Revelation

Glory

by

Ruth Ward Heflin

Revelation Glory
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That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fa-
ther of glory, may give unto you the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
the eyes of your understanding being enlight-
ened; that ye may know what is the hope of his
calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints.
Ephesians 1:17-18
Contents

Preface.....................................................................7
Introduction............................................................9

Part I — Revelation Glory: What Is It?.................11

1. Revelation: The Work of the Holy Spirit.........13
2. Seeing Things from God’s Perspective............19
3. Seeing Things Happen Before They Happen..27
4. Knowing the Unknowable.................................33

Part II — Revelation Glory: How Has It

Been Manifested through the Ages?..............37
5. The Importance of Vision...................................39
6. The Seers of the Old Testament.........................47
7. Simeon and Anna and Revelation Glory.........53
8. The Early Apostles and Revelation Glory.......63
9. John’s Experience with Revelation Glory........71
10. My Own Experience with Revelation Glory......83
11. Long Visions Vs. Short Visions.......................105

Part III — Revelation Glory: What Will It Do

for You?.............................................................111
12. Revelation Glory and Prayer...........................113
13. Revelation Glory and Worship.......................129
14. Revelation Glory and Doctrine.......................133
15. Revelation Glory and Unity.............................137
16. Revelation Glory and Seeds of Greatness......143
17. Revelation Glory and Revival.........................157
18. Revelation Glory and Ministry.......................165
19. Revelation Glory and the Harvest..................177
20. Revelation Glory and the Release of Nations...195
21. Revelation Glory and Finances.......................211
22. Revelation Glory and Authority.....................219

Part IV — Revelation Glory: How Can You

Get It?.................................................................227
23. Free Yourself from Every Natural Weight......229
24. Cultivate the Presence of the Lord.................235
25. Look to See.........................................................241
26. Expect Your Revelation in the Assembly.......247
27. Share Your Revelation with Others................255
28. Obey Your Revelation.......................................265
29. Let Yourself Be Carried Away in
Revelation Glory...............................................279
30. Contend for the Ease the Spirit Brings...........291
31. Move into Revelation Glory............................303
Preface

In each of my books, I have written a little about

the importance of revelation knowledge because I
believe that everything God will do in the future
will be done in this way. In Glory, I wrote the chap-
ter called “The Glory Brings Revelation.” In Revival
Glory, Chapter 20 was entitled “Waiting in the Glory
for Revelation.” In River Glory, Chapter 7 was enti-
tled “Revelation in the River.” And in Harvest Glory,
I told story after story of how God led me through
revelation knowledge into the nations of the world
for ministry and thus showed how very important
revelation is to both our personal lives and our min-
istries. Revelation knowledge has been one of the
great keys to the success of my own life and ministry.
I believe that this message is important to ev-
ery Christian. We can no longer afford to stumble
through life, hoping to find the right roads. There is
no time for that now. Too much remains to be done,
and it must be done in a very short time. Just as
everything about the beginnings of the Church Age
was given by revelation knowledge, so everything
about these end times will be given in the same way.
Because I believe this message so strongly (reve-
lation bringing revelation knowledge and the need
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for more of it), this has been a major emphasis of
my ministry in recent years. This book is the fruit of
that ministry. The chapters that follow were taken
from teachings given in our campmeetings and in
the other meetings I have been conducting around
the world.
Revelation is one of the benefits of the glory. It
does not come to us in the praise realm, and it does
not come to us in the worship realm. It only comes
in the realm of the glory of God. This is another
reason that we need to press into God’s Spirit every
day, praising Him until the spirit of worship comes,
worshiping Him until the glory comes, and then
allowing Him to speak into our spirits in the midst
of that glory. This is Revelation Glory.
What God has to say to us is life-changing. It is
earth-shattering. It not only affects us, but everyone
around us. It not only changes our own households,
but it enables us to affect the entire world for good.
What could be more important to us in this crucial
hour? Nothing can replace Revelation Glory.

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Introduction

God wants to take us “from glory to glory” in these

days. His highest desire is to take us into new realms
of His Spirit, and one of the greatest reasons is that
He has much to show us, to reveal to us. Our God
very much wants us to understand Him and His
ways. He wants an informed people.
God’s perfect will is that we be lifted into the realm
of glory where He can reveal things to us and that
we no longer return to the natural realm of thinking
and planning and deciding. He wants to lift us up
into His presence more and more where He can give
us the ability in Him of knowing the needs of the
world around us and of speaking His perfect will
into the lives of others.
God is raising us up as His mouthpieces, His
spokespersons, His oracles to the people of our gen-
eration. Men and women are ready to hear us today,
for they long to hear from God. However, we must
first know His thoughts and His desires for this day.
God is willing to speak through us, to put His
compassion and tenderness in our voices to draw
others to us, and thus to Him. We can find ourselves
pouring honey upon many bitter situations. We can
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find ourselves being healers of many breaches. We
can find ourselves causing men and women to flow
together to the goodness of the Lord. But this will
demand that we rise above our own limited thought
processes and begin to understand God’s thoughts.
There is no other way to achieve this than through
Revelation Glory.

Ruth Ward Heflin

Ashland, Virginia

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Part I

Revelation Glory:
What Is It?
Chapter 1

Revelation: The Work of the Holy Spirit

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,

HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL
TRUTH: for he shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and HE WILL SHOW YOU THINGS TO
COME. He shall glorify me: for HE SHALL
RECEIVE OF MINE, AND SHALL
SHOW IT UNTO YOU. All things that the
Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that HE
SHALL TAKE OF MINE, AND SHALL
SHOW IT UNTO YOU. A little while, and
ye shall not see me: and again, a little while,
and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
These things have I spoken unto you in prov-
erbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more
speak unto you in proverbs, but I S H A L L
S H O W Y O U P L A I N LY O F T H E FA -
THER. John 16:13-16 and 25

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What wonderful promises!

• He will guide you into all truth.

• He will show you things to come.
• He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
• He shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
• [He] shall show you plainly of the Father.

Every believer who has not yet been baptized with

the Holy Spirit should seek this experience, for hav-
ing the Holy Spirit working within will give you the
potential for the great Spirit of Revelation to work
in your life. The Holy Spirit is the Revealer. This is
His work. When you are filled with the Spirit and
you learn to wait in God’s presence, you can then
enter Revelation Glory.
Jesus stated this truth about the Holy Spirit as Re-
vealer so simply. The Comforter comes to live within
us. He receives revelation from Jesus and shows it
to us. He not only shows it to us. He shows it to us
“plainly.” What could be more wonderful?
God doesn’t show us our entire future at once,
and we should be glad of that. If we knew it all, we
would be overwhelmed by it.
Instead, the Lord gives us a general direction,
and then He begins to give us one simple step after
another. This is what the Christian life is all about —
one step at a time, one day at a time. In this way, God
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leads us in great simplicity through Revelation Glory.

God knows everything about your future. One day
some years ago, as I walked into our prayer room
in Jerusalem, I looked around the room and saw the
future of everyone present. If I had focused in on
what I was seeing, I could have told each individual
what would happen to him or her until Jesus came.
We tend to feel that our future is in front of us, but I
saw the futures of those present that day above their
heads. The future is above us in the heavenly realm.
The path that God has prepared for us may form in
front of us, but it comes down out of the heavenlies.
We just need to reach up and take hold of God’s plan
for our lives, and we can do this in the Spirit. I saw
that day that our future comes down layer by layer,
and we walk on it.
All too often we are busy trying to make something
happen in our lives, when God has not intended that
particular thing for us. I have known people who
fasted and prayed for long periods of time to keep
something of which God had been trying to rid
them. They fast and pray to avoid something God
sees as the best thing for them. We need a heavenly
vision to set us on the right course so that we are not
constantly fighting against God.
All believers desire to know what the Father expects
of them, what He wants them to be doing. So we need
to hear from Heaven, for Heaven knows it all.
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We need not be uninformed. God has graciously
sent His Holy Spirit to put within us a knowledge
beyond that possessed by those who have studied
for years in a given area. Having this type of revela-
tion knowledge can give us the confidence we need
to step out of the boat and begin to walk on water. It
can cause us to declare what God is saying — even
when no one else is saying it.
It is as we worship God that the Spirit of Truth
comes and gives us the insight we need at the mo-
ment. This is why we must not take so much time
planning our sermons or planning how we will
orchestrate a service. The Spirit of God is the Orches-
trator, He is the Conductor, He is the Master Planner.
When the great river of God begins to flow, and we
get into that flow, revelation will come from the
Holy Spirit, and we will know what to do. This may
seem too simple to some, but God moves in great
simplicity, and when He does, it is ­life-changing.
Our greatest days are ahead. Our greatest anoint-
ings are ahead. Our greatest enlargements are ahead.
Our greatest ingatherings are ahead. Our greatest
divine appointments are ahead. How will we know
the timing of it all? How will we be ready for it?
Only by the Spirit.
In these last days, we must draw closer to the Lord,
for His revelations to us are more crucial now than
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ever before. We must not be less sensitive, but more

sensitive to the voice of the Spirit. These are critical
days both for the Kingdom and for each of us as
individual believers.
If we learn to let the Spirit of God work in our lives,
He will cause us to know what is coming in the days
ahead. We will have peace in our spirits when others
are shaken. We will know by the Spirit what the eye
cannot see, what the ear cannot hear and what the
heart cannot yet discern. In the realm of the Spirit,
we will see it, hear it, discern it and know it. This
work of divine revelation, coming to us in many
different ways, will affect every aspect of our lives.
This is Revelation Glory.
Chapter 2

Seeing Things from God’s Perspective

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nei-

ther are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER
THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY
WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS,
AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR
THOUGHTS. Isaiah 55:8-9

God wants to show us things from His perspective.

We have many insights, but too often they are all
earthly. We are authorities on so many things, but
we still haven’t totally understood God’s ABC’s.
From man’s perspective, we already have a Ph.D. in
spirituality, but God wants to teach us His DEF’s and
beyond. He wants to lead us into revelation knowl-
edge, and He will do it if only we are willing to stand
by His side and see things from His perspective. He
stands in the High Places.

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If we can stand where God is standing, we can
more easily see things as He sees them. A mere
glance or a glimpse is no longer enough. It is time
for a fuller revelation. It is time for Revelation Glory.
I learned a lot about God’s perspective when I had
the privilege of meeting the American astronaut Jim
Irwin. It happened when Nora Lam called me early
one morning in Jerusalem and asked me if I would
take her place on a China tour she had agreed to host
for him. He had been invited by the Chinese gov-
ernment to lecture at their aeronautical centers and
had decided to invite others to join him. After her
initial commitment to the trip, Nora grew concerned
that it might be too early for her to return to her
beloved China, especially with such a well-known
figure as Jim Irwin. She said she would be willing
to pay my way if I could take her place. I was happy
to oblige for two reasons. I was always happy for an
opportunity to go to China, and I was happy for the
opportunity to get to know Jim Irwin.
Because Jim Irwin was with us, we were treated
royally everywhere we went in China, and it was
interesting to hear him as he spoke at many gov-
ernment-organized meetings. He was very bold for
his faith and always gave his testimony, along with
a description of his many experiences in space. He
told the people he had held two desires since early
childhood. The first was to go to China, and the
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second was to go to the moon. He had reached the

moon first (because China was still closed at the time
to Westerners), but the people could tell how happy
he was to be in their country and fulfill his second
dream. God used his wonderful trip to the moon to
give him an entry into China and into the hearts of
the Chinese people.
Jim Irwin loved to speak of the moment of liftoff.
It had always excited me too when I saw the astro-
nauts liftoff from the Earth. I was convinced that
God had permitted the space program to prosper
so that we would get our eyes off of Earth and focus
more on the heavens. Every time there was a lift-off,
I felt like I was lifting off with them, and I wondered
how anyone could fail to believe in the Rapture after
seeing a space shuttle launch.
Something Jim Irwin said has never left me: “When
I stood on the moon, closer to Heaven’s perspective,
and looked down at Earth, it seemed to be no larger
than a golf ball. I suddenly knew that God’s love for
us must have been great, that He would send His
Son to such a small planet to declare His love to the
inhabitants.”
It was in that moment that Jim Irwin decided to
enter the ministry when he got back to Earth. He
decided to give the balance of his years to the Lord
in service, and he did just that, becoming an evan-
gelist. From then on, he always carried with him a
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small ball. It was a replica of what Earth looked like
to him from the moon. He carried the ball in his
briefcase, and I was privileged to be able to handle
it on several occasions.
Heaven has a totally different perspective on
things than most of us have. We get overwhelmed by
things that shouldn’t overwhelm us. We get caught
up in things with which we have no business get-
ting caught up. Success and materialistic values are
far too important to us, and they affect our every
decision.
God wants to take us higher than the moon. He
wants to take us beyond the stars. He wants to lift us
into the heavenly realm and take us directly to His
throne. When we sit with Him on His throne and
look upon the Earth from that vantage point, our
thinking will be totally changed, and we will begin
to see things as God sees them.
If we can ascend into God’s presence, He will
anoint our eyes with eye salve that we may see. He
will show us the world, as He sees it. He will put
within us a sense of eternal timing. He will show us
the days just before us, from His perspective. He will
show us what our lives were intended for, from His
perspective. He will show us the present-day revival,
and our place in it, from His perspective.
The perspective of the “experts” of the day is
no longer enough. The perspective of the popular
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pundits is no longer enough. The perspective of the

published writers is no longer enough. These men
and women may be wise in the ways of the world,
but God has things to show us of which these “ex-
perts” know nothing. Revelation Glory is available
to us — if we are willing to spend time in God’s
presence.
Our God is the teacher. He is the Revealer of
secrets. Only He is capable of knowing perfectly
those things which are to come. When you are able
to understand things from His perspective, you can
then move forward boldly in His timing and for His
purposes and plan.
God wants to lift us into a realm of seeing
from the heavenly perspective so that we are less
earth-oriented. Then we will no longer be governed
by earth’s values, and we will obey the Lord. He
said:

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,

where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal: but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves
do not break through nor steal: for where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
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Obeying this command is possible only in Revela-
tion Glory. God is lifting us up and showing us the
higher way, the higher purpose, the higher call, the
higher realm. He is speaking constantly these days
of lifting His people up, and He does not mean it
only in the sense of position or authority or power.
Just as a father holds a child up so that he can see
better, our heavenly Father wants to lift us up so that
we can see more deeply into the spiritual realm. He
longs to lift us up into realms where we can see and
know. He wants to show us things to come and to
make us a people taught of the Lord.
God does not always give us extensive insights
into the distant future, and we cannot expect to
know everything until we are in His presence. He
is faithful, however, to give us insights that we need
on a daily basis to deal with the situations that we
face in life and to help others do the same.
If others, upon whom you depend, are not living
in a revelatory realm, know that God can speak to
you directly. It is dangerous to be too dependent
upon someone who has no sensitivity to what God
is saying. If others around you are not seeing into
the realms of the Spirit, you must do it for yourself.
If others around you are not hearing the voice of
God, then you should hear it for yourself.
This doesn’t give us license to criticize other
people. They probably want to see from God’s per-
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spective more than we want them to see things in

this way. We must take spiritual responsibility and
move into the realms of seeing and knowing by the
Holy Spirit. Then we will be able to warn others of
the things coming upon the Earth. You and I must be
eyes and ears for many people in the days to come.
The Lord wants to work the little kinks out of our
understanding so that we can be the great blessing
He intended us to be. However, we must first get
Heaven’s perspective. We must see as God sees.
Chapter 3

Seeing Things Happen

Before They Happen
And it shall be ... . Judges 9:33

This phrase, “and it shall be,” was repeated over

and over again in the Bible by men and women
who knew what would happen before it happened.
Often these people were called “prophets” because
they were prophesying the future. Prophets have
always seemed like unusual people to those around
them, but this gift of foreseeing what will happen
is something God wants to do for more of His chil-
dren. Better said, He wants to do it for ALL of His
children. It happens to me and the people around
me all the time.
One day Sister Barbara Lanzdorf ministered in our
church in Richmond. She had a vision that was very
moving. She described it this way:

I had a vision of the United States, and the fo-

cus was on the Rocky Mountains. I saw them
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coming down the country like a spine. I kept
looking and kept seeing this great spine, a great
backbone. I knew that what affected the spine
would affect the entire country. I saw that the
wealth of the Rockies from North to South had
been mined and funneled into the rest of the
country, and that now, instead of gold being
mined from the Rockies, God was going to rain
down gold on the Rockies, on His people there,
and that this would flow into the rest of the
nation. I kept seeing golden rivers streaming
forth from the mountains, spreading over the
entire continent.
I also knew in that moment that there were re-
gions of the Rocky Mountains that have never
known a great move of God. Some of the western
states don’t have the same spiritual heritage
as states that have been in existence longer. In
those places where there was really no spiritual
heritage from the past, I saw that God was going
to give them their heritage in person, and from
that great backbone, it would flow out to the
rest of the country.

There was more to her vision. Much of the Rockies,

she pointed out, was settled during the great Gold
Rush days and many valuable minerals were mined
in that area, enriching the nation. Now, she saw, God
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was about to send His golden glory over the Rocky

Mountain area, and the resulting outpouring of the
Holy Spirit would enrich the nation spiritually.
That happened on a Wednesday night. The next
day I received a call from the wife of an Assembly
of God pastor in Salt Lake City, Utah, inviting me
to come and preach in their church. The first thing
I said to her was, “Sister, are you in the Rocky
­Mountains?”
She said, “Yes.”
Then I began to tell her the word that was given
the night before in the service. She got very excited.
Later she called me back. “Sister Ruth,” she said, “I
got so excited when you were telling me about the
prophecy that my heart was just jumping up and
down within me. Could you please tell it to me all
over again? I want to be able to tell my people what
the Lord has said.”
It’s exciting when the Holy Ghost speaks one
night, and the very next day we are having the begin-
nings of the fulfillment of what He has said. That’s
how the Spirit of God works. This is the purpose of
spiritual revelation, of Revelation Glory.
“When I look out my window,” the pastor’s wife
told me, “I’m looking at the Rocky Mountains. We
are only thirty minutes away from the ski area.” No
wonder she was so excited!
The word the Lord speaks to us is life, and it brings
forth life wherever it goes.
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Sister Cathy Lemmert from Ontario, Canada, has
become part of our camp family. Early in our 1999
Summer Campmeeting, she had a vision of the Ca-
nadian Rockies, and I had a similar vision. We saw
something moving across the whole of Canada. It
began to touch Ottawa, the Canadian capital. It went
on to touch many other places as well. How faithful
the Holy Spirit is in speaking into our spirits the
things He is doing and is about to do!
Will it happen? Of course it will. The very speak-
ing of it brings a release. As God declares it, it begins
to happen, and as we impart it to those it was meant
to influence, those whom God will use to affect the
areas of which He is speaking, we will see it come
to pass.
We can only know the way of the Spirit as it is
revealed to us by the Spirit, glimpse upon glimpse,
word upon word, “here a little and there a little” (Isaiah
28:10). We were not intended to be authorities on all
that God is doing. He wants to reveal His will to us
little by little, day by day, as we walk in the Spirit.
During that 1999 Summer Campmeeting, we had
a great flow of revelation. One night God showed
us His light and the lightnings going forth from His
throne. In the midst of all that, I saw a vision of the
hand of God held near His body. This, of course,
spoke a spiritual message to us. Sometimes, when
we are holding something we don’t want everyone
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to see, we cup it in one hand and hold it near us.

Then, as we want to reveal it, we open the hand a
little until what has been hidden can be seen.
That’s what I saw God doing, and when I saw this,
I remembered the great scripture from Habakkuk
that speaks of “the hiding of his power” (Habakkuk
3:4). I saw rays of light going forth from His hands,
and in those rays of light is hidden the very power
of God. He is ready to show us things before they
happen.
The Lord will gather us closer and closer to His
heart in the days ahead, for there are many secret
things that He desires to reveal to us. He wants to
show us things that He is about to do. He will reveal
to us the miracles He will bring forth in the Earth
even before they happen. He is giving us an expecta-
tion of heart and spirit for miracles. Where we have
been unbelieving, we will now be believing. Where
we have not seen, we will now see. Where we have
experienced no manifestations, we will now mani-
fest His giftings, His anointings, His signs and His
wonders — even through our own hands. For God
is about to reveal His power in these days through
you and me in the realm of glory.
Pastors, don’t be surprised in the days ahead if
your members suddenly possess a knowledge from
God that seems to surpass your own. He wants you
to get a good head start on them.
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In the days ahead, the Jewish people will also
come in, and when they do, they will be possessed
of a divine understanding that will amaze the whole
world. God has given us two thousand years head
start on them, but they will move up fast in the
Spirit. This is a day of supernatural revelation, and
whosoever will can receive it.
Why should we consider this to be so unusual?
One of the reasons Paul was chosen as an apostle
“born out of due time [season]” (1 Corinthians 15:8) was
so that the people of that day would not think that
you had to walk and talk with Jesus for three and a
half years in order to know Him. I have seen people
saved and filled with the Holy Ghost and carried
away into the Heavens to have glorious experiences
— all in the same night. This does not mean they had
no need of growth. Each of us must grow, but you
can come into God on a higher level and with your
feet running when you come in through revelation.
These final days before the coming of the Lord will
be days of seeing things happen before they happen.
We can receive it through Revelation Glory.
Chapter 4

Knowing the Unknowable

CAUSE ME TO KNOW the way wherein

I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Psalm 143:8

God has all knowledge, and He desires to share

it with His children. When we get in the Spirit, we
can know the unknowable. It began happening to
me very early in life.
I remember well one such occasion when I was
still a teenager. I had gone with my mother to see
a friend of hers who was in the hospital. Doctors
had not yet been able to diagnose her problem. As
we were leaving the hospital, I said, “Mother, there
was such a strong smell of cancer in that room that
I could hardly bear to be there.”
Her response surprised me. “There was no smell
of cancer in the room at all,” she said. “You smelled
it by the Spirit.”
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In time, the cancer was diagnosed, but God had
shown it to me in the Spirit before doctors knew it
was present.
Sometimes we don’t need to smell anything at all;
we just know. No one has given us any indication
that what we are sensing is true. We have no prior
knowledge concerning the matter at hand. What we
are feeling is not a question of our reasoning minds
trying to figure something out. We suddenly know,
and it seems that we have always known.
I am deeply indebted to my parents for their sen-
sitivity in the Spirit, and especially to my mother.
When she was still young and living with her fam-
ily in Washington, D.C., the name of the famous
Pentecostal revivalist Aimee Semple McPherson
appeared one morning in the headlines of the local
newspapers. The article said that Sister McPherson
had drowned. Grandmother Ward knew how much
my mother loved Sister McPherson, so she tried to
break the news to her gently. “Edith, dear,” she said,
“I’m afraid you’ll never see Sister McPherson again.
She has drowned.”
Mother looked strangely at Grandmother Ward
and said, “Mama, something tells me I will see her
again.”
My grandmother was a very spiritual woman, but
she could not understand Mother’s attitude in this
matter, and she got a little stern with her. “Now,
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Edith,” she said, “I told you that Sister McPherson

has drowned. It’s right here in the newspapers. I
know you loved her, but you will never be in her
meetings again.”
Mother was not known to be a disrespectful
daughter, but again she looked up at her mother and
said, “But, Mama, something tells me I will.” It was
such a tense and unusual moment between the two
of them that neither of them ever forgot it.
Eventually it was discovered that Aimee Semple
McPherson had not drowned at all. She had actual-
ly been kidnapped. The evidence that had seemed
to prove her drowning had been planted. She later
returned to Washington, D.C., for meetings, and
Mother was in the church choir and got to sit on the
platform near Sister McPherson.
How Mother rejoiced! There had been a knowing
in her spirit that could not be explained away, and
eventually, she had been proven right. God had
shown her the truth, when all the newspapers were
proclaiming something very different.
I often thought of that example through the years
because it took a lot of courage for my mother (as
a young girl) to speak to her own mother in that
way, and that sense of knowing she had in her spirit
served Mother well through the years. We can trust
the Holy Spirit, and things that we cannot know by
the flesh can be known by the Spirit.
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We all need revelation on many subjects: reve-
lation concerning God, revelation concerning the
heavenlies, revelation concerning the Earth, and
revelation concerning the future. As ministers, we
need revelation concerning people and churches and
situations. If we can learn to live in that revelatory
realm, where we always know what’s happening
before it happens, it gives us an unusual confidence.
Some prefer to play it cautious. They never men-
tion their revelations until they see them come to
pass. Then they say, “I knew that before it hap-
pened.” But it doesn’t take much courage to declare
what has already happened. Everyone knows it by
then. Life in the glory enables us to declare the fu-
ture before others even dream about it. It causes us
to know the unknowable.
God is removing the veil from our eyes, the spir-
itual blindness that has kept us from His very best.
Every bit of discontentment that has been in our
spirits and every lack of satisfaction is being taken
away, as we find a deep satisfaction in Him. He is the
tree of life, a fountain of living water “unto everlasting
life.” He is the Source of all knowledge and wisdom,
and suddenly the windows of Heaven are opening
to us so that we can see as He sees and know as He
knows. This is Revelation Glory.
Part II

Revelation Glory:
How Has It
Been Manifested
through the Ages?
Chapter 5

The Importance of Vision

And the child Samuel ministered unto the

Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was
precious in those days; THERE WAS NO
OPEN VISION. 1 Samuel 3:1

Down through the centuries, God has spoken to

His people in many different ways to share with
them His heavenly knowledge and wisdom. One of
the most important ways He has done this has been
through visions.
God spoke to Abraham through visions. He spoke
to Moses through visions. He spoke to the prophets
through visions. He spoke to the apostles of the New
Testament through visions. And He is still speaking
to us today in this wonderful way.
Vision was never considered something unusual in
Bible days. It was considered unusual not to receive
wisdom and knowledge from God in this way. When

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Samuel came along, it was notable that “there was no
open vision.” That was not the normal state of things
for God’s prophets.
Hearing the voice of God is wonderful, but it can
never compare with both hearing and seeing. When
we can only hear, we are like a blind man. He has to
make his way along the street by tapping his cane
and listening to the echo of the sound it makes. Too
many of us are going through life tapping our way
uncertainly, when we could have all our senses fully
tuned to the Spirit of the Lord and to His infinite
stores of wisdom and knowledge.
We have a saying that one picture is worth a thou-
sand words, but the Chinese say that one picture is
worth five thousand words. God wants to give us
pictures to go with the words He is speaking to us.
One of the reasons God speaks to us in visions
and in dreams is similar to the reason He spoke to
His disciples in parables. The pictures help us un-
derstand what He is saying.
One morning, for instance, in our Summer Camp-
meeting, a sister had a vision as she was giving
a prophetic word. She said, “I see a needle and a
thread, and I see some mending being done.” In that
simple flow of revelation, the Lord was giving her a
picture that everyone could understand. Obviously,
there were some present that morning who needed
to be assured that the Master Mender was in our
midst.
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This sister did not initiate the thought, and it

didn’t come from her. It came from the heart of God,
from the Spirit of the Lord. It was a result of the
Revelation Glory we were experiencing in our midst.
Those of us who are older grew up with audio
stimulation. When movies first came out, they were
instantly popular because of the visual images they
projected. At first, they lacked sound, and movies
did not fully take hold until the two, sight and
sound, were combined. Now we have television
and the Internet, and our younger generations have
become accustomed to having visual stimulation.
As a result of the profusion of visual images avail-
able to us today, young people now prefer to do
things by sight. They love the graphic elements in
popular computer software, graphics are becoming
more and more important in the books they use, and
young people are no longer satisfied just to listen to
music. Now they want to watch the music videos
so that they can experience the music as they hear it.
This is a visual age, and now that the natural world
has come to this, it is time for the spiritual world to
catch up. God wants us all to be able to see in the
Spirit as well as hear.
This thought is not altogether welcomed by some.
They may remember having spiritual or heavenly
experiences as children, but that was a long time ago,
and they no longer have those experiences as adults.
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The thought of going back to such childlike expe-
riences is somehow frightening to them, but God
wants to restore to us the simplicity of childhood.
When we were childlike, it was easier for us to
have such experiences. Now, we seem to have
become too sophisticated, too knowledgeable, too
complicated. It is time to return to the simplicity of
childhood, and when we do, God will restore to us
the experiences of childhood.
Some believers experience visions and revelations
when they are first saved and filled with the Holy
Spirit. At that point, they seem to move into these
things very easily. Later, because the experience
has been criticized by people in authority, because
they are criticized by friends or family members, or
because of a lack of teaching and encouragement,
they begin to close themselves to the experience of
vision. Eventually, some of these people don’t even
want to receive the vision of the Lord.
Let God renew that desire in your spirit, even
this day. He can do that for you. He can give you a
desire for heavenly revelation through the medium
of vision.
Before we go on to see how this phenomenon af-
fected the lives of the saints through the centuries,
let me share here a sample of a prophetic vision that
was received one day at our campmeeting:
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I saw a vision while we were praising and wor-

shiping. I saw, as it were, a tall forest. It was
very beautiful and full-grown. The trunks of the
trees stretched upward, and all their branches
were spread. There were small saplings coming
up underneath these trees, but the larger trees
had grown so tall and wide that the small sap-
lings had no room to grow.
Suddenly, I heard a clap of thunder, and I saw
a finger of lightning come down and set the
forest afire. Then the Lord said to me, “This is
a prescribed burning. It is prescribed so that
the dross can be burned away and then the new
growth can come in.”
He says to you tonight that without the burning
off of the old, the new cannot be fulfilled. This
is the night that you will feel the fire burning
within your soul. God will take away all the
debris and the dross, and when the prescribed
burning has stopped, the forest will be filled
with new growth. It will be filled with new life.
It will be “teeming,” the Lord says, “with life.
If the fire does not burn, new growth cannot
come forth.”
And I saw, as it were, that the fire crackled, and
it popped, and it went throughout the forest
devouring everything in its path. When it had
settled down, the Lord spoke to me again and
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said, “Instead of a cloud of smoke, there is now
a cloud of glory, and you will walk in that cloud
of glory. It is a new cloud of glory that you have
never walked in before. It brings new growth
and new anointing.
“I have also prepared for you new stretching,
and when you leave this place, you will not leave
as you came. You will leave with a newness of
life. You will be teeming with the life of God,
with the glory of God such as you have never
felt before.
“And you will be sent forth again and again,”
says the Lord. “The fires of My glory that I send
with you into the nations of the world will not
be put out. They are prescribed by the hand of
your God, and as you go forth, you will do great
exploits in the newness that I am bringing forth
in your life.”
Thus saith the Lord.

Isn’t that a beautiful way of learning from the

Lord? When we realize that vision is one of the
ways God speaks, we take what He shows us more
seriously. We don’t always understand what we are
seeing, and it is often when we begin to speak of it
that the understanding of that revelation begins to
come, but we have a new appreciation of what is
unfolding before us.
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When you are able to see in a vision something

you have not been thinking about and possibly have
never considered, it is a powerful experience. It is
God’s way of preparing you for the greater thing He
has for you. Vision is for understanding. It is to show
us the next step. It is to show us where we should go
and what we should do. As we will now see, it has
been that way for centuries.
Chapter 6

The Seers of the Old Testament

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his

prayer unto his God, and the words of THE
SEERS that spake to him in the name of the
Lord God of Israel, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel. His prayer also,
and how God was entreated of him ... behold,
they are written among the sayings of THE
SEERS. 2 Chronicles 33:18-19

In Old Testament times, as we have seen, vision

was important in the lives of the believers. It was so
important, in fact, that there were men and women
specifically known as “seers.” A seer was someone
who saw, just as a doer is someone who does. These
men and women of the Old Testament were proph-
ets, and the two terms — seer and prophet — were
often used interchangeably:

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(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to in-
quire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us
go to THE SEER: for HE THAT IS NOW
CALLED A PROPHET WAS BEFORE-
TIME CALLED A SEER.) 1 Samuel 9:9

Some prophets were called “seers” because they

heard from God primarily through visions.
These were men of great respect. For instance,
King David had several “seers” around him to
whom he looked for guidance for his kingdom:

And the Lord spake unto Gad, D AV I D ’S

SEER, saying, Go and tell David, saying, Thus
saith the Lord, I offer thee three things: choose
thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So
Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus
saith the Lord, Choose thee.
1 Chronicles 21:9-11

All these were the sons of Heman T H E

KING’S SEER ... . 1 Chronicles 25:5

Samuel, one of the most respected prophets of

all time, was also known as “the seer” (1 Chronicles
26:28).
The writings or prophecies of some Old Testament
seers are not included in the Scriptures. Iddo, for
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instance, was mentioned several times in the Scrip-

tures as “the seer” (2 Chronicles 9:29 and 12:15), but
none of his visions are recorded there. The songs of
Asaph, another “seer” (see 2 Chronicles 29:30), are
recorded in the Psalms (see Psalms 50 and 73-83).
There were many others.
Most of the Bible prophets spoke of visions and
revelations. Habakkuk was a prophet who expected
to “see” in the eternal realm. He said:

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon

the tower, and W I L L WAT C H T O S E E
WHAT HE WILL SAY UNTO ME ... .
And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE
THE VISION, and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it. For THE VI-
SION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED
TIME, but at the end it shall speak, and not
lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will
surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:1-3

How interesting! Habakkuk not only stood watch,

but when he did, he expected to see something. Most
of us would never think to look to see what someone
was about to say to us. Habakkuk, however, did just
that. This was his method of hearing from God, and
it is time that each of us began to expect to see into
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the heavenly realms.
In the past, when someone did not have the abil-
ity to see, they simply made the excuse that they
would rather listen and hear, but that is no longer
an acceptable excuse. Seeing is just as important as
hearing. Listening is important, and we must do
more of it, but seeing is even more important in this
hour. Habakkuk declared that he would “see” what
the Lord would say to him.
When you begin to believe that seeing is just as im-
portant as hearing, you will find that your faith will
be released to see. God wants to give us the ability to
utilize our faith in this regard more and more. In the
past, we have utilized our faith for praying for the
sick, believing for miracles, and experiencing signs
and wonders. That same faith can be put to work
to obtain Revelation Glory. We release our faith and
believe to see, and then when we look to see, we can.
When you look in the Spirit, don’t get discouraged
if you fail to see anything at first. Keep looking. Keep
believing. It will suddenly begin to happen for you,
and once it begins, there is no limitation. God wants
to speak to you just as much as He did to any of the
prophets of old.
Like anything new that you experience, the first
few times you see visions may be rather awkward.
When you get hold of it, however, it will be yours
anytime and at any place, and you will learn to yield
to the Holy Spirit more and more. Like Habakkuk,
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you will look to see what God will say to you.

God told Habakkuk to write down what he saw.
Some visions are for the moment, but others are for
the rest of your life. You must be sensitive to the
Spirit in this regard, and obey when you are urged
to write down what you are seeing.
Some visions are simple steps to be taken. Ad-
ditional steps will be given to you later as you are
ready for them. Some visions cover much more
­territory than others. God knows how much infor-
mation we can handle at any one time.
Some visions are fulfilled in a moment, and oth-
ers take a lifetime to fulfill. When you receive those
overall views, it is a very good habit to write them
down so that you can go back and refer to them later.
What is sure about the vision of the Lord, God
told Habakkuk, is: “at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it
will not tarry.” We can know that what God shows
us will surely come to pass.
We desperately need more “seers” in the Church
today, men and women who know how to touch the
heavenly and pull down God’s blessing for those
around them. If you are willing, God will make you
one of His seers. He will allow you to see into the
glory realm, and what you see will change you and
everyone else around you. This is Revelation Glory.
Chapter 7

Simeon and Anna and Revelation Glory

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem,

whose name was Simeon; and the same man was
just and devout, waiting for the consolation of
Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And
IT WAS REVEALED UNTO HIM BY
T H E H O LY G H O S T, that he should not
see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
And he came by the Spirit into the temple ... .
Luke 2:25-27

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the

daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she
was of a great age, and had lived with an hus-
band seven years from her virginity; and she
was a widow of about fourscore and four years,
which departed not from the temple, but served
God with fastings and prayers night and day.
And she COMING IN THAT INSTANT
gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake
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of him to all them that looked for redemption in
­Jerusalem. Luke 2:36-38

Simeon and Anna were both seers. They both had

revelations from God, and although the Scriptures
do not state specifically how God showed them these
things, I, for one, imagine that much of it came in
visions.
Simeon had a very unique revelation — that he
would not die until he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
He didn’t know what day or what hour this promise
would be fulfilled, but he was determined to walk
in this revelation until the appointed moment. So he
kept the Spirit of God resting on his life and ministry,
believing for the fulfillment of the revelation.
This simple revelation changed Simeon’s life. It
kept him spiritually sharp at all times. If it were not
for this revelation, he might have been tempted to
retire before his time, or he might have given up
when some particularly difficult trial came his way.
Because he had a revelation from God, nothing could
keep him from the Temple, and nothing could pre-
vent him from performing his spiritual duty.
Then one day, as Simeon was in the normal course
of his service in the Temple, something strange hap-
pened. That day, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to
the Temple. This was not a coincidence, of course. It
was God’s perfect timing that had Simeon on duty in
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the Temple at the very moment they came in. Sime-

on’s steps had been ordered from the foundation of
the world. He had been destined to be in the Temple
at that moment and to see “the salvation of the Lord.”
I’m not sure why we think that God would order
the steps of Simeon and not our own. If you are
filled with the Holy Ghost, your steps can be or-
dered too. If you are carrying out your appointed
service, fulfilling the things that God has placed
in your heart to do, then your date with destiny
is coming. If you are looking to the promise of the
things that have been spoken to you through the
revelation of the Holy Ghost, you won’t miss them.
Don’t allow the enemy to constantly torment you
with the thought of missing God’s best for your
life. You won’t miss it. You will see your appointed
moment.
Your moment is coming. This is your year. As you
are in the normal course of your service to God, He
will meet you and fulfill His promise to you — just
as surely as He did for Simeon.
I’m so glad the Lord placed a woman in this story
too. This fact should be encouraging to every woman
of faith. God hasn’t left us out.
Anna was a woman of revelation, just as Simeon
was a man of revelation. Anna was getting up in
years, and that, too, should be encouraging to many
of us. She had been in the Temple now for many
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years, serving God with fasting and prayers, and
God had not forgotten her.
In the very instant that Simeon was blessing Mary
and Joseph and the Christ Child, this devout widow
was drawn to the place where they stood. She had
learned through the years to live in the place of spon-
taneous revelation. Her years of fasting and prayer
had given her a keenness in the Spirit that prevented
her from missing out on God’s blessing that day.
It is possible to miss out on God’s good things if
you are slow to respond. Some people wait all their
lives, and then they find something else to do in the
most important moment. They have developed no
sensitivity to the Holy Ghost. Anna had spent her
time worshiping the Lord and staying in His glory.
She was so sensitive to what God was doing that she
came in that instant and was able to behold the glory
of the Lord with her own eyes, and to give thanks.
In that huge Temple complex, only two people
were recorded as having recognized the Lord the
day Mary and Joseph took Him there. Were they
the only two who were receiving divine revela-
tion? Were they the only two in that vast building
who were living in the Holy Ghost? Whatever the
case, these two did not miss out on the blessing
in the Temple. To get your share of God’s favor,
you must get into His glory and live there from
day to day.
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I don’t think for a moment that either Simeon or

Anna understood everything that happened in the
Temple that day. They could not have understood it
all. They did not yet know all the when’s and how’s
of God. Still, they rejoiced in what they were expe-
riencing, and they declared it to others.
We cannot be expected to understand all of God’s
ways. We may not know how He will do certain
things or when, but we can rejoice in what He
shows us.
We can’t imitate what happened to Simeon and
Anna. We can’t go back and see with our natural
eyes the coming of the Lord in the form of an infant.
However, God has great revelations for each of us.
He wants to show us the great things He will do in
our lives in this present century.
Simeon had no idea when the particular word
that God had dropped into his spirit would come to
pass. All he knew was that he would not die before
it ­happened.
Simeon wasn’t checking with others to see what
their revelation was, to see if he was in line with
what they felt. He had a very personal relationship
with God, and God had made him a very personal
promise. He had no need of confirmation from ­others.
We don’t know that Simeon had ever told anyone
else about his revelation. It is possible (like Mary,
when she heard from the angel that she would con-
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ceive and bring forth the Christ) that he “kept all these
things, and pondered them in [his] heart” (Luke 2:19).
That’s the right thing to do many times, and the only
thing to do very often.
We have no idea how much time had gone by
since Simeon received his revelation, but it didn’t
really matter. What matters is that God had kept
him young enough to continue in service, had kept
him in the anointing, and had kept him looking
unto the promise. Because Simeon had never lost
his enthusiasm for the fulfillment of the promise, he
saw it come to pass. How long it took is irrelevant.
Of all the priests who had lived since the initiation
of the priestly order way back in the time of Moses,
Simeon was the first to hold in his arms “the consola-
tion of Israel.” This is all the more remarkable when
we consider that Simeon became a priest after four
hundred years of darkness that followed the min-
istry of the prophet Malachi. Because there was no
prophet of the same stature as Isaiah or Micah or the
many others during this period, it has been accepted
as fact that the people of Israel were backslidden
and away from God. We know, however, that there
was at least one man who still had the Holy Ghost
on him, one man who was hearing from God, one
man who was determined to remain faithful until he
had received the fulfillment of what God had shown
him. Simeon was still “waiting” in faith.
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Anna was so old by now that she probably

could no longer chew her food well, but that
didn’t seem to bother her. She loved to fast any-
way. She wasn’t weighed down in her spirit by
her advancing age, and it didn’t prevent her from
being sensitive to God. She could still step out
when she felt God’s glory, and she could still
prophesy His will.
It is not necessary for everything about us to be
in perfect working order for the word of the Lord
to be fulfilled in us. Even in her advanced age,
Anna still knew how to walk by revelation, and
because of it, she experienced what few people
did that day.
Imagine it. Nearly everyone in the Temple that
day went about his or her daily activities without a
hint of the great thing that was happening nearby.
Money was exchanged that day. Sheep were bought
and sold. Sacrifices were made. Psalms were sung,
and prayers were prayed. Many remained ignorant
of the fact that the very God Incarnate was in their
midst.
In many ways, this is similar to the situation we
are facing today. Most people are totally unaware
of the fact that God is revealing Himself in all His
glory, that these are the days of which the prophets
spoke, when they said:
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And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it. Isaiah 40:5

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge

of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the
sea. Habakkuk 2:14

When we are made aware of the fact that these are

days of great revelation, we can begin to believe for it.
We can make room for it in our schedules, setting aside
time to sit in God’s presence in holy meditation. We
can believe for an anointing to come upon our eyes for
seeing, upon our ears for hearing and upon our hearts
for spiritual understanding. Let us do it, so that we
can perceive things that have not yet been revealed,
to know things that have not yet been made known.
When we attended the Presidential Prayer
Breakfast in Washington, D.C., in January of 2000,
I bumped into a pastor from Texas in the lobby of
the hotel where it was being held. He said to me, “I
was in your meeting two years ago in Brownsville
Assembly of God Church in Pensacola, and you
prophesied over me.”
I had prophesied over so many that I didn’t re-
member him.
“You prophesied,” he continued, “that I would
gather the glory and then disburse it among the
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people. I didn’t understand a word of what you were

saying, and for two years I have been seeking the
Lord about it. Recently, the glory of God has been
poured out in our church, and gold dust is raining
down in our services. It’s appearing on the faces and
hands of our people.” He went on to tell me many
of the great miracles God was doing in his services.
“It’s happening just like you prophesied,” he said.
(If the gold dust is a new phenomenon to the reader,
see my book Golden Glory.)
One after another, I encountered other ministers
there in the lobby, and they told me similar stories
of how the prophetic word had changed their lives.
We are standing on the threshold of something
great, and are just about to step into a new dimen-
sion of the glory of God. This dimension will contain
revelation beyond anything we have ever known
before. Our reflexes must be sharpened so that we
can move instantly on the Lord’s command, as did
Simeon and Anna.
As with their coming into the Temple, timing is
very important. Since these are days of glory, and
we are now receiving visions and revelations and in-
sights beyond our wildest imaginations, we must be
ready to move quickly in response to the Holy Spirit.
During the first service of our 2000 Winter Camp-
meeting, I saw myself and many of my friends and
associates lined up on the world stage, and I saw
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things happening for us very easily. I was sure that
most of us had not yet even begun to perceive the
great things that God had prepared for us. He was
ready to raise up a thousand Peters or Pauls or Benny
Hinns overnight and to do great things through us.
When the Revival of 1948 first came in, there
were only one or two powerful men and women of
God on the national scene. The most prominent of
them was Oral Roberts. Then suddenly, there were
thousands of people performing miracles, having
the same crowds, seeing the same signs and won-
ders, and getting the same wonderful results. God
is ready to do that same thing again, and when the
right moment comes, we must step forth onto the
world stage and take our places.
“Who am I?” some might ask. Well, I ask you, who
was Simeon? Who was Anna? Yet their day came,
and yours will too.
Chapter 8

The Early Apostles and Revelation Glory

And I went up B Y R E V E L AT I O N , and

communicated unto them that gospel which I
preach among the Gentiles. Galatians 2:2

The book of Acts, which records the journeys and

ministries of the early apostles and the develop-
ment of the young Church, is a book of revelation.
Everything the early Church did was done by the
revelation of the Holy Spirit.
Most of us are familiar with the story of how
Paul went to Macedonia by revelation. Many, how-
ever, haven’t realized that he went everywhere by
­revelation. For example, Luke wrote:

Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia

and the region of Galatia, and WERE FOR-
B I D D E N O F T H E H O LY G H O S T to
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to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia:
but T H E S P I R I T S U F F E R E D T H E M
NOT. And they passing by Mysia came down
to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the
night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and
prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia,
and help us. Acts 16:6-9

In his letter to the Galatian believers, Paul states

that he returned to Jerusalem “by revelation.” The
truth is that he went nowhere and did nothing with-
out revelation.
Peter traveled in this same way. When he went to
the house of Cornelius and saw the beginnings of
the first-century revival among the Gentiles, he went
by revelation. That revelation came in two forms: a
simple vision and the command of the Lord, “go with
them, doubting nothing” (Acts 10:20).
Peter was on the housetop praying while someone
prepared his meal below. The cook was running
a little behind schedule that day, and while Peter
waited, he was carried away in a trance and began
to see a vision.
He saw a great sheet let down from Heaven. It was
knit together at the four corners to form a basket of
sorts, and in it were the animals the Jews considered
unclean. As he saw this, the voice of the Lord came
to him saying, “Peter, kill and eat.”
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God was not speaking to Peter about what he

should have for dinner that evening. He was deal-
ing with him concerning the ministry to the Gentile
world. This was an important vision, for it would
bring in an entirely new era. Until that moment, ten
years after Pentecost, the ministry of the apostles
had reached out only to their fellow Jews. God was
ready to do a new thing, and He was planting it in
the hearts of His people by vision.
When the Lord told Peter to kill and eat, he replied,
“No, Lord. I’ve never eaten anything common or
unclean.” And with that the sheet was lifted back
up to Heaven.
But Peter did not abandon the moment. He wanted
very much to do the full will of God, and he wanted
to know what this vision could mean. He remained
in the Spirit, waiting upon the Lord.
Then suddenly the scene was repeated. The sheet
dropped down again, and Peter heard the voice of
the Lord again.
The message was the same. God hadn’t changed
His mind.
Peter’s response was still the same too. He hadn’t
yet understood what God was trying to say.
Then the sheet was raised back up.
At this point, Peter again had two options. He
could forget the whole thing and go down to eat,
or he could stay longer in the presence of God and
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wait for understanding. He chose to wait, and God
responded to him, sending before him the same
scene and the same words.
Three times the vision appeared, and each time
Peter saw the same thing: the animals that were, to
him, representative of the Gentile nations. Each time
the Lord said the same thing, “Kill and eat,” and
each time, Peter’s answer was the same. He had been
taught since childhood not to eat these animals, not
to have anything to do with them. He was sure that
the law against eating them was from God Himself.
If God had put him into a divine program, would
He now change His mind?
I understand what Peter was feeling. When God
tells us to do something contrary to a program that
He Himself has initiated and blessed, we have a
hard time understanding that. It’s logical. Anyone
would struggle with that. Those who have been
blessed by revival are often those who cannot move
forward into new things. They are so captivated by
the old that the new seems heretical. It was God who
initiated the original program, they reason, so why
would He change it now? The reason is that He is
moving on, and it is time to pull up stakes and move
with Him.
When God has sent us to a place, we somehow
expect to be there the rest of our lives — as if that
were the only place on Earth. “God told me to come
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here,” we hear people say, “and I will stay here till I

die.” It is wonderful to be committed and dedicated,
but it is also necessary to be pliable and open to new
things. God didn’t say you would necessarily be
where He put you forever. Your season in that place
may be over, and you need to move on.
Peter was now being told to do something that
God had previously told him not to do. No wonder
he responded as he did! He couldn’t understand
why God would tell him to do something “unclean.”
Then the Lord said to Peter, “There are men wait-
ing for you at the gate. Go with them, doubting
nothing.” Later, when having to justify his actions
to other disciples who also could not understand,
he could say boldly, “The Spirit bade me go” (Acts
11:12). He repeated what the Spirit had told him —
“doubting nothing.”
This is the key to walking by revelation. Do it
without doubting. Do it without questioning. Peter
was about to be thrust into some very new circum-
stances. He was about to be introduced to a totally
different set of people. Still, the Lord told him to go
and to doubt nothing.
When Peter went down to see who was waiting
at the gate, he found that they were Gentiles. They
had come with a message from Caesarea to bring
him to that city and to the house of a Gentile named
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Cornelius. This was something Peter had never done
before.
I understand what Peter was facing and why he
reacted as he did. Still today, many religious Jews of
Jerusalem would never go to the home of a ­Christian.
They would feel contaminated by the experience. It
must have been even worse during Peter’s time. The
revelation he received on the housetop, however,
made it easier for him to obey.
Peter’s success in Caesarea and the later spread of
the revival to other Gentiles was motivated by that vi-
sion he had. The beginning of the move of God among
the Gentiles began with a simple vision on a housetop
in Joppa. Peter had gone up there to pray, but he re-
ceived a heavenly vision that changed history.
The vision Saul received on the road to Damas-
cus kept him through the years ahead. It kept him
through every trial, through every difficulty, and in
every circumstance of life. It was that vision that made
Paul “the apostle of the Gentiles” (Romans 11:13). It was
that experience that raised him up to be the person
God wanted him to be. That vision came to define his
life. If he had not received that transforming experi-
ence of seeing the Lord, I am sure that he would not
have been the great apostle we rejoice to read about.
The original disciples of Jesus learned their life of
revelation from the Master Himself. He lived that
way when He was on the Earth:
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Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted

up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I
am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as
my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath
not left me alone; for I do always those things
that please him. John 8:28-29

Now, it’s our turn. God is bringing Revelation Glory

into our lives, just as He did for the apostles in the
book of Acts, and just as He did for John in his great
Revelation. The early disciples did everything by
revelation from the Holy Spirit, and we should too.
The early disciples of Jesus had no choice. They
were in a period of newness, a period of formation, a
period of development, and they desperately needed
the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Now, we are in a
similar situation.
Because we are in the closing days of the Church
Age, once again everything we do should be done by
the revelation of the Holy Spirit. This is the time of
harvest, the time of the culmination of all things. Let
the same Holy Spirit who guided the early disciples
of Christ be your Guide as well. Let Him give you
Revelation Glory today.
Chapter 9

John’s Experience with Revelation Glory

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave

unto him, to show unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass ...
Revelation 1:1

And I turned to see the voice that spake with

me. And being turned, I saw ... .
Revelation 1:12

The book of Revelation, better known as The Reve-

lation of Jesus Christ to St. John, is a record of visions
and revelations given by God to His first-century
servant. What better source for us to learn about
Revelation Glory? John’s Revelation is “the revelation
of Jesus Christ.”
John began to receive his revelation when he got
“in the Spirit on the Lord’s day” (Revelation 1:10).
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us in the natural realm; it comes in the Spirit. It does
not come to us even in the normal Christian situa-
tion. If it did, we would all be living in the realm of
revelation. Revelation comes to us when we move
from praise to worship and from worship to glory.
It is in the glory realm that the heavens are opened
to us and we begin to “see.”
The first thing that happened when John got in the
Spirit was that he suddenly heard a sound behind
him. He was not yet in the heavenly realm. He was
“in the Spirit,” but he was still on the Earth. Soon he
would be transported to the heavenly realm.
The sound John heard was directly behind him.
The Lord comes where we are … until we are able
to come where He is. He appears to us in the earthly
realm until we are able to come into the heavenly
realm.
The sound was clearly “a voice,” but at the same
time it was “as a trumpet,” and it got John’s attention.
The voice identified itself. It was the Lord, “the Al-
pha and the Omega, the First and the Last.” Jesus was
speaking to His servant John.
The first thing the Lord said to John was that he
should write down what he was about to see. This
may seem very unusual to some, for John hadn’t
seen anything yet. God was giving him a faith state-
ment. When he began to see, he was to record what
he saw. It was coming.
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John was made to know that he would receive

sufficient revelation knowledge to enable him to
write about it. He was to receive revelation, not only
for himself and his immediate family, but he was to
receive revelation for the seven churches.
John was to write, not just for the sake of his own
remembrance, but he was also to send a message to
the churches. What he was about to receive would
not just be sufficient to bless his own soul, but he
would receive enough to affect and bless whole
­nations.
John had already written his record of Jesus’ teach-
ings and actions which we know as the Gospel of
John or the Gospel According to John, and I find it to
be the most spiritual of the four gospel writings. Un-
til this moment, however, John had written nothing
about future events and little about heavenly things.
This was a whole new experience for him.
John had walked with the Lord on Earth, at times
being so close that he leaned on Jesus’ breast. Now,
he was being called to draw near to the Lord in the
heavens and to experience His glory there. After-
ward, he was to write on a dimension that he had
yet to experience. How excited John must have been!
The next thing we know, John is turning to see. If
the Lord had told him to write what he saw, there
must have been something to see, and John was de-
termined to see it. He began to look around, to make
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the ­effort to turn, and no sooner had he turned to see
than he began to see.
What John saw was the Lord, and that’s where our
visions should begin. Jesus was walking “in the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks.” It was a beautiful
vision, perhaps the most beautiful anyone had re-
ceived until that time, and John was able to describe
in detail what the Lord looked like in that moment.
John saw the Lord’s garments, His head and hair,
His eyes and His feet. Again he commented on the
Lord’s voice. He saw the Lord’s hand and noticed
that it contained “seven stars.” He saw the Lord’s
mouth and noticed that “out of it went a twoedged
sword.”
John had seen the Lord many times, but when God
commissions us, He reveals Himself to us in a new
way. The new seeing is for those who are willing to
accept the new commissionings. We can see Him
today in a way we have not seen Him before. He is
an unfolding revelation.
John was willing to turn, and he was willing to
look, and when he did, he saw the candlesticks, and
he saw the Lord in the midst of the candlesticks.
No sooner had John seen Jesus than He heard His
voice again. The Lord reiterated who He was and
then again commissioned John to “write.” This time
the commission was more specific:
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Write the things which thou hast seen, and the

things which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter. Revelation 1:19

That was a big order. John probably could have

written in that moment what he had seen, and he
might have been able to write about “the things which
are,” but could he write about “the things which shall
be hereafter”? It is possible that he could not even
have written about what he had seen. He had seen it,
but what did it mean? What should he emphasize?
If he told it all, surely many books could not hold
it. If he wrote about candlesticks, would that mean
anything to the churches?
The beautiful thing about being in the glory of
God is that if we wait long enough in His presence,
He will make clear to us His intentions. When Peter
could not understand the vision of the sheet filled
with unclean animals, although it was repeated three
times, God spoke to him in another way.
As John meditated on what he had seen, the Lord
began to explain it to him. The seven candlesticks,
He said, were the seven churches, and the seven
stars in the Lord’s hand were the messengers of the
churches.
Then John was given detailed messages for each of
the seven churches. God had told him to write, and
now He showed him exactly what to write.
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After that, the Lord said to John, “Come up hither,
and I will show thee things which must be hereafter”
(Revelation 4:1). This is an important secret for
each of us. Revelation Glory is to be found in God’s
presence. We must go up. We must somehow escape
this earthly environment if we are to sit at Jesus’ feet
and learn.
By this time, John had already received great
revelation, and he had enough to write to the seven
churches. God, however, had much more for him.
To receive this greater revelation, he would have to
go higher. He would have to enter more fully into
God’s presence. Once there, he would see “things
which must be hereafter.”
Some are content to struggle with the here and
now. They are not really interested in what is to
come. At times, they are even afraid to know what
is to come. For those of us who love the Lord, how-
ever, we need not fear the future. What is to come is
wonderful, and we should have no hesitancy about
wanting to see it.
The glories to come will not only be felt in Heaven.
They will be experienced right here on this Earth.
These are the glories that have been prepared for us
from the very foundations of the world. God wants
to remove the veil from our eyes and let us see them.
He wants to take us from glory to glory, revealing
His greatness to us.
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These things are not “too great,” “too high” or

“too holy” for us to enter into. They have been “pre-
pared for us.” We are destined to be a people with
revelation knowledge of things to come, people of
Revelation Glory.
God is calling us into a realm of vision and rev-
elation in the Spirit that does not come by merely
coming into the glory for a moment. Yes, God will
give you a vision very quickly as you are worship-
ing, but His desire is that you get totally saturated
in His glory and receive revelation in greater depth.
This is one of the wonderful things about our
campmeetings. We are located in the woods, away
from telephones and other noises of the world, and
we can just lose ourselves in the glory of God and
be taken from glory to glory. Some people come in-
tending to stay a day or so, and some of them stay
all summer.
Many of them, during the first days they are in the
camp, think of many important things they need to
be doing — business matters or family matters. After
a few days in the glory, however, these other things
seem to fade in importance next to hearing from
God and receiving the touch of His glory. Suddenly,
these people find themselves in a new realm of the
presence of God, the power of God and the glory
of God, and they forget about everything else. We
have to want this enough to not allow anything to
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intrude upon it and to continue pressing into it until
we understand what God is saying.
Some people are always late for church, and they
are not very excited about being there. I love to arrive
early at every service and have time to sit in the pres-
ence of the Lord. I begin to praise and worship and
help bring in the glory for others who are coming.
When I go to church, I am expecting to hear from
God, and nothing could be more exciting.
As soon as the glory is manifested, the revelatory
realm begins to work. This is the reason we must
make room for it. We must give time for it. When
we move on to other things, we limit ourselves in
the Lord. Linger in the glory. Let the Spirit, who is
still the Teacher, teach you all the things He desires
for you to learn. He wants to show you things that
have been and things that are to come. Let Him raise
you up to be one who knows by the revelation of
the Holy Ghost.
Jesus said to His disciples:

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye

cannot bear them now. John 16:12

“Ye cannot bear them now.” Why? Are we too busy,

too preoccupied with other “important” things? Are
we too earthbound, too conscious of things around
us, too tuned in to what people are saying?
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It is time to say to the Lord, “Lord, help us to push

aside everything that hinders us. Make us ready to
receive whatever You want to reveal to us. Bring us
into a realm of knowing. Lift us out of ourselves and
into Your glory. Lift us into a place of seeing. Anoint
our eyes to see and to know those realms of glory
that You have prepared for us.”
When we are lifted out of ourselves, we begin to
see into a realm that we have never seen into before.
Before long, we find ourselves looking into the face
of the Lord, and we can describe Him. What we see
may seem very different from what John described.
Our Lord lets each of us see Him in just the way we
need to see Him. He reveals Himself to each of us in
just the way we need Him to be revealed.
During our 2000 Winter Campmeeting, I saw the
Lord in a multicolored robe, and He told us that
He was showing Himself to us like that because He
was about to favor us in a new way. He would pour
His favor out upon us in such a variety of ways that
it could best be symbolized by this multicolored
­garment.
In many of the great auditorium meetings that are
conducted these days, a tall boom is used for one
special camera. A man sitting in a high chair wheels
the boom around, and from many vantage points he
is able to capture the crowd and their reaction. God
is placing us into some high chairs and making us
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mobile so that we can catch the blessings of a higher
realm. He is saying to each of us, “Come up hither.”
This is exactly what happened to John.
The benefits of the glory realm are endless. In the
early years of the Pentecostal experience here in
America, for instance, it was considered normal for
the people to have great and glorious experiences
in God in the heavenly realms. Literacy was not as
widespread then, and I later met people who had
been miraculously taught to read through such ex-
periences. Not only were they taught to read; they
were taught the Bible and became great preachers.
There is a glory that has not yet been revealed,
things that we have never considered or imagined.
As He did with John, the Lord is ready to remove the
scales from our eyes and to show us eternal things.
He wants us to know the heavenly realm as well as
we know the earthly realm.
Just as John’s hunger caused him to reach out for
heavenly things, the hunger that God is placing in
our hearts is causing us to lay aside the things of the
natural and to reach out into the realms of the Spirit
as never before. As we reach into Him, He is coming
to us in newness. This is creating, for many of us, a
time of new beginnings, a time of new experiences,
new songs, new prophecies and new understanding.
It is time for each of us to accept the challenge of
John the Revelator. We can become revelators in
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our world today because of the Revelator who lives

within us. Get into His glory and begin to look, and
you too will see the Lord and “the things that must
be hereafter.”
We are living in the time span of the book of
Revelation, and I, for one, refuse to live in the time
span of the book of Revelation without living in the
experience of the book of Revelation. I want to live
in the same revelatory flow evident in the life of John
and the other disciples.
No matter how long you have known the Lord,
there is a further revelation of Jesus Christ that He
wants to give to you. We must never get to the place
that we think we know it all.

Yes, I know the Lord, but I want to know Him

more.
I know the Lord, but I want to know Him in
ways that I have not yet known Him.
I’ve seen the Lord, but I want to see Him in
new ways.
I’ve heard the Lord, but I want to hear Him in
other ways.
I’ve touched the Lord, but I want to touch Him
as never before.

God wants us to know Him in the here and now —

God who was, God who is and God who is to come.
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We have dwelt on the “was” and the “is to come” for
many years, but God wants us to concentrate now
on the “is,” the present. He wants us to know Him
in His fullness NOW.
We have known that He was the beginning and
that He will be the ending. Now, He wants to show
us that He is everything in between. Come into His
fullness through Revelation Glory.
Chapter 10

My Own Experience with Revelation Glory

The heavens were opened, and I S AW V I -

SIONS OF GOD. Ezekiel 1:1

When I was just fifteen years old, I was praying

one night at the altar of our little camp tabernacle.
Suddenly, I saw a vision of myself sitting with
Chinese people. We were all holding bowls and
chopsticks, and I was eating with them.
It didn’t seem to be a very spiritual vision, and
most of us might not have given it very high marks.
No trumpets sounded, and no angels sang. No great
voice came from the clouds saying, “Would you
go and serve Me in China?” Still, this vision was a
defining moment in my life and was to affect me for
years to come. In fact, I’m still being affected by that
vision these many years later.
The vision, as simple as it was, was life-changing,
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people suddenly possessed me. God dropped it into
my spirit through that vision, and it has been there
ever since.
I’m sure that Peter must have had this same ex-
perience on the rooftop. I have had it many times.
God has always dropped a love for the people into
my heart first before He has sent me to any country.
What I experienced at the altar that particular night
was totally supernatural. In barely half a minute, my
whole life was turned upside down, and I knew that I
would serve the Lord among the nations of the world.
There was another strange aspect of the vision. I
not only saw myself eating with the Chinese, but I
suddenly felt as if I were Chinese. I don’t know any
other way to explain it. It was an amazing ­experience.
Nothing had been said in the vision about loving
the Chinese or about my being Chinese, and yet this
was the result of the vision. Suddenly I had a deep
love for the Chinese people, and I actually felt that
I was Chinese. I felt so totally changed that I rather
expected to see my eyes slanted when I next looked
in the mirror.
The whole experience lasted for just a minute or
two, but when I got up from that altar that night, I
knew I would never be the same.
As I was going out of the tabernacle, I said to one of
the young men who was visiting from a Bible school
in Atlanta, “I feel so strange tonight.”
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He said, “You look strange.”

“Oh, don’t tease me now,” I said.
He said, “I’m not teasing. You do look strange.”
“Well, what do I look like?” I asked. I was sure he
could not have known what had just happened to
me, but what he was saying was so unusual that I
didn’t know what to expect his answer to be.
He said, “You look like a Chinese person.”
I have never ceased to marvel over that moment.
That’s how all-encompassing a vision can be. Until
that day, I had not met a single Chinese person, but
in a moment of vision, God birthed in me a love for
the Chinese people, a love that has never let me go.
That experience motivated a fifteen-year-old to
pray and believe God for extraordinary miracles,
and less than three years later, I celebrated my eigh-
teenth birthday on a ship headed for Hong Kong and
service to God among the Chinese.
Many years have gone by, but I still get excited
when I meet Chinese people. I am thrilled all over
again by the experience. I get happy when I hear
Chinese music. I eat Chinese food as often as I can. I
have many Chinese items in my house. The love that
God birthed in my spirit through that simple vision
remains with me as part of the eternal workings of
God in my life.
This was an important lesson for a teenager. It
taught me early in life that it is a mistake for us to
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try to pick and choose what we want to do for God.
When we do the choosing, we miss the greater thing
that He wants to do for us. He has experiences in
store for us beyond anything we have ever consid-
ered. He has things planned for us beyond anything
we have ever thought of. If we can just relax and let
Him reveal His plan for our lives, we will be amazed
at the greatness of it. That plan can be unfolded to
us, bit by bit, through Revelation Glory.
If we can allow the heavenly vision to possess us
so that we carefully take step after step to obey it,
we are guaranteed success in our personal lives and
in our ministries. This was true of the apostle Paul.
His vision on the road to Damascus so defined his
life that many years later, when he stood before King
Agrippa, he spoke these powerful words: “O king
Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.”
The vision he had received was not “the vision of
the day,” the thing that everyone wanted to hear.
It was not what was normally accepted in the cir-
cles in which he traveled. It was a message from
the very heart of God, and was, in all respects, a
“heavenly vision.” It was also not long, but offered a
quick glimpse into God’s purposes for Paul’s life. He
knew in that moment that what he had seen flowed
directly from the heart and will of God.
Other than that first defining vision I received,
my visions were few and far between. We were not
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taught that we could see, and because we were not

taught, we never developed our visual abilities in the
Spirit. They were always there, but they lay dormant
for the most part.
I always believed in vision (after all, it was in the
Bible), and there were always a few people in our
church who prayed more than others and would
come to church recounting the wonderful visions
they had received while praying at home. I was al-
ways blessed by these revelations, but somehow it
took me years to come to the realization that I could
be enjoying the same gift.
My mother had more visions than any of the rest
of our family. Several of her visions, remarkable for
their simplicity, opened great doors of ministry to
me. Let me mention two outstanding examples.
One summer, when I had just gotten back to
Virginia from a trip overseas, the Lord began to
challenge me about worshiping Him in the dance. I
believed in dancing before the Lord, but I was very
happy to let everyone else do it. The Lord showed
me that after King David had come dancing back
into Jerusalem bringing the Ark of God, he was able
to bless the entire nation. He called all the people to-
gether and gave to every man, woman, boy and girl
a loaf of bread, a good piece of flesh and a flagon of
wine. The Lord said to me, “Ruth, if you want to feed
a nation a triple portion, you will have to dance.” He
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didn’t say I had to dance to be saved, but He did say
that if I wanted the anointing to feed a triple portion
I would have to do it.
In the days to come, the Lord continued to dan-
gle that plum before me, and as He did, I made up
my mind that I was going to begin to dance before
the Lord and that I would dance before Him every
single day of my life. It was difficult for me at first,
but each day I gained a little more liberty. No one
else was aware of what God was saying to me, so it
was just between me and the Lord. He wanted my
praise, and I wanted to praise Him.
Toward the end of that month of campmeeting,
my mother prophesied over me. The Lord said, “I’m
going to change your ministry. I’m going to send you
to kings and queens and other people of position.
And you will speak to them of Me.”
While she was prophesying, Mother saw the name
of the place I was to go first. She couldn’t pronounce
it, so she spelled it out: K-A-T-H-M-A-N-D-U.
When I went to Kathmandu, Nepal, a few months
later, God had me in one of the embassies there every
night, usually for an official dinner. I don’t think I
had ever been in an embassy for any reason except to
process travel papers. From the middle of November
that year through January 21, my birthday, I had met
most of the various ambassadors and many other
important people in the city.
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Still, I had not met any of the royal family. I said

to the Lord, “I want You to let something happen on
my birthday to bring this great word to pass.” I was
not complaining. I was having a great time, and I was
happy about all the doors that were being opened to
me. But God had said that I would meet members of
the royal family, and I had not met them yet.
Nothing happened that I was aware of that day,
but a few days later, on the 26th of January, I was
invited to a party at the Indian Embassy for the
celebration of Indian National Day. There I met
the third secretary of the Indian Embassy (he was
third in command, just under the consuls). This
man invited me to have dinner in his home several
nights later. It was a very small dinner party, only
five of us, and among the other guests was His
Royal Highness Prince Bashundra, the brother of
the king of Nepal. I was so taken by surprise with
this meeting that I wasn’t sure exactly how I should
greet him.
In the course of the dinner, the first secretary said
to the prince, “Your Royal Highness, I know you
have just come back from London, and you have
been abroad a good while. When did you decide to
come back from London to Kathmandu?”
He said, “I made the decision to come back on
January 21.”
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When I heard that, I knew this was the man I
was looking for. He was the answer to my prayer.
God had spoken to him on the day I prayed and
had brought him all the way from London back to
Kathmandu. He had come to attend the wedding of
the oldest princess, the first daughter of the king.
Toward the end of the evening, I went to the rest
room to practice curtsying so that I could properly
say goodnight to the prince. Before he left, I did my
curtsy and said to him, “I know you will be busy
with the wedding of the princess, but if you have a
few minutes one day, I have something important
to talk to you about.”
The next night we were sitting around the fire
in the hotel where I was staying, when suddenly I
noticed everyone jumping up and bowing. I hadn’t
seen this before, and I turned to see who was coming
in. Down a long corridor, I saw the prince walking
toward us. He walked directly up to me and said,
“Are you ready to speak about that ‘important mat-
ter’?” I said that I was, and he said, “Go and get your
coat. I’m going to take you back to my palace.”
We made small talk on the way to the palace.
After we got inside and sat down, servants offered
us something refreshing to drink. Then the prince
asked me what was so “important.” I said to him, “I
didn’t know about your country, but a few months
ago my mother saw a vision in which she saw this
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city spelled out. The Lord told me to come and speak

to the royal family of Nepal about Jesus Christ. Since
you are a member of the royal family, I will start by
talking to you.”
“Talk on,” he said, and for the next four hours I
talked to him about Jesus. Before the evening was
over, he allowed me to lay my hands on him and
pray.
The next night the prince said to me, “I have never
been happier in my life than when you were talking
to me about Jesus last night. What can I do to help
you?”
I said, “I came to meet the royal family, and you
would know best whom I should meet.” In the days
that followed, he arranged small gatherings of the
members of the royal family. Many of them had
been living abroad and had not been in Nepal since
the coronation of the king more than ten years be-
fore. The palace was also hosting many celebrations
during those days. If there was a reception in the
palace at night, the prince would arrange something
for me in the daytime. If the special events at the
palace were taking place in the daytime, he would
arrange something for me at night.
The very next night I was sitting with several
brothers and brothers-in-law of the king. Gradually
I met a few more members of the royal family and a
few more ... until I had met all the various relatives
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except the king and queen. I was to meet them later
at a reception in our own capital after I had returned
to the United States.
One of the members of the royal family I met on that
first trip to Nepal was the nephew of Prince Bashun-
dra. (He was then the crown prince and is t­ oday the
king of Nepal.) When we first met, we spoke of the
constitutional problem that forbade Nepalis from
changing their religion, on pain of imprisonment.
Later, we spoke on several other occasions.
In the years to come, Nepal opened its door to
the Gospel, and a country that had less than a hun-
dred believers then now has more than a hundred
thousand believers. All of this happened because of
the simple vision my mother received that day in
Ashland, Virginia, of the name of the Nepali capital,
Kathmandu.
On another occasion, I had just returned from sev-
eral months of revival in the Philippines and a long
overland trip back home when the Lord spoke to me
to turn right around and go to Jerusalem. I hadn’t
even had time to unpack before I heard my brother
saying something about a conference on Bible proph-
ecy taking place in Jerusalem. I wasn’t paying much
attention to what he was saying because we had not
yet become involved with Israel.
That night, however, as I was standing in the pul-
pit, the Lord said to me, “I want you on the plane
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flying to Israel tomorrow.” My associate was sitting

in the front row of the church, and I asked her to
go make a call and find out what flight I could get.
While I was preaching, she was checking on the
times. I wanted to be able to tell the people what
time I was leaving so that I could include them in
what God was doing.
That night, as the people of our church prayed
over me at the close of the service, Mother again had
a vision and, again, prophesied over me. The words
that I remember most from the prophecy were: “Your
feet shall stand on the Hill of Zion.” The vision was
of the man whom I was to meet. Mother described
him to me. She knew how old he was and what he
looked like.
When I thought about the words of the prophecy,
my thought was, “Of course I’ll stand on the hill of
Zion. I’m on my way to Jerusalem.” I had not yet
realized how specific the Lord was being.
When I got to Jerusalem, I checked into the con-
ference and then called the prime minister’s office
and asked if I could speak to Prime Minister Golda
Meier. I was told that she was out of the country, so
I said, “May I speak with her aide?”
After a few minutes, a man came on the line and
introduced himself as Eli Mizrachi, aide to the prime
minister, and asked what he could do to help me. I
told him that I had come to attend the Conference
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on Bible Prophecy, and that I had a word from the
Lord for him. He said, “Well, I’m sorry, but my ap-
pointments are made five weeks in advance — just
like Mrs. Meier’s.”
I wasn’t sure what to say next, so before he could
hang up, I decided to repeat what I had already
said. “Well,” he said, “I’ll tell you what. I’ll see you
tomorrow afternoon for five minutes.”
I didn’t have much of a sense of humor in those
days (I developed one while living in Jerusalem),
but I found myself saying, “You see me today, and
tomorrow you’ll be calling me.”
The Jewish people are known worldwide for their
chutzpah, their boldness, and when I said this, he
began to laugh. He had never heard such chutzpah.
“All right,” he said, “I will see you this afternoon for
five minutes.”
I was waiting in the outer area of his office when
he came out to greet me. I could not help but smile
when I saw him. “What are you laughing about?”
he asked.
I said, “I’m smiling because my mother described
you perfectly. Two nights ago in Virginia our people
laid hands on me to send me on this trip, and my
mother had a vision of you. She told me exactly what
you looked like. I can even tell you how old you are.”
This man had been all over the world. He had
been in Buckingham Palace a number of times, at the
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White House a number of times, and in many other

important places. This was the first time, however,
that anybody had spoken of their mother having a
vision of him. God used that simple vision to open
the door to his heart.
I told Eli about the excitement I had felt as a girl
when we had all gathered around an old-fashioned
radio to listen to the United Nations vote on whether
or not to create the Jewish State. It was important
to us, I told him, because we believed that the gen-
eration that saw the formation of Israel would be
the generation that saw the coming of the Lord. His
deep love for Israel was apparent, and what he heard
struck a deep chord.
I had been in Ethiopia not long before and had met
and prophesied to Emperor Haile Selassie, a man
whom Eli also knew personally. I told him what
God had said to the emperor about the connection
between Israel and Ethiopia. In this way, we talked
on and on, finding more areas of common interest.
Then suddenly, I was conscious of the time. More
than a half hour had gone by. I said, “Oh, I’m sorry.
I didn’t mean to take so much of your time.”
He said, “You’re not leaving now. You’re going to
tell me how God speaks to you.”
Many hours later, Eli called for a government
chauffeur to come, and he also got into the car to
accompany me back to my hotel. On the way, I no-
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ticed that we had taken a different route. I had been
to Jerusalem several times, but I didn’t yet know
the western part of the city. I found myself saying
to him, “This isn’t the way back to the King David
Hotel, is it?”
He said, “No. There’s a view of the city I’m sure
you have never seen, and I want to show it to you.”
I thanked him because I was going to be attending
the conference and had not set aside any time for
touring. I was happy for the privilege of seeing
something I had not seen before.
We arrived at a certain part of the city, the driver
parked the car, and we got out and walked a little. Eli
led me to a balcony where we could overlook a very
ancient part of the city of Jerusalem. He began to
point out King David’s City and speak of its history.
Like many Israelis, he almost sounded like one of the
prophets of old. He spoke of the land in such a way
that if someone listening had not already possessed
a love for her, he soon would have.
After Eli had finished describing everything we
were seeing and pointing out its significance, I found
myself saying, “But where are we?”
“This is Mount Zion,” he said.
When he said that, I felt a chill of unusual glory
that went from the top of my head to the soles of
my feet. It was then that I remembered the word
of the Lord: “Your feet shall stand on the Hill of
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Zion.” I had thought at the time I received that word

that God was being general, but He was being very­
­specific.
I had no idea at that moment just how totally that
simple revelation would change my life in the years
to come, and I also did not realize that Jerusalem
would become my home and Mount Zion my place
of worship.
When I got back to my room from attending the
conference the next day, there was a note in my
mailbox. It said, “Call the prime minister’s office.”
When I reached Eli, he said to me, “You were right.
I want to see you again.”
For another seven hours or so, we talked about
how God speaks to us.
Toward the end of the day, Eli said to me, “Why
don’t you come and live in Jerusalem?”
That notion caught me off guard, and I respond-
ed with probably the most foolish statement I have
made in my lifetime: “I’m too busy to live in Jeru-
salem.”
I had left Virginia on Monday night, and I got back
home on Saturday. That night the living creatures
from the book of Ezekiel flew into my bedroom. I
don’t know if they were there a few seconds, two
minutes, or all night, but when I woke up, I knew
that my life was totally turned upside down. I knew
that I would go to Jerusalem to live, and I knew that
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I would use any influence God had given me to bless
the Jewish people.
A year later, a group of us, including twenty-five
young people, left America to put down roots in the
Holy City.
As much as I was blessed by these amazing visions
and others like them, I still had not come to the con-
clusion that I could seek visions too. I thought it was
a gift for a select few.
Then God saved a friend of mine and filled
her with the Spirit. She hadn’t known the Bible,
but the very first night she consented to kneel
at the altar of the camp tabernacle, she had seen
Jesus hanging on the cross. He looked down at
her and, calling her name, said, “I love you.”
At that moment, she had been saved. After that
day, my friend began to see visions concerning
the Bible — something I will relate more of in
another chapter.
A few months after her visions began, God spoke
to me to take her with me on an upcoming trip over-
seas. As she prayed about this missionary journey,
God began to speak to her in visions about places
we should go.
In one of those visions, she saw a house in which
all the doors and windows and chimneys were dif-
ferent. She could tell that it was a great house, but it
also had very unusual architectural features.
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In her vision, she saw the two of us going into the

house, turning first to the left and then to the right
and entering a conservatory, a music room. There
she saw a woman seated in a wheelchair. We prayed
for this woman, and God healed her.
My friend went to the library at Randolph Macon
College and searched through books about great
houses to see if she could determine where this
house she had seen in her vision was located. She
came upon a book called Great Houses of Ireland, and
as she browsed through the book, she found the very
house she had seen in the vision. It was called the
Rosstrevor House, and it was located in Rosstrevor,
Ireland.
She received several other visions, and I received
several names (which I looked up in the atlas), and
in this way we began to develop an itinerary for our
trip. We would begin in Europe, cross over to the
Middle East, drop down into Africa, and then fly
back home from there. Our trip would cover more
than twenty countries and take us six months to
complete. We would minister many times and God
would do great miracles for those we prayed for,
but our trip would be more for our orientation than
anything else.
We made three important stops in Ireland. The first
was to visit a missionary group I had met in Peru the
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year before and particularly one man, whose name
God had dropped into my spirit. God had sent me
on a miraculous trip to a remote part of Peru, and
there I had been able to bless a group of Irish Baptists
and the people of a remote place for which they had
a great burden.
Upon arriving in Belfast, we decided to knock
on the door of the Irish Baptist Mission Board.
They knew my name already. Their people in Peru
had sent back a wonderful report of how God had
­miraculously sent a woman from America and how
their ministry had been turned upside down because
of her visit. We were warmly welcomed, and we sat
down with the members of the board to share with
them details of the trip to South America.
After we had been talking for a while, I remembered
to ask about the name God had given me. I felt that it
somehow related to them. “Is there ­anyone in your
organization by the name of McCullough?” I asked.
“Oh, yes,” I was told, “he’s the only member of
the board who’s not here today.”
God obviously wanted me to meet Brother Mc-
Cullough and to share with him, too, the details of
the revival in Peru. It was arranged, and we spent
time with him before leaving town.
We then got a bus and went to the little town of
Rosstrevor. Once there, we located the Rosstrevor
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House. What an unusual house it was! Every win-

dow, every door and every chimney was different.
We had never seen anything like it.
The house had been given to a Catholic order
of nuns, and the sisters gladly agreed to show us
around. We made a few turns and soon found
­ourselves inside a large room. “This is the conserva-
tory,” our guide told us. It was just as my associate
had seen in her vision.
Once inside the conservatory, we remembered the
part of the vision about the lady in the wheelchair.
Sensing that it was the former owner of the house,
we asked about her. We were told that she had fallen
and broken her hip and was in the hospital. “She has
recovered sufficiently to sit up in a wheelchair,” we
were told, “but not enough yet to come home.” We
went to the hospital and prayed for this lady, and
God healed her. What divine appointments!
Our third stop in Ireland was the fulfillment of
another of my friend’s visions. She had seen a town
that was long and narrow, consisting of only one
street, with houses along both sides of the street.
Behind these houses, on either side, were open fields.
We had never heard of such a town, but we were
believing to find it.
The Irish Baptists invited us to Cookstown to
preach. When we got there, we discovered that the
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town consisted of one long street with houses on
either side. There were no parallel streets and no
intersecting streets. This strange place had just one
long street, exactly as my associate had seen in her
vision.
We preached a series of meetings in the Baptist
churches in and around Cookstown and prayed for
the sick. I specifically remember the healing of a
cancer patient there. It all began with a simple vision.
In the years to come, we traveled throughout the
world, led by visions and revelations. I was not un-
duly troubled that my associate had this great gift
of vision and I did not. We had always been taught
to use well the talents entrusted to us, and I just con-
sidered that this one was not for me. I still believe
that we should use well the talents we have, but I
have also come to the conclusion that we don’t have
to be content to do without other gifts. If they exist,
we can have them. We must always be reaching out
for more. If we’re not careful, we can become proud
of what we don’t have.
When people would ask me if I had visions too,
I would proudly answer, “Oh, no. My colleague
does, but I hear the voice of God, and that’s the way
I travel.”
One day when my colleague overheard me saying
this, she said to me in private, “You do have visions.”
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“I don’t have visions,” I insisted.

She said, “You do. When you’re prophesying, I
hear you say, ‘I see [so and so].’ What’s that, if it’s
not vision?”
I had to think about that for a minute. I knew I
didn’t lie, and if I was saying, “I see,” I must be see-
ing something. Still, I couldn’t accept the conclusion
that I had visions. “Well,” I finally answered, “I see,
but I don’t see. I see, but not like you see.” Isn’t it
funny how we try to explain things away?
As I thought more on this subject, I realized that
my associate was right. As I was prophesying, lost
in that anointing, God was causing some scene to
flash before my eyes, some little helping vision, and
I didn’t even recognize it as such. I would just keep
flowing in the prophecy without considering how I
knew what I knew. Once I accepted the fact that I did
see visions, they began to come with ever-­increasing
frequency and power.
“Is it safe to follow visions?” some may ask. Of
course it is. Visions are given to us for understand-
ing. I only wish that I had developed an ability to
see much earlier in my life.
If I had known how easy vision was and that it was
for all God’s children, not just a few chosen ones, I
would have sought it much earlier and been blessed.
Seeing into the eternal realms has added a new
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dimension to my spiritual life. It has given me a
boldness and confidence beyond anything that I had
experienced previously. There is nothing quite like
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Chapter 11

Long Visions Vs. Short Visions

And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind ..., a

great cloud, and a fire ... . Ezekiel 1:4

One of the reasons I had a hard time accepting

the fact that I was indeed visionary was that all my
visions were short. My friend was having visions
that lasted thirty or forty minutes or more. I had
read some books brought by Pastor Ed Miller from
the great Argentine Revival. Annie, a young lady
he knew in that revival, had such extensive visions
that they filled several volumes. My own visions
were certainly not as extensive as those of Ezekiel
or John the Revelator. Because of this, I had come
to the conclusion that a short vision was much less
important than a lengthy one.
When I asked the Lord about this, He told me that
longer visions are not necessarily better than shorter
ones. One reason some people have such lengthy

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visions, He showed me, is that they have very little
spiritual understanding. They are just learning, so
the Lord must speak to them in greater detail. A
more mature person might not require as much
detail to achieve the same understanding.
That made sense to me. When we first began to
read, the teacher would ask one of our classmates,
“Johnny, how many x’s are on that page?” Johnny
would search carefully over the page and try to
count all the x’s he could find. As Johnny progressed
in his reading ability, the teacher could ask him,
“How many times is the word red on that page?” and
he could find the right number. Johnny got better
and better at his reading, and one day the teacher
could ask him about a certain phrase — how many
times was it found within a section. As his ability
increased, less and less detail was necessary.
Speed-readers seem to have gone far beyond this
point. They just turn a page, and they have already
captured everything of importance on it. You would
never ask a speed-reader how many x’s are on a par-
ticular page, or how many times a certain word or
phrase appears. A speed-reader has gone far beyond
that stage and is already reading with advanced
understanding.
It may be that at first we need much more detail in
our visions and that, after a while, not every detail
of a vision will be as important to us. By that I mean
that we may not have to dwell on every detail as
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much. We will be able to capture the details in the

quicker overall understanding of the vision.
I checked this new understanding with Brother Ed
Miller the next time I saw him. “When Annie saw
those visions in Argentina,” I asked him, “she didn’t
understand what she was seeing, did she?”
He answered, “Oh, no. She didn’t. She had to tell
me the visions, and I had to explain to her what they
meant. She had no knowledge of the Bible at all. She
might see a river and not know that it was the river
of the water of life. She might see a garden and not
know that it was the garden of the Lord. I had to
explain everything to her.”
This confirmed what the Lord had told me. When
we have achieved a greater maturity, our visions can
be shorter, and we can still receive the same under-
standing from them. It’s a question of maturity and
depth of experience.
All the visions I have pass before me very quick-
ly. If I wasn’t looking for them, I might miss them.
When a car zooms by you on the highway, and some-
one asks you, “What color was that car?” sometimes
you cannot say for sure. You are looking, but the car
passes you at such a high rate of speed that you have
trouble focusing on it.
If you will take a moment to think on what you
saw, however, you will be surprised. Your eye saw
the car, but because you were thinking about some-
thing else (how fast the car was going), you didn’t
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notice the color of it. When you concentrate on what
you saw for a moment, you can remember. That’s
the secret of vision. It takes a spiritual concentration,
a spiritual focus, a denial of anything that would
disturb your spirit or detract from the clarity of your
seeing.
Often, when I’m preaching, visions flash before
me. If I don’t pull myself back and focus on the thing
God is showing me, it might escape me. We have to
make a conscious decision to look, to focus, to dwell
on what God is showing us at the moment. In this
way, the ability to see in the Spirit can be developed,
just as any other gift that God gives His children. If
you desire understanding so that you can more fully
fulfill God’s purpose in your life, you will diligently
seek this gift of revelation.
Once I was sitting in a small restaurant in the air-
port in Dallas, Texas, waiting for my flight. A couple
I had recently met there had accompanied me to the
airport. As we were sharing a Coca-Cola together, I
said to them, “I see a very simple vision. I see a ball of
red twine, and it is all tangled up.” On some level, I
was aware that these were monied people, and there
was nothing to indicate to me that they were having
any financial difficulty. They had the appearance of
being very successful, and nothing they had said led
me to believe any different.
The red color of the twine, however, indicated that
their business was no longer in the black, and the
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tangle of the twine spoke very clearly. “The Lord is

showing me,” I told them, “that your finances are all
tangled up. They are tangled up in such a way that
you can’t seem to find the end of the string. There-
fore you have no idea how to go about untangling
things.”
Suddenly, as I was saying this, I saw the finger of
God reaching in, getting the end of the string and
beginning to unravel the tangled mess. I described
all this to them as I was seeing it. By the time I had
finished saying those simple words, tears were
streaming down both of their faces.
Soon, it was announced that it was time for my
plane to leave, so I said good-bye to the couple
and went on my way. In the few moments we had
shared together, God had given me an answer for
their t­ravail. The couple went away that day very
encouraged. Faith welled up in their hearts to believe
for a miracle from the Lord. Faith was released for
something greater.
This is what revelation is all about. It not only
helps you, but it allows you to be a blessing to oth-
er people. It allows you to do for them something
you could not otherwise have done, to help them in
a way you otherwise could not have helped them.
Without God’s revelation knowledge, we are severe-
ly limited.
There is no such thing as a little vision or a big
vision. Everything that God shows us is important.
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What seems insignificant to you might be lifesaving
for someone else. We have come to call some books
of the Bible “the minor prophets,” but this refers to
the size of the books they left, not the importance
of their message. There are no “minor” prophets of
God, no “minor” revelations. Everything God says
is important. If a vision meets a need, how could we
ever call it “small”?
One day God told us in our campmeeting that He
was going to give us something that would seem
“like a piece of candy.” What could He mean by
that? Most of us were well enough off that we could
afford to buy ourselves candy if we wanted it. God
was saying that He was adding sweetness to our
lives. He was saying that much like a parent hands
a child candy that is otherwise kept out of reach, He
was about to reveal new and wonderful things to us.
Much like a man offers sweets to his beloved, God is
offering us a token of His love. God is watching over
our every need, and no need is too insignificant for
His attention. No message could be more relevant or
more life-­changing. We need to hear from Heaven.
That God would reach out at our moment of need,
pick up a single piece of candy, and hand it to us is
an awesome thought. It means that the miracle you
need is as close as the fingertips of God. See His hand
extended to you now, holding out to you just what
you need. What a wonderful vision!
Part III

Revelation Glory:
What Will It Do
for You?
Chapter 12

Revelation Glory and Prayer

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:

for we know not what we should pray for as
we ought: but THE SPIRIT ITSELF MA-
KETH INTERCESSION FOR US ... .
Romans 8:26

Many Christians struggle with their prayer lives,

not knowing what they should focus on. They hear
something on the news, for example, and immedi-
ately they are absorbed in that particular problem.
If we pray about every problem in the world, we
can exhaust ourselves and not be able to accomplish
much for the Lord. Our prayers must be directed
by revelation so that we can accomplish what is on
the Father’s heart. Revelation gives you the mind of
Christ so that you don’t have to struggle.
Many Christians were deeply concerned during
the years that we saw the emergence of what came to
be called “the new world order.” It was considered
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to be an evil thing; much time was spent in teaching
on this matter; and many believers used their prayer
time almost exclusively to counter this “evil.” Early
in the emergence of this realignment of the nations,
however, the Lord told me, “Don’t be concerned
about ‘the new world order.’ I am going to use it
for the harvest.” From that day on, I knew that the
hunger that drove men to accept a new world order
would eventually lead them to Christ, and I rested in
that knowledge. If God told me not to worry about
it, then He must know what the final outcome will
be. This same principle can help us in every aspect
of our prayer lives.
About 1992, when Margaret Thatcher’s leadership
came into question in Great Britain, I began to pray
seriously about it. I had spent time in Great Britain,
I was a great Margaret Thatcher fan, and I was con-
cerned about the thought that she might be replaced
as prime minister in the upcoming elections. Her
party was to make a decision the next day. “Lord,
keep Margaret Thatcher in power,” I prayed that
day publicly, as I opened our prayer meeting in
­Jerusalem.
We had a very powerful meeting that day, and sev-
eral wonderful revelations came forth. One of them
came through Sister Nancy Bergen. She saw England
and prophesied concerning her. England had been
a great shipbuilding nation, the Lord showed her,
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and had sent out ships all over the world. When the
ships went out to the New World, however, they
went not from England, but from Spain. The new,
He said, would come forth from Spain.
When she said that, I knew that Spain represented
Europe, and that because Margaret Thatcher had
been trying to keep England out of the European
Union, she would lose the leadership of her party
the next day.
I stopped praying to block those who were trying
to oust Margaret Thatcher from office, and I went
further, by apologizing to those who were present
in the prayer meeting and had heard my prayer for
God to keep her in power. Whether we liked it or
not, God had a plan for the last days, and those who
were trying to block that plan must go. As much as
I personally liked Margaret Thatcher, in the glory I
knew that she must step aside and make room for
others who would take European unity forward.
The next day Margaret Thatcher was defeated in
her bid for the prime ministership of Great Britain,
and I was at peace about the entire matter.
A few months later, it was announced that peace
talks between Israel and her Arab neighbors would
take place in Spain, and we were all surprised. Why
would such talks be held in Spain? Then I realized
that we should have known. God had spoken to us
that the new would come out of Spain. We had not
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known exactly what the new thing God was talking
about would be. Now I knew that the peace talks
would be successful. The new would come out of
Spain.
That knowledge brought great peace to my heart.
I am a firm supporter of Israel, and if God had not
given me that word, I would have been praying
against the peace process every step of the way.
Some of my friends have spent years of their lives
and far too much of their energy praying against the
talks. If the Lord said the talks would be successful,
why should I be praying against them?
That word of revelation saved me a lot of head-
aches. Rather than fight against something that
would ultimately succeed anyway, I was able to sit
back and let God be God. I was able to trust Him
that what came forth would be for the good of His
people and for the good of the land of Israel.
Many things will happen in the days ahead that
will be troubling to us, and the only way for us to
know God’s will and be able to guide others into it
is to have a sure word from the Lord. Through Rev-
elation Glory, God is able to drop bits of information
into our spirits that will enable us to preserve our
souls and spirits in the difficult days ahead.
This matter of struggling in prayer over issues re-
lating to the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people
is one that God has helped me with over and over
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again. Throughout wars and political upheavals, the

Lord has given me peace in my heart and a knowing
that His will would ultimately prevail.
As events overtake us in these last days, if we are
not careful, we could remain constantly stirred up
within, and far too many Christians already live in
that state. God has ordained peace to reign within
our spirits. If we will just praise and worship God
every day until the glory comes, the Lord will drop
understanding into our spirits. He will put divine
knowledge into our souls. He will cause us to know
what to do next. It will work today, tomorrow and
the day after.
For years we prayed for China to open again to the
Gospel. Then God told us it would indeed open, and
we began to look for it to happen and to see how we
could take advantage of those open doors.
God gave us revelation knowledge daily in our
prayer meetings in Jerusalem, and the things He said
to us were often startling and totally unexpected.
Most of those attending the meetings were ordinary
people who had a very limited knowledge of world
matters, but for quite a while we had an Australian
diplomat travel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv every
weekend to attend. As a diplomat, he had not only
the Australian intelligence at his disposal, but he also
had access to the intelligence services of America,
Great Britain and other countries. After this diplo-
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mat had been attending for a while, he told us that
our prayer meeting was six months ahead of all the
diplomatic pouches on matters related to China, and
that he had been coming to the prayer meeting to
find out what God was doing there.
One day we were praying together about Syria,
and a word came forth that Syria would enter the
Lebanese War. The Syrians had not been involved
until then. The next day, after our friend got back
to Tel Aviv, he was trying to find some way of tell-
ing his boss, the ambassador, what he had learned.
He didn’t feel that he could say, “I have been in a
Holy Ghost prayer meeting, and God said ... ,” so
he searched the local newspaper for some slight
mention of the matter. He found an offhand remark
that Prime Minister Begin had made about the Syrian
matter, and with that he went to the ambassador and
said, “I think we should send this information back
to Canberra to the diplomatic desk there.”
“But it’s just an offhand comment,” the ambas-
sador answered. “How can we give weight to it?”
The diplomat had heard what God had said and
believed it and was trying to find a way to be a little
more emphatic so that the information would be
taken seriously and forwarded to headquarters. Af-
ter they had gone back and forth for a while on the
issue, the ambassador said, “I don’t see how we can
act on such flimsy information. I’ll tell you what: I’m
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having dinner with the American and British am-

bassadors this evening. I’ll put out some feelers and
see what I can learn. If they give me any indication
that what you are saying is true, tomorrow we will
forward the information to Canberra.”
The next morning the ambassador came in and
said to our friend, “Send that information we were
discussing yesterday.” Within a short time, Syria had
joined the war, just as God had shown she would.
God is concerned about everything, and He has
burdens we have not yet imagined. It is not for us to
choose what we will pray about. God wants to get
us involved in prayer about things we have never
even thought of before.
Don’t misunderstand me. There are certain things
we know to pray for — our families, our friends, our
leaders and our churches, for example. There are
other concerns, however, that are not immediately
obvious, and God will drop them into our spirits so
that we can get involved in praying and believing
for their satisfactory resolution. In this way, God
will place on your heart things you have never con-
sidered. We can even take hold of nations and bring
them into the presence of the Lord.
Some might say, “My little area (perhaps my com-
munity or my church) is all I can handle.” If God calls
you to carry a much greater burden, He will give you
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others to carry their share of the load.
Many Christians now refuse to listen to the news
of the day. They find it too negative. They say,
“I don’t read a newspaper, and I don’t listen to a
newscast. I just read my Bible and concentrate on
it.” Although there is nothing wrong with reading
the Bible, God is looking for those who will be aware
of what is happening around them and will pray. In
order to do that, you must be aware of the names
of major politicians and other important men and
women of the day. The more informed you are, the
more intelligently you can pray.
If you listen to everyone else around you and
pray for everything they want you to pray for, you
won’t get anything else done. Don’t pray according
to the desires of others. Get a word from Heaven.
Get a revelation from the Spirit. You can know the
mind of God, and this can make you involved in His
purposes in the earth.
We are often just as biased in our prayers as we are
in everyday life. Because of what people have said,
we sometimes pray against some politician, for in-
stance, when sometimes God is trying to elevate him.
It happened some years ago in Australia. One day
I was praying in Jerusalem, and the Lord said to
me, “I want you to go to Australia and anoint Bob
Hawke to be the next prime minister of Australia.” I
had heard of the name. Bob Hawke was the head of
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the labor movement in Australia, but I knew nothing

more about the man.
I flew to Sydney, and when a friend asked me
why I had come, I said, “God sent me to anoint Bob
Hawke to be the next prime minister of Australia.”
“Well, he just resigned his position with the labor
movement,” she said.
I said, “That must mean he’s going to be running
for Parliament.” That made sense, because in the
Australian political system it is impossible to become
prime minister without being a member of Parlia-
ment. “I need to meet him,” I told her.
“I happen to know that his best friend is in the
hospital here,” my friend told me. “Our daughter is
his good friend. We’ll see what we can do.”
A couple of days later I got a phone call. I heard
a man’s voice saying, “This is Bob Hawke. I don’t
know about visions, but I hope you’re right.” When
I asked if I would be able to see him, he said I would,
and we made an appointment to meet in Canberra
in a few days.
Meanwhile, local Christians told me terrible things
about the man. None of them seemed to have a very
high opinion of him. They considered him to be an
atheist.
The day I arrived at Bob Hawke’s office for our
meeting, I had to push all this from my mind and
concentrate on what God had told me in Jerusalem.
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I had learned that he was a friend of Israel, and that
gave us something in common.
After that, we discovered some mutual friends
whom we spoke of. Then I told him how God had
spoken to me. I then asked him if I could come around
the desk, lay hands on his head and prophesy. He was
agreeable, and I prophesied over him, anointing him
to be the next prime minister of ­Australia.
He thanked me and I left. A pastor and his wife
were waiting for me downstairs in their car. They
took me directly to the airport so that I could catch
my flight back to Israel. On the way to the airport,
the Lord told me to fly back to Sydney, go to the
hospital and see Bob Hawke’s best friend who was
hospitalized there. I got to Sydney and took a taxi
to the hospital.
The man was not expecting me, but when I walked
in he said, “Bob Hawke just called me and told me
about your visit.” I sat and talked to this man for
some time, prayed for him, took a taxi back to the
airport and flew back to Israel.
A couple of years went by. I was in Australia sev-
eral times during that period, but I never tried to see
Bob Hawke. He had won his seat in Parliament, and I
was certain that, in God’s time, he would be elevated.
One day, as I was praying in Jerusalem, the Lord
said, “I want you to fly to Australia.” I took the next
flight out.
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By then, I had a reputation of doing strange things,

so my friends were not totally surprised to see me.
This time, however, I wasn’t at all certain about why
I had come. I only knew that God had sent me.
“What’s happening with Bob Hawke these days?”
I asked.
“Not much,” I was told. “He is keeping a low pro-
file. There are some important issues being debated,
but he’s not speaking up much.”
Then God said to me, “I brought you here that My
word concerning him could be fulfilled.” Right there,
in my friend’s dining room, I decreed that the word
of God concerning Bob Hawke and his becoming
Prime Minister of Australia would be hastened.
Within the next day or two, Prime Minister Fraser
called for surprise elections. It was no surprise to us.
We already knew that it was c­ oming.
There was some turmoil in the Labor Party. Some
of the members wanted to see Bob Hawke run
against Prime Minister Fraser, but the head of the
party refused to resign. “It will happen over my
dead body,” he was quoted as saying. The next day,
however, he suddenly and unexpectedly resigned,
and Bob Hawke became the head of the Labor Party
and candidate for prime minister of the country.
I flew over to New Zealand to preach for a couple
of weeks, while the election campaign was going
on in Australia, and then I went back to Australia.
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The election was to be held on a Saturday. On the
Thursday before the election, all campaigning was
suspended and I was able to I meet with Bob Hawke
and his wife. “Did you ever think you would get to
be head of the Labor Party so easily?” I asked him.
“No, I certainly didn’t,” he said.
“Well, God is going to give you the election on Sat-
urday just that easily,” I assured him. “You will win
the election by the highest percentage in Australian
electoral history.”
I could hardly wait for Saturday to come. When it
did, I decided to go shopping. I knew that there was
no need for me to spend the day praying. The work
was done. Bob Hawke’s election was guaranteed. As
I went from shop to shop, I found myself singing a
little chorus from the Scriptures:

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but

we will remember the name of the Lord our
God. Psalm 20:7

That night a friend sent a telegram from Mel-

bourne. It said, “Bob Hawke is projected to win the
election with the highest percentage in Australian
history.” I looked up that verse I had been singing
all day to put it into a congratulatory telegram to
the new prime minister. I included the next verse
too:
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They are brought down and fallen: but we are

risen, and stand upright. Psalm 20:8

I was happy for Bob Hawke and for Australia. I

knew that he would be good for the country.
God had put a knowing in my spirit that the
doubts of many Australian believers could not
destroy. We miss God’s best often because of our
prejudices.
I later learned that Bob Hawke’s father had been
a minister and that when his mother was carrying
him, God had given them a promise: “The government
shall be upon his shoulders.” When the Christians of
Australia were praying against Bob Hawke’s elec-
tion, they did not yet know this story.
In later years, when pastors among them would
ask me, “If God wanted to anoint Bob Hawke,
why wouldn’t He have done it through one of
us?” I had to tell them that it was because of
their prejudices against the man. Bob Hawke’s
reputation had kept them from receiving and
believing God’s word concerning raising him
up, and God had to send me all the way from
Jerusalem to do it.
One of my closest friends in Australia, pastor of a
church of five thousand members in Brisbane, had
said of me during those years: “This is a woman of
God in all things ... except that Bob Hawke thing.”
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He didn’t like Bob Hawke’s politics and couldn’t
imagine that God wanted to raise him up.
A similar thing has happened to me with some
American politicians. One day I was watching the
news in Jerusalem when a delegation of American
congressmen was shown on the screen. My attention
was drawn specifically to one of them, and the Lord
said to me, “Pray for him.” I had never met this
man, and was not conscious of ever having heard
his name. All that day, whenever that particular clip
would be run, something would leap up in my spirit
to pray for him.
My close friend Connie Wilson was working
with a Hebrew language school in Netanya, north
of Jerusalem, and was coming back to Jerusalem to
stay with us on weekends. That evening she came. I
said to her, “Look at this congressman. I have been
praying for him all day long.”
Several days later, when Connie went back to Ne-
tanya, the director of the school said to her, “We are
going to have an American congressional delegation
visiting here next week. Would you be so kind as to
take the responsibility of greeting the congressman
who is head of the delegation and his wife and wel-
coming them to the city?” Connie was glad to oblige.
On the assigned day, Connie took some flowers
and went to meet the congressman and his wife.
During their conversation that day, she told the wife
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about how God had impressed upon me to pray for

her husband. “Oh, I would love to meet her,” she
said, and it was arranged.
When the wife of the congressman arrived at our
house, we were in the midst of our service, and we
were all dancing around the room before the Lord.
She came right in and joined us in the dancing. Later,
we met her husband, and we have remained good
friends with them to this day. He was the one who
opened the door for me to pray before our Ameri-
can Congress. Yet it all began when I was willing to
allow God to give me a burden for a man I saw on
the news.
When God drops revelation knowledge into our
spirits, a knowing comes to us that we can trust and
act upon. This should be our guide in prayer, not
what we have heard bad about someone.
Sometimes we are not aware of words that God
has given to parents about their children or of
promises made to praying people in former gener-
ations. We may not perceive that the hand of God
is upon certain people, but God knows and can
reveal it to us. He wants to put greatness in us so
that we judge others not so much by the seeing of
our eyes or the hearing of our ears, but according
to the heart of God that we feel in Revelation Glory.
Let God put a knowing in your spirit to believe for
people in high places. There are many in authority
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for whom God wants us to believe. He will give us
insights concerning those individuals and will drop
a knowing concerning them into our spirits — even
when everyone else is against them. We must believe
for God’s blessing, regardless of what others think
or say.
When we live in Revelation Glory, our prayers are
never wasted or in vain. When we insist on praying
in our own understanding, too often we pray prayers
that God is not about to answer.
Chapter 13

Revelation Glory and Worship

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father IN SPIRIT
AND IN TRUTH: for the Father seeketh such
to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him IN SPIRIT
AND IN TRUTH. John 4:23-24

Twice in the space of these two verses Jesus said that

true worshipers must worship “in spirit.” Worship is
not true worship until the Holy Spirit gets involved.
We may want to worship, and we may try to wor-
ship, but true worship is a miracle that only the Spirit
of God can give us.
The Spirit creates worship within us, and we cannot
worship unless He does. We can go through the form
of worship, but until the Spirit touches our hearts, our
minds and our lips, we cannot worship “in truth.” Until
He works a miracle upon us and places within us a
greater love for Himself, we cannot be true worshipers.

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How ironic that the Sunday morning services of
many churches are called “worship services,” and
yet we do everything else in them but worship.
Worship is not just singing songs or praying prayers
or saying words. It is an intimacy of heart and soul
with our Creator.
It only takes a moment for this miracle to happen,
and it often comes suddenly. Until it does, we may be
saying the right words and singing the right songs,
but when the Spirit of worship comes, we know it.
That worshipful atmosphere changes e­ verything.
When this happens, if we will then take the time
to worship, we will come into new realms of revela-
tion. In the strictest sense of the word, however, we
cannot worship in the first place without Revelation
Glory. True worship demands it.
When we have moved into the true realm of wor-
ship, few words are necessary. I have memories from
my childhood of us sitting in services in our church
for hours and just singing a single word — or two
words or three. We had entered into the realm of
Revelation Glory, and little needed to be said. We were
face-to-face with Jesus, and heart was communing
with heart in the deepest intimacy.
Worship without revelation is limited, for the wor-
ship process is not only enhanced by the revelation
of the Spirit of God. Revelation is essential to it.
When we begin to praise the Lord, we always feel
the inadequacy of our words. There is so much we
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would like to say in that moment, but how to say

it is beyond us. Then a wonderful, miraculous cre-
ative process begins. The Spirit suddenly places new
words within us, and we find ourselves speaking
words of love and adoration unto God, words which
we know we are not capable of in the natural. We are
saying things that we have never thought of, things
that never once crossed our minds. We are speaking
beyond ourselves, beyond our capacity, beyond our
human reasoning. This is a miracle. There is no other
way to describe it.
The divine creative process places within us what
did not previously exist, and God fills our mouths
with created praise. It was not there until He created
it. What we had was insufficient, but God added to
it. What we needed was not present in us, but God
put it there.
As new creatures, or a new creation, in Christ,
we live with the expectation of receiving new ex-
periences in God. Why should our worship be any
different? The Spirit of God is able to take what is of
the Earth (and earthly), of the natural (and natural),
and change it into something eternal and divine.
Get a little chorus that works for you. Kathryn
Kuhlman always had someone else leading the mu-
sic in her services, but when she came out, everyone
would shift to the simple “Alleluia” that always
brought glory into her meetings. Find a little chorus
that works for you, and if worshipful glory is not
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present, then learn to bring it in through worship.
Sing that chorus through a few times until the atmo-
sphere begins to change, and then begin to look for
the glory to appear.
Begin to expect God to place new and unusual
words in your mouth, words of love and adoration,
words of exaltation and celebration, words of reve-
lation and Holy Ghost inspiration. Begin to believe
for Revelation Glory.
I was blessed as a child to be in the midst of revival.
It didn’t have a name then. Now we call it the 1948
Revival. We didn’t realize it at the time, but when
Israel became a nation, a worldwide revival was
released. The thing that stood out the most to me as
a child was the revelatory realm that was opened in
that revival. The songs we sang in those days were
right out of the book of Revelation.
Song after song came out of that revelatory ex-
perience. You cannot sing a song like that unless
you’ve seen it, unless you’ve tasted it, unless you’ve
experienced it.
Many new songs have been written in this current
revival, but so far, they have not reached the same
level of revelatory glory. But it’s coming.
Revelation Glory produces sounds of glory, and it
comes to ordinary individuals like you and me as
we are worshiping the Lord and are carried away
in His Spirit.
Chapter 14

Revelation Glory and Doctrine

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,

whom the Father will send in my name, HE
SHALL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS,
and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you. John 14:26

Among believers everywhere, there are dozens

of differing opinions about major Bible doctrines.
Each of us seems to be sure that the particular
doctrinal position we hold is exactly what God
had in mind from the beginning. The differences
that divide us are not only a result of our different
backgrounds and teaching, but also due to the fact
that every generation has had a different under-
standing of certain truths. This may be due, in part,
to the cultural climate of the day in which each
lived. What each of us needs to do is ask the Lord
about what troubles us and believe what He shows
us. After all, as we have seen again and again, the
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Holy Spirit is the Teacher, and He has promised to
teach us “all things.”
Soon after a friend of mine had been saved and
filled with the Spirit, she was offended one day
by my father’s simple approach to Heaven. That
surprised me because I didn’t think anyone could
preach on Heaven like Daddy did. He made you
want to go there — immediately. When he preached
at funerals, those listening to him were all wishing
they were the one in the box.
After listening to Daddy preach one afternoon
at a meeting in one of our churches in the Virginia
countryside, my friend said to me, “That’s a poor
people’s concept of Heaven. When people have
limited financial means, they naturally think of
‘streets of gold,’ ‘gates of pearl,’ ‘foundations’
made of precious jewels and a ‘New Jerusalem.’
” She was from a well-to-do family and therefore
considered herself to be much more sophisticated
in her beliefs.
Our parents had taught us early not to argue with
anyone about the Bible, so I just said to her, “Why
don’t you ask the Lord about it?”
She took my advice, and that night she knelt at the
altar of our Richmond church and prayed, asking
God to speak to her about Heaven. About two hours
later, she got up from her knees and began to share
her visions.
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She had majored in the history of art at college

and had been taught to examine closely and cri-
tique works of art. She could look at a painting and
tell me the most amazing things about it. She was
very observant in this regard. No detail escaped her
­attention.
In her vision, she had seen Heaven like a painting
on canvas. After her attention was drawn to one de-
tail of the canvas, some question would come to her
mind. She would ask the question, and immediately
the Lord would shift the focus of the vision, so that
she could see some other part of Heaven in detail.
She saw things that night that my father hadn’t
even preached about in the sermon she heard. For
instance, she saw people bringing their sheaves to
lay at Jesus’ feet and receive their reward. She saw
one man come with a dump truck full. He opened
the chute, and the sheaves were dumped at the Mas-
ter’s feet. Another man came with a wheelbarrow
full. He tipped up his wheelbarrow and poured out
its contents before the Lord. Another man came with
an armload and laid it before the Lord. Then she saw
herself, and she was standing before the Lord with
empty arms. It was that night that she committed
her life to the harvest field.
After that first experience, God began to teach
my friend the Bible by vision. Every time we went
to church to pray, she would kneel at the altar and
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begin seeing some aspect of God’s truth. Sometimes
she would be there for thirty minutes, sometimes
forty-five minutes, and sometimes longer.
When we got back home, she would tell me some
of the things she was seeing. Once, for instance, I
recognized the vision she had received that night
as teachings from the book of Ezekiel. Another time,
her vision was from the book of Revelation. I would
tell her where the things she had seen in her visions
were found in the Bible, and she would turn to that
particular portion and read it. Most of us are accus-
tomed to reading something first in the Bible. Then,
we may later allow God to show us bits and pieces
of it in vision. She did just the opposite; God taught
her the Bible through visions.
I have known other people who received this same
experience. Whether it is through vision or through
some other means of revelation, God’s Spirit is “the
Spirit of Truth,” and He has promised to teach us “all
things.” If we will allow Him to do it and give Him
time to do it, He will teach us His ways.
Thank God that we don’t have to believe exactly
as others do in order to be one in the Spirit of the
living God. As we open our hearts to Him, He can
enlighten us with Revelation Glory.
Chapter 15

Revelation Glory and Unity

And the glory which thou gavest me I have

given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one. John 17:22

As I showed in my book Unifying Glory, one of the

greatest challenges of our time is to love and embrace
all the various members of the family of God. Many
times we find this difficult to do, but when we get
God’s mind on the matter through Revelation Glory,
it becomes easy.
When God shows you His thoughts concerning a
certain person, it changes the way you think about
him and the way you interact with him. Because
God desires to bless all men everywhere, suddenly
you want to bless all men — regardless of political
affiliation, race or background.
God’s desire for us is that we be able to look ev-
ery brother in the eye with an open faith and bless
him in the name of the Lord. When we cannot find
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the ability within us to do this, God will give us the
ability — in the glory realm.
We must not allow our negative feelings toward
some brother or sister to limit the scope of our use-
fulness to the Kingdom. We must be ready to be used
in every capacity God has designed us for.
God is calling us to be a people of generous spirit
and attitude, and we can only do this as we catch
a glimpse of His thoughts and intents toward our
­fellowmen.
Some people are financially generous, but they
have not yet learned to be generous of spirit toward
others. Financial generosity can never replace a lack
of generosity of spirit.
We often have no problem giving to God. After all,
He is perfect. It’s the people around us that bother
us, and we find ourselves denying them the gener-
osity to which God is calling us.
When you are making out your earthly will, you
can decide who you feel merit your favor and bless
them accordingly, but when it comes to God’s fam-
ily, we have no such right or privilege. God loves all
His children, and we should too. He has called us
to love all men everywhere, to love as He has loved,
and we cannot do that in our own strength.
We are so petty sometimes that when a brother or
sister tries to make amends for some offense of the
past, we try to make him or her “toe the mark” to
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the last point. “Don’t you want to say you’re sorry

for all those other things you did?” we suggest.
If others are sorry for something they have done
to us in the past, we should rejoice and be grateful.
Don’t push for more. God didn’t push us to be per-
fect before He would forgive a simple wrong that
we had recognized and for which we were asking
His forgiveness.
Many women tell me that they have never once
heard the words “I’m sorry” from their husbands.
Some men find it difficult to say such words. How-
ever, these same men will often do something nice
that says “I’m sorry” in a different way. They might
bring home your favorite ice cream or buy you a
music CD you have been wanting. Rejoice in it. See
it as God sees it. Some people don’t know how else
to say “I’m sorry.”
If you find it difficult to accept these acts of contri-
tion, let the Spirit of God wash over you, and in the
glory you will find it in your heart to forgive.
One of the most important teachings our parents
gave my brother and me as we were growing up was
not to let the sun go down on our wrath. Every time
we come short of the glory of God in this regard, we
have until the sun goes down to correct it.
If you are having difficulty apologizing, let God
show you the need of your spouse’s heart or the
feeling of the other person you have wronged.
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Some people just cannot bring themselves to apol-
ogize when they have wronged someone, and it does
take bigness to apologize. This is part of the seeds of
greatness that God places in us through Revelation
Glory. He gives us the ability to apologize, to say:

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have gotten upset.”

“I shouldn’t have said it in that tone of voice.”
“I shouldn’t have gotten involved, and I am
sorry.”
“I overstepped myself. Please forgive me.”

Say it in the way that seems easiest to you, the way

that God enables you. These are just some sugges-
tions. I can share them because I have had plenty of
experience in this regard. Whatever you need to say
to become the person God intends you to be, do it.
Let the seeds of greatness He has planted in your
spirit bring forth fruit.
If you learn to feel what others are feeling and to
respond to them in this way, it will remove a heavy
weight from your shoulders. It will free you of many
of the unnecessary stresses of life.
During one of the services at our 1999 Summer
Campmeeting, Sister Cathy Grey from the Smithton
Revival and Larry Mauriello from the Benny Hinn
Ministries were sitting with me on the platform, and
we agreed together in prayer for great victory. This
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is something that we must see more of in the days

ahead. We must lose our competitive spirits and join
hands to see the harvest reaped.
If we are to reach the level of expansion and ex-
tension that God has promised, we simply must lay
aside our pettiness and love one another. Father
demands it. He is calling us to a largeness of heart,
a generosity of spirit and a longsuffering toward
others in the family. Let us move into it through
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Chapter 16

Revelation Glory and Seeds of Greatness

It shall be given to them for whom it is prepared

of my Father. Matthew 20:23

It is at God’s throne, in the glory realm, that seeds

of greatness are sown into our spirits.
The mother of the disciples James and John
wanted to know if her two children could have
seats on either side of the Lord when He came into
His Kingdom. He answered her that this privilege
was not His to give. This designation had already
been made by the Father: “It shall be given to them
for whom it is prepared of my Father.” Jesus knew that
after the Day of Pentecost, His disciples would no
longer ask these kinds of questions. They would
all be in the realm of the Spirit and would all be
lifted up ­together.
Achieving greatness is not a matter of educational
attainment or worldly promotion. It is a gift from
God that comes to us in the Spirit realm.
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During the 1950s and 60s, God raised up a great
group of Christian businessmen under the lead-
ership of Demos Shakarian, the son of Armenian
immigrants to California, and used them to bring
revival both here and abroad. The organization
Demos founded was called the Full Gospel Business
Men’s Fellowship, and few organizations have had
a greater impact for the Kingdom of God in our
­generation.
Demos was in America because of revelation, and
he was able to raise up such a powerful organization
because of seeds of greatness planted in his spirit.
A group of Christians in Armenia had been pray-
ing, and one of their small sons was carried away in
the Spirit and had a vision. He tried to draw the vi-
sion he had seen so that his elders could understand
it. What God was telling them was that they should
leave Armenia and go to a distant land.
The child knew little about world geography, but
the map he drew was clearly of the American West
Coast. As a result of his vision, a large group of Ar-
menian Pentecostals left home to settle in California.
Shortly after they had embarked on their journey, a
Turkish massacre took place in their homeland. Their
lives were spared only because they had already
escaped to America.
These Armenian believers prospered in America
and raised healthy and happy families. From their
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ranks, God raised up Demos Shakarian to bring forth

one of the finest Christian businessmen’s organiza-
tion the world has ever seen. Because a child got in
the Spirit and had a simple vision, our nation and
many others were blessed.
That particular group of Armenian Christians was
not accustomed to having visions like that. Perhaps
they had never needed them before. Now they did,
and God brought it forth sovereignly by His Spirit.
It would have been very easy for those men to have
dismissed the vision of a child as not worthy of their
support or not worthy of taking such a huge risk.
They did neither.
Many men have tried to duplicate what Demos
Shakarian did and have been unsuccessful. It is
God who puts seeds of greatness within us — by
His Spirit.
It is expedient in these days that we learn to praise
and worship and come into the glory realm. It is
there, on the mountain height, as we stand in the
presence of God, face-to-face with Him, surrounded
by the cloud of His glory, that He drops greatness
into our spirits.
It was on the mountain with the Lord that Moses
received the touch that would enable him to lead
an entire generation of people out of bondage and
to the very gates of the Promised Land. He had no
example to look to in history for guidance. Nothing
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even similar had happened to the Jewish people in
the past. He was the first, and it took a great man to
do what he did. He could not have done it, however,
without the touch of greatness he received in the
glory of God.
This is important to us today, because we are in
a period when God is also doing new and unusual
things. We must be ready to move with Him and
to accomplish exploits for His Kingdom. We must
know God as Moses knew Him and live in the cloud
of His presence as Moses did.
God is ready to do for us today the same miracles
He did for Moses as he led his people on their way
to the Promised Land. Everything we have experi-
enced until this moment is only a preparation for
the things God is about to do. Our former years
have been a training ground for our immediate to-
morrows. We are about to move into a greater and
more glorious day, and we can prepare for it only
in the glory realm.
A few years ago, I was standing in a meeting, and I
saw a vision of satellite television. I began to prophe-
sy concerning God using satellite television to reveal
His glory to the nations. A few weeks later, I was
invited to speak on satellite television from Dallas,
Texas. In one session on satellite television, I reached
more people than I had in forty years of traveling
continually all over the world. What a wonderful
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day this is! God has satellite television ministries

and even greater things than that in store for those
who will reach out and grab hold of it in the Spirit.
In 1996, during a meeting at CBN in Virginia
Beach, Virginia, I was invited to prophesy over
Brother Oral Roberts. I thought I would probably
be a little nervous when they called me to prophesy
over him. He had been one of the greatest men of
God in America during the 1950s and 60s and on into
the 70s. I had never met him personally, but I had at-
tended his meetings when I was a child. I had heard
his son say the night before something to the effect
that his father had retired and moved to ­California.
When I laid my hand on his head, however, I re-
ceived the words, “Your greatest days are ahead.”
If it hadn’t been the Lord, I surely would have been
nervous about saying it. When I finished giving the
prophecy, he said to me, “I am putting together a
network of a hundred and twenty television sta-
tions,” and I began to see what God was saying. The
next time I saw him minister by television, he had
a renewed vigor.
It is difficult for us to understand the greatness of
what God is doing in this day and hour. To think that
during one program you or I can reach more people
than Kathryn Kuhlman ever reached in her lifetime!
It’s a staggering thought. In one televised broadcast,
we can reach out to more people than Aimee Semple
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McPherson, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, A.A. Allen and
many others reached. What an amazing day!
I made this statement once in a service in Jeru-
salem, and a young Jewish man approached me
afterward and asked, “Have you ever considered
the Internet?”
I said, “Well, I’ve heard about it.”
He said, “I want to put you on the Internet, be-
cause there you will reach more than the numbers
you are talking about on satellite television.” And
he proceeded to do it. Today people from all over
the world are being blessed. Even people in “closed”
countries can read my books on the Internet.
What a day! What great opportunities! We must
allow the greatness of what God is doing to fill our
hearts and cause us to believe for the nations.
When we fall out under the power of God, we are
not just lying down on the floor. We are falling into
greatness. It may seem to others that we are just
lying on the floor, but we are enveloped in God’s
greatness, and He is sowing seeds of greatness into
our spirits while we are there in His glory.
The seeds of greatness God will plant in you in the
glory are beyond anything you have experienced un-
til now, beyond anything you have learned, beyond
anything you have known. As long as you are willing
to remain in His glory, He will pour it on you.
When I met Eli Mizrachi, I am convinced that
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he would not have given me the time of day if it

had not been for the fact that I carried with me the
weight of God’s glory. He was curious about my
interest in many nations of the world. “How is it,”
he asked, “that the daughter of a humble pastor
from Richmond, Virginia, has such an interest in the
nations?” I explained to him that during revival God
had dropped greatness into my spirit.
When we sit under the anointed ministry of men
and women of God and when their hands are laid
on us, we may feel something happening, but we are
surely not fully aware of the seeds of greatness that
are being planted within us at that very moment.
Our consciousness cannot take it in, but God is plac-
ing something wonderful within us. If it is allowed
to grow and flourish, it will surely bring forth great
fruit in its season.
Most of us have not even begun to fulfill our desti-
nies. Most of us have not even scratched the surface
of the reason for which God has brought us into
His Kingdom. Most of us are not yet fully aware of
why we are in this world. God is ready to do greater
things through every one of us.
During the great Revival of 1948, ministers came
to our city and laid hands on my mother and father
prophetically. At the time, my parents were pastor-
ing a church of about thirty-five people, but the Lord
said they would “preach to multitudes.”
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It’s always good when the prophet doesn’t know
the people to whom he is prophesying. That way,
he hears from Heaven and doesn’t bother to analyze
what he is saying.
Before ten years had passed, my parents were
preaching to thirty thousand people a night in India.
God did it through the seeds of greatness that had
been planted in their spirits those many years before.
It has been my privilege to minister in all the na-
tions of the world and to go to some nations again
and again. Most of our co-workers have also gone to
nation after nation, and have done so time after time.
My mother preached in more than eighty nations.
She went to China fourteen or fifteen times, and to
other nations many times.
I have prophesied over pastors, only to have them
confess to me, “When you prophesied those great
things over me, I thought they were fairy tales. I
didn’t believe a word of what you were saying, but
every word has come to pass.” When they moved
into a place of believing, the seeds of greatness
sown into their lives flourished and brought forth
a ­harvest.
Ron Wyatt was an anesthesiologist in a hospital,
but he felt led to go into archeology. He went to
Jerusalem seeking permission to do some archaeo-
logical excavations, but because of his inexperience,
he was denied. He and his son were swimming one
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day down at the Mediterranean coast, when Ron’s

foot hit something in the water. It turned out to be
the great funeral pyre from Phoenicia that the great
archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon had been looking
for for many years.
Ron went right up to Jerusalem, found the director
of the Archaeology Department and took him down
to see what he had found. On the basis of this find,
he was immediately granted permission to excavate,
and he went on to make many finds.
I met him and learned his story when the two of us
were speakers at a meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
A group of us were all staying together in the same
house, and one night after I had gone to bed, I heard
Ron Wyatt talking. As it turned out, he hadn’t been
talking at all. I heard it in the Spirit.
When I saw him the next morning, I said to him,
“I had a strange experience last night. I heard you
talking at the site of an excavation. Was there a ‘sec-
ond room’?”
He flushed and said, “When you come to Tennes-
see to see us, I’ll tell you about it.”
I never made it to Tennessee, and Ron has since
gone on to be with the Lord, but God had dropped
that secret into my heart by the Holy Spirit.
Ron Wyatt claimed to have discovered the Ark of
the Covenant on one of his digs. This created a lot
of controversy, and people have often asked me if I
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believed him. All I can say is that each time I heard
him tell the story, he began to weep. His weeping
was not one of sorrow, but a glory cry, and that
caused me to believe what he was saying.
God takes ordinary people, perhaps successful in
their particular field of endeavor, and puts them into
another field, completely different from the first, and
causes them to do exceedingly great things in that
field because of His glory. Some of you who are read-
ing these words have received great promises from
God. Rest in the Spirit, and let the glory propel you
forth. Each day, cultivate your intimate relationship
with God through praise and worship and entering
into His glory. Let the seeds of greatness He drops
into your spirit grow until they produce.
Don’t struggle to make it happen. Let God do it
in the glory realm. It won’t happen because of your
“busyness.” The door will not open because you
have forced it open. Stay in the glory, and at just the
right moment, God will move you forward.
As we were coming out of China after our first trip
there, we went to Korea for a few days to visit Dr.
Paul Yonggi Cho and his church. He told us to be
sure to meet his mother-in-law. We were taken to the
famous Prayer Mountain where many great miracles
of healing have been received and where prayer has
been going up around the clock for many years.
Our driver couldn’t speak much English, but he
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motioned that he wanted us to follow him up the hill.

There we met Sister Jashil Choi, Dr. Cho’s mother-
in-law. We hadn’t realized that she was his assistant
pastor, and deservedly so. She had prayed all night
for ten years as the church grew from five members
to more than a hundred thousand.
Before we parted that day, the Lord gave us three
things to say prophetically to her: (1) that she was
to forget her age, (2) that she should accept every
invitation to the nations and (3) that she should not
worry about the language. (She spoke only Korean
and Japanese. Her English was limited to a few
words, like “glory,” “hallelujah,” “I love you” and
“Jesus.”)
We didn’t know it at the time, but Sister Choi had
just recently retired. She was sixty, and that was
considered old in Asia for her position. She had
gone out and bought a very expensive bed for her
retirement. Although there was nothing wrong with
buying such a bed, it was an indication of her state of
mind. An era had ended, and she was now planning
to take life easy.
After announcing her retirement, she had dis-
covered a large growth in her abdomen. When
she received that prophetic word, she rose up and
obeyed it, and God healed her of the growth. We
later learned that she had gone out and established
sixteen churches in sixteen nations in the first year
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after coming out of retirement. She lived another
fifteen fruitful years before God took her home.
Some of those who are folding up their tents need
to raise them up again. It is time to forget age and
every other natural limitation. Our most fruitful
years are just ahead, and God will cause us to pros-
per beyond our expectations.
A dear lady in her seventies came to our camp
about the time China was opening. She decided to
take her Social Security pension and go live in Hong
Kong. For many years afterward, she went in and
out of China taking Bibles. The last time I saw her,
at seventy-four or five, she was still tramping Bibles
all through China. It was because of people like her
that the former Communist nations opened.
There are thousands of opportunities just like this
one awaiting us in many parts of the world. Things
that we have never considered can be dropped into
our spirits as we gain Heaven’s perspective and
allow seeds of greatness to be sown into our spirits.
My friend Mahesh Chavda seems, to many, to be
far too humble a man for God to have used him for
such great things. But he has now held some of the
largest and most successful healing campaigns some
countries have ever known. Up to half a million
people have gathered to hear him in several coun-
tries, and every type of miracle is performed in his
meetings — even to the raising of the dead.
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What exciting times these are! Cast off your yoke

of mediocrity and lay hold of the seeds of greatness
for your life. Allow Revelation Glory to flood your
soul, and you will be amazed at the enormity of the
thing that God desires to do through you.
Chapter 17

Revelation Glory and Revival

For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,

and gross darkness the people: but the Lord
shall arise upon thee, and H I S G L O R Y
SHALL BE SEEN UPON THEE. Isaiah
60:2

Is this a time of the greatest revival the world

has ever known? Or is it the time of the greatest
apostasy ever? It depends on whom you ask. It
depends on how you look at things. If you look at
every problem around you, you might have reason
to be discouraged. If you look at every evil desire
of men, you might have reason to despair. All I
can tell you is that every time I get in the Spirit
and begin to see things as God sees them, one of
the first things I see is revival. I see the promise
of God:

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THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD, as the
waters cover the sea. Isaiah 11:9

In the Spirit, I see revival in many aspects. In one

service, I saw flames of revival leaping and sur-
rounding the United Nations building in New York
City. I thought to myself, “What quicker way could
there be to get revival to every nation than to have
revival at the United Nations?” God wants to do it.
Can we believe Him for it?
God wants to use you as an instrument of revival,
as an instrument of harvest, and He will do it as you
catch the vision, as you move into Revelation Glory.
The coming days will be marked with fireworks, not
those that the world makes and explodes, but spir-
itual explosions that God Himself is bringing forth.
When God said to me one summer during our
summer campmeeting, “Nice is nice,” I knew that
He wanted us to go to Nice, France, and we began
to make plans to do so. During the next few weeks,
God spoke to about thirty young people to go with
us, and we sent several scouts ahead to find and rent
some houses in which we could live and pray.
They were able to rent three houses just outside of
Nice, in a little place called Carros, and for a year our
group lived there, believing for revival in France and
in all Europe. Word began to spread that we were
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praying there in the village every day from about

8:00 in the morning until 1:00 in the afternoon. Cath-
olic priests would drive all night on Friday night
with their parishioners from Paris to come down and
pray with us for the weekend. During that time, we
prayed for many priests to be filled with the Spirit.
While we were in France that year, I did the only
forty-day fast I have ever done on nothing but water.
I was believing for great revival in France and the
other countries of Europe. A little later, our people
traveled throughout the country and throughout
the Continent speaking to Jews about going home
to Israel and spreading revival.
Many people had been insisting that France was
too hard for revival, but little by little, we saw the
walls come down. I knew it would happen because
God had given me many visions of France. I chose to
believe what He said about the country and revival
— and not what men said.
What God has promised is sure. It may tarry, but
it will come to pass. Eventually, great revival broke
out in France.
The same could be said of Jerusalem. It was consid-
ered to be a hard place when the Lord spoke to us to
take twenty-five young people and go there. Since He
had spoken, we were sure that He would do the rest.
We sent two sisters ahead of us to find suitable ac-
commodations. We needed housing and we needed
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a place to worship. Since the Lord had been speaking
about Mount Zion, we felt that we needed to find a
place on Mount Zion itself. We had the promise of God:

And the Lord will create upon every dwelling

place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies,
a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of
a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
shall be a defence. Isaiah 4:5

If we were to have so many young people living

with us there, we needed to live in a place where the
glory would cover us and be our defense.
One of the places the two sisters were sent to
inquire was to the fathers at the church known as
St. Peter-en-Gallicantu. “I’m sorry,” the fathers told
them, “we have no living spaces available. But surely
you will need a place to worship.”
My associate said, “Father, I’m sorry, but it
wouldn’t be possible for us to worship here.”
He said, “Why not?”
She said, “Well, because we’re Pentecostal.”
He said, “That doesn’t matter.”
“But we’re the loud kind of Pentecostal,” she
­protested.
He said, “That doesn’t matter.”
She tried to think of everything that would be an
obstacle, but each time he said, “It doesn’t matter.”
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Finally, she said, “If we had our own church build-

ing here, we would like to have Communion at least
once a month.”
“Consider this to be your church,” he told her. “I
take full responsibility.”
So it was that well before the Charismatic Move-
ment had taken hold in Jerusalem and before the
various groups were cooperating, we had a place
of our own to worship provided by the Catholic
fathers of the city.
Many of the churches in Jerusalem are not for
the use of local congregations. They are there for
pilgrims who visit, and the rest of the time they are
empty. St. Peter-en-Gallicantu is just such a church.
It is built over the site of the house of Caiaphas, the
high priest, and it was in that place that Peter denied
the Lord. Many pilgrims visit the church and pray,
but during the nights it was silent. No more. For the
next ten years, we had the privilege of affirming the
Lord in that sacred spot four nights a week.
When we first arrived in Israel with the group and I
saw the place God had given us to worship, I realized
that it was to the balcony of that very church that Eli
had taken me, just a year before, to overlook the Old
City. It was there that I had realized for the first time
that my feet were standing on Mount Zion. It was
the perfect place for us, and I knew in that moment
that God had something great in mind for Jerusalem.
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I said to Eli the next time I saw him, “You’re the
one who brought us to this church.”
“Oh,” he said, “you would have found it anyway.”
Perhaps. God knew what He wanted for Jerusalem,
and today many churches in the Holy City enjoy the
moving of the Holy Spirit in their services.
Great revival is also coming to Russia. One night,
as I was preaching in Virginia, I noticed a mission-
ary couple in the congregation. I had not yet had
an opportunity to meet them, but as I glanced in
their direction, I saw the New Jerusalem over their
heads. It was suspended over Moscow. This was the
beginning of something new for me, for such a glory
came forth from the New Jerusalem I saw over their
heads that it affected my eyes and came through
them into my spirit. I was instantly drunk on the
Spirit. For about a week after that, every time I got
in the anointing in a service where the glory was,
this same glory would affect my eyes, and I could
not keep them open. Then I would become drunk
and carried away in the Spirit.
When I saw this vision over their heads, I began to
prophesy of revival coming to Moscow. I saw that
such revival was coming to the city that those of us
who would go there to be a blessing would instead
receive a blessing.
After the service, I learned that the couple was
presently ministering in a place several hours out-
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side of Moscow, but they were planning to move into

the city within a few months. The week before they
had come to America, the wife had been running an
errand, and her husband was waiting for her in the
car. While he waited, two angels got in the car with
him and began to tell him of revival that would be
coming to Russia.
The angels left before the man’s wife came back
from her shopping. As she got into the car, she felt
that great heavenly presence and was unable to
speak. Her husband also found himself unable to
speak for a time, so it was some time later before he
could tell her what had happened. What exciting
days these are! God is sending revival throughout
the Earth.
In these closing days of time, God’s word for the
Church everywhere is glorious. America will con-
tinue to see great revival, and other nations will too.
In January of 2000, while I was attending the an-
nual Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington,
D.C., someone came up to interview me on video
for a new prayer center that was opening there in
the nation’s Capitol. The interviewer asked, “If the
American people don’t repent, what will happen to
this country?”
I had to answer that I never think in those terms.
I have already seen the revival in the realm of the
Spirit, and I know that this nation will experience the
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fire of God moving from coast to coast and border to
border. It will be a mighty move of the Spirit of God.
We must stop asking, “What will happen if people
don’t respond?” and must get ready for what will
happen when they do.
We will see glory in the White House, in the Con-
gress and in the Supreme Court. We will see it in our
governors’ mansions and our mayors’ offices across
America. God said that the whole earth would be
filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as
the waters cover the sea. I know it by Revelation Glory.
Chapter 18

Revelation Glory and Ministry

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of

wisdom; to another the word of knowledge BY
THE SAME SPIRIT; to another faith BY
THE SAME SPIRIT; to another the gifts of
healing BY THE SAME SPIRIT; to another
the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to another divers
kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation
of tongues: But all these worketh that one and
T H E S E L F S A M E S P I R I T, dividing to
every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11

Every area of ministry is enhanced by Revelation

Glory. When we stay in God’s presence until He
reveals to us the thoughts and intents of the hearts
of men, it enables us to minister to them effectively.
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very thoughts and intents of God’s heart, we know
what He wants us to minister.
When we get up to preach and the anointing of
Revelation Glory comes, we begin to say things we
have never thought of before. We begin to speak
words we have never considered before. We begin
to do things we have never contemplated before. It
all comes to us in that great anointing of the flow of
Revelation Glory.
Prophecy, one of the most important ministries for
the end time, is impossible without Revelation Glory.
God is giving us a prophetic voice, and I encourage
believers everywhere to begin to prophesy. Some,
who are accustomed to praying out what God is
showing them, should prophesy it instead. The
depth of Revelation Glory is best expressed through
prophecy. Prophesy into the life of the person God
is speaking to you about.
I seldom pray for people anymore. I prophesy to
them. If there is some knowledge in my heart placed
there by God’s Spirit, I release it through the pro-
phetic flow. I do this because there is an authority
in the words of prophecy that no other words can
possibly hold. Try it. Begin to prophesy.
“But how do I begin?” many ask.
First, it is important to speak in a voice loud
enough for everyone to hear you. How can they
reap the benefit of what God is saying if they cannot
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even hear it? This sounds like something everyone

should know, but many don’t seem to realize how
important it is.
Second, begin your prophecy by saying, “Thus
saith the Lord,” or as many Charismatic believers
now say, “So says the Lord,” or “The Lord says.”
What you say is very different from what God says.
Let everyone know up front that what you are about
to say is not from your own thoughts, but is some-
thing God is showing you.
When you say, “Thus saith the Lord,” that simple
action releases a prophetic flow, and you will be
amazed at what follows. Just about the time you
say “Thus saith the Lord,” the Lord will say to you,
“I have been waiting all day for someone through
whom I could speak.” You will sense that He is ex-
cited about your willingness to voice the desires of
His heart, and you will be blessed as you speak on
His behalf.
This method of beginning a prophecy is where
many make a serious mistake. If you insist on saying,
“I have an impression ... ,” “I feel ... ,” “Something
tells me ... ,” “I’m not quite sure, but I think ... ,”
there will be no miraculous prophetic flow. When
you preface your prophecy with such statements,
you are minimizing what you have received from
God. When you say, “Thus saith the Lord,” what you
say bears a new weight of authority — as it should.
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These words, “Thus saith the Lord,” are not magic
words, and you might use another phrase just as ef-
fectively. The important thing is to let people know
that what you are saying is from God, that He is
speaking through you.
Prophecy releases a creative flow, and unusual
things begin to happen. As you prophesy the one
thing God has already shown you, He will show you
more. In this way, your prophecy will be unfolding,
line upon line, as you receive the revelation from
God.
There is an impartation that comes with prophecy,
and the lives of those with whom you share Revela-
tion Glory will be forever changed.
Several years ago, I wanted to introduce myself to
one of the speakers at the Feast of Tabernacles cel-
ebration in Jerusalem. As he was being introduced,
it was revealed that he had been having large and
successful stadium meetings in many parts of the
world. As was my custom, I determined to welcome
him to the city and tell him how happy we were that
he had come.
It was impossible to get near him that night be-
cause so many were gathered around him, but the
next night I saw my opportunity and approached
him at the front of the auditorium. I was just starting
to introduce myself, when he said, “Oh, you don’t
need to tell me who you are. Everything that has
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happened to me happened because of the proph-

ecy you gave over me many years ago.” I wasn’t
conscious of ever having met the man, but he had
passed in front of me, like so many other thousands
of young people, and I had prophesied over him.
He told me, “What the brothers said last night
when they introduced me is only a small part of
what God has done,” and he began to tell me miracle
after miracle that had taken place in his life. It all
happened because I was able to get into Revelation
Glory and was willing to speak out of my spirit what
God was showing me.
The brother did not look familiar to me, and I may
not have ever looked at him. I commonly close my
eyes as I prophesy, so that I can look into the heav-
enlies and into the face of Jesus. What He shows me
as I look into His face is what I speak out.
When you insist on looking at the person, you may
get some impression from his or her facial expression
or body language. Close your eyes, and let God de-
clare the great thing He has reserved for that child of
His. He wants to speak greatness into His children’s
lives, and He wants to speak it through YOU.
Some people are hesitant to prophesy to someone
else greater things than have happened to them
personally. I look at it the opposite way. I love to
prophesy into the lives of others all the great things
I want God to do for me. Why limit God?
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The prophetic word is powerful, and we must
learn to yield to it.
God’s Word declares:

For ye may all prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:31

If God gives you an opportunity to prophesy, why

lose it? You may never get just such an opportunity
again. Some people want to wait until a person has
grown spiritually before they prophesy fully into his
life. But if God is showing you something, now is
the time to speak it forth. Trust God to know what
He is doing. You may not pass this way again, and
this may be your only opportunity. Speak forth what
God is showing you, and He will do the rest.
Prophecy serves a far greater purpose than speak-
ing God’s word to people. The prophets of old
prophesied to mountains and to winds and to seas.
Prophesy over situations. Speak into them what God
is showing you in Revelation Glory. Prophesy to your
finances. Prophesy to your enemies and bless them
in the name of the Lord.
If you pick and choose the people you will proph-
esy to, you may miss the future spiritual giants in
your midst, the Sauls whom God wants to turn into
Pauls. You may miss the Peters because they have
denied the Lord and your mind tells you they are not
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worthy of greatness in God. If you choose to minister

from the natural mind, you will miss many of the
great things God wants to do. Close your eyes, and
see with God’s eyes. Then prophesy from Revelation
Glory.
Sometimes there are people in our midst who are
very critical of us, and we don’t feel comfortable in
their presence or know how to relate to them. Once,
a very intellectual priest was in my meeting, and I
was aware that he had done a critique of one of my
books. I felt very uncomfortable. I suddenly felt like
I was in the midst of a horde of giants. I closed my
eyes tightly and kept them closed, and God began
to give me visions. One after another, he gave me
visions for those present, and I began to declare what
I was seeing.
After a while, God gave me a vision for this very
learned man, and I told him what I was seeing. He
came forward, and I was able to minister to him. In
the end, my critic and I became close friends.
In one of our campmeetings, I saw a vision of a
brother who had come from Central Africa. He was
on the fingertip of God, and God was twirling him
around. I sensed that he was wondering how God
could fulfill the great words he was receiving in
those days, but when I saw him on the tip of God’s
finger and I declared it openly in the service, He
knew that God would somehow cause him to be
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seen, to have great visibility. God would raise him
up. I knew that I would be hearing amazing things
from him in the future. This has happened over and
over again.
One night, when I was living in Jerusalem, I re-
ceived a telephone call. The voice on the other end
of the line was one I hadn’t heard in some twenty
years. He said, “This is Betta Mengistu. I’m sure you
don’t remember me.”
I did remember him and said, “Betta, you were
with the Presbyterians in Ethiopia years ago.”
He said, “Yes, that’s right. I’m in Jerusalem. Can
my wife and I come to see you?”
When they came to our house, he said, “We have
come to say ‘thank you.’ When we were young
students, you prophesied over both of us that God
would use us all over the world. At the time, we
couldn’t even afford bus money to get across Addis,
and we didn’t have proper clothes to wear to the
meetings. We couldn’t believe that any of the things
you said were possible. We were not married then,
but we got married soon afterward.”
He went on, “I want to tell you some of the things
God has done for us,” and he did. The Lord had tak-
en him all over the world as a representative for The
Living Bible. He traveled every few months to each of
the African nations where the governmental leaders
made themselves available to him. That night in
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Jerusalem he would be having dinner with a group

of people that included the Israeli prime minister.
He had come to be known in many countries as
“the Apostle of the Ethiopians,” and he was holding
large conferences in places like Sweden, Italy and the
Sudan. Each year he chose a new part of the world
for his conferences.
When I prophesied into the life of Betta and his
fiancée, he couldn’t see what I was telling him,
but God saw it and showed it to me. We must not
prophesy what we see with the natural eye. Let the
eye of the Spirit behold the great mysteries of God.
Betta conducts a regular prayer meeting in Nairobi,
Kenya, and several thousand people attend.
I could tell one story after another of this type.
Prophecy creates an anointed flow that changes
lives, and we must not be afraid to be a voice for
the Lord. His word is not ours to confirm. It is ours
to speak.
You will not automatically receive a strong
prophetic anointing the first time you attempt to
prophesy. As you do it regularly, however, your
prophetic anointing will increase. As you prophesy,
your confidence and boldness will grow, and you
will be able to speak forth greater and greater things.
You may start prophesying, for instance, by say-
ing, “God is going to bless you and use you to bless
others.” That’s a great word. But as you become
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more confident, you might say, “God is going to
bless you, and He’s going to send you abroad, and
you’ll be a blessing to others.” A little later, when you
find your confidence getting stronger, you might say,
“God is going to bless you. He’s going to send you
abroad. He’s going to send you to [such and such
place], and He wants you to bless the people there.”
In other words, increased confidence and increased
anointing will enable you to prophesy with greater
detail what you are seeing in Revelation Glory.
We all have to start somewhere, and when we
start we may not be able to express the fullness of
the message God wants to convey. What we say will
be a blessing, however, and it will strengthen us as
well as the person hearing it.
When the thing you are saying seems impossible,
God will plant it as a seed in people’s hearts that
will take root and enlarge and develop into a great
plant. Don’t worry about the fulfillment. That’s
God’s work.
Gradually, you will find yourself able to speak
more specifically into peoples’ lives, and with time,
you will see your prophecies coming to pass. You
will be amazed at what God does and how He
does it.
I have been prophesying now for many years, but I
am still amazed by what God says. He does it a little
differently every time. He says it a little differently
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each time. The visions I have are a little different each

time, and the way He brings forth the message is a
little different each time. Prophecy is always amaz-
ing to me because I am conscious of the fact that it
is so miraculous.
Just as revelation facilitates every other ministry,
it can bring us into new depths of healing. In one
service, I saw a vision of a person who had only a
part of his fourth finger, and I called it out, believing
God for a creative miracle that would cause that
finger to grow. As our faith grows, we will see this
type of miracle much more.
When you move in the glory realm, nothing is
impossible. If you can see it, God can do it. If you
can believe Him for it, the actual doing of it is as easy
for Him as giving us breath to breathe.
What a wonderful day! We have been seeing
great creative miracles in the Third-World coun-
tries for many years. We felt it was because the
people in those countries are poor and often feel
desperation, and because their faith is very simple.
Now we are beginning to see those same types of
miracles right here in America. God is replacing
organs that have been surgically removed, and
doctors are amazed when they see new organs in
their place.
Move into the realm of seeing, and nothing will be
impossible to you in any area of ministry.
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I find this to be a very effective way to minister. I
can just say, “I see [so and so],” and I allow what I
see minister to the people. To an individual, you can
say, “Sister, I’m seeing in the Spirit …” or “Brother,
I’m seeing in the Spirit …” That’s the way I word it.
You might say, “As I’m praying for you, I am see-
ing [thus and so] by the Spirit. This is what God is
showing me.” It’s powerful.
Believe for Revelation Glory, and it will assist you
in every aspect of your ministry.
Chapter 19

Revelation Glory and the Harvest

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night;

There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed
him, saying, COME OVER INTO MACE-
DONIA, AND HELP US. And after he had
seen the vision, ­immediately we endeavoured to
go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the
Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto
them. Acts 16:9-10

Just as the disciples of the first century were

sent into all the world to spread the Gospel in that
foundational period, we are now called to go forth
and reap the great harvest of the end time in all the
Earth. We cannot accomplish this great task alone.
The harvest requires a concerted effort on the part
of many harvesters, and that effort must be directed
by the Lord of the Harvest through Revelation Glory.
A few years ago someone said to me, “We need to
form an organization and develop a computerized
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database of areas that are unreached so that people
will know where they are most needed.” If they
could build a database of all the missionary activ-
ity they could learn about all over the world, they
reasoned, this would eliminate overlap of efforts in
some cases and lack of effort in others. If someone
was already doing the work, we would know and
not have to worry about that particular part of the
world. And if no one was working there, that would
alert us to the need.
This sounded like such a good idea to him that he
went on and on about it. After a while, I said, “We
already have a computer like that.”
“We do?” he asked, surprised. “Where is it?”
“It’s the Holy Ghost,” I told him. “He has it all
computerized.”
God knows exactly where the need is. He knows
who is ready to hear the Gospel. He knows who
is waiting for salvation. All we need to do is get
connected in the Spirit to His unlimited database
of knowledge, and we can be lifted out of our finite
understanding into His infinite understanding. We
can be lifted out of our own often-flawed reasoning
into His perfect reasoning. In the realm of God’s
glory, perfect knowledge and wisdom await us, and
the harvest demands that we seek it.
Not everyone is a missionary. God is using lay
people in His great harvest. There is nothing wrong,
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for instance, with taking a vacation and choosing a

place you have been wanting to go. If God is calling
you to some other place, however, it is better to let
Him send you by revelation. Let Him shine a light
on the very place He wants you to go.
You may see a place in the Spirit and not know
where is, but you can get a map and begin to
search for it. God will always show you something
in the vision that will be an indication of how to
locate the place He wants to send you. He will
point out something that you can take hold of and
run with.
One night when I was preaching in Hawaii, I
prophesied over the pastor that he would be going
to Japan. I saw three points on the islands of Japan.
“You will be going to Tokyo,” I told him, “you will
be going to Osaka, and there is another place in the
north. I’m not sure if it’s Sendai or Fukuoka. When
I get home, I will check the map and see what town
it is.”
When we got to the place we were staying that
night, we heard on the news that a typhoon had just
hit Sendai. In that moment I knew that Sendai would
be the third place the pastor would be going. I had no
need of looking at the map further. God had just let
me know that the pastor’s presence would be needed
in that place and that the hearts of the people would
be prepared for the Gospel through the storm.
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If God wanted you to go to Japan and you knew
nothing about the country, He might put a solid
white flag with a bright red sun in your vision, and
that would let you know that you were to go to Ja-
pan. If you didn’t know that flag, you could go to
an encyclopedia and look up flags, and find it there.
The Lord might put a woman dressed in a kimo-
no in your vision and let you see the same picture
in a book or magazine about Japan. You might say,
“That’s the woman I saw in my vision. Now I know
I’ll be going to Japan.”
He might show women dressed as geisha girls.
Their distinctive clothing is recognized around the
world. If the person seeing the vision didn’t know
what geishas looked like, he could describe what
he was seeing, and someone else present would
know: “They had long dresses, with very wide belts
that came out in some special way in the back. I
also noticed their shoes. They looked very strange.
They had on what looked like white socks, but the
toe section was divided. The actual shoe was like a
sandal, but it had a strap that went up between the
large toe and the next one, and that’s evidently why
the toes were divided.” As they described this, surely
someone present would have known that it was the
footwear of the geishas in Japan.
God always puts into our visions something that
will help us understand. If we don’t immediately
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understand it, it will at least be an identifying marker

that will enable us to search out the answer. He will
not leave you in the dark, but will give you some
indication to let you know exactly what part of the
harvest field you are to reap.
Some are content to dwell on visions of Heaven,
but that is only a starting place. We can never un-
derstand God’s work on Earth if we know nothing
about His throne. He wants to show us the heavens.
All revelation, however, ends with the Earth, for the
purpose of it is to show you the heart of the Father,
and His desire is toward men.
After God shows you His throne, after He gives
you a glimpse of Himself, He will turn your atten-
tion to this planet Earth and will speak to you about
your neighbors, your friends, your loved ones. The
revelation you receive will enable you to bless others
in some way.
There has never been a time like the present in
which people have been so hungry for the Gospel.
The fields are ready for harvest, and we need guid-
ance from the Lord of the Harvest for reaping them.
He is ready to give us very specific instructions,
just as He did the disciples in the book of Acts. As
we have seen, Peter was sent out by revelation, Paul
was sent by revelation, and over and over again this
theme of guidance by divine revelation was played
out on the pages of the book of Acts. The men and
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women of the early Church knew the throne of
God, and there they received specific instruction for
sowing the Word of God in the Earth. This is what
enabled them to make a powerful impact on their
world in such a short time.
For some years now, God has been preparing us
for the great harvest of the end-time. He has been
speaking to us to step into new mantles, new anoint-
ings, new visitations and new glory. He has called
us to new experiences, and we are learning to know
things from God’s perspective.
As we have seen, the Spirit is the teacher. He
will reveal everything we need to know, and He
will do it with clarity. He will show us things to
come. We will see His revival, and we will see our
place in His revival. We will see what He is about
to do for us, and we will be able to move forward
in the proper timing into His plan and purposes
for our lives.
Some older people have already folded their tents
and said, “Let the younger take my place,” but
God has no need of moving us aside in order for
the young to have a place. There are many empty
spaces, many opportunities and many areas where
others can fit in, without your having to move aside.
If God could raise up Sister Jashil Choi and use her
so mightily, He can do the same for every one of us.
She often said that her latter years were her best.
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To some of those who are already folding their

tents, God is saying that it is not a time to fold, but a
time to raise up a greater tent. The time of the great
harvest has come. Like Sister Choi, God is telling
our elderly believers to forget their age, to forget
every limitation in the natural and to know that their
most fruitful years are still ahead. God is about to
use you beyond your expectations. Take your sickle
and hurry back into the fields.
God is placing into our spirits a harvest conscious-
ness. Jesus said:

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and

then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for
THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO
HARVEST. John 4:35

We desperately need God to give us hearts that

embrace the harvest, hands that reach out to bring in
the harvest, and spirits that declare the harvest in a
very special way. There may be grain ready to pick on
either side of us, but if we are not aware of it, how can
we reap? It might be in front of you and behind you,
to the left of you and to the right of you, but if you
cannot see it, what can you do to further the harvest?
The harvest is ready. Many years ago a lady ap-
proached me in a church in Australia. I could sense
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that she was very nervous. “My husband is in church
tonight,” she nearly whispered. The way she said
it made me know that it was the very first time he
had gone to church with her. She clearly also had
the feeling that even though he was there, he wasn’t
really receptive to what the Spirit of God was about
to say or do.
I watched as she went back to her seat and saw the
man she sat down beside. It only took one glance to
convince me that he was a “pushover” for the Gos-
pel. He was “easy pickings” for God, the easiest in
the whole church that night.
I was right. Before the evening was over, the man
she had considered so hard was saved and filled
with the Holy Ghost.
Jesus said the grain was “white already to harvest,”
but too often we can’t see it that way. We need rev-
elation to change the way we look at the harvest.
We must see it as ripe. We must see it as ready to be
picked. Souls are ready to be gathered, ready to be
taken. No more struggle is needed. All we have to
do is thrust in the sickle and reap.
Those who heard Jesus’ words that day were
like many of us. They believed in the harvest, but
they were not aware that it was already “white.”
They were not aware that the harvest was ready.
They imagined that much work was needed before
these souls would come in. They had no idea that
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the people around them would be easy to reap for

the Lord.
What people around us say and do often leads
us to believe that they are far from ready to receive
Christ. Their words and actions seem to say that they
are not at all interested. The truth is that their hearts
are beating fast, and their mouths are dry. They may
be acting like petulant children, but underneath the
show, their hearts are yearning for release.
I have learned to listen to people’s hearts, not their
words. In the realm of the Spirit, we can gain such
insight through Revelation Glory, and then it becomes
easy to bring in the harvest.
We are blessed to live in this present day. If the
great revivalists of former generations had lived to-
day, they would have written a different chapter to
their great books. They would have written a fuller
story of their lives and experiences. You and I are
the privileged ones because God has brought us to
this day, and He is raising us up as those who can
see afar.
We are not just seeing the field that is right in front
of us, but God is lifting us up and giving us an abil-
ity to see much farther. In ourselves, we are limited
and can only see so far. In the glory, however, we
can be lifted up into heavenly realms, and from that
perspective, there is not a single nation we cannot
see, not a spot on the Earth that we cannot know, not
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an individual or group of people that God cannot
show us.
For three days each of the past few years, I have
ministered at the great Fire Conference with Bishop
Walsh in Wynwood, Pennsylvania. In July of 1999,
Charisma magazine did a wonderful article on the
church there and the dynamic ministry of the bishop.
In a recent visit, the church was packed with priests
and laypeople alike who had flown in from as far
away as Japan just to be in those services.
In one service, one of the priests read the portion
of scripture from Isaiah 54 that says, “Lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes.” We had all heard it
many times, but this time it was not something that
we all knew. It was different. When we move from
praise, to worship, to glory, suddenly the words
we speak are under the unction of the Holy Spirit,
and they do not convey what we already know, but
something entirely new.
As he began to read those words, I saw a vision of
a tent that stretched from the East Coast of America
to the West Coast. I saw that the tent stretched from
the northern border of America to the southern bor-
der. It was a tent of the glory of God and of revival
glory, and not one place in America was left out of
this great move of the Spirit of the living God.
What an acceleration there is in these days! Every-
where we go, God is just doing it in such a way that
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most of the time there is “standing room only.” It

doesn’t matter how large the building is, the largest
building in town is the one that God is filling in
these days.
Crowds will soon come into our churches, and
we need to make preparations for them. Many may
be thinking that they are not using the seating they
already have, so why should they prepare more? Be-
cause when the deluge comes, there will be no time
to get ready. Those who have not already prepared
will be caught unawares.
God loves Washington, D.C., and when everyone
else has been down on the city, He has given me a
wonderful vision and shown me what He was about
to do there. I’m a patriot, and I pray for our president
and for our Congress. In one vision, I saw myself
reaching out to embrace the Capitol, including the
congressmen and senators in it. God’s blessing is
not just for pastors and evangelists. He wants to
demonstrate His love to all men everywhere. This is
the time of harvest, and this harvest will come from
every corner of the nation and the world.
A friend has a ministry in Arizona. She went back
home from attending one of our campmeetings, and
suddenly God was sending more and more people to
her meetings. She had to put in more seats. Then, she
had to move into a larger place. She has been forced
to move five times in the past two years to accom-
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modate the crowds that are coming to her meetings.
When Pastor Bob Shattles began preaching his thir-
ty-week revival in Brunswick, Georgia, the pastor
was forced to move the meetings out of the church
and into the gymnasium. Nearly every Friday night,
that, too, was filled.
The Lord is the Chief Harvester, and you and I are
only cooperating with Him in the work of reaping
the harvest. It is a little like the couple cutting the
wedding cake. You are never sure who it is that really
puts the pressure on the knife and actually cuts the
cake. They do it together. Their hands overlap. Surely
one of them is exerting more pressure and is more
responsible for the cutting than the other, but we
never know which of them it is. It is done in unison.
Forget the struggles of the harvests of the past, and
begin to see the ease of harvesting in the glory. This
is a day of the revelation of the glory of the Lord.
Let that glory begin to fill your soul. Let it flow. It
will come in waves such as you have never known,
and that flow will bring forth a new ease and a new
fruitfulness.
Once, when I was coming out of China, I took Thai
Airlines from Hong Kong to Bangkok and on to Tel
Aviv. The plane going to Bangkok was crowded, and
the stewardesses were very gracious to me, offering
to put me in first class. That hasn’t happened very
often, and I was happy for it.
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When I got to my seat in first class and looked

around, I decided that people fly first class because
they don’t want to talk to anyone. The man across the
aisle from me was obviously not approachable, and the
man next to me (a Chinese businessman) wasn’t either.
I sat down quietly and decided that I would just enjoy
a nice meal and the experience of flying first class.
After the meal, the Chinese businessman reached
down and picked up a large book. I glanced at it
and saw that it was a book on antique Chinese fur-
niture. I know a little about Chinese antiques from
having lived in Hong Kong, so I said, “Oh, are you
interested in Chinese furniture?”
He said, “Only as an investment,” and went back
to his book.
I said, “Do you live in Bangkok or in Hong Kong?”
“Well,” he answered, “I live in both and commute
back and forth,” and he went on reading.
I was trying to think of some way to get a conver-
sation going.
“Have you ever been to the Hope of Bangkok
Church in Bangkok?” I asked.
“No,” he said, “I’m a Catholic.”
I said, “Oh, they wouldn’t mind,” and I began to
tell him about miracles of healing that had taken
place in that church. He didn’t seem to be very in-
terested, but I acted as if he were the most interested
person in the world.
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I mentioned that I lived in Jerusalem, that I was
serving the Lord there and that I had just come out
of China.
After a little while, the man pulled out his wallet,
took out some money and offered it to me. I realized
that God was setting him up for a miracle.
A few moments later, he said, “I have a pain that
goes through my chest all the way to my back. I’ve
had it for two years, and I can’t get rid of it. I’ve been
to all the best specialists, but they couldn’t help me.
Would you pray for me?”
He really didn’t mean for me to pray right then
and there. He meant for me to pray somewhere and
sometime, but I wasn’t about to let such an oppor-
tunity slip by. There was a large arm between our
two seats, but I reached over it, put my hand on his
arm and began to pray quietly.
As I prayed, the man began to moan, “Oh, oh, oh.”
He could feel the power of God from his fingertips
all the way up his arm, and was instantly healed by
the power of God. Because I saw that the glory of
God was on him and the anointing was on his lips,
I said, “Just yield to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is
resting on your lips. Speak in that new language.” In
just a moment, he began speaking in other tongues,
right there in the first class section of the plane.
The Lord had not elevated me to first class just
for my comfort and convenience. He had a purpose,
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and, thank God, He revealed it to me. As we lift up

our eyes and look on the field, we begin to be con-
scious of the purposes of God. We begin to see that
nothing happens by chance. We begin to see that
because our job description is “harvester,” He puts
us in a place where the harvest is the most ready.
He doesn’t sit us beside a person who is not ready to
hear what we have to say. He places us strategically
beside those who are ready, and all we have to do
is reach out and pick the crop. This is the hour of
harvest glory, and it can only be reaped as we enter
into Revelation Glory.
God has been blessing us with revival and getting
us ready for Heaven, but now that we are ready, He
wants us to make sure that others have the same
privilege of knowing Him. He wants to give others
the thrill of being instruments of harvest.
The Lord is using every tool known to man for
the harvest. He is using television, radio and now
the Internet.
When God told me to write Glory, He told me that
He would use the book (now in its tenth printing) to
bring in the last-day revival. We have done every-
thing we could to get it into the hands of men and
women all over the world. In 1999, the Lord spoke
to me to put it and several others of my books on
the Internet and make them available to people free
of charge. We put them there in two formats, one
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that could be read on-line and another that could
be downloaded from anywhere in the world. Before
long, we were getting e-mail from people all over
the world. One lady from Poland wrote, “I read
your book on the website. Can we translate it into
Polish?” I was excited about that, and it was indeed
accomplished.
Another lady wrote, “My husband uses the com-
puter in the daytime, but when I discovered that
your books were available on the web, I stayed up
every night for a week reading them. I read every
one of your books.”
I was blessed by that. I had made up my mind
that if we never sold another copy, I wanted to stand
before God with a clear conscience and hands that
were clean and know that we had done everything
we could to take those things He had imparted to us
and make them available to the world.
I understand that there are nearly two million peo-
ple using the Internet now, and I am believing God
that somehow all of those people are going to find
out about www.calvarycampground.org and tune
in and see what God is doing in this day. These are
days of harvest through Revelation Glory.
For those of us who are sent to the field to harvest,
can we trust God enough to go down a new road
with Him? Oh, yes. Can we trust Him enough to go
into some uncharted waters (as far as the natural is
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concerned)? We can. Can we trust that the steps we

take will lead us into a new dimension of spirituali-
ty? We can. I don’t need to see something in written
history to know that it is from God. I don’t need
an important person to confirm it to know that it is
from Him.
On hundreds of occasions, I have traveled to
distant harvest fields because of a vision or a word
from God, without knowing a person in the country
I was going to. I always found the exact person God
wanted me to find.
We can trust the Holy Spirit and Revelation Glory to
enable us to reap the great harvest of the end time.
Chapter 20

Revelation Glory and the Release of Nations

And THE NATIONS OF THEM WHICH
ARE SAVED shall walk in the light of it: and
the kings of the earth do bring their glory and
honour into it. Revelation 21:24

This is one of my favorite verses because it lets me

know that there will be “saved” nations. That releases
me to prophesy this into being and to believe God
for it to happen.
The fact that entire nations will be saved is diffi-
cult for us to believe in the natural. If we were to go
to any nation in the world and ask the Christians
there, “Do you believe your nation could be among
the saved nations?” most would lack that assurance.
There is wickedness in every nation, and that makes
it difficult for us to believe that entire nations, espe-
cially one that we know as well as our own, can be
saved. Yet God says that there will be such nations
and that they will “walk in the light” of the New Je-
rusalem.
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I’m so glad that this word nations is plural; more
than one nation will be saved.
We know that Israel will be one of the saved na-
tions because Paul prophesied it in the Spirit. He
said:

And so ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED:

as it is written, There shall come out of Sion
the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob. Romans 11:26

Many try to explain away these words, but they

cannot be explained away. God is not talking about
spiritual nations here. He is speaking of natural
nations, and He said that some of them would be
“saved.” If He said it, I believe it.
We cannot conceive of how God will bring this
promise to pass, but neither could anyone believe
that the Berlin Wall would fall or that the Iron Cur-
tain would come down. Still, it happened, and this
promise will also be fulfilled.
There was a prophetic word in our ministry con-
cerning the Berlin Wall falling about seven years
before it actually happened. About two weeks before
the Wall fell, we had a German group visiting us in
Jerusalem, and we began to tell them about the word
that had been given to us seven years b ­ efore.
Two weeks later, our phone rang in the middle of
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the night one night. One of our brothers was on the

line from another part of the city saying, “I’m sorry
to wake you up, Sister Ruth, but the Berlin Wall has
just been breached. I’m watching it on the television.
People are going across in their underwear.” It was
cold that night in Berlin, but the German people were
so excited that some of them didn’t take time to stop
and dress properly. They were determined to cross
over any way they could.
I didn’t sleep the rest of that night. We were many
miles away from Berlin, but our people were up
praising the Lord and cheering the German people
on as they pulled the Wall down and crossed over.
The excitement of that night was felt, not only in
Berlin and Jerusalem, but around the world.
In a similar fashion, the fall of the Iron Curtain
and the Bamboo Curtain thrilled men and women
everywhere. Many of us had an investment in the
countries behind those curtains. We had been be-
lieving for the fall of those barriers because God had
shown us it would happen.
It is not difficult to recall a time when no one
believed that China would ever open again to the
Gospel. God told me it would, and I prayed in that
revelation knowledge many times for the opening
to come.
Before the country opened, I often wished that
some plane I was on would be hijacked and taken
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there (with me on it). I knew that if I could somehow
get my feet onto Chinese soil I could believe for the
door to open. The Revelation Glory I felt in my soul
made me sure of it.
I remember when the very first church opened in
China, and now millions of Chinese know the Lord.
This same thing is happening everywhere. Very soon
we will see the last of the “closed” countries open.
God has declared it to be so, and before long we will
see widespread revivals that change entire nations
and get them ready to walk in the presence of God.
Very recently, the meeting of the heads of state of
both North and South Korea and the exchange of
families between those two countries have worked
to open another door that has been closed for too
long. Loudspeakers that have been blaring accusa-
tory propaganda across the border between the two
countries for decades have now been turned off, and
train service has been restored across borders. As
this book goes to press, new efforts are under way to
further unite the two countries. Most recently, North
and South Korean athletes marched together in the
opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney, Australia.
The Elián Gonzalez case served to bring to
the attention of all Americans and the world the
need to tone down the hatred that has dominated
­American-Cuban relations during recent gener-
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ations. In this way, it served to further open the

door into Cuba. At the recent gathering of world
leaders at the United Nations in New York, Presi-
dent Clinton shook hands with Fidel Castro — an
unprecedented show of friendship between the
two nations.
With the changes in these two areas of the world,
soon every door will be open. We have seen many
such miracles during our lifetime, and many times
the Lord told us it would happen before it became
visible. Begin to believe what He has revealed to you
about your country or the country He has placed on
your heart, and refuse to believe what you see with
your natural eye.
If you find it difficult to believe for the salvation
of your nation, keep reading and meditating on
Revelation 21:24. Memorize it and get it into your
spirit. There will be saved nations that worship in
the light of the New Jerusalem. In the light of that
revelation, we need to say, “If there will be saved
nations, one of them might as well be mine.” Your
nation may seem to be a most difficult one, but all it
takes to change a nation is for a wave of God’s glory
to roll over it. It can happen overnight.
If you are still having difficulty believing for the
salvation of your nation, take a look in the mirror
and remember how difficult you were to bring to sal-
vation. If God could save you, He can save a­ nyone.
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When I first began to go to Australia, it had the
reputation of being a hard place. A church of one
hundred was a good-sized church in that country.
Even though Australia is a big country, there were
only a few large churches there.
I prophesied many times that there would be large
churches and large congregations in Australia, and
most of the Australian believers thought that I was
speaking out of my own spirit. How could it happen
in such a difficult country? Now, however, there
are hundreds of large churches in Australia, and
a church of one hundred is a small church. Many
churches have a thousand or more members, and
some have five thousand and more.
This is just the beginning of revival. God is let-
ting us in on the ground floor so that we can help
bring in the fullness of what He desires to do. Don’t
write off any nation as being too difficult. Get into
Revelation Glory and let God show you His will for
the nations. Then you can speak release to them in
the Spirit.
Many Christians were alarmed by the formation
of the European Union, but the Union was essential
so that walls could come down in many countries.
In some of those countries, the only way the walls
would come down was through economic motiva-
tion. They would not have come down any other
way. God knows how to deal with men, and we must
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let Him do it in the way He can. He knows how to

crack the hardest nut.
My mother used to say to my brother, “You were
the hardest nut to crack.” He had run from God for
many years. As the youngest in the family, I was
blessed to be still at home when the revival of the
late 1940s came. My brother was already out in the
world by that time. He wanted nothing to do with
the Gospel.
He came into the faith because of a very long fast
my Mother did and a second long fast that my Dad
did. Mother stayed on liquids for a hundred and
eight days. Then, when she questioned the Lord
about why her son had not yet been saved, the Lord
said to her, “He is your husband’s son too.”
Mother could not bring herself to tell Daddy that
he needed to fast, so she said to the Lord, “You will
have to tell him.” Soon Daddy, too, went on a fast,
and he fasted a hundred and ten days. On the nine-
tieth day of his fast, my brother was saved.
Because he came in through all that fasting, my
brother very quickly came into a greatly anointed
life. He was mightily used of God and did great
exploits for the Kingdom. Many of those who knew
him during his days of rebellion could hardly imag-
ine it would happen.
Sometimes there are situations that look impos-
sible, but we need to look back at what God has
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already done. If God could save my brother, “the
hardest nut to crack,” He can do what we need to
have done. If God could change Saul the persecutor
into Paul the life-giver, we must believe God to do
the impossible for us too. I am believing God for
nations, and there is never a day that goes by that I
don’t ask Him for them.
In my song “I Ask for the Nations,” I express my
heart’s desire:

I ask for the nations.

I call them by name.
I present them to the Father in Jesus’ name.

There is never a time that I worship when God

doesn’t take me from nation to nation, continent to
continent, and I release my faith for the nations. God
wants to give you a sensitivity for the nations of the
world. Not only individuals will stand before God
and be judged; nations will stand before God and be
judged. He will divide them into the sheep nations
and the goat nations.
We have our preconceived ideas about which na-
tions might be the chosen of God, but we might be
surprised. Revival is sweeping into Moslem nations
right now, and God is revealing Himself to men
of high position, as well as to the common man. I
have come to believe that Moslems are some of the
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easiest people to win to the Lord. In some cases,

governmental regulations hinder the people, but in
other cases, these regulations are being swept aside.
Many Moslems are coming to the Lord because
Jesus is appearing to them personally.
Many are coming in because of television. Satel-
lites are in place that reach out to the entire Arab
world. People who would never have been able
to attend a Christian church service are watching
anointed servants of God like Benny Hinn on tele-
vision, and their lives are being changed. When
governments try to keep God out in one way, He
comes in through other means.
In the Arab world, there are secret believers
beyond number, and the multitude of them is
growing as this glory is bringing in the harvest.
We must continue to sow in faith, believing for an
increase. We must not think any unbelief or speak
any unbelief. Speak by revelation, not by sight.
Ezekiel saw a great river, and he saw that wher-
ever the waters of this great river would flow there
would be life. No border restrictions or govern-
mental regulation can prevent the great river of
God from flowing throughout the lands. It is hap-
pening, and it is happening quickly. No authority
figure can hold back the winds of God’s Spirit and
keep them from blowing. No regulation can control
God’s whirlwind or the cloud of His glory. Speak
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forth what you are seeing in the Spirit, and God
will bring it to pass.
In Jerusalem and Israel, both Arabs and Jews are
having dreams and visions, and they are coming to
know the Lord. One person had a visitation in the
night and was told to go next door to a neighbor.
That neighbor told this person about Jesus and led
him to the feet of the Master. A person on a kibbutz
had a vision of Jesus and was told to go to a certain
other person, who was also on the kibbutz. That
person had a book that was able to tell him more
about the Jesus of his vision.
What we are about to see will be truly “unbe-
lievable” to many. God is putting an excitement
into our spirits and taking out all the “ho-hum,” as
entire nations come to know Him. They are coming
by the multitudes every day.
I remember a time when it was said that some
twenty thousand a day were coming to know Jesus
in Africa. That number is now more like a hun-
dred thousand a day. For years, Africa was known
as “the dark continent.” It seemed impossible to
evangelize. Now look what the Lord is doing. This
will be repeated in nation after nation on other
continents as well.
When I first went to Nepal (in the trip I described
in Chapter 10), I met a man who had been jailed for
nine years for baptizing a few new believers. The
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new believers had also been given prison sentences

for bring baptized. As I said earlier, there were, at
that time, only about a hundred believers in the
entire Kingdom of Nepal, and now there are more
than a hundred thousand born-again Christians
there. God knows how to change nations.
It has been estimated that there are five hundred
and twenty million Spirit-filled believers world-
wide. That’s not counting the millions of other
believers. What a great company! God is doing just
what He promised.
When the enemy makes you feel discouraged,
think on what God is doing in the Earth. What He
has done in other places, He will do in your town.
What He has done in other families, He will do in
yours. What He has done in other situations, He
will do in your own.
Once, when I was traveling across Australia, min-
istering along the way, I stopped in Perth, Adelaide,
Elizabeth, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane.
When I got to Perth from Hong Kong, a group of
friends were there to take me to their home to have
a prayer meeting and prophesy over everybody.
We had a wonderful couple of hours together, and
then they took me back to the airport to catch my
next flight.
On the plane, I thought I had fallen asleep and
was dreaming about prophesying in my sleep.
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In fact, for the next few days, every time I would
get on a plane, I would find myself doing what I
thought was falling asleep and prophesying in my
sleep. I thought, “Oh, my, I’m prophesying so much
on the ground that when I get up in the air, I just
keep prophesying — awake or asleep.”
Then it dawned on me that I could only remem-
ber the beginning of the prophecy and the end of it
on each occasion. I never remembered the middle
of the prophecy. Slowly, I became conscious of the
fact that I was being carried away in the Spirit each
time I got on a flight to some other Australian city.
What was happening to me was not like falling
asleep, and what I was experiencing after I was
in this altered state was not like dreaming. I was
conscious of the beginning of the prophecy, as my
spirit was leaving my body, and of the ending, as
my spirit was coming back into my body.
I was so moved by this experience that I wrote a
postcard to our folks in Jerusalem. I told them that I
was having a wonderful week and that I must have
been carried away in the Spirit at least a hundred
times that week. (I came across the postcard years
later and reread its message.)
I began to wonder why this was happening to
me, and when I questioned the Lord, He told me
that it was because of the attitude many Australian
believers had toward their country. They were
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convinced that aboriginal spirits hanging in the

air above Australia were keeping the nation from
experiencing revival. “I want you to tell them that
some of the greatest experiences you have had in
Me have come every time you got up into the air
over Australia,” the Lord told me. “I want you to
preach and tell them that the heavens above Austra-
lia are open and that there are no aboriginal spirits
hanging over the country holding back the revival.”
The release of China is one of the most astonish-
ing miracles of our time. When Sister Jane Lowder
first came to our summer campmeeting many years
ago, she had not been saved and filled with the
Spirit very long. One night in the services, she had
a vision in which she saw a short Chinese man with
a round face. She later described it as looking “like
a happy face.” Over his head she saw a banner that
simply said AGAIN.
She told me about this vision, but she didn’t
know what it might mean. Then, twelve days later,
she had the same vision again. This time she saw
the short Chinese man open a door, and the Bible
went in the door. She told me about this vision too.
The very next day Deng Xiaoping made a political
comeback and became the leader of China. He had
been out of office nineteen years, and none of those
who were considered to be authorities on that part
of the world expected that he would be returned
to office.
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After Deng Xiaoping returned to power in China,
he opened the country to the world, and in doing
so, he opened the country to the Bible. He also
allowed the churches of China to reopen, and he
returned to them their properties and had them
­restored.
Remarkably, God had given Sister Jane, who
hardly knew where China was at the time, a vision
that revealed all of this twelve days before the rest
of the world knew anything about Deng’s return
to power.
When the resurgence of Premier Deng was first
declared in the West, there was only one sentence
in our most important newspapers. People could
hardly believe it was really happening. The one
sentence was very telling and was what Jane had
seen in her vision. It said that a banner, forty yards
long, had gone up in Tienanmen Square saying that
Deng Xiaoping had made a political comeback. This
was the banner Jane had seen over the head of the
short, round-faced, smiley Chinese man. It had
said AGAIN, because God knew the man would
rise again to power.
The following day another short article appeared
in the newspapers. It said that not much was known
of Premier Deng because China had been closed
for such a long time. It did say, however, that he
was unusually short for a Chinese person and that
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he had a round face that looked to many “like a

happy face.”
God is changing whole nations by sending waves
of His glory crashing onto hostile shores. Believe
Him for the release of your nation and for many
others as well. See it in Revelation Glory, proclaim
it in the Spirit, and God will bring it to pass.
Chapter 21

Revelation Glory and Finances

But my God shall supply all your need

ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN
GLORY by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

God is not limited in finances. He owns it all.

When we get into His Revelation Glory, we find out
just how easy it is to have all our needs supplied.
When I first went to Hong Kong as a young girl,
it was a great miracle. My parents’ church was still
quite small, and money was hard to come by. No
one from our church had ever traveled overseas,
and it was not an easy decision on my parents’ part
to allow me to go, especially so young.
Mother considered that a good sign from God
that what I was proposing was His will would be
for Him to supply my first financial needs. She told
me that if I could believe God for my passport fee
and the required vaccinations, I could go. Well, the

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vaccinations cost $2.00 each, and the passport fee
was $10.00. That seems like a very small amount
of money now, but it was a lot for a young girl in
those days. I knew, however, that God had spoken
to my heart, so I began to believe Him to provide
those needs.
When someone gave me enough money to get my
passport, I got very excited, and when God supplied
for me to get the required vaccinations, I was the
happiest girl in the world. Every stage of the pro-
cess of my going from that moment on proved to be
miraculous, and every stage was accomplished, be-
cause I was moved by the vision God had given me.
I might have been from a small church in Virginia,
but if God had birthed that vision into my spirit in
the glory, I knew that He would make a way.
What God was showing me from the very begin-
ning was different from anything I had heard anyone
else saying. Going to one nation was such a daunting
financial undertaking in those days that I had never
heard any others say that they were “called to the
nations.” Yet that is what God was showing me, and
I clung to that call tenaciously.
God doesn’t have small ideas. We’re the ones with
the small ideas. God doesn’t have limitations. We’re
the ones with the limitations. God doesn’t recognize
any impossibilities. We’re the ones with the impos-
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sibilities. When He speaks into our hearts, if we will

respond, we will find ourselves doing great exploits
with ease.
Most of us are a product of what we have heard
and what we have seen in our lives, but it need not
be so. God can speak into our spirits things we have
neither heard nor seen. When He calls us, it is not to
mediocrity; it is to greatness. And He plans to pay
all the bills we incur doing His will.
In the early 1970s, when the Lord sent me to the
Philippines to help bring in the great revival (it has
been estimated that more than twenty million Fili-
pinos have been filled with the Spirit as a result of
that revival), He gave us a plan to reach the entire
country. One year later, Time magazine reported that
one thousand priests and nuns and ten thousand
laypeople had already received the baptism of the
Holy Spirit.
We had been working with Harold and Diane Mc-
Dougal and their team in a series of public crusades,
which were accompanied by live television coverage.
On the final night of these crusades, God gave me a
revelation of how the nation could be reached, and
I stood up and prophesied it.
I was to fly out to Hong Kong and India the next
day and then travel overland with other associates
across the whole of Asia and the Middle East before
returning to America. The McDougals and their
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people would be left to carry out the plan the Lord
had given us. When Harold reviewed the enormity
of it, he was concerned.
“This plan,” he told me, “would require more
money than we took in all last year. For starters, we
would need $3,000 for literature and $1,000 for trans-
portation for the teams.” That was a lot of money for
a small mission in the early 1970s. We were talking
about mobilizing nearly a hundred people, sent out
in small teams to every province in the country to
witness to students and teachers and to military,
political and religious leaders everywhere. It was a
great undertaking.
“Well, I know God will provide it,” I assured him.
“If He gave us the plan, He will help you carry it
out.”
We were in the open-air patio behind the mission
house, and within moments, Brother Jack Chappell
came rushing out the door toward us. He was bounc-
ing with joy. He had just finished a long-distance
phone call with his secretary in America. He was in
the process of liquidating a business he had inherited
from his father so that he would not be distracted
from his commitment to full-time ministry. “My
secretary told me that I received a large refund on
my income tax,” he said. He was elated.
Then he turned to Harold. “Brother McDougal,”
he said, “I want to give you $4,000 toward the vision
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God gave us in the crusade. Put $3,000 toward the

literature and $1,000 toward the transportation.”
He had not overheard our conversation, but God
had placed it in his spirit to meet the first financial
needs of the great Spiritual Fiesta outreach that was
to change the Philippines forever. What a mighty
God we serve!
When God gives us a plan, faith rises up in our
hearts to declare a release of funds to perform that
plan. Some wonder if God is obligated to pay our
personal bills, but if we have made them at His di-
rection, we need never be concerned.
We could never make such a declaration in the
flesh. It is only as we see Him doing it in the Spirit
that our faith rises to receive it in reality.
Speak out the revelation God has given you, and
you will put something powerful into motion. We
don’t have to be concerned about the enormity of
the last-day harvest. God has more than enough to
enable us to bring it into the barns.
On Christmas night several years ago, a prophetic
word was given as we were gathered in our camp
celebrating. God spoke of “abundance, abundance,
abundance.”
Suddenly I saw a vision. One of my hands was
on the West Coast of America, the other was on the
East Coast of America, and with my arms I began to
gather in the abundance of the land. Then I turned
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and began to fling the gathered riches of America
out to the nations for the end-time revival. With
one hand, I sent riches out to Europe, and with the
other, I sent them forth to the Pacific Rim nations. I
did not think for a moment that all the riches for the
end-time revival would come through my hands,
but I knew that there would be an abundance for
all the reapers.
To some, that might have seemed like a foolish
thing to do, but when a strange compulsion comes
over you in the Spirit, do it. You are the Ezekiel of
this day. You are the Isaiah of your locale. You are
the John of your family. You are called to this day to
receive Revelation Glory and act upon it.
Let every small thought vanish from your mind.
Let every pettiness be pushed aside. Begin to see as
God sees and to know as He knows, and the finances
will always be there to do what you need to do.
Toward the end of 1998, God told me that He
wanted us to be debt-free by the end of the year, so
I began to believe for it. Not long afterward, a man
came to see me one day. He had been a friend of the
family for many years, and we sat and talked for a
couple of hours before he got around to telling me
why he had come. Then he took an envelope out
of his pocket, handed it to me and said, “I want to
give this to the ministry.” Inside the envelope was a
promissory note our camp ministry had owed him
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for several years. It was for $60,000, and he was can-

celing the entire note. That week the Lord gave us
$98,000 toward paying off our debts, and by year’s
end, we were totally debt-free.
We would not have known to believe for those
miracles if we had not gotten into Revelation Glory
and seen that the Lord wanted us out of debt by
year’s end.
If you need a financial miracle, get the mind of God
and then begin to declare it. When God says He will
give you a financial turnaround, believe for it and
begin to decree it. God wants money that is tied up
to be freed. He wants lost wealth to be found for His
children. He wants what is owed to you to be paid.
He wants to give you a financial release, and when
He shows it to you in dreams and visions, begin to
declare it, and you will see it come to pass.
God has blessings of stock for His people. He
has unexpected inheritances waiting for you. The
Church needs money to operate, and God wants it
to have what it needs. He wants to amaze you by the
greatness of what He does in this regard. Decree it
in the name of the Lord.
If we get sick, we lay hands on each other and
pray for healing. What’s wrong with laying hands
on our pocketbooks and billfolds and checkbooks
and believing God for a miracle? We do it regularly
in our meetings, and God honors it.
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If God wants to bless you financially, it is not just
for your own good. It is for your family and your fel-
low believers. Pastors, your church can’t be blessed
until your people are blessed. Begin to believe God
to get them out of debt. Encourage them to pay off
their credit card bills. Teach them to pay their tithes,
give an offering and then pay down their debts. This
will free up large sums of money for the Kingdom
harvest to come.
As you move more into Revelation Glory, finances
will come to you more and more easily.
Chapter 22

Revelation Glory and Authority

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne

and of the four beasts, and in the midst of
the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and S E V E N E Y E S ,
WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF
GOD SENT FORTH INTO ALL THE
EARTH. Revelation 5:6

When a cry went forth (in the early part of this

chapter) for someone to open the book, an immediate
answer came. The answer was that “the Lion of the
Tribe of Judah [had] prevailed to open the book” (verse 5).
When John turned to look, however, he did not see
the Lion, but rather the Lamb. That must have been
a little disconcerting to him. But the fact is that any
time the Lord was seen in the book of Revelation, He
was seen as the Lamb. He is the Lamb of God, “slain”
from the foundations of the world, and our authority
comes from Him.
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We always prefer to see the Lion, for to us the Lion
represents authority. In this case, however, John saw
that it was the Lamb who had authority. It was the
Lamb who had the “seven horns.” It was the Lamb who
had the “seven eyes,” which represent the Spirit of rev-
elation, the Spirit that was to be “sent forth into all the
earth.” It is this Spirit of revelation, coming forth from
the Lamb on the throne, that gives us our authority.
It was not the Lion who had the horns. It was not the
Lion who had the seven eyes. It was not the Lion who
represented the revelatory realm. If we want to live
in the fullness of the authority that God is bringing
into the Church today, we must partake more of the
Lamb nature than of the Lion nature. If we want the
power that comes with authority, we must adopt the
Lamb nature. We must allow the Lord to work the
Lamb nature into us.
There is a great authority that comes with revela-
tion, and without revelation we can never achieve it.
Some don’t want it, for with authority comes great
responsibility.
Those who desire authority seek it in many dif-
ferent ways. Some think that authority is mostly a
question of title or position. Others look to success
as the label of authority. I am convinced that seeing
in the heavenlies can do more for our authority than
anything else. Vision gives us the authority to act.
After Paul had seen the Macedonian saying, “Come
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over into Macedonia and help us,” he did not need to

seek any other authority to act. His authority was his
revelation from God.
When you are speaking to people, if you can see
the very thoughts of their hearts and address those
thoughts, your preaching will have much greater
authority. If you can see the ailments of the sick and
proclaim them, your prayers for them will have much
more authority. If you can see something in the Spirit
and prophesy it, your words will have much greater
authority.
My prayers have greater authority these days be-
cause I am praying out what God is showing me in
the Spirit. When I declare financial releases because
of something I am seeing in the Spirit, my declaration
has great authority. Those speaking from the aspect
of a fleshly need might not have the same authority.
When I declared abundance for the worldwide
harvest, I was responding to what the Spirit was
showing me, and I knew that what I was speaking
would come to pass.
As our revelation increases, our authority also
increases, and your authority will always be in pro-
portion to your revelation. Some are satisfied to have
revelations concerning the Word of God, but as we
can see, we also need revelations concerning what
God is doing at the moment and concerning the things
He wants us to be doing at the moment.
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My life has been a very exciting one because it has
been a life of revelation. Very early in life, God gave
me favor with men through Revelation Glory, and
that has enabled me to minister to people all over the
world. This has happened only through the quicken-
ing of the Spirit in revelation knowledge and wisdom.
When God speaks something to you, it is because
He wants you to do something about it. What He has
said to you then becomes your authority for acting.
Your action may be either a spiritual one or a physical
one, but whatever the case, your authority to act is
the revelation the Lord has given you.
Pastors need to stay one step ahead of their people
through revelation, and when they do, they will never
lack authority. It is only when pastors see their mem-
bers outstripping them spiritually that their authority
comes into question.
Some would argue that faith is the most important
element in authority. Faith is important to authority
because people are drawn to men and women of faith.
But when revelation comes to you, faith is released
to accomplish it, and that faith stirs others to stand
by your side and help you. It is your revelation that
releases your faith and empowers you.
When you see something in the Spirit, you have faith
to speak it into being. The minute you begin to declare
and act upon the vision God has given to you, He
responds to your need. This becomes your authority.
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When God shows us a vision, the purpose is not

just to write it down in a nice little “vision book.”
That’s a good habit to get into, for it will help you
remember what God has shown you. But the vision
is not a toy given to you by God to put in your toy
box. It is a command to act, and it is the authority to
do whatever that command reveals.
For nearly a year, as our president was under threat
of impeachment and removal from office, I stood firm
in prayer, believing for his acquittal. Most Christians
were doing just the opposite. They were happy to
see him punished for his sin. I was only acting on
what God was showing me. I knew that we needed
stability in our government, and I was also praying
for our president as an individual. I believed that God
wanted to raise him up to be another Billy Graham.
One night in the campmeeting service, I had a
vision of the Capitol building in Washington. I saw
myself with my hands on top of the Capitol dome, as
if my hands were resting on the head of a bald man.
Then I saw myself put one hand at the end of the Cap-
itol building on the side where the Senate is located
and the other hand on the side where the House of
Representatives is located, and I picked up the Capitol
building as if it were a cake. When I did that, a funny
phrase came to mind: “It’s a piece of cake.”
From the moment I saw that vision, I knew that
the president would be acquitted, and that revelation
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gave me greater authority in prayer and in my decla-
rations in the days that followed.
Even if there were seven thousand others who were
praying, I know that my prayer was heard. It was a
prayer inspired by Revelation Glory. We can’t pray ef-
fectively any other way. And if we don’t feel that our
prayers are important, then they’re not important. If
we don’t feel that we can make a difference, then we
can’t. We must feel the heart of the Father and move
into the authority that revelation gives us.
I was invited to pray before the United States
Congress because of the Revelation Glory that God
is pouring into my life for America. I was invited
to minister in the Pentagon because of the Revela-
tion Glory that is working in my life. I have stood
before kings and presidents and prophesied, and
it has only happened because over the years I have
developed a habit of standing in the glory and
waiting before God to see what He will reveal to
me by His Spirit.
In every church, pastors have a problem with dis-
gruntled individuals who are angry because they
feel that no one is giving them enough authority.
The Sunday school teacher doesn’t give them enough
authority, or the leader of the women’s group doesn’t
give them enough authority. No one gives them
enough authority, and they resent it. But we must not
depend on other people for our authority. It matters
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little whether men recognize us or not. Our authority

comes in Revelation Glory.
You don’t have to force you way into a situation.
God will do it for you. Some of the meekest people I
know today have the greatest authority. I am thinking
of men like Mahesh Chavda and Bob Shattles and
others of their caliber. These men are a delight to be
around. They have the “Lamb nature,” and when
you sit next to them, you feel the presence of Jesus.
As a result, they are bringing healing to multitudes
of people and raising the dead. They do it with great
authority.
When I met Sister Silvania Machado from Brazil, we
were unable to have a conversation except through
an interpreter. She doesn’t speak English, and I don’t
speak Portuguese. She had just come into our eve-
ning service, and she didn’t have any gold dust on
her face yet. But there was such a sense of the sweet
presence of the Lord, the Lamb nature, about her that
I began to weep. Her authority does not come from
having a blustery nature. It is from the sweetness of
the revelation that is upon her life. It comes from the
Lamb who sits on the throne. After all, the throne is
the seat of authority.
During our 2000 Winter Campmeeting, several
spiritual giants were in our midst. One very promi-
nent Christian lady came from Florida and brought
a group with her.
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For many years now, I have been receiving my
sermon just before I get up to speak, and sometimes
it doesn’t come to me until I am actually standing
before the people. That night, the Lord gave me this
portion on the Lion and the Lamb. I didn’t remember
preaching it before that time.
After the meeting, we went out to lunch with our
distinguished guests. During the conversation around
our meal, the lady from Florida said to me, “I collect
lions and lambs.” It was only then that I noticed
the large lion’s face necklace she was wearing. Her
earrings were also lions, as were other pieces of her
jewelry.
In my sermon, I had said that we tend to like the
Lion more than the Lamb, and she said that God had
been speaking to her. She wept through the sermon
because she had been one of those who were guilty of
preferring the Lion nature over the Lamb nature. God
is letting us know that the One who sits on the throne
is the Lamb, and He is causing us to desire the “Lamb
nature” more than that of the Lion. It is in Revelation
Glory that we receive our authority from Him who sits
on the throne, not through our own natural bluster.
Part IV

Revelation
Glory: How Can
You Get It?
Chapter 23

Free Yourself From Every Natural Weight

Let us lay aside every weight ... looking unto

Jesus ... . For consider him ... lest ye be wea-
ried and faint in your minds.
Hebrews 12:1-3

One of the secrets of entering into Revelation Glo-

ry is freeing yourself from every natural weight so
that you are totally carefree and unencumbered.
While it is true that our word glory is translated
from the Hebrew word kavod, and refers to some-
thing that is “heavy,” this heaviness is not like any
natural heaviness. The weight of glory that comes
upon us is about as heavy as cotton candy. The
heaviness of the Spirit is light. There is no other
way to describe it.
When we try to come into God’s presence and
there is a heaviness upon us from the activities of
the day, we must cast off that heaviness and be-
come carefree in order to experience the glory in
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its fullness. It’s a lot like using a palate cleanser.
Before eating some delicacies, you have to use
something that cleanses the palate and takes every
other taste out of your mouth. If you don’t, you
can’t appreciate the delicacy you are about to eat.
We so easily get caught up in the cares of the day
that we can miss the great things God wants to do
for us. It is absolutely necessary to cast these cares
off, to become totally and completely carefree, if
we are to stand before the throne of God and ex-
perience Him in all His glory.
You will never experience the greater glory
unless and until you have cleansed yourself of all
heaviness brought about by “the cares of life.” Stop
worrying about the problems of yesterday, the
problems of today and the problems of tomorrow.
There have been many problems in the past; there
are, no doubt, many problems in your life today;
and there will surely be many problems you will
have to face tomorrow. You, however, must learn
to focus on Jesus. “Consider Him!”
All surface issues must be removed if the great-
ness God has for us is to come through. He has
placed seeds of greatness within you, but if those
seeds are constantly smothered with litter, they
will not prosper. We must tap into God’s favor,
yield to it, and let that greatness come forth. It’s
in there. We just have to let it out.
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Too often, all the things that are piled on top of

us are preventing the greatness from springing
forth within us. These things must be removed. We
want God’s light weight of glory, not the world’s
smothering weight.
We will feel the “heaviness” of the Spirit upon
us more and more in the days to come, but it will
not produce in us a heaviness of spirit. It will
produce a lightness.
There are things we can do to become carefree.
Every time you go into a service, be aware of your
need to cast off every burden. Plead the blood of
Jesus over your mind. Tell the Lord: “I believe You
to anoint me afresh. Create praise within me. Lift
the cares of the day. Let the words of my mouth
and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in
Your sight this day. Allow me to have an eye single
for Your glory.”
Although you might have to do this consciously
the first few times, you will soon be doing it auto-
matically. Personally, I have prayed many similar
prayers, but have found that I did not have to pray
them the next time around. The freedom I sought
in worship then came automatically.
When I was first stepping out in worship
through dancing before the Lord, for instance, I
had to pray about it and consciously press in to it.
Now, I have done it so many times that something
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automatically hits my feet, and I begin to dance
without thinking about it at all.
You may not feel that you can cast off your prob-
lems so easily. Most of us think that our particular
situation is unique and somehow more difficult
than what other people are facing. This is not true.
The devil is an equal opportunity “annoyer.” He
makes sure that every individual gets his or her
fair share of troubles.
Get to the place that you don’t notice the devil
so much. Don’t talk about him. Talk about the
excellence of the Lord.
Another of the things that sometimes prevents
us from being carefree is remembering the mis-
takes of the past. It is not wrong to fail, but it is
wrong to stay down once you have fallen. It’s
not wrong to stumble, but it’s wrong to con-
tinue to do so. God wants us to drive in some
spiritual stakes and then go forward. Leave the
past. There’s nothing you can do to change it, so
go forward into the divine purposes of God for
your future.
For those who desire to enter into visions, begin
by throwing all your cares to the wind. Throw
them away, and start concentrating on the Lord.
You might ask, “Well, what about all the answers I
need to prayer?” By the time you’ve been touched
by the Lord, either you will no longer have those
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same concerns, or God will have dropped the an-

swers into your spirit with great ease.
Shake off every care. Freeing yourself of every
weight is one of the most important things you
can do to enter into Revelation Glory.
Chapter 24

Cultivate the Presence of the Lord

And the Lord appeared unto him [Abraham]

in the plains of Mamre. Genesis 18:1

So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the

sceptre. Esther 5:2

In thy presence is fulness of joy. Psalm 16:11

The upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Psalm 140:13

Since the glory is the presence of the Lord, one of

the most important secrets of entering into Revelation
Glory is to learn to cultivate His presence. Most peo-
ple think that either God is present or He’s not, and
nothing can change that fact. This is not true. There
are things we can do to welcome His presence, and
there are things we can do to cause His presence to
remain with us longer.
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One morning, the Lord spoke to us very clearly in
our 1999 Summer Campmeeting. He showed us that
He wanted to place a great rest in His people, even
in the sense of our search for Him and our desire for
greater spirituality. It was clearly not the time to be
calling for a forty-day fast. It was not the time to be
stressing travail and intercession. It was time to bask
in the presence of the King.
Too many Christians who are already in the Lord’s
presence are still pleading for an entrée. When
Queen Esther suddenly found herself in the presence
of Ahasuerus, she was satisfied. His presence was
her highest desire. She proposed to him a banquet,
a reason to stay close to him, a reason to enjoy his
presence even longer. If you will set before the Lord
a banquet of your praise, you will be surprised how
easily all your petitions will be answered. You will
be surprised how easily you can enter into Revelation
Glory.
If you desire the Lord’s presence more, just set a
banqueting table for Him. Praise Him more, worship
Him more, adore Him more. This woos His presence,
and it is in His presence that all your needs will be
supplied.
There is a right way and a wrong way to come into
the presence of the Lord. We often come with our
shopping lists in hand. We pray about: “My needs,
my mother’s needs, my brother’s needs, my sister’s
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needs, my friend’s needs, my job, my promotion, my

...” Stop flooding the Lord with requests and invite
Him to a banquet. This is not a one-sided relation-
ship. Stop demanding everything of Him, and start
doing your part to maintain the ­relationship.
Stop demanding that the Lord give you more ban-
quets, and start giving banquets for Him. He has set
many banquets before you while you were coming
into your legal position in Him, and now it’s your
turn to entertain Him.
Abraham entertained the Lord in His tent, and
from then on that tent was called by the Jewish
people “the Tent of Hospitality.” You need a tent
just like Abraham’s, a place where you can entertain
the Lord and enjoy His presence. Learn to cultivate
His presence, and Revelation Glory will come to you.
We know how to keep guests we wish would stay
longer, and we know how to get rid of guests we
wish would leave. If we want someone to stay, we
say, “Please, would you have some more tea? Can I
offer you another piece of pie?”
My father never could get his pie and his coffee
to finish at the same time. He always needed a
little more pie to go with his coffee or a little more
coffee to go with his pie. Usually, it was because
he was in the middle of telling some great faith
story, and he didn’t want to lose the opportunity
to finish it.
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One of the things I enjoyed most as a child was
being alone with Daddy in the car. As we rode to
the store or to some other place, he would take just
as much interest in telling me those faith stories as
he did others. I couldn’t help but notice that he was
just as anxious for me to hear about the great things
he was telling as he was some famous preacher who
sat with him at the dinner table. He never felt that
those stories were “too great” for me. He poured
them into my spirit, just as he did to everyone else.
By asking for a little more coffee to go with his pie
or a little more pie to go with his coffee, Daddy was
keeping the people there and keeping them quiet so
that they could listen to his important message. This
was the same secret Esther used as she entertained
the king. That is how we enter into Revelation Glory,
by learning to maintain the presence of the Lord with
us long enough that it can happen.
Some people never say more than the necessary
things to the Lord. They may greet Him in the
morning and say goodnight to Him before sleeping.
They may talk to Him before meals, but otherwise,
they make no effort to entertain the presence of the
Lord. They have never bothered to learn the secrets
of keeping Him with them longer. Either they didn’t
know it was possible, or they didn’t care.
We must sit in the Lord’s presence, pouring out
our love to the King of kings. When we do so, we
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can be assured that He will extend to us the golden

scepter, as King Ahasuerus did to Esther. This meant
that she could draw even nearer and that she could
request anything she wanted. We have that same
privilege with our King. He will let you get just as
close as you desire.
We no longer need to travail before God, making
the same petition to Him over and over again. Not
only is there no longer time for it, but it’s not neces-
sary. When we come into a loving relationship with
our Lord, we have confidence that what we need is
already “in the works,” in the process of fulfillment.
God’s will is to meet our needs, and He has promised
to do it. Bask in His presence.
These intimate moments with the Lord are times
of revelation. If we are willing to spend time in His
presence, there is nothing that He will withhold from
us. Nothing will remain hidden from us. Cultivate
the presence of the Lord, and you can have anything
you need. Worship Jesus.
In the natural, we would never call a man beau-
tiful. Jesus, however, is beautiful, and every time
we say the phrase, “Lord, You’re beautiful,” there’s
a beauty that drops back upon our own souls. One
measure of it goes to Him, but nine tenths of it comes
back upon us.
As we continue to pour out upon the Lord in reve-
lation knowledge the things that we sense, the things
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we are experiencing, the beauty we are pouring out
to Him pours back on us. The perfume we’re pouring
out on Him falls back on us. The incense that we are
giving unto Him in praise and worship blows back
on us. No wonder we’re receiving such unusual
manifestations of God’s glory these days! As we
pour out glorious worship to Him, He is allowing a
portion of it to fall back on us.
Go deeper into the revelation of Jesus Christ —
“God who was, God who is and God who is to come”
— and other aspects of Revelation Glory will come
as you draw closer to the Savior.
Chapter 25

Look to See

After this I looked, and, behold ... .

Revelation 4:1

When John the Revelator experienced his great vi-

sion, it was because he “looked,” expecting to see. You
can’t see if you don’t look. In the very first chapter of
Revelation, in fact, John tells that he “turned to see”:

And I turned to see the voice that spake with

me. And being turned, I saw seven golden can-
dlesticks. Revelation 1:12

It was only when John “turned to see” that he was

able to see the seven golden candlesticks. He had to
make the effort.
Several other sections of John’s Revelation begin
with the words “And I looked” (6:8, 14:1, 14 and 15:5).
This same phrase is used nearly a dozen times in the
book of Ezekiel. He also had to look. Ezekiel goes

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even further by showing that not everything was
immediately apparent. Some things he saw only
after he was out in the depths of God’s river. For
instance, he had not noticed that the banks of the
river were lined with trees. He only saw it when the
Lord called it to his attention:

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou

seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me
to return to the brink of the river. Now when
I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river
were very many trees on the one side and on the
other. Ezekiel 47:6-7

These were the same trees John saw that were “for
the healing of the nations,” but Ezekiel hadn’t even
known they were there. “Hast thou seen this?” No,
you can’t see if you don’t look.
The trees were there all the time. Ezekiel just
hadn’t seen them yet. Likewise, there is so much that
we have not yet seen. A provision for the healing of
the nations was there all the time, but the prophet
had not noticed it. When he got into the depths of
the river, his eyes were opened, and he saw what
had been there all along.
There are things that you and I are incapable of
believing until we get out into the depths of God’s
river. If we are to believe for the greater thing, we
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must come into a greater glory. Intellectually we

know that something exists, but when we get in
the glory, we suddenly find how easy it is and how
real it is.
If God says that all the earth will be filled with the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters
cover the sea, we will not know it first by physical
sight. Glory comes by revelation, and if we know it
by revelation, it will then be manifested.
The healing of the nations has begun, and we will
see an acceleration of the process in the days ahead.
No nation is too difficult for God. The European
nations are not too difficult for Him. The Middle
Eastern nations are not too difficult for Him. The
Asian nations are not too difficult for Him. The
African nations are not too difficult for Him. God
knows how to deal with the people of this world,
and no nation will remain untouched by revival in
these last days.
If you have never before seen into the realm of the
Spirit, believe to see. As you praise and worship,
look to see. Look to see the face of the Lord. Look
to see His glory. Look to see His throne. Look to see
the angels round about the throne. Look to see that
which He desires to reveal unto you, and don’t let
a day go by without looking to see. If you will do
this, you will come to the place that never a day goes
by without your seeing into the realm of the Spirit.
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I know people who have been Christians for twen-
ty or thirty years and have yet never seen a vision
that they were aware of. Once they began to see, they
could see all the time.
As I have shown, we did not see for many years
because we were not taught to see. Once we knew we
could, we began to believe for it, and the experience
became more and more common. In the days ahead,
we will receive a double portion of seeing because
we know we can see, and we expect to see.
Once we move into a new dimension in God, we
are never satisfied with the status quo; we want
more. That delights the heart of God. He has expe-
riences for us of which we have to take hold.
Sometimes, when I am retelling a vision I have
had, I often begin to see it again. Then, suddenly, I
am not telling it from memory, but by relating what
I am seeing at the moment.
As you praise and worship, expect to see the Lord.
See Him in all His power and glory. Then, go further.
Expect to see other things as well.
Looking to see is an act of faith. Believe to see,
and then look to see. Look to see what the Lord has
to show you. Look to see what the Lord has to say
to you. Look to see the voice that speaks with you.
Turn and look into His face.
See the Lord. See Him in all His glory. See His
beauty. Look into His eyes. See the glory of His
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countenance. See the glory that shines forth from

His face. God desires us to see, and if we desire to
see, we will.
Some people see very easily. As soon as they are
saved and filled with the Spirit, they begin having
visions. Some find it harder to move into ­revelation.
Often this is because they have been discouraged
from doing so. Some well-meaning leaders feel that
revelation is not for immature believers. But can we
mature without the teaching of the Holy Spirit?
Some people who do move into visions find that
they are so looked-down-upon by fellow Christians
that they soon begin to neglect this gift. Some even
pray for it to be taken away from them.
Many others have not moved into Revelation
Glory simply because they have never been taught
the importance of it. We don’t appreciate and seek
anything we don’t properly value. A great many
Christians fail to embrace the ministry of revelation
as they should.
This is your opportunity. Move into Revelation
Glory today, and let God transport you to the heav-
enly realms.
Chapter 26

Expect Your Revelation in the Assembly

Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son

of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah,
a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit
of the Lord I N T H E M I D S T O F T H E
CONGREGATION. 2 Chronicles 20:14

We need revelation for our daily lives, and we can

receive it anywhere and everywhere. I have found,
however, that the greatest revelations come to us
when we are together worshiping the Lord in the
glory.
As a child, I was blessed to sit under the ministries
of great men and women of God like William Bra-
nham, Jack Coe, A.A. Allen, Kathryn Kuhlman and
others. I learned much from each of them, but more
than what I learned was what I experienced. Once
you have been in the atmosphere of God’s glory, you
will never be the same again. There are things that
you see and experience in the glory that you cannot
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receive in any other way. This is the reason I en-
courage people to get into good meetings anywhere
they can. It is worth making an extra effort to get to
a place where God is doing something unusual.
While it is true that we now have videos that we
can view in our own homes, there is always some-
thing missing when we experience it that way. The
impact of spiritual meetings is far more powerful
when you can be there in person and can feel the
flow of Revelation Glory.
You can watch a Benny Hinn video or watch him
on television, but there is no way you can appreciate
the atmosphere in which that video or that television
program was recorded. You may see many wonder-
ful things on a recording, and you may be blessed,
but there is something to be said for arriving early at
the crusade with anticipation and sitting there in that
heavenly atmosphere until the end of the service.
There is no way to describe it. It is just a wonderful
experience, one which brings the flow of revelation.
I am busier now than I ever have been before, but
I try to get into Pastor Benny’s meetings as often as I
can. It is not just that I feel some special relationship
to him through having prophesied over him many
years ago in Jerusalem. I also want what those meet-
ings bring to my soul for my own spiritual welfare
and for the benefit of my ministry to others. God
is raising up many men and women with similar
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anointings, and you owe it to yourself to get into

their meetings as often as you can.
The revelation of most every great thing I have
seen God do through His people over the years has
come forth “in the midst of the congregation.” It may
have come during a time of worship, during a time
of prayer or during the altar service, but it happened
sometime while we were gathered to worship God.
This is true now more than ever. What God is
doing and what He will do from now until He re-
turns will be experienced congregationally. God is
still giving His people visions and revelations. Get
to some anointed altar and believe for them today.
I would say to church leaders everywhere: Make
your church — your chapel, your temple, your
house of worship — a place where God’s Spirit can
be experienced and where men and women can
receive revelation from God that will change them
and define them for years to come. Let your altars
be places of the revelatory realm.
To individuals, I would say, spend time in some
anointed place — even if no one else is there. Go
into an anointed tabernacle or church and sit in the
glory of God. Linger as long as you possibly can.
When a place is saturated with the anointing, you
will be blessed just being there. Let the glory build
in your soul. Go from glory to glory to glory, until
the natural begins to fall away.
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Sometimes you may have to push aside some of
the natural things in favor of the spiritual. Don’t
leave yourself much time to peruse the malls or to
do other things that might distract you from your
purpose. Stay in the presence of the Lord so that it
can saturate your soul.
When you lie down at night to rest, lie down in
the Spirit. Let yourself be carried away with it. Allow
God to give you some new and wonderful experi-
ences while you rest.
Sometimes it is better to avoid too much human
contact, apart from the fellowship of the service,
while you are increasing in the glory. Too many
times we can laugh off or talk off the anointing with
our friends.
When believers attend conferences and seminars
these days, they come home with notebooks filled
with notations on the interesting things they have
heard and learned. I am much more concerned that
people begin to allow the Spirit of revelation to work
within them and quicken them. I don’t mind if they
go home without a single note in their notebooks, as
long as they have seen the Lord’s face and received
revelations of the eternal world. If that happens, our
meetings have been a success. When men and wom-
en learn to flow in the Holy Ghost, that knowledge
will keep them anywhere they happen to be in the
world.
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Later, if someone who has attended our meetings

happens to lose his attaché case with his sermon
outline book inside, he can still minister because he
has learned to flow in the Spirit.
Our worship services should be Holy Ghost work-
shops. We have had enough seminars. We must
come together collectively and wait for the revelation
of the Holy Ghost, wait for God to show us the things
He is doing in the Earth.
He is teaching us how to flow together. He’s
teaching us how to yield to the Spirit together. If we
let Him, He will lift us collectively into the realm of
heavenly song. When we know that this is His desire,
we should hold back some other things that might
intrude upon it.
The most common mistake made with spiritual
gifts is the wrong timing of them. We want to do one
thing, when God wants to do something altogether
different. Defer to the Holy Spirit and hold back one
thing in favor of the ascendancy, the movement from
glory to glory. Let everyone be lifted together into
the high places, so that we can all see together and
hear together.
In the natural, we can all select the same network
on our television sets and all get the same program.
Is the natural greater than the spiritual? No. There
will be times in the future when we will be so united
in the Spirit that even without someone prophesying
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about the river, we will all see the same vision of the
same river. People all across our congregations will
be caught up in the Spirit at the same moment and
will see the exact same thing we are seeing.
I have been in services in which fifty or more peo-
ple have seen the same thing at the same time. Their
descriptions of what they were seeing were not all
the same. They varied, depending on the particular
focus of the individual. Yet it was clear that everyone
was seeing some aspect of the same thing.
The wonderful thing about us all seeing the same
thing is that no one is left out. When someone is
prophesying, for example, don’t just stand there and
do nothing. Jump in and flow with the prophecy.
You may even see it while it is being given, just as the
person giving the prophecy sees it. Get to the place
that you all flow together in the service.
There is another benefit. Some people stop proph-
esying prematurely. They may be new to it, and they
get nervous and stop in the middle of the revelation.
A mature person can carry on that revelation and see
it through to its conclusion.
If I were to say, for instance, “His eyes are as a
flame of fire,” try to close your eyes and see the rest
of the vision of Jesus. Let Him show you His beauty
in a unique way. See the picture, and then begin to
describe it in your own words.
How does such Revelation Glory come to us? It’s
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not difficult at all. We enter into God’s presence by

praising Him. We continue praising Him until a
spirit of worship comes, and then we begin to pour
out our souls in worship. Then, in the midst of your
worship, suddenly the glory of the Lord is revealed.
It is in the glory revealed that revelation suddenly
begins to come into your spirit. Things you never
perceived, things you never understood, things
you never comprehended suddenly you know by
the Spirit.
Our worship can be quite simple. Most of the years
we were living in Jerusalem, we worshiped with the
help of only a piano and a few tambourines. We had
no technical abilities, but when we sat down with
God on His throne, none of that mattered. God did
not require it.
If using all our modern technology was a require-
ment for sitting with God on His throne, He would
have to apologize to three fourths of the world
that has no access to it, and yet the people of those
countries often know God in a greater way than we
Westerners do.
When we are all worshiping and a prophetic word
is given, it is possible to follow along with that pro-
phetic word by vision. Suppose that someone stands
and says, “Behold, there is the throne of God … .
Coming out of the throne is … . Out from under the
throne, the river of God is flowing.” It is possible for
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us all to see this as it is being spoken. We can all flow
together with the same vision. If we tune in to the
Spirit while someone is prophesying, we can begin
to see the very thing he is prophesying, and we can
follow along by vision.
In these last days, more of us will prophesy by
vision and preach by vision. The Holy Spirit will
be giving us a visual aid to enable us to minister to
the people. Some words of knowledge will come
by vision, and some miracles of healing will come
by vision.
The vision is not the most important part of it. It is
what God is saying through the vision. The vision is
only the vehicle to bring us what God is saying. It is
only a means of bringing us ­understanding.
I have always felt that when we praise and wor-
ship, it forms a background music for God to work.
We sing, and He works. We keep on singing, and
He keeps on working. While we are laughing in the
Spirit, God is working.
Most people think that when we are laughing or
rejoicing, we don’t have much on our minds. But
rejoicing is a serious matter. It provides the back-
ground music for God to work. Let it happen in the
assembly. Let Revelation Glory come.
Chapter 27

Share Your Revelation with Others

And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE

THE VISION, and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.
Habakkuk 2:2

W H AT T H O U S E E S T, W R I T E I N A
BOOK, and send it ... . Revelation 1:11

One of the secrets of moving further into Revelation

Glory is sharing what God has shown you already.
If what God has shown you has blessed you, it will
also bless others, and if you will share what you have
already seen, He will show you more.
You may not be called upon to write a book, as
John the Revelator and Habakkuk were, but there
are simpler ways to share your revealed truths.
In Revelation Glory, there is not only knowledge
that can be written out, but there are also pictures,

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visions, if you will, and also sounds and smells to
be shared. Even the rhythms in the glory teach us
something. This can all be shared, and it should be
shared.
Sometimes we don’t share our revelations because
we feel they are too insignificant. There may be hun-
dreds of people in a single service having a vision or
other revelation of something such as a needle and
thread, but most of them will keep silent because
they consider that what they are seeing could not
possibly be of interest to others.
Many times, someone in one of our services will
say, “Oh, I saw an angel standing on the platform.”
Another person will say, “ I did too.”
Before it’s over, we learn that ten or twelve or
fifteen people have seen angels on the platform.
But it took one person stepping forward to declare
what he or she saw for the breadth of revelation to
become known.
This is just a foretaste of what God wants to do,
and we must move into it and believe for it. Believe
for the visions of the Lord to come to work in your
life, and learn to share them with others.
Early in our experience of sharing visions while
living in Jerusalem, we noticed that not everyone
sees the same thing. Even if we all watch the same
television program, we will notice different aspects
of it. I may notice the dress the lady is wearing, but
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you may notice the man’s suit. Someone else may

not focus on either of them, but may notice what
toy the child is playing with. One person may be
drawn to a bouquet of flowers in the room, while
another may focus on an animal there. Although we
are each seeing the same picture, each of us focuses
on a different part of the picture. The same can be
true in revelation.
From what we say about the vision, it may or may
not be evident that we are all seeing the same thing.
Each of us will choose something to emphasize,
something that most catches our attention or that
most speaks to us personally.
One day we were sharing a vision about the river
of God. One person said, “But just at that moment,
the river seemed to stop.”
Someone else spoke up and said, “No. No. The
river didn’t stop. It went over the waterfall.”
Another said, “Yes. I also saw the waterfall. The
water flowed over the waterfall and then it continued
onward.”
Each person gave a little different aspect or portion
of the vision, and each part enhanced our overall
understanding of the whole. For one person, the
vision had actually seemed to stop, but others saw
the continuation of it.
When we look at a tree, what do we see? One
person focuses on the root system. Another sees the
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fruit. Another notices how strong the trunk is. An-
other sees how far the branches go over the walls.
Although we each notice something different, we’re
all looking at the very same tree. When we look, we
see, but we don’t all see the exact same thing.
Visions are not like slides. With slides, you put
the picture up on the screen and you can leave it
there as long as you want. You can examine it for a
few seconds, or five minutes or much longer if you
want. Visions are more like movies. The images pass
by quickly, and you have to catch them while they
are moving. It is possible to ask God to let you see
them again, but generally they are of short duration,
and you can’t stop them so that you can study what
you are seeing.
This is the reason that there are certain images that
stick with you more than others. In discussing it,
you may find that others have seen something you
totally missed, and upon review, you will see that
they were right.
It is good to have a friend you can talk to about
your vision. While you are sharing it, you yourself
will gain a fuller understanding of what you have
seen or felt or experienced.
Many pastors are guilty of not appreciating those
who have visions. Sometimes they even refer to them
as “flakes.” A person who is visionary can go off on a
wrong tangent, but so can anyone else. It is possible
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to misread a road map and take a wrong turn. Every

one of us has done it.
Even when you have a map, and your friends have
told you how to go, you can miss one of the signs
you were to look for and fail to turn at the right time.
Anyone who has traveled into new territory has
taken a wrong turn at some point in life, but that’s
not the end of the world. It is easy to ask help from
someone and get yourself turned around and on the
right road. You may lose a little time, but ultimately
you will get to your intended destination.
We are much too harsh and judgmental of those
who want to follow the leading of the Spirit. We must
give them an opportunity to make a few mistakes.
Give them an opportunity to get lost and have to
knock on a few doors. Give them an opportunity to
have to call and find out the directions all over again.
In the meantime, they will learn how to follow
the Holy Spirit. They will learn how to detect what
the Spirit is saying, and they will learn to trust the
Holy Spirit.
Many pastors err when they say, “You’d better
be careful; you’d better be careful; you’d better be
careful.” By the third time they say it, everyone’s
a nervous wreck. They should be saying “You can
trust the Holy Spirit; you can trust the Holy Spirit;
you can trust the Holy Spirit.” That would encourage
their people to move into Revelation Glory.
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Often, when we are sharing visions at the end of a
service, I encourage people to express their visions
more fully. I certainly don’t want to put words in
their mouths, and I don’t want to influence their
thinking. But I am willing to ask them simple ques-
tions in an effort to pull out of them any other helpful
details they may have missed. This blesses me, and
it blesses them.
I might ask, for instance: “What did you feel when
you saw that?” “What other kind of sense came to
you?” “Was there anyone else in the room with
you?” If someone had asked me questions like that
when I had that simple vision of the Chinese, maybe
I would have remembered much more. Maybe there
were details that I missed because I never thought
about them. If someone had asked me at the time,
“What were they wearing?” “What did they look
like?” “What was the room like?” I may have been
able to say much more about my vision. As it was,
no one thought to ask more, so I didn’t get any more
out of it. If someone had drawn me out soon after I
saw the vision, I might have garnered much more
information from it. That’s why we must draw each
other out when we have these revelations.
It is quite common for a person to focus on partic-
ular aspects of his vision and neglect others. When
we question him further, he often remembers much
more. In the emotion of the moment, for instance, it is
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easy to forget hearing a sound or to forget where that

sound came from. Asking questions may produce
an unfolding of the vision and its fuller meaning.
There are other reasons that the declaration of the
vision is important. Many people say to me, “I had
a vision, but I don’t understand it.”
I reply, “Tell me what you saw.”
As they begin to tell their vision, the understand-
ing of it begins to unfold. The understanding is
somehow released in the telling. Sometimes, by the
time they have finished telling the vision that took
only seconds to see, they have enough for a full ser-
mon or a chapter of a book.
Many times people in our meetings have visions of
golden slippers. Why is that? I have come to believe
that these are slippers that are used in the courts of
the Lord. We cannot go into the courts of the Lord
with clunky shoes or combat boots. We will wear
golden slippers.
If you cannot remember the details of your vision,
don’t worry about it. Sometimes the details of a v­ ision
are not as important as the knowing you receive by
looking. We can sometimes become too involved in
all the details, when, in reality, God wants us to savor
the moment. There are times that God wants us to be
able to describe what we see and hear in the heavenly
realm, but there are also times when we just must not
spend time analyzing what we have seen.
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Is your revelation important enough to share?
When it comes down to it, everything that God
shows us is part of the revelation of Jesus Christ.
That revelatory flow is coming out of Him into us.
We can rest in it, flow with it, yield to it and repro-
duce it. This is Revelation Glory.
Several of my close associates and I enjoy get-
ting together every night and discussing what has
happened in the service. We discuss what God was
saying and what God was doing. We never just leave
the service and forget about it. We want to look into
the deeper things of which God was speaking.
We ask each other, “Did you have a vision while
that was being said?” “Did you get a little further
understanding?” It is the composite aspect of the
revelation that comes forth in a service and belongs
to the Body of Christ.
Our visions are usually quite simple, but they
have a purpose. When I was ministering in France,
for instance, a brother came to me during one of the
breaks and told me about a vision he had had. In
the vision, he saw a polar bear. The ice had melted
enough that the polar bear was able to go into the
water. He also saw birds and other animals.
As I prayed about this vision, I realized that polar
bears live in very cold places. These are not just plac-
es which experience winter. They experience a long
and hard winter. It doesn’t just snow in these places.
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Everything is frozen solid for long periods of time.

In the areas where polar bears live, it is possible to
walk on the ice covering the surface of the water and
even to drive a car across it or build a house on it.
Through this vision, the Lord was saying that in
places where there had been a long spiritual winter,
where conditions were continually frozen (the kinds
of places polar bears love), spring had suddenly
come. The thick, deep ice had melted enough that
the polar bear could jump into the water. Birds flying
about was another indication that spring had come.
Spring is the time of the singing of the birds.
God gives us just enough in our visions for us to
have understanding. He wanted this man to know
that in the most difficult spiritual situations (there
is no place more barren and harsh than the places
polar bears live) spring has come. The ice has melted.
The waters are flowing, and they are being warmed.
It’s a new day. The river is here. Thank God for
Revelation Glory.
Chapter 28

Obey Your Revelation

I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.

Acts 26:19

If you will obey the revelation God has given you,

He will give you more. If you appreciate what God
has already done, He will continue to work for you.
Learn to obey your revelations, and you will have
many more revelations.
Sometimes what we see in a vision doesn’t seem
to make sense to us, and we are hesitant to tell it to
others, much less take action based on it. We must
learn to have confidence in the Holy Spirit. What
He is showing us will surely be understood by
those we share it with, and obedience will produce
­movement.
In one of our 1999 Summer Campmeeting services,
for instance, Sister Jane Lowder was in charge of the
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banner. It was just a cloth we had been using to cover
those who had fallen in the Spirit, but she had seen
me waving it in a vision. We had several different
colors of cloth, but she asked me to use a golden
cloth, because it was the color of the harvest. It was
a small thing, and I was happy to comply. However,
when I began waving that cloth over the people, God
did many miracles for those who were present. If we
are willing to do the simple things God shows us,
then He will take care of the more difficult things.
Jesus also moved by revelation. He said that He
did nothing but what the Father showed Him (see
John 5:19). Did that mean that He saw the Father
mixing up the mud with a little spittle so that the
blind man could be healed? He must have. He must
have seen it in the realm of the Spirit and was simply
following those heavenly instructions.
The piece of cloth I waved that day probably cost
less than a dollar. We buy it on sale. It wasn’t even a
very attractive piece of cloth. The stitching in it was
not perfect. It was not the cloth that was important,
however. It was what God wanted to do for the peo-
ple that was important. All I had to do was initiate
the movement, and God did the rest.
With every movement, there is something that
initiates that movement. The Spirit of God is always
the Initiator, but you and I must respond to the
Spirit. Our actions will initiate further movement.
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Obedience to some simple instruction unleashes the

power to perform the needed miracle.
We first initiate the movement with praise and
worship, and that touches the heart of God. Then,
when the Spirit of God begins to flow, we must
respond, and He will do a work in our lives in a
different capacity than we have ever experienced be-
fore. The cloth I waved that day was very common,
but in the waving of it, great glory was released.
You may be saying, “Lord, show me what You
want me to do,” but if you will start responding, the
beginning of the revelation will come. It may not be
a fullness of revelation at first, but your movement
will produce further movement.
Literally thousands of Christians say, “I am wait-
ing for the full revelation.” Some of them are very
comfortable in their rocking chairs. They are just
waiting. They have been in those rocking chairs a
very long time. It is time to get up and start moving.
Act on that which you already know. Start moving
out in that which you already perceive. Move out in
that which you understand.
Suddenly, it will feel like you are on a two-seated
bicycle and somebody else is doing the pedaling. You
will look to see who is helping you move forward, and
you will find that God is doing all the work for you.
Many Christians continue to say, “If we could
only have lived in the time of the early disciples of
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Jesus.” I believe that if we will obey God, we can
have the same miracles the disciples enjoyed. In
fact, I believe that we have an advantage over those
disciples. For one thing, they were at the beginning,
and the Church was just taking form. We are at the
ending, the culmination, and God’s Kingdom is
approaching its pinnacle. The end will not be less
than the beginning.
God has always saved the best wine for last. Al-
though the wine of Pentecost was glorious, if the
disciples were alive today to taste of the new wine
we are receiving, they would surely say, “This wine
is far better than that which we had on the Day of
Pentecost.”
How is this possible? It is because we are living
closer to the day when everything will be released.
All the stops are being pulled out, and the end-time
harvest will be greater than anything those who
lived in the time of Christ knew. Obey your revela-
tions, and you will know that it is true.
Stop looking at the negative side of everything,
and start believing God for His goodness to prevail.
The summer of 1999 was a disaster for many farmers.
The drought affected a wide area of America. What
proved to be detrimental to the business of many,
however, actually had a very positive effect on the
wine industry. Hot weather produces the finest
grapes, and 1999 was expected to be a year long re-
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membered for its fine wines, perhaps the best ever.

When we are feeling some heat in the Spirit, it
may be because God is doing a very special work in
our spirits. Heat in your spiritual life will produce
a bumper crop and a banner year in the new wine
of the Spirit. As we move on into the new century,
expect to experience a greater release of the glory of
God than ever before. Stop expecting disaster.
Many have had a very dismal attitude about the
end times. As we move closer to the coming of the
Lord, things are only expected to get worse and
worse. That may indeed be true for the world, but for
us, things will get better and better. We have nothing
to fear. God is moving by His Spirit, and if we will
move with Him, we will have victory.
Let the Lord change your thinking. Refuse to be
negative. God is never negative. When you think of
end times, think of greater glory, not tragedy. Think
about moving from glory to glory.
Refuse to get bogged down with all the negative
aspects of the end times. Get in the moving mood.
Join yourself to the moving chariot, as Philip did.
When Philip joined himself to the chariot of the
Ethiopian, he began to speak to him of eternal things.
Philip’s positive spirit brought them both into the
glory, and before long the Ethiopian wanted to be
baptized. His life had been changed by the positive
anointing on Philip’s life.
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God is doing amazing creative miracles, and this
should show us that it is not a time to “slack off.” If
the chariot is moving, get on board.
The best way to get onto a moving vehicle is to
start moving yourself before you try to board. Pick
up your pace until you are jogging beside the vehi-
cle. Then, if necessary, break into a run. Get on the
move. Then it will be easy for you to get on board.
Get your feet moving. Start jogging in place. Get
your feet dancing before the Lord. You may not see
any benefit at all to such movement if you are only
looking at the movement of your feet. See in the
Spirit that your movement has started other things
moving. Your movement has forced obstacles out
of the way. Your movement has started something
happening.
When you stretch out your hand, something
moves in the heavenlies, and there is a release of
miracles and signs and wonders. Get in the moving
mode and start moving forward, and you will be
surprised what God does. That simple action initi-
ates something wonderful.
Many find this concept of simple obedience “too
simplistic.” I guess they want things to be more com-
plicated. But if God is causing your faith to be stirred
up, it will flow in the future with great simplicity.
Some don’t like the idea of becoming childlike
again, but Jesus said we had to:
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Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,

and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3

Children are free of malice. They are free of

prejudice. They are free of doubt. This causes
them to be quick to obey.
When Abraham’s servant Eliezar was sent to
find a suitable bride for Isaac, he had a wonderful
experience. He said:

Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abra-

ham, who hath not left destitute my master of
his mercy and his truth: I B E I N G I N T H E
WAY, T H E L O R D L E D M E to the house
of my master’s brethren. Genesis 24:27

It was when he got moving and was “in the way”

that the Lord gave him specific guidance. Many
want to wait until they understand everything
before they get started. Begin to obey, and the
rest of the revelation will come.
When Jesus spoke to the woman with the issue
of blood who had touched the hem of His gar-
ment, He said:
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Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole;
G O in peace, and B E W H O L E of thy
plague. Mark 5:34

It is very probable that her healing was not com-

plete and that it was in the going that she would be
made “whole.”
Everything has to begin somewhere, and we must
not despise the day of small beginnings. When you
begin to see signs and wonders, however small they
seem to be at the time, know that God has much
more in store for you. Obey Him in the small things,
and greater things will come. Gradually you will
move on up into higher realms of glory.
God has things for us that we have not yet heard
of. No one has ever told us about these signs. We
have not yet considered them. They will be demon-
strated in our lives, poured out upon us, as we learn
to follow the Lord in obedience.
This is a season of the glory of God, and it is a fruit-
ful season, a season of harvest, a season of ­gathering,
a season of revelation, a season of understanding, a
season of insight, a season of the Lord. All of this is
initiated by simple acts of obedience.
At our 1999 Spring Men’s Convention, the broth-
er leading the song service one night began to
sing a phrase, “Worthy, You are worthy.” It was a
“worthy” that had movement in it. Usually wor-
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thy doesn’t have very much movement — maybe

a ­bowing down, but not much else. He had such
movement that he encouraged the other men, and
they all got up and began to dance and march
around the building.
When this had gone on for a while, one brother
suggested that they go around seven times. He gath-
ered several men who had brought their shofarim,
and they blew them as the men marched around and
sang “Worthy.” By the time they had gone around
a few more times, it was evident that there would
be no preaching that night. For the next four hours
those men danced and marched around the building
as they sang, “Worthy, You are worthy.”
There is something about movement that begets
further movement. As God is releasing His glory
upon us, it spawns a movement within us, and that,
in turn, causes a movement without. Something
begins to turn inside, and that starts other wheels
turning on the outside. Suddenly we shake off all
lethargy and complacency, and we rise up to follow
the further movements of the Holy Spirit. It all be-
gins in a simple act of obedience.
We once sent one of the young brothers who was
working with us in Jerusalem to South Africa. It was
a very big thing for him to make it as far as Jerusa-
lem, and to be able to get as far as South Africa was
quite unbelievable. He was rather nervous when he
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was given the opportunity to address a gathering
of thousands of Zulus. As he stood before them, his
limitations began to dawn on him, and he prayed
nervously, “Lord, what shall I do now?”
The Lord said, “Raise your right hand.” When he
raised his right hand, all the people “fell out” under
the power of God ... all, that is, except the bishop.
The bishop was scowling, and the young man
prayed again, “Lord, what shall I do now?”
The Lord said, “Raise your left hand,” and when
he raised his left hand, the bishop went down too.
It wasn’t a great sermon that did the work. It was
being sensitive to the Spirit and knowing how to
respond to His leading.
The flow of God’s glory in our midst today de-
mands total dependence on the Holy Spirit. How
do we get that touch of Spirit and that flow of the
Spirit and that consciousness of the Spirit? While
we are praising and worshiping, we suddenly
begin to be moved from the familiar into the new.
God begins to reveal to us something we have
never done before, something we have never said
before, something we have never heard before,
and He is urging us to do it. It might be something
as silly as taking your shoe off and throwing it
up in the air three times, but that might bring the
needed release. There are many excellent biblical
examples:
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And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand

upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and
Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.
And he said, Open the window eastward. And
he opened it.
Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot.
And he said, The arrow of the Lord’s deliver-
ance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria:
for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till
thou have consumed them.
And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them.
And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon
the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
And the man of God was wroth with him, and
said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six
times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou
hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt
smite Syria but thrice. 2 Kings 13:16-19

Elisha was at the height of his ministry, and he

would soon go home to be with God. He prevailed
upon the king to act out this prophetic symbolism.
His message could not have been more simple:
“Open the window.” “Get your bow.” “Put it in your
hand.” “Now shoot.” With those simple words, Eli-
sha had prophesied victory over the Syrians. It was
a prophetic act, and the detail of it came through
revelation. God wants to get us to that open win-
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dow — the place of opportunity. He wants to get a
weapon in our hands, and then He wants us to act
prophetically. When we do, He will do the rest.
The king did not fully obey. He only smote the
ground with the arrow three times and was rebuked
by the prophet. Sometimes, in the midst of our smit-
ing, we begin to feel foolish, and we let what people
think or say disturb us and cause us to stop what we
are doing. The enemy says to us, “Just what are you
accomplishing anyway?”
If the king had done it five times, Elisha told him,
he would have had complete deliverance. As it was,
his victory was partial.
You need to sing that chorus one more time. You
need to march around Jericho one more time. You
need to do whatever it is the Lord is showing you.
Don’t stop short in the midst of your prophetic act.
Elisha, nearing the moment of his death, was not
thinking about himself. He was thinking of total de-
liverance for Israel, and that’s what God wants to do
with each of us. When you worship God, He wants
to show you something that is not just for you. It’s
for your nation. It’s for the world. It is part of the ful-
fillment of the prayer, “Thy Kingdom come.” Once
you begin to see it, give an extra shout for complete
victory. Dance an extra dance for complete victory.
Laugh an extra laugh for complete victory.
Prophetic acts are more powerful than we can
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imagine. Your dance is more powerful than anyone

can comprehend. Your uplifted hand is more power-
ful than you can perceive. Waving your hand before
the Lord can be more powerful than anyone might
think. Strike the ground boldly for the complete
victory in the Lord.
When others do not understand you when you
perform some prophetic act, don’t take it personal-
ly. If they make fun of you, don’t pay any attention.
They don’t know any better. If they knew that you
were undergirding the economy of your country
and keeping the wolf from the door, they would
want you to do it twice as much. If they knew that
the blessing you are praying in is overflowing and
becoming a blessing to their own homes and families
as well, they would want you to keep shooting the
arrows and smiting the ground with all your might.
Don’t worry about the lack of understanding on
the part of others. You have prophetic authority to
do what God has revealed to you, and you will find
that, as you do it, His glory will be released beyond
anything you have ever known before.
You may be the most unlikely person to be used
of God, but if you learn simple obedience, you will
quickly bypass others. After the apostle Paul had a
personal encounter with Jesus on the road to Damas-
cus, he declared that he was an apostle “born out of
due time [season].”
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And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one
B O R N O U T O F D U E T I M E . For I am
the least of the apostles, that am not meet to
be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
church of God. But by the grace of God I am
what I am: and his grace which was bestowed
upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more
abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace
of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:8-10

Although Paul considered himself to be “the least

of the apostles,” “not meet [worthy] to be called an apos-
tle” and “born out of due time,” he was the one God
used. Matthias, whom the disciples had chosen as
the most logical person to replace Judas, was never
mentioned again in the Bible. Paul excelled because
of his willingness to obey God in simplicity. God
has an answer for everything, and He will reveal
it to us by His Spirit — when we are willing to do
what He shows us. Obey your revelation, and God
will give you more.
Chapter 29

Let Yourself Be Carried Away

in Revelation Glory
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and CAR-
RIED ME OUT IN THE SPIRIT of the
Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of bones. Ezekiel 37:1

There is an experience in God in which we are ac-

tually carried away in the Spirit and have amazing
and wonderful experiences.
Once, when I was still living at my mother’s house,
I came in from the campmeeting and stretched out
on the bed to sleep. Suddenly it seemed that I was
sitting in a chair, and the chair was moving. I was
taken to Holland.
When I woke up, I thought what a nice dream I
had had about Holland. It almost seemed real. As I
spoke of it to several people throughout the day, I
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dream. I had actually been carried away to Holland
in the realm of the Spirit and was able to minister
there.
Another time, when I was on a long fast, my asso-
ciate and I were staying in a little hotel in Bombay,
India. We were talking, and I felt that I was drifting
off to sleep and drifting in and out of conversation.
Then I went into what seemed like a deep sleep.
When I woke up, thinking that I had dozed off for a
few minutes, I said, “Oh, I’m sorry that I’m so sleepy.
I must have drifted off for a minute.”
She said, “Oh, no. It wasn’t just a few minutes.
I saw when your spirit was carried away, and I’ve
been watching for it to return. It’s been several hours
now.”
Once, when I got back to the campground in Vir-
ginia after traveling to Australia for ministry, some
of the people attending the campmeeting began to
tell me some very strange things. One lady owned
her own barbershop. She said, “Sister Ruth, I was
in my barbershop last week, when suddenly your
spirit came into my shop. You began to prophesy to
me, and my life has been turned upside down as a
result of it.”
I had never heard of such a thing, and I hard-
ly knew what to say to her at the time. “Well,” I
ventured, “God is doing new things,” but I was
perplexed.
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Over the next few weeks, people from many parts
of America came to the campmeeting, and a number
of them told me something quite similar. “I was in
my bed at night,” one said, “and suddenly you came
and began to prophesy to me.” “I was [this place or
that place], and you came and began to prophesy to
me.” The stories were all similar.
I wasn’t quite sure just what God was doing. It
appeared that I was more yielded to Him while I was
sleeping than when I was awake and that God was
causing me to do exploits for Him as I slept. While
we sleep, there is no resistance to the flow of the
Spirit of God, and He can carry us away more easily.
My brother was seven years older than me. We
were raised to be very careful what we said about the
Holy Spirit. If we didn’t understand what the Spirit
was doing, we were taught not to comment — even
if something seemed bizarre. We learned that we
didn’t need to be an authority on everything, and we
saw how easy it was for people to be critical when
they didn’t understand what God was doing.
I told my brother about the people who were
coming up to me and saying these things. He didn’t
say anything, but he looked at me strangely and
raised an eyebrow, as older brothers do. He was
accustomed to his little sister doing strange things,
but this was more than he could comprehend at the
moment.
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He usually never left town during campmeeting,
but that year he had to fly to Atlanta, Georgia, for
a day or two. The day before he was to return, a
brother came to me and said, “Sister Ruth, a young
girl who was washing pots and pans in the kitchen
is having some amazing experiences, and I asked
her to come and talk to you about them.”
When Sue came, she told me two stories. One of
them went like this: One night she was on the plat-
form with other camp staff members. Everyone was
singing in the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit said to her,
“Yield to Me.”
She said, “But Lord, I thought I was already yield-
ing to You.”
The Holy Spirit said, “Yield a little more.”
She told me: “Suddenly, as I yielded a little more,
something strange happened. I knew that I was
standing on the camp platform, but suddenly I found
myself in a large building. I didn’t know what it was.
I have never been to a monastery, but I have heard
you talk about them, and I think that’s what it was.
Anyway, I found myself in front of a line of young
men who were about seventeen or eighteen years
old, and the Holy Spirit said to me, ‘I want you to
bless them.’
“I went to each one of the young men and said, ‘I
bless you in the name of the Lord. I bless you in the
name of the Lord.’
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“When I reached the end of the line and said it
over the last of the young men, I immediately found
myself back on the platform in Ashland. The rest of
that evening all I could do was to go to people and
say, ‘I bless you in the name of the Lord; I bless you
in the name of the Lord.’ ”
When she told me that story I knew immediately
that she had been carried away to Jerusalem. When
we had first gone to Jerusalem, we traveled and
reached out to Catholic churches in the area and
introduced the baptism of the Holy Spirit to priests
and nuns and other leaders in the church. Many of
them were baptized in the Holy Spirit at that time.
When we went back to Jerusalem later, after having
been away for a year or so, we found that a wonder-
ful Catholic Charismatic group was meeting at Ecce
Homo, the Sisters of Zion, every week on Tuesday
night. Because of that, we didn’t feel that we needed
to go back to the Catholics, so we started going to
the Orthodox Christian churches instead.
There was one particular group to which we had
been believing God for an entrée, and about a week
after Sue told me this amazing story, I got a note from
one of my associates in Jerusalem, Sister Janet Saun-
ders. She wrote: “Sister Ruth, you know that Orthodox
group we have been trying to get into, the young
acolytes (they were young deacons in training for the
priesthood)? Well, the Lord has opened the door!”
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I knew the reason the door had opened was what
Sue had done that night on the platform as she had
yielded more to the Holy Spirit and had been car-
ried away. She had laid hands on each of the young
men and blessed them in the name of the Lord. As a
result, God had given us a further open door there.
I firmly believe that every door that is opened in
the natural realm is first opened by someone who
has learned to “yield a little more” to the Spirit. We
usually hear the story of the person who got the door
opened in the natural, but only Heaven can know the
full story. That victory was likely brought into being
by a man or woman who allowed himself or herself
to be carried away in the Spirit in Revelation Glory.
For several years now, some of us have been ex-
periencing what many are calling being “stuck in
place.” We seem to be pinned to the floor for long
periods of time or stopped in mid-stride and are
unable to continue moving forward. When this hap-
pens, our bodies cannot move from that particular
spot, but our spirits are able to take flight. We can do
exploits in the realm of the Spirit in this way. People
who observe us during such a time of being “stuck
in place” might think we are just in limbo, but God
knows the truth of the matter.
Sue’s second experience was just as startling. She
told me, “That next afternoon in the service, many
people came to the altar, and those of us on the plat-
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form went down to pray for them. I was feeling sorry
for myself and wishing that somebody would bless
me. Then I felt someone beside me laying his hands
on my head to pray, and I said, ‘Lord, who is it?’
“The Lord answered, ‘It’s the man of God.’
“I didn’t understand that expression, so I asked
the Lord again, ‘Who is this laying his hands on me
and blessing me?’
“The Lord said, ‘It’s Brother Heflin, the man of
God.’ ”
My brother came back from Atlanta the day after
she told me this story, and as soon as I had time
to speak with him, I told him what had been said.
First, I told the story of Sue being carried away to
Jerusalem. When I told him the second story, the one
about the man of God praying for her, tears came
to his eyes and began to roll down his cheeks. He
said, “Ruth, I know the very moment it happened. I
have had those experiences thousands of times, but
I never knew it until you explained what it was. It
happened to me just like you said you experienced
it on the plane in Australia. I was sitting in a place
of business, waiting for my appointment, and sud-
denly my head fell to the side. When I came to and
looked at my watch, it would have been the altar
time here at camp. Apparently, this same thing has
happened to me again and again, and I didn’t know
it until now.”
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Many of us, no doubt, have had similar experienc-
es and didn’t know what was happening to us. We
will see this more in the future — if we are willing
to yield more to the Spirit of God. What seems like a
vision may be more than a vision. As we are carried
away into Revelation Glory, God may be using us to
accomplish His work.
Is it scriptural to be carried away like this? Abso-
lutely. It happened to Ezekiel. He wasn’t only seeing
a vision. He was literally carried away, and he saw
the valley and the bones with his physical eyes.
For several years we had a prayer meeting in
­Bethlehem every weekend. One particular day, we
had all been on the floor under the power of God,
and we began to share visions and revelations. One
of our young ladies said, “I just came back from a
foreign country.”
We had never heard her say that before, but we
could sense that what she was saying was very real
to her.
She began to describe the place. “There was a lake
and a tall mountain,” and she described the moun-
tain. “There in front of the lake,” she continued,
“was a little house, and there was a lady standing
in front of the house waiting for me to come. I could
understand what she was saying, even though she
was speaking some other language. She took me
inside to pray for her son, who was ill and dying.
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“After I had prayed, God raised her son up, and
she said to me, ‘You must come back again.’
“I said, ‘But I don’t even know where I am.’
“Then the lady said, ‘You are in Pokhara.’ ”
I may have been the only one in the room that day
who knew where Pokhara was. I had spent time in
Nepal and knew exactly where the mountain and
the lake she was describing were located. I had been
there in the flesh, but she had the privilege of going
there in the Spirit.
You may never be able to travel to foreign lands,
but God can lift you up and carry you away in the
Spirit to distant places. In the Spirit, you can stand
in places you may never stand in physically —
­because of closed doors or a lack of accessibility. In
God, there are no closed doors. In Him, there are no
questions of accessibility.
Let yourself be carried away in the Spirit into a
realm of knowledge and wisdom and experiences
that you have never known. Be carried before the
very throne of God. Be carried away into a place of
ministry. Be carried away to see angelic hosts and
enjoy the eternal pleasures for a season.
We look up into the sky and see the beautiful
Milky Way, but in the Spirit we can be carried away
up those golden pathways into the very throne of
God, where we will have experiences that will trans-
form our lives forever. Move on into Revelation Glory,
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and you, too, will know the place of divine knowing
through the Spirit.
One night in our meetings, God said to us that He
would take us to places we could never go in the
natural. The only place I could think of immediately
that I could not go to was Mecca. I could not go to
Mecca, first, because I was not a Moslem, and no
non-Moslem is permitted in Mecca. Second, I could
not go to Mecca because I was a woman, and women
are not permitted in Mecca either.
Suddenly, in a moment’s time, I was carried away,
and I saw that great black rock of Mecca from an
angle I had never seen photographed before. I was
looking down upon it, and I knew how easy it was
to put my feet on the soil of Mecca and possess it
in the name of the Lord in a dimension and a realm
that perhaps nobody thought was possible.
Refuse to be ordinary! God has called us to be
extraordinary, and He is calling us to be lifted up
into realms of glory, not just to be touched by the
blessing of God, but He wants us to be lifted up so
that in those moments of lifting up, we will have
a faith released into our spirit to do exploits in the
name of the Lord.
I don’t know of anything that could be finer than
to possess Mecca for the Kingdom. When the Lord
speaks, He wants immediate response, and when we
yield to the Holy Spirit, He will show us the area of
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the harvest He is concerned about at that moment.
God is giving us a great harvest among the Moslems
of Africa. He is putting His people on radio and tele-
vision and causing their voices to be heard.
If you insist on being always the same, you will
miss the great things God is about to do. He is ready
to enlarge your faith, enlarge your seeing and en-
large your ability to possess. His desire is to enlarge
you in ways that you never thought possible and to
let you stand in a spiritual dimension you have never
considered before. Your hand will be used of God to
reap a harvest. Let yourself be carried away in Rev-
elation Glory and dare to do great exploits for God!
Chapter 30

Contend for the Ease the Spirit Brings

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people

of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he
also hath ceased from his own works, as God did
from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest. Hebrews 4:9-11

One of the things we must do in relationship to

Revelation Glory is to seriously contend for the ease
the Spirit brings. This sounds paradoxical — to con-
tend for something that, in the end, is easy. But that’s
just the way it works. God doesn’t want us to have
to struggle for every bit of information we receive
from Him, any more than we must struggle. If we
have to fast and pray for forty days to hear God’s
voice, we won’t be able to accomplish much in the
days ahead.
So many Christians are worn out because their
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after another. It is time for us to rest in the Spirit.
Why are we still trying to force our way into Heav-
en through our works? Why are we still trying to
“make” something happen? This is not a time for
struggle. This is a time to lay hold of the promises of
God and to cease from our own labors. As the writer
of Hebrews declared, there is a realm into which we
labor to enter, but after we enter that realm, we no
longer labor. In that place of glory, we find rest and
the ease the Spirit brings.
As I said, this seems rather paradoxical. We labor
to enter a place where no more labor will be required
of us. We strive to come into a place where no more
strife will be required. We do this by pushing back the
realm we know and coming into the realm that God
knows, the realm of the Spirit and Revelation Glory.
“Why is it that I cannot feel a burden to pray for
these important things?” some people ask me. It
is because God has placed within your heart the
knowledge that you are already victorious in those
areas. There is no need to be burdened further in
that area. Rest in the revelation knowledge that ev-
erything is taken care of.
There are always people around trying to stir us
up to labor when we’ve already graduated from
that class. We have moved on to a place of rest, and
we no longer need to struggle. This is not a time for
struggle. This is a time for entering into a ­possessing.
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I believe in intercession, but I can’t understand

why some are trying to make intercession the great-
est thing that could ever happen to a person; we have
a high priest who makes intercession for us:

But this man ... ever liveth to make intercession

for them. Hebrews 7:24-25

I can rest assured that if I’m not interceding, He

is. I can say the “amen” to that for which He is
interceding and believing. There is a place in God
in which I can stand and take hold of that which is
already accomplished for me. I need not continue
to struggle for it.
The greatest form of spiritual warfare is praise and
worship. Instead of struggling prayers, make your
prayers singing prayers, rejoicing prayers. That will
frighten the devil away faster than anything else.
Instead of struggling for every piece of information
from Heaven, enter into the rest of the Spirit and
flow in Revelation Glory.
The struggles we go through to get victory are
sometimes as bad as the external circumstances
themselves. If the circumstances don’t destroy us,
the struggles to free ourselves from them will. It’s
time for rest in the Lord.
Sleepless nights are a killer. Rest in the Lord. You
may have to strive to enter into that place of rest,
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but once you are there, all struggle ceases. Enter
into that place of ease where you know that the
work is accomplished. Refuse to spend all your time
striving for others. Get into the rest where you can
believe for them instead. Take hold in firm assurance,
knowing that He who has promised is “faithful” to
His promises:

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith with-

out wavering; for he is faithful that promised.
Hebrews 10:23

I’m just a simple person, but I refuse to struggle

with every decision in life. I’ll sing my way into the
perfect will of God. I’ll sing my way through the valley
of death and into the right course for my life. I choose
to sing through life, knowing that victory is assured.
When we enter the glory realm, suddenly we don’t
have a care in the world. There is no struggling, no
striving. We’re totally carefree. God causes us to rest.
As the psalmist declared:

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:

he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Psalm 23:2

“Green pastures ...” “Still waters …” This is the place

of rest.
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Some might say, “But if you had the bills I have,

and you didn’t have money to pay them, you would
be worried too.” Oh, He’s the great Financier. Let
Him give you miracle pockets, and you can rest in
Him.
When God has said that we are at the finish line,
why do we insist on going back to the start? He has
declared victory. Get into the place of rest, the place
of confidence, and no matter what happens tomor-
row, refuse to move backward. Drive a spiritual
stake based upon God’s revelation to you and hold
your ground.
There is victory in the camp, victory in the con-
gregation, victory in your business, victory in your
household, victory in our nation. Let God put a song
of victory in your soul, and then sing it. Let God put
rest within your spirit, and then declare it.
Your only striving should be to enter into God’s
rest. If you get out of the rest, make every effort to
get back into it as quickly as possible. Do whatever
is necessary. Let no time pass. Get back into the rest
of the Spirit so that your soul can be at peace, so that
Revelation Glory can work and flow in your life.
There was a time when Yemen was considered one
of the most difficult countries for the Gospel. Now,
because of what God is doing, Yemen has opened
to the Gospel. Other countries that were considered
totally closed have been opened by the revelation of
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the Spirit of God. Winning certain groups of people
to the Lord was once considered to be extremely
difficult. Now, it has become easy in the flow of
Revelation Glory.
I could tell you story after story of Jewish people
who have come to know the Lord in recent years eas-
ily through the work of the Spirit. The things of the
Spirit are not difficult, and gathering in the harvest is
not meant to be difficult. It comes with ease — when
it comes by the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
This ease that comes through revelation affects
everything that we do and can affect every area of
our lives. A man from England once accompanied
my brother on a trip to China. He owned a company
that produced computer chips. While he was on the
tour, there was such a great anointing in the group
that he became inspired. When he got back home,
he sat down in his office and revelation knowledge
flowed into his spirit for a new machine to make
computer chips. He began to draw it out.
Normally, he said, when he had ideas for such a
machine, it would take him close to six months to
design it. On this occasion, his new machine was
fully designed in two weeks, and it was also fully
operational in record time. If you will yield to it,
revelation knowledge can transform your life too.
When I first went out to Hong Kong in the late
1950s, I was speaking one night in a little church on
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top of a mountain. My interpreter was not very good.

He was just learning English, and I was just learning
Chinese. It was a time when refugees were flooding
out of China, most of them simple peasant people,
and it was easy to see that they were bewildered
by the bustling life of Hong Kong. They were over-
whelmed by the changes that had taken place in their
lives and the adjustments that would be required of
them if they were to survive in the Crown Colony.
I became quite distressed when the interpreter and
I were having such a hard time understanding each
other. In the midst of this turmoil, I said, “Oh, Lord,
if I could only speak their language!”
When I said that, the Lord rebuked me. “Ruth,”
He said, “if you could speak their language like a
king, it would still be up to Me to open their under-
standing.” I never again complained about having
to speak through an interpreter. It takes a revelation
of the Holy Ghost for people to understand us —
whether or not they understand the words we are
using to express ourselves.
When the glory of God comes, as it did to Saul
on the road to Damascus, for example, it takes only
moments for the lost to recognize their need of a
Savior. It happens quickly in the Spirit.
“Lord, forgive me,” I prayed, “for thinking that I
had to speak their language well in order for them
to know You. You reveal Yourself to them.” No
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sooner had I prayed that prayer than something
began to happen. When I looked out at the people,
they seemed to be the same people I had been trying
to reach all evening, but something was different.
Suddenly, I could see that light bulbs were going on
all over the congregation. The light of the glorious
Gospel was suddenly dawning in their hearts, and
it was showing on their faces. It happened because
of the revealing power of the Spirit of God.
If God can do that for a Chinese peasant, He can
do it for sophisticated financiers on Wall Street. He
can do it for those who hold high positions in any
society. He can do it for the members of your f­ amily.
Winning our family members often seems, to us,
to be the most difficult task, but changing them is not
difficult for God. He can do it quickly and ­easily as we
move into the rest that comes through Revelation Glory.
These are days of harvest, and if we can get out
of ourselves and into the Spirit, we will reap a large
corner of the field. It will be done, however, only in
the Spirit, not in the flesh.
You only need to sing a little song. In this way,
you will release the glory of the Lord into the atmo-
sphere around you. Spend a little time in worship.
Take time for adoration of the Lord. Then let your
voice become a voice of triumph to be lifted up in
the midst of the people. When you perform these
simple acts of worship, suddenly you will know
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what to declare and decree. As you declare what God

is showing you, the wind of the Spirit will begin to
blow, and it will blow the grain you want to reap
right into the barn.
The biggest problem we will have in the days
ahead is where to put all the people who come to us
for salvation. Churches may have some empty seats
right now, but they won’t be empty for long. God
has shown them to me filled.
What God does in the days ahead will not be
secret; it will be very public. We will all see many
reports on our television newscasts of the manifesta-
tion of God’s power and glory, and many reporters
will be touched by this revival.
One evening during our 1999 Summer Campmeet-
ing, we had a camera crew arrive from one of our
local PBS stations. This will become more common,
and we will all be surprised with what God does in
the future in the ease of Revelation Glory.
It is time to remove words like “hard,” “diffi-
cult,” “impossible” and “immovable” out of your
­vocabulary. Replace them with words like “ease,”
“abundance” and “fullness.” Replace your limiting
vocabulary with the words God speaks. He said:

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge

of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the
sea. Habakkuk 2:14
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It is a glory consciousness, a revelation conscious-
ness, that will bring in this great harvest of the end
time. Glorious days are just ahead in the harvest,
but this can only happen as we join ourselves to
God’s purposes through revelation. A greater day
is coming in which there will not be room enough
at our altars for those who are coming. In many na-
tions, men and women will now come to the Lord
in multitudes.
It is time to lay aside the things that have distressed
us and disturbed our spirits, and to move forward
into the fullness of that which God is bringing forth
upon the Earth. Let us reach out and embrace the
Lord and His glory, and in doing so, we will reach
out and embrace His harvest. If we allow ourselves
to be joined to Him and His purposes, we will see
how truly glorious this day will be.
It is time to rest in the Spirit and allow the answer
to come. There is a deeper rest in the Holy Spirit that
we must all move into in these days if we desire to
have the fullness of Revelation Glory. This requires
fellowship and communion with the Lord, but when
we have that, every struggle falls away. Releases
don’t come when we are in the midst of struggles;
they come when we are praising and worshiping
God and have already forgotten about our problems.
My mother used to say, “When you get neutral
on a question, God speaks.” When you disassociate
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yourself from the problem, then you are able to hear

from Him.
We are coming into the days of great supernatural
revelation concerning the harvest and these precious
days on the earth. Many of you will not only wield
the sickle in the harvest, but you will also be called
upon to offer insight into the best means of harvest-
ing. Because of this, you will need the wisdom to
mobilize those who will be at the forefront of what
God is doing in all of the Earth. Don’t let this worry
you. Relax. You will know what to do by the Spirit,
by Revelation Glory.
Chapter 31

Move Into Revelation Glory

Ye have not, because ye ask not. James 4:2

Moving into Revelation Glory is nothing difficult.

It is as easy as worshiping the Lord.
Once the Lord sent me to a large church in Bris-
bane, Australia. I wondered why He had sent me; it
was already a great church.
The Lord then said to me, “I have brought you
here to teach the pastor the difference between the
faith realm and the glory realm.”
The pastor of the church later told me that when
he would minister in the service, he sometimes saw a
little glory cloud over someone’s head. Upon seeing
this, he would declare (for example), “That lady over
there in the red dress has a glory cloud over her.” No
sooner would he say this than the cloud would burst,
and the glory of God would spread over everyone
present. He was thrilled with this, but he didn’t

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know how to make it happen more frequently. So
it was my privilege to teach him what I knew about
the glory of God.
I ministered every night in his church. On Sunday
morning he said to me, “Many of the people who are
coming today will be here because they have heard
me on television. If it’s okay with you, I will get up
and minister a little before you preach.”
“That would be wonderful,” I said.
He had always had a dynamic healing and word
of knowledge ministry, and his church had been
built on it. When he got up to minister that day, he
was very dramatic. He jumped off of the platform,
and with his Bible in his hand, seemed to go after
the people. Great miracles resulted, but he somehow
stopped short of ministering the glory.
I asked him later, “Why didn’t you minister in the
glory realm?”
He said, “When I got up, it wasn’t there.”
I said, “If it’s not there, you have to create it.”
That night I preached, and when I finished preach-
ing, I invited everyone to come forward. I started a
little chorus and brought the atmosphere to a place of
glory. Then I turned to the pastor and said, “Would
you like to minister now?” I kept the people singing
that same chorus for the next forty-five minutes,
keeping the atmosphere of glory at that same level,
while he ministered.
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The pastor later told me that this had been the lon-
gest period he had ever ministered in the glory until
that time. It happened because of the atmosphere
that had been created.
Many more desire to enter into the glory realm and
receive Revelation Glory, but they have not been able
to learn the secret: It’s in our worship. Our worship
needs to be simple, it needs to be consistent and it
needs to be prolonged.
Those who are involved in music ministries know
and love many choruses. They may start off singing
something that creates the atmosphere we want,
but they rarely keep it going. After leading the con-
gregation through a particular chorus two or three
times, they switch to some other chorus. This keeps
the people moving up and down and back and forth,
and before long, they have “spiritual whiplash.”
If a chorus has brought you into the glory realm,
keep it going, and don’t be afraid to sing it as many
times as necessary. Every time you change the pace,
it can be felt in the atmosphere. It is vitally important
to maintain that glory realm.
One January, when I was ministering in the Ladies’
Convention at Brownsville Assembly of God, Brenda
Kilpatrick, the pastor’s wife, spoke in the morning
service. After she finished speaking, she asked me
to lay hands on her that she would prophesy. I laid
hands on her and then went back down to my seat.
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After several minutes she began to prophesy. This
brought a great roar of praise from all the partici-
pants.
After Sister Kilpatrick had prophesied, she fell out
under the power of God on the platform, and the
congregation was left in anticipation of what God
was going to do. There were several thousand ladies
there that day, and all of them were on their feet,
very excited, praising God and expecting something
to happen.
It was already noon, and the meeting was sched-
uled to end. Lunch was to be served soon, and then
I was scheduled to speak in the 2:00 pm service. But
still that air of expectancy hung over the place like
a cloud. I was a visitor, and I didn’t think it was
my place to change the order of the service, so we
waited.
After a while, one of the group of local ladies in
charge of the meeting came forward. She picked
up one of the handheld microphones and slipped
it into my left hand. I said to her, “I’m supposed to
speak at two, but it’s not necessary. I suggest that
we continue now, and at two o’clock let the ladies
have lunch. Then they can go home and get ready
for the evening service.”
She went to consult with several others, then came
back and said, “Go ahead.” I stepped up to the plat-
form and began to sing a little worship song. I kept
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the same tune going for the next hour and a half.
I sang other phrases to the same chorus, but it was
all spontaneously given to me by the Spirit. The head
usher later said it was the greatest glory the church
had experienced since the revival began. The video
of that particular segment of the conference was
sent all over the world as an example of the type of
revival God was sending in those days.
Moving into the glory realm is so simple that we
often miss it. Sometimes, for instance, that little cho-
rus “Alleluia,” can be used so powerfully. There are
many choruses that can be used. I’m just using that
as an example. We can sing so many other phrases to
one simple tune, and if we can keep singing without
breaking the rhythm, we can keep flowing in the
glory realm.
The activity that follows, as we minister to those
who are hungry for God’s blessings (both spiritual
and physical), must flow from the manifestation of
the glory. In the glory, there is healing. In the glory,
there is the fullness of the Holy Spirit. In the glory,
visions come. In the glory, we hear the voice of God.
Anything and everything can happen in the glory.
God is teaching us how to bring His glory into the
midst of His people, and He is teaching us how to
keep it. The way we bring in the flow of God’s glory
is the same way we maintain that flow until the Spirit
has accomplished in our midst that which He wills.
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When we are bringing in the glory or working to
maintain the presence of the glory in our midst, it is
not the time to sing all of our favorites.
I understand this desire to sing favorite choruses.
Sometimes at the end of one of our services, we are
so happy and blessed that we sit together and sing
favorites for hours. But when we are trying to move
the service in a particular direction (because the
Spirit has shown us what direction to go to bring in
the glory), then we must stick to a simple chorus.
We praise until the spirit of worship comes. We
worship until the glory comes. Then we avoid any-
thing that would disrupt that atmosphere of glory,
and we stay there, allowing God to reveal Himself
to us.
It doesn’t have to always be the same song. I don’t
even remember what song we used on that now-­
famous day in Pensacola, and I have never seen the
video to be reminded. Use the chorus God is giving
you at the moment to bring in the glory and the
accompanying revelation.
It is possible to use a tune that has some very com-
plicated words to it. What you need to do, however,
is to take just a phrase out of that song and repeat
that phrase. If you don’t know what else to sing,
with any tune you can sing the word “hallelujah.”
Once, when we were in Russia, I asked one of our
worship leaders from Virginia to lead the praise and
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worship. She didn’t know any Russian at all, but

by using some fast “hallelujah” choruses for praise,
some slow “hallelujah” choruses for worship and
some “other” hallelujah choruses to continue in
the glory, she was able to lead the people into the
presence of God. It only takes four or five words or
phrases in any language to bring people into the
glory.
Learn to sit on the crest of God’s waves and then
bring the glory back and dump it on the people to
whom you are ministering. After that, you can teach
them to bring in the glory waves for themselves.
Sometimes you will need to tell your mind to
remain still while you allow the Spirit to have the
ascendancy. If we can take enough time in praise
and worship, we can come into the things of the
Spirit very quickly. It is not always necessary to
have a great prayer meeting before something
happens. Learn to move ever more quickly into
a higher realm. At first, it might take forty-five
minutes to come into the glory. Then, because
you are doing it more and more, it might take
you only thirty minutes. Then it may take only
twenty-five minutes, then twenty minutes, then
fifteen minutes, and then ten. If we can have a
group of people who flow together and worship
together often, we can come into the glory realm
almost instantly.
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That doesn’t mean that we then bypass praise.
Praise is the point of entry, and we must begin with
praise to bring everyone in together. Praise is an
act of the will, while worship is not. It is a gift from
God’s Spirit. You can say you are worshiping and
you can even be singing songs of worship, but until
the spirit of worship comes on you, you are not really
worshiping. We must praise until the spirit of wor-
ship comes. Then, when the spirit of worship comes,
we must worship until the glory comes. Just as long
as we want the glory to be manifested, we must keep
on worshiping. It is in the realm of worship and the
resulting glory that miracles happen.
Pastor Benny Hinn has been blessed by God be-
cause he is a great worshiper, and in the realm of
worship there are great miracles. All of us must be-
come greater worshipers. While we are worshiping,
miracles will take place — greater miracles than we
have ever experienced, creative miracles.
Many people ask me how they can begin to have
visions. My answer is always the same: Just keep on
worshiping when you come into the spirit of wor-
ship. This is one reason I linger after every service.
We sometimes stay with those who are praying until
midnight or later. After everyone has finished min-
istering, we keep on singing. It is in the glory realm
that we are released to see and hear and experience
what we have never experienced before.
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So how can you start? Open your mouth, and be-

gin to sing. Sing to Jesus. Then begin to believe for
revelation, and if you desire it and you ask for it, you
will receive it. The Scriptures say clearly that “[we]
have not because [we] ask not,” so let’s start a­ sking.
If we are bold to ask for the greater thing, it will
be given unto us. If we are bold to ask for revelation
knowledge, it will be given to us. God’s desire is to
reveal Himself to His Bride, to cause us to know Him
intimately. We can know His majesty. We can know
His glory and His power. It is the “knowing” of Him
that will satisfy the deep longings of our hearts, for
He will remove every sense of dissatisfaction and
restlessness from our spirits, and we will know
true contentment. He is ready and willing to reveal
Himself to us from glory to glory.
There will be times in the near future when we will
seem nearly overwhelmed by the greatness of the
revelation knowledge that comes to us. It will seem
just like that which was received by the prophets of
old and the very apostles who walked with the Lord.
We will sometimes feel like the apostle Paul, when
he said he was “born out of due season.”
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