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PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT SERIES
PRAYING INTO THE SPIRIT DIMENSION
Past, Present and Future in the Spirit
Realm
In the spirit realm there is no such thing
as a past, present or future. God already knows what you will be in five years
time or ten years time. But we do not know it. That is our problem. But the
Bible does tell us that Jesus has sent the Spirit of truth who will show us
things to come. It seems that is one of His special works, to show us things to
come. So right now in the spirit realm there is no past, no present, and no
future. The spirit realm is timeless. A day to the Lord is like a thousand
years. So we can imagine from God's perspective what it will be like. We try to
describe again about God's position in time.
Ezekiel mentioned seeing a vision of a wheel
within a wheel. And it is just like God is in the center of the spoke. Imagine
a bicycle wheel with spokes joined at the center. And you
can imagine God's position is in the center of a circle. And then there are all
these spokes that reaches out to the outer rim of the circle. So it is like a
wheel within a wheel. And you have a circumference of what we call a creation.
So there we are; time is moving outside of the circumference. And we are living
on the outside of the circumference of God's dispensation and creation. We
experience things like time. God is
seated at the center of the circle. When He looks at one aspect of time that we
called the future and He looks at one aspect of time that we call the past and
He looks at one aspect of time that we call the present, it is the same to Him.
He sees everything in His position. All things are equal with Him. He is the
beginning. He could reach down to every sphere of time. He dwells in
timelessness. We dwell in the limitation of time. So God dwells in the center
of it. We dwell in the outer circumference of time.
Before we go deeper into that, we want to
bring some understanding from man reaching out to understand this aspect of
time. The earlier stages of understanding time in relationship to other aspects
of things came only when Albert Einstein began to describe the universe in four
dimensions. Before man only knew the universe in three
dimensions. All
When Albert Einstein came along, he says
that time can be molded. The essence of time is movement. Time and movement are
related. Suppose you take a spaceship and you travel into space at 99% of the
speed of light and you measure time in terms of the spaceship. You take a clock
and put it in the space ship and you travel. Lets say
you took ten years to travel out and ten years to travel back so you would have
gone for twenty years. By the time you come back you would find that your
children would be older than you. While
you have gone only twenty years, earthly time may have aged about ninety years.
Time on earth is moving at a certain speed. Time is affected when you begin to
move very fast. And this is what actually happens because time is related to
movement. When they began to move very fast at the speed of light, according to
the theory of relativity all matter begin to move slower. Everything is slowed
down, all the atoms and molecules and that will affect all the cells. According
to that theory it is not possible to reach the speed of light.
The
dimension of atoms and molecules or the elements of this earth do not limit our
spirit that is within us. The spirit within us can move faster that the speed
of light. In heaven we don't just travel at the speed of light. We travel at
the speed of thought. We can see how that living in the realm of God which is
not just at the speed of light, is many times at the speed of light. That is
why the spirit realm is at a different frequency from ours. Right now we cannot
see air or water vapor. Now this place could have for example humidity of about
80. What happens when we begin to cool downs the air and let it gets colder and
colder. In a very cold country, you will notice that every time you say a word
you could see the vapor forming. The air coming out from your mouth condenses
into the water vapor and straight away you could see the mist that appears. So
from a realm that is invisible it moves into the visible realm. How did that
take place? By slowing the molecules. When you condense, say, water vapor. You see all matter is
vibrating all the time. If things stand still there is no more decay. But
everything is vibrating all the time. So all the atoms are in
a stage of dance all the time. This light is blinking at many times the
speed such as our eyes cannot detect it. If you look at the light, it looks
like a constant light. But right now it is blinking. But our eyes cannot catch
it since it is too fast for us. So the water vapor is moving. When you condense
it the movement slow down. It begins to crystallize.
As it crystallize it becomes visible. By the time it
reaches water it is very slow. There is still some movement there but it is so
tiny.
With that understanding the spirit realm
moves many times faster than we can conceive. Right now the angels are all over
the place. They are in the realm where the frequency is too fast for our
natural minds to understand. Once upon a time the physical realm was in harmony
with the spirit realm. When God created Adam and Eve, Adam could see the spirit
realm with the natural eyes. God never made such that the natural cannot see
the spiritual. What we experience today where our natural eyes cannot see the
spiritual realm is the result of the fallen Adamic
nature unless God works as discerning of spirit. When God created Adam, Adam
could see God anytime he wants. If an angel comes he could see an angel. The
spirit realm was like the natural realm to him.
So Adam could move in that spirit realm. And I believe in that realm
Adam could fellowship with God. There is not much record about what Adam did.
But lets look at
the second Adam. Now Jesus moved into that spirit realm. And Jesus could detect
spirits. Jesus moved into that realm and He was perfect. So if an angel is
there, nobody could see it. He saw it. If a demon is there He could see it. To
Jesus the spirit realm and the physical realm are the same for He did not have
the fallen nature. And that is why Jesus could do things we consider a miracle
because He moved into that realm. He could just take five and two fishes and
say, "Father, thank you" and the molecular structures of the five
loaves and two fishes just change and multiply. He could come down from an
overnight prayer and
just walk on water (Matt.14). He could reach out to a dead person and get that
person resurrected. He moves in a different realm. He moves at a higher
frequency, the spirit frequency. It is a fact that the spirit realm is lord and
ruler over the natural realm.
The higher frequency always affects the
lower frequency. For example, if I am heated up to 200 degrees, and the person
next to me is only 100 degree. When I come to him, does he affect me or I
affect him? He will get hotter. If you mix the two together the temperature sort of equalize. But it is more the higher
affecting the lower. If you take hot boiling water and you mix it with ice,
what do you get? Lukewarm water. Now you take the
little illustration and you go further. In our limited illustration if you take
200 degree water and mix it with the 100-degree water, you may get 150 degree
or so. But if you connected the water to an iron, which will constantly be at
200 degree and if you put it on something that is 100 degree, what will happen?
If the temperature of the iron is not going to decrease, then the temperature
of that something added on is going to increase. The higher frequency always
affects the lower.
And so Jesus moves in the spirit
dimension, which is timelessness, and He knows all things and in the spirit
dimension all things are considered done. See in the spirit dimension as long
as it is spoken from the source with God it is as good as done. Now this is
what some people experience in the spirit realm, which is not so true in the
natural realm now. Let
say we all are translated into the spirit realm. We all are in heaven
and we are able to do a lot of things. All you have to do is to say thank you
Father for a feast of fruit. It will come right in front of you. In the spirit
realm the moment you conceive it is at that very moment it is manifested. There
is no delay factor. And in the spirit realm if we are in heaven and desire to
see another person, the moment we think of that we are either there with the
person or the person is with there with us.
There we have the area of the dimension
that God moves in. in Genesis chapter He said let there be light and the light
came forth. So that is the dimension that God move in. From time to time when
men have moved into that spirit dimension, they have transcended natural laws.
Elijah was transported supernaturally here and there and he was moving into
that dimension of higher frequency. Right now there are angelic beings around
us. If angels are to be made visible to us, there are two possibilities for
that to happen. Before two frequencies can connect, one frequency has to slow
down or the other has to be accelerated. So there is in our spirit man a degree
of acceleration taking place all the time. For some of us our spirit man is
only moving at about 10 miles per hour. For some of us because we are full of
the word and we are praying in the spirit all the time. We are moving at 70
miles per hour. See there is a degree that as you move into the spirit realm
and as you live in the spirit realm in that degree the spiritual world is real
to you.
God has given us a dimension of moving
into that realm of the spirit. The realm of the spirit he calls it a rest. Why
does He call it a rest? It is because in that dimension time stands still. God
exists in a realm where time is absolute and where all movement comes from Him.
Psalms 46:10 says, "Be still and know that I am God".
As we move into the realm of the spirit it
is important for us to realize that these are also different speed. Do you
notice that when you pray in tongue there are different degrees of letting go. The secret of praying in tongues is learning to
visualize. It is just like a vision. There is a stage where you have to
visualize. Then there is stage where that vision becomes a part of you and you
live for that vision. There is a stage where you build a boat making sure that
it is leak proof. But one day the boat is ready. You take that boat to the
river. Now the boat can carry you.
There is a stage in business where you are
building up your business. You put all your time in. You put all your investment
in. It is hard work for the first few years.
After sometime your business builds up. Now your business can take care
of you. In the first stage you take care of your business. Then it reaches a
point where it can run by itself.
In the ministry it is the same. In the
early stage you have to really go against every force that go
against you. As you build yourself up, you reach a stage where your ministry
carries you. So in the same way when we pray in tongues there is a stage where
there is effort coming out. At the first few stages there is a lot of effort.
But you reach a stage where you really enjoy it.
The Mind as A Hindrance to Flowing
In the Spirit Realm
Lets read Rom.8: 26 For likewise the Spirit also helps in
our weakness for we do not know what we should pray as we ought. But the Spirit
Himself makes intercession for us with groaning, which cannot be uttered. The
Greek word groaning which cannot be uttered means words, which are
not understandable to our intellect, words which are not recognizable to the
understanding, to the mind. Now here we talk about the acceleration and
moving into the realm of the spirit. We are speaking about moving into deeper
levels of tongues and moving at faster speeds until we reach the timeless realm
that God dwelt in the spirit frequency.
We
must know where the brakes are. The brakes are your mind. The moment your mind
takes over, you have come down from the spirit realm. So the moment your mental
realm gets back into control, you are back in the natural order. We need to
know that in the spirit realm when you want to move full into it, your main
barrier is your mind. You must know how
to get back into your spirit realm and not allow your mind to stop you. Your
mental barrier is a big brake. And we know that in a car there are two brakes.
One is the one you press and the other is the hand brake. It is the same way
with your mind. One is your conscious mind and the other is your sub-conscious
mind. Your sub-conscious is the hand brake. It can only be broken if there is a
willingness to let go. Some people just don't want to let go. You just try
driving a car with the hand brake on. It moves but there is difficulty. Why
because from the sub-conscious realm thoughts just keep coming up. So sometimes
you want to move into the spirit realm. As you move a little bit, your hand
brake is still on. So your sub-conscious mind keeps throwing thoughts out. You
didn't intentionally want to think about that. But all those thoughts come out.
And every time it comes out it put a brake on you.
Entering the Realm of the Spirit is Moving Beyond
the Mind
So the realm of the spirit is where we
have to move beyond the mind. That is the realm where the book of Proverbs says
a little bit about that in moving in the Christian life. In Proverbs 3:5 says
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding." That tells me that there is a realm that we move in that
the understanding doesn't know. We are not to lean to our own understanding. We
are not to lean to our intellectual mind. We are just to trust the Lord and
move in and don't try to understand. But let go and let God take control. If we
lean on our intellect, there is a brake that is set.
Let's give more scripture. In 1 Corinthians 2:11
For what man knows the things of man except the spirit
of the man which is in him. Right now your spirit knows where you are in
five years time. The only part of you that doesn’t know is your mind. Our
spirit man knows where we are going to be in the next year at the same time.
But it is only when the spirit man can communicate with the mind. Or rather
when the mind reaches a point where it can understand our spirit and receive
the communication from the spirit. That is why when we pray in tongues and move
into that realm, there is a strong possibility that the Spirit of God within
you through your human spirit will begin to communicate to you a lot of
revelations. Since our spirit knows everything within us. Naturally our spirit
can pray better than our mind. How much does our mind know compared to what our
spirit knows?
That is why I believe the New Testament
Christian life; it would be very normal if Christian prays about 99% in the
spirit and only about one per cent in the understanding. 1 Corinthians 14:14-15
If I pray in an unknown tongue my spirits
prays.
Let's look at 1 Corinthians 2:11 even
so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. So now we
depend on the Spirit of God and we depend on the human spirit. The he goes on
in verse 12 now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit
which is from God that we might know the things that have been freely given to
us by God. Verse 14 the natural man does not receive the things of the
Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they
are spiritually discerned.
Now
look 1 Corinthians 2:7 but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the
hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory. Now he says
we are speaking in wisdom. When Paul preached, what he received was from the
spirit realm and it was wisdom. Normally we would just take that verse to mean
great teachings, great revelations he brings forth. The source and the key of
that mystery of that wisdom lie in the spirit man. See the context of it. Remember
that Paul's letter is one letter. He didn't break it up into chapters. In 1 Cor.14:2 he who speaks in a tongue
does not speak to man but to God for no one understand him. However in the
spirit he speaks mysteries. Although what we speak in tongue is not
intelligible to our understanding, it is some of the mysterious truths and
wonderful things of God. Notice that it is recorded in the book of Acts in
chapter two where all these people came in the day of Pentecost and heard those
120 disciples speaking. They said they heard them speaking the wonderful work
of God. Now when we speak in tongues, we are speaking in the mysteries of God.
What will happen when you interpret tongues? There will be revelations of the
mysteries of God. It is easier to operate by speaking an interpretation than it
is with the intellect to move into the mystery.
Notice what 1 Corinthians 2:11-12 "No
man knows what is in a man except the spirit of man that is within him."
Then he turns around and says no man knows the things of God except the Spirit
of God that is within him. So he has put one here, one there. When you speak in
tongues is it your human spirit speaking or your Holy Spirit. It is our human
spirit speaking and the language comes from the Holy Spirit. Our human spirit
is speaking but the Holy Spirit is the source. So when we are speaking in
tongues, you are connecting the human spirit to the Holy Spirit. When you are
speaking in tongues, the Holy Spirit is communicating to your human spirit. Of
course your mind doesn't understand so your mind protest.
Your mind can only get what the spirit gets of the spirit realm. If the spirit
doesn't get it the mind doesn't get it. When the human spirit breaks forth and
takes hold of the Holy Spirit, the human spirit seeks to move into the
frequency of the Holy Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit began to gives revelations
to the human spirit.
See the Spirit gives utterance Acts 2:4.
Now the mind doesn't understand yet. Do you know that is the start? For he that
speaks unto God speaks in mysteries. So the spirit is brought into the
dimension of God. Robert Liardon calls prayer walking
in the spirit realm. As we move into the dimension of God, sooner or later the
Spirit of God places a lot of things into the soul. Sometimes people ask where do
you get all these revelations? Not through
commentaries, not through any books or any other things. You just wait on God
and you speak a lot in tongues. Kenneth E. Hagin said
that 90% of his prayers are speaking in tongues.
As we pray forth, we may have some
interpretation of what we are praying for. I notice this that every revelation
that flows into my mind has always first struck my spirit. We can get nothing
in our mind, in our intellect, unless we get it first in our spirit. And we
need to pray more in tongues. Let go and let God. Move into the timeless
dimension. Remember the spirit realm has no time. To God all time is one, past,
present and future. Now our spirit man knows your past, present and future. He
knows your weakest point. He knows your strongest point. If I am going to a
city I have never been before and if somebody there who knows every street,
every corner and every person in that city, wouldn't it be foolish if that
person is right with me and I try to find out for myself. It would be the most
dumb thing you ever done. There is the expert who knows everything and you
choose to rely on yourself. Our spirit man is billion of times smarter than our
soul. All that our soul contains is only the experiences of this life. Your
spirit man right now through the fellowship he has with the Holy Spirit has
information on your future, past and present. Your soul, conscious and
sub-conscious, only has data that has been input in the past and in the
present. That is why when we pray in the Holy Ghost, we must yield to the Holy
Spirit. We must yield our spirit to God
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