The Visitation

Shortly after I was filled with the Holy Spirit, I began a whole new way of worshiping Jesus. I felt good praying to the Lord in tongues, and was confident that He was hearing my prayers. It was then that I began to earnestly seek His face, asking Him to show Himself to me. What I was asking the Lord for was a visitation from Him. I was asking that He would show Himself to me like He did to the disciples after He was crucified and rose from the dead. He did not disappoint me.

One evening while I was fasting and praying, I again was praying for more of Him. I had a hunger for the Lord that I just could not seem to satisfy no matter how much I read His Word and fellowshipped with Him. I wanted more. I wanted ALL of Him. I wanted to see His Glory. I wanted to see Him face to face. I wanted a good taste of Heaven.

After a couple of hours of prayer, I got up from my couch, and I went into the kitchen to make myself some tea. I got the pan out, filled it with water and put it on the stove to boil. As I was reaching to turn the burner on, I suddenly began to feel every fiber of my being begin to prickle, and I was filled with such an intense feeling, such as I have never felt before in my life.

The feeling is hard to describe, other than to say that I felt as those my insides were tingling so much that I thought for sure that while standing there I was going to crumble the floor. I quickly understood that the Lord was very present, and so I quickly turned the burner off on the stove, and turned to run into my bedroom, which was my prayer closet as well as my 'sanctuary', my meeting place with the Lord. I didn't make it.

I made it as far as my living room, and suddenly the entire room was filled with such a Holiness, such Brilliance, such Glory, that I could no longer stand up. As I reached the middle of the living room, I went down, unable to stand any longer in the Presence of the Holiness that was now in my home.

As I lay on my face on the floor, my entire body was shaking like a leaf on a tree in a bad wind storm. I briefly thought of what it said in God's Word about the Mount of transfiguration, where the disciples were also shaking and trembling at the presence of the Almighty.

As I lay there trembling, eyes tightly squeezed shut, all I could do was start mumbling in tongues, as my mouth was so dry I could barely swallow. Then I heard His voice. As I was laying with eyes tightly shut, I heard Him say, “Open your eyes.” His voice, though soothing, sounded like Mighty Rushing Waters.

At the sound of His voice, I began to tremble even more, squeezing my eyes shut even more tightly than they already were. Again I heard His voice. “Open your eyes.” This time His voice was gentle and sweet, the Mighty Rushing Waters gone. Slowly I opened my eyes, focusing on the floor in front of me.

What I saw made me begin to weep, deep wracking sobs. I was now looking at the bare feet of the Lord Jesus, Himself. As I looked at the feet of my Savior, He extended His hand down toward the floor, and again He spoke. “Take My hand,” He said.

As I looked at His feet, and then His hand, I suddenly felt no fear, only peace. I placed my right hand in His, and He lifted me up off of the floor and onto my feet. As I got up on my feet, I looked at the Lord's feet again, and my eyes slowly rose to meet His face.

He is tall and very muscular. There is nothing small or slight about the God that we serve! His face is beautiful. It shone with the Glory of God, and I was taken aback by our Lord's simple, yet captivating features. His eyes were like none that I had ever seen before at the time.

As I looked Him in the eyes, I was completely lost in them. I could not take my eyes off of Jesus' eyes, they were so very beautiful. As I gazed into my Savior's face, He looked intently upon me. His gaze was as though He could see into my very soul. He had a deep gaze, and His eyes were pouring forth so much love. I have never felt that much love come from a persons gaze, as it did from Jesus'.

Jesus was looking at me with such love that I thought for sure that I would break down and weep uncontrollably. Somehow I didn't. All that I could think of at the time was that I felt so unworthy to be in His very presence, but His eyes spoke it all. “You are worthy.” I heard the Lord say, and I quickly reminded myself to be careful of my thoughts, as I knew that He knew my thoughts before I even knew them.

As I was captivated by His eyes, it seemed like an eternity until He spoke again. “I have come to show you things of the Kingdom. I will teach you things about not only the Kingdom, but also healing. Over the next 30 days, the things that I want you to learn, you will learn directly from Me.” As I was still too stunned to have God standing in my living room, all I could do was nod in agreement with Him.

As I stood there listening to the Lord speak, He began to give me insight and teaching on His Scriptures that pertained to healing. He told me that as I was reading them to look deep within them to get a revelation of what they meant. I asked Him if He would give me Supernatural revelation of His Word, and He assured me that if there was anything that I did not understand, to only ask, and He would supply the revelation Supernaturally.

He spoke for what seemed like hours, and then He again took my hand in His. As He took my hand, I had an instant understanding that He wanted me to dance with Him. As I stepped closer to Him, I could smell the fragrance of the Lord. He smelled so wonderful, like a mixture of spices and flowers.

I breathed in deeply, wanting His fragrance to linger in my senses for as long as possible. I laid my left hand upon His shoulder, and He took my right hand that was in His, and pulled me to Him, so that I was close to His chest. We danced for what seemed an eternity, and I was so completely lost in the closeness of the Lord, that I never wanted that moment to end.

We danced, and it felt as though my feet were floating above the ground, and my head felt as though it were in the clouds. His arms are so strong, yet they held me so very gently. I have never known such love and gentleness in my life! As our dancing slowly came to an end, He extended my right hand outward, and He took a couple of steps back from me.

As I opened my eyes and looked at Him, I knew that He was about to leave, if only for a short time, as he had promised me that He would come everyday for a 30 day period to teach me about His Word and the Kingdom. As He stood a couple of steps back, He looked intently upon me, and He spoke again. This time when He spoke, He spoke with Authority and seriousness. “I want you to STEP into My Authority.” He said.

As I knew that this was a direct command from Him, I slowly began to step forward toward Him. He still had my right hand in His, and as I got closer He took my left hand in His also. Slowly He pulled me toward Him by both hands, all the while looking into my eyes with those beautiful love-filled captivating eyes of His.

I did not take my eyes off of His, nor did I want to. I did not want to take my eyes off of His face. I was afraid that if I took my eyes off of His, that I would miss out on something, or that He would leave and I would miss Him leaving. My eyes were totally riveted to His.

Again I got so close to Him that I could hear His breathing. I could again smell His fragrance as I got even closer to Him. I could feel His breath like a gentle breeze upon my skin. Again He spoke, still looking into my eyes. “I want you to STEP into My Authority,” He repeated. I then understood what He was saying, and I let Him lead the way.

As I gazed into the eyes of my Savior, He gently pulled me closer and closer to Him until I literally felt myself being gently pulled right into the very being of our God. What the Lord had done was pulled me completely with in Himself, until I was completely in Him, and He in me.

As I stood there suddenly realizing that I was in the very midst of God's Glory, I could not help but weep. It was such an awesome experience! It was such a wonderful experience that it is hard to put into words! I wept at the realization of what He had just done, the realization of the Power that I had just walked into. My skin was on FIRE, and I felt as though every cell with in my body was full of electricity.

It dawned on me, that His Authority that I had just literally stepped in to, was part of the very reason why He went to the cross, and why He sent His Spirit, so that ALL of us could STEP INTO His Authority and use it to destroy the works of the devil, just as He did! As I stood there weeping, I could feel a Power that I have never known existed before enter into my body, and I felt completely possessed by the Spirit of God.

All I could do was stand there and submit to it, and receive it with everything that I had with in me. I felt a brilliance of Light enter into my body. I felt more Fire enter into my body. I felt more Supernatural Power enter into my body. Everything about me felt rejuvenated. I finally felt whole, complete. A while later when I finally slowly opened my eyes, the Lord Jesus was gone, but I did not feel sad about that. He had promised that He would be back for a 30 day visit, and I knew that I would be seeing Him again shortly in the morning.

I was so full of the Glory of God, that my head felt detached from my body. I felt like I was floating on the clouds. I was filled with such a feeling of love, and felt so good inside that I thought that for sure my legs would give out on me and I would faint. I made my way back to my couch, where I sat and thought for hours about what had just occurred. I could not help but smile. I had perma-grin!

I thought about how the Lord had danced with me, and I knew without a doubt that our God is also a Romantic Lover of our souls! As I got up from the couch and headed to bed, I knew that I would have a very hard time getting to sleep after my encounter with the Lord. I was also filled with intense anticipation at the realization that He would be back again the next morning.

And so off to bed I went, waiting for my Beloved to return...