RHEMA 2/15/02 THE PORTHOLE TO HEAVEN & THE WILDERNESS

PIX: Wayne saw a picture of a wide flat plain with a porch and a door there, way out in the middle of nowhere.

I thought the dry flat plain was an interesting connection to my trance vision of the wilderness.  I felt these things were all connected and the following scriptures are quickened.

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” (Isa 40:3-5 KJV)

The Word "Porthole" is scriptural, both in the OT and NT:

 Gen 28:12-17

Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: "I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. 14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."  16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it." 17 And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate {8179}  of heaven!"

OT:8179  DOOR OR GATE

sha`ar (shah'-ar); from OT:8176 in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate:

KJV - city, door, gate, port (X -er).

Rev 4:1 nkjv

After these things I looked, and behold, a door {2374} standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."

NT:2374 PORTAL OR ENTRANCE

NT:2374 thura (thoo'-rah); apparently a primary word [compare "door"]; a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively):

 KJV - door, gate.

CONFIRMATIONS UPDATE: Elijah list posted on 3/5 and 3/6 about the portholes, from John Paul Jackson and Pat Cocking.

WORD TO PONDER 2/15/02 THE PORTHOLE DOOR TO THE THRONE

Many years ago you gave your life to Me and followed me into the dry desert of a thirsty and flattened land. The valleys in your life were raised and the mountains were brought low, your crooked places were made straight and the rough places were made flat. There you prepared a place for Me. And there you sang to Me and gave me your all. There you pursued until you lay still before My feet, spent in your exhaustion of pursuit. Oh My love, how you have touched My heart.

And now I have kissed you with My Presence and brought hope to life once again. I will raise you up. I will place you before the door, the porthole to heaven's throne. This is a special door, for when you walk through it, it shall fulfill your every heart's desire. I AM your door.

"But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her out into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. 15 I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt. "In that coming day," says the LORD, "you will call me `my husband' instead of `my master.' 17 O Israel, I will cause you to forget your images of Baal; even their names will no longer be spoken. 18 At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and the birds and the animals that scurry along the ground so that they will not harm you. I will remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, so you can live unafraid in peace and safety. 19 I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion. 20 I will be faithful to you and make you mine, and you will finally know me as LORD. (Hos 2:14-20 NLT)

OPENING THE PORTHOLE TO HEAVEN

~ What the Lord told me when I received the Baptism of the Spirit ~

When people receive the gift of speaking in tongues, not everyone receives in the same way. For myself, I went to kids camp in my teens and was prayed over to receive what they called the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5) I was supposed to feel the Holy Spirit come upon me, then speak in tongues. I felt nothing when they prayed. I was expecting some bolt of lightening to come down from the sky and hit me in a whoosh of the Holy Spirit. But they simply prayed, and I simply thanked Jesus like they told me to do.

However, an hour later as I lay in my bunk bed, little foreign sounding syllables popped into my mind. So, I spoke them with my head under the pillow. It was one sentence. My counselor told me that could happen, and to be faithful to practice my new language and it would grow. So that is what I did. I spoke my one sentence faithfully for about a year! To this day, I still remember that sentence.

Then one day I was driving to school singing a popular love song along with the radio, and the second verse was sung in French. So I started singing my own pretend "French" to the words. By the end of the song, I had a complete and wonderful language, only I didn't know it! However, every time I sang that song I would sing it in my "pretend language" even when they were singing in English. It sounded so beautiful I didn't want to sing it in English. Then one day I started singing other popular love songs of the day in the same way. Then the realization hit me, I was doing what the Bible called "singing in the Spirit"! (1 Corinthians 14:15) "Wow! Is this finally the expansion of my new language?" So I stopped singing and just spoke it. Sure enough, there was a full blown language!

Now, not everyone will struggle as hard as I did. The reason it took me so long was because of doctrinal currents against me. I was told speaking in tongues was of the devil and that the occult speaks in tongues. It didn't seem to connect with me that Paul in the Bible spoke in tongues all the time. (1 Corinthians 14:18) The only reason I had the courage to receive it, was because of the loving counsel of a dear lady who shined with the love of God. I felt that if she could love me like that, and she spoke in tongues, then she certainly wasn't of the devil. Simply put, I knew the devil couldn't love and she was no devil.

Since that time long ago, now that I am fluent in the spiritual gifts, I have come to realize that the devil can not create. Only God can create. The devil only mimics, only copies the real thing. So of course the occult speaks in tongues, that's because God created the real speaking in tongues!

I have received a couple of wonderful confirmations about speaking in tongues. One time I was praying in tongues and in English over people I'd met on the Internet and I saw a picture-vision of a flat bed truck driven by 2 angels. On the flat bed truck were a whole bunch of packages, each wrapped and looking exactly like the size of bricks. The Lord told me I was dispatching supplies. So I asked Him what those bricks were. He said, "Each individual prayer." Then a few days later I listened to a tape where a man was given a vision that every time he spoke in tongues, he saw packages the size of bricks come down from heaven that were deposited inside of him. When they were deposited, he felt a strengthening of his inner man. He was praying supplies for himself. So, not only did the Lord confirm that my praying in tongues was praying in supplies to others, but at the same time, I was praying in supplies for myself.

I have an interesting story about praying in supplies for others. Remember that one little sentence I mentioned when I first received tongues? When I shared it with Anna, my Mom, who also had been indoctrinated against tongues, she said it sounded like Spanish and looked it up in her Spanish dictionary. She was so surprised at the meaning, she also sought and received the Baptism of the Spirit.

Twenty-five years after that, having completely forgotten its meaning, Anna happened to ask me if I still remembered my one little sentence. I spoke what I remembered and she again looked up the words in her old Spanish dictionary, and this is what she found; my sentence was translated, "Door of a port hole released. They eat with Daddy." This was my commission from the beginning. I didn't know I was repeating a request thousands upon thousands of times. I was bombarding heaven and didn't even know it! I believe part of that fulfillment is the opened doors to teaching others how God speaks. It is a good lesson in the importance of tongues.

THE PORTHOLE: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE ARE GOING

The Lord sent His bride out into the wilderness. He has been bringing down the mountains and bringing up the valleys, and making the smooth pathway in the desert without the stumbling stones, flat, straight... building a holy highway of God. She has been singing there, and coming forth out of that place leaning on her Beloved. In the process, her relationship with Him has been turning from serving Him as Master to intimacy with Him as Husband. Entering that gateway, into intimacy with Him is what the heavenly porthole is all about.

Hos 2:14-16 NKJV

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there,as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me'My Husband,' And no longer call Me 'My Master.'

Isa 40:3-5 NKJV

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth; The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

Isa 57:14 NKJV

And one shall say,"Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."

Isa 62:10 NKJV

0 Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, lift up a banner for the peoples!

Song 8:5 NKJV

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother brought you forth; There she who bore you brought you forth.

RHEMA 7/06/10 THE PORTHOLE OF MY HEART BEAT

HEARD: Shaft of light.

HEARD: I heard a heart beating.

HEARD: What is it? It's a porthole. I am standing at the door.

VISION: I saw some electrical charges in the porthole and then I saw some fireworks in the sky.

John 13:23-25 NKJV

Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

WORD TO PONDER: THE PORTHOLE OF MY HEART BEAT 7/06/10

Wanting continual access, you seek to hear and see and understand what I AM doing. Precious, I know how you strive to walk through the threshold of heaven's door, but always remember John, My beloved. He simply laid his head upon My bosom as he supped. He loved My heartbeat. He loved being close to Me. Learn from him, for in the intimacy of simply drawing close to Me, I will open the porthole for you. As you draw close, My Light comes and charges you with My power and strength. As you draw close, My promised liberty sets your soul free.

Gal 5:1-2 NKJV

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

INSERT VISIONS ON THE WILDERNESS, THE FLAT DESERTED PLAIN

A Highway of God

In the 1980's I had many visions of building a highway. Anna, Wayne and myself, and others were building this highway. At first we were digging with our bare hands, removing the stumbling stones. As the visions progressed we received larger and more sophisticated equipment and plowed our way through to help build this road.

TRANCE VISION 1985 - THE COWS ARE COMING:

I was standing next to Jesus and looking down from heaven at this bull. It was running the most beautiful, smooth gait, full speed across this vast flat desert. As I watched, in the distance behind me, I saw all these cattle running across the desert in the same path. They were running like a wild clamor. It was kind of funny and cute and very noisy. Then I was in the bull's body and realized the bull was me. As I pulled to a halt, there were all these people in jogging/track clothes. They had been running. We were on a track. The track coach reported to me and said. "I think they are all going to be OK, but I am concerned about this one."

I knew this person. As I looked at him, his legs were all cramped and buckling. I took his legs and stretch them and commanded In Jesus Name that his muscles relax and obey. Then I worked them carefully. That was the end of that vision.

But in real life, later after asking about him, I found out that he had tried to commit suicide. He slit both wrists and someone found him before he died. When he lived, he became a sold out Christian and has a deep faith now.

VISION: I had another vision where I was herding the cattle to a new land. Anna was with me, and she was bringing up the rear. In one scene, we were underground as though in a tomb waiting for the cattle to come. Suddenly their thundering noise came overhead and we knew they were arriving.

TRANCE VISION 1980'S: THREE JAVELINS

I has in heaven and Jesus was standing next to me. I saw much of my life pass before me starting when I was 16. (That was when I gave my life completely to Him and read the Bible for the first time, although I prayed most of my life and was raised to trust Him.) One scene I was hovering over our old kitchen and watching Anna & myself preparing food together in the kitchen. We looked exactly like we did at that time. And it was interesting to me to see us so vivid and alive and looking so young.

Another scene I was in heaven, Jesus pointed towards the desert and told me to look. I was looking out on a vast brown desert area and I saw this isolated javelin sticking in the earth. I was very excited when I saw this and said “I remember when I threw that!” I knew that somehow I had hit the mark and followed Him out there in the middle of the dry desert.

When I came out of the vision, I knew it had taken me since I was 16 to throw the javelin that far. It was my journey of following Him into the wilderness where I have learned to lean upon My Beloved.

I have had many visions and experiences where I have been with Jesus, but I have never got to look straight into His eyes. Some time later I thought very deeply about the ramifications it would have on my loved ones for me to see Jesus face to face. I somehow felt they would feel left out so I told the Lord I wanted them to come too. He heard my prayer and I saw the same javelin in the same place, only now there were 2 others there. One on my right, and one on my left.

That prayer became a landmark sacrifice that began what the Lord called “the ministry of waiting for your brethren.” I sobbed that night when I saw them. It was a deep pain of sacrifice and yet I was still willing and meant what I'd prayed. It's been many years now and I still long for Him as ever.

WORD TO PONDER: I WAIT TOO 12/24/02

My beloved one, how you have pleased My heart. I taught you how to have a relationship with Me, one of increasing enlargement. This has been through loving abasement. And in the same manner that I have taught you, you have turned and shared with others the same road. As you have freely giving what I have given you, you have also given unto Me a greater ministry. The ministry of travail.

What you do not understand is in your waiting for Me to perform exactly what I have promised and in your waiting for your loved ones to join you, you have been one in Me. I have given you a piece of My heart, the one that groans and travails in great longings of love. For even as you wait and trust Me for those you love, you know My own heart. It is what I do. I waited for you. I waited for them. I waited for the world. And now you know. How I love and groan to embrace them as My own. I want them with Me for eternity.

Thank You dear one for trusting Me to be Who I say I AM and trusting that I will perform exactly what I have promised. Yes sometimes the groanings are deep with sorrow and unrequited love. You sometimes wonder if the waiting will be worth it. One day you shall look Me in the eye and you will know that it is all about love. And then you shall know Me even as you are known.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor 13:11-13 NKJV)

TRANCE VISION: The following is a vision of gazing wonder the Lord gave me as quoted from my journal: “When I went to sleep on November 14, 1985, I had a strong yearning for Jesus. As I slept, He came to me and opened my eyes. I saw a huge, gigantic banner unfolding across the sky. It said, “THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” Suddenly I found myself in heaven looking down upon a vast desert. It was dry, brown, flat, and immense. As I gazed upon the lifeless desert, someone was standing above and behind me declaring the scroll of Isaiah 35:

“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold your God will come with vengeance; He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water...” (Isaiah 35 KJ)

After Isaiah 35 had been announced, I heard the Lord say, “And the desert shall blossom as a rose. It shall happen all at once, and it shall happen suddenly.” Immediately I saw the desert come to life. The sight was astounding and oh so beautiful! Everywhere blossoms emerged: this dry, lifeless region became a spacious garden of color and beauty. Then I came out of the gazing vision. As I woke, I was still in awe of what I'd seen, because it was so beautiful. I knew the Lord was speaking a promise of what He would be doing to our dry desert like lives. He was going to rain His Presence upon us and we would emerge with life and beautiful blossoms.”