Basking in God's Glory

I do not know about you, but I hunger and thirst to walk in God’s glory and presence just like Moses did.

See during the early to mid-90s my wife and I learned how to soak and move in the glory of God.  This was during a time when a movement called Times of Refreshing was moving through the body. What was it and what was it all about? Truthfully, it was a time of God’s spirit being poured out on the body and revitalizing them to be able to have the strength and ability to move on to the next wave of God.

How did this work? Soaking was becoming a big thing almost like a fad but for the body of believers. But what is soaking?  It is a time of relaxing in His presence while soft worshipful music would play and the people would just relax and let God minister to them without intervention from anyone else. 

Before you can ask, how do you know when God has showed up?  Let me ask you a question, how do you know when someone has walked into the room without you seeing them?  It is through your natural senses; well the same is true with God except your spiritual senses also kick in. 

My wife and I have had several occasions where we knew either Jesus or an angel had walked into the room even though we could not physically see Him. We knew He was there and sometimes even to the point as to where He was standing, all the while not being able to see Him, just feel His presence. 

See when God shows up you sense such an intangible presence that is weighty and peaceful beyond comprehension. This is called the glory or kavod in Hebrew. Let us examine this much closer. 

The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (Davidson):

כבד – I. to be heavy;  II. to be weighty, honored, respected, mighty; III. to be or become vehement, violent, great; IV. to be grievous, burdensome; V. to be dull, of the senses also of the mind.

When the Israelites saw the glory they defined it as a consuming fire in Exodus 24:17.  God said His glory consecrates as in Exodus 29:43. So it is obvious it not only consumes but consecrates making holy and set apart for Him and Him only.

Another word I would like to look at Shekinah which literally means dwelling or to dwell among men. Such as in Exodus 25:8 God is speaking, Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them.

This makes me think of John 1:14, And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. Interesting, God told Moses to build Him a place so He may dwell among the Israelites, this is the physical. In John we see the spiritual paradigm shift to Jesus coming to dwell inside of us bringing His glory.  Oh! Does that mean we are the sanctuary?  Absolutely! (Revelation 21:3) In fact, I believe that we have all of what the temple represents (symbolically speaking of course) plus all of the 7 spirits that are upon Yeshua since He is in the temple (Isaiah 11:2; Revelation 4:5):

  1. Wisdom
  2. Understanding
  3. Counsel
  4. Might
  5. Knowledge
  6. Fear of the Lord
  7. Holy Spirit

So putting all of this together, abide in Him till He guides. If you truly  have Him as your Lord and Savior then you should be able to walk in all that He has for you as well as in His glory because it is in us with Him!

For more information see my blog I wrote several years ago, Praise Till We Worship in His Glory.

Until next time... Shalom!

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