HEAVEN IS WONDERFUL........Woman describes her experience and her message!

   

HEAVENLY ENCOUNTER

Introduction

Someone said the best part of heaven will be seeing Jesus Christ face to face. We will worship the Son of God and celebrate the victory He gave us in this world and His mercies that made it possible for us to see eternity.

The truth is that God has made it easy for you to go to heaven if you believe the name of His dear Son, Jesus Christ and what He did at the Cross for you.  There, He paid the price of your sins so that you could one day stand before God in heaven. 

Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me". He also said, "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved" (John 10:9). Jesus is not only the way to heaven, but he is also the door to heaven. If you want to go to heaven, you have to believe in His name and pass through the narrow gate marked "Jesus Christ." For without Him, There is no other entrance to heaven - Acts 4:12.

Most of us have heard that 'heaven' is a place where the streets are paved with gold, the gates are made of pearl, and the walls made of precious jewels. I believe it is so, But no one goes to heaven by accident. Heaven is God's prepared place for prepared people. We prepare for heaven and then God prepares heaven for us. 

The purpose of this message and the accompanying encounter of a woman with the Lord in heaven is to remind us that heaven is real.  Jesus loves us and sent the woman in question back to the world with a message, which I think you should read and walk-in.

Where is heaven?

There are many things I can say about heaven from the scriptures.

1. The most important fact is that 'heaven' is a real place. Listen to the words of Jesus on the night before he was crucified:

2. The Bible also tells us that heaven is the dwelling place of God. His throne is there, the angels are there, and the Lord Jesus Christ is in heaven. Philippians 3:20 says very plainly that "our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ." That's why Jesus told the thief on the Cross, "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).

3. Jesus says "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:1-3).  Twice in three verses, Jesus calls heaven a place. He means that heaven ("my Father's house") is a real place, as real as Abuja and Uyo, beautiful cities in Nigeria.

How do you get to heaven?

The entrance to heaven is not automatic for people who have simply tried to be good. The qualifying factor for those who enter will be whether or not their names are written in the Lamb’s book of life - Revelation 21:27.

So, we must recognize that we have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  In our natural self, we cannot think good, for the kind of thoughts we hold...thoughts of pleasure, greed, and covetousness are not from God. We have all done things that are displeasing to God, which disqualifies us, but Jesus came to the earth and died for our sins.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God became a man and died to pay our penalty. "God demonstrates His love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us", so that if we believe in his name and live by faith in that name, we shall be saved and our names are written in the Lamb book of life.

By faith, we must live through Jesus Christ.  We must also, put our hope and trust in Him and the finished work at the Cross. When we do this, we will be forgiven and saved.

It is by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, by trusting in Christ that we can save you from sin.  To live holy and pleasing is by His grace, not by any man's power. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).

The story of a Woman and her Confession:  ‘What God Told Me’

Yvone Sklar 

A Woman Describes Her Experience After She Died and Came Back To Life In 3 days

“I had been sick for about two weeks, which felt like the flu,” Yvonne recalls, ““And I thought to myself, “Well, I’ve got to get to a doctor and just get some antibiotics.” I just hadn’t taken the time to do it.””

“I realized that my breathing was so shallow that I couldn’t hear it, and I said, ‘What’s going on, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘Trust me.’”

Then Yvonne collapsed. She was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where Dr. Takkin Lo discovered the severity of her illness.

“Out of the six lobes in her lung, four of them were actually involved in pneumonia,” Dr Lo remembers. Tests revealed that the infection had spread into her bloodstream and Yvonne was going into septic shock. Dr Lo told her she would need to be intubated and put into a medically induced coma so they could treat the infection, but Yvonne was resistant.

“I didn’t think I would ever wake up,” Yvonne recalls. “And I kept telling him, ‘I’ve had a really good life, and I know where I’m going, and it’s okay just to let me go.’”

“She and I had a very heart-to-heart talk,” says Dr Lo. “We prayed with each other, and then I look into her eyes and I told Yvonne, ‘Look at me. This will be the last person you get to see before you wake up the next time.’”

Meanwhile, Chaplain Donna Herrick, Yvonne’s supervisor and friend, rallied people to pray.  “I took the lead in that and gathered my students, so every day someone could go and pray with her,” says Donna. “We gathered as her family.”

Then Yvonne’s organs began to fail. She coded three times over the next two weeks.

“For each of the organs that failed, there is an associated approximately 20% chance of dying,” Dr. Lo explains, “So her lungs failed, her heart failed, her kidneys failed, her endocrine system, which is the blood sugar, was going out of control. So at that moment, she had approximately seventy to eighty percent chance of dying.”

Since Yvonne had no family present, doctors and friends met to consider turning off her life support. As a long-time chaplain, Donna had seen this many times before.  “When you are on a respirator like that, day after day after day, this is not something you recover from,” says Donna. “You don’t expect that. I had prepared myself that she was not gonna survive.”

Later, Donna felt God told her to go to her friend’s side.  “She didn’t appear to be with me, but she wasn’t gone either,” Donna recalls, “And I took her hand and I said to her, ‘Yvonne, I love you, and it’s okay if you wanna stay where you are, go on to stay with the Lord, it is absolutely ok. I will miss you; we will miss you. But it’s ok.’”

Heavenly Experience:

Donna didn’t know that at the time, Yvonne was already in heaven.

“I remember when I left my body that I was in a beautiful, beautiful field,” Yvonne recalls. “The flowers were so vibrant and alive. There are no words to describe what it’s like to be in the presence of Jesus, the love and the light and the purity. The love is insurmountable; it is all-consuming. The music was more beautiful than any tabernacle choir, any orchestra; it sounds like hundreds of thousands of people praising God. There isn’t even an inkling of any other emotion than happy.”

Yvonne says they walked through heaven.

“And he told me, ‘I tell you in my word, to ask for all things small or large,’” says Yvonne. “And people don’t either feel worthy or they feel like they’re bothering him or it’s too much to ask or that they don’t believe in Christ or heaven. And he says, ‘But remember to tell people ‘ask.””

Then Jesus told her she had to go back and asked her to deliver a message.

“’I want you to tell people everything that I’ve shown you,’” Yvonne remembers, “‘I want you to tell them about my love, my forgiveness, and that they can come as they are. I want them to repent with a sincere heart and follow my laws.'”

Then, three days before she was scheduled to be taken off life support, Yvonne woke up.  “What was so amazing about that was just the shift of going from death to life,” says Donna. “You know, just intubated, pale, just the things that happen to the human body when they’re intubated that long. They just…there’s no life. And then to walk in the room, I mean she’s not up doing dances, but she was Yvonne. But very quickly she progressed to a regular room and then she was gone to rehab. It was…amazing! Amazing.”

“Coming back was bittersweet,” Yvonne says. “First of all, you’re in this body again, which is very cumbersome and it’s very limiting. In heaven, there’s no limitation. And I was talking about heaven as soon as they put a little device on my throat.”

While Yvonne’s recovery was long and difficult, she bounced back, and Dr. Lo is astounded by her progress.

Yvone Sklar and Husband

“Yvonne is a miracle,” Dr. Lo declares. “Normally, it’s very hard for a patient like her to have such a miraculous recovery and to the point where she can go back to the community at large and kinda contribute actively.”

Later she married Rick, one of the faithful friends who prayed for her recovery. Yvonne believes that she was brought back for a very special reason.

Yvonne Sklar didn’t have the flu. She had pneumonia and it was getting worse.

It is my prayer that you will make heaven in Jesus name! 

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