So Eric, as we're talking about prayer and about communion with the Lord can you give
us, some, some steps, a process perhaps, that a person walks through or that you walk
through when you go before the Lord? Yeah, uh, starting with a concentration upon
Him. Now the definition of concentration is great
because it brings all to one. And that's exactly what concentration is:
I'm pulling my attention away from everything else and concentrating on You.
Starts with concentration so that I can enter into adoration.
See there's no real adoration without a concentration. The reason why it's that way is because you
can't look at God and something else at the same time.
I can't look at you and the monitor at the same time.
So concentration has got to be the foundation of adoration for it to be genuine.
So then it starts with concentration so that I can give him adoration, and in adoration
there will become a manifestation of His presence. I'm not talking about, you know, manifestations
seen, though that can happen, and does many times.
But I'm talking about the manifestation of His presence, peace, joy, the sweetness of
Him. As that manifestation happens you turn in
your resignation, which means this is the reason why I'm here.
And you're waiting there, just you're resigned to His presence.
Then in that sweet state of just resignation may last for a long time, whatever, however
long it lasts there will be an inclination towards something, maybe a scripture or a
vision of some kind. And then as you go into the thing that is
inclined, or the inclination that you had from the Lord you will receive revelation
of the Lord. And as you receive that revelation of the
Lord you receive, through revelation, an impartation of God Himself.
And as He imparts Himself into us through impartation we actually are transformed; we
receive transformation. And that transformation that happens to us
is what God is after. He's far more interested in getting us to
become something than He is trying to get us to do something.
He wants to bring many sons to glory. And the way He makes sons is by revealing
His Son. So He -- the revelation of Jesus makes a man
like Jesus. But that revelation comes from somewhere.
It comes from His presence. Just like if I'm going to -- if you're going
to unveil yourself to me I must first be with you, you know?
So it happens and starts there, even as His face is the release of His voice.
Because the voice comes out of the face. Even as I speak to you out of my face my voice
comes. God's voice is the same way: it comes out
of His presence. The presence is His face.
As the scripture says: "Penim -- you don't seek My face," it's His presence."
So as we seek forth His presence out of His presence will come His voice.
We see it all the times that He speaks it's normally in His presence.
I mean you see Samuel laying next to the ark that's in the presence.
He hears a voice. We said Moses, earlier the manifestation of
the presence, and he hears the voice. You know, and Jesus is in the presence of
God, God speaks. You know, so we're seeing constantly in the
scriptures that he's in the presence. Out of the presence comes the voice.
So this is how it starts: concentration, and it moves into adoration; adoration produces
a manifestation; you turn in your resignation. "That's why I'm there."
He'll give you an inclination. You follow that into revelation.
And that revelation produces an impartation. And the impartation is, is -- creates a transformation
in the man. That's how I see it.