The word glory conveys the idea of weight, significance, and importance, and how weighty, significant, or important it is depends on the person that carries it. In this context, Moses was asking God for something that his heart desired in the course of his journey.

After seeing the dimensions of God’s operation with humankind through him, in nature, and also to those whom He chose to make use of, Moses, being one of those God identified and used for His glory, wanted more of God as he continued in his journey with the house of Israel.

He wanted God to show him His way and also His glory, and I asked myself, what else would someone whom God has been using tremendously for God’s people be willing to have again? I mean with all the miracles, signs, wonders, even to the extent of God making him a god before Pharaoh in Exodus 7:1.

But still yet, he wants more from God, something no one has requested for. He requested for an encounter that would make him go from ordinary to extraordinary, from natural to supernatural. He wanted to be like God so as to represent God on earth before the people.

And that makes me say, we must all come out of our boxes this morning so as to ask for more than the ordinary things that God would give to us even though we do not ask anyway because He has already made provision for it for us.

But rather, we should yearn for what will make us to be like Him in all that we do, in our behaviors, in our actions, in all that matters to God first. Many of us have been children of God, people of God, but are yet to yearn for God’s glory.

The Bible says in John 14:9, Jesus said to Philip, “I have been with you all this time and still you do not know Me? For anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father, so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”

So it does not matter what we have been benefiting from God, but what matters is what we are yearning to become. There is a deep desire for a more intimate knowledge of God that everyone must desire as we go into this year.

A visible manifestation of God’s presence and majesty that is associated with holiness, light, and the power of God—this request is not left to Moses alone, and I want to encourage every one of us to also make this plea as it will help us in our journey this year and beyond.

Even though God has shown you His presence through miracles of healing, through miracles of blessing you, through miracles of financial stability, He has shown that He is your Caretaker and more. You must not be comfortable with those things until you ask for His way and His glory as you go into this year.

There is something others have not yet experienced that God will not hesitate to start with you this year. Moses asked for what no one ever requested for. He requested an even greater sense of God’s presence that no one had ever asked before.

He wanted to walk in a new glory which comes from the Lord, and he requested for the impossible, and God amazingly did it for him. And his face glowed after leaving God’s presence because God showed him His glory.

Beloved, as you go into this year, you cannot afford to remain ordinary. There is a request you must make from God, a glory that you must obtain from God that will change the course of this year’s journey for you in good faith, because it is our year of new glory.

There is this side of God that needs to be revealed to you that will make you become outstanding this year, an encounter that will make you shine in God’s glory just like Moses’ face became so radiant and had to be covered.

Another year is here and we cannot but devote our lives to seek the face of God so that He may show us His glory. For in His glory, we will become radiant. In His glory, we will glow. When He shows us His glory, the devil will become terrified and flee before us. People will know that we have seen the Lord. Amen.

As God’s glory also signifies a deep desire for a more intimate understanding and experience of God, it is expected for us to long for a deep desire of a more intimate understanding and experience of God.

For when we do, God will amazingly show us His glory and our lives will never remain the same again, because experiencing God’s glory leads to transformation. So we should yearn for deeper revelation of God’s glory in our lives, asking God to reveal Himself to us in new and profound ways as we go into this year.

Because our lives must reflect His glory, everything we do must aim to honor and glorify His name. Moses, being a friend of God, longed for an even clearer, personal encounter with the Lord. As a matter of fact, in a respectful manner, his respectful “Please” reveals his humility. His bold “Show me” reveals him as a man of faith. The request he made to see God’s glory demonstrated that no one should limit himself or herself from asking for deeper intimacy.

And we will be amazed at God’s response to us. As He set the pattern for every believer who yearns to know, see, and reflect the unchanging glory of His through Moses, no one should be reduced to asking for crumbs when we can have an intimacy with the Father that makes us glory in His glory.