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Not long ago, I had one of the most unexpected and transformative encounters of my life. I am praying that the Holy Spirit will help me to share it with you so that you can truly experience this transformation as well.
From the Earth to the Throne Room
It happened during our Sunday service here in downtown Portland, Oregon. As always, worship was powerful and beautiful from the moment we began. Then, I found myself being drawn into a place in the spirit that I had never been before—at least not like this. I was no longer in Portland but moving toward a heavenly place. As I was moving from one realm (the earthly realm) into another (the heavenly realm), I began to experience every grief, burden and 'battle outcome' being swallowed up by the sound of Heaven.
I suddenly found myself bowed down in the throne room where I was absolutely overwhelmed and overtaken by the kindness of God, the mercy of God, the holiness of God and the absolute victory of God. I began weeping uncontrollably—not because I was sad but because it caused everything in me to cry out, "Holy, holy, holy!" I could see other people coming from Earth to Heaven, and as they did, all defeat and death were swallowed up in the victory of Jesus.
This place was so vast and yet so full—FULL of every aspect of God. Waves of 'who He is' would wash over me, one after another. With each wave, I would bow down even lower, crying out, "Holy, holy, holy are You!" (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
A wave that revealed His kindness would come and take my breath away, filling every part of that place, along with every one and every being within it. Then a wave of His mercy would come and the same thing would happen, and so on.
I never wanted to leave that place because I was absolutely free of every sense of defeat; I was immersed in complete victory—eternal victory!
From 'Outcome' to 'Overcome' - Removing the Card of Defeat
When I began to experience my spirit returning to the room on Earth, I passed through a place where I saw the enemy. He was holding two playing cards: one read "Victory" and one read "Defeat." Then, without any words spoken to me, I suddenly knew that as long as the Church (His sons and daughters) had an 'outcome' mentality of victory or defeat, this would enable the enemy to play those cards again and again in his favor. He would hold the "Victory" card for himself and play the "Defeat" card against the saints of God. But I felt like God was showing me that we were the ones who empowered him to play his cards and hold his cards.
God is desiring a transformation from being an 'outcome minded' people to an 'overcoming minded' people. We must remove the card that says "Defeat" from the enemy's hand so that he cannot play it against us any longer. Every time he plays it and it is believed (due to not seeing the outcome we desired or hoped for), it releases doubt, defeat, depression and disillusionment, which opens all kinds of doors to become more worldly minded. We then move further away from the awareness of God's holiness and begin to embrace the lies that we are defeated.
God wants us to have our minds renewed with the imperishable victory found in Heaven (which swallows up death and defeat), becoming a people who view and believe that for those 'in Christ,' victory is the only outcome—no matter what our natural eyes see or circumstances seek to dictate.
While I was in the throne room, death and defeat were swallowed up in absolute victory. All I could do was cry out, "Holy!" We are to be heavenly minded. Everything that we've experienced is swallowed up in the victory that Jesus secured for us over 2,000 years ago. Every experience, even the painful ones, should draw us closer to Heaven, where we are healed by who He is and every attribute that is within Him. The hard, 'perishable' (temporal) experiences should be brought to the imperishable (eternal) truth and clothed with garments of praise. Then our weeping will even cause us to cry out, "Holy!"
The enemy is using his "Defeat" card as his trump card (a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage) against God's people. It's time to play it against him and pull it from his hand.
I am not saying that hard things will stop happening here on Earth if we remove this card from satan's hand. But if we renew our minds so that the only possible outcome for those in Christ is victory, then the effects of believing defeat will stop devastating our souls through these temporal circumstances and trials. (Photo via Max Pixel)
Our Only Imperishable Truth
I want to say this with absolute conviction: ULTIMATELY, FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST, THE ONLY OUTCOME IS VICTORY. That was what I took away from the thirty minutes I spent in the throne room.
"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'" (1 Corinthians 15:54)
In that place I was clothed with the imperishable...the eternal. I experienced everything relating to death and defeat being swallowed up in victory—EVERYTHING!
I am praying that God (by His Spirit) will transform our minds and beliefs so that we will be an 'overcoming minded' people, rather than an 'outcome minded' people—having a 'victory or defeat' mentality. Let's pull that "Defeat" card out of the enemy's hand, leaving him with only a victory card in OUR favor and declaring his defeat!
May the imperishable truth—this eternal truth—overcome our temporal, perishable circumstances and minds. Victory is the only imperishable truth for those who are in Christ. So we cry out, "Holy, holy, holy are YOU!"
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Kathi Pelton
Inscribe Ministries
Email: jkpelton@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.inscribeministries.com
Jeffrey and Kathi Pelton live in Portland, Oregon. Jeffrey is a writer, teacher and book editor. Kathi is an author and prophetic voice to the Church. They walk with nations and individuals to see God's original intent fulfilled. Their ministry, Inscribe Ministries, was founded upon the verse from Habakkuk 2:2 that says, "Then the LORD answered me and said: 'Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.'"
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I am always in awe of people's encounters and what they experience with the Lord in them...it stirs me to want more encounters myself!
