Radiating Glory
Oct 4th, 2006
1 Peter 4:13-14 But insofar as you are sharing Christ's sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly]. 14 If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are you--happy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. [Isa 11:2.] AMP
“My beloveds, You know that I love you and that you are My precious treasure. I have had many hard things to say to My church. But I love My people. I am in love with you, and nothing can stop Me from loving you. I have induced much pressure on you, because you have been soft in some areas compared to suffering nations. You have to know that what I allow is for the greater good of those who have grown complacent and apathetic to the needs of anyone other than themselves, and for the sake of the LOST who need to KNOW ME.
I have told you that some things will be averted by repentance but because I am a merciful God and have heard the prayers of My remnant who have cried out to ME, I will not allow the full measure of what I’d planned. But there will be escalation of hatred, violence and all the things I abhor because of the rise of the “terrible one “. You cannot expect Me to not fulfill what I have written in My Word. My WORD IS TRUTH. I knew before the world began all that lies before you. I am the Omnipotent One, not you beloveds.
I am allowing those who have a desire for truth to see the fullness of what is coming to some degree, though it is unimaginable for most, because I want your hearts prepared for pilgrimage, not to continue in the manner of life you have been living. THIS IS A NEW DAY. The third heaven is impacting the earth because second heaven is also arising to war.
Precious to ME is the blood of My saints. Many are dying in this hour for the sake of the gospel. You have been aloof to their needs out of the comfort I have allowed you to live in.
Soon all this will change. You MUST LEARN TO TRUST ME FULLY. You must learn that in ALL SITUATIONS I AM TO BE TRUSTED. Heretofore many even in My church have trusted in their own self sufficiency. They have had what they needed to see a doctor, or to pay for medicines, whereas in other nations, people suffer and die due to lack of care, and live compromised lives due to lack. I tell you the hour is arising now when YOUR DEPENDENCE on ME is paramount to survival and to get through all that is coming.
My GLORY is being revealed through all the suffering. You may think you are in a bad place, but just when you think you cannot bear any more, you will see the SON arise and My HOLY SPIRIT explode on the scene with miracles and demonstrations of My GRACE and GLORY like you have never seen before. REJOICE, for the culmination of all things is at hand. And again I SAY REJOICE ! For great is your reward for faithfulness to Me. My GLORY arises even as the darkness increases. SO REJOICE .
Did you know that repentance leads to JOY ? Did you know that when you walk in the LIGHT and forgiven by My grace, and have confessed everything daily, then your lives should reflect JOY ? BE JOYFUL, though the world is perishing and all it’s systems will fail.
BE JOYFUL that you are found IN ME. BE JOYFUL when you see men pretend they are in control ! Laugh and be JOYFUL for you know the DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. And you will soon see ME as I AM.
Know that with every birth pang, I draw nearer and nearer ! Put on the proper cloak of humility and LOVE, that though you see the pain around you, the sinfulness that torments your minds, KNOW that I AM WITH YOU more than ever ! Each song, each devotion, each time of fellowship with me in quietness or in communicating brings more of MY GLORY.
Each time of quiet contemplation on MY WORD, draws My presence, and I am filling you up more and more with My love as you REST IN ME. I will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on ME. ”
Heb 1:3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God's] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high, AMP
Rev 15:8 And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory (the radiance , the splendor) of God and from His might and power, and no one was able to go into the sanctuary until the seven plagues (afflictions, calamities) of the seven angels were ended. [1 Kings 8:10; Isa 6:4; Ezek 44:4.] AMP
Ezek 44:4 Those Admitted to the Temple
Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face. NKJV
Rev 18:1-2 THEN I saw another angel descending from heaven, possessing great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his radiance and splendor. 2 And he shouted with a mighty voice, She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become a resort and dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every loathsome spirit, an abode for every filthy and detestable bird. AMP
Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it, for the splendor and radiance (glory) of God illuminate it, and the Lamb is its lamp. [Isa 24:23; 60:1,19.] AMP
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Upstream Ministries
