Heaven Can't Wait

By Lewis Clementson

How to ascend to heaven and enter the Father's presence as a son. The amazing journey of two missionaries who were taken to heaven and instructed to teach others how to do it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lewis Clementson
• Release date: May 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301331222

Lewis Clementson

Lewis Clementson is a graduate of the University of Virginia, the George Mason University School of Law and the Church of God’s schools for Exhorter Certificate, Ministerial Internship Program and Licensed Minister. He is now a Licensed Minister with the International Convention of Faith Ministers, Inc. From 1996 to 1998, he was the full time Director of the Church of God’s “Mission America” program in Richmond,VA, which is an inner-city evangelistic outreach. He has visited thirteen European countries. In 2007, he had a dream. In this dream, he saw himself standing next to Jesus on the bridge of a warship heading for the southern coast of France. In a serious tone, Jesus said to him, “Together we will tear down the strongholds.” In 2009, he closed down his law practice where he had practiced law for 30 years, his wife quit her job as a dental hygienist, they sold their home during a severely depressed market, and they moved to France. Neither of them spoke French, their visas did not permit them to work, and their limited resources caused everyone around them to question their sanity. Then, on top of that, God told them to go to a remote French village where no one spoke English. This was not the normal way that Christian missionaries take to the field. But God had a plan. God wanted them in His own personal private school and their isolation and desperate conditions made for eager and willing students. Immediately upon arrival, God’s school was in session, and He started saturating them in Himself. They devoted all day, every day to worship, prayer and reading the Bible and books. Each day was an exciting adventure as God taught them about faith, spiritual warfare, the church as God wants it, ministers as God wants them, and the whole time, they were being gradually introduced to an orderly progression of steps that led them higher and higher and deeper and deeper into God. After many months in God’s school, they were taken to heaven. Each in turn, with Jesus at his or her side, they engaged the satanic strongholds over Southern France in combat and tore them down. They took many more trips to heaven, saw Jesus and spoke at length with Him and with some saints. They received a deep and profound revelation of Jesus’ complete and glorious redemptive work and gained a heavenly perspective on the Christian life. After about two years had passed, Lewis was taken by Jesus into the presence of God the Father. Their relationship deepened with each visit. Then one day, God told Lewis, “Teach others how to do this.” Lewis understood immediately that God wanted others to enter into His presence just as he had, and that he could show them how to do it. He also understood that others could do it without all the trouble and expense that he and his wife had been through to discover it.

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Heaven Can't Wait

Ascending to heaven and entering the Father's presence as a son

By

Lewis H. Clementson

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - God's Personal Private School

Chapter 2 - Making Friends with the Holy Spirit

Chapter 3 - Ascending to the Third Heaven

Chapter 4 - Entering the Father's Presence

Chapter 5 - Epilog

Chapter 1

God's Personal Private School

Our journey began with a dream. I was visiting a friend in Juan Les Pins, France on the Riviera when I had this dream. In it, I was standing on the bridge of a warship looking out the front window over the bow of the ship as it plowed its way rapidly toward the southern coast of France. Jesus was standing next to me to my left. He was looking straight ahead and in a serious tone, said, Together, we will tear down the strongholds. It was very real.

I was never able to tear myself away from the grip of this dream, so, two years later, we quit our jobs, sold our house and moved to France.

Despite the dream, we still thought we were going to France as your typical missionaries. We knew France was a spiritually dark country and needed the gospel, so we thought that would be our mission. But it was not. Something very different happened, and we never in our wildest dreams imagined that such a thing was even possible to happen. But God so ordered our circum-stances that it did happen, and we are firmly convinced that otherwise, it probably would never have happened. But God had a plan, it did happen, and now I will tell you about it.

Because this is very much our story, I should tell you a little bit about us. I have been a Pentecostal/ Charismatic for over 40 years; Vera for almost 20 years. We have always been very serious about our faith, serious about our prayer and Bible reading and fervent about witnessing to others. I have read the whole Bible through a dozen times and the New Testament about 200 times, and Ephesians more than that. Although I was a lawyer in private practice, I was also a licensed minister with a mainline Pentecostal denomination. For 12 years, I was a part-time street evangelist, going out two afternoons every week to downtown Richmond to preach on the street. I took 2 years off from practicing law to be director of my denomination's Mission America program in Richmond, VA, which is an inner-city ministry, where I was actually attacked and beaten while preaching.

My wife Vera has had an extended conversation with an angel, had numerous visitations from the Lord Jesus and visions of Him.

We can objectively say that our lives had most of the usual characteristics of very serious Spirit Filled Christians.

We say all this to make the singular point that by American standards, we were active, fervent and mature Christians, and yet........ we were going to find out that by biblical standards, we were no where near living the kind of Christian life that God intended and as Jesus had made possible.

We are sharing our story with you with the sincere hope that you will see that you can do it too and that you will do it too. But hopefully do it without all the trouble and expense that we went through. We learned it the hard way. If I share it with you, maybe you can learn it the easy way.

As I said, we quit our good jobs, me as a lawyer, and Vera as a dental hygienist, sold our house and much of what we owned, and on April 2, 2009, set out to be missionaries to France. Everyone thought we were totally crazy. We did not speak French, our visas did not permit us to work, so we had no income, and we had very limited resources. Then on top of that, God told us to go to a remote little village in France where no one spoke English.

But God had us right where He wanted us. Isolated and way out on a skinny little limb. We had suddenly entered God's own personal private school, we just didn't know it yet.

It really started one day when Vera and I were discussing our meager financial resources, and that was before we had spent it all, and while looking at each other with wide terrified eyes, Vera said to me, I want to learn more about faith. Can you recommend a good book?

I said, Kenneth Hagin's Bible Faith Study Course is the best. So we ordered it and another one called Bible Prayer Study Course ..... and God's school was now officially in session.

The first thing that God did was set up a daily regimen