Places in God: An Intimate Guided Tour
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Imagine being inside of God's ear and hearing all the prayers, all the languages spoken in the world. Imagine walking on shiny red embroidery threads that are the heart strings of God. At one point, you must drive a six wheeled bus to move from one area to another. You are transported by thought, led by a Phoenix and instructed by the Major Angel.
This book is an allegorical journey that will find a permanent home in your heart and in your library.
Places in God is a delicate adventure that transposes a manner of wisdom into learning entertainment. It leads the reader on an allegorical journey through the inside of God's body. Five students follow the Major Angel, God's tour guide, into His ears and through His heart with stopovers in His attitudes and freedoms. They went to a boutique, a theater and sat in a boardroom. With excitement and awe they were absorbed. With breathtaking silent transports to and through phenomenal inner parts, they were literally digested and released. There is a spiritual increase that becomes apparent as you are propelled with them through Places in God.
Beryle E. Whitten
This celebrated teacher is Pastor of Spritual Growth Ministries in Cleveland, Ohio. She shares a depth of wisdom, talent, humor and a growing appreciation for those things spiritual. Her panoramic imagination stretches beyond preconceived human boundaries, in a voice that is easy to be trusted. Her travels have taken her to five continents, several tropical islands and to all but four of the lower forty-eight states, to teach and to be taught. Her passion is teaching which she does with unique quality and enthusiasm. She is widowed, mother of one son, Darryl. They live together in Twinsburg, Ohio, which she says is in the woods, but not in the country.
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Places in God - Beryle E. Whitten
© 2007 Beryle E. Whitten. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
First Published by AuthorHouse 06/17/2007
Published by AuthorHouse 02/07/2017
ISBN: 978-1-4208-6105-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4634-9826-9 (e)
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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Obedience
Yieldedness
All Truth
The Place of the Christ Mind
In Him
The Place of the Pure Heart
The Point of No Return
A Place Called Allness
A Point of Excellence
The Place of the Single Eye
The Now of God
The Realm of the Divine Spirit
Spiritual Growth
I Will Answer Before They Ask
The Peace Place
The Place of Practiced Stillness
The Place of Creation
The Place of Listening
The Place of Pure God
The Place of God’s Heart
The Place of New Higherness
Wrapped in the Power
The Kingdom of God
The Place of Your Own Purpose
You
The Issue of God
The Omega
About the Author
Dedication
To Rosa Waddell
As our ships passed going in different directions, I turned mine around to follow yours through the Straits of Commitment on the Sea of Seriousness. I sailed alongside your vessel and requested permission to come aboard. I learned from you how to loosen things that are tight, how to eliminate squeaks and how to shine that which is dull. I used your spiritual oil. Its viscosity holds. You have a simple truth, a generous spirit and humility, all gifts from God that a lesser person would exploit. As I disembark, may I dedicate this work to you?
Acknowledgements
Who but God?
My expanding appreciation goes to the Still Small Voice who dictated every word of this work.
There were people who were major parts of the scaffolding needed to protect and access my development. Some of them knew how the finished product would be. Some were removed before the framework was to come down. The strongest and most daring influence on me was the late Ms. Hall, my pet name for my mother. She had access to the blueprint and she knew destiny had dug the foundation.
To my father, the late Frank Spires, who secured the footers for the pouring of the cement, I owe deep appreciation.
Neighbors and teachers were parts of the scaffolding. I say thank you to those people who met me in God’s perfection to promote His plan.
I want to acknowledge the late Valerie J. Johnson who translated my longhand original from a legal pad to a hard drive. I thought it was a hard drive. She assured me it was an easy trip. She was confident this work would be published.
Pamala Murphy, M.D. did a fine tooth combing of the manuscript early on to check for systemic anomalies.
Thank you, also, to Ruby Connor-Wade, Ph.D., who helped me to switch from Caution
to Go
.
Lots of hugs and kisses go to Ernest L. Fann, a playwright of the finest sort. He is skilled with uniqueness and has an uncanny ability to plot and describe characters with breathtaking alarm. His valued input gave me strong direction.
This work would still be in a large plastic bag, with strong handles, if it were it not for Darlene K. Willis. Her talents, energies, time and kindness, I hold in careful esteem and for which I am enormously grateful.
Congratulations to the congregants of Spiritual Growth Ministries. They were tremendously encouraging, patient and tolerant. They endured me and my eternal book without complaint (that I could hear).
And to my Bera
(Vera Barnhill) who, from day one has insisted, One day I will walk into a major bookstore and see a title authored by Beryle E. Whitten. Every time I go, I look. I know it will be there.
From deep, deep down in my being I champion her and thank her for believing those things I could not see.
I send a strong, very personal thank you to those companies and agents and people who rejected this manuscript. Each one layered my determination. I saw each of them seated inside God, in my theatre, waiting to become an actor in the screenplay of my life. I needed them and they were there.
I acknowledge George. He had a silent knowing that had every confidence in me and in my eternal book. He found and nurtured a me
I did not know. His encouraging gentleness and steadfastness held me steady and on course for over forty years of marriage. He died before the eternal book was in print in the natural. He watched it unfold in real life. Thanks, George. Now you can read it without your glasses.
Foreword
Imagine being inside of God’s ear and hearing all the prayers, all the languages spoken in the world. Imagine walking on shiny red embroidery threads that are the heart strings of God. At one point, there is a six wheeled bus driven by each passenger from one area to another. Each is transported by thought, led by a Phoenix and instructed by the Major Angel.
Places in God is an allegorical journey that will find a permanent home in your heart and in your library.
Introduction
I taught a home based Bible study group in which we explored several aspects of God, as we knew Him. We studied the process of shepherding sheep. We used Phillip Keller’s A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 as a text book. After learning about the tedious work done by the shepherd to keep and control a flock of sheep, we compared that journey to the Song of Solomon. The difference was in functioning as a unit as compared to responding individually in a personal relationship.
The comparison revealed ideas about God that had two things in common: First, God was perceived as a holy magician that needed to be appeased, friendly, yet not too reliable for answering prayer requests. Answers were most times off in the future of maybe or in the sweet by and by. Moreover, the God the class knew existed outside, up in Heaven. Second, the idea that we really did not know God become apparent. We discovered that the old time religion held us captive. Our study revealed some facts about who God was not.
Phillip Keller’s study of the 23rd Psalm gave us clear insight into the hard work necessary for maintaining sheep for His namesake.
That was the focal point that established the reason for the shepherd’s investment in the sheep.
During that year we trudged along as an imaginary flock of sheep through sleet and snow, through the early spring storms into summer, to cool, grassy table lands where the lambs could romp and play.
The transformation from sheep to beloved took place in the Song of Solomon. It was not noticeable at first. We began to see ourselves as individuals with singular relationships with God first, then with each other. We became marvelously aware of ourselves.
We had serious difficulties in our families: unemployment, divorce and a new house construction in which the builder declared bankruptcy. Out of that trouble, unity emerged. It was solid and single. I called it our Phoenix.
The imaginary bird invited us to follow it. Each followed at a speed and direction peculiar to her own perception. There were five of us.
What is offered here is an account of one personal journey; a guided tour inside God’s body.
Obedience
The first stop was The Place of Obedience which was an inward part that is not hidden. It is an area where there is a transformation that concludes the former life.
As they followed the bird they were approaching a building that was in full view because they were far away from it. The closer they got, the bigger it was. When they went through the entrance, they lost all concept of the size of the outside. Their attention was involved with the inside. They were so impressed with the outside they assumed the inside. When that happens people will express their personal prejudices and miss God altogether – so busy with the outside.
Obedience is a Place in God where your insides are tempered with the fire of Just Do It.
The concept of learning obedience is a misnomer. It is like jump rope for children at play, movement, but no progress. Why spend time trying to learn something you already know? With God, the issue is not should you?
but will you?
Obedience is not learned, it is just remembered. Obedience is not a hard taskmaster; it is a Place to say yes because you believe His Truth. In