presence

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     "The glory of God is the weighty presence of the Lord. ... the glory of God is the presence of God and it's what man craves. He wants to feel close to God, he wants to feel that presence."

     "When the glory of God would come on me in the early days of revival, my eyelids would start closing. I was totally conscious, I could hear everything but my eyelids would start dropping and it felt like just a warm something came all over me and wherever it did, I was just totally, totally, totally, totally relaxed. I would just lay over on the chair beside me on the platform, or sometimes they'd put me behind the soundboard. Whenever the glory of God would come in, it's so therapeutic that what I think is happening today in churches is that many churches are cutting down on their service times, and they're rushing people in and rushing people out. We're not giving God time to get to His people, to let the glory of God come in. We've got to give God time to get to His people... You need time to rest, and to soak, and to marinate in the glory of God. That's what gives you the strength to make it through the week.

     He'll show up. The problem is not getting God to show up, He'll show up. But the main thing is keeping Him there when He does show up. You've got to work with the Holy Spirit, you can't grieve Him, you can't offend the Holy Spirit. But see, the Holy Spirit is a Person but the glory is a atmosphere. The Holy Spirit is a person, He's the third person in the adorable Godhead. But the glory is not the Holy Spirit, it is the presence of God, the manifest weighty presence of the Lord. The glory of God usually manifest in two ways; in Israel it would manifest when the priest would go in an and take the hyssop and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat. Fire would break out, and that would be the tangible Shekinah glory of God. That would be the fire, that would be the visible. But the kabod, that's the tangible weighty, satisfying, therapeutic presence that man was built to carry. I don't know about you, but my life's ambition since I've experienced the glory ... and that doesn't make anybody special because anybody can have it, but life's ambition is to be a carrier of the presence of God. That's what I want more than anything."