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GLORY with PASTOR KHUMALO

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Listen now on our Podcast 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Glory is virtually impossible to define. In a sense, God’s glory is the magnificence, worth, loveliness, and grandeur of his many perfections . More often, glory communicates God’s special presence, as in the pillars of glory and of fire ( Exod. 13:21–22 ) or the glory that filled the tabernacle (40:34–38). The primary Hebrew term for glory is  kabod . This word stems from a root that means “weight” or “heaviness.” Depending on its form, it could have the sense of “ honorable,” “dignified ,” “exalted,” or “revered.” C. John Collins explains that it became a “technical term for God’s manifest presence.” It is similar in many respects to the concept of God’s name in the Old Testament (see “ kabod ” in  New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis ) . The primary Greek term for glory is  doxa . According to Sverre Aalen,  doxa  in secular Greek referred to an “opinion,” “conjecture,” “ repute,” “praise,” or ...
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  FAITH SPEAKS MATTHEW 17:20 NASB 20 if you have faith ... you shall say to this mountain ... The action of Bible faith is (primarily) speaking (and standing on your statement of faith). Jesus said if you had faith -- you would say! There is no such thing as just silently believing. What you believe will come out . If you don't have enough confidence to say it, you don't really believe it. LUKE 17:6 NASB 6 And the Lord said,"If you had faith ... you would say to this mulberry tree ... MATTHEW 21:21 NASB 21 ... if you have faith, and do not doubt ... if you say to this mountain . . . it shall happen. For faith to operate, it must be released through spoken words, according to Jesus.What you speak is evidence of your faith. Another way of saying that is: your speech reveals what you believe. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:13 NASB 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, therefore I spoke," we also believe, therefore also we speak;If you b...

FAITH ACTIVATING GRACE ON YOU

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Faith and grace are two very important subjects in the Bible. When you study the Bible, you'll find that both of them operate together. Both Romans 4:16 and Romans 5:1-2 illustrate this connection: "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace." (Rom. 4:16) "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Rom. 5:1-2) Faith gives us access into the grace of God; it is, therefore, important that we understand what faith is and what grace is. The grace of God is available to every believer, but it's accessed by faith. Faith is the accelerator of grace; it makes the grace of God go in your life. You can't receive anything in the grace of God except through the vehicle of the faith of God. What is faith? Hebrews 11:1 in the Amplified Bible answers this question: " Now faith is the assurance, th...