Introduction
We have been inundated with reports of war and turmoil throughout the world. Today, I want to change the subject and encourage you with a very powerful word from my brother, Tim, regarding what God is doing. It is entitled:
Look to the Precedents
There is a miraculous phenomenon that occurs when the glory of God increases among His people. When His presence intensifies and His Spirit hovers in a weightier, more tangible way, creative power begins to activate from the very essence of who He is. Throughout Scripture, from Genesis to Acts, we see that whenever Holy Spirit broods over a people, divine creativity manifests, promises are conceived, destinies awaken, and miracles break forth. The glory of God is the womb of the Spirit, a place where Heaven’s purposes are formed and brought into the earth.
I believe Holy Spirit is moving us into a supernatural season of birthing, of promises fulfilled, signs and wonders, and divine interventions. As I have prayed and pondered how to teach this, I heard Holy Spirit say, “Look to the precedents.” There are past occurrences of God’s hovering glory that picture, even prophesy, what He is doing during our time. These instances become blueprints for us to steward.
The first precedent is found in Genesis 1:1–2 (KJV): “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The word moved is the Hebrew rachaph, meaning to brood, to hover, to vibrate with life.(1) This paints the picture of a mother bird settling over her eggs, warming them, incubating what appears lifeless until it breaks forth in living form. Before there was ever light, order, or beauty, there was hovering glory.
When the earth was without form and void, shrouded in darkness, Holy Spirit brooded over it. As He hovered, creation ignited. Out of disorder came divine order. Out of darkness burst radiant light. The same glory that hovered began to birth trees and vegetation, creatures of land and sea, sun, moon, and stars.
Humanity itself was formed in the image and likeness of God from this womb of glory. And not only man, but a “mandate” was born. Authority was given. Dominion was entrusted. Under hovering glory, God’s government on earth through mankind was established. The very concept of a ruling, reigning assembly, what Jesus would later call the ekklesia in Matthew 28:19, was seeded in that Genesis moment. Glory did not simply create; it commissioned.
Holy Spirit brooded over nothingness, and a birthing season erupted. Life multiplied. Purpose unfolded. Government was established. This is the precedent: when God hovers, He births. The precedent of Genesis prophesies into our present. The same Spirit who brooded over waters has been brooding over His Church, the Ekklesia. From the stirrings of renewal movements in the late twentieth century until now, He has been incubating promises and awakening remnant believers.
The promise is that He will move again, this time in even greater measure. A greater birthing season is upon us, a revival and harvest unparalleled in history. A church rising in greater glory and greater governmental authority, discipling nations and stewarding the purposes of heaven on earth. The hovering has not ceased; it has intensified.
Unlike the days of Moses, this remnant will stand unveiled. What once faded will now increase, as we are transformed from glory to glory, reflecting Christ’s radiance across the earth. As in Genesis, we are being restored into His image. A glorious Church is emerging, clear in identity, strong in authority, and radiant with His presence.
In Luke 2:9, we are shown another prophetic precedent of hovering glory. The glory of the Lord shone around the shepherds in the field, illuminating the night with Heaven’s radiance. That same glory overshadowed Mary and Joseph. Once again, when glory hovered, something was birthed. This time, it was the Savior. And as the glory appeared, angelic ministry surged to unprecedented levels. Multitudes of angels announced His birth. Heavenly hosts filled the skies with proclamation and praise. Angel warriors protected the child. Angel messengers delivered divine strategy in dreams. Gabriel appeared with revelation, angelic visitations increased, and divine instruction flowed with clarity and urgency. Under intensified glory, heaven’s messengers moved with heightened activity.
Even governing angels, archangels such as Gabriel and Michael, were mobilized under Holy Spirit’s supervision as the glory of the Lord marked the moment. Doors were opened in foreign lands. Threats were restrained. Herod’s murderous agenda was thwarted. Heaven’s government was advancing. A King had been born. You cannot have kingdom expansion without the King. With the birth of Jesus, governing authority shifted into mandated order at a greater degree than ever before. The King emerged under heavier glory.
This precedent prophesies to our present hour. The same King who was revealed in Bethlehem will reveal Himself again in far greater measure. His Kingdom will not shrink back; it will expand. His influence will not lessen; it will increase. In this era of increasing glory, Jesus will take center stage in ways that magnify His power and presence across the earth. Greater glory will surge. It will brood. And as it does, the influence of His Kingdom will rise until the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.
In Acts 2, Holy Spirit moved again in a hovering, brooding glory, this time over a remnant of 120 believers gathered in an upper room, waiting for power from on high. Suddenly, a sound from Heaven broke into the natural realm, and a rushing mighty wind filled the house where they were sitting. Holy Spirit filled each one of them, and they began to speak in other tongues as He gave utterance. Visible glory accompanied the moment as cloven tongues of fire appeared and rested upon each of them. The word sat (Greek: kathizo) means to settle upon, but it also carries the sense of hovering, brooding, and incubating, as in Genesis 1 when the Spirit rachaph-ed, (hovered) over the waters.(2) Pentecost was another Genesis moment. The Spirit brooded over those present to birth something entirely new.
In that fiery atmosphere, angelic activity intensified, glory manifested, and Heaven’s government advanced. What was conceived in Christ’s earthly ministry was now being birthed in power: the New Testament Church. What Jesus promised came forth: a ruling and reigning spiritual body empowered to affect the natural realm and even influence nations. Each surge of greater glory amplified Kingdom authority. A governing people was born.
Suddenly, it was birthing season. In one day, three thousand were born again, and new heirs of salvation flooded the Kingdom. Leaders emerged from obscurity, and a global vision ignited to reach every nation, tribe, and tongue. Ministry shifted from Pharisee-driven ritual to a Spirit-empowered movement marked by boldness and authority. The five-fold gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers were activated in a fresh dimension. Spiritual gifts surged with unprecedented power; signs, wonders, and miracles flowed, not through one vessel alone, but through a corporate body saturated in glory and commissioned to transform the world.
Pentecost stands as a prophetic precedent. When Holy Spirit hovers in greater glory, He births governing authority, multiplies sons and daughters, activates gifts, and advances the Kingdom of Christ to higher levels. The same Spirit who brooded then is brooding again, preparing once more for a supernatural birthing season that will reveal Christ’s Kingdom in even greater power.
Holy Spirit said, “That which previous increases of glory have produced are precedents prophesying what is due now in your times.” Every surge of glory in Scripture declares what Heaven intends to reveal again in even greater measure. As we host His presence, His glory will draw nearer, weightier, stronger, more tangible. As ever-increasing glory reflects from Christ’s remnant (2 Corinthians 3:18), the true Ekklesia will mirror the radiance of our King, and every expression of Kingdom authority will rise to another level as His glory intensifies among us.
Pray with me:
Father, we are in awe of Your glory, the glory that moved/hovered over waters and birthed creations. Holy Spirit, we ask You to move over us again. Hover over Your Church, over our cities, over every place that is ripe for revival. Release light and breathe life. Strengthen Your Ekklesia and establish Your government through a people capable of reflecting You. May what You are forming in this hour break forth in power.
We continue to pray that Your overriding power and authority determine what occurs in the Middle East. We ask that You fully remove the evil regime in Iran and replace it with a government that wants peace and honors life. Break, once and for all, the influence of demonic principalities in the region, and hover over the region with the power of Holy Spirit. All of this we pray in Yeshua’s name. Amen.
Our decree:
We declare that God’s glory is increasing on earth, moving us into a supernatural season of birthing. A glorious church is emerging, clear in identity, strong in authority, and radiant with His presence.
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Today’s post was contributed by my brother, Tim Sheets. You can learn more about Tim here.
James Strong, The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990), ref. no. 7363.
Ibid., ref. no. 2523.