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That’s why lazy Christians can’t walk in God’s blessing and glory. To hear His voice and do what He says we must spend time in His Book—finding out what’s in it. We must spend time getting quiet and listening to Him. This is where diligence comes in. It takes diligence to make sure you keep God and His Word first place in your busy life and schedule. It takes intense effort to keep pressing in to Him in this crazy, mixed-up world because the world is going just as hard and fast as it can in the opposite direction. People in this world, it seems, are trying to get to hell as quickly as they possibly can. So if we want to experience “days of heaven upon the earth” (Deuteronomy 11:21), we must separate ourselves from the ways of the world. We must do spiritually what God told the Israelites to do naturally in Exodus 19. When He wanted to manifest Himself to them, He said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people” (verses 10-11, "NKJV"). God wanted the Israelites to be ready for Him to come into their midst. He wanted them to separate themselves from everything that was unholy so the manifestation of His holy glory wouldn’t destroy them. “But the reason the Israelites would have been destroyed by God’s glory was because they lived in Old Covenant times,” someone might say. I don’t know about that. Ananias and Sapphira lived in New Covenant times, and their church was so filled with God’s glory they dropped dead because they lied to the Holy Spirit and refused to repent. That wouldn’t happen in most churches today! These days people can lie in church and survive just fine. I’m telling you, if we really want God to manifest His glory in our church services, we had better have things right with Him! We’d better get the worldly trash out of our lives and live as God’s precious treasures. "For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?... for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:14-18). God’s glory and sin don’t mix today any better than they did in Ananias and Sapphira’s day. So, if you’ve let sin creep into your life, get it out. Clear the way for God’s power and blessing to operate full throttle in your life. Hearken diligently to God’s Word, and the moment you realize your life isn’t lining up with it in some area, make the necessary adjustments. The moment you realize there’s something you’ve been holding back from Him, give it up. Above all, make sure you’re walking in love. You can’t disconnect your love walk from the manifestation of God’s blessing in your life, because love is our New Testament command. If you’re praying for finances and God says to you, “Forgive Aunt Sophie,” and you refuse to forgive, your prayer will go unanswered. You can make faith confessions until your tongue falls out, but apart from love your faith won’t work. You won’t get your manifestation. On the other hand, if you do walk in love toward God and others, your faith will work. You will get your manifestation. It shall come to pass. It will happen. If you let God be God in your life, He will be a Father to you. The Hebrew word translated father is El Shaddai. El Shaddai refers to the One who is everything to you. The One who takes care of you. The One who does miracles for you and shows up in your life in His power and glory. The God of manifestation who lifts you high above all the nations of the earth and treats you as His precious treasure. Let God be God in your life and He will be all that to you—and more! V Points to Get You There: 1) To experience God’s glory and blessing, you simply have to listen to what He says and do it. (Ex. 19:5) 2) Jesus is our example, and He lived His entire life in obedience to God. (John 8:28-29) 3 If you’ll obey God, He can take you anywhere He wants you to go and enable you to do anything He wants you to do. (Matt. 19:26) 4) For God to fully manifest Himself among us, we must cleanse our lives of sin and worldliness. 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