8-18-2018 Show Me Your Face, O Lord
Our Pastor took this photo over Hagerstown, Md.
She commented on the double rainbow as a double blessing from God, but look just a bit farther up n the sky. The face in the clouds
In late 2016 Apostle Dave Talyor came to Glory Fire Church,
here in town to do another presentation on “Jesus, face to face”. Now Apostle Dave claims to be the only
preacher preaching face to face encounters with God (at this time) and claims
to have literally seen Father face to face.
Now the bible does give us the example of Apostle John going to heaven
and encountering Jesus to receive the revelation recorded in the book (Rev. 1:10-19). Paul tells the Corinthians that He visited
heaven and encountered Jesus (2 Corinth.
12:1-9). Do we need to be reminded
of Moses encountered God on the mount (Exod.
3:1-9). Not to mention when Moses
had come down from the mount and each time he spoke before the people, his face
shone so brightly that he had to wear a veil before the people (Exod. 34:29-35).
Now, I don’t know that Apostle Dave has had these kind of
encounters with Lord (we have only his testimony) but he showed how God may
show Himself to us in many ways. The
face on the mountain in the movie “Miracle of St. Ana”, the face in the clouds,
a mist that clearly defines the image of a man who strangely resembles the
image of jesus and which does not induce evil fear. About two years ago, the pastor of the church
I attend snapped a very clear shot of a face in the clouds over
Hagerstown. I don’t remember if it was
over Hagerstown Mall or the Premium Outlets here in town, but there was clearly
a face in the clouds.
Show Me Your
Face
This song by
Paul Wilbur has been edited down to save space for it is a worship song as he
repeats phrases. (2002) Click the url below to watch the video on
youtube. It’s awesome!
Show me Your face, Lord
Then gird up my legs that I might
stand in this holy place
Your power and grace
I could make it to the end if I can
just see Your face
Moses stood on the mountain
Waiting for You to pass by
You put Your hand over his face
So in Your presence he wouldn't die
All of Israel saw the glory
And it shines down through the age
Now You've called me to boldly seek
Your face
David knew there was something more
Than the ark of Your presence
And in a manger a baby was born
Among kings and peasants
All of Israel saw the glory
And it shines down through the age
And now You call us to boldly seek
Your face
Yes we can make it to the end if we
can just see Your face
Fred Hammond also did a song
similarly titled, (also 2002) Again,
click the url below to watch the video.
Show me Your face (Show me)
Need to see You clearly
No more mistakes
Look at the time I'm losing
More than Your mercy
Lord will You take me
Closer (Show me)
Let me see Your face
It's the hardest thing that I ever
had to do
Is admit the truth
The reason I missed You was only me
It seemed okay at the time
But now I find
It wasn't worth it
Here's what I'm counting on with You
For You know me through and through
Remove the broken pieces
Whew, whew, whew, whew
All the fragments and debris
'Til there's nothing left of me and I
say
Here is a heart that's yielded
totally
(Repeat Chorus)
Now there's one thing left to do
Everything else must move
Gotta find a place
Where I can see your face
Both songs are provided from Youtube
for you to listen to.
Paul Wilbur shares how God has been
with man through the ages and Fred Hammond brings it a bit closer to home.
The scriptures tell us the Lord, our
God is one God and we should love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and
strength (Mark 12:28-31)
God tells Moses that he could not
look upon His face for if he did, he would die (Exod. 33:17-23). This point
is amplified when Moses was in the “tabernacle” with the Lord and came out to
the people. He had to cover his face
with a cloth because the glory of God shone so brightly that the people
couldn’t bear to look upon him (Exod.
34:29-35).
Moses face was a reflection of God’s
glory. The glory of God shines so
brightly it is hard for man to look upon it, even in reflection. I am persuaded, how do I word this, to look
upon God’s face is to look upon His glory.
God’s glory is so overpowering that man doesn’t die because he looked
upon God but because man cannot contain, absorb, comprehend, live, when we see
the full glory of God in this body. The
magnitude is so great. Wo what happens
when we are in eternity? We currently
have temporal bodies, they die. When we
are in heaven we our bodies are changed into glorified bodies (1 Corinth. 15:47-54)
Now, can we experience the glory of
God? Of course. When we experience the Holy Ghost and maybe
we collapse to the ground because we cannot stand. We are experiencing the presence of God
though the Holy Ghost in our life. When
I have experienced this myself, my body loses all strength and it most
difficult to move. I can think, I can
talk, I just can’t get up and walk.
Eventually I can crawl and eventually I can stand up and function again
but it can vary from just a couple of minutes to a very long time. Now, I (personally) don’t collapse when I’m
under the influence of the Spirit. Often
as I jot down this blog, I proceed as normal.
Then I finish what I’m doing. I usually
start feeling it so I’m not surprised anymore when I try to stand up from the
computer desk – and can’t. My legs don’t
feel weak, they just won’t support me – for a while.
When Peter and the disciples went out
into the street after they had received the “baptism of the Holy Ghost”, people
thought they were drunk, but Peter explained what it was The presence of the
Holy Ghost (God) in their lives (Acts
2:1-18).
The presence of God can be expressed
through His ‘glory cloud’ (Exod. 40:34-38),
just as He did when His presence filled the tent of the congregation, the
tabernacle. in the wilderness.
Father spoke to me several times in
Nov. and Dec 2017, sharing some things He said to put in this entry.
11/2/2017
This is a brief description of the
passage of 2 Chronicles 7:14. If My
people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, I will forgive their sin and heal their land
- and as soon as I got part way through
I started coughing like I’ve never coughed before. I got to coughing so hard I thought I was
going to throw up, expelling huge amounts of air. So much that it was getting difficult to take
any air in. I cried out (best I could)
“Lord have mercy!” several times. After
a whole bunch of minutes, the coughing started to subside and I could finally
start getting my breath back, yet still coughing. At one point I tried getting some water and I
heard Father say “Don’t even try to.” He
was right. I couldn’t even get the
bottle to my lips. I asked in my heart
“Father are we casting out demons or is this some sort of attack because I just
read the key to healing? I didn’t get a
confirm on the devils but the force with which I was coughing, they surely
would have been evicted. I did get
confirm on the key so the HG prompted me to bold that entry on my excel list.
There are nearly 140 scriptures with
heal or its variations (heal, healing, healed, healeth, etc.). I only got through the word “heal”.
I watched the War Room Tuesday
night. I had made a list I called “My
War Room” which listed my strategies. As
I read email this AM, Father had me recheck it on the computer and I said to
myself that I should have a copy of this in my bible. I did, so I went over it again. Been a most interesting AM so far. Hmmm.
11:22, now it’s time to go back upstairs and start my AM session.
11/21/2017
Father said
to put this here & in my prophecies collection (OK, get to copy &
paste).
He said to
put this down TODAY.
It is time
to start focusing on the next season. I
have been refreshing My children with My Holy Ghost but we are preparing to go
to a new level. That which the church has
never seen before. Peter, Paul and the
other apostles and disciples received the former rain as I was preparing the
ground for the seeds of tomorrow. They
continued to till my soil, laying the seeds of true Spirituality.
Unfortunately, My church has fallen
away. But, now, I’m bringing them back
to where My church should be so I can bring them into the latter rain of
maturity, working in the full power and authority of My Holy Spirit, as I
intended.
Still, My
church sleeps. It is time to start awakening
all My souls. Too many of My warriors
are still holding back. They need to be
awakened as this outpouring comes forth so they can be ready in the next season
for the explosion. Souls will be more
than ready to eat what I have for them so My church, My body, needs to be ready
to feed the hungry.
I said
“Father, You said to put this here today as the day You told me. I looked at the numbers.
There’s nothing positive about today. Everything defined for today is chaos,
disorder, judgment, etc. (11-21-2017), for the month and the day! (no answer) just that feeling of confirmation
that He wants today noted.
Note: I
posted it in “prophecies” & I felt the anointing. Father said that in December we will start
moving in this direction. I thought Dec.
9, and listen up for that date: December is Governmental perfection,
God’s power/authority. The ninth is
Fruit of the spirit; Divine completeness from the Father. I said “whoa” (actually out loud) and that’s
when Father let me feel the “zone”. I
look forward to the 12/9 entry into the blog.
(post note: in retro the entry into the 12/9/2017 “Homecoming” blog was
titled “A closer Walk with You”)
The face in the mountain. His chin is the peak and his forehead is down
to the left slope. In the “Miracle of
St. Ana” (from which this shot comes) the village people believed that the man
in the mountain would come to save them.
This is obviously NOT God but didn’t Father meet Moses on the
Mount? Mount Horeb (Exod. 3:1-12) and isn’t Jesus the “Rock of our Salvation” (Psalm 62:1-2, 1 Corinth. 10:1-4)? So we are saved by the man in the mountain,
Jesus, our Rock.
Father is coming to deliver us out of
the bondage of sin. All we have to do is
come to the mountain, the Rock, our Lord Jesus Christ and receive what Father
has to offer.
12/11/2017
Started my
AM prayers and the thoughts drifted into my head. In a room with a large, flat table with
diagrams or something on it. I was
there, Jesus was there, Peter was there, Paul was there and John was off to the
side like an observer.
Jesus, of
course was in charge, Peter was there because He was the spearhead for the
apostles, the one to go out and get things done with boldness and
strength. Paul was there because he is
the apostle to the Gentiles, with Peter’s boldness and forthrightness but
tempered with the love Father gave John.
John was off to the side as an observer, watching to see how love
unfolded in the discussion.
This
‘meeting’ was about forming a battle plan for the forthcoming events (Spiritual
explosion). Save John, who was off to
the side, we were gathered around the table.
Jesus was pointing His finger at the table and a ‘map’ or something
lying thereon.
Nothing was
said because I’m not yet quite where I need to be and Jesus told me so. He said “I’m waiting on you to finally and
totally give yourself over to Me, completely. To give Me ALL your desires, lusts, your
thoughts and actions. I need your total
obedience before I can press you into action.”
I said
“Lord, it would really be neat if this were so, but I’m fully awake, sitting in
my chair and I’m not so sure whether this is just my imagination bringing this
to me or is it really you?” I felt in my
heart You said this would be so, but not yet.
Not until I’ve yielded – completely, then this counsel will take
place.
I guess what
confuses me is that I’m not in twilight on my bed as this started. I’m fully awake as these thoughts came. But Ithen did I ask that You manifest
Yourself in my presence, didn’t I?
Forgive
me. It’s just that I know that with
which I still struggle and I know that You’ve laid it upon heart that I will
have a major role in this Spiritual explosion and it is hard for me fathom that
one such as I might be entrusted with such a task. But, yesterday at church I saw what You told
me the other day and that was that the boldness would start manifesting itself
within me. PTL.
12/15/2017
Having read
Doug Addison’s ‘Daily word’, this was my response:
This is a turning point, and there is a spiritual shift
happening that will bring things together.
Bringing things together? After a week of feeling blah and very weak
muscularly, This AM I woke up with a
good chunk of my muscular strength feeling like it has returned. Father told me yesterday, not only does he
want me to speak praise to him, but He reminded me of Paul in prison and
shackled. So what did Paul & Silas
do? Sang praises to God. Father had me sing “Praise God from whom all
blessings flow” (the doxology) & He told me I need to do more of that. He also told me that even though it’s fine
listening to the music at night, He wants me to sing more & not just
listen. Amen
Father said
not to just leave it in prophecies, but to put it here as well.
12/19/2017
Yesterday,
Father put on my heart that He has been fulfilling a part of my AM prayers and
I just wasn’t aware of it. I open my
prayer each day with “Galah, shekinah kovad, Adinoy, Elilhu, bo.” Those are Hebrew words and loosely translated
they say “May the glory of the one true living God manifest Itself in my
presence because I am your friend, my Lord, my God, come.” Yesterday, Father asked me about that
‘strange’ feeling I’ve had lately, when I feel like a tingling all over my
body. He said to me “You’ve asked for My
Glory to manifest in your presence, right?
You’ve said that you’re not sure what this feeling is, but that it feels
good, almost like the ‘zone’, but different.
You still have much to learn,
about how you can experience Me. You
look for something visual and I give you sensations. But don’t be surprised if you expect a
sensation and I give you something visual.
You ask? Receive.”
This AM as I
began my session “Galah, shekinah Kovad …”, Father made me aware of the
‘feeling, the sensation, that tingling and He asked me “Now do you
understand?”
He told me
the other day (I don’t remember exactly) that this tingling was indeed another
manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit & this AM, He confirmed
it!
I take note
that Father made me aware of a new boldness present in my being yesterday. Alesia & I had a strategy meeting for
Wellspring Counselling and as we talked and prayed, I felt a new boldness
coming upon me. It’s time to come out of
my shell – before man. He showed me, in
my mind’s eye, like a moth coming out of his cocoon. Little by little tearing its way out into
freedom. Father says I am starting to
emerge, now. All I have to do is be
obedient.
PS As I turned to turn on the printer and
print this out, I felt the zone.
12/22/2017
What a
week! This AM, Father had me update the
blog entry for tomorrow. The zone has
been different lately. I still get “out
of it” but I’ve been feeling my shoulders.
In my
prayer, I was part way into my comfort zone and had finished the part where I
ask Father to give my comfort zone no fears, no bounds and no hesitations. My mind’s eye was suddenly at the
church. I say “mind’s eye’ because it’s
like a daydream and I’m not always sure if I’m manipulating what’s happening or
if it truly is Father (forgive me).
Anyway, it seems it was a Thursday night. Loretta was there along with Alesia and
Deborah, and of course me. Father had me
pray “galah, shekinah kovad Adinoy, Elilhu, bo” which is (loosely) “Father let
Your glory manifest itself in our presence because we are your friends,
come.” We all felt something then there
was this angel bent down on one knee behind us.
Bent down on one knee because the ceiling was too low for him to
stand. We have about an eight foot
ceiling at the church. He said “Don’t be
afraid.” I don’t think we were
afraid/afraid, but rather just awestruck.
Yes, he was dressed in armor, helmet, breastplate, protective girdle,
shin guards and I think I noticed a sword in its scabbard hanging from his
side. I don’t remember a shield. (as I reread this, Father said the shield was
hung upon his back). We asked who he was
and that’s when Father sent me to the Strong’s.
At first, I thought “Ben Thunder – Son of Thunder”, but that just didn’t
seem right.
Father had
me look up thunder in the Hebrew. Three
variations – qowl or qol (6963) which is to speak wit a thunderous voice. Then raam which gave two pronunciations for
the same spelling. One was “rawam” and
the other was “raham” which is like the crash of thunder. I was still thinking in terms of “son …” so
I’m thinking Ben Raam. Father put on my
heart that wasn’t correct for this angel was not the “son of thunder.” Father let me settle in with “Raam El”, the
thunder of God. He said this was his
name for when he spoke, he roared like a lion (another lookup) because Father
also said “Yeah, like the Lion of Judah”.
So I guess the angel’s name actually would be “Raam El Ariy (Judah)”,
Ariy (738) is a young, fierce lion and is pronounced “aree”.
He said he
was our angel, or maybe just mine. I
wasn’t really clear with that. But he
said that when he spoke, he roared like a lion thundering across the jungle.
Well, that’s
it for now. I don’t know exactly if it
means what it seems to indicate or if it means anything at all. Time will tell.
Now to
summarize all this which has been presented.
Note this day of publication
8-18-2018
8 is
new birth or new beginnings
18 bondage
or oppression
20 redemption
August is the eighth month signifying
coming into a new birth or a new beginning in our relationship with the Father
through Jesus.
The eighteenth day and the eighteenth
year represent the spiritual bondage we have been under for so long. It has been hitting us twice as hard this
year because of what God is preparing to do.
Numerically the century is in the
2000’s. even though we call it the 21st
century, we’re ‘20’ something, not ‘21’ something. Twenty is redemption. This whole century is a time of
redemption. Father is redeeming us from
the bondage and suffering we have been experiencing bringing us into a new
birth, that is beginning a new relationship with Him through Jesus Christ, our
Lord. And we are at the threshold where
we are entering a time of redemption.
Our job is to receive what Father has
for us so we CAN grow into this new level of relationship with Him. That means a closer walk with Him. That means seeking His face, no matter how He
chooses to reveal Himself to us. That
means taking the hand of Jesus and not letting go. That means we let Jesus put His yoke upon us,
and even though our feet are moving, He leads the way. It all boils down to living in God’s love while
we are still here in this world. And
because we have learned to live in His love while we are in this world, we know
that we shall enjoy His company now and throughout all eternity.
Seeking His face, growing in His love
equals that closer walk with Him which He desires with us.
Amen
