"Birthing Manifestations of the Realm of Heaven on the Earth"

by Ryan Wyatt

web site: http://www.abidingglory.com

In recent months, the Lord has taken me up several times, in the Spirit, to a particular place in the Heavenly realm. I call this place the land of promises. This place was lush and flourishing with the life of God. The very atmosphere of this place was radiating with the presence of the Lord. It had the feeling of Spring when all things are new and refreshing. All around I could see rainbows reminding me of the promises of God throughout His word and the personal promises and prophecies that have been delivered from His mouth to His people throughout history. I instinctively knew that this was the place where these promises were found, activated, and brought down to the earth realm. God is currently speaking something at this time to the Body of Christ about His promises and the fulfillment of them in these end-times.

In this experience I simply laid down in the grass in order to enjoy the heavenly atmosphere of this place. While lying there I saw two angels approaching me and they began to feed me with honey. Honey in the Bible is symbolic of revelation. I believe, in this experience, the honey represented a spirit of wisdom and revelation that was being placed upon me in greater measure in order to comprehend, in the spirit, the things that were about to take place. The angels left and I then saw Jesus approaching me from a distance. The light emanating from His being was blinding, yet incredibly inviting at the same time. As He reached me and stood before me I was undone within myself. There was such purity and holiness that emanated from Him. It really is an experience that is impossible to describe in earthly terms! While kneeling in His presence, I suddenly realized that the light emanating from Him was encompassing me and I was beginning to glow with the glory of His presence. The love and intimacy that we shared in that moment, even without spoken words, was out of this world! The Lord then spoke to me with a voice that shook me to the core. It was as if every fiber and cell of my being was shaken and awakened by His voice. What He said surprised me: "Know My Holy Spirit!"

The Lord then turned and walked away, but as he left, this mist or glory cloud, began to completely envelop me. I knew it was Holy Spirit! The atmosphere changed when this other member of the Godhead moved in. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said that when He is present He brings with Him the atmosphere of creation. He then said something that astounded me: "Ask what you will and it will be done for you!" Without words being spoken, Holy Spirit began to communicate to me different scriptures that verified the truth of this experience. How many of you know that you can read certain scriptures hundreds of times throughout your life but when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes upon you as the spirit of wisdom and revelation, He reveals and uncovers hidden revelation. He took me to Gen 1:1-3, which begins the story of creation, and then to Luke 1:26-45, the story of Jesus' conception in the womb of Mary. In the same way that Mary was chosen to conceive Jesus within her womb and bring Him forth into the world, so too, we as believers are chosen through intimacy and impartation from heaven (conception), to bring forth the Son of God to the world through displays of heavenly glory and power. Before diving into the story of Mary's visitation, I want to present a key in the life of Jesus that I call "synchronization" because it is a secret to bringing manifestations of heaven into the earthly realm.

SYNCHRONIZATION: A KEY TO BRINGING HEAVEN TO EARTH

I believe that Jesus came to this earth and lived His life as a prototype of what is possible and available for each one of us. Jesus lived in a place of such intimacy and fellowship with the Father on a daily basis that He just proclaimed and decreed what he saw and heard His Father doing and the realm of heaven was immediately ushered into every situation He touched. You see, Jesus did not do any miracles as God! He was most definitely the Son of God, but He laid down His power as God and limited Himself as a human in the very same way that we are limited. The only difference between Jesus, in His human life, and us is that he lived a life completely yielded to the Holy Spirit. Jesus lived out of John 5:19-20 - He simply kept himself in constant communion with the Father and Holy Spirit. Then He did what He saw the Father doing and said what He heard the Father saying. Jesus was one who synchronized heaven and earth and therefore He was the very gateway for the power and reality of heaven to come into our natural realm. What do I mean by synchronized?

Jesus lived with a higher reality than many of us have. He lived everyday with the revelation that He had access to the supernatural realm and if He could just see and hear what was going on in heaven with the Father and simply proclaim that on the earth, then mighty demonstrations of power would be ushered into every situation. The Lord at this time is emphasizing our need for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him to be able to comprehend the supernatural realm around us. The spirit of wisdom and revelation gives us anointed eyes and ears to be able to access heavenly realms and to co-operate and co-labor with the plan of heaven for each moment of our lives. This end-time generation is destined to be a generation that manifests the King of Glory and His kingdom realm to a people blinded from the truth of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus synchronized heaven and earth and did mighty miracles, signs and wonders, so also, we as believers are called to be the "gateways" of heaven and manifest the Kingdom realm to everyone around us. Paul stated in Galatians 4:19, "My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you." He also prays in Ephesians 3:19 that we would all be filled with the fullness of God. You know, a cup is not completely full until it is overflowing! Likewise, we are not completely full until Christ is so formed in us that He overflows through our life with great demonstrations of heavenly power and glory! God has given each one of us awesome promises, individually and corporately, through His word. Many believers strive in the natural to see the promises of God brought to pass but it's only as we access heavenly realms and enter into divine friendship with God that our promises are fulfilled. Let's gain some additional revelation on the process of birthing promises through the story of Jesus' conception in the womb of Mary…

WE ARE CALLED TO "BRING FORTH THE SON" INTO THE WORLD

Remember, the Holy Spirit told me in the experience mentioned at the beginning of this teaching that the key to seeing promises birthed is found in Luke 1:26-45. The first thing we read in verse 26 is that Mary has a visitation from the heavenly realm by an angel. The first thing proclaimed from the mouth of this heavenly being is Mary's identity in the sight of God! Gabriel says in verse 28, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" The very next verse says, "But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was."

The angel then says in verse 31, "And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS." You've got to notice the parallel here between the physical conception and birth of Jesus and the spiritual birth that you experienced the moment you were saved. Did you know that, at the moment of your salvation experience, the Lord Jesus Christ was "conceived" in your spirit and now your calling and mission in life is to know Him intimately and "bring forth the Son" through your life for the world to see Him in all his majesty and glory? For this reason, it is so important to the Lord that we receive a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, and through anointed eyes and ears, learn to access the realm of heaven. Ephesians 1:18 says that the reason we need illumined eyes is so that we "may know what is the hope of His calling and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints." Notice that this verse says the glory of "His" inheritance in the saints, not our inheritance. Jesus' inheritance is to have a Bride madly in love with Him, without spot or wrinkle, which as His body, manifests the glory of heaven just as He did through His own body while alive on this earth.

The very beginning of the conception experience of Jesus is marked by a heavenly visitation granted to Mary, the person chosen to "bring forth the Son!" Likewise, if we want to bring forth the Son in our lives then we have to learn to access heavenly realms, because that is where the seed of heaven comes from. The Lord is currently raising up and training a remnant of people who will dwell in heavenly places, through the spirit of wisdom and revelation. These ones, marked by Throne Room encounters, will carry that atmosphere to the world with them! Anyone who has ever had an encounter with the Lord in the heavenly realms is marked by that experience forever. There will always be an element of heavenly DNA and atmosphere that these people will carry with them. Can you imagine a people who learn to dwell in heavenly realms and carry that presence with them at all times? This characteristic will mark each member of the great and terrible army that the Lord is raising up in these end-times!

ENCOUNTER AND IMPARTATION (CONCEPTION) FROM HEAVEN

The first key to realize here is that the conception of Jesus began with an angelic visitation from the realm of heaven! Our God is jealously seeking a people who will ascend the hill of the Lord and dwell in the throne room of heaven. A couple years ago I had an experience in Kansas City with Jill Austin and a group of about 50 other people. An intense atmosphere of the Holy Spirit moved into the room and there were many laid out on the floor just soaking in His presence. Suddenly my spiritual eyes were opened and I began to see what was going on in the spirit realm around these people. I saw a whirlwind come down from heaven carrying multitudes of angels. This whirlwind wrapped around the people lying on the floor and was pulling them upward in the spirit. Meanwhile, the angels were going around sprinkling something on the hearts of those on the floor. I asked the Lord what they were doing and He said they were ministering spirits sent to carry His presence from the Throne Room of heaven and impart it to these people. He said that He was imparting a fresh hunger for heavenly things to their hearts. The direction of their heart's hunger and craving was literally being redirected by the impartation from heaven!

Many of us try and try to see the promises of God's word fulfilled through some rational ascent and belief in the Word of God. But the Word of God is simply meant to lead us into an encounter with the Author of the book. John 5:39-40 says, "You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life." It's ludicrous to think that a husband and wife should expect to conceive and give birth to a baby without first experiencing intimacy together. In the same way, we as believers can't just go to the Word and see the Lord's promises (of a great healing revival, for example) and expect to see it happen just because we read it. Mighty demonstrations of God's power and glory are only birthed and manifested on the earth "through" ones who have learned to encounter the Lord in intimacy. Paul says in Ephesians 1:3 that we are "blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ." The only way to see spiritual blessings in heavenly places turned into manifestations of blessing in the natural realm is to access the heavenly places and bring them back with you. Our promises are accessed in the heavenly realm where we are seated with Christ! Each time we as believers have an encounter with the Lord we are filled with more of His fullness and carry more of His presence and we are changed from glory to glory.

IDENTITY

Now, the next thing we see in the midst of Mary's angelic visitation is Gabriel declaring to her the identity she has before God. Gabriel says, in Luke 1:28, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" One of the biggest reasons we aren't seeing more displays of God's power throughout the Body of Christ, besides a lack of intimacy, is confusion over our identity. I recently heard Bill Johnson make this statement: "In the world, before a person is saved we 1) Do things, 2) in order to gain an identity, 3) so we will be accepted. However, in the Kingdom, as born-again believers, it is backwards from the world. In the Kingdom we 1) are accepted, 2) being accepted is our identity, and out of our identity we 3) do things!" I find it interesting that in Luke 1:28 the Greek word for "highly favored" is used only one other time in the entire New Testament. We find it in Ephesians 1:6, "to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved." The word "freely given" or "accepted" (NKJV) in this verse is the very same word used for "highly favored" and this word is only used in these two places. The word is "charitoo" and it means, "highly favored," "accepted," or "freely given." Mary was the one person on the earth who was chosen to "bring forth the Son of God" and she was called highly favored and beloved of the Lord. The one other place that word is used in Ephesians 1:6 - it is talking about every born again believer being accepted in the Beloved. Just as Mary was used to bring forth the Son of God, so also, we will be used to bring forth the Son of God in all His glory!

This Bridal Paradigm message that is spreading across the earth is deeply rooted in the heart of God. There are places all over the world beginning to teach out of Song of Solomon and our identity as the Bride of Christ and as Sons of God. It is no mistake that "Intimacy with God" is one of the most prominent messages in the Body of Christ at this time. Without deep intimate fellowship resulting in heavenly encounters with the Lord we will never know our identity and, therefore, never take dominion and destroy the works of the devil by the power of God.

So how do we get to this place of intimacy and encounter? Mary wondered the same thing. Gabriel lays out the plan and promise of God for her life and she responds in verse 34 saying, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" Don't we all respond the same way when God calls us to something, yet see all the promises in the Word of God that aren't being fulfilled in our lives? Every one of us could have any number of excuses why God couldn't use us in the supernatural realm to see miracles, signs and wonders in our day. In ourselves we are nothing and it would do some of us a lot of good to realize that! But remember, we are highly favored because of His grace and we are freely accepted in the Beloved! We've been given free access to the Throne of Grace (Heb. 4:16) and encouraged to seek the things above (Col. 3:1-3).

INTIMACY WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WAITING ON THE LORD

So what was the answer to Mary's question as to how this could all be accomplished? Verse 35 says, "And the angel answered and said to her, 'the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you.'" Let me take you back to my heavenly encounter for just a moment. In my experience the Holy Spirit came in and overshadowed me and He said to me, "Ask what you will and it will be done for you!" It seemed that in that situation of being immersed in a place of intimacy with Holy Spirit that anything was possible! Just like in the beginning in Genesis 1:2-3, the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters and in that atmosphere God said, "Let there be light", and there was light. When Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, conception took place and the impossible was made possible! In my encounter, before Jesus walked away, with a voice that thundered and shook my entire being in the spirit and the natural he said, "Know My Holy Spirit!"

I'm prophesying to you now that in the coming days there will be a renewed interest in the Holy Spirit. Many in the Body of Christ are afraid to worship the Third "Person" of the Godhead. They feel they should direct all their attention to the Father and the Son. But it was Jesus that said He was going away and was sending the Comforter, the Holy Spirit in His place. Holy Spirit is just as much God as the Father and the Son. The bible says to worship "God" and God consists of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For too long the church has prostituted the anointing! People want the service and the acts of the Holy Spirit without the intimacy of the Spirit. So many times people are operating out of the gift or the anointing within them but with no real power from on high upon them. Some of the strongest anointings in history have rested upon the people who developed an intimate relationship and exchange with Holy Spirit! We need to be released to worship and adore the Holy Spirit because it is Him that tells us of Jesus anyway. It's the Holy Spirit that brings the manifestation of heaven to earth!

Years ago I had an experience that reaffirms my emphasis on intimacy with the Holy Spirit. I was soaking in the presence of the Lord one day and telling Holy Spirit that I wanted to know Him more. Suddenly the whole atmosphere in the room changed and I was filled and overshadowed by the Holy Spirit. I immediately entered the realm of the spirit and found myself floating in a river. I was weeping as waves of His presence coursed through my body. Suddenly, this eagle mask appeared in my hand and I heard the Lord say, "Put it on!" I obeyed and as soon as I put the mask on my face, in my vision, wings started to sprout and grow out of my back. The wings sprouted and I suddenly shot out of the water and began to soar in the heavenly realms. I could literally feel the sensations of flying in my natural body! In the midst of soaring I ran into Jesus and He was stunning! He reached out a scepter and touched my forehead. My whole body instantly turned golden and I could feel "purpose" enter my spirit like electricity. I was infused with the purposes of God. This was one of the times when the Lord reaffirmed my calling and commissioning to the ministry. When I left Him I began to fly over cities and regions and, with great clarity, the Lord began to give me prophetic insight into these places. Just as I was coming out of the experience, the Lord spoke to me and said, "You will find this in Isaiah 40:31." Now this verse is a very popular verse and I knew it well. But at the time I did not have the scripture reference memorized, so I quickly went to it to find out what it said. I studied it out and Holy Spirit brought an amazing revelation to me. The verse says, "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." The Lord directed me to the words "mount up" and I discovered that the Hebrew word means "to sprout," just as the wings in my experience sprouted. The Lord is bringing clarity to the body of Christ on how to enter the realm of the spirit through the model of "waiting on the Lord." My experience taught me one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned and that is how to engage the Lord. As we wait in the overshadowing presence of the Holy Spirit, we are given eyes and wings through the spirit of wisdom and revelation, to engage the realms of heaven and encounter the Lord! We are called the "Royal Priesthood" in the Word of God and, as priests, we must learn to wait on the Lord and minister to Him. We are also called Kings and Priests in Revelation, but it's only as we learn to minister to the Lord as priests that we will attain the power from heaven to rule and reign as kings over the works of the enemy!

PROPHETIC DECLARATION OF THE PLANS AND PURPOSES OF HEAVEN

Now we come to the fulfillment of God's promise to Mary. She has had a visitation from heaven, received an impartation by the Holy Spirit, and was encouraged with the reality of her identity and how she is seen in God's eyes. It's after all this that she finally aligns and synchronizes herself with the plan and purpose of heaven. In the creative atmosphere of heaven overshadowing her she proclaims in verse 38, "Behold, the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word." Then conception took place. A seed from heaven was planted within her and she "brought forth the Son of God," the greatest gift and display of heaven ever brought forth in all of history!

Allow me to dwell, for just a moment, on Mary's proclamation of agreement with the plan and purpose of heaven. Mary did something that Jesus did everyday of His earthly life. Jesus would hear and see what the Father was saying and doing in heaven; He would simply go proclaim it and heaven would invade earth. Let me give you a personal testimony of this in my own life. Several months ago I was in Australia ministering at a church on Sunday morning. I heard clearly from the Lord that I was to step up to the pulpit and, without any preaching, I was to immediately release a healing wave. He said the altars would be filled with healing testimonies. I simply did as He said and I never got to preach! I lined people up and listened to their testimonies of healings and miracles for an hour and a half. The next week I was in Tanzania, Africa and preached again at a church on Sunday morning. Just as I was about to step up to the pulpit I felt a wind blow on my left hand and I heard the Lord say, "My healing angels are here. Release a healing wave right away and I will do signs and wonders in your midst!" I thought, "Yeah, I've clearly heard from heaven, so this is gonna be fun." I simply decreed to the people what I heard from God about the healing angels and I released the healing wave. For the next 2 hours I stood up front and listened to the testimonies of God's power. All in all there was one paralytic completely healed that was pretty much carried into the service because her legs were paralyzed and her arm was shriveled up. I saw her walking and saw her healed and outstretched hand! There were also over 5 blind people and over 5 deaf-mutes healed along with dozens of other healings and deliverances! Heaven had invaded earth simply because I had a supernatural encounter with an angel, heard from God, and proclaimed it to the people.

There is power in our decree just as there was in Mary's.

Her declaration of agreement with the plan and purpose of heaven, which came from her visitation, is what eventually brought the conception of Jesus to pass. We are told to do the same in Job 22:21-30. The scripture tells us to acquaint ourselves with the Lord (Intimacy), receive instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in our heart (hearing from heaven) and because of this we will lay our gold (our identity) in the dust and the Lord will become our Gold (our new identity). It goes on to say that we will have our delight in the Lord and make our prayers to Him and verse 28 says, "You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you." It goes on to talk about how our declaration, out of intimacy with the Lord, will actually bring freedom and deliverance to the bound and guilty (bringing heaven to earth).

I want to encourage all of you reading this that God is ready and willing to bring His promises to pass in your life. However, it is through our co-operation and co-laboring with Him that the supernatural is manifested in the natural. We are His vessels and we are the gateways through which His glory will be displayed on the earth. Press into Him more than you ever have before. Ask Him for a release of divine hunger that will drive you deeper into Him. Like Mary, it is simply through intimacy, engaging the realm of heaven, and declaring what you see and hear that brings heaven to earth! The scripture in Luke goes on to say in verse 39 that Mary arose and went. As she entered Elizabeth's house and simply greeted her, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. May we all lay down our gold and receive the Lord as the true Gold in our lives and may we arise and "go" as we display the glory of heaven. The deposit of heaven that will rest on you after engaging the revelatory realm will simply overflow and people will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Mary called herself the "Maidservant of the Lord." There was also a prophecy given in Acts 2:18 about menservants and maidservants. It says, "And on my menservants and on my maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy." That means you!!

"Father I pray that you would visit everyone reading this with a heavenly visitation. One encounter with you can shake regions! I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to be released in greater measures so that your people might really begin to engage the supernatural realms of heaven and experience You. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would make yourself real to each one reading this and cause a boldness to be released. Overshadow us, rest upon us, and fill us afresh! May we be vessels who truly cause heaven to invade earth!"

by Ryan Wyatt

web site: http://www.abidingglory.com