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Topic: Riding The Waves Of Glory & the Anointing by Todd Bentley
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Kimberly Fowler
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Riding The Waves Of Glory & the Anointing
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Todd Bentley
HUNGER
Have you ever been in that place where there is an aching
inside like a longing and you want more, but you don't know
how to get it? I remember thinking: God, it's not fair for
me to be this hungry because I can never get enough of You!
Hunger asks, seeks, and longs for communion. "Tell me...
where Thou feedest, where Thou makest Thy flock to rest at
noon" (Song of Solomon 1:7 KJV). The genuine experience of
God's affection makes us ravenously hungry for more. We go
hard after God's heart to experience more of His affection.
Holy hunger is not an attempt to earn us God's love, but
positions us to experience more of it.
LEARNING HOW TO GO DEEPER
One day I was pressing into the Lord in hunger, not
satisfied but longing and thirsty for more! I spent maybe
an hour in worship, soaking, and prayer in God's presence
that day. Then, it just seemed as if that peace of His
manifest presence began to lift or wane. So I got up from
prayer and thought: You know what God? I want more-I'm
still hungry. I said, "I'm going to press in again in
worship and pray as if I didn't even pray the last hour."
Have you ever been in the presence of God and it was so
great you wondered why you would ever leave? Or when you
are in the glory, you wonder why you ever left the last
time? Have you ever felt a wave of His glory come in your
own prayer life? Maybe you were praying in tongues and
worshipping with some music playing. You are praying,
seeking His face in hunger, and standing in the very
manifest presence of God. Then, all of a sudden His
presence just seems to lift, wane, or dissipate? This
happened to me and I was longing for more. So I started
praying again in worship, as if I was just starting again.
I was going to go deeper in prayer. And even though I'd
prayed an hour already, I began pressing in as if I'd not
even prayed the first time, desperate for more of Him.
ANOTHER WAVE OF FIRE!
Then it was as if the glory fell and God came in another
wave of presence and fire. I stayed on the floor for over
an hour again, but then it was like God's presence waned
and the glory seemed to fade again. My first impression was
that He wasn�t leaving completely, but I knew that the
intensity of that fire of His glory was gone. Then a
revelation came to me. I got up off the floor and thought:
How hungry am I? My challenge was this: Am I going to wait
and press in for another wave of glory and go deeper, or
stop praying? I began to realize that God was moving the
boundary in prayer. It was like hide and seek and an
invitation to come up higher. By that I mean it was like He
was saying: "Come on son. Hide, and go seek. Come on son.
Come on a little bit deeper." Seek Me, search for Me with
all your heart and find Me. God's promise was, "Draw near
to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8 NAS). I
wanted His closeness and the nearness of His love in a
greater way.
A KEY
Something else I came to realize was that the biggest thing
about connecting with the divine presence of God is
learning to quiet in stillness my mind and soul. I learned
to focus my thoughts on Jesus. Worship of the heart was a
great key that helped me focus and stay at the feet of
Jesus!
GOD CHASING
I'll never forget that first time when twelve hours went by
in prayer and pressing into God's presence like this. Each
time I prayed, the glory was even stronger than the last,
but it would seem to wane again. I'd give chase in prayer
and worship, and really cry out in holy desperation for
more. God would come in another wave of glory, fire, and
presence. When it seemed to dissipate and lift again, I'd
chase Him again in worship, prayer, and soaking. Each time
God would respond and come and capture my heart again. It
was this seek, pray, hunger, soak, drink, and wash in the
glory of His presence until the glory lifted again. Then
I'd give chase in prayer for more. When God's manifest
presence comes and then His presence wanes, what should we
do? We wait in prayer for another wave. We press in for
another wave and we stay hungry. This is how we go deeper
and higher, riding the waves of momentum and grace in
prayer. We are called to go from glory to glory!
I did that for three months, four to twelve hours a day,
and called that season soaking. God gave me such
determination, and this brought results. Basically that's
my testimony concerning how our ministry was birthed-I got
absolutely desperate for God-so hungry. I said, "I'm going
to go after the anointing." There is this momentum that
comes in prayer that enables us to ride the waves of God's
glory and anointing-a momentum that God wants each of us to
abide in all the time.
I realized on the one hand that if I kept pursuing God
every day, an incredible breakthrough would happen, but on
the other hand, if I stopped praying for two or three days,
it was hard to get back in the flow. Five days might go by
with no real prayer, and I'd still be thinking that I was
going to go back into the glory like I had the previous
week. Not! I'd go back to prayer and it was the hardest
thing to do. It was like starting all over again. As a
result, I took it seriously to continually build up "this
place" in prayer and to keep pressing in for the anointing.
For example, I would start feeling the presence of God and
then the next day God's presence would come in less time,
perhaps only 20 minutes, and then the following day I'd
experience God's presence after only about a minute. Then
the next day it was like no effort-BOOM-there He is! The
same for the next day-BOOM!
Cultivating and maintaining intimacy with God goes hand in
hand with pursuing Him constantly. In fact, that's the way
we learn how to wait for the next wave and press in deeper
and ride the momentum of God's glory and anointing. If you
get hungry enough to wait, and you begin to pray, and if
the Spirit of God comes, that momentum will carry you
through the night and the next day. It will carry you into
the next week and the next month! As a matter of fact, when
you get grace and momentum and a spark and a fire, you've
got to ride the wave!
What's more, you don't have to stay in your prayer closet
in order to ride God's waves. You see, there is a wave in
the anointing, and when you hit the wave and experience the
momentum, you'll start moving in the anointing. For some,
you'll be getting out on the streets evangelizing. For
others, you'll start prophesying and your gift will get
sharper and sharper. You'll be hitting this "groove," but
you need to stay hungry for God to stay in the groove!
HOW HUNGRY ARE YOU?
I remember in 1998 I got so hungry and desperate. I just
wanted God more than anything. This hunger consumed me and
I could feel His presence all the time. Around this time, I
was crying out for MORE (sitting in my apartment), when all
of a sudden a wind came out of heaven. I felt that wind
come in and go out of my lungs. When that happened, I was
supernaturally mute and I couldn't even speak! Then I felt
this electricity and warm oil, almost like honey. I began
to feel this �atmosphere" (it was getting hot); it was
manifesting off to my left, and I felt it come out of my
kitchen. I can only describe it as a glory-liquid-honey-
cloud. When it came out of my kitchen and started moving
into my living room, I was thinking it was like the cloud
of glory, or the pillar of glory described in the Old
Testament that Moses experienced (see Exodus 24:15-18;
Exodus 33:9).
I could feel it all over me and can best describe it this
way: It was like swimming in warm, liquid honey. It was
sticky. I had never felt the presence of the Lord like this
before. When it moved into the living room, it got heavier
and heavier-the weighted glory. Pretty soon I just fell out
of my chair onto the carpet on my face, eating the rug! I
was just lying there and it was like this swirl around me,
this warm oil and it was like electricity. It went on for
two or three hours and then lifted. The wave was gone. I
thought: Wow. That was awesome.
The next day when I was in my kitchen about to get a glass
of juice, little did I know another wave was coming! God
was teaching me how to press in for all His waves, to learn
how to wait for the next wave, and how to press in deeper
and ride the momentum. Here's what happened. I opened the
refrigerator and pulled out the juice. Suddenly a Person
(not a presence), a Person, Jesus, stepped into my kitchen
and I saw His feet under the fridge door. Of course, the
juice stayed on the counter and the fridge door stayed
open! I fell under the power and I started weeping at the
feet of Jesus. I was taken in the spirit like a dream to
the Garden of Gethsemane (that�s another testimony). But I
was thinking: Something happened yesterday when the glory-
liquid-honey-cloud came because today it's like the waves
are just showing up at my house now. Boom. Boom. It's like
I am getting flooded here.
The wave continued. The next day I went into our baby's
room to pray, expecting to press in and do whatever it took
to come into God's presence. I opened the door and stepped
into the room, and then closed the door behind me. As I
turned around to begin praying, Jesus was standing in the
middle of the room! I just started weeping and weeping. I
didn't even get to pray. He was already there waiting. This
was true intimacy.
There were times when I would come home from work and run
downstairs into my bedroom. Most times God was already
there waiting for me. Think about that now. I would go into
my room and as soon as I went into my room, I would start
weeping. No effort whatsoever to worship, pray, and press
in-He was there. It was as if God was just excited about
waiting for me. Nevertheless, even after abiding in the
glory and the anointing in encounters with the Lord like
the ones I just described (as well as other encounters that
time does not permit me to share in this teaching), all of
a sudden Jesus would just leave. When this happened, that
same question would come into my mind: "God where are You
going?" And then I would hear that same answer from the
Lord: "How hungry are you, Todd?"
That is God's challenge to all of us today! There is a
contagious holy provoking from God. "How hungry are you?"
This holy confrontation drives me to be concerned that you
have an encounter with God and that your heart cries: "God,
I want to know You!"
Todd Bentley
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Margaret Jacob
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Kimberly -
thanks so much for the post. I would just like to share about how the Lord used Todd Bentley in my walk. I was in a training for reigning school and even though I had been baptized in the Spirit I didn't have freedom in speaking in tongues. My background had planted a lot of fear in me. One day my prophetic teacher sent me home with a Todd Bentley sermon tape. The Lord told me to put on the tape full-blast and just start speaking in tongues. That way I couldn't hear myself speak so I wouldn't get hung up on fear. I turned the tape up and started speaking. Then the Lord said to suddenly stop the tape and keep on speaking. The first time I did it I was speaking in what sounded like a Scandinavian tongue, and the next sounded like Chinese. The third time a guttural sounding tongue came out. I have never had trouble since!
In regards to hunger, lately it seems that my hunger is growing minute by minute. My cry for years had been, "God, I want to know you!" I loved the post.
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Kimberly Fowler
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And I loved your testimony. It just thrills me to hear
people's experiences regarding the Holy Ghost and how
Jesus makes himself real to people. Love it!
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Sherry Mohr
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Hi Maggie,
Your experience with the Todd Bentley tape and speaking in tongues intrigued me; the Lord always amazes me in the way He deals with the things that hold us back. Did you know it was fear before the Lord delivered you? Had you been asking Him to help you in that area? I'm curious, the Lord has delivered me from a multitude of fears and He still continues to do so when they arise. He is so faithful and good. I'm also curious to know if you remember what Todd was speaking about. Also, what do they teach in training for reigning school? I hope you don't mind all the questions; I don't have any experience with these things. Thanks.
Will you pray for me?
God bless you beloved.
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