Tag: revelation

357. Faith IN Christ, or Faith OF Christ? What’s the difference?

Our True Identity

I believe our true identity comes from God’s faith in us, not our faith in God. So, what about the faith needed for our salvation? Where does faith come from? How much faith is needed? Whose faith saves us? These are all valid questions that many people ask, but I think they ask them because they don’t fully understand the reality of what God has done. They think we need to do something to make what God has done work for us.

I believe God wants us to understand that the very fabric of the universe is founded on grace and faith—but not ours, His. His grace is limitless. Ephesians 2:8 says, “By grace, you have been saved through faith; that is not of yourselves.” It’s very clear here: the faith through which we are saved is not ours; it’s the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

So, I can’t come to God and say, “Look at my great faith that saved me,” because I never had that measure of faith—and I don’t think anyone does. What we do have is the gift that enables us to come to the realisation of what the truth is, so it’s not by works. This is what defines the difference between the Old and New Covenants: how faith worked in the Old Covenant and how it works in the New. The key question is whether faith is a gift from God or something we try to generate ourselves through works or effort. The reality is that it has nothing to do with what we do at all—by grace, through the gift of God’s faith, not by our own faith or works.

Saved by Our Faith?

So, we are not saved by our faith in God but by the faith that comes from God. The meanings are slightly different. The faith of God means God has enough faith for our salvation, and the faith from God means He gives us the faith to come to the realisation of how He feels about us. It’s often translated as “our faith in God,” but it isn’t actually our faith—we didn’t create it; it was freely given to us by God.

God has an amazing way of looking at us, filled with wonderful thoughts, and each one of those thoughts is good. In English, it’s usually translated as “faith in,” but in Greek, it’s more accurately “faith of” or “faith from.” That small change in wording can make a huge difference to our experience, understanding, and daily walk with God.

One perspective drives us to constantly strive to have enough faith, often leaving us afraid we don’t. The other invites us to simply receive faith from Him and rest in the fact that His faith is enough for us. We don’t need to strive.

Let’s look at some Bible verses that address this. Philippians 3:9 says, “And may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ.” That’s the usual English translation. If we read it as “faith in Christ,” it suggests that righteousness comes from my own faith. But if we change the wording to “faith from Christ,” it reads: “And may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith from Christ—the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of the faith that comes from Christ.” That makes a huge difference in how we understand righteousness. It’s no longer based on our faith but on the righteousness Christ imparts to us.

‘In’ Fits a Works-Based Theology

The word ‘in’ fits with a works-based theology, but “of” or “from” fits with a grace-based understanding. Galatians 2:20 is another scripture: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Now, how many people have tried to crucify themselves daily, taking up their cross, trying to follow Him, and living in misery, wearied and burdened by the attempt to be good enough to please God or earn His love? So many are still caught in that trap.

We were crucified with Christ because when He died, we died with Him—not because we did anything, but because He did it on our behalf. It’s no longer I who live; Christ lives in me, and I now live as a new creation in Christ. The life I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God—or, more accurately, by faith from the Son of God. This changes everything. My relationship with God isn’t based on how much I can believe, but on His faith and the faith He gives me to enable that relationship.

The King James Version gets this right: “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” It’s all about the unconditional love of God and the gift of life through Jesus. Through Him, the world can rediscover its lost identity as children of God.

Who Is More Faithful: God or Me?

So, whose faith saves me and sustains me: my faith in God or God’s faith in me, given to me? Definitely the latter. Am I relying on my small measure of faith, or am I trusting in God’s faithfulness? God is faithful to do what He promised. He predestined us to a face-to-face, restored relationship in love, and this has always been His intention for each of His children.

So, does “in” or “of” really matter? Absolutely, it does. It makes a huge difference in how we live our daily lives. One places the burden of faith on us; the other reveals faith as a gift, enabling us to rest in God’s grace and faithfulness. So, who do you think is more faithful—Jesus or us? I know the answer to that, and I’m sure you do too.

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356. Soul Healing: Embracing Wholeness with God

Mike Parsons –

Video Summary

Becoming one with God involves the surrender of the soul’s control and its tendency to dictate our lives. The soul has been crucial in protecting us and shaping our self-awareness, but it often carries unresolved issues and unmet needs, leading to a fractured identity. When the spirit awakens and begins to reveal our true identity in God, the soul may resist this change, trying to keep us safe behind protective walls that can become prisons.

To heal, we must trust God enough to let go of control, allowing Him to separate and then reintegrate our soul and spirit from within. This journey involves engaging with God, recognising how our personality and experiences shape us. Many operate mainly from the soul, influenced by upbringing rather than intimacy with God.

Through my own experiences, I learned that God desires to meet our needs and provide love and acceptance, allowing us to love ourselves. I spent time resting in God, allowing Him to restore my soul. Once He separated and properly reintegrated my soul and spirit, my spirit could remain connected to heaven while my soul functions on earth. This integration fosters a continuous flow of revelation knowledge and understanding, and enables me to engage with both realms effortlessly.

Ultimately, union with God requires harmony between our spirit, soul and body. This relationship is not just theoretical; it’s meant to be experiential. By developing a relational trust in God, we can experience His presence and love fully, allowing our spirit, soul and body to work together as He designed us.

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355. Lucid Dreams and Creative Intent

Mike Parsons – Mystic Mentoring U.S. Eastern | 22nd July 2024

Video Description:

Mike delves into the fascinating connection between lucid dreaming and divine communication and explores how God may choose to speak to us during our sleep, free from the distractions of our waking life. By examining the similarities between lucid dreams and visions, Mike encourages viewers to seek spiritual insights and understand the purpose behind their encounters and emphasises the power of speaking with divine authority, allowing individuals to manifest their intentions through their words.

Video Highlights:

1. Understanding Lucid Dreams as Divine Communication

Ultimately, if we’re open and we have a lucid type dream experience, it’s because God wants to speak to us in that way. It could be that it’s more difficult for Him to speak to us while we’re awake for various reasons—whether we’re distracted or, you know, sometimes it can just be harder. When you’re asleep, there’s less conscious activity around you, which can be a distraction because that’s all outside of your ability to interpret when you’re asleep. So, ask Him to show you if He has some insight for you, and whether He has a particular purpose for each encounter you’re having.

I don’t see a difference between lucid dreams and visions—lucid visions, if you like. They’re basically the same sort of encounter, just one happens when you’re asleep and the other when you’re awake.

2. Divine Communication During Sleep

Dreams—I’m not really the best person to ask about dreams in terms of Godly dreams, as I don’t get many, if any, that I’m aware of. However, God does speak to people through dreams. The only differentiation between a lucid dream and a vision is that you’re asleep rather than awake when you have it. They’re basically the same experience but in different formats. If you’re conscious of what’s going on in the dream and engaging with it, there’s no difference between that and being conscious in a vision and engaging with it.

If it’s a lucid dream and you’re interacting with it, then it’s possible that it’s a dream God is giving you and you’re in an encounter with Him. The other people who come into the dream may be part of that encounter—they could be visionary, meaning God is showing you a person and interacting, or that person’s spirit might be engaging in your dream. Again, it’s all about discerning what God’s purpose is for the experience. You need to go back to God and ask Him to show you what He was trying to communicate and the significance of a particular person, whether known or unknown, within your dream.

A lot of people have visionary experiences but don’t know what they’re about, so they have to go back to God and ask. If you’re interacting with the dream and things are happening, those things can be actual events, or they could be symbolic. Again, you have to discern that. For example, in many of the visionary encounters and experiences I’ve had, I was actively engaging, and things were happening to me. If I was in conversation with God during that experience, I could trust what He was saying. If God wasn’t there and I was simply seeing things or doing things, I would be more cautious about my interpretation of what was happening. Usually, I would check with God to ensure that I wasn’t putting my own spin on it.

3. Lucid Dreams vs. Visions

When I first encountered things like the High Chancellor’s houses, and Wisdom took me there, I engaged with the high chancellors and all of the houses. God wasn’t directly present in that encounter, but I believe He totally inspired it. Wisdom interacted with me on God’s behalf in many different ways, but I always went back and asked God for deeper insight. I wanted to make sure that the experience was pure, that I wasn’t interpreting it through my own filters or understanding it through my own experiences. I would always be more cautious when God wasn’t directly involved, but if He was showing me something or speaking to me, I was more confident that it was from Him.

As I became more experienced in these encounters, I grew more confident in my ability to discern and record them accurately. So, if you’re having lucid dreams, it might be worth asking God if you can have similar experiences while you’re awake. That way, you can engage with the experience more fully and perhaps even journal it as it happens. If a particular person appears in your dream and you’re unsure what to do about it, ask God to show you. Sometimes, a person might appear in a dream to prompt you to pray for them or protect them in some way. Over time, as you journey through these encounters and experiences, your discernment will grow, and you’ll become more able to understand what God is communicating to you.

4. Engaging with the Cloud of Witnesses

So, I do have another question, similar to this one: Have you ever engaged with the cloud of witnesses? You know, the people mentioned in Hebrews who didn’t fulfil their promises during their lifetimes. Has the Father ever asked you, as He did with the Guardians, to help fulfil those promises?

Yes, in a way, we are fulfilling all their unfulfilled promises simply by operating in this New Covenant relationship with God. They were all looking forward to the day that we now live in. Abraham and Moses, for example, saw something of the future. It says that Abraham saw Jesus’ day and was glad. They foresaw something, but it couldn’t be fulfilled in their time or through the Old Covenant. Fulfilment could only come through the New Covenant.

So, I often see the things we’re doing now as the manifestation of what they longed for but couldn’t fully realise in their time. Some people might say that they are surrounding us, cheering us on, because they want to see the full expression of what they could only partially experience in their history.

I’ve personally engaged with Jacob and Esther. They helped me fulfil or see the current fulfilment of what they were going through. Jacob’s experience with an open heaven and the ladder to heaven—Beth-El, the house of God—is an expression of our lives today. We are now under an open heaven, we are the house of God, and God dwells in us. Jacob helped me see this, and I, in turn, helped him see its fulfilment in us. It was a joyful moment for him to see that what he spoke of in Genesis is being fulfilled in us.

Esther, too, engaged with me. I went to the cloud of witnesses and connected with her. Her message was that we are called to the kingdom for a time such as this, which caught my attention. But what really stood out was the process she had to go through to reach the point where she was willing to accept her calling. As a young Jewish girl, she didn’t want to be a concubine to a pagan king, but she had to accept that this was her calling and that God was going to use her to save her nation. She had to go through a process of purification and refining, not just physically but spiritually, to come to terms with God giving her this mission. She helped me see that each of us must go through changes of heart to accept who we are and who God has made us to be.

5. Speaking with Divine Authority

When we’re brooding, we take on the frequency of the Father’s heart. If our hearts need to change, that’s part of the process. We have to align with His heart and accept that this is our destiny. Sometimes there’s timing involved, and there are stages to the outworking of that timing.

When Jesus said He only did what He saw the Father doing, it was because He was in the Father’s heart, and the Father was in His. They were in total sync. Jesus engaged as a man for the revelation of how to outwork it on Earth. He didn’t just follow a list of instructions from the Father; He creatively chose to outwork the Father’s heart differently every day. There’s no formula—Jesus deliberately showed us that we need to be in tune with the Father’s desires but express them through ourselves.

When I engage with the Chamber of Destiny, that’s where I determine how to do this. I have the authority and know the Father’s heart, but the question is, how am I going to do this in line with who I am? It’s tempting to do it the way someone else has done it, but I always want to give myself the space to outwork it through who I am.

It’s not just about waving a magic wand and making things happen. That’s why I engage with living light, which connects to creation for its manifestation. I want to personally connect to creation through light and allow it to manifest a reality shift. This isn’t about forcing something to happen; it’s a relational connection. I’m not giving orders; I share the Father’s heart, and creation aligns creatively with that. It’s a living process, not just a technical one.

354. Heavenly Home? Revealing Our Sonship to Creation

Mike Parsons explores the profound concept of our true identity as spiritual beings created by God and emphasises that while we exist in a fallen world, we are not defined by it. Instead, our purpose is to reconnect our spirit, soul and body, to restore creation, and reveal our identity as sons of God.

Understanding Our True Identity

We didn’t leave our heavenly home. Heaven isn’t our home; creation is our home, within God. God is our home, if you like. We’ve come out of Him; we are spirit, and we’ve come out of Spirit. We haven’t taken on Satan’s fallen identity. We have come into a realm that has fallen, and our role within that realm is to bring restoration to it. But we are not fallen as Satan fell.

So, we may come into this realm and need to reconnect with ourselves. In this realm, we have to connect spirit, soul and body as a way of understanding that as we are restored, creation will be restored. Creation is waiting and longing for the revealing of the sons of God. So, we need to reveal our sonship to creation, which is why we need to be in this realm connected to all the realms, so that we can be a demonstration of God’s heart and desire within the realms of heaven. “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, in creation as it is in heaven.” But we haven’t taken on the fallen identity of the accuser. We have just entered into a world that was created, in a sense, by Adam and Eve’s choice to be independent. So, it is a world shaped after the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. As we come into that, we are then to bring it back into relationship with the Tree of Life, if you like.

Reconnecting Spirit, Soul and Body

There is a purpose. The sonship mandate was to overcome and to rule, to have dominion. That dominion has just been taken, through humanism, to mean control, empire, and everything else. So, God wants us to restore the relationship with the sons of God. God created us, not to live in Heaven—that’s not our home—God created us to co-heir and co-create with Him in the whole of creation, and therefore there is a role for that.

Is there a heavenly purification or purging of creation? Well, there is us coming into our identity, which enables creation to be set free into our identity. It’s like creation is longing and waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. But it also talks about creation being set free into the glory of the children of God. As we come into that true sense of our sonship, which is the glory—the weight of who we are—then there is a process for us to have our soul, which has been connected to this realm, aligned to our spirit, which is coming from our identity out of heaven. Of course, there is a renewing of the mind that comes because when we come into this world, although we’re alive in the spirit, our spirit and soul are not connected correctly. That is what bringing us back into wholeness and oneness is about.

The Mandate of Sonship

So, I would encourage you, when you’re looking at things like this, just relax and enjoy becoming the son that God created you to be—becoming the person and listening to the vast sum of His thoughts about you, tuning into the reality of who you really are. That will have a positive effect on creation in that it will be a revealing of your true identity and your role within creation itself.

You are being restored; you are learning to breathe easily again, to find that place where life is flowing through you and in you, and then creation begins to respond to you in your sonship. Now, yes, there is the opposite going on—there are the accusations of the enemy, which will try to keep people from their true identity. But Satan fell because he said, “I will be like God.” Eve bought the lie that she could be like God, but without God. Therefore, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is really the choice that man has made to follow independence. Jesus came to enable that independence to come to an end, for the lost identity to be recovered, so that people could fully understand who they really are. Their identity with the world will be redefined through our identity—not with a fallen or broken world, but with the restored desire that God has as the Creator of the world, of creation, so that we can participate with Him in its full restoration.

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352. Relational Beings of Limitless Potential

The complete fifth session of the current monthly teaching series by Mike Parsons, “Restoring First Love”, originally delivered live in a Zoom with our Patreon patrons. These full length sessions are normally only available to patrons and at eg.freedomarc.org/first-love.

Video Summary

“Mankind’s union with God is the original thought that inspired creation.”
– Francois Du Toit.

Reflecting on my journey with God, I see how He has led me into an extraordinary union and intimacy that I never imagined possible. Initially, I struggled to grasp His love for me beyond the theological, but He gradually revealed my true identity as His Son. In 2008 and 2010, my encounters with God began to go beyond Bible reading: I started meditating on specific verses but soon realised the connection to Heaven was always open.

Experiencing the rivers of Eden flowing through my heart deepened my intimacy with Him. Embracing my experiences without overanalysing them, I used journaling to revisit and deepen them. Opening my heart daily to God became a way of life, guiding me into constant communion.

During a group encounter, I encouraged people to picture a door and invite Jesus in. One participant’s experience in going back through that doorway inspired me to do the same. This shift allowed for a continuous flow between heaven and my heart, guided by Jesus, the Father, or the Spirit.

I engaged with the garden of my heart, resting and planting seeds of testimony by the River of Life; seeds which grew into trees, bearing fruit. My journey included discovering gemstones, scrolls, and a waterfall. Behind the waterfall, I encountered a cave where Enoch gave me transformative quests. These experiences brought me to the Tree of Life and the Throne of Grace. A profound moment under the waterfall showed me God’s love for everyone, even those who have caused harm, removing judgment and deepening my compassion.

On the Throne of Grace, I received a scroll of destiny from the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord. In an intense encounter, the consuming fire of God purified it, leaving only love. Plunging down a waterfall into the Father’s Garden, I felt a deep connection with creation and discovered the origin odf my design. This opened new realms of understanding and intimacy with the Father.

These encounters were all about drawing closer to God in intimacy. The more I have walked this path, the more I have understood the Father’s heart is focused on restoring both our sonship and all creation. In future sessions, I’ll share more about these revelations, and we can explore them together.

Activation: Deeper Into Love

A separate video of this activation is available on our Patreon page, free to view for all; it will be released on YouTube on September 5th.

I’d like to guide you through an activation, to engage wherever God leads you. The key to these experiences is to trust in God’s unconditional love, letting go of control and allowing Him to direct your journey. As you engage in this exercise, be open to the Father’s leading, and embrace the love He shows you.

To start, find a comfortable position, close your eyes, and begin to relax. Focus on connecting with God as your Father or Jesus as your friend and brother. Slow your breathing: inhale deeply through your nose, hold it for a moment, and then exhale slowly.

As you breathe in, draw in the unconditional love of the Father, filling every part of you with His love. Picture yourself cocooned in this love, safe and secure. Allow yourself to sink into the ocean of unconditional love, going deeper and deeper. Stay there for a few minutes.

If you wish to continue, picture a door in your spirit with a handle on your side. Open it and invite the Father, Son and Spirit to embrace you. Feel their love, acceptance and affirmation. Hear them say, “You are my beloved child, in whom I am well pleased.” Stay in this place of love and peace for as long as you like.

If you want to go yet further, envision following the flow of the river into Eden. Step into the river and let it carry you through the heavenly realms. Enjoy the river’s life-giving flow. Look into the water for gems or scrolls, pick up and eat those that attract you, and receive the life and truth they offer.

Stay there, or choose to follow the river upstream to a waterfall. Walk or float under it, feeling God’s love cascading over you. Let the sound of the waters resonate with your heart. Feel God’s love for you and for others. Allow this love to inspire you to forgive and love others as He loves you. Release any unforgiveness or hurt by choosing to forgive and let go.

Feel free to stay in this space or continue exploring as you wish.

350. Discovering God’s Heart: Mandates and Blueprints

Mike Parsons – 

Receiving Mandates from God

When it comes to a mandate from God, it must be relational. Previously, I would ask, “What’s my mandate for today?” But God shifted me to focus on spending time with Him heart to heart. In doing so, I naturally understand His heart for the day, which guides and directs me in various situations. Knowing the Father’s heart allows us to creatively work out His intentions through who we are. I don’t ask for mandates anymore; instead, I engage with the Father’s heart and follow the desires and intentions He reveals.

When it involves another person, it’s about understanding the Father’s heart for them. We can’t force or control people to do what we or God want. Instead, we aim to create an environment where they can discover God’s desire for themselves. This involves nurturing and encouraging them to find their own identity and path in God, rather than just telling them what it is. Love is key to all relational matters. Showing unconditional love helps others connect with God and discover His desires for them.

Now, rather than seeking a specific mandate, I seek God’s heart to guide me and keep me operating in love. A mandate from God is permission to outwork His heart, so understanding His heart is essential. Intimacy and relationship are crucial, and love is always at the core of God’s intentions. Love can be direct and truthful, sometimes challenging what someone believes, but it is always active and with the right intentions. God provides the wisdom for how this love should be expressed.

Understanding and Implementing Blueprints

A blueprint from God is a pattern of what to build. It could be for anything: a car, a jumper, or a house. Blueprints outline the general structure and sometimes the details of what needs to be created. For example, a car blueprint shows its components and overall design but might not specify the colour. Similarly, God might give us a general blueprint with the flexibility to fill in the details as we go, or a detailed one specifying everything. The key is to understand that a blueprint is a guide, and how we implement it can vary based on the information given and our creativity.

Evolving Blueprints

Sometimes, blueprints from God evolve. Initially, you might receive a general idea of what God intends, but as you begin to establish it, more details and directions emerge. Consider a blueprint for a house: one house might be a bungalow, another a three-story mansion, and yet another a tent. They all serve as places to live but vary significantly in design and purpose. The key is recognizing that a blueprint sets the foundational intention, and as you work on it, you must be mindful of where and when it applies.

Blueprints also come with jurisdiction. You can’t build a house on someone else’s land without permission, or they would own it. Similarly, ensure you’re in the right place and time. God might show you a blueprint today but intend for you to start building it five years later, giving you time to prepare and grow into the role.

Understanding and implementing a blueprint often involves personal change and transformation. God may show you something, but you need to be ready for it. This readiness involves timing, personal growth, and sometimes, waiting for the right moment. Avoid being too hasty or too slow; be sensitive to the steps needed and the timing of each phase.

Collaboration

Blueprints indicate God’s plan for something He wants you to be involved in, often requiring collaboration with others. Building something significant often can’t be done alone. Be open to finding and engaging with the right people at the right time, as collective effort and unity are crucial. Clarity at the beginning is vital. Even a small deviation can lead to significant errors over time. Avoid rushing the process. A prophetic word or vision from God might not be for immediate action; it could be meant for years in the future. Take the time to talk with God, seek agreement, and ensure everyone involved is on the same page.

Case study: establishing an ekklesia

I once engaged with a group who were meeting together and seeking to establish an ekklesia. They wanted my help to discern God’s blueprint for their mission. Initially, they seemed to work well together, despite their different personalities—two couples, each with their own approach.

We sought God for the heavenly vision and wrote it down. I advised them to ensure that everyone was clear on what the blueprint meant because words can be interpreted differently by different people. For example, what one person understands by ekklesia might be very different from another’s interpretation.

Within about six weeks, I received feedback that things were not working out. As they discussed their vision further, it became clear that their interpretations of what God had said were vastly different. One couple had a very forceful approach, wanting things done their way, while the other couple was mild and gentle but had a clearer understanding of God’s intentions.

Eventually, they had to part ways because their end goals were different. Even though they had heard the same words from God, their interpretations were so divergent that collaboration was impossible. The couple who I believed had received the correct blueprint continued with their mission, while the other couple, who wanted to control the process, declined to meet with me for further discussions.

This experience highlighted the importance of establishing a clear, shared understanding when working with others on a blueprint. It’s crucial to lay a deep relational foundation and ensure everyone is on the same page from the start. If you’re building something together, like a car, one group might envision a production line with machinery, while the other sees a handcrafted labour of love. Without clear alignment, conflicts will arise quickly.

Summary

1. Mandates: It is better to engage with God’s heart to understand His intentions, rather than seeking specific tasks. Operate in love and allow God’s heart to guide you.

2. Blueprints: Recognise that they can and do evolve. Be mindful of jurisdiction, timing, and the need for personal growth. Collaborate with others but ensure clarity and unity in the process.

By aligning with God’s heart and timing you can faithfully fulfil God’s plans and purposes.

344. Training Your Senses to Engage

Mike Parsons 

When you do an activation, there’s more happening than you realise!

Video Summary

When you do an activation, there’s more happening than you realise! Beyond just seeing or feeling, your spirit is engaging. These spiritual experiences form a foundation for your life, guiding you, even if you’re not consciously aware of that. If you struggle to picture or sense things, start simply and practise.

Most people haven’t learned to open the eyes of their heart. Your physical eyes receive information, and your brain interprets it, but ultimately, you’re seeing with your brain. As babies, we learn to focus and interpret visual information gradually. This information is stored in our brains for life. Similarly, in the spirit realm, we need to learn to see with the eyes of our heart—our imagination screen. Dreams are images projected by our soul, and whilst we don’t have to learn to dream, we do need to learn to remember and interpret them.

Training your spiritual senses through practice is necessary for engaging the eyes of your heart. Training your imagination starts with simple exercises, like visualising a door. By repeatedly thinking about familiar objects, you store this information in your memory; similarly, with practice, you can store and recall spiritual information. Some people are natural seers who can easily picture things with their eyes closed, but it’s not that simple for everyone. Many people get impressions rather than clear visuals. For example, if I think about my front door, it’s not a full-colour picture, but the impression is clear: the porch, wood on the right, the house name ‘Robins’ on the left, and so on. The more I focus, the clearer it becomes, but whether it’s visual or not doesn’t matter—it’s the information that’s important.

When you experience God, you might not see a whole vision, but you will receive something. Focusing on what you’re seeing helps it form. Perception is key; it starts simple and builds. During activation exercises, don’t strive to see—just be still and go with the experience. Then, reflecting on experiences helps store them in memory, forming a framework for future experiences. Repetition is crucial for ingraining these memories.

For example, I couldn’t describe a hotel I visited once years ago, but I could navigate my house with my eyes closed because I’ve walked around inside it many times. Exercises need to be repeated to fully develop the experience in your memory. Meditation helps by mulling over the experience, not by seeking an instant result like much of our world today. Extraordinary experiences, like my first visit to heaven, get etched in your memory because they’re so different.

Learning a new skill requires practice and patience, which many people lack. You need desire to persevere. If you have an agenda during engagement, it can limit what you receive from God; relaxing and just being helps the process. Find a comfortable position, maybe a favourite chair where you feel peaceful and can calm your thoughts. Keep practising and building on your experiences, taking time to assimilate information into experience. Racing through material like Engaging God without practising engagements over and over doesn’t work well; it takes time and patience.

343. The Power of Intention

Mike Parsons 

It comes down a lot to intention and how you focus your intention to bring about the outcome that you desire. Most people struggle with this because they’re trying to overcome a negative way of thinking, a negative mindset, a belief system, or even the facts.

Encounter truth

For instance, if you’re looking for a change in health, and the doctors say you have a particular condition, but you choose to believe in a reality where you don’t have it, you often feel doubt or unbelief. You might wonder how to get rid of this diagnosis or how to renew your mind. To be honest, you can’t really renew your own mind. Your mind gets renewed by encountering truth, which changes the lies you’ve believed. The more you encounter truth, the less hold the lies have on you because you realise they aren’t true.

In my relationship with God, the things I believed about myself, the world, and God were programmed into me by religion, culture, and upbringing. It wasn’t enough for me to just read the Bible or to try and think differently. The more I tried to think differently against something I previously believed, the more I focused on trying not to believe it.

When considering how to change your thinking to believe something different and operate out of that belief system, it requires encounters to change. It isn’t enough to have facts or information. I found that when I’ve encountered God, these encounters radically challenged what I previously believed, and the encounters changed my beliefs. If God had just told me something, it might not have been enough because I wouldn’t have experienced it. He has said many things to me that took a long time for me to realise because it’s only through experience that I could come into that reality.

An infinite number of choices

When it comes to choosing a reality, quantum physics indicates that if you choose something, the universe responds to you, or creation responds to you, and begins to manifest that. The problem is, you have an infinite number of choices every second of every day. Which ones do you make? Usually, you make the ones aligned with what you already expect to happen. So most people keep getting what they’ve always got because they align their choices with what they’ve always expected to happen. If you want something different, you have to learn to focus on that one thing and exclude all other possibilities so they no longer exist in your expectation.

Manifesting the desired reality

This is what hope is about—manifesting something. You’re essentially saying, “Here are all these possibilities, and I’m going to narrow them down and choose one to the exclusion of all the others.” In a quantum physics sense, what happens is that choice, out of all the others, collapses the wave function into that reality. All other possibilities cease to exist at that moment until the next moment. If you continually choose each moment to focus your intention on that, eventually, you won’t believe anything else, and that’s when it begins to manifest.

There is usually a period between choosing that reality and it becoming what you truly believe rather than just what you want. There’s a huge difference between wanting something to happen and totally believing it is going to happen. That’s where intention needs to be focused, and you need to be able to focus that intention consistently.

By continually focusing your intention, eventually nothing else will hold your belief, and you will find that the desired reality begins to manifest.

341. Unlocking Hidden Abilities

Mike Parsons

There are abilities we all were intended to have that have become disconnected.

 

Video summary

We all have abilities that have been disconnected, and after deconstructing my mind, God wanted to reconnect me to them. I needed to change my thinking to believe in abilities beyond my current experience. God used the illustration of a perceived gulf to show me that there was no real separation, just my perception of it. Once I accepted this, I realised there were abilities to unlock, such as multi-dimensional reality and creative consciousness.

Like many, I had been programmed by religion and life, and deprogramming opened up new possibilities. He showed me a new way of thinking aligned with the mind of Christ. You don’t need my exact experience; it’s about your journey with God. It’s important to seek these revelations in relationship with God, not independently.

We were created with abilities to engage with sound, light and frequency, but over time, we moved away from our original reality. Jesus came to restore that, but it’s a process. Intimacy with the Father reveals who we really are and our potential for creating. I never thought I could create beings, but God showed me I could. He said there are things left for us to create as sons of God.

Sharing this with others, I found someone who had similar experiences. My journey has shown me that God wants us to form and create our own realities in alignment with His heart. We’re always creating stuff that is not in alignment with His heart; it’s just how we live. But when we start to choose realities aligned with His heart, our realities will be different from what we experience now.

340. Don’t Live on the Trickle!

Mike Parsons

Don’t live on the trickle flowing under the threshold of the gate. Open it to go ankle-deep, knee-deep, waist-deep until it floods and fills us with abundant life.

Series information: You can only get the full-length videos of Mike’s new monthly series “Restoring First Love” when you sign up at eg.freedomarc.org/first-love.

Video Summary

There was a long lead-up to these experiences, and God had been preparing me my whole life. Hindsight is wonderful, and looking back, I see many signposts on my journey. At the time, I didn’t understand the experiences, but they were all part of God’s plan.

Questions

Questions worth asking include: Where is my first love gate? Where is the Garden of our heart? Are these literal places? They describe our soul and how God engages us. They are figurative, yet they are places of engagement within us that relate to spirit, soul and body. My experiences in revelation were progressive. The relationship deepened over time, and as I progressed, I understood more of who God is and who I am.

Jesus is knocking

Revelation 3:20, the first verse I ever spoke about publicly, says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with me.” Initially, I interpreted this as a salvation experience, but it’s more about an inside-out experience, where God, already within us, seeks to engage our soul and body. This is about God working inside us, filling us, and sharing life with us.

Paul’s experience of God revealing His Son within him illustrates this. Paul’s revelation was a shift from his religious path to a relationship with God. He preached about God ‘in’ the Gentiles, a message of inclusion and mystic union. Initially, I rejected this concept, but over the years, God showed me the finished work of Christ and the grace message, which I now fully embrace.

Open the gate

Opening the gate of first love daily is a choice. It’s about welcoming God into an intimate relationship, which for me was like a romance. To experience God’s first love, we need to open and accept the invitation. This is a mutual relationship, not one-sided.

How do we receive and experience His love? By choosing to open the gate for an intimate, interactive love relationship. Don’t live on the trickle, but open the gate to go deeper until it floods us with abundant life.

Expressing our love for God goes beyond praise and worship; it’s about making it a priority in our lives. God is always available and promises never to leave us. He’s speaking—are we listening?

Activation: Be Entwined In Love’s Embrace

Take a moment to close your eyes, breathe slowly and deeply, and meditate on opening the first love gate. Picture a door, whether your front door or another familiar one. By choice, open that door and welcome the presence of God. Embrace this intimate relationship, stay in that embrace, and listen to God’s words of love and calling.

God calls us to step out of independence and into His ocean of love, joy, and peace. He calls forth our true identity as His sons and co-heirs, to manifest His Kingdom on Earth. Rest in His unconditional love, joy, and peace. Let this place of rest be your abiding dwelling place. Stay there as long as you need, and let it be a constant in your life.