Paul Manwaring - Glory Carriers

Here are my notes from Paul Manwaring's message. I pray they bless you.

Date: Sun 7/24/11

Speaker: Paul Manwaring

Title: Glory Carriers

·        He comes from a mental health background

·        Lived in England

·        Paul is on a journey and it was God’s idea

·        Much of his journey started with Leif Hetland who “ruined” him one day

·        He became a Son (instead of an orphan)

·        Paul has a book “What on Earth is Glory?”

·        He wants us to become students of glory

·        We’ve reduced glory to a weighty presence or a cloud that appears

·        Paul refuses to live his life between a weighty presence and a glory cloud which he’s yet to see

·        We were created for glory

·        It’s rude to go to a wedding without a gift and your glory is what you bring to the wedding

·        We have a glory

·        We were meant to be like Christ

·        Jesus said if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the Father

·        That should be true of us too; they’ve seen us then they’ve seen the Father

·        People are to encounter the Father thru us

·        We’ve been better prepared for this than we realize J

·        Your heavenly Father wants to hear us say when I did ‘that’ I felt like YOU

·        We were made in the image of God

·        I want to understand what it means to reveal Him on earth

·        Paul’s personal hero is Moses

·        Moses was an administrator

·        The supernatural without the gift of administration won’t pass to the next generation

·        Systems don’t survive without good administration

·        Administrators are meant to add to the ministry

·        Moses cried out to God show me Your glory

·        Moses knew a God who could wipe him off the planet in a moment

·        Miraculous rescue in a basket, palace living, murder, desert, burning bush, I AM gives assignment, …

·        Moses experiences all these wonders and says show me Your glory

·        After being exposed to the goodness of God Moses’ face shines

·        It was the third trip that caused his face to shine

·        You pass on revival by being a son

·        Moses wasn’t bitter about not going into the Promised Land

·        He blessed the generation that was going in

·        But Moses was transfigured and then saw the glory of God

·        2 Cor 3 it says we have a greater glory than the face of Moses

·        Moses glory was reflected glory; ours is indwelt

·        We have been invited to go from glory to glory

·        You go from glory to glory by recognizing glory in others

·        We see like in a mirror dimly…

·        Honor is the recognition of glory in another

·        The lost art of apprenticeship

·        You sit at the feet of someone who is further ahead of you in your gift

·        And you go from glory to glory

·        CS Lewis struggled with the concept of glory

·        Shekinah is not a biblical word

·        It was coined by the intertestimental scholars/rabbis

·        The word shekinah is derived from a Hebrew word meaning to dwell

·        We have a dwelling God; He’s looking for a place to dwell

·        First we see it when the tabernacle is built

·        Next at the temple of Solomon

·        It was worth 60 billion dollars

·        When it was finished they worshipped and the presence of God came and the priests couldn’t stand

·        Paul wanted to know where it was in the new testament

·        The word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory

·        In Paul’s opinion that’s Shekinah Glory

·        Jesus said He’d destroy that temple but He would raise it up

·        Our bodies are the equivalent of a $60 billion temple

·        They’ve been made ready

·        Ready for Christ in us the hope of glory

·        Your assignment for the rest of your life is Shekinah Glory

·        Your assignment is to be the dwelling place of Him who dwells

·        The whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory…

·        The world will get it thru us

·        When the Savior died He honored us

·        He did it so we could become everything we are supposed to be

·        Because He saw we were worth it

·        2 Cor 15 says there are different types of glory

·        The sun is the original glory, the moon only reflects the sun’s glory

·        When God expressed Himself you happened

·        He didn’t have anything to copy

·        You are the expression of God

·        When an artist does something they copy but God had nothing to copy so He expressed Himself

·        The more you understand His expression the more you understand Him

·        What’s my glory?

·        Paul’s definition: it’s the eternal value/worth someone has because they reveal, reflect or point to the nature, attributes of God

·        We are extremely valuable real estate

·        The fruits of the spirit

·        Fruit drops from trees

·        Our lives are meant to be dropping fruit all over the place

·        Fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree

·        We look just like God (in love, joy, peace…)

·        You can change a nation with the 9 fruits of the spirit

·        There’s a glory on your life when you operate in the fruit of the spirit

·        The gifts of the spirit

·        When you lay hands on the sick you are revealing Him

·        God doesn’t do healing, He is Healer

·        If you cut your hand it heals

·        A surgeon can work on your body but he has to leave it to God at some point to heal

·        Paul is a nurse

·        People who have been married 50 years reveal God’s glory

·        They demonstrate how a Son is to love His bride

·        The church needs to stop talking so much about what’s wrong with divorce and talk about what’s right about marriage

·        There’s a glory on your relationships

·        Paul will be a daughter-in-law for all eternity because he married His son

·        Daughter in law is the highest standard on earth

·        There’s a glory on those in the military

·        There’s no greater love than one who would lay down his life…

·        There’s a glory on every legitimate job that you do

·        Once there was nothing on this planet made by man

·        It’s the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out

·        And that’s what we’ve done; we’ve searched it out

·        God is releasing glorious assignments

·        Nameless and faceless generation because everybody is releasing his glory

·        The gift of administration, Paul tried to give it back but God prepared him a long time for it

·        It’s like Moses saying get another guy and God said no way I trained you for this, years in the palace, desert, etc

·        Paul also has an assignment to pray for Down’s Syndrome

·        This whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God

·        Our assignment is to fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of God

·        We are to let the whole world know of His nature, power, attributes…

·        Paul surprised his youngest son with his oldest son (on visit from England)

·        The youngest son was delighted

·        How much more does God love to bless us

·        His son shouted “No way!”

·        You prepared that for me? No way!

·        God wants us to turn around every corner surprised by His goodness – No way!

·        You set me up; you prepared me, NO WAY!!!

·        Live your life expecting His goodness

·        We’re all in full time ministry

·        Go back to your prison and run it for God

·        Isaiah 61