Not at the Foot of the Cross: Step Into Heavenly Places

• What Is the Difference Between the Cross as Doorway Versus Destination?
• What Does Luke 23:45 Reveal About the Veil and Your Access to God?
• Where Did God Place You the Moment You Were Born Again?
• Why Do Believers Stay Spiritually Parked at the Foot of the Cross?
• How Do You Move From Trying to Qualify Into Governing From Christ?
• Step Further Into Your Heavenly Position Through Living From Eternity

There are only two states of spiritual existence. Before Jesus: the fallen Adamic state, separated from the Father, striving for access. After Jesus: the victorious life, raised with Christ, seated at the right hand of God. The cross is the transition point between these two realities.

But here is what too many believers miss. The cross is not the destination. It is the doorway. It is the place where death happened so that resurrection life could begin. Jesus did not stay on the cross and neither are you meant to. The veil was torn so you could walk through, not stand in the opening forever.

In this Eternal Perspectives, Kurt daSilva unpacks what it means to stop standing at the foot of the cross and step fully into the heavenly places that were secured for you the moment you were born again.

What Is the Difference Between the Cross as Doorway Versus Destination?

A doorway is a transition, not a home. You walk through a doorway because something greater is on the other side. The cross was the most significant doorway in human history: the place where sin was dealt with, death was defeated, and access to the Father was fully restored. But it was never meant to be where you set up camp.

When believers treat the cross as the destination, they spend their spiritual life continually returning to guilt, shame, and the need to re-qualify for what has already been given. The cross settled the question of your acceptance once and for all. What lies beyond it is the fullness of what that finished work secured: the right hand of the Father, the heavenly places in Christ, the seat of governance, abundance, and spiritual authority that is already yours.

What Does Luke 23:45 Reveal About the Veil and Your Access to God?

“And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst” (Luke 23:45, KJV). The veil that separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies, the thick barrier that kept all but the High Priest from the manifest presence of God, was torn from top to bottom at the moment of Jesus’s death.

That veil was torn so you could enter in. It was the Father’s declaration that the way into His presence is now fully open, permanently, for every son of God. The cross did not just forgive you. It gave you immediate, unobstructed access to the Father’s throne room. The question is not whether God will receive you. The question is whether you will walk through the door that has been standing open since the day the veil was torn.

Where Did God Place You the Moment You Were Born Again?

Ephesians 2:6 declares that God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” This is positional truth. Past tense. Done at the new birth. You were not placed at the foot of the cross. You were placed at the right hand of the Father, in Christ, in the heavenly places where governance, abundance, and spiritual authority originate.

You are not trying to get there. You are already there, in Jesus. The life of a son of God is not a journey toward acceptance. It is the outworking of a position already secured. When your mindset catches up to this positional reality, everything about how you pray, how you live, and how you govern changes. You stop reaching from below and start releasing from above.

Why Do Believers Stay Spiritually Parked at the Foot of the Cross?

Religion is largely responsible. A system built on managing sin rather than celebrating righteousness keeps believers in a perpetual cycle of returning to the cross for re-qualification. Still trying to be accepted. Still hoping to someday deserve favor. Still standing in the doorway rather than walking through into the fullness on the other side.

The cross dealt with sin once. “It is finished” means the qualification is complete. You do not need to keep returning to the place of death to be reminded of what was settled there. You are meant to live from the resurrection side of the cross: from life, from sonship, from the heavenly seat that was secured by the finished work of Christ. Staying at the foot of the cross is not humility. It is failing to receive what Jesus gave His life to give you.

How Do You Move From Trying to Qualify Into Governing From Christ?

The shift is a revelation of position. You are not working toward a seat at the Father’s table. You are already seated there in Christ. Governance flows from that position: not striving toward acceptance but releasing from rest, not earning favor but distributing it as a son who knows his inheritance.

Practically, this means you stop approaching God as someone hoping to be received and start approaching Him as a son who is known and welcomed. You stop praying from the floor and start praying from the throne room. Your intercession, your declarations, and your daily living begin to carry the authority of someone who knows where they are seated. That is what it looks like to step fully through the doorway the cross opened and live from the other side.

Step Further Into Your Heavenly Position Through Living From Eternity

This revelation of your heavenly seat in Christ runs deep. Living From Eternity by Kurt daSilva builds the complete framework of what it means to live from your position in the heavenly places: throne room encounters, sonship identity, and the daily reality of governing from rest rather than striving from below.

If you are ready to step fully through the doorway and live from the other side of the cross, Living From Eternity is available in paperback, audiobook, and Kindle.

About Kurt daSilva

Kurt is the author, speaker, and Founder of LifeDeeperStill, a movement activating sons of God into Kingdom identity and Heaven on earth living.

Since 2016, Kurt has received over 2000 dreams, visions, and heavenly encounters, including ongoing throne room engagements and walks in the Father’s garden. LifeDeeperStill was birthed at the end of 2016 and went public in 2017.

His 8-year publishing arc has produced three books charting the journey from Father encounter to son identity to Kingdom abundance: Heaven On Earth, Living From Eternity, and Create Wealth God’s Way.

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