The Place of Stillness

Part I

Nita RL Johnson

2.1.22

 

                                                    

Thursday night, 1.27.22. – The Event!

 

Hi Friends,

 

I am going to talk with you specifically about Union with Christ. Union is something that happens through many stages, and subsequent transitions as the Soul of man is emersed into the oceans of God! This article is in part a little of my testimony.

 

After numerous impartations of God’s Spirit, each one representing an aspect of His Character, each one taking me ever deeper into Union with Christ, I entered into a position known as the “ The Place of Stillness!”  This event occurred on Thursday, January the 27th, 2022. This “Place of Rest” is a more profound entrance into His most holy place called “Union with Christ” that began at a point in time, early in 2009! After many years of following His will step by step down a hidden path under the discretion of the Almighty One! Subsequent to this long but necessary journey through the many lessons learned and maturation gained, Jesus brought me to live with Him here in this most holy place called “The Place of Stillness or the “Rest of God.” En route, He executed many more impartations of Himself, increasing my level of Union with each deposit He made until I arrived at my Thursday night destination called the “Stillness of Union,” or “Rest of God.” Not surprisingly, the meaning of the “The Rest of God” was granted in a place called “The Stillness of Union” (Psalm 4:4a) or “The Rest of God Almighty” (Hebrews 4:1b).   

 

Many things have transpired since entering into this most Holy Dwelling Place. The following is regarding an experience that revealed some significant revelations of life in this level of Union!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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a Psalm 4:4 KJV

b Hebrews 4:1 AMPC

The Place of Stillness in God!

 

My experience!

 

I awoke at 3 am on Feb. 1st, 2022, and found myself in a unique place. Jesus revealed the state and condition of my Soul to me at this time. If I were to give this place a name, I would entitle it: “The Place of Stillness of God” as He Himself called it.

 

This place of rest is a place Jesus invited me to maybe 3yrs before the actual event. However, this was the Kiros experience He gave to me to help me understand such a place. If I were to describe it, I would share it thus:

 

This “Place of Stillness in God” is a place of tranquility and state of being filled with Divine Innocence. Indeed, the Divine Nature! Amidst Pristine beauty, emanations of His Holiness and Purity combined with His Righteousness, Love, and Perfect Peace resulting from the peace I now had with God had taken up residence in my innermost being. Christ created His own dwelling place in me and invited me to join Him in Divine Union within its boundaries.

 

The condition, as mentioned above, evoked feelings of what a baby might feel in the womb of a perfectly content mother: a sense of safety, restfulness, and being nurtured. My mind, heart, Soul, and spirit, and even my flesh, was at perfect rest in a state of comfort and contentment, free from guilt or inner anxiety due to sin or the soulish Nature. I felt so loved, so accepted in a place of utter blissfulness.

 

One could not even consider such a place on this earth. There was no sense of evil or present endangerment by evil, just carried in the arms of His protection. Life seemed restful; there was a great sense of freedom as I was in a state of repose in this place He created in me called the “Stillness of God.” I desire to emphasize the holiness, purity, glory/Shekinah, righteousness, kindness, and tender-heartedness, resulting in perfect serenity with which I was consumed within and without.

 

 

 

My inner man rested in the Spirit of God. His virtues were living and filling my whole being! He had recreated my Nature to take on the likeness of His according to Romans 8c  and Eph 2:4-7d.

 

This one impartation evoked many experiences within its boundaries, all of which were instructional.

 

At the beginning of this particular spiritual lesson, I experienced the following. It was a significant lesson that lasted a fairly short time. I knew the reality of the spiritual awakening of my new condition/position. After the revelation of sheer amazement, suddenly, I experienced all-out warfare against my mind by the enemy of our souls. Nothing was harmful, just inconvenient and a nuisance!

 

The enemy was trying to provoke fear to make me feel unstable and unsafe. There was no place to hide; I had to fight. I do not know how long this lasted, but it seemed that as quickly as it started, it lifted, and I was back in the incredible “Stillness” again, held in the everlasting arms of my heavenly Father.

 

I was back to where it had begun: at “Rest.” Only one thought entered my mind at this time: I had never known this before. To live in this place is my quest!  

 

Later, Jesus instructed me that the times of “Stillness” He just showed me was indicative of the state of my Soul as it is cocooned in Christ. When the enemy was allowed to bombard my mind, the effects were superficial and did not constitute the true condition of my mind. Jesus said: So battle his lies, but remain at rest in Your Lord.  

 

One so occupied by God finds there is nothing left for anything but to behold His beauty and grace, His sublime, holy, noble, and pure character and love.

 

No yearning could invade such a place of peace, for it was His peace! Totally, without complicity, at rest in this impeccable place of “Stillness” in His love, He would give me the questions and answers I needed without stress or strain. I was not to embrace fears and worry, only Truth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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c Romans 8 AMPC

d Eph 2:4-7 AMPC

 

Jesus showed me how this life in Him would work together with life apparent in the temporal world. Walking and Living in this Divine Rest amid the hustle and bustle of the world around us takes practice. We must learn to yield to His Stillness until it utterly owns us through the embedded, habitual actions it promotes. The Scripture shows us how to do this. Passages I have included in this writing and Scriptures such as Paul wrote in (Romans 12:1, 2e) help us along the path.

 

This quietness of Soul was a gift from Jesus by the Spirit of Grace, creating the environment God granted by taking the time and effort to continue purging my Soul of the residual effects of the things that hinder such a life. Now, fighting what little remains of the world of darkness within, which the Sinful Nature left behind when it was eradicated years ago, I live in a pool of Truth! That does not mean the Devil can no longer tempt one in this place to sin at minor points here and there and win even on rare moments.

 

After some time, I was interrupted from my instruction time. The warfare started again, and I had to fight it. And fight it I did, until at last, “Stillness” returned.

 

His peace, His presence, all with which He filled me, surrounded me. Encapsulated with what seemed to be an eternal bliss at rest in the “Stillness” of my Lord. I had no “I wonders.” No “questions”. I sought no answers. I sought nothing. I knew only the Stillness of His Love in His Divine Rest, the innocence of His Divine purity, the pristine beauty of something never touched by evil.

 

To be alive and have no thoughts of self, to think no specific thoughts even about the Glorious God, only the experience of His presence breathing gentle whispers of revelation into my heart and wrapping me in this peaceful, noble beauty of His very life was incomprehensible.

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e Romans 12:1, 2 AMPC

I felt no need to open files to ensure I stored all the information I was receiving. Nothing felt like information but rather a life of revelation in His eternal existence. He now fills every inch of me. I no longer have a divided heart; I was one in and with Him. He united my heart and my mind, and I was at rest in His perfect “Stillness” of love. (Heb 4:3, 4, 6-10f; Ps 86:11g) I have His heart and mind because I am in the “Fullness of Union” with Him seemingly Soul and Spirit.

 

I said to Him, “Father, You are right; this is what I needed. I did not know! So beautiful! So pure, chaste, perfect in Your own Divine innocence. Thank You! I feel so overwhelmed.” I thought it could take an eternity to understand what had happened to me.

 

Ps 4:4h Be still!

Ps 46:10i Be still

 

 

I looked at the clock for just a moment before I fell asleep; it was about 5 am. How much longer I lay awake, aware of my new life, I do not know?

 

I kept thinking about the words Jesus spoke to me: This is full Union!

 

 

 

Continue to strive to enter into the “Fullness of Rest.” (Heb 4:12j)

 

 

 

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f Heb 4:3, 4, 6-10 AMPC

g Ps 86:11 AMPC

h Ps 4:4 KJV

i Ps 46:10 AMPC

j Heb 4:12 AMPC

 

I never knew it would feel like this. Now that I am in far greater Union, this is my life: unequivocal beauty in Him, then war with the enemy! Ever-revolving! The times I will experience the wars against my mind will be brief and only for ever-deepening purification! Then, He not only will restore me to the manifested “Stillness,” but He will impart more of Himself.

 

The New Creation (2 Cor 5:17k) Jesus created within will never depart from my Soul. Whether I feel its effects or not at any given moment, it is always with me. It is the new me! My now restored Soul is wrapped and enmeshed in His Divine Spirit, the Spirit of Christ our Beloved.

 

This night was mine to have as I walked through the door to the future!

 

As I write this article, it is now 2.10.22. I am still experiencing seemingly ever-increasing degrees of Union, deepening the work He has already completed. I continue to feel more and more impartations throughout each day and night! I continue down this new path of further growth.

 

Jesus is calling through the mouth of the Spirit of Wisdom as she cries out in the streets. The Father is looking for a people who will worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Enter into Union with the Son. Kiss the Son and be blessed. Come! Come!

 

 

Thank You, Lord!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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k 2 Cor 5:17 AMPC