Today we shall be looking at how we can connect with God for full manifestation of his glories. The covenant practices below ensure his abiding presence (glory in our lives);
- Fasting & prayers
- Fasting and prayers generates a high intensity of glory upon our lives
How?
- Fasting and prayer reduces the flesh and increases the spirit.
- The spirit is closer to God than the soul and body, the closer you are to God, the more of his light you reflect and consequently the greater the level of his glory you generate.
- This glory attracts favor – Nehemiah, Esther
Ne:1:3: And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Ne:1:4: And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Ne:2:4: Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Ne:2:5: And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
Worship: Worship brings God into his house, and wherever God goes his glories follows. We are his terbanacle, a daily life of worship guarantees his abiding presence and consequently his abiding glory.
2Ch:5:13: It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
2Ch:5:14: So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
Study, hearing & doing of the Word: In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The more of the word you have, the more of God you have in your life which translates to more of his presence and more of his glory.
Joh:1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
2Co:3:18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass( the mirror of his word) the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Jas:1:23: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Holiness –
- The purposefulness of Daniel not to defile himself with the portion of king’s meal.
- The resolve of Joseph not sleep with Potiphar’s wife
Devil also sees the glory of man ahead of him and always makes effort to truncate it; our resolve to call the devil’s beckoning to sin bluff reinforces God’s presence and glory in our lives.
- Devil failed concerning Daniel & Joseph
Da:6:3: Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
Da:6:28: So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Gen:45:13: And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither
- He succeeded in the case of Samson & Solomon and they were robbed of their glory.
- Devil must not succeed in your own case.
Prayer- Lord help me to manifest your glory
Take a decision to follow Christ as from today and your life will be full of his glory.
Solomon & Beatrice Akinleye
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