Open Door in Heaven, The Presence of God; Our Need for Jesus! Prophetic Encounter- Greg Lancaster
God speaks to His people, and He reveals His plans to us. “For God does speak—now one way, now another—though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on the people as they slumber in their beds.” Job 33:14-15 Many people had dreams that are written about in the Bible of what would take place in their lives. In the last days, the Bible says that we will have dreams and visions. This is the language of God! Not every dream is from God but the ones that are, are so amazing! Greg shares a dream that he had, and it is an encouraging encounter!
Greg is at VFN Dream Center as he shares this encounter he had with God. He starts speaking of the details of one dream. He was riding along in a car and talking to people about what God is doing, and they were not listening. He said that he wanted to go do what God was going to do and he said that Pat (Hamilton) would go. There were racial tensions going on in our nation in the dream. Then he started going up in the air and kept going up higher and higher. He thought about his family then he realized God had his family. He goes through a cloud, and then he ends up by a door that was just a regular door, and when he opened it up, it was a room full of cabinets, which was God saying that He was going to open earthly “doors” and that God is reestablishing His cabinet.
Greg says that he is sharing about a holy door, not an earthly door like in the dream above. A door like what is talked about in Revelation 4, “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven.” And this door leads to the throne room of God written about in Isaiah 6.
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.”
There is something about coming into the presence and holiness of God that we become aware of our state! God draws near to us, but we must adjust our lives, He won’t adjust to us, and Jesus made a way for us to be right before God! Isaiah continues, “And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” It is amazing that what Isaiah thought about at the throne of God was what he had been saying with his mouth. Greg talks about the Brownsville Revival and how it was amazing that many Pastors were saved at that revival. The ones who knew the scripture and professed to know God. Even the Pharisees had the Bible memorized and they were the ones who plotted to have Jesus killed. And, our words matter, what we say! We must be careful what we say and speak good things over situations and people. God speaks good things over us.
Even the angels covered their eyes in God’s presence, but Isaiah looked at God and lived. Isaiah’s encounter with the throne room of God continues, “Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.” Isaiah’s encounter was before Jesus had died as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.
We must remember that when God reveals Himself to not run from Him. When He reveals Himself and reveals sin in our lives, it is to give us an opportunity to get right with Him. God knows about our sin condition, and we can decide to leave our life of sin! Isaiah continues, “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” God is always looking for those who will go and tell others about Jesus. That is what Jesus did when He was on the earth, “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” What must happen before you go and tell others about Jesus, you must encounter a holy God!
Isaiah allowed God to deal with his sin and we must be willing to deal with the sin in our lives. The enemy must constantly create new ways for people to sin because there is no lasting pleasure in sin. Our eyes are comparable to a black hole, which a black hole can never get enough. Your eye will never get enough! At some point, you must say that you will stop looking at whatever you are looking at because your eyes will never be satisfied. The Word of God calls this the lust of the eye. “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” And Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.” If what you are doing with your eyes is leading you to sin, instead of gouging your eyes out, take out that thing in your life that leads you astray. It could be anything that causes you to lust after something that is not yours, which is a sin! It is way easier to take out that thing, whether a show, secular news, the internet, your computer, phone, TV, etc., rather than to take out your eye.
There is nothing that fits in the presence of God, other than God! Not your religion, not your good works, not your possessions, not your ideas these things are only relevant if you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior. He is the only way to get to God. You don’t want to show up in heaven with nothing but Jesus! You can read our stories and how we came to make Jesus our Lord and Savior at Meet My Father. When you hear the full word be sure to ask God to reveal His throne room to you too! This puts everything into perspective since those of us that are saved will spend eternity in heaven. We want to be ready for the day that we will be at the judgment seat in heaven. You can get this full message at VFNKB Special Offers to hear the full word and be encouraged! We want to hear from you, you can write to us at [email protected]. Greg and John shared in this segment.
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