My Husband Battled Anaconda Demons As I Entered the Spirit Realm

The door between this land and the heart of my Father is very thin, though accessing it is not an easy venture. I entered through a gateway to get to the realm of the spirit of knowledge. This gateway is made up of two layers with a room in between. These layers were some- thing like skin or a soft skin-like chrysalis. I have heard people describe this door as a veil. That is the only language I had for it. But these layers of skin did not resemble a typical veil as we would understand it.

I entered rather quickly through the first layer; it felt as though I was pushed through a birth canal into a new dimension. Even so, this was the easiest layer. I knew in my spirit that this dimension is the realm of “the change.” This “change” is not like deliverance but rather transformation into glory. Paul describes it in 2 Corinthians 3:17-18:

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I entered through the first layer complete with thoughts and emotions. Once I had entered, I remained in what seemed like a vestibule or an antechamber of the Lord’s palace; this is where I went through a cleaning process, but only for a moment, for another layer quickly engaged me. The cleaning process was in between two layers. It was quick and fairly painless. At this point, I had no conscious thought of where I was or where I was going. It seemed to be a place seldom journeyed.

Finally, I made it to the next portion of the doorway. However, the second layer was an agonizing process, separating my soul from spirit.

To go beyond into the palace of His heart, I would have to leave a few things behind. I left my conscious thoughts, will, and emotions. My soul’s unsanctified opinion is not relevant in the land of Love’s heart. This final layer of chrysalis painfully and graciously separated my soul and left it at the foot of the door.

I came to understand that the entrance to the spirit of knowledge is a door of hope—the perfect design to prepare me to dwell in the secret place. The gateway is His Word.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Hebrews 4:12-13).

Being stretched and separated by the power of His Word is both exquisite and terrifying. It is both perfect peace and the fear of the Lord simultaneously. I find myself encompassed by the dangers of this love, marveling at such perfect design. His Spirit must permeate my soul, or my soul could never bear His glory.

The Veil Is Thin

I had a growing desire to stay in this unseen realm forever. I went back and forth three times. Each time I returned, I hollered tearfully, “The veil is thin! The veil is thin!” Reverential awe consumed me, increasing with each visitation. I longed to step in deeper, though I never went beyond the fringes.

I was drawn through the same process at the gate each time I went in. The process did become easier. Still, the separation of soul from spirit was never absent of pain.

I had a growing understanding of the kindness and severity of God. Being encountered by the One who clears the heavens by His breath and quiets the sea with His power (see Job 26) increased the reverential fear in my soul. I know without a doubt that I am an awe-inspired lover of the highest God. I explained this revelation in this journal entry I wrote the morning following the experience:

I am an ensouled being, but now I understand the necessity of the Spirit more fully, filling this soul to the fullness, into every member. There are realms of His Spirit which human language cannot define, nor soul alone can stand before. There are realms only interpreted in awe and expressed through reverent submission to the Most High.

The unwritten revelation can be accessed, but for now, it remains a message without words. As His Spirit fills us to the fullness, we will begin to go and access the seven realms even beyond the fringes. Seven spirits are connected to the seven thunders. The seven thunders are an infilling that the soul cannot interpret and opinions cannot create.

I was truly brushing against the heart of the Lord, a chamber room vast and immovable. I had been granted access to a glorious realm beyond human grasp. While I was experiencing transformation and receiving revelation, my husband, Paul Keith, was contending on my behalf.

He took his stand against massive anaconda-like serpents in filthy knee-deep swamp water. These demonic creatures swarmed him, attacking from all sides. He would fight one off, then quickly turn to fight the next. Battling against three different serpents, he continued to hold them off, perhaps so that I could enter the unseen realm of God three different times.

There was a very tangible battle happening in our midst. The winds and the deeps roared through our room while the thunders shook the atmosphere above us. His battle stance in the trenches is a beautiful description of a true forerunner, trudging through the mire and the muck so that those following can journey into glory.

We are forever grateful for the revelation that inspired awe and changed everything. This verse in the book of Job describes what Paul Keith and I encountered and what was happening in the spirit realm. From the fleeing serpent to the sound of thunders and the fringes of His ways:

By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; and how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand? Job 26:13-14)