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Hungry for the Visitation

After the preparation of the tabernacle comes faith to believe that the cloud will come into our midst. He is evident in each of our lives, in our sanctified living, the renewed minds, and the walk in the spirit now, but there is also to be tangible evidence, as when the Shekinah came down, and all of Israel knew that God was there. There is the ever presence of God in His omnipresence, and then there is the manifest presence when you sense the anointing. It is evidenced when you lay hands on the sick and they recover. We need to believe for God to come and manifest Himself in this hour in our midst, because Satan is manifesting his presence and distracting much of the Body of Christ.

The Scripture says that the eyes of the Lord are searching to and fro across this whole earth, looking for vessels through which He can show Himself mighty (2 Chron. 16:9). How would you like to be one of those? Could we as a group be a place where God could put His name? I wonder if God could trust us with a real visitation. I wonder if He could find a people in our day that wouldn't commercialize it or sensationalize it. I believe God wants to visit us, so we need to prepare ourselves as a holy tabernacle for that visitation. We need to be a people that are in love with one thing--the presence of God. We are to be a people that live for one thing--the whole duty of man: to love Him and to keep His commandments.

We need to be hungry and to believe for the visitation. It is not just going to happen; it has to be something that we are pursuing. We have to have an appetite for God. We need to believe and expect that visitation just like Joshua, who would not return back to what everybody else was doing. He was the one who said, "If God shows up, I want to know it." Is that where your heart is? It can start in you but not in the person next to you. Are you ready to be the one that knows the presence of God, the power of God, the peace of God? Do you have a life of contentment in knowing that you are doing what you have been commanded to do?

Father, we just want to be used of You. We are looking for that visitation that You might be glorified and for a place where You can put Your name. You are looking for a people so that you can show Yourself mighty on their behalf. We would like to be that people. We don't deserve it; we have no qualifications. We don't know how to go out or to come in, but we want to know You and be used of You.

Father, we have people that need Your touch. People in this area need to hear Your name and see the light of Your glorious gospel. We have been obedient to go so that when we return, Your Word has been declared in power and Your name has been exalted. Then You will add to Your church as it pleases you. You said, "I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). We want to be used as instruments to see Your Church built, Lord. We want to be eaten up with the zeal of Your house. Make it a house of prayer. Remove us from religion and plant us in Your presence that we would know You and glorify You, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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