THE PRESENCE OF GOD FULL

God has placed us on Broadway, the crossroads of the world, with a message for the end of time. He shuts men up in His presence, and He places them in strategic places. Everything is in place when God speaks the word, 'It's time!' And God always prepares vessels just prior to His outpouring.

THE PRESENCE OF GOD FULL

No such event takes place without full preparation.

This stirring always occurs in man's darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless - a time when only a sovereign work of God can save the day! When that designated time comes, God awakens and stirs, as if from a sleep. Yet as I weep and groan in my spirit, the Holy Spirit says, 'Do you understand the consequences of praying for such a thing? Will you pay the price for such a manifestation? Let me show you what it will mean to follow through on this request.' You see, there is a cost, a price to be paid!īeloved, right now something sovereign is going on! It is beyond us - we did not do anything to merit it! And it's happening because God's Word says the set time to bless Zion has come! God Has An Appointed Time For Every Movement, Every Awakening, Every Restoration and Outpouring! I personally have been crying out, 'Lord, let us see Your glory! Pour out Your presence among us! Let Your glory be such that sinners are convicted of their sin and Christians of their sloth. In Times Square Church we are praying for a great and dreadful manifestation of the presence of God - in our services, our hearts and our homes. If Christians today beheld but a fraction of God's holiness and dread, nobody would be able to stand in our church services! And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead' (Revelation 1:14-17). He described Him this way: 'His eyes were as a flame of fire.and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. John, known as the 'apostle of love,' saw the Lord coming to the churches in all His New Testament glory. The Bible says He is a consuming fire - a holy, dreadful-in-power Savior! We have made Him to be 'like unto ourselves.' That's why we don't recognize His holiness. He is a perfect, loving heavenly Father.īut He is also a Spirit, high and holy! The problem is, we have become too 'familiar' with God.

Yes, God is love (I John 4:8) - He is mercy, kindness, patience, longsuffering and goodness. You may believe that this kind of fear and terror describes an Old Testament concept of God - that Jesus came to reveal to us a Father who is full of love. Isaiah is saying, 'Let God grip your heart with His holy dread!'

God also said to all of Israel, 'Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread' (Isaiah 8:13).

And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!' (Genesis 28:16-17).ĭaniel was another who was touched by the great dread of God's presence: 'I prayed unto the Lord my God.the great and dreadful God' (Daniel 9:4). 'And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. At the top of the ladder the Lord appeared, and He revealed Himself to Jacob, declaring, 'I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac' (Genesis 28:13). During his journey to Haran he lay down and slept, and in the middle of the night he awoke and saw a ladder of angels reaching into heaven. In the Old Testament, Jacob was touched by a holy dread. The Hebrew word for 'awful' means dreadful, fearsome, great- awesome! We normally give this word a negative connotation, but that is not at all the biblical meaning.

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