Mike Parsons –
Kingdom people used to say, “We’re in training for reigning!” I don’t think they had any idea what reigning really was…
Kingdom people used to say, “We are in training for reigning,” and I do not think they had any idea what reigning really was. I think they thought of it more as an earthly thing rather than something beyond that. But we are in training, and I do want to learn, and I want to enjoy the journey of learning, particularly when it comes with my Dad. I love that relationship with my Dad. It is an intimate one. I feel his pleasure, and I know that if I could help people, or any other beings, feel the pleasure that I feel from God, that would be a good thing. How could I do that? I do not really know, but I do know I feel God’s pleasure, when I am in creation; I feel his pleasure that way, and it is a joyful thing.
So any environment that I was responsible for creating, I would want to be filled with joy, peace and love. Would I make people with free will to go and choose to do something apart? Well, if you do not have free will, you cannot choose to love, so it is not love, is it? But I would not want someone to love me. If I was creating something, I would want them to love God, who created me. That is different, and I do think about that quite a bit. If I had total creative choice, would I want to create a mess like we have got? Because then I would be responsible for it!
Being an ascended father is not being God: I do not think I have the capacity to be connected to billions of people all at once and process everything at the same time. Unless my mind was totally transformed, that would be like the film Bruce Almighty. At first he is loving it, saying, “Oh, I can do this and I can do that,” and then suddenly, “What are all these voices? What are all these voices?” “Well, they are praying.” “Oh no,” he says, “I didn’t sign up for that!” So no, I don’t think it means we will be like God in that sense. But the more we become like him, the greater our capacity might be. It is an interesting one.
I do enjoy the multi-dimensional ability to be at rest, enjoying life here without having to cognitively do everything I am doing in the heavens. It would be impossible, really. I could not be in eight places doing eight things, one after the other, in a linear fashion. Being free from linearity, free to be multi-dimensional, was a joy when I discovered it.
I was doing all that before I even knew I was doing it. I had an inkling that something was going on because I was receiving insight and revelation from my spirit that I had no memory of actually engaging with. So I thought something more must be happening. Then the Father showed me, “You are here doing this, and here doing that, and here, and here.” They were all familiar places, not beyond my experience, but actually being in that state of multidimensional connection…!
When God spoke to me about it, he said, “You have had glimpses of these things, but now I am taking the blinkers off and showing you what this reality really is.” And I thought, wow, that is awesome. Now I can just relax and enjoy being here, knowing all that is being outworked there without me having to think, “Oh, I must do this today or that today.” It is who I am. That was the key: this is who I am.
When God says, “I am that I am,” I know that I am who God made me to be, and I only have to be in “I am” to outwork that. Not “I am” independent, but “I am” in the image of “I am.” If I really get hold of that – who he made me to be, my true identity in that wondrous union of intimacy and relationship – then I can be at rest. I do not have to worry, be anxious or rushed.
Life is so much more joyful and connected to creation now than when I was still learning how to do everything. I think back and realise how much I learned. It was a lot, but that was the journey God took me on. I learned how to do it all, but I did not realise I was doing it until he showed me. Then I saw how we have this amazing capacity to go beyond what I could ever have imagined or thought I could do in my own understanding. Looking back, that was the learning process that got me here.
I rejoice in that and I am very thankful to God for all he did to bring me to this place where life is now much more joyful, peaceful and restful. I feel his pleasure when I am enjoying life. I live quite a simple life. I enjoy being in the garden, in the workshop, just hanging out. I enjoy having fun. I laugh a lot, much more than I ever did. We have a very similar sense of humour, so we laugh together a lot, and we laugh at each other too, because we know each other’s little ways. It is lovely.
I never lived that way before, and it really does make life enjoyable and fun. We laugh a lot every day, about all sorts of things. God laughs too, you know. He is a God who laughs. People often think he is miserable, worrying and anxious about the world, but he is full of loving emotion. I know he has laughed at me plenty of times. I have brought him much mirth with the things I have done and the scrapes I have got into. I know he was laughing, because it was amusing, even if It was not very amusing to me at the time. This is a picture I used to use sometimes of a lion with its paw over its eyes, and I think that must be God looking at me, saying, “Oh no, what is he up to now?”
These days I feel more and more in tune, living in that union with God’s heart. I feel and sense him all the time now, which makes life so joyful, and not something I would have thought possible, because you only know what you know, don’t you? You don’t know there is something better until you discover it. I did not know my life could be like this until I am living it like this. It was not something I asked God for, because I would not have known what to ask for. I might have asked in general terms, but not in specifics. Now I am so grateful for the specifics. I live with a real attitude of thanksgiving and gratitude because I appreciate it so much. It is a joyful life, to be lived.
432. From Within: Cultivating Your Relationship with the Father
Sons of Issachar 