Unlocking the Heavens: Release the Supernatural Power of Your Worship by Shane Warren Page A
Authors: Shane Warren
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used to come home from college and run through the front door and say, “Momma! Daddy! I’m back!”
This is the real Christian life and not the life of deism that most so-called Christians live. For the most part, the Church is full of people who are deists in their thinking. They recognize that there is this big God up there who is in charge of everything, but they don’t realize that He is personally involved in their lives. More than that, they don’t realize that they have been invited to join Him in Heaven—before they die.
Once you try it, you will understand how you can’t go back to your old way of doing things. Go boldly into the throne room even if the people around you think you are crazy. Nobody may comprehend your throne room experiences but you. But it is a fact that the throne room is not an ethereal, imaginary place. It’s a real place that you can go to anytime you want.
There is no stress there. It’s only when you come out that you get stressed. For example, this morning in the shower I said, “Lord, sprinkle me with Your blood. I want to go into the throne room, and I want to be with You.” I did that. Then I had to go to the airport and things started going crazy. I started freaking out. I felt myself go whooshing out of the place of total peace in God, almost like a vacuum had sucked me out of that heavenly place and spit me out back down in this natural realm. Then I boarded the plane and realized what had happened. I said again, “Lord, sprinkle me with Your blood. I want to go back to that heavenly place.” I simply went back to the throne room. I have been learning to stay longer each time. When I first started trying to live there, I would get sucked out all the time because I wasn’t used to living there. By now, I’ve practiced the presence of God enough that I’ve learned to live there more of the time.
A humble Christian named Brother Lawrence wrote a little book in the seventeenth century called
The Practice of the Presence of God
. He found that he could live in the presence of God twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Jesus became our Savior so that all of us could have this experience. I have lived here, and I have lived up there. Up there is better.
DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE—AND SEE MIRACLES
Have you ever found yourself in a church service where God’s presence just broke out? If you have, you know how it feels to be saturated in God’s peace. You don’t worry about your kids or about money. You are not really doing anything; you’re just sitting there. When you have such an experience, you have tasted what it is like to get into the bosom of the Father. When you walked out of the church, you may have thought you had to leave it behind. You didn’t. You can live there twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Living there will give you abundant peace—and some miracles, too.
Not long ago, I went to Mississippi because I had been asked to preach at a church. A lady came forward in the church service. When she came up to the front, I could see that her right eye was milky white. She said, “I can’t see and I want to see. I can distinguish light and dark, but I can’t see anything else.”
Because for several weeks I had been spending extra time in this heavenly place in Christ, I immediately heard the Father say to the Son, “Tell the eye to look straight on.” I was standing there in front of her, but it was like I was also seated in the heavenly place of the throne room.
I had twenty-five students with me, young adults who are in a college program we have at our church. I called them over and told them, “For the first time in my ministry—the first time in twenty years of preaching full time—I know this woman is getting ready to receive a creative miracle. I know she is going to get healed, and I want you to see it with your own eyes.” They gathered around. I told the woman to put her left hand over her other eye, and then I said, “The
This is the real Christian life and not the life of deism that most so-called Christians live. For the most part, the Church is full of people who are deists in their thinking. They recognize that there is this big God up there who is in charge of everything, but they don’t realize that He is personally involved in their lives. More than that, they don’t realize that they have been invited to join Him in Heaven—before they die.
Once you try it, you will understand how you can’t go back to your old way of doing things. Go boldly into the throne room even if the people around you think you are crazy. Nobody may comprehend your throne room experiences but you. But it is a fact that the throne room is not an ethereal, imaginary place. It’s a real place that you can go to anytime you want.
There is no stress there. It’s only when you come out that you get stressed. For example, this morning in the shower I said, “Lord, sprinkle me with Your blood. I want to go into the throne room, and I want to be with You.” I did that. Then I had to go to the airport and things started going crazy. I started freaking out. I felt myself go whooshing out of the place of total peace in God, almost like a vacuum had sucked me out of that heavenly place and spit me out back down in this natural realm. Then I boarded the plane and realized what had happened. I said again, “Lord, sprinkle me with Your blood. I want to go back to that heavenly place.” I simply went back to the throne room. I have been learning to stay longer each time. When I first started trying to live there, I would get sucked out all the time because I wasn’t used to living there. By now, I’ve practiced the presence of God enough that I’ve learned to live there more of the time.
A humble Christian named Brother Lawrence wrote a little book in the seventeenth century called
The Practice of the Presence of God
. He found that he could live in the presence of God twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Jesus became our Savior so that all of us could have this experience. I have lived here, and I have lived up there. Up there is better.
DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE—AND SEE MIRACLES
Have you ever found yourself in a church service where God’s presence just broke out? If you have, you know how it feels to be saturated in God’s peace. You don’t worry about your kids or about money. You are not really doing anything; you’re just sitting there. When you have such an experience, you have tasted what it is like to get into the bosom of the Father. When you walked out of the church, you may have thought you had to leave it behind. You didn’t. You can live there twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Living there will give you abundant peace—and some miracles, too.
Not long ago, I went to Mississippi because I had been asked to preach at a church. A lady came forward in the church service. When she came up to the front, I could see that her right eye was milky white. She said, “I can’t see and I want to see. I can distinguish light and dark, but I can’t see anything else.”
Because for several weeks I had been spending extra time in this heavenly place in Christ, I immediately heard the Father say to the Son, “Tell the eye to look straight on.” I was standing there in front of her, but it was like I was also seated in the heavenly place of the throne room.
I had twenty-five students with me, young adults who are in a college program we have at our church. I called them over and told them, “For the first time in my ministry—the first time in twenty years of preaching full time—I know this woman is getting ready to receive a creative miracle. I know she is going to get healed, and I want you to see it with your own eyes.” They gathered around. I told the woman to put her left hand over her other eye, and then I said, “The
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