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To me, those instructions parallel what God is saying to us in the Church today. He’s saying to us as New Covenant believers, “Be ready! For I’m coming down in great glory to manifest Myself among you and through you in signs and wonders.” We’ve already seen Him do that to some extent. Just in the past couple of years we’ve been seeing more miracles and greater displays of the presence of God. As we get closer to the return of Jesus, those things are going to increase. The manifested power and glory of God in the Church is going to get intense, and we need to be ready for it. We don’t need to be messing around with sin, and talking and acting like the world. We need to be living a sanctified lifestyle and keeping our spiritual clothes washed. We need to be living by faith in Jesus, and walking in the light as He is in the light (1 John 1:7). Otherwise we’ll be like the Israelites were at Mount Sinai. They missed out on the wonderful experience God had planned for them. Because they weren’t ready to meet with Him, they didn’t get to behold His glory and hear His marvelous voice. Instead they ran away from Him. They got scared because when He began to manifest Himself in this natural realm: “There were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled…. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly” (Exodus 19:16, 18). Take the Limits Off “Gloria, are you saying God is about to manifest Himself that way in our day?” No, I’m saying He’s about to finish what He started in Acts 2, and “show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath.” He’s about to “pour out of [His] Spirit upon all flesh” in the greatest move of God this world has ever seen. When that outpouring of the Spirit hits its apex, people are going to meet God in ways they haven’t before. They’re going to feel and see and experience Him even with their natural bodies, and multitudes are going to come to Jesus. I believe the time is coming when some churches will have to stay open 24 hours a day because people will constantly be coming to get born again, healed and delivered. I believe a time is coming when the glory of God is going to roll into many churches like a cloud (2 Chronicles 5:13), and it will be so thick people won’t even be able to see each other through it. Folks will hear about it and come to those churches from all around just to see what’s happening. Oh, just think of what God has for us in these last days! It’s going to be thrilling, and I want to be right in the middle of it. I want to be part of that group that Acts 2 says will be prophesying, seeing visions, dreaming dreams and walking in the power of God. * * * * article concludes on p. 30 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HELP BRING THE GLORY OF GOD INTO MANIFESTATION RIGHT HERE ON EARTH. ● God’s will from the beginning was for His children to bear His image and walk in His glory. Gen. 1:27 ● When Adam and Eve sinned and lost that glory, God immediately began to work to restore it. Gen. 3:14-15 ● God sent Jesus to be the last Adam and regain, through the cross and the resurrection, what the first Adam had lost. 1 Cor. 15:45 ● God’s endgame is for Jesus to return for a Church that is manifesting His glory. Eph. 5:27 ● We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity while we’re on this earth to reveal God’s glory to a sin-darkened world. 1 Pet. 2:9 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BVOV : 29

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