Jesus is the Way

 

Sandy Warner ~ ~ swauthor@usa.net ~ ~ www.thequickenedword.com

HE SPEAKS THROUGH HIS TANGIBLE PRESENCE

 

Ex 33:13-15 NKJV

Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people."  And He said, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."  Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

 

Ps 16:11 NKJV

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

 

Ps 51:11 NKJV

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

 

When I read the first two verses above, it was quickened to me that “show me Your way” and “show me the path of life” were both connected with His Presence.  Moses asked to know the way and the Lord;  God answered that His Presence would go with him.  Basically the Lord was responding, “If you want to know My way, know My Presence.  If you want to know Me, know My Presence.”

 

A friend once told me a story where he visited an out of town church with intentions to speak directly to the pastor.  They met in the hall and he apologized that he did not have an appointment, but he really wanted to speak to him.  The pastor responded, “That’s OK, the Lord and I have an understanding.”  When I asked my friend about this, we felt that what the pastor meant was that my friend had passed inspection according to some hidden agenda.  I have thought about that many times, wondering what secret he had with the Lord!  Finally I understood that when he literally felt the Lord’s tangible Presence, he knew it was a God ordained appointment. 

 

HOLY GOOSE BUMPS

I can still remember the week after the Lord visited me and handed me His solid gold pen.  I had no idea what the pen was for and my Dad had recently given us our first computer.  I suddenly woke with a desire to write an article for a magazine on how God speaks.  I spent the entire day typing an introduction that was 20 pages.  At the end of the day I was walking down the hallway and said to the Lord, “This is no article, this is a BOOK!”  At that exact moment a huge barrel of goose bumps were poured out upon me.  Wave after wave after wave as I stood there being washed by His love.  The hair on my arms were standing on ends.  I was totally amazed as I hadn’t felt the Lord like that in years.  It was all I needed, to know I was to write the book on my heart and that He was with me. 

 

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Experiencing the Presence of the Lord is such a precious, intimate experience.  Non believers often experience His touch when they are downloaded with goose bumps and their heart is quickened in response to something emotional.  Sometimes their hair stands straight on their follicles as they feel bursts of emotion.  Christians of course experience this too and it is very common.  However there are other experiences of His Presence that are just as powerful. 

 

WARM WAVES

Sometimes His Presence is like waves of warm electrical pulses moving up and down one’s body.  These can sweep over in gentle waves like soft tender kisses.  Or they can strongly move in one strong download.  I have felt them most often during corporate worship where many people and angels are gathered together singing.  My heart becomes so melted and open when He ministers to me with His waves. 

 

I have also experienced strong downloads of His Presence in prayer rooms where many are gathered and all praying in tongues at the same time.  It is an awesome experience, almost like walking into pure, raw power.

 

RADIANT HEAT

Sometimes His Presence is felt in heat.  It is like having a hot flash over a particular part of one’s body, or whole body.  I know of a fellow who whenever he worships, he feels heat against his face, as though he is standing in front of a radiant heater.  Gifts of healing often manifest in heat waves or on the body part that is being healed.

 

TREMBLING

I have often experienced the Presence of the Lord through trembling.  A sudden weakness hits my body and I begin to quiver.  If His Presence is stronger, I tremble.  If it is strongest, I radically shake.  I can remember one time after a wonderful worship service, I saw a vision of a huge tuning fork.  I felt my body gently pulsating in vibrations deep inside.  Immediately the pastor came to the pulpit and said he was feeling gentle vibrations inside of him.  Many experienced this.  In our worship, we can become tuned, aligned and one with His beautiful Presence. 

 

Ps 114:7-8  NKJV

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,  Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

 

DRUNKENNESS

Another experience in His Presence is losing strength and coordination, almost like drunkenness.  When I first was introduced to a church service where people were experiencing something that appeared like drunkenness, I saw they were floppy and not very well coordinated and very happy!  I saw people slide out of their chairs unable to sit up.  One was crawling because she couldn’t walk.  Others were wobbly.  I watched these wild things around me, totally stone sober.  After several exposures to this, I finally told the Lord I would like to feel His Presence, since others were obviously feeling Him.  One day He answered that prayer when I accidently brushed shoulders with the guest speaker at a conference. 

 

It was the last night of a conference and the speaker came down off the stage.  I had just finished praying for the last person, and had gathered my things to go out the side door.  He dropped down off the stage at the same time I came from the other direction and we briefly touched shoulders.  He smiled and said, "Bless you!" I was embarrassed at bumping into him and smiled sheepishly.  My very next step, my left leg was dragging.  It felt like I was moving concrete through water. 

 

This had never happened to me before and I was laughing delightedly all the way to the car!  I could barely walk, but since I still had one good leg, I got to the car dragging the other one behind me.  I knew I had been touched by the Lord and that I had only one "inebriated" limb!  I thought the Lord had a very funny sense of humor to only touch one leg.  I knew exactly why He had done that.  He wanted to make sure that I understood this was His supernatural touch.  The rest of me was totally sober!  Grandma Anna would NOT let me drive us home, she took over the wheel since my left leg could not work the brake.  I went to bed very happy and very touched for the rest of the night! 

 

After that experience I think that the Lord began to play with me during my first soaking times in His Presence.  Instead of my whole body getting doused, I would feel ONE body part being touched by Him!  It was like I was perfectly normal in one part, but another had lost strength and was wobbly and weak.  Several times when I was playing keyboard on the worship team, I would feel His Presence all over me and I was weak as a kitten to stand up and walk.  But my hands and arms were strong!  Other times I would feel His Presence in one foot and not the other! 

 

Acts 2:11-16  NKJV

...we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God." So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "Whatever could this mean?"  Others mocking said, "They are full of new wine."  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. For these are not drunk , as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

 

Dan 10:10-11; 18-19

Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling...Then again, the one having the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me. And he said, "O man greatly beloved, fear not! Peace be to you; be strong, yes, be strong!"  So when he spoke to me I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

 

HIS GLORY:  THE KABOD

 

1 Kings 8:11 KJV

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory (#3519) of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. 

 

KABOD IN THE HEBREW # 3519

kabowd (kaw-bode'); rarely kabod (kaw-bode'); from OT:3513; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness: -glorious (-ly), glory, honour (-able). 

 

The first time I knew that I had experienced His kabod, I could barely move my arms, my body, or keep my head up.  It was like the heaviest type of relaxation I had ever experienced.  His kabod is not a heavy oppressive kind of weight, just a deep weight of rest in the whole body.  When the Lord’s kabod comes and rests over a congregation, people can sit still for hours in His Presence and not even know time has passed. 

 

I heard a speaker say that sometimes the glory of the Lord sits upon you like a heavy weight.  I knew that because I had experienced that during worship.  But the speaker said that occasionally it will effect only someone’s legs and she mentioned several ministers this happens to.  A light of understanding went on inside of me and my mind went back to the first time I experienced that.  It came through an impartation. 

 

From that moment on, I have felt the Lord’s Presence first in my legs when His glory comes into a room.  Often I walk as though through deep water when this happens.  It has the same tangible pull on the muscles as though waking through deep water in a swimming pool.  I love being touched by Him in this way.  

 

 

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HE SPEAKS THROUGH
FALLING UNDER HIS POWER

 

2 Chron 5:14 KJV

So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

 

John 18:6  NKJV

Now when He said to them, "I am He," they drew back and fell to the ground.

 

Ezek 1:28 NKJV

Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.

 

Acts 9:3-4 NKJV

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" 

 

Rev 1:17-18 NKJV

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 

 

 

If you've ever been to meetings where people are being prayed for, you may have seen them fall.  Man's physical frame doesn't hold up well under the power of God.  (Sometimes the muscles feel like jelly.) 

 

During this experience, when people are under His power, they can be asleep, or even unconscious as though in a trance, or they can be awake.  It is a time when the Holy Spirit is personally ministering on deeper levels of the subconscious and spirit.  It can be a time of strong deliverance from the enemy when a demon has left a person, or the person may receive a vision at this time, or hear the Lord speak to them personally.  Healing can take place, as well as gifts and anointing imparted from the Holy Spirit. 

 

I have seen people who fell under His power and were never touched by another.  I have seen people fall who were touched by the person praying.  I have seen them fall softly as though on billows of clouds, I have seen them fall so hard it is as though they were knocked over, and yet they didn't feel a thing.  Anna had a precious experience of falling under the power of His Presence, and she has always referred to it as being in the midst of His glory cloud and feeling His intense love.

 

I have had several experiences, all different.  One poor experience happened when I was “prayed” for by an evangelist.  I was pushed over, fell on a concrete floor, hurt my tail bone and the back of my head.  I had a migraine headache the rest of the day.  I wouldn't recommend being prayed for by people who make an effort to push people down!  I remember lying on the floor in pain, and certainly didn't hear from the Lord. 

 

And yet I have also been blessed when people reached toward me in prayer and I literally felt something flow through my body, fell under the genuine power of it, and then got right back up again!  (However I would not recommend that as He often ministers in the time while you are lying in His Presence.)  I also have “fallen” under His power at night when I was already lying down in bed!   It's the same experience, only my body was already lying down.  (I have always fallen under His power when He has visited me at night during gazing visions.)  When His genuine, powerful, Presence has touched me like this, I have always felt that He imparted something within me of Himself.

 

My recommendation is if you really want to get prayed for but you are afraid of falling, just kneel in the prayer line, or when the person comes to pray for you, ask if you may sit on the floor.  There is nothing wrong with that, and if it takes a barrier away from your heart in receiving a wonderful blessing from the Lord, then do it. 

 

Sometimes I see people literally get drunk in the Spirit when they fall under His power.  They laugh, they fall, they can not walk and can barely crawl.  They can barely sit.  It is very funny to watch!   The person tries to get up and move but simply can't.  This only makes them laugh harder.  It is a great time of refreshing to the person.  I have no idea why the Lord does this, but it is scriptural!   “For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.”  (Acts 2:15 KJ)  “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”  (Ephesians 5:18 KJ)

 

I heard a testimony of a gal who fell under the power of His Holy Spirit, and her experience portrayed so much, I asked her permission to share it with you.  As a background to her story, she had just been rejected by her husband, and was also seriously doubting whether God really loved her.  During this time, she had been praying and said to the Lord, “Father I love You” and He responded back by saying, “No You don't.”  She was flabbergasted that she had heard Him at all, let alone by what He said to her.  It took her a few days of thinking about it to finally admit that He was right, she did not really love Him.  She began to cry out, “Lord show me how to love You.  I can't see You, I can't touch You, I can't feel You, I don't know how to love somebody like that!” 

 

Later a person gave her a Word of Knowledge of having seen a picture-vision of a chain around her neck with a lock and sign stating “Keep out.”  She knew it was an accurate portrayal of her heart, and that she had put the sign there herself.  She wanted Him to love her, but at the same time she was afraid of Him and wanted to keep Him at a distance.  She cried and prayed more earnestly, “Lord help me to love You.   Help Me to believe You love me!”  This all led up to the night she was slain in the power of His Holy Spirit.

 

During a series of special meetings, she had been thinking about the Holy Spirit, and questioning some of the things going on in the meetings.   She kept saying, “Holy Spirit, if You are there, and You are real, I need to meet You.”  When she went up for prayer she was slain in His Spirit.  While she was lying there, she felt Someone standing on her feet.  Wanting to get up and run away, she finally asked, “Why are You standing upon my feet?”   “I'm the Holy Spirit and I'm standing on your feet because I don't want you to get up, I want you to stay here.”  During this whole time she kept smelling her favorite candy bar, Three Musketeers, and was really enjoying the smell.  She knew that it was His humorous way of saying He was One of the Three in the Three Musketeers, and it was His delectable way of introducing Himself.  He was light hearted and humorous with her and yet at the same time serious. 

 

The next thing she remembered was His taking her to heaven.  She remembered briefly passing through a place where there was grass, trees, flowers, a river and golden pathways.   She instinctively knew this place would be hers some day for it was very familiar to her.  Then He took her to a room and Jesus was there.  He put His arms out to her and said, “Welcome.  This is the place that I have prepared for you.” She immediately remembered the scripture that said, “In My father's house are many mansions and I go to prepare a place for you.”  Her room was made of knotty pine, and in the corner was a big feather bed with a fluffy white comforter and a big rocking chair beside the bed.   “He said, this is the place I have prepared for you.  Do you remember what I did before I went into My ministry?  I worked with My Dad, and he was a carpenter.  I built this for you with My own hands.”  She was deeply touched because she realized He really did build it with His own hands, and with so much love just especially for her.  Then He picked her up and placed her in the bed.  He held her face in His hands and kept kissing her face saying how much He loved her.  She felt so protected and loved and safe and warm and secure and at peace.  He kept touching her face as He sat beside her in the chair.  He continued to do this and speak to her as she drifted off to sleep. 

 

After the vision, while she was in worship, she met the Father.  Her earthly father had not been a good example and she knew she looked at God with the same eyes.  She had always felt that God was either frustrated with her, angry with her or disappointed in her.  So it was hard for her to let Him in.  Then in worship she saw the angels and a big white heart with streamers falling down touching her face.  The Father was there and kept saying to her, “I love You.”  Finally, something broke within her and she said, “I love You Papa!” She never wanted to come out of that place of the Father's heart.  It was so precious to her. 

 

She had several confirmations to this vision.  Someone said she had been very still and “out” for at least three hours.   A lady later ministering from the podium looked straight at her and said,  “There really are real houses made of real wood there!”   Later, while she also was relating her testimony from the pulpit, she said she knew there were people sitting in the audience who needed to experience the Lord's love.  As she spoke this, one young lady's face in particular kept coming into her mind, but she said nothing.  After she shared her testimony, the pastor prayed for her and again she was slain in the Spirit.  She passed through the same place in heaven as before and into the Lord's welcoming arms in the special place He had prepared for her.  While still in the Spirit, she saw this same young lady standing below on the golden pathway.  Then she heard the pastor call out this one's name.  Later she found out that she was prayed for and also fell under the power.  This lady also received an awesome experience of the Lord's love.  

 

As another confirmation to her being kissed on the face, five months prior to her experience, I had been listening to a tape where the speaker was sharing how much Jesus loves us as a bridegroom loves His wife and that we should feel loved like a bride.  As he said this, I immediately thought to myself, “I'm too ugly to feel loved like that.”  I winced at thinking that, knowing He had heard, and apologized to the Lord for thinking that, because of course I knew that He loved me.  But it came from deep inside my heart and I knew He knew it.  That night I heard Him say to me, “Father's Day.  I long for you.  Shower you with kisses.  I meant that.  Ugly.  Perverted.”   He meant He didn't see me as ugly and the enemy had perverted my ability to truly receive the Father's love.

 

As a confirmation to my hearing this, a month later I was in bed and my son came to wish me good night.  I had been reading past rhema, and it was opened to the page where I had heard the above.  My son was playfully looming over me as though he was going to kiss me good night, and then he hesitated and started searching my face to decide just exactly where he was going to plant it.  He waited so long (and grinning all the while) I said, “I'm going to be a nervous wreck by the time you kiss me!”  Suddenly he showered me with kisses all over my face.  I was giggling and then still under an attack of kisses, I remembered the rhema.  I said, “Hey did you read that page when you leaned over????”  He didn't know what I was talking about so I pointed to the line, “Shower you with kisses.”  He thought that very funny.  I thought it quite an amazing confirmation that the Lord was serious about getting through exactly how He feels.

 

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HE SPEAKS THROUGH TREMBLING
in his presence

 

The Lord reigns; Let the peoples tremble!  He dwells between the cherubim; Let the earth be moved!  (Psalm 99:1 NKJV) 

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob; (Psalm 114:7 NKJV) 

Hear the word of the Lord, You who tremble at His word: “Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you out for My name's sake, said, 'Let the Lord be glorified, That we may see your joy.' But they shall be ashamed.”  (Isaiah 66:5 NKJV)

 

 

The Lord reigns; Let the peoples tremble!  He dwells between the cherubim; Let the earth be moved!  (Psalm 99:1 NKJV)  Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob; (Psalm 114:7 NKJV)  Hear the word of the Lord, You who tremble at His word: “Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you out for My name's sake, said, 'Let the Lord be glorified, That we may see your joy.' But they shall be ashamed.”  (Isaiah 66:5 NKJV)

 

Along the same lines of falling under His Power, is trembling under His Power. When the manifested power of the Lord shows up, the human body is such a weak vessel,  our muscles are not able to handle it.   Sometimes His power will rest upon one's hand and the hand will tremble.  Sometimes the legs will shake and tremble, sometimes the whole body.  I have seen people who look like they are being plugged into the light socket of God's electricity, and they shake all over.  Sometimes others who touch those who tremble receive a touch from the Lord, just like electricity is passed from one to another!  Through trembling, the Lord speaks to us of how awesome He is.

 

One time years ago, Anna and I were attending a conference on spiritual gifts.  When the time came for body ministry, Anna's hand started to tremble and I was awestruck looking at it.  The Lord's Presence was really upon her.  Then she heard the Lord's inner audible voice say, “Touch them on the forehead.”  So she stepped out of her chair and starting touching people on the forehead.  They all fell under the power of the Holy Spirit, in their chairs and on the floor.  It was pretty amazing since we had never experienced this degree of ministry before. 

 

There was one particular lady who was being ministered to by a group of Pastors and as Anna walked by she stretched her hand through the circle and touched the lady's forehead.  The lady went down -  P0W!   The pastors were so surprised that they all looked around trying to find who touched her!  Anna was so shy she kept on moving and they never knew.  I was hysterically laughing watching the whole thing in the background because I knew how shy she was by watching the expressions on her face.  The next day they announced from the pulpit that there was a lady there the day before who was touching people on the forehead, and they wanted to find her because they had a testimony of a gal saying, “God touched me!  I felt electricity go though me and I'm healed!”  Anna shrunk down in her chair, and a few minutes later we exited out the back door!  I'm sure the Lord got a good laugh out of the whole experience, as He told her that He had “kissed” her in front of her brethren!  She being shy, responded like any Christian girl would, being kissed in public by her Beloved for the first time!

 

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ENDUED WITH POWER! 

What would have happened had I not stayed????  Oh THANK YOU LORD!  I was at a Mahesh conference and he prayed over all the people individually.  He stopped before each one, and said a word or a sentence, and sometimes he was forceful and aggressive.  When he came to me, he touched me gently on the forehead and whispered in my ear a very special phrase.  He had no way of knowing that years ago the Lord had promised me that exact thing.  This was a reiteration of that promise. 

 

I did not receive an impartation from Mahesh.  I went down very softly and was very touched by the fact it was so soft.  I was nervous of falling having had a very bad experience.  I felt nothing as I laid there and wondered if I had received anything like an impartation.  I felt that I had not. 

 

As the phrase Mahesh spoke to me began to work its way into my heart, I began to softly cry as I was so touched by the tenderness and love in which Mahesh gave me this Word.  It was a representation of how I knew the Lord was treating me.  I felt very vulnerable and receptive to the Lord’s love at that moment. 

 

Suddenly I heard the Lord’s BOOMING voice say, "Daughter, you are anointed!" On the word anointed, it was as though a million volts of electricity charged through my entire body.  I shook violently all over with even my heavy tennis shoes pounding the ground.  It was totally radical!  Then just as suddenly, the voltage stopped and I lay there perfectly still.  That was even more amazing!  As I was worshipping Him in my mind, I heard Him quietly say, "Protected" and again this violent voltage happened!  This time it was so strong I began to laugh while I was being "wired".  Then it stopped and once again I was perfectly at peace.  A third time His voice and voltage came and I again heard, "Protected."

 

After these strong electrical currents stopped.  I began to cry deep sobs.  Strong pain that I had no idea was there came from the depths of my being.  Grandma Anna turned over leaning against me and gently placed her hand upon my forehead.  It was very soothing and immediately the deep pain left and I was surrounded in His peace once again.  I sat up and watched others being blessed and again I heard the Lord say, "Anointed." Even though I was sitting up, I went berserk!  I radically shook all over and my heavy tennis shoes were pounding on the floor.  It was quite an experience. 

 

I managed to get up to my hotel room and I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep.  Anna said a word that was quickened to me and I was struck again by His power voltage!  My bed pounded like an earthquake, as the palms of my hands happened to be face down upon the mattress.  This was hilarious! 

 

I heard the Lord say, "Shake, rattle and roll!" and again the voltage came.  I shook all over and laughed hysterically.  I was so amazed at all of this, I had never been "touched" like this before.  I finally went to sleep.  Then I heard the Lord in the night. 

 

HEARD: Anointed.  The glory of God is coming.  Step into the glory.  Liquid light. 

 

VISION: I saw moving, living liquid light swirls.  It was like the Lord lifted the veil and I saw His glory briefly. 

 

The next morning as I washed my face, I felt a slight burning as though it had been sun or wind burned.  I looked at it carefully and sure enough I had sunburn even in the small cracks and wrinkles around my eyes.  This was supernatural because I had not been in the sun at all.  It was from the brief moment when the Lord lifted the veil and I saw His liquid light.  I believe this was the Shekinah glory, the same that touched Moses’ face. 

 

Ex 34:29-30 NKJV

Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 

 

After the conference, I radically shook for several days, every time I heard the Lord speak to me. Finally the shaking began to quiet into trembling, then finally the trembles subsided into gentle waves of electricity, which is what I believe Jesus called, "virtue." (Mark 5:30) This was a process that continued over many months. The Lord explained to me that He was acclimatizing me to His anointing and Presence. (The priests who served the Lord in His temple had to be able to stand in His Presence. I Kings 8:11) His anointing had not diminished, but my physical body had become accustomed to it, and it seemed as though the anointing was also working its way deeper and deeper into my being.

 

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Words from the The Quickened Word are excerpts from the journals of Sandy Warner.  To better understand how God speaks, read Sandy’s book, “101+ Ways God Speaks, And How to Hear Him.”  Website: www.thequickenedword.com    Email:  swauthor@usa.net  
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