Gems from Heaven

One day as I was fasting and praying, I looked at the wall in my room, and it opened up. What I then saw was Heaven, and it was so breath-taking and beautiful that I gasped out loud when I saw it.

I saw the throne room of the Almighty. It was lit up so brightly that it shone as the sun, but yet it did not hurt my eyes to look at it. I saw streets of Gold leading to it, Gold so pure and clear that it looked as though I was looking into clear glass instead of looking at the streets of Heaven.

I saw pillars surrounding the throne room. These pillars are quite large. They are pillars that are embedded with the most precious of gems, gems so pure that the brilliance of light coming from the throne room shone on them, causing them to sparkle as the stars in the sky sparkle on a clear summers evening.

I looked on in amazement at the Beauty of the Lord that was now surrounding me. I looked to my left and I saw beautiful fields of flowers, small flowers of all colors, gently blowing in the breeze of the Spirit of the Living God. As the breeze reached me, I caught the fragrance of the Lord as I had captured it so many other times when He was near me.

I breathed in deeply, savoring every moment of the sweet fragrance of the Lord that was now upon me. I felt the gentle breeze of His Spirit touch my cheek as a kiss from my Beloved's lips.

I looked to my right, and I saw my Lord approaching. He sat high upon a white horse, a horse so big, so muscular that it was intimidating to look at. The muscles in this horse's legs and back rippled as my Beloved rode toward me.

I saw that His horse was wearing cuffs around his legs toward the bottom. The cuffs that are on his legs have small Golden tassles on them, and are also embedded with precious gems. His horse's mane is whiter than snow, with Golden threads woven through it. This horse rode with pre-ordained purpose. There is no doubt in my mind that this horse belonging to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, is a Warrior horse, having seen many, many battles with the One Whom sits upon him and conquers all.

Behind my Lord is an Army. It is all of Heaven backing Him up at His beck and call. Thousands upon thousands of warriors ride into battle with the One Whom leads them, leading them nowhere but to Victory.

As my Lord approaches me, He slows His horse. The thousands of warriors, The Army of The One, comes to a halt behind Him. He slowly circles around me, His horse panting hard. I look into my Lords eyes, seeing the FIRE in them quickly change to eyes filled with such Love, so much Love that I feel my knees grow weak.

My Lord stops, and in the blink of an eye, is now standing in front of me. I look up into those eyes of Love, and again I catch the fragrance of the Lord as the breeze of His Spirit now engulfs my very being.

He gently takes my hand, and speaks softly, but firmly. "Come with Me, and enter into the throne room." I wanted to melt at the sound of His voice. How could I say no? My heart began to beat fast as I took a step toward my Lord, and accepted His invitation.

As we begin to walk toward the throne room, I am again aware of the breeze that now follows us as we walk, only this time, the breeze is charged with Power coming from on High. I feel light-headed as I step closer to my God, the Power with-in Him causing every cell in my body to tingle. 

As we reach the throne room, I softly weep, taken aback by the Glory of the Lord that is now spread out before my eyes. I cling tighter to my Lord's hand, too afraid that if I close my eyes for only a moment, that I will miss the Splendour of His Beauty that He has brought me in to.

I feel as though the floor has dropped out beneath me. My Lord gently pulls me up, holding me closer to Him, having me stand in His Strength alone. I catch my breath at the sight that lay before me. I feel the Power with-in the throne room enter in to me, and I stood with the Lord in new determination.

All of my worries, my fears, my doubt are removed from me, taken by the Lord, Himself. I quickly understand that He wants me to relax in His Presence,  so I yield to the unspoken understanding of what it is that He is wanting from me. I only wish to please my Lord, and be obedient to His leading.

We slowly walk forward, stopping mid way in to the room. I look around me, and I see the room is busy with Admiration and Worship for the One Whom just entered in. I sense more than I see winged creatures, circling around the throne at such a high speed that they appear as just a white flash in my eyes.

I hear the voices of thousands of Angelic Beings, singing and declaring the Holiness of the Lord. I look around me at the brillance of the gems that are embedded with-in the walls of the throne room. Their brillance as they shine bounce off of the Gold that I see with-in the room as well. It truly is a room fit for a King, a room so large that it could have been a mansion, itself!

The Lord leads me to a table, and as I look up upon the wall, I see my enemies. I see that the table is prepared for me before my enemies. The Lord waves His hand, and the image of my enemies disappears, replaced by images of the Kingdom of God, filled with Beauty and Peace. My soul rests at the understanding of what it is that the Lord has done.

We approach the table, and the Lord lifts a Gold cup to His lips. He drinks from it, and then passes it to me. I drink from the cup, tasting the sweetness of the Lord upon it. The Lord smiles at me as He places the cup back on the table. Again I just want to melt at the smile coming from Him as I look up intently upon His face.

I look down at the table, and I see a bowl in the middle of it. The bowl is filled with the most precious gems known to man. The Lord reaches for the bowl, and as He puts His hands into it, He scoops a large amount of the gems up, holding them in mid-air above the bowl.

My eyes are on the gems in His hands, and as He releases them to fall back down in to the bowl, they fall slowly, as if in slow motion. I see the gems sparkle as they fall downward toward the bowl, and as they hit the bowl, I can hear the ping of the gems as they return to the place where He had taken them from.

I then saw the Lord wave His hand toward the wall again, and as I looked on the wall, I saw Nations upon Nations that the Lord has His hand upon. I saw my own state as well, and my Nation. As I was watching the wall, it moved with all of the Nations as well as my own state and Nation.

I saw the Lord wave His hand again, and the Nations as well as my own state and Nation were now under our feet. I looked down at the floor, as though watching a movie. I could see various different Nations moving as the Lord moved. I also saw other Nations that were still and not moving, as they struggled to move without the hand of the Lord upon them.

I saw the Lord take a handful of the gems again, and this time He held them out toward the Nations under His hand. As He slowly released the gems, again they moved as if in slow motion.  I saw the gems falling, landing on Nation after Nation, my own included.

As the gems reached their destinations, I could see Revival breaking out at the Hand of the Lord. I saw a sprinkling of Gold dust fall slowly after the gems, adding to the FIRE of the Revival breaking out that was now spreading across the Nations. I saw gems fall upon people that I knew, and rejoiced that the hand of the Lord was upon them!

As I stood before the Lord and wept, I understood that Revival is coming to the Nations! I understood that He wants to do so much more than what He already is doing! I understood that as the floor closed up after this vision, that I had just witnessed the start of something so much bigger than we have ever imagined!

Later that night as I was getting ready to lay my head down for the night, I caught a glimpse of something sparkling out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head toward it, and saw a diamond sparkling. This diamond was so large that I couldn't help but smile. Yes, I had witnessed a great out-pouring of the Lords favor, as well as precious Gems from Heaven!

- Written by M M Scanlon, inspired by the Holy Ghost

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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...