ENTERING INTO ETERNAL LIFE: THE REALITY OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST...PART 2 - THAT WAS A LOT TO ABSORB. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

ASLEEP OR AWAKE

Friends,

What happens when you wake up in the morning from a nights’ sleep?  How do you feel?  Most mornings when I am waking up from a nights’ sleep, I have a feeling of dread that hits me right in the center of my chest, near my heart.  It is like a tight fist and I am feeling this sense of sadness, despair, and fear all at once.  I realize as I am slowly coming into consciousness, that it is just a "feeling" and feelings can be deceiving and I shift into a mode of prayer, pushing past the feelings into thanksgiving to the Lord; recognizing that what I am feeling, sensing is just an illusion and not the true reality of where I am “now”.  But I have to lay there and get my bearings, so to speak.   I do not understand why every morning that "feeling" is there.  Could it be that as an intercessor I am sensing what is going on in the “spirit” of the people around me or the region (area-location) where I am living? I do not know; but as much as I ask the Lord to take this away … it continues and has for several years now.

THAT WAS A LOT TO ABSORB.

The last post was a reading/teaching by J. Preston Eby on "The Seven Spirits of God".  It was a lot to absorb right?   It was my thought that the teaching would help exercise and expand our “spiritual” muscles whereby we could comprehend in some respects what the “Reality of the Cross of Christ” truly is and why it is important as children of God we live from that reality, and not in the reality of what we have been taught through the rudimentary teachings of men.  That we, the "Ekklesia" fully realize we are “in this world but not of this world…”  That we understand the reality of living in the Kingdom of God vs. living this world.  That with that understanding we could and should function at a higher spiritual level as a “body”, the "Ekklesia" (set apart ones), than how we are presently or consciously doing at this moment in time.  

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Which is why I thought to talk about my waking up from a night sleep into the realm of this world and the feelings I encounter every morning.  I can only surmise it is because while asleep I am not conscious of this world and as I come into consciousness I am between two worlds; the world of the Kingdom of God in which I live and the natural or soulish realm in which I find myself.  Any thoughts on why I have this sense, “feelings” of dread?  How is this relevant to the “Reality of the Cross of Christ”?  How as the "Ekklesia" can we function as "one" in consciousness and unity in the "faith"?  Why aren't we?  What will it take for us to do so?

In the meantime...