Filled With His Glory: A Journey into the Spirit-Led
Life
Learn what it means to be “filled with
His glory” and how our holy God unveils His sovereign plan to prepare His
people for the dwelling of His Spirit. Increase your passion to know Him
more intimately, to serve Him more faithfully, and to share His love more
freely through a journey of discovery.
You are invited to a weekly
Women’s Bible Study
with Rev.
Suzanne Wolfram
at her home on the Belleview Campus
in Westminster.
The meeting time is weekly onThursdays
at 2 pm. The final meeting for spring is May 25; the study resumes in the
fall (date to be announced.) E-mail
Suzanne at sgw@belleview-college.org for information or if you
would like to receive an e-mail note when study resumes.
Here is an extract from the study guide:
PREFACE
THE CALL to write this book came after
months during which I pled with the Lord to allow me to give Him glory.
I recognized I could satisfy that deep hunger only by calling people to
holiness.
About the same time,
a friend made a comment comparing the Old Testament Tabernacle to the dwelling
place Christ wants to have within us. This stirred within my spirit a longing
to study the Tabernacle. As I studied, I found holiness was the theme of
both the Old Testament Book of Exodus and of His holy dwelling.
Yet I saw more than
God's call for us to be holy. I saw His passionate longing to rest in us.
He was not calling His people to be holy because He's a pharisaical God
demanding that His people maintain a certain standard. Rather, He's a loving
God who can be satisfied only if we're near Him. Through the study, I began
to hear the yearning in the final line of Jesus' last recorded prayer on
earth: "that I myself may be in them" (John 17:26).
I heard, "Be holy,
so I can fill you to overflowing with My presence, My joy. Unless you're
holy, I cannot reveal myself to you."
My heart began to cry
with Moses, "Show me Your glory" (Exod. 33:18, AMP.). The Septuagint gives
the essence of his plea: "Show me thyself."
Moses' longing has
been fulfilled. "We beheld his glory'' (KJV), John exclaimed. "The Word
became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory" (John
1:14).
The phrase "made his
dwelling" means Jesus "tabernacled'' among us (AMP.). He became the true
dwelling place for the presence of God. When we look closely, though, we
find that the pattern God gave Moses of the
Tabernacle was more than a design that
was perfectly fulfilled in Christ. It is the design for the spirits of
all those who say with Moses, "Show me Your glory."
If we want God's glory
to fill our spiritual temples, we must follow the pattern God gave Moses
on the mountain. As soon as Moses completed the work, God's glory so filled
the Tabernacle that Moses could not enter. When the Holy Spirit takes full
possession of us, we, too, find there is no room for self.
We are all for His glory.
God had one purpose
when He formed Adam. He wanted to create a happy people.' Ultimate happiness
rests in Him, so lie made this offer: I will come inside you and give you
My fullness--fullness of joy!
How would He tell us
to prepare for His indwelling? lie chose to give the plan for His dwelling
place on earth, the Tabernacle, to the Israelites. Only later would His
people understand that "we are His temple."
Aletha Hinthorn, Filled With His Glory: A Journey into the Spirit-Led
Life (Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, ©1999), pages 11-12 |
