Monday, February 2, 2015

Your Coming Reunion

Recently, I was invited to preach in a church here in Oregon.  During worship, I saw an image that was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. I was shown the arrival of a believer into eternity.  There was immense joy within the image.  Jesus approached this new arrival with a smile on His face. Following Him was a large crowd of people coming with Him to greet the one who had just arrived.

In this crowd were the parents and a sibling of this person.  Also in the crowd was an aborted child they had never met.  The child was smiling like Jesus. There was no sense of anger or judgment in the eyes of anyone in the vision.  The past and all it’s pain was covered under the sacrifice of Christ. Also present in the approaching crowd were those whom this person had seen as enemies during their lifetime. These former enemies were now approaching as friends.

As I watched the image develop it was all I could do to keep from breaking down and weeping at the beauty of what I was seeing.  As the worship ended, I stood and ministered what I had seen.  As I shared the details of the image, the Lord began to move powerfully bringing freedom to the people in the sanctuary.

Paul wrote that death has no victory and no sting for those who put their eternal destiny in the hands of Jesus Christ. The scripture also tells us that to be absent from our body is to be present with the Lord. Between the moment of our physical death and our entry into eternity there will be no measurable moment of time. Time is where sorrow has the ability to be birthed and express itself in a life held captive by fear and bondage. None of this will take place in pure and timeless eternity.

To prepare for your passing God has removed the element of time and replaced it with a swift supernatural passage that violates the constraints of time. There will be no long dark tunnels with a light at the end or a lingering in some netherworld place. The face of Jesus will be the first image you see as you make your crossover.  The promise of seeing His face as the first image in your passing is why death and the grave are to be seen in this life as defeated fear mongers.

Some of you are carrying a sorrow over what has taken place in your life. Some of these things are now beyond your ability to correct or make amends for because those involved are now gone. This sorrow is robbing you of the joy of your approaching appointment with eternity. God is the Restorer of all things – including the sorrow and regret you now carry over those unresolved issues.  The Lord wants you to know nothing is beyond the touch of His love and restoration including those things you were unable to reconcile in this life.




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