COME UP TO THE LORD
By Dan Luehrs
“Come to Me,
all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28
Several years ago I was going through one of the
worst times in my life and I did not know if I could make it another day. Then
one Sunday as I was in a worship service the Lord Jesus grabbed my two hands
and pulled me up twice and said, “Come
with Me!” I believe what He was saying to me was, “Come up here by Me in my
realm where you will receive peace and rest for your soul.” When I yielded to
the Lord of peace my circumstances did not change, but I did, going from fear
and worry, to peace, rest, and even joy in the presence of my enemies. His
peace and rest does pass beyond all comprehension!
Unless we know how to apprehend the presence of God
daily we will not have the strength we need to live in the joy of the Lord. We
must remember that it is the joy of the
Lord that gives us strength! When we praise God in the midst of our trials,
we are bringing joy to the Lord and His joy is what gives us the strength we so
need. One Sunday service a week will not cut it for a growing believer, Jesus
is to be our daily bread, not weekly! He wants us to come to Him each day to
eat, drink and to fellowship with Him in Spirit, “… So they saw God, and they ate and drank” (Ex 24:11). God invites
us to come up into His realm to eat and drink of His word and presence; His
word is spirit and life to our inner man, as we would enjoy a nice steak. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him (Our
heart) and dine with him, and he
with Me” (Rev 3:20
The Lord has given me a message from the life of Moses
when God had invited him to ascend the
THE ASCENT
“Then He said
to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and
seventy of the elders of
When God called Moses up to the mountain to meet
with Him, it was not just for himself that he went up, but to receive from God
the words of life to give to all people throughout time. Had God wanted to just
chat with Moses on the mountain he would have stayed by the burning bush and
would have just left Him in the wilderness fellowshipping with him. But God
wanted to share Himself with everyone, to bless all nations with His word so
that they may know His heart and draw close to Him. God gave them His law so
that they would follow it and obey it, so that His presence could stay in the
midst of the people. This is the very purpose why Jesus died for our sins so
that He could come into our heart and have fellowship with us. What a loving
and mighty God we serve!
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Our God is a holy God that invites us to dwell with
Him in His holy mountain, but we must be holy, because He is holy and we are
His temple that He abides in. Just as Moses was called to bring God’s word and
presence down from the mountain to the people, so we are called to bring heaven
down to earth. “Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” But how can we bring the realm
of God down to earth if we are not ascending in the realm of His presence? We
are a bridge between heaven and earth for the people that are living around us,
especially those of the faith. Many Christians are weak in their faith because
they do not go unto the
Now you might be saying, “How can I ascend the
The enemy is running rampant upon the earth because
he knows that his time is short and if we do not know how to ascend into the
protection of God’s presence we will be crushed by his power. A lady had a
dream that the devil was going around with a steamroller crushing the churches
and the people and the only way for her to escape was to quickly ascend into
the realms of God above all the destruction. Revelation 13:7 says, “It was granted to him (The devil) to make war with the saints and to
overcome them…” But God has made away for our escape if we will take the
time to ascend into the realms of heaven and receive His strength for each new
day. “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and
you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For
the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that
he has a short time” (Rev 12:12
“You have seen
what I did to the Egyptians (The devil),
and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself” (Ex
19:4-5
Moses had to go
up to see the revelations of God, just as John the Revelator went to a
great high mountain to receive The Revelation of Jesus Christ. “And he carried me away in the Spirit to
a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy
As stated before, the two wings of a great eagle are given unto us to fly, one wing being the Word of God, which is the Passover Feast that we all have partaken of when we have received salvation through Jesus Christ. The second wing is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is the Feast of Pentecost that causes us to mount up with wings of eagles to fly into the realms of God by the wind of the Holy Spirit. This is so that we will receive the Truth, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ. These two great experiences of salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit are the will of God for us and are very real to those who have experienced them. Both of these experiences have to do with us receiving them by faith and then growing in them to receive the greater revelation of who Jesus is in us. But if we do not believe that they are for us today we will not experience them in our life and we will call people crazy who do and miss the best that God has for us.
There is one more feast for us to experience called,
The Feast Tabernacles, “Now the Jews'
Feast of Tabernacles was at hand” (John 7:2). We are to be experiencing
this along with the other two feasts; this is the last feast and it pertains to
the fullness of God’s Spirit being manifested in and through our bodies so that
we become like Him. These three great feasts of the Lord are found in
On night Jesus came to me while I was sitting on a dock by a lake; His presence came upon me mightily. For about a week I had not been able to get into His presence very well, but that night He came powerfully. He came to me and said, "Do you want to go up higher?" I thought, "There is more?" He said, "Yes, My glory!"
For Him to invite me into His glory like this means
that we all must go up in His realm to receive His glory, this tells me that we
must ascend into the realms of His Spirit to receive the revelation of Jesus to
change us into His image. There is no other way for us to know Him more and for
us to receive the revelation of Jesus other than us ascending daily. I received
two other prophecies several months later from other people on this same
subject of going higher.
A lady took my hands as she was standing on a stage and I stood on the floor and she said, “The word of the Lord to you is, come up higher, come up higher Dan!" She then pulled me up on stage and said, “The Lord knows you can't do it on your own, but the Lord will pull you up! It will not happen the way you think it will, but that I am to trust the Lord to bring it to pass, for now is the time.”
Another confirming word came a few days later. “God will bring you into a higher realm of experience and revelation because you seek for truth.”
The Bible tells us in many places that Jesus is
coming back in the clouds and in the air. A cloud is ascended moisture that
waters the earth with abundant rain. As we ascend into the realms of God we
become apart of the great cloud of witnesses of which Jesus will appear in. “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded
by so great a cloud of witnesses…” (Heb 12:1
"I saw in
the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds
of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near
before him" (Daniel 7:13
“Then the sign
of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the
earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory” (Matt 24:30
The Bible clearly teaches us that the Lord is coming
back in the clouds of the air, so where do you think we the church need to be
so that we are ready to meet Him? In the air, the realm of the Spirit! “Therefore you also be ready, for
the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matt 24:44
The word heaven
simply means, “The place of authority.” Adam gave this realm of authority to
Satan in the garden by obeying him rather than God. Satan has been using it to
control and dominate over mankind
ever since. "For our struggle is
not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers,
against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places"
(Ephesians 6:12). A heavenly place is something over and above those who dwell on the earth which God made in
Those who have died in Christ
are the great cloud of witnesses and are already in spirit with Jesus, but we
who are still in the flesh have an earthly body, although we still have the
ability to be in the realm of the spirit with God. Our bodies have a double
function, not only to be physical, but also to dwell in heavenly place at the
same time in the spirit with Christ. This is what we should be seeking with our
whole heart! “If then you were raised
with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting
at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things
on the earth” (
Jesus was clearly taken up in a spiritual cloud to heaven, so let us not make the same mistake as the disciples did while they were looking to the natural heavens for Jesus. This is because a natural cloud will not bring someone to heaven, period! Jesus was taken up in the cloud of the Spirit, which I believe is a part of the great cloud of witnesses.
“Now when He
had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud
received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward
heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also
said, "Men of
Jesus visited with me one day in my office and then
I saw Him ascend into the heavens out of my sight and not once did I think of
looking up into the natural sky to see if He was there. Because I knew He was
in spirit and if I wanted to see Him again I would have to look no closer than
my own heart, for that is where He abides in us.
As Jesus was taken up to heaven in a cloud He will
return in like manner, but this time He is not be returning alone! “Behold, He is coming with clouds,
and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the
tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen” (Rev 1:7
“When He
comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among
all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed” (2 Thess 1:10
Please let me write this as clearly as I see it, unless we are seeking after the heart of God in the heavenlies where we have been raised up with Him, we simply will not be ready for His soon triumphant return. All the truths in scripture have been given to us for this time so that we do not miss out on what the Lord is about to do. The Lord is about to return in His people, are you ready or are you to preoccupied with all the deceptions of the world as Lot’s wife was and missed out on her day of visitation?
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