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The Glory Inside.
Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 7, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: What do you think the Tent of Meeting, the Tabernacle, looked like? You might imagine it being very impressive, but not really, more than likely it looked dark, mostly black, or maybe it was a very dark shade of brown.
Prayer opens iron gates.
Again, these were trained soldiers Peter is bound to. Also two guard post, and finally one iron gate.
Therefore, go deeper… And deeper… And deeper still. Go ever deeper… Beyond the surface, beyond the appearance, and beyond the tent skins…
1 Corinthians 2:10-12NLT ”But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. 11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. 12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.“
Go deeper to await the treasures and the glory that arrives to those… Who go inside.
Exodus 40:34-36AMP ”Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud remained on it, and the glory and brilliance of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 In all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out;“
The glory of God isn’t stationary, Gods glory, Gods light, Gods revelation, is on the move.
The glory of God makes the hard times sustainable.
The glory is inside. Decide this very moment to go deeper.
2 Corinthians 4:1-6ESV Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Verse 7voice But this beautiful treasure is contained in us—cracked pots made of earth and clay—so that the transcendent character of this power will be clearly seen as coming from God and not from us.
“God even anoints cracked pots!” P.H
