I was just reading Exodus 40:35, and here was my thinking, The idea that Moses tried to enter the tent of the congregation when the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle is what I think people will try to do when they get to heaven, just enter that MOST HOLY OF HOLIES, Heaven, where God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit dwells and such Glory no one can imagine when here on earth, but I don't believe when we get to Heaven that we'll just run around to our heart's content, I believe all we'll want to do is sit at Jesus' feet, as Mary did in the New Testament when Jesus and the Disciples came to visit their house and Martha complained to Jesus that Mary wasn't doing her share and Jesus told Martha that Mary was doing the best thing. We may not even want to sit at His Feet in Heaven, but be prostrate at His Feet, as the song, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" says. God's Glory, the Shekinah Glory, says one thing and one thing only, to me. We are not worthy to be in His Presence, but thank You, Jesus, that You died on that Cross for our sins, and so now we can enter into Your Presence with thanksgiving in our hearts without having to go through a priest, because You are our High Priest.  I don't think people realize just how Holy You Are, Lord! Also read Revelation 15:8.

I had written this last year on Facebook, but it is still so poignant yet today and will always be thus. How Holy God is, He’s so Holy that He expects us to be Holy as well, because in Leviticus 10:3, it says, “be ye Holy, as I am Holy,” says the Lord God. That’s not the only place He says that to us, but it’s enough for us to know that He is Holy and wants to live the same way in our lives.

As I wrote the other day, I’m studying the Book of Acts in my studies at Global University. I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

I’m not just using my book from Global University or the Bible when I’m studying my courses. I’m using the books suggested in the courses, too, to give a broader understanding of the Books of the Bible that I’m studying so I have an in-depth knowledge of the Word of God. I want to know the Word in my heart, as the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 119:11, to hide the Word in my heart, that I might not sin against God. That’s what I’m doing by taking these courses at Global University, to hide the Word of God, that I might not sin against God. Oh, I’m also taking them to get my ministerial degree so I can preach the Word of God, too, but I can preach whether I have papers or not, but the more I study the Word of God, the more I know the Lord and about the Lord and what His Will and plan are for my life. Pastor has been preaching from the Book of Nehemiah and about how Nehemiah had a S-M-A-R-T plan in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Earlier, the Jews had been allowed to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, but the walls of Jerusalem had been destroyed by fire. So Nehemiah had been lead by the Lord to pray for several months. After he had prayed, the king asked him why he was downcast and sad looking. To be sad looking before Artaxerxes, the king, could mean death to Nehemiah. But Nehemiah told him what the Lord revealed to him about rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, which was Nehemiah’s S-M-A-R-T plan. Because the plan was God’s plan, of course, the king okayed it. When it’s God’s plan, the pieces fall right into place. Nehemiah’s S-M-A-R-T goal was from Nehemiah 2:6-8 and it was:
1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Advantageous (worthwhile)
4. Realistic
5. Timely.
We all need to have these goals in our lives if we’re going to work for the Lord. Not just Nehemiah, but all of us who want to get somewhere in our lives working for the Lord, even just getting a chapter or Book of the Bible read. We need SMART goals in our lives, just like Nehemiah. We need to HIDE the Word of God in our hearts, in our minds, in our lives, so much, that we don’t sin against the Lord. That’s what these courses I’m taking at Global University has been teaching me. To really dig in and learn what the Lord wants me to know and to know Him  as the Apostle Paul taught in his Epistle to the Philippians 3:10-11, (AMP): “10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] 11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].” That is what I want to attain for myself, what the Apostle Paul wrote in that Epistle.

I’ve been taking a new course at Global University for the last several months on the Book of Acts. And I tell you, the Book of Acts cannot be studied hurriedly. In all my versions of the Book of Acts, the title will say it’s the Acts of the Apostles, but no, the Book of Acts is NOT the Acts of the Apostles, but it’s the Acts of the Holy Spirit working in the Apostles and others who were filled with the Holy Spirit. The name of my course was actually, Acts: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Believers. That’s what the Book of Acts was all about, the work of the Holy Spirit in believers after they were filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Jesus was leaving the earth to go back to Heaven to be with the Father and told the Eleven Disciples to tarry in the Upper Room until they were filled with the Power of the Holy Spirit. Well, there weren’t just the 11 there in the Upper Room. According to Acts 1:15, it says, “Now on one of those days, Peter arose among the brethren, the whole number of whom gathered together was about a hundred and twenty.” If you notice, Peter was there and he had denied our Lord 3 times the night Jesus was arrested, yet he was there waiting for the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room. Why was he there? Because after Jesus had arisen from the dead, when the women had gone to the tomb, the angel had told the women when they saw Jesus wasn’t in the tomb, he said, in Mark 16:7, “But go your way, tell His Disciples and Peter, that He goes before you into Galilee; there shall you see Him, as He said unto you.” Jesus specifically mentioned Peter in that message to the women, to make sure that he knew that he was forgiven by Jesus for denying Him that night. Jesus also pointedly made sure Peter was noticed in John 21:15 and following when he asked him if he loved Him 3 times. The 3 times was to counteract the 3 denials, I believe. Peter was grieved that Jesus would ask him if he loved Him 3 times, but Jesus had to to point out that Peter indeed loved Him, and He knew that Peter loved him, even though he had failed him earlier. What forgiveness and love Jesus offers us. So yes, Peter was there in the Upper Room and he was mightily filled with the Holy Spirit and power and became a powerhouse for the Lord. On the Day of Pentecost, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, in Acts 2:4, “Acts 2:4 (AMP): 4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].“ There were people from all over from every country round about that spoke languages that the 120 in the Upper Room were speaking through the power of the Holy Spirit and the people outside in the streets understood what they saying. Now, these 120 in the upper room had never spoken these languages before because they had been given the power only through the power of the Holy Spirit and the people in the streets thought Peter and the 120 were drunk and full of sweet wine. So Peter stood up with the other 11 Disciples, oh by this time, they had elected a new disciple to take the place of Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed Jesus, his named was Matthias, and Peter preached so powerfully under the power of the Holy Spirit that day that 3000 people were saved  and were baptized. And that’s just the first two chapter of Acts. This is how the Book of Acts is, it’s not the Acts of the Apostles, but it’s the Acts of the Holy Spirit and it continues on to this day today, 2018. He hasn’t changed one bit in all this time, neither has the Father or the Son. He’s the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Thank You, Lord!