In my previous book I described a parabolic experience that I walked through in the city of Botwood, Newfoundland, Canada. That morning, Thursday, November 29th, 2001, was the morning that the Holy Spirit invited me to go for a walk with Him in the cool of the day. That experience is related to the reader in great detail in Chapter 5 of Dancing with Angels: How to Work With Angels In Your Life.
During that encounter with the Holy Spirit, He instructed me and taught me many things. It was also during that magical morning that the Spirit of God told me that He was going to arrange for me to travel into the wilderness of Newfoundland, and to be sequestered in hiddenness with Him for a season. Again, this was a stretching of my mindset and my comfort zone. None the less, the Holy Spirit informed me that He had prepared a place for us and that we would spend time together in a cabin in the mountains on that trip (see John 14:2,3).
I want to elaborate on this series of events, as it has a direct bearing on angels and opening the heavens over your life. The morning that the Lord spoke these things into my heart I was open to hearing them, because I honestly did not believe that there was any possible way for these instructions to come to pass. The requests that the Lord made of me seemed impossible. However, as I soon began to learn, with God nothing is impossible. Perhaps the Lord will begin to speak impossible things into your heart as you read this book. These requests from the Lord required me to perform unusual acts of obedience, or what some call prophetic acts (see Matthew 19:26, Luke 18:27).
Obedience
Perhaps my obedience to simply say yes to the Lord, even though I did not see any possible way for those things to come to pass, helped to open the heavens over my life. So, allow me to state that obedience to the Holy Spirit is absolutely critical to opening the heavens over your life. Obedience is critical to maintaining open heavens in your sphere of influence. Amazingly, and in short order, the Lord fulfilled the impossible requests that He had asked of me. I have previously shared how the Lord utilized angelic ministry to release financial provision and to open the door for me to travel to Africa. The trip to Africa was an extreme prophetic act of obedience on my part and was unimaginable to me at the time. My obedience to fulfill these prophetic acts played a role in transforming my life and walk with Jesus.
In obedience to the Lord’s request, I had extended my trip to Canada by several days. This was a real stretch for me. My flesh and carnal man earnestly desired to return to my business and ‘normal’ life back in America. After all, I was now reduced to an impoverished state with very little money in my pocket, and no visible means of support. My rent was due, and I did not have any funds to make that payment. So the idea of staying in Canada with the Holy Spirit, though very appealing, did not make a lot of sense in the natural realm. I just could not see any possible way that I could afford to do this stuff. A trip to Africa was a preposterous idea. Even the concept of extending my Canadian adventure and seeking to find God in a cabin on a mountain somewhere seemed absurd to my carnal mind. On top of all of that I was financially strapped and didn’t even have enough money to pay for food.
However, I chose to walk in the spirit and trust in the Lord and what I was hearing Him instruct me to do, even if it meant that I might be evicted. You could say that my flesh was warring against my spirit. You may also experience a similar struggle as you seek to open the heavens over your life. I want to elaborate on these events. I pray that this will encourage you and help the reader to understand the dynamics of opening the heavens over your life, and the role of the person of the Holy Spirit in this process.
On Sunday, December 2nd, 2001, I had returned to Living Waters Church in Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada. The previous day I had arranged to meet with the pastor, Dave Mercer. I shared with Him about my visitation of Jesus, and how I had seen the Lord step down from the realms of heaven into Living Waters Church on November 25th, 2001. I also told Pastor Dave about the angel that I had seen in his church. Dave was very cordial and encouraged me greatly. Pastor Dave listened to my testimony patiently. This was a great blessing; because of his kindness, and openness to the supernatural experiences that I had shared with him, I was able to move ahead with some small confidence that I was not ‘losing it’. Dave was one of the first pastors that I had met that was actually anointed to pastor.
Daisy
That Sunday morning I was sort of “dancing around the sanctuary” worshiping the Lord during the praise time. As I did this, a beautiful older woman, Daisy, stopped me. She told me that the Lord had spoken to her about me. This was a shocker to me, and I stood in stunned silence waiting to hear what she would say next. She continued saying something to the effect of, “The Lord said that I was to offer to let you use my vacation cabin on the lake. For some reason the Lord wants to spend time alone with you in the wilderness. Would you like to visit my cabin?” I was once more astonished at God’s goodness and His faithfulness. I remembered what the Lord had told me on Killic Island, in Botwood, just a few days before. I immediately agreed accepting Daisies kind offer. I knew that this was the Lord at work.
On Monday, December 3rd, 2001, I traveled into the mountains to find Daisy’s cabin. It was small and was heated by a little wood burning stove. Since it was extremely cold, this was a real blessing. A good friend helped me to bring in some wood, and I organized my supplies. These included a few cans of soup, some saltine crackers, a loaf of white bread, a jar of peanut butter, some bottled water, the book Good Morning Holy Spirit, and my trusty King James Bible.
The instant the door closed behind my friend and they departed, the presence of the Holy Spirit fell upon me in power. The tangible presence of God enveloped me. At that precise instant the Lord ‘ripped open’ the heavens over my life. I believe that this was the fruit of my geographical obedience. Daisies little cabin became a Mount of Transfiguration experience for me. The tangible presence of God enveloped me. Later, I would learn that what I experienced that Monday afternoon was what the Bible refers to as the glory or kabok (?) of God. I immediately began to weep, as the passion and presence of Jesus flooded my spirit and the confines of the little cabin. I fell to my knees in the presence of God. There was no need to pray. There was just a knowing that I was to ‘be’ in His presence. Just ten minutes in the real presence and glory of God will change your life forever!
Luxuriating in Him
After some time, I laid down on the little couch and just luxuriated in Him. The presence of the person of the Holy Spirit seemed to penetrate every fiber of my being. This was Jesus. This was the actual presence of God. This is what He desires – just to be with us. I am not sure how long I waited in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. I did not want to move. There was no need to think. There was a knowing that I was just to be with Him. I wept. I laughed. I smiled. I was His. He was mine.
The Lord did not speak to me. He did not make any requests. He just wanted to be with me. The Holy Spirit just wanted to have fellowship with me. I was no longer concerned about the cares of this world. The Spirit of God became my world. For a divine segment of time, I was in harmony with the Lord. There was no need to pray. There was nothing that I needed. I was at total peace, because I had Him. I was accepted by God just the way that I was. At that moment I was still pretty much a big mess, and my life was in disarray. But that did not seem to matter to God. He loved me just the way I was, and it seemed as if I had touched heaven for a fleeting moment of time. A few years later, in Kelowna, British Columbia, in December 2004 the Lord began the process of teaching me about communion with the Holy Spirit.
It must have been several hours later that the Lord spoke to me, breaking the silence and peace that surpassed my ability to understand. The Holy Spirit said, “Are you ready now?” In hind sight, I wish that I had told the Lord that I just wanted to stay with Him and just be in His presence. However, I also knew that the Lord had a plan for this special time. In my mind, I believed that the Lord wanted me to read the book Good Morning Holy Spirit that Margret had given me(see Dancing With Angels 1: How To Work With The Angels In Your Life, Chapter 4: Prophesying About Angels). I said, “I am ready, Lord.” I sat up on the couch and then moved to the small sink and splashed some cold water on my face. I could sense angels in abundance. Then I walked over to my little pack. It held my trusty King James Bible and the book by Benny Hinn. I was sure that the Lord wanted me to read the book Good Morning Holy Spirit.
Wrong Book
When I reached into the pack, the Lord said, “I have brought you here to teach you some things.” “Do you want me to read the book?” I asked. Suddenly, I had a knowing that I was to read the book of Acts instead. This was the unction of the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Holy Spirit said, “I wrote the book of Acts and I am going to teach you from the book of Acts.” My mind began to whirl as I wondered what it meant to be “taught by the Holy Spirit.” At the time, this seemed to be perfectly normal to me, so I accepted the Holy Spirit’s offer without hesitation. I took the trusty King James Bible (the same one that had been blasted off of my chest by the heavenly ball of fire just a few nights before) and sat down at the small table near the wood stove. It was cozy and warm.
Amazingly, when I set the Bible down, it supernaturally opened to the title page of the book of Acts. I smiled. At that instant I sensed that an angel had moved his hands from the pages of my trusty King James Bible. He smiled at me and vanished. Every hair on my body stood on end. It appeared that this angel was working in harmony and in symphony with the plans of the Holy Spirit to minister to me. This fact gave me a real peace and a supernatural revelation about the Kingdom of God. I stared at the spot where I had just perceived the angel standing for a fleeting moment, but only the brilliant red of the Canadian sunset filtered hazily through the window there. The Holy Spirit began to speak to me in a very clear and direct manner. When the person of the Holy Spirit began to teach me I immediately put the angel I had sensed out of my mind. However, I was aware of the fact that there were a lot of angels in the cabin with us. In fact, it seemed that a lot of angels were also coming down from heaven into the cabin. I could also sense that angels were going up into the heavens from the little cabin. This was, of course, all new to me. I just embraced what I was discerning during this time with the Holy Spirit. A few months later I also experienced a very dramatic and tangible angelic visitation of this kind involving open heavens and angelic activity. This experience is illustrated in great detail in Chapter 6: Angels And The Lamb Of God, in my previous book, Dancing With Angels 1: How To Work With The Angels In Your Life.
Over the course of the next two days the Holy Spirit spoke to me and taught me – line by line, and verse by verse – through the entire book of Acts. As I would read each scripture the Holy Spirit would elaborate on the text. At times, He would ask me questions. At other times, I would ask Him questions, and the Lord would give me gentle and insightful answers to my questions. During this process I began to become very comfortable with speaking to the person of the Holy Spirit on a personal basis. I was learning to recognize His voice clearly. It seemed to be totally normal to be sitting and supernaturally speaking to the person of the Holy Spirit. Most of the time, I spoke to Him in an audible voice. It seemed that, after a time, He also responded and dialoged with me in an audible manner. Honestly, I am not sure. However, I am sure that the Lord spoke to me clearly and precisely teaching me various aspects and intricacies about the entire book of Acts. The ability to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit is another fruit of an open heaven.
Meeting The Person of the Holy Spirit
When I would become tired, I would ask the Lord if it was ok if I took a break. The person of the Holy Spirit taught me late into the night during this period. So I grew fatigued at times, and I would lay down and occasionally doze off. In each instance, the Lord would continue to instruct me in my dreams, and I actually dreamed about the events that were depicted in the book of Acts. So, the Lord continued to instruct me in the night season (see Job 33:15,16). I came to understand, years later, that ‘God dreams’ are also the fruit of an open heaven. Several of those dreams were about the season that the Apostle Paul was sequestered with the Lord in the desert of Arabia. Amazingly, I walked with Paul in my dreams. Paul told me how he received his revelation of Christ and the gospel that he preached. It was not given to him by a man. He had supernatural revelation before he met the Apostle Peter and James, the Lord’s brother, some five years later in Jerusalem. He was given knowledge by the person of the Holy Spirit, and by the Lord Jesus Himself in the desert. Paul was taught about the Lord’s supper, or the communion table, by Christ Himself. Lord willing, I will share some of this information and revelation that I was given by the person of the Holy Spirit in a subsequent book about the life of the Apostle Paul (see Galatians 1:10-12, 1 Corinthians 11:23).
It was the person of the Holy Spirit that helped to teach Paul while he was in the Arabian desert for three years. Of course, Paul did not have the gospels for the Holy Spirit to teach him from. However, Paul did have the Torah. And the Holy Spirit taught the Apostle Paul about the ministry of Christ, the Messiah, through the writings of the prophets and the Old Testament in a very similar manner that Jesus taught His disciples on the road to Emmaus. The Apostle Paul did possess personal scrolls or parchments that contained segments and books of the Old Testament teachings while he was sequestered with the Lord in the Arabian Desert. He most certainly studied these with the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit. Remember that Saul, who was transformed into Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit shortly after his salvation (see Acts 9:17,18).
We see that kind of supernatural teaching outlined in life of the resurrected Christ in Luke 24: 27-32: And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded (taught) to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” (insert mine) This is another example of the open heaven that was upon Jesus impacting other ordinary people in the immediate area.
This is the nature of our God. When we draw close to God, He will always draw close to us. This happened to Paul, it happened to Jesus, it happened to Cleopas on the road to Emmaus, and, in some very small way, it happened to me at Daisy’s little cabin in the wilderness. The person of the Holy Spirit visited me. He taught me, and instructed me, about the events depicted in the book of Acts. Those supernatural happenings, as written by the Apostle Luke, became a live within my spirit. The ascension, the angels, the resurrections, the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, the Pentecost’s (plural), the miracles, the persecutions, the prayer meetings, the prophetic decrees, the extravagant giving, the brotherhood of the believers, the expansion of the ministry, the martyrs, the evangelism, the translations, the demonstrations of God’s power, the unbelievable conversion of Saul, and Saul’s transformation, the signs and wonders, the angelic ministry and the Macedonian calls, the visions, the acts of prophetic obedience to God, the growing pains of the church, the angelic interventions, the missions trips, the discipleship of young men, the signs and wonders in prison, the visitations of Jesus, the visitations of angels, the visitations of the Holy Spirit, the riots and violence sparked by the opposition to the Gospel, the grace and favor of God, the calls to the nations, the deceptions and plots, the standing before Kings and leaders, the trials, the shipwrecks, the perils, the cost to serve Christ with truth and an uncompromising spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit to protect us from harm, the pouring out of our lives as a drink offering to honor our King…it all became very real to me.
Acts Today
I understood that we are still writing the book of acts. We are still living the book of Acts. Jesus is alive and He has truly given us power! The events of the book of Acts took on life in my spirit, in my world and in my sphere of influence. They are real, and those same kinds of supernatural experiences are still available to you and me today. It is not a history book, as some intellectuals propagate. The book of Acts was no longer a logos or written word to me. The book of Acts became a living word in my heart and in my spirit; it became a rhema word. The book of Acts is still unfolding today. We can still live it, we can still experience it, and we can still walk in the same kinds of signs and wonders depicted by Luke in the book of Acts.
That was the fruit of the ministry of the Holy Spirit to me in the wilderness of Newfoundland. The Holy Spirit opened the heavens over my life. He opened up the reality of Christ’s Kingdom within my heart. He birthed within me a passion, and a faith, for the things hoped for but not yet seen. The precious Holy Spirit became a real person to me, and when I opened my heart and invited Him to enter, He transformed my life. He did this by opening the heavens for me. The Holy Spirit opened the heavens that are within my heart or within me. Then the Holy Spirit opened the heavens over my life and sphere of influence. He did that by opening and expounding upon the scriptures for me. God Himself did this for me. God Himself will do this for you also. Later on, I found the passage of scripture that so eloquently describes this type of ministry of the Holy Spirit just as Christ promised. In John 14: 26 it says: “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
Walking in Acts
After about 60 or so hours of walking through the book of Acts with the Holy Spirit, the Lord finally said, “Do you have any other questions?” At that moment I was in a state of shock. I guess you could say that I was ‘blown away’ by the Spirit of God. I was reeling as I sought to process the enormity of the massive amount of information and revelation that had been poured out upon me during that supernatural and enchanting time. So I said, “No, Lord.” When I did, the presence of the Holy Spirit lifted to a great degree, and the Lord said, “Now you can read my friend’s book.” I decided to get some fresh air first, and stepped out once more into the cool of the day.
I took a long walk in the evening as the sun began to set over the lake nearby. The blood red Canadian sunset turned the frozen lake into God’s own personal canvas. The colors that reflected from it, at that moment, were fantastic and spectacular to imbibe with my eyes. As I breathed in the fresh, crisp, clean air it felt as if I had also been made fresh and clean. Again, it seemed as if the Holy Spirit was walking beside me. I looked, on more than one occasion, for footprints in the snow, but found none. As the crisp winter winds whipped off the frozen snow covered lake, it seemed that the zephyrs carried the gentle voices of angels singing in some unknown tongue. As I walked from time to time, I caught glimpses of the angels that seemed to be dancing around me as I promenaded in the cool of the evening. This fact no longer surprised me. Rather, it brought a smile to my face and a peace into my spirit. I understood that angels were always nearby, and that they are my friends and fellow servants of Christ Jesus.
Later, I returned to Daisy’s little cabin and stoked the fire. Then I settled onto the little couch and began to read the book Good Morning Holy Spirit. I read it in less than 24 hours, and I was astonished to discover that Benny Hinn had a very similar experience with the person of the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Holy Spirit had also taught him from the book of Acts in a similar fashion as to what I had just experienced. This revelation both stunned me and also delighted me, simultaneously. The Father, in His wisdom, had sent along with me, into the wilderness of Newfoundland, the very confirmation of the supernatural experiences that I was to walk through. Needless to say, those few days alone with the person of the Holy Spirit, and in the presence of God, had a profound effect upon my life by opening the heavens within me.
America and Brass Heavens
When I returned to America I would often lay upon my bed and meditate late into the night about the things I experienced in Daisy’s little cabin. Over the years, I have written and pondered these events in my heart over and over again. I have sought the Lord for more revelation, and He has been faithful to give it to me. During my seasons of prayer and fasting concerning these things, I have come to many conclusions about these supernatural events. I have come to understand that one of the ministries of the Holy Spirit is to ‘make heaven real’ to people. The Holy Spirit is assigned to make the person of Christ Jesus real to people. He is responsible for revealing and establishing Christ’s Kingdom on earth. The Holy Spirit is The Agent of true revival upon the earth today (see John 14:26-28).
An important mission and ministry of the Holy Spirit is to open the heavens over a person’s life. That is the dynamic that I experienced while I was in Newfoundland. This ministry of the Holy Spirit was illustrated by the experience that I have just shared about my time in Daisy’s little cabin. As the presence of the Holy Spirit begins to abide upon a person, it has the benefit of simultaneously opening the heavens over their life.
When the heavens open over our lives, it is easy for Christ’s Kingdom to come, and for us to fulfill the mandate of Matthew 6: 10: Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. The reason for this is that we carry God’s Kingdom within us and over us, in the supernatural form of an open heaven. When the heavens open within our heart, and over someone’s life, there is always a remarkable and dramatic increase in the amount of angelic activity in their life and sphere of influence. Remember that one of Jesus Christ’s primary objectives and missions on earth was to rend open the heavens over mankind. So, one important way to increase your ability to ‘see’ angels is to ‘rend’ the heavens over your life.
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