The Mystery of the Spirit: Why God Created Us for More
The Bible: A Gateway to the Multidimensional
There’s only one book on planet earth that is multi-dimensional, multi-cultural, multi-racial, and holds examples, good and bad, of every experience, both natural and spiritual, that we can have during our lifetime. That book is the Bible! We will never run out of things to learn from the Bible. We will never exhaust the wisdom and knowledge of the Bible. There’s always more!
Hence: We don’t know what we don’t know!
Understanding this foundational principle keeps us in humility reaching toward another level continually. Realizing our growth is rooted in relationship with God is fundamental to tapping into the riches of the Bible and experiencing the realm of the current heaven while still on earth.
The Bible: A Living, Breathing Guide to Every Human
Every experience a person had in the Bible is a precedence for us. Even spiritual matters. The earth is a teaching tool in the hand of God to help us understand spiritual things.
God created the earth for us to have a place to live in a physical body with a soul and spirit. He intended all along for us to live in the natural while simultaneously living in heaven’s realm by the spirit. Originally, we were to live in the Garden of Eden but easily move into the throne room of God in heaven at will.
God is spirit. He already had angelic beings and creatures around His throne. But He wanted a “family” with people who CHOSE to love Him, communicate with Him, have relationship with Him! To get a REAL family, God had to create man with a choice. To give man freewill choice, He had to provide man with a physical place to live, inside time with a lifetime to make his choice, and inside a physical body from which all decisions could be made.
God made us in His image, a spirit, but with a physical brain to reason, understand, communicate, and choose. The physical was a major part of the natural experience on earth. But man would have to seek out spiritual things to develop relationship with God.
Stepping into the Supernatural: The Journey of Spiritual Growth
It’s not hard. It just takes an intentional, “decisive” effort. The rewards of communing daily with God are innumerably great! How can this be? How can you communicate with someone you can’t see, can’t hear, can’t touch - who is not physical like you?
When we’re born into this world, we live, breathe, move, grow up physically, but our spirit man lies dormant inside us until we receive Jesus as our Savior. Something very special happens when we ask Jesus to come into our heart; when we acknowledge we’re a sinner and need a Savior, and believe He died and rose from the dead to give us eternal life - REDEMPTION! It’s the first experience in the spirit we can recognize: His touch, peace, and calm assurance un-mistakenly experienced. His presence is more precious than anything. We begin to look for Him daily to experience that wonderful “life flow” again and again. This is the “salvation” experience. It’s not tangible but very real. You may not be able to put it into words to explain at first but you know down deep this is real. Hope, love, joy filled you and you want to learn more. You desire deeply to KNOW Him!
How to Communicate with an Invisible God
Well, I’m going to give you more. Remember thinking “how can I communicate with someone I can’t see, hear, touch - who is not physical like me?” Well, here’s the beautiful part, God made you a spirit LIKE Him! And He shows us how, with physical examples, we can communicate with Him.
How does a pregnant woman communicate with her baby she can’t see, can’t hear, can’t touch? She initiates a conversation, singing, talking, and reading to her baby. By faith, she expects the baby to hear her and feel her love. When the baby is born, now she can see, hear and touch her child and the child responds with sounds, smiles and excited movements of arms and legs. Communication is happening on a “beginning” level.
God has great mysteries to share with us but He helps us grow first so we’re able to learn them. You would never give a toddler the keys to a car. God, as a loving and responsible Father, makes sure we can “hold” the answers, the mysteries, before He shares and gives them to us.
Just as God created us with physical senses to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, sense, well, guess what?
Awakening Your Spiritual Senses to Encounter God
God also instilled, fashioned, and formed within our spirits the capability to communicate with Him in the realm of heaven through our spiritual senses. There is medical proof through brain scans, etc., that parts of our brain literally bursts into light when we pray (talk to God). Only God could do this, right?
You felt His touch when you received Jesus as your personal Savior. You begin to recognize (or see) His works in others and throughout your life. We can read (see) the Bible to learn (see) how He works and begin to KNOW Him more and more.
Then we grow into hearing or sensing His direction: “don’t go that way - go this way” or “park here - not there” and you immediately realize His protection over you.
You crave His Presence. You depend on - rely on - Him. You ask Him questions about everything now. Your relationship is growing. Conversation is flowing! You know His touch and His peace.
One day I smelled this beautiful fragrance, but there was no candle burning, or air sprayed, or perfume around. I didn’t sneeze at the smell either. I just sensed His Presence in a new way! He’s introducing me to new ways of experiencing the realm of heaven.
The opposite of beautiful fragrance also happened. It was a bitter stench. I immediately recognized a devilish presence and used my authority in Jesus to rebuke its presence around me. I told it to “GO” in the name of Jesus and the Bible says, demons have to flee. The smell was gone.
Unlocking the Unseen: Experiencing Heaven on Earth
If we all had a deeper relationship with God BEFORE tragedy hits, we would walk it out much differently. The physical body has trauma shock buffers (ultimately, slowed motion so as not to break down) but it can’t exchange trauma for peace without God and the realm of heaven!
Daily life would be more bearable and successful when we know how to step into the realm of heaven to help us!
Just this past Monday, I awoke and sitting with God, I acknowledged my dread to start the day. Yes, I literally felt “ugh” to begin the week. That’s not a way I want to start anything. Everyone I come in contact with will pick up on my “ugh” and certainly not want to be around me. In my flesh, I lose the appeal of inspiration or encouragement for others.
The first step was recognizing it and giving it over to God to help me. He instructed me to read Isaiah 26: 3-4.
Isaiah 26 Amplified
In Isaiah 26:3-4 from the Classic Amplified Bible, it states: "You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation]. Trust confidently in the Lord forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner], For the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages]."
The minute I read these verses, it felt like a blanket of acceptance, love and hope fell on me. God wasn't mad at me for having an "ugh" morning. He just replaced my "ugh" with fresh ideas and I was suddenly ready to start my day's lesson planning for my private music students. And this blanket stayed over me throughout the day. When I checked in with God even this morning, the blanket was still there and today is Thursday. Wow! He's so faithful!
With the tragic plane and helicopter crashes killing 67 in one incident and 4 in another in January/February of 2025, my heart sinks for the families involved who are experiencing a deep sense of grief, possibly regret, and asking questions about the final moments of their loved ones.
Heaven on Earth: Walking in Divine Connection Every Day
There is only ONE who can comfort you to the depth needed with such loss. His name is Jesus!
Call out to Him today and ask for His comfort! His compassion will meet you where you are today and tomorrow and the next.
The same Jesus, the same relationship development with God Almighty, is what’s needed for any type of loss. All you have to do is “be willing”, call out to Him. His approach and answers will vary depending on the type of loss you’re experiencing, but the same Peace Himself will envelop you and give you rest and wisdom beyond your wildest imagination. Yes, Peace on earth, now, today, can be yours.
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