Heaven
Jim & Kathleen Kaseman

Some of you may have heard about our son, Jonathan, who died and
went to heaven at the beginning of this year. If you have not heard his
story, you can log on to www.caringbridge.org and put jonkaseman in
the search website section. You may also log on to www.woctulsa.org
and click on VIDEO ON DEMAND to watch Jon share some of his
testimony at World Outreach Church in Tulsa.

We knew 2008 was going to be different for us. We were anticipating
something great – something big. On December 31, we found
ourselves in ICU at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, looking at
our son in a coma. Driving back home Jim said, “I surely didn’t think
2008 would start this way.” But little did we know what was ahead!
Two weeks later Jonathan came out of that coma and told us he had
been to heaven. What an impact it has made in our family and the
ministry as a whole!

When Jon told us he went to heaven, those minutes he was gone from
his earth suit, he told of his Grandpa Nielsen greeting him. He said he
saw angels worshipping the Father. He said it wasn’t like our earthly
worship – the songs came out of “their being” into God.


God told Jon, “I am so disappointed in my children. They aren’t
receiving all I have done for them. They are praying and believing, but
they are not receiving. I have a storehouse full of answers to their prayer
if they would only receive them.” He said, “My people limit themselves.
They don’t see it through to the end. They don’t take what belongs to
them when they pray.” (Mark 11:23, Hebrews 10:23)

God also said that so many of His children have become self-sufficient
and don’t believe Him for things like they used to. (Exodus 20:3-5, 18-
21; Matthew 6: 32-33, Phil 4:13, John 15:5b)

Unfortunately, this is pretty descriptive of what’s happening in some
parts of the body of Christ today.

The good news is that if we will meditate on the New Blood Covenant,
understand that every need in every area of life has already been
provided for through the shed blood of Jesus, then believing and
receiving become very easy to do! (Joshua 1:8; Mark 11:23-24)