Suddenly Glory fills the house.
Ian Johnson
Mar 2, 2005
SUDDENLY GLORY FILLS THE HOUSE.
Suddenly ~ Straightway~ Speedily~ Instantly. : These are all words used with regularity in the Bible.
The same sudden, instant, unexpected thing happened to the Prophet Isaiah.
Isaiah 6:1-7 (NLT) In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 Hovering around him were mighty seraphim, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with the remaining two they flew. 3 In a great chorus they sang, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty! The whole earth is filled with his glory!" 4 The glorious singing shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire sanctuary was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, "My destruction is sealed, for I am a sinful man and a member of a sinful race. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty!" 6 Then one of the seraphim flew over to the altar, and he picked up a burning coal with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, "See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven. Isaiah had a sudden transformation, from sinful man 5 Then I said, "My destruction is sealed, for I am a sinful man and a member of a sinful race. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty!" To a man in revival , "See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven. He was taken from one level to another, a place of sin to a place of holiness, from glory to glory! A sudden change from one season to a new season. This change was brought about by an act of God. When God visits town the doors & the posts are shaken V3. In Acts 4 when the disciples prayed for great boldness and a fresh visitation from God there was a great shaking Acts 4:31. This took the total of people coming to Christ from thousands to great multitudes! In Matthew 28 the resurrection Gods greatest visitation caused an Earthquake Matt 28:2 "Suddenly there was a great earthquake" Haggai 2:6 6 "For this is what the LORD Almighty says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth. I will shake the oceans and the dry land, too. 7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will come to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the LORD Almighty. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD Almighty. 9 The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the LORD Almighty. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!"
When the earth shakes and world systems shake, then treasures will come into the temple The Lord will fill this place with his Glory!
Which takes us back to the place where his glory dwells, in that place where Isaiah saw the Lord and the four living creatures which surround the throne.
When Isaiah saw the Lord he was never the same. Which takes me back to our greatest need in Church today It is not how good our systems are or how tried and true our programs are, but how much of a revelation of the living God do we have. When we see the Lord our hearts are completely captured.
People in revival just want to see the Lord People in revival just want to hear the Lord People in revival just want to be with the Lord.
Paul was hit by this revival as he was heading toward Damascus Peter was hit by this revival when on the rooftop praying and the vision came down The Ethiopian was hit by this revival when Philip turned up out of nowhere In 1976 I was hit by this revival when the room filled up with his presence Samuel Marsden had an encounter that caused him to come to NZ in 1814
George Williams had an encounter that caused him to bring revival to the cook Islands in 1800’s
Every revival has one thing in common. They see God in all his glory! The Glory is God’s but the response is mans. The choice is ours! We can continue in our program filled lives or we can see God and die! (to ourselves) We can live in a desert or we can walk into the realms of glory.
God never changes. So revival is always available, we just need to see His glory and die! God is Holy, that’s why the living creatures always cry Holy Holy Holy!
When we see His glory we just want to repent! Acts 3:19 promises that when we do times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord!
The thing the enemy does is tell us we are so full of sin and badness that we cant even think of coming before God. This stops us from seeing his glory! And you know how it works see God and die! We don’t die to sin until we first see his holiness. That’s why Jesus gave you his blood. Because in him you can come into His glory, right into his very throne room, and when you do you will die! (to your sin)
Satan has given man a warped gospel which says unless you clean your life up you won’t be holy, but the true gospel says Jesus washes your sin away (totally) and gives you the chance to come into the very presence of the living God. When you see His glory you will die! (to your sin)
Jesus has been made a sacrifice for you and me Hebrews 10:8-10 Christ said, "You did not want animal sacrifices or grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them" (though they are required by the law of Moses). 9 Then he added, "Look, I have come to do your will." He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second. 10 And what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
What God wants for us is to present ourselves in His throne room (Where the glory is)
That’s why Paul said in Romans 12:1 And so, dear brothers and sisters,* I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will accept.
You can’t present a sacrifice, unless you are in His presence! A sacrifice always dies. When you come into his glory you will die! Holiness will be the resurrection fruit of this death!
When you see God and His glory, you become aware that God is in charge! When you become aware (through revelation of Him) circumstances change The throne is surrounded by what appears to be fire! When you live in the throne room fire is your fuel, glory is your air because the atmosphere around the throne is glory..
The four living creatures who are in the constant revival atmosphere of glory, are always looking straight ahead. Moving only when God moves.
In the same way the people of Israel only moved when the fire/cloud moved so those who have died in the glory only move when the glory moves. Because they no longer have an ego which says perform. There is a comfort ministering in the glory because if He doesn’t move the glory doesn’t move, So if we are living in the throne room we know when He moves! Remember Jesus only did what he heard in the throne room. (John16) That’s why he didn’t go running off when Lazarus died to see if He, as Rabbi could help. He went when he got the word and look at the resurrection glory that followed.
That’s what the scripture says about us."As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" If we go when we are told to go, or do only what we are told to do we also will see resurrection glory! A raising of the dead anointing comes in the glory!
Prepare for the glory get into a glory centre. In the fire & glory of the throne room we catch on fire, and in turn we set others on fire. That’s why its important for believers to be part of a body of other believers. Because if you burn on your own in this glory no one else will catch on fire. But if you burn in the midst of others they will catch fire also.
Recently there was a serious fire just down the road from the Church. The thing about that fire was it started suddenly in the Kitchen, and then just as suddenly it spread to every room in the house, very soon the whole house was consumed. But none of the surrounding homes were touched! Why? Because they weren’t where the fire was.
When people start seeking the glory that’s found around the throne you need to get into their house. No use living in a house that just wants to put out the fire and reject the glory. The thing about being close to the house that burnt was that you were aware of the fire, you could see the fire, you could hear the fire, but the fire didn’t touch you.
The time has come for believers who want to see this glory fall to get into the same house and burn together.
Because it comes suddenly speedily instantly. When it comes you need to be there.
Shalom! Shalom!
Ian Johnson
www.papelim.org.nz
