The Cloud of His Glory & the Prophetic Voice

John Belt
John Belt

1. Being Heavenly Minded is Earthly Good

?Exodus 24:15,18
?Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain? Moses went into the midst?of the cloud and went up to the mountain. ?And Moses was on the mountain for forty days and?forty nights.”
Most all of us have heard the adage ?you have your head in the clouds? as being used in the negative sense to tell people to ?snap to it? – or you are tuned out. But did you know that there is a cloud that God wants your head in. When we talk about clouds there are actually two different kinds of clouds spiritually speaking. You have the oppressive cloud that has many in bondage to grief, pain and misery, gloom and despair (you get the idea) – the cloud of heaviness.
Then you have the cloud of His glory that manifests in the Holy Spirit in and upon our lives that lifts burdens and is light. The good news is that we get to pick which cloud is going to be upon our lives. God wants you tuned in to His frequency as you allow His bright glory cloud of light to envelope your life.

2. An Altitude Litmus Test

One most accurate way to determine which cloud is upon your life is to ask yourself ?How easy is it for me to praise God?? Where is your level of praise? Do you have a hard time voicing praise to God? Are you subdued under heaviness?
Isaiah 61:3
?The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.?
What is the consistency of your praise to God? Ask yourself these questions. Don?t feel bad or condemned but rather see the these influences that may be surrounding you. The truth is your ALTITUDE is what determines your attitude – to the transformation of your mind. Go higher in worship and praise!
Psalm 22:3
?But You are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel
[are offered].? AMP

God ?inhabits? the praise of His people. If you are not praising and giving thanks to God then there is no praise to be inhabited. God?s Presence is true substance and life. Give God some praise to inhabit! Create a steady diet of praise in your life.

3. Unleash the Prophetic Anointing

Praise is also very connected to our prophetic anointing and lives. The prophet represents the ?voice of God? in the earth. The enemy always aims to shut down your voice. Our voice, anointed and inspired by the Holy Spirit, is one if not the greatest weapon God has given us to shift atmospheres. We?ve been created with a voice. In the beginning God said, ?Let there be light!? (Genesis 1:3)
The first thing God did was speak with His voice. This is a clue for us to see just how powerful the voice is – how powerful OUR voice is. We are created in the image and likeness of God. When we speak through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit there is power to shift atmospheres from darkness to light.
Revelation 2:16
?Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will war against them with the sword of
My mouth.?

Our voice is ordained to carry the prophetic power of God?s Spirit, like a sword, to decree His Kingdom and will manifested in the earth. Because of this there is always an attack on your ability to praise, prophesy and release God?s Presence through your voice. God is wanting to invade the earth through your voice!

4. The Church Whose Head is in the Heavens

I remember a word by Bob Jones that is actually found on ?The Eye of God Wonders? album that I was blessed and honored to produce. Bob was an incredibly tender hearted yet authoritatively strong voice who spoke with amazing clarity from the Father?s heart. In this word Bob talked about the Church whose ?head would be in the heavens? in a positive light. God wants our head in the heavens, in the glory cloud so that we can accurately prophesy the life, Kingdom and will of God into lives – to be the carriers of transforming glory that will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas!
2 Peter 1:16-18
?But were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: ?This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.? ?And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the?holy ?mountain.?
Get your head in the heavens – the glory cloud! Don?t settle for an oppressive heaviness to be your portion. God has a better promise and portion for you that is His most excellent glory cloud where His lightness, inspiration, revelation and voice is revealed to you.

5. God Calls You to be Prophetic

Matthew 11:11
?Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.?
It was always God?s intention for His people to be prophets. Moses wanted all of God?s people to be prophets. Jesus said the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John the Baptist, the last Old Testament prophet. Jesus was the Prophet of prophets. He told us that we are blessed when we are persecuted for righteousness sake, for so they persecuted the ?prophets? who were before us. ?(Matt. 5:12) Without the prophetic there is no assault from the enemy because there is no threat and there is no threat because there is no voice speaking the oracles (the divine utterances) of God.?(1 Peter 4:11)
Connect with God in the cloud of His glory, be inspired by His Spirit.? Stir the river of His Spirit inside of you and welcome the cloud of His glory upon you. Then speak and shift atmospheres, even your own situation, by proclaiming His divine utterances under the unction and anointing of His Spirit. Don?t seek as much to be relevant to men but rather seek to be relevant to God, pleasing Him – by speaking as one sent by Him to shift things on earth where they come under the transforming influence of heaven.
 


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2 thoughts on “The Cloud of His Glory & the Prophetic Voice”

  1. Thank you for this mighty word from God. I have been struggling in this area. Pain medicine can dumb down the brain. I am pushing through , seeking God for revelation, as I should be healed as many, many people are and have been praying for me. Called today to read Ephesians. First chapter is setting me free just knowing how I am lavished on by God of His rich blessings in Christ Jesus. Thank You, Jesus!!!

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