Knocking at Heaven's Door

In the last few months people in Listening Prayer Therapy sessions have had divinely granted visions of heaven or of a waiting place on the way to heaven. I am being drawn in to a sense of the nearness of heaven if we would open our imagination to divine inspiration and the presence of Jesus. These experiences are beyond what I imagined when I developed the "Peace with Heaven" prayer format.

A young man in a vision of heaven say the throne and said: "They rule with their heart and not with their minds." A nice confirmation of my comments of July 27th blog entry: 'Mission to Listen.'

One comment he heard was: "God does not tell you what to do or make you do anything (you are free ) as long as it is done from the heart with purity and out of a caring intention."

This young man described the joy that those in heaven have in helping others. There was great joy there. All held in common love and worship of Jesus. We take pleasure in serving Him. There were different groups singing gospel songs. Relationships were like spider webs of kindness to others that brought joy to themselves.

One interesting comment was that what you experience on earth is multiplied times 1,000 in heaven. That what you experience on earth depends on you perceptions and your perceptions are up to you. You choose to see things bad or good.

We choose whether we will enter the kingdom of heaven by our choices to live with empathy for others and to follow the Lords' rules. His rules give freedom.

In the last year I did a lot of work with a woman in crisis who was filled with panic, pessimism and depression. I believe that she was in a God-ordained life crisis to deal with pride, self-centeredness, control and people-pleasing. Session after session I confronted her pessimism - her tendency to see a situation as negative when it could as well be seen as positive - session after session.

Perhaps this was not necessary. Perhaps there is a prayer encounter that could deal with a person's pessimistic outlook.

CHALLENGE: Design such a prayer - an encounter with God that allows a person to submit their pessimistic perceptions and allows Jesus to replace them with His optimistic perceptions. Can you picture that? Let me know your ideas.

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May you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, George <><