LARRY: Welcome to another exciting episode of “Something More”. I’m Larry Sparks; I’ll be your host. Today we’re going to talk about how to go Heaven before you die. Y-you heard me correctly. It is possible for you to experience Heavenly realms, here on Earth before you leave this world and go to the next before you “transition”, before you die. I know so many people think, “Well that’s when I get to Heaven, and I kind of just have to endure until I get there”. Let me just let you know right now, Christianity is not supposed to be some sort of lifelong endurance race, where you just kind of endure, going through motions, lists of do’s and don’ts; it is a dynamic experience with the person called God. And I believe today an invitation is going out to whoever would receive it; to actually, “Come up here…”, just like John was told on the Island of Patmos. “Come up here” and actually experience the Heavenly realm. And I have got an exciting guest today, Judy Franklin. She has written this book, Experiencing the Heavenly Realm, which to me is an invitation for anybody.
JUDY: Yes.
LARRY: Not not special, super-spiritual people, not Pastors and leaders; yeah, they’re included; but an invitation for “whosoever” would actually receive this invitation. So Judy, how did these Heavenly experiences start in your life?
JUDY: When I first recognized it, it was in February of 1997.
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: And I went to bed, and I just started saying my prayers, and I saw a door open about a foot and something came out, and it laid on me. And it scared me.
LARRY: Wow.
JUDY: And I thought, “What is this?”, and then I realized it felt so good!
LARRY: Yeah.
JUDY: It was just I know now that it was His Presence, and I started worshipping. I had never worshipped before.
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: I’d seen the songs, and I praised, “Thank You God. You’re great; You’re great; You’re wonderful. You’re -“, but worship, in looking at the Word and what it actually means, it means to kiss!
LARRY: Hmm!
JUDY: It’s intimate! And I started worshipping Him; and after a while, it stopped, and I saw this Presence go back into this door and shut, and I thought, “I’m crazy.”
LARRY: [chuckling]
JUDY: Don’t know what that is; but I wasn’t going to tell anybody either. And the next night, go to bed, start to say my prayers, the same thing happened. It happened every time I turned my attention to God –
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: to Jesus. It would happen, and I thought, “This is really weird”. And I’d have them for about two or three months, and I went to Toronto.
LARRY: Mm; [chuckling] yeah.
JUDY: And , the last night we were there, I was singing a praise song, and I had my arms up in the air; and I heard a voice, and it said, “What are you looking up for? I’m right here.”
LARRY: Mm!
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