A View into Heaven’s Glory
Ezekiel 1:1-11
May 23-24, 2026
Ezekiel 1, beginning in verse 1, and the title of our message, A View into Heaven's Glory. A View into Heaven's Glory. By the way, thank you for letting us have a little time off for our anniversary. I said to my wife, "Would you do a little vacation?" and she said, "Our marriage is a vacation," she said. Well, she didn't exactly say it that way. I think what she actually said was, "When I married you, you were my last resort." I'm pretty sure that's-- Okay, that's just a joke. Actually, 42 years. We're celebrating 42 years.
Let's pray. Lord, thank You for Your Word and for sending it forth in power to reveal Your heart after us, to bless, to show us the way of life and great blessing. God, pour out Your Spirit through Your Word, we pray in Jesus' name. Everyone said amen. Ezekiel is a prophet to the exiles, there in Babylon. He was taken as an exile in the second wave. You might remember there were three waves that Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem.
The first was when he took the elite, the skilled, some of the best and the brightest of the young men to serve in his administration. These were men such as Daniel and Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, Meshach, Shadrach, amongst others. This strategy was very effective. It helped make Babylon one of the greatest empires the world had ever seen. In the second wave, he took the king himself, the royal court, 7,000 elite soldiers, and several thousand craftsmen and artisans. Ezekiel was in that second wave.
In the third and final wave, he took the last of the kings in the light of David, Zedekiah, and all who remained in the city, left in Jerusalem, only a few of the poorest and the destitute, he left there in the land. Ezekiel is a book of transformation, revival, and prophecy. When you study prophecy of the latter days, you almost turn to Ezekiel all the time, that and Daniel and Revelation, which we will also, of course, study.
If you remember, Jeremiah declared that those who gave themselves up to exile were called the good figs. Those who remained or fled to Egypt were called the bad figs who would never be heard from again. Now, those in Babylon were not called good figs because they had good hearts. No, actually, they had obstinate and rebellious hearts, but they were called this because of what they
would become. God was prophesying a revival that would happen as they went through the fire and the tumult of the exile. They would be transformed into those good figs by a work of revival, and that's what Ezekiel is called to do, to speak that word of revival and transformation to the exiles that would transform their hearts, and that they would seek God with all of their heart to be transformed by the moving of God upon their souls. In other words, they needed the prophet. They needed the word of God to make this revival happen.
In other words, God can use troubles and difficulties and tumult, and He does today, by the way. God is still doing a work of transforming and reviving, and He will use trouble and tumult and difficulty to do it, but it's not only the trouble and the difficulty that brings that revival. No, it's the work of God. You need the outpouring of the word. You need the outpouring of the Spirit, and that's what we're going to see when you look at the Book of Ezekiel, but it's also a book of prophecy.
As I mentioned, later, we're going to read that he's going to prophesy about the regathering and the restoring of Israel in the latter days. We are actually seeing that aspect of the prophecy fulfilled before our eyes in the sense that May 14th, 1948, Israel became a nation again. We see, as you look at prophecy, that Israel will be the center of the unfolding of prophecy in the latter days, and Jerusalem will be the very center, and then Temple Mount will be the very epicenter of the unfolding events of the latter days prophecy.
He will also give a vision in this book about a valley of drying bones coming to life. It's a famous vision of national resurrection. He's also going to speak about a coalition of nations that come against Israel in a battle called the Battle of Gog and Magog, who will attack Israel while she is at peace. This will happen in the latter days. Whenever we study prophecy of the latter days, we study that. He speaks of a new temple that will be rebuilt in the latter days. In fact, in Israel today, they are preparing for the rebuilding of the temple in fulfillment of the Book of Ezekiel in the latter days.
He will speak of the return of God's glory that will be greater in the latter days than it even was in the beginning. That is amazing. We'll read it when we get there. He speaks of a river of life that flows out of Jerusalem, that flows into the desert, and wherever it flows, there is life. It's a picture of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the latter days. All right, that is all the backstory. Now, Ezekiel 1 is where God calls Ezekiel to be a prophet to the exiles there living in Babylon, but before He sends him to deliver the message of God, Ezekiel is given a view into heaven itself.
Before He sends him as a prophet, He's going to show him the glory and the throne room of God. He sees the glory that surrounds the throne, including, he says, four living creatures that abide there in the presence of God before the throne. We know them as angelic beings. He describes what he saw, and in so doing, he gives us a glimpse into heaven's glory. Now, he's limited by the fact that he's got to describe a heavenly vision with earthly words.
Oh, if we could only see with our own eyes, oh, what glory it would be, and one day we will see with our own eyes, for this he's describing is the hope of heaven. In a world of woe and such as we live, we need words of hope. Jesus describes that there will be troubles and greater trials that will come upon the world as we draw nearer to the latter days. I believe that we're going through now that period Jesus described as the birth pangs leading up to the latter days.
Jesus said in Matthew 24, there will be wars and rumors of wars. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes, but all these are merely the beginning of birth pangs, Jesus said. In other words, trouble and trials will increase with greater intensity as the end draws near. In another place, He says, "But take courage. I have overcome the world." We know how this story ends. After all these things, there is the hope of heaven.
Paul, you want to talk about enduring trials and troubles, surely that would be Paul, but he endured these things because he had the hope of heaven. Notice Romans 8:18, "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." The glory of that, he says, is far beyond comparison to anything that we experience in this world of woe.
When you're enduring and suffering, you need something to hold onto that's beyond. You need to hold onto such a hope that future glory is heaven itself. If you don't have that hope, if you don't have that assurance, let this be the day that you find it. God is pursuing you. God is knocking on the door of your heart. God wants to have a personal relationship to you, and God wants to show you the greatness of His glory.
You wonder, have you ever wondered, what is heaven like? Many would love a view into heaven. What is that future glory that God has in store for those who are believers in Jesus Christ? Is it a place where there's beautiful golf courses, or maybe perfect fishing lakes, or perhaps a place where you can eat incredible, delectable, delightful food, and never gain any weight? That'd be awesome. No, he describes in Ezekiel 1 a heavenly vision where there is glory. He beholds the throne of God and all that surround him. Words are not adequate to describe. We're brought with Ezekiel into this glimpse of heaven. He describes the glory.
This is an amazing scene that he describes. There's a throne in heaven, one sitting on the throne, radiant in glory. There were four living creatures before the throne, angelic beings. We come to understand from the Book of Revelation that these four living angelic beings declare the glory of God and never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty." There's something majestic and glorious about this declaration that they say over and over and over, like, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty."
There is this amazing view he gives of the glory he describes. The glory. When you think about standing before the throne of the living God and the glory that he describes, the radiance of the eminence of God's presence moving in glory. Can you imagine standing there in that place of glory, the fullness of glory? What would be in your heart? It's an awesome, ominous thing that many have in their minds to stand before the throne of the living God.
God is love. Is that not true? God is love. When you stand there, and you abide in the glory, that which fills your soul is the glory of His holiness, and love will pervade your soul. Can you imagine the love that just fills the soul, the joy, the peace? This is the radiance of God's glory that He moves. What is amazing is that He says that you can move in this glory even now.
Everyone who receives the Lord Jesus Christ, if you've opened your heart to receive the Lord, that He pours out the Holy Spirit, and He says the glory that abides in your soul is the glory that abided even greater that abided in Moses, it is the very glory that comes from the throne of God, and you can have that glory abiding in your soul even now. Yes, let's give the Lord praise. Amen. [applause] Amen.
These four living creatures, in many ways, they are the ones nearest to the throne. You see in the image of the faces of these angelic beings, a picture which represents the glory, the nature, the character of God; there is the face of a lion, the face of an ox, the face of man, and the face of an eagle. Each of these describe the transforming power of God upon the soul. That which God desires to do is seen in the faces of these angelic beings.
You are transformed by the outpouring of glory into His image, and it is seen in the faces of these angelic beings in a glorious, beautiful description. Let's read it. We're in Ezekiel 1:1. That is the longest introduction in the history of sermons. Ezekiel 1, "Now it came about in the 30th year on the fifth day of the fourth month," many believe this is his age. A priest must be 30 years old in order to minister, so he's giving us, we believe, his age. It's very exact.
He says, "While I was by the River Chebar amongst the exiles, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile," how exact is that, "the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar, and there the hand of the Lord was upon him."
He says, "I looked. Behold, a storm wind coming from the north." He's describing now that which is the throne in all its glory coming in this vision. He says, "A great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. Within it, there were these figures resembling four living beings." We know they're angelic beings.
"And this was their appearance: they had human form. Each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight, and their feet were like calves' hooves, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings and on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and the wings of the four of them, their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right, the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces, and their wings were spread out above. Each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies."
Would you move to verse 26? I want you to see this description here. We'd looked at the other verses on Wednesday, but notice verse 26, "Now above the expanse that was over their heads, there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up," Isaiah says, high and lifted up, "was a figure with the appearance of a man. Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upwards, something like glowing metal looked like fire all around within it.
"From the appearance of His loins and downward, I saw something like fire, and there was radiance around Him. Now, the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds of a rainy day, so was the appearance of this surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and then I heard a voice speaking to me." I'll tell you what, if you beheld that glory, you'd fall on your face too.
I. Have the Heart of a Lion
What a beautiful, amazing picture of the glory of the throne of God and these four living creatures that represent the nature, the character of God's holiness, that which He does bring forth in the image of God sent forth to transform men in that image represented in these four faces. He wants to do this transforming work in your soul by that glory, starting with this image of the face of a lion. In other words, have the heart of a lion. Jesus is called the lion from the tribe of Judah, so what a powerful and appropriate picture is this, seen in the face of the lion.
The qualities are clear, right? Authority, power, strength, boldness, these majestic symbols represent that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He wants to transform you so that you have this heart. This is that which God does in the outpouring of His glory, transforms you into His image, into His nature, into His character, and is seen in the face of the lion. Authority. Authority requires a certain boldness, you might say.
A. Authority requires boldness
In Scripture, authority is sometimes represented by a key. The one who holds the key has authority to open the door. Notice Revelation 1:17-18, He says, "Do not be afraid. I am the first, I am the last, I am the living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore." Then would you notice this, "And I have the keys of death, and I have the keys of hell." I tell you what, there's something powerful about that. You read that, it's like, "That's my king right there."
There's something powerful. "I have the keys of death, and I have the keys of hell." That is authority. Like when Jesus said to Peter, "On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." That's my king right there. That is authority right there. Can we give God the praise, right? Jesus said in Matthew 28, "All authority has been given unto Me." There's my king, all authority, in heaven and on earth. That's all authority.
Then he says, "Therefore, I say to you, I say, Go. Go therefore. Make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." That is a great promise. "All authority has been given to me, and I am with you. Go. Go in that authority." That's what he's saying.
After the resurrection, there's this story that unfolds. A great revival broke out in Jerusalem. The Jewish leaders had Peter and the others arrested, but an angel opened the gates of the prison, and the disciples went right back out, teaching in the temple, so they arrested them again and brought them before a council, the Jewish council, but a certain Jewish leader named Gamaliel corrected them. Notice these words, because it speaks of it very powerfully.
Acts 5, "And if what these men are doing should be of men, it will be overthrown, but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them, or else you may be found fighting against God." In other words, if they go by God, they're going by the authority of God, and you will not stand against them. The authority of God goes with men, but notice this principle, because it's a very important principle in Scripture: to have authority, you must be under authority.
Like, "Go in this, but know this principle." You must be under authority. Now, to have the bearing of authority, the power of the inner man he's speaking of, Jesus said in several places, "To him who overcomes," right? To overcome means that you hold fast to what you have. It means to keep God's Word with a strength in the inner man to the end. It's like no compromise. There comes a time to stand. There comes a time to take that place of saying, "No compromise."
When I think about that, I think many years ago, before modern MP3 players that we have today, before you go back in time, before cassettes, before 8-track players. If you don't know what this is, ask somebody who looks old. [laughter] Even before that, you had LP albums, Long Play albums, and these had album covers. They're about this big. With all of that size, many would put these beautiful images or whatever on their album covers.
One of them that really stood out to me was an album cover by a Christian artist named Keith Green. He was part of the Jesus Movement. He put out an album called No Compromise. Got to love the name. The image he put on the front just speaks to it so powerfully well. Here you can see clearly that it's the image of Nebuchadnezzar. He's high and lifted up on the throne, carried on the shoulders of men, right? All of these are bowing down except for one.
The meekness and the strength resides there in that posture of saying, "No. No, I will not bow. I will not bend. No. No compromise." You can almost see the one next to him trying to pull him down. "What are you thinking?" You can't see his face, but you can imagine it. A meek gentleness of strength residing in the inner man. Such authority that bears upon his soul comes from being under the authority to understand that He's king and He's Lord and that He rules and reigns over all the nations of the world.
To come under it well is a key to understand the heart and principles of the Lord. He is the lion. All authority has been given unto Him. You must come under that authority well. There's a beautiful picture of this in Matthew 8. Love this story. It's one of my favorite stories out of Matthew. It goes this way. When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion, that is, a Roman officer in the army of Rome, a centurion came to him, begging him, saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, terribly tormented."
Jesus said to him, "I will come, and I'll heal him." The centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. You only need to say the word, and my servant will be healed." He understood the authority that resided in just the spoken word of authority of this Jesus of Nazareth. He understood what no one in Israel did, apparently, by what Jesus said. He understood that abiding in this Jesus was the authority of God Himself because He was under the authority of God His Father. All authority of His Father resided in Him, and therefore all He needed to do was speak the word.
He says, "For I too am a man under authority. I know authority. I know how authority is. I, too, am a man under authority with soldiers under me. I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes. I say to this one, 'Come,' and he comes. To another I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." In other words, "All you got to do is speak the word. You have the authority of God, your Father." When Jesus heard this, He was amazed, and He said to those who were following, "Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel."
B. To have authority, be under authority
A wonderful understanding is this. To abide under the authority means you recognize that He is the King and the Lord and that He is the captain of your soul, so that when he speaks a word, it has authority to speak into your heart so that when His word speaks, you say, "That word has authority. I will abide in your word, for you are my King, and you are my Lord." This is abiding under the authority of the Lord well. Those who abide under the authority well are those who then bear the authority of God in their lives. It's a very important principle.
He then will become the strong man in your life. You can speak on that at great length. Romans 8:31 speaks to it. How or what can we say to these things if God be for us, who can be against us? That is the declaration. Amen? Amen. Yes, let's give the Lord praise. Exactly right. [applause] Amen. Then you see in the next face, the face of the ox is the heart of the beast of burden to serve, right? Serve with the heart of an ox. It is the nature and character of the Lord.
Jesus came to carry our burdens. Isaiah 53, "Surely our griefs and sorrows He Himself carried." He carried our sins. He took our sins upon himself and carried the greatest burden of our soul is that, which condemned our souls. He carried it Himself. This quality of the Lord, He says, "I want this to be seen in you, be transformed by the glory of God's heart and character, that you would then have this heart."
Jesus said, "He who desires to be first, let him be the last. He who desires to be the greatest, let him be the servant of all. For in the same way, the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many." That is the heart of the Lord seen in the outpouring of His glory that will transform any who stand before the glory. You open your heart to receive glory. You will be transformed into this. It's the heart of the Lord.
II. Serve with the Heart of an Ox
Be steadfast. That's one of the qualities of it. Be steady and faithful in your calling or purpose. God calls you with a purpose. God sends you out with a purpose. Be steady and faithful in it. That's the wonderful quality of an ox, you apply that to your faith. Like Galatians 6:9, "Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap if you do not grow weary." A farmer in those days, if he had something difficult to plow, you need an ox. You got big rocks, you need an ox for that. You got hard ground, you need an ox for that. Powerful, sure-footed, steady. It's a beautiful picture of that heart of the Lord in it, transforming us by it.
An interesting factoid about an ox many don't know is that an ox is actually highly trainable. A farmer can direct an ox with a simple word of direction. He can speak a word, and the ox will go to the right. He can speak a word, the ox will go to the left. Now, that is a beautiful picture of obedience as the heart of the servant to send with a steady faithfulness in the purpose for which God sent it.
A. Be steady and faithful
1 Corinthians 15:58, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, be immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord." Now, one of the qualities of that heart, of the beast of burden, the qualities of an ox, is that he does his work without complaining, in contrast to a donkey, who will work, but there'll be a lot of drama, that attitude he's speaking of, but the ox is steady and faithful. No attitude, no drama, just a steady fulfilling of God's purpose.
B. Do the difficult things
There you see it in this quality. Do the difficult things. Carry the burdens that are difficult. In every house, in every ministry, there are jobs no one wants to do, but those with servant hearts are willing to do the difficult things that other people are unwilling to do. That's how you know they have the heart of a servant in it. Don't be afraid to do the difficult things. I was thinking of an illustration. After we were married, my wife was pregnant with our first child.
I got to tell you, when we found out that she was pregnant and going to have a baby, I was so excited, like, "I'm all in, right? I'm going to be the coach. I'm going to go to all the classes. Not only am I going to be the coach, I'm going to step it up; I'm going to be a cheerleader." I even got my cheers down, right? "Push him out, push him out, way out." [laughter] She didn't seem to appreciate that. All right, so we had the baby. We bring the baby home.
We're saying, "I'm going to get up at night. I'm in, I'm in. I'm going to do the tough things. I'm going to change the poopy diapers. I'm in." That is until, for whatever reason, she decided to go to cloth diapers. Do you know that you have to rinse cloth diapers? [laughter] There is a line, and we just hit it. Then she says, "You've been so helpful. You've done so many wonderful, helpful things, but you've never rinsed out the diapers."
I thought, "All right. All right, I'm in. I'm going to do this thing." [laughs] I literally got a clothespin and put it on my nose as I rinsed out those diapers, and I've been in counseling ever since. [laughter] I'm going to do the hard thing. I tell you, we are drawing near the latter days, and difficult times will come. Those who have a heart of the servant will be very needed in those days. 2 Timothy 3, realize this, that in the last days, difficult times will come. Men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy. In other words, chaos will reign in the unfolding of these difficult days.
Those who have a heart of a servant to serve the Lord in it will stand in great contrast to the world. How do you know if you have a heart of a servant? Well, perhaps two things: one, by how you react when people treat you like one, and two, if you find true pleasure in the serving. That's the heart of those who carry the heart of the Lord in the burdens. Then lastly, the face of man and the face of the eagle. God desires both humility and greatness.
III. God Desires both Humility and Greatness
These living creatures, these angelic beings, are those which are closest to the presence of God. In the vision that John gives us in the Book of Revelation, we know that, also, there are 24 elders around the throne, sitting on thrones themselves, and crowns are upon their heads, but they fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and they cast their crowns before the Almighty. In other words, there's greatness, there's power, there's authority in each of them, but there's also great humility. It's a quality of the heart of the Lord, and it's seen in the face, the image of the man here, and the angelic beings. The face of man is humility.
- The face of man is humility
Jesus referred to Himself as Son of man more than any other way that He spoke of Himself, more than 80 times. Ezekiel is called the son of man, and that brings you to the question: Is humility an aspect of God? Is God humble? Is that an aspect of His character? Well, I bring to you Philippians 2:7-8. He, Jesus, "Emptied Himself, taking the form of a bondservant and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man," thus, the image of a man here is very important, he says, "He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." The humility of what He became is amazing.
I also give you this verse in 2 Corinthians 5, where Paul describes that we who are believers in Jesus Christ have been sent as ambassadors to represent the heart of God to an unbelieving world with the heart to reconcile sinners to Himself. Take this message. 2 Corinthians 5 then says, we are therefore ambassadors for Christ. We therefore entreat you. The word "entreating" means to ask in all humility. Then he says, "Therefore, we beg you in the name of Jesus to be reconciled to God." That is an amazing verse.
This is God speaking through these ambassadors sent to reconcile sinners? Yes. What is their message? "We are entreating you, and therefore, we beg you in the name of Jesus Christ, we beg you to be reconciled to God." Don't let the enemy win. Don't let your soul be destroyed. God loves you, man. He says, "I therefore beg you in the name of Jesus Christ, I beg you to be reconciled to God." That is powerful. You see the heart of the Lord, the love that He has for sinners.
"I'm begging you. Don't let the enemy win. Don't let your life be destroyed. I've made a way for sinners to be reconciled to the living God." What a beautiful picture is this? God gives glory and honor to those who understand the heart of humility. Matthew 23, the greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself, whoever puffs himself up, shall be humbled, but whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. Beautiful picture of those who understand the heart of the Lord, in that which God does by His glory is seen in that which He pours out in humility.
B. The eagle is the majesty of God
Then lastly, the eagle. The eagle is the majesty of God. Oh, what a beautiful-- He is the Son of God portrayed here in this beautiful, majestic image of the eagle. You know Psalm 91 speaks to it so well. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Ah, the drawing near to the glory. Then he goes, "He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge, for His faithfulness is a shield and a bulwark."
Ah, the majesty of His glory pictured here. You open your heart before the throne of God, and He will fill you with His majesty. Ah, beautiful. The eagle soaring high, lifted by the wind. The Holy Spirit literally means "wind," by the words in Greek, the power of God, and we are in God's majesty when we walk by and live by the Holy Spirit of the living God. "I will pour out my glory. I will pour out my presence upon your soul, and the majesty of on high will abide within and strengthen your soul because you have abided in the glory of His majesty." Amen. You give a little praise. Exactly right.
It's like Isaiah 40:31. Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength. He's going to do a work in the inner man by the majesty of the outpouring of His glory, and they will therefore mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become weary. Oh, the majesty of His glory. Stand before the throne. Open your heart, and He'll fill you with majesty. All that He is, He says, "I will be unto you."
In the outpouring of His glory, in the outpouring of His majesty, He will transform your heart and transform your soul. How beautiful, how beautiful it is to dwell in the glory, in the majesty of the Almighty. Open your heart. Open your heart. Desire more of God. Open your heart. He'll pour out His majesty and His glory. Let's pray. Lord, we love You, honor You, and thank You for what a beautiful picture is this, that You have invited us to dwell in the majesty, in the nearness of glory.
How beautiful is that? Church, as we're praying, how many would say to the Lord, "God, I want You to fill my soul with Your majesty. I want my soul to be filled with Your glory. I open my heart to receive. You are love. You are joy. You are peace. You are majesty. You are glory. Fill me. Fill my heart"? Is that your desire? Would you say that to the Lord by just raising your hand and saying, "God, I open my heart to You. Fill me with Your majesty and Your glory"?
Do that upon my soul, God, we pray. God, we love You and honor You for what You're doing in us today. In Jesus' name, and everyone said-- Can we give the Lord praise and glory and honor? Amen? Amen.