The Manchester Merge is the Bride coming together to worship in Spirit and Truth with opportunity to be ministered to through prayer and the Word. It is an equipping ground for the Holy Spirit to minister to the Bride and bring us into maturity. It is a gathering place for the groom Jesus and the Holy Spirit to prepare HIS BRIDE.
The Father is coming and is jealous for all his people. We are to shift our gaze continually on GOD and not on our trials and tribulations. Trials and tribulations are an opportunity for growth and development into maturity as long as our gaze does not look away.
To make us holy and pure, cleansing us through the showering of the pure water of the Word of God. All that he does in us is designed to make us a mature church for his pleasure, until we become a source of praise to him - glorious and radiant, beautiful and holy, without fault or flaw.
Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.