There are many ways that people try to build the Church today but Jesus said that He wants to build His Church. When we use man's methods and ways to build His Church we labor in vain! The Lord wants to build a "Glorious Church"...
He has given us Glory in our innermost being and we release it through Worship and Praise. The Word tells us that He is "Enthroned in Glory". We build a Throne for Him when we release our Glorious Praises! In this teaching you will see that water represents Glory... Clouds represent Glory too. And, when we release the "Rivers of Living Water" out of our mouths through Praise He comes and inhabits our Praises. When the atmosphere is full of Glory "we are changed... from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord". So, get ready to offer Him Glorious Praises in your Church and the Lord will build it up!
Psalm 22:3 “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” (Our praises become a Throne for the Lord to sit upon!)
Psalm29: 10 “The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.”
Isaiah 19:1 “…Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud”
Here is a definition of Glory... In Greek it is Doxa and in Hebrew it isKabod... It is an opinion, a hint, a whisp, a thought or feeling that is made manifest with the mouth. So we Release Glory as we think about Him and then open our mouths and Praise Him!
Matthew 12:34 “…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Psalm 50:23 “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:”
John 7:38 “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
Revelation 4:9,10 And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever…
Do you want the Presence of the Lord in our Church? Of course! So, we must offer praises full of Glory to Him so that He will come and sit upon His Throne and do Kingdom Business!
When this truly happens the world will come and believe!
2 Chronicles 9:1-7 9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her. And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard. Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
Even the unsaved will Glorify God when they see your Glorious Worship and Praises.
This is the way to build the House of the Lord! It is in true worship in which we Glorify God and Lift up Jesus! When we do that He draws all men unto Himself!
