Rabbi Jason Sobel 3/19/18
God is using you in this city to be that conduit to raise the standard, move it forward. You are pioneers in this city.
And again, I just even feel that this idea of . . . God promised to bring the people of Israel into their land and to give them rest. And God is, in this season, He's preparing your land for you, to give you rest. That the presence of God is gonna come in a new way.
And the word glory, "kavod", a heaviness, a weightiness but also means honor and wealth from the same word. So, He is bringing you into this rest, there's a new honor that is coming, that honor is gonna lead to new levels of resources that are gonna be given to you. It's a weightiness that leads to a new level of influence in the city because you've selflessly just shown grace. Again, grace fills in what is lacking and so even as you have poured into others. . . other peoples' lives and filled in those places. God is, in this season, where there is a new filling into you all, into what you are doing. It's gonna be the filling that leads to the overflow and so I just - I just - I just bless you with that.
Again, this idea of Noah and grace and building the ark and God is using you to build an ark, a refuge like both the Noah's Ark but also like an Ark of the Covenant, a place where God's presence and glory can dwell and tabernacle his "kavod"
So, I just bless you with that – that you all should be a dwelling place for like that verse build Me a tabernacle that I might dwell among you. The Lord has said to you the same thing - He's using you to build a tabernacle that He might dwell among you.
In his Son's name. Amen