Since the Garden of Eden, God has had to deal with man at
arm’s length because of the glory surrounding His being. It would
overwhelm man if God appeared to him in the full manifestation
of His power. He once revealed to Moses that no man could look
into His face and live and then only allowed him a glimpse of
Himself from behind. He said, “I will put you in the shadow and
cleft of a rock. I will hold My hand over your face as I allow My
goodness to pass before you.” (See Exodus 33:19-23.)

Mercifully, God protected Moses from the intense
power that radiated from His face, knowing that even the
shadow of His presence would be too much for him.

However, this distance between man and Himself
was not in God’s original plan. He had created Adam and
clothed him in His own light and glory. Adam did not
know he was naked.

Before Adam sinned, all he knew was the fire of God’s
glory around his body. However, after the Fall of Man,
Adam lost that fire and could no longer fellowship with
God in His presence as he had before. If he had, the glory
of God which consumes all, sin would have consumed him
as well.

God wanted to restore our relationship with Him so
He could walk and talk with us like
He did with Adam. His desire is to
have fellowship with us. He sent Jesus
to the earth to pay the price for man’s
sin. Through Jesus, the glory of God
came wrapped in human flesh so that
once again man and his Creator could
have contact.

Jesus was born of a virgin, without sin. The Holy Spirit
hovered over Mary and there was conceived in her a holy.
thing (Luke 1:35). Jesus was born not of a natural man, but
God Himself caused life to come into Mary’s womb. God’s
life flowed into His human body.

The glory of God did not consume Jesus as it would
a sinful man. Instead, it became a flowing stream of
healing that radiated from the person of Jesus. A vivid
illustration of this is the account of Jesus on the Mount of
Transfiguration, when His clothes and face literally shone
with the glory of God.

Gloria Copeland

How will we be able to walk in the spirit even
though we are clothed with this flesh? We do it by
spending more time pursuing the things of the spirit
than we spend pursuing the things of the flesh.

We will have to become dedicated to prayer and to
fellowship with God. We’ll have to be dedicated to
His Word and be willing to pull aside from this busy
life around us to get alone with God so He can guide
us, teach us and communicate with us.

If you spend time around people who have strong
personalities, their lives will automatically affect your
life. You will find yourself doing the things they do.
Their mannerisms will rub off on you. You can’t help
it. It just happens. Well, if you spend enough time
with God, He’s going to rub off on you!

Moses said, “Who am I to talk to Pharaoh?”
And God told him, “Certainly I will be with you.”
God was saying to Moses, It doesn’t matter who you
are. It’s who I am that counts. All Moses needed was
to have God with him.

Your natural ability doesn’t determine your
usefulness. All you have to be is one who lives in the
presence of God. He has the ability!

God doesn’t look to us for ability. He looks
for availability. Make yourself available to Him by
praying in the spirit, worshiping and fellowshiping
with Him. He will begin to manifest His character,
His nature, His glory and His Spirit in you. That’s
what He wants to do. He came to live inside you so
He could radiate from the inside out! That’s what
happened with Jesus.

When Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration,
the glory of God within Him radiated outward and
He was transfigured. “His face did shine as the sun,
and his raiment was white as the light” (Matthew
17:2). It will happen the same way in our day. God
has never changed His ways. The glory of God will
come from inside us—from the inner man—as we
give ourselves totally to God and walk in the spirit.

We were predestined to be conformed to the image of
Jesus (Romans 8:29). God has reproduced Himself in
the believer so He can show Himself to the world
through the believer.

God desires that the earth be filled with His
people who are full of His glory. Romans 8:18 says
the suffering we experience in giving up the things of
this world is nothing compared to the glory of God
which will be revealed in us. This glory is not only
going to fall on us from above, but will also come out
of us, for God is living inside us!

We are a group of people who are going to love
God to the degree that we’ll choose to go into our
prayer closets and intercede rather than to enjoy the
pleasures of this world. It takes more dedication to
do that than to preach. When you’re in your prayer
closet, no one sees but God.

What is the result? “Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians
6:7-8). When we sow to the spirit, we reap the high
life—peace, prosperity, divine healing—all the
blessings of God. The blessings of God have always
been offered to people who serve and love Him with
their whole hearts.

Gloria Copeland

The end of the age is coming quickly. This is

not an hour of gloom—it is the hour of

God’s glory! The Body of Christ is writing the final

pages of the history of the Church. We are about to

witness the most magnificent display of God’s power

the earth has ever seen. God told Moses, “As truly as

I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the

Lord” (Numbers 14:21).

Every generation has had its role to play in God’s

ultimate plan. During the time of Moses, God

manifested His power on behalf of the children of

Israel in such spectacular ways that they commanded

the respect of the Egyptians. When Moses led the

Israelites out of bondage, they were truly regarded

as God’s people because of the unquestionable

demonstration of His supernatural power.

I believe our generation will experience that same

high privilege. The day has come for God to raise up

the Body of Christ—the glorious Church—without

spot or wrinkle. This Church will command the respect

of the world because it has the miraculous power of

God in manifestation with signs and wonders! The

Church will show forth the glory of God.

God needed Moses’ obedience. His job was to

stretch out his hand in the earth and command the

will of God to be done. God had to have someone

who was loyal and would dare to act on His Word.

Moses was faithful and when he stretched out his

hand, God extended His hand and performed

miracles, signs and wonders! God needs faithful,

obedient people in this hour because He is going to

once again show Himself strong in the earth.

God revealed Himself to the children of Israel as

the covenant-keeping God, Jehovah. He performed

whatever signs and wonders were necessary to bring

them out of the bondage of Egypt. God needed

Moses—they worked together. God was able to use

Moses because Moses knew His ways. Moses’ heart

was loyal toward God, and he made himself available

to God. “He made known his ways unto Moses, his

acts unto the children of Israel” (Psalm 103:7). Had

Moses not been faithful to know God’s ways, the

children of Israel would never have seen God’s acts.

Today, the Spirit of God is dealing with us in

much the same way He dealt with Moses. We have

experienced a move in the Body of Christ in which

God has taught us His ways. We’ve learned to live

according to the Word. We’ve been taught to walk by

faith and not by sight, because God needs a body of

people who have a solid foundation in His Word. He

needs those who will not be blown to and fro by

every wind of doctrine and who have made God’s

Word the final authority in their lives. Those who

know how to depend on His Word will be the

backbone of this move of the Spirit.

I believe we are the generation that will usher in

the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Before He comes,

God will manifest Himself more intensely than He

did during the time of Moses. He will pour out His

Spirit on all flesh. Think of it—the Spirit of God

revealing Himself to flesh!

Since Calvary, the only thing Satan has been able

to use against the Church is the weakness of the flesh.

He has had to depend on deception through this

weakness in order to be effective in his work. His

power in the spirit realm was broken when Jesus was

quickened—made alive—with eternal life and raised

from the dead. Legally, Satan’s hold over mankind

was forever broken by the Lord Jesus Christ.

God has revealed Himself to our generation in the

spirit. We have learned to hear God in our spirits and

to know Him by His Word. For the most part, He has

not revealed Himself in a way we could see, hear or

feel in the natural realm. We have had to walk by faith

and not by sight.

Satan has reigned in the area of the flesh. This has

been his only avenue. But now, God, in His mercy

and love for man, is going to sweep into the realm of

sight and sound by His Spirit with signs and wonders.

In this final, great harvest of souls, God is going to

take over the flesh realm. Satan will have no place to

call his own! But Jesus said that false prophets would

also arise in the last days and show signs and wonders

in order to deceive the very elect. This is why the Word

of God must remain our foundation.

Gloria Copeland