Spreading Tent of Rainbow Rays

This is a picture I took on our way to Yellowstone National Park this year. I'm not exactly sure where this was, but we hadn't arrived at Jackson Hole yet, traveling north. I just remember seeing it and feeling so elated at such wonderful beauty that I took about 50 pictures of this sunset. It reminds me of God's glory and how His spectacular rainbow rays touch each and every one of us, spreading over us who receive Jesus, like a tent of love. I was also awed by the clouds that had both silver and gold lining that surrounded this typified glory of God. In the Word, we are told that dark clouds surround God. But as the dark clouds of sorrow and suffering part, He shines through brightly and comforts us with true to life wondrous waves/rays of love.

 

His love feels very physical, rising outward like rays or waves from the abdomen; but it is spiritual because you cannot see it. It is not an emotional response to Him because it actually feels like when you are in the passenger seat of a car while the driver speeds over a minor bump in an intersection. Then multiply that sensation by about 100, and that's what it feels like.

 

If you have not yet received Jesus' love in this way, seek Him first and then admit your sins to Him. Ask Him for forgiveness, realizing that without it and Him, there is eternal separation from Him. Next, accept Him as the Son of God and His ability to forgive you through His having taken the punishment for your sins by being tortured and then crucified. Then believe that He was raised on the third day, interceding for you forever before the Heavenly Father so that you can receive the spiritual inheritance He has for you.

 

After that, Jesus will wash you with His Water and clothe you with His Blood, a robe of His righteousness that sparkles brightly in the light of the Heavenly Father, making us beautiful to Him forever. These, too, are real sensations and not emotional responses. They come down over a person like a waterfall (three times) and then a gush of power/a feeling of thick liquid being poured over your head. Though the waterfalls only happen three times (at different intervals possibly), the gushes of thick liquid continue to occur from time-to-time but indefinitely.

 

Then He will give you His life-giving breath, to receive His Holy Spirit, which feels like massive power or wind blown into your chest area, rising up into a kind of flush on your face. Right before, during and after that breath, you will feel something like your heart palpitating when this breath is going to happen. Some have described it as though God is rubbing His knuckles lightly on your heart. LOL! He is, in actuality, knocking on the door of your heart to let Him in to sup with Him. No, you're not having physical heart issues. It does feel physical, but it's really spiritual because you can't see it. Then He breathes new life into you like a newborn taking its first breath and many others afterward. This breath continues on (like the gushes of thick liquid) from time-to-time indefinitely.

 

About that time, some sorrow and suffering in life will come, the dark clouds that surround Him. It's inevitable. Remember Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, and Job's trials? Much like that. It's the only way through to get to Him in the Kingdom of God. Then you will be called, which varies from person to person. But you will know it when it happens. After that, He will give you manna by your tasting a sweet taste in your mouth (kind of like kiwi or Moses said coriander seed and honey) for about a week or more before the waves come about from time-to-time, continuing on indefinitely. He really does fill your mouth. But right before the waves of love, you may feel movement in your soul, the lower part of your abdomen, as though the Lord is circumcising it, removing an old large callous from it and inserting His umbilical cord in you. After the waves/rays of love begin, by about the third day, something like a bubbling of water happens in the abdomen. Jesus calls it Living Waters coming up from the belly according to the KJV. A better way to describe it would be that it feels like how water does on your palm when you place it under a fast-running bathtub warm-water faucet, or it can be described as feeling like a kind of Jacuzzi bubbling in your abdomen. During that time, something happens so that, when you grieve the Lord by your attitude about Him, you will feel that also in your abdomen. It's kind of physically painful but more like how you feel sorrow when someone close to you dies. You will know distinctively that it's not you but Him. Stay close to Him and get through this time with Him, repenting all the way. At some point, this same love and bubbling happens in the chest area when He circumcises/enters your spirit/heart. Then when you sin or think about sinning, it actually hurts in the chest area (not like a heart attack or anything like that, kind of like the grieving feeling mentioned before but more like a light burning or searing sensation). Other things will happen during and afterward, but that's between you and the Lord because some of it is terribly sad and some of it is unspeakably wonderful.

 

All of this love goes on for about 40 days, though the love moving to the chest area may happen at a later date and last for about 40 days itself, too. Remember Moses had two 40-day mountaintop experiences with God because he broke the law--pun on words intended. (All Scripture is very literal though it also has an allegory meaning to it. God's wisdom plays out even in our own lives in this way. It's important not to limit Him since His ways and thoughts are so much higher than our own.) But the waves/rays of love don't stop. They are just more subdued after this 40-day point, not quite so mind-blowing.

 

Caution: If you do not first repent and receive Jesus and then receive the waterfalls and the gushes of His righteousness before you receive His waves/rays of love, the circumcision of your soul WILL be painful. This is what happens to people when they force their way into that Holy Place. Jesus will get you through it if you then decide to seek Him in His righteousness (His Blood) and not your own righteousness. I never did feel pain because f the right route taken though I know others who have. It was not pretty.

 

All of this happenstance took place with me in a personal relationship with Jesus over a period of 24 years. For others, it all happens at once but still lasts for about 40 days total (sometimes twice over). Honestly, you just never know which one you'll be. Just take it as it comes and don't be discouraged or freaked out by these very real occurrences, or lack of them in a timely manner. Also, if you don't believe me, that's okay. Just ask the Lord yourself. See how He responds... If you'd like an enormous amount of Scripture to back it up, feel free to write me. I'd be more than glad to share it all with you. And if you're wondering what the purpose in all of this lead up to His love and His expression of love in this way is for, the answer is that being intimately in love with God is what we were created for--His Spirit to fill us and everything in every way. We were not created for our sake or for humankind's sake or for anyone else's sake, for that matter. We were made for Him. It's all about Him always. If you haven't found His Love in this way, you are not without hope.

 

Again, the other pictures I took of this sunset were nice, but this one seemed to speak volumes to me about what has transpired in my spiritual life with Him lately in that many of His rainbow rays of presence have covered me like a tent as I entered into His Presence from time-to-time, especially through this love of His. I hope it speaks to you, too, in this way.

 

© 10-21-2007 Victoria Tribby

 

Here is the whole of the passage listed on the photo:

 

Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?"

 

I answered, "Sir, you know."

 

And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore,

 

"they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. Never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat on them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." (Revelation 7:13-17, 1984 NIV)

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