We Are Called to Be the Glory Cloud

By Pastor Sharron Scott

11/9/11

I asked God why the Glory Cloud always disappeared. Why doesn’t it stay? He told me it could become idolized. The Presence would have to recede because, in ignorance, people might unintentionally worship the cloud itself and not He whose Presence it housed.

I asked God to show me His Glory as He did Moses in the fire, the smoke and the cloud. I closed my eyes, and I saw flames leaping up, licking the air. And then the cloud above the flames began to form, just as a forest fire creates its own weather. The effect of the flames created a great thunderhead-like cloud.

I asked God (to allow me, or) to call me to step into the cloud of His Glory. I felt as if He chuckled and said “Silly girl, that’s why I created it!” just as I walked into the center of it.

As I stretched out my arms and began to worship, I saw a seed in the center of the cloud. I thought it might be God’s Presence. I asked the Holy Spirit to implant the seed within me, as He had done to Mary. I didn’t quite know what this looked like, but I sensed this was God’s will.

The seed became a part of me, and within me it became a cloud like the one I stepped in to. It began to grow. I did not sense the outer cloud dissipating. It remained.

I realized that the cloud within me expanded to every part of me, and became my identity. I asked God what this meant. He said that His Glory cloud was never meant to dissipate; never meant to just appear, heal and disappear. It was meant to take root in each of us and grow.

I believe what God was saying to me in this vision is that He is calling us to be His Glory Cloud. The presence of the Holy Spirit must not be a sometime thing. Healings must not be occasional. They must be constant. Healings of bodies, physical and governmental, will become more prevalent as we each accept the seed of His Glory Cloud within us. More than just the Holy Spirit, but His power, manifested in us and through us.

As we gather together and call the Kingdom into a situation, others will be saved, healed, delivered, and see the power of the Most High.

He shows us a taste of what we can be when we see the Glory Cloud. Its appearance is temporary. We pray fervently for it to reappear. But we must not pray for the cloud itself. We must pray for the Presence of God, manifest in the cloud (or whatever form He chooses!). But it is our choice as to whether or not it comes and stays.

His Glory and His grace, manifested in us as His Body, must grow. I see God just waiting, hand outstretched, for our answer. Like a runner with feet in the stocks, waiting for the starting pistol.

I say “yes, Father. No matter what. Yes.”