For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, how blessed is the man who trusts in You! Psalm 84:11-12.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Your part is praise, My part is power.
Are you watching in love, confidence and joy to see My plans unfold or are you watching in dread that all that will come is what you do not want? Faith is joyful anticipation of good. It brings light and peace. Doubt is fearful trepidation of evil. It brings darkness and unrest.
But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up refuse and mud. “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 57:20-21.
I call doubt “wicked” and confident faith “upright” and “just.” Why because doubt in My Word cannot receive and thus receives nothing, whereas coming to Me with confidence in My Word receives all.
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16.
Come with confidence, not doubt, to the throne of grace and receive mercy and find grace just when you need it.
O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. Psalm 95:1-2.
If you come in doubt, begging, and complaint against Me, nothing happens. That is why the vast majority of the Israelites I brought out of Egypt never entered the Promised Land. And doubt leads to sin. Why? If you think I am not giving you what you want you go to the idols of the world.
If only you would just hand your problems over to Me, then I can teach you to profit and the way you should go. For in Jesus I have given you the way.
Righteousness will go before Him and will make His footsteps into a way. Psalm 85:13.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6.
Once you have handed things over to Me in Christ then your part is in living pure filled with praise and peace (do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid because Jesus has given you His shalom peace). I will do what is good and right for you and with you.
Clear yourself of clutter (encumbrances and the sin that so easily ensnares you) and I will open the way of escape so you can run in it to your high calling in Christ. Let My light come into you so that you can see light in the darkness. What others say to you, do not let it enter your heart until you have let Me evaluate it because I see the heart of those who flatter you or cajole you to their purposes by feigning love for Me and you do not.
I give you instructions in Psalm 36 that are key here for with Me is the fountain of life and in My light you see light. Psalm 36:9. If you stay in the light the blood of Jesus continually cleanses you. 1 John 1:7. I continue My lovingkindness (in Hebrew it is the word “chesed,” which is love, kindness, compassion, mercy, grace and favor all in one word describing My love towards you) to those who know Me. Psalm 36:10. And that is eternal life, to know Me, the one true God, and the One I sent to save you and show you the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Jesus Christ your Lord.
How do you know Me? By My Word, by what I have made, and what I do in your life and in the world. You know Me by faith, for I am Spirit, and you know Me by truth, for My Word is truth. And these are the worshippers I seek. You know Me by worship in Spirit and truth. I am Spirit and I am My Word and I have given both to you who have joined Covenant with Me in My Son, who is the resurrection and the life. In Him dreams, visions, and prophetic words never die. I do not want you to leave the room I have raised you to in Him until you have discovered (found, explored) all that is in it. What is that room? The room of My glory manifesting into the earth, the Holy of Holies, the throne of grace.
Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24.
There is more in that room.
The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. John 17:22-23.
Begin today to fill the earth with My glory, the glory of the LORD.
The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the LORD makes the deer to dance and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everything says, “Glory!” Psalm 29:8-9.
The knowledge of My Glory is the gospel of the Kingdom.
Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O everlasting doors, that the King of glory may come in! Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift them up, O everlasting doors, that the King of glory may come in! Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Psalm 24:8-10.
THE AGE OF GRACE, in which you are in now, the Church age between the fulfillment of Pentecost and the coming fulfillment of Trumpets on the divine timeline of the appointed times (“feasts” moedim), ENDS IN A FLOOD OF GLORY UPON THE EARTH.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, how blessed is the man who trusts in You! Psalm 84:11-12.
It will end in Trumpets (the catching away of the Church with the Lord Jesus in the clouds) and then the tribulation and the wrath of judgment without Christ will fall on those who destroy My earth and My people and have not repented in the age of grace and the flood of glory.
“And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” Revelation 11:18
Now, the most crucial period for mankind that has ever been up to now and will never be repeated again.
For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Matthew 24:21-22.
For, as I AM the living God, who was, is, and is to come, the earth will be filled with My glory (Numbers 14:21), giving a final call to all to turn to Me, repent, and be saved. My glory reveals My goodness which brings people to repent.
Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? Romans 2:4.
Remember what the glory is? It is My immense POWER exercised in love producing goodness and eradicating evil. Remember what I told you at the beginning of this Life Lesson? Your part is praise and My part is POWER.
“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8.
This is not a secret I have foretold it to you.
Behold it is NOT from the (אֶת) LORD of hosts that peoples toil for fire, and nations grow weary for nothing. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the (אֶת) glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:13-14.
There is darkness in the world, satanic darkness of blinded minds and hardened hearts, but all will see My glory shine forth from My Church, the body of Christ in the world. Release the glory that is in you! Christ in you, your hope of glory.
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:1-3.
As Jesus taught when did the people give Me glory? When did they see the glory? In miracles, signs, and wonders—the healing of sickness to perfect health and strength, blind eyes to see, deaf ears to hear, crippled and withered limbs to become strong to function perfectly, bent backs straightened, provisions multiplied, demons cast out, captives freed, lepers cleansed, the dead raised, storms stopped, and sinners forgiven. It is time for you to take up the mantle that fell at Pentecost and do the works He did and greater, to let your light shine that I have lit in you, so that all may see and experience your good works (that I prepared for you in advance in Christ Jesus) and give glory to your Father in Heaven for I am good.
Did Jesus not tell you that if you only believe you will see My glory manifest in your life and the lives of those around you? Remember the raising of Lazarus from the tomb after he had been dead four days?
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” But when Jesus heard, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it. John 11:1-4.
He sent them back the word that death would not be the end but My glory would finish it off. But they did not credit that or understand it. When Jesus arrived Lazarus had died and they accused Jesus of not coming in time to save him. But that was not the case. Jesus assured Martha:
“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world.” John 11:25-27.
But she still did not understand. Jesus went to the tomb.
Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” John 11:39-40.
Just believe and do what I tell you and the glory will manifest.
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.” When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” John 11:41-44.
When the glory hit, many came to believe. You cannot be long in the eternal weight of glory and turn away. And yet the Pharisees and priests did.
I love you. It is time to seek Me with all your heart. Gather the whole world in My love. Grace and GLORY I bestow.
I will hear what God the LORD will say; for He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones; but let them not turn back to folly. Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land. Psalm 85:8-9.