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Question I received in an email from one of our readers: My young daughter went home to be with Jesus three months ago. When receiving counseling prayer about this, God showed me a vision of her in heaven with Jesus. They were playing and laughing together and she told me she was happy and not sick anymore. This encounter has brought my husband and me tremendous peace and comfort, but someone told me that it wasn’t “safe”. I’m just wondering… is it okay? 

Answer: During inner healing prayer times, we have been blessed to see Jesus give people glimpses of their loved ones in heaven and allow them to interact with them. This has provided powerful healing to the wounds in their hearts and changed their lives. The transformation is instantaneous and you can see their countenance change right before your eyes.

You are right that some folks may caution about this, because they may think it is "calling up the dead."  It isn't. There is a distinction. Let us share several examples of godly heavenly encounters and then we will follow these stories with a chart showing the distinctions between conversing with the dead and Jesus-initiated heavenly encounters. 

Did you know that you can receive creative architectural designs through divine revelation? King David did. Check it out:

"Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan of the porch of the temple, its buildings, its storehouses, its upper rooms, its inner rooms and the room for the mercy seat; and the plan of all that he had in mind, for the courts of the house of the LORD, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the storehouses of the house of God and for the storehouses of the dedicated things." (1 Chronicles 28:11-12)

Experience A Healing Meditation - This 21 minute streaming audio, can be downloaded here, listened to and interacted with. A Healing Meditation can be preceded by the interactive sermon, “The Working of Miracles” which is designed to build faith. The script of A Healing Meditation is provided below. You have the option of leading your group (or yourself) into this encounter by either using the downloaded interactive meditation, or you may skip the download version and read/speak what is below.

We received a letter from one of our students who is an inmate at a state correctional center.  The Lord has given him a vision to reach every inmate in his facility with the love of Christ during the month of July. Please join us in standing with him in prayer and intercession for a mighty harvest.  Here is his letter...

Years ago, my favorite Bible teacher, Derek Prince, showed us this revelation from Scripture: Have you never read, "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise"(Matt. 21:16)? Jesus was quoting Psalm 8:2, which says: "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger." So perfected praise is the ordained strength which silences the enemy! Do you need the enemy silenced in your life? If so, enjoy the following journaling from Kirsten Himmelberg.

This creed was formed perhaps 200 - 300 AD. Even then the Church did not have a good grasp of the role of the Holy Spirit, and they were unable to say anything about the Holy Spirit, other than He exists. Amazing!

This book was written by Steve Long, a close friend and one of the senior leaders at Catch the Fire in Toronto, Canada. Steve asked if I would write two-way journaling questions for the conclusion of each chapter, which allows God to speak directly to each reader about their faith. I was more than thrilled to comply, so here you have it! Explore the feats of biblical faith, letting God speak to you about expressing His faith out through your life and into your world. Quite an unbeatable combination, wouldn't you say?

Barry Amundsen listened to an online video from a Pastor Mike, a dispensationalist who does not believe God is speaking today. Pastor Mike decided to spend 30 minutes of his air time to attack the interview Sid Roth did with me years ago about hearing God’s voice.

Below Barry shares how God guided him to respond by creating an article of two-way journaling which he then was able to get posted online. Awesome, Barry! We appreciate everyone who helps carry the torch for a Living God in the midst of His people. The following is from Barry...

You have already experienced a couple of blogs which contain material from CLU student, Pastor Joe Brock. He spoke at our Sunday morning service a few weeks ago, leading the congregation on a trip to heaven (check it out here), and in the second blog we published, he shared a vision of Jesus playing solitaire, and asking us to come, commune with Him so He is not so all alone. 

This blog lets you get acquainted with Joe's background and life and from this point on, Joe will be blogging under his own blog spot on the CWG website. We believe he has many rich things to share with us. Welcome, Joe!