In Matthew's recording of Chapter 6, verses 9 and 10, Jesus teaches us that we are to pray like this...To our Father Who is in Heaven, that His Name be kept Holy. And we are to pray that our Father's Kingdom come, and His Will be done "on earth as it is in Heaven."
HEAVEN... Of course this should be our Hope and Eternal Glorious Home (Jn 14:1-7). But what about our Father's Will being done NOW in the earth... AS IT IS ALREADY BEING DONE RIGHT NOW IN HEAVEN!!!
This is the first of a small series of blogs about Heaven... to allow God to reveal Heaven to us, so that we might align our thinking about Heaven, and God's Will being done NOW in the earth. At the end of this blog, I've also listed a few books about Heaven. There is more to come in future blogs, about "The 7 Levels of Heaven" and "The Kingdom of Heaven" in which we live in here on earth, and more. Hopefully this series will reveal truths and mysteries encountered throughout the Word, and in my personal study and fellowship time with the Lord, as we incorporate God's Will concerning Heaven into our daily living within the Realm of His Glory.
I will not even pretend to make you think that I know all that God wants to reveal to us about Heaven. I'm sure it has many facets to it, as does our multi-faceted God. Although our desire is to KNOW Him more intimately, even the many saints that have had the glorious pleasure to experience real life visitations with Him and return to share them with us cannot begin to unpeel ALL the layers of the Father, His Kingdom and Heaven. But I praise God that through Jesus, we have all been brought near to the Father, even receiving His Holy Spirit because of the completed work of the Cross!
Some may wonder, is Heaven even real? Exactly where is it? Will I ever get to see it? Will God have me to visit there and return to tell about it as some others have done? Will I see it in a vision or in the realm of the Spirit as John the Revelator and some others have seen? And just what does it have to do with my life right now?
The Bible has a multitude of references on Heaven and the Heavenly New Jerusalem throughout the Old and New Testaments. But my intent as I stated before is to share what I have learned from some of my own personal studies and findings on Heaven.
First of all, Jesus said we should pray for our Father's Kingdom to come, and for our Father's Will to be done here with us on earth, as it is done in Heaven. Yet, here on earth, we have at times experienced brokenness in our homes, lack, poverty, sickness, failure, emotional challenges... just barely getting by in life. And we know none of these exist in Heaven! I also recognize that many of us still struggle in certain areas of living, like with our health, relationships, desiring our loved ones saved, and our finances, or lack thereof. It seems as though the enemy sits with his flipchart of distresses, disasters and distractions, eagerly waiting for us to awaken to him so that he can begin to structure our day. But remember, the Father causes and allows EVERYTHING that goes on in our lives for His Glory and for our good... to perfect us for what He has for us! (Hebrews 13:21)
And God said that we are only destroyed because of what we do not know; and He does not want us destroyed! (Hosea 4:6; 2Peter 3:9) So, it seems that we are much more aware and knowledgeable of the disasters and the woes at times, than we are of the victory that God has already promised and provided for us. This was my heart's intent through Glory Realm Living, that you might come to intimately know the Father, and His Will for your life. And as I've said many times before, through His Son Jesus our Messiah, we have been put back into the path of God's divine glory, order and favor for us. But to get there, we must choose to walk within His path after the Spirit of God (Romans 8:5; 1Cor 14:1), and not after our own way, according to the flesh and lusts of what we want in life.
Therefore, God's Kingdom that we're to pray to come from Heaven is at hand. And within that Kingdom is God's Salvation, Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Divine Health, Wealth, Abundance, Wholeness and Completeness. The Word teaches us that we have been given the authority to bind the forces of darkness here on the earth, because what we bind and declare to be illegal and unlawful within His Kingdom on earth is ALREADY in Heaven considered to be illegal and unlawful (Matt 16:19; 18:18). Sickness and poverty are not allowed in Heaven, so God wants for us to declare with our words that whatever is not allowed in Heaven... DO NOT allow it into our lives here on the earth. Instead, we are to loose, through our words and decrees, the Kingdom of God and all the abundance and glory that Heaven has to offer. And that, and ONLY THAT, should be allowed into our lives and into the lives of those we love.
This Kingdom of Heaven is within us! (Luke 17:21) The Bible says that the Greater One Jesus lives on the inside of us (Rom 8:11), which makes us "More Than Conquerers in Him!" (Rom 8:37) Be like your Father, and call those things that be not, acting as though they already exist for you (Rom 4:17). Decree into the atmosphere that surrounds you, so that God can establish His Will for you (Job 22:28). Numerous scriptures tell us the the Word of God is our truth and our life, therefore everything else is just the world lying to us. I promise you that if you submit your will to His Will, He will PERFECT EVERYTHING that concerns you. (Psalm 138:8) Then as we pray, the Spirit of God and Jesus intercede to the Father on our behalf (Rom 8:27, 34)... so Jesus even presents prayers for us to the Father that have no uncleanness, no selfishness, prayers that are presented "worthily" to the Father on our behalf!!!
YOU SEE... IN THE KINGDOM, YOU WIN AT EVERY TURN!!!
So HEAVEN is to be a very real part of our everyday lives. It does not matter if you cannot see it right now... you enter into Heaven's Dimension and into the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth BY FAITH!!! Our believing God makes it real for us, then God intervenes to manifest and establish everything that we decree and speak according to the Word of God and His Will for our lives. HALLELUAH!!! God wants you to win! He set it up through Jesus so that you've ALREADY WON!
The Father created us in His Image! Do you know how awesome that is! So we need to "Wake Up" to that... HIS IMAGE! HIS IMAGE! HIS IMAGE! We are wired to be JUST LIKE HIM. And because God knew we could never do it on our own, He sent His Son to rid our lives of all the perverseness, and reconnect us to His glory to succeed... and sent His Holy Spirit to help us everyday. So if we're in His Image... His Image is not sick, it is not broke, it is surely not wicked, it is not lacking, it is not without what is needed to live victorious, glorious lives in Christ. We have God's Word; we have the Name of Jesus; we are seated in Christ in the Heavenlies; we have dominion and authority to rule and reign; we are Kings and Priests... and we're wired to be lovers. We live by a different government, rulership and order than the world.
So consecrate yourselves (Joshua 3:5) for His Promises. Do NOT allow the Messiah's crucifying experience on that cross and all the sin and perverseness He took on your behalf to be in vain for you. God knows the end from the beginning, so He knew your whole life before the foundations of this world, and had you purposefully to be born FOR THIS TIME, FOR THIS SEASON, FOR THIS HOUR. Jesus already paid for ALL of your sins... A VERY HIGH PRICE!!! But it has been done by our Father Who loves you sooooooo much, so that you would have abundant living, not living like everybody else, but like Him... in HIS IMAGE! (you pause and think about that!)
So as I've heard said on TV... LIVE OUT LOUD!!! Because you live on earth within the Kingdom of Heaven!!! And that's something to talk about.
Below, I've listed a few blessed people who've had wonderful visitations to Heaven and wrote books about their experiences. I've not yet read these books, but wanted to list them as materials for further studies of interest.
Books about Heaven...
- "Heaven is So Real" by Choo Thomas, a Korean American who visited Heaven 17 times. She saw and experienced much that is described in the Bible, and so much more.
- "A Divine Revelation of Heaven" by Mary K. Baxter, telling how Jesus appeared to her in 1976, and she visited Heaven where she saw the Glorious Throne of God, the Storehouses of Healing, Room of Tears (Psalm 56:8), the Storehouse of Blessings, and more. She also saw and wrote about "A Divine Revelation of Hell."
- "Keys to Heaven's Economy" by Shawn Bolz, who visited Heaven in 1997, visiting many segments of Heaven, even seeing the Department of Creative Miracles, the Creative Invention Section where all inventions originate, and Heaven's Music storeroom where all music originates.
- "Engaging the Revelatory Realm of Heaven" by Paul Keith Davis; he visited the Throne Room of God and saw the Books of Destiny in the Library of Heaven, an incredible place of books, mysteries, knowledge and boundless wisdom.
- "We Saw Heaven" by Roberts Liardon tells about his visitation to Heaven at age 8 where he visited the Room of Creative Miracles and more.
- "The Heavens Opened" by Anna Roundtree describes buildings and her encounters with Jesus while visiting Heaven.
- "90 Minutes in Heaven" a true story by Cecil Murphy who died in a car wreck, and experienced the glories of Heaven, awed by its beauty and music. 90 minutes later, he returned to earth while being prayed for by a minister. He reveals a very real dimension of God's reality.
MORE TO COME about Heaven & The Kingdom of Heaven here on earth... AND TESTIMONIES ARE BURSTING FORTH, WHICH I'LL POST SOON! Everything God has promised is as good as done! I LOVE YOU! AND KEEP LIVING LIFE IN FULLNESS IN THE REALM OF GOD'S GLORY!!!
