His Banner Over Me Is Love: Real World Spiritual Connections
Spiritual Connections
Spiritual Connections are difficult to talk about. These holy unions that happen to us are so precious and personal that we instinctively want to keep them private. However, when God moves in spectacular ways I believe it is important to testify of what He does for two reasons:
- We should recognize and give thanks to our Father for what He does.
- Giving glory to God for the things He does encourages Him to do more of them.
When it comes to connections, the deep and profound holiness of these unions is very personal. Yet, if we do not testify of what God has done, how can others, who have not yet experienced God’s divine love, know whereof we speak? In reality, everything I have written on this website is, at its core, about spiritual connections. The most natural minded thing to do would have been horde what God has given us and simply enjoy His love. However, I feel led by the Holy Spirit to speak plainly and give a real-world example of spiritual connections.
A foretaste of the world to come
What I am about to tell you is a demonstration of how relationships are in the New Heavens and New Earth. Spiritual connections are a foretaste of the world to come. It is the manifestation (or revealing) of what the Tabernacle experience is: Divine Love, the first love of Eden, realized through the Holy Spirit, here on Earth.
Over the last 36 months or so, God spiritually connected me with a sister in the Lord. We met online through a forum where I posted some of my writings. We began communicating back and forth and soon I understood that God was beginning to connect us through His Spirit.
And then face to face
From the very beginning of our connection, there existed a supernatural openness between us. We understood each other as if we had been best friends all our lives. I trusted her and she trusted me in an organic way that we never discussed but simply understood. Though I experienced connection love many years before, this was her first time. I loved her fully and she loved me in return without care of worry.
We naturally confessed our faults one to another. Things I would never have told another I trusted her with. She also bared her soul to me and even as we confessed our deepest secrets, we felt as if it were the most natural thing to do in the world. God connected our spirits and our souls to one another through His Divine Love.
Spiritual intimacy
It is difficult to describe Divine Love, but most assuredly that is what spiritual connections are made of. When you love someone in the Spirit, that love is not selfish nor does it seek its own. Even with such a profound Spiritual passion, it is simply not possible to do anything that would compromise the other. Therefore, though you would do anything for them you would never do anything to hurt them. This is agape love lived out through the Spirit in real life. This is what spiritual connections are all about.
In sync
As we came closer together in God our hearts and our minds began to sync up in the Spirit. The Spirit of our Father flows between us in such a way that we are beginning to experience the same revelations at the same time. The Holy Spirit flowing through us causes us to function as one. We are, in fact, experiencing the first Love of Eden.
Being connected to each other is like swimming naked in an ocean of Gods love. It is both incredibly intimate and vast. We feel like we are home. Being with each other is like best friends reuniting again after a long, long while. Even though thousands of miles separate us when we communicate, there is no spiritual distance at all. Our spirits intertwine and touch each other in loving embrace. We are becoming one in Him and it feels like the most natural thing to do and our divine destiny.
The first love of Eden
Spiritual connections are God manifest in and through our flesh. It is how it used to be in the Garden of Eden and how it will be again in the New Heavens and New Earth. Ours is a Spirit led union meant to show forth the glory of God. This is a demonstration of the unity of the Spirit and it is naturally leading to a unity of the faith between us. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 is a present reality to us. Though we are still flesh and bone, the Spirit of God is elevating us to a place that we scarcely thought possible. Love bears all things, hopes all things, and believes all things: God’s love never fails. Spiritual connections are what God is talking about when He says we are to be fitly joined together in love.
Between two realms
The things of this earth grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. Though we both live lives in the natural world our hearts and minds increasingly focus upon His Spirit. Revelation, like a flood, runs through us and between us. Truths pour into our minds and we understand, without effort, the mysteries of God’s Spirit. Most of what I write these days is a direct result of our spiritual connection.
The natural man knows not the things of God. Being connected is like finally having gas to put in your luxury car: it was nice before, but it is wonderful now. Once you receive the infilling of God’s love through spiritual union you begin to realize your full potential in Him. The truth is, we have all been living far below what God created us to be. Walking in the Spirit is our birthright and natural state.
Are heavenly unions are forever?
I do not yet know for sure, but I sense that spiritual connections are eternal. I also believe that spiritual connections supersede earthly relationships because they are a foretaste of how relationships function in the world to come. In that new world, as we are led by God’s Spirit, we connect with each other as He leads us. Divine love unites everyone and we function in our unions to the depth and degree that God wills.
Jesus says,,
“Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Matthew 12:47-50
Natural world relationships are subservient to the will of our Father just as they will be in the New Heavens and New Earth.
The Song of Songs
Spiritual connections are all the best parts of the song of Solomon. The freedom, intimacy, and joy that Abishag experienced before her love demonstrates how people feel towards one another in deep spiritual unions. We are no more two people but connected in a spiritual way making our hearts and souls one. Divine Intimacy is a natural result of the revelation of His love.
The tie that binds
In conclusion, in the connection chronicles, we offer you a glimpse of what a connection between a brother and sister can be. As I said, it is a holy thing and very personal. However, it is also what every single person on the face of this earth longs for deep in their hearts. It is the healing balm that makes everything in our lives whole. Spiritual connections are God manifest in our flesh. It restores our pre-fallen sinless state as we live, once again, through revelation in the cool of the day with our Father.
As with all things it is a process in God. We are not perfect or any different than you. All that is happening to us is that we are yielding to His Spirit just like anyone can. It is a privilege to experience His love in this way and testify of it. We invite you to open your hearts so that you can receive the gift that God makes available for you if you desire to receive it.
The perfection of the saints through Divine Love
Lastly, this is the path to the perfection of the saints. It is God’s love that unifies and makes us whole. It is the love of God that causes us to walk in His Spirit so that we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Like Enoch, we will walk with God and will be not, for God shall take us. this is the defining experience of the church of Philadelphia. Amen.
Thank you for sharing. Here’s another glimpse of a spiritual connection, experienced by myself and another. . .
When we first met there was something very significant about our eye contact. He felt I could see past his “shield” and what he was hiding, and I just felt there was something significant between us, but I knew it wasn’t romantic (he is 30 years younger than I and ended up marrying my daughter). Shortly after he came to know Christ as his savior (my husband led him to the Lord), God kept me awake most of a night praying for him, and when I got up the next morning, God revealed to me that He had called me to be an intercessor for him and his ministry, and that He was going to develop a deep trust between us.
To make a long story short, we communicated and got to know each other, and he said that after his salvation experience, making eye contact with me assured him that he had a deep trust for me – and it was the same for me. A few weeks after I began interceding for him, through communication and LOTS of confirmation, we realized that God had connected us in such a way that we could feel each others’ feelings –24/7 – and sometimes shared the same thoughts (God told me later He would speak to us simultaneously). . .through the years so much has happened, but here are some significant things we have learned that I would like to share with anyone who may be experiencing this same type of thing:
– The “connection” – the “essence” of what binds us together – is God’s Love – His agape love. My love for my “connection” is to never hurt him, to want what is best for him, to rejoice when he rejoices, and hurt when he hurts. This unconditional love is necessary for what God has called me to – in order to intercede for him well, I have been given access to his soul (like Jonathan and David) and so I know what he is feeling and can always pray. But I never judge him or operate in any way towards him apart from God’s agape love – that is what the connection is.
– This type of love is from God alone, I believe only available to those who know Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. When one or both of us are close to God and sensitive to His Spirit, the connection is stronger. If either one of us strays or doesn’t stay attentive to the Spirit of God, the sensitivity for the one who is wandering wanes. There are many things a person can find on the internet about this type of connection, (i.e. soul connections; twin flames), but I believe these to be counterfeits of what God has intended for those who have an intimacy first with Him, and then allow themselves to have this type of intimacy with another person in Christ.
– This love is supernatural, and supersedes any other type of earthly loves. My agape love for my connection is significantly different than I have for anyone else on earth, including my husband and children. But it CAN coexist, and does not need to replace any of those loves for or relationships with those other people. In fact, it teaches me what true love is, and has helped me to walk in greater unconditional love for everyone around me, especially my family. This is very difficult for some people to understand – that a person could have this God-given love for someone that is not a “mate”, but the spiritual love connection is given for Jesus’ purpose in that relationship. If that is for a marriage union, wonderful. But it may not always be. For us, it is for ministry and for such a close connection in intercession that we can walk together in unity into all the fullness of how God wants to use us (and we are just learning what that is). It takes maturity in faith and grace and love for His body to be able to handle this type of connection with purity and grace.
There is so much more that I could say, so much that God has revealed and taught, but I wanted to at least encourage anyone who may be in this God-given type of connection. It is a wonderful blessing, to be cherished and protected and experienced to its fullest!
Dear CL,
Thank you for sharing about you spiritual connection with us. Wow, that is almost lyrical! I do agree with you that there are many different kinds of connections for different purposes in God. However, at the core of everyone of them, is God’s agape love. Your testimony demonstrates the benifit of having more than one voice speak the revelation of God. Through His voice of many waters, w all begin to get the full picture.
May God bless you, your connection and your loved ones.
Michael
Thanks for boosting this post and sharing!
‘When you love someone in the Spirit that love is not selfish nor does it seek its own’
This is real key and what can set aside from counterfeits. All you do you do for the Lord and your connection, it is never about self gain at all. Always wanting to help and raise them up if they are down and the same, when you are down they raise you up.
‘Even though thousands of miles separate us, when we communicate there is no distance at all.’
This is another really important factor of spiritual connections and wider spirituality. Time and distance is absolutely irrelevant in the spirit and have often found that after being in the spirit with my connection that in reality here a huge amount of time has elapsed yet it really did not seem that long!
‘Divine love will unite everyone and we will function in our unions to the depth and degree that God wills.’
This see really is the reality of the body of Christ working and fitting together as it should. As you have demonstrated there are different kinds of connections yet all part of His body. The arm cannot do the legs job etc..each connection fitted together to create the bigger picture of the body of Christ.
It is through connections you see Emmanuel. Not just in their eyes but in a touch, a hug, a shoulder, a holy kiss. Anything someone needs God can provide through you. Connections can be anything from acquaintances to Divine mates. The point is it is God who joins them all by His Spirit and Love. This is why connections work so well, no one is ever alone.
Thank you again for posting it was a real blessing to read and I encourage you to post more!
Much love and peace in Christ ?
Esther
Thank you!
I so agree with what you have said, and have experienced it!
I like what you shared about “being with your connection in the Spirit” and having no time or space there. . . I am convinced that my connection and I are aware of each other in our spirits before our minds. Sometimes God has me “get the attention” of my connection (especially when he is discouraged or distracted) through God’s Spirit and I can communicate with him and encourage him – it’s beyond words, just a closeness – soul being knit to soul and communicating God’s agape love to him. But since I can feel what he feels, I can feel when he becomes encouraged – and then I am encouraged. . .
And distance makes ABSOLUTELY no difference – like you said. The closeness can be when he’s in the same room, and it feels exactly the same when we have been 2500 miles apart from each other.
I’m not sure if anyone else experiences this, but I get physical sensations in regards to my connection, i.e. electrical feelings or warmth or coolness, in my legs, arms, hands, back, face, and forehead, and especially in the center of my chest. God has taken me through much learning and has shown me what these physical sensations mean (and I have confirmed them by checking what is going on with my connection) and they tell me what is going on with him in response to the Spirit of God and to me, so I know how to pray for him. I also get a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach when my connection is about to come under spiritual attack, and I have learned to pray preemptively and protect him in that way.
I like to explain my feeling the feelings of my connection like this: When I first realized what was happening, it was very awkward and distracting – like having a third arm surgically added to my body that I needed to learn how to use – because I could always feel his emotions, in addition to mine, but sometimes we “echoed”. But after a few years, it is so natural and always there, and I have learned to differentiate his emotions from mine and can always “check on him” and see how he is doing. It’s like thinking about how your thumb feels, for example: If it is in pain or maybe feeling really good in a bowl of warm water, you notice it. When it is just okay, it doesn’t get your attention, but you can think about it at any moment and know how it feels. That “Third arm awareness” is all the time, and relates to his soul – his emotions. When he is very up or very down it catches my attention – and I am learning to connect to him during those times to minister God’s love and encourage him – and if he is open and sensitive, he responds very quickly. And if he is doing “fine” at other times, I can just “check on him” and see how he is. The physical sensations relate to what is going in his spirit and his relationship with God, and also his relationship with me, (and times when God is speaking to us simultaneously) and the “third arm awareness” relates to his emotions and how he is feeling.
It’s an incredible gift! And a powerful tool for intercession, which God is teaching me to use. . .and we are not even sure of all it’s purposes yet!
And I am SOOO glad to have found people who have experienced something like it – in Christ!
Thanks for sharing, and please keep sharing your experiences and revelations – they are a huge blessing to me!
Dear CL,
Thanks for that lovely comment. I think that the unity of the Spirit is just like you are talking about, but on a larger scale with varying degrees and types of spiritual connections throughout the Body of Believers. It really blesses me to hear your thoughts and testimony. Sorry it didn’t post right away, Esther told me it was there and I approved it as soon as I saw it. God bless you!
Michael
Two questions for you, (if they are too personal, I won’t be offended if you don’t answer!)
1) You mentioned that you had experienced connection love earlier – that, if I am understanding right, you felt that God led you to divorce your earthly wife for one of these connection loves? What happened with your connection love from years past? Do you believe that you and that connection are eternally connected?
2) Are you and your divine mate, that you describe here that you have currently, married – in an earthly understanding of marrriage? You mentioned that you live a thousand miles away – do you communicate verbally daily and see each other daily/regularly?
Thanks for answering – if you want to! 🙂 Just trying to get some glimpses of “real time” divine mates 🙂
Dear CL,
Thanks for your questions. I will try to answer them to the degree I am able. You asked in a very humble spirit btw.
Like you, when I first experienced spiritual connections and later “Divine Mates”, I did not have much support. In fact, even though a Tabernacles move of the Spirit was going on in our church, people really didn’t understand what was happening. Add to that, we all thought that we were balances, biblical correct people (the church sported a Bible College) and God’s revelation inevitably clashed with our natural understanding.
The move of the Spirit hit our church of about 3000 people like a frieght train. I, almost graduated from Bible College, married a very nice, sensible girl who wanted to be a ministers wife. According to the “principles” taught by the pastors wife in family relations, I married well. She was smart, of good moralcharacter, and also a Bible College graduate.
However, when the move of Divine Love hit the church everything began to change. She initially started to enter into connections and was blessed. However, I had a difficult time of it. Then I received that same blessing and she began to feel badly. Neither one of us meant to cause the other distress, but seeing each other so happy with other people caused friction in our marriage. I had a number of spiritual connections within the church, all female, to various degrees. I felt so much love I would literally hug strangers on the street. My world, which had be filled with condemnation for not living up to what I was taught, suddenly became a whole lot brighter.
I loved my wife, yet I loved my connection too. For quite some time I held the two in equal regard. However, the more I did, the deeper the love for my connect grew and the more distressed my wife became. Yet, I refused to divorce until I knew it was God’s will. Eventually, God made me to understand it was not a matter of my wife being bad or anything like that, it was a matter that she could not go to where God was calling me. Once I saw separation in the light, I was able to let go and let God do what He wanted.
This, of course, pitted me against the whole church. Whatever people were doing in the spirit, still divorce was the one forbidden you simply did not do. With everything else that was taking place, I felt like the leaderships stand on that particluar point was ridiculous, but there is was. It is a long story, but the church leadership tried everything in their power, which was considerable, to stop me from divorcing my wife. It was inquisition-like (or as much as was legal), however I knew what God spoke to me and I would not recant.
An interesting thing happened though, after I made the decision to follow God, all the turmoil between us stopped. We had an amicable divorce and for a few months I would go to where she lived, sit beside her bed and stoke her hair as she feel asleep. We didn’t sleep together, it was pure, agape love. Whereas we were both really hurt before, once I obeyed what God said, all we felt was compassion for each other.
I lived with my connection for a long time, but eventually married simply for legal and tax reasons. Even today, if our situation changed, we would divorce if it suited us and still remain together. To us legal marriage is simply an earthly contract for convience. It is our spiritual union that is important and that is God ordained foreveer.
That has been almost 30 years ago. My current wife, who is a Divine Mate knows of and embraces my spiritual connection. They are very good friends and neither woman feels uncomfortable with the other.
In truth, if my first wife could have come with me into the wilderness of this world, I think God would not asked me to divorce. I did not want to leave her, but circumstances being what they were, I had little alternative.
I believe, or rather “I know” that my connection and I are Divine Mates who are eternally united. I know it sounds a bit “New Ageish” to some, but that is the truth. Also, whom God spiritually connects you with never “un-connect”. They can treat you like the Devil herself, but you cannot turn your heart totally off. Most of the old testament which refers to Israel’s infidelity is God feeling this way about fallen Lucifer.
Being finite, it is difficult for us to understand infinity, but suffice it to say, most likely through a foretaste of our inheritance, we are one forever. This is true of my current wife and my spiritual connection. Our relationships will continue into the New Heavens and New Earth. I think this revelation is kind of like seeing Seraphim, you simply can’t until you get close enough to God. Once you do, a lot of things we haven’t understood begin to make perfect sense.
My spiritual connection does live very far away and we do communicate daily. We can’t hardly stand not to. We function kind of as one person and know when the other is up or down. I think you mentioned it rightly, it is like our own private internet where if she wants to talk to me I naturally show up and vice versa. This even happens during the middle of the night if it is important. This seems to be common thread throughout all very intense spiritual connections though, they just know what is happening with their spiritual mate. In fact, even if you wanted to sin you couldn’t, because they would literally contact you or show up to stop you. It is true discernment of the Lord’s body.
This, of course is the abridged version. The real story is more akin the Melville. Suffice it to say, Satan hates Divine Mates and does everything within her power to destroy them. Consequently, what really happens to those who dare to connect as God wills, is beyond what most people can believe. Really, though, you can’t make this stuff up.
More to the point, I don’t think it is necessary to break up with any earthly spouse if they are happy to dwell together with you while allowing God to have His way with a Divine Mate. The only time Divine Divorce comes into play is when our earthly decisions stand in the way of God accomplishing His will. That is the time when, as they say, somethin’s gotta give.
In conclusion, every situation with a spiritual union is different, unique, and awesomely special. God is the God of spectacular diversity in administrations of this gift. What I hope do at the Final Feast is give enough guidance and examples to help others find their own inner chamber with God and each other. However, all I can do is lead you to the door, what happens after that is your blessing.
God bless,
Michael
Thank you so much for your open reply! So much of your story is so beautiful but can only be really appreciated through a spiritual lens …. God bless you and your divine connection and fill you with deeper understanding… how incredibly blessed we are to experience these kinds of loves and connectedness this side of heaven !!!
Hi CL,
Your very welcomed! I think that you are right by saying a “spiritual lens”. Actually, it took a long time to come to the conclusion that “saying it just as it is” is the best way to share these things. People either connect with what we write by the Spirit or they don’t. It is not to say someone is unspiritual or bad if they don’t connect, it is just that these things minister to people who have, are, are will experience them.
The Body of Christ is vast and there are many members. God calls a lot of people to share different truths to different segments of it. For us, sharing the revelation we’ve been given ministers to that part of the church that is connecting in Divine Love. There are other parts of Christ’ body being well served by those who are call to minister different truths.
Thank you for your comments, we really appreciate your sharing your perspective and thoughts. I just love how His Spirit manifests through you, what a treat! Moreover, it really does help to round out the Tabernacle Blessing.
Many blessings to you and yours,
Michael
Well put!
And I think, and my experience has been, that sharing something as deep and profound and holy and beautiful as connection love through Jesus and His Spirit is probably beyond human words. . .and for those who are experiencing it in some form, though it may not be experienced exactly like you or me (as you and I are each experiencing it differently), and maybe even to those who’s spirits are being prepared for it by God, those human words make sense – and like you said, it’s not that those who understand are “more spiritual” or “better”, just maybe have a different revelation of a Truth, perhaps. . .
I remember His words to me when my connection first started. . .”Cherish the connection, it is rare and precious.”
But to others, it can sound weird and wrong and unusual. . .that’s why I think we need so much love and grace in sharing truth about it. . .
And thanks for the kind words!
That directly contradicts the teachings of Jesus when your write that the Spirit of God led you to divorce your wife. Listen to yourself. This is not being Spirit led this is being deceived with a capital D. I pray you repent.
Dear Chris,
Thank you for your comment, we appreciate your thoughts.
Legalism is the application of the Law without love, akin to when Jesus healed the man with a withered hand on the Sabbath and the religious objected.
Also, a doctrine is suspect, when the working out of it is ludicrous and onerous. Oddly enough, religious people always seem to find workarounds to the Law when they get caught in such conundrums.
Big hugs and lots of love,
Michael