by Gloria Copeland
“You can’t disconnect your love walk from the manifestation of God’s blessing in your life.”
You Are
A Precious Treasure “Because God is Love, everything He says to us is for our good.”
2 2 : B VOV
To hear some people talk you’d think the secret to walking in ever-increasing measures of the power of God is a deep and hidden mystery. You’d think it’s very difficult to figure out what it will take for us to open the door to greater manifestations of His glory. But really, it’s not. It’s clearly revealed in the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, God repeatedly tells His people that to experience His manifest glory, power and blessing, they must simply do this: Let Him be God in their lives. What does it mean to let God be God in our lives? It means we make Him and His Word our first priority and final authority. That rather than just telling Him all the time what we want Him to do for us, we listen to Him to find out what He wants us to do…and then we obey Him. Talk about a wonderful way to live! Because God is Love, everything He says to us is for our good. So you’d think that all through history, His people would have always been eager to hear and do what He said. But they haven’t. In the Garden of Eden, for instance, God gave Adam and Eve just one commandment: Don’t eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If they’d obeyed that command, they could have spent eternity walking in the glory and dominion of God.
But they chose not to do it. They chose to do things their own way instead. They disobeyed God, listened to the devil, and exchanged the blessing for the curse. Tragic as that was, though, God didn’t give up on His dream of having a people who would let Him be God to them. He started again with Abraham, raised up the nation of Israel for Himself, and said to them: If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people…And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation…. It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God (Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 28:1-2). The phrase it shall come to pass in Hebrew means there was no doubt about this. It was going to happen. If the Israelites diligently hearkened to God’s voice and obeyed Him, it was inevitable—they would be blessed. God would come down in their midst in His manifested glory (Exodus 19:18).
