NEWS The Riches of an Open Heaven
The Lord gave me a vision for an ambient guitar project I've been thinking about doing for a while now. The vision came on Sunday morning at 2:30 am. The project would be called "Open Heaven" and the music would be set around the theme of discovering and living in an open heaven.
I've written several blogs about an open heaven, so I won't go into the concept in any great detail here. Suffice it to say that in an open heaven, there is nothing standing in the way of the connection between our heart and God's heart. It's a Spirit-to-spirit connection. In an open heaven, we become One with God.
This morning, as I was doing my daily mediation, I came across a passage by T. Austin-Sparks that resonated with the vision the Lord gave me over the weekend. Here's what Sparks' said:
The nearer the earth and its temporal life Christendom has got, the more and greater have such things as ritual had a place. Ritual, Rites, Vestments, Ceremony, Formality, and such like externals have always been the marks of low and poor spiritual conditions, and the measure of importance given to them is always an index to spiritual measure. On the other hand, a deep, strong, pure spiritual state has always been marked by simplicity and an absence of the above. History proves this beyond a doubt, and tides of the Spirit are outstanding evidence of it. The days of the Church's greatest spiritual power and impact were days when ecclesiastical forms, architecture and ritual were nil, and the Lord Himself was everything.
There are a lot of Christians who believe that Christianity is all about formal things - rituals, rites, vestments, ceremonies, formalities. But as Sparks notes, when these things become the focus of people, spiritual conditions decline rapidly. During such times, Love vanishes. And we know one thing: When there is no Love, there is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2).
Spiritual power is at its maximum when the Lord Himself becomes the sole focus. And this is precisely what living in an open heaven is all about - it's about the Lord. It's about being entangled with His Spirit and walking in Love. It's not something we do. It is something He does through us. When we become entangled with the Lord and live in an open heaven. the Spirit guides our hearts minute to minute, day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year.
In an open heaven, we are reduced to Love (1 John 4:8).
May you live in an open heaven.
Agape,
Steve
I've written several blogs about an open heaven, so I won't go into the concept in any great detail here. Suffice it to say that in an open heaven, there is nothing standing in the way of the connection between our heart and God's heart. It's a Spirit-to-spirit connection. In an open heaven, we become One with God.
This morning, as I was doing my daily mediation, I came across a passage by T. Austin-Sparks that resonated with the vision the Lord gave me over the weekend. Here's what Sparks' said:
The nearer the earth and its temporal life Christendom has got, the more and greater have such things as ritual had a place. Ritual, Rites, Vestments, Ceremony, Formality, and such like externals have always been the marks of low and poor spiritual conditions, and the measure of importance given to them is always an index to spiritual measure. On the other hand, a deep, strong, pure spiritual state has always been marked by simplicity and an absence of the above. History proves this beyond a doubt, and tides of the Spirit are outstanding evidence of it. The days of the Church's greatest spiritual power and impact were days when ecclesiastical forms, architecture and ritual were nil, and the Lord Himself was everything.
There are a lot of Christians who believe that Christianity is all about formal things - rituals, rites, vestments, ceremonies, formalities. But as Sparks notes, when these things become the focus of people, spiritual conditions decline rapidly. During such times, Love vanishes. And we know one thing: When there is no Love, there is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2).
Spiritual power is at its maximum when the Lord Himself becomes the sole focus. And this is precisely what living in an open heaven is all about - it's about the Lord. It's about being entangled with His Spirit and walking in Love. It's not something we do. It is something He does through us. When we become entangled with the Lord and live in an open heaven. the Spirit guides our hearts minute to minute, day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year.
In an open heaven, we are reduced to Love (1 John 4:8).
May you live in an open heaven.
Agape,
Steve
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