START EACH DAY IN THE THIRD HEAVEN
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For many years, I would get up in the morning, have breakfast, and go to work. But I discovered that our Lord calls us to a higher calling and purpose for our lives:
- a love for us to experience that can transform us,
- a battle for us to engage in that is worth fighting, and
- a story for us to live in that is far bigger and better than we have known.
Furthermore, when we receive Christ, we become indwelt with the Holy Spirit. And when we spend time each morning in His Word and prayer, we can experience the three heavens. We receive a clue about the third heaven from the apostle Paul in II Corinthians 12:2:
“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.”
THIRD HEAVEN
When we repent of our sins, forgive others, and get into the Word of God and prayer, we can commune with our Lord in the third heaven, where the sovereign, living God of the universe resides on His throne, with Jesus Christ on His right side. This is also called the secret place:
“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1
Our Lord teaches, convicts, equips, encourages, and loves us. He also illumines and transforms our minds so that we can see the world as He does and walk in the Spirit.
But then He says – it is time for you to go and carry on My work on earth, because there are many souls who don’t know Me and are headed for the Lake of Fire. So put on your spiritual armor and go forth.
SECOND HEAVEN
Then we can enter the second heaven – the realm of angels, demons, and spiritual warfare, where we can:
- Ask our Lord to bind the demonic forces harassing us and our loved ones, and command them to go into the Lake of Fire,
- Plead the blood of Jesus over our family and friends and ask our Lord to protect us with His mighty angels,
- Rebuke all curses upon us and our loved ones, including generational curses upon our family to the 4th generation,
- Ask our Lord to touch their lives of particular individuals, our leaders, and the lost.
Interceding for others is like SPIRITUAL ARTILLERY. Just as armies shoot artillery shells into enemy territory, we are asking our Lord to send His Presence into the lives of loved ones – for healing, comfort, direction, and peace.
You don’t think demons are active today? Then you are misled by our culture and Lucifer. Here is what the apostle Paul said:
“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:11-12
FIRST HEAVEN
Now we go out into the world to carry out the work that He has set before us:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
We are also to look for the divine appointments our Lord has for us each day. And we should always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is within us, imparting some spiritual gift to them, or receiving a spiritual gift from them.
If we don’t spend time with our Lord in the third heaven, we won’t have anything supernatural to share with others. And we will miss the joy of the Lord that comes from fulfilling His purpose for our lives.
If we don’t do spiritual battle in the second heaven, we will be going into enemy territory without armor, unaware of the evil that attacks us and our loved ones.
And if we don’t know God’s calling on our life, we will live in the first heaven, oblivious to the spiritual battles around us that seek to rob us and those around us of the joy and salvation of the Lord.
So let us go forth with the truth and love of Christ and witness to all whom the Lord brings across our path, for time is short, eternity is a very long time, and we are not guaranteed tomorrow.
To God be the glory
Mark Peterson
LifeintheSpirit.net
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