One of those days in December 2023, I stumbled upon this scripture from Ps 96:6 and it didn’t let me move on further from there until I spent some good time lingering on those words “SPLENDOR & MAJESTY”. I could see in my spirit, a grandeur of the holy presence of God and realized that it’s much more than anything that we have known or expected. After this incident, I just moved on to my regular study of the Bible, but something about the “SPLENDOR” of God engulfed my thought process.

The Spirit of God eased my understanding of the word and said, “Glory as of the Father, seen in the Son, revealed by the Holy Spirit” is the SPLENDOR & MAJESTY seen in His Presence. I understood that, it is the superlative description of God’s glory expressed as His Splendor. Now, my heart began to ponder over what the glory of God can do. As I began with the attempt to understand all that His glory can do, at once, I felt my little brain won’t be able to fathom and comprehend the resulting outcome of the manifest Glory of God. I realized that the outcome can be diversely purpose-oriented and mind-blowing. I was only able to tell myself, that His glory can unleash anything natural or supernatural, beyond human understanding and timeline, according to His glorious will and pleasure during His kairos. The winds bringing quails and the skies raining manna for His people in the wilderness, became picture-perfect in my ideology of the manifest glory of God. This gave me a deeply satisfying sigh of relief in the heart and resounding assurance in my ears, “what can my God not do”.

When this was all settled for me in my spirit about the SPLENDOR OF GOD, I received it so personally for me. But, that’s when I started asking the Lord for the corporate promise for the year 2024 for Anchorage & the church at large. I was directed by the Holy Spirit to the thanksgiving discourse of David as recorded in the Chronicles 1st Volume, though it’s the same thing we see in the Psalms too. God spoke to me and said, “this is what I am going to be for the church – I must be seen as full of Splendor & Glory. Therefore, I will cause mighty acts to happen in the church and take glory.”  I finally understood that this year is going to be beyond the declarations of any pastor or leader in the Kingdom. The voice I heard, brought me to a place of clarity in the spirit and understanding. The promise for 2024 is not a “do”promise but a “be”promise. Be submitted. It’s all about Him. All we need to do is just submit and await His manifesting glory getting revealed time to time in various aspects of personal life and the church too.

1 CHRONICLES 16:27  SPLENDOR AND MAJESTY ARE BEFORE HIM

​Rev. John Samuel