Are you going to let Him Get close?

I believe that this generation is very close to revival. but I don't want to simply watch as God passes down the street to go somewhere else where people really want Him It's going to happen somewhere, but if not us, who, Lord? We aren't satisfied with Your gifts, as wonderful as they are. We want You. The equation for revival is still the same:

If My people, which are called by My name. shall humble themselves [die on the altar of repentance], and pray. and seek My face (instead of just revival or momentary visitationsl, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV).

"Father, we seek Your face."

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As God redefines the Church, it is highly likely that the Church that emerges from the cloud of His glory will look very different from what you and I think the Church should look like. This will happen because God is repossessing the Church and drawing it close to Him.

Will we dare to draw close to His glory?

God really wanted the children of Israel to come up and receive the Ten Commandments directly from Him along with Moses. But they ran from God's presence. The Church is in danger of doing the same thing today. We can take the risk of something dying in us as we dare to draw close to His glory, or we can turn and run back to our traditions of men and the safety of religious legalism and man-operated church services. Seeker-friendly is fine; Spirit-friendly is fire!

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Let's create a comfort zone for God and a discomfort zone for man by repentant worship. Our churches are more comfortable for man, plush with padding, than they are comfortable for God, stripped of flesh!

The Israelites literally isolated and insulated themselves from God's intimate presence because of their fear of death. Moses, on the other hand, drew near to the thick darkness concealing God's glory. It is time for the Church to truly embrace the cross of Jesus. Our hunger must propel us beyond the death of the flesh into the life and light of God's glory. It is the destiny of the Church of the living God. But it will only happen when we lay down the security of the "new covenant law" of religious practice and carefully controlled "supernatural" visitations for the apparent uncertainty and risk of living face to face with our supernatural God.

God doesn't want us to turn away from His glory so we can build pitiful monuments to a momentary revelation we never paid for with our tears. Salvation is afree gift, but God's glory will cost us everything. He wants us to press in and live in His perpetual habitation of glory. He wants us to be so saturated with His presence and glory that we carry His presence with us everywhere we go in this life. This may be the only way the unspeakable glory of God will find its way to the shopping malls, hair style salons, and grocery stores of our nation.

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This is the way God's glory is destined to cover the whole earth. It has to start somewhere. The fountains of flesh have to be broken up, as well as the windows of Heaven opened up, for the glory to begin to flow like a river and cover the earth. Jesus said, "Out of (your) belly shall flow rivers of living water" (Jn. 7:38b). We will have to be totally sold out to Him if His glory is going to cover the earth.

The difference between the anointing and the glory is the difference between God's hands and His face, and the path to the glory of God takes us right up to the altar where we must lay everything down and die. In the end, we will find ourselves face to face with God as a nation of "dead men walking," in possession of His glory. Nothing else is needed; nothing else is necessary. Once God's children lay down their toys and crawl into the Father's lap to seek His face, the House of Bread will once again overflow with fresh bread and every good gift. The hungry will find the eternal satisfaction that they've always longed for.

He will not frustrate us. God will allow Himself to be caught by us. As a father playing tag with his child allows himself to be caught by the laughing, loving child, so too will the heavenly Father allow Himself to be caught. In fact, just when you would tire in despair, He will turn and catch you. He wants to be "captured" by our love. He eagerly awaits the laughing, loving encounter. He has missed those times with man since the Garden.