Encounter with God

Encounters with God really take time just to understand, the moment is still fresh and present but as a living human (by definition 2 Cor 5:13 we are new hybrid creation as all His Children are) so the processing goes beautifully on and on and revelation increases exponentially because we are in a Kingdom with a Father a Kingdom that uniquely goes on increasing/peace Isaiah 9:7 unlike the kingdoms of the world.

I recently had the most beautiful the most wonderful NDE (a near death experience in Hospital) and this web environment is a collation of many years of evaluations, observations, based on years of journaling and with so many questions for all the church and myself definitely included. My entire heart, memory system and central ID was opened up to reconsider everything I knew.

This extraordinary encounter was accompanied by a complete understanding of the totality of the obliteration of my sins by the cross of Jesus, and the totality of His acceptance as I came into contact with the most beautiful Holy Love a spiritual interaction most extraordinary in nature - my mind/intellect was simply an observer, the entire interaction involved my whole being and choices were presented and I'll describe these in detail at some point although with one of the choices was ‘you can come to me’ which while experiencing the actual presence and Love of God is a bit of a ‘no brainer’ because being with Him is as far as I have ever experienced and can ever understand is the optimal existence were His Holy Love was overwhelming.

The encounter created an expunging of any fear of death whatsoever as He is as present at the end as he is at the beginning. I think its safe to say now that anyone who says they've had an encounter with God will always declare that the primary defining dynamic of these assuming they are real experiences is His Love its just so vast (cant think of words in english to describe). It was millions of my best and most blessed moments in an entire life with God magnified a thousand times.

So I find myself back in this world after a particularly unpleasant roller coaster marathon illness that lasted around a year (although many supernatural secrets are discovered through suffering!) I could not compare my self to the wonderful Job whose season of trauma which may have been about 7 months survived and thrived but I did get at least one of his concepts quite firmly embedded internally and that is that God is in absolutely every breath Job 14:12 (being on oxygen really brings it home!!). So its just opened up huge questions concerning the understanding, mysteries of the Kingdom, lifestyle, the word of life the Bible, positional identity and who we are in Him! and because of the encounter I have to ask am I and is the Church simply rather sub-optimal? Is it and am I reflecting the mighty Son of God? As Jesus is the brightest part of the Glory and incandescent Light of the Father (Heb 1:3) should we all ideally collectively manifest at least an iota of that as family as Children of God?

St Paul for example went aside for 3 years to try and get an understanding of what had happened with his damascus road experience and how it applied to him and others. After his conversion, Paul did not return to Jerusalem immediately. He spent three years between Arabia and Damascus before meeting any apostles and actually after his first brief Jerusalem visit, Paul was sent to Tarsus, where he remained for about 10 years (35–44 AD).

Revision or Reset.
Re emphasis or re-engineering

We're entering a new season and we'll look at what that means in due course but its very much a collective collaboration of family love and holiness because its the whole household of God (perhaps like Cornelius' household we all need to be filled with the Holy Spirit) for a mutuality a corporate preparation of what might be the last big tsunami of God if we believe that the scripture will be fulfilled in that the Sons of God are to come into their (own).

It seems a little distant based on the dissipation of revivals (perhaps like profligate children) where we focus on past activity and performance rather than the person and heart of The Father not merely the allective dynamic of revivals. We hear cries for revival but actually our cry should actually be for Him personally, His heart His glorious inner person, Himself. That's how the hebredian revival started with just two believing ladies in prayer agreement!

Its vital that the whole church finds out what God is doing in our generation and does it with Him.

We all need many days where we might say 'first thing' like the prodigal son "I will arise and go to my Father".

And "what shall we do together today Holy Father). 'Waiting on the Lord' I believe the majority of the translations mean ambush which requires an activity on our part.

If we look at the second account of St Peter regarding Cornelius Household the message clearly is the Lord The Holy Spirit was eager to fall and did so before Peter had even finished his sermon!