Sept 24 - Leslie Crandall - His Manifest Presence

This close is so sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Since you are covered with His Glory and you go to the nations - the nations will be covered by His Glory!

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Book of Ezra
Back story: Israel disobeyed God and so they were in captivity. A man named Cyrus helped the people go back and build up the nation if Isreael

Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zachariah, and Esther are books that should be read together since they are of the same time period.

Ezra and Nehemiah is a way to build students up. The first thing the people did in Ezra 3
1 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
2 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. - Ezra 3:1-2

Why have a temple if you don't have an altar. If you don't have the heart of sacrifice and worship in your life, why build a temple. As soon as they start building the temple, opposition hits.

In the book of Ezra 4:24
Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. - Ezra 4:24

For 18 years they were not completed. They had the authority of the Kng to build the temple, but some outsiders discouraged them. A few years later the re-started building the temple. See Ezra 5. They wanted to build the altar to protect the altar!

If you can let your heart be that burning altar of worship, then you can build the temple around it. Zachariah prophesied, "not by might, not by power, it's by my Spirit says the Lord God." In the season of rebuilding the temple to house His Presence.

Moses said, "How will you know we are your people unless you go with me?" We must have his Manifest Presence.

The temple had the tri-fold purpose
Mind - scholarly discussion
Will - political action
Emotion - festivals and sacrifices

What is the wall that steals the flame in your life?

Give The prophetic community permission to speak into your identity, how to rebuild broken parts of your temple, so that the heart can host the presence.

Story: Leslie puts her daughter to bed with prophetic blessings. 20 minutes later her daughter comes running to her, "mom, I am having happy tears! I was singing songs to Jesus and he came and I started crystal Ng in his presence." Her teacher at Bethel Christian school challenged her to share the testimony, to overcome her fears and be bold. She shares and a teacher has the strongest encounter with the Lord in 20 years. That night at dinner she prays her normal dinner prayer but adds the preface "Jesus thank you for helping me overcome my fears and sharing in chapel! And... for dying on the cross and taking away our sins!"

If you break emotions or lies that you don't want in your life, it needs to be replaced by different emotions and truths. Cycles of bad thoughts need to be torn down and rebuilt. In the same way the temple walls were rebuilt in community so our walls need to be built up in community.

Graham Cooke said "if we did all the "one another's" in the Bible we wouldn't have another prayer meeting. We would have ongoing revival forever!"

We are ultimately called to worship from the heart. We are the temples of God. 1 Cor 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Manifest presence is the number one key for transformation. You cannot but produce fruit if you carry His Manifest Presence! You walk into the room and his Presence impacts people. Like Moses who saw the Lord and people saw God, so we can host His presence and shine God on people.

My father my whole life told me this, "you are a beautiful woman and your are intelligent." She has never believed anything else.

The first gate they restored was the Sheep Gate. This shows their priority to keep worship flowing in and out of the city. When you leave Civic Auditorium, keep the gate of your heart to sacrificial worship working.

So important that your spirit can sustain a supernatural life. Only one way she knows how to do this: Ezekiel
26 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.
27 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking. - Ezekiel 1:26-28

3 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,
6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: - Revelation 4:3-6

Rainbow means "God will fulfill His promise!" God is the same yesterday, today and forever. If we behold him, we will be like Him. Worship recalibrates our hearts. When I see Him I know I am loved, I am going to be victorious. Worship is what the Lord is trying to protect. It is everything. If He gets us in His presence we will be transformed into His likeness.

Worship keeps our eyes focused on the magnitude of who He is. Worship gives us the capacity to receive more of Him. To expand our capacity to see and receive more not to pray that He would give us more because He is always wanting to give more.

Judges: Samuel is about to be born. The angel comes to promise the birth of Samuel. She gets her husband, gets a sacrifice and asks, what is your name? The angel responds, "it is too much - it's indescribable." The way he thinks of us is indescribable. The way He thinks of us is indescribable.

There needs to always be an access point to see throne, to see the rainbow. Pinky Brewster would ride a rainbow that would take her to some fairyland. If we can carry His presence we will have continual access to Heaven.

If you behold him you become like him.

All you have to do this year is fully engage in worship. Tart solves everything. Then... You can see clearly.