Prophetic Writing-Heaven Come Down-11-26-06-by David Nelson

Posted: 2006-11-26 09:18:12

Heaven Come Down!    A Taste of Heaven

 
The Lord wants us to know what it is like in His heaven. He is opening up the Holy of Holies for us to come in. Whether heaven comes down to where we are or whether we go up for a visit is not as important as the fact that we can taste what heaven is like, being in his presence and experiencing the love, joy, kindness and gentleness among the angels and in the saints that fills all of heaven.

The Lord wants to be in the midst of His people as we gather on the earth and he wants to speak to us and be with us but we must want this, seek Him, and make ourselves ready in purity of heart and life. He is ready to be with us but we must make a place for Him to come where the hearts of those gathered are ready to receive His presence.

Many times we hear of people experiencing the Lord mightily at a meeting and being caught up with Him while others are looking on and wanting more too. But what the Lord is wanting even more is to come to a group gathered and bring them up all together into His place. Angels are so kind, polite, gentle and loving because they live in His love, gentleness and kindness and it is the way of the Lord that they live. Saints who are in heaven live in joy, peace, rest, love and have arrived at the unity of hearts with one another and the Lord that we have always longed for and that He has always planned. The Lord wants to come to a gathering where there is total forgiveness, forbearance, acceptance of one another and where there are hearts famished for His presence. We must want to “see Him” together. The Lord has always wanted us to be one in heart. (See John 17) For this to be accomplished there will need to be a baptism of love and fire and His Spirit. Ask yourself this, are we being prepared to have the Father’s heart toward one another, to love one another as the Father loves the Son? Are we being prepared to see that He wants us to love each other and to be one? Are we longing that brothers and sisters have the love for one another that Jesus has for all of us? Do we look at even the least of the brethren with compassion, warmth, tears and agape love? He is preparing His bride even now to love with this kind of depth and warmth, and not only towards the least of the brethren but even towards mean and hardened sinners. He is changing us as His deep calls to our deep that this is what He longs for and this is what He wants (and we are coming to want it too). No, it is not just a personal desire to experience the Lord’s presence and His heaven deeply just for us alone. But the Lord’s heart desires will never be completed when He has one “Enoch” over here and one “Enoch” over there pleasing His heart with their individual walks. As great as this is that He can have an individual love and walk close to Him, as much as it pleases His heart so richly to have one in a beautiful, restful, love walk with Him (He is ravished with that one, His heart beats faster when that one draws near to Him (Song of Songs 4:9) and we are becoming more ravished with Him each day). But He is putting a further goal and desire in our hearts, to draw near to Him with others.

He wants those of kindred hearts to gather. He is ready to come into our midst as we gather as never before. He is getting us ready to gather and expect Him to come to us as never before. He will take us step by step to this place of experiencing heaven together. The veil is getting very thin. He is getting ready for us to come to heaven permanently and never leave. But He is now ready to come to us with his presence even as if we were before His throne now, He is wanting to speak to us all, even as though He were speaking from His throne and we were all gathered before Him, He wants us to feel the love (and all other aspects of his character) that fills heaven, He wants this sweetness of love, kindness and unity to fill our hearts for one another in our gatherings and the awesome love for Him and He for us. This will all come together so that His love will fill the room we gather in.

Come to the table that is now prepared. Make your heart ready to receive this. Put on the wedding garment, let your heart be purified of all sinful and worldly thoughts that have made our hearts cluttered and tainted. He is wooing us now, He is calling us now, He is courting us now. He wants us to taste His home where He lives and taste it more and more in our daily walk and as He calls us to gather. He has so much more for us daily but He also is moving us toward corporate experiences that will be so much more than we can experience alone (or at least will be the necessary completing of our lives and the completing of His plans). Will you come? Will you gather for more of heaven to come down, more of Him in our midst, more of His love to saturate, fill and anoint our lives?

Here is a quote from a letter by Samuel Rutherford, a Scottish preacher, written from prison in Aberdeen, Scotland, August 8, 1637:

I would far rather look through the hole of Christ’s door, to see but the one half of His fairest and most beautiful face (for He looks like heaven), though I do not see His excellency and glory to the full, than to enjoy…the chief excellency of the glory and riches of ten worlds.

But I know my Lord is not stingy: He can, and it becomes Him well to give more than my narrow soul can receive.

O if I could invite and persuade thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousands of Adam’s sons, to flock about my Lord Jesus, and to come and take their fill of (His) love! Oh! Oh! You poor, dry and dead souls, why will you not come with your empty souls to this huge, and fair, and deep and sweet well of life, and fill your empty vessels? (My own: He is calling us today to the table, whoever will, but many made excuses and would not. But now He is saying to the blind, lame, ugly, hurting, broken, any who will come, come, come to my table, you will be satisfied as never before, I am wooing my Bride and she will hear the voice of my love-calls, she knows it is I).

Alas! All these thousands of years Adam’s fools have been wasting and lavishing their love and affections upon other lovers, upon bits of dead creatures, and broken idols, upon this and that, and have not brought their love and their heart to Jesus. O pity, that the all-together lovely One has so few lovers! O, woe, woe to the fools of this world, who run by Christ to other lovers! O misery, misery, misery, that Beauty (such as this) can scarce get 3 or 4 hearts in a town or in a country (to come)!

David Nelson