The Bible and Life: Reverence

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

Here is an important message about giving God the reverence that He deserves.

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Reverence

As Jesus was discussing the subject of clapping and raising of the hands in praise to Him, He made this statement: "When you really learn to praise and worship Me in the right way, you'll find a stronger anointing and a greater move of the Holy Spirit in your midst.

We need to learn that when the Presence of the Lord is in a place, we should not dissipate that Presence, that power. Be quiet and reverent and then you'll see the manifestation of the Holy Ghost that your heart has longed for.

You haven't see anything like what we will see when the Body of Christ gets to that place of worship. We were in that kind of atmosphere worshipping God in one of our crusades, and there were five people sitting in wheelchairs. Three of them just got up and walked off. No one laid a hand on them. But for that to happen, we have to begin to get into the flow of the Holy Spirit.

When you get in an atmosphere of true worship, and God begins to move by His Spirit, you can just reach out and take what belongs to you in Christ. The Bible teaches laying on of hands, but you really don't have to have hands laid on you when the Presence of God is so strongly in manifestation.

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In Charismatic Movement. There's been a lightness in Charismatic services: a "hip-hip-hooray" type of atmosphere. Ohhhh! But in times past, I've seen the Presence of God come in and fill the temple! When I say "the temple, " I mean a body of believers.

During those times when the Presence of God came into our services, no one moved; an awesome Presence filled the room. I wish I could describe that awesome Presence to you. Some things are just too reverent to talk about and it's hard to find words to describe them. But I've seen the awesome Presence of God come in and fill the temple. I long to see the Body of Christ experience that Presence on a continual basis!

At this writing, it has been almost a year since Jesus' 1987 visitation with me. In our own ministry, we have been experiencing the deeper move of the Spirit of God among us which Jesus promised. Just a short while after the summer Campmeeting, our crusade team was in Detroit. One of our singers was singing a song of the Spirit, fresh from Heaven, given by the inspiration of the Spirit in that moment. Upon hearing one of the lines of the song, the crowd began to clap. The singer stopped and exhorted the congregation, "Please don't clap anymore."

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They received the instruction and listened to what the Spirit was saying as he went on with the spiritual song. A depth, an indescribable Presence like a cloud filled the auditorium. We had no preaching that night. The Holy Spirit came upon me in a greater measure to minister by the Spirit in healings and in other ways. Afterwards, I asked those seated in the minister's' section if they had noticed how the anointing increased.

But when people begin to demonstrate in the flesh, the anointing lifts -it flies away like a bird taking flight because it grieves the Spirit. I wish I could get that over to people. I've been in meetings of several thousand where the Holy Spirit was moving, and suddenly, I knew by the Holy Spirit when the anointing came upon me to stand over in the office of the prophet and minister to the people. I was just ready to call out certain people, to point to them right where they stood, and say, "The Spirit of God just showed me this is what is wrong with you." I've ministered that way many times through the years, and every time, the people have been healed.

When I've ministered under that kind of an anointing, I've never had one person fail to get healed. I could tell you about thousands of people who were healed that way through the many years of my ministry. However, sometimes when the anointing has come to minister in that office, people in the congregation have gotten up and started moving about. The lack of reverence for God moving in the service grieved the Spirit and He left; the anointing lifted from me. I mean,

just like a bird sitting on your shoulder, it flew away- the anointing left.

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And those people didn't even know it; they went out talking and whispering. Maybe they were in a hurry to leave and get something to eat, but they didn't know that they had just hindered some dear sick people from being healed-sometimes people with terminal cases.

During this visitation before Campmeeting '87, the Lord dealt with me very strongly about the fact that He's trying to get the Body of Christ to the place where He can move by His Spirit in our midst. I'm gradually seeing that come to pass. The Body of Christ is finally coming to the place where God can move in our services like He wants to. This is the time!

The Body of Christ has finally come to that time now, and is getting ready for the move that God wants in the earth, glory to God! Several years ago, the Lord said to me, "There is a move of the Spirit of God that will be lost to this present generation unless they are taught and led into it."

I don't know that we have been successful at this yet. But we're finally coming to the place where we can begin to teach this. The Lord went on to say to me, "Some of the old- time Pentecostals knew something about that deeper move of the Spirit. The new generation of Charismatics know little or nothing about it. Charismatics know little or nothing about the move of My Spirit. Charismatics know a little about praising Me, but they know nothing at all about true worship.".

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Purpose, Plan,Pursuits )