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    The Glory Cloud Appears Again

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    The author recalls two experiences where a "glory cloud" appeared during his preaching, filling the room and blocking his vision. The first was in 1939 while pastoring in Texas, where the glory cloud came upon him while preaching about prophecy. When he came to himself, he was standing in front of the congregation rather than behind the pulpit. Every person in attendance was saved or restored. The second experience occurred years later at a meeting, where an anointing to preach came upon him as he was sitting, and he felt it "fit over me like an overcoat." He then powerfully preached without his notes.

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    The author recalls two experiences where a "glory cloud" appeared during his preaching, filling the room and blocking his vision. The first was in 1939 while pastoring in Texas, where the glory cloud came upon him while preaching about prophecy. When he came to himself, he was standing in front of the congregation rather than behind the pulpit. Every person in attendance was saved or restored. The second experience occurred years later at a meeting, where an anointing to preach came upon him as he was sitting, and he felt it "fit over me like an overcoat." He then powerfully preached without his notes.

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    The author recalls two experiences where a "glory cloud" appeared during his preaching, filling the room and blocking his vision. The first was in 1939 while pastoring in Texas, where the glory cloud came upon him while preaching about prophecy. When he came to himself, he was standing in front of the congregation rather than behind the pulpit. Every person in attendance was saved or restored. The second experience occurred years later at a meeting, where an anointing to preach came upon him as he was sitting, and he felt it "fit over me like an overcoat." He then powerfully preached without his notes.

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    The Glory Cloud Appears Again

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    The author recalls two experiences where a "glory cloud" appeared during his preaching, filling the room and blocking his vision. The first was in 1939 while pastoring in Texas, where the glory cloud came upon him while preaching about prophecy. When he came to himself, he was standing in front of the congregation rather than behind the pulpit. Every person in attendance was saved or restored. The second experience occurred years later at a meeting, where an anointing to preach came upon him as he was sitting, and he felt it "fit over me like an overcoat." He then powerfully preached without his notes.

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    The Glory Cloud Appears Again

    By Kenneth E. Hagin

    Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin recalls his second experience with the glory cloud and explains the
    difference between the anointing to preach and the anointing to teach.

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    Although I was anointed to preach, that strong anointing with the glory didn’t happen again in
    my ministry for three more years (see Anointed to Preach for details on the first glory cloud
    experience). During those three years, I had been baptized in the Holy Spirit, had come over
    among the Full Gospel people, and was pastoring a little church in northcentral Texas.

    One Sunday night, I was preaching away on prophecy—it was the second Sunday night of
    September 1939—and the anointing came upon me. After that anointing came, I don’t know
    what I said, and I couldn’t see anything or anyone. It was as if a cloud or dense fog filled the
    church.

    When I came to myself, I was standing down in front, off the platform. That was the first time
    I’d ever done that. In fact, my wife had once said to me, “I believe you could preach standing in
    a wash pan,” because I never moved from behind the pulpit when I preached. I had been trained
    that way.

    But that night, the glory came down, and I didn’t know one word I had said for 15 minutes. I had
    been in the glory cloud. When I found myself walking around the altar, I got so embarrassed that
    my face turned red. I ran back on the platform, got behind the pulpit, and said, “Amen. Let’s
    pray,” and gave the invitation.

    Every sinner in the church came and got saved. We had revival that night! Twenty people were
    baptized in the Holy Spirit that night. That may not sound big now, but back in 1939, if we had
    half a dozen saved and three baptized in the Holy Spirit, we thought we had a landslide!

    In that service, everyone who didn’t have the baptism was baptized, and everyone who was lost
    or backslidden got right with God. It wasn’t my preaching that did it; it was the anointing.

    The glory cloud still appears quite frequently in our healing meetings and other services. People
    have seen it. It comes in and fills the room.

    Sometimes when I am preaching or teaching, it comes in and absolutely blocks everyone from
    view. Most of the time, it just hangs over the heads of the people. It is at times like these that
    people receive healing without anyone ministering to them, because the anointing is present in
    such a powerful way.
    Sometimes the anointing comes into visible manifestation. Do you think it wasn’t visible when
    the house started shaking where the early Christians were praying? And when that jail at Philippi
    started shaking and every door flew open, it came into manifestation again as a result of Paul and
    Silas’ praying.

    I have the anointing of the Holy Spirit in me all the time, as any believer has, but I’m speaking
    here of an anointing to preach.

    I don’t preach much any more—I mostly teach—but I like the preaching anointing. I love it.

    It’s different from the anointing to teach. It feels different. It’s more exuberant. It’s the same
    Spirit, but a different anointing. Thank God for the anointing to preach! If I had any control over
    it, I’d bring on that anointing to preach often, because I like it.

    The difference between preaching and teaching is that to preach means to proclaim, but to teach
    means to explain.

    Once in a while, that anointing to preach still will come on me. If you’ve never heard me preach,
    get my videotape “El Shaddai.” On that tape, I’m preaching, not teaching.

    I preached “El Shaddai” years ago at a Full Gospel Business Men’s meeting near Washington,
    D.C. The special singer was singing the last song, and I was sitting there on that platform
    minding my own business, ready to give my testimony about going to hell, when something like
    a cloak came on me. It fit over me like an overcoat. It was this anointing to preach. You talk
    about a fellow feeling “preachy”!

    Remember, Elijah threw his cloak over Elisha, signifying that the Holy Spirit was coming on
    him in that way —just like a mantle was on him, and that’s the way it was with me. After all,
    these old Testament types and shadows were fulfilled in the New Testament.

    When they turned the service over to me, I didn’t have my sermon notes on “El Shaddai,” but the
    anointing was there to preach, so I just read my text and took off, so to speak. We had a service!

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