A Glory Invasion

You are the air I breathe! Your very presence causes the mountains to be cast into the sea, the oceans to rise and fall, the stars to brighten with the Light of Your Word! We are Your children and we seek You and You alone. We are starved for Your presence. Let our worship proclaim the wonders of Your love, the depths of Your grace, and the undying devotion You show us. When I am weak, You are strong. I surrender to Your mercy.

A Glory Invasion

There is a difference between just speaking words flippantly as opposed to making prophetic declarations. When you are in an atmosphere of God’s glory, you are in a position to understand how He has created something out of nothing. In Hebrews 11:3 the Lord explains the moving of His glory upon nothingness; “By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” The Christian world needs to begin to walk in this understanding once again as in the days of Paul. We have allowed our lack of faith and the knowledge of science to cloud our judgment about spiritual abilities and opportunities in God’s Spirit.

I recently visited a church where the pastor was explaining that two of their members had developed terminal illnesses and we needed to accept their fate. He was determined to bring his congregation into understanding that God’s will allows us to be subjected to the terminal illnesses of the world. He actually spoke their fate into a state of despair. Should hopelessness be a motive for our understanding of the God we serve?  Should not a glory invasion of the Holy Spirit be what dictates our motive in praying, interceding, and taking our God-given authority over these terminal illnesses? I could not help but believe that the lack of faith on the part of the leadership in this church find it easier to explain away the illnesses of a fallen world accepting our fate to have to succumb to the evil of the sickness rather than holding prayer meetings and interceding on behalf of these saints expecting God to heal them completely. When it comes to these types of illnesses has the church settled in accepting that we have lost the authority given to us to overcome and expect God to move miraculously? Are we not desiring the return of the A.A.  Allen, Oral Roberts, and Kathryn Kuhlman ministries?

He is the Creator of all things! He spoke all things into existence from nothing. We must seek His glory invasion. We must intercede and wait upon His intervention. We must wait for His glory to come and then speak out what He is saying and the same things will follow. He sends His Spirit to move over us, creating an atmosphere conducive to creative miracles. Without the indwelling power of His Spirit upon our situation nothing can be created, healed, or established. He is our Creator, our Healer, and our Lord.

A glory invasion requires that we pray expecting! We must pray with power, believing His Word, and without doubt declare that His presence will change the atmosphere of death to life, sickness to health, and nothing into something. A glory invasion brings a declaration of expectation! Through His glory the Spirit establishes who we are in Him. His presence removes all doubt. It puts the flesh in a state of submission and causes demonic forces to flee from their dominion over the fallen world.

Worship releases God’s Energy

In worship, the presence of God’s glory releases an energy of supernatural magnitude that provides the potential for miraculous events. His energy is present even if it cannot be seen or witnessed. He is not an emotion to be felt rather He is the absolute force in the universe that reveals the power of the God we serve. He is the ever-present Creator of it All. He is not an emotion that only those who are sensitive to Him can feel. His presence, His power, His Spirit, and His Glory are a capacity for works—just like electricity and sound waves that you cannot see but know they still exist.

The sound of worship confirms the Genesis account.

In Luke 19:40, Jesus said, “the very stones will cry out.” The sound of His voice was the main ingredient in the base composition of creation; GOD SPOKE!  Through Christ, God spoke it all into existence; “For by Him (Jesus Christ) all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him” Colossians 2:16. This knowledge of His voice is a critical factor in creating an atmosphere of worshipful sound in our services.

The Glory Zone

In Dr. David Herzog’s book, “Glory Invasion,” he states a profound meaning to Psalm 148. “…God commands the sun, moon, and stars to praise Him, He even commands mountains and hills to praise Him. Only an intelligent God who knows His creation intimately can command seemingly inanimate objects to respond in worship to Him.” Dr. Herzog is proclaiming a spiritual truth that all creation has the ability to hear, listen, obey, respond, and worship the Creator. He continues with this enlightenment, “Jesus commanded the fig tree to die after not producing fruit and the tree obeyed Him. Every living thing can and does respond” to His voice.

It is in this moment during our worship when His glory fills the temple that we need to seize the moment. We must put aside our agendas, our programs, and our need to be expedient (time restraints kill God’s anointing). We often settle for less and call it more! There are many times when the Lord is about to move in our midst, the prophets proclaiming it, the worship team sensing it, yet the leadership presses on in their agendas. They settle for less and call it more! You often hear, “Great worship!” “Wasn’t that a great time of worship?!” “Praise God for the worship team!” The prophets knew there was more if we had only waited and pressed in. Let’s continue to pray for revival yet we show a disdain toward doing what is necessary to move the heart of God. Many times, we cry in our worship, “Lord, we are waiting on you!” His answer is always the same, “My children, I am waiting for you.” We hate formalized religion yet we have ourselves at times in our services created our own.

The Glory Zone means breaking with traditions, stretching ourselves beyond our comfort zones, and stepping out into His Greatness.

When the presence of the Lord enters your worship, it ushers in His anointing. The Anointed One (Jesus) brings His throne (authority) in the midst of our praise. When His throne enters in His glory precedes Him and heaven is present among us. In heaven there is no sickness, there is no sin, there is no depression, there is only fullness of joy.