When God abides, amazing things happen. This is what we have witnessed here at the Miracle Centre Cathedral ever since we handed over the keys of this ministry to the Holy Spirit on September, 18, 2016.
We have seen astounding miracles every single day; the lame walk, the blind see, wounds are healed and cancer disappears without a trace, not to mention the thousands that have given their lives to Christ both at the church and over the airwaves.
People from over sixty nations of the world have flown in to experience first hand what God is doing in the revival and over 60 million people are following the revival on social media from around the world, at the moment of this writing. What is left now for us is the need to have a transfiguration; God has to remove from us the other figure of religion and shape us after the Holy Spirit.
When Jesus was transfigured, His clothes became dazzling white. We too have to get to that extent of transfiguration, where what is on the inside of us permeates through to the outside, that the glory of the Lord inside of us may be visible even on the very clothes we wear.
I long for a transfiguration effect that is so vivid that believers will sit in a vehicle from a prayer meeting and everybody in the vehicle will break out speaking in tongues and be filled with the Holy Spirit instantly. I want to see believers go to a restaurant to get something to eat and people fall under the power of the Holy Ghost in the restaurant.
We need to go beyond the transformation of our minds; beyond just living and thinking positive, following the ten-steps-to-this or the nine-steps-to-that. We need to encounter such a physical manifestation that even the people around us become witnesses of the power of God.
Transformers and reformers may do a wonderful job but the Church today needs transfiguration. Our figure must change. Our appearance before the world must change. Just as we would note the extreme transfiguration when someone who was a size 28 becomes a size 6, the fact that we have encountered God must be obvious even to the natural eye.
John had baptized thousands of people including the Son of God. The Church must desire to go beyond just helping with transforming peoples’ lives because religion has already been doing just that. They have been telling them what to say, what to do and how to do it, but with scanty results.
However, when the Holy Spirit comes, there must be a difference in every single aspect of our lives. Peter made a powerful statement after the transfiguration of Jesus when he said, “…it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles…” (Luke 9:33). As God was building him into a tabernacle, he had enough faith built within to build three tabernacles, yet he was not even a tent maker. This goes to show that as a result of transfiguration, people receive faith to build things that they had never attempted before.
In the Old Testament, there were prophets you would not mess around with such as Moses, Elijah and Elisha because they had experienced transfiguration. Moses subdued the most powerful nation of the earth-Egypt, and delivered two million people out of bondage.
Elijah called fire from heaven, turned an entire backslidden nation to God and destroyed the prophets of Baal in one day. Elisha raised the dead, multiplied oil, caused a sunken axe-head to float, blinded an entire army, kept on revealing the secret plans of enemy forces and cursed children who had mocked him and two bears killed forty two of them in a day!
There is a strong connection between the Acts of the Apostles and the transfiguration. When Peter and John were before the elders of Israel in Acts chapter 4, the elders threatened them not to speak in Jesus’ name but Peter being filled with the Spirit said, “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:20 (KJV)
If you compare the boldness of Peter saying those words and the timidity of Peter who had denied Jesus three times, you will notice evidence of a transfigured life. This transfigured Peter just walked into Samaria and people were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:14-17).
When a transfigured person arrives, he carries with him enough glory that it would seem as though it were Jesus Himself. However, we have rarely experienced that in our day. When we look at Moses and Elijah who showed up at Jesus’ transfiguration, wherever they walked, there God also walked. After Moses met God on the mountain, he returned to Egypt as a god to Pharaoh. Paul was also transfigured after he saw Jesus in broad daylight and the miracles he performed made people desire to seek God.
Extracted from Pr Robert Kayanja’s 4th book, The Holy Spirit, 77 Days Of Glory Series.
