DR: Today, I'm going
to bring you with me in the Spirit to the beautiful
gold mountain in Heaven and to the garden
of glory there. Together, the Father and Jesus
talked to me about the importance
of the glory, that it's not just
a wonderful feeling that we can have, but it accomplishes
a lot in our lives. Hello, welcome to
Nuggets of Gold. I'm Donna Rigney, and today, I'm going to
share a wonderful truth that Jesus and the Father
taught me when I visited with them
on this beautiful, beautiful mountain
in Heaven and this beautiful garden
that's a special place that He's created
for His loved ones. You know,
God loves His children. And when we go to Heaven,
He often tells me, you will not be bored. Heaven is not boring.
It's beautiful. And this is just
one of the places that He has taken me
to recently, that is incredible.
It's so magnificent. And one of the things
that He has showed me is that it's called
the "Garden of Glory." That this garden
is just soaked, saturated, marinated
in the glory of God, that the glory of God is just preeminent
in this garden. But that-He said to me
that "Soaking in My glory, spending time in My glory,
getting apart with Me isn't just
a loving feeling." It is a loving feeling. It's a wonderful feeling
when I'm in the glory, there's times that
I can barely breathe, the glory comes on me
so strong that it feels
like His breath becomes my breath,
our hearts beat as one. It is a wonderful feeling.
I'm not negating that. But what the Lord told me
was that it's more than that,
more than this overwhelming
feeling of being loved, that you just can't even
barely move sometimes. Also, what I found that
when I'm in that place, that worship just pours
out of my being easily, effortlessly. But He said, "The place
of the glory is where miracles happen." He said, "If you need miracles, then come and sit with Me. Soak in my glory.
In my glory, I make huge, wonderful,
wonderful things happen." He explained to me that when Jesus
walked on the Earth, this was how
He was able to do all the miracles He did. Jesus was a man
like you or me. He was God
that came to the earth and took on
our humanity, fully. He left
His divinity behind and totally took
on our humanity. And He, He knows, He understands
what we suffer, what we go through
and the way He was able to accomplish
the things He did was, He got along with
His Father every night. How often do we read
in Scripture that Jesus
ministered all day? And when His disciples
went off to sleep, where did Jesus go?
He went up the mountain to sit alone
with His Father, would get alone
with His Father and sit with Him, absorbed
the Father's glory, absorbed
the Father's goodness. And He said, "That's how I was able
to love the unlovely that I met the next day.
That was how I was able to do the wonderful
miracles that I did. I spent time every night just soaking
in My Father's presence, visiting with My Father,
sitting beside Him, talking to Him,
just enjoying His presence and letting Him
enjoy my presence." God loves
to enjoy our presence. Sometimes we see it like we're doing
something for God. But God wants us to know
that He enjoys us, and He wants us
to enjoy Him as well. And that's the kind
of communion that Jesus would have
with His Father. So, as they sat together,
communing, talking, visiting, the strength that Jesus needed
the next day, He got there when He was alone
with the Father. And that's
the same for us. That's what He was telling
me when we sat together on that
beautiful garden swing in that wonderful,
wonderful garden in Heaven is, that as we spend time
with Him, He will change us, but He will do miracles
for us and He will do miracles
through us, through our lives. So, as we sat there
talking together and I was getting
this understanding, another nugget of gold that He gave me
was also the fact that they were animals
in this garden. As I looked before
my eyes, this big,
enormous elephant came
walking in front of us. Now, because this elephant was
in the Garden of glory, it wasn't larger
than a normal elephant. It was the size
of a normal elephant. But a normal
elephant is big. And this was
a big elephant. I was shocked.
I'm like, what is this? And so, the elephant came
right in front of Jesus. And I knelt down
with his two front legs and let Jesus and I
climb up on his back. And I was like, just in awe that this was
going on in Heaven. I never knew elephants
were in Heaven. This is my first time
seeing an elephant there. So, we got on it
and, and Jesus told me, "We're going
to take a tour. I'm taking you
on a tour of my garden." So, as we're riding along, we were singing
to one another. We were singing beautiful
songs to each other, riding on the back
of this elephant. I was worshiping Jesus
and Jesus was enjoying and He was singing to me,
and I was singing to Him. And all of a sudden
the elephant. Brought His trunk over and deposited a bouquet
of flowers into my arms. I was sitting in
the front of Jesus, Jesus was behind me. So, I got this bouquet
of flowers, which I knew
was from Jesus, just a sign of God's
deep affection for us in any way possible. He finds ways to show us
He loves us. We can open our eyes
to see those things. So, those signs of his
affection and His love, because as we see them,
what does that do? It causes greater love
for Him to well up in our heart
to return back to Him. So, we're riding along
in this wonderful, wonderful excursion. And as we were
going along, I saw lots of animals,
animals that you would normally see in Africa,
all different animals. And the thing that I noted
was that they were in large groups
going through the valley and what not, up the side
of the mountain. They weren't just like
all the zebras together, all the elephants
together. They were all, they weren't
in separate groups. They were
all intermingled. And which shows me
the unity in Heaven and the love in Heaven, that nobody
is separated into groups, not the people
and not even the animals. And so, as we rode along, we come to an area
where the Lord said, "Come on,
let's get down now." And the elephant stopped,
let us down. And where Jesus walks over
to a family of lions, the mother lion,
the father lion and the little baby lions,
the little cubs. And I was
a little reluctant. I was like, "I don't know
about this." Jesus was like, "You don't need
to be afraid. You don't need to be
afraid here in Heaven. Come on." I thought, okay, so I went
and sat down beside Him, and He handed me one of
the little lion cubs and He had another one. He would He was holding
the little lion up and hugging the lion
and cradling it. And I was holding
a little lion. Just such an incredible
encounter of love, God loving His creation,
Jesus loving His creatures and allowing me
to enjoy this time of receiving God's love
through the lions because of
everything in Heaven. The love of God just pours
out of it into us and here's these
little lions kissing us and the love of God just pouring out
all over us. This was a wonderful,
wonderful, wonderful time, just enjoying
these beautiful animals. So, then Jesus said,
"Come on," and back up we went, back on
the back of the elephant and we continued to ride along all
throughout this garden. Now, the garden
isn't a little garden. It's enormous.
It's like an entire land. And it's full
of beautiful things, full of beautiful,
beautiful plants. Everything in this garden is soaking
in the glory of God, in the love of God
and the goodness of God. And so, everything
is magnified. What the Lord showed me,
He said, this is how Moses
was changed from a on a fearful man,
a stutterer, a stammerer. Moses
was even a murderer, and he got along with God. When he left Egypt,
he went off and he was on the side
of the mountain alone. He spent time with God. It was in that place
of sitting alone with God, soaking in God's presence that he became a mighty,
mighty man of God, a mighty friend of God
that he was a deliverer. He became a deliverer. And that's what God was
showing me as we spent time
alone with Him. Soaking, spending time,
soaking, just means spending time
absorbing His love, listening to His Words,
absorbing His goodness. As we spend time with Him
in that secret place alone like that, He can make giants out of little people
[Music] like He made a
giant out of Moses. [Music] >> Donna Rigney
and her husband, Jack, have been married
for over 53 years and together have raised
23 children, three biological, four adopted,
and 16 foster children. Donna is an author,
prophetess and pastor, but is an evangelist
at heart. She has brought teams
to minister the gospel in prisons, nursing homes
and for over 15 years, she and her husband
hold services at a youth detention
facility for teenage boys, with thousands receiving. Jesus says
the Lord and Savior, set free and baptized
in the Holy Spirit. Donna and Jack also hosted
two weekly services and prayer meetings with. Their goal is to have
others enter into a deep, intimate relationship
with the Lord to fall in love
with Father God and live filled
with the Holy Spirit and unhindered by
demonic strongholds. Donna's messages are both
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[Music] DR: While I was sitting on
the ground beside Jesus holding
the little lion cubs, I was just wondering
why God created so many beautiful,
beautiful animals and here in Heaven, too. And He said to me, as He
always knows my thoughts, He said,
"I created them for you, but I created them
for Me to. I love My animals." God just loves to lavish
His love on His creation, He loves to lavish
His love on us, and He loves having pets. These are His pets,
and He loves to pour that love
that He has in His heart. You know,
there's a lot of times that we don't return
God's love to Him. And unrequited love
is very painful for most of us
have been through that some time in our life,
where we love someone, and they have not returned
that love back to us. And it's such a pain, a deep hurt,
and a wound in us. And the Lord suffers
that as well. He, too, has that pain
in His heart when we reject Him,
we ignore Him. A lot of times we just
neglect His presence, don't spend time with Him.
And so, His heart breaks. Well, He's got
these wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful pets in Heaven, just like we have our dogs
and cats and our birds and fish, different things
that we love and that maybe when
everyone else ignores us, we come in the house, our dog is really happy to
see us and wags his tail and kisses us
and jumps on us. And it's just so happy
to see us and that need to be loved. The little dog
is used by God to pour that love
out on us and it satisfies
that yearning to be loved. It's the same thing
with God. This is what He was
showing me in Heaven. He's got His pets
that when He's neglected and He's not treated well, His pets just fill him
with that love. A one time
a few years ago, the Lord had brought me
to a beautiful, beautiful lake in Heaven and He just walked
right into the water. And when He walked
into the water, I was following behind Him. All the fish
that were in that lake came swimming over
to Jesus and were just
jumping up like they were greeting Him,
the fish, and He would reach down
and touch and pet them. And they were just
all around Him. And He, He left the river
and the lake and laid down
on the beach sand. And I was beside Him,
drying in the sun. And He explained to me,
He said, "This is the place I come. This I call this place
the river of consolation. I come here
when I need some love, when I need
to feel welcomed, and I need
to feel appreciated. I come here,"
and it broke my heart that He would need
to have fish and His, His creatures
and animals supply that love
that we on the earth really should be giving to
Him that He died for us. He came in,
He lived here for us and died for us
and rose for us, that we need to show Him
much more affection and love
than He, He receives. But He has this wonderful,
wonderful garden in Heaven where He goes,
and He visits. And so, I was thinking, why is this garden
in Heaven so special? This is on the side
of a mountain, the Golden Mountain. Why is this garden
set apart and so special? And so, explain to me,
He said, "This is a special place
that we have created, Father and I,
have created here on the Mountain of Glory for our children
who are glory seekers, for when they come
to Heaven, when they come home
to Heaven, they said
they will come here. And they can visit here
any time they want, but only those
who are glory seekers can come to this
very special garden. People that ignored God didn't spend time
with Him. They won't be able
to go, though they make it to Heaven. That won't be
one of their rewards. The Lord has shown me,
has many rewards for His children who love Him
and serve Him. And this is one
of the rewards that the Father and Jesus have created
for the glory seekers, for those who seek
God's presence, who seek to get
to know Him, to spend time with Him,
who yearn after Him, who longed for Him. This is the place
that He has created that we can go and visit. He said, "You don't
have to wait till you come to Heaven to visit
this place," He said, "You can
come here any time, My children are welcome to come to this garden
any time, they are welcome
to come here. Day or night.
It's always open, they can come
and sit here on the swing, just like you're sitting
on the swing beside Me, they can come
and sit here beside Me and talk to Me
and let my love fill them, let My presence
come upon them. They can come here and smell the fragrance
of the flowers." There's so many things.
Play with the animals, ride on the back
of the animals. The animals
are all friendly. He told me that those who visit frequently
the garden of glory by getting into
God's presence, those who visit
there frequently, that when they come there, the animals
will recognize them. They will be
like their pets, that they knew them because they
knew them from when they would spend time
in the glory, in God's presence. Is it difficult to come
into God's presence and to get into the glory? No, it's not. You know
what it really takes? It takes three things
to get into God's presence and to visit Him
in the Garden of Glory. It takes, number one. I call it the three D's.
It takes discipline. We need
to discipline ourselves to get apart with God,
to spend time with Him. We need to,
which is what I do. Set a special time
aside every day. I mark it on my calendar. This is my time
alone with God, alone with
the Holy Spirit, and I just mark it off
that nothing else gets in the way
every single day. This is my time
to spend alone with Him. So, discipline.
Devotion is the other "D." we need to be devoted
to Him because if we're
not devoted and we do things
just out of discipline, it can become
a religious activity. And God doesn't want
religious activities. He wants relationship.
He wants friends. He wants people
that love him and love to spend time with Him and that just want
to honor Him. This, this is the desire
of God's heart to have us devoted to Him,
because you know what? He's devoted to us. And so, He wants that
devotion to pour out of us, to Him and Him back to us. So, we have to have
discipline and devotion. And the other thing
is, desire. The three D's- discipline,
devotion, and desire, that we need to have
a desire for God. That's to me is the same
thing as a hunger. He says, "I will satisfy
anybody who's hungry, if you come to Me hungry,
I'll satisfy that hunger.' So, I always tell
the people at my church, listen, if you come to God
with a little tiny hunger, I'm a little bit hungry
for God. I want to spend a little
time with you today. Well, then He'll give you a little bit
of His presence, a little taste
maybe of His glory, just a little bit. But if you are famished
for Him, if you know everything
I need is found in you, I need miracles.
I need help. I need friendship.
I need acceptance. I need a good friend
who understands me and loves me
just the way I am. If, if you just- this
is what He's saying. "If you just come to me
with that hunger, I'll satisfy that hunger. I'll give you
what you need that will cause that
hunger to be satisfied." This, I think
there's nothing worse than to be hungry
for something and that there's no hope
of being satisfied. God says, "I promise you,
if you get hungry for Me, [Music] I will satisfy that
hunger that you have for me." [Music] >> Donna Rigney had
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DR: Lord told me when we concluded our visit on the Mountain
of Glory in the Garden of Glory, that today what
He was teaching me was the benefits
of His glory, that there are many, many, many benefits
of His glory, that not just like I said, is it a feeling of being
loved and accepted, which we all need, which we all hunger for
and just strive for. We were made to be loved. That's why God made us.
He made us to know, to love, and to serve Him.
Huh? He made us for love. And so, there's a desire
in all of us to love and to be loved back. And so, He said, "Yes,
my glory will do that. Yes, My glory
will transform you. Yes, My glory
will cause many miracles, miracles to happen.
My glory is what you need." I'm going to share with
you what He said to me. It- prophetically, He said, "I am showing you today
the benefits of My glory." It is not just
a wonderful, loving feeling
that overwhelms you. It is much more than that. It makes giants out of
the insignificant ones. Didn't He make a giant
out of Moses? Didn't He make a giant
out of Peter? James and John,
fishermen, common, ordinary fishermen
that encountered Him, encountered His glory,
spent time with Him, soaked in His glory, huh,
marinated in His glory, and they became giants. He says, "My glory makes giants out
of insignificant people," and sometimes we could
feel so insignificant. But God says, "Get apart
with me, get with me, and I will transform
your life into something that's very significant,
very, very, very fruitful." Just a few weeks ago
and prayer, the Lord has been
showing me this huge tsunami wave
of change that's coming
to the earth and It's, it's a wave
that is like frozen, but it's not ice,
it's just still. And inside this wave, Jesus and I have walked
a number of times and He's told me
great change is coming to the Earth
in this hour, that we're living
in a time of change, of change, those that
are close to Him, that are spending time
with Him, that obeying Him,
following Him, soaking in His glory. Those people will be
blessed during this time. This time of change
will be a time of wonderful blessings. And in a couple
of weeks ago, I saw again the big wave. And I, it's still
solid walking through it, and there was a long line
of fruit trees and He said, "This is
what is going on now. The change has already
started to come." He said the name
of this wave is justice. "And for those who
have been spending time in My presence, those that have been
loving Me, sitting apart with Me, obeying Me, following Me
by justice is coming. And My justice is that
My children bear fruit, My children bear
the fruit of love. My children live fruitful,
happy lives." And I saw a long line
of fruit trees and their roots
went down deep. But then there
were other trees. There were, they had
fallen over, and their roots
were all exposed. Those were those
that walk far from God. In this hour of change, those that are walking
with God, soaking in the glory, spending time with Him
like Moses, Peter, James, John,
Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth,
like those people. Routes going on down
deep in God, in His presence,
fruitful, fruitful lives. "This is the hour," He said,
"I want you to be fruitful. I want you to be happy. I want your life
to be filled with satisfaction
and enjoyment. And that is only found
when you're deeply, firmly connected to Me. When you listen to Me
and you obey Me and you do those things
that I ask you to do." I'm going to pray for us
now that God will equip us by the wonderful power
of the Holy Spirit, that He will equip us
to live our lives in such a way that
we can be very fruitful. I want to be one
of those fruit trees in that huge tsunami wave
of change that He said. "It's here now.
We're in it now." I want to be one
of those fruitful trees. I want my life
to be filled with the fruit
of God's love, generosity, kindness,
goodness. I want to accomplish
things with my life as I know you do.
That's in in all of us. He created us
to be fruitful. So, Father, I pray
that You would help each and every one of us to get our roots
down deep in You, that we would grow daily
as a tree grows daily from the nourishment
it takes in, in its roots, that we too would
have our roots so deeply implanted
in You and our love for You
and our time spent with You that you would nourish
us with Your love. You would nourish us
with Your goodness, You would nourish us
with Your power, that we would see miracles
happen continually in our lives,
as the Apostles did, as those that got their
roots down deep in you. They live fruitful lives. Father, I pray each
and every one of us will become more
and more fruitful as each and every day passes. We will grow stronger
and more on fire for You [Music]
and more in love with You in the Name of Jesus.
Amen.
