Our Guest Judy Franklin
LARRY: Welcome back to Something More. I’ve got Judy Franklin with me, and we’re talking about how you can actually experience and encounter God specifically God’s invitation for you to know, and experience, and engage Him in the Heavenly realms. You know, Judy just shared a powerful story her testimony of how God began a process in her life of actually taking her in to the Heavenly realms where she would experience God, and Jesus. And this wouldn’t just be concept stuff; this wouldn’t just be in her imagination. I mean Judy, how did that all play out? Like how did you actually experience God, in this realm? Was it a physical experience? Well, I mean could you explain the nature of what it was like?
JUDY: I’ve been trying to explain it for 19 years now.
LARRY: Well we’re going to figure it out today.
JUDY: [laughs] Yes!
LARRY: No; nah. [laughs]
JUDY: [laughs] You know, you have a spirit; everybody has a spirit; and I found the Scripture, in Ephesians, where Paul is saying, “I pray that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened”, and I thought, “eyes of your heart”, what is that? So I did a study on it, and the “heart” actually means your spirit!
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: “I pray that the eyes of your [spirit would] be enlightened….” So that well my spirit has eyes!
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: And then I thought about when Jesus was always saying, “He who has ears … let him hear.” I know there’s deaf people, but not that many that He would say it as often as He did. I realized what He was doing was talking about our spiritual ears –
LARRY: Mm!
JUDY: and how we can hear from Him! And then I know that when you speak in tongues, that you’re speaking a spiritual language.
LARRY: Hmm.
JUDY: And in 1 Corinthians, it says the “… mind is unfruitful”, because the spirit is speaking.
LARRY: As we as we close out this segment, why do you would you tell the people why it’s so important to have an experiential relationship with God; where it’s not just information, but it’s a relationship. And there and it’s creating that hunger, “I want to experience God”.
JUDY: Well the way the Father did it with me is He I was sitting, minding my own business, and He said, “Ronald Reagan.”
LARRY: [laughs]
JUDY: And he was our President at that time, –
LARRY: Yeah.
JUDY: and I just said, “Yeah, he’s our President.”
LARRY: [laughs]
JUDY: And then He said , “You can read about Ronald Reagan everyday”; I said, “Yes, in books and newspapers”. He said, “You can hear about him every day”; I said, “Yeah, television news, and radio”. And He said, “You’re affected by what he does”; I said, “Oh yeah. He signs bills and laws into our life”. And then He said, “How well do you know him?”
LARRY: Mm.
JUDY: “I don’t know.”
LARRY: Yeah.
JUDY: He says, “You can read about Me every day.”
LARRY: Mm.
