Glorifying Jesus

Glorifying Jesus

"He will glorify me, for He will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you." Jn 16:14

Jesus was speaking of the Holy Spirit in this passage of scripture. The Spirit of Truth who would take of what belonged to Jesus and reveal it to the disciples, leading them into all truth and declaring things to them that were coming.  This scripture really struck me this morning that the word the Holy Spirit heard from Jesus, He would declare the same, and by it Jesus would be glorified.

We all have a desire to glorify Jesus and if I get this passage right, we do so by declaring the word.  God declared in Isaiah 55:11 about the word of His mouth: "so shall my word be that goes forth out of mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it."

When we declare God's word, we are agreeing with Truth and this glorifies Him and His word.  Confession of the word is a large part of our faith and in declaring His word, we actually prophesy His word into the atmosphere.  God's word is eternal and He honours His word even above His Name for He is a covenant keeping God who never breaks His word.  It is His bond with us and inherent with His creative power. We only release that power, when by faith we receive the word and declare it.  When it comes to pass, as God has declared, it brings Him glory and praise.

We have a choice.  We either speak God's word and agree or we go against truth and agree with our enemy.  satan is a legalist and when we agree with him, he has a legal claim to bring our words to pass in our life.  For example, if we declare lack in our lives instead of speaking the truth, "and my God shall supply all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus" (PHIL 4:19), satan can bring lack into our lives.

The other way we can glorify God is to do His works on earth.  Jesus said, "I have glorified you on earth.  I have accomplished the work you have given me to do."  When God directs us to pray for someone and we are bold enough to lay hands on them and release His healing into their body, for by His stripes we are healed, their healing will bring glory and thanksgiving to God.

Let us follow Jesus and take what is His, all the promises, and release them on earth, so that glory can rise from hearts to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

As it is in Heaven

As it is in Heaven... Luke 11:2

God, our Father's main mission is to bring His Kingdom to earth so that it resembles Heaven.  We know His heart, for He sent Jesus to us, to save, heal and deliver and to do serious damage to the kingdom of darkness, as He brought the fragrance of the Heavenly Kingdom to earth.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Lk 4:18-19

Jesus is the exact representation of the image of God and we, as His body, should be the exact representation of Him displayed on earth - challenging!  Jesus came to show us the great unfailing love the Father has loved us with, from before the foundations of the world, and His heart for humanity.

So what are the citizens in heaven like?  Do they lack joy? Do they lack love? Are they sick, depressed, miserable, SELF FOCUSED and defeated?  All of us would declare with conviction, no, no, no, they are none of these things.  They dwell in the presence of God and His great glory.  They are filled with the life, health and vitality of the Living God whose glory fills them, as well as all His attributes.


Then why are we...if the truth is...your will be done on earth as it is in heaven?  Do we forget we have access to His presence 24/7 and of His fullness we have received and grace for grace.  The glory of the Godhead dwells in us by the Holy Spirit.  We are not alone, nor walking this walk of a faith alone.  The Living God's health and vitality and attributes all dwell in us, just like the citizens of heaven, yet we don't appropriate these truths to our lives.

We are God's citizens on earth - yet often we are defeated, sick, depressed, complaining, unthankful and full of unbelief and doubt.  Yet many of us are awakening to the fact that we, the bride of Christ and His body here on earth presently, should be more like the Citizens of heaven - victorious, overcomers who apply His Word to our lives and hang out in the presence of our Almighty King and God.

In doing so, we become what we magnify (Ps 115:4-8) and spending time worshipping our Great God in His presence will ensure we do become more like Him.  And becoming more like Him, we will begin to manifest His work and will on this earth.  We firstly need to receive from our Heavenly loving Dad, before we can manifest His essence and attributes to others.

Some find it hard to forgive and let go, especially if they haven't first felt His cleansing power when He forgave them of all sins and trespasses against Him and others.  But when we understand the full depth of what Jesus went though and the full depth of His mercy in pardoning all our iniquities, we have mercy and grace to pass on to others and are able to let their sins against us be released and forgiven.  Unforgiveness is really a very serious issue and I cannot, for one, imagine the citizens living in heaven now squabbling and backbiting or filled with envy.  No, instead they would be cheering us up and on to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly and to live a life full of forgiveness, unity wherever possible and growing in peace and favour with God and man.

If we are to bring heaven to earth, we must firstly love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and mind and strength and love others; allow His love in us to go though us to touch others.  We are the body of Christ and we are called to show all the fullness of Godhead that dwells in us.  God wants us to be His eyes, His ears, His Heart, His mouth, His arms to those who desperately need a touch from the Loving Saviour.

Are we going to respond to this call?  Very challenging but with His overcoming spirit and prayer we can.