In John 14:1-4, Jesus said, “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.”
People have assumed and taught for centuries that when Jesus said that there are many mansions/dwelling places/abodes in God’s house, all He must have meant is that when we die and go to Heaven, we will all have a mansion each. In Heaven, the unseen realm over which God the Father reigns (and Jesus Christ the Son and Word at His right hand), there are indeed treasures laid up for us, every spiritual blessing is in the heavenly places before it is seen on Earth, I am not about to say this is not true, but it is only a part of the truth.
The Bible does not call Heaven the Father’s house… In Matthew 5:34-35, Jesus instructed us not to swear “by Heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.”
The Old Testament describes the temple in Jerusalem as God’s house, e.g. Malachi 3:10, which says, “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house.”
The New Testament describes those called out of the world as the body of Christ, in which the Holy Spirit dwells, making each congregation and individual a temple of God, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1st Corinthians 6:19, NASB)…
Do you see where this has gone? Rather than waiting around for a mansion in Heaven, if we understand exactly what Jesus said, we should realize that because we were made in God’s image, because His Holy Spirit dwells within us, we have the creative potential in our hearts and minds to pull abodes from the unseen to the seen, by faith.
You are God’s house, and Jesus Christ left Earth in order to work in you, so within you are many dwelling places and every other spiritual blessing in heavenly places. You are a heavenly place. Begin to confess this and ask for wisdom from God.
