2.1.22 The Place of Stillness
By
Nita RL Johnson
Thursday night, 1.27.22. – The Event!
I entered into a position known as the “Fullness of Union” near the end of January on Thursday the 27th, 2022. The entrance into this most holy place actually began at a point in time on March 15th, 2019, after over 30 years of following His will step by step down a hidden path under the discretion of the Almighty One! Subsequent to this long but necessary journey through the many lessons learned and maturation gained, Jesus brought me to live with Him here in this most holy place. En-route, He executed many more impartations of Himself, increasing our level of Union with each deposit He made until I arrived at our Thursday night destination called the “Fullness of Union.” Not surprisingly, the meaning of the “Fullness of Union” was granted in a place called “The Stillness of God”! (Psalm 4:4a) or “The Rest of God Almighty,” (Hebrews 4:1b).
Many things have transpired since entering into this most Holy Dwelling Place. The following is regarding an experience that revealed some significant revelations of life in this level of Union!
The Stillness of God!: My experience!
I awoke at 3 am on Feb. 1st, 2022, and found myself in a unique place. Jesus revealed the state and condition of my soul to me at this time. If I were to give this place a name, I would entitle it: “The Stillness of God” as He Himself called it.
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a Psalm 4:4 KJV
b Hebrews 4:1 AMPC
This is a place Jesus invited me to maybe 3yrs ago. However, this was the Kiros experience He gave to me to help me understand such a place. If I were to describe it, I would share it thus:
“It is a place of tranquility and state of being filled with a Divine innocence. Indeed, the Divine Nature! Amidst Pristine beauty, emanations of Holiness and Purity combined with
Righteousness, Love and, Perfect Peace had taken up residence on my innermost being. Christ created His own dwelling place in me and invited me to join Him in Divine Union within its boundaries. The feelings that the above mentioned condition evoked from me were perhaps what a baby might feel in the womb of a perfectly content mother; a sense of safety, restfulness, being nurtured. My mind, heart, soul, and spirit, even my flesh was at perfect “rest in the state of comfort, contentment, free from guilt or inner anxiety due to sin, or the soulish Nature. I felt so loved, so accepted, in a place of utter blissfulness. One could not even consider such a place on this earth. There was no sense of evil or present endangerment by evil, just carried in the arms of His protection. Life seemed restful; there was a great sense of freedom as I was in a state of repose in this place he created in me called the “Stillness of God”. I desire to put one more emphasis on the holiness, purity, glory/Shekinah, righteousness, kindness, and tender-heartedness, resulting in perfect serenity with which I was consumed within and without. My inner man rested in the Spirit of God manifesting His essence comprised of the above and these virtues had recreated my Nature to take on the likeness of His according to (Romans 8c.) (Eph 2:4 -7d)
This spiritual awakening as to my new condition/position lasted about 15min or so in the beginning. After moments of sheer amazement, suddenly I experienced all-out warfare against my mind by the enemy of our souls. Nothing was harmful, just inconvenient and a nuisance!
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c Romans 8 AMPC
d Eph 2:4-7 AMPC
The enemy was trying to provoke fear to make me feel unstable and unsafe. There was no place to hide; I had to fight. I do not know how long this lasted, but as soon as it started, it lifted, and I was back in that incredible “Stillness” again held in the everlasting arms of my heavenly Father.
I was back to where it began; At “Rest”. Only one thought entered my mind at this time: I had never known this before. To live in this place, this is my quest!
One so occupied by God, finds there was nothing left for anything but to behold His beauty and grace, His sublime, holy, noble, and pure character and love.
No yearning could invade such a place of peace. I was His! Totally, without complicity, at rest in this impeccable place of “Stillness” in His love. He would give me the questions and answers I needed without stress or strain.
Jesus showed me how this life in Him would work together with life living in the temporal world. To walk and live in this Divine Rest in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the world around us takes practice. We must learn to yield to His Stillness until it utterly owns us by way of the embedded, habitual actions it promotes. The Scripture shows us how to do this. Passages such as I have included in this writing and Scriptures such as Paul wrote in (Romans 12:1, 2e) help us along the path. This quietness of soul was both a gift from Jesus by the Spirit of Grace and the environment God granted by taking the time and effort to purge my soul of the things that hinder such a life. In this place, rather than fighting a world of darkness within by way of the Sinful Nature which had been eradicated some 3 years before, I now live in a pool of truth! That does not mean the Devil can no longer tempt us to sin at small points here and there, and even on rare moments, win.
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e Romans 12:1, 2 AMPC
Then again, after some time, the warfare started all over again, and I had to fight it. And fight it I did, until at last, “Stillness” returned.
His peace, His presence, I suppose all with which He filled me surrounded me. Encapsulated with what seemed to me an eternal bliss at rest in the “Stillness” of my Lord, I had no “I wonder’s”. No “questions”. I sought no answers. I sought nothing. I knew only the Stillness of His Love in His Divine Rest, the innocence of His Divine purity, the pristine beauty of something never touched by evil.
To be alive and have no thoughts of self, to think no specific thoughts even about the Glorious God, only the experience of His presence breathing gentle whispers of revelation into my heart. Yet, to be wrapped in this peaceful, noble beauty of His very life was incomprehensible.
I felt no need to open files to ensure I stored all the information I was receiving, for nothing felt like information rather a life of revelation, in His eternal existence. He now fills every inch of me. I no longer have a divided heart; I was one in and with Him. He united my heart and my mind, and I was at rest in His perfect “Stillness” of love. (Heb 4:3, 4, 6-10f; PS 86:11g) I have His heart; mind and am in the “Fullness of Union” with Him seemingly soul and Spirit.
I said to Him, “Father, this is what I needed. I did not know! So beautiful! So pure, undefiled, perfect in Your own Divine innocence. Thank You! I feel so overwhelmed.” I thought it could take an eternity to understand what has happened to me.
Ps 4:4h Be still!
Ps 46:10i Be still
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f Heb 4:3, 4, 6-10 AMPC
g Ps 86:11 AMPC
h Ps 4:4 KJV
i Ps 46:10 AMPC
I looked at the clock for just a moment before I fell asleep; it was about 5 am. How much longer I lay awake aware of my new life, I do not know.
I kept thinking about the words Jesus spoke to me: This is full Union!
Continue to strive to enter into the Rest. (Heb 4:12j)
I never knew it would feel like this. Now that I am in Union, this is my life; unequivocal beauty in Him, then war with the enemy! Ever-revolving! The times I will experience the wars against my mind will be brief and only for ever-deepening purification! Then, He not only will restore me to the manifested “Stillness,” but He will impart more of Himself. The New Creation (2 Cor 5:17k) Jesus created within will never depart from my soul. Whither I feel its effects or not at any given moment, it is always with me. It is the new me! My now restored soul wrapped and enmeshed in His Divine Spirit, the Spirit of Christ our Beloved.
This night was mine to have as I walked through the door of the future!
As I write this, it is now 2.10.22. I am still experiencing seemingly ever-increasing degrees of Union, deepening the work He has already completed. I continue to feel more and more impartations throughout each day and night! I continue down this new path of further growth.
Jesus is calling through the mouth of the Spirit of Wisdom as she cries out in the streets. The Father is looking for a people who will worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Enter into Union with the Son. Kiss the Son and be blessed. Come! Come!
Thank You Lord!
In Him,
Nita Johnson
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j Heb 4:12 AMPC
k 2 Cor 5:17 AMPC