Glory: Pursuing God's Presence: Revealing Secrets

by Bill L. Vincent

It’s time to come into the embrace of God, pressing into His heart of love and allowing Him to bring conviction of sin so that we can be cleansed and forgiven. God is doing a great thing among us all. It will not come with out a price.

The fire was gone, the passion was gone, the newness was gone, the adventure was gone and the excitement was gone.

He came down to show me that soaking is mainly quietness, listening and waiting.

I have found in my walk with the Lord more power and revelation in quietness than in anything that I’ve done in prayer.

They fail to learn how to silence the busyness of their minds and emotions so they can enter in to true communion and fellowship with the Lord through quietness.

It contains the ideas of dipping repeatedly, immersing, submerging, and also overwhelming

There’s a similarity between marinating and soaking in the presence of the Holy Ghost. That means to be in His presence with no thought of self, resting in His glory and letting Him, saturate us. Remember Godly saturating takes time, weeks. We may have to soak for a long time before we’re really tender.

The word of God is really saying, Come and be in the river of my presence over and over again! I want to immerse you, submerge you and overwhelm you with my presence.

Lord. Revelation is in stillness. It’s waiting with an expectation, waiting as if you are going to see something. That’s how I was as I learned to soak. I was waiting with my mind and thoughts on Jesus. I was waiting with music playing in the background. All my attention was on

Jesus. If my mind began to wander I pulled it back in.

Isaiah 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail

John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Do you know what the desert is? The desert is a place of prayer; the quiet place. The desert speaks of the secret place.

We all can soak in God’s presence. It will require you to put your flesh down. Pray and ask God for a deeper hunger and thirst for his presence through soaking.

I would urge all worship leaders to ask the Holy Spirit for songs that bring revelation and release the power of the blood in the hearts of worshippers everywhere.

It’s all about the Lamb that was slain. We need to worship with a fresh revelation of the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. The Church doesn’t hear enough about the blood any more.

There is more than just a simple speaking in tongue kind of Holy Spirit filling. There is a deeper Holy Spirit intimacy that most of us have never known.

It refers to participation, partnership, close association, and ultimately an intimate bond with the Holy Spirit.

During my pursuit for more of God, the Holy Spirit was my main target.

God said to me once that Heaven wants to be discovered more than we want to discover it. Vision,

I want you to know that doubt is a spirit that overtakes a person.

We must pass through it and overcome the adversity. We also must overcome the tendency to want to be recognized and celebrated for what we have done, though it really is only what the Lord enables us to participate in as He moves through us.

The point is that God is looking for people He can entrust some astounding things to in the days ahead, over and above any other time in history.

We need to deal with our sin, our secret sin, if we want God to dwell with us. We’re going to have to die to our fleshly, carnal desires. We’re going to have to sacrifice our will and welcome the spirit of judgment into our lives.

The dove of God will begin to rest when we’ve made a time and a place to meet God, a secret place. When we’ve created a place for the Holy Spirit to linger, God’s Shekinah Glory will come.

The Shekinah glory of God is the abiding, manifest presence of Almighty. The Shekinah glory is the glory that comes like a weight, like a cloud, and a glory that’s heavy.

It’s actually the visible splendor of God that we touch, taste, see, smell, hear and experience with the five senses of our natural being. The Shekin...

But you know what happens after praise? You need to catch this. We praise until the presence of Heaven comes and then worship until the Glory comes!

We need to tend our lamp every morning and burn incense. The incense represents prayer.

But instead they placed the ark on a new cart pulled by oxen.

David could see the blessings, and the fruit was good. So he went after the ark again but with a new fear of the Lord.

Furthermore, the Lord also made it apparent that circumstances are going to dictate the appearance of God's people in maturity, power and authority.

The escalation in spiritual darkness will reach such a pinnacle during this season that the only remedy or resolution will come from the Lord's people.

Interestingly, the Lord also highlighted two prevailing enemy spirits that will be dispatched this year and the years to follow, with the given assignment of hindering this call. They are fanaticism and criticism!

But ultimately, the actual essence of the glory of God is the Person, the inner Person of God Himself.

Truly, the glory of the Lord puts you in a place of exalted honor, wealth, favor, and dignity because the word glory means to exalt and to bring honor.

The weighty glory presence of God when it comes is the kabod—weight, splendor (abundance).

Cloud here is Shekinah. The visible presence of God when He comes is the Shekinah.

Shekinah glory is literally the very source in which light exists.

take light and follow it all the way back to heaven. So there is something vital about the Shekinah glory of God, it’s the very doorway, it is the very light of who God is and it’s the path to its home where it was created, where it exists.

God is light and that’s the home. There are doorways in the glory light that take you right into the heavens.

for I will not go up in the midst of thee;

God’s glory is the literal weight, the inner reality of God; the intimate knowledge of God Himself;

the inner person of God. His glory passes over you; it comes upon your life. I am talking about the Father of lights, who gives every good and perfect gift, making all of His goodness, all of the treasure of heaven, all the blessing, all the favor of who He is to pass before you.

The glory anointing is going to tangibly rest on you; your life is going to drip with the dew, with the wine, and with the oil of heaven.

So being a generous cheerful giver gives God all kinds of liberty to bless you with, so that you can be a blessing to others.

When His glory presence is at work the blessing of the Lord comes.

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

discern what’s happening in the invisible realm! We don’t want to be in a sinful state like Balaam was, because it’s God’s pleasure to anoint us with spiritual sight when we have a pure heart.