Spiritual Revolution by Patricia

Author:Patricia [Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:12+00:00

Chapter Six

Third-Heaven Encounters

I haven’t always had understanding and experience concerning heavenly realities. Actually, I remember years ago when I first heard the term “Third Heaven.” A young minister had exclaimed with great enthusiasm over the telephone one day, “Hey, Patricia, I’ve been having awesome times with God in the Third Heaven lately!”

Sometime afterward, I started hearing this curious term, “Third Heaven,” along with testimonies of related experiences, more and more often. Back then, I had seemed to be growing in spiritual sensitivity and openness to the Holy Spirit’s leading into divine encounters, but this young man implied that Third-Heaven encounters could easily be an everyday occurrence for every believer. My heavenly experience in 1994 had come through a sovereign visitation, but could things like this actually be experienced on a regular basis? His suggestion of such a possibility piqued my curiosity and stirred my spiritual hunger. I also felt a certain “fear of the unknown” as well as some godly caution. I had many questions and, at that point, very few clear answers.

My personal questions and concerns about believers accessing Third-Heaven experiences took me on a journey through the Scriptures. Day by day, the Holy Spirit revealed increased measures of understanding regarding the invisible Kingdom realm and how we as born-again believers have access to that realm.

What Is “The Spiritual Realm”?

The spiritual realm in Scripture is the unseen, invisible, and eternal realm. “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18 KJV). Although the spiritual realm is invisible, it is very real. In fact, the spiritual realm is actually more real than the natural realm. The natural realm is that which is within time. It is what the Scripture calls temporal or subject to time.

I often think of time as a substance in eternity like a small capsule placed inside of a massive and endless expanse. In the light of all eternity, time is very small. We spend only a few years within the time realm, and the Scripture teaches us that it is like a vapor. our life within time is extremely short in comparison to eternity, and we have only one opportunity to live within it. Natural and physically tangible things are experienced within this realm.

overlaying this physical, natural realm is an invisible zone called the spiritual or unseen realm. As we already discovered in Second Corinthians 4:18, the things that are invisible are of the eternal dimension. If you were to sit in a kitchen of a friend’s home, you would be able to describe the things that you see and sense in the natural realm. You might describe the refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, chairs, table, and dishes. If the host was baking some bread in the kitchen, you might also describe its wonderful fragrance. Your natural senses would be aware of the natural surroundings.

In this same kitchen there

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