| A scripture reference for this article is found in | | | | showed him the sheet music of his rhythm guitar |
| proverbs | | | | piece of the performance and gestured him to sit |
| Proverbs 22:29 (New King James Version) | | | | down and the angel left the room and didn't come |
| 29 Do you see a man who excels in his work? | | | | back for what seemed like hours. |
| He will stand before kings; | | | | He had such fun and was so soaked with God's |
| He will not stand before unknown men. | | | | anointing and peaceful presence the feeling left him |
| My Name is Mary Magdalene, Jesus' friend on earth | | | | higher and more at peace then any of the known |
| and a contributor of money to his ministry on earth. | | | | drugs on earth had ever made him feel in his entire |
| Today I have a message for everyone who wants | | | | life. Not only was he playing the best free flowing |
| to read it. | | | | music to God he had ever played, but he was higher |
| Very few people come to heaven and write | | | | than he had ever been before in the process. |
| accounts of it. Very few people live in heaven for | | | | This musician found himself asking if he could get |
| 2000 years and have the experience of living in | | | | someone to play the guitar and he could have a go |
| heaven write something to the world. Today Dormias | | | | at singing the lead. As soon as he asked the angel |
| is typing my words but I am the writer sitting to him | | | | entered the room a second later, smiled and picked |
| giving him dictation. Do you think that is possible? | | | | up the guitar as though he's just been off having a |
| Wasn't it my good friend Jesus said. " with man this | | | | meal out with mates and a long coffee and chat. |
| may be impossible but with God all things are | | | | As there has to be no sleep in heaven he just spent |
| possible." I am a vision on earth sitting next to | | | | two days in there and walked around and played the |
| Dormias and telling him a story, so before you judge | | | | three guitars, lead, base and rhythm, sang the lead |
| me or him, have a listen to what I have to say for a | | | | vocals and had goes at singing the backing vocals. |
| few pages. | | | | Then it came to time when the whole team left the |
| I am not sure about you, but did you ever consider a | | | | studio and went to a yacht and sailed for two days |
| life of one perfect day after another would get | | | | listening and trying to vote on the best takes of the |
| boring and frustrating? Have you ever tried to | | | | track. They voted all for the best three and then |
| consider how you would cope if pain and hurt was | | | | were told those three would be kept. |
| removed from your life? What about struggles and | | | | He was ecstatic and asked when would he hear the |
| failures and missing the mark? What would life be like | | | | music played over the airwaves in heaven, and it was |
| with no tears, no failure, no grind of day to day | | | | then that he got the biggest shock of his life, both in |
| working for an existence, no stress, no anxiety,and | | | | heaven so far and the life on earth. |
| no fear? Could you live in that world? How would you | | | | "Oh only the very best tracks are played in heaven |
| cope? | | | | over the airwaves. Sometimes it might take your |
| Dormias wondered this as a human until he asked | | | | fifty attempts or a hundred for you to have one |
| Jesus more about heaven. The concept he had heard | | | | selected depending how good you are and how good |
| in sermons kind of sounded boring and frustrating and | | | | your band and singers work together. These are the |
| he couldn't live with what people were saying about | | | | best three. These will be yours to play and listen to |
| heaven so he had to ask Jesus for more information. | | | | and share with your friends up here, and over time |
| Before he knew he was an angel born onto earth to | | | | you'll grow closer and closer to Jesus and you'll play |
| live as a human for forty years before he knew he | | | | and sing better for him." |
| had this former life in heaven, the concept of heaven | | | | A stab of sadness impressed his heart and grew into |
| he had heard preached just didn't turn him on. | | | | hurt. Every song he recorded on earth was heard by |
| Fortunately since eight years of age he had a good | | | | millions of people and yet here in heaven his very |
| line to Jesus and could ask questions. And when the | | | | best for two days might not even make it. |
| time came for this question my beloved Jesus | | | | "It's okay my friend," the angel who gave up his |
| started to give him images and thoughts about | | | | guitar for him to play at first said. "We spent quite a |
| heaven and what it was really like. | | | | while coming up with these lyrics and quite a while |
| Today much of this is new to him; today I am going | | | | writing the music. In a year or so we will come back |
| to paint you a picture. | | | | to this piece with you and we'll play again. Only the |
| Heaven is not full of people standing in the throne | | | | tracts with you are in the best three and this was |
| room singing to God each day. | | | | our vote for your future. One day with enough |
| Heaven is not a place where no sadness exists | | | | practice and a closer walk with God we might get |
| Heaven is a place where people there can cry tears | | | | this one accepted. I wrote the rhythm part myself |
| of sadness and tears of joy and ecstasy. | | | | and I have been doing that for 4000 years. Our |
| Heaven is not a place where people float on clouds | | | | worship leader here wrote the lyrics and she has |
| and shoot arrows at each other or whatever that | | | | been here in heaven four hundred years praising the |
| image humans have of it. | | | | Lord and so these are good lyrics. But this is your |
| Heaven is very competitive. Let me tell you about a | | | | first song my friend and you have to play with as |
| guy I know in heaven. A guy that most of you | | | | much love and devotion to the Lord or sing with that |
| readers would know if I said his name, yet few | | | | passion to be as good as us, and so its going to take |
| Christians would accept that he is here if I said his | | | | some real good and honest practice." |
| name, so for the sake of unbelief and lack of | | | | "Here's a recording of our bands last recording that |
| theology and the heart of God in Christians and their | | | | plays in the courts of heaven. It has brought you to |
| doctrines I will not say his name. | | | | tears a number of times up here and taught you a |
| There was this major world rock star that ended up | | | | lot about serving the King of Kings. It was written |
| here a number of years ago. He arrived and fell in | | | | while you were living on earth and it was dedicated |
| love with the place. He saw the birds had brighter | | | | to you and your future up here. Now you are the |
| colours, that the grass was alive and sprang back | | | | newest member of our band and we will be doing all |
| when you stepped on it. He walked the roads and | | | | of our music with you" |
| paths of heaven and took in the music and the love | | | | He pressed the button and the song came on and |
| of the people and his mind was blown away. Never | | | | once again the rock icon of the modern world was |
| had he ever conceived heaven was like this and in his | | | | crying tears of happiness. This song was written for |
| life he had not done much thinking of heaven. | | | | him and with him in mind. It blew his mind. |
| A major rock star on earth, both a singer and a | | | | As he sipped a red wine with crackers and cheese, |
| musician it wasn't very long before he was getting a | | | | he mused to himself. "I wonder how many years |
| bit bored. He loved the music but for quite a while he | | | | before a song I contributed to makes it on the audio |
| hadn't had any guitar in his hands and though he sang | | | | and I wonder if I could write one for my mother. She |
| to the songs, he was a creative person and yearned | | | | would love this place. |
| to create. Jesus noticed this urge in him one day and | | | | My people, this is Mary back. There are rewards in |
| sent an angel to escort him to a session where | | | | heaven. In heaven you will be doing what you always |
| angels and humans were laying down some live | | | | wanted to do on earth if you were given a chance |
| tracks as a new song in the recording studios. | | | | and you will be doing it for the glory of God and the |
| When he entered this place he knew what was going | | | | betterment of the faith of every person here. |
| on but the technology blew his socks off. The | | | | That was over 20 years ago that story. Three songs |
| microphone was responsive and knew the song you | | | | have been recorded and played in heaven that he |
| are to play and knew your mind and the way you | | | | wrote the music for and played the music. He is |
| wanted it sang. It wasn't on for the intake of breath, | | | | excited as the last two have been in the last five |
| there were no technicians to hook it in, and there | | | | years. It took ten years to reach the standard of |
| were no wires. It just was there as a prop for you | | | | heaven. It's like studying to be a doctor on earth, he |
| to sing into until a musician was comfortable just to | | | | had to learn and do a whole new sort of learning. He |
| sing then it was taken away and the room itself did | | | | had to learn about playing in the Spirit. He had to |
| the job of capturing the audio. | | | | learn to be less perfect and more trusting in his |
| He watched musicians play and singers sing and wept | | | | intuition and the Holy Spirit to lead him. |
| at the sound and the quality of the playbacks. There | | | | Oh he sails on yachts, he has spent time with me a |
| was no mixing desk, there was no one with a desk | | | | few times, he likes to read and loves to hear |
| with all the inputs making the music come together, | | | | teachings by some of the best teachers of the Bible |
| the room did it. | | | | up here. |
| There were no amplifiers in the room hooked up to | | | | Yes and he is inspired all day long as the praise and |
| the guitars, the room just played the music that was | | | | worship and other types of songs are piped in |
| being strummed on the instruments and an unseen | | | | heaven, the very best songs in heaven by the very |
| mixer was mixing it all together. | | | | best musicians. He still plays guitar and sings, but he |
| The whole room could hear the sound and each | | | | has taken an interest in the harp, one of heavens |
| musician was so happy and so relaxed. There was no | | | | most anointed instruments and is learning to play |
| stress or pressure in the room but lots of love and | | | | really well. |
| sometimes they would stop playing and simply | | | | Oh people, life in heaven isn't for all the Christians |
| worship the Lord in the middle and then continue and | | | | only. It's for you too. Check Jesus out in the four |
| do another take. Gone was the usual stress and | | | | gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and ask |
| pressure of big budgets and time as time in this place | | | | yourself wouldn't you like to compete and have fun |
| was eternity and you could do ten thousand takes if | | | | in place like heaven under his perfect judgment and |
| you liked, all they were doing were doing praise and | | | | mercy? |
| worship and experimenting and playing different | | | | No money isn't a reward up here...living the life of |
| variations and having a laugh. | | | | your wildest dreams is! |
| He was pumped. An angel after about six hours | | | | |