 send it is time for you to go higher and it is time for you to walk in the fullness of all God has called you to be. We are so glad you're joining us on this Wednesday on Hope Today and Tom. And you see Amy is back. She was with Lori Vante. She was with Miami celebrating like a happy like she's celebrating fifth role. Give me grace today. I should up my wardrobe game here. I mean you guys are really I don't have colors like this though. I'm sorry. I just don't have those colors. Well hey coming up we have Pastor Mike Thompson and this is a great story. He's written a book called Third Heaven Authority but it's how that book came about. You're going to want to hear about. He was in prayer for a crusade that we're having in a particular city and God caught him up into into heaven and he saw a vision of heaven and he was released into teaching the body of Christ how to pray with Third Heaven Authority. Do you want to see God do some amazing things in your city in your family in your life? Stay tuned. You're going to find all about that with Pastor Mike Thompson. I love that idea of understanding your authority knowing your authority you know even turning 50 was such a big deal. I felt like I'm stepping into something you know new seasons need new flows and and where you were before let that be the lid to where you stand on now and move forward like there is an authority that we have as sons and daughters of God and today somebody is walking in major authority who is a dear precious friend of mine pastor Barbara Garlington people in the Pittsburgh area know her love her she's feisty fierce fabulous and she is 85 years young today so we celebrate you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I mean I love it so much is just like she's such a mother over like Pittsburgh and just so renowned and known all over the world so we just thank you so much for pastor Barbara for all that you do and you know just even speaking about this whole thing of understanding our authority in our position I just really sense and feel that in this season that God is calling us to this place where we need to understand where we are in Christ we are seated with Christ in heavenly places so it is time for us that even though we see what's happening in the world we see what's going on it is time for the body of Christ for us as the ecclesia as the called out ones as the sent out ones to really step into that and so we'll see changes in the media we'll see changes in the government we'll see changes in education and so even today if you are like walking through a season and you're like you know what I need a little pick me up I need a little boost that I need an extra dose of prayer today give us a call at our prayer line at 888-665-4483 well we're going to do something else that's a little pick me up in a boost to get on our bible trivia it's time for something all righty diddy here we go so are you guys ready this is one okay what colors are the four horses in the book of revelation white red there's white red black and like an ashen or gray horse dependent on the on the white red red black and gray if you're curious that's from revelation six two through eight all right well okay yeah I guess some translations say pale I remember an ashen or anyway let's go on to the next one who was told not to prophesy at Bethel okay who was told not to prophesy at Bethel uh do you understand if it's Old Testament or New Testament I think it's old it would be Old Testament uh how about is it uh Balaam it was it Balaam was it Balaam Amos Amos Amos they you know what they said they said Amy these are going to be easy today these are like anybody can get these now we just as Amy we got one more to rescue so our next question is whose house did Peter go to when an angel rescued him from prison that's definitely a book of acts I know so I should be all over that but I don't know whose house did Peter go to when an angel rescued him from prison come on oh three weeks at the beach Amy three weeks in the beach just in Israel no I was just at Peter's house well tell us who it was I don't I don't know I don't know we're coming up with a block give us give us a thank you we have stumped Mary you know we could have guessed that it's all good we'd say it's half of the women in the New Testament are named Mary that would be pretty easy so wow see we we have a lot to learn here as we're following the lord well uh we're gonna take a quick break after we come back from that break we're gonna hear from pastor Mike Thompson and third heaven authority remember your childhood joy and excitement when being invited to a party you felt valued included wanted and ready to have a good time 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that's also the title of his new book and he joins us now to share about his encounter with jesus and the message that god told him to deliver to believers you and me pastor mike it's great to have you with us on hope today so nice to be here tom thank you for the invitation i love talking about jesus amen to that well let's go right at it how did this happen and what happened when you had this vision i know that it seems phenomenal for a lot of people who haven't had those kind of experiences but i really believe that the spiritual realm the kingdom of god and his move through us is just so powerful and significant these things happen all the time what happened with me and to be honest with you these kind of things have happened many times before and since but this was a very significant time i was in a prayer meeting and we were in a penthouse suite overlooking a major city because there was going to be a an evangelistic crusade the next day we were praying and while i was praying looking out the windows and all the lights of the city and stuff i sat down the carpet leaned against the wall many other christians around me praying and the lord just took me away i had an encounter and i lifted right straight up and above through the the hotel roof and the lights of the city and i saw some green dull i knew they were demonic lights went up into uh went through them ended up in the throne room looking at the throne of jesus and significant things happened there that uh led me to the point that he gave me the assignment to teach on third heaven authority so really what happened is i was this is a shortened version the book goes into great detail on all of it tom um but the very first thing that i felt when i was standing there before the throne of jesus the sights the sound of heaven the swirling mass of rainbow colors angels that were gathered around is i felt completely loved accepted and valued i mean i'm talking about all the hooks of this earth all the things that we struggle with as christians here on the earth dealing with the things about doubt and fear and condemnation and struggles you know that they were all gone because i was in heaven and i just felt the complete love of god and it was so powerful then he spun me around he had me look through a portal there was like about a 10-foot portal a hole in the floor that was first seen from heaven all the way down through the spiritual atmosphere and to the earth and he told me to launch my warfare my prayers and stuff from there uh i had a lot of questions doctrinal questions other different things that he answered to me and but i prayed because right up above that those green demonic spirits of that city there was a larger one actually that was they were reddish and the larger one was greenish dull no glory of god and and the lord had me pray against that as a head demon while i prayed there were angels that would shoot down from heaven it was so powerful i felt such a sense of authority boldness who i was who jesus had created me to be and in that state i did the warfare i finished and then the lord walked over to me and he said mike i'm giving you a new assignment i want you to teach my people how to operate in third heaven authority i'd never heard that phrase before in my life it came from the lips of jesus in this encounter and third heaven authority he said now from this day forward you're the veil between the natural and the spiritual realms will seemingly get thinner and there will be more and more spiritual encounters that my people are going to have and he said but those encounters will also increase on the dark side he talked a little bit about that and he said but don't worry because you are so much greater and he said i want you to bring accountability to these things and teach people how to move in the spirit and walk in third heaven authority so third heaven authority and real briefly tom right now let me just define third heaven authority i believe that the first heaven the way i see it and teach it the first heaven is a physical universe stars moons but the earth is part of that second heaven is a spiritual atmosphere that coexist and around that third heaven is the dwelling place of god the throne room all of those things and so in the experience when jesus said launch your warfare from here what i understood from him is that he was saying from heaven's viewpoint down knowing who you are empowered by heaven itself launch your warfare from here not from earth's view point up with all of those hooks i talked about earlier and the struggles and the things he caught away in the spirit let the spirit guide you in all of these things so that's what the book is about well you know i first have to say i'm glad you mentioned how you felt i actually marked it in your in your book here because i was i was so struck by that how the presence of god the presence of christ made you feel no condemnation like you say no hooks nothing i really appreciated that and you've defined third level authority you know what it reminds you of it sounds like where it says in the scriptures that we are seated with christ in heavenly places kind of like looking at from his perspective so so how does this how does this build up our prayer life how did it change your ministry well for myself even though i'd been i thought they're doing pretty good i mean thousands of people led to the lord and many supernatural healings and you name it god had worked miraculous but all of a sudden now it was it just like it just took the knob and cranked it up from let's say five to eight or ten just cranked it up because before and this is one of the things the lord told me but i'll put it in my own words before i was bumping up against all of these things on the linear earthly level now now he's given us success in all of that so i don't want to minimize or demean that in any way that's part of our life but he said i want to show you a better way a more productive impacting way and so instead of just dealing with the circumstances that arise now every time that i go into my prayer life when i pray for people when i minister from the pulpit regardless of what i do i have a perspective on the inside of me now of looking down and what that has done is it's elevated my ability to discern what's going on in the spiritual realm and to pray what the holy spirits impressions are about it rather than being just caught up in the situation itself we all do that i mean the pressures are on us the temptations the trials the different things that we experience and we have a lot of emotion about it we have you know different obstacles things were caught up in the situation and what the lord has done is he's created this ability in me now and not only me but i've been teaching this for a long time and thousands of people have expressed this to me once they get it and the lord brings the revelation i'm not in it it may be that my body so to speak is in the circumstances but i'm above the circumstances and like you said is that in Ephesians one where it says that Jesus was lifted up high above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and then a few verses later says and you we us believers have been lifted up and seated with him in heavenly places so from that seated position the holy spirit has the ability to give us an entirely new perspective and the release of my prayer life has been so enhanced praise god and i want everybody to experience that well let me ask you then in that in that frame of how you've just mentioned that how does someone activate and release this third level authority in their life third heaven authority well it's a building process and i'll give three very basic and simple steps that i offer in the book is number one is start where you're at i mean what else can we do you know you don't have to be taken to heaven so to speak like i was in order to operate in that third heaven authority you start where you're at and that means do the word be a doer of the word because i preached the word i laid hands on the sick uh i did all the things the word said to do and was effective that's where you start you have to be a doer of the word number two and that also then gets into the area of our prayer we have to be willing vessels you know it's not our life is not only by the word super important we all know that but also by the spirit the bible says the word and the spirit so the spiritual part of it is we have to learn to let go and let the holy spirit begin to impress upon the imagination of our heart and by the words and the gifts and and all the things that are you know that he's given to us to be able to bring us into a supernatural if you will into a spiritual dynamic of seeing feeling and then number three is that when the holy spirit is moving on us and we feel that tom when we feel that we lifted up there's one lady that told me that um she said when after i've heard what you were preaching every time i pray for somebody i don't i don't see there's something inside of me that just lifts me up and i'm looking down from that situation there's like a heaven only perspective and i hear and i see things i didn't have before and so what i tell people is when these experiences begin to happen to you at that moment that's the best place to pray from and that's something that most people don't quite understand but when they do it sets them free you mean i can pray from that place from a vision from a dream from an encounter from an angelic experience from all these i can pray from there absolutely i have done it thousands of times and it transforms something about the power release the authority that you feel but i want to say one other thing real quickly because i know we don't have all day to talk about it tom but what happens in this even though it's a book about prayer it's a book about authority it's a book about understanding the spiritual atmosphere and the warfare that's going on all around us i try to make it clear in the book it's about lifestyle and feeling when these things start happening to you and you understand the authority man you walk tall you look at everything differently and suddenly now you become more authoritative just in sense of power of who you are with your family with your finances on your job everything in your entire life it just affects you amen to that pastor mike the book is called just third heaven authority discover how to pray from heaven's perspective well there's so much more like you say we could talk all day about the things that you share in here and the different principles and experiences but pastor mike tomsen they'll just have to get the book so uh we'll uh we'll have a link to your website why don't you give me your website as well uh the main website is word of life world outreach dot org they can also do mike tomsen ministries dot org and if they want to find me on any social media go just search mike tomsen ministries great all right and we'll have links to those on our website as well pastor mike tomsen thank you so much for being with us today great pleasure tom thank you well again let's uh let's all believe the lord for great and mighty things we'll be back right after this hey tom what you doing oh i can't find anything good on youtube to watch the commentaries the blogs the tier videos the gaming videos it's all boring oh have you thought about subscribing to cornerstone's youtube channel cornerstone has a youtube channel of course it does hold on taking a pause to remind you to subscribe to our channel hit that like button and ring that bell for notifications now back to the video i'll show you how to subscribe just search for cornerstone television network and hit the subscribe button so you can stay up to date getting filled with the holy spirit with consistent uploads every day keep up 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means here practically as a pastor guys you know i've got many situations you know many problems many things to have to deal with and sometimes i picture myself sitting next to christ and just saying hey you've got a problem we're we're praying not for victory but from a place of victory it's not like we are bearing the weight of the world but we're we're overcomers we're on top we are praying from a place of power and authority and listen all hell has been unleashed on the earth i mean there i just saw a volcano erupting the new sex trafficking movie raising awareness there i mean shootings hell is sure not afraid to take authority or to unleash power so as believers we're not the fearful ones we're not the timid ones we're not the the the overwhelmed ones but we are the ones that have been in filled with the holy spirit we have a sense of power and authority so when you pray today sit from that position that jesus paid the price for you to sit in today so when you're praying for your kids you're not like oh god if you know it's like god in your word you said this and i'm gonna just take my authority in christ and say all of my children are taught of the lord and great will be their peace you know sydney when you pray and know your authority things change this is one of my favorite topics i love prayer and i think it is so important in this season as the body of christ we have to have a prayer life it is not an option it is so necessary because of things like amy was just saying that we're seeing about volcanoes we're seeing shootings we're seeing things that are happening in our nation or society god is calling us to a place that he's like you know what i need my body to understand what is going on and when you're sitting next to christ when you're in a place of intercession when you're praying god will give you strategies god will give you wisdom you know when you fear the lord and you come into his his presence and you just say you know what i just want to hear from you i'm just laying my whole agenda i'm laying all my cares at your feet when we seek first the kingdom of heaven god says that all these things will be added unto us but it is important for us to seek first the kingdom of heaven what is on god's heart what is on god's agenda and even right now in the hebrou calendar it's just very interesting we're in the month of tamuz where it's like the historically in the bible where you saw like moses and that when he was getting the ten commandments and there was the golden calf that they made and all these things there's a time of like there's great idol worship we're seeing even that in our culture we're seeing that even in our world and we're seeing that even in our nation and this is the time it's called between the dire straits it's a time of great distress when you're seeing all hell breaking out loose it is typically this is the season and the time that we're in it's a time that we saw the destruction of the temple we're seeing things happen in israel even now but we just want to encourage you today to get into that place of even now even when we're about to go off the air don't you move from your position of authority that god has called you to but to pray but to intercede but to worship the lord do if you have a prayer language pray in your prayer language and listen to what the lord will want to speak to you he might give you a word he might give you one thing to say but you pray into that and you just continue to contend you continue to press you continue to move because that's what god is calling us to do in this season we want you to sit in your authority tom what are your thoughts well so much of what pastor mike has shared and so much of what hit me so strongly was that connection between intimacy and authority intimacy with christ intimacy with god and having that place of intimacy so build you've got a relationship with jesus christ build from that sit at his feet let him speak to you the things he wants to speak to the world through you have a great day on tomorrow's hope today discover how god heals the broken in body mind and spirit speaker and author sue debtweiler reminds believers that god is our healer and reveals the major key to receiving a miraculous breakthrough healing don't miss tomorrow's hope today cornerstone television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible