Good morning glorious one!
THE GLORY OF GOD is God’s manifested presence. Psalm 24:7 declares,
- Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And THE KING OF GLORY shall come in.
God’s presence is revealed in His Word. John 1:1, 14 says,
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we beheld His GLORY, the GLORY as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
We (man) are THE GLORY OF GOD because Genesis 2:7 says,
- And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
The original Hebrew says, “Man became a living, speaking spirit just like God.”
THE GLORY OF GOD is tangible, according to Isaiah 40:5. It says,
- THE GLORY OF THE LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
GLORY is what has been revealed; it can be seen. THE GLORY is like the fruit of a tree that originated from a seed. For example, when you plant an apple seed, the “glory” of that apple tree is the apples. Well, the Word of God is a seed, that when planted in your heart, will produce tangible results, or GLORY, in your life. When you see the fruit of the Word manifesting in your life, you are seeing THE GLORY OF GOD in your life.
The manifestation of a seed is GLORY. When you pray, the answer to that prayer is the GLORY. When you plant Word-seed on deliverance and you are delivered and walking in your deliverance, THE GLORY OF GOD is manifesting in your life.
God has given you a book of seeds, called the Bible, so you can have the potential to experience GLORY, but you can’t experience THE GLORY OF GOD without first planting the seed.
See, the Word always proceeds the blessing and the blessing is what brings forth THE GLORY. The Word and the blessing work hand in hand. So, how does God bless? Genesis 2:3 says that God blessed the seventh day by speaking over it. You can’t be blessed without the Word of God operating in your life. God blesses through His Word; His Word is what releases the blessing.
The Word of God is the key to the blessing. God blessed man in the beginning with words. When we speak the Word of God, we release the seed necessary to produce His blessing and ultimately manifest THE GLORY OF GOD here on the earth.
Our purpose on earth is to spread THE GLORY OF GOD throughout the earth. 1 Corinthians 11:7 says that man is THE GLORY OF GOD. Man is THE GLORY OF GOD because man came from God’s words. Similarly, the woman is the glory of man because she came out of man.
God intended that man would speak His blessing into the earth and THE GLORY OF GOD would be manifested all over the world.
Living in THE GLORY OF GOD,
Lisa Gordon
Assistant Pastor
Jesus City Church