Atmosphere of Revelation

October 23, 2016

October 23, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“The Atmosphere of Revelation”
Greet People
This has been an awesome week. God has blessed Betty
and I with strength and favor as we follow Him. It is our
consistent honor to serve this congregation. There is a
bond here that is strong. It is something that the enemy
has attacked more than once. We must all give God
praise for His consistent blessings and favor as we walk
together in His Holy purpose.
We are yet to be perfected, but the process continues to
move us forward.
I have thought much this week on the power available to
the church from the presence of God. I am hungry and I
believe that this hunger for God is stirring people
throughout the world. It is a hunger for change. Taking
down walls of doubt. Ridding our minds from the boxes
we fill with people who are not like us.
A hunger for change will require us to reject our
limitations and stretch ourselves in faith.Page 2
Augustine said, “If you want change in your world.
The change will come when the change comes
through you.”
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “The
Atmosphere of Revelation”
Before I get into my scriptures I want to share some
words from a song written by St. Bernard somewhere
around 900 years ago. “We taste Thee, oh Thou living
Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of
Thee the Fountainhead, and thirst our souls from
Thee to fill.”
There is a hunger for His presence.
1 Samuel the 4 th chapter records a very sad event in the
history of the nation of Israel. Eli was an elderly prophet
in the land and the people were in a war with the
Philistines. The 2 sons of Eli brought the ark into the
area and the people were excited and began to shout so
that the earth was filled with the noise. The Philistines
knew the ark was there and they began to be afraid of
being destroyed. “They encouraged themselves.”
“You must believe in what you have!!!!”Page 3
1 Samuel 4:9-11 NASB
9 Take courage and be men, O Philistines, or you will
become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves
to you; therefore, be men and fight.”
10 So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and
every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very
great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot
soldiers.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of
Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
A man from the battle ran to Eli. The prophet asked
about the noise from the battlefield. He replied, Israel
has been defeated, your sons are dead, and the ark of
God has been taken.
1 Samuel 4:18 NASB
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat
backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and
he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel
forty years.
Eli’s son Phineas had a wife who was pregnant and
about to give birth. When she heard of the death of her
husband and father in law she gave birth and it caused
her death. Before she died she named the boy Ichabod.Page 4
The name means the glory has departed. The Hebrew
word means, no glory.
I Samuel 4:22 NASB
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the
ark of God was taken.”
The word glory from the Hebrew means this, glory
honour, glorious abundance, abundance riches,
honour, splendor, honour dignity, honour reputation,
honour reverance.”
“They lost all this because they didn’t understand what
they had”
They had been a divided nation for generations.
Preach Vision
David eventually came and got the Ark. Long story in
between for another time. He brought it to Jerusalem
and put it in a tent. Many of his Psalms were written
while He worshiped in the tent, in the presence of God.
In His glory.Page 5
I will try to finish with this.
In Exodus 32 Moses had spent a long time on the
mountain talking with God. The people needed to see a
God so they had Aaron make one. This created quite a
problem and God sent Moses down to see. Near the end
of the chapter Moses said I am going back up to see if I
can fix this with God. Exodus 33 begins with God
saying the people are obstinate. I will send an angel
before you but I am not going. “Moses Intercedes”
Exodus 33:13-16 NASB
13 Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in
Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know
You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider
too, that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I
will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go
with us, do not lead us up from here.
16 For how then can it be known that I have found favor
in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going
with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be
distinguished from all the other people who are upon the
face of the earth?”Page 6
There has always been something different about the
people of God.
Preach
Exodus 33:17-18 NASB
17 The L ORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of
which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My
sight and I have known you by name.”
18 Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your
glory!”
Let me remind you what Moses was asking God to
show him. honour, abundance, riches, honour,
splendor, dignity, reputation, reverance.”
That is what makes glory. Moses had entered His
presence. He hungered for His presence.
Jude 1:24 AMPC
Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling
or slipping or falling, and to present you unblemished
(blameless and faultless) before the presence of His
glory in triumphant joy and exultation with
unspeakable, ecstatic delight.
The word presence means, “Before the face.” The
word glory means “magnificence, excellence, dignity,
and grace.” Preach in His Glory!!!!!