Bill Johnson - From Glory to Glory to Glory
See all of you by faith; I trust you’re there. How’s that? I trust you’re there. What an amazing opportunity to see the goodness of the Lord. I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks personally, experiencing the Lord. So let me just get to it; I really don’t have a teaching—I have an exhortation, an invitation, something—I don’t even know what to call it. Probably ten days ago, I joined a school of ministry out here under the tent, and we had a wonderful time of worship. But something started to happen—maybe it started previous to that—but I became unusually aware of the glory of the Lord that began to fill that tent. I could feel it tangibly. I’ve had these experiences throughout my own personal journey. I remember when I pastored in Weaverville, I would often take time just to walk through the sanctuary back and forth when nobody was there. I would just worship, just pray. I remember there was a little piano there, and I would sit and play a bit, just do whatever I could to give Him the best offering I could give Him. I remember times when the presence of the Lord became so overwhelming to me that I’m embarrassed to say it now, but I quickly thought of something else to do. I quickly thought of things that don’t mean when things come to mind; it’s necessarily the enemy. Sometimes the Lord brings things to mind that we need to take care of, but it wasn’t that. The intensity of His presence was so strong that I found myself getting nervous, a little anxious. I didn’t recognize it immediately. Later, I started to see that there’s a measure of presence that all of us delight in and a measure of presence that takes us into great discomfort, which is fine because He’s the Comforter. My opinion is He makes you uncomfortable so that you need the comfort, and He’s pretty good at that.
There was a story with Moses where he could go no further until he had done what the Lord commanded him to do—in that case, to circumcise his sons. He had gone this distance, and then suddenly what was a normal journey became life and death. I don’t mean to suggest life-and-death decisions, although I do think they exist for us. Instead, I want to emphasize that we’re on this relational journey, and there come points in time where He has an agenda and ours won’t do. I mean, you can have—if you’ve been in this a while—probably for all of us, or 95% of the people that would be watching, every agenda you have has been shaped by Scripture. It’s not like wanting revival is an evil desire; it’s not. It’s just that in the glory, all my agendas, all my ambitions, all my dreams, as lofty as they are, have to take place in another place outside of this glory. Because in this glory, there’s only one thing that matters, and that’s face-to-face with this One. I’m not there as a pastor; I’m not there as a speaker or a writer or whatever else you blank you feel. All those hats are left outside the door. There’s only one hand—the hand of a son. It’s the only one that works in there.
I’ve had this sense for quite a while, but it’s becoming more tangible in the last especially the last ten days, where in that tent, in that time with students, I started to rediscover something that hadn’t been lost. That would be wrong, but there’s always a freshness to His presence that makes you feel like you’ve never had it before. It’s so fresh! You know there’s always something so new with what He’s saying and doing. It almost feels like it’s the first time you’ve ever heard Him speak. Yet outside of that experience, you can see the history that brought you here. But in that moment, it’s like hearing for the first time.
It reminded me of something—oh goodness, it’d be 2010 or 2011, somewhere near that time. My son Eric was leading the second-year school of ministry. There was about a five-month period; I don’t remember the year, but there was about a five-month period where they met over our Twin View campus, our second campus. The second-year school was there, and I don’t remember how many students there were; I would guess 300 maybe, but anyway, that room was packed, and Eric was leading. As one of the pastors, I had a time slot where I’d go over there and speak. It was always an incredible privilege to do so. I remember I would walk in; there was this five-month period where I’d walk in, and it was like walking into a cloud. I mean, it was like walking into a cloud that’s alive. It wasn’t fog; it was walking into life itself on a level that was so wonderful and so overwhelming.
I remember I would come in, and back then, I’d come sit down. Sometimes I’d make it to the front; I’d come and sit down, and Eric would be there. And listen, this wasn’t led by a great worship time—those were there, and that’s important; we just had a wonderful time now. That kind of instrument that the Lord uses is very significant and important, but this was different. It was almost like the Holy Spirit, the choir director of heaven, entered the room, and He was conducting something. I remember sitting down next to Eric, and he would look up at me and say, «What do you want to do?» I said, «I’m not touching this; I have absolutely nothing to say.» There are times in the glory where that’s what you do; there’s a word, there’s a word of the Lord. It’s the ultimate moment. I mean, you want those moments. I don’t want to suggest at all that somehow when that manifest presence of Jesus comes in that measure, we don’t speak, and somehow teaching goes out the window—I don’t believe that.
I’ve seen the opposite happen. I’ve seen those moments that are so overwhelmingly pregnant and filled with God Himself in the room, and then there’s a word. And I believe that, but this wasn’t that season. It was five months of coming into a room where it just didn’t matter. Strange to say, you could have this burden or this vision, or this desire, or whatever—to preach this or to pray for this or to do whatever—but somehow, in this living cloud of presence, oh goodness! It just doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter! I remember during that period of time, I don’t even know how many times I actually spoke. I did a few times, but it wasn’t very often; it wasn’t very often. But I sure encountered Jesus a lot. I sure encountered the love of God, even through people. There was such an unusual interaction in those times. You know, Jesus said, «I gave them My glory that they may be one.» There’s something about the glory that just makes everybody fit together perfectly. It’s not through striving; it’s not through effort; it’s not through determination; it fits in the glory. The reason is that’s what we were designed for. I was designed—everything about me, everything about me that’s of Him was designed to fit seamlessly in the glory, seamlessly. I’m wired in. Oh, you are too! Every born-again believer, we’re actually wired to recognize Him and to respond to Him, and part of that response is obedience. So obedience is the most natural thing in the world in His presence.
You know, if you can imagine Isaiah 6, where Isaiah says, «I see the Lord; He’s high and lifted up, and His train fills the temple.» This overwhelming baptism of presence where he sees the throne of God, and then he hears God say—not to him but in conversation in heaven—"Who will I send?» See, there’s something in the glory. The glory is not just to absorb and walk away blessed; it’s to be impacted by so that we impact everything around us. And the Lord asked this question—He said, «Who will I send?» and it says, «I’ll go!» I can always tell when people are truly in the glory because they want to serve. Now, you can want to serve without being in the glory, but when you do, the heart of God is what launches you. It’s not my ministry goals that matter; it’s not me fighting to see my gift expressed or appreciated or whatever. All that stuff just dies; it just dies. It’s so unimportant in that moment. It’s embarrassing to discuss because in that moment, all you know is you hear a heartbeat, and that heartbeat has become your heartbeat, and something has shifted and changed at least in this moment how you see life.
I remember that five-month period as clearly as yesterday because it has become yesterday. Ten days or so ago in the tent with the students, last Sunday night was the same kind of moment in the tent. I don’t know; maybe we’re just built for tents. I don’t know; maybe we should just do the big old revival tent and get it over with! You know, there’s—I don’t know what it is. I don’t understand it at all, but I know that last Sunday night, I experienced it again. He was there, and that’s all you know. That’s what the glory is: to manifest the presence of Jesus. He was just there. You say, «Well, He’s here; He’s with me now.» That’s true. I get that. But there are so many dimensions of His presence that no matter what you’re experiencing, there’s more. And the key to more is stewarding what you’ve been given. It doesn’t matter if it’s money, anointing, gifting, friends—it doesn’t matter what it is. The key to increase is always stewarding what you have well.
There have been times in my life, as I stated earlier, that that presence, that glory would come so strong in that little sanctuary up in the mountains that I would just become nervous and find something else to do. I don’t say this in shame or embarrassment; I’m just saying this is reality. There’s no increase in that moment. I found my limit. So somehow coming into that place of presence again and again and again with whatever in me needs to yield so that there can be more—I can’t describe it, but that’s the journey. You see, He’s got us on one track. He has one ambition base. I mean, a lot of dreams for us; I don’t want to make it overly simple. But there’s a statement in Haggai chapter 2. I will never forget when I first read this as a pastor in Weaverville; it just leaped at me. It’s Haggai chapter 2, which is one of the small little guys; he’s kind of hard to find. If you get to Matthew, just turn left; if you get to Daniel, turn right; he’s in there.
He says several things here that I think would be worth noting, and then I want to talk to you a bit about where we’re headed. Verse 5: «According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear.» The presence of the Lord makes fear illegal. The presence of the Lord is a partnership with a foreign spirit. «For thus says the Lord,» verse 6, «Once more, it is a little while; I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land. I will shake all the nations, and they shall come to the desire of all nations.» My translation highlights this phrase in this way: «desire,» referring to Jesus as the desire of the nations. «And I will fill this temple with glory,» says the Lord of hosts. «The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,» says the Lord of hosts. And here’s our phrase: «The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former.» If God is in charge, there’s always an increase of glory. If we are, we just build monuments to what has happened in the past. We build them in our theology; we build them in our experience; we build them in our routines. Our disciplines all shout to the past. But there’s something that is always expanding in His presence. It’s this intangible thing called the glory of God that is always deepening. I don’t think we ever arrive, to be honest with you. I’ve got a feeling that heaven is going to be one continuous journey deeper into the glory, and there is no limit. There’s not an end! It’s not like the Father says, «That’s all there is. Sorry; we’ll have to exist the next hundred billion years just with what you’ve got.»
It’s just this unending journey into His presence and into His glory. Ephesians 2 talks about the riches of His grace, which is one of the expressions of glory. In that phrase in Ephesians 2, he says that in the ages to come, we would discover the surpassing riches of His grace. Ages to come—the billions of years ahead of us in eternity—in those ages, there would be the continuous unveiling of yet a deeper level of this mystery called grace. That mystery of grace always introduces us to glory.
We find different stories in Scripture that rock me. I’m assuming they do you as well. II Chronicles chapter 5 is one of them. It’s this amazing moment in the dedication of the temple. Solomon had—well, let me back up. David, his dad, had discerned that there was a shift. Actually, there was a shift in worship, but more specifically, David perceived a reality that existed in heaven that was not discovered in the law. It was not revealed in the law. David started to realize in his relationship with the Lord that the Lord wasn’t interested in the blood of bulls and goats. It doesn’t mean it didn’t count; it was important for that season, but it had its limits. It had its measure of impact. It wasn’t where God’s people were going to land; it was on the sacrifice of animals. That’s not the landing point. That was the illustration that got them ready for the real Lamb of God that once and for all settled the issue. But David somehow discovered this in his journey with the Lord, and the prophets Nathan and Gad confirmed what he was picking up. It says in Chronicles later that he picked up this shift in worship and that the Lord was actually looking for the sacrifice of the heart—the contrite heart, the yieldedness, the fruit of the lips that gives thanks or praise to His name. The Lord is actually looking for people to put themselves on the altar as an offering to Him. It’s not because He’s an egotist that needs our affirmation; He’s quite secure. He doesn’t need anything. I hear people say, «Well, He needs our like.» He doesn’t need our love; He doesn’t need anything. He’s very self-sufficient, while the Son and Holy Spirit make a really good team. They don’t need anything, but they desire many things. They desire my heart; they desire yours, and it adds something to them that nothing else and everything that they have made could add.
He desires yours, and it’s that wonderful, beautiful expression of just turning our attention and affection towards Him. The war that’s been going on over this last year with the pandemic and all the other stuff is a war for attention because the enemy wants to dilute your affection. It’s always to divert attention, to defile affection. And there’s something about this reconnection with presence that is home. It’s just home! Everything else is where I’m visiting. This is actually home. I’m set out from home; I get to do all this stuff, but this is home. This seamless connection between my surrendered heart and His heart for me is just the most beautiful thing.
So when Solomon becomes king, he builds a temple. Many are familiar with this story; it’s a truly wonderful story. But he built it with the materials that David set aside for him. You know, Solomon’s given the credit for this extravagant building, but it was David’s wealth that built it. He set the stuff aside as this father-son thing. It was like the only time I could find in history, if I can call this revival, what David was experiencing where a revival increased in the next generation for Solomon. Now, Solomon didn’t sustain it tragically, or everything would be different, but he didn’t. For a brief season, there was an acceleration, and where they learned the value, the beauty of ministering directly to the Lord, not just for the Lord.
And you know, they still had to do the blood sacrifice because there had to be that point of obedience. They never lost sight of that sin is only dealt with through blood. It had to be established in their thinking; and yet, here’s the rub: the blood of bulls and goats can’t deal with it. It only postpones the penalty for one more year, and so there’s this constant reminder—they need the Lamb of God. They need that; the law was given as a tutor, a teacher, an instructor that would lead them to Christ, and so all of this is part of that journey. But throughout this journey, they got to taste moments of grace. Grace was not just introduced in the New Testament; grace is seen all through the Old Testament. There are just moments—there are just moments where there’s no other explanation but God just has mercy on Abraham and considers him righteous because he believed. That’s grace!
He said actually that story became a New Testament model; it became the prototype for every New Testament believer. It happened in the Old Testament, happened before the law. It’s extraordinary what takes place through all these moments where just little windows open to let us see what grace looks like. Another one I’m thinking of is when there was this in Nehemiah’s day where he—in Nehemiah 8—they found the Scriptures again. They had it for a generation or more, and so they’re standing in the open square, and everybody’s there. I mean, everybody—kids, babies, infants—everybody is there, and they’re all standing at attention as the Word is read. There’s this overwhelming conviction that comes on the people because they see God’s standard is here as the Word is read. They’ve not heard it probably in their entire lifetime. God’s standard is here, and their lifestyles are down here, and they begin to weep and mourn because they didn’t qualify. And the priests ran among the people and said, «Stop mourning; this day is holy.»
I don’t know how you grew up, but I grew up thinking mourning and holy were synonymous. You know, the more you wept, the more you were able to illustrate how holy the moment was. And it was—it was actually the tears of mourning in that moment defiled the holiness of God. So the priests ran among the people and said, «Stop it! Stop it! Send portions to those who have nothing! Grab your food, grab the meat, grab the wine, grab all these things, have a family feast, get them together, and start rejoicing because you understood the words.» That’s stunning! God’s standard is here—my lifestyle is here, and God says the time to rejoice is when you understand! It changes everything. You actually rejoice your way into maturity; sounds like a child! Most of us need to grow down instead of grow up.
So here we are in this moment. Fast forward to Solomon’s day—he builds this temple, and it’s time to dedicate this. I’m going to assume the most extravagant building that’s ever existed. Man, I would love to see it! And so here’s this moment where the priests have come together. I remind you, Exodus 19 verse 6 and Isaiah 61 verse 7 announce to the people of God: «You shall be priests unto the Lord.» Second Peter 2 verse 9 says: «You are priests unto the Lord.» The Old Testament pointed to the future; said it’s happening, it’s going to happen. Peter and the book of Revelation, chapter 1, I think it’s verse 5, announce: «It’s not coming; it is now. You have the right and responsibility to minister directly to Him.»
So everything we see of that nature, the function in the Old Testament, is to seed the cloud just to give us insight. So here we have all these priests gathered together, and we have verse 12: Let’s just start there. «The Levites who were singing—all those of Asaph, Haman, and Jeduthun—with their sons and with their brethren stood at the east end of the altar clothed in white linen.» They had to wear linen; they couldn’t wear wool because if they wore wool, they would sweat. There was nothing you could do on your own works; sweat in the presence of God. Everything was to be by grace. So here’s another glimpse: you’re never there by your works, and that was the insistence of the Lord. They had symbols, stringed instruments, harps, and with them, 120 priests sounding trumpets. Man, that had to be something! I mean, there were entire family lines; their whole job was just to play trumpets. And you think about it; it almost seemed silly. A whole other family line—they were singers. A whole other group—they were just symbol players. The whole point was they had to become excellent at what they were doing, and they were to carry on that mantle throughout their family line—120 priests sounding trumpets.
Verse 13: «It came to pass when the trumpeters and the singers were as one to make one sound.» Yeah, but I want to stand out! No, you don’t! No, no, you don’t! You’re privileged to be a part of the whole. It’s not about you; it’s not about me. Whenever you make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and symbols and instruments of music and praised the Lord, saying, «For He is good, for His mercy endures forever,» that the house, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house!
What did we read in Haggai? The glory of the latter house will be greater than the former. It’s always His intent to take us from glory to glory. Anything less is man’s influence. It’s always His intent to take us from glory to glory. It doesn’t come because it’s my goal; it comes because I surrender to His.
So here in this moment, we find—I don’t know how many are there; there’s at least 120 that are playing trumpets. Then you’ve got probably the same amount or more that are singers. You’ve got the symbols; you’ve got stringed instruments; you’ve got all this stuff. So you get this massive crowd, and they’re all playing—not for the nation of Israel—they are playing for the audience of One. We are playing to Him, directly to Him! Every strum, every clanging symbol, every syllable that is lifted up in song—everything is for the One. And when that happened, and it became a united sound, when they sang as one with horns—that’s a miracle right there!
When all of that comes together as one sound, the cloud came and so filled the temple. Nobody had to stand up and say, «I think it’d be appropriate if we went to our knees right now just to honor the Lord.» I believe those moments are fine; I’ve done it, and probably will do it again. Who knows? The day’s not over. But it wasn’t that kind of moment. It was an involuntary «I’ve got to hide my face from the One who just entered the room.»
Here’s the deal: this all happened under an inferior covenant. Inferior covenants do not release superior blessings. If what happens in this context happened in the Old Testament when they were just learning what it was to sing to the Lord and to honor Him and to give offerings of thanksgiving and praise, if it would happen in that environment, then how much more has He not designed it to happen here with us?
I remember a prophetic song we had in Weaverville. Prophetic songs were the Song of the Lord, where the Lord Himself is singing. I mean, I didn’t hear His voice, but we heard through another voice. I remember the word He said: «Did I not fill the tabernacle of Moses with My glory? Did I not fill the temple of Solomon with My glory? How much more should I fill the place that I build with My own hands, My beloved? I’m building you!» No matter what we throw into the mix—our ambitions for our families, our countries, our cities, or whatever—just put it all in the pile. It’s all profoundly impacted by the glory.
Where is this thing headed? I can’t shake the fact that His goal is for the whole earth to be filled with His glory. Now, He’s God; He can make that happen now, but it would be a military invasion. It wouldn’t be through partnership. His longing is always to accomplish the significant things through co-laboring—through the yieldiness of His people, those who’ve been made in His image, created in His image, who would respond with likeness—with the same heart as He has—to model, to illustrate, to release, to activate His will in the earth. And that’s the heart of God; that’s the privilege that we have in this hour. We know His heart. I may be confused by a thousand things, but the one thing that’s not confusing—not if I read this—the one thing is not confusing is He has got me on a track. It’s not a road where I can take directions I want; it’s a railroad track. You don’t turn. The direction has been set. You can stop; you can go backwards, but you can’t change the assigned direction. The direction is from glory to glory.
I remember I’ve been sentimentally stirred up in the last week or so just in my own private little world, remembering I’ll never forget the Sunday sitting right down there where Brian, my son, happened to be leading worship that Sunday. He may have played two chords; I’ve always said it was one, but he might have gone to a second chord. But something happened on that second chord where he filled the room, and we didn’t get to our first song for 40 minutes, and no one was keeping track. It was after the fact, you look back. Why? Because something happens when He comes in. Everything that was important to you, you can’t even remember.
It’s not like, «Ah, I’ll bring it up later.» No, you can’t remember it. In the manifest presence of the King of Glory, suddenly there’s only one thing on your mind—it’s what I was born for. I was born for this seamless interaction between the King of Glory, who has made me qualified because I could never qualify myself. He’s qualified me to be here in this moment, and it’s in those moments we hear Him say, «Who shall I send?» And without even thinking, the hand goes up.
People who tell me, «I love to worship the Lord; I don’t like to leave that place.» I’m not sure they saw Him yet. I’m not sure they actually saw Him because I’m not sure you can see His heart and not want to go. I don’t know if it’s possible to sit in that moment where you see Him or where there’s an overwhelming sense of who He is and what He’s like. And then He says, «Who shall I send?» and you find your hand going up saying, «I’ll do it! You name it; I’ll do it; I’m there! I don’t know what I’m doing, but I trust You. Go with me; I’ll go!»
I’m not sure that anybody who wants to just sit there and do nothing has actually seen what they claim to have seen. There’s something about who shall I send. I’ll go! There’s something about that moment of going where that glory never leaves you. It’s not like I’m departing the glory; it’s like I’m going to now enter into a greater realm of glory because I will now be an instrument in His hand. Perhaps that is how the whole earth becomes filled with this glory, as people in the presence carry the presence to bring change.
I believe—you know, I teach a lot on unfulfilled dreams and the desires that we have. I believe they’re meaningful to God; I do. I haven’t changed my tune at all. But I have been strangely apprehended again for something that’s way bigger than us. I love us, but this one’s bigger than us. I remember that one Sunday morning where Brian hit, I think it was the second chord, and he just—I don’t know how to describe it. You know it’s afterwards, in the moment you don’t know what to do. You know, afterwards you look back and go, «Man, He just walked into the room,» and that was that kind of moment.
I’ll never forget that we’ve only had that happen on that level one time in 25 years. But I remember a Sunday night where the worship team was playing and another one of those moments where the glory just came in, and everybody up here just stopped, and everybody out here just stopped, and it was almost like we were suspended in time. You know, people get nervous when nothing’s happening. You know, especially in Pentecostal circles, somebody needs to pray in tongues or prophesy or laugh or get out and dance or do something, you know—it’s like we get nervous with blank spaces. There was no nervousness with that blank space because He filled the blank space. He just came into the blank space, and all of a sudden, you didn’t have to tell people to turn their affection to Him; it was just—there was just silence. I don’t remember ever hearing silence for that long in a crowd that likes to make noise. It was like the ultimate offering was just to shut up.
But yet nobody said or suggested; it was just—it’s what you do when He enters the room. You find everything that you could think of to say is completely meaningless. And I’m hungry for that again! I’ve had tastes in the last ten days or so at levels of measures that I’ve not had for a while. It tells me that we’re being set up, and it’s going to be good. But it won’t be about you, and it won’t be about me. He has set something in motion, and He wants us to see that He was absolutely serious when He said it: «The glory of the latter house would be greater than the former.»
The context was there were people who saw the temple before it was destroyed and then rebuilt, and they remembered both. And the first one, Solomon’s, was just incredibly glorious, and the second one wasn’t near as beautiful. So you had two groups of people there; some were laughing for joy because, look, the temple’s built, and others were weeping. Man, it’s nothing like it used to be. And so that prophecy was very, very specific. In other words, this thing that you see over here—that’s not it! I’m going to do something in the earth that is going to be way more glorious than even Solomon’s temple, which silenced and stunned the leaders of nations. God will do it again in this house; that’s you and that’s me.
I feel like there’s an invitation. I wasn’t sure how to label this talk, this conversation with you today, but to me, I can’t talk about it without feeling invited, without feeling compelled. Now, dissatisfaction is a holy gift. See, sometimes our satisfaction in the absence of revival is what prohibits revival, as in, «I’m actually okay without it.» Sometimes the absence of the manifest presence of the King of Glory—sometimes my satisfaction in those moments may be the very thing that propels that glory.
So here’s an invitation: I’d like for everybody watching to join me in this very, very simple prayer: «God, I can’t make myself suitable, but I can surrender.» And there are people right now watching; you don’t even have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, and this is the most unusual message ever to invite you into the family, but I’m going to do it anyway. In this moment, you have this sense—some of you in your homes—there’s going to be this sense of presence you’ve never seen before, you’ve never felt before, you’ve never realized before, but it’s happening now.
I had that sense early this morning that there would be these encounters with the Lord Himself in your home. I love the corporate gathering, but see, it was in my one-on-one stuff that helped me to realize the corporate stuff. So wherever you’re at—some of you have never surrendered to Jesus—I want you just to simply pray this prayer, and in the online chat room, tell somebody what you’ve done. But it’s just praying this prayer of «God, I give You my entire life, that You would be glorified. Do in me whatever pleases You, that Your name would be exalted. Do in my family, in my home, that which delights Your heart.»
See, the Scripture says the Lord speaks at one point, He says, «For I’m not ashamed to be called their God.» I would like everybody watching this to have the Lord shout over your actual home, the physical home that you live in. I would love to see the Lord of Glory stand over your household and shout to everything that exists, «I am not ashamed to be called their God!»
There’s something about to be released in the earth, and it’s through surrendered people. So Father, we pray right now, I ask that You would use this overwhelming sense of presence and that You disciple us this way. You teach us this way, that we would never be satisfied with anything less than You again. Like Moses, we want to say, «If You’re not taking us, we don’t want to go up from here. We don’t want to go just blessed; we don’t want to go just with favor and open doors. If You’re not going, if Your presence isn’t that which makes us different than everyone else, then we don’t want to go anywhere.»
So I’m praying that; I’m praying that for us, us, this tribe, this family, the Bethel family all over the world. Mark us with the glory, God! I invite You to interrupt our dream time; teach us what You like. Teach us; open up new pathways of discernment and perception in our physical bodies, our hearts, our minds, that we just expand our ability to recognize You, the Glorious One. And that somehow that would be the contagious factor—not a pandemic, not a virus, but a contagious factor called the glory of God. The glory of God has become known in the earth—that’s what we want!
So I invite You to do that with us as a family, and I give You thanks. Amen. If you invited Jesus into your life, please tell someone in the chat room. If you’re a believer who has just really, really, really found yourself fighting with what God is saying and doing, you know—pray with somebody in the chat room as well. We just want everyone to have this ongoing encounter with King Jesus. Amen! God bless you; thanks for joining us. Love you much!