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A vision of heavenly joy

I see Jesus gazing with such devotion at the face of Father. He smiles and shares such eternal intimacy, honour and light. They absolutely know each other – in a depth that is (humanly speaking) inconceivable. And yet…He asks Father to let us come into this glorious union they share, this incomprehensible oneness.

Human beings have been made welcome into this perichorisis – the divine dance. We could not be more entwined without violating the Trinity. And Holy Spirit is not an “add on”. Rather He is the loving, sacred breath the Father and the Son share. Holy Spirit infuses and saturates us with Himself into the glory of the Threeness.

This is not a glory train that takes us from earth realm into the heavenly. This is new creation life and transfiguration; this is a partaking and an entwining into the beautiful divine nature. We shine in them and with them and through them. Our presence brings them such delight there is laughter and swirling and gorgeous light. And this is our home.

I see many happy, squealing children sliding down enormous ribbons of light, like luminescent waves. This is the experience of entering into Jesus’ joyous delight in Father, being fulfilled in them and overflowing. There is a depth of shared ecstasy that is astounding. Each child’s laughter splashes onto the other children until they are all soaked in joy. And the laughter is the pulsing, exquisite love between the Father and the Son. This is life. This is glory. This is home.

This vision settles me. Steadies me. This reality wraps around me and warms me with “All is well, and all we be well.” I feel my muscles relax and my heartbeat slow. I breathe in this glory and my being engages with heaven.

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A Message to Humanity from Jesus

I didn’t make a mistake when I made you. I wasn’t taken by surprise when you came into your mother’s womb. I looked forward to that moment from timeless eternity. I danced when you took your first breath of earth’s atmosphere.  And when your little eyes opened on earth’s landscape, you saw Me smiling as I bent over your warm little body with loving attention.  

Soon your vision focused on the physical realm, but you could still see the heavenly. Your infant eyes viewed faces and sounds with delight, just as you had experienced in heaven with Me before you arrived on earth.

But then you came to experience hunger, pain, fear, loneliness, and shame as you grew in your humanness. I knew all these too, because I had come into your humanity and made it my own. Every tear, every sickness, every terror in the night was Mine too because I had joined you in My incarnation.  I did not separate Myself from anything that you experienced. I was tempted in every way you were. I suffered as you and with you. 

And when I was tortured and killed, I could not have had you more with Me than with My own soul. You were in the bleeding of My heart, and together we breathed our last breath. 

But, Beloved, when the tomb’s door opened, you and I both came out together as one. We walked as one in that first new creation morning. 

And we can walk together this way, always. Just say yes. And leave the transformation to Me.

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The Awakened Spirit

As spirit beings, we exist in the eternal realm. We are housed inside a body on earth. This is the physical realm. We also have invisible human parts, such as our mind, our emotions, and our will. This is sometimes called “the soul”.

But who we truly are is made from love, and for love. We were breathed into existence by Yahweh, God who is love. And from our innermost being rivers of living water flow. (John 4:14)

But some spirit beings are asleep, unaware of eternal life. The body, the mind and emotions dominate their being. And spirit is inactive, or sometimes worse, interacting with the realm of darkness. The awakening of spirit comes through believing into Jesus, by the power of Holy Spirit. The human spirit being then becomes joined to Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:17) This is what it means to be alive! To truly live, and never die. Spirit beings are eternal entities. And although physical death may come, spirit does not die.

Spirit beings, who have been made alive by faith in Jesus, have capacities to open and to release, to see and to hear, to receive and to rest. These are basic spiritual functions. There is always a sense of purpose and freedom in spirit activities. We exist in the heavenly, eternal realm while also experiencing the physical, natural realm on earth.

But how do we function, how do we move in spirit capacities? Much of what believers are taught today is designed to improve or strengthen the human soul. This is not unholy. But it is my belief that as we strengthen and mature in spirit, soul is healed and made whole. Our beings come into proper order and alignment: awakened spirit beings, with thriving souls, housed in a physical body. When we are awakened spirit beings, rivers of living water flow from our innermost being. We hear the voice of Yahweh, and deepen in our perceptions of His beauty. We are filled with the glory of the Lord.

Some ancient rabbis taught that before the fall, spirit was external and visible, housing body and soul within. Since spirit is made in the image and likeness of Yahweh, this is a beautiful idea. Can you just see Adam, Eve and their loving Creator enjoying one another in spiritual joy and play?

This interpretation of life in the garden would explain why Adam and Eve experienced nakedness when they sinned. As spirit beings, they had only known life clothed in glory. But when spirit death came, physical dominance began.

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Thought for the Day

The Trinity does everything together. And they invite us into their fabulous party. You don’t have to dress up. They have beautiful garments you can wear. And you don’t have to know how to dance. They will show you everything.