Learning to Enter
A short teaching before the dispatches begin
Before the first Dispatch arrives, it helps to slow down here for a moment.
The posts that follow in this section will not read like a devotional or a doctrine. These are reports. (The term “dispatch” comes from wartime reporting, sending updates from the frontlines back to those at home.) These dispatches are thus firsthand accounts of what happens when an ordinary believer stops trying to reach God and simply goes to the place He already prepared. Before any of those stories land, it is worth naming what that place is and how a person actually gets there.
Jesus said He was going to prepare a place for us in His Father’s house. Most of us were taught to read that as a promise about heaven someday. And though the Father will surely receive us into heavenly lands of promise one day, Jesus was speaking about something much nearer. The Greek word behind “place,” moné, means a dwelling, a chamber built for permanence rather than a stop along the way. (This speaks of habitation over visitation.) Jesus used the same word again a few verses later when He said that anyone who loves Him will be one in whom the Father and the Son will make their home. The “home” that Jesus refers to here cannot be in the afterlife — for the home God makes in us is clearly meant for the living. In short, the “home” that God makes in you is also the “chamber” He has prepared for you to commune with Him.
Let’s widen our vista here for a moment. Scripture tells us that Jesus prepared this place that where He is, we might also be. Such news is Good News — and it lets us understand that God’s choice to make His home in the believer was not meant to wall Himself off from us — but rather, He came to live within us that we might have intimate fellowship with Him — in that secret place — the chamber within — the Inner Room. In short, the “home” that God makes in you is also the “chamber” He has prepared for you to commune with Him.
So, we have thus come to call this the Inner Room. It is not a technique or a trick of the mind. It is a relationship, and like any relationship, it has a door.
The door opens through the spirit, not the soul. Most of us live from the soul most of the day, which is the part of us that reasons, plans, and feels. The soul is not the enemy here, but it was never meant to lead. The spirit is the part of you built to commune directly with God, and for most believers the human spirit has gone quiet from disuse. Entering the Inner Room begins with waking it up. This is not manipulation. It is an invitation, spoken plainly, to the neglected part of yourself: rise, and lead.
From there, the practice is almost embarrassingly simple. Find a place where you will not be interrupted. Grow still. Ask the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, to lead you to the dwelling Christ has already prepared. Then wait, and let whatever comes, come. Some people see a room. Some see a garden, a river, a stretch of open field. Some see very little at first, only a sense of warmth or nearness. None of that is failure. The Inner Room is shaped by how intimately God knows you, so no two people find the same door, and no one gets there by following someone else’s map.
The hardest part is usually not the entering. It is the doubting afterward. The soul will ask whether you made it up. This is worth saying plainly: if what you perceived carried peace, lined up with what Scripture reveals about the character of God, and drew you toward Him rather than away, trust it. The remedy for doubt is not analysis. It is returning. Go back again. The second time is clearer than the first. The tenth time becomes a rhythm, and eventually a home.
This is the ground the Dispatches are written from. What you will read in the entries ahead are not proofs or arguments for any of this. They are simply what happened when someone went to the door, found it open, and stepped through. The first one is coming next week, and it begins, fittingly enough, with fear giving way to something far better.
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