Introduction
Maybe you have suffered many things, but if you live in that, instead of trying to look towards God, He knows how you suffered, He knows the problems that you’ve been in, He knows all about the things that you may feel alone, He knows all of these things about you.
Sometimes, you may be lonelier than other people, but there’s a greater reward, and there’s a greater blessing, God knoweth us all. God knows everyone, from the beginning to the end, and it’s already written down. He knows all things. So, you praise Him, and praise Him with all of your heart, thank Him.
Take courage, how pleasant is the Lord towards us. He is ever thoughtful of us.
The Lord’s thoughts for each one of us are precious; they are in trillions, for they are more in number than the sand (Psalm 139: 17 – 18).
Yes, the Lord knows you even more personally than you know yourself! In His infinite love and wisdom He has a plan for you and every person born in this world! He foresees all who are to be born; He sees the coming of each one!
You stand on the Rock, I’ll show you the path, saith the Lord. That Rock is Jesus, and Jesus is the word.
“Who covereth thyself with light as with a garment”Psalm 104: 2
He spreads out a garment of light upon Himself.
It was the light of God on Him, all through Him, inside of Him, all out. What was on the outside, saith the Lord, was on the inside. See, light, ray, power from the Almighty, the eternal fire. I am the light of the world.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man (1 Corinthians 2: 9).
He’s got some surprises. You can imagine anything you want to. You read the Book of Revelations about all the glories, and all of that, but it hath not even entered into your hearts some secrets, and some things, that He has for them that love Him. It hath not even entered your heart; it will never into your heart.
Even though we have this Bible that tells us of the wonders of heaven, and many angels, and all about the city, and all the golden city, and all of that, and the glories, and the beauties of the Lord, yet, it’s not even entered in the heart of man what God has for them that love Him. What a surprise.
Eye hath not seen, which God hath prepared. It’s already prepared, which God hath prepared for them that love Him.
And Paul said that it’s not even lawful to tell you about it, but then he wrote this Scripture right here. And some of the things he didn’t even get to see, but God revealed it to him, but he saw a lot. It’s worth more than living a million lives right here in the flesh, saith the Lord.
Lord Jesus, our eternal God, our eyes have not seen, nor our ears heard, nor have entered into our hearts, the surprises that you have waiting for us in heaven. They are worth more than living a million lives right here in the flesh, and we thank you with all of our hearts for them.
You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
Summary of the Sermon
We listened to a sermon titled “Splendor And Majesty”, CD # 1101, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
The word of God, when it’s all put together, it’s all wisdom. It is the wisdom of God to His people, rightly dividing the word of God.
Take courage, how pleasant is the Lord towards us. He is ever thoughtful of us. He gives us a refreshing rest, and He gives us refreshing Scriptures, and every one of them, are for our admonition.
Who coverest Thyself with a light, as a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain or a tent. That means, it is constantly expanding out there. He spreads out a garment of light upon Himself. I will walk among you.
In stretching, means that it’s expanding, or as a tent. It shows that it’s not just something flat over the top of our head, because a tent has depth to it. So, it means that there’s layer, after layer, after layer, after layer, going on out to a point, going on right out in there.
He coverest Thyself with a light, how great He is, David said.
I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Now, I will walk among you, that means, no matter which way you are going, or what you are doing, on a mountain in here, on a plane, no matter where you are at, the sea, He’s walking among you. He is all around you. He’s everywhere. He’s like the wind that bloweth. He’s walking among us tonight. Leviticus 26: 12.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, see how high that is, so great is His mercy towards them that fear Him, Psalm 103: 11.
Psalm 147: 18: He sendeth His word, and He melteth them. He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. Now, He sends His word, that’s like revival. Up above, he was talking about snow and ice. This is nature, but also speaking of the natural and supernatural as he writes here.
He sendeth His word, and He melteth them. All cold up, dead, need revival, as the Scriptures say, dying away, like a leaf from God, and He sendeth His word, He melteth them, He causes His wind to blow; that’s the Holy Spirit blow upon them, and the water flow, salvation flows everywhere.
For Thou, Lord, art good, ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee, Psalms 86: 5.
You know, some people today think, you know, I’ve had a bum rap in life. I don’t think anybody has had it as hard as I have; possibly so. Some people have it harder than other people. Sometimes, it comes through the blood line; it comes in different ways. But take note of this, that sometimes, people have more troubles than other people, but the Bible, according to the teachings, He gives those people more faith, more power, and people get delivered from, among the strong saints.
Maybe it’s been kind of rough, kind of tough. Some of the greatest men in the Bible, some of the greatest prophets, including David, they had their ups and downs with the Lord, but they won every time, they believed the Lord.
Maybe you have suffered many things, but if you live in that, instead of trying to look towards God, He knows how you suffered, He knows the problems that you’ve been in, He knows all about the things that you may feel alone, He knows all of these things about you. And if you’ll cast them aside for the word of God, and look towards Him, I’ll guarantee you He understands it all, and a great reward will be yours in heaven for your sufferings.
For your trials, for your tribulations, and for your sufferings, not only in this world will He bless you if you learn how to use that for your own cause, but it’ll be one of the greatest rewards you’ve ever seen in heaven because He knows some fall heavily than on others. He gives stronger characters than He does on others. He does various things in the Bible.
Some of it comes through the seed line, some of it comes through people’s own doings, some of it, Jesus said neither did they sin or do anything wrong. There’s test, and test shall come, and it will come in different times. So, people, maybe you’ve had a tough one, that’s okay. God loves you just as much as that one, looks like never suffers very much. He loves you greatly, and you can use that. Say, Lord, I’m willing, as the Apostles and disciples, to suffer all things for the gain of Christ. Paul said I’ll lose everything for Christ.
Psalm 104: 3 – 4: Who layeth the beams of His chambers in the waters. We know in one place in the Scriptures, that before the throne, it was like a sea of glass with fire in it, like ice. Who maketh the clouds His chariots. He saw Him moving swiftly through those clouds in something there. Who walketh upon the wings of the wind. He uses them now and He is walking among His people too. The way this Scripture is, He’s moving. It reminds you of the vision that David hits, that there’s a fire that went before Him, like coals of fire. He bowed the heavens, meaning He come out of the heavens, He came down and thundered and the earth quaked, fire and lightnings and things come forth, and whatever He was in. David saw it himself, and it reminds of that vision. He’s talking about it.
Who maketh His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire. Now, a flame, there can be a fire, but a flame is moving. A flame has gathered itself together, and it burn. He maketh His ministers a flame. They can reach out. See, a flame will leap out.
Psalm 66: 5: Come and see the works of God. He is terrible in His doing towards the children of men. Come see the works of God. See, awesome splendor, rays of eternal life, that Isaiah and Ezekiel saw, and many splendored colors of power, and majesty, and all of these things, and rays of light.
How terrible, how wonderful are the works of God towards the children of men. Rays of eternal light, wonders, plenteous in loving, wonders, and signs, among His people.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men, Psalms chapter 107.
Psalm 55: 6 and 8: And it just said above this, it said that he was in pain, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Before this, he said, Lord, I’m crying out. He said, I’m making a noise. I’m putting my complaint before you, and I’m noisy about it. He evidently was getting rattled. It’s just like death and terrors are all around me, they have befallen upon me. He said fearfulness and trembling come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
After all these problems, and these troubles, he said, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove. The only time in the Scriptures you’ll see a prophet wanting to move away. For then would I fly away and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off as a dove, away from these problems, and remain in the wilderness, all alone with you. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and the tempest.
Even while he is writing this for our admonition, the prophet foresees in his heart a vision that God would pull him out of it, and he’ll sit down with Him on His throne and shake hands with Him. For he said your promises to me is forever and ever, O Lord, and he reminded Him of it.
No matter what Satan will throw at you, no matter what you suffer through or go through, just think about this, the Lord will stand with you. The Lord will bless you. Sometimes, you may suffer more than other people. Sometimes, you may be lonelier than other people, but there’s a greater reward, and there’s a greater blessing, God knoweth us all. God knows everyone, from the beginning to the end, and it’s already written down. He knows all things. So, you praise Him, and praise Him with all of your heart, thank Him.
People do not give enough of respect, they do not give enough of kindness back towards the Lord. They do not see His great mercy. They do not see His great love because of just those problems that we are talking about, that harasses them, and the devil harasses them, and says God don’t love you. And he comes at you on this side, he comes at you on that side, this happened to you, that happened to you, that must not happen to anybody but me all the time. But look at His kindness, His loving kindness. David said, it endureth forever. And he says, you know, His anger will not last forever, and He will not hold a grudge.
As the age closes out, you may have your problems and trials, but He has promised the greatest joy, yea, the greatest joy of all time, the greatest power, the greatest deliverance of all time, the greatest faith of all time, great and powerful faith.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, saith the Lord, but He delivereth them out of them all.
1 Corinthians 2: 9: Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man. He’s got some surprises. You can imagine anything you want to. You read the Book of Revelations about all the glories, and all of that, but it hath not even entered into your hearts some secrets, and some things, that He has for them that love Him. It hath not even entered your heart; it will never into your heart. You can imagine what it will be like, you can read what it’s going to be like, some of the things, but he said the eyes or the ears, the things that you hear, the things that you see, and the things that you feel, have never even entered into your heart. Even though we have this Bible that tells us of the wonders of heaven, and many angels, and all about the city, and all the golden city, and all of that, and the glories, and the beauties of the Lord, yet, it’s not even entered in the heart of man what God has for them that love Him. What a surprise.
All around you will be the enemy, saith the Lord, troubles on every side around you, but I’ll be in the middle of my church, in the midst, with the fire. I’ll encamp around about you, and we will go together.
Somebody said, but the Lord is up there, how will we go together? He is here too, but you can’t see Him over there. He’s everywhere. God doesn’t have to come, have to go. That’s just terms that we use because we are humans, so forth like that, and He’s everywhere at the same time, billions of miles here, trillions of light years away, yet, He’s right here with us. See, everything is within His spiritual body.
Eye hath not seen, which God hath prepared. It’s already prepared, which God hath prepared for them that love Him. In another Scripture over here, he went up above, wherever the dimension is, the sphere that he went, behind the vail of the future, and he went in. And Paul said that it’s not even lawful to tell you about it, but then he wrote this Scripture right here. And some of the things he didn’t even get to see, but God revealed it to him, but he saw a lot. It’s worth more than living a million lives right here in the flesh, saith the Lord.
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility. And when humility comes upon the saints, and they thank God for His lovingkindness, and respect all that He’s done, no matter, regardless of what the devil does to them, and they have humility in their heart towards the Lord God, the most High, that He’s supreme, no matter what they go through, then they will have the honor of the Lord with them on that day, and they’ll have the honor of the Lord with them.
Every once in a while, we preach a message like this to lift up, to show the people that no matter what you’re suffering through, or the problems, and troubles that you are having at the time, all through the Scriptures, it shows the test and trials, but also shows the deliverance of the Lord, and He delivered them out of them all. It shows His great compassion. It shows His lovingkindness. He don’t hold a grudge against those that sin against Him. If they say forgive me, they are forgiven. And Satan will come along, say, God’s still mad. God’s never mad at anybody. If you love Him, He loves you. He’s already loved you first. And when you love Him, you can’t get ahead of Him.
You stand on the Rock, I’ll show you the path, saith the Lord. That Rock is Jesus, and Jesus is the word. And you stand on that word, and it’ll burn a hole in anything that you want it to do, it’ll be a flame.
Come see, come see the works of the Lord. How awesome, how terrible, among the children of men, is His great power, His majesty. And David said, how wonderful it is to see the goings of the most High in the sanctuary of the Lord.
He covers Himself with a light as a garment. In other words, David saw Him with a garment of life, but it looked more like a covering than a garment. Yet, it was a light, and in the light that covered Him, formed over His body like wool, like glowing, like snow. He was covered with this light, that made out of form. And out of this form, it was like a garment. Yet, he knew it wasn’t like the kind we cut out, and that we make. It was the light of God on Him, all through Him, inside of Him, all out. What was on the outside, saith the Lord, was on the inside. See, light, ray, power from the Almighty, the eternal fire. I am the light of the world.
And they saw Him on Patmos glowing.
Look at the problems of Daniel, but look at the rejoicing; he won the victory. Moses won the victory, Elijah won the victory, Daniel won the victory, Jeremiah won the victory, Isaiah won the victory, Amos won the victory. They won that victory right straight on up to the end of that, in Malachi; they won the victory. Jesus won the victory. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John won the victory. Apostle Paul, and John on the isles of Patmos, won the victory. And ye shall win the victory too, saith the Lord.
Scripture Reading
Maybe you have suffered many things, but if you live in that, instead of trying to look towards God, He knows how you suffered, He knows the problems that you’ve been in, He knows all about the things that you may feel alone, He knows all of these things about you.
For your trials, for your tribulations, and for your sufferings, not only in this world will He bless you if you learn how to use that for your own cause, but it’ll be one of the greatest rewards you’ve ever seen in heaven because He knows some fall heavily than on others.
Take courage, how pleasant is the Lord towards us. He is ever thoughtful of us.
The Lord’s thoughts for each one of us are precious; they are in trillions, for they are more in number than the sand.
“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”Psalm 139: 17 – 18
People do not give enough of respect, they do not give enough of kindness back towards the Lord. They do not see His great mercy. They do not see His great love.
Sometimes, you may be lonelier than other people, but there’s a greater reward, and there’s a greater blessing, God knoweth us all. God knows everyone, from the beginning to the end, and it’s already written down. He knows all things. So, you praise Him, and praise Him with all of your heart, thank Him.
I read from Special Writing # 036:
“THE WILL OF GOD IN ONE’S LIFE”
My letter of encouragement this time concerns the will of God in one’s life! Yes, the Lord knows you even more personally than you know yourself! In His infinite love and wisdom He has a plan for you and every person born in this world! It is a definite plan; and He is nudging you into your place! He foresees all who are to be born; He sees the coming of each one!
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”Ephesians 1: 11
“The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.”Proverbs 15: 33
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility. And when humility comes upon the saints, and they thank God for His lovingkindness, and respect all that He’s done, no matter, regardless of what the devil does to them, and they have humility in their heart towards the Lord God, the most High, that He’s supreme, no matter what they go through, then they will have the honor of the Lord with them on that day, and they’ll have the honor of the Lord with them.
You are humble before the Lord Jesus, “The mighty God” (Isaiah 9: 6). You acknowledge in your heart that no matter what you are going through, He is in control of every situation. You will then have His honor with you on the day of translation, and be glorified, when He says come up hither.
You stand on the Rock, I’ll show you the path, saith the Lord. That Rock is Jesus, and Jesus is the word.
All around you will be the enemy, saith the Lord, troubles on every side around you, but I’ll be in the middle of my church, in the midst, with the fire. I’ll encamp around about you, and we will go together.
Somebody said, but the Lord is up there, how will we go together? He is here too, but you can’t see Him over there. He’s everywhere. God doesn’t have to come, have to go. That’s just terms that we use because we are humans, so forth like that, and He’s everywhere at the same time, billions of miles here, trillions of light years away, yet, He’s right here with us. See, everything is within His spiritual body.
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”Psalm 139: 7 – 10
“Who covereth thyself with light as with a garment”Psalm 104: 2
He spreads out a garment of light upon Himself.
It was the light of God on Him, all through Him, inside of Him, all out. What was on the outside, saith the Lord, was on the inside. See, light, ray, power from the Almighty, the eternal fire. I am the light of the world.
“But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM.”1 Corinthians 2: 9
He’s got some surprises. You can imagine anything you want to. You read the Book of Revelations about all the glories, and all of that, but it hath not even entered into your hearts some secrets, and some things, that He has for them that love Him. It hath not even entered your heart; it will never into your heart.
Even though we have this Bible that tells us of the wonders of heaven, and many angels, and all about the city, and all the golden city, and all of that, and the glories, and the beauties of the Lord, yet, it’s not even entered in the heart of man what God has for them that love Him. What a surprise.
Eye hath not seen, which God hath prepared. It’s already prepared, which God hath prepared for them that love Him. In another Scripture over here, he went up above, wherever the dimension is, the sphere that he went, behind the vail of the future, and he went in. And Paul said that it’s not even lawful to tell you about it, but then he wrote this Scripture right here. And some of the things he didn’t even get to see, but God revealed it to him, but he saw a lot. It’s worth more than living a million lives right here in the flesh, saith the Lord.
Lord Jesus, our eternal God, our eyes have not seen, nor our ears heard, nor have entered into our hearts, the surprises that you have waiting for us in heaven. They are worth more than living a million lives right here in the flesh, and we thank you with all of our hearts for them.
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