Mystic Union | Inner Bliss | Justin Paul Abraham

okay guys well it's good to be with you all i'm in the wine room okay and the wine room is a place of just joy and union and bliss and the wine you know it's very easy to take now he's brought me to the house of wine and i'm in a fever of love so i want to talk about love fevers i want to talk about being locked in the wine cellar now i've been locked in the wine cellar for a long time and i've only just begun drinking my way through it so this is a limitless realm and the amazing thing is it's not far it's actually inside you i'll just read a few scriptures on joy and then get into it psalm 36 8 they will be intoxicated with the fatness of your house and you'll give them drink from the river of your delights so the lord wants to take us into the fatness of his house and give us a drink from a river of delights at his right hand is pleasure forevermore you cannot separate god from pleasure isaiah said everything he pleases he does even the cross was for the joy set before him everything god does is an expression even his justice he sits in heaven and laughs and judges the enemy it comes from joy psalm 84 11 in the moffat translation says this he never denies bliss to the upright let me tell you now bliss is a christian word it was a word that's in all of our ancient books you read through the last century books you will see that word bliss b-l-i-s-s bliss god has come jesus has come one translation says as the high priest of bliss that's one that he says that he's come with the good things to come okay so psalm 16 11 in your presence his fullness of joy and total celebration at your right hand to endless pleasures and eternal delights so at his right hand a pleasures forevermore and eternal delights and in his presence is total celebration even around god i don't know if you guys visit heaven yet you're all at different stages i'll i'll let you in on a little secret god's happy god is happy let's keep going so i want to increase your appetite for the wine today because once you've tasted this wine you're going to get a taste for it and you're not going to want to live without it and that's by divine design because the new covenant is wine it is not a book of rules it is at the lover's table it is bridal love it is it is intoxication and all he says is will you drink it you know when jesus came out with a new covenant he did introduce another torah or you know come out with another bunch of mitzvahs which i'm glad about you know he didn't say this new mitzvah's coming he said this is my cup my blood drink it and he chose wine an intoxicating substance so his ministry began with wine where he turned water into wine and ended with wine so his whole ministry is encapsulated by wine wine is the frequency of the gospel yay okay so catherine of siena one of the most famous doctors in the catholic church she died at a young age powerful mystic she said this let us behave like the drunkard who doesn't think of himself but only of the wine he has drunk and of the wine that remains to be drunk catherine the sienna amazing hero of the faith i want to tell you now there is a realm inside you that will feed you we're not coming from a place of separation we're coming from union but progressing in union it says this can in a passion translation continue your journey of faith progressing further into your union with him so it's a journey of faith it says in the same way that you receive jesus by faith continue in your union the same way that you received him is the same way that you go deeper it's by believing not achieving you believe he's in you you believe you can turn into him you believe he's already embraced you you believe the burning fire of the trinity lives in your body it's inside you and no one can take it away from you a meeting can't add to it no one can take away from it it's christ in you the hope of glory and then you are hidden in christ colossians 3 the secret of your life is now you are in christ in god you're not even one that's looking at the throne although you can choose to you're one that's in the throne in christ in heavenly places and he's in you you're in him i'm in you you're in me that's the gospel and jesus said that's what's going to change the world it's not the miracles that are going to change the world it's not the wonders it's not the signs the world's already a wonder the worlds are already a sign babies animals oceans jesus said that what will change the world is when they realize i'm in you you're in me and we're in each other and we're in union is the power of love and that says then they will know the love of the father is in you and i am in you and you are in me yay so we're progressing into union we do not come from the perspective separation separation from god is an illusion in him we live in him we move in him we have our being he is the air that i'm breathing he is the yakida which the jews call the spark of life that fills my body he is the vibrating strings of energy in the quantum realm that sustain me he is the he is the all in all and he is in me he has taken occupation in me and when we accept jesus as lord that's what we're doing we're accepting him into the interior castle where he sets enthroned in glory and honor inside you yay and now all the kingdom of heaven is within and you have free access any time you want to turn inwards turning inwards i love this comment by one of the mystics she says this believe the incredible truth that the beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all creation the single most beautiful place in all of creation is your heart is your being it was made for god and he delights in it yay [Laughter] so what is the aim of this then how do we grow in this you have to get in a mindset that the aim isn't that you're serving god because he doesn't call you servants anymore he calls you his beloved he calls you friends the aim is is that you learn to feast on the union that you have with him that you start to drink from pleasure and you realize you were made by pleasure for pleasure jesus said this i came that your joy your joy might be complete and overflowing you are the place of the rivers of god that may glad the cities you are the you are eden springs the four chambers of your heart eden means delight or pleasure you were planted in the garden of pleasure and now that pleasure stream the four rivers come out of the four chambers of your heart and you are now the gates and doors of heaven coming into creation where the rivers flow out of you see many people are still looking for god from an external but when i study all the mystics and revivalists and saints they understood that god lived in them john g lake who saw more miracles than anyone else in his generation said he would stand in the mirror every day and say god lives in this suit god lives in this body you have to realize you are the body you are the body you are the body you are the body of jesus jesus has a body it's your body he lives in you and you he you live in him oh but we must learn we must learn to drink this love see what is the point of love but enjoyment what is the point of love except ecstasy and rapture and all that is beautiful the greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return love gives you wings love makes you fly love lifts you up where you belong love is the more excellent way see jesus didn't come to create a religion he came to he came to birth lovers lovers lovers and to be loved this is what makes you alive and passionate this this this strips off religion this shakes the box this breaks open the world love gives you wings and makes you fly wow okay so one of my favorite saints in scripture is saint paul saint paul the beloved apostle knew this he is the mystic writer he uses the word mystic more than anyone else in the bible the word mystery mysterion and he was possessed by love he was he was wounded by love he said i bear the wounds in my body the word there is stigmata some people believe he even had physical wounds from his love with the lord and i believe such things are possible i've seen it i've experienced it but he said this he said for if we are out of our minds in a blissful divine ecstasy it's for god but if we are in our right minds and sober is for your benefit that's 2 corinthians 5 13. now the new king james version just says besides myself if i'm besides myself it's for god if i'm normal it's for you that sounds very polite but when you look at the word it's x is stemmy and the word ek means out of my out it's the same as ecclesia called out he was saying if i'm out of my mind in wonder in bliss is for god if i'm speaking sober and you can understand me i'm doing it for you so paul was a person who had to walk between these two worlds of one wanting to communicate the glorious scandalous gospel but at the same time he was possessed by the lover he had found the lover and he said this i love this translation he says the love that christ has for me possesses me on every side and leaves me no choice the love is the spring of every action that i do so he was a guy who said i am possessed and ruled by christ's love he even said in one translation it possesses me and prohibits me from considering any other that you can be so possessed by love that you cannot even consider another lover i'm like that i'm a radically in love with jesus i'm way past worrying about can i lose my salvation you've got to get past that it's too late for you it's too late he's he saved you single-handedly and he lives in you and he's merged himself into you he cannot separate from you says who can separate from the love of god nothing can separate you from this love you've been absorbed into love and you are becoming love and you are safe forever in a castle of his heart and he is in the castle of your heart and it's it's done it's done you are in mystic union so the greek word existemi that paul used here for ecstasy it means to be outside of oneself in blissful ecstasy and filled with pleasure this is the note from the passion translation they got a footnote says the group group greek word existemi means to be outside of oneself in a state of blissful ecstasy and filled with pleasure yay see we should be filled with pleasure when was the last time that you walked down the street and you were so filled with pleasure and so filled with this love that you don't even know what to do with yourself because that's what god wants it's happened to me many times and we haven't seen anything yet because this river is without limits this river is a torrent okay so the passion translation says this it is to come into another state of consciousness of being lost in wonder and amazement now i've had this many many times one time i was at an airport it happened to me just after i loaded my suitcases and i was gonna fly to i think france or back from france and i got caught up in god's love and i completely forgot where i was and about five minutes later i came round and i remembered i'm in an airport i'm in an airport and i carried on with my day that has happened to me many many times mostly in secret mostly when i'm alone when i enter into the inner castle and i feast on the table that he's prepared you don't even get to prepare the table it says he prepares the table in the presence of my enemies he fills your cup you don't even have to fill it all you can do is drink it all you can do is delight in it all you can do is take the cup until the wine drools down your chin and onto your chest until you are inebriated until honey drips from your mouth and you are covered in sweetness and you become sticky and the glory on your life is sticky and people can feel the sticky glory on you oh if i'm offending anyone i make no apologies the gospel is offensive and it has to be offensive again it can't be this get your ticket to heaven message no it's far more scandalous than going to heaven it's god merges with you god becomes one with you permanently in marriage bliss permanently feasted permanently entangled the gospel is the greatest scandal you'll ever hear it's the greatest scandal we can ever preach and we have to change how we preach it we have to change how we preach it yay so the mystics all found the same thing that god was i love this this is the words of julian of norwich the first book written in english by a woman she said this word for god is such a powerful word you ready for this she said god is homely [Laughter] what does homely mean well i'll tell you now it's it means that he is friendly he is friendly to humanity she said this oh this is the definition that he's attached by feelings of love affection and personal regard that he is an ally a supporter he is sympathetic and he is not hostile he is friendly he is the friend of humanity and we have to get rid of the scary version of god that they try and preach where god's mad at you god's not mad at you jesus is not mad at you he says for god so loved the world says not counting the sins of the world against them he embraced them he embraced you before you chose him it was his choice he chose you he said he made a covenant within himself because no he found no one else to do the covenant with him he made a covenant with himself and said i am going to choose you he says he chose us in christ before the foundation of the world this is a long term way investment this is a long term belief you were hidden in a in jesus before you fell in adam before you fell in adam you were hidden in jesus he was slain before the foundation of the world because he is going to get what he wants and he wants you the question is will you accept the torrent of his pleasure will you accept the river of his delights will you become the object of his affection now i'm going to go through different stages of union okay and i've experienced all the stages i'm going to share with you i could talk for hours on it it is my passion it's my secret life i really preach on it and liz has asked me to speak on this and i think is a great topic i'm inviting you into my secret life with god and with the hope that you develop your own secret life with him okay stage one of going deeper in union with god the old saints called it centering the idea is this he's in the center and you're coming back into the center so you're letting go of worrying you're letting go of your thoughts you're letting go of what people have said you're letting go of issues right now they don't matter you put them on pause or you just let them flow and ignore them and you turn into the center that god's in you he is in you and this first it might seem a tricky thing to do but it can become natural he's in you and you're in him 2 corinthians 3 16 the moment one turns to the lord with an open heart the veil is lifted and they see the moment one turns to the lord with an open heart the veil is lifted and they see so teresa of avila she's one of my favorite saints i absolutely love her the book the book of her life which i i've worn out so many copies of this book she there's her in ecstasy and she she's considered to be the doctor of theology on ecstasies and this book is a treasure i mean i even know how it smells because i've smelt it so many times because it's just so delicious and so full of goodness and you know she wrote the book the interior castle as well that's the book of her life she says this how how do you come into god's presence she answers it she says this you only need believe that god dwells in you you only need believe god dwells in you that is enough to begin the process she said this this belief and this belief alone will bring you into his holy presence so this is also called contemplative prayer because you're contemplating these wonders that he's in me and it's such a simple thing you you just open your heart and you you you just believe it he's in me he's in me i'm in him and you turn into the sweetness of it and it nourishes your spirit and a kindness emanates into the fabric of your being a gentleness the so powerful it disarms all your fears a gentleness that pervades even into your cellular memory removing trauma and doing systems of unbelief reconfiguring your thinking back to love because you realize he is the gentle one he is the gentle father you know i'll just share this as an aside one time i was taking communion in my room i was in virginia doing ministry and i had the afternoon off and i sat on the bed and i was communion with the lord and i had communion in my hands and then the realm opened and a being of light slowly moved towards me and as i saw this being of light i felt all i can describe is the power of gentleness and it was the father it was papa it was abba and he walked up to me in my room and put his hands on the communion and he blessed the body of our lord and i was caught up for like an hour and a half but i will never forget that because i felt the father the father is the gentle god the father is the kind god that's why he's so patient with history that's why he's winning us gently with love because he is not angry god is for us and if god be for us who can be against us because he has the last say the argument's over the warfare is over you feast in the presence of your enemies because you are with him are you guys okay [Laughter] liz are we doing good awesome i'm giving you deep stuff i know that but you can handle it because we can't be shallow anymore not in this era this needs to be an era where we're scandalized by the gospel of grace where grace possesses every mansion of your heart every room every doorway every gate is flooded with light so teresa of avila said this i love her she said god is in me my soul is his temple oh wow i recollect myself in the intimacy of this temple so that's a word you'll read a lot in the old books recollection so it's recalling i'm collecting myself back to union i'm collecting my thoughts away from the world and inwards i'm moving my my thinking from outside to inside it's called recollection so they sometimes call this stage the prayer of recollection or recollection so i recollect the fact that he's in me in the intimacy of his temple and i move in to adore him love him and unite myself with him now this is a really important point if you want to go deeper into mystic pray it's not about your prayer requests remember it says in psalm 23 the lord is with me i have no needs normal prayer request is a different type of prayer to this this is the prayer of love this is the prayer of union this is the prayer of the presence this is the prayer of the honey the love wine this is the this is the the glory cloud prayer where you're not in there because you're dealing with anything else you're saying i have everything i need and he makes me lie down and restores my soul this is the prayer that brings life into your even your dna this is what enoch did to become immortal enoch walked with god and that word walked means he entangled into union with god and he couldn't even die okay so she says this just come to the lord as you come come with a deep sense of love this isn't even a place of repentance your repentance can't add to this your your your sins being done away with and out of sight you don't even have the right to take it in with you you are forgiven and innocent and holy you move out of those mindsets of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil this is the place of the tree of life and in the tree of life you are innocent in the tree of life you are included in the tree of life there is no sin there is no record of it you are beautiful he says turn away from me you have derv's eyes i can't handle you you you know you are the light of the world he is the light of the world jesus said we are the light of the world so it's two lights coming into one light and exploding with light this is the place of complete innocence and forgetting that you've even done anything wrong because you are absorbed by holiness you are absorbed by a stronger fragrance a stronger sound a stronger frequency has come upon you and has become the dominant force in your heart okay as you come come with a deep sense of love come to him very gently humbling humbly acknowledging he is everything this is very important this isn't the the door of violence this is the door of gentleness this is the door of sweetness this is the kiss of the lips let me kiss him with the kisses of his mouth whoa for his love is better than wine he is he is fair and beautiful all his garments are scented this is the place where you taste and see that the lord is good you taste and see that the lord is good you taste and see you taste the honey on his lips you taste the wine of his blood you taste the inclusion of his love and you are overwhelmed when you realize you are the object of forever love you are the object of his affection chosen in him before and all you can do is drink it and receive it she says close your eyes to everything around you in you you're in me oh so i've created my own mini prayer which can get me so so in the glory see it's not about how many hours it's about focus and believing see some people pray for god's glory for hours because they don't believe that the glory is in them they don't see it they haven't understood it they haven't understood the gospel that he's in you christ has come he's in the temple of your heart love is one and as you turn into it you get flooded with love because you open up the well and it becomes a river and then it becomes a torrent and then it becomes the rains see whoa do not despise the small things for small keys open big doors is the small key of your heart opens up the biggest doors in the universe so oh i can't imagine living without this i have lived like this for 15 years and i still am plunging deeper into it i'm possessed by it it it's beyond ministry yeah wow oh and it starts so small the lord showed me it's like a snowflake a snowflake lands on your hand and you look at it and you honor it and if you honor a snowflake more snow comes and then a snowball's formed if you honor the snowball and say i love your presence i love this union i love you you love me it becomes an avalanche which is called ecstasy but many people don't have ecstasies because they didn't love the snowflake you have to love the small sense of his presence it's always there he says i will never leave you i will never forsake you you're breathing him in right now he is the air that you breathe and you turn into it and you can turn into it any time anyway brother lawrence one of the famous mystics of history he used to work in the in in the kitchen and he experienced the practice of the presence of god amongst the pots and pans he said god is found amongst the pots and pans and you find he's everywhere like you know peter peter fell into a trance it says when he smelt the food because he once once you realize he's the food you eat he's the air that you breathe and peter smelt the food and fell into a trance how did he fall into a trance of smelling food in the book of acts because the pathway is the same it's the pathway of pleasure pleasure is the gateway into the higher realms when you enjoy him you enjoy the sweetness yay yeah okay it's getting harder to talk because the more i'm talking the more i'm getting into this realm so the next stage then after centering is called simple union the reason is called it's also called the prayer of simplicity why is it called that because you become very simple this isn't about complexity at this stage this is about kissing let me tell you now kissing's a simple thing a simple thing you are enjoying one another it's called the prayer of simplicity because the activities beginning to end you might have started with worship you might have started with prayer you might have started by chanting his name like the jews do or you may have started by dancing or doing art but suddenly you sense the presence and you turn into it and now it becomes simple you stop the activity because the activity has done its purpose the activity has led you into the awareness of your union with him and now you are tasting it now you are feeling it now you are enjoying it then the aim is to stay in that so jean goyon another one of the great writers and i love jean goyan madame goyon there she is one of the great heroes of the faith she said this perhaps you'll begin to enjoy a sense of the lord's presence if that is the case do not try to think of anything do not try to say anything do not try to do anything as long as the sense of the lord's presence continues just remain there remain with him exactly as you are now what i often do is i'll often just go um i love you so i will speak out because it nurtures the atmosphere of what you're experiencing uh but i'll often to be honest with you i'll make groaning noises and my kids see me do it all the time they all know i do it because i'll be enjoying the sweetness of his love and i'll just go [Music] and it might happen when we're at the dinner table in the car my children have heard me do this for the for their whole lives and what it is is i'm caught in the sweetness because he loves me and when i'm eating a cake say right i love cakes i love vanilla slices i love pumpkin pies chocolate but when i eat it it triggers my awareness of his sweetness and his goodness and it might be something different for you maybe you know eating a good steak might trigger you but within your life everywhere you look at triggers into bliss you're just not jumping in the pool you have to see those triggers it can come in music in a song if i find a song triggers that bliss i've won i you know one time i put a song on for five hours straight because the song was nourishing the bliss and i stayed in it and i don't try and think it doesn't have to make sense because this isn't about my mind it's not about this it's about this this is who i am my brain is just a biological component processing signals to interface my spirit with my body it's it's a servant it's not the master the master is my spirit within and i live in the spirit within and the glory within and i tell you what guys it leaks out of you it leaks out of you i've touched people many times and seen them intoxicated i've gone into hotels and made the receptionist cry because the presence coming off me but it comes from turning in not turning out the focus is going into the interior castle all right um wow so i'm getting quite wrecked so this is the thing you will have to allow the lord to wreck you you'll laugh you'll cry you'll cry you'll laugh you'll cry so much that you think you can't cry anymore and then you'll cry again the next day uh you know sometimes in this prayer room i'm in the prayer room i've used up rolls of toilet roll weeping in the goodness and love of god but full of longing i call it the bliss of longing wow i will not be satisfied until i am fully formed in his likeness there is more okay so the aim of this is to stay in the sweetness so what do you do when the sweetness lifts you've got two choices you can then go about your day which is fine because god loves your day and this isn't a new set of rules or if you want you can turn back into it again now one of the ways i turn back into it sometimes is by doing something with him like i love shopping i love the garden you know brother lawrence became a christian through looking at a tree realizing that the leaves would come forth and he had a revelation francis of assisi would have incredible ecstasies doing the garden and birds would come to him squirrels would come to him um other people like saint bernard would walk through forests in ecstasies for days not eating not sleeping sometimes floating off the ground you know francis of assisi used to float off the grounds very often and sometimes he would float so high you couldn't see his body now that is floating really high but i tell you what makes you flow what breaks gravity is love love makes you feel like you're walking on air and some days you may actually be because you've been raptured so brother lawrence said this if your mind wanders at times don't be upset never punish yourself if you start punishing yourself that's the wrong tree so even if you forget god in your prayer time and you've been thinking about what am i doing later never never punish yourself he still sits with his arms open saying come on come back he doesn't even mention your sins he's not even trying to mention your sins he just wants you okay and he's very gracious don't become upset because it'll only distract you more allow your will to recall your attention gently to god such perseverance will please him so brother laura said this i keep my attention on god in a simple loving way this is my soul secret experience of the actual unceasing presence of god this has been my experience the unceasing presence of god you know he never leaves you he can't he's closer to you than you are to yourself it gives me such contentment and joy brother lauren said that i sometimes feel compelled to do rather childish things this will happen to you too okay if you want to go down this pathway forget your dignity for your dignity we'll be a victim of the pathway of love and your dignity will not will not remain in his place and many many times i've been overwhelmed and one time i said lord why why especially in public please not in public oh god be gracious to me and then he gave me this versus in the message it says you have been dignified by the indignity it's a heavenly dignity to be mocked and to be misunderstood for love's sake for men and women will be misunderstood for many things but who will be misunderstood for love who will be misunderstood for the sake of love and because of love so we continue in this practice until it becomes a way of living and what's become simple will grow theresa revival described it as a well you put in a well and at first it's difficult the well of your heart is grace but the more you pull the grace the more the water flows until she said eventually a stream forms in your garden of your heart and as that stream forms eventually it's a river and then eventually mists come and then you live effortlessly in the mists that water your garden [Music] okay i've got 10 minutes left now if we've stopped where i am now i would be happy with the teaching because this the prayer of simplicity or simple union is what you should aim for okay but i am gonna warn you that if you let god have this relationship with you every so often you are gonna have ecstasies okay so i'm just going to talk about ecstasies for a minute because nobody warned me this would happen and i was a bit shocked when it started happening and even today i'm still shocked when they happen they're also called raptures this is where the the kissing gets a bit passionate okay so it can be quite gentle you know you're nibbling each other but then jesus gets full on that's called a rapture on ecstasy okay and your body experiences it too so this the prayer i've told you about so far teresa of avila said it's a little spark of love she says this little spark is a sign or a pledge which god gives to a soul is a token of him having chosen it for great things if it will prepare to receive them so what am i saying if you will celebrate that sweet little intimacy with god that's there when you're in the shower it's there when you're washing dishes it's there when you're holding a baby it's there when you're eating a steak it's there in the park it's there when you swim if you will live in this unceasing sweetness you will give him permission to fan the flame of love in you till it it consumes you body soul and spirit i've had it many times there's a phenomena called incindia memoris which translates as the burning heart of love i've had it twice i've got so hot physically from god's love i've set off fire alarms the most recent time was in march in nashville i was on stage at a conference of 300 people i shared on incindia memoris and the the the person managing the facility came to see me afterwards and said did you know that whilst you preached you set off the stage fire alarms okay so the next stage it gets stronger it's called complete union this is where it's much harder to pull out because now you are starting to be absorbed by god now some of you may have experienced this but it's like you're in another world you're in such a sweetness saint thomas said this the soul loves and is loved in return she seeks and is sought she holds and is herself held she clasps and she is closely embraced and by the bond of love she unites herself with god one with one alone with him at this stage he's filling your cup so this stage now your cup's starting to overflow so the other stage that i talked about it's like only half full you're okay you can carry on with life you look normal people you can fake the fact you're normal this next stage you might look like you you're intoxicated the presence might leak off you there might be fragrances your face might shine you might have all sorts of phenomena happen to you or people may not even know it's happening most of the time when i have it people don't even know i'm in this condition i could be sitting on an airplane i remember one time i flew to america and i was in this state for about five hours looking at the screen in front of me with nothing on it i had a black screen it was turned off and i was smiling looking at the screen like this and every so often the person next to me would look at me and then look at the screen and look at me shake their head but for like five hours i sat in bliss let me tell you now if you have to go to airports you need to do this you need to get into mystic communion if you have children you need to do this if you have grandchildren you must do this you must do this okay so this place now is is a much stronger presence and you might feel intoxicated if you continue in this you'll have a thing called ecstasy now you cannot create an ecstasy in the same way that you cannot create mystic prayer is a gift it's a gift it comes to you paul said this i know a man in christ who was seized and swept up in ecstasy to heaven's heights if you have a trust relationship with god where you give him your heart will you become a love slave will you become bridal will you become intimate he takes that as an invitation for him to ravish you out of your senses and to show you the mysteries of the cosmos and he will show you the mysteries of the trinity and he will show you the seven spirits and he will show you space and time and quantum physics and he will open up things to you that human words cannot communicate and sometimes it happens in the twinkling of an eye i've sometimes had an ecstasy in one minute i had one here and rachel and janine who worked with me were in the office the next day and it took me hours to tell them what i learned in one minute and i literally learned it in one minute see why are christians hanging out on the shores of unbelief why are they calling for him to come when he's already come see god is looking for a company of people who believe what he has done in the sun the love is one and he has won the field of your heart at this stage you could be astonished and shocked you know that you're ignorant and all you know is a dot for truly he is unlimited beyond your wildest dreams and all that you know of him is nothing to what is yet to be seen he is incomprehensible and he is infinite and he is glorious he might show you other universes space and time have any dimensions and realms this is broadband communication this is sometimes so gentle but you are being infused with it i call it infused knowledge i've written about it in my book called beyond human okay at this point you'll feel a sense of real gratitude deep gratitude and humility when i first had it started having ecstasies i rejected them because they they frightened me and i realized i had a fear in me of death fear and mistrust and i had to take these into the courts of heaven and i asked the lord to divorce them from me divorce me from fear of dying fear of love fear of death divorce me from the mindsets to say i am unlovely and then i had to learn to accept his ecstasies now where i am 15 years in i ravish them and i celebrate them and i don't care whether it costs me ministry i don't care whether it shuts doors for me i don't care whether people receive me i have found my my my purpose to be his to belong to him to be his object of tender affection and to receive his love so ecstasy is designed as a is is sorry i can't talk because i'm getting caught up the definition of ecstasy is this a state of excessive gladness and delight this is teresa of avila which is so extreme that the soul appears to swoon away and seems on the point of leaving the body in the bible they define eckstasis which is in the bible often trance is a state of delight bliss elation rapture transport transport a sense of being taken out of oneself and entering a state of intensified and heightened feeling an emotion so powerful as to produce a trance-like disassociation from all a verse for this is 2 corinthians 5 13 i'll read it in the mirror says we are blissfully out of our minds with pleasure before our maker he delights in our ecstasy our insane mode is between us and god [Laughter] oh thank you lord so have you got an insane mode because it's time for you to find it if you want other verses to support this psalm 36 8 they shall be inebriated with the plenty of your house and thou shall make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure there is a torrent guys there is a torrent of pleasure prepared for those who choose to be the lovers of christ his reward truly is beyond your wildest dreams i'm coming to an end teresa of avila says in this stage god ravishes the soul wholly unto himself at this stage guys your body soul and spirit are all in it you're not thinking about tomorrow you're not thinking about the grandchildren you are totally absorbed by god your senses are absorbed your body your cells are vibrating with love your cells are vibrating with life you're astonished and in wonderment god ravishes the soul wholly unto himself as one who is his very own bride wow and he shares some small part of the kingdom she has won [Music] wow i think i'm done now because i can't his time's up and i can't talk anyway so it's perfect timing so that's called ecstasy or rapture and that has been my experience for the last 15 years and very rarely have i ever preached on it i want to encourage you to go back over it and listen to what i've said so let's just turn into his presence for a second with gratitude gratitude is the technology of the spirit a grateful heart is an open heart and lord we are grateful for the gospel we are grateful i ask for everyone here and everyone around them that they will become slaves of love for there is no greater thing than to love and be loved in return and this is the gospel this is the gospel so i give you permission to be intoxicated inebriated raptured whether it's gentle sweetness or a full-blown ecstasy that you live a life of love and bliss and pleasure for you are made for pleasure and he loves you he loves you beyond your wildest dreams and he will never ever change his mind about you thank you father amen amen

Channel: Justin Paul Abraham

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Keywords: Richard Rohr, Brother Lawrence, teresa of avila, contemplative prayer, spiritual ecstasy, catherine of sienna, francis of assisi, interior prayer, mystical christianity, bliss, intoxication, love wine, ancient paths, meditation, mindfulness, prayer of silence, jean guyon, trances, rapture, flight of the spirit, justin paul abraham, russell brand, dalai lama, catholic saints, school of meditation, mystic union, Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, mindvalley, Jon Kabat-Zinn, yhvh

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Length: 48min 26sec (2906 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020