RECEIVING GOD’S GLORY 8-11-23 VIDEO STEPPING INTO THE GLORY 2
The Lord wants us to be so open in our hearts and minds that His glory becomes our place of joy and refuge. It’s not only in a mountaintop, but it’s inside us.
JOHN 1:14 Suddenly the invisible, eternal Word takes on visible form – the Incarnation, on display in a flesh and blood Person, as in a mirror! In him, and now confirmed in us! The most accurate tangible exhibit of God’s eternal thought finds expression in human life! The Word became a human being; we are his address; he resides in us! He captivates our gaze! The glory we see there is not a religious replica; he is the authentic begotten Son. MIRROR
JN 17:5 And now, oh Father, bestow the most intimate closeness of your own person upon me with the glory that I shared in your immediate presence even before the world was. MIRROR
JOHN 17:24 Father I desire that what you have given me in them may cause them to be where I am so that they may see what I see and gaze attentively upon the splendor of my glory which you have given me [in them] because you loved me before the fall of the world. Thus the world will be persuaded that your love for them was never compromised because of the fall – you continued to love them the same! MIRROR
Phil 3:21 The Salvation that Jesus is the author of, refashions these bodies of clay and elevates us to fully participate in the same pattern of his heavenly glory! The severe contradictions that we might often face in the frailty of the flesh, is by far suppressed by the glorious splendor displayed in his human body raised from the dead; according to the working of God’s dynamic power. He imprints the mirror pattern of his likeness in us. Thus he subdues of things to himself. Mirror
Isa 60:1 “Get out of bed, Jerusalem! Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight. God’s bright glory has risen for you.
2 The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people sunk in deep darkness, But God rises on you, his sunrise glory breaks over you.
3 Nations will come to your light, kings to your sunburst brightness. MSG
2 Cor 3:18 All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. MSG
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2 Corinthians 3:18 We can all draw close to him with the veil removed from our faces. And with no veil we all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfigured into his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And this glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. TPT
Eph 4:22 Now you are free to strip off that old identity like a filthy worn out garment. Lust corrupted you and cheated you into wearing it.
23 Be renewed in your innermost mind. This will cause you to be completely re-programmed in the way you should think about yourself!
24 Immerse yourself into this God shaped new person from above! You were created in the image and likeness of God. That is what righteousness and true holiness are all about. Mirror
Ps 148:13 Let them praise and exalt the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted and supreme! His glory and majesty are above earth and heaven! AMP
Eph 1:11 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living,
12 part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. MSG ▼▼▼
Eph 1:11-12 And here is the staggering thing – that in all which will one day belong to him we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! PHILLIPS
Eph 3:16 I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit — not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength —
17 that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love,
18 you’ll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!
19 Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. MSG
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EPH 3:16 I desire for you to realize what the Father has always envisaged for you, so that you may know the magnitude of his intent and be dynamically reinforced in your inner being by the Spirit of God.
17 This will ignite your faith to fully grasp the reality of the indwelling Christ. You are rooted and founded in love. Love is your invisible inner source, just like the root system of a tree and the foundation of a building.
18 Love is your reservoir of super human strength which causes you to see everyone equally sanctified in the context of the limitless extent of love’s breadth and length and the extremities of its dimensions in depth and height.
19 I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on the deepest possible level; far beyond the reach of a mere academic, intellectual grasp. Within the scope of this equation God finds the ultimate expression of their image and likeness in you. MIRROR
PHIL 1:11 You have been fully furnished with the harvest of your redeemed innocence and righteousness for which Jesus Christ labored! This is what the glorious intent of God is all about! Celebrate him! MIRROR
Mark 9:2 After six days, Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, Jacob and John, and hiked up a high mountain to be alone. And Jesus’ appearance was dramatically altered, for he was transfigured before their very eyes!
3His clothing sparkled and became glistening white—whiter than any bleach in the world could make them.
4Then suddenly, right in front of them, Moses and Elijah appeared, and they spoke with Jesus. TPT
Phil 3:21 who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him. MSG
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PHIL 3:21 The salvation that Jesus is the author of, re-fashions these bodies of clay and elevates us to fully participate in the same pattern of his heavenly glory! The severe contradiction that we might often face in the frailty of the flesh, is by far surpassed by the glorious splendor displayed in his human body raised from the dead; according to the working of God’s dynamic power he imprints the mirror pattern of his likeness in us. MIRROR
Isa 59:19 So [as the result of the Messiah’s intervention] they shall [reverently] fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight [for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives]. AMP
Hab 3:3 God [approaching from Sinai] came from Teman [which represents Edom] and the Holy One from Mount Paran [in the Sinai region]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of His praise.
4 And His brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed from His hand, and there [in the sunlike splendor] was the hiding place of His power. AMP
Mark 9:2 Six days later, three of them did see it. Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain. His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes.
3 His clothes shimmered, glistening white, whiter than any bleach could make them.
4 Elijah, along with Moses, came into view, in deep conversation with Jesus. MSG
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Mark 9:2 After six days, Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, Jacob and John, and hiked up a high mountain to be alone. And Jesus’ appearance was dramatically altered, for he was transfigured before their very eyes!
3His clothing sparkled and became glistening white—whiter than any bleach in the world could make them.
4Then suddenly, right in front of them, Moses and Elijah appeared, and they spoke with Jesus. TPT
Mark 9:7 Just then, a radiant cloud began to spread over them, enveloping them all. And God’s voice suddenly spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son and you need to always listen to him!” TPT
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Mark 9:7 Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: “This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him.” MSG
Ps 113:4 God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies. MSG
Col 1:11 We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy,
12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. MSG
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Colossians 1:11 And we pray that you would be energized with all his explosive power from the realm of his magnificent glory, filling you with great hope.
12Your hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when you think of how God made you worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light. TPT
COL 3:4 The unveiling of Christ, as defining our lives, immediately implies that, what is evident in him, is equally mirrored in you! The exact life on exhibit in Christ is now repeated in us. We are included in the same bliss and joined-oneness with him; just as his life reveals you, your life reveals him. MIRROR
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Col 3:4 When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory. AMP
2 Thess 1:10 When He comes to be glorified in His saints [on that day He will be made more glorious in His consecrated people], and [He will] be marveled at and admired [in His glory reflected] in all who have believed [who have adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Him], because our witnessing among you was confidently accepted and believed [and confirmed in your lives]. AMP
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2 Thessalonians 1:10 This will happen on that day when he glorifies his holy ones, and they will be marveled at in all those who believed—including you, since in fact, you believed our message. TPT
Jude 24 Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]
25 To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it). AM