Holy, is the Lord God Almighty.

Holy, is the Lord God Almighty.

I was listening to you tube. It was a clip called ‘Dethroning Principalities,’ by The Deep End and I was 57 minutes into the clip of 147 minutes long. So, I'd reached around about half way point of the clip. I was listening to one man relate a true story, with two commentators listening and asking questions. I was thinking how bright these three men are. They have an enormous amount of experience between them and I fall so far short.

As the talk progressed, I became drowsy and just as I started to nod off a thought came to mind; “Watch Mark Overview.” By now all I wanted to do was stay comfortable and drift into slumber. I fought it for a moment and then had to do it. I had to be obedient to the prompting of God. I turned on my light, grabbed my phone and computer and opened the internet search browser to; The Gospel of Mark Summary - A Complete Animated Overview.

Have you ever seen the Overview series? 7 to 10 minutes of cartoon-like depictions on each book in the bible; just an overview, or a summary, if you will. A quick capping of an overall story.

With much effort I pulled myself out of my sleepy state and switched from the you tube clip to the Overview clip and I was blown away. How could I have come up with that comparison? I could never have put two and two together. This was definitely a prompt from God. The story the man told; it was like listening to a rerun of Mark - only in today’s time-frame.

When God speaks to you, it’s only a moment in time. To try to rewrite what He’s said, sometimes it would take hours. I wish I could convey what I learnt in this moment. I wish I could convey what God was showing me but it’s too detailed and too extensive. In not writing it down, I still hope to never forget this teaching and this short note is the reminder to the whole incident. An incident of a moment in time, which took the man giving the talk a life-time to process and one in which I was made aware in a twinkling by comparison.

And as I was contemplating how I fall way short of their experience, as I was thinking “how could I myself come up with this comparison,” it just goes to show; when God wants to reveal something, when you have a revelation from God – it’s never you but always God! And even the man giving the talk discussed his weakness in being able to handle the situation put before him. We all fall so far short in our perceptions of ourselves, of life and of God Himself.

When the angels in heaven cry, “Holy. Holy. Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,” they do so because every time they look up, they see a different facet of God. Tonight, God showed me yet another facet of Himself, in the revealing of the biblical over the mundane and normal.

I’ve already written two blog pieces called “The Many Facets of God.” Dare I add a third? One so incomplete as this and yet so full of meaning to me? Facet, being defined in the dictionary as; one part of a subject, situation, etc. that has many parts. Perhaps not. Perhaps I shall title it; Holy, is the Lord God Almighty!

Where I finished with the clip at the 57-minute mark, is also where the overview clip finished. I later continued watching Dethroning Principalities and it went on to discuss other matters. I can’t emphasise strongly enough how I would never have put two and two together without a prompt from the Holy Spirit. There was nothing in the clip to lead you to that conclusion.

One other thing I did learn through this was; the best knowledge you can gain is knowledge that comes with experience. All of this was given to me in the form of a scene played before my eyes and that’s the experience I gained. I didn’t have to go through it myself. Holy Spirit took me through it, as though I was in it and I have a deeper revelation and understanding of compassion, empathy, walking in the spirit, hearing and seeing in the spirit through the leading of the Lord.

My bible study today was Revelation 19:8-10

This passage speaks of being clothed in fine linen (8). It talks about the preceding words (8) being ‘true’ sayings of God (9). And finishes up speaking about Jesus; the spirit of prophecy pointing the way to God (10).

The fine linen in this passage is not clothing but the righteous acts of His bride; acts done in correlation with the invisible faith to the outworking righteous acts of that faith. Jesus is the source and the common theme pointing the way to the Father, in whom we are to worship, just as Jesus did.

That God will take His word and sit you at the cusp of His revelation for your life, then enter you into a deeper relationship with Him through that very word, as He leads you with aim and purpose in the right direction - this is truly a thing of magnificent excellence and one we should marvel before as we give all honour to the Father, through the Son, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.