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Following The Cloud

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  Follow The Cloud 1 Click here to listen to MP3

  1. We are in this world but not of this world (Jn 17:14). God wants to decouple us from this world and learn NOW to walk in kingdom’s economics that are over and above this worldly system.
  2. It was God’s presence, not material wealth that sustained the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. “In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted (Ex 40:36-37). Provision is found in the cloud (God’s presence) and if we are in His presence, we will never lack.
  3. When one is born-again as a Christian, it is not automatic that he/she will be spiritual. Just as God trained the Israelites from being carnal to being spiritual (eg: searched the ground and found manna, spoke to the rock and water flowed), He wants to train us to be a people who are spiritual, separated from the world’s ways.
  4. We live not by sense knowledge, but by revelation (supernatural information), subjecting our education and experience to God’s revelation. Paul had much education and experience but was killing Christians till he had revelation from God (Ac 22).
  5. God trained the Israelites to be ready for Canaan, likewise we need to be trained by Him to access our inheritance in Christ. It is not automatic because we respond to God’s training differently, or else we will all be at the same spiritual level.
  6. God prepared the Israelites for Canaan because it was a new way of life. He had to deal with their self-trust, unbelief, slaves’ mentality etc and God will also train us from being doubting to trusting, from laboring to following, from earning as slaves to inheriting as heirs.
  7. Beware if you despise the things of God “because the carnal mind is enmity against God”; it is a spirit of Anti-Christ, being anti-anointing. Learn to be spiritual “for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Ro 8:6-7). Most vicious attacks on spiritual Christians are from carnally minded Christians as the Ishmaels have always seek to destroy the Isaacs through the generations (Gal 4:29).
  8. “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills” (Am 9:13). In the last days, events will happen in time and sequence that will defy conventions.
  9. God taught the Israelites to trust (faith), and that is not being stupid nor lazy. If we trust, we will have directed activity, not much activity nor inactivity. Many people today still camp at where the cloud was though God’s presence had left because they still have material to sustain them. Don’t be like Joseph and Mary who were moving with their clan and did not realize that Jesus was no longer with them (Lk 2:41-43).
  10. Our provision is found in the cloud (spiritual), not in the land (material). For what is up ahead, we “have never been this way before” and we “are to move out from our positions” and follow God’s presence (Jos 3:3-4). Let us honour God by seeking Him. He will navigate us by His presence. Start learning to hear God in the small things, if not we can’t hear Him in the big things.
  11. Trust God! Get spiritual!
  Follow The Cloud 2 Click here to listen to MP3

  1. God wants to lead us into a relationship with Him. Our blessings are found in God’s presence, not in His presents. In His presence there are boundless presents and to have His presence is to have everything we need in life.
  2. When the Israelites came to the wilderness of Shur (Heb: wall) and found no potable water, they turned not to God but to Moses because they were so used to human commands, having been slaves for hundreds of years. Upon God’s instruction, Moses threw a tree (Cross) into the water (Word) and it became potable (Ex 15:22-25). Likewise, only Christ-centered teachings nourish and feed us.
  3. Give heed to God’s voice and we will walk in divine health “for I, the Lord, am your healer” (Ex 15:26). Get into God’s presence and there will be divine provision (Ex 16:6-13).
  4. When we grumble against God-appointed leadership, He takes it as a personal attack against Him as “your grumblings are not against us but against the Lord” (Ex 16:8). This is not saying that we cannot give feedback but it is referring to our attitude. Before complaining, talk to God first about the leaders and pray for them.
  5. Just like how God led the Israelites, God wants to teach us a whole new way of life by changing our lifestyle, diet, appetite etc from the natural (meat in the evening) to the supernatural (manna in the morning, Ex 16:12-13).
  6. We can and must consciously and deliberately choose to be in God’s presence, to behold the glory of the Lord (Ex 16:10, 40:34). Leaders must be found in God’s presence to receive revelations to feed the people and not just giving them information. Moses led the Israelites to follow the glory cloud (God’s manifested presence, Ex 40:36-37) and was utterly dependent upon God for “if Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here” (Ex 33:15).
  7. Be like Moses, who had an intimate relationship with God as “the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend”. Learn from Joshua to love God’s presence for “when Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent” (Ex 33:11).
  8. Just as the natural cloud has provision for the earth (Is 55:10), there is provision in the glory cloud. God’s presence is in us and He wants to lead us from the inside - “I will put my teachings in their hearts and write them on their minds” (Heb 10:16). Abide in God and we will be fruitful (Jn 15:5).
    9. Things that enhance our sensitivities to God:
    • Fellowship with God – “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (Jas 4:8).
    • Read the Word, feed on the manna daily.
    • Pray in words and tongues (1 Co 14:15). Relationship is a two-way communication; have a dialogue with God, not a monologue.
    • Praise and worship, in private and corporately - “When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would arise and worship, each at the entrance of his tent” (Ex 33:10). Sermons are God’s gift to us; worship is our gift to God.
    10. 10. Don’t let good things divert us from God’s things. Our soul has limited capacity, give priority to things that give life. Life is more caught than taught. Make room for God!

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