Let’s show Her a Glimpse of Our Glory

Half sleeping, half awake, that in between time just before waking… I hear a conversation. I recognize three voices. The son says, “Father, let’s show her a glimpse of our glory.” The Father says, “Son, I think that’s a great idea.” “I agree.” said Holy Spirit.”

They weren’t talking directly to me, but I was there in their presence. I heard their conversation. How awesome is that? This is really getting exciting. Not only is the Holy Spirit talking to me on a daily basis. Now I’m in the place where they are, and they allowed me to hear them talking. I’m no one special. I’m just an old woman who is totally in love with Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Not only that, but they are totally in love with me too!

And everyone who knows them and wants too; has the same access to them, as long as they’re clean before them and have a longing heart for them.

I am anticipating what this glimpse could be. Maybe it’s this….They allowed me to hear their conversation.

I know some may think, “She’s losing it, she’s hearing voices.” But it’s not like that. It’s more like thoughts that you’re hearing, but not your own. I can’t explain it. I know, you who have heard them, know what I’m talking about.

Abba is real. Jesus is real. The Holy Spirit is real. Read His Word. Talk to them. We have access through Jesus the son of God. And Jesus said, “I am sending you another Friend to be with you.”

That Friend is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us.

All I know is that it’s amazing and there is nothing nor anyone I’d rather be listening to than them!! He confirms His word.

See the following scriptures.

Jesus is talking to his disciples…

John 14: 1-31 The Message (MSG)

The Road

“Don’t let this throw you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’m on my way to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”

Thomas said, “Master, we have no idea where you’re going. How do you expect us to know the road?”

Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You’ve even seen him!”

Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”

“You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I don’t just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

“Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do.

The Spirit of Truth

“If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

“I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.

“The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”

“Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.

“I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.

“You’ve heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away, and I’m coming back.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I’m on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.

“I’ve told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me. I’ll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don’t worry—he has nothing on me, no claim on me. But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father’s instructions right down to the last detail.

“Get up. Let’s go. It’s time to leave here.”

What did Jesus do? He didn’t go around showing off…He didn’t point his finger at a mountain and BOOM it exploded. But he could have. He didn’t blow on a tree and hurl it into the next town. But He could have.

He did say in Mark 11:22, “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

He did take clay and spit and healed a blind man.

John 9: 6-7, When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

He did lay his hands on sick and they recovered. He did cast out demons by speaking a word.

Luke 4: 40-41, When the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them. And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.

What are you looking for? Are you looking for grandiose demonstrations of power and might and then, you’ll believe? Jesus said unto him, “Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:29.”

Faith is not flashing lights and nuclear explosions…Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…Hebrews 11:1

What pleases God? Not, money. Not, what you do for him. Not, all your sermons or prayers to be seen as though you are something special.

Faith pleases God. God gets all the glory not man.

If you are waiting for miracles and wonders and signs…before you believe…if you want to see just to see, well, you are going to be waiting a very long time.

Matthew 16:1, the Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:4, Jesus said, A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

But if you are seeking him, searching for him with a pure heart and living a righteous life before the King of kings and Lord of lords, if you are helping your neighbor and feeding the orphans and widows and keeping yourself clean before the Lord, if you are loving him and have no ulterior motive but to see Him lifted up…

Then, Jesus said in… Mark 11:24, Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

I have to say this…When we are born…we come into this world a sinner and we’re in darkness. We are in need of THE SAVIOR! That is Jesus. The Holy Spirit draws us gently; he never pushes or demands…He will not go against our free will…

If we ignore him, he is very persistent but in a loving and kind way he will continue to pursues us…

He will not give up on us.

If there is this a gnawing in your heart and mind, if you have this sense that you know there has to be something more to this life…that this can’t be all there is…

That is the Holy Spirit drawing you. No one can come to the Father unless the Spirit draws him…

Can I be real blunt with you? Jesus loves you…He died for you…Not only died but was executed for YOU and for me!! If you have been ignoring the pull towards Jesus…Now is the time to stop what you are doing…get alone with him, open your heart to that tug…Ask Jesus to come into your heart and be the Lord of your life for the rest of your life, and all eternity. Find someone you know, that knows more about Jesus than you do, someone you respect, and tell them you want to know more about Jesus. Then take that step of FAITH and Jesus will honor you and He will fill you with the precious Holy Spirit…nothing eerie or weird…the Holy Spirit is the best friend you’ll ever have. He’ll be your helper and comfort you, He will teach you all about Jesus, He’ll speak to your heart and tell you right from wrong, He’ll lead you into truth, He’ll keep you on the right road. But He will never force you.

Life will look different. Nature will come alive and you’ll wonder why you never saw for felt this way before. You will be filled with light and wisdom.

…Don’t wait…Don’t put it off until some other time…Now is the time! Open your heart to Jesus. He will fill you with peace and love you’ve never ever known before.

And then….Mark 16: 17-18, And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

When your heart gets right…everything is a miracle!

There will still be things that won’t go right…but you’ll have a friend that sticks closer than a brother…you’ll have access to the very heart room of God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Precious Holy Spirit!

I promise it is an adventure you’ll be glad you accepted, for-ever!!!!

–Marla Shaw O’Neill April 19, 2017