A Consciousness of Heaven

As we prepare to experience one of the greatest moves of God to ever hit the Earth, it is imperative that we have a proper understanding of Heaven. For many people, including Christians, Heaven is simply some ethereal place that you go to after you die if you've been "good enough." Christians don't put enough emphasis on the reality of Heaven, and its centrality in our faith and ability to complete and fulfill God's will and purpose for our lives.

The first thing we want to understand is that Heaven is real. Most of us probably feel like we already know that. Well then, if that is true, how much of Heaven's resources are you accessing on a daily basis? That's what I'm saying. Heaven is not about "bye and bye, in the sky, when I die." Heaven is a real place that is supposed to directly affect how we live here on Earth.

We also need to understand that Heaven is a specific geographical location that actually serves as the blueprint for the Earth. Just like Mars is a place, Saturn is a place, Jupiter is a place, Venus is a place; Heaven is a place. There are people there, mountains, snow, streets, rivers, houses, pianos, it's a real place.

The responsibility of the Christian is to make the reality of Heaven the reality on earth. That's why Jesus taught the disciples to pray, "thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven" (Matthew 6). The reality of Heaven is what God originally designed for the earth. It's the responsibility of  the church to restore that Divine Reality. We will be ill-equipped to do that if we don't function with a Consciousness of Heaven.