SNATCHED TO HEAVEN: UNION WITH GOD
By NITA JOHNSON
I would like to share with you about uncommon Christianity. What I am going to share is available
to you if you will pay the price. What I am about to share is about the place of dwelling He
designed for us from the beginning.
I love to go for walks in nature near a stream, or by the ocean, or in a park where there is a lake.
About twenty years ago, I was walking down a path with my secretary and friend. I used to take her
out for walks probably five days a week. I would tell her, “You choose whatever Scripture or
Scriptures you want to discuss, and we will discuss those Scriptures throughout our walk.” We
would do this for about two hours daily. There were times when I would be walking with her, and
the Lord would, by His Spirit, take my spirit up to Him in the throne room or wherever He wanted
to take me, and there He would speak to me.
One particular time, while on one of our walks, He suddenly swept through me with a burst of
explosive joy. It was so explosive that my spirit immediately left my body. If the Lord takes your
spirit in this way, your soul can still conduct business on this earth, and Jesus also sends a heavenly
guard to make sure you are kept safe until your spirit is returned. It is a unique experience in which
the Lord makes provision to enable you to essentially function in two places at once. My friend was
able to hear only my side of the conversation during this time when Jesus took me to His throne.
My spirit was in heaven while my soul was here on the earth. My body was obviously responding
tremendously to what was happening to me in heaven. The reason I am telling you this has to do
with His purpose for taking me to heaven before His throne. He wanted us to know how much it
means to Him to bring His loved ones into a union.
As I stood before Him, He began asking me questions about creation while at the same time
flooding me with light. He asked me simple questions such as, “Why do you think I created this?” I
replied, “I don't know, Lord.” I have learned that when He asks you a question, He is not really
attempting to determine how much you know. He already knows what you know. What He is trying
to do at that moment is to help you understand what you don't know. Isn't that sweet? Thus, He
engages us while He heightens our desire for more of Him!
So He began, “Nita, do you know why I made the sun, the moon, and the stars?” I replied, “No,
Lord. Why?” He responded, “So I could make the earth.” Then He asked, “Do you know why I
made the earth?” I replied, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” (Even now as I share this I can feel His
Spirit again exploding in my heart with the very same love I felt that day.) What a wonderful Lord!
Back to the visit! He said, “So that I could make the trees and all the plant life.” Then He asked,
“Do you know why I made the plant life?” I replied, “No, Lord. Why did you make the plant life?”
He said, “I wanted to create the ocean, fish of the sea and all of the animal kingdom. Do you know
why?” All I could say was, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” He said, “So that I could create the
garden—so beautiful, so exquisite, and so fair.” Although this may not precisely relate His exact
line of questions, I have given you a summary account of very close approximation.
While He was speaking to me, remember, He was washing me with a cascade of liquid light, filled
with healing love. It flowed down directly from Him, repeatedly washing over me. It was not
exactly like standing inside a waterfall as the cascade was inconstant. Instead of a constant rate of
flow, these waters of liquid light and love cascaded down upon me like waves moving across the
sea. What an experience it was!
He then tenderly asked, “Nita, do you know why I wanted to create the garden?” I replied, “No,
Lord. I don't know why.” He said, “So I could create man.” Painful thoughts raced through my
mind. Thoughts, such as, “Why? Why would you want to create the man who has given You so
much trouble? There has been so much pain on this earth, and since You carry all that pain within
You, why would You want to engage?” I wrestled with such unanswered questions at that time in
my Christian walk. If I could only receive answers from My Father, it seemed they would heal the
deep hurt I felt over what we as humans have done.
He heard my thoughts before they even entered my mind. He answered gently, “I knew before I
created man what would happen. I knew I would have to send My Son to redeem man from sin. I
knew! However, there was an aching and a longing so deep in My heart that only this one dream
could satisfy. This dream was the hope of the day when a vast community of believers would come
to love Me enough to give up everything to have Me living inside them in such a capacity as union
with Me can give. And Nita, you don't know passion such as Your God feels when He feels
passion.” While He said this, the liquid light and love continued to flow over me. I felt completely
overwhelmed.
He said, “I'm going to let you feel just one teardrop of My passion.” Think of how minuscule is the
size of a single teardrop. He let the teardrop fall upon me. The amount of His passion for us
contained in that single teardrop was so enormous, so magnanimous, and so forceful, that it felt like
He had poured into me the whole of heaven itself. The love and passion contained therein caused
my heart to hurt so much that I thought I was going to die. It was, however, a wonderful hurt that
carried with it a divine longing and full expectation of the longing’s being met. It was not a longing
that ached from a lack of satisfaction, but one which He fully intended to satisfy. So although my
heart ached with such intense pain, the pain was also filled with divine love and expectation. His
longing was coming from the fact that He missed having a people of such caliber who would pursue
Him above all else. It could be likened to the intense natural longing that forms in a mother while
she is carrying a baby in her womb. She yearns for the baby to go from the womb into her arms so
that she can embrace and love her child. In that same way, He just wanted to hold us. He intensely
desired to be in us, not just in our spirit but on the throne of our soul in union with us. He longed for
that link and connection. He was so hungry for each and every one. He longs for you with an
unquenchable yearning that only union can satisfy. God knows and understands passion like no
human being can experience. He wants you. The bottom line is that He brought into existence all of
creation so that He could have union with us. Isn't that amazing?
NITA JOHNSON 2
UNION WITH GOD PART B
The hardest thing for us to give up is self. We want to have our way and do our thing. Some people
like their personality so much that they think they feel they do not need the Divine Personality in
them. We have so many reasons we do not want to give up the world. It may not be money,
furniture, new trucks or cars, going first class when you travel, or anything like that. Maybe all that
He needs to remove from us is love of self. We need to yield up the fruits of the soul and cling to
the higher life of the Spirit.
Unless you have felt such a love, you cannot imagine how consuming and overwhelming it is. It is
so wonderful to think that He had a plan, so great and so filled with divine passion that He would be
willing to endure even the death of His own Son to bring it to fruition. He looked at the death of
Christ, not for the suffering that it brought to His Son or to Himself, but rather, He saw in it the
freedom to manifest Himself to us. The sufferings of the cross were nothing compared to the joy of
what He would someday realize in His Church. Our God is so lovely, so wonderful, and so
gracious. I am feeling His overwhelming love for these truths even as I speak.
In 1989, I was going through a terrible trial. It was probably one of the most difficult years of my
life. As it would turn out, He chose that time to give me a tremendous blessing. On Thanksgiving
Day, while I was worshiping, the Lord gave me the following experience. The Lord appeared to me,
looking five hundred pounds fat. Now, do not get offended. I do not want you to be one of those
great religious folks who think Jesus would never do something like that because He will at times
do some strange things to get His point across.
So, He appeared to me, and He was five hundred pounds fat. I started laughing. Wouldn't you? I
exclaimed, “Jesus, You're so fat!” He smiled, but He did not change a thing. What He was
emanating from within was living truth. It was not mere rote memorized Scripture, but living truths
from the Word, pulsating with the very life of God. He was five hundred pounds fat with the Spirit
of Truth. It was His Spirit that I was beholding.
After a few minutes, that reality began to move to the hidden place in Him, and Divine Love came
to the forefront. I do not know how to help you to understand what Divine Love looks like, but it
does have a certain look and an essence which you can perceive. This love was not anything like
you and I experience in human relationships. Even in church services, the love of God that we
experience flowing down over our hearts is on a different level. That is a kind of mushy, “ooey-
gooey” feeling that makes you feel good all over. The love I was now beholding was more like
Mount Gibraltar—a solid mountain of rock. It was not that it was hard, but rather that it was firm
and immovable. His powerful love could not be shaken. No one could approach Him in prayer
saying evil things about you and cause Him heart change towards you. His heart of love was
immovable, unwavering, and so strong that His tender care could keep you standing through the
worst kind of trials. It was amazing.