“If you are willing and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 1:19-20.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Today I want to talk with you about living days of Heaven on the earth. I am not talking about actually being in Heaven itself, but living continually in that divine flow of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit that is coming to you from Heaven, that is, if you will learn how to walk in it. And I teach you quite plainly how to do that throughout My Word, in both the Old and the New Testament, for when you are in Covenant with Me this heavenly quality of life is available to you. But how much more it is possible for you now that Jesus has opened the Kingdom to you by His death and resurrection! You can live this to a much higher and fuller degree than was ever done on earth before and that is why it grieves Me so deeply that so many believers are not taking advantage of the fullness of what Christ died to give you, citizenship even now in My Kingdom.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and [a]have it abundantly.” John 10:10.
And that is today’s Life Lesson, “Living days of Heaven upon the earth.” You can, but it is all up to you.
The minute you are born again from above by receiving and confessing Jesus as Lord, you become a citizen of the Kingdom, though you are not yet living in Heaven itself, though you are seated there in the spirit. But the earth has not yet joined as one with My heavenly city as it will in the age to come. But you can bring the Kingdom dominion to your life and through your dominion authority on earth to the earth. You can plant the Kingdom on the earth and raise its standard here wherever your feet tread as one of the redeemed. There shall be a way there called the “Highway of Holiness,” and the unclean cannot travel on it, fools cannot wander on it, for on it the redeemed shall walk and enter Zion singing crowned with joy. Isaiah 35:8-10. You can turn your home into a territory of the Kingdom and make your lives days of Heaven on earth. And you can do this, Paul and Silas did it in the darkness of the innermost prison cell with their feet staked to the floor, but the worshipped as if they were standing at Mt. Zion in Heaven among the angels and saints and suddenly all that held them captive was destroyed and the chains fell off and the great gates opened to free all therein. The atmosphere of Heaven, once you bring it in, can turn the darkest, ugliest place into a place filled with freedom and beauty where all are saved. And that is how Paul learned to be content wherever he found himself in preaching the good news of the Kingdom. He brought the atmosphere of Heaven with him wherever he walked.
“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.” Joshua 1:3.
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.” Luke 10:19-20.
Your names are now on the citizenship role in Heaven. “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Philippians 3:20. You are in the world but not of the world. You are ambassadors for the Kingdom of Heaven. And even though you are sojourning in a foreign land to Heaven, you can make where you are dwelling into an embassy, a colony, a territory of the home county of Heaven where Kingdom rule sets the standards, practices, and quality of life. Something like the colonies of the British Empire, they were not in England where the throne was but they were under the same sovereign, laws, and traditions and sang the same songs and played the same music as the sovereign nation, and they had the protection and benefits of the citizens of that Kingdom.
And that is how you can live days of Heaven on earth as a territory where My dominion is maintained through your dominion over the earth, “Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Jesus taught you to pray that for a reason. You release My Kingdom into the earth by your words and faith. For the victory that overcomes the world and brings My Kingdom to reign is your faith.
And in the Parables My Son taught showing you what the Kingdom of Heaven is like, were primarily parables about planting and growing it on earth rather than telling you about Heaven itself. While you are here in this age you have to keep growing all the way to harvest to come into My barn. Do not draw back to your old manner of thinking and living before you were born again to be a new creation in Christ created for a life of good deeds (Kingdom exploits) that I prepared for you in advance that you might live them—live your dreams. You have to keep growing from faith to faith, from glory to glory, grace on top of grace. You have to keep going forward in your high calling. My Word is a light for your path and a lamp for your feet. You do not take a Light and put it under a bushel basket, rather you put it on a lampstand (menorah) where it can shine on all in the house.
Heaven is being wrapped up in My presence. It is God among you, wiping every tear from your eyes. There is fullness of joy in My presence and the delights at My right hand forever. It is living in your source, but more than that, I am a very real Person who loves you beyond love who has given you life and sustains that life once given forever. Eternal life is to know Me, the One true God and the One whom I sent, Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior. John 17:3. So eternal life is a loving, living relationship where each of us honors and loves the other. And you can start that NOW and reap the benefits from it, which are great indeed.
When you really know Me, you know Me by My Word. I have drawn you into Myself having given you Heaven, but once you are in Me you are to walk in the continuum with Me as you journey there, drawing closer and closer to Me. And that is obeying My Word but not as a slave rather by adoption, by the Spirit of adoption, adopting a common purpose, a common way of thinking, a common belief, one LORD, one baptism, One Word and that Word is Jesus who died for you, the Word that heals you, provides for you, makes you righteous, that gives you peace, that is your Shepherd.
Love that Word and reach out to it for as you take the Word into yourself it becomes all it says. But the Word cannot work for you if you are acting contrary to it, doubting it, and arguing with it, and trying to contain it narrowly to do exactly your will. Then it cannot penetrate to dwell in you and grow heaven on earth. But you must let it in and cultivate it to grow Heaven on earth. But if you never let it in, you will miss growing Heaven on earth. And people shut it out not only in disobedience but in unbelief and misinterpretation of what they expect of it.
You must speak My Words and not your own that are stout against Mine. For “I have put My Words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to PLANT Heaven and to establish the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” Isaiah 51:16.
“If you are willing and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 1:19-20.
And there is the key to living days of Heaven upon the earth. If you are WILLING and obey. If you are willing, your heart is right, and I can work with that even if you fail in the obedience at times due to the weakness of the flesh, but you should be growing up to the full stature of Christ.
It all comes down to knowing, loving, honoring, and obeying My Word, for My Word is life to those who find it and health to ALL their flesh. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from all destructions. My Words are Spirit and Life. Only I have the Words of eternal life.
“For it is not an idle Word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this Word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:47.
It is My Word and living My Word as your way of life that will prolong your days in your promised land and give you days of Heaven on earth. For to know and love Me, is to know and love My Word, for My Word, and all the magnificent promises therein, reveals to you who I am. The opening of My Word gives light and understanding. “Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.” John 14:23-24.
My Word is designed to give you Heaven on earth. Anyone who truly understands the perfection and beauty, the absolute goodness of My Word, will understand this and want to live My Word to the fullest possible.
If you continue, remain, abide in My Word you will truly be My disciples, and you will come to know the truth and the truth will set you free. The perfect law of liberty and the royal law of love. It is by this Word you are freed from your sins, cleansed of every blemish, wrinkle, and defilement, and made holy before Me, beyond reproach. It is by My Word that you are healed and delivered. My Words are sweeter than honey from the comb and they are a light to your path and a lamp to your feet. They are eternal life. Life is in My Word, Words of Life that is life indeed. They are living and working, to work in your mind, your body and your emotions. To give you hope against hope and beauty for your ashes. They always give new beginning. They never condemn but never leave you less then righteous if you will follow their direction.
“Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth (Kingdom dominion). And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you hearken to and obey the LORD your God: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be your descendants and all you put your hand to, the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be in all your supplies and provision. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in your descendants and in your productivity and possessions in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to guard them carefully, and do not turn aside from any of the Words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.” Deuteronomy 28:1-14.
Blessed are you who hear My Word and keep it. Blessed are you who believe My Word to you will be fulfilled. Blessed are you in Heaven and on earth when you live My Word.
“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her from the Lord.” Luke 1:45.
And if you believe this you will have joy and “Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.” James 5:13. You are to sing praises. Worship is the flow of Heaven. You cannot have days of Heaven on earth if you do not walk in worship. It is an attitude of the heart that is the same as what is going on in Heaven.
And how did I tell My people as I led them to the promised land that they would have days of Heaven on earth? Only one way, by living according to My Word: “You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as days of Heaven upon the earth. For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. No man will be able to stand before you; the LORD your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.” Deuteronomy 11:18-25.
IF YOU ARE WILLING AND OBEY YOU WILL HAVE THE BEST OF THE LAND. And that is how to live Heaven on earth. By My Word and Worship. It is just such worshippers I seek, those who worship in Spirit (faith) and truth (My Word).
You have no need to beg Me to give you days of Heaven on earth for I have already given you all you need for life and godliness in Christ.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” Ephesians 1:3. You have access even now to all the blessings enjoyed in Heaven.
There’s no sadness, depression, fear, or torment in heaven, therefore, you can walk free from those things while you are on the earth, for the flow of heaven — righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit — is available to you. No matter what the devil shows up with in this life, choose to stay in Heaven’s flow, a flow of peace and joy, right in the midst of opposing circumstances, and you will have the victory, you can experience Heaven on earth, no matter what the opposition if you just keep holding fast to My Word. Do not be sluggish about this, faith and patience will inherit the promise.
I love you, develop the determination to keep My Word and to worship and days of Heaven on earth are chasing you down. But remember, eternal life and Heaven itself mean nothing and are nothing without the relationship with Me of total oneness of heart, purpose, delight and fellowship. Let us sing together.