See also: Threshold — Part 1, Part 3, Part 4

 

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Are you ready to hear about God’s Glory?

It began two Sunday’s ago when my husband and I attended church. Our church had a visiting Evangelist speaker, who trained some 20 youth to travel to Africa with him.

He spent a great deal of time preparing this group before going so they could be used mightily by The LORD.

After we worshiped The LORD in song, they began with a round table sort of discussion to share the miracles each had witnessed or participated on their journey.

They shared testimony after testimony of salvation and people getting healing immediately after being prayer over. They literally witnessed miracles by God of healing, over and over.

My husband and I sat there listening to this youth group sharing their perception of the trip and how it not only changed their life, but their perspective on how The LORD could use them.

The explained how the African culture is deeply rooted with a lot of demonic activities and even sacrifices.

It’s so prevalent in their culture that when the sons and daughters of the Most High arrive in their cities, they are hungry for the truth of our Savior.

These fine youth witnessed so many hungry souls. They describe how the African people think that we can do anything in the name of God as we are walking epistles of Jesus.

Here in the United States, we take this for granted, but when the guest speaker steps up on stage to share his testimony of their trip together, I feel a shift in the spirit.

“As I began to speak, The Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.” Acts 11:15 ESV

God’s Glory begins to flow into the room. I don’t know if you have ever felt this sort of Glory, but it’s exciting! It unveils every human mindset carried here on earth.

The key to understanding the falling of the Spirit on people — is to recognize the difference between receiving the Spirit at the new birth and the impartation of spiritual gifts (the “second experience” classically called the baptism of the Spirit).

Please see my previous post which talks about the second filling. The falling of the Spirit is not receiving the Spirit at the new birth; it is the post-conversion experience that was always accompanied by visible manifestations.

As this speaker begins to tell of his travels for last 38 days, I can feel the glory of God building all around us.

He shared that in those 38 days of travel, 3800 people were led to Jesus. How amazing!! His list of testimonies was stirring me and I felt inspired!

Then he begins to share how his team was on a plane headed to Tanzania, and each seat had a television on the headrest that would play the Muslim prayer multiply times during their flight.

He said his team sort of just ignored it and the male flight attendant noticed them, because they weren’t praying or wearing masks.

He asks if they are missionaries and he said, “Yes, we are”. And then he asked, “Are you Pentecostal?”

Pentecostal Christians believe the work of The Holy Spirit spoken in the Book of Acts and the direct experience of the presence of God. Pentecostals believe that faith must be powerfully experiential, and not something found merely through ritual or thinking but through entering the presence of God.

Immediately, the flight attendant says, “Follow me”. So, he explains how he gets up out of seat to follow him to the back of the plane where the owner of the plane is sitting.

For the next 6-hours he debates whether Jesus Christ saves. The bottom line of their 6-hour debate was that the plane owner did not want to be touched, for fear he would fall to the ground.

In Africa if you fall to the ground on a plane, there is a lot of paperwork. The plane owner said he had seen it 1000 of times, once Jesus comes, every single person falls to the ground.

So the guest speaker says, “I won’t touch you, will you accept Jesus into your heart”?

The plane owner agrees, and you know what? He says the Romans prayer, for everyone who calls on the name of The LORD will be saved, and he does not touch the guy, but the plane owner folds like a napkin in his seat by the Spirit of God.

On that same plane, several others witnessed this event, and they too receive Jesus as their savior.

“Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?” Galatians 3:2 ESV

Then the speaker turns to our Church and says, “How many here believe miracles are for us today”?

In my mind, I say, “Okay Father, what are you doing”?

Just last week, God you asked this same question of me as I feel The Holy Spirit cloud moving over all of us as we sit listening to the guest speaker.

“Then The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, (Moses) and took of the Spirit that was upon him and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again.” Numbers 11:25

The guest speaker continues with, “I think we forget that we too can witness God’s miracles right now, they are for us today. Do you believe it?”

This is like an echo from my previous post, City of Joppa, right! God prepared me for this, don’t you think?

He continues to say, “Let’s try something today.” He begins by asking if anyone in the audience who hasn’t received Jesus as their Savior, and would like to come to the alter?

Nobody gets up, and it’s not surprising, because when I look around our entire Church is sold-out-Jesus-fools when we worship together!

Then he says, “Okay let’s try something else, “How about a new pouring or refreshment of The Holy Spirit?””

The Holy Spirit is a person. He inhabits us and never leaves us. The manifest presence of God (His Glory) is the spiritual substance of His being and not a person. God’s presence (or Glory) comes and goes, though His Spirit does not.

Again, we just talked about this on my blog, titled “Flame of Faith“, and I say, “Father, Is this why I needed to stay in Ephesus?”

The Book of Acts 2:17 tells us that His Spirit will be poured out on all flesh and that no one is excluded from the call.

I’m so excited I can’t stay seated. I jump up and so does everyone around me. I am thinking … I’ll take a second filling.

I know if we ask for more, God meets us there and His timing is perfect, but this was fantastic!

By now, I assume everyone standing around me will walk up to the front of the Church, but no no, because you know, the enemy is in the midst whispering, “if you’re in Christ there is no need to have an Alter Call, you don’t need to go up there, because you are already in Christ, this guys just wants to make you look like a fool.”

I have a hunger for more just like the African people, I don’t care what people think, I feel like that’s when things begin to happen for you and I.

Apparently, the enemy was winning, because there were only a few of us who walked up to the alter.

The speaker says, “Let me ask another way. To those who suffered covid and have the long haulers and would like healing, come on up!”

He begins to list the ailments. Now, here comes the Church, everyone is suffering from something, and they all want healing. He says, “Let our ministry team come forward and they will pray for you.”

I’m standing up in front and I’m waiting, and this cute young girl named Olivia comes up to me and says, “I am going to pray for you.”

Then she says, “What would you like me to pray for?” and I said, “Well, I feel like there is a block in my spirit and it may be generational, and I could use a fresh filling of The Holy Spirit.”

She says, “Okay, consider my prayer to be like Ibuprofen, apply only what’s needed”.

She begins praying: “You are seated in heavenly places of Christ, you are accepted and loved, you are light with no darkness, and so on”.

And as she is talking, I am taken up! I don’t hear her anymore, but I can see her lips moving and as there is a glory cloud over her head and then l feel Jesus.

Jesus begins saying, “You are safe here Angela .. . you are safe, You are here.”

I began to relax, and the tension began to untie throughout my body. I wasn’t aware how uptight I was until that very moment.

And I am lost in this place, I am not aware anymore, the space around me gets bigger and what was going on around me is like background noise in a movie.

All the others being prayed for, singing and music everything is beautiful, and I feel weightlessness as I begin to drift…. and I hear Olivia say, “Angela you are not responsible for your childhood — it is not your fault!”

BAM, just like the owner of the plane, I fold like a napkin, and I am safely on the ground. Saints, I have seen this 1000 times on the internet, and never once believed it was the work of The Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit takes everything we offer and covers it in God’s Glory!

It is a deep yet delicate sweetness that comes to melt your soul, traveling right to your heart.

As I am on the floor…. everything holding me up to receive and interact with God is carried away! He is filling me!

I am free of my blockages, and I begin to experience a knowing of His Power.

One lightning thunderbolt [barak] from The Holy Spirit and my stumbling blocks are taken down. I am not sure how long I was on the floor, but probably five or six minutes.

My spirit was taken up into The Glory within that Church room and I could hear Angels singing. I mean the Angels were the ones singing right there in the Church, but they reached heaven.

Everything within my body that held the lie [metal] that was so deep in my soul that I could not access was melted, removed or repaired just Like The Father said in my January post.

I am here to tell you today; skepticism does not please God, but He loves an honest seeker. When God’s Glory comes all veils comes down and we are unable to stand.

This is impartation. Again, in Acts 10:44, the Gentiles were filled with the Spirit as they heard the words Peter spoke.

You can be baptized and filled with The Holy Spirit through any of these avenues wherever you are!

The third infilling is what I refer to as continuous infilling. It is the reward you receive for a healthy devotional life of spending time with God in prayer and the Word.

It also occurs during impartation from other believers like Olivia.

“The Spirit of The LORD came powerfully upon David” after he was anointed by Samuel.” 1 Samuel 16:13 NLT

My fountain of tears just came and came, but they were more comforting than any other time that I remember crying.

I believe they must have been held up since I was 4 years old. I got up and noticed not only was this lovely girl holding onto me, but two other sweet sisters in Christ were there too.

What a beautiful Church of saints! Thank you Jesus! Olivia was no older than 20 years old and I could feel her heart even as I speak today. I felt her beautiful soul guiding me to meet Jesus.

As I make my way to the restroom, people are still getting prayer and I look in the mirror and I see little gold flicks in the corners of my eyes. I whip at my eyes assuming it’s makeup, but I it appears to be coming out of the pores of eyes with my tears.

I never believed the stories of the gold dust. I ask, “Father is this my make up”? I don’t wear very much makeup, but I never want to lead anyone astray!

The LORD answered, “This is My Glory — found through a pure heart of worship. You are free, and My Glory pours out in gold!”

My friends, we read about His Gold in 1 Peter through our genuine faith:

“So that the genuineness of your faith, which is much more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested and purified by fire, may be found to result in [your] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:7 AMP

Again, thank you Jesus, I receive this!

Friends, this was my first lightning bolt … yours is headed to you in your season of Bloom.

It happens when we come into agreement with God about who we are, rather than coming into agreement with the enemy — or the lies he wishes us to believer about our ourselves!

We don’t have to have it all figured out, but God requires our love and willingness to follow Him wherever He leads.

God wants this for each of us.

Right now, I Declare that what God has placed on you would increase. We are about to go from miracles to notable miracles, from works, to greater works, from one amount of power to another, from one faith to another faith, and from glory to glory.

The Father said in His Word there would be a friend.

My second lightning bolt would arrive the following weekend during Bloom — a Woman’s Conference. . .

See also: Threshold — Part 1, Part 3, Part 4

Shalom
~ Angela Reese

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Angela is the owner of “Fruits of His Vine” website, to encourage and equip those still in wandering, or in captivity, to find our Savior in His Holy Tabernacle.

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