It's Supernatural

DAVID: The fourth hour comes. And then I got intellectual. I got theological. I start well maybe analyzing and assessing and I applied the frailty of human wisdom. And I said perhaps that will get, I’ll tell you this right now. If it were possible to enter the presence of God by emotion or human effort in that moment I would have entered. But it’s not. And I remember in that moment I looked at the clock and I realized how much time had gone by and I just started to weep. And tears were coming down my face and I said Jesus, I don’t know how to pray. Jesus, I don’t know what to do. See there’s no man or woman on earth no matter how anointed they are who knows their way into the presence of God. Only the Holy Spirit knows the way in.

AUDIENCE: That’s right.

DAVID: And so I said Lord, what do I do? I mean I was broken. All of my– you know why God will wait till all of your effort has been exhausted? You know why He’ll do that? Because often we’ll push, push, push, push for things to happen in our ministry, in our life, in our family, in our business. And we’re pushing for it to happen and it doesn’t happen. It’s because when the answer finally comes, when the miracle finally comes He wants you to know who deserves the glory!

AUDIENCE: Amen! That’s right! That’s right!

DAVID: So that when it comes you go, you go I had tried everything I knew to do with that and He said that’s right. That’s exactly where I want you because an impossible situation is the perfect setting for a miracle! If you’re in an impossible situation I’ve got good news. That’s the perfect setting for a miracle. You may be looking and saying God I don’t know how you’re going to do it. He will make a way! And I found out that He made a way because I began to weep. And I said Lord, all I want is You. All I want is Your presence. All I want is everything that You have to offer me. Lord, I just want to experience the riches of Jesus!

AUDIENCE: Yes.

DAVID: And I’ll never forget the Holy Spirit began to speak to me in that moment. And He tells me turn off the light. I turned off the light. He said turn off the fan, it was buzzing. I turned off the fan. He said close the Bible. I said huh!

AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]

DAVID: Lord, are you sure?

AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]

DAVID: I closed the Bible. And He said turn off the music. I said surely You can’t move without the music, Lord.

AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]

DAVID: And I turned off the music. And the Lord said to just look at Him. See we try so hard, don’t we? The scripture says: Be still and know that I am God. We want to be still and know our troubles. Be still and know everything that’s going on. Be still and know that I am God. Stillness precedes revelation.

AUDIENCE: Yes. Oh. Wow.

SID: So Diane, what was it like in that thick, thick, thick glory? What did you see? What did you feel?

DIANE: Well, it was absolutely amazing and of course I was so overwhelmed by God’s presence, on the side of my room, when the glory had come in and it moved over to the middle of my room, I was sitting in the bed. This whole side of the room, you could not see anything. I mean, absolutely nothing at all. And so I’m sitting there and it’s just like right there beside me and I’m thinking, okay, I want to check this out because that’s what our mind says. So I stuck my hand over in it, just totally disappeared. So I pulled it out real quick and I’m holding it so close to my face because again, your mind is trying to figure it out because our carnal mind does not understand the supernatural. So I kept doing it and I kept doing it. I probably did it six, maybe seven times, because it was just so–

SID: Like those kids in Azusa Street that played hide-and-seek in the glory. You were a kid.

DIANE: I was. I was, and I was just so overtaken. I said, “Father, why are you showing me this?” And he said, “Diane,” he said, “as long as you pray and read my word and worship,” he said, “as you do that when I send you out,” he said, “people will not see you. But,” he said, “they’ll see me.” And he said, “No flesh will glory in my presence.” And I was–

SID: That’s a very key concept.

DIANE: Yes, yes. And that’s what I just kept … You know, I’ve always given him the glory, and that’s been something that you just have to do. And so what happened is the next week when I stood up in the pulpit to preach after the service, a couple of people came over to me at different times and told me, “While you were standing there, all of a sudden the top part of your body disappeared, and all there was was a gold cloud.” And another person said they saw a white cloud. You know, it’s so holy because we don’t see that so often and it’s hard to fathom that. And I’m thinking, “Wow, God, they saw you. They heard you. They couldn’t see me anymore.” Just like what happened and what you spoke to me. And so we can’t ever forget. There’s a process that we have to go through and it’s called dying to self. And that’s what most people don’t like to hear.

SID: No one likes that. No one.

DIANE: It’s true.

SID: But you know what? Look at what the reward is. When people see you, they don’t even see you anymore. They see Jesus. Now there were six simple steps that you talk about, for instance, so we can operate in this glory. Tell me about the step of worship.

DIANE: Okay, so in worship, it’s, the Bible says to worship him in spirit and in truth. So we worship him through our obedience to the word of God.

SID: You know, I’ve never heard that. I thought worship was you sing the song. That’s not what she said. Say it again.

DIANE: It’s as we’re obedient to the word of God.

SID: That’s considered worship to him.

DIANE: Yes, we’re worshiping him in spirit and in truth because his words are life and they’re spirit. So as we receive the word ingrafted in us, we become living epistles.

SID: I want you right now to release the glory quickly.

DIANE: Yes. In the name of Jesus, Father, I thank you for the power that’s in the blood of Jesus and Father, I release your glory all over to each and every one right now. Father, as their heart is yielded to you, Father, as their spirit is yielded, Lord, I thank you for the tangible manifestation of your glory, for healings, Father, for miracles, for even words of knowledge and wisdom that will come in your glory. Father, thank you for your glory right now that is going out right now, touching people everywhere and even in the audience. In the name of Jesus, I pray these things. Amen.

SID: You know this glory is tangible. This glory, those of you that are, you know, whether you feel it or not, what would you say to someone that doesn’t feel the glory?

DIANE: I just tell them, don’t focus on that and just have faith in God that they’re in the presence of his glory, but I do believe at one point in time they are going to tangibly see and feel because it’s part of our inheritance.

SID: You will tangibly see and feel the glory. It’s your inheritance.

SID:Clarice, what happens in hell when we are stating, because we believe it, the opposite of God’s word?

CLARICE:That’s the difference between agreeing with God and agreeing with your circumstances. We either agree with our covenant with God, but when we begin to say, I’m sick, I’m oppressed, I’m down, I’m out, I’m weak, all of those negative things you release into the atmosphere an invitation. It’s like a scent that is released in hell of unbelief and all of hell says, “The sons of God say they’re sick, the sons of God say their children are in drugs and alcohol, the sons of God… And they have all power, so now we can be released to fulfill their words because hell has no power until the church speaks.” The word of the Lord is in you. We have all power, all authority and responsibility and privilege to agree with God. So what happens in hell? They can’t do anything until the redeemed say the negative. That’s why we have to agree with God.

SID:Now, how important is it for us to agree with God for heaven to impact earth?

CLARICE:The scripture says that, “Are the angels not ministering spirits sent forth from God to aid us who the heirs of salvation.” For when you and I speak the word of God, we agree with the truth of God to the degree that we comprehend it and understand it. Then the angel says, “We hear God speaking and the God lives in you and he’s coming at you.” You become a launching pad of the antidote to the antichrist. So what happens is that angels harken to perform the word of God that has spoken so you have superior air power. We are living in great days.SID:You mentioned a little earlier that we are a launching pad for God. Explain.

CLARICE:Well, the scripture says, “Out of your belly flows rivers.” Now, rivers by design flow away from themselves and that the word of God, it’s not a river, it’s rivers. So you and I release the word of God and it flows into the sea of humanity and that nothing happens until we speak. We are made in the image and the likeness of God and we can’t… God didn’t think us into existence. He didn’t just into existence. He said, “Light be, and light jumped up. There it is. But we are made in that image. So words, Jesus is the word of God made flesh. We are flesh being made into the word of God. You are a word from the mouth of God so you reflect and absorb glory as no other person does. So we release the infallible, inherent and awesome word of God. That’s being a launching pad.

SID:Why do you say a thought is the most significant and important thing we have?

CLARICE:Well, your thought life, it says, “whatsoever things are lovely, pure, truth, if they’d be virtuous, they’d be praised, think on these things.” So the thought life, you have to fill your brain with positive things, resist the negative. My mama used to say, “Honey, you can’t keep birds from flying over your head, but you can keep from nesting in your hair.” So you’ve got to understand those negative thoughts that just come out of nowhere, you’re thinking something that’s just crazy and then you need to say I resist that. And you fill your mind with positive thoughts because your thoughts are going to lead to your words, and your words are going to produce your action.

SID:Remember the story you told me about the oppressed woman walking towards you?

CLARICE:Oh, then that’s the declaration. See, I learned that from Kathryn Kuhlman. I was the oppressed woman walking toward her. And so this woman is coming and she’s obviously got serious problems. She weighed about 80 pounds and her hair was all gone and she was dressed poorly. She was in a mess. She was coming down the aisle and I said, “You come to me.” And she backed off and I said, “No, you come to me now. You come to me now.” And you have to encourage people. And she starts towards me. I said, “You are the righteousness of Christ. When I look at you, all I see is Jesus. You are the healed. You are the delivered. You are the prosperous. You are the beloved. You’re the apple of God’s eye.” And she kept walking toward me and walking toward me. And by the time she… Then I ran toward her, I grabbed her and put her in my arms and I said, “Say with me, I believe Jesus is the Son of God.” And she says, “I believe Jesus is the son of God.”See, sometimes your faith has to be infused into another person so that they can have the strength to walk in this. We impart. When Paul said, “Oh I long to be with you that I can impart to you a spiritual blessing that will equip you to the end.” And this woman was instantly changed. She got born again, baptized in the Holy Ghost and got free of drugs.

SID:I tell you what, you look at Clarice and you say, “She doesn’t… I can’t even relate to her. She doesn’t know what it’s like to have nothing, to be hopeless and in poverty.” You’re wrong.She’s been there. She pulled herself out and she says, “You can do it too.” Be right back.