Intensely involved with the things necessary for takeoff yet aware of every moment, as the countdown proceeds in the background your mind cannot help but think of the steps that brought you to this point when suddenly a thunderous roar can be heard from the rocket engines. The whole cabin and everyone in it is shaking with strong vibration from the power. A gaseous pillar of fire arises as lift off occurs and over three million pounds of rocket thrust begins to propel the five million pound craft filled with the most advanced technology known to man up and away from the launch pad and beyond the reach of earth's gravitational pull. In less than eight minutes you have entered orbit and an environment that has no resemblance to the one you have originated from with no easy way to describe the awesome view from where you sit, traveling at speeds faster than our natural minds can grasp. You are EXCEEDING BOUNDARIES. Going beyond everywhere you have been before. Such is the nature of what you are about to read. Such is the nature of God's promise to us. The revelation knowledge of Christ that flows through these pages are a divine propellant to catch us by the Spirit into INNER space beyond the veil of flesh and discover the present Ruth of God's Kingdom Within us for Today. God has a plan and purpose for His beloved children that can only be described as EXCEEDING BOUNDARIES.

Ephesians 1:17-20 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, ... 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.

THE ROAD BEYOND SPACE AND TIME:

All at once it happened, I passed from space and time, Went right through a hole that opened up inside my mind Found myself inside myself, then I realized, It was a journey into light

ON THE ROAD AGAIN:

Many believe that faith and spiritual life is vague, cosmic or ethereal in nature. However true spirituality has a practical sense to it. God teaches us to know Him by things we can grasp. So that if we learn to observe some of our own natural ways we may also see into their spiritual meaning as well. Driving late into the night during a ministry tour across the USA, Scott (friend and brother in Christ) and I were traveling along Interstate 90 from Seattle, Washington, through the mountains on our way to Peoria, Illinois. The Holy Spirit spoke "Peter now is the time to Exceed Boundaries, I have been preparing my people that I might show them things that the natural mind has not seen about my plans and purpose for today. Are you ready to walk in a new and living way before me." I was immediately caught away deep in thought to what the Spirit was showing me. What did the Lord mean by this? As we drove passing over the Continental Divide at the 6, 300 foot level the Lord said, "All truth is Parallel." You are doing things on a natural order that only a short time ago would not have been possible to do." God said, "Peter, in this same way my anointing will empower you and all who receive this testimony to exceed their boundaries."

Of course I knew what the word exceed meant but for the record I have included its definition from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary followed by the meaning from the Greek New Testament. EXCEED implies: going beyond a limit set by authority or established by custom or by prior achievement.
1: to extend outside of the river will exceed its banks 2: to be greater than or superior to suggests superiority in quality, merit, or skill. 3: to go beyond a limit set by implies a rising or extending notably above or beyond ordinary limits • G4052 meplooeuw perisseuo from 4053; increase, to exceed a fixed number of measure, to be left over and above a certain number or measure 1a) to be over, to remain 1b) to exist or be at hand in abundance 2) a thing which comes in abundance, something falls to the lot of one large measure 1c) to abound, overflow 1c1) to be abundantly furnished with, to have in abundance, abound in c2) to be pre-eminent, to excel 1c3) to excel more than exceed 2) "Abounding" is used of a flower going from a bud to full bloom.

NO LIMITS:
I was aware the Spirit was revealing something powerful: but how it would be applied was difficult to grasp. After all, there are limits on our lives everywhere and in every dimension. Having limits on behavior is what helps keep society decent and in order. There are rules of law that limit the coming and going of every facet of life and business in order to allow the free course of citizens in a culture that respects the property of others. There are borders separating nations, states and cities. County lines, townships and boundaries from house to house.

RULES OF THE ROAD:

When you are driving from state to state and have hundreds of miles to go you get a real sense of the limit on your forward motion. First there is the speed limit. Go faster than you are allowed, you risk being caught, getting stopped, and receiving a summons. Ask me how I know?

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