Livet mitt i Himmelen nå // My life in Heaven now
The longing for Jesus, and the fact that I find it enjoyable, leads me to seek Him almost every day—often several times a day. It often begins with meditation, where I am completely still before Him, simply being present and waiting on Him. Thoughts often come, but I let them go as soon as I notice them. There’s also something about early morning and late evening (and night) for me that naturally creates a connection to the spiritual—it’s as if when I’ve just woken up or right before I fall asleep, am much more open to another dimension. I think that’s why God can speak so clearly to us through dreams, because we don’t have anything blocking us from receiving. All the objections—“but that’s not biblical,” “that’s not logical,” or “this can’t happen in reality”—all the skepticism and resistance I think we have towards God—are gone at night, and we are more open.
In the evenings, I often spend time being led to different places in Heaven—His throne, my throne, mountains, a river, and a garden, each with specific meanings attached. In these places I worship, am silent, pour out my heart, have long conversations with Him, receive His love, repent, and even meet people other than Jesus. Is my imagination involved in this? Absolutely. Do I fully know the boundaries between what I imagine and what is actually happening? No. Much of it is done in faith and in what I sense Jesus is doing—things I can’t definitively prove or know for certain are happening in reality. But do I believe I am in Heaven with Jesus and many other beings? Yes. And do I believe it is led by Jesus and the Holy Spirit? Yes, absolutely. And do I believe it affects my life here on earth? All the time. Do I have doubts? That too.
Sometime this past autumn, I felt Jesus invited me to sit on my throne in Heaven. It’s a place I often go to remember my identity in Him—that I am His son, that I am a king, that I am a priest, and that I have inherited everything from Him. Suddenly, in the Spirit, I sensed Him riding past me on my left side on a horse, and I just knew it was white. I could almost physically feel the air from the horse as it trotted past and hear it neigh, and then a voice said:
“Will you ride with me?”
I knew this was a Bible verse from the Book of Revelation, and that over twenty years ago someone had once prophesied this over me—though I don’t remember who—so perhaps it was especially meaningful to hear it again. I became very happy and answered Jesus enthusiastically:
“Yes, of course I will!”
I thought He was inviting me on some kind of spiritual journey. As I was sitting on the throne, reflecting on what had just happened, it suddenly struck me with certainty: He meant a physical journey—that I, in 37-degree heat in a new and unfamiliar country where I spoke the language only very limitedly, was to travel alone with Him.
I was terrified, but the experience led to an exciting, Holy Spirit–led trip to Tainan in southern Taiwan, almost as far you can get from where I live. There I met a wonderful Taiwanese woman and was given prophetic words to sing and pray over the city. I had a very special experience of how the heavenly influences the physical—“on earth as it is in Heaven.”
And it encouraged me to continue consciously living from Heaven and exploring life with Him there.
(with the help from chatgpt in translation)
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