Preparing For The Last Great OutpouringSample

The Presence, Heaven and Holiness 

We have entered a season of salvation history in which there can be no more hidden iniquity. Glory is coming, but the glory sent to bless becomes the pressure that destroys when it rests upon a faulty or cracked foundation. The warning has been issued and we see it in multiple exposures of sin in leadership all over the world. Things we once got away with in the outer court will get us crushed and destroyed in the inner court into which the Holy Spirit now calls us.

Holiness and the heart of the Father require cleansing, which requires repentance. In the original languages of the Bible, holiness means that we have been set apart for God’s purposes. Obviously, this doesn’t mean we must all become monks and nuns, but it does mean that every aspect of life becomes caught up in His presence to serve the purposes of His glory and love.

God is about to do something stunning, but the vast majority of the body of Christ is not ready, is sound asleep, or is captivated by a culture of self that ultimately fails to serve the purposes of the kingdom of God. Too often and too much, we seek the glory without a focus on the cross where we die to self with Him, the blood that cleanses, and the resurrection that releases life. We seek experiences of His touch, but fail to share in His self-sacrificial death. 

God longs for fellowship and intimacy with us; He is hurt that we, created in His image, have been cut off from Him by sin, brokenness, and defilement. The distance exists, but it’s not because He can’t tolerate the unholy. The truth is that in our unprotected, broken, and sinful state, if we were exposed to the raw, unfiltered glory and goodness of God, it would destroy us—and that would be neither God’s fault nor His will. He is what He is, never changing. His radiant holiness, compassion, tenderness, love, and power are so pure that we could never survive His presence. 

Longing for intimacy with us, therefore, Jesus died as the sacrifice for our sin, to cleanse us and enable us to enter into the raw, radiant presence and glory of the Father, wearing the righteousness of Jesus, clean and safe.