There is a cloud of healing and a cloud of prosperity. There is a difference between the cloud of Glory and the anointing. A few are healed when one ministers by the anointing in the word of knowledge. When the Glory cloud is present, the Heavens are open and everyone receives. Always participate in the praise and worship time. Be part of the formation of the cloud. If you are part of the forming of the cloud, you know how to flow in the cloud. You cannot assume the formation. You have to be part of it. Why are clouds created? There can be no rain without clouds. There will be no clouds without praise.
All too often those in ministry arrive long after the worship has begun. What is more important than worshiping with the corporate body? If the head of the house arrives after the corporate body has ascended in worship, then the leader is not truly in tune with what is going on in the service. Herein lies an opportunity for the enemy to stir up problems. You have a worship leader who is in the realm of worship. He is hearing what the spirit is saying and is in tune with what God wants to do. Since the pastor is not in the service, the weight of responsibility weighs heavy on the worship leader. Then the pastor enters with his own cloud, which is not conducive to the cloud in the house. The results are more like thunderstorms than the soft patter of rain showers. The spirit might have been revealing truths into the body for that moment. While those in the service are hearing the message the spirit is saying, the pastor has been handling other matters, and the result is that it robs him of the ability to be in the flow of the anointing in the service. This is often why the minister goes away unfulfilled after a service, all the while thinking that something went wrong with the service, when in fact they did something wrong. They failed to be in unity with what the spirit was planning for that moment in time. They failed to be in the corporate ascent.
I have seen this scenario far too many times. The pastor walks out ready to preach his sermon. He senses that something is different about the atmosphere, but for the life of him cannot understand what it is. The worship leader has been wondering all the time where the pastor is. He knows that God is doing something, and because he knows his place, he is waiting for the pastor. In the midst of the questions, Lucifer has the opportunity to lie to both the pastor and the worship leader. There is not enough room
Perceiving the Realm of the Miraculous here to list all the lies he places in their minds. But we know that jealousy and territorial ownership are just two of the greatest tools he uses.
The unity is destroyed, the service has lost the Glory, and the people are left to wonder why the service did not enter the presence of the Lord. We need to learn that worship must take place with all the giftings in place in the house.
I implore you pastors and worship leaders to get together and go before the Lord to get the Word of the Lord for the house. There must be unity. If a worship leader cannot be in full support of the pastor, he should step down. If a pastor cannot abide the ministry of his worship leader, he should talk it over with the worship leader, and make the necessary changes. The real question must be asked here. Do you want a music director, or do you want someone with a ministry of music? To stifle a psalmist is to strangle the spirit in them. Some of us who have served as staff members in churches need to remind ourselves of how things were. Most people have vowed they would never treat their staff a certain way when they take the reigns of the house. Yet, the surge of power often blinds us to this vow. Dual kingdoms in the house will cause nothing but wars and rumors of wars. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
If you are a pastor, or a worship leader, who has fell victim to this trap, kneel down before the Lord right where you are and ask Him to forgive you for failing to be the priest unto Him first and foremost. Ask Him to restore your priorities He deems supreme. Then offer up your form and repetitive programs on the altar. Allow Him to reinstall His design and plan in your spirit. Lay your flesh aside, and let the Glory realm into the house. He has said His house would be a house of prayer, not a house of agendas.
Now that you have cleansed your body, soul and spirit you are ready to ascend into that atmosphere where He resides. Lift your hands to the Lord. Lift your voice. Create your own Glory cloud. In the cloud that you create is your miracle, your breakthrough, your prosperity. Give Him praise! Go a little higher! Worship Him! Worship before His face. Kneel down on his footstool and place your head in His lap and allow Him to sing over you, His Bride. Your worship will create the cloud of His presence and then He will come down in all of His Glory.
The river I saw flowing over the entire earth was available to all of God's people. God said that the current in the river was changing as new waves began to break on the surface of the earth. Our expectations are not to be from those old familiar waves, but from the ever changing new waves He is sending to the earth. Change is the hardest thing for humans to accomplish. We like the comfort zone far too much. We must disturb our present.
God told me some will be deceived and will miss this new wave of God because they will say they have seen it before. There are seen and unseen obstacles in the river that could block the flow of the changing current. But, with God's help, it is possible to rise above these obstacles and embrace the new waves of God. A word of warning, it will require some changes in your theology, traditions and thinking. This will be your greatest struggle. To give up what we have been told is the way to do something, to change our mannerisms and methodology, is as alien to us as stepping out of a spaceship onto the face of the moon. We know we are standing on new ground, and we know how we got there, but we have no idea as to the technology of the craft which took us there, or the composite of the terra firma we are standing on.
Perceiving the Realm of the Miraculous The Glory is altogether new to us. We are more comfortable talking about the anointing, but the manifest Glory is another story. We are challenged to go where no generation has gone before. We have already been in His realm.
We were created there. Now, we must learn how to access it once again, and reenter its atmosphere. "Whom He foreknew" has more to it than what we might think.
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There Is a New Sound in the Earth
"As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency, or rather Agency, must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to,
we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially
crafted the cosmos for our benefit?"
George Greenstein, Astronomer
We are always in a season of constant change. We have been told in the Word of God that we can know the times and seasons, and this is expressly so of those which are shortly before us as the culmination of time quickly approaches. Time is constantly being consumed by the hand of God until He comes bodily in the fullness of time.
Matthew 24:22 "And unless those days were shortened,
no flesh would be saved, but for the elect sake those days will be shortened."
When you realize that eternity is invading time, the challenge is to enter into that realm where the view of how God sees time versus ours is different, whereby a compression of time occurs. In other words, as the eternal
There Is a New Sound in the Earth mind of God invades the natural mind of man, man is able to see, and understand, as God does.
As eternity invades time, time is being shortened, demanding that more is to be accomplished in less time before Jesus returns. Even though twenty-four hours in a day is still our accepted measuring of a day and night, the perception of time is much different of time 100 years ago. It was not thought to be inconvenient to take a year to travel from one continent to another. Now, man gets frustrated when he cannot get someplace fast enough.
Let me remind you once again of the passage in Daniel 12:4 declares:
"But you Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."
With the breakthroughs in communication, science, computer technology, not to fail to mention Internet mail, online banking, online purchasing, and the modern inventions of microwaveable food products; and don't forget the ability we now have to get a package around the world in mere hours, if you want to pay the price, when in the past it would sometimes take years for a ship to carry the mail from one continent to another. So, what previously took one year to complete is now taking one month. What previously took one month, now takes one week. What previously took one week, now takes one day. What previously took one day, now takes one hour. Let me say it in this manner. While time is being shortened, the events taking place in that space of time are seemingly being compressed.
If we can agree that He has authority over all things, then would He not also have authority over time? Only He
can manipulate time. He created it. It is subject to Him. If He wants to cause our days to fly by faster than we are used to, then He can do it. We will not actually notice it because we would still be counting each moment as having sixty seconds, when in His reality, the seconds would be in what I call relayed time. While God has the power to do with time as He will, we would only perceive it in the natural realm.
What I want you to truly grasp is that our perception changes when we enter the mind of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. In the case of the person given six months to live, that period of time might seem to fly by, while with another person it might be a very lengthy amount of time. Perception is the key word here.
We are living in the period when the prophecies declared over the past 6,000 years are being fulfilled in a short span of remaining time. Every passage from the Word concerning the world, the church, and Israel, is coming to pass. What an exciting time to be living. We are the generation which will see some of the greatest manifestations ever seen in, and on, the earth.
It is apparent there is a shifting in the Heavens as well as on the earth. There is more revelation provided to the Body of Christ than ever before. We are blessed to have some of the most wonderful men and women of God, who are sharing fresh insights into the Kingdom of God on a day to day basis, but the Word still does not change, even though there are new voices declaring fresh insight.
There Is a New Sound in the Earth