Below the clouds I see life as other carnal people around me see it. It is a life of what "appears". But just above the clouds, I can see doors, possibilities, opportunities, and realities that I can't even imagine in my existence below.
The just shall walk by faith. What is seen is the reality of the natural realm. But there is another reality of the spiritual realm. When God shows us what His reality is, then we have a unique opportunity to do greater things than the reality of the natural realm would provide us. Because we have unique access to what's available above the clouds, we're not limited to our natural surroundings and conditions.
However, we are not a blind people who walk by the imagination of their own foolish hearts. If it doesn't exist above the clouds, then no amount of foolish conjuring will accomplish it below the clouds either. Walking by faith is living by what is above the clouds. We cannot live by what's above the clouds if it has not been revealed to us what is available there.
Faith is not something we initiate in and to ourselves. Faith must always initiated by God. God decided that Abraham would be a Father of many nations. Abraham had little to do with that decision. It was then revealed by God to Abraham that he would have a son. See how God initiated the faith by saying to Abraham "You shall have a son"? Therefore Abraham staggered not, but believed what had been revealed to him by God. Below the clouds, there was no way. But above the clouds, he would be a Father of many nations!
It was revealed to Noah to build an ark, that God would send a flood. Therefore he built. Below the clouds, there was no chance of rain seen. People laughed and mocked. But Noah had peeked into the heavenlies. It was going to rain and rain big time!
We are not a people who walk by human, natural sight or by what appears below the clouds. Faith is manifested by seemingly strange or confident things it has caused people to do throughout the ages, that resulted in great victory and blessings despite how absurd or unlikely it seemed before they received the outcome. They saw something from God and were so convinced of it because they knew it was from God, that they began to pursue it without wavering or doubting, no matter how incredibly silly it seemed to everyone else at the time. This was their faith manifesting!
Moses saw that a bush burned and wasn't consumed. The bush revealed, caused him to turn aside to go see. What God spoke to him at the bush, caused him to go to Pharoah! Pharoah certainly didn't see anything spiritual, but only saw what was below the clouds.
But Moses had had an audience with God. He saw that there, just above the clouds, above the natural circumstances, lay God's timing, God's will, & God's deliverance for Israel! And, despite how bad the circumstances looked, or how hard-hearted Pharoah was, the knowledge above the clouds was that God was about to deliver his people Israel!
That which is seen above the clouds is stedfast and unrelenting, not subject in any way to neither present circumstances, nor the attempted sabotage or negativity of unbelievers. It didn't matter how hard the Egyptians laughed and scorned the whole idea; that they temporarily made the Israelites work harder; or that they threatened them in every way they could think of. That which is seen in the heavenlies is sure! If God says it, you can bank on it!
One day I was in prayer, and I glimpsed above the clouds and I "saw" that I was a size 12!! Below the clouds I weighed almost 500 pounds at that time. But I knew what I saw and heard in the Spirit! And I embraced it! It may have seemed very foolish that day in service when I testified "God said, I'm a size 12. No matter what you see. No matter what it looks like. I "am" a size twelve! This was not a "gonna be" testimony! I said I "am" a size 12, and anything that's not a size 12, has got to go! Anything in natural reality that doesn't fit that heavenly reality, is a lie and cannot possibly continue to exist! God is true and everything else is a lie! And GOD said, I didn't say it, GOD said I am a size 12!!". This was my testimony in church and I sat down and I remember the people saying "Alright, well, praise God" as smiles filled the room.
Three years later, I'd like somebody to guess what size I was wearing?!! I've been a size 12 now for about 4 or 5 years. I didn't know "how" God was going to do it. I didn't know "when" he was going to manifest it. But one thing I did know: God said it and I believed God! And I refused to say anything any differently, despite all the pounds of opposition staring at me daily! And I refused to be discouraged by all the failed diets and inability to exercise, and exasperated attempts in the natural to fulfill a hope. I kept repeating what I heard from the Lord. And that which I saw then, that seemed so impossible to those living below the clouds, became a reality for me and now people hardly remember when I used to be so big.
Recently I've seen new things above the clouds. I see things that I never would have imagined for me! I see God taking me to places I never would have dreamed of. The opportunity is there. And it may seem impossible for the flesh, but I've seen it above the clouds, and I still believe God.
Even God did not let what "appeared" dictate to him on what could be. Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
We can each create our own world, but only by what is available above the clouds. Only by peeking into the heavenlies and seeing potentials and doors and opportunities that we can't see in the flesh. And then following those specific things. We can't just conjure up any idea and try to make it something of faith. Faith always has to be initiated by God. God reveals in the spirit realm, and we then have to believe, despite the natural world opposition.
In Science Fiction movies, I've often seen a machine that would make an ordinary looking object a transporter or a doorway into another realm, world, or reality. It may look like a rock, but it's really a door into a whole other world. Like in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe the children entered a whole other world through a portal in the closet.
But even in science fiction, not just any closet or any rock would do the trick. You have to find the right object, at the right place and time, in order to get transported into other realms. When I peek above the clouds, connecting with God's mind, I see where these doors are located.
I was sleeping when I saw a vision of someone I knew. I woke up with the voice of the Lord saying to me "You are peeking above the clouds". I got up to use the bathroom pondering what I had seen. The Lord said I was seeing something above the clouds, something possible in the spirit realm. An available portal through which a person could cross into another world if they wanted to. But all I had seen was this person that I knew.
The Lord said "What did you see?" I replied with the name of the person it was. The Lord asked again "What was she doing?" I said "She was just sitting there in a (band) chair with her saxophone." When I said that, for the first time I realized that in carnal reality (below the clouds) she did not play saxophone! The Lord let me see that in the heavenlies, His will for her was for her to play saxophone and be a part of the church band. Later on, when I told her what I had received, I found out that this was in fact her desire to do and she was wondering if God was in it or if it was just her own carnal desire.
Thank you Father, for the ability to see and live by things revealed above the clouds.
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