In this powerful message, Glenn Bleakney of Awake Nations calls the Church back to its true pursuit — not the acts of God, but the ways of God. Drawing from Exodus 33, he reveals how Moses’ cry, “Show me Your ways,” must precede “Show me Your glory.”

This is a prophetic word for a remnant generation being refined and realigned to host God’s presence with holiness and intimacy. Revival without reformation won’t last — it’s time to prepare the way of the Lord, to walk carefully with the dove upon our shoulders, and to become a people who carry His glory, not just witness it.

🔥 Learn how to move from revelation → preparation → manifestation — from knowing about God to truly walking with Him.

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Hey, guys, we're going to jump over.

To Exodus 33 this morning.

And the Lord showed me something because I feel the church has been in error in some respect in what we've been praying and what we've been seeking after.

And I believe God wants to bring us back into alignment with his heart.

Okay, so we know that Abraham was called the friend of God, but Moses also was a friend of God.

And the Lord says of Moses, I've known him.

And he actually, it says that Moses.

Met with God face to face as a friend, friend to friend.

So this is a deep revelation of what God is doing.

I believe in the church today and what he's doing.

And there's many people that just don't get it.

They're just not listening tonight.

I'll unpack that more at 4pm Because I feel very strongly that the Lord is speaking to us.

And it's always a remnant.

There's always a remnant.

There's those who just go through the motions, and they continue to go through the motions.

You know this.

The Bible talks about the priesthood, the Zadok priesthood.

And you know, the Zadok priesthood are those who did not go astray during the time of apostasy.

And they had a distinct privilege.

They were able to draw near to God.

The other Levites were actually one.

They did go astray.

And God says, I will still allow.

Them to minister in my house, but they'll not be able to draw near to me.

They'll not be able to minister to me.

They'll minister to people.

And there's a remnant today that knows how to minister to God.

There's a remnant today that knows how to minister to God.

And that's the heart of the Lord, is that we would minister to him.

And there are those who go through the motions.

They preach, they do the right things.

But their heart isn't ministering unto God.

It's people.

And it's so far from what the Lord wants for us.

It's a powerful prophetic season we're in.

God is doing something profound.

And I honestly don't care about how many people we have.

Like, I honestly probably haven't cared about that for a long time.

But what God is doing in this season is he wants to raise up a people who are deep and who know him, who really walk with Him.

And so when we look at this particular passage, you know, the Lord, it speaks to Moses in response to the children of Israel going astray, worshiping the golden calf.

And he says, depart and go up.

From Here, verse one.

You and the people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying to your descendants, I will give it, and I will send my angel before you, and he will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, and the parasite, and the hibite, and the Jebusite, go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way.

For your stiff necked people.

Ooh.

And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned.

And no one put on his ornaments.

For the Lord had said to Moses, say to the children of Israel, you stiff necked people, I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you.

Now therefore, take off your ornaments that I may know what to do to you.

Jump down to verse 12.

Then Moses said to the Lord, see, you say to me, bring up this peephole.

But you've not let me know whom you will send with me.

Yet you have said, I know you.

By name, and you've also found grace in my sight.

Now, verse 13, please.

Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in your sight.

He says this, now show me your way that I may know you and that I might find grace in your sight.

Now, interestingly, when you read this in another translation, so I'll look, I'll read it to you from the new living translation.

It actually says this in verse 13.

If it is true that you look favorably on me, let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully.

That I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor.

And remember that this nation is your own special people.

Now the.

The word grace and favor in both the Hebrew and Greek are the same word.

So he's talking about favor that comes from God.

And he want.

He's saying, look, you know, we want to continue to experience your favor.

I want to continue to know you and walk in your ways.

And so then what happens is verse 14.

He said, My presence, the Lord says, Yahweh says, will go with you.

I'll give you rest.

Verse 15.

Then he said to him, Moses said to the Lord, if your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

For how then will it be known that your people and I have found grace in your sight, except you go with us, so we shall be separate, your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth?

Verse 17.

So the Lord said to Moses I.

Will also do this thing that you've spoken for.

You found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.

So the Lord confirms, you've found grace in my sight.

I know you by name.

Then what does Moses do?

He responds, Verse 18, he says, Please show me your glory.

Please show me your glory.

Now this is a powerful passage of scripture and I just want to highlight some things.

Honestly, we could really unpack this for probably several messages because it's quite profound.

But I just want to point out.

Here, I want you to think about Moses.

First of all, who he was and the journey that he'd been on.

He experienced so much.

Think about it.

He saw the plagues in Egypt, the manna, the Red Sea split in two, manna raining from heaven, water gushing from a rock.

He'd witnessed the power of God like few ever would.

And Moses seeing this, pray something that reveals the longing of a true friend of God.

I want you to focus on this verse 13, please.

He says, now, therefore, I pray.

I beseech you, I beg you, I plead with you, God, I implore you.

If I found grace in your sight.

Show me your way that I may know you.

If I found grace in your sight.

Show me your way that I may know you.

And then a few verses later, verse 18, he says, show me your glory.

Now what I would like us to focus on here is the sequence before Moses asked God, show me your glory.

He petitions him for a revelation of his ways.

This is powerful.

And a lot of us, when you hear this preached, which it's a very preach worthy passage of scripture, we focus on that part that says, oh, he's not going to go with them.

And you know, and so Moses is like God, unless your presence goes with us, don't send us up.

And you know, in other words, he was more desirous of the presence of God than he was in the fulfillment of the promise.

And that's true.

And we preach that it's biblical, more concerned about God being with him than the actual fulfillment of the promise.

There's a lot of believers today that don't give a rip about the presence of God.

They just want the blessings of God.

As long as God fulfills my destiny, as long as God puts me in a place of prosperity and keeps me healthy and does all these things, but they have little relationship with the Lord.

But Moses says, no, there's something that's more important.

Show me your way.

Show me your way.

See, Moses understood something that the modern church forgets.

You cannot host his glory without first walking in his ways, he wanted to continue in favor, to learn how to host the presence of God, how to move with him, how to attract him.

See, much of the church, particularly the Pentecostal Charismatic Church today, we've been captivated by the acts of God.

His miracles, signs and wonders, prophetic words, healings.

That's what we pursue.

That's what we want to see.

But there's never once in the Bible where we're told to pursue those things.

Yes, we're to pursue spiritual gifts.

We're to be open.

We're to ask God to use us.

I have no problem with that.

I believe that's sound.

But when we prioritize the gifts over the giver, when we focus more on what he can do, then something's wrong.

See, the ultimate pursuit of the believer.

Of the disciple of Christ, has never.

Been the Acts of God, but it's to be the ways of God.

See, the acts of God reveal his power.

His ways reveal his heart.

We often talk about wanting to see him move, right?

Oh, yeah.

I'm believing for revival.

Revival, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Oh, yeah, I want God to move.

I want God to do this.

I want God to do this.

But the cry of a friend isn't just to ask for another miracle, but it's to understand the manner of God.

Now, I want you to look at.

This for a moment.

See, the cry of friendship, not servanthood, is what Moses is here.

See, servants obey orders, but friends understand motives.

He said, no longer do I call you servants, Jesus.

I call you friends.

One translation says, for a servant is.

Not privy of his master's ways.

Ah, did you hear that?

A servant is not privy to his master's ways.

We're friends.

What does that mean?

We don't know his ways.

See, look at this.

Psalm 103.

7.

He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

Israel saw what God did.

Moses understood why he did it and.

How he did it.

God do a miracle.

See, I'm going to preach on this afternoon, most likely.

But Moses, I'm sorry.

Elijah actually went through a season where he learned to receive from God.

But then he had to learn to.

Release what God had given to him.

And as infants, as newborns, as those who are young in our faith, we learn to receive from God.

But there comes a point where God says, now you have to release.

Release the power, release the solution, release the kingdom.

Bring it to bear on whatever your challenge is.

Don't just sit back and say, lord, do this.

Lord, answer me, where are you?

Why aren't you moving there?

Has there comes a point where we actually have to step into releasing the kingdom?

That's another sermon.

So the difference between those who watch God move and those through whom God moves, Children of Israel saw his acts.

Moses knew his ways.

Big difference.

Now we can celebrate his power.

But if we don't learn his patents.

We'Ll never carry his presence.

We'll just be someone who shows up hoping to receive.

Hoping to receive, consume.

And our relationship with.

Let me say this.

Our faith is predicated strictly on whether or not the people around us, the.

Church we attend, is seeing a move of God.

But I want to tell you that we are called to be a move of God.

We are called to be a move of God.

We are not thermometers, we're thermostats.

We are called to change atmospheres.

And we hear so many Christians talk about, you don't know what I'm going through.

The oppression, the hardship, the difficulty.

When I used to travel, gone almost every weekend for years, sometimes in different nations.

Then what would happen?

I'd fly into cities and the pastors and the leaders would say to me, what spirit did you discern when you came to our city?

And I said, there's a lot of nasty spirits in your city.

But.

But I'm telling you that the spirit of God is greater.

The anointing is more powerful, and it doesn't matter because he who is in us is greater than he that is in the world.

So Moses says, show me your ways.

It's actually in Hebrew, it's show me your way singular.

And it's the Hebrew word derek, which means path, manner, or way of life.

Now, what I want to explain to.

Us is what Moses was not asking for.

He was not asking for a roadmap.

Or four principles to unlock your destiny and give you breakthrough.

He wasn't asking that.

He said, lord, bring me into alignment with your ways.

Show me how to walk with you.

Show me how you think, how you love, how you move.

Let me hear your voice.

Let me know your ways.

Teach me your pattern so I can walk with you.

So this is the essence of intimacy.

When revelation becomes relationship, and then relationship becomes representation.

Show me your ways.

Show me how to walk with you, God.

And so the Lord responds, right?

He said, what do you see?

Verse 14.

The next my presence will go with you, and I'll give you rest.

So Moses understands something here.

He understands this, that God's presence was the only thing that distinguishes us from any other people on the face of the earth.

You say, well, my.

Our doctrine, we have sound doctrine.

You know, we're orthodox, we contend and we.

That's not the thing that is the primary or preeminent distinguishing feature.

Okay.

Because you can have the right doctrine and not have the right heart.

You can be like the Pharisees whom Jesus spoke about in John 5, who.

He said, you diligently study the scriptures.

That's what the NIV says.

You painstakingly, meticulously, pour over the scriptures.

And Jesus said, and these scripture testify of me, but yet you refuse to.

Come to me that you might have life.

Wow.

These Pharisees, those who were really devout guys, had memorized the Tanakh.

The whole Testament, the whole Hebrew Bible when they were young.

Some of them, by the time they.

Were a youth, they had memorized the Torah, memorized.

You study the scripture.

Yeah, you can quote it, but yet what heart refused to come to me.

Refused to come to me.

Religions, Blind religion.

Blind religion.

People go through the motions.

They're in the rat race.

They.

They get on the.

Literally like the hamster wheel, you know, it's like.

And we just go through life and.

We go through the motions and we.

We just, we go to church, we.

Serve, we do all these things, but we don't know him.

You know the word of God, but.

You don't know the God of the Word.

But once you know his ways, his presence rests on you.

Watch the order.

Verse 13.

Show me your way.

Show me your pathway, your manner.

Show me.

And then he says, yeah, I will.

I'll answer you.

He said, my presence will go with you and give you rest.

Now what I want us to see.

Is that we are in a season.

Right now where the Father is bringing alignment to the church.

He is bringing alignment to the church.

He is separating the remnant from the remnant.

Do you know the Bible actually says in Ezekiel 34, we refer to Matthew 25, the sheep and the goats.

Right.

We love that.

But you know, in Ezekiel 34, it says he's separating the sheep from the sheep, the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

The fat sheep are those who are just in it for themselves, just to feed themselves.

Yeah.

So There's a Isaiah 6.

If you read the latter part of that, it actually talks about a remnant, and it actually says that there will.

Be a remnant that's left.

But then out of that remnant, he.

Will extract another remnant, a remnant of the remnant.

And we always see this in church history.

God moves.

He gives someone revelation about how to bring, how to restore the faith that we read about in, in the Gospels, in the Book of Acts.

And then they birth something new.

Something happens for a season, but then.

Typically they go off track.

Typically, they settle for institutionalism and they end up, rather than making it about God, they make it about a movement, they make it about a denomination, they make it about revelation that they've received rather than keeping their eyes on Jesus.

And I feel so strongly in this season in which we live right now that God is saying that, be careful how you handle the Ark of the Covenant, because you just might die.

I entrust to you My presence.

But if you don't handle the Ark of the Covenant according to what the.

Pattern.

You see when David and they tried, you know, they brought up the Ark of the Covenant and they put it on that cart and they had the oxen carry it.

Later on, when, after Uzzah, who was a Kohathite, one of the Levites from the clans, the Kohathites, was struck dead.

What happened was later on, it's David says this.

He said, the reason why God broke out against us, BAAL Perazim, is because we did not inquire of him and how to do it in the prescribed manner.

We didn't do it his way.

In other words, he's holy.

We've got to handle his presence in a way that honors Him.

We've got to live in a way that honors Him.

And the Lord is calling us, a remnant, a people, a minority who really want to see his glory, to step into understanding his ways.

Because if we understand his ways, we'll have Revelation.

We'll have power, we'll have provision, we'll have everything, just like Jesus did.

We'll have it all.

But we have to understand his ways.

So, as I said, this word, it's.

A powerful word, Derek, But I want you to see something else.

Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3.

Watch this.

We talk about the glory of God, which is really.

We could say revival God, show me your glory.

But Moses, before, he asked for revival, he said, show me your ways.

That's reformation.

Show me your ways.

Teach me your ways.

And the reason why revival doesn't last is because we don't embrace reformation.

We don't understand his ways.

And someone mishandles the Ark and God takes them out.

Yeah.

Watch this.

Isaiah 40:3.

A voice cries out in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord.

Show me your way.

Okay, now, prepare the way.

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

In Hebrew, the word for prepare is Panu.

It means to clear away, to remove obstacles and to make room.

Now, we have a highway back home in Canada.

It's called the King's Highway.

And it wasn't the king of England.

It was for the king of France.

We did you know Canada had two kings, right?

We had English and we had France.

And in Quebec, which is the French part of Canada, there's a highway called the King's Highway.

That highway was literally built for King Louis to come and visit Louisiana.

Do you know that?

Right?

It's all the Acadian stuff.

My family is part Acadian, so Cajun, Acadian, Louisiana, Canada, all linked.

If you didn't know that the Louisiana Purchase belonged to France, the United States bought it from France, and the king was King Louis.

So what happens?

There's a highway that's prepared because the king's going to come and visit us.

So we want quick access.

Remove whatever obstacles are in the way hills.

Now let's level it.

Let's make it easy for the king to have unobstructed, unimpeded access to his people.

Prepare the way.

How are we preparing the way for the king to come into our lives in our midst?

How are we preparing the way?

Clear the path.

Make room for the ways of the Lord to move through you.

Moses sought revelation of God's way.

Isaiah called for preparation of those ways.

Okay, let's move on to the next point.

Malachi.

Malachi, chapter three, verse one.

Behold, I send my messenger.

And he will prepare what?

The way.

He will prepare the way.

And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.

Now, this messenger was John the Baptist.

John the Baptist is the one who was called as the forerunner, the one who would prepare the way for the coming Messiah.

And so what he's doing here is he's saying, I have to prepare the way for Jesus, just as John literally prepared the way and called the people to the Lord in his day.

We're living in a time again where the Lord is telling us to prepare the way for that the King of glory can come, that he can come in his power.

And the way he's doing that is he's teaching us how to come into alignment with him.

He's looking at us.

He's calling us to a deeper place of surrender, of consecration, and of learning how to walk before him in a way that honors him.

When we talk about the dove is on your shoulder, the dove that came to rest on Jesus.

And the Bible says in John's account that a Bo that Abode on him.

It literally stayed with him permanently is what it says.

When the dove comes and rests on you, how do you walk?

How do you live when you know you have a dove on your shoulder?

Very carefully.

Ephesians 5 says walk circumspectly.

You know, that means I grew up.

In a cold country, Lynn and I cold spiritually.

Now, it wasn't back then, but we used to have.

Every time that the winter would come.

What's our sport in Canada?

You guys know, right?

Yeah.

Ice hockey.

So every person, every family pretty much had an ice hockey space in their.

Yard, in their property.

Okay, so, like, literally, when you start.

At 3, 4 years old and we're out there, what does it mean?

Soon as it gets cold, move the snow, set up some pieces of timber.

And then right at the coldest time, dad would get up.

Coldest time at night with the hose, flood it, let it freeze, go back the next night until it was thick enough that we could skate on it.

Now, that was pretty safe.

You wouldn't fall through.

But we also had lakes, we had.

Ponds, and we have places.

Do you know that in Canada, we have lakes that literally go 30 kilometers.

And big semi trucks drive across those lakes from Canada into the United States, and we're talking thousands of feet deep.

If those trucks fall through, that's how cold it gets.

And that's in the north, in the far north, Minnesota, way up there.

So what happens is when we would.

Go in the winter and skate on the ice, no fear, right?

It's cold.

No.

But as soon as the spring would start to come, and we're like, ah, okay.

We had to be very careful.

And unfortunately, I've had my share of falling through the ice.

A lot of us do, Right.

Typically, it's not that deep, but it can be.

And you fall through, and it's cold.

I still remember it's so cold, it's 20 below.

But then it warms up, right?

And then, you know, it's like, warms up minus 10.

So then what happens is you're like.

Okay, we got to be careful.

So you have to, what, walk circumspectly?

Sometimes we would take a shortcut and walk across a lake to get home from school.

And literally, we'd have to be careful, right?

Yeah.

Crack.

Ooh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And.

Yeah.

And so the idea of walking circumspectly, that's what it is.

How do we walk around the Lord?

Do we live right?

We're not afraid, but we fear him.

We reverence him, we respect Him.

And this is a powerful thing.

So watch this.

Who can endure the day of his coming?

Suddenly, The Lord whom you seeking will appear in his temple.

When?

After, I will send my messenger who will prepare the way.

Suddenly he'll appear.

That's how.

In his glory, in his power, in his presence, suddenly.

And then when he shows up.

Watch this, guys.

Who can endure the day of his coming?

For he is like a refiner's fire and launderer's soap.

He will sit as a refiner and purify of silver.

He will purify the sons of Levi.

Now watch this.

To prepare the way of the Lord.

Means to submit to his refining fire.

That's the season we're in.

You know, The Lord has absolutely no aversion to tearing down things that don't carry or support what he's doing.

No problem.

Churches, ministries, people.

Yeah, cast your side.

You're useless.

The Bible said, be a vessel of honor, useful to the Lord.

Yeah, you can be a vessel that was useful or at a season, but you've become useless because you've not maintained that honor before the Lord.

So what happens is, he says, prepare the way.

Submit to his refining fire.

Let him purify the priesthood.

Cleanse the vessel.

Make ready a people for his glory.

So we move from Revelation.

Show me your ways.

To preparation.

Right.

Prepare the way of the Lord to manifestation.

Suddenly, the Lord whom you're seeking will appear.

And when we know his ways, we can prepare his way.

And when his way is prepared, his glory comes.

His glory comes.

See this?

The Bible calls.

Isaiah calls it the highway of holiness.

That's what we're called the journey on.

You know, over in Perth, they have the highway to hell, Right?

Literally.

Yeah.

There's a tavern there.

Where?

Acdc.

I've been inside it several times.

The guys in ACDC would go there and hang out.

And that road right upside that tavern, so many people died on it.

And they literally called it the highway to hell.

And that's where the song was based on.

I'm on the highway to hell.

Wow.

Terrible.

So there's a highway to holiness.

A highway of holiness.

Isaiah 35.

8.

To prepare the way of the Lord.

Posture of the heart that says, whatever stands in your way, Lord, I want to remove it.

I want to remove it.

We're living in a Malachi moment.

That's what we're in.

We're in a Malachi moment, refining.