Luke 6:23 | Matthew 5:12

rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets. (Luke 6:23, YLT)

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you. (Matthew 5:12, YLT)

This is something the Holy Spirit brought to my attention a few days ago. We are always thinking about heaven in the sense of someplace that we will go and live with Yeshua after we die or after He returns, and so we have this understanding of these verses that Yeshua preached as a means to get a reward later.


HOWEVER


The Holy Spirit was showing me that God does not delay rewards. He's just that good. We are rewarded now; we are rewarded later. And, this idea that we have of heaven is a little skewed. Heaven or "the heavens" are the source of everything on earth.


The Lord opens the windows of heaven and pours us out blessings (Malachi 3:10). When does He do this? NOW. He doesn't pour us out blessings in heaven and give not rewards to us now. If Yeshua could say "the workman is worth of his wages in one instance, do you think He would then withhold reward or compensation in another instance (Luke 10:7)?

I have a very big misconception of God and heaven for the longest time! But, going to a few of Dani Johnson's seminars and being told over and over that "you reap what you sow, always." Things became clearer. Entering the Kingdom of God is a thing that is done in the spirit when the truth comes to someone and that person walks in it. The Truth is the Way of Life. Yeshua is the Way, the Life and the Truth. He showed us how to live in the Kingdom of God on earth so that we might have abundant life!

It's so good it gives me chills!

This is FREEDOM, knowing that whatever happens, you are rewarded here and in the age to come because heaven is bigger than earth. The One that lives in you is more powerful than anything on earth. This is why you can rejoice and be exceeding glad because you know that its all good for those that love God and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28)