He Died in Surgery, Met Jesus, & Returned with a Message
“You met Jesus face to face?!” people ask.
“Yes!” I respond with excitement. Then, people usually want to know what Jesus looks like. It is the number-one question I get asked the instant people find out about my encounter with Him during my heavenly visitation. Well, His description is beyond words! I will at least try to describe Him. But first, let me tell you how it all started.
In 1992, I was scheduled to go in for a day surgery to remove my impacted wisdom teeth. In a prep room, I was sedated and told to count down from one hundred. I didn’t get very far before I became unconscious. Then, I was suddenly outside my body and standing beside the operating table, watching the surgeon and his two assistants work.
When I realized that I had passed on, I wanted to inform the doctor. It was to no avail. I could no longer communicate with the earthly realm. As I waited there in the operating room, I witnessed my body on the table begin to glow with a glistening white light, and suddenly my body was transformed into what looked like perfection to me. I resembled an angel. My face looked like mine but was so bright and perfect. I thought, I look beautiful. That was when I heard a man’s voice behind me say, “That’s what you look like to Me all the time!” I turned around, and that was when I saw Him.
Jesus was the most handsome King I had ever laid eyes on. He had a beautiful, full-length robe on and was about five feet ten inches tall. He had long hair that looked like a lion’s mane. His eyes were so deep and full of destiny. His presence demanded my attention as I stood there in adoration.
However, what Jesus looked like was not the most impactful thing about Him. I always steer people toward what He said to me! Are you ready to hear what Jesus taught me? He began to teach me how the supernatural realm works. First, He taught me that words were of utmost importance to the operation of the realm of the supernatural. Jesus began to teach me with conviction about the use of my words. He explained how the supernatural realm responds to me when I speak by the Holy Spirit with an authority and faith born from the Spirit’s revelation, not my own understanding, producing what is called a faith rest.
The end result was that I could have what I said by the Holy Spirit, and this would always bring about my destiny. He taught me that I could have the perfect will of God all the time and that I should speak to my mountains without hesitation (see Mark 11:23-24). He even showed me that each one of my days was written in a book before one of them came to pass (Ps. 139:16). This was the main desire of the Holy Spirit—to pray out and accomplish my destiny from my written book in Heaven every day. He also reminded me that I would give an account for every idle word that came out of my mouth (see Matt. 12:36).
Second, Jesus taught me that the single most important thing that I could do to participate in the supernatural realm was to pray in tongues. This practice will take the limitations off your life as the Spirit brings liberty to any situation. You are praying out the mysteries of God when you yield to Him. The Holy Spirit reveals God’s heart to you (see 1 Cor. 2:9-15). You can increase this kind of praying without limit (see 1 Cor. 14:18). I was told that praying in tongues would lead me into situations where I would increase financially instead of decreasing; I would have appointments and not disappointments because there are no disappointments in Heaven. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit doesn’t know defeat, and I should yield to Him continually.
During this heavenly visitation, He took me to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and showed me how powerful my prayers were. As I prayed “in the Spirit” at His command, what looked like an atomic blast in the desert erupted. It sent a billowing fire upward. Jesus pointed out that it was not the “spectacular” mushroom cloud that made prayer effective when people pray, but the shockwave that moved along the ground that was causing everything to be moved out of the way. He told me that the shockwave was the supernatural, not the spectacular mushroom cloud that rose skyward. He let me know that the shockwaves were the effects of my supernatural prayers. He encouraged me to always believe that my prayers were effective and to never give up.
Third, Jesus explained to me that the time is short and that I should yield to the Holy Spirit’s work in my life. We must allow the acceleration of the Holy Spirit’s training as a very important aspect to the operation in the supernatural realm. He explained that He used to have years and years to train people for what He had assigned for them to do. He used Moses as an example—he had 40 years training in Pharaoh’s court and then 40 years in the Midian desert as a shepherd. Jesus said that now it is days of training instead of the years that were available previously. He encouraged me to allow the acceleration of the Spirit’s training to be completed without hindrance on my part.
Jesus wanted me to know that everything I do in faith counts and is rewarded. He also told me that if I did something for someone in His name, I would be rewarded for it, even if it were just a cup of water. Everything is recorded and it is all rewarded! There is no loss in Him as we allow the ministry of Jesus to come forth.
Know His Thoughts Toward You
When Jesus was standing with me after I had died in the operating room during my heavenly visitation in 1992, I remember looking into His eyes and seeing something amazing. He remembered the day He thought of me and spoke me into existence and sent me to my mother’s womb. This is extremely important to understand because I could hear Jesus’s thoughts when I looked into His eyes. When He realized this He smiled. He saw that I had turned out just as He desired when He spoke me into existence. I had turned out the perfect way that He intended me to be. It is profound how much He loves people. God’s purpose is actually injected into us when we are created, along with the gifts and plans that He has for us. His purpose for His Kingdom has been placed inside of you, and this earthly life is just a journey of discovery. There is an unfolding of the gifts of God and the purpose of God for every person on the earth. He does not wish that any should perish. The Spirit spoke through the prophet Jeremiah, saying:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:11-13).
Immediate Obedience
Jesus told me during my heavenly visitation in 1992 that I had been faithful in all that He had ever asked me to do for Him. He mentioned that I am known in Heaven. He explained that Heaven speaks of me because of a character trait that is uncommon on the earth. He said that it is rare to find someone such as I, who will always drop what I am doing and immediately do whatever the Spirit is doing at the time. He said, “And you never even ask Me for an explanation; you just do it.”
Relational Holiness and Righteousness
Once, I was taken to the throne room and stood before a large sapphire stone floor that was burning white hot with blue. It looked like it was alive. It was very holy. The Lord told me that I could not walk on this pavement unless He bid me to come, that it was for those who had chosen to walk before Him in holiness. To walk in that place, one must stay separate from the world. He explained to me that there is a positional holiness and a positional righteousness. Also, there is relational holiness and relational righteousness. I was told that many believers want to live their lives on the outskirts where the fences are found. They attempt to get as far in the world as they can without losing their salvation. They try to live in both the world and in God. He explained to me that we are supposed to go where the fire of holiness and righteousness can be found. We are to position ourselves as close as possible to the fire of holiness and righteousness. He said that this place was where the relational holiness and righteousness are found. He said that going to the outskirts closer to the fence was depending upon someone’s positional stand. He explained that by the blood of Jesus, we are given a special position in holiness and righteousness. We are not to take advantage of our position in Christ by living a lukewarm life. Our relationship with Him should reflect the position we have been given by the sacrifice of Jesus.
