Heaven – An Unexpected Journey is the story of Jim’s journey through a tunnel of light that brought him to the edge of Heaven and Hell. The darkness and the sound of Hell’s gates were real, but so was his angelic rescue from a creature who called him by name. Jim shares the experiences of singing flowers, God’s “sticky love” and meeting Jesus, who silently read the book of his life to him. Jim was ashamed that his worldly accomplishments amounted to so little! Jim is changing that now, and his book will change you!
hi folks
jim woodford here
as i was telling you earlier
i was just absolutely engaged and
thrilled with the beauty of heaven the
flowers
the the the the hospitality of the
angels the incredible things that i was
shown and what was explained to me
and as we walked along this beautiful
path no wider than maybe
10 feet wide with an angel on either
side of me and the tall angel behind
and they graciously answered every
question that i had and yet downloaded
me with even more knowledge of the
beauty and the mysteries
of god’s home
i spoke also earlier of how god in his
infinite mercy and compassion
when you make
the departure from this world and enter
his kingdom he understands perfectly as
only a father can
what a huge transition it is for you
and so for me it was being able to smell
tapioca
that my grandmother would make for me
but then as we walked along this path
i was absolutely stunned to see what god
had in store for me next
we came up to this beautiful split rail
fence
and the angel to my right makes a motion
with his hand
and i hear his voice he said james look
i look across this pasture
and there are three of the most
magnificent horses you could ever
imagine
horses in heaven
of course i had never studied the bible
or scripture i didn’t know that it says
that when jesus comes back he’ll be
riding a white horse
but suddenly i had this feeling i was
even more at home
there was another reason to be here not
just the tapioca
there were horses in heaven
and as i stunned as i stared at these in
stunned amazement the angel raised his
hand the horses looked up at him he made
a motion and instantly they started to
come across
and as they
trotted across the beautiful green grass
of heaven
with every step they took as with every
step i took lights sparkled out from
their hooves as they came toward me
oh
stunningly beautiful and they came right
up to the gate
and i’m just in awe there was a
beautiful white horse
those of you that are of my vintage will
remember the lone rangers horse silver
it looked like silver
and then there was a beautiful bay not
unlike
horses we’ve had in the past and a
beautiful palomino and my wife has a
palomino at home her name is honey
and so i’m absolutely
as i say
out of my mind with happiness because
this is something i can relate to i can
really understand and the tall one came
up and steered over the fence at me and
as i gazed into its shining eyes it i
felt as though it was trying to
communicate with me it was trying to
thank me for all the kindness that i had
shown his kind on earth
and i couldn’t resist once again i put
my hand forward through the rails and
went to stroke the beautiful neck of
this silver horse and when i did when my
my hand went right into the silken light
of its body
and again when i pulled my hand back
that light tried to cling to my hand
just as it had with the angel until i
withdrew my hand through the fence and
then the light went let go and went back
into the body of the horse
once again
a shining
wonderful example of the sticky love of
god
i’m just
amazed and so grateful i’m looking at
horses in heaven
and i’m looking around at the brilliant
sky with no sun the amazing flowers the
the sense of peace
the sense of of being at home
and as i’m looking around i looked to my
right up in the sky and i saw something
that i had never noticed before
you all know what contrails are you see
a jet go overhead on a sunny day it’s
high in the atmosphere and you can see
the contrails
and i look
and these look like contrails going up
through the skies of heaven
but unlike here where we have the
circumference of the earth the contrails
are always dipping
to match the circumference
but these were going straight up
bright white arcs of light
going straight up and i’m mystified i
knew or i didn’t think there were
aircraft in heaven
but i’m looking at them and remember the
angels could hear everything i thought
and i turned to the to the angel to my
right and i said
what are those
and there were six of them
what are those
and what he said brought me to tears
and it does to this day
because remember i said to you
i believe there are six words
god forgive me
god help me and the prayers of my family
that are responsible for me being sent
back
along with the will of jesus
and as i looked at those streaks of
beautiful streaks flashing up in the
skies of heaven the angel turned to me
with a look of love in those violet eyes
and he said
those james
are the prayers of your family
for your soul
the prayers of my family for my soul
and i began to weep
and i found out later after i had come
back and lorraine and i tried to put the
timeline together
of what had happened that in fact when
the
she had been told by the police that i
had been found because i had
died in my truck
but that it didn’t look good and that my
body was being taken to the hospital to
be triaged
that she
and her sister shelly her husband dave
and they are amazing prayer warriors and
i always
thought how can these nice people be so
brainwashed to believe there’s a heaven
but no matter what happened in their
life
they always relied on the goodness of
god or the belief that god would get
them through so there was lorraine
her sister shelley her husband david
her other sister karen her other sister
jeannie and jeannie’s son matthew who is
a captain with an airline here in the
united states
they formed a prayer circle in our
kitchen
and david led the prayer
that if it be the will of jesus
to send jim back
that they didn’t want to face life
without me in their lives
and i was overwhelmed by their love
and now i’m seeing their prayers go up
to heaven it it’s their prayers for my
soul
and the angel went on to tell me
that prayer matters
but we have become a culture of
instantaneous gratification
we go to church on sunday we pray to god
for something doesn’t happen by tuesday
god didn’t hear it god doesn’t care
we tell you this
every prayer that you have ever uttered
every wish that you have prayed to god
for is recorded and noted in heaven and
it is recorded and held in the halls of
knowledge
every prayer
along with every transgression
along with every act of kindness that
you’ve done
they monitor our lives not to put us in
a we gotcha moment but they want to have
everything in your life so that if you
do have the possibility of getting to
heaven they do a life review with you
and they have everything that you’ve
done
wished you had done wished you had not
done recorded so prayer matters
prayer matters it matters always but
sadly the angel said mankind is losing
the will and the ability to pray
when our grandparents
and our ancestors after a long hard day
of labor
what did they do after the family was
fed they had eventide
where they sat around and they prayed
together or they read the bible
now in our busy life what do we do we
get a few spare minutes we text
or we call someone or we watch tv
you must remember that those periods of
calm and quiet that come into an
increasingly busy life is god saying to
you
my child
i give you these quiet moments to sit
and speak with me
tell me of your worries and i will give
you the peace
that surpasses all understanding
look i have nothing against texting or
calling i do it myself
i will tell you this
god does love a nemail
so send god all the nemails you can
so i’m standing there so overwhelmed
by the fact that my family loved me that
much they were praying for my return
and as i’m staring in disbelief at their
prayers
i realized
that i
i felt a tug on my sleeve and i turned
and it was the 13 foot tall angel now up
to this point
he or she had not said much
and i say he or she because it was as
though they were the best of both their
genders
they had this gentleness of of of a
female but the strength of a male and it
was a most unique feeling
but
it doesn’t really matter they’re
creatures of god
but he said to me james
look and he offered his hand to me
and i took his hand and as i did
he brought his other arm back and this
gigantic opening appeared
and suddenly we’re above this opening
looking down and i realize
i realize
that i am being given a glimpse
of the holy city
the kingdom of heaven the home of god
and jesus
and with the enhanced vision i told you
about earlier where i had peripheral
vision and binocular and telephoto
telephotic vision i was able to look
and look down at buildings and look
around buildings look between buildings
people say to me did you see your family
and no i did not
but you see
i didn’t know at that time
that that i wasn’t staying
i had no idea
but it was explained to me that
you passed through two veils i had
passed through the veil of death
but there’s another veil before the
gates of heaven
and you must go through that before you
meet your family
i had not penetrated that veil
they knew i wasn’t staying i didn’t know
but
i’m just stunned because i’m looking
down now how do i begin to ask you to
suspend the laws of physics that you
have grown up with experienced and
studied you must
stop take off your earth hat and put on
your heaven hat and suspend the laws of
physics
imagine a land where past present and
future is all collapsed into one where
spatial references do not exist as they
do on earth where infinity
is forever
where you look off in the distance and
there’s no end to the distance
the spatial references are completely
different
incredible beauty everywhere i’m looking
down
and the one of the most
often asked questions i get is are the
streets golden and yes
they are
the streets of heaven are golden
golden
but not the brassy goal that you would
expect that we’ve i think traditionally
associate with the look of gold
not the fort knox gold
it was as though all the impurities had
been removed from the gold and the
streets were paved with this and so it
gave a translucence to this gold that
appeared to be three-dimensional and yet
people walked on it and or glided above
it and and i noticed that as it moved
toward that beautiful light on the
horizon the closer it got the more
transparent
that gold became it became as glass
and
and i’m just
uh stunned because i’m looking down
on the immensity of heaven it is huge by
human standards
imagine where distance and time doesn’t
matter
but this amazing
world that exists
and and
beautiful circular golden boulevards
interspersed with broad greenways
of of beautiful flowers
in a scope and a size beyond imagination
i mean this went off to the horizon
and interspersed in that beautiful
buildings
all around and in the greenways
and meandering through all of heaven
these beautiful streams that all made
their way to the river of life
and the water this cascading fountains
and the water and the translucency of
the water of the crystal water as it
moved along
was
was was in not just intriguing because
it behaved differently than water on
earth but it looked like liquid crystal
had found a way to flow
and
but i’m looking down at hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of people and with
my ability to focus i could see their
faces and and and of all tribes all
nations
but they’re beings of light
beings of light
but they have a countenance
and as i looked down on these
on on the citizens of heaven
there was something i was seeing but not
understanding
and i really struggled
what is it i’m seeing but not
understanding and finally i turned to
the tall angel and i said
am i seeing this correctly
because it seems to me
with a few exceptions
everyone that i’m looking at
appears to be in their early 30s
am i seeing this correctly
and the tall angel smiled at me
very benevolently
and he said in that beautiful deep voice
yes james
you are correct
and he went on to say that no one in
heaven
is any older than jesus was when he died
at the crucifixion
so i don’t know about you but i’m
looking forward to being 33 again or
approximately that age
god so
appreciated and loved the sacrifice of
jesus for us
that he decreed that no one in heaven
would be any older than jesus was when
he died
which
begs an
honest question if that’s the case
and we get there and you get through the
second veil
how will you know your family
how would you know your great
grandmother very few of us have pictures
of our great great great grandparents
how will you know your family yes you
have the countless you had on earth but
you’re 33 and you’re glowing with this
light
but see god’s got it all worked out
just as we have a human dna family on
on earth you have a soul family
in heaven an ancestral soul family
and they greet you and they will know
your soul and you will know their soul
before you recognize their features
and once your soul connects with them
you know yes that looks like my mom
looked like her mother that must be my
grandmother
it’s beautiful the way god has organized
it for us
it answers so many questions for people
so i can’t wait to to get back and see
my family to see my father who died when
i was two
to see my grandparents who had such an
important part of raising me
good
loving people
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and
as i looked down
they began to describe to me these
magnificent buildings that i’m looking
at
and there’s the halls of learning the
halls of knowledge the halls of healing
the halls of music
and everyone was engaged
no one seemed to have a sense of
trudging off to work
you’d see
you see these beings of light walking
arm and arm just as you would take them
to
charlotte downtown charlotte and show
them the sights and you could tell who
was the newcomer and who was had been to
heaven before because they were pointing
out the various features of the holy
city
and people seemed to be
just so full of love and yet some people
were walking with musical instruments
under their arm with a sense of purpose
others had books under their arm and i
really believe if you think you’re going
to be bored in heaven think again
think again everything that is that
you’ve ever wanted to do within the law
of god
is possible
but let me talk for a second about
the halls of knowledge
this is the repository
of all the books of our life
and all the knowledge of god and jesus
that is we are permitted to know
and the halls of learning are where you
go to study those the mysteries of god
and i said to the angel i said why would
you require a hall of healing because
there there’s no pain there’s no death
there’s no disease there’s no glasses
there’s no wheelchairs there’s no
walkers there’s no canes why do you
recall
why do you require a hall of healing
and his answer i think speaks once again
to the compassion of the almighty
creator for us
and he described to me this scenario he
said many people
who in their last nanoseconds of life
just as you james
accepted jesus
and god accepted
you and forgave you
those people many of them have led a
life of great trauma on earth they were
either drug addicts or alcoholics or
they’ve been terribly mistreated in
relationships and their souls are hurt
their souls are damaged and so when they
get to heaven
if they accept jesus they go into the
halls of healing and there
there the angels
explain to them what went wrong in their
life
what what happened to them but that the
love of god is above anything that could
happen to you on earth
and and there they’re made to understand
the fullness of god’s love for them and
they’re shown all the many times that
despite the life of trauma they lived
that god
stepped in to protect them
for the moment when they would join him
in heaven
the halls of healing
but there was one building that really
fascinated me
these buildings
folks they they weren’t
they they were built in the style of the
parthenon and and great
i suppose like the temple in jerusalem
massive buildings but they had a
softness about them and the softness was
because they weren’t created from cold
stone or marble they were created as
though they were melded from
or melted from blocks of light
and there was a warmth that came from
these buildings that you could sense
and and it was the warmth of heaven the
warmth of god’s holy city
and i’m just stunned by the beauty of it
and but there was one building to the
left as we’re looking down
that absolutely floored me in its beauty
absolutely floored me in its beauty it
was
a building that had a softness that was
different
and there was this huge expanse of green
land in front of it
and playing on that
were
thousands of children
kids in heaven
children playing with dogs and cats and
birds and other animals and i’m
absolutely dumbfounded
because i’m looking down as though you
were looking at any huge playground
in the united states or canada and the
children were enjoying themselves they
were playing and i said
what is this building and the angel
looked at me with a twinkle in those
violet eyes and he said that james
is the nursery
i said nursery in heaven
he said yes james
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this is where the souls of aborted
children
come back to when they are refused life
on earth
remember i talked about the spirit or
the light that’s in each one of you
when a when a
when a baby has refused life
god takes that precious spirit his own
life and brings it back to the to the
nursery and there
that little spirit is raised until it’s
in the fullness of god and explained
why it had to come back
and i was just overwhelmed look never in
my life had i ever thought seriously
about abortion it wasn’t my problem
but now i understand that the compassion
of god for every one of us for the light
and the spirit in us is so complete that
he protects that life and brings it back
to his kingdom and so i said to the
angel well are they like children on
earth and he chuckled and he said oh
yeah
very much so
and
and he
he went on to tell me and i said well
are they do they behave like children he
said just like on earth but he said they
grow differently because they’re not
growing a physical body
they’re growing a spiritual body they
mature three times as fast as a child on
earth so a child of two on earth is six
in heaven when they’re three on earth
they’re nine in heaven when they’re four
on earth they’re 12 in heaven it’s a
factor of three and once they reach 11
they’re the age of 33
the age that jesus was when he died
and i was overwhelmed by the kindness
and the love of god for everything
for everything and i have to tell you
this quickly when i look down at an
audience and i see
a couple weeping because they lost a
child
not just through abortion but through a
miscarriage or through an accident or a
disease that child is also brought back
to the nursery in heaven where they’re
cared for until their the fullness of
their innocence is prepared
again a shining example of the
compassion and the mercy and the love of
god for each one of you
and that is my central mission is to
make you understand the completeness the
wonder of god’s love for your spirit
because your spirit is his spirit
and he honors it
but he gives you free will to decide
what you do with it
that
although they record the transgressions
of our life
once you accept
jesus then the blood of jesus
covers all those sins and they are
completely washed away
there is no record
anymore
how wonderful
how truly
forgiving
and so to be given this glimpse of
heaven it’s important you understand
that i never did set foot in the holy
city you have to go through the second
veil but i was given this incredible
virtual tour
of heaven and there’s so much in our
book that i think will be a blessing to
you
to help you understand what awaits you
in the heavenly city
it is truly
a wonderful incredible
infinite place to spend eternity
i i pray with all my heart
that this description of heaven is a
blessing to you
because you
see
jesus always promised us
that one day we would be with him in
paradise
and it is possible
but the first
step on that journey
is your accepting jesus into your heart
into your into your spirit into your
very being
in the privacy of your own home
in the privacy of your car in the
darkness of the night
open your heart
open your heart to god open your heart
to his son jesus
you will forever ever be gifted with the
most incredible
place to spend eternity
the place that
that goes beyond description
but i want you to remember when you get
there
that i told you about it first
god bless you
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