525. Intention, Frequency and Healing from Within | A Holistic Perspective

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Consciousness, Intention and Alignment

The way our consciousness is designed to choose a reality that is aligned to God’s heart, our intention and focus can work with things like [essential] oils and other frequencies to bring about change and to affect that change.

I think people are looking at different ways of engaging that in the  quantum realm, the ether, that there is energy there that we can draw from that can bring energy to our bodies, that can repair them and recycle them in the cells. But also the cells themselves have capacity to repair built in, and it is just that communication needs to be restored so that everything works together in harmony as it was intended. So definitely, I think you will find all sorts of different people working in different aspects of the field.

Epigenetics is one aspect, which is a programming to the genetic material, not changing the genetic material, but causing memory and things to be passed on generationally or affecting the present. And when you are looking at how we can live in health, then seeing the balance between spirit, soul and body, and the harmony that we can live in, in rest effectively, can bring about health.

But our intention and focus is what is the most important thing. Yes, there are some frequencies in some oils that have an effect, because they cross the limbic system of the brain and they can affect the way we think, but when our intention, which people would call faith, is engaged with them, then that brings about a powerful agreement. And when we are in agreement with how something works, that agreement can be effectively outworked in a much more powerful way.

Healing, Memory and the Whole Person

I think God is unveiling all sorts of different revelation to different people in different ways to reach as many people as possible, so that as many people as possible can find the health that God intended them to have and find healing and wholeness in every area, spirit, soul and body.

Now what essential oils and other things do with the limbic system can also release memory and toxic emotions that are trapped within the body, both within the physical and within the memory of the soul. Those things can surface, because they are often buried within our subconscious, and we do not always remember the actual event or what happened, but they can be toxic to us. When those are released and brought to the surface, which can be enhanced by essential oils, then we can see healing and wholeness come into those areas.

Releasing Toxic Emotions:
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So it is getting the balance of all of it. A lot of people focus on the soul, inner healing, which is good, but they do not always think about how that links to the body. There is a huge connection. Medical professionals are looking at disease and realising that so much of it is caused by emotional and mental issues, not just the physical. Some of it is purely physical, but a lot of it has a component which is mental and emotional. Therefore toxic emotions and trauma can have an effect on the physical body, even though they are memories of something that happened emotionally. Seeing things in a holistic way, and looking at how we can operate holistically, is really important.
What you will often find is that some people focus on one area, whether that is the body or the emotions, but we need to bring all of them together in a harmonious whole to see how it all works together for our health and wholeness. That is why it is worth looking at different ways of thinking, not just one area. Generally, one person gets revelation about one area and focuses on that, but does not always see that other areas are involved as well. So having a broader view of the whole way of thinking will give you some good perspective, and it looks like you have done some good research and are engaging with different ways of thinking. But in all of it, intention is the most important aspect.

477. Transform Your Reality | Harnessing the Power of Intention

Agreement, Frequency and Intention

There is a sense where some things have a physical effect on the body, and some essential oils carry a frequency that, when absorbed or breathed, can have a positive impact because they bring a frequency that counteracts negative frequencies that might be operating. But when we add our intention to it, then you have agreement. And when there is agreement, that brings an exponential increase in the effect of something. You can focus that agreement, that intention, and that works whether you use the oil or not.

I have used frequencies in bowls, crystal bowls, to focus intention to touch the body, not in a physical sense, but through sound. You have a sound bath, and when you are surrounded by sound, if that sound contains intention, then it can have an effect on your body without even touching you physically. If you do put the bowls on your body… I had a sound bath where a friend used smaller Tibetan singing bowls, and placed them on my back. As soon as one of them was struck, I went straight into a deep state. I was not even thinking about it, it just happened.

So there is a powerful way of engaging this, but if you are intentionally active in it, you are more open to what it can do. I was open to the sound bath. I did not know what it would do, and I did not feel I needed anything in particular, but I was open. That openness led into an encounter, and the experience was very positive. When you engage it intentionally for healing or wholeness, you are adding your faith to it. Some people in medical trials who receive placebos are engaging in hope, and when desire and hope come together, that itself can have a positive effect on the body.

Alongside that, the attitude of thanksgiving, gratitude, and living in a state of joy and peace can help the immune system function well and keep us in balance. When our emotions are out of sync with our desire, there is discord, and it is important to have coherence. There is a group called HeartMath that works with this concept, showing how having our thinking coherent with our emotions can bring about health and wholeness. It is quite a large field that people are exploring, and there are many positive things to discover.

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Relationship Over Technique

The key is not to accept everything uncritically, but to go with what is in alignment with what you know to be the heart of God and love, and not to make it a formula. Engage with it relationally with God. If I am going to engage with it, God is my healer. He may use various things to bring about healing, but He is my healer. I am not going to put my trust in a technique that separates me from my relationship with Him as my healer. When people know God as Father, and know His desire to bless and to heal, that is far more powerful than trying to work a technique.

Some people separate the techniques, and while they may work, they are far more effective when you are engaged with the healer, not just the method. I always want to remain connected to God as the source of my healing, not just an oil or a frequency or anything else. I engage with it through God as Father, not in an independent way.

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524. What Does Love Mean? Experience, Belief and the Nature of God’s Love

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Understanding Love Through Experience

What do we mean when we use the word love? What do we think and feel when we hear the word love? The answer to those questions will have been influenced and affected by our personal experiences. For some, you hear the word love and it is a really hard thing to hear because you may have been affected by broken relationships and promises of love which never came to fruition.

John (who I believe experienced a depth of love) when he wrote John 14, was expressing something of his own personal experience and what Jesus was revealing to him. John also wrote in 1 John 4:16, “we have come to know,” and that means by personal experience, “and have believed.” When you have personal experience, you do believe. It is not that you believe and then that gives you the experience. The experience gives you the belief.

That is why faith is not based in what we experience, but in the realisation of what is already true. Therefore, we do not have to have faith. God has faith in us, or God imparts His faith to us. So as we experience it, we will inevitably believe it, unless we have a real problem with trust and we are suspicious, and that does happen.

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Experience Produces Belief

I have seen miracles happen. I have seen miracles performed as I prayed for people, and people have watched and observed amazing things, people’s legs growing and things like that. And then they are sceptical of whether they really saw that, whether it was really true, whether it really happened. And they were there watching it, but they did not have the experience.

I guarantee that the person who had their leg grow, and therefore were not lopsided in their walk and no longer had a problem with their back and everything else that caused, did not have a problem believing that they were healed, because they experienced it themselves.

So this verse in 1 John 4:16, “we have come to know and believe the love which God has for us,” is the key to restoring first love. It is the love that God has for us from the beginning, that we knew in the beginning.

God is love, and the one who abides in love (abiding meaning dwelling, living) abides in God, and God abides in him. When we are abiding in this love relationship, we are abiding in God, and God abides in us. This is the way God described, and John described, what Jesus said in John 14. This relationship with love brings about an abiding where we live in love, and therefore we live in God, and God lives in us.

The Meaning of John 3:16

We know John 3:16 as a verse. It is probably one of the most famous verses there is. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish,” (or actually “be lost” is a better translation, because the word perish means lost) “but have eternal life.”

So God so loved everyone and everything that He gave, because He was totally committed to the restoration of us to that love, so that we could have eternal life, which is a return to the origin of life, the eternal nature of that origin. This does not just mean that we go to heaven one day when we die. It means a return to the true origin of what life was intended to be with God.

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One Word, Many Meanings

Love is one word in the English language with many different meanings. Other languages have multiple words that differentiate its meaning. Greek and Hebrew both have different words for love.

But in English, we have one word. I can say to someone, “I love you,” or I can say, “I love ice cream.” I do love ice cream. But does that carry the same weight as loving a person? No. The words are the same, but the context gives meaning. They are very different concepts, but we use the same word, and therefore it can be misunderstood.

Hebrew Words for Love

Hebrew words for love include:

  • Ahav – spontaneous, impulsive love
  • Hesed – deliberate choice of affection, kindness, covenant love
  • Racham – to have compassion, brotherly love

These are different words expressing something that in English we describe with one word.

Greek Words for Love

Greek also has multiple words for love.

Eros – Erotic love is not found in the New Testament, but is present in Greek literature. Other words include phileo and storge (pronounced stor-gay), which are found in the New Testament and have specific meanings.

Phileo love – means to have a special interest in someone or something, often with a focus on close association, affection, or friendship. It refers to a strong liking or friendship. We love things we strongly like. So I can say I love ice cream in that context. But I am not in love with ice cream. I might say I love my car or I love the way your hair looks. These uses of the word do not convey the full depth of what love is intended to mean.

Storge – refers to the love and affection that naturally occurs between parents and children. It can also exist between siblings and between husbands and wives in a good marriage. You can have storge love in a marriage, but if you add agape love to that marriage, it goes to a completely different level.

Romans 10:12 talks about philo storgos, encouraging us to be loving and kind to each other, expressing that brotherly and familial love.

Agape: The Nature of God’s Love

Then there is the Greek word agape, which was seldom used in Greek literature but is used extensively in the Bible. It refers to the love of God, the kind of love God has for us, and the love we are to have for God and for people.

You can agape love your enemies, but you cannot phileo love them. That is because agape is not motivated by feelings or emotions. Agape is the very nature of God, who is love.

Agape love is known by the action it prompts towards others. It motivates positive action. It is not about doing things because of feelings, obligation, or duty. It is the motivation and empowerment to love; but it must be received in order to be expressed. Agape love is not simply an impulse generated from feelings. It is an exercise of the will, a deliberate choice.

That is why God can encourage us to love our enemies. We can choose to do what God has done for us, not based on whether they deserve it, or how we feel, but because of His love. He is not commanding us to feel something towards our enemies, but to act in a loving way towards them. Forgiveness is one way of expressing that.

Agape love is therefore related to choice and commitment, not just emotion.

Biblical Expressions of Love

Loving someone is to be like God towards them, seeking their long-term blessing and good.

There are many biblical references to agape love:

  • Matthew 5:43–44 – love your enemies
  • Matthew 22:36–40 – the great commandment, love God
  • John 3:16 – God so loved the world
  • John 13:34 – a new commandment, love one another
  • John 17:26 – that the love with which You loved Me may be in them
  • Romans 5:5 – the love of God poured out within our hearts

Did we feel it? Did we experience it? Do we know it? It is important that we do. Even if we have not experienced it yet, we can still come into that experience.

Love as Fulfilment and Empowerment

Romans 13:10 says love is the fulfilment of the law. 1 Corinthians 13 says the greatest of these is love. 2 Corinthians 5:14 says the love of Christ controls us; not in the sense of forcing us, but empowering us, inspiring and motivating us. Galatians 5:6 speaks of faith working through love. Galatians 5:22 says the fruit of the Spirit is love. 1 John 4:7 says everyone who loves is born of God.

God expresses His character through restoring first love, to inspire us, motivate us, and empower us to love Him, ourselves, and others. If you do not love yourself, then you have not experienced God’s love. That raises an important question: how comfortable are we with loving ourselves? How do we even think about that concept?

Some people struggle with that, but God wants us to know His love so that we can love ourselves, knowing how loved, valuable, and worthy we are, and from that place, love others.

What Love Is, and Is Not

Love is not just a virtue, a value, an ideal, or a moral principle. It is not just a feeling, a sentiment, an impulse, or a passion. It is not just romance, benevolence, or amicability. Love is the most powerful force in the whole of creation.

John 13:34 says, “I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another.” And the most important part is this: “just as I have loved you.”

It is impossible to agape love someone without first experiencing God’s love. We may have emotions, and we may even sacrifice for others, but when we know we are loved by God, we are empowered in a completely different dimension to love others. That is the key. That is how the world awakens to love: when people feel and see others loving them and one another the way God intends.

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The Source of True Love

Only God can express His character through love to us, to inspire and motivate us to love ourselves and others with agape. Love is not a psychological predisposition or a genetically produced social habit. That is what you will often find if you look for explanations of love. Agape love can only be expressed by us when it is derived from God.

Love is the essence, nature, and character of God, experienced by us and then expressed through our lives. God’s love has practical features to be expressed and demonstrated. Love is not defined by the act, but by the character of God within the act.

You can do something that appears loving, but not be motivated by God’s heart in doing it.

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523. How We Can All Connect with God

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Pursuit, Priority and Intimacy

Lives of the Mystics

Most people in history who have had a mystic, intimate relationship with God have been those who were able to dedicate the time to it. Julian of Norwich lived in a cell attached to a monastery, or whatever it was. She lived in a small place with no TV or things to distract her in the same way as we do today. She did not have modern conveniences to make things quicker either, but that was her life. She focused on that.

Looking through history, the mystics are those who have gone and lived in a cave or whatever, and they have this relationship with God because they have not lived what we would call normal everyday life. But I do think it is possible to have an everyday life and live that from the relationship that we prioritise with God. So that everyday life is so much better than it would be without it.

Priority and Discipline

You are never going to have an intimate relationship with God if you do not pursue it as a priority, even if it is a small measure of time. For me, I always wanted to give God the best of my time. That would be when I got up, because nothing had happened in the day. I had slept all night, and I was ready to engage with God for the new day: new mercies every day, fresh mercies. Some people find the end of the day better. For me, it never was. So I chose to give that time at the beginning.

There is a sense of discipline in saying, “I am going to make this happen,” but not because I have to, or because I fear not doing it. That would be the wrong motive. It was because I wanted to, because I desired that relationship and intimacy. So for me, I would get up early and spend time with God before the house got busy with all the children and everything happening.

When I was a child, I was never a morning person. If I got up at eight o’clock, it felt early. But as I became an adult, I trained myself to be a morning person. When I wake up, I wake up. I do not stay in bed for another hour. I get up, alert and ready. I would go downstairs, find a quiet, comfortable place, sit in a chair, and engage with God. At the beginning, that looked like reading the Bible, praying, doing the things I had been taught. But God used that time to transform it into an intimate time of relationship, communication, and conversation.

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From Discipline to Encounter

I started where I started, but that discipline served me well. When I then encountered heaven and began to engage God from a heavenly perspective, it was like, “Wow, I want more of this.” At first, I tried to record everything I was experiencing, which doubled the time it took. Until I learned to journal as I was going, I would finish and then write it all down.

So in the beginning, I thought, “I am going to get up an hour earlier.” I was not going to cut the time short. I was not going to lose the time I was having with God. So I got up earlier. As I learned to journal during the experience, I did not need to double the time anymore, so I did not need to get up quite as early.

The time I had with God reached a natural limit. An hour, or an hour and a half, was about as much as I could contain in terms of the revelation, the conversation, and what was happening. Three or four hours would have been too much. Having a mystic relationship where you spend five hours with God—there is so much happening, especially if heaven operates on a different timescale. How do you absorb all that? For me, I was able to engage within an hour and a half to two hours, depending on the day.

Pursuit Is the Evidence of Desire

But I had to pursue it. I think that is the key. A friend of mine used to say, “Pursuit is the evidence of desire.” You can say you desire something, but if you do not do anything about it, you do not really desire it. You might wish for it.

A true desire is a motivating force. With the right motive of heart, that desire led me to pursue it, and I experienced it. And that experience changed me.

That pursuit created a dynamic where I could live in the consciousness of that relationship without needing to spend all that structured time. It became a constant dwelling, an indwelling, an abiding presence: me abiding in that spiritual reality, learning to dwell in a multi-dimensional sense. That came out of pursuit.

Now I spend less time in what would traditionally be called a quiet time, but I have a deeper, more intimate relationship with God, because it is a constant awareness and sensitivity to His presence. That has meant I am enjoying life in its fullness, in its abundance, in a way I was not before.

If you do not pursue something, you are not going to find it. Why you pursue it is the key. Do not do it out of duty, obligation, fear, or performance. Do it out of desire: “I desire intimacy with God. I desire a deeper relationship.”

That desire led to radical decisions.

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Surrender and Transformation

“God, do whatever you need to do in my life to bring me to that point. Get rid of everything that needs to be got rid of. Change my thinking. Heal my heart. Do whatever you need to do. I present myself as a living sacrifice. You prepare me.” And He did.

Every day, I would say, “God, I do not want my will today. I do not want to do things because I want to do them. I do not want a free will. I want to outwork Your heart.” For years, I would say, “I do not want a free will today. I do not want independent choices. I want to be intimate with You.” That shaped what I did, but it took a long time.

It is not like the Matrix, where you plug something into the back of your neck and suddenly you can do kung fu. If you want to learn kung fu, you have to train. You have to practise. You need a teacher. You go through a process. It is the same with God.

My desire meant I gave myself to whatever the process would be to bring me into a place of intimacy and identity, knowing who I am. But that is not why I went into it. I did not pursue God to find out who I am. That was a consequence of discovering who God is. Because in the mirror of His face, I began to see a different person from who I thought I was.

I did not pursue Him thinking, “I want to find my identity” or “I want to fulfil my destiny,” because that would be motivated by me. I just wanted Him.

A Normal Life, Not an Exceptional One

I do not believe I am out of the ordinary. I am a normal person who likes normal everyday things. I like sports. I like movies. I like making things. I like the garden. I enjoy normal life. I am not a mystic living in a cave somewhere. I have a very normal everyday life.

If I can do this, coming from the background I came from (which did not believe in the gifts of the Spirit, and had no real intimacy with God, or even a concept of what that might be), then I believe it is possible for everybody.

I am not more special than anyone else. We are all special to God. We are all created in His image. We are all His children. He wants all of us to enter into the fullness of our relationship with Him as our Dad.

No Excuses, Only Possibility

I do not think anyone can say, “Well, I cannot do that.” I believe all of us can pursue it to the degree that is possible within the circumstances of our lives, or make changes to how we use our time to prioritise it. I understand that people have different circumstances, different seasons of life, and different pressures.

But when I first started to engage heaven, I said, “God, I want to do this every day. I do not want this to be a one-off. I do not want to be telling the same testimony twenty years later about one experience.” I asked Him, “How do I live this? How does this become my life?”

He said to me, “You do it the way everyone else would have to do it.”

Because as a church leader, some people might say, “Well, that is easy for you. You can do whatever you like. You can sit in your office and pray all day.” But God said, do it in the same time that they would have to do it, before they go to work, so no one could say it was easier for me.

I did not develop that personal, intimate relationship in my office. I did it at home, in my chair. I outworked it in the office, but I did not develop it there. That was wise, because it removed the excuse that it was easier for me.

When It Feels Difficult

Some people say it is dry, it is hard, it does not seem to work. It was like that for me at times. There were times when I was trying to hear God’s voice and I could not hear anything. I was trying to meditate and did not know what I was doing. But I did not give up.

There was something inside me that wanted more. I always felt there must be more than this. That desire kept me going.

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Learning to Hear

It took years to learn how to hear God’s voice. There were months where I was not hearing anything, but I kept going. Eventually, I learned to tune in, to listen, and to recognise His voice.

I am quite tenacious, and I do not give up easily. Some people give up too quickly if it does not happen straight away. We live in an instant, push-button culture: people want immediate results but with God, it is not like that. You cannot have an instant relationship with God. It is not a takeaway meal. You have to make it from scratch.

Some people find that difficult, and I understand that. But ultimately, there is no excuse. I started from a place that was quite disadvantaged when it came to anything mystical. I had no expectation, no emotional experience, no sense of intimacy with God. I believed it was true, but I did not feel anything.

The Turning Point: Encounter

That changed when I was baptised in the Spirit. Suddenly I began to feel—love, acceptance, connection. I remember thinking, “How did I live all my Christian life up to this point without feeling this?” But I had come from a background where feelings were frowned upon. People would say, “Do not go by your feelings, brother. Go by the Word.” That was the culture.

There were a few people who were emotional. There was one man, Howard, who was in the same men’s choir as me. He would cry and become emotional when singing about God’s love and grace.

People would say, “That is just Howard.” But actually, he was experiencing something real: the rest of us were just singing the words.

In the Methodist church, I did not see much emotional expression. In the Brethren church, even less, so that was not normal for me. But God overcame all those obstacles and barriers. He brought me into an emotional relationship with Him that went deeper and deeper and deeper.

So I do believe it is possible for everybody.

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522. Allegory, Reality and Relationship: Finding the Balance

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The Danger of Over-Spiritualising Everything

For me, the danger in allegorising everything in terms of the Bible is that it can make things that are actually real seem as if they are not real, and only spiritual. For instance, I have heard people like Kay Fairchild and others say, “Heaven is in you.” And in a sense, they are almost saying, “Well, there is no actual heaven. There is no actual real place that you can go to, because it is in you.”

Now, I know the kingdom of God is in us. And there is a sense where the presence of God in us is a manifestation of heaven with us, but it is not heaven. All of the heavenly realms, the spiritual realms, and the angelic do not live in me. They are a spiritual dynamic of a real place. It may not be physical as we know it, but it is no less real.

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Literal Reality and Spiritual Truth

I think the danger in saying everything is just allegorical and spiritual about our lives means that we can end up saying those things are not really true, they are just ways of looking at life. So people say, “Well, we do not have to wait until we die to go to heaven.” But actually, they are not talking about heaven in the same way that I would say I can engage heaven now, as I can engage God within me now.

There is a danger in throwing out what is literal reality and spiritualising it all. People who take that view often do not believe in literal angels, or literal fallen angels, or a literal devil. They say it is just the accusations in my mind that cause me not to believe the truth. They do not see the devil as a personal being, and they do not see angels as personal beings. I think they are missing out on a lot if they make it purely a spiritual thing of ‘my relationship with God and nothing else’.

Finding Balance, Not Extremes

There is a danger if you do not get a balance in it. Often, when the pendulum swings back to where it should be, it swings too far the other way before it comes to rest in the right place. And sometimes people get caught in that swing and go too far. I do believe in a personal fallen angelic being, whatever you want to call him. I do believe in personal angels. And I do believe in a literal heavenly realm that you can encounter.

We are seated there with Christ in those heavenly realms. It is not just figurative, as in “I rule and reign with God in my life.” That is true, but there is also “on earth as it is in heaven,” which needs to be factored into the equation. There are extremes on both ends of everything. We need to be discerning, not go too far, and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

We need to find the truth in the middle ground, and then live in the reality of that truth and experience the fullness of it.

Not “All Done” and Not “All Us”

You cannot just go from one extreme and say, “It is all done, I just have to believe it.” Most people who try that find it is not all done, and they struggle. Then they feel guilty because they think they do not have enough faith. And on the other end, “It is all about us, and we have to do everything, work out our salvation with fear and trembling.”

There are extremes on both ends.

God has done it all. We have to come into that reality.

Creation Is Waiting for Maturity

In Romans, it talks about creation longing, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed. It is not talking about us waiting to be revealed. It is talking about creation waiting for us to be mature enough that it can recognise our sonship, rather than recognising our immaturity.

Creation will be set free into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. That glory is who God says we are, in its fullness. That is what brings freedom to creation. If we are not fully embracing who we are, then creation is not fully going to be set free. It is down to us, with God, expressing oneness. We are one spirit with Him. In that union, creation can recognise our sonship in the relationship we have with our Father, not independently.

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Allegory and the Old Testament

Yes, some people say it is all allegory, and that is going too far. You can allegorise some of the Old Testament and say there is a spiritual story there that is not meant to be taken literally. But I think most of what we have in the Old Testament reflects that the people who wrote it did not really know God, and wrote from their own understanding.

The Holy Spirit can take any story and apply it to our lives and bring truth out of it. That can be true. But I do not think it is necessary if you have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, with Jesus, with the Father, where they can reveal that truth to you directly.

Relationship Over Interpretation

Why go through a mediator of a book, trying to understand God through stories? Jesus is the truth. He is the living Word of God.

There is too much focus on trying to find God in the Bible, in allegory, and in stories, when we can actually meet Him, follow Him, hear His voice, and encounter Him every day. I do not see the point of spending all that time trying to use a story to understand God. That is theology: understanding God through the Bible.

I would rather understand the Bible through God than try to understand God through the Bible. Whose version would we use? Whose allegorical interpretation?

Do We Need the Book?

I would focus on relationship.

God will reveal Himself and reveal who we are in that relationship without the need to focus on trying to understand the book, whether literal, allegorical, or anything else.

Why do we need it?

Jesus did not say we were going to have a book. He said we were going to have a relationship. A lot of time is spent trying to understand a book that we do not really need to spend. However, if people are used to the book, then you can use it as a frame of reference for them, because they do not yet have the experience.

The Missing Dimension: Experience

My perspective on people who teach like this is that they do not have a personal experience of heaven. They do not have a personal experience of engaging God on the inside. They are trying to explain relationship using the allegories of the book. I am not saying the truth they teach about grace, love, and the finished work is not true. It is wonderful. But the relationship is the relationship. The mystical dimension is missing from a lot of their experience. They have not gone to heaven. They have not had face-to-face encounters with God. They are not dwelling and abiding in that face-to-face presence.

Or if they have, they are not sharing it.

I am not saying they have not had those experiences. I do not know them well enough. But they are not sharing that relational encounter dimension. Instead, they are presenting a different belief system.

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Belief Versus Experience

It is not about believing something differently about God. It is about experiencing it. When you experience it, you will believe it. If you are just trying to believe it, it becomes another belief system that you are trying to have faith in.

There is a danger in creating another good belief system that may be mostly true, but is not fully encountered. Experiencing the truth is very different from believing the truth. If you have experienced Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life, if you have encountered Him face to face, spoken with Him, and He has spoken with you, that is very different from believing what the Bible says He said.

Encouraging Real Encounter

I resonate with a lot of what these teachers say about the love of God, the unconditional nature of His love, and grace. But something may be missing if people are not being encouraged to have real encounters that are actually experienced, not just believed.

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521. God Is Love: Rethinking Judgment, Identity and the Reach of Grace

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God’s Desire Is Always Good

God is good, and God wants to bring good into people’s lives, even out of the things they do which are wrong. He does not condone what they do, because what they do will often be negative towards themselves and towards others, and that is not something God desires. But God still wants to bring good.

It is the love of Christ that compels us. It is not fear of God’s judgment or anger. It is God’s love, and that is what we are meant to carry.

I know some people say that is all wishy-washy, and that you need to see God as this or that. But honestly, I do not think those people really know who God is if they believe He is angry, looking to punish people, or wanting to take people out. That is not who He is.

Identity, Not Condemnation

God wants people to find their identity as sons in relationship with Him, and to discover their place in bringing the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. That is His desire for everybody. That is true for every single person on earth right now. No matter what they have done, Jesus has already died to forgive them. God does not hold it against them at all, because they are already reconciled to Him. They just do not know that, so they are operating out of a lost identity. They are doing things out of a lack of knowledge and experience of who they are.

We have all been there.

God did not judge me in a negative way. He graciously, with mercy and love, led me into discovering the truth. He did not come down and condemn me because I was believing lies, even though He knew I was believing lies about Him and many other things. He led me into an experience of truth which renewed my mind. I came to realise, I do not believe that anymore. There was no condemnation involved.

So we should not condemn people for where they are in their journey. They may still be operating out of a wrong identity, a wrong way of thinking, or a religious mindset, but so were we. Let us have grace and mercy for people, and help them find where the truth is. Not by condemning them, but by encouraging them to pursue God so they can find the truth in Him.

God Is Love, Fully and Consistently

God is love. I do not just think that, I know it. Therefore, God operates in love all the time. He is never anything other than love. People say, “Well, He is just and He is holy.” Of course He is. But that means justice and holiness are love expressed and outworked. They are not different.

We often create two versions of God when we compare what people think they see in the Old Testament with what Jesus revealed in the New. People end up operating in a mixture of those two ideas. But God is not two-faced. He has always been love. He has never been anything different. He was not operating differently in the Old Testament than in the New. People simply viewed Him differently.

They did not know Him. So they described Him out of their lack of knowledge, through their own religious mindsets, creating an image of God shaped by distance rather than relationship. That does not define Him. We have never defined God through our theology, beliefs or doctrines. God is not definable by us. He is God.

Therefore just because someone says God is like this, or writes something down and it is recorded in the Bible, does not mean it is true. If it contradicts the reality that God is love, then we know it is not true, because Jesus came to reveal who God really is. You do not see Jesus condemning people. He challenged people, but He did not condemn them. He did not judge them. He did not kill them. Even when people were killing Him on the cross, His response was, “Father, forgive them.”

That is God. He forgives. He is a loving God.

Awakening to Love

God has been misrepresented by all sorts of religions, including Christianity, as someone He is not. That is why people need to awaken to love. Many are doing that by leaving the conditional picture of God they encountered in church and finding Him outside of it. There are also people who have never been in church who are discovering that God is love, not through religion, but they are still coming through Jesus, even if they do not name Him.

He is the door to the Father. You cannot find the Father any other way, but that door is open. It has always been open. Jesus is the door; He has opened the way, and He has kept it open. He is not as precious about how people come through that door as we often are. When people find the Father, they will have come through Jesus the Son. They may not describe it that way, but that is the reality.

So we need to help people come through that door, to find Him, to experience the love of God, and to discover their identity in Him. Not to try to conform them to a religious system. In reality, more people are finding God and His love outside of Christianity than within it.

Already Reconciled, Already Included

I am not against people coming to Jesus and accepting what He did on the cross. That is how I would present the gospel, helping people discover who God is in love and experience that love; that Jesus loves them and has made a way for them. But I would not be prescriptive and say there is no other way people can come and experience the love of God. It will be through Jesus, but it may not be through the religious Christian way that we have described how Jesus saved people.

People are already saved, already included. Already reconciled, already accepted. They are already forgiven. They do not know it, and sometimes the way we present the good news does not help them know it. So let us help people find God, and let God bring them into the relationship and reveal Himself to them. That is not our responsibility. That is His.

Let us remove the hindrances and obstacles that may have been placed in people’s way, especially the harsh, judgmental message that says they will be condemned to hell if they do not accept Jesus. That is not true. Love is powerful: love never fails, love never gives up.

And death is not the end of choice.

Love Beyond Death: A Personal Testimony

Even if someone chooses to reject God in this life, God does not reject them. There is still opportunity beyond this life to embrace Him.

I have a testimony of that recently, though I have never done this before.

Last week, I went to a celebration of someone’s life. It was a man I had met through a school reunion. He was the husband of one of Debbie’s school friends, and we had met several times over the past months. At those gatherings, the husbands are often spare parts, left figuring out what to talk about. But over time I got to know them. One of the men was a Christian, and we had some great conversations about grace, love and the mystic side of things. This other man was not interested at all. He was a nice man, funny, but not open to any of it.

We met in April, and in June we heard that he had been diagnosed with a disease, and then he died in July, suddenly, very quickly. It was sad for his wife, for his family, and for his children. We were invited to go to the celebration of his life, which was totally non-religious, because he was totally against organised religion, as I found out when people were telling stories about him.

I sat there listening to the stories and people’s recollections, and I started to feel sad. I felt sad for the people who did not seem to have any hope. In their view, he was dead and gone. Life after death did not exist as far as he was concerned, and probably that is what his family felt too. There was no expectation of seeing him again.

While they were playing some music he liked, some Beatles music and other songs, I thought, “Okay God, is there anything I can do about this? Is there anything that you want me to do?”

Then I felt God say, “Well, you know what to do about it.”

So I thought, “Can I?” And then I decided, okay, I am going to be bold. While everything was quiet and the music was playing, I went to the fire of God’s love and I called him out. I did not know whether he was going to be there, because sometimes people accept Jesus on their deathbed. But he was there.

He came, and I felt the emotion. I felt that he was feeling condemned, not by God, but by self-condemnation and self-anguish, because he realised that his belief systems were not right. He was still alive, not dead. His consciousness was still living. For people who do not believe there is life after death, when they die and discover they are still alive, it is a shock.

So I preached the gospel to him. I shared that God’s love never fails. That even though he had rejected God while he lived, and did not accept that there was a God, God still loved him. God had never rejected him. God still wanted a relationship with him.

I shared that good news, and I offered him that opportunity, to which he responded and accepted. He followed me, and I introduced him to the Father. The Father brought his spirit and soul back together, unified him, clothed him with glory, and placed a ring on his finger of sonship. It was wonderful to see.

I did not stand up and tell people what I had done. That would not have fitted the framework of the meeting. They would probably have thought I was very strange. But now he has a relationship with God.

And death is not the end. It is another opportunity, in a different way, to experience God’s love.

Death Is Not the End of Choice

I know people will say you cannot talk to dead people. But they are not dead. A person’s spirit and soul do not die. Their body may be dead, but they have moved into another realm. We still have an opportunity to share the good news with them, even if they have chosen to reject Jesus and God in this life.

Then I started to feel really happy. There was a sense of joy in what he was now experiencing. Of course, I would want his children and his friends to feel that same joy, and to be awakened to God’s love. But at least for him, he is now out of the consuming fire, out of that refining process, and he is now receiving and accepting God’s love.

Now he knows who he is. And now he is going to go on to fulfil his destiny in that realm. That is good news. These are tremendous opportunities of sharing God’s love. Death is not the end of choice, as I experienced in that testimony. I am not saying I will ever do that again:  I do not know. I felt moved by compassion, and God gave me permission.

It shows what is possible.

Responsibility and Opportunity

All of us have the opportunity to preach the good news and help people embrace God’s love, even after they die. There may be family members. There may be situations where we can do this.

In this situation, I was surprised that I even thought about it. But I was feeling so moved, aware that something was missing, something that could have been there, so I chose to do something about it.

He still had the choice. He could have rejected what I shared. But his belief system had already been challenged, because he did not believe there was anything after death. Now he found himself in a place where he thought he was condemned to remain there forever, because he did not know anything different. Even though he had not believed in God, and had not believed in hell, he now assumed that must be where he was. He was full of self-anguish, believing that his decisions in life had placed him there.

But God still loves him. And the love of God can reach people even in that place. It is our responsibility to empty that place of people, to make sure no one is left there, and that they all find the love of God.

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520. Angels Among Us | Engage and Appreciate

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One thing to be aware of is that we can make judgments for angels, not negative judgments but positive ones, in thanking them and being aware of the things they do. We can give thanks for their help and for the things they show us. We are not worshipping angels by thanking them for the job they have done, or when they help us out, or when they show us something. It is simply having an attitude of thanksgiving that respects and honours them for what they are doing in our lives. That attitude builds the relationship.

They are not slaves. They are not there as slaves to do everything we demand. They are there to serve us in our heirship, in our co-heirship with Christ. That is the outworking of their role. They are not there to do our every whim, although they do help in many different ways. The important thing is that we maintain the right attitude towards them.

There are different orders of angels. There are individual angels with individual names, and then there are the orders to which they belong, which is a corporate name. For example, what I understand about guardian angels is that they tend to be the same angels with us consistently. When I engaged with the four angels of transformation, however, they were part of an order of angels, and they would be different ones at different times when I travelled.

In ministry settings we had four angels connected with the ministry who were always the same when we gathered. Angels clearly have function and purpose. They operate within positions that are part of the role they fulfil.

People sometimes ask whether angels get tired or weary. I do not think so, because they are spiritual beings and they do not function in the same way we do as human beings who need food and drink and rest. I do not think they get worn out or tired, although sometimes they might get worn out with us when we are off doing crazy things. But generally they are spiritual beings who carry out the purposes they have been given.

I have engaged, for example, with what I would call the court of chancellors, where there are chancellor angels present. They are not always the same angels each time. Perhaps some are engaged elsewhere in other responsibilities. I do not imagine they are having a tea break, but there may be times when they go and focus on worshipping the Father. That may be their break from us, if you like, to re-engage the Father and enjoy that connection with Him.

Because of that, there may be angels who rotate through different assignments within their purposes rather than doing the same thing continually. They may have a variety of responsibilities. As the saying goes, a change is as good as a rest. Although they are not likely to get bored in the presence of God, they do have personality and they do interact.

We should not treat angels as if they are almost inanimate. They are created beings with a personality and a purpose. When we respect and honour that, we will probably learn more about how they operate and what they do. We can always ask them. Whether they choose to tell us or not is another matter, but what they will never do is draw attention to themselves. They always want to point us towards God.

I discovered this through my own experiences engaging the heavenly realms. My throne in heaven on a mountain was symbolic of my position of government. When I engaged that realm I would focus on sitting on the throne and carrying out what I needed to do from that position, making declarations, legislation and decrees.

Later, when I began helping other people engage with their own thrones, I became aware of something I had never noticed before. As I approached my throne I saw an angel standing behind it. I had never noticed that angel previously. I asked, “Who are you?” and he told me his name. Then I asked, “What do you do?” and he replied, “I help you to rule here.”

I then asked how long he had been there. He said, “All the time. While you were not here, I was here.” When I heard that I realised that there had been many occasions when I had been sitting there not really knowing what I was doing, while there was an angel present who could have helped me. I simply was not aware of him because my attention was focused elsewhere.

Once I became aware of him, I began to interact with him. He never drew attention to himself, and he never seemed annoyed that I had ignored him for so long. After all, I did not even know he was there. When I did engage with him he was very friendly and very active in helping me.

From that point on I would sometimes communicate with him when I was unsure about what I should do from that position of government or how to outwork my identity there. I might ask questions, and I discovered that many things in the heavenly realms were present the whole time even though I had not noticed them before. Sometimes I did not see something the first time, or the second time, or even the third time I engaged that realm, simply because my attention was focused elsewhere.

This angel had been assigned to me as my heavenly angel. Jesus spoke about angels who are in heaven in that sense, and through that experience I learned to engage with him more intentionally. In those early days I often did not really know what I was doing, but the angel knew far more than I did. Over time I realised that this angel had been involved in many of the processes of change and transformation in my life.

In a sense, that angel was governing from that throne to ensure that eventually I would be seated there in a cognitive way. It was very helpful learning how to interact with the angelic realm and recognising how they assist us in outworking our identity and purpose.

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519. From Belief to Truth: Deconstruction, Revelation, and the Restoration of All Things

Mike Parsons

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There are two aspects to what God’s purpose is. One aspect is God deconstructing people from the belief systems they have which are hindering them from fulfilling their destiny and outworking God’s heart. That is the process we are all in: a process of deconstruction, a renewal of the mind, bringing us into the truth. Some of that comes by revelation, because revelation needs to illuminate the darkness of the things we have believed.

So there is a process we are all in. The key is to follow that process in your own life so you can find your identity and fulfil your destiny, not to follow every revelation that is out there. There is revelation out there which may well be for people in their particular circumstances that may not apply to you, and may not apply to me. God reveals things in ways that reach some people and will not reach other people, and that has always been the case. I do not really have a problem with there being lots of revelation. I only pursue that which I resonate with the Father’s heart in.

That means I am not drawn off by, “Oh, this amazing revelation about this,” or “Oh, this teaching about that.” I find some things are irrelevant to my daily walk in relationship with God. Whether I know something or do not know something makes little difference to how I live and outwork love on a daily basis. For me, I am just not interested in those things. There are other things which are revelatory that do impact how I live out my daily relationship with God. Therefore I will pursue those things.

So that is one aspect of what God is doing: the process of renewing our minds and bringing us into conformity with His image and who He made us to be, so that we are not pressed into the mould the world has shaped us in. I do not have a problem with different revelation reaching different people in different ways.

When it comes to what God’s purpose is in a global or cosmic sense, that purpose is the restoration of all things. The restoration of all things will take place as we embrace our identity as sons of God, because God uses our sonship to bring about restoration. Creation itself is longing and waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. But you cannot have the revealing of the sons of God without the renewing of the sons of God’s minds to know the truth of who they are and to know God’s heart. You need both of these things happening together for God’s ultimate purpose to be outworked.

If creation is going to be set free from its bondage to corruption and decay, then you need the sons of God to be revealed, because creation will be set free into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Therefore the children of God must know their glory, their identity, their heavenly clothing, for creation to recognise them and for creation to be set free. As more and more people become illuminated to the truth of who they are, more of creation begins to respond.

What I am not interested in is information that has no relevance to my everyday life and to the restoration of all things. There is lots of teaching which may be very interesting, but I am not interested in it if it does not relate to where God’s heart is for me at that point in time. Some people may be interested in those things, and that may be part of their journey.

I remember more than twenty years ago engaging with the righteousness of God. God was speaking to me about righteousness and about being the righteousness of God. At that time I was still thinking within the evangelical framework I had come from, so what God was trying to show me I only partially understood. But it was the beginning of something.

I read a book by Creflo Dollar about the righteousness of God, and when I read it I thought, “This is exactly what God has been sharing with me.” It opened the door for me to understand it more. Creflo Dollar came from the faith movement and the prosperity movement, but today he is preaching from the Mirror Bible and has renounced tithing within the new covenant. In many ways he has been on a journey parallel to the one I have been on, though from a different direction.

I believe God is drawing people together for His overall purpose of the restoration of all things, and they are coming from many different directions. The Grace Awakening Network is one place where people carrying the grace message, the finished work of Jesus and covenant fulfilment are beginning to connect. People such as Creflo Dollar, John Crowder, Francois du Toit and Baxter Kruger are all there. They come from different perspectives, but they are being drawn into the same flowing river, which is God’s purpose.

Several years ago I prophesied that four streams would begin to flow into one river, and I believe we are seeing that now. Some people come through fulfilled eschatology. Some come through the mystic dimension of sonship. Some come through experiences of God’s love,  or through understanding refining fire rather than the traditional view of hell. Others come through healing, light and energy. These streams may look different, but they are all moving toward the same river that brings restoration to the world.

Different revelation helps draw people from the streams they are in so that they can move toward that same river. People are often limited by the perspective they already have, so God uses different approaches to lead them forward.

For me personally, I do not feel the need to chase after every revelation. Sometimes that is because I already understand the principle, and sometimes it is simply because I did not come from that direction. The important thing is not to chase personalities or charisma. Christianity is not free from the problem of celebrity culture, and we must be careful not to follow people instead of following God.

I do not want people to follow me. I want them to follow Jesus. That is why I tell people not to believe something simply because I say it. Go to the Father and allow Him to reveal truth to you in the context of your own sonship. Some people may inspire you to go back to God and discover things for yourself, and that is good. Others may not, and that is fine.

If we tried to listen to all the teaching that is available, we would never have time to do anything else. Personally, I cannot remember the last time I regularly listened to other teaching, because most of my time is spent listening to God as He directs my life and reveals more of my sonship. He continues to unveil who I am as a son of God and restore me to the origin of who He created me to be so that I can be a son revealed to creation.

That, honestly, is what I am most interested in.

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518. My Spiritual Awakening | Angels and More

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The Role of Angels

The angels were involved from the very beginning, because I did not fully understand what was happening. Only in hindsight can I see the cycles of change in my life, one after another. One significant moment was when I was baptized in the Spirit. I discovered several books that challenged my understanding of spirit, soul, and body. There was one particular book, probably the thickest I had ever read, The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee, exploring the nature of the spirit, soul and body, and how they interact. I devoured it because I was hungry for understanding. It began to reveal the role of the Holy Spirit and my own spirit in ways I had never considered.

By accident, I found another book, Nine O’Clock in the Morning by Dennis and Rita Bennett, written in the late 1950s in the United States. It focused on baptism in the Spirit and spiritual gifts. At that time, I was in the Brethren church, which did not embrace any of these ideas. Reading the book, I was astonished—it shared how encounters with the Holy Spirit transformed lives.

I began asking questions, but many dismissed it. Some said, “Oh, that is not for today,” while others claimed those experiencing it were deceived. It was a difficult time, and God had to change my mindset. This cycle of change, with the Holy Spirit active in my life, ultimately brought about transformation. I realised I needed confirmation for myself. I could not simply accept, “Yes, God said it, it is true.” I required evidence.

Baptism in the Spirit

I found confirmation through Martin Lloyd-Jones, a well-known preacher at Westminster Chapel in London. His recordings and his book Baptism of the Spirit convinced me theologically that baptism in the Spirit is for today—and I desired it. It still took several years before I received it, but I pursued it diligently.

Cycles of change were facilitated by both people and angels. At one point, a childhood friend I had not seen for years returned to my life. He had become a Christian and was baptized in the Spirit. He laid his hand on my head in a small group, and I experienced a powerful encounter with God.

God orchestrates these cycles; He is active, not passive, in bringing us into the maturity of sonship. Receiving baptism in the Holy Spirit opened another cycle of change. I became more open to hearing God and understanding His purposes. This led to a fresh perspective on eschatology—understanding kingdom and covenant in ways I had not encountered growing up in the Brethren church. God revealed truths beyond the futurism and premillennial rapture teaching I had known.

Community and Mentorship

After several years, I found an old book by Archibald Hughes, which affirmed all that God had been teaching me. Deconstructing my previous beliefs had taken time. I did not teach these truths for twenty or thirty years, fearing controversy. Eventually, I could no longer remain silent. The insights were so radically aligned with Jesus’ teaching that they opened a broader understanding—about covenantal judgment on the old system, the generation, and God’s ongoing work in the world.

God’s orchestration of my life was evident in these cycles of change, often interspersed with periods of rest. I saw the angels’ involvement and recognised God as the conductor of an orchestra—the symphony is the song of my life, and He directs the rhythm. I may not fully understand how conductors work, but the orchestra responds to His guidance: speeding up, slowing down, and emphasising particular movements. God’s involvement in every detail is remarkable.

Deconstructing Beliefs

We do not need to understand everything fully; our role is to participate and cooperate. Over time, I learned not to resist or demand full comprehension before embracing God’s work in me. I became proactive, recognising cycles of change and the timing of God’s intervention. He is gracious, merciful, and loving. He knows exactly what we need and when, helping us enter into His processes rather than resist them.

Our backgrounds influence how easily we assimilate new truths. Some of us, like myself, require much convincing. But as I grew sensitive to God’s work, I learned to embrace transformation willingly—stepping onto the altar to be refined and purified without hesitation. Previously, I clung to control, needing to be convinced to release things. Now, I trust Him completely. God is always good. If He leads us through something, it is for our ultimate blessing, making it easier to say “yes” quickly.

God does not intend to harm us or make life unnecessarily difficult. Often, it is we who make things harder for ourselves. Trusting Him accelerates our willingness to embrace His work in us because we recognise His goodness, mercy, and love. He is a good, loving, wonderful Father, always seeking the best for us.

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517. Experiencing Heart to Heart Intimacy with God

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Intimacy with God goes far beyond any physical union; it is the knowledge of the heart—cardiognosis—a deep knowing that is revealed through experience rather than intellect.

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On my journey, I encountered many moments that imparted this knowledge directly into my heart, often through simple acts of intimacy, like a heartfelt embrace. A hug can convey connection, or it can create distance, depending on how it is given. God invites us to embrace Him as Father, allowing Him to reveal the truth of our relationship so that we may know Him experientially.

I remember a moment when I became caught up in doing things for God—exploring what I could do in the heavenly realms, understanding my sonship and governmental authority. It was exhilarating, but it risked becoming my focus instead of the relationship itself. One day, during my daily engagement with God, I asked, “What are we doing today?” and there was no verbal response. Instead, He simply held me close, refusing to let go. In that embrace, He infused truth and knowledge into my heart, drawing me away from a works-based mentality and revealing the fragrance of intimacy with Him more powerfully than anything else I had experienced.

Relationship union with God transcends gender. Sonship and daughtership are spiritual realities, not defined by male or female. God looks at who we are at the core of our being, made in His image, which encompasses both masculine and feminine characteristics. First love restores our true identity in union—spirit, soul, and body—with Father, Son and Spirit at the very heart of who we are.

This journey of first love leads to consummation, a deepening of the relationship as we accept God’s love, embrace our identity and destiny as sons and daughters, and allow transformation to prepare us for face-to-face intimacy with Him. My path through the garden, the dance floor, the soaking room, and the bridal chamber brought me into a presence with God that was overwhelming at first, yet opened the door to ongoing experiences of dwelling heart to heart, mind to mind, spirit to spirit. Over the years, this intimacy became my dwelling place, just as God dwells in me, revealing His presence, perfection, love, joy, and peace in ways I could not have imagined at the beginning.

The process took over a decade, guiding me through experiences that expanded my understanding of God and myself, revealing multidimensional realities beyond time, space, or material limitations. Like a courtship or betrothal, the journey into first love deepens continually until soul, spirit and body are in union with God.

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331. Embracing Being Over Doing

361. Quantum Entanglement | Face to Face with God

424. First Love | From the Inside Out

516. The Poison Tree | Eschatology Unravelled:

Mike Parsons –

There is still a great deal of mixture within the church when it comes to eschatology. Some people, for example, will reject the rapture entirely, yet still accept Zionism and a future millennium. For me, those ideas come from the same root system. They grow from the same tree, because those areas of eschatology have not yet been fully deconstructed.

In some cases, people have had revelation in one area but not in another. They are still emerging from an old programmed belief system, particularly dispensationalism, which was very prevalent among Pentecostal and charismatic movements. That system also included cessationism, the belief that spiritual gifts ended. Charismatics and Pentecostals rejected that aspect, because they clearly experience spiritual gifts, but many still retained other parts of the framework.

This leads to ideas such as six thousand years followed by a seventh, or a future age of rest. You can see where the symbolism comes from, but it is not meant to be literal. It speaks of spiritual rest, not of Jesus returning to establish a physical kingdom on earth. The kingdom of God is meant to fill the earth as leaven leavens the whole lump. It is not something Jesus comes to establish later, and it is not centred on Jerusalem or a particular ethnic nation.

Peter was very clear that those who were once not the people of God are now called the people of God. This has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion. It is about faith in Christ and relationship with him. Even under the old covenant, righteousness did not come through the law. Abraham was counted righteous before the law ever existed. The law never produced righteousness, so there is no reason to believe it would do so again in the future.

Paul makes it clear that there are not two peoples. There is one new humanity in Christ. Jew and Gentile are one new man. He even says there is no Jew and no Gentile. We should not define people by origin, but by their inclusion in the family of God. From one perspective, the whole world already belongs to God. Most people simply do not know it yet.

Paul writes that God was in Christ reconciling the whole cosmos to himself, not counting anyone’s sins against them. Jesus came to take away the sin of the world, not the sin of one group. Much confusion comes from poor translation and misunderstanding of terms such as world, age and cosmos. These distinctions matter.

There is still a great deal of deconstruction needed to remove dispensational thinking, particularly the idea that Matthew 24 refers to a future great tribulation. That tribulation already occurred. It was the judgment of the old system, which was found obsolete and faded away. I do not believe in a future tribulation, rapture or millennial reign.

If you follow the biblical narrative consistently, from creation through Christ and beyond, there is no need for man-made theological systems. Scripture does not describe ages of innocence, conscience, law, church or millennium. These frameworks were assembled by selectively combining verses out of context. Even the theologians who developed them would admit they constructed a system rather than discovered one.

Covenant theology can fall into a similar trap, trying to systematise the covenants rather than seeing their fulfilment in Jesus. Jesus is the fulfilment of all God’s promises. He is the true Israel of God. We did not make a new covenant with God. Jesus made the covenant with the Father and included us all in its benefits. That covenant will never be broken.

Previous covenants depended on human faithfulness. When Israel failed, God divorced Israel. Some Jewish groups recognise this and reject political Zionism entirely. They believe restoration can only come through the Messiah. The tragedy is that the Messiah has already come. Jesus has already included them.

All people are included in what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or any other religious identity does not exclude anyone. What excludes people experientially is remaining within religious systems of self-effort rather than receiving the finished work of grace.

Futurist theology creates fear. It raises endless questions about who establishes the kingdom, why it lasts a thousand years and why war is required. Whenever conflict arises in Israel, futurists quickly speak of Armageddon and promote war, because peace does not fit their theology. Jesus called us to be peacemakers, not war promoters.

I believe everything promised in Scripture is fulfilled in Christ. We are living in the outworking of that fulfilment now. There is no need for future prophecy systems. We are already in the period of restoration of all things.

There will always be differing viewpoints, even among those within similar mystical streams. People are entitled to their opinions. However, teachings that produce fear, confusion or expectation of catastrophe do not reflect the heart of God. God leads us into peace, not anxiety.

More people are beginning to recognise that these eschatological frameworks are undeconstructed belief systems inherited from evangelical conditioning. As inclusion and grace become clearer, these systems increasingly collapse under their own weight. If we truly believe in the restoration of all things, then we do not need to keep projecting fulfilment into the future. We are already living within it.

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266. A Happy Eschatology

345. The Rapture of the Saints

324. Complete Salvation in Christ

502. Breaking Free From Indoctrination | Embracing Love

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind