Glory: Increasing God’s Presence

Glory: Increasing God’s Presence

Bill Vincent

© 2013 by Bill Vincent.

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Table of Contents

Book Disclaimer

Restoring Spiritual Principles

Wilderness into Pools

God of Glory Thunders

Face to Face

Kingdom Is Here

Restoring God’s Presence

Filled With His Glory

Going Behind the Veil

The Latter Glory

Kingdom Invasion

The Goodness of God

Wells of God

About the Author

Recommended Books

Book Disclaimer

Here are tips on reading Bill Vincent’s books. Bill writes prophetically as God speaks. The grammar may be pushed but the message is spoken from the heart of God. Bill didn’t want to lose the depth of revelation through extensive editing. God repeats Himself and says things many different ways. If you want to hear prophetically then Bill’s the Author for you.

Restoring Spiritual Principles

I want to start this book by sharing some things that God is restoring in this hour. We are about to see some great things.

Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

This is by no means a full study on the Person of the Holy Spirit. It is just an appetizer to wet your appetite for intimacy with Him. The Word of God is time spent with Him, and time spent with God chasers who know and love Him will grow you in the knowledge of our Precious Spirit of God.

I have prepared this especially for those who have already asked Jesus into their hearts as personal Lord and Savior, believing that God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. But my heart is that you do know Jesus if you haven’t yet surrendered your life to Him, because once you do, Jesus has a gift waiting for you the precious Holy Spirit!

He will teach, counsel, lead, guide and love on you as no other and He will draw you into His radical fiery love. As you grow in intimacy, mature in the Word, you will come to experience Him and the Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus to your heart, the heart of the Father for the Son and the Son for the Father and their affection for you.

You do know that God loves you, right?

Now, more than ever before Jesus said in Luke chapter 12 that it is the Father’s desire to give His children the Kingdom. If that was true then, how could it be different today?

Actually, we should probably be moving in even greater levels of intimacy with the Father as we see the urgent need for demonstrations of the power of God so much more.

I have designed this Chapter to encourage you to intimacy, and to encourage you to seek to deepen your own personal relationship with God’s Radiant Glory. As you pursue friendship and spend time with Him, you will be able to recognize His presence, His voice, His instruction and will experience an increase in the release of Holy Spirit power and boldness in testifying of God’s love and in ministering the gift and grace of salvation and healing to others.

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

I believe that the Holy Spirit is urging us to believe and trust God for a deeper relationship than ever before that will see us pressing in and ahead in love with God to release the power of the Kingdom in the earth!

Growing in love with God by His Spirit is the most precious, exciting, refreshing and exhilarating experience that I have ever known apart from the first blush love experience of salvation. Whoa, thank You Precious Lord!

If this Chapter compels you to dive deeper into the waters of grace through relationship and communion with the very Spirit of God and experience all that, praise God! If because of that intimacy, you do experience a greater release of the power of God in your life and in ministry to others, Praise God and Amen!

He is my Best Friend and the Love of My Life and it is an honor to introduce Him to you as an intimate friend. Your friendship with Him may look a little different from mine, but trust that He will meet your heart’s yearnings in ways you cannot imagine and He will never disappoint you. Treat Him well; be kind and gentle and generous with your time. He is so precious.

How would you describe your Christian life? Are you satisfied with it, or do you hunger for more in your relationship with God?

Chances are if you have experienced the Person of the Holy Spirit, you will want more because each encounter only scrapes the surface of what we can encounter in the glory of God, no matter how much the Holy Spirit saturates us with His presence. Even more than you desire His presence, His heart yearns to commune with you and cries out, Don’t go away, don’t be satisfied without My presence!

2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

That’s precisely the key to an increasingly satisfying Spirit-filled life, a life hungry and desperate for encounters with an intimate knowledge of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

The three that bear record in heaven are not three Gods, but three in One, and each are an expression of God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. To know God is to know there are three Persons in the Godhead. To know God is to know the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. To know God is to understand that God is three Personalities and in order to grasp His fullness, we have to have intimacy and communion and relate to each one. Though they are the same in unity and purpose and do everything in oneness, they are still three Persons. As Christians, we seek to know God the Father and God the Son, but in seeking the Holy Spirit, we tend to seek only the power and infilling He offers and provides and not the relationship.

Through our time getting to know the Father, we learn through the Son, that He is not a God in heaven with a gavel hammering down judgment.

Instead, we learn more of His character and come to know Him as Abba Daddy Father. We can come to know the Father even more intimately by coming to know the character and Person of the Holy Spirit as well.

The Holy Spirit is no less significant than the Father or Jesus, He is equal to them and we must know the fullness of the Holy Spirit as fully as we know the Father and Jesus. One does nothing apart from the other.

All three Persons of the Godhead were involved in our creation.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

This infers that it wasn’t just the Father. If God said, then the Holy Spirit, the Father and Jesus all decided at the same time, in effect, Hey! Let’s make man in Our image.

Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Again, it is one God, but three Persons. It’s Us.

Genesis 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

It is teamwork. They were a team from the very beginning and they are a team in our salvation.

To explain, let me paraphrase what happened. The Father demanded payment for sin and Jesus said, I’ll pay for it and the Holy Ghost said, Not without me.

In effect, the Father said, I miss the fellowship that I had with Adam and Eve. I miss being able to go down and walk in the cool of the day with them. I miss the intimacy and the glory that we shared. Do you know what? Now I am angry and My holy wrath demands justice on sin because the wages of sin is death. I need something to take the payment and the atonement for these people that I so desire to commune with. I have to have justice even at the same time I desire fellowship. But if I were to go to fellowship with them now, My fire would consume them.

Then Jesus all of a sudden stands and says, Father, I’ll go. Because I love You, Father and because I see the aching of Your heart for Your people. Father, I will go to the earth. I will suffer, die and become the atonement for all those so that they can be restored into the likeness and the image of Us and have that intimacy with You that You miss.

But the Holy Spirit interjects and says, You’re not going Jesus, unless I go too.

So the Us team have a conference and make the decision together to restore fellowship and bring us back to the place where we could taste of their glory. And this same Person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit who worked alongside the Father and Jesus in creating you, invites you to know Him beyond knowing His power. I will ask the Father and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. You know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.

Life is so full and busy for all of us, but the call of God toward intimacy also increases. Nothing trumps an intimate love relationship with God! He is jealous, yes, jealous for your affection and does not want contenders for your heart!

I challenge you to identify the contenders that fight for your affection, those little foxes that busy you away from God and think of, even list on a piece of paper so that you won’t forget,  ways to construct your life to accommodate a passionate pursuit of fellowship with Him!

Those who know His name will lean on and confidently put their trust in Him. The Lord will not forsake those who seek Him!

Psalms 42:1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water