Fall 2006
Climbing Higher
Steve Porter

“O my dove, that are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.” Song of Solomon 2:14

The Lord has prepared stairs for those who spiritually hunger, to climb higher in His presence. Our quest for intimacy can begin today as we find the satisfaction that we long for, and for which we were created.

He stands bidding us to be partakers of His holy presence. He is calling those who desire to move past the holy place, through the veil and into the “Holy of Holies.” He is calling us upward on the stairs of a personal experience into this new realm of intimacy.

A deep longing is being birthed in the heart of His Bride for divine encounters; not a self- serving seeking of His hands to bless or provide for us, but His face alone. Jesus is placing an intense spiritual hunger and desire for Himself, as He reveals the secret entrance to the stairs. It is there that we will meet with Him alone. His Bride (us) will not stop until she has His heart.

These stairs lead to higher levels of the atmosphere of heaven; they are a direct link between heaven and earth. With each step, the level of intimacy increases. When one travels upward upon these steps, they cannot turn back, as they are changed forever by His love.

Can we experience the same atmosphere that is around the throne room? Does God desire for His “manifest presence” to cover this earth? The answer to both is Yes! God is pouring out His Spirit upon the spiritually thirsty, and those who are discontented with their present spiritual experience. He is calling us upward to the throne (Revelation 4). It is His desire that we seek Him whole heartily. Many today are already walking upward on these stairs into greater realms of intimacy.

There are deeper dimensions in God (John 14:2) that we have not yet entered, and places in the Spirit we have not seen. These stairs are leading us into greater experiences of His manifested glory, as we desire the deeper realms of the Spirit. The atmosphere of heaven is being granted to those who have fully submitted to loving Him.

“I love them that Love me. Those that search for me will surely find me.” Proverbs 8:17 NLT

Kingdom revelation is being imparted into the lives of those that hunger for the deeper realms of intimacy. God’s secrets are being whispered in the inner ears of His Bride as she walks upward through the secret stairs with Him.

“But we know these things because God has revealed them to us by his Spirit, and his Spirit searches out everything and shows us even God’s deep secrets.” I Corinthians 2:10 NLT

We are living in the end-times where God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Full gatherings of hungry lovers of God will experience the “secret of the stairs.” The heavens will open over their meetings, taking them upward corporately. As the Church seeks intimacy first, signs and wonders, healings, miracles, and deliverances will take place. A deluge of His Spirit is here. How can anything stand tall when His majesty is revealed? When God opens His spout where the glory comes out, death will bow the knee to the King of Kings.

God will even do a fresh new thing. Some will misunderstand; others will embrace the new thing. In the last days, full congregations will see healings. I see creative miracles happening as the cloud of His glory increases one step at a time. Demons will tremble, as the Church is infused with the flames of His Spirit. Children will manifest creative arts and be entrusted with secrets from the throne room. That which has been shut up in the heavens will be released. Divine truth will be unsealed as the atmosphere of heaven flows freely. Now is the time, the hour is late, prepare for the Kingdom Age, and get ready for deeper dimensions in God.

Now is the season in which to seek His highest and best.