Let me start this discourse from Acts 17:22, 23 and 27, 28
Some Christians operate completely from points of ignorance of God outrightly.
A number of Christians on the other hand operate in the anointing.
However, very very negligible percentage – less than 1% operate in GLORY.
But for a while now, God has been pointing my attention to HIS GLORY.
He kept telling me that GLORY cannot be equated or compared to ANOINTING. Just like COVENANT cannot be compared with PRAYER.
What is the difference between anointing and glory?
In anointing, I receive a special grace to do things for God. That is, I am being used by God to do special things for God. But in glory, God does fearful things by Himself!
For example, in the anointing, David cut off the head of Goliath. But in glory, the Goliath cannot even come at all!
In the anointing. You can exercise your Freewill, but in the glory you operate strictly by instructions. Eg Moses being told when to lead the people out and when to stay indoors – in line with the position of the cloud of glory and speaking to the rock etc
In the anointing, the visitation of God’s power is not mass but at most several individuals. But in the glory. It is mass visitation of God’s uncommon power.
In the glory, obedience is more strict than in the anointing.
In the anointing the priest ministers. But when the glory comes, the priest ceases from ministering and God takes over.
Waiting on God is more in the glory than in the anointing.
FOR THESE REASONS, ONLY FEW PEOPLE EVER OPERATE IN THE GLORY. IT IS A HIGHER CALL. BECAUSE GOD IS IN CHARGE FULLY.
David was a spectacular example of one who operated in the anointing. God decked him with so much anointing. So, God used him to fight many battles and he prevailed.
Moses on the other hand, is a classic example of one who operated in the glory of God. God, by Himself did very fearful things.
You remember that Moses told God that if your MANIFEST PRESENCE – GLORY go not with us, carry us not hence from here.
Moses had anointing, but to confront the kind of enemy that could hold a people in captivity or bondage for 400 years cannot be dealt with just by the anointing. No. It can ONLY be by the GLORY.
Desire God’s glory more than the anointing.
Let us examine a very oft- repeated and CORNERSTONE prayer that can meet ALL needs.
– Philippians 4:19
But my God shall SUPPLY all my needs according to His riches in GLORY by Christ Jesus.
Everything groovy is in the GLORY!
Even defence from harm and sicknesses or diseases is in the GLORY!
– Isaiah 4:5
You don’t have to start using faith to cast out devils and spirit of infirmities etc in the glory. No. They don’t come near you AT ALL because you are DEFENDED BY THE GLORY.
Psalm 91:1-end is what you experience in the GLORY.
What glory represents.
Genesis 45:13
Psalm 21:1-end
As I close,
Let me open our eyes to something in 2 Corinthians 3:7-11. The glory that excels.
If all that I shared with you sounded so great, then you can imagine if there is still another higher level of glory!
The point is, both David and Moses- our references for anointing and glory respectively, operated before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What then do you think the glory would look like with the addition of GRACE?
It’s like this: Under the Old Testament, it was a dispensation of law. Yet it was glorious because the law revealed what the human problem actually is – SIN.
However, grace is much more glorious because it provided a remedy for the sin problem – Jesus Christ. Romans 5:20-21.
Prayer:
Dear Lord of glory, I thank you for the glory of your law, revealing my sin problem. Yet I praise you even more for the glory of your grace, providing a remedy for my sin. Lord, as I humbly feed on your holy scriptures, may the excelling glory of your triumphant grace, impart increasing righteousness into my daily life, through Jesus my Lord. Amen!