By
Nita Johnson
Transcription from our 7-30-10 service
From last week…
So there I stood filled with living truth and, boy, was it different. I felt like I had been taken up. Not that I had become God—I had not become God—but I had been taken up into the center of fellowship with Him. I had been totally removed from the spirit of the world. It was out of my heart, out of my soul; it was out of me. The spirit of the world was gone; I was cut away from it and now I am filled only with the spirit of Christ which lifts me up into Him. My soul is now cocooned in Him. What I’m telling you is so extraordinary and after He shared many things with me, spoke many things to me—the visitation lasted a long time—He looked at me and said to me: Nita, would you like to live here? And it was so far beyond any Christian experience that I’ve ever had. It seemed like nothing I’ve ever had or been given before in my Christian walk could have prepared me for the magnificence of where I was at that moment. I said, “Is it possible for a human being to live in this place with You?” That seemed unbelievable to me. He smiled… You know, one thing about Jesus is that He doesn’t repeat Himself very often. “Is it possible for a human being to live in this place with You?” I asked again amazed. “Lord, this is possible?!?”
You see, because it wasn’t like being a Christian. I am sorry, I don’t know how else to say it. It’s like being a Christian you’re here. But being in Christ you are way up there—it is so much higher because there is no more fear, doubt, anger, disappointment and any of those things we go through. Not only is there no more of the lower nature feeding into your mind and heart and soul, but you are like a newborn babe cocooned in God with all the innocence. Your whole relationship now is not with the spirit of world. You don’t know how much your soul is in fellowship with the spirit of the world until you are removed from it. There is no more pride, there is no more lust. Maybe you as most Christians think: Oh, I don’t lust. Well, yes you do—every time you go to the store and get something you don’t need, that is lusting. Every time you see someone else with something you don’t have and you think about how much you would love to have that, it is lust. Every time you think you absolutely need something that isn’t coming your way and you can’t afford to buy it and you start complaining and murmuring to God—that is lust.
But there is a place where there is no more of that. The only thing your spirit and your soul is lusting after is Him who has consumed you. What you are now filled with is truth. You’re not just looking at it anymore. You’re consumed with it; you’ve become one with it—living truth.
So then, when you are in this lofty place and you hear people talk about the difficult times they are going through, you don’t hear those words through the hearing of your soul. You hear those words through the mind of Christ and there is no fear—only wisdom, only understanding and only truth. Your heart is filled with faith. You don’t know concern like your soul knows concern when you’re not in union; life is totally different. You are no longer in relationship with the world. You are in relationship with Christ. It doesn’t matter what your ears are hearing because you’re processing it by the spirit of Christ within. You’re not standing there saying: Well, what would Jesus think or feel about this—because you already know. You might say He’s processing the information in you and through you. It is a place of great joy, great peace, and great faith. You know, when Jesus would speak to the people He’d say: Have faith in God. At least, that is how our Bibles read. But what He was really saying in the original language is: Have the faith of God. And in that place you walk in the faith of God. You are no longer conscious of yourself at all; you know you’re still alive and in this tent of flesh, but you are cognizant of only one thing, my dear brothers and sisters, and that is Jesus Christ. That’s what you were created to live in, in this life; you were created to dwell there. He saved you that you might dwell there.
He never saved you for you to live lusting after the things of the world. He saved you to lust after Him and that that passion would grow so great until you are satisfied with nothing but Christ. This is truth. And it’s where you want to be. The days ahead are very difficult; they’re going to get so hard. Aren’t you glad to be here to find that out? The days are going to get incredibly hard, but for those in Christ, it’s not going to be so hard and He is willing to take anyone there. He’s not one to put up a Come Back Tomorrow sign or Out of the Office for Lunch. He is willing to give it to anyone. There is just one requirement: you must die. But isn’t it wonderful that He asks something so simple and He is willing to do it for you if you work with Him?
Psalm 119:160; 160The sum of Your word is truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever.
In a very miniscule way I’ve just told you what it’s like to touch truth, the whole of truth. I’ll never forget the night in this city. I think it was June 20th last year when I was worshipping and the Lord took me into Himself, into complete union, and as much as I possibly could, I preached form that position and it was so amazing because I’m trying to teach out of a passage of scripture, but every word becomes a vision or a spiritual experience. You know, I’m not preaching like the average teacher from the pulpit. I am relaying what I’m seeing, and I’m barely able to do that. I saw truth in a particular passage out of the book of Ephesians—a passage I had studied word for word in the Greek before. Word for word I had studied it very thoroughly, but never in all my studying did I see that almost every word I’m reading is its own separate revelation of the kingdom until that night. I’m trying to preach, teach or whatever you want to call what I was trying to do and every word I read was becoming an experience which I would share with the people until I couldn’t anymore. I was so deep in God I couldn’t do anything anymore and they had to carry me home. Oh well.
The sum total of His Word is truth and I just love that. That is what I just shared with you; this passage from Ephesians—the sum total of it, word after word is living truth. It is a revelation all of its own about God and the kingdom; what a way to live! You guys can have all your material stuff, you know. I’ll just gather myself up, go into my little cave and visit with truth.
Proverbs 16: 6By mercy and love, truth and fidelity [to God and man--not by sacrificial offerings], iniquity is purged out of the heart, and by the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord men depart from and avoid evil.
Truth, love, mercy. The big fallacy of the Great Holiness movement that took place in the fifties was that the truth about holiness became an unbearable yoke because it was more law than it was truth. Everyone had to look the part. Some people call it clothes line preaching—I guess a lot of people did. I heard one preacher back in those days—he was so excited as he was preaching this message, he got himself so worked up—he would preach against women wearing slacks. He said to the congregation, “Them women would get blisters if they had pants on!” And I thought, whoa! I don’t think it was the spirit of the Lord who was helping him preach—maybe the spirit of the law—but everything was like that in the fifties. You did everything by fear. Television came out and of course people would preach against television which was a very smart thing to do, but they didn’t choose not to have television because they loved God, they chose not to have television because they were afraid of being punished by God if they did and that is what the law does.
To be continued next week…
In His Amazing Love,
Nita Johnson
