Worship The Secret of Success - The Glory Cloud Part 2

Some of you may not have the faintest idea of what I'm talking about.  You may even be wondering, what is a glory cloud?  Is that biblical?  The glory cloud  is a visible manifestation of the Glory of God.  it is a visible cloud that appears in the ceiling of an anointed worship service, whenever God is pleased enough with the worship to sit in the presence of His people.  The glory cloud represents His presence.  His presence causes miracles to happen.  This same cloud was mentioned in 2 Chronicles 5:11-14.

And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their divisions), and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Human and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the alter, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets--indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying:

"For He is good, 

For His mercy endures forever,"

that the house, the house of theLord, was fulled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

How many of you have ever experienced such a service?  I would be willing to guess the number is very small, why?  Because of the requirements of the experience.  The scripture says the trumpeters and the singers were as one "to make one sound."  What are the odds of that happening these days?  How likely is it that that many people--musicians, priests, singers, trumpeters --can lay aside their own ego, likes, dislikes, preferences, differences to "make one sound" in praising and thanking the Lord.  Not necessarily "as one" musically, but "as one" spiritually?  How do you get people to change their focus from themselves to pleasing and praising God?  It requires our being able to die to ourselves.  It requires our being able to see that the reward of dying to self and totally submitting to Christ has far greater rewards than consequences.