Brother Copeland heard the voice of the Spirit saying, “Glory, glory, glory—My presence in its fullness. Glory, glory. And the earth shall be filled with My presence. It is My desire for My glory to flow unhindered throughout all of My people, wherever they are. And for those who have drawn themselves to My presence, those to whom My presence is more important than the other things of their lives, to those the manifestation of My glory will not only come first, but it will come in heavier manifestations and in longer lasting waves.
“And then there shall be waves of My glory that will come in places where they don’t know Me,” saith the Spirit of Grace and Mercy. “There will be manifestations of My glory, there will be a cloud, like the cloud of old in the wilderness that came in the day and then the pillar of fire by night.
A Holy Spirit Storm on the Horizon
“My glory, as you will find in My Word, has been manifest as fire. It’s been manifest as the cloud. It’s been manifest as lightning. It’s been manifest as thunder. It’s been manifest as rain. But it’s never been manifest in all of those manifestations at the same time. But you’ll see it. You’ll see the fire of the Spirit, you’ll see the cloud of the Spirit, you will hear its thundering’s, and you will hear its wind. You will hear its rain.
“A Holy Spirit storm is on the horizon. A storm of healing, a storm of deliverance. Oh, it won’t look like a storm to you. To you it will look like the most glorious thing you’ve ever seen, but to the forces of darkness it’ll look like the worst storm they have ever seen. And it will come rolling into their domain. And it will rip apart the workings of the darkness and the workings of the principalities and powers, the workings of the rulers of darkness of this world. For they are not My ruler,” saith the Lord, “and they’re not your ruler.” Hallelujah.
“And there will be manifestations of that cloud that will come, and in some places it’ll be for a moment or two, and the people will suddenly know that they’ve been in the presence of something they’ve never seen before. But then it’ll go away. And then it’ll get to a place where it will fall in a larger region. And before the catching away of the Church by Jesus, this move of the Spirit, this outpouring, this world-wide gathering of the precious fruit of the earth by the husbandman Himself, before that notable day comes,” saith the Lord, “the glory will be seen in ways no one has ever yet conceived.”
The Shekinah Glory
“There will be whole cities, whole villages, whole hamlets, whole towns that, that cloud will come in on like a fog, and it’ll be dense and heavy with the presence of the Spirit. And people will see it, it will get so dense and so heavy in some places, people will not be able to see one another. Sinner and saint alike will fall under its power.
“And then it’ll begin to lift, and people that have never experienced My presence before,” saith the Lord, “will begin to reach for it. ‘Don’t leave, don’t go.’ And it’ll begin to lift off churches, except in those places where they unashamedly praise Me. And people will look around and they’ll say ‘Oh, oh, in yonder place, in that place. Oh, but that’s where those fanatics are. Oh, those are the ones we’ve been warned against.’ “And the evil doers, and the wicked doers, and the sinful and the ungodly will shout, ‘Take your hands off me, I don’t care who they are. That’s where that cloud is. And that’s where I’m going. There was healing in that cloud. There was comfort in that cloud.’
Prepare Yourselves
“So prepare yourselves. Prepare your place of worship. Prepare your heart because I’m going to hold you responsible for ministry to My babies that come off of the streets and out of the gutters of humanity. I’m going to hold you responsible for the harlot that comes crying her way into My Kingdom, into your midst. I’m going to hold you responsible for loving the babies, and nourishing them with My Word, and holding them dear unto your heart because I hold them dear unto My heart.
“Oh, they’ll continue to say terrible things about you. But they’ve been saying terrible things about Me for a long time and it doesn’t bother Me a bit, in the least. They’ll say it about you, and it won’t bother you a bit, in the least. And together you’ll glorify My Name, and together we will shout unto the portals of glory. And in a very few short hours from now, the trumpet will blow and the sky will fill. The sky will fill, oh! and you’ll all see Me face-to-face. And I long for it more than you do,” saith the Spirit of Grace. “I long for that moment. Oh, would that the horn would blow.
“The glory is coming. You’ve experienced amounts of it in your gatherings in this place, and you have thrilled the heart of your Father. You’ve thrilled His heart. You’ve thrilled heaven with your praise. You’ve thrilled the Son of the living God with the worship of your Father.
“So rejoice and rejoice. The end is not yet, but it is very near so enjoy the time that you have left,” saith the Lord. Hallelujah. Shout! Praise His Name. Hallelujah. Praise the Name of the Lord.
~ Word of the Lord through Kenneth Copeland, Birmingham International Believers’ Convention, August 27, 1994
