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Years ago I went through a time when I spent many months studying the book of Galatians word for word in the Greek. When you study the Bible in this manner, it takes many months. The night I finished the last verse of the last chapter, the Lord Jesus Christ came and got me at midnight. He said, “Tonight, I brought you here to teach you the book of Galatians.” He took me up into the heavens and taught me chapter one; it lasted from midnight to six-o-clock in the morning, after which He brought me back into my room. Night two, He came again at midnight and said, “I have come to teach you chapter two of the book of Galatians.” He took me up into the heavens and taught me chapter two and brought me back into my room, this went on until I learned every chapter of the book of Galatians, from God’s perspective.

I want to tell you something – all the wonderful scholars, theologians, and most pastors do not really know what Galatians is about. Even with all my studying I did not know what it was about. My friends, when Jesus comes and explains and lets you experience it, this is the beauty of Jesus explaining His Word. He lets you experience truth. He took me up, we were flying up through the atmosphere and stratosphere where we found a thick layer of murky gray matter that stunk like sulfur. It surrounded the whole earth. It was a fearful thing to go through because it was like passing through a swamp full of gators. When we got above this layer, we approached a landing upon which we stood. When we stood on this landing, everything inside of me changed: the way I thought, felt, and experienced things all changed. I was no longer conscious of myself. The sinful nature was gone and He was in me. I was seeing and feeling through Him; I was there but I was not cognizant of my own existence; I had been swallowed up in God. I was standing on the landing and He explained, “This murky gray substance we just past through is the curse that is over the whole earth. It was placed here through Adam’s fall.” What does the book of Galatians say? He was made a curse for us; that curse that surrounds the whole earth was laid upon Jesus. He said to me, “This transformation that you have gone through is a life lived above the curse.” He that knew no sin was made a curse for us so we could walk free of the curse.

Now, teachers have taught the body of Christ for a long time that if you are saved, you are walking above the curse. Yet we still feel laden down by the curse. That’s because it is not just about being saved. There must be a purification of the soul, an expulsion of the world from the soul. Through this process He lifts you up to rule and reign from above the curse. Everything changes; there is no fear, doubt, or unbelief. You behold the face of God while you are living on the earth; your heart is buoyed up in the joy of the Lord within the light. You now have become light and truth. Can you relate to how different it is from how you are walking now? This is life above the curse; this is what it means to walk above the curse. Then He said, “I am going to show you something,” and with His hands he knocked me off the pedestal and down I went back through that murky substance heading toward the earth. When I came to the earth, I found someone who was hungry for God and I said, “I know the way! Come with me.” I took them and brought them up through that murky substance like He had just done with me. I brought them to the landing and all things changed in them, just as it happened to me. They began to see things totally differently, just like I had. He said to me, “When you reach this place you can free many. Until you reach this place you cannot help others.”

There are ministers all around the world that would give anything to set the people free, but because they have not known that they have to rise up and rule and reign from above the curse in order to set people free, their desire is left unfulfilled. We were never meant to be frogs sitting in front of pulpits in chairs and pews. We really were created to fly with the eagles.

In Him,
Nita Johnson