Teach Us To Pray: Week Seven
Greg Schut wrapped up the Lord's prayer series teaching on the last line of the Lord's prayer, focusing on the glory of the Lord.
The kingdom, the power, and the glory. The Kingdom is the King's domain. The power - He is all power. There is no match for Him. He is the All-Powerful One. The glory - His is the glory.
But how do we describe glory? In the world's eyes, the glory means fame and fortune. Greg brought up the definition of glory - very great praise, honor, admiration, adoring praise or worshipful thanksgiving, a state of great splendor and magnificence. That's God! He is the definition of glory.
Greg talked about the book The Blood and the Glory by Billye Brim. The author talks about the glory in Genesis, saying the Lord crowned us with glory. It's more than crowns of gold - crowns of glory! Greg shared a picture he saw that reminded him of Acts 2 when the people had tongues of fire on their head in the shape of a crown. These people waited on the Lord for days and then when the Lord comes, he crowns them with glory.
Bill Johnson calls the glory of the Lord the manifestation of the Lord's presence. The glory and manifestation of the Lord's presence can be seen in tangible ways. In 1906, the Azusa street revival began. People gathered asking for the Lord's presence. His presence makes everything right - healing, chains broken, breakthrough, release, etc. It is a foretaste of what is to come in Heaven. As the people on Azusa street continued to seek the Lord's presence, hundreds of thousands of people were saved and healed. There are testimonies of the manifestation of the Lord's presence, one of them being a glory cloud.
Jesus has a desire, that we would see his glory.
Then back to John 17:22, the Verse of the Week, "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one." The glory that the Father gave Jesus is given to us. That glory doesn't mean that we should be famous, honored, and praised. It should be that when we see His glory, we just desire to be with him. We become less and He becomes everything. That is revival. It is about Jesus being lifted high.
1 Corinthians 3:7-18 (NLT) says, "The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away. Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life? If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God! In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way. So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever! Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold. We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away. But the people’s minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, the same veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ. Yes, even today when they read Moses’ writings, their hearts are covered with that veil, and they do not understand. But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image."
When we go to that place to be with Him, we become one with Him in His glory.
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