Living in the Spiritual World: We Live in Two Worlds

By Mel Michalski

As the Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart." I was picked by God before I was formed in my mother's womb. He knew me before I was born.

Throughout his formative years, Mel navigated two worlds -- the earthly world and the spiritual world. The closer he got to God,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Mar 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890418807

Mel Michalski

In his younger years, Me Michalski grew up in the Polish area of north Toledo. He walked with God from the moment he knew who He was. His behavior didn't always reflect it though. Mel went to both public and Catholic schools before moving to south Toledo with his mother and younger brother. He finished high school where he met and married his wonderful wife, Beth. He began work in the furniture industry and completed higher education in management, where he spent thirty years making furniture.

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Living in the Spiritual World

we live in two worlds

Mel Michalski

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Living in the Spiritual World

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Acknowledgments

This goes without saying but I want to acknowledge my wife, Beth, for so much. Letting me write this book, staying with an unmanageable husband, and forgiving me through to healing.

I also must acknowledge God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They are the true writers of this book. The Holy Spirit just used my body to write it.

Preface

I never knew what spiritual living was. What living in the spiritual world meant. I prayed for it, I wanted it, but didn’t have a clue what I was praying for.

I would pray at night to live in the spiritual world. Lord, let me walk and talk with angels, see miracles and have visions. Let me see people I live with, in the earthly realm, in the spirit not the flesh. (It might make it a lot easier for me to identify what people to avoid.) I knew I had to live in the earthly world, but I wanted some time in the spiritual world as well. I know I’ll see it in my spiritual body even though I am in the flesh today I wanted both. Sort of like having the cake and eating it too kind of thing.

In my walk with the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ, I have experienced some moments of being in the spiritual world, but mostly disappointments of my walk in the flesh. I would ask myself how could I sin so easily after experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit? The answer would ultimately be because you live in the flesh, in a world full of sin. That’s why I want to experience the spiritual realm and get away from all this sin. Or could I?

What does living in the flesh mean versus living in the spiritual? It seems easy to define. Doing whatever I want, whenever I want and there are no consequences. Well, this isn’t exactly right, because I don’t live on the earth alone. All my actions have consequences whether I acknowledge that or not, because they affect other people. So, there are always consequences to every decision or action. For Good and for bad.

Now let’s tap into the spiritual side of this thought. Whatever I do also affects the spiritual realm. God feels it, Jesus feels it and so does the Holy Spirit. Both good and bad behaviors. I believe we all acknowledge that God is aware of all our bad behaviors, thoughts and feelings, but what about the good? What happens in the spiritual world when we do good?

The spiritual realm in heaven is filled with good behavior, thoughts, and feelings. How can a good act by my fleshly self be noticed against all the glorious good in heaven? How can anyone who is immersed in only good, even recognize when I do good? I can see them recognizing my bad behaviors but good?

Well, the answers came slow and became more and more profound. As I began to understand what the spiritual world was, it was nothing like I thought it would be. Big surprise huh? Being in the physical world all the time, it was hard for me to take the time and get out of the physical world, to enter the spiritual world. All kinds of thoughts and behaviors kept getting in the way. Oh, I had a bad day today, my mind is a blank, and the most recurring block, I sinned again, was keeping me from this experience. Or was it?

What I was beginning to understand was that the spiritual world is not just heaven, but it is also here on earth. What? Yah. A great example of this is from 2 Kings 6:17 the prophet Elisha prays to God to open his servant’s eyes when they were surrounded by Arameans who wanted to do battle. The servant’s eyes were opened, and he saw a vast angelic army supporting Elisha and the Israelis who were there all along ready to do battle against the Arameans. Look it up, it’s great reading. Look at the Bible as a history book. History repeats itself. If it happened then it can happen now and it does, every day. We just don’t see it. Or do we?

You don’t leave the physical world or realm to enter the spiritual world, you navigate both at the same time. You have to be aware of both, and become sensitive to both, to experience both and getting a spiritual zap isn’t always proof of this experience. Sometimes the proof of being there is so subtle you can easily miss it, but if you happen to catch it- Zap! Even the subtlest experience can electrify you.

All Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Prologue

You don’t have to read the entire book to know the answer to the obvious question. We live in the physical world and the spiritual world all the time, at the same time. We are always there whether we want to acknowledge it or not.

It is easy for me to live in the physical world because I see it, feel it and experience it 24/7. But what about the spiritual world? I kept waiting for the miraculous to happen to recognize it. But what does the miraculous mean? A big event or vision or voice? A sight like seeing an angel? Without knowing, I just kept praying for experiencing the spiritual world to become a major part of my life.

I was so far outside of the spiritual world, as I prayed each night, I couldn’t hear God say, Okay, Mel, I hear you. Take your physical fingers out of your heart so you can begin to hear Me. I knew God heard me, but I figured if I prayed long enough and hard enough something great would happen to show me the spiritual realm. Little did I know, something great did happen and kept happening.

At this time in my life, I was walking in the world with one foot and with Jesus with the other foot. The old revelation 3:16 …So, because you are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold- I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Yet I didn’t know it. Like the church of Laodicea. It took something outside of me to see this lifestyle and it was my lovely wife Beth that got the remedy started.

She tried controlling techniques to get my behavior under control but that pushed me away from her and God. After many failed attempts, extremely frustrated, she finally decided to let God do His work in me and started praying for God to intervene.

We had been searching for a new church because of a recent move and were not having much success. A couple of churches we visited were good, but I didn’t feel God’s word was the focus of their teaching. Then we found Journey church in Middleville, Michigan. They taught right out of the Bible. In fact, for three Sundays in a roll the Bible verses I read on Saturday night, they taught on the next Sunday. The exact verses. One Sunday I can see this happening, maybe even two Sundays, but three in a row, I found myself crying during the third service and I didn’t care who heard. My wife’s prayer for me was in action. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was only the beginning of blessings that day.

After a hug from a church member that sat by us, we headed home and Beth with more questions than I had answers for. I only knew I was spiritually touched and needed to take a close look at the way I had been living. Little did I know I was being awakened to something very powerful and new to me.

We continued talking about the service at home and the Holy Spirit hit me again. I got hot and couldn’t sit down. I started crying with joy wondering what was happening. Then I started dancing and I never dance. I hopped from one foot to the other in the living room not knowing I was doing a spiritual dance showing me how I was living my life, one foot in the world and one foot with Christ. I wasn’t tired, but I wanted to sit down and I couldn’t. I asked Beth if she was praying at that moment for God to touch me, and she laughed and said, Yes! I asked her to please stop praying. I just want to sit down and be myself. I couldn’t take any more blessing. She laughed and just kept on praying. She wanted to get the most out of her prayers.

The day finally did calm down and that night I realized I wasn’t living for Jesus fully and I needed to repent. I didn’t realize at that moment I was fully forgiven and had indeed experienced time in the spiritual world. I was just beginning to realize I could live in the earthly realm and live fully for Jesus. I mean fully, all in, ready to pick up my cross and get to work on what the Lord planned for me. I mean sharing the gospel with anyone God led me to. No holds barred. I just needed to learn how to share the gospel, or did I?

Jesus taught about the kingdom of God in parables/stories. Heck, I can do the same. Share stories of my life, because God has touched me every moment of my life. I didn’t always know it, but He did.

Contents

Chapter 1: God Had Other Plans

Chapter 2: The First Spiritual Encounter

Chapter 3: The Teen Years

Chapter 4: A Major Move Towards Christ

Chapter 5: The Working Years

Chapter 6: Morphine

Chapter 7: The Overdose

Chapter 8: Pine Rest

Chapter 9: Canadian Lakes

Chapter 10: The Spiritual World Becomes Clear

Chapter 11: The Loving Arms of Christ

Chapter 12: Now About You

Chapter 13: The Last Pages Are for You

Chapter 1

God Had

Other Plans

I was born September 13, 1955, into what I thought was an ordinary family, but I was born into a hell of an existence. It’s surprising how you don’t realize you are living in hell when you are there. You think it’s normal. My Aunt Virginia used to tell me stories about me being a toddler. They weren’t pretty. She would pick me up and take me to her house for some rest from it all. I know this