The cloud filled the house. This cloud is the very same which led them through the Red Sea, and went before them forty years in the wilderness. Such was the wonderful effect which followed their united fervent praises. God himself came down, and filled every chamber of the house with his presence. Now, my dear friends, we are not now to expect that God will answer our prayers, or follow our praises, with a pillar of cloud or a pillar of fire.
Forgiveness is but a means to an end.
You are justified in order that you may be sanctified. But here is the remedy. He that created man in his own image at first, must create you over again. You need an almighty indwelling Comforter. It is like the seed cast in the way-side, easily plucked away.