Heaven On Earth

"The Word, like water, cleanses us from sin and replaces the devil's way of behaving with God's."

HEAVEN IS a God-controlled planet. Jesus is the way in, and the life and the light of it is the Father. Minister Jesse Duplantis says (from his vision of it) that earth is God’s taste. He saw mountains and snow there, flowers and trees, and the river of life, as well as stepping into the throne room. He didn’t see any sorrow or death.

Jesus is the will of God brought to earth from heaven. It is God’s will that we go to live with Him there, but it requires a change of heart here. And with that change of heart comes a change of conscience. The Holy Spirit is now with our conscience. He brings wisdom and understanding of heavenly things so that we can live according to the tenets (a fancy way of saying rules) of the gospel, so that we can follow Jesus’ instructions spoken to us from the Father. But though our conscience is changed, and our spirit man is made new (man is spirit, soul, and body), the renewing of our mind, or a change of our thought patterns and thinking habits, requires the washing of the Word, which like water cleanses us from sin and replaces the devil’s way of behaving with God’s.

Jesus did not sin, but He did grow in wisdom and favor with God and man (Luke 2:40, 52). He had to hear God fully in order to do what God, His Father, had sent Him to do. God was not His physical Father (He gave Him to Joseph), but He is His DNA. I had the Spirit drop this word in my heart a couple years ago. There is only one universal blood donor, in both a physical and a spiritual sense, and His name is Jesus. His blood was the cleansing of the temple from what man’s selfishness had entered into it. Jesus spoke of this to His followers and to those religious leaders who were listening.

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” (Matthew 23:23-24)

We are now the temple of the Holy Spirit (He is not a ghost). But the temple as desired by David, King of Israel, still holds great value. No, it is not standing, having been replaced by one built by Herod, then that temple destroyed by the Romans, but all of the temple in design and meaning was crafted after Jesus, His body and what He would do, His thoughts and feelings and even His conscience. This is why we take communion and break the bread. It is signifying the kidneys or reins, as the King James Version sometimes calls it, which were considered the place of the conscience in biblical times. Isn’t it interesting that, though God knew otherwise, He used symbolism they would understand?

He has done the same with the Lord’s Prayer. It is a prayer to show Jesus’ work on the earth. No, it was not ended by His Resurrection but continues onward. On earth, God’s will be done, just as it is in heaven, a place of wonder and beauty, unparallelled here. I will not miss seeing it and dwelling there for eternity in the beauty and presence of our Messiah, Jesus Christ, who knows each of us by name and loves us even more Resurrected than He did when He gave His life. I hope you’ll join me there.

Pray: Dear Father in heaven, your hallowed name, the name of Jesus, invites me to this change of heart and mind. I choose today to take part of the will of God on earth. I partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ through this confession and ask that you would shield me from evil by being my Savior and my Lord. I forgive others who have hated me and place into your hands my past, to be washed clean of sin, and my future. Come live in me Holy One and fill me with your presence, the presence Spirit of Christ who comforts me this day. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory of all that is. Surround me and walk with me on this blessed earth each day.

“Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:18-21)

"Let heaven fill your thoughts; don’t spend your time worrying about things down here. You should have as little desire for this world as a dead person does. Your real life is in heaven with Christ and God." (Colossians 3:2-3 TLB)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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