RHEMA 10/01/07 BUILDING OUR HOME IN HEAVEN

DREAM: I saw a lady was building her home. Each place was laid out and had all the furniture temporarily placed but there were no walls in her home.

Scene 2: I was in a house and it had been gutted and being refurbished. Wayne had put the wood baseboard all around where the carpet would be. There were 2 grand pianos there and I was trying to fit them together. (Grand pianos in my dreams and visions have always represented playing His heavenly music in intercession.}

HEARD: Intercessors.
QT: 5:55. {Grace, grace, grace}

VISION: Wayne and I were looking for some orange lotion for our hair. An angel came up to me and said something very kind to me and I looked at her in the eye and said “Thank you.” The lotion rack had all different kinds of fruit smells on them and I could smell them. I knew they represented the fruits of the Spirit that Bob Jones had taught. An orange represents Kiss the Son.  (Sunkist oranges)  Psalm 2.

HEARD: Love you bunches. July, August. Past September. Strawberry.

{In July, August and past September He has been reminding me of His goodness. Strawberries represent goodness, the fruit of His Spirit.} Click here for Bob Jones teaching on interpreting fruits with the Fruit of the Spirit

VISION; I saw some grapes hanging.
{Grapes represent faithful loyalty}

VISION CONTINUED: Then I saw all the colors of those fruits of the Spirit and they turned into a beautiful mosaic made of tiles. I knew that our overcoming our sufferings with the fruits of the Spirit were building our spiritual home in heaven and that we were laying lovely mosaic tiles.

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INSERT WORD TO PONDER

BUILDING YOUR HEAVENLY HOME 8/6/03
Did you know that the life you live on earth builds your home in heaven? It is so that your mansion in the sky represents the very life you live for Me. You send heavenly supplies when you swallow My will over your own. As you willingly sacrifice what you love, it creates beauty in your heavenly home. Your love, your good deeds, your forgiveness, your sufferings, your sacrifices, all these and more build your home for eternity.

Your home is beautiful and sparkles with the gold that you are becoming. As you were willing to embrace your recent sufferings as a sign of My correction, and as you were willing to return to pleasing Me, I watched a beautiful addition go onto your home. I’m so proud of you dear one. I see My image shining in your willing heart.

“In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know." (John 14:2-4 NKJV)

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Insert child’s vision of building heavenly home

This is about a child's vision when he was taken to heaven twice during revivals in a school in Argentina.

TAKEN TO HEAVEN: [excerpt From Gastron’s 2nd visit]
“Gaston again fell under the power and was lifted into the Spirit world. He now saw himself walking down a narrow pathway along with others. Before him was a big gate, and on each side, a huge being. He trembled as he looked at their greatness.

[Note: At that moment, back in the meeting hall, the teachers wondered as they saw his little body shake and tremble.]

He could not look into the faces of these beings, because of the great light that shone from their countenances. What he could see though, was their wings and something they held in their hands that rested on the floor. A flaming sword! They welcomed him saying: “Enter, Joel.”

[Note: Joel is his middle name - never used, but the name God gave his mother in the middle of a service one day, while he was still being formed in her womb.]

He passed those gates and found himself in front of a great city. The ground shone as transparent gold. There were many houses. People there were very happy, and invited each other to come and see their houses - thus sharing their earthly experiences. Somehow he knew that everything we do here on earth for God “rises” into heaven and “builds” our houses. The house walls were different than our earthly ones - they were of some living material. The best way Gaston would later explain it was thus: “you are one with your house, in reality it IS YOUR VERY LIFE.” There were houses of many sizes, some were very small, and others were big mansions. He even saw children coming out of some houses.

Gaston saw also his own house. It seemed finished, yet somehow he knew and understood that there were many unfinished parts in that house; things that he had yet to do; things that he yet not happened. Yet the house was finished already - as if future and present were fused into one.

[Note: We later asked him how he identified the finished parts of the house as being the things that had happened in his life. He said that those parts corresponded to the occasions when he had asked the Lord for forgiveness and cleansing. They also represented the things he had done in love towards others. In the unfinished portion of the house, he recognized that he had not yet “sent the materials,” As an example, he mentioned the he had seen himself in the future preaching to a great number of person. He also saw future sufferings of divers types that he would endure, both physical and spiritual Also, sufferings that would be produced in him by circumstances and people that would wound him.]

As he stood in that heavenly pace, someone drew near. He couldn’t see His face, yet somehow he knew it was Jesus. Jesus spoke to him and said that in his early life he would do many things for Him and that even after dead he would be remembered by many. Jesus also said that there was something He had to do in his little heart. After saying this, He stretched forth His hand and began to cleanse every corner of his heart. He also touched his little face.

[Note: He had a bad bruise on his face, which was instantly healed. He could not look into the face of Jesus, but he could clearly see His hands and He cleaned out his heart and healed the bruise on his face. The day he saw the heavenly city, Gastron wanted to look at Jesus. When he turned to look, an angel quickly stood before Him, covering His view. Put in his own words: “He is so, so beautiful! But I cannot look at Him!”]

[excerpt from his 4th visit]:
“Again Gaston was taken up into the Spirit. He was again by the large gate. The Beings standing by the gate said that this time, they would let him enter into that city, but they had orders not to let him enter in again. They also told him that every time we help one another we are building in that city. Also, every time we leave something we love.

…He then heard the voice of Jesus calling him by his second name, Joel. Jesus spoke to him about things he had to do, obey and change in his life. Jesus said that when his mother corrected him he had to heed her because she was a “just mother.” Jesus also added that he need no fear because he would be as a normal child. That only when He had something very important to tell him would He call him back into this spiritual world. Then… Gaston “returned” to the hall. He did so right away. He knew inside, somehow, that it would be a long time until he could return that that heavenly place again.”

SANDY COMMENTS: I was so touched by this! And I learned about what Annie used to talk about when we were building in that heavenly city. Now it makes much more sense what we are building.

I believe that the Lord calling him Joel is an intentional, prophetic sign of the long awaited latter day rain coming on the sons and daughters.

• When asked how he identified the finished parts of the house as being the things that had happened in his life. He said that those parts corresponded to the occasions when he had asked the Lord for forgiveness and cleansing.

• In context, it would appear that forgiveness and cleansing are those times where we turn our backs on our flesh and as a result have Jesus image imprinted upon us. In other words, death to self produces His image upon our lives and builds a home in the heavenlies.

• They also represented the things he had done in love towards others.

• We build our heavenly abodes when we love others.

• In the unfinished portion of the house, he recognized that he had not yet “sent the materials,” As an example, he mentioned the he had seen himself in the future preaching to a great number of persons.

• We build our heavenly homes when we do good deeds for others, because we love the Lord and because we love others.

• He also saw future sufferings of divers types that he would endure, both physical and spiritual Also, sufferings that would be produced in him by circumstances and people that would wound him.]

• We build our homes when we suffer things for Jesus' sake.

• They [huge beings in vision 4] also told him that every time we help one another we are building in that city.

• Also, every time we leave something we love.

• We build our heavenly homes when we let go of and sacrifice something we love.

WORD TO PONDER BUILDING YOUR HEAVENLY HOME 8/6/03

Did you know that the life you live on earth builds your home in heaven? It is so that your mansion in the sky represents the very life you live for Me. You send heavenly supplies when you swallow My will over your own. As you willingly sacrifice what you love, it creates beauty in your heavenly home. Your love, your good deeds, your forgiveness, your sufferings, your sacrifices, all these and more build your home for eternity.

Your home is beautiful and sparkles with the gold that you are becoming. As you were willing to embrace your recent sufferings as a sign of My correction, and as you were willing to return to pleasing Me, I watched a beautiful addition go onto your home. I'm so proud of you dear one. I see My image shining in your willing heart.

“In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know." (John 14:2-4 NKJV)