Wow! I just posted a quote in my last post about silence. I have heard that quote, "In silence you shall know Me." several times. I wanted to give you the source of that quote believing it was a bible verse. I did a search and found no reference to it. However, I was led to this PROFOUND and timely message given by Benny Hinn. It is in pdf format and quite long. I highly recommend that you read this entire lesson on "Operating in the Annointing." by clicking the link I provided below. I have just been blown away by this teaching.
given by Pastor Benny Hinn
"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." ACTS 1:8
Acts 1:8 promises that we will receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon us. This promise is essential to understanding the anointing. When the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we are in God’s presence. But God’s presence is not the same as His anointing. God’s presence is His glory and His person; His anointing is His power. In Hebrew, the word “anoint” is mashach, which means “to rub in.” The Greek word is chrism and means “to smear.” When we receive the anointing, we are, in a sense, “smeared”with His power, which means that He is not only upon us but within us, as oil would be rubbed into and absorbed by the skin. Simply put, the anointing is God’s power. It is the manifestation and the result of his presence. Without God’s glory, we will never have His power. At the same time, the power without the presence will destroy a person; it will become an enemy. So we must have the presence with the power. The glory is given as long as a person is faithful. The power is the gift we receive as a result of the glory of God.Thus, a person can lose the glory and keep the power (for example, Sampson and Saul).
KNOWING GOD’S WAYS
Moses said: “I beseech thee, shew me thy glory” (Exodus 33:18). How did God respond?
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will be no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the father upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation. (Exodus 34:5-7)
From the passage above we see:
1. God revealed His person.
2. God revealed His divine attributes (who He is).
3. The glory of God equals the presence of God equals the person of God.
It is God’s presence that transforms our hearts. We come to know His ways as we spend time in His presence. In Psalm 103:7, we read that God “made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. ”Moses knew the ways of God, while Israel knew His acts.
1. God only reveals His ways to those who know Him.
2. Moses was transformed to know God’s ways. His ways are connected to His person/glory/presence. Those who know His ways will never walk away.
3. God’s acts are connected to His power. Those who only know His acts may walk away.
God says in Isaiah 55:8-9: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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.”
To know God’s ways is to know God. Moses was allowed to know God, and knowing God reveals His ways. The ways of God are not revealed to those who do not know Him.
Let’s look again at Moses’s story in Exodus.He says to the Lord: “Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence” (Exodus 33:13-15).
We see here:
1. Now God promises His presence.
2. Knowing Him is knowing His ways,His presence, and His attributes.
3. Once we know His presence and His glory, we will lose sight of ourselves.
God’s glory is not manifested in the physical body. The glory is not felt or experienced in the fleshly realms, but only in the heart, in the spirit of a person. What we feel is God’s power.The glory cannot be felt or described, only known. Moses did not simply want to feel God; he wanted to know Him.
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