Category: Into the Dark Cloud

302. Practice, practice, practice…

Mike Parsons

This is an excerpt from my latest book, Into the Dark Cloud.
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In my journey I had to practise to hear God’s voice (because I could not hear Him); then I had to practise to see in the spirit (because I could not do that either). Then after I engaged heaven the first time, involuntarily, I had to practise what God showed me to do because I did not know how to get back there.

I practised these things every day, over and over again. Nowadays I do not need to practise them anymore, and I no longer need to do ‘activations’ in my own life, because engaging with God and with the heavenly realms has become my lifestyle. I engage God every day and journal those encounters. I really love listening to Him and He shares His heart with me.

That is my testimony.

If you want a deeper relationship with God for yourself, and if you really desire sonship, you will have to pursue it. It will not just fall into your lap. At times God will give you something to inspire you or encourage you and sometimes they may be completely unexpected (like my involuntary engagement with heaven – I was sitting at my desk when a portal opened and suddenly I was in heaven). But God showed me that was possible in order to give me the option to pursue it. I could have settled for an occasional supernatural encounter every now and again but I really wanted to develop it into a lifestyle.

It was not easy, even to get started. The next day I sat at my desk again waiting for the portal to open. I tried for two years to get that portal to open, without success. Nothing worked, not one thing I tried. They might work for others; they did not work for me, because God had a different process for me to go through. Eventually I got to the point of saying “Okay, God, if You want this then it’s over to You now.”

I have got to that stage a number of times in my life – not giving up on the desire – just realising that I was coming to the end of what I could do. If I had come to that realisation earlier, perhaps it would not have taken two years before God took me back into that realm and then taught me how to stay in there or go in and out at will. What the Father wanted to show me was that everything with Him is relational, not formulaic. So if anyone offers you a formula, I suggest you treat it cautiously because it may be something from God which works for them but when they export it (or try to franchise it), it really does not work as regularly or effectively for other people.

That was part of my journey and my testimony of experiencing what I do now as a lifestyle of living in this state of being; but I went through the
process of practising, developing, growing and maturing so I could live in that realm.

Key takeaway

If you want a deeper relationship with God for yourself, and if you really desire sonship, you will have to pursue it. It will not just fall into your lap.

Into the Dark Cloud

Mike Parsons

He made darkness His hiding place,
His canopy around Him,
Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
(Psalm 18:11).

The Dark Cloud was a process that I went into to engage God face to face. He hides himself within a dark cloud to protect us, so that we cannot access His actual Presence in a way which would completely overwhelm or obliterate us in our mind (and we would probably just not be able to cope).

So He prepares us for a level of relationship and face-to-face intimacy of which in the beginning I had no concept of at all.  I was engaging with the presence of God, talking to Him and fellowshipping with Him – but I did not realise that there was a dimension to God that was beyond that. To bring me into the freedom of how I am now living, in multi-dimensional realms, my soul and spirit had to be separated and reintegrated.

He knew that I was not yet at that point. My soul was to a degree tethered to my spirit, on a short leash. We would go in to the heavenly realms and come back out – my spirit could not stay there. But God wanted me to live in that realm in a multi-dimensional way, so He had to start the process of my soul giving up and surrendering my rights to control or to choose my own way of doing it.

God showed me a dark cloud. I was in a dark cloud a number of times during worship: I was not frightened but I just could not find my way. It was so thick that I could not see anything. I thought “I must be in the dark cloud – I’m going to go and see God” but I did not know how to get there or do that; they were just experiences.

Then God gave me this challenge to spend four months with Him. And I think what God did during that process for me was to remove the power that my spirit had in bringing some sense of government into my life. He removed that to let the soul operate so that I could sense what it was really like.

I thought I trusted God implicitly; I realised I only trusted God when I knew what He was doing…

Key takeaway

God is looking to prepare us for a level of relationship and face-to-face intimacy beyond what we can think or even imagine.

Into the Dark Cloud (book and ebook)

Mike’s latest book, Into the Dark Cloud, is out in paperback on February 14th 2024. Pre-order it from amazon.com (if available), amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers – or you can get the ebook from our website today!

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