Shalom

from Jerusalem!

Realms We Have Never Walked In

Before

Almost ten years ago, on June

21, 1998, during a service in his church, Pastor Shelley prophesied

these Words in the middle of a longer prophecy:

Will you let Me open your eyes to see that which is

spiritual?

Will you trust Me to lead you into realms that you

have never walked in before?

As I was

meditating on what to present in this update, the Holy Spirit led me

to read the prophecies given many years ago, and He highlighted

these two prophetic questions.

I did not

know Pastor Shelley then, but I can surely identify that God has

been working over these years to bring us to the place of really believing and expectingto see and walk in

spiritual realms!

Expansion

(Mat 9:16) No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put

in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

(Mat

9:17) Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

I can remember that many years ago we were all

praying for new wineskins to be able to contain the

new wine that we were believing for God to pour out. When the

manifestation ofspontaneous laughter began to break out in

churches, we decided that this was the new wine. We

neededflexible wineskins to be able to believe that

God would do such a thing.

And then came the gold dust, and the manna, and

the feathers, and the jewels, etc. These manifestations really

caused us to check our wineskins and ask God for new

ones!

Pastor Shelley, who has experienced true,

life-changing, Fire-of-Godrevival, once asked Sister Ruth

Heflin about all of these manifestations because he was not

seeing people's lives changeas a result ofthem

like he sawhappening inthedays of true Pentecostal

outpourings.

She told him, "This is just the ocean spray! The big waves are on the

way!"

I don't know if you have noticed, but God

has been answering our prayers gradually over these years

in preparation for something really big that is on

His heart for His Bride.

Like some of His forerunners, He wants us to experience and become

accustomed to the spiritual realm.

Enlargement

(Isa

54:2) Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch

forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy

cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

If you have not yet let God

enlarge your mind to be able to contain where He wants to

take us in the spirit realm,now is the time! He is

pulling on our tent curtains and challenging us to move our

stakes beyond the place our minds have become comfortable

with.

He is

calling us to stretch ourselves into new realms of

habitation that are beyond the realm of the natural.

He wants us to give Him plenty of rope so that He can enlarge our

thinking as much as His heart desires.

Have you

noticed within yourself a hunger to actually see the Lord,

His angels, Paradise, His Throne Room, etc.? Do you

have an increased desire to actually talk to the Lord face

to face on a regular basis, as many forerunners have

done?

That's

where He wants to take us. The devil is taking our young

people into spirit realms for his demonic purposes. It is just

a counterfeit for the real. But God is stirring His Bride to

ask Him to open the spiritual realms to

her.

Drink

from the Well of Forerunners

For many

years,the Lordhas been busy behind the

scenesgrooming and training forerunnersto walk

inthespirit dimension, having regular encounters with

Himself. Now He is bringing these forerunners from

obscurity to visibility to raise up another company of

spiritually hungry believers to walk in their footsteps and be

forerunners for those who will follow.

Pastor

Shelley is one of many ofthese forerunners in our

generation. But God is drawing these first level modern

forerunners together to drink from each other's

wells in order to encourage and to challenge each one to

reach higher and deeper. And He isawakening His Bride to

have a desire to drink from the wells of these

forerunners.

Two very

notable men of God who are coming into visibility in these days are Neville Johnson (www.lwf.org.au), from Australia,

and Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj (www.jesusministries.org),

from India. These are men who walk with God in

incredible ways and who God is raising up to challenge His

Bride to do likewise.

The Holy

Spirit has prompted me to relate to you a divine experience

that Pastor Neville had in June of this year which he

hasmentioned in several conferences. Pastor Shelley

wasso blessed readingabout this experience that he

shared it with his congregation a couple of weeks ago. Here is

my condensed version:

From

the Outer Court to Eternity

The Garden of Disrepair

On Sunday, the 24th of June of this

year,I [Neville Johnson]was prayingand

talking to the Lord.I felt the Lord come to

me, tapme on the shoulder, and He said, "Come."At that

moment,Iwas somewhere else and the whole scene changed.

When these experiences happen, there's a transition of

consciousness from one realm to

another.

Ilooked atthe Lord'sface, and it kind

of frightenedme because His face was sofocused and

resolute.I started to follow Him down a garden

pathway to a wall with an arched gateway and no gate.

The gateway had lots of vines creeping and climbing all over the

entrance, and there wereweeds growing all

around.

And then the Lord walked through into a

garden, soI followed Him. But the garden was

in an incredible state of disrepair.

It had once been a nice garden. There had been hedges and

stone walks, and there had been fountains, and so on, but it was

totally overgrown.

Iasked the

Lord wherewe were, and the Lord said, "This is My church." And when He

said that, I felt the incredible sense of love He had for that

garden. Then His face became much softer, and He said, "This is the Outer Court of My

church. This is where most Christians

live."

When He began to talk like that,I

realized that He was also talking about the tri-part nature

of man – our body, soul and spirit - which the Tabernacle

was a picture of.

The Holy Place of the

Heart

ThenI

followed the Lord through the garden into a small room which had a

curtain across it. It was dim inside there, but there was a

candlestick on the left side and a table on the right with bread on

it.I then realized that this was the Holy Place

of Christian's hearts.

The

candlestick was giving off more smoke than

light.I could see that it had never

been trimmed.There was very little oil

and mostly wick. The wick speaks ofour flesh.

And there was a mixture of good and bad stuff floating through

the air.

The Lord said, "This is the soul of most

Christians." It looked a real mess. The

soul can get really messed up with what you put into it, what you

look at, what you watch and what you read.

Ithen became aware of the altar

of incense in the front. There was very little

incense on it, a small amount of vapor

andmore smoke than fire. I asked what

the smoke was, and the Lord replied, "That is the selfish prayers of My people that did not

originate in Me."

Isaid, "Lord,

I really thought we were doing well." He looked atme

andsaid, "There is much in the

church which is good, but I must do a much deeper work of

cleansing."

Then from an

incredible goldvessel,the Lord took some

incense and threwit onto the altar of incense. That

beautiful smell went up and filled the whole place. Then aveil divided, and I began to get

overloaded.My background and training in the

Scriptures were flooding throughmy mind.

Ithought,

"Lord, we've got to build an altar of incense in our heart

to get through the veil. We've got to open that veil and live in that

realm." And incense speaks of our prayer life

and intercession.

The Holiest of All

Wemoved into

another room which was much, much smaller. It was the

Holiest of All. And when I stepped there, I had the

distinct feeling that this was very

rarely visited.

The Lord Jesus

stood in front of me. And then something began to happen that

only happens in the movies. He started to morph and

become the Ark of the Covenant and then the Lord Jesus, the

Ark of the Covenant and then the Lord Jesus.

And I thought, "I

wish we could do this better in our studios." It was really

good how He was doing this. Then He turnedto me and

smiled.

And then He

began to emanate Light.He started to glow, the colors changed,and Hebecame

brighter and brighter. Power and

energy came off of Him to such a degree that it filled that whole

place. And this started to flow into

the Outer Court and then out into the world. And I

saw that mess was cleaned up so quickly.

Living in Eternity

As I was standing

there, suddenly it was like time slipped away.

I had the feeling that I was standing in

eternity. That is the only way I can describe it.

There was no past. There was no present. I was in

eternity. It was the strangest, strangest

feeling.

It was like time

stopped. Ages past and present began to be

merged. The future was merged into the present.

Galaxies flowed by me -time and time

immortal, eons and eons. And I distinctly remember a number of

black holes.

And I thought,

"Lord, where am I?" He said, "You

are standing in eternity where everything is

present."

And my

understanding began to be enlarged. I began to see way into

the future. I began to see eons into the future – the

purposes of God. I can't remember everything. I

remember just little bits. The emotion of it was so

great. I said, "Of course, this is logical. This is

fantastic."

The Throne of God

was the center of everything. Everything emanated from the

Throne of God out into the universe.

And the vastness of

the universe was unbelievable. And the purposes of God for man were

mind boggling out into the universe. And I remember thinking,

"We had no idea, Lord, that it was going to be like

this."

I was standing in

eternity, and I had the feeling nothing was impossible. The potential of this place, the Most Holy Place, was

unlimited.

And He said to me,

"Neville, if you come frequently into

this place and dwell with Me here, you will transcend time and

you'll walk with Me in eternity."

And then He said, "Have I not said that I put eternity in

your heart?"

That's in the Book

of Ecclesiastes. The King James says, "I put the world in your

heart," but it's the word for eternity – "olam" in the Hebrew.

It means a place beyond time and space and has the

thought ofa vanishing point.

And there is a

place where we can come before God and finally touch that

realm. And we exit this world while still in the flesh. There is a vanishing point where we can stand in the Lord,

transcend, and understand all things.

He said, "Tell My people they have got to live

with Me in this place. Tell them there is a place where they

can learn from, where everything is clear, where understanding is

clear, where time does not exist, space does not exist. You

stand in eternity."

You

know, everything doesn't just finish when we just get to heaven.

Once we get to heaven and for those who get into the

Millennium reign of Christ, the Millennium reign of Christ

is just another place of training to reign. And when

we get to the end of the Millennium, the City comes down on the

earth – the New Jerusalem – and the earth becomes the

capital of the universe. And only then does it

begin. Only then. God's going to spread His

Kingdom across this vast universe. And you and I have

a part in that.

In His Manifest

Presence

And I thought, "Why don't many people come

here?" He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High .

. . Most of the time we spend is in the Holy

Place.

But there is another place, in God's manifest

Presence of God, where the Shekinah Glory is. In God's manifest Presence, it is only there that we

are really changed. Your exposure to the manifest

Presence of God changes you.

We cannot do this, but God is going to have a

church that is perfect. And His light, His life, His love, His

power are going to transform us as we press into

Him and we learn how to come before Him and we stand in

that place in God exposed to the manifest Presence of

God.

You cannot be in the manifest

Presence of God and remain the same.

You know the Bible says no man can see God

and live? Well, there are a few guys who have seen God and

lived. So I thought, "Okay, what does this mean?" When

you are in the manifest Presence of God, when you are there, you're

connected with God and something in you dies.

You are never the same again. You cannot live the old way

anymore. You cannot see God and

live like you were. Something dies within you.

And He does it. We don't do it – He does it.

Waiting on

God

But let me say something to you. Unless you spend quality time daily waiting before

God, waiting in the Presence of God, this is not going to

happen to you.

No preacher is going to come along and lay

hands on you and it will happen. This has now become

individual. There are certain things we can do, but there is a

limit.

There are only some things you can do.

You can come before the Lord on a daily basis. You say, "Well,

I come before the Lord and nothing happens." Wait. Wait.

I had a friend, who is dead - Walter

Beuttler. He told me that he came down every night

round about 2:00 in the morning. He would sit in his chair and

say, "Lord, I have just come to keep You

company." He said, "I just want to wait on You.

I'm not asking for anything. I just want to be in Your

Presence." He just waited and waited. When dawn came, he

would get up and go back to bed for a while and then go about his

business.

He said, "Neville, after twelve

months I did this and there was nothing that really happened. But I kept the

Lord company." And then one night, no different from any other

night, he just came down and said, "Lord, I'm here to keep You

company, to just love You. If You want to talk to me, that's

fine. If You don't, it's all right. I'm just

here."

He said he heard somebody

walk down a gravel pathway outside, open the kitchen door,

close it and walk into his room. And it was the

Lord. He said, "I want to

spend the rest of the night talking with you

now."

The Scripture says, "Therefore will I make you wait, that I might be

gracious to you." Why does God make us

wait? He said, "I'll make you wait so that I can be gracious

to you." Because in the waiting, something transpires

in us, something happens. It's really important for

you to come before the Lord. Learn to spend quality

time in the Presence of God.

As ministers, we really have got to

let go of some of the administration, some of the

counseling, some of all that stuff and spend quality

time, at least four hours, in the Presence of God every

day. If you want to get into this, you've got to

really be hungry and mean business to do this before

God. You've got to be strong enough to let the rest of this

go.

You see, if you break into this and

the manifest Presence of God comes in your church – and it

is going to come in many - the world will beat a path to your door.

The world will come. The world will come to see that

church burning. This generation -you are

it. You have come to the Kingdom for such a time as

this.

In

Closing

The Lord has been so faithfulto provide for

us! We are closer than usual to being able to pay our rent next week (Feb. 15th), and we

are rejoicing! Wealso need money to pay our Jerusalem city taxes. And our

van has been in the garage for a weekwith some kind

of computer problem that has disabled the speedometer and the

automatic part of thetransmission. They have not yet

been able to find the problem, but when they do, that's another bill

that we need the Lord to pay!

In my

last update, Ireported that a pastor from Indiahad been

sharing his testimony of how the Lord has blessed him financially because he has been giving faithfully to the ministry here

in Jerusalem. However, he is from

Indonesia - not India. I accidentally typed it

wrong. And we have received a fewgenerous donations from

others that he has preached to resulting in their wonderful

testimonies of the Lord's faithfulness to bless whenseed is

sown into His Jerusalem!

So we

know that this is good ground for sowing,

and we depend on God using you to help us live here

to fulfill our current mandate of sowing to the heavens from

Jerusalemso that the Lord will sow back to the earth. If you could make a donation before the

15th, it would be a great blessing to

us!

(1Co 2:9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear

heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the

things which God hath prepared for them that love

him.

(1Co

2:10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the

Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of

God.

(Psa

119:32) I

will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Pastor

Shelley is in the middle of preaching a series on "Spirit

Travel." The Lord wants to enlarge our

thinking about what He plans to do through His Bride, His

Sons of the Kingdom,to help bring in the harvest!

Maywe allow the Lord to giveus new wineskins and then stretch our minds so thatwe can

believe to walk in realms we have never

walked in before!

Blessings, Grace and

Shalomfrom Jerusalem!

Nancy Bergen

Jerusalem Revival Center

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