Glory came to earth as a baby and filled this planet with redemption. Now, Glory lives inside of you. It was a gift. How can the glory rain down, fall all around, and shine from heaven if the only rightful place for it to dwell is inside of you?

Jesus is the Glory. Hebrews 1:3 says that “He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and

He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God's] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high…” (Amp) If you believe the Glory is only in heaven until you cross over, Jesus and Paul have that misguided thinking covered. Jesus said to pray, Your will be done on earth, as it is being done in heaven, and that He, "raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). (Ephesians 2:6 Amp) Glory in heaven and heaven on earth. Glory in you here, you sitting in the Glory there. Inside and out. No falling.

In the Mirror Bible, Francois Du Toit translated these same verses from John in the proper context of intimacy with the Glory: And now, o Father, bestow the most intimate nearness of your own person upon me with the glory that I shared in your immediate presence even before the world was. And I, [the Incarnate word] have endued them with the same glorious esteem that you have given me so that their oneness may mirror ours. Father, I desire that what you have given me in them may cause them to be where I am so that they may see what I see and gaze

attentively upon the splendor of my glory which you have given me [in them] because you loved me before the fall of the world.

Thus the world will be persuaded that your love for them was never compromised because of the fall - you continued to love them the same! (John 17:5,22,24) Glorious esteem given so you can hang out and be one in Him. Thayer’s Dictionary lists 17 definitions of the word glory in the New Testament. The Greek word is doxa, and it has the simple meaning of “glory that is very apparent” from the

word that means judgment, and view.

opinion,

Jesus is God’s very visible opinion of you. Jesus is God’s very apparent expression of the Father’s Love for you. Today friends, Let Jesus provide the definition for the location of the Glory. It’s His Love gift, and He’s happy about it.

To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.

(Col 1:27 Amp)

by: Dr. Dan L. Corse

John 2:11 (NKJ) – This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (Goodspeed) – And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to Him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

By turning the water into wine at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, John tells us that Jesus manifested or revealed His glory to those present.

What did John mean by this?

Glory is from the transliteration doxa, which refers to the splendor or majesty of God centered in Jesus. In turning the water into wine, John is telling us that Jesus revealed His splendor or majesty to the people. Yet, this first of His miracles was but a foretaste of what was to come. Included in scripture are twenty-seven miracles of healing occurring after the miracle at the wedding feast, miracles that, among other things, revealed His splendor or glory to the people.

Sadly, many modern Christians think that the days in which God revealed His splendor and majesty through miracles and healings have passed. Some include in those days the lives of the Apostles of the Lamb (Peter, John, Matthew, etc.). Others

include in those days the completion of the Bible, telling us that with the completion of the Bible God no longer performed such miracles and healings, as there was and is no need. However, those who embrace such beliefs, in addition to often relying solely on a misinterpreted view of 1 Corinthians 13:10 that mistakes the coming of Jesus with the completion of the Bible, either are unaware of or choose to deny the testimonies of Christians long after the last Apostle of the Lamb died and the Bible was completed, testimonies of miracles and healings occurring up to and including our modern era.

Testimonies of miracles and healings are attributed to Theodore of Mopsueste in 429 A.D.; to Gregory the Great in 500 A.D.; to Peter Waldo in the 12th century; to Count Zinzendorf, a Bishop of the Moravian movement; to John Wesley’s diary from the 18th century; to the Holiness Revival in the late 19th century; and connected with Azusa Street, the Healing Revival, and the Charismatic Renewal, all occurring in the 20th century.

Members of local bodies who deny the continued existence of miracles and healings generally experience exactly what they say and believe related to miracles and healings, nothing. Faith for miracles and healings, like faith for salvation, comes by hearing and acting upon God’s word (Rom. 10:17).

Strong faith does not occur in an atmosphere void of His word, but such environments do readily promote confusion and unbelief related to biblical topics. Yet, among those who receive and appropriately act upon God’s word, demonstrations of God’s splendor and majesty through miracles and healings continue.

Furthermore, looking at mankind, it is obvious that God did not create mankind merely as spiritual beings with souls. He created mankind as spirits who have souls and live in bodies (1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 4:12). Physical sickness is but one of a myriad of ways that sin has ravaged God’s creation, mankind. As we live in physical bodies still attacked by sickness, it is still beneficial and needed that we experience God’s splendor and majesty in the form of miracles and healings that center on our physical bodies.

And, though Jesus did talk about being born again or born from above (John 3:1-8), often referred to as spiritual regeneration, He never implied, as some are wont to do, that spiritual regeneration

equated to healing, Spiritual regeneration, by definition, refers to a spiritual rebirth, not a healing. Individuals who experience spiritual regeneration, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJ) tells us are made “a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

New is not about being healed, but being made new in form, spiritually, not physically.

Recognizing that God’s glory is still revealed through miracles and healings that impact our physical bodies, let us now conclude by focusing on where that splendor and majesty currently resides, and its source. Paul, writing in

Colossians 1:27, reveals to us that Christ now dwells in us as believers. That means that the glory that was manifested in miracles and healings now resides in us. Jesus also stated in Acts 1:8 that when the Holy Spirit came upon us we would receive power, such power that was often demonstrated in the early Church in the form of miracles and healings. The manifested glory of the Holy Spirit that brought about miracles and healings in the early Church now resides in and upon us.

Understanding that His glory now resides with us, let us remember that John 14:12 (NKJ) assures us that the works which Jesus did we “will do also.” That means that the

splendor and majesty Jesus manifested through miracles and healings He now desires to reveal through us as believers, as we are led by His Spirit, praying for and laying hands on others, doing the works that He created us to do (Eph. 2:10). Yet, 2 Corinthians 3:18 (Goodspeed) assures us that there is more. For, as we grow in His image, the glory that is revealed through us will progress from “one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” And, if tempted to haughtiness regarding this being so, let us always remember that the source of the splendor and majesty dwelling in us finds its source in Him, not us.

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by: Rev. Leon Gosiewski

‘Arise, shine: for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you’ (Isaiah 60:1).

Before we can begin to talk about the glory of God revealed to us, we really need to ask and fully understand the question, ‘what is God’s glory?’

When we understand this widely misinterpreted point, we will also know what and when God’s glory is truly revealed to us.

The first thing that we must quickly dispel from our thinking, is the misunderstanding that the glory of God is a feeling, object or thing such as, a burning bush, a cloud, a pillar of fire, or an aura, such as the falling of golden dust or corona.

Much of the confusion about God’s glory has come from a term that is not found in Scripture, the shekinah, which is a word coined originally by Jewish Rabbis in what is widely accepted as post-biblical rabbinic literature. Its original and genuine intended purpose was to describe the noticeable appearance or dwelling of God, such as that described in 2 Chronicles 7: 1 – 3 where fire came from heaven and entered the Temple. In this sense, the Shekinah is Scriptural in that it describes a sign that indicates the actual presence of God. Unfortunately, deeper confusion arose because the Shekinah, over the passage of time became known and misused as the Shekinah glory, or the Shekinah glory of God, but it is not the same as the glory of God. The biblical Hebrew word for glory, in the context of talking

about God’s glory, is kabowd.

This is a word that when translated into English means the overwhelming weight or abundance of splendour and magnificence. Today we might say that it is the radiant or brilliant and stunning character of who God is. It is the disclosure of who He is; His nature, charisma, holy qualities and power. Clearly, this is more than a sign of God’s presence through, by way of example, the fire coming from heaven as described in 2 Chronicles 7: 1 – 3, it is the being of God Himself.

To explain what I am trying to say more clearly, let’s take a brief look at Exodus 33: 7 – 23. In verses 7 – 11 we read here that Moses met with God by pitching a tent outside the camp of the Israelites. It was a place where he could get away and be alone with God. The people knew that God was with Moses because a sign, in the form of a pillar of cloud (Shekinah) would descend on the tent, standing guard at its door. Whilst this was taking place the people, seeing the sign of God’s presence worshipped Him, but they did not know His glory (kabowd).

As we read Exodus 33: 12 – 16 we find Moses asking to know God’s ways and to know Him and His leading (verse 13). God responded by promising Moses that His presence and rest would be with him (verse 14). We then read that in fact Moses actually wanted more than His presence (Shekinah) and rest; his hunger was to go a step further in his desire and appeal. He did not just want to know God’s presence and so he now boldly says what he really meant, ‘show me your

glory’ (Exodus 33: 18). What Moses had actually done at this point was to say to God, I not only want to get to know about you in all your splendour. I want to know who you really are, your character, personality and power; your kabowd, your glory.

God’s response to Moses was to explain that neither Moses, nor any man could actually look directly at Him because His awesome holiness would cost him his life. But God did the next best thing and said that, ‘I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name, ‘The Lord’ (verse 19). The goodness of God, His greatness, holiness and sovereignty were gloriously revealed.

In the boldness and longing of his request, Moses was not only able to behold and glimpse the glory of God; and to know who He really is (verse 22, 23), but this revelation also brought with it a closeness and unity. Moses had a spiritual encounter that enabled him to see the glory of God. That glory is everything that makes God who He is. His character was clearly exposed.

As children of God we have the same right of access to supernaturally meet with God. We too can ask to have God’s glory revealed to us. In fact Jesus said, ‘the glory which you gave to me: I have given to them that they may be one, even as we are one’ (John 17:22). Isaiah also said, ‘arise, shine; … the glory of the Lord has risen upon you’ (see Isaiah 60: 1).

When we meet with the glory of God it will cause us to rise up and shine. And so it is that through

God’s glory we are graciously brought into unity and as Jesus said, ‘If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him’ (John 14: 7).

Scripture clearly tells us that every true believer not only can, but should experience and understand the glory of God. Paul puts it this way, ‘Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?’ (1 Corinthians 3: 16). God lives in us, that is why we also read, ‘For this is what the high and exalted One says-- he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite’ (Isaiah 57: 15).

Revival is the product of God’s glory; heaven revealed on earth.

The revealing of God’s glory will transform and change us. It will unify us to and with Him. It will cause us to worship Him in a way that is spiritually deep, pure and loving. But there is more because, when the glory of God is supernaturally revealed to us it will alter our countenance; people will know that we are in close relationship with God (see what happened to Moses Exodus 34: 29 – 35).

Just as Moses walked with God one day and the next God’s glory was willingly revealed to him, so that can and should happen to us. If we want to know God’s glory revealed to us we must walk in humble, contrite, loving and faithful holiness. If there is just one impure thought, or one unholy action in us it will stop God’s glory from flowing through us.

Contrary to how many believers think and live, there is no grace

license given to any believer to sin (see Jude verse 4). We have entered the last of the last days, Jesus is coming very soon. We must personally do everything we can to constantly be ready, but we must also bring in the last days harvest. To do this there is a great need for us to quickly come into the presence of God. His glory will awaken us from our slumber and cause us to shine.

Our role, our purpose and our duty as true believers is to live as an epistle of Christ; to live as epistles of the Word of God, revealing the divine likeness and glory of God (see 2 Corinthians 3: 3).

The glory of God must shine through and from us. We must bring heaven to earth. If this does not happen, the glory of the Lord has not risen upon us; we are spiritually empty and unfit Kingdom vessels.

Larry Thompson, author/speaker, is a gifted and anointed teacher who interacts prophetically. He has successfully discipled many believers over the past forty years. As the founder of Streams of Glory Ministries, he has bonded with an audience worldwide with these rich revelations that have transformed not only his life, but everyone who has received even one word from the Holy Spirit. Catch this vision from the Holy Spirit, "Wake up my glory!"

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When my children were younger, I would take time to read or tell them stories that had life values to them. On one occasion, while we were getting ready to talk and tell stories, I decided to allow them to make up their own stories to tell me. When it came time for my daughter April to tell her story, she said,, “The devil is not in my heart, and Jesus is in my heart, and I've got power over the devil!”

Simple, short and sweet, but the depth in those words is profound when you compare them to most adults’ testimony. What my daughter knew was the revelation that comes from childlike faith. The word revealed to her heart an understanding of the authority she has over the devil that agrees with the written word. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

(An excerpt taken from "Glory Revealed" by Larry Thompson) Let's take the time to unveil many of the hidden truths and revelations concerning His glory.

It becomes obvious when reading the Scriptures that there are both the way the enemy views this good news concerning the glory, and also the Father's purposes for us. The language at the end of the verse in 2 Corinthians 4:4 states,"...lest the light shines on", is the exact purpose for which the enemy would do everything imaginable to keep any one of us from understanding the good news of the glory. And again in 1 Timothy 1:10b-11 ESV, "...and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted."

Notice in the preceding verse that God is

calling the gospel of the glory sound doctrine.

I have shared many times that if what we teach is not simple enough that second graders get it, then it is too complicated. I have had the privilege of walking this out by teaching young people some of the rich treasures in His glory in a way that they comprehended it immediately. I hope that I will be able to convey some of those illustrations in a way that will immediately ignite your understanding.

To answer this question, how to release the glory, it will be necessary to develop an understanding of how all that the Father has, had been given to Jesus, and all that Jesus had received, the Holy Spirit directly declares these things to us. (see John 16:14,15). There is a continual stream of wisdom and power flowing to us from the throne of glory. However, it is all invisible. Though this is true, Jesus gave us the insight as a man, that He only did what He saw the Father doing, and He only spoke what He heard the Father saying. Jesus was able to see into that invisible realm.

One illustration that makes this particular revelation on His glory become a living reality is by understanding how we operate with Him from the throne of glory.

Scripture states that He sees the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). How does He do this? I asked in simple childlike faith. He replied to me, that I can do the same. By using your imagination, a little, you will catch the Holy Spirit's revelation on the throne of glory. I have called this the

director's chair. He knows how the movie ends before the movie even begins. We are both going by the same script for the movie—the Scriptures.

At the beginning of the movie, you see someone who is bitter.

You already know how this movie will end. At the beginning of the movie, you see someone that is sick. You have rich insight already within you from the Holy Spirit, of how this movie will end as well. We know the Father's heart, and so we know how He thinks and acts. We simply follow what our heart already knows.

There are many wonderful truths that need to be deposited within every one of us to enable us to come up higher and think like the Father, and act as He would act.

Most of us who have received Christ as Savior and Lord have a hope of glory within us. We have not necessarily become disciplined in the skills of working and operating with Him in His glory. The two become one. This purpose- that we become one- is the very reason that Jesus restored the glory, so that we can become one. He abides in me, but I must abide in Him. This takes place easily enough just by

taking communion, and receiving that revelation when you do.

I am laying some groundwork to build up a unique understanding of how simple and effortless everything in His glory truly is.

We “receive, receive, and release, release� is what I say many times to ignite the truth within us that there needs to be a steady flow of this knowledge of the glory through us. You will note that there is a vast difference between faith knowledge and glory knowledge.

They are similar in some ways, but the experiences in His glory completely overshadow everything that is by faith.

The comparison between Peter and Jesus walking on the water exemplifies this revelation on His

glory. Jesus is the Lord of Glory, walking on water. Peter, by faith declared, "Lord if that is You, then bid me to come out there."

Jesus released one word, "Come", and that one word empowered Peter to walk on the water. Yes, it is true that Peter had to receive it for it to empower him. We know the rest of the story, and we also know how most gravitate in expressing or explaining why Peter sank. Allow me to interject what the Holy Spirit revealed to me. That word that was supersaturated with glory from Jesus, had not found permanent residency within Peter.

In Ephesians 1:17, you will note tat there is this pattern of how the knowledge of the glory comes from the throne of glory—first

wisdom, then revelation, then lastly knowledge. Entrance of His word gives wisdom, but that is not permanent residency. Every word from above totally rearranges our furniture is how I often say it. He transforms us from glory to glory, by every revelation we receive from the Holy Spirit. Jesus defines the difference between a believer and a disciple in John 15:7,8.

These amazing verses will ignite and prepare your heart to receive pure glory wisdom, so that when it finds permanent residency within you, whatever you declare will be manifested. You will be glorifying the Father when you do, and manifest fruit in the entire realm He has assigned to you, and prove to be His disciple, or His apprentice. He is the Master Carpenter teaching us how to walk in the same way as Him.

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You will see the Glory of God, Jesus said in John 11:40. Here is a real testimony for all of our faith to be encouraged by the Words of Jesus Christ. People do worship God though they have never seen Him face to face. In the Old Testament, Moses asked God to see Him, but God showed Him His glory…

God also made it available for every believer in the New Testament. We do not need to do anything hard, such as pay something, or go somewhere, or to try in different levels for seeing God’s glory on this earth. God is present and revealed all the time in His Word, His Power, in Peace, in Protection, in Provision, and The Glory. These were already hidden in His Word (His Son.) We can see His Glory on this earth if we BELIEVE His Word.

Let us have a look at John, Chapter 11.

There was a family living with two sisters and one brother in a small village town called Bethany.

They were so happy to live in peace and with their economy what they earned in those days.

But suddenly something happened to this family, the only brother, that was called the backbone of that entire family became sick. But they were not so worried about this sickness; they did not go to any hospital, or was in no hurry for any treatments. But his two sisters were thinking of Jesus; and, I. They sent a prayer request to Jesus in Verse 3.

This is what they did, and it was a good thing…but Jesus was far from that town and He was so

busy in reaching villages, towns and cities because of preaching the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, that He did not immediately respond to this family’s prayer request… (so many answers do not come easily or immediately when we pray, but God will respond to them in His timings and for His glory) And here is the response from Jesus to this family, which is very imp-active and encouraging, but also a surprising response!

II. Jesus said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the Glory of God ……”

After a few days, Lazarus became very severe in his sickness and he was DEAD. The two sisters wept very much, but they still had their HOPE in JESUS. The sisters were thinking like this, in verse 21 and 32: III. Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Jesus came to that little town called Bethany after 4 days of Lazarus being dead and buried.

The Bible says that Lazarus was laid into the grave, in verses 14 and 17.

Now, let us have more interest here to listen carefully, please have your concentration alert to see His Glory right now while you are studying this.

Observe the Words, that Jesus spoke to the both sisters named Martha and Mary. Jesus said in John Chapter 11:

22 But

I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

23 Jesus

saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. a. He said that I Know, b. God will Give You c. Even now if you ask d. Your Brother Shall Rise again.

Please observe these four words of Jesus…He started to speak unto Martha, and tell her to ask “Even Now.“ What does it mean? Is Jesus mad? or Is Jesus bad? No, No, but Jesus had something for them to see and receive into their lives …. That is why Jesus is speaking to her….

But Martha offended Jesus here with her unfaith (little faith, or with imperfect faith)…she has faith in Jesus, but don’t know how to use it for the Glory of God….She says, a. I Know (this is a very dangerous position for every believer across the World) Jesus does not need to tell us if we know everything…He always speaks and picks up

what we have missed out in our faith lives…. “ I “ is always a dangerous zone, or selfcentered life, trusting in our own abilities, power , thinking, and knowledge… “ I “ must die, (He) Jesus must be placed first in our life… b. The Day of Resurrection.

She speaks in the future timings, but faith is not for the future, but for NOW….Now is the faith… she also did not know that Jesus is the Resurrection. She believed in the Days, but not in The Son of God…Jesus says that I am The Resurrection. c. Like this there are many offenses that Martha used in her faith life ….

EVEN NOW If You Ask, let us have a look on this Word….

Jesus said her to ask God even there was no hope for her… a. Her brother became sick b. Died c. Buried (Lay Down into the Grave) d. 4 days’ over e. Every relative and friend were comforting their family f. Slowly they are forgetting about their brother and trying to exist with circumstances g. Everything was over and over there…There is nothing more to do for their brother …..

But, Jesus is telling and encouraging sister Martha to Ask God even now….and He also was encouraging her that God will raise your brother again if you ask Him even now…..and He is confirming with His Word that Jesus knows (I Know) that God will give you back whatever you ask and believe….Jesus was

simply encouraging her faith to be stronger and stronger for a great miracle to happen in their lives and for the glory of God to be appeared in their family….

But, Martha did not understand all these things…To believe, we should understand first. So many people believe God without understanding His Words and Works…

Now Jesus was asking about her sister Mary. Jesus did not ask about her deadly brother, but about her sister…because Jesus has found nothing to do for their family with Martha’s faith.

Observe this: Jesus may be present with you, but if you do not access your faith rightly with Him, He won’t work until you respond properly….and now Mary came unto Jesus. Jn 11 : 28.

Jesus responded to Mary’s faith, and was moved with compassion. Her faith was presented before Jesus, and her prayerful request, humbling heart, listening heart, obeying life, kneeling experience and she totally surrendered her life to Jesus. (All to Jesus I surrender).

There are many things to tell here, but this magazine may not permit me in this regard, hahahaha. But, here are few things to tell and conclude…

Now observe the Ministry of Jesus here: I. He said Take Ye Away The Stone, .and again Martha offended here, and tried to tell or to teach Jesus in order to hear and see what He would do and manifest there….

Martha says “by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.”

This is not necessary for her to speak before Jesus responds….and it is an offensive faith.

Jesus repeated His Word again: Jn 11:40, “Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? You shall see God’s Glory if You believe! We need right believing (we need to learn right trusting, thinking, asking, doing, praying, and giving.)

II. Jesus Lifted His Eyes (looking unto His Father) III. Thanking Him, honoring His name IV. Cried with a loud voice, and Called Lazarus, Come Out. And the Dead (Lazarus) came forth……Hallelujah….and many Jews believed on Him! Glory!

V. Jesus said…Loose Him VI. Let him Go. Jesus can give you back that what you have lost before, it does not the matter what you have lost (your health, wealth, family relations, peace, etc.) , just ask and believe in Jesus…

Eventually, I will conclude with a Word of Jesus …. v.25 …Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: If you believe this, you will see “The Glory of God.” May God bless you all…….

by: Dr. Glen Hartline

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Looking out of the window from 36,000 feet I could see the pale blue sky above and a solid layer of white clouds like shag carpet lying below. As I stared I began listening to hear what Holy Spirit was saying. I wasn’t listening because He was moving me to, I was listening because I knew He always enjoys engaging me in conversation. As I listened my eyes drifted from directly outside my window towards the nose of the plane where I could see a warm glow from the setting sun.

As soon as my attention was captured by the glow I heard Holy Spirit say, “Chasing the sun”.

There I was sitting in seat 20F, heading to the Island of Hawaii.

We had taken off from Los Angeles, right as the sun began to set, and so the chase was on!

Funny thing about flying west just before sunset, the sun seems to hang on the horizon “about to set” for hours, giving the impression that the chase could go on forever, but gradually you slowly fall behind, the sun moves beyond the horizon and the last rays of light dim into darkness.

And so it happened, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean the chase came to an abrupt halt and the realization hit; you can never catch the sun!

I realize what I’m about to say might be really upsetting for some, but will be liberating for others. You see, my experience mirrored the spiritual condition of many around the world who considers themselves God chasers. For a God chaser, God always seems to be right there in front of you, allowing you to see

the soft glow of His presence, even experiencing His tangible warmth at times through visitations and encounters, but never seeming to catch Him in His fullness. Day by day is spent pursuing Someone that seems to be uncatchable, eventually the encounters can’t satisfy the appetite, enthusiasm gives way to desperation, desperation gives way to frustration, then frustration finally gives in to apathy. Apathy doesn’t mean you no longer care, just you’ve grown weary of the chase, deciding that the dream of entering in His fullness is unobtainable and so you settle for a lesser dream, you settle for a life of moving from one glimpse of His glory to another, hoping the times between won’t be too long.

Years ago I hung around a bunch of people who considered themselves God chasers. These were incredible men and women of God; individuals who had a tremendous love for God. They were extremely passionate for Him and I admired them for it.

The problem was never their love and passion; the problem was they were chasing someone they could never catch. No matter how much they repented, fasted, worshipped, or soaked in His presence, they could never obtain their goal of catching God. It would never happen as long as they continued chasing after Him. How could you say that you might ask? It’s simple, you can’t catch what you already have!

Something remarkable, even miraculous occurred when you came into the realization of what Christ did for you and you

received His free gift. Scripture says that you became a new creation; that you became like Jesus. It goes on to tell how during this miraculous event you became one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17) and that of His fullness you have received. (John 1:16) You see, the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in bodily form in the man Jesus, and you have been made complete in Him! It’s clear, you have already obtained the very thing you keep chasing after; quit chasing and start enjoying His fullness!

So why aren’t you experiencing it? Again it’s simple! As long as you keep chasing after what you already have you are declaring that there is a separation between you and God. You aren’t acknowledging your unity, and until you begin to understand and acknowledge that you have been given the fullness of the Godhead in Christ Jesus it won’t become a reality in your life. (Philemon 1:6) It’s a spiritual principle that Holy Spirit showed me years ago. You become what you gaze upon. As you focus on the reality of God in you then you will begin to see manifestations of that reality. You will find that the things and

resources of the Kingdom of God are attracted to you and that they will begin manifesting in your life the more you start acknowledging what has been given to you through Jesus’ finished work. Another way to look at it is likeness attracts likeness.

Here is a practical way to implement this in your life. First you need to acknowledge to yourself that the Fullness of Christ Jesus is in you and that you are in Him. Repeat this: “I have been given the fullness of Christ Jesus by the grace of God! He was given to me as a gift that I receive. I didn’t do anything to earn Him and so I

can’t do anything to lose Him! Because the fullness of Jesus is in me then things of the kingdom are attracted to me.

Since the Kingdom of God is attracted to me then my circumstances and the environment around me is changed and transformed to be as it is in Heaven. My needs get met, sickness and disease gets destroyed, and life comes to those areas and people around me that appear dead.”

Now that you’ve declared it start looking for it in your daily life. You may not see large changes or extravagant manifestations immediately, maybe you will, but most people start to see small, seemingly insignificant changes

or manifestations. Maybe you find a dime on the ground, stop and think God that He provides!

Maybe you see a hurting person in the store and you feel compassion for them or have the desire to pray for them. Stop and thank God that the very reason you feel compassion or have the desire to pray for them is proof that He is in you and changing you! Even if you chickened out and didn’t pray for them, thank God that you had the desire! The desire is proof of Christ in you!

Then, as you begin to acknowledge the little things in your life you will begin to see bigger and more miraculous manifestations. You will begin to experience and enjoy the fullness of the One you love, the one you chased but never seemed to catch.

(The Truth of God’s Word)

In the wilderness, the bible says that the children of Israel spoke against God and against Moses and as a result fiery serpents were sent to bite them. The serpent bit them because of the sins they committed. And the bible says that they prayed and God gave Moses a provision of a brazen serpent to be put on a pole that he should lift it up so that everyone who looks on it would be healed; the bible also says it was done and those that looked on the serpent of brass were healed. This verse declares plainly that even the brazen serpent which was on a pole was able to look down on the sins of the children of Israel.

The brazen serpent, because it is brass knew nothing called sins, thus It totally rubbished the sins the children of Israel committed.

Did it do that because it was good, no! Since it is a metal and a non-living thing; a hand was able to lift it up and its purpose was to comply with the directions of the hand that lifted it up.

This is a non-living serpent of brass; this serpent has no life in it. This serpent represents those images that our forefathers went for during the foundations of this continent of Africa.

One may ask this question, Is there life in any metal? But why did God asked Moses to do that?

Because they sinned. When our forefathers went to consult native doctors and dead idols, those witch doctors were never concerned about the sins that the people had committed. All their concern was to provide solutions to their problems that our forefathers carried to them and were deemed as loyal servants of

their communities by our chiefs and citizens of the nation. And they gave limited solutions to the problems of the people since the people had trembling faith in them and their idols. Faith is a universal principle, and people are able to do so many things and discover a lot of mysteries because they have faith. When someone takes a chair and sits on it, he sits on the chair because he has faith in the chair, that it can hold him up without letting him down. Universally speaking, we all have faith and without it no one would have come here to read this article.

In the book of Joshua, there was a place reserved for every terrible sinner which was called a place of refuge. The general rule was that whoever commits sin should die instantly. But if you are able to escape the hands of those executors and flee to that place called the place of refuge, the fact that you fled to that place in particular; there were specific soldiers in that place who were all concerned about defending those serial sinners.

And once you flee to that place it is illegal for those executors who chased you, to follow you to that place of refuge or else their own lives are at stake. The moment you are able to enter into that place of refuge you are under refuge and there are bounded by the rulers at the refugee camp which aims at keeping you safe.

Today we have refugees in many countries. Refugees are under strict authority of their country of refuge and if they were under the pursuit of the country they came from, that pursuit ends at the refugee camp. These witch

doctors served as our place of refuge. Our forefathers were comfortable living under their guidance because of the kind of protection they gave them. In the Old Testament the Bible says that when Moses went to Pharaoh and put Aaron’s rod before him, Pharaohs’ sorcerers were able to perform exactly the same thing that Moses was able to do.

When Aaron put his rod down, it turned to a single serpent. But Pharaohs’ rod turned to three different serpents. So what Moses did was not a strange thing to them. The strange thing was Moses’ serpent swallowed Pharaohs’ serpent. Today many magicians and idols can work as servants of God because they try to imitate whatever God does to some limit. The difference is that the power of God supersedes all other powers and none of them has life.

If we go and look back at what happened in the wilderness we can all see that the serpent of brass has no life in it; for there is no life in a brass serpent. Or is there anything called life in a metal idol? If even a lifeless metal

object, by beholding it alone brought abundant health to all those beheld it, how much more the Son of God. In John 3:14-15, Jesus said that as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so will the son of man be lifted up that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. The Israelites looked at this brazen serpent and were healed because God ordered a man of God to do that. Jesus was speaking to a great multitude of people and said that your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and died just to give a similar illustration.

There is no life in all those idols our forefather went for. They can perform a lot of miracles because they are permitted by creative order to do so but they cannot give life. When Moses serpent swallowed Pharaohs’ rod, Pharaoh was not able to retrieve back his rod. When Moses did all those miracles, Pharaoh was never able to restore whatever miracle that was done. He was not able to reverse any of them, neither was he able to bring back the life of his dead son and all other first-borns who died on that day.

There is life in Jesus and the Bible says that when He died, He was resurrected, He took all our sins, sickness, problems, burdens to the grave and gave us life. 1 John 5:11-13 say’s that “this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.” There is life in Jesus which none in heaven and earth could offer and that life is able to raise the dead. That life will not only give you life but it will

also raise you from death. The bible says that when Adam sinned with his wife, their eyes were opened. Their eyes weren’t opened to everlasting things but natural things. And that is spiritual death.

When Jesus came to obey the will of God by dying for our sins, our eyes were opened to spiritual things. It is not enough to have our hearts on natural things alone. If our eyes are turned to the Spirit of God, it means that we have returned to God. If we set our eyes on Jesus we have this kind of life that turns us back to the One who created us.

Because He created us, He has power over both the dead and the living through His Son, Jesus Christ.

As I am speaking His Word, everyone who believes in Him is raised from death, is healed and is given a new life, this is a life on fire.

In Mathew 3, when John the Baptist was baptizing unto repentance, he spoke about Jesus. That when He comes, He shall baptize people with Spirit and with Fire. John was standing in a cold river of Jordon baptizing with water, but Jesus baptizes with Spirit and with Fire. This life of Fire has the power to quench every sin, sickness, poverty, curse and unfruitfulness in your life and make you live the true Christian life.

There is life in Jesus.

And that life is the power the raise people from death. That is the very life of Christ. As you believe in Jesus,

this power comes on you as an earthquake. Do you see what happened when Jesus died on the cross? The Bible says that the veil of the temple was rent in twain, from top to bottom, the rocks did quake, the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints that were asleep, arose.

That is exactly what will happen to you. Any form of death or imprisonment will vanish and a new life will come out from you.

The veil which stops you from living as a child and as a priest of God, is rent from top to bottom.

Now Jesus, the very life of faith in you lives in you and with you together in heaven. And because you believed in Him, you have life through His name. And because He has life in Himself and was raised from the dead, you too will be raised externally from death.

This is what Pharaoh and all our ancestral idols could and can never offer. The fire in us is just like the serpent of Moses that swallowed the three serpents of the Magicians and sorcerers of Pharaoh. They know exactly that what I have spoken is the truth.

The law was given by Moses but Grace and truth came from Jesus. The Grace is the spirit in us and the truth is the unquenchable fire in us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

by: Grace Martin

Hi Whiz Kids!

I thought it might be fun to send you a game to do. This is to find all of the Apostles in the puzzle! I hope your summer is going good. It won’t be long before school starts! If you would like to write to me and tell me about your first day of school, send it to faye.faithunlimited@gmail.com – In the subject line, please write “Grace.”

Thanks! And I’ll see you next month!

Rev. Melissa Smith-Shepherd

God is so good. He is God, Jehovah, Yahweh, the God of Israel, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Elohim, Adonai, El Shaddai. The whole Earth is filled with His Glory. All matter came from Him. All life He created. Our Heavens testify to His Glory.

Our existence is a miracle of His Glory. All that we see is made by the Glory of God, through faith, God’s own faith. God released His Glory through His faith. As He spoke in faith, all creation and the whole universe was made.

He clothed Adam in His Glory in the Garden. In both the Old and New Testaments we see examples of God’s Presence and Glory coming upon people as they worshipped Him. In the first Temple, the Glory of the Presence of God would come upon the priests and the people as they worshipped, and it was so powerful they could not stand, but could only lie prostrate before Him and His Glory, His love, His power, hovered over them and filled the place with what appeared to be cloud.

Great signs and wonders occurred when the Glory of God manifested, though in those days, it was operated only through the priests, prophets and kings, not every person.

Back then, the Glory of God, Shekinah Glory, was also housed in the Ark of the Covenant. Where ever the

Ark was located, there was great blessing, abundance, health, joy, goodness and power upon His people. The Glory of God is the Presence of God. There was awesome Holy Power and Glory upon the people, when they were obedient to God and His commandments. However, if His people disobeyed His commandments, especially in handling the Ark that carried His Presence and Glory, it pulled them out of His protection and safety and into sin. God’s Glory does not mesh with sin. It is an allconsuming Glory and if sin was present that sin was consumed by the Glory and Power of God. Jesus came to restore the original Glory to mankind that was lost in the Garden when Adam doubted God, disobeyed Him and sinned.

The Glory of God departed from Adam, he and Eve became aware of the knowledge of good and evil, which is why they realized they were naked. They were no longer clothed in God’s Presence and Glory, and they knew it. They hid from God, instead of loving Him and fellowshipping with Him, they were afraid of Him. Their sin separated them from Him. He still loved them, but they were no longer carriers of His Glory.

There were penalties that came upon them, and all

mankind, since His Glory was no longer upon them.

When Jesus bore all of mankind’s sin in His own sinless body, He made it possible for the Glory of God to come upon us again. By faith, we receive His gift of righteousness.

We are prepared to receive His Holy Spirit and for the Glory of God to once again pour out upon and through mankind. Jesus prayed, “Father, the hour has come, glorify thy Son, that I may glorify you.”

“Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.” John 17:1,5 When Jesus asked God to glorify Him, He was calling upon the glory of God to come upon Him like Adam in the Garden.

As we saw in Jesus’ ministry and in the ministries of those who believed in Him, the Glory of God worked many miracles, signs and wonders, and great works. God is still pouring out His Glory in the Earth just like in those days.

But you will only see those kinds of manifestations come forth through believers of great faith who are in true communion with God by His Holy Spirit.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we each have direct access to the Father, to fellowship with Him, to experience His Presence and His Glory and allow His Spirit to operate through us. It is the gift of righteousness through Jesus’

blood that protects us, cleanses us and allows us to have this great gift of His Presence and to be clothed in His Glory.

Many believers desire to know how to access this Presence and Glory of God. To connect with God the Father and His Holy Spirit, we can only do so through the name and blood of Jesus Christ. It is Jesus and His blood that gave us the right to come before God and connect with Him. It only takes a prayer to connect with God’s Spirit, simply call upon His name, remind Him of the blood of Jesus that was paid for you, that is your only adequate offering to approach Him, and then begin to pour out your love, adoration and worship upon Him. Allow Him to respond to your worship and love.

He always responds to sincere love and praise. Scripture tells us He inhabits the praises of His people. Spend time waiting upon Him. He will come.

When His Presence is manifest, His Glory fills the place like a cloud, His tangible love and power permeates the atmosphere.

It is in these moments that all things are possible, no miracle is too great. I have been in prayer and worship meetings where the Glory of God was so powerful, and manifest, that we could not stand up, the Holy Spirit began to move through the believers, the gifts of the Spirit began to operate fully and freely, hours passed but it seemed like minutes, we became so saturated in the Presence and Glory of God that people would come in and see it tangibly upon us and in the room. In these moments with God and His Glory, there were healings, deliverance, refreshing, anointing, prophetic utterance, words of wisdom and knowledge, miracles, and love so powerful it filled every part of you.

Those who were in sin, could not stand it, and left quickly.

Those who had pure hearts toward God were basking in

His sweet loving Glory.

Sometimes the Glory stays upon us for a week, or longer.

People would see it upon our faces and be drawn to ask about God. Each time you are in His Presence, a little more of Him, is transmitted to you. This is how you are changed from glory to glory. You become more like Him each time.

Praise Jesus for making this possible to us all. It is in those moments of worship and ministry to God that we are changed. God longs to impart Himself to us. To finish the work He has for us to do in the Earth, we must have His Glory to accomplish it. He is not trying to withhold it from us.

He has given us free access to Him through Jesus. He is the goal, He is the reward, He is the most important thing.

Seek Him, with your whole heart, and you will experience His Glory and see miracles!

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CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY Colossians 1:27