PURPOSE OF OPEN HEAVEN

peterjames (45)in #steemchurch • 7 years ago

open heaven Have you at any point yearned to be in God's essence? Do you yearn for a greater amount of God and get a greater amount of whom He is a major part of your life?
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I trust God is spilling out His valuable Spirit upon all fragile living creature and this out pouring will bring an ever increasing number of souls into His kingdom. More lives will be changed by only one minute in His essence. However, there is a yearning in my soul for considerably more. Unlike our normal craving that is fulfilled after we eat, our profound appetite turns out to be more serious after we eat and share from God. The more you invest energy in God's quality, the more you need to remain there. You need increasingly of Him. He is so wonderful and cherishing. His bliss will fill your extremely being. You will realize that He has everything under His control.

It is a valuable place to be in the everlasting arms of God. This is the start of an open paradise into a greater amount of God.

Open paradise occurs in the characteristic and also the profound and God's magnificence is uncovered…
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OPEN HEAVEN IN THE NATURAL:

Deut. 28:12 NKJV

"The LORD will open to you His great fortune, the sky, to give the rain to your territory in its season, and to favor all crafted by your hand. You should loan to numerous countries, yet you might not obtain."

His great fortune, the sky! Goodness, The sky are God's fortune holding up to be

spilled out to you and I as we comply with His Word! How marvelous is that? For this situation it was in the regular. God was telling the Israelites that in the event that they complied with His orders, and took after His ways, He would open up the Heavens, where His awesome fortune was, and spill out a gift they couldn't contain.

What number of need the Lord to favor crafted by your hands? The Message expresses that verse along these lines:

Deut. 28:12 Message

"GOD will toss open the entryways of his sky vaults and pour rain on your property on plan and favor the work you grasp close by. You will loan to numerous countries however you yourself won't need to apply for a new line of credit."

Here God is addressing the Israelites concerning the numerous gifts God will provide for them as long as they comply with His charges and remain nearby to Him. These endowments are accessible in the common and in addition the otherworldly.

Again and again individuals see the favors part and disregard the state of the gift.

The conditions for the endowments guaranteed:

They constantly notice to the voice of God

Deut. 28:1 – 2 NKJV

"Presently it might happen, on the off chance that you steadily comply with the voice of the LORD your God, to watch deliberately every one of His instructions which I charge you today, that the LORD your God will set your high most importantly countries of the earth."

God was addressing them and they were to do their most extreme in obeying what He was letting them know.

Deut 28:13

"What's more, the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you might be above just, and not be underneath, on the off chance that you notice the rules of the LORD your God, which I order you today, and are mindful so as to watch them."

We are the head and not the tail. God has raised us up over our foes and we will eat at a table arranged for us before our adversaries all since we cherish the Lord enough to comply with His Word and stroll in His ways.

They watch and do every one of his instructions

Do them for once, as well as keep them for ever; To set out in His ways and stroll in them until the end of time. God needs to see reliable individuals. Devotion is making the best choice again and again and again and again.

They ought not go aside either to the correct hand or to one side

Deut. 28:14 NKJV

"So you should not divert beside any of the words which I summon you this day, to one side or he exited, to follow different divine beings to serve them."

It is so natural to be influenced by the things of this world, even false lessons. We should be determined in our association with God and following His statement. The United States use to be a countries under God, however today, there are such a large number of commentators of the Gospel. Be solid and go to bat for what you have confidence in. Try not to be influenced by winding up "Politically Correct."

Individuals get insulted by reality, yet the Truth will set you free! ~ "And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free." (John 8:32 AMP)

Jesus annoyed numerous by talking truth. He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Nobody can go to the Father aside from through Christ. We should be a people who hold fast for the Truth. We will be respected and favored as a result of it.

"… they ought not follow different divine beings (Deu_28:14), which was the transgression that of all others they were most inclined to, and God would be most disappointed with.

What is an icon in your life? Individuals? Things? Position? Past damages? In the event that we center around them all the more then God, they are "different divine beings" throughout our life. Try not to offer energy to your past damages by playing and replaying them again and again.

Gifts take after acquiescence!

When we obey we are honored

To begin with, and principal, we use sound judgment when we take after God's Word. It is a light unto our feet and a light unto our way.

Proverbs( 119:105 (NKJV)

"Your statement is a light to my feet and a light to my way."

Complying with God's statement will enable sparkle to light on the subsequent stage you should take. We can seek God's Word for any circumstance we might look throughout everyday life. God has the responses for us. Is it accurate to say that you will look?

Second, when we obey God, our life has less trials then one who ignores and keeps on settling on poor choices for their life.

Proverbs 4:18 – 19 (The Message)

"The methods for right-living individuals gleam with light; the more they live, the brighter they sparkle. Be that as it may, the street of the bad behavior gets darker and darker – explorers can't see a thing; they crash and burn on their countenances."

"Right living = Right Results!" If we live right, and take after God's assertion, we will accomplish right outcomes throughout our life. Is it safe to say that it isn't magnificent that God gave us His assertion to help get right outcomes and achievement our lives? This influences me to need to obey God much more. It demonstrates His affection for us.

Proverbs( 3:35)(The Message)

"Shrewd living gets compensated with respect; inept living gets the booby prize."

I don't need anything with the exception of the absolute best from God. On the off chance that my decisions of obeying God brings great outcomes, I will all the more obey Him.

Third, When we comply with God's oath we pick life!

Deuteronomy 30:19 – 20 (NKJV)

"I call paradise and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and demise, favoring and reviling; thusly pick life, that both you and your relatives may life; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may comply with His voice, and that you may stick to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may abide in the land which the LORD pledged to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

We pick great wellbeing when we obey God and His assertion. He is for us and His pledge has life. God won't lead us adrift. No! God's bearing is dependably the correct course to take. We can put stock in God with our life. He made us in any case. Doubtlessly the Creator recognizes what is best for His creation. He has given us an outline, a guide for our lives with His oath on the off chance that we take after and obey it. We will carry on with a prosperous, profitable, effective life when we do.

What are a few favors when the sky are open?

READ Deut. 28:1 – 11

The Lord will Make your organizations and your ranches effective.
You will have numerous kids.
You will reap expansive products
Your groups of steers, herds of sheep and goats will create numerous youthful.
You will have a lot of bread to eat.
The Lord will make you effective in your every day work.
The Lord will enable you to overcome your foes and influence them to disperse every which way.
The Lord your God is giving you the land (an area)
God will ensure you are fruitful in all that you do.
Your collect will be large to the point that your storage facility (ledgers) will be full.
God will make you His own particular extraordinary individuals.
Everybody on earth will know you have a place with the Lord, and they will fear you.

These are the guarantees of an open paradise!!!

God opens the Heavens profoundly as well. God's rain is something beyond stuff yet in addition recovery and the bread of His quality. he is the genuine concealed nourishment of paradise.
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OPEN HEAVEN IN THE SPIRITUAL

A standout amongst the most widely recognized appearances of living under an open paradise is steady disclosure.

Here are a couple of cases:

Ezekiel

Eze. 1:1

"Presently it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the hostages by the stream of Chebar, that the sky were opened, and I saw dreams of God."

John the Revelator

Rev. 4:1 – 2

"After this I looked, and observe, an entryway was opened in paradise: and the main voice which I heard was in a manner of speaking of a trumpet chatting with me; which stated, Come up here, and I will demonstrate thee things which must be in the future. Furthermore, promptly I was in the Spirit:"

Rev. 19:11

"Also, I saw paradise opened, and observe a white steed; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and genuine, and in honesty he doth judge and make war."

Jacob

Gen. 28:12

"What's more, he imagined, and observe a stepping stool set up on the earth, and its highest point came to paradise: and see the holy messengers of God rising and plummeting on it."

Peter.

Acts 10:9 – 11

"Diminish went up upon the rooftop to supplicate about the 6th hour: And he turned out to be exceptionally ravenous, and would have eaten: yet while they made prepared, he fell into a daze, And saw paradise opened, and a specific vessel dropping unto him, as it had been an extraordinary sheet sew at the four corners."

Paul composed…

Eph. 1:15 – 23 (Amplified Bible)

"… For I generally implore to the God of our Lord jesus Christ, the Father of radiance, that He may give you a soul of shrewdness and disclosure [of understanding into puzzles and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] information of Him. By having the eyes of your heart overwhelmed with light, (Heaven opened) so you can know and comprehend the would like to which He has called you, and how rich is His radiant legacy in the holy people (His set-apart ones), And [so that you can know and understand] what is the vast and boundless and outperforming enormity of His influence in and for us who accept, as showed in the working of His strong quality… "

… of understanding into riddles and insider facts in the profound and cozy information of Him… This comes as we look into Christ's lovely face.

Hebrew 12:2

"Looking unto jesus the creator and finisher of our confidence," "looking" is meant Gaze or stargazer."

Look: to dismiss the eyes from different things and fix them on something, appropriately, to gaze at, to see with the eyes, to see with the brain, to see to know, to wind up familiar with by encounter, to involvement, to see, to look to or think about eagerly. (Dark colored Driver Briggs Hebrew Lexicon).

As we look into Christ's face, we start to perceive how lovely He is. The more we look for Him, the more He will uncover Himself to us.

Isaiah 6:1 – 5 (I saw the Lord sitting at the position of royalty… )

Isaiah was given a dream through an open paradise of God on His position of authority. It was an effective vision. After he saw the vision he really wanted to state, "Poor me, for I am fixed! Since I am a man of unclean lips, and I abide amidst a people of unclean lips: For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."

We progress toward becoming "fixed" when we encounter an Open Heaven of God's magnificence. However, we yearn for and pine for additional.

Isaiah 64:1

"In the event that exclusive You would part open the sky and descend! The mountains would shake at Your quality."

God is here today and needs to His greatness to be uncovered in every last one of us. We are valuable to Him.

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WHAT IS AN OPEN HEAVEN?

Definition: When the sky are open we have free access to everything in radiant domains, a free streaming of Gods bottomless graces and service control. Serving under an open paradise resembles worked the dirt without work or sweat on the forehead. At the point when paradise is open for you God will be close and paradise will be show in the common "on earth as it is in Heaven."

OPEN: to be given free, a chance to be tossed open, to relax, to open oneself

Strongs Concordance states: pâthach, paw-thakh', A crude root; to open wide (truly or allegorically); particularly to release, break forward, let go free,

Paradise: BDB (Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew Definitions) – H8064, shâmayim/shâmeh, paradise, sky, sky, house the stars, as the obvious universe, air, paradise as the homestead God.

We can securely express that "Open Heaven" truly implies: To open wide, toss open or release oneself, let go free the sky or air where God abides!

How would we get an open paradise?

What opens the Heavens?

What mixes the Heart Of God?

Closeness is the way to open an open paradise.

There is a closeness that God yearns for yet, it will cost us something. The cost is kicking the bucket to our tissue. We need to diminish so God can increment in our lives. I know you have heard that expression previously yet we should take a gander at it all the more intently.

How would we get an open paradise?

We should diminish so God can increment

From the earliest starting point of when we were conceived we have focused on ourselves. We are a narrow minded individuals. It is sadly normal to consider ourselves and pay special mind to #1. That is the reason we need to instruct our kids to share and be decent to others. We need to show them to consider the other individual's emotions. We never need to educate a little child to consider themselves. One of the primary words they learn, other than "no, is "mine."

So it takes some deprogramming to change our reasoning and to look past ourselves and center onto God and what He may need. The initial phase in diminishing is brokenness.

a. Brokenness

In our brokenness His affection immerses our hearts and streams out to everyone around us more than ever. Sobbing and notwithstanding moaning approach in the unadulterated nearness of His sweet nurturing sustenance of affection. When we surmise that He has surrendered us and life has turned dull, the light of His unadulterated love contacts us and streams like a waterway into our lives transforming us until the end of time. In brokenness our qualities and needs are incredibly changed. The things of building and doing happen to little esteem and the truth of being in His quality ends up transcendent.

Acts 14:22

"We should through numerous tribulations enter the kingdom of God."

It appears to be through brokenness and hardships God readies the dirt of our souls to get from Him. They stirred us from our independence and our soul can react in modesty to the illustration and whooing of the nearness of God.

Pride must go! Inclining toward our independence must go! We need to go to a place where we depend on God and God alone for our ordinary needs. At the point when pride is broken, God can move in our souls in a genuine and capable way.

Our independence will decimate us and our pride will keep God's support and gift in our lives. The tissue is difficult to tame. The main thing that will tame it is to lay it down at Christ's feet and say, "Have your way in me."

Christ said it well in Matthew 26:39b Amplified Bible,

"… My Father, in the event that it is conceivable, given this glass a chance to pass far from Me; all things considered, not what I will [not what I desire], but rather as You will and want."

Indeed, even Jesus surrendered control to the Father when He truly set out His life for His Father's will.

"For to me, to live is Christ, and to kick the bucket is pick up," Philippians 1:21 (NKJV

Galatians 2:20 (NKJV)

"I have been executed with Christ; it is not any more I who live, yet Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the substance I live by confidence in the Son of God, who cherished me and gave Himself for me."

These sections of sacred text demonstrate how we are to see our lives. It's about what He needs. When we give our hearts to Christ, we are not our own particular but rather His.

You have to manage your tissue promptly. Your tissue wouldn't like to kick the bucket. It will shout out at you to stop. It will shout out in self centeredness to have its direction. Know about it when the time desires you to relinquish your control to God.

On the off chance that self centeredness wins, sin has won.

Press through the agony of relinquishing your will.

The world will instruct you to pay special mind to yourself, support your rights, however God expects us to be broken and have a humble heart, these penances God will never scorn (Psalm 51:17 NKJV).

It's never enjoyable to bite the dust. It costs us something. Our will needs beyond words. Tissue needs to run when it is expensive or excruciating.

We should kick the bucket to our substance, our pride, and independence, since they can deny us of a cozy association with Christ, and keep us from being what God made us to be.

Amy Wilson, with the Christian Literature Crusade, communicates this idea well;

God, solidify me against myself,

The quitter with despicable voice

Who pines for straightforwardness and rest and euphoria.

Myself, curve trickster to myself,

My hollowest companion,

My deadliest adversary,

My obstruct, whatever street I go.

Our substance will shout for us to have its direction. We are just misleading our self in the event that we let it win. Some portion of our substance is our pride. Pride comes in such huge numbers of bundles. One major bundle was my resolved will.

I needed to lay my fantasies and objectives at Christ's feet. They were my crowns, or the valuable things I had conveyed all my life, and truly they added up to nothing contrasted with God's gets ready for me. Setting out my fantasies and relinquishing my independence was influencing me to reduction, and giving God back control and enabling Him to change my life was enabling God to increment in my life.

When I diminished, it was never again about me, yet God. At the point when God expanded, He turned into the focal point of my life, as well as He expanded Himself and His quality in me.

He builds parts of my life as I stroll in dutifulness to His statement.

It is a safeguard intend to diminish and have God increment. It is a "win – win" circumstance.

B. Submission – Is additionally expected to encounter an open paradise. We should comply with His summons and we should comply with His promptings we sense in our souls.

C. Accommodation – Submission and dutifulness go as one. We need to submit under God's and perhaps other's specialists that God has set over us. This executes pride on the spot and makes a broken, humble heart.

Every one of the three: Brokenness, Obedience and accommodation convey diminish and enable God to increment.

How would we get an open paradise? (Cont… )

Acclaim And Worship

As we acclaim and love the Lord, it liberates us to begin concentrating on Christ and not our issues or circumstances.

Love is the climate of Heaven

Brokenness is the money of paradise.

When we revere, we convey Heaven's environment to earth, right where we are. Being broken and modest and coming and worshiping God is the main place to be while needing an open paradise. This makes an open paradise.

Pausing and Soaking within the sight of God.

This calms our spirits so we can hear God's voice. Simply setting aside the opportunity to hold up in God's essence will make that climate for getting.

We get excessively occupied and diverted. Absorbing God's quality (setting down or submissively sitting) encourages us to be still and to perceive our identity contrasted with God. He brings rest and peace. Such a significant number of voices squeezing to be gotten notification from our employments, family, obligations, and more will shout at you for consideration. Absorbing God's essence, with reverential music on, will bring you right where God is. He is peace and rest. He is the admirer of your spirit.

Resembling King David, "A Man After God's Own Heart." – We have to pursue, hunger, and yearn for time with the Lord. Closeness is the way to an open paradise! David needed to satisfy God's heart. He needed to satisfy God's heart as well as he was after God.

Try not to be reluctant to get physically involved with God. Do you know He aches for this? He made you for fellowship and fraternity.

Something happens when we permit God moprofoundund into our souls. We see things diversely and we approach our day by day life distinctively in light of the fact that we have a Savior Who is so personal and genuine and Who thinks about our regular day to day existence. It acquires change our reasoning a thinking. Closeness with God is a wonderful thing.

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