PRESENT THE EXCELLENT GLORY

PRESENT THE EXCELLENT GLORY
by Ruth Ward Heflin

The days just ahead will be the greatest for all of us. How will God do it? I don’t know, but I’m not worried about it. He is Sovereign Lord, and He can do exactly what He wants to do, anytime He wants to do it. My confidence is in Him.

In the story of Esther and Mordecai, the wicked Haman was plotting to destroy the people of God, but God caused King Ahasuerus not to sleep one night. He felt compelled to get up and examine the chronicles. There he discovered the name of Mordecai, a man who had done good and had never been rewarded for it. The next morning, as early as possible, the king felt compelled to send someone to find Haman and bring him to the palace. “What would you do,” he asked Haman, “for a man who deserves to be honored?” Haman was sure he must be the man, so he spoke greater things than he would ever have dared to say otherwise. “That’s good,” the king replied. “I want you to do all those things you have said for a man named Mordecai whom you will find, I am told, sitting in the gate.”

God knows how to turn every bad intention aside and to cause the wheel of God to favor your life. He has no limitations. Our Sovereign Lord doesn’t need to be awakened in the night to show anyone how to honor you. He never sleeps. He knows how to put it into the spirit of someone who hasn’t thought about you in a long time to call you on the telephone, and, before you realize
it, a whole process has been put into motion.

There’s a wind blowing all across the land, a wind of God’s favor. We must rise to the challenge of the moment. It would be terrible to stand on a great platform without having a greater glory in our lives to bless others. God must enlarge us and place that greater glory within us, so that when opportunities come to us, we will be able to present the excellent glory He is bringing forth in this day and hour.

Stop looking to the temporal, and start seeing the eternal. Stop squandering all your prayer time on things that will pass away and start believing God for things that will last forever. Some of us are guilty of fasting and praying to keep the very things God wants us to let go. We’re trying to get more strength to hold on to what we have, while God is trying to get us to let loose. We keep grasping things tighter and tighter, while He’s trying to get us to let them go.

Not only will we not look to temporal things in the days ahead, we won’t even consider them. We will be so consumed with the eternal realm that temporal things will seem as nothing to us.
We can no longer afford to live only in the natural realm. We must live in the supernatural. Let yourself soar away and be changed from glory to glory. Receive greater and greater glory, greater and greater revelation, greater and greater insight, greater and greater provision.

Let the hastening of the Spirit be felt down deep in your spirit. We are hastening unto the coming of the Lord, hastening unto the fullness of His purposes. It is through the revelation of the Spirit that you will be elevated. You will no longer move up a step at a time. You will suddenly go from the bottom step to the top step. You will suddenly move up from the lower floors
to the upper floors. Don’t stand by and watch as others are lifted up. It’s also you that the Lord wants to lift up.

Excerpt from Revival Glory Copyright © 1998 by Ruth Heflin