We are going on a journey or an adventure together – systematic way. Journey of discovering how to engage the spiritual realms. Discovering the realms within us, around us and the heavenly realms. There are two main pathways that we are going to follow.
Pathway of relationship that leads to deeper intimacy with God .Flowing from inside out – heaven to our gateways of spirit, soul, body to the world around us .Pathway of responsibility that leads to greater kingdom rulership .Flowing from outside in from earth to heaven as living sacrifices to rule.
Dwelling places of God .Heaven is a house of God .Tabernacle is a house of God .Church is a house of God .We are a house of God .All spiritual dimensions.
Tabernacle means dwelling or residence. Earthly tabernacle is patterned after the heavenly tabernacle. Heavenly tabernacle is patterned after the heavenly realms. Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Heaven. Outer court – Inner Court – Holy of Holies with veils or gateways.
We are made in the image of God and patterned after the tabernacle .Body – Soul – Spirit .Our body is a dwelling place .Our spirit is a dwelling place.
Our spirit is a gateway to God’s heavenly kingdom .Our spirit has gateways to our soul .Our soul has gateways to our body .Our body has gateways to the world
Gateway first love Rev 3:20
Jer 2:13″For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.
First there must be reconciliation between our spirit and God. Then reconciliation between our spirit, soul and body and ultimately between us and creation. 1 Cor 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
What is our spirit? Where does our spirit come from? What is our spirit made of? Where is our spirit? What does our spirit do? How do we engage our spirit?
1 John 5:5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” God is spirit, God is light, God is love, God is a consuming fire. We are spirit and our spirit is light – creative light.
Psa 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! We pre-existed in eternity as thoughts within the very heart or mind of God.
Our spirit is our eternal essence it came from eternity and will return to it. Pneuma, Ruach, spirit, wind, or breath. Our spirit entered our cells at conception. Our spirit is the center of our being – our inner most being. Our spirit is the purest representation of our true self. Our spirit is not limited by time and space it is like the TARDIS bigger inside.
We are a spirit we have a soul that lives in a body (an earth suit). We are a spirit being that is God and spirit realm conscious. We have a soul that is self-conscious and that makes us a human being. Our spirit and soul together make us a living being. We are in a process of restoration.
Adam’s spirit was on the outside of his body and as a light being he could travel in the spiritual realms. Psa 8:4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! 6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
I am a dwelling .What or who dwells in me? Our spirit and soul dwell in our body .Our spirit is also a dwelling place .What dwells in our spirit?
John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, 17 that is the Spirit of truth, He abides with you and will be in you. John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 23 … We will come to him and make Our home with him. Our spirit is a dimensional place that God dwells in and can also dwell in God and the heavenly dimensions.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Our spirit becomes alive to God and we our reconciled and reconnected to His presence. God then comes and dwells in us. Where does God dwell in our spirit?
Luke 17:21 Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, [it is] there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you]. Kingdom is the area where God dwells in us but He does not want to be imprisoned and limited there.
“The primary meaning of both the Hebrew word malkuth in the Old Testament and of the Greek word basileia in the New Testament is the rank, authority and sovereignty exercised by a king. A basileia is a realm over which a sovereign exercises his authority.
Spirit realm is connected to you because heaven or God’s kingdom is in you. Therefore you have access to God, to the heavenly spiritual realms and those realms have access to you and through you – if you allow. You are a gate to and of the heavenly spiritual realms and are a God channel.
You are a house of God who lives in you. Gen 28:12, 17 And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven.
John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; for I go to prepare you to be a dwelling place 3 If I go and prepare you to be a dwelling place, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. My paraphrase
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 6:19. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
Ex 4:14 Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
I am is in you .John 6:35, 48 I am the bread of life .John 8:12, 9:5 I am the light of the world .John 10:9 I am the door .John 10:11 I am the good shepherd.
John 11:25 I am the resurrection and the life .John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life .John 15:1 I am the true vine .John 8:58 Before Abraham was, I am .Eternal I am is in our spirit.
0mnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient .All Present, All Powerful, All Knowing .We are in Him and He in us .Therefore we have access to: Know anything .Do anything .Be anywhere in time and space and beyond.
Jesus said I am in My Father .Jesus is in you and you are in Him .The Father is in you and you are in the Father .Intimacy, relationship, oneness, wholeness .You are My beloved son in you I am well pleased.
What does it feel like to embrace God? What does it feel like to be embraced by God? Embracing God’s presence is holistic – our spirit, soul and body need to be involved.
Engaging in the physical or natural realm can activate the spiritual .Physical actions can be faith steps as faith without works is dead .Raise our hands, kneel or lie down physical expression of spiritual reality .Hugging or embracing ourselves is faith step.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. This is the access point to the Pathway of relationship .We can give God this daily invitation to fill us and flow through us.
Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!
Close your eyes and relax .Starting focusing on the door in your spirit, think about that door with expectation .Start to picture that door using your imagination screen in your mind .Listen for God knocking, listen to what He is saying.
Reach out and open the door .Invite Him in .Engage your body and your senses, feel His embrace, feel His presence, feel His acceptance and love .Feel yourself becoming joined, connected, intimate with Him .Feel your heart next to His heart.
Feel the peace and rest, security, safety of His presence .Feel the joy of His pleasure and passion for you .Feel His delight at being close to you .Feel His exuberance and abundance and extravagant overflowing mercy, grace and love enveloping you.
Start to engage with and experience the fullness of I am .I am the bread of life .I am the light of the world .I am the door .I am the good shepherd.
I am the resurrection and the life .I am the way, the truth, and the life .I am the true vine .Eternal I am.