I lose myself in this song…the lyric puts me in front of the face of Jesus. The melody came to me in a spontaneous worship moment at the end of a RUSH HOUR (our weekly student service on Wednesday nights, www.thepentecostals.org).
In 2002, our church experienced an incredible move of the Spirit in our services. It got to the point that we began to add extra worship services born out of a hunger from the congregation. In that season of revival, our Pastor shared a story about a man that came to him and said God had given him a word. The man was living in our homeless shelter at the time…our pastor admitted that he decided he wasn’t going let the “word from God” account for much based on stereotyping. However, he was quickly convicted and began to make “this word” the message to our church for a while and asked forgiveness for stereotyping him. The message from God was this: “As my child, you ask Me to show you more of My power. My power is represented in My word as my right hand. Why don’t you seek more of My glory? My glory surrounds My face…if you seek that, then we can be face to face, and intimacy happens face to face.”
wow! It brought new meaning, depth and revelation to having a relationship with my Father. From that point, our church has been on a deep journey to really know God. And I have wanted to write a song about the glory that surrounds Him since that time. So here is my first attempt.
Bottom line…if you get to where you can see His glory, you have to change and worship is the only response when you see Him. I want to be able to continue to see God’s glory consume us, our churches, communities and ultimately, as the scripture says, the earth.
Exodus 40:34, Habakkuk 2:14
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