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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