Gems From Heaven – Part 2 – What Do They Mean

Since we began to experience the gems, many have asked us what these gemstones mean and what God is saying and doing. I have my own thoughts and opinions, which are by no means the “certified” correct answer, but I do believe I can offer insight into a portion of what God is saying and doing. To begin with, I believe this particular miracle is a bit hard to classify. For example, is it a sign, a wonder, or a miracle? While I suggest that a certain minister operates in a gift of miraculous powers for gemstone apportation, and those around him seem to have it rub off on them, it doesn’t follow the same controllable pattern that many other spiritual gifts follow.

Tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, gifts of healings, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and discernment of spirits can all be engaged to some great extent at-will of the user, and I am a firm believer that if most of the gifts can be used that way, all of the gifts can be used that way. As such, over the past few years I have explored the means by which we engage those other gifts to understand how one might purposefully engage miraculous powers, and more specifically gemstone miracles. I have found that there seems to be little relationship between the appearance of gemstones and our human activity. Jewels appear quite often when we least expect them, not when we are most focused on finding them, although they can appear then too. As such, it is hard to narrowly define as a miracle, although it certainly falls well within the confines of that category. On the other hand, I suggest it is simultaneously a sign and a wonder as well. A sign is pretty straightforward, being an event or action that points to something else, and the gemstones definitely do that. A wonder is possibly more difficult to describe, but seems to be more closely aligned with an action or event that causes us to be more in awe of God.

I believe this gem-sign points to a number of things. In ancient Jewish culture the father of the groom was the one who decided whether the groom was ready to marry his betrothed or not. The groom was required to add a room onto the family house and had to adorn it with sufficient comforts to ensure the wife would be comfortable in her future dwelling. Once the bridegroom’s father felt the groom had sufficiently prepared a place for her, the groom would then go and bring his bride to be with him there. Jesus spoke of this reality in John 14:2-3 where he said “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (NIV)” This statement of his wasn’t random and out of context, but rather his disciples at the time understood that he was speaking of them as being as important to him as though they were his bride. When he would come to collect his bride, he would adorn her with jewels before he would take her to his father’s house to be with her. In the same way, God is adorning us with gems and even settings of gold and silver before bringing us to be with Him. Additional references about God giving jewels to His people, His Bride are as follows: Genesis 24:53, Isaiah 54:11-15, Isaiah 61:10, Jeremiah 2:32, Ezekiel 16:9-14, Zechariah 9:16.

To take this idea one step further, God is not just Jesus’ father, but he is our heavenly Father as well. It was customary in the Middle East, and still happens to this day in some places, where the father of the bride was required to provide a dowry, essentially a payment from the bride’s family to the groom’s to take the bride and ensure she was well-provided for. In the same way, God is sending us literal physical gemstones that we will carry with us into this spiritual marriage with Jesus, our bridegroom.

The second message I see God sharing with us is one of joy. We are God’s children, and we must become like children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Kids have one main job in life and that is to play! Our Father delights in us, his children. Psalm 16:11 says “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand (NIV).” It is an absurd notion if we believe God doesn’t want us to have fun. One of the main objections I have witnessed to this manifestation is that of the staunchly religious and otherwise stuck-in-the-mud people who seem to forget that God started Genesis out by placing his new creations in a garden full of delights in a land titled Pleasure. God is possibly the most hedonistic being of the universe, and wants us to share in his limitless joy! Why send us gems? Why NOT send us gems?? They are so incredibly fun!

The third thing I see God doing is found in 1 Corinthians 2:9, “However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” the things God has prepared for those who love him.” God is able to do far more than we can imagine in our human minds and human thinking, so much so that we’ve never even heard of many of the spectacular things God has planned for us.

In Isaiah 558-9 God says “’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” God is interested in raising our faith. God wants us to have the opportunity to ask and believe for far more than we have ever asked before, and what better way to do that than completely wreck our beliefs and understanding of what God will and won’t do for us.

Fourth, I see this as a manifestation of provision. When we see gems appear, along with the feathers and gold dust I mentioned prior, how can it do anything but raise our belief in a Divine Provider? There is a church down in Puerto Rico who had a significant gem manifestation a number of years back (I am unsure if it is still happening today), and they were able to sell the vast majority of the gems which allowed them to pay off debt and finance God’s work in their area. I have heard other stories that I cannot confirm where other churches had so much gold dust appear that they were able to pay off and/or fund a building program off the proceeds from the gold sales. Who needs man’s provision when God shows up? He is our provider, and while oftentimes He uses other people to supply all our needs and wants, God doesn’t have to wait helplessly in heaven in hopes that humans will heed his requests. He can make new creations appear the same as He did the first time when he created the heavens and the earth!

Fifth, this sign is a witness to all of God’s hand at work. In other words, it’s a sign that points directly to Him. I have shared gems with countless people, and many have come up with their own names and explanations for what they are and how they appear, but the message I give is always consistent and always points to Him. It is not uncommon for me to hear someone ask me about my “fairy gems” or “magic gems,” and while some might get upset about seemingly occult references to God’s gifts, I don’t. While using different terminology, they are recognizing that God is up to something and they are simply speaking out of their own grid of understanding.

The sixth thing I see God doing with the gems is something that a friend shared with me a while back. She said “We have had gems tested, and when different people brought the same gem into the same jeweler, he got different results based on what the person who brought the stone in believed about the stone.” Entire churches have gotten in a theological uproar over whether the gems are or aren’t from God, and a good number of churches who first received the gem manifestation with joy rejected it later due to the controversy inside the fellowship afterwards. One thing my friend Carla said has always stuck with me. “God told us once that people think they are testing the gems, but in reality the gems are testing them.” I believe God uses the gemstones, and other supernatural manifestations, as a plumb line for our hearts. Are we a people who are hungry for God and his ways and ready to embrace the new things He is revealing to us, or are we so suspicious, jaded, and cynical that anything we see gets put through a spiritual spectrometer to thoroughly test and understand every aspect before we can receive it with joy?

Many people have asked me if I have ever had my gems tested. No. Honestly, I’ve never felt the need to do so. I can figure out what stones they most likely are just by looking at them, and the only testing I have ever tried is to see if the clear ones were diamonds or not. Other than that, it just doesn’t matter to me, not to mention that testing gems can get really expensive very quickly, especially when you have hundreds of them. Whether they are glass or crystal really is of no real significance to me in that these are tangible reminders of God’s love toward me. The material they are made of doesn’t in any way alter the fact that these stones appeared from the heaven-dimension, some of which fell from midair in my living room!

Sometimes I think God does things just because He can, and sometimes there are so many reasons behind His actions that we can only begin to touch the surface of what He is doing. For example, some of the gems had cracks in them when they appeared, and others cracked or chipped sometime after they manifested on earth. I had one that was completely whole when I placed it in a plastic bag, and later when I looked at it the stone was chipped, but no chip was floating around in the bag with it. The chipped-off part had literally vanished into thin air! It seems completely absurd to me that God would send us gems from heaven that are flawed, but then, aren’t we all chipped or cracked in some ways? Doesn’t God send us as unblemished spirits into the earth where we then pick up cracks and chips on our journey through life? Some people have actually prayed for “injured” gems and they have recovered. I believe this is just one more layer of the depths of the things God is doing in and through the gems–that we, too, can be healed just as the gems can. Sometimes, too, the cracks will form pictures. I also have a suspicion that some of these gems have a mission of their own when they arrive on earth, and that they form cracks and chips because their heavenly energy is being released into the earth and they are literally becoming smaller or less perfect as a result.

Part 1: “Our Experiences”

Part 3: “How Do I Know This Is God?”

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Gemstones From Heaven Podcasts

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Gems From Heaven – Part 1 – Our Experiences

Gemstones from heaven, feathersoilmannagolddustwine, angelsholyspirit, signswondersmiracles, Jesus — A collection of gems from one of the first Gem Parties we held

Early this year, God told me that gemstones would begin to appear more frequently around us. I was excited, as I have seen this manifestation hundreds of times before in the past few years. More recently, however, gems appeared very infrequently, and for a few reasons. Before going further, however, some of you readers may not have heard of this before, so let me explain.

A friend of ours, Carla, passes through Portland every so often, and we and some other friends of ours make sure we visit with her whenever she is around. This particular time she had a surprise for all of us, but we didn’t know the half of it. We all went to a retired Chiropractor’s house to meet some other friends of hers who had come for a visit. All together there were nine of us present. The once couple had a unique manifestation of the Lord happen around them, something which had been going on for five years at that time–namely that gemstones would literally appear from heaven around them, both on the ground and in the air.

Sunshine and I were like little children that evening, running around and picking gemstones up off of the floor. We would hear them fall out of midair and land on the hardwood floors, sounding at times like a muted version of a rainstick–the wooden musical devices that are filled with beans or seeds and make rattling noises. At one point she and I laid down on the floor and just waiting for gems to fall on us, which they shortly did. Yes, I have had jewels from heaven fall on me. I can still remember my wife’s squeals of delight as she went around picking them up. She is such a kid. To this day, she still squeals with great joy almost every time she finds one too, and I have to imagine God loves that.

To explain more about the stones themselves, they are all cut gemstones with brilliant facets. Some of the facets are cut so strangely that people simply do not cut jewelry like these are cut, and it flabbergasts jewelers. I have only once ever seen a raw, rough, uncut stone of the thousands I have seen appear. The majority are amethysts, peridot, low-quality emerald, garnets and rubies, along with an occasional aquamarine. There are also clear and yellow stones, probably different colors of topaz. In all honesty, I cannot tell you for certain what any of these stones are, as I’ve never had any professionally tested, but some of them are pretty obvious just by looking at them. Since this started I have bought a cheap diamond-tester and none of the ones I have found are diamonds, suggesting to me that the clear and yellow ones are topaz or other stone. Most are the size of the head of an eraser, and teeny tiny ones are actually as uncommon as really large ones.

Each stone is unique, but some stand out more than others. On rare occasion there will be a mystic fire topaz, a stone that has three colors in it that are all mixed together. They are some of my favorites. Carnelian, an orange stone, rarely appear as well, but are a unique change when they do. My stepdaughter found a stone once that had streaks of gold in it. Occasionally a larger stone will appear, including ones that are the size of a fingernail, or even larger. Rarer still, probably close to one in five-thousand gems, appear in some sort of setting. This can be in a ring, cuff links, or a pendant. On at least one occasion that I know of, the chain even appeared with the pendant!! Not only that, but from time to time a feather, usually at least an inch or two long, would simply appear in midair near Glenn, almost as if he had wings he was fluffing and it was a stray coming off of him.

That first weekend my wife and I experienced this was quite a whirlwind. We spent that Friday night in an evening of worship, fellowship, laughter, and gemstone-hunting throughout the house. Carla is a professionally trained pianist and led us in some worship songs on the high-quality piano in the Chiropractor’s living room. We took communion in an “upper room,” ie. one of the upstairs bedrooms, and as a whole God just rocked our night. Saturday was a bit of a mental break, as our minds attempted to process the absolutely amazing experiences we had the night before. Although “break” is sort of a relative term. I must have called at least four friends and told them all about our night and what God had been doing. Sunday was a blast. We went to church and shared with a bunch of people what we had experienced, and that evening we went to another meeting the couple were having at a church on the other side of the city. That night was really fun too, because not only did we have our new friends who were there, but a pair of our long-time friends, Hope and Beth also drove up from a couple hours south of us for the gathering. Hope and Beth are precious women, and are both what I refer to as God-junkies–they will go anywhere and do almost anything if God is in it. When we told them about the gems, their response was “Where do we need to be and when?”

We spent the evening listening mostly to the husband, whom the manifestation seems to center around, share about his life journey and how God brought him salvation as well as this unique gem miracle years later. The people at that church were very kind, and so many people wanted to share the gems to make sure that everyone had at least one. It was like a room full of starving people but each one wanted to make sure that the other had a piece of bread before they were content to enjoy their own. While this may sound strange at first glance, it just shows me how hungry people are to see God work noticeably and spectacularly in their lives. We ALL desire a visible demonstration of the invisible God, and even more, a visible demonstration of his love for us. For myself, I was continually blown away. I felt SO incredibly loved by my heavenly Father, who loved me so much that he would not only obliterate my experience of “impossible,” but do it with such beautiful and valuable items. I mean, how many Gods have you heard of that just hand out gemstones to their followers?

A year or so later, we invited the couple and held a Gem Party at our house–a twelve-hour revolving door of fellowship and fun. During the day we had a very informal hang-out and people of all ages were literally crawling on our carpet picking up stones. In the evening we had a time of worship and then the husband shared his testimony, similar to the one I had heard a year prior. At that time he also brought out some of the more spectacular gemstones God has given them. Many of these are large, and by large I mean the size of a quarter or larger. I estimated that over the course of that 12 hours over four-thousand gems appeared, and was possibly closer to six-thousand. I will be honest, I consider this a conservative estimate, based on the number of people present and the quantity of gems each of them left with. At the end of that meeting, I had over 100 gems, and that didn’t include the massive amount my wife, stepdaughter and her husband and my grandkids had, or the stash that the other 26 people who came left with by the end of the day. Some people left with far more than I did! This meeting sparked something, and we held one every two to three months for the rest of that year. Not only that, but it turned into a series of meetings throughout the surrounding area, and Gem Parties have been held at four or more different peoples’ houses since then.

Fast forward again to January of this year, two years after we started having gem parties and a year after we stopped having meetings, we still had gems show up, but it was usually one gem with a four-month interval in-between. When God told me that gems would begin to appear again and with greater frequency, I was excited, but also somewhat reserved. After all, a single stone every month would be more frequent than what we had been having the year prior. To my amazement, within a week and a half I found the first stone. It was a clear white stone and was on the edge of my granddaughter’s bed. She had fallen asleep in our bed and I was taking her to her own bed at midnight. As I came close to her bed I immediately recognized the gem that was conspicuously perched on the edge of her mattress. I showed my wife, who, yet again, squealed with delight. Since then, we have had at least one hundred more gems appear this year. One appeared on my stepdaughter’s wedding day on our back patio–a wedding gift from our Heavenly Father. About a month ago now, on a Saturday, we had a gem-breakout while we were replacing our dining room carpet with a quality vinyl flooring with a wood-appearance. Since we were pulling up the carpet I told everyone to be on the lookout for gems in case any had appeared UNDER the carpet when we had the Gem Parties here years before. Sure enough, my stepdaughter found one while I was out at Home Depot. Go figure.

Something in this process sparked a supernatural whirlwind because for the rest of that day, the next day, and even into the next week we had gems appearing. They started by simply appearing on the floor and on the window ledges, but after a few hours advanced to falling from the air onto the new “hardwood” floors. In fact, it had become so prolific and distracting that it took us two days to complete what would have been a one-day project, but God wasn’t done. To date, we had never seen a blue sapphire appear, and we had a handful of them appear that weekend! While that may not seem significant to some, blue sapphires hold special significance to my wife and I in regards to our marriage, and it felt like God had taken this now-familiar manifestation to an even deeper place of love and special-ness for us.

One of my main motivating factors for holding the first meeting, a belief that still exists today, is that people needed to have encounters with God that expanded their view of what was possible. In a world that is full of anger, violence, depression, sickness, and poverty, we need a higher perspective than in the past. When natural disasters, economic disasters, or even emotional disasters threaten our way of life, we must have a deep reservoir of experiences in and with God that stabilize us in those troubled times. It was my heart’s desire to create a space where people could experience this life altering miracle and in so doing reach a new level of understanding of who God is and what He is like. My own life has been so radically altered by the things I have experienced, including but not limited to gold dust, feathers, and gemstones appearing and sometimes even disappearing again, objects supernaturally sticking to walls, as well as a variety of other strange and wonderful spiritual encounters. God is so much greater than we can ask or think of, and He is interested in taking us deep into his realms of glory and mystery if we will open ourselves up to new things.

Part 2: “What Do They Mean”
Part 3: “How Do I Know This Is God?”

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Gemstones From Heaven Podcasts
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A Single Stone

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It was around midnight and I was carrying my eldest granddaughter from my bed where she had fallen asleep down to her bed for the night. There was a dim light on in her room, and as I walked toward her bed, I noticed something glint on the sheets at the edge of the bed. As I neared it I instantly recognized that it was a gemstone, but not knowing if the kids had recently been playing with plastic stones or something, I wasn’t quite sure what I had found. I put my granddaughter in bed, walked back upstairs, and turned on a flashlight to inspect further.

The moment I turned the flashlight on it I knew it was a gem from heaven, not of human origin. I have seen thousands of these gems appear to date, but few of them have been with as little fanfare or completely out of the blue as this one was. You see, a few years ago my wife and I were introduced to a couple who have seen gemstones manifest around them for years. A year after that we invited them to do a series of meetings at our house, which expanded into some other meetings in other homes around the region as well. We did this for about a year when there were some changes that took place and we stopped having those meetings. Since then, the gems have appeared with scarcity, and the last ones prior to this were probably at least six months ago, so as can be imagined, I was pretty astounded to find the stone when I did. Talk about unexpected!

I immediately showed my wife, who, with childlike abandon got giddy and gleeful as she celebrated the discovery of the stone. For those of you who don’t know her, my wife is the most fun person to be around when she gets excited about God and what He is doing. Childlike doesn’t even begin to describe the joy that spills out of her.

Tiny feathers have been appearing, floating by in the air, and disappearing for the past number of months with increasing frequency, but gemstones had not broken forth again until now. God had spoken to me a week or two ago about wanting to bring forth the manifestation of gemstones, but I was not expecting anything as quick as this one happened. I am still pondering the meaning of this event, and what God is saying and doing, but I am confident that there is much more to come, both for myself and my household, and for you, the reader.

God is readying the Body of Christ to receive a veritable explosion of the miraculous. We are in the beginning stages of what is going to be a wild ride of the miraculous. Signs, wonders, and miracles are becoming much more commonplace as Heaven invades the Earth realm, and this will only continue in the lives of those whose focus is turned heavenward. After all, as we are ambassadors of Heaven, where we go Heaven follows, and where Heaven follows, miracles break out. In the coming days diamonds falling from heaven will be the least of what God is doing–he is preparing to feed entire nations in a day, to make buildings appear where there was only rubble moments before, to make rivers dry up and resurge once those who need to cross have passed over. God will make the desert wilderness to bloom like a garden, and these things I say are no figurative speech, but a literal reality. God has far more prepared for each of us, more than eye has seen and ear has heard.

I encourage you to draw closer to the Lord in the coming months. He has been speaking to a great many people about drawing closer and sitting with Him in this hour, to hear what it is He would share with us and to equip us to steward and release the visible manifestations of his love in power to our families, communities, and even the nations of the world. As the light of a gemstone reflects the source of the light and brings new beauty into the room, spend time to sit with the Father and let His light transform you even more, refining the heavenly gemstone that you are to Him, that you can carry even more of His light into this world.

Note: The gemstone in the picture above is one that I found on my granddaughter’s bed, and the hand holding it is mine. This was found and the picture taken on January 31st, 2015.

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Translocating Under The Tuscan Sun

Last month I watched Under the Tuscan Sun with my wife and step-daughter and there is a scene where the main character and her realtor are discussing why she bought a 3-bedroom house when she doesn’t have anyone else to share it with. She then goes on to list the things she wishes would happen at the house, including a wedding and a baby.

The realtor then tells her a short story of the history of building train tracks between Venice and Tuscany. Long before a train has been invented that can make the trip. He says that they built it because they knew that SOMEDAY the technology would exist.

I then said out loud “That sounds very Field of Dreams”. And then it hit me. This is exactly what I have been doing in the spirit realm, and I felt this was a message of encouragement from God in regards to translocation and space-time-alteration miracles.

You see, I and another friend have had revelation that we are collectively building and developing the Translocation skill to a level where people can engage it on a much more frequent basis instead of these rare stories where it seems to always happen by pure chance, and almost never where the person initiated the experience. We have had a sense that the ability will not be much more fully realized until it starts to enter the collective human consciousness in a greater way. While it is still possible for individuals to access this capacity, the level and frequency with which this happens remains minimal.

I believe this is for two reasons. First, it is not something that has been commonly talked about from a perspective of literal reality. It is common with movies such as ‘Jumper’ and the Star Trek to relegate this topic to an entirely sci-fi/fantasy realm with little to no basis in reality. Scientific articles show that scientists are having difficulty moving even a few protons by teleportation, much less an entire human body. The common belief is “this is impossible” and that permeates the collective faith level of the populace. Second, those who DO have these experiences appear reticent to come forward and share them with others. Whether for fear of ostracism or some sort of religious retaliation for experiencing supernatural events, many keep silent and few others benefit from the knowledge and wisdom gained from their experiences.

Having had a number of these experiences myself, I have made it a point to talk about this topic and push forward into deeper understanding. Experience has shown me that unless someone is willing to take a risk and share their own journey, hopes, dreams, and experiences, few others will be willing to follow and open up. However, when one or two take that risk, the volume of people who open up with their own insights increases dramatically. Social Media is a very useful outlet for these purposes, and I have made use of it myself to network with other like-minded thinkers and do-ers.

I believe that we are entering a period in time where this capacity will not only be available on a broader level, but will be a much-needed ability, and to this end I continue to pursue it as well as remain open to God’s grace, divine connections, and opportunities to practice this ability with a goal of deeper experience and insight.

God is restoring miracles to His people, and we are on the rising edge of a wave of the miraculous that will sweep the earth. I feel encouraged that now is the time of the open door, now is the time of the pursuit, now is the time to move forward, extend one’s hand, and grasp success. I believe that as we reach past time and space into the Eternal realm that we will not be disappointed, and that we will find all we seek. For as Jesus himself said in Matthew 7:7-8, “Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened. For whoever asks receives, whoever seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.”

Translocation: Shifting Space and Time

Time Warping

The Time For Figs

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On Spirit, Soul, Body, and Light

I was having a conversation with Holy Spirit recently where he pointed out that I never need to try to be more holy, as I AM holy and therefore everything I do is holy, There is no divide between secular and sacred. It doesn’t exist. In the Beginning of Time God called all things good.

I then thought about the fact that while I may not be more or less holy, that there are certainly things I can do that influence God’s activity in my life. Holy Spirit explained it like this: “You cannot become more holy than you already are now, but you can position yourself to carry and release a greater measure of God’s glory into the Earth based on your choices. And not even just your actions, so much, but by your thoughts and beliefs. The truth is that your actions are dictated by your thoughts, so it is really your thought life which decides the measure of glory that you carry.”

I then thought about auras and the fact that it is possible to see energy fields around people and even plants and objects. I was pondering how an increased measure of glory must cause one’s energy field to expand, and that part of our goal ought to be to expand our energy field as a result of heaven’s influence. For I believe it was similar to this that people tell stories of men of God who would go somewhere and even from miles away someone would be overcome by God’s power, inasmuch as the people were influenced by that man’s godly aura.

Holy Spirit didn’t deny that it was true, but explained and clarified it for me. “You have more than one aura. You do have a soul aura which is where people can pass information from one to another by their energy fields, and where unconscious information including emotional states are transferred when in proximity with one another. You also have a spirit aura. This is the light of God which comes from Heaven and is reflected from you and emanates out of your spirit. This light is not directly transferred to your soul aura, so the energy fields are not one and the same. However, anyone who has a strong and vibrant spirit aura will invariably have some measure of trickle-down effect that influences their soul aura, making their soul aura more vibrant and life giving as well.”

I considered the problem that we often do not have the measure of glory flowing through our lives that we could have, and I inquired as to why that was. Holy Spirit said “There are gates, you might imagine that it is akin to the sphincters in the digestive system, between access from the spirit to the soul and again the soul to the body. How open or closed those gates are direct how much of Heaven’s light is passing through you at any time. This is dictated in part by your thoughts as well, as your soul is the transfer point between your spirit and body. Basically, the state of the first gate decides how much of Heaven’s light reaches to your soul, and the state of the second gate decides how much of Heaven’s light trickles down from your soul to bring Heaven’s light to your body. Healing and restoration in the body, and even transformation of your physical body, is a result of Heaven’s light moving through the soul and penetrating and transforming your physical form. This is how people can be breatharians and live on air and energy alone –because my life has not just transformed their soul, but the channel is open for me to invigorate their body as well.

The way to do this is in part by meditating on my word. What this does is it transforms your beliefs to reflect the truths of Heaven, and as this occurs, more light shines through.” I got the feeling He meant the actual Bible when he said this, but I don’t think it has to be limited to the Bible only, as Holy Spirit can easily give us a rhema-word to meditate on as well.

That was about where the conversation ended, but it put some things into an interesting perspective for me, and gave me not only some new things to think about and consider, but some helpful hints on moving toward living the “life more abundantly” that Jesus said he came to bring.

Kingdom Training Schools: A Vision of Things to Come

In the Old Testament there were prophets that ran together in groups. Some surmise that these were ‘schools’ of Prophets, and maybe they were. Jesus himself taught his disciples in a group that one might call a ‘school’, and rightly so. For Jesus both did AND taught with authority, and his disciples were with him most everywhere he went. But the one thing I think that is sometimes overlooked in the busy process of learning to be disciples is that Jesus actually TAUGHT.

Over the span of his three year ministerial-seminary-with-internship, Jesus sent his students on multiple learning-intensives involving self-study. The first time he sent his twelve out, and then later on he sent out seventy-two. Presumably the first twelve actually worked with some of the others in the group of seventy two on that second intensive course, taking those who were the slowest and most shy and helping them branch out into the experience of the course material as any good Teaching Assistant ought to do.

In addition to these learning intensives, Jesus offered a scholarship program for his ministerial training, having sufficient funds in the Trust that he assigned his TA with the highest marks in Accounting manage the accounts (Unfortunately this particular student kept a second set of books, but that’s somewhat beside the point). Jesus did not turn his students away on account of a lack of money because he saw to it (as did his Father) that all of their needs were met.

In the midst of reviewing this training school that Jesus ran, one could pay attention primarily to the didactic learning that took place, focusing on such scripture passages as the Sermon on the Mount, the many parables he told, and his monologue at the Last Supper just before they entered their Senior Immersion. And in truth, that is what much of the Church seems to have focused on in our Seminaries and Colleges and with our Masters and Doctorates in Divinity and Theology. But if we do that we miss out on a key theme running throughout the Gospels – Jesus both did AND taught.

One thing that no one can deny is that the teaching Jesus did included a lot of demonstration and hands-on learning. Jesus was big on having his students experience the things he spoke about, not just sit there and listen to him prattle on about grand ideas with no actual fruit to show for them. Jesus was actively involved in pushing his students into experiences with God that stretched their understanding of who God is and what God is like, and also what God would do in and through them.

When Jesus went up on the Mount of Transfiguration, he took some students with him to experience the Glory. When he went to raise Jairus’ daughter and Lazarus, he had students with him then as well. Jesus was very clear that the Gospel of the Kingdom involved manifestation of things Heavenly into the Earth-realm. For this reason the Lord’s Prayer contains a prayer of command – “Come, your Kingdom, and BE DONE, your will, on Earth as it is in Heaven!” Jesus expected of his students that his teaching would not just alter their minds but would cause literal physical substance to manifest at their command.

And we can see that this is true from what Jesus taught. The first time he multiplied the loaves among thousands of people they multiplied at Jesus’ hands. The next time they multiplied while in the DISCIPLES’ hands. Jesus was demonstrating to them that they, too, could manifest the Kingdom in power. And when they later were discussing the matter of not having enough bread, he rebuked them for completely missing the point of his object lesson. Jesus wasn’t just interested in starting a religion – he was transforming people to become vessels of Glory that would release that glory in tangible form. When a temple tax was required, a coin was taken from a fish’s mouth. When a lake proved too far to go around, Jesus began walking on it, and when he came upon his disciples in a boat, he teleported them to the far side. Yes, Jesus was as interested in teaching through experiences to manifest the supernatural realm in the earth as he was chatting about spiritual sounding ideas.

Knowing that Jesus taught this way, I find it no surprise that so many ‘Schools of the Supernatural’ are springing into being around the U.S. and probably around the world. But having been in one of them myself and having observed smatterings of the curriculum of others, I wonder how much is actually being taught in these schools compared to what Jesus taught his students. From where I sit, it appears that we are busy learning to finger paint in Kindergarten compared to the Masters-level thesis-writing that Jesus had his students doing.

I feel very strongly and have for years that God is trying to take us into a new level of Kingdom experience. God is trying to graduate us from Kindergarten, through first and second grade, and even skip us up a few grades into Middle School. I believe and feel in my spirit that there is a wealth of abundance of learning and experience to be had and to be caught if we would avail ourselves of Heaven’s Curriculum. As we look at stepping into a new grade and new levels, the questions I have are the same ones I always ask: What does it look like? and How do we get there?

I had a vision a while ago where I was a part of a school that seemed like it was in an old city with streets made of stone – one I perceive to be located somewhere in Europe based on its feel. We were in an old house that had a yard in the back and the place was filled with students. We didn’t have a set curriculum, per se, but we did have some things we were actively pressing into and practicing. Worship with music was certainly part of the plan, but it wasn’t by any means the main venue of each day. Meals were communal and each part of the house had a training purpose. There was a ‘playground’ out back that had a set of dividing walls, each with a picture painted on it. The goal of the pictures was to stand in front of one of them and then practice teleporting to one of the OTHER pictures. The different pictures (painted by one of those present in the vision) served as focal points for the teleportation. One of the walls in the dining area was full of items which had been attached to the wall by faith – plates, spoons, etc. Another wall next to it was available for people to try and walk up it. Food was prayed over and it would be expected that God would either provide the food in some fashion or other (whether it was delivered by someone, bought with faith-found money, multiplied in front of us, or otherwise appearing from Heaven), or we would fast. Mind you, fasting was not mandatory, but it was just the way we did things. No one in the vision felt like they had any major sickness, and while lean times might have been the order of the day, it was a time of intensive spiritual training for things to come.

Looking back at that vision now, I don’t yet see many of the pieces that God showed me in that vision, but what I do have is the revelation — that it is possible to actively LEARN to engage and perform the supernatural by faith, and that we as the Body need to learn how to do this and activate our gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like.

Imagine a scene where one of these higher-level Miracle schools is in action. Think of a storefront church building that’s grown too big to be a home church but isn’t large enough to be a mega-church yet. If a passer-by looked through the window when the school was in action, what might they see? What one might see are not only the things Jesus did – walking on water, raising the dead and cursing fig trees, but much more.

Maybe the meeting would start with worship. Perhaps it would start with testimonies. The attention would focus on Christ. It would start with focusing on Him, as the King of Kings is the central figure of every gift and empowerment of the Spirit. From there the school would break up into practice teams. Each team might discuss a certain miraculous power and what the Bible says about it, what God has been showing them in personal revelation, and comparing and discussing to reach a deeper understanding. These revelations and new truths could be added as curriculum material for the future and for the other practice teams to use later. The teams would each then transition into a learning lab where faith is put into action.

In one of the learning labs, viewers might see kiddie-pools full of water and students with their pant legs rolled up, shoes off, stepping onto the water to see if it holds. If they break through the surface and it doesn’t hold their weight, they stop, spend a moment re-centering and refocusing on what God has told them – things like “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” and ‘Jesus said I would do GREATER works than these”. After spending moments or minutes they would try again.

Over in another corner one might see people practicing with multiplying food by faith. In yet another corner one might see a group with flashlights and searching everywhere – their hands and arms, the ground, their pockets. Every now and again one might pick something up, motioning and shouting excitedly. It appears it might be a gemstone by the way it glints in the light. Did that just appear? And where did that sparkly dust come from on that woman’s hands? Miracles of apportation in action.

On one wall there would be a series of paintings – possibly ones that were painted during the worship time. There is tape on the floor in front of each picture that is in the shape of a person-sized box. Students are just standing there staring at the pictures and sometimes closing their eyes. It rapidly becomes clear what this lab is about when one student translocates himself from one picture to another!

Heading around back one might see a group tending a small garden plot – but with no tools other than their mouths. Speaking to the plants, the group is telling them to grow whole, healthy, and for all weeds to remain ungerminated in their seeds. Worms and ladybugs would be welcomed to the plot and all harmful insects would be rebuked and sent elsewhere. Leaf blight and dry fungus could not flourish, and the fruit of such a plot would certainly be large in size and plentiful in number.

A field trip might take the class to a local funeral home where families receive back their dead by the power of God, or to a hospital cancer unit where tumors fall off in front of one’s eyes. Or even to a burn unit, where skin grows back on a victim’s arms and legs in seconds at the utterance of the name of Jesus.

And with so much faith in the air, certainly in a place like this there would be no sickness, no disease, no disability. And with the faith to see gemstones appear, there could be no lack either, for whatever need arises would be met with faith equal to the task, and the solution would manifest before the eyes of the one in need.

Why all the focus on the miraculous? The gift of Miraculous Powers (note that it’s plural, not singular) is possibly one of the most neglected gifts of the Spirit at this juncture in history. Much is known about faith already – the Word of Faith movement saw to that. Asuza Street brought with it, among other things, a revival of tongues and interpretation. Entire volumes have been written on discernment and casting out of demons since the days of Derek Prince. The Healing movement has flourished mightily since the days of John Wimber. The Latter Rain movement brought a resurgence of prophets and the gift of prophecy, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom. Of all of these, the gift of miraculous powers stands alone without understanding, yet if the Church were honest with herself, Jesus spent possibly more of his time doing miracles than anything else. Of Jesus’ own confession, Capurneum was a place where he did many miracles, and the Book of John states that more miracles were performed by Jesus than could fit in all the books in the world.

What is clear at this point is that it IS possible to actively learn and engage in order to perform the supernatural by faith. The Church as a whole are expected by Jesus to learn how to do this and activate the gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like far more than before.
In my own life and those of personal friends I can list miracles we have experienced: apportation of objects including gemstones, feathers, and oil; translocation in time and space; spirit travel on earth and in heaven; gravity defying miracles; multiplication of objects (including food); levitation; mind-reading; weather control; and raising the dead. I know that all these things and more can be caught and/or taught, and I also know that God is releasing greater revelation, authority, and understanding to the Body at this time to walk in these things in a much greater measure.

There is an ever-present danger that must be addressed to balance out the pursuit of the Miracle realms. It is possible to find a group of people who have a high level of operation in various miracles, anointings, and giftings, and some who have a lot of faith in these many areas, and to do so in order to create a school like that I have described above. This actually might be an idea that would advance the school’s supernatural journey rapidly, but at the same time there is a risk. Quantity of miracles without depth of character is a pitfall that has ruined people before, and without care will do it again. “Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Psalms 11:14. Without a multitude of counselors who can see areas of weakness – both of the individual and the group, it is almost guaranteed to fail before it has even started. These counselors are not present to be fault-finding or blame-seeking, but rather to serve as an early warning system for problems so that they never grow too big. As it says in Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” It is best to avoid destruction, and while pride is not the only character flaw that causes problems, the entire issue is avoided by means of vigilance.

An additional problem in developing this type of school is the money. While one might locate the right teachers and group facilitators, it is impossible to make promises that students will learn this or that, guarantees that can be made in public schools, but not in Kingdom schools. That said, is it ethical to charge tuition with no guarantees? Additionally, these things can be taught, but they can’t be bought. This is a difficult thing, but the vision still remains within me. I do believe we are reaching a time where schools such as this will develop into supernatural communities, and those currently in existence will increase and expand, exemplifying a new wave of power-packed supernatural encounters such as most people have only dreamed.

I envision communities of people where teleporting, flying, and manifesting money and resources by faith is a daily occurrence. Where rescuing children from sex trade is simply a matter of teleporting into the holding area and teleporting thirty people back out with you. Where there is no real lack among them because it can be created at will based on the needs present. Clothes, shoes, money, whatever one has need of is available because those in these Haven communities know how to manifest the abundance out of heaven into the earth so that there is no needy among them. I envision properties that are portals of heaven into earth like nothing we have yet seen. Moravian Falls, Redding, Prayer Mountain in Korea, none of those hold a candle to what I see possible when the right people come together in one heart and one mind seeking after the supernatural workings of God to manifest life with love and demonstrations of the Spirits’ power.

When I think of all the human struggles and issues that could rise up and the difficulty that having a cohesive group living in one accord like that would pose, I say to myself ‘It would take a miracle’, but I can’t let go of the idea in my spirit that God really WANTS us to live in that kind of realm of the flow of the Spirit. Until then, I will continue to press forward into the goodness of my Father, knowing that He is building in us all a blueprint of the things that He is doing, and knowing that as I follow the portion of that blueprint God is laying on my heart and piecing my page together with others God is calling and preparing, that together we will be able to construct a spiritual city in the earth whose Architect and Chief Builder is God.

Translocation: Shifting Space and Time

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A while back I was spending time with my good friend Hope. We were having a fun time discussing the supernatural, God, etc., which is pretty common for us. A topic we have regularly touched on is supernatural physical transportation. This has many names, but among the most common are ‘translocation’ and ‘teleportation’. Oftentimes the word used has little to do with any notable difference, but is just a matter of who is using the terminology.

For those who are unfamiliar with this concept, it appears it at least two notable places in the Bible. The most oft-quoted Bible-passage where this phenomenon occurred is in Acts 8:39-40 when Philip was taken up by the Spirit from the presence of the Ethiopian eunich and moved to Azotus, some distance away. The other obvious instance of physical transportation found in scripture is in John 6:21 when Jesus stepped in the boat with his disciples when he was walking on water and they were immediately on the far short. This phenomenon can be placed within the purview of the ‘gift of miraculous powers’ in 1 Corinthians 12.

God has shared a few details about translocation with me from time to time, and one of the concepts He showed me is that this is to be a team-process, not just an individual one. What I was shown about this concept of team-transport is that it isn’t going to be something that one person learns and then shows or instructs everyone else, but that a team of people was going to work together to bring the revelation and experience about. He didn’t specify who this team was, as I am sure it is a much more global event and many of the ‘team members’ would never know each other. In spite of this fact, the interplay between people and the sharing of revelation and experiences from one person to another causes everyone together to achieve more than one can alone. With that said, I already knew that Grace was a part of my local ‘chapter’.

Long before I even knew her, the Lord told Hope that she would one day be teaching people how to physically transport themselves from place to place supernaturally. I have felt a desire for this as well – both to do it myself and to teach others. On a natural level it seems imminently practical. With the price of gas rising over the past number of years and no real stabilization in the world’s commercial markets, we can only assume this trend will continue. The way I see it, why pay hefty gas prices when I could simply skip most of the travel-portion of a trip and arrive at my destination with a full tank of gas? Additionally, it is a prudent use of resources, far better for the environment, reduces wear on your vehicle, and saves time. Or at least that’s what I had thought until I started to learn more by discussion, revelation, and experience. What I thought, while true, is only part of the picture.

To back up a while before this conversation with Hope, my wife and I had a couple of experiences of being transported while driving together. The two most recent ones happened while driving back from a home-group that usually meets two hours north of us. The first time we translocated home from one of those get-togethers we observed that we skipped 22 exits on the highway and arrived home approximately 15 minutes early. The second of the two events happened during a snowstorm – it had started snowing on the drive up, and by the time we were ready to leave and driving back, the roads were much more snow-covered. A number of cars had already been escorted into the ditch, so we drove at half speed. We spent one hour of the trip at normal speed and one at half speed and arrived home in the normal 2 hours. What SHOULD have happened is that our two-hour trip should have taken three hours, but instead we traveled the same distance at half the speed and arrived in the same amount of time, traveling the entire physical distance.

I learned something from those two experiences which I have never heard anyone else share, and that is there are at least TWO different ways someone can get transported. One is by alteration of space and the other is alteration of time. As I said above, my thoughts about the benefits of physical transport are true but aren’t the whole truth, and that’s because I had discounted the option of traveling with a time-alteration. The benefits I had listed only apply if there is a space-alteration. And there are other differences too.

For instance, the benefits of space alteration are very useful if we need to get from one location to another. We can arrive faster, or even instantaneously, if we transport in space. We save time that way, and if we are using a vehicle we gain the other benefits I listed above. There are other possible benefits as well. For example, let’s say we need to travel across a body of water that is otherwise impassable – say from the Mainland US to Hawaii. The amount of faith required to drive ON the water for that distance, not to mention the amount of gas it would take and/or to faith the gas tank full, the length of time one would have to be driving, and any other hazards of driving a car across a vast ocean all come into play. Given that option, translocating and cutting all of the watery parts out of the equation is a much better plan. Think of it as a type of space-bending where you fold space and drive across the smaller distance. The water would be in the folded-over part and land on both of the shorter pieces. That was how I have conceptualized it in the past, and while it is an overly simplistic explanation, it adequately addresses the basic concept.

Time alteration is equally beneficial and it has some unexpected applications. Some of these applications were obvious to me at first, but others didn’t come to light until Hope and I got together and talked months after the two transport events. The main benefit of altering time is that you travel the whole distance but do it in less time. If you are late, trying to avoid rush-hour traffic, on a long trip, etc., altering the flow of time around your vehicle is a fantastic way to travel. While you don’t get the gas savings, you save a bunch of time that can be ‘spent’ at your destination.

For instance, if I woke up late one day for a plane flight, and the flight was supposed to take off in five minutes, no amount of physical transportation is going to help me. Even if I was instantly transported to the baggage check area with my baggage, and then transported to the security line and then spirited away to the terminal and walked onto the plane, it would take more than five minutes. I probably wouldn’t be dressed and ready to LEAVE in five minutes, and besides, even if I was ready to leave immediately, the security checkpoint would make me late for sure. This is where time alteration becomes handy. If I alter the flow of time around me, I can take my good old time getting up, dressed, and making my way to the airport. I can leisurely check my bags and move through security, then saunter confidently onto the plane, all with three minutes to spare before takeoff is scheduled.

What makes this particular aspect of translocation is that the benefits are not limited to travel. As I said before, this method is useful even if there is NO trip to be taken. Using time alteration properly, it is possible to complete two hours-worth of yard-work in fifteen minutes. If I were particularly tired at work, I could take a LONG nap on my ten-minute morning break and wake well-rested and ready for the rest of my day. These are only two examples, but the variety of applications are immense.

As we looked at the benefits of each type of translocation, Hope and I realized that there are times when one method of travel is more useful than the other. In other words, each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and it is important to be aware of them if this is to become a common practice. As mentioned before, no amount of time alteration will move the Pacific Ocean out of the way. But if we bend space, it disappears and we can travel easily. If there is ever some sort of impassable object in the way – whether a dead end with a road on the other side, a river with a bridge out, or a mountain with no roads leading across it, physical transport is an imperative. It comes with the fuel-savings benefit and because the trip crossed a smaller amount of distance, it also takes less time.

Time alteration is useful when there is business to be conducted while en route. For example, the amount of prayer, conversation, etc. that can happen in a six-hour car trip with a friend is substantial. But what if you were able to have the span of time INSIDE the car that covered about six hours, but your actual experience external to the car was only about forty-five? You would arrive at your destination far sooner than planned, but you would have been able to engage in all of the prayer, communion, revelation, etc. due to the length of time you were able to spend talking and sharing with each other? If you had been transported physically, you would have lost the benefits of that trip together. Time alteration is also useful when there is no trip to be had, and when you just want or need to get something done faster.

When Hope and I were discussing all this, something else very cool happened. There are times when the best way to learn things you don’t know is to teach someone else. The reason for this is that at times when you are explaining something to someone else you may say something really profound which turns out to be new revelation. The fun part is that you heard it for the first time when you heard it come out of our own mouth. In fact, it may have been so good that you stopped talking just to process whatever you just said. Knowing that this happens it is possible to take advantage of the revelation-on-the-go method of teaching and start trying to teach people how to do this stuff, knowing full-well that I would learn on the way. Hope and I discussing this topic had this very effect, and we uncovered additional understanding.

We discovered that when physically traveling, there is no actual bending of space taking place. If we were doing that, there would be an alteration of physical structures which is obviously not happening. Entire buildings would be crushed in the bending-process, which means that bending isn’t what happens. While it makes explanation easy to our limited minds, what is happening is that our EXPERIENCE of space is being altered, not the space itself. The same is true with time. Time as a whole is not altered, but our experience of it is. When my wife and I drove home in that snowstorm, there was a jeep in front of us most of the trip. While it is possible that jeep was an angelic vehicle, it is equally possible it was just a jeep with normal human passengers. If it were the latter, they most likely did NOT experience the time-change that we did, and therefore their trip took the whole three hours while ours only took two. The only reason this is possible is that our experience of time and that of the vehicle we were in was altered, but nothing else. A way to conceptualize this is if you think of moving through time while traveling a distance, then stepping sideways outside of the flow of time while still traveling the distance. When you step back into time, you step back in where you stepped out, and thus the experience that little or no time has passed. If we spent an hour on our trip at normal speed, an hour at slow speed, and then one hour’s worth of time where we stepped out of the stream of time entirely but were still traveling, that explains how we were able to travel three hours-worth of distance in two hours’ time.

Where this idea starts to mess with my brain is when I look at other possibilities. What would happen if at the end of the trip that jeep and we ended at the same destination? If we compared watches, would theirs be an hour after ours? Or would they too get brought into our time-alteration experience as well? How is it possible for two vehicles to travel the same distance within view of each other, but have one arrive an hour sooner than the other? I have no answers to these questions at this time, but these are the sorts of questions that get my mental gears moving.

I’m the type who likes to understand the hows and the whys of things, and like to really grasp not just THAT they’re happening, but like to understand them in-depth. I honestly believe that we are stepping into a time where this sort of thing is necessary to learn, and believe that God WANTS us to learn how to do it at will. The only way I know how to learn something that no one else seems to know how to do either is to ask, seek, and knock for the revelation and the experience, and to evaluate my experiences and those of others. I hope and pray that the information we have uncovered with be helpful in your journeys through time and space, and I ask that anyone who has learned or uncovered anything on the subject either through revelation or experience share it with me as well as anyone else who is hungry and seeking. I believe that as we learn, grow, and share together, our Team-Travel experience will be more enriched, but I also believe this will accelerate growth in this area.

Blessings to you all, and I pray this becomes a normal experience for you!

Time Warping

The Time For Figs

Translocating Under The Tuscan Sun