THE GLORY OF THE LORD

Many of us want to experience the glory of God in our lives.Many of us want to experience His presence. Many of us want our prayers to be answered. Many of us want divine favor. Many of us want to experience the supernatural but how many of us are carrying out specific instructions from Him? How many of us are building His kingdom with urgency? How many of us are making our plans secondary by carrying out His first?
God will visit us on different occasions to instruct us to carry out His will but often most us play Ananias and Sapphira. We give Him what we don't cherish and keep that which suits us. God wants us to execute His instructions with reverence.
Why are many of His promises not working in our lives? Why are our hands not healing the sick? Why is the world overcoming many of His people? Why are many still starving and thirsting spiritually?
The only answer is we are not obeying fully. To have faith is to obey. If our obedience is not full then we will be lacking. We will only see a shadow of His glory like the Israelites at mount Sinai because they were not equipped to face Him. He is faithful. That is His name. Faithfulness is His nature. If we play our part He will also do His.

Exodus 39:42-43
⁴² According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
⁴³ And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Exodus 40:34-38
³⁴ Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
³⁵ And Moses was notable to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
³⁶ And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
³⁷ But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
³⁸ For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.





Exodus 26:30
³⁰ And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mountain

God instructed the Israelites through Moses to build a tabernacle. He gave specific materials to build the tabernacle. As I was studying this scripture I was wondering why God allowed them to provide materials like goat hair and acacia wood. All these were shadows of what was to come in the new covenant. Now we are the tabernacle/temple and our service to Him provides materials that build us up daily.

God’s commandments may not make sense to us sometimes but we ought to obey. When God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac I believe it didn’t make sense to him but he still obeyed God. Now Abraham is a living testimony. The people of Israel had left Egypt and they were still in the wilderness. God wanted to relate to His people so He instructed the tabernacle to be built. The tabernacle served as a place of worship and sacrifices. They were led by the glory of The Lord that rested on the tabernacle day and night.
The glory of the tabernacle also signified His power. When the tabernacle was completed Moses could not enter due to the glory of The Lord. In our time we are the tabernacle. He is living in us. The materials provided for the building of the tabernacle is our life. If our lives conform to His will we provide spiritual materials that builds us.

1Peter 2:5
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

What materials are we providing as a new testament tabernacle? Are we worshiping The Lord in spirit and in truth? Are our lives pleasing Him daily? When we live holy lives through obedience and faithfulness to Him we become that special tabernacle. As we become that specific tabernacle His glory rest on us. We will begin to experience unusual miracles. We will be a terror to the demons because His glory upon us will terrify the demons as it did to the enemies of The Israelites. It is not about our own form of worship. Scripture says we are to present spiritual sacrifices.What are the spiritual sacrifices?

They are our thanksgiving, our praise, our obedience and faithfulness to Him, our total love and dedication for Him. These are the materials that build the new testament tabernacle that  will please Him.
At every stage He will come and check on the tabernacle to see if it is well kept. As the tabernacle is kept  pure through holy living His glory will continue to rest on us. We will be unique people. We will do the greater works that He promised to those who believe.
                                                                                                    Glory To Jesus