“HOLY FOREVER” (Living in Gods Realm)
Faith Walters
I was worshipping while doing daily tasks all morning, and kept going back to “Holy Forever” (Bethel/Jenn Johnson), repeating it every few songs.
When I came into the kitchen around noon I sat with coffee to do some word study. I put the same worship playlist on and I kept going back to “Holy Forever,” as I could feel it drawing me in. I finally put it on repeat and just sat and worshipped.
The Lord started to talk to me about the natural realm and Gods realm and the total and complete finished work of the cross and access we have been given to live in His realm because of it.
I felt a deep heartbreak; both for the unsaved and redeemed, who struggle, strive, always just hanging on by a thread, waiting on that next paycheck, going from one crisis to another, revolving doors of sickness and disease. The hate, anger, frustration, division.
I just began to cry and bawl over all the unnecessary struggle and pain that people go through when God provided everything already.
There is a hurting world that needs everything that’s available right at our finger tips and yet we don’t access it.
Then I was in light. Or the closest word to describe it is light. But it wasn’t coming from anywhere or shining down from anywhere. It just was. It was everywhere and it was everything. It was existence. Everything was in it and everything came from it. It was all around me and went right through me. There was nothing else but light. But it didn’t hurt my eyes. And there was no darkness, no shadow. And there was no pain, sickness, hatred, torment, struggle, lack- they weren’t just absent, they didn’t exist. It was completely pure and completely holy.
The only thing I could do was cry and sing “holy.” It was the only word that that came close to describing what I was seeing. “Holy Forever” was still on repeat, and I just sang and cried.
This wasn’t a vision though. And it wasn’t a visitation. It was like I was in two places at once. I was still in the kitchen and aware of“HOLY FOREVER” (Living in Gods Realm)
Faith Walters
I was worshipping while doing daily tasks all morning, and kept going back to “Holy Forever” (Bethel/Jenn Johnson), repeating it every few songs.
When I came into the kitchen around noon I sat with coffee to do some word study. I put the same worship playlist on and I kept going back to “Holy Forever,” as I could feel it drawing me in. I finally put it on repeat and just sat and worshipped.
The Lord started to talk to me about the natural realm and Gods realm and the total and complete finished work of the cross and access we have been given to live in His realm because of it.
I felt a deep heartbreak; both for the unsaved and redeemed, who struggle, strive, always just hanging on by a thread, waiting on that next paycheck, going from one crisis to another, revolving doors of sickness and disease. The hate, anger, frustration, division.
I just began to cry and bawl over all the unnecessary struggle and pain that people go through when God provided everything already.
There is a hurting world that needs everything that’s available right at our finger tips and yet we don’t access it.
Then I was in light. Or the closest word to describe it is light. But it wasn’t coming from anywhere or shining down from anywhere. It just was. It was everywhere and it was everything. It was existence. Everything was in it and everything came from it. It was all around me and went right through me. There was nothing else but light. But it didn’t hurt my eyes. And there was no darkness, no shadow. And there was no pain, sickness, hatred, torment, struggle, lack- they weren’t just absent, they didn’t exist. It was completely pure and completely holy.
The only thing I could do was cry and sing “holy.” It was the only word that that came close to describing what I was seeing. “Holy Forever” was still on repeat, and I just sang and cried.
This wasn’t a vision though. And it wasn’t a visitation. It was like I was in two places at once. I was still in the kitchen and aware of things around me, but also in a completely different place that I was also keenly aware of. Like a double exposed negative. I could see both at the same time. At times the line between the two would start to blur. I could open my eyes and see the kitchen, but it was like looking through something else. Like two dimensions intersecting and overlapping.
I didn’t want to leave the light. I wanted to be there forever crying holy, but I wanted to show it to others. Then I saw how vast and unending it was and was awestruck at the limitless and infinite nature of it. I remember at one point, taking my husband’s hand and trying to give some to him and all I could get out of my mouth, when trying to tell him what was happening, was “it’s so much, so much”. My daughter also was there at one point holding me and worshipping with me.
As I could feel the line between the two places starting to get more defined again, I saw the first and only thing besides light. I saw Bob Jones. He made me laugh because he was in his typical faded blue sweatshirt, his white hair was sticking out, windswept and askew and his grin was one full of total bliss but also of that look he had when he “knew” and you were still trying to understand.
He didn’t say a word. He just was there. Grinning from ear to ear.
Then I was back in the kitchen, but for hours even the next day, though I didn’t see the light, it still as though I was looking through a window to see my surroundings. I still feel like there is something around me- like if I reach my hand out I could grasp something that seems invisible or intangible, but is in fact right there. I am still keenly aware of it even now.
When I came back more into the kitchen, my mom, Kathie Walters, was sitting in the kitchen enjoying the atmosphere. I tried to tell her what I had seen but didn’t have words for most of it. We just don’t have the vocabulary for it. But I was able to explain that this was not anything like I had experienced before. I had visions before, but this was something else entirely. All I can compare it to is being in two different places at the same time.
She said she had, a couple of weeks prior, prayed for me and rebuked a spirit that was blinding my eyes.
Months ago, God began to talk to me about alignment. How He has already done everything and instead of asking, begging and praying for Him to do what He’s already done, aligning myself with what He has already made available.
I began to change the way I prayed. I began to ask the Lord to show me how to align with Him and His gifts and promises. I asked Him to show me in whatever way I needed to participate in that alignment. I followed His lead, and mostly it was leaning in. God told me to stop “pressing in” and start “leaning in”. it felt like sinking in: wonderful, peace filled, restful.
During that process, I began seeking God where I needed to align with Him for Duncan’s (my beautiful dog) healing. I just followed His lead and Duncan grew stronger and stronger day after day. In everything, I am just seeking to align myself with God, His realm and everything He accomplished through the cross.
The Word became alive to me with all the Scriptures about what the finished work of the cross truly means. About who He is IN me, and what that reconnection we are afforded by Christ, to God, is supposed to look like.
How the fall of man, that separated us from God, caused us to have to live in and be subject to another realm we weren’t meant for. The natural realm, where darkness, sickness, toil, stress, lack, pain, exists. The tree of knowledge brought good knowledge- agriculture, metallurgy, engineering, architecture, math, science, music, poetry, art- but with it came bad; death, disease, violence, lack, hunger, distress, pain. Adam and Eve from then on, subjected us to that knowledge- the natural realm.
But our redemption is not only saving us from hell, or even giving us faith to receive a miracle or a healing or having a prophetic word, but it restored access to God’s realm, where no darkness exists. Where all the goodness of God that pursues us, catches up and overwhelms us. Where His rest is.
I pondered for days in the weeks leading up to this experience. If I can grasp that one thing: the understanding and faith that He did it ALL and ALL that we have access to, I wouldn’t be running around trying to have faith for 10 different things. Where was that faith that supersedes all doubt? All I needed to believe was in Him, in which the fullness and totality of what being redeemed authentically means. The starting point from where everything else falls into place. The place out of which we are meant to live. Every provision, every healing, every victory, every supernatural working, all the love, all the peace, all the rest, all the joy, all the authority, all of God’s power- it all is already completed and freely given.
The last few weeks in particular, God had been speaking to me about His realm and entering into it. The same realm Jesus operated out of. The same one we are meant to operate out of. Jesus was our example- he lowered Himself and came to us fully human.
He completely relied on the Father to instruct Him and the Spirit to empower Him. He even had to trust the Spirit to raise Him from the dead- which Paul tells us that same Spirit, is inside us. The Spirit that RAISED YESHUA FROM THE DEAD, is INSIDE us, and gives us access to operate within, and out of, Gods realm. The way to get us back to His realm, is that He has to inhabit us, which was made possible by the cancellation of not just our sins, our sin nature.
God can not inhabit us with darkness in us, as He is light in which darkness does not exist. So He erased it.
Jesus said, I am in my Father and He is in Me, and I am in YOU.
Being in the world, but not of the world, doesn’t mean live in the world but don’t do naughty things like the world does. It means physically living in the natural realm, but not being subject to it. Our mortal lives in the natural realm, but from the Spirit in us, operating in God’s realm.
A realm which overrules the natural realm that is limited and constrained. Like gravity keeps us down, but aerodynamics allow us to fly, our restraints in the natural are superseded by God’s realm. And it is limitless and infinite, with EVERY single thing provided for, over and above, beyond anything we can imagine. And we have been given it as our inheritance.
God bless Faith Walters
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I attached my comment
The third stage of growth is built out of the first two stages . We have faith for " things, answers to difficulties ,valleys of weeping " in the young man stage 1 John 2, psalm 84 , which comes from us being welcomed in, and experiencing Romans 3 to 5 ...life outside of orphanhood and appeasement . But because of stage 2 we have faith to know when God says we are dead....it really is in our main being . And that's the road of Romans 6 to 8 and into the crazy things we were really put on earth for , under the category of knowing Him who is from the beginning . In the charismatic Pentecostal realm we are still continuing hardwired into what Genesis 3 plonked us into....the whole belief system that our soul runs everything ....that we are self powered souls. As soon as worship is over a charismatic slips back into independent self mode . So ....that's what going into our inner room is ....that's what speaking in tongues is , that's what gathering in the Name of Jesus is, that's what going the second mile is ...kind of flinging us into situations beyond us so we have to live from spiritual sources . This is our main person. The independent self is what the Hebrews 4.12 Living Word is piercing between . In an update to Paul, Norman Grubb clarifies SARX. Sarx or flesh is neutral . We are containers at soul level and that's where Norman starts quoting Paul again in the various analogies of us a container, temple , wives to Jesus . The whole charismatic Pentecostal foundation of thinking is still based in a false idea of who we are. Genesis 3 is a lie from start to finish . We never were front of house self powered souls .Madam Guyon describes front of house staff like butlers cleaners bottle washers all making out they are Lord of the manor. No our main being was always spirit .In the Fall , our spirit attached to Satan , now our spirit fused with Christ , which is the Greek word hidden in Colossians 3.3. Hidden in Christ means interwoven like rope or DNA. So any piercing in Hebrews 4.12 is severing our soul from the previous Independent self fantasy . Seeing God only ....and having an eye that is single means our body is filled with Light .So its like this experience of Light where all is light . We are ignoring anything that isn't God going on .Which is quite a game to play as the very revelation of God's light shows up the whole shonky top down fallen angel heirarchy pyramid ....in the interface between spirit beings , human hybrids, control structures like Papal / Venetian bloodlines , council of 300, downwards. And start calling it out ,yes, but all the time remain clear on preaching ecclesia and the Kingdom alternative...ie what is REALLY HAPPENING IN THE EARTH AS GOD IS INCARNATING HIMSELF IN THE EARTH .