Why am I inviting you into my Talk With God … my Chestnutland?
“Normally our prayer life is a secret life with God that nobody should know much about for reasons dear to the heart of God Himself (Matthew 6:1-8).
I am quite happy being somewhere in some ‘inner room’ with the door shut (as Jesus put it) and receiving my own ‘food to eat’ from God that nobody knows about and nobody should know about (John 4:31-34; Matthew 4:4; 6:6-8).
But what if God told you to open up PARTS AND PIECES of what He Personally taught you in secret prayer?
I mean that Talk you are having with God on your own for you and yours but now OPENED UP like a visit to a Theme Park for the sake of others He loves to help explain to them some key mysteries and foundational lessons in life with God learned so far.
That’s my story with Chestnutland.
What’s that like for me? I sort of feel like Willy Wonka opening up his Chocolate Factory filled with all kinds of hidden secrets learned so far after living a secret life for many years.
My secret life is with God my Father and specifically my Master Jesus … eternal King of Heaven and ‘first place in everything’ Teacher of how to develop a secret life with the Father in Heaven … and, of course, His precious, gracious and loving Holy Spirit sent to lead and guide me (and you too!) into all Truth from His Kingdom (D1).
You will find at Chestnutland just how much I love to talk about God and how excited I am to share what I have learned about His Gospel revealed to me over almost 4 decades as His devoted Disciple!
That might seem like I am contradicting myself with what I said in the first sentence, but it’s not. I always (honestly, I am not kidding) prefer to have a secret life with God just like Jesus taught us in Matthew 6:1-8 for all the reasons He taught us. I get those reasons and have come to appreciate them on a level I cannot even communicate to others.
I trust God Himself will communicate to you the same foundational truths I have received from Him whenever you are prepared to ask Him and receive from Him as your own Disciple-to-Master relationship develops and grows up into Christ (Ephesians 4:15).
What I am saying is that I am a promoter of anyone’s secret Talk With God but that doesn’t mean that when God does command me and you to talk about our Talk With God with others for the sake of His Great Commission command in Matthew 28:18-20, that we don’t obey His commands to do so.
What does this look like? I always defer ‘first place in everything’ to our Master Jesus’ Primary Example for a ‘Christian’ just like John explained in 1 John 2:3-6 and 2:26-3:10; John 3:3-21).
Jesus’ own prayer times with the Father in Heaven were no doubt much more AMAZING than ours given that He always ‘knew’ (‘ginosko’ in Greek – Matthew 7:21-23) His Father and He always ‘knew’ He was FROM HEAVEN and we are understandably just learning what it means to be ‘like Him’ as His devoted Disciple (Luke 6:40; John 17:1-26; 1 John 3:1-3).
We get some important glimpses into Jesus’ prayer example during His time on earth in places like Matthew 6 and in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46) just before being delivered over to be crucified. I am grateful for these and all the precious other examples and teachings in the Bible of His own secret life with the Father.
But my interpretation of Jesus’ example is that He purposely did not go into much detail about His own spiritual dimension experiential knowledge prayer times with God the eternal Father. I mean His Personal relationship with the Father practiced as Jesus the eternal King/Son communicating and connected to where His Father is (His Kingdom of Heaven) by the eternal Holy Spirit.
I believe Jesus always intended and always wanted to Personally teach all of us He ‘called out of the world’ (His Church) by His Holy Spirit just as Jesus promised in John 15:26-16:15 and John helped explain in 1 John 2:26-27.
Here’s a secret challenge for you to consider regarding anyone’s Talk With God, including our Master Jesus’ prayer life with His Father in Heaven: How much ‘food to eat that you don’t know about’ from the Kingdom of Heaven came to Jesus from the Father each day (John 4:31-34)?
How about this ‘secret’ challenge: How much ‘food to eat’ are you receiving from the Father each day?
I already referenced Jesus’ teaching about ‘food to eat’ used for this challenge above but here it is again for your reference: John 4:31-34; Matthew 4:4; 6:6-8.
I believe the asking for ‘food’ and receiving of ‘food’ from the dimension of the Kingdom of Heaven is primarly a secret interaction with the Father in Heaven because it was primarily a secret interaction with the Father for our Master Jesus.
Like Master like Disciple.
Why is that such an individual experience? My simple answer is that a Personal relationship with God is much more ‘personal’ and specific to each person’s own circumstances and their own Story going on with God than you might imagine.
Jesus had HisStory going on with the Father that was, well, His. Paul the Apostle had HisStory going on and I have mine and you have yours. HisStory Driving YourStory is how I teach the Gospel of Jesus here at Pokyra. We certainly have a corporate ‘calling’ as His Church to obey all His commands and words but the application and timing of anything is individually received by each of us belonging to Jesus and His Church ‘called out’ of this world to Himself.
Then add all of those other individually unique details of your life lived here on earth with your own Priority Area relationships where you spend most or almost all of your REAL TIME with each day, and you start to realize, ‘Hey, only God really knows me and where I am AT with Him.’ I get it that most of the Talk With God surrounding these personal relationships are most often for His eyes and our own individual ‘eyes of your heart’ ONLY (Ephesians 1:17-18; Galatians 1:11-12).
What about the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
There’s obviously LOTS to get excited about regarding the Good News of Jesus’ ongoing Mission to Earth and I hope that excitement I have received in my own Talks With God truly is infectious each time you Visit on your own or with a group of friends or family!
Get your own Talk With God going on for your own Personal relationship with Him and suddenly find yourself joining the AWESOME multidimensional HisStory ‘mystery of Christ’ (Ephesians 3:1-21) and God’s great ‘revelation’ of ‘the Father’ and ‘the Son’ invitation to us all that Jesus has already explained to us in Matthew 11:25-30. If you have not yet received this ‘revelation’ from Him Personally, just ask Him right away!
Chestnutland is available 24 hours a day to help anyone receive for themselves whatever they lack for themselves and to also share the Good News of Jesus with those they love in this world including His Way Out of all their Problems too.
Chestnutland is designed to serve anyone OPENING or already OPEN to escape their life lived ‘without God in the world’ for those countless precious eternal life reasons … of course … but also for those countless and precious temporary life reasons Jesus gave us too.
Did you even know Jesus’ Mission included offering you THE BETTER LIFE in 3D here on earth without going so far (as some Christians falsely do) as to promise some sort of ‘heaven on earth’? Don’t be fooled! Heaven is IN HEAVEN and NOT here on earth (Revelation 21:1-22:5; Colossians 1:13-18; John 3:3-12)!
But what we do get to receive here on earth is as AWESOME as Jesus lived life for our Example of ‘our inheritance’ from Heaven (John 10:1-10; Ephesians 1:1-5:17).
For example, He is still promising this to all those OPEN to RECEIVE Him:
‘The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.’ (John 10:10)
I mean His promise here in John 10 is for us to seek Him Personally and learn to receive from Him Personally what He has ‘abundantly’ prepared for us inside ‘the will of My Father who is in heaven’ and live it to the FULLEST ‘on earth as it is in heaven’.
Jesus MODELLED for us who are ‘of the truth’ what this means in both Practice and Fruit throughout the Bible and it is now up to us to seek it like hidden treasure!
The treasure hunt Pokyra is trying to help you with is how to seek and find Jesus’ own testimony of His own BEST LIFE accomplishing and ‘doing the will of My Father’ here on earth. Just look to His testimony of what this could look like at the END of your life and times on earth as He explained it in John 17. Jesus sought out His own BEST LIFE here on Earth from His Father and His Disciples get to ‘walk in the same manner as He walked’ and fill their own days with THE BEST LIFE possible too (1 John 2:3-6)!
When my own brief days here on Earth are finished, I will enter all of His eternal Promised Lands, like my Master Jesus entered them ‘first place in everything’ to show us how it works. Like Jesus, I will rise from the dead to eternal life to live with Him in His eternal Kingdom.
This is absolutely true! But what is also absolutely true in Jesus is that we who love Him as His devoted Disciples get the great honor of ENTERING many of Jesus’ Promised Lands while living ‘on earth’ ‘as it is in heaven’.
Again, not all of His eternal promises are even available without losing our earth-suits (earthly death) and put on our heaven-only-suits, but at least those promises He modelled for us while briefly living in His own Earth-Suit while paradoxically walking with His Father multidimensionally by His Spirit on earth in 3D … THOSE PROMISES are just waiting to be RECEIVED by those who belong to Him and ‘are of the truth’ (John 18:36-38)!
His Promise and His Mission to Earth is to save lives for all ETERNITY! When the time is up, He will shut His gracious ‘door’ that I choose to call simply His Gift (D2) with its window of opportunity to be ‘saved’ by Jesus the ‘Savior’. This Savior, who is also the eternal ‘first place in everything’ King of Heaven, will suddenly become the Final Judge of us all (Revelation 2:7; 20:10-15)!
This is truly the GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and I am honored to share it with you as I have received it for myself at Chestnutland!
I realize that for some of you even just that brief description of some of my own ‘secret life’ lived with Jesus so far is by itself ALOT to “unpack”.
I will attempt my best to do just that … to share with you the Foundations of our Faith in Jesus and to unpack it for your benefit here at Chestnutland Virtual Theme Park.
But know that I have MUCH MORE to share about regarding the ‘secrets’ of His Kingdom revealed to me over 35 plus years as His devoted Disciple and the countless WONDERS of what it means to live a daily Personal relationship with the King of Heaven in 3D, Jesus the Christ who rules ‘first place in everything’ (Colossians 1:13-18)!
I am not sharing much or most of what I have learned so far … just the key foundational ‘mysteries’ of His Kingdom and foundational truths that have been the most beneficial to me that can be passed on to other disciples of Jesus and practically used every day and every changing season of life on earth.
Now, let’s get back to the question, ‘What is that like for Kehrt?’ and the Willy Wonka analogy used at the beginning of this brief message.
If you ‘get’ that Willy Wonka analogy, probably a better analogy would be that I am more like Charlie in that famous story who has been entrusted with the Chocolate Factory given to him by Willy Wonka (Jesus in my analogy) and all of the many available (certainly not all but lots and lots so far) of the ‘mysteries’ it contains.
For a Biblical example, look no further than Paul’s explanation of his own experience with ‘the mysteries’ of God in 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 and 2:1-16.
Certain things of the ‘will of God’ for my life remain secrets between me and the Father and they probably always will remain secret just as Jesus taught us by example with the Father (John 4:32-34; Matthew 6:1-8).
If you are Jesus’ disciple then someday you too are supposed to ‘grow up in all aspects’ into His Primary example for all things in life (Luke 6:40; Ephesians 4:15; Philippians 3:1-21).
Call my Chestnutland (and my Pokyra business in general) my own obedience to Jesus’ command to make disciples for him in Matthew 28:18-20 if that helps you understand it better.
But what I know without a doubt is that I am now obeying my own specific ‘will of God’ command given to me Personally by His Spirit to now invite you to visit my Chestnutland for this unique purpose:
‘Visit mine but develop your own ‘Most fulfilling place on earth’ and ‘YourNameLand.”
Did you even know you had your own YourNameLand to develop with God? Yes, without question! You may call it simply YourLife or something else that works for you and that is just fine. The name of it is up to you to develop on your own.
What is important to realize is that nobody else will be answering for YourNameLand before God one day but you alone!
I mean you alone will be answering to Jesus ‘first place in everything’ for yourself just as everyone must someday (1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Romans 14:4; 1 John 2:26-27; 2:3-6; Colossians 1:13-18; Revelation 20:11-15).
I encourage you by visiting my Chestnutland to start answering to Him TODAY in YourNameLand so that Last Day meeting with Him will be much more of a happy and not sad experience!
May it be joyful and sweet like ripe ‘fruit’ God likes filled with wonderful memories and with less regrets about life lived briefly on earth (Matthew 7:21-27).
Welcome to MyNameLand and my own version of ‘The most fulfilling place on earth’ until we meet Jesus face to face in His Kingdom of Heaven!” – Kehrt Chestnut
The “Learn Jesus!” and “Practice Jesus!”
Challenge Scriptures:
(Ephesians 4:17-27; Matthew 7:13-28)
Ephesians 4
New American Standard Bible 1995
Unity of the Spirit
4 Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says,
“When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men.”
9 (Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
The Christian’s Walk
(Kehrt note from John: “in the same manner as He walked” – 1 John 2:3-6)
17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. 29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
(Ephesians 4)
Matthew 7
New American Standard Bible 1995
Judging Others
7 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Prayer and the Golden Rule
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know them by their fruits.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
The Two Foundations
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
28 When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
(Matthew 7)
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Jesus' Side in 3D
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