The highest point in our spiritual experience is having a clear sky with God’s throne above it, and the way for us to reach this point is to deal with anything in our conscience that the Lord shines on and in everything allow God to have the preeminence, being completely submissive to His authority and administration.
Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. We want to have a clear sky between us and You. May we have a crystal clear sky, even an expanding clear sky, between us and You and also between us and others. Oh Lord, we want to deal with anything that clouds our sky, and we want to see You face to face. We enthrone You in our being. May there be a throne set up in the centre of our being, and may God be the One on the throne! Amen, Jesus is Lord! Amen!
In Revelation 22 we see that in the centre of New Jerusalem there is the throne of God and of the Lamb, and out of the throne flows a river of water of life to water the entire city and also to flow out through the gates of the New Jerusalem to reach the entire earth. Hallelujah!
This throne is not only in Revelation but can be seen throughout the Bible. One such place where the throne is seen is Ezekiel chapter 1.
This chapter in Ezekiel is the deepest chapter in the Bible; if we read it without exercising our spirit and without the help of the ministry, it is easy to see all kinds of interesting things, even supernatural things, and we may be amazed.
But if we exercise our spirit and come to this chapter with the help of the ministry of the age, we will enter into the depths of the divine revelation in this chapter.
Ezekiel saw the open heaven, and he saw visions of God. He was not in the holy land but rather, he was in Babylon, by the river Chebar. But even though he was in captivity, he was open to the Lord, he had the open heavens, and he received God’s special visitation with His speaking.
We need to have the Lord’s visitation wherever we are. We need to have His visions, His revelations. We want the word to come to us expressly, even as it came to Ezekiel the priest.
We need to have the special, fresh, vivid, and vivifying words of God that impart divine revelation and that enable us to proclaim and explain what we have seen.
May we open to the Lord to see and receive His speaking, even to receive His special words, His fresh words, His vivid words, and His vivifying words that impart divine revelation and explain what we have seen.
Have a Clear Sky with God’s Throne Above it by Dealing with our Conscience and Submitting to God’s Authority and Administration
Ezekiel chapter 1 reveals that the highest point in our spiritual experience is having a clear sky with God’s throne above it (see Ezek. 1:22, 26).
What would you say is the highest point in our spiritual experience is? It is to have a clear sky with God’s throne above it.
For us to reach this point, we need to do two things: first, we need to deal with anything in our conscience, for our sky is our conscience, and second, we need to allow God to have the preeminence in everything and be completely submissive to His authority and administration.
In Ezekiel, we see four living creatures, representing us as believers in Christ, and over their heads there was the likeness of an expanse, like the sight of awesome crystal.
And above the expanse was the likeness of a throne, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, and upon the throne there was One in appearance like a man, above it.
The four living creatures signify the corporate Christ, and in particular, they signify the coordination of the corporate Christ, the coordination in the Body of Christ.
In the coordinated expression of the Body of Christ, there is a clear sky over their heads. This sky is like awesome crystal. And there is One on the throne, a Man; this is Jesus Christ, the God-man.
Lo, in heaven Jesus sitting, Christ the Lord is there enthroned, as a man by God exalted, with God’s glory He is crowned.
When we have a clear sky between us and the Lord, we see the throne of God, and Christ is on the throne. Before we were saved, we were in darkness, and our sky was cloudy, dark, and foggy; also, it was narrow, without any expanse.
But one day by the Lord’s mercy we repented, confessed our sins, and received the Lord Jesus as our Saviour (Mark 1:15; 2 Cor. 7:10). After we made a thorough confession, we had a sense that, for the first time, the sky above us was clear.
The day was dawning, the clouds were leaving, and the fog was lifting. Even more, our sky was expanding. This is because we dealt with our conscience.
The kind of sky we have as Christians depends on our conscience. We need to maintain a pure conscience, a conscience without any offense toward God and man (Acts 24:16).
The story of our sky is the story of our conscience. If our sky is not clear, if our conscience has offenses and spots before the Lord, we cannot see the Lord, there is no throne, and we don’t have the river of water of life flowing.
If there’s some offense in our conscience, we need to deal with it; we need to confess our sins under the Lord’s light (1 John 1:7, 9).
We are living creatures, and we deal with our conscience to the point that we have a clear, open, and expanding heaven; we want to be nothing between us and God and nothing between us and one another, but a clear sky.
We want to deal with all the clouds, coverings, separations, and fogs so that we have a clear sky with God’s throne above it. We want to have a thoroughly clear sky that is continually expanding, even a sky that is as clear as crystal.
We want to see the Lord face to face, even to have His throne set up in the center of our being. The throne of God is the center of the universe, and it is where the Lord is; at the same time, this throne is set up in the center of our being.
When we have a clear sky with God’s throne above it, He and reigns in us. The Lord’s presence can never be separated from His throne; His throne is in the third heaven, and at the same time, His throne is in our spirit. The Lord’s throne is with us all the time.
May we live and have our being under a crystal clear sky, a clear sky with God’s throne above it, even an expansive sky with the throne of the Lord above it. When we have a clear sky, we are spontaneously under the government of the Lord’s throne.
We are ruled not by the law outwardly or by the police and the law courts but by the Lord’s ruling presence. May we maintain a pure conscience without any offense toward God and man, always confessing our sins and asking for forgiveness from others.
May we enthrone the Lord in our being and allow God to have the preeminence in us. May we be completely submissive to His authority and administration.
It all comes from the maintenance of a clear sky. In ourselves and by ourselves, we can’t submit to God and do not want to, but when we deal with our conscience, when we have a clear sky with the throne of God above it, we spontaneously submit to God’s throne.
This is the highest point in our spiritual experience: having a clear sky with God’s throne above it.
Lord Jesus, may we reach the highest point in our spiritual experience by having a clear sky with God’s throne above it. We come to You, Lord. We want to have a clear sky. Shine on us. We say Amen to Your shining and we deal with any offense, sin, and trespass. We want to see You face to face. May there be a crystal clear sky between us and You and between us and others. Amen, Lord, may our sky be clear, stable, unchanging, and even expanding! May there be a great expanse of awesome crystal between us and You so that we may see You on the throne! We want to maintain a pure conscience, a conscience without any offense toward God and man. We repent, Lord, and we confess; we want to ask for forgiveness from others for our offending them. May we have a clear sky with God’s throne above it in our Christian life. We allow You to have the preeminence in us. We submit to Your throne and we accept Your authority and administration. Rule and reign in us. Keep us under the throne of God in all things today!
When we Exercise our Spirit and Deal with our Conscience, we have Christ’s Ruling Presence, the Throne of God
Some Christians may say that they don’t know what the throne of God is; they may think that God’s throne is up in heaven, and we can’t seem to see it or know it.
In our experience, the throne of God is Christ’s ruling presence. When we have a clear sky with God’s throne above it, we sense Christ’s ruling presence; His presence rules in us.
We believers in Christ are not living in fear of a holy God who will smite us if we do something wrong; rather, we love the Lord Jesus, we pray to fellowship with Him, and we love His presence.
We care for His presence, and Christ’s ruling presence is in us and with us. We are afraid of only one thing: losing the Lord’s presence.
We should not be afraid of people or of things but of losing the Lord’s presence. The Lord’s presence is always with His throne, and the throne of the Lord is both in the third heaven and in our spirit (Rev. 4:2-3; Heb. 4:16; cf. 2 Tim. 4:22).
Yes, God is on the throne in the third heaven, and He rules over the universe and administrates all things; at the same time, however, the throne of God is in our spirit.
The very Christ who is sitting on the throne in heaven (Rom. 8:34) is also now in us (v. 10), that is, in our spirit, where God’s habitation is.
Through regeneration, we were joined to the Lord as one spirit, and the throne of God – Christ’s ruling presence – is now in our spirit.
When we exercise our spirit and deal with our conscience, confessing our sins and dealing with any offense under the Lord’s light, we have Christ’s ruling presence, the throne of God.
We need to realise that, on the one hand, Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, interceding for us all the time, and on the other hand, Christ is in us, in our spirit. Our spirit is His habitation (Eph. 2:22).
We see this in type in Genesis 28:12-17 where Jacob – out of all people on the earth, Jacob received this vision – saw Bethel, the house of God, the gate of heaven.
In John 1:51 the Lord Jesus said that He is the gate of heaven, for the angels are ascending and descending on the Son of Man. Wow!
And Christ today is in our spirit, even joined to us as one spirit. When we turn to our spirit, we touch Christ, and we have the throne of God, for God’s ruling presence is in our spirit.
We should not be discouraged if we fail again and again; we may fail so much that we may have to run from others and escape somewhere else.
This is what Jacob did, but God met him and gave him a vision of the house of God. As long as we open to the Lord, He will show us that the very Christ sitting on the throne in heaven is now in us, in our spirit.
At Bethel, the house of God, the habitation of God, which is the gate of heaven, Christ is the ladder that joins earth to heaven and brings heaven to earth.
Our spirit is the place of God’s habitation; our spirit is the gate of heaven, where Christ is the ladder joining us, the people on earth, to heaven, and He brings heaven to us.
When we turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit, we have a clear sky with God’s throne above it, for God’s ruling presence is in us.
We touch the Lord Jesus Christ, and He joins us to God; we have a sense of God’s presence, and His presence rules and reigns in us. This is the throne of God in our experience.
Whenever we turn to our spirit, we enter through the gate of heaven and touch the throne of grace in heaven through Christ as the heavenly ladder.
The Christ in our spirit joins us to heaven, brings heaven to us, and brings us into heaven; we have God’s ruling presence in us.
The throne above the crystal clear expanse indicates that, whenever we have a clear sky in our Christian life and in our church life, we will be under the ruling of the throne; the authority in the church is the throne above the clear sky.
May we bring this to the Lord and be under His ruling presence today.
Lord Jesus, thank You for dwelling in our spirit. Hallelujah, our spirit is the dwelling place of God, the habitation of Christ! Praise the Lord, we are a dwelling place of God in spirit! We turn to our spirit today. We enthrone You in our being. We want to have a clear sky with God’s throne above it. Amen, Lord, may we have Christ’s ruling presence in us. Rule and reign in our being. May we see that the Christ who is sitting on the throne in heaven is also now in us, in our spirit, joined to us as one spirit! Praise the Lord, we now have Christ as the heavenly ladder set up in our spirit! Wow, Lord, we are joined to You and, when we’re in our spirit, heaven is brought to us and we are brought into heaven! Praise the Lord, our spirit is the place of God’s habitation, even the gate of heaven! Keep us turning to our spirit today. We exercise our spirit to touch the throne of grace in heaven through Christ as the heavenly ladder. We enthrone You, Lord, and we want to have Your ruling presence in us, the practical throne of God!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 10, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 47 (msg. 11), The Lamb-God Being on the Throne within the City – day 3.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Lo! in heaven Jesus sitting, / Christ the Lord is there enthroned; / As the man by God exalted, / With God’s glory He is crowned. (Hymns #132 stanza 1)
– Shining One—how clear the sky above me! / Son of Man, I see Thee on the throne! / Holy One, the flames of God consume me, / Till my being glows with Thee alone. / Lord, when first I saw Thee in Thy splendor, / All self-love and glory sank in shame; / Now my heart its love and praises render, / Tasting all the sweetness of Thy name. (Hymns #1159 stanza 2)
– Oh, may my spirit flow, / Oh, may it flow! / I ask Thee, gracious Lord, / Oh, may it flow! / My trust in self o’erthrow, / Down from self’s throne I’ll go, / That living water flow / In spirit, Lord. (Hymns #846 stanza 5)
