The glory cloud

The Glory Cloud

Brendan Mc Crossan

The Glory Cloud

Brendan Mc Crossan

The glory cloud

Mc Crossan

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Christians have lost out in a wondrous experience with God, they minimize their worship, well at least here in the western world they do, they limit their services to an hour or maybe two, to keep people happy, people who would not come if the service lasted longer than that, and so the church of God is watered down to suit people not to suit their God, this is man pleasing man; people with no real deep love for their God.

If a man or woman comes into the presence of God, then that man or woman will not want to leave that presence for hours on end, time would be meaningless. To be in the presence of our lord and saviour is an awesome place to be in and I have been in that presence and there was no way that I would cut short the visitation from God. I would rather stay in the divine presence all day rather than go and sit and watch television or do something worldly.

My heart is saddened by the lack of worship and praises the Christian worldly gives to their Father God; it’s as if they don’t realize who it is they are worshipping or even praying to. They are supposed to be worshipping and praising their saviour their redeemer their healer, their God, and it’s as if they are blinded to that fact.

A few members of the last church I went to, went to Malawi to do some missionary work, and they were amazed to discover that a large part of the church walked for over five hours just to get to church and then after church which lasted another six or seven hours they then walked back home a journey of five hours. That is approximately sixteen hours; that is a people who love their God and show it by their actions. Would the western world Christians make this effort and time to come to a church service that lasted six or seven hours? I have seen the very opposite happening, I seen the time that is given to the lord in worship has gone down from three quarters of an hour to fifteen minutes so as to suit the pastor who runs things and who is trying to suit the people who don’t like long services, but he is still taking the full time to preach his sermons as he always done so what priority is God given. Man pleasing man not God.

This following scripture explains what happens when the cloud of glory comes into the house of God. And this happens as we minister to the lord. This is my desire to experience this every time I and others minister to the lord. This is what our Father wants us to experience in these days and times. I believe that God wants to reveal himself to his children in awesome ways. I know there are many places where the cloud of glory is rolling in and wondrous things are happening and I desire this for Ireland. This is what happens when the cloud of glory rolls in or falls down.

11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.12 All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.

They probably fell under the power of the lord. God was in that cloud, Almighty God king of heaven and earth is in his glory cloud and that is what I desire, to live in that experience every time I minister to the lord. I have heard many Christians call out ‘fire lord send your fire’ during large gatherings, and my own personal belief in this is they are wrong in what they are asking. I believe in the fire of God but I think most of those Christians who call out for this fire to come during a worship service have got it wrong, and I of course could be wrong in my believing but somehow or other I don’t think I am.

While praying this morning the word ‘fire’ dropped into my mind and immediately afterwards the words ‘God sent the fire to burn up the sacrifice,’ ‘the offerings;’ but he was not in the fire came to my mind. The fire came from heaven, there is no doubt about that, but God himself was not in the fire itself, it was a supernatural manifestation of God’s power but the fire did not contain the presence of God, if you read the next scripture you will see that the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offerings, that was the fires job, to burn the offering, the fire came down from heaven, and afterwards as the offerings were burnt up the glory of the lord filled the temple, the fire came down from heaven but God was not in the fire, he was in the glory cloud. God is in the cloud of glory, that’s where he remains covered by a thick cloud.

The Dedication of the Temple

When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.

1-Kings-8:10-12-New-King-James-Version so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

The glory of God comes in a cloud, the lord covers himself with a cloud so that we would not perish at seeing him, he would be too awesome to look upon, and so he covers himself with a cloud. His person is in the cloud of glory. Let’s look at this next scripture and see what God’s word says ‘where he is’ when he comes to visit us personally.

Exodus-24:16 New-International-Version and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Where was God? He was inside the cloud, for it was from within the cloud that he called out to Moses, now I want you to think of something here, what does the scripture say the cloud looked like? It looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. It did not say it was a fire but it looked like a consuming fire. Some of the meanings of the word consuming is, an overwhelming, overshadowing, unbearable, intense. And what an honor for Moses, to be in the presence of God himself for forty days and forty nights, wow! I would love to experience that, wouldn’t you?

What a sight to see! Our God’s presence within a cloud that looked like a consuming fire, this is what I desire to see with all my heart in the place where God is giving me very soon. I want to have that place of worship where the lord will be worshipped with intense loud worship and praise with loud clanging of symbols and trumpets blaring, because this is what the people of Israel did, this is what I want for the people of Ireland, so they too can experience thevisiblepresenceof God as aconsuming fireabovethevery building wherewewill minister to him, for at least two hours and forty minutes every day, ten percent of a day; and on the opening day I am inviting every prayer group every Christian church every Christian meeting that worships God to come and take one day out ministering to God as a collective body of worshippers, ministering in the loudest praise and worship that we can stand. Those of a quiet church will be warned there is no quiet time on this day, this is a day of great glory given to God and this is what brought the cloud of glory to the temple. When the people of God gathered together to worship, no one complained of all the noise, remember there were thousands singing and shouting to the lord and I am sure the screamed to him from the top of their lungs, ‘Glory, Glory, Glory lord, Glory,’ when that cloud filled the temple, and I am sure that when Moses went into the cloud on the mountain the people we shouting out praise and worship to the tangible presence of God, you couldn’t help but shout out his praise. There were no quiet worshippers gathered there, these were God’s people and they loved their God, will Christians feel the same about him today I wonder?

I once had praise and worship meetings in my own home and all we did was worship and praise the lord, we didn’t ask for anything but instead ministered to the Lord just singing and shouting out his praise, and we experienced many times the presence of the lord enter the room where we were ministering to him and people would fall under the power of the lord as we worshipped, and there were healings of cancer and other diseases that took place as we ministered to the lord; we never asked him to do anything.

People saw gold and silver like glitter fall down on us, we didn’t know what it was as only some of them seen it but we knew we were getting blessed in some way. I never saw it myself but different people would exclaim they see gold glitter or silver and one time different colored glitter falling down, it wasn’t on the floor so they saw it in their spirit. Now these days I hear of gold and silver glitter falling down during meetings in different places; we experiencedthathappeningbeforeweeverheardofitonTVmanyyearslaterontheGodTVchannel

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example to follow

This is a good example for the Christian churches to follow, for if it brought the presence of God in his glory cloud, then he will treat us no different, as we are his own children, and so we also will experience this, and this is what I believe.

2 Chronicles 5-11-New International Version (NIV)

11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.12 All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.

The thing that struck me most in this translation was the words “regardless of their divisions.”In the Christian churches today there are many divisions and different beliefs, but we all believe that Jesus is lord and our saviour and that is the rallying point, we all desire to serve God and Jesus with all our hearts, no matter what our religious differences are, if we are Christian then we are all God’s children. Did you notice that the cloud just appeared as they worshipped,thecloudfilledthetemple,itjustmanifestedamongthem,atothertimesthecloud rolls in like a fog drifting in from the sea. God doesn’t need to come down from heaven in a cloud he is everywhere at once.

So when that day arrives and I believe it is very soon, we should all assemble to collectively worship God in the loudest sound of worship that has ever hit this nation. Scripture says to “praise the lord at the top of your lungs,” “shout out your praises.” And when we do then this next scripture will happen for us also.

Exodus-40:33-35-Complete-Jewish-Bible

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Adonai filled-the-tabernacle.

This is what every Christian should be shouting out for; ‘send your glory cloud lord.’ For when the glory cloud comes, he himself will be in that cloud that is what we want and need, his personal presence.

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I experienced that cloud of glory roll in at a Mass one time. I was ministering through music one time with two priests Fr Michael Mc Goldrick and Father Michael Cohen at a retreat mass for kids at a school in Buncranna Donegal, I started ministering to God as people started arriving and as I began ministering to the lord I felt and seen the cloud begin to enter the room from the back and I didn’t realize that both Fr Michaels also felt it or seen it enter the room and begin moving slowly up the room. Then a man who was the leader of the prayer meeting that was helping with the retreat turned on me and ordered me sharply, to stop ministering; I was shocked by his behavior and stopped because he was my prayer meeting leader. I could see great anger on this mans face as he ordered me to stop worshipping, but for the life of me even today I don’t know what his problem was. As soon as I stopped the cloud of glory rolled back and disappeared. The two priest came over and asked me why I stopped and I told them Danny ordered me to stop, and the two priest turned on him and laid into that man and I was shocked by their anger when they told him he was completely out of the will of God and some other stuff, they tore him to shreds, they were so angry at what he had done, stopping the cloud of glory from coming in and those kids and their parents needed to experience the glory of God just as we all do.

Sad to say when I began ministering again the cloud stayed away, and didn’t return; what that man stopped I will never know, but he stopped God’s spirit from doing what he planned to do, give all those present a touch of his tangible love. God’s spirit must be respected at all times especially if he decides to enter our presence with his divine presence.

-New-King-James-Version

now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord-appeared-inthe-cloud

God’s glory appears in the cloud that covers him, I would love to see the fire of God come down from heaven as I am sure all Christians would, but the fire I know of personally is a fire that burns inside you, and if you don’t have an offering to be burnt up then why shout for the fire; the cloud is what carries the presence of God.

There is the fire of the Holy Spirit that we should have asked for when we got baptized in the Holy Spirit, and that fire is a cleansing fire, and needs to be asked for like any gift of God.

Matthew-3:11-New-American-Standard-Bible

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the ‘Holy Spirit and with ‘fire’.

This is the fire every Christian needs, that fire that burns off the dross and rubbish off of us. And sad to say not many Christians ask for this fire, this fire is far more important than a one off show of heavenly fire, for this fire is within, and burns ‘out’ the ways, from the inside out. Every Christian needs this fire of the Holy Spirit. But what I am talking about in this little book is not the fire which burns up the sacred offerings of bulls and goats but the cloud of glory or the glory cloud, this cloud is where the presence of God resides when he visits us on earth. This is not the only way God reveals himself to man, so I will not restrict God in how he chooses to appear to us, that is his prerogative.

Leviticus-9:23 Amplified-Bible

Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord [the Shekinah cloud] appeared to all the people [as promised].

This is what the cloud of Glory looked like, as well as appearing as a consuming fire it also looked like this description in Ezekiel 1.

Ezekiel-1:28

Complete-Jewish-Bible

this brilliance around him looked like a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was how the appearance of the glory of Adonai looked. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.

This was the writers best way of describing what he seen; I know from a little experience I had many, many years ago when I first became a Christian, I had an experience of seeing into heaven, and the colours’ I saw were extraordinary, the blues I seen were not like the blues on this earth, they were illuminated is the only way I can describe they, the yellows were like nothing on earth they were crystal clear shining with a great intensity, they were out of this world is the best way to describe them they were pure colors, and I am sure the writer had a similar experience as I had as he explained the brilliance around him looked like a rainbow.

Ezekiel-10:4

Complete-Jewish-Bible

the glory of Adonai rose from above the cherubim to the threshold of the house, leaving the house filled with the cloud and the courtyard full of the brilliance of Adonai’s glory.

And the house filled with the cloud and the brilliance of Adonai’s {God} glory, this is what I expect to happen in the lords house as we Christians worship him, if only we would give him thepraisedueto him notthemediocrepraiseand worship hegetsforahalfhouroralittlemore In churches. I feel so sad when I listen to worship in the churches I have been to; they think worship is for just a half hour or in a “good church” an hour of worship and then they preach for about three quarters of an hour or sometimes more, thereby man gets more time than God.

God in his word calls for tithes and offerings and he is not always talking about money; you can tithe or offer to God anything, such as your worship and praise.

God wants us to give him ‘ten percent’ of our day in prayer we could be ‘offering’ him a couple of hours extra, we all can do this without any difficulty, because God accepts what we genuinely offer him, in love and if we sit and watch some dodgy programs on TV for hours on end then expect God to accept that as a prayer offering. that’s not prayer or taking time out with God. Most TV time is filled with rubbish and some almost like pornography, why do we need scantily clothed women sitting sexually on acar or washing itbentover;werenotlooking to buy the woman but want to know more about the car, not her boobs or ass and this is designed to make the car more appealing to men. This is called soft porn and is designed by the devil to set men’s minds working overtime imagining that would have some sexually dressed washing their car.

Be honest with yourself do you take TV time for ‘yourself’ every day, sometimes in the morning, maybe straight through till bedtime. Is that box switched on and God switched off. Don’t say you don’t have time and then sit and watch hours of TV, your deceiving your self if you do and you show what’s more important in your life, - ‘TV –God?’- I believe in giving God every moment of my day not just my ten percent tithing, he is my all and without him I am nothing, I cannot even breathe if it wasn’t for him; he holds my breath in his hand. I owe him everything; he owes me nothing but gives me everything that belongs to Jesus as scripture says.

There is nothing wrong with watching a good clean TV film or program and inviting God into it with you; he is interested in all we do. But if you want to know God better TV isn’t the way to do it, not even with TV religious programs, and most Religious programs I watch these days have a great message, they known what people need to hear but they then destroy the word of god by asking you for a $10,000 seed to sow into their ministry.

Let me bring to your attention something here for most folk in this world, there is a world wide recession on at this moment in time, and these people are telling you the listener to give a $100-00, or$500-00 seed and some have become greedy they ask for a $10,000-00 seed. God knows that you can’t afford to give a $19 seed never mind a $10,000-00 seed and this is not scriptural anyway.

I know that God supplies to those who work in his work, and I seen this many, many times over the years and I know that he uses man to supply from his wealth at times, for various things he does, ‘’God tells a man or woman to give,’’ ‘not after man asks publicly for it first. Many Godly men and women listen to God speaking and respond willingly, perhaps never even meeting the person they are told to give to, they hear the voice of God, not someone saying this place would go out of business soon unless we get a $10,000,000 dollars donation, that is consciously asking for people money and placing a guilt burden on God’s people.

New-International-Version (NIV)-2-Corinthians-9:10

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness

God is the one who supplies seed for the sower, so if God wants to you sow seed into a particular ministry, he will give you the money first from someone, and if he does not give you the seed first- DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING TO THIS MINISTRY, learn to bring the blessing through obedience and then you will be blessed in return so you can again be a blessing, so God’ circle of blessings goes on and on. Now to get back to the glory cloud

Isaiah-4:4-6 New-King-James-Version

then the LORD will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering.

This is what I believe for in the place of healing the lord has told me he is giving me, from over thirty years ago, and this is what I believe is going to happen in this house of healing. I have had many prophecies given to me regarding this place of healing and many visions and ideas which are increasing each day lately, as I believe that God is showing me how to organize things for his house of healing, I believe that a cloud of the glory of God will cover this place as in this previous scripture. I believe there will be a covering over this house of God.

I know I am doing two things in this book I am sharing with you the reader how your church or meeting can experience this glory cloud for yourselves and also I am sharing the prophetic word that God has given me over the last thirty or so years. Expectancy is the key word, what ever you believe and expect will happen, but believing is not enough, for even the devil and demons believe in God but expectancy is the great opener of the miraculous.

Like an expectant mother, she carries her baby for nine month, expecting at the end of the nine months that she will give birth, and that is a normal happening and so should the miraculous be with us the believers, as ‘normal’. We should expect God to do things for us, he is our Father and as scripture says, ‘the Father supplies for his children not the other way around;’ we do things for our children and not always what they think we should do, we do what’s best for them.

If we had loads of money would we help them out financially? Of course we would, every good Father or mother would help their children, that what fathers and mothers do for their children, is God the Father any different? Sad to say, many Christians don’t expect him to do anything for them, except to give them troubles and disasters or sickness and disease they experience in their lives, and that is not from God, none of it comes from him, he loves and is kind to us who expect him to be loving and kind, expect nothing and nothing is what you will receive.

Ezekiel-10:19 Amplified-Bible

And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight, and they went forth with the wheels beside them; and they stood at the entrance of the East Gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel [the Shekinah, cloud] was over them.

I love this scripture it says the cherubim lifted up their wings and flew and stood at the east gate of the house of the lord, and that is what I believe is going to happen when God releases his house of healing, and the glory of God will be over it. I believe that God is going to release his glory cloud to be over this place so all can see his presence there. This place that the lord is giving me is going to be a place of intense praise and worship, even if I have to do it all myself at first.

My heart is filled with a desire to glorify my Father God to the extreme limits of my being; to worship and sing praises for hours on end because I know from experience and from scripture that I quote here in this little book that the glory cloud will come and the presence of God will fill this place, this is what I believe, this is what has been prophesized over me for years, that a power of the lord that this world has never seen before will flow from this place, this place being “The House of Jesus the Healer,” the title God gave me for it.

Then I can die happy having accomplished all that God had set out for me to do, ‘’for I know the plans I have for you’’ says the lord, in sacred scripture, in the book of Jeremiah. For at that time I will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory, for this is the fulfillment of my dream the lord gave me.

Luke-21:27 New-International-Version

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

When we give our entirety to God for his own personal glory and honor and holding nothing in our hearts to glorify ourselves then I believe we will walk in the glory of God because that is our nature, his presence will be always first in our lives ‘nothing before God’ and that is what I would sincerely love to experience. When God is my God and there is nothing else in this life then I will have become Christ centered and will walk with him and live in him as he walks and lives in me.

Love changes us into his own image.

Amen