The Merger

Continuing the theme of untethering from this world…

The history of God

The Bible is an account of 1) God’s history with man 2) the history of man with God and 3) the history of man with man.  It is NOT the totality of the HISTORY OF GOD.  Actually, we only know fragments of the history of God outside of time and the earth paradigm.  The Bible is fairly silent on God, pre-time and pre-world and pre-creation.  While He enjoys working in our physical realm, He is primarily above and beyond our temporal realm.  I believe that as we move into this newly emerging age of learning to live in the Heavenlies, God longs to unveil the ‘beyond time’ eternal realm to us.

In short, He is inviting us into understanding the eternal realm, experiencing the eternal realm and learning to govern from the eternal realm.  If we thought our current world was big, we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!

Let’s begin

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing IN the heavenly places in Christ” – Eph 1:3

I like to remind us that we are blessed with “spiritual blessings IN the Heavenly places”.  1) Where do you have to be to experience these spiritual blessings?  2) How many different places or realms are there in the Heavenlies?  3) How many places are you familiar with?  4) How many places are you skilled to govern from?  You see, this very familiar verse in Ephesians actually implies so much more than we ever realized.  It opens up a vast and mostly unexplored and un-understood part of our inheritance.

A teaser

In the ‘seen realm’, we are governed by time, space, gravity, laws of physics, etc.  Humans have had millennia to discover and understand many of these tangible-world realities.  But have you ever asked, “What entities govern and influence the unseen realms?”

Is it possible that the Heavenly governing influences may be Heavenly Virtues… (Truth, Wisdom, Love, Joy, Peace, Gentleness, Meekness, Temperance, Kindness, Humility, Patience, Hope, Justice, Prudence, Gratitude) etc?  Selah!  Consider: IF these virtues were to govern over Heavenly realms with their influences, would you be a good ‘citizen’ in each of their realms?  Could you ‘commute’ through these realms and receive the spiritual blessings in these realms… and then begin to govern over earth from these realms?  

Well for sure, the Heavenly realms are governed by things and entities that are ethereal, non-physical and not bound by earthly paradigms.  In fact, Jesus said,

“The kingdom of God does NOT come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” – Lk 17:20-21

“If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” – Jn 3:12

It’s time to untether

It seems to me that we have been tethered way too firmly to this natural world.  In fact, many of us probably can’t engage the Heavenly realm without imposing some kind of natural world restricting ‘law’ over it.  For instance, we might say, “That can’t happen because of some law of physics.”, or “I don’t know anyone who has done that before”, etc.  And it is just this type of thinking that will prevent us from fully entering the Heavenly places.  So, what does Paul say about this?

“Do NOT conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Rms 12:2

There is a clear charge here, to disengage… untether… from this world’s patterns and paradigms.  In fact, Paul continues by saying the requirement to be transformed (transfigured – Greek metamorphoo) is that we MUST get a new mind about the Heavenlies.  And to take it even further, we can’t even begin to ‘test’ and approve the Heavenly realms, UNTIL we have a new mind and get transformed.  O boy!  If we have real aspirations of moving into the Heavenlies, we’re gonna have to get serious.  Here’s a simple yet jarring take-away from Romans 12:2.

“Transfiguration is the evidence of the fully renewed mind.” – Bill Johnson

I haven’t transfigured.. YET!  Sadly, I only know of less than a handful of people who have transfigured.  Now, this news could either be discouraging… or inspiring to you.  But I love hearing the stark truth about a matter, because now I know what I have to do.  I have to find a personal pathway that leads to untethering from this world!

That pathway is in my crosshairs.  And it’s exhilarating!  It is more consuming to me than many other things.  But here is the good news, our Father wants us to find our home in His Heavenly places much more than we want to.  Thank You, Father!!

The merger 

I feel confident that this new emerging age will be hallmarked by an unprecedented ‘merging’ of man with God.  God wants to bring man into His world… His ‘home’.  And the truth be known, this was also our home before we were conceived and born into this world.  So, in reality, we are returning to the realm of our pre-existence before earth.  It may be like a most welcome reunion with our pre-Adamic selves… only better!  O boy!  Can you get your mind around this?  

IF this is true

I believe Father desires to unlock powerful latent capacities that already reside within our spirit.  In our near future, believers across the world will begin experiencing Heavenly realities that will eclipse even the best spiritual experiences in the Bible and in modern history.  And all of this is to be experienced while we are fully alive, in these natural bodies!  (Jesus validated this mode in Jn 3:13)  Learning to live in our Father’s world will be wondrous and without comparison to anything in our current paradigm.  

Can you feel the merger, yet?

–MLH

Companion Scriptures:  Jn 3:13, Jn 17:24, Rev 4:1, I Jn 3:2, II Pet 1:19, Job 38:4, Lk 15:1-7, Heb 6:1-3

For further reading, check out my friend Ron Jones’ book, entitled: The Merger