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Posted: 07/22/2010 at 2:56pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

Worldwide Kingdom Awakening News and Views

 

 

 


Published by Ron & Barbara McGatlin - Basileia Publishing

 

In This Issue

1. Eternal Now Kingdom
2. Prepared For Battle
3. The Path
4. Top News Headlines


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1. Eternal Now Kingdom

By Ron McGatlin

I was taught through the church systems years ago that we could NOT experience the kingdom of God in this life. We had to wait to die and go to heaven to experience the victory and order of God. Or perhaps we could be alive when Jesus bodily returned in the air to take us up to heaven while he burned up the planet and made us a new one, and then we could come back to a new planet that would then be heaven on earth.

It was quite a shock and yet overwhelming peace when God began to reveal the truth about His eternal kingdom reality. I was at a start-over point in my life in the mid 1980s when I began again in Matthew reading the New Testament. The words kingdom of God and gospel of the kingdom began to stand out to me. I realized I did not really know why kingdom was so important to Jesus that He talked about it so much. So I asked God the question that completely changed my life forever. I asked God, what does this word kingdom mean and why did Jesus talk about it so much? Thousands of God’s humble people around the world have now received the word of the kingdom. The church and the world are beginning to be changed. You can read more about this in “Kingdom Growth Guides” (#004) and in “Overcoming Life On A Small Planet” Chapter 4 available for free download http://archive.openheaven.com/networking/webrings/ .

Jesus taught and preached "Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand." He sent His disciples to preach the same message. Jesus became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45) and returned in the Holy Spirit as promised (Mat 16:28) to indwell and empower His people to finish the work that He began while on earth. After Pentecost He worked with the disciples proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and doing the same mighty works that He had done in His natural body (Mark 16:20). He (the Spirit of Christ) was then and is now in His new body of many members reaching out in power to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel of the kingdom in many places at one time. This is the true Body of Christ led and empowered by Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit.

After the first-century disciples had passed away, men rose up speaking perverse things leading disciples away after themselves just as Paul had warned (Acts 20:29-31). The church became infected with the rule of man and religious spirits. By the third century the rudiments of modern religious church systems had developed. 

The Holy Spirit was replaced by other spirits as the theologians took an intellectual approach to discerning the Bible and establishing many doctrines as foundations of the spiritually powerless but politically powerful church systems based on the tree of knowledge. The theologians unknowingly had the help of other spirits in developing their foundational doctrines just as the Pharisees had in the past. Jesus said the Pharisees were of their father the devil.

The devil hates the eternal kingdom of God reality on earth now because it destroys his rule on the earth. He helped propagate the systematic doctrinal demise of the real gospel of the kingdom that Jesus and His first century disciples proclaimed and demonstrated in their lives. Doctrines were developed that postponed the victorious reality of kingdom on earth until sometime in the nebulous future. The devil does not really mind us believing in a kingdom some day in the future in heaven or even on earth. He wants all scripture about kingdom to be interpreted as in the past or distant future but NOT today. His false kingdoms can continue as long as God’s people do not find out who they are in Christ Jesus and Christ in them ruling and reigning on earth.

We are currently heading into an intensified season of spiritual surge to bring forth the manifestation of the eternal kingdom of God on earth.

The eternal kingdom is now, always was, and forever shall be.

Christ in us by the Holy Spirit is preparing His people to powerfully demonstrate the supernatural love, power, and wisdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

Love, the pure love of God, is the greatest and most foundational aspect of the kingdom of God. The experience of intimate connection with the love pouring into us by God is the fountain of life and the great all-consuming cleansing work of God. Sharing that love with others is the outpouring of God to save and change the world. Sharing that love with others who are also intimately connected to God's love is the most heavenly experience on earth.

It is the love of God that establishes and holds together His kingdom life now in this life and forever. Without love there is no kingdom - no righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. The entire world is eventually to be ordered by the pure holy love of God. God will have a pure and holy people who will return His love to Him – a people who will live by His Spirit and walk in His Spirit continuously.

Keep on pursuing love. It never fails
and His kingdom never ends.

Ron McGatlin
Coordinator OpenHeaven.com

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2. Prepared For Battle


By Kriston Couchey

THE WINDS OF WAR BLOWING SEEN IN NATURAL SIGNS
I am convinced that the volcanic releases from Iceland and South America that grounded flights on both continents were signs in the natural pointing to spiritual realities. The oil gusher disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is also a natural sign of spiritual happenings. There is a release of demonic inspired defilement into the earth that is meant to poison and cloud the vision and function of God's people.  The enemy is attempting to shipwreck the faith and destroy the confidence of God's children. The sound and smell of war is carried on the winds in the realm of the spirit; these signal the final battle of the ages, the full unleashing of worldly and demonic power on the earth. These forces are using every power at their disposal to contend for the destiny of men. Their centers of power are embedded in the political, religious, economic, and military arenas of mens systems.

MOBILIZATION
This is not so much a call to war as it is a clarification to those who are ALREADY finding their places in the army of God. We must understand what is happening. The mobilization of the enemy to thwart the purposes of God is a preemptive reaction to the inevitable manifestation of the greatest army ever seen upon the earth; the sons of God being revealed. The army of God has been summoned and the enemy knows it.  Mobilization is the act of marshaling or making ready for action. This truly is the state of kingdom affairs this hour as Father is mobilizing and bringing together sons (both male and female) who are prepared to go forth in strength and purpose. There is a people made ready for this hour that are emerging from the wilderness of trials and testing. They are trained for battle and are going to take the land of promise in obedience and faith. These who know who they are and what Father is birthing within them are prepared for battle and will stand their ground firmly in the place they are called to. The very earth is quaking at the presence of this army set in battle array in their own proper places and ranks.

ASSIGNED PLACES
Being seated in our assigned place is essential for the army of God going forward in this hour. Joel says it like this:   They run like warriors. They climb walls like soldiers. They march straight ahead. They do not leave their places.  They do not crowd one another. They keep in their own lines. Even when they break through the defenses, they do not break their ranks.  They rush into the city. They run along the wall. They climb into houses. They enter through windows like thieves.  The earth quakes in their presence, and the sky shakes. The sun and the moon turn dark, and the stars no longer shine. 

A sister in the Lord shared with me last week a dream she had about getting into our "assigned seats". In the dream, people were boarding a plane and there began to be confusion among the passengers. Suddenly, over the intercom the captain announced to the people, "Please get in your assigned seats". This was done in an orderly fashion, people who had taken the wrong seats in front or back began to move about the plane going to their specific seat assignment and exchanged seats with those who had been in their seat. When all of the passengers were seated in their assigned place confusion ended and the engines could then fire up.

KINGDOM FUNCTION
Those called to war have already heard the Lord and are already being positioned in their places. They know who they are IN Him and Who He is IN them, they are being given all things necessary to function in the places Father is seating them. There is a peace that is beginning to settle on the camp of the Lord, and the calm before the storm is bringing it's silence before the trumpet sounds and the battle is engaged on a full scale. 

The LORD shouts out orders to his army. His forces are very large. The troops that carry out his commands are mighty. The day of the LORD is extremely terrifying. Who can endure it? ~Joel~
The kingdom is not ordered after a hierarchal chain of command like the world. The Army of the Lord is going forth under the direct commands of the king. It is through the leadership of the Holy Spirit to each individual that the plans of the enemy are thwarted and his defenses breached. Father has given each of His sons a function for the purpose that is theirs to fulfill. Each answers to the Lord regarding the administration of their function. Yet this is all done in relationship to each other, receiving and submitting to the function and purposes of God in each others life.

The call of the Lord in this hour is to TAKE YOUR ASSIGNED PLACE and prepare to engage the enemy in battle at His command. We are not all called to the same place and function, and we must have faith that Father has others in place to meet the needs that arise in the midst of battle. Some are medics, some are foot-soldiers, some are captains and some are generals, but they all answer to and take their place by the direction of the commander Jesus Christ. It is important to be about your Father's business and not be distracted by doing what you think needs to be done outside of our assignment, rather then doing what you are told to do. In our places we overcome through faith; outside of our places we falter and have doubt.

FAITH RISING
In the face of increasing darkness there is a light shining. Faith and courage from the very heart of our Commander flows through the hearts of His children in their assigned places and function. Fear is gripping the nations, the hearts of men will fail, but there is a battle cry rising up in God's people. Deliverance is on the way, the army of God is going forth with the presence power of the king. Everything is about to change.
 
In His Love
Kriston Couchey

http://my.opera.com/Boanerges/blog/
 
 
 

3. The Path
Charles Elliott Newbold, Jr. 
Did you notice it? Neither did I, at least until I was on the other side. I can only speak for myself, but I sense that my experience is common to many today. Therefore, I speak in the first person plural “we.”
It seems we recently passed through a door, shutting out our past lives in the flesh and opening up new horizons of the spirit. We began to notice that so many things we once took an interest in no longer interest us—the sin that so easily besets us; that addiction we never expected to kick; those toys we desperately thought we needed; that getaway we thought we had to take; that relationship we thought we could not live without; that career path we just knew was going to give us our identity and satisfaction; all those noises and gadgets that distract us from hearing from the Holy Spirit—so many “things” of the world that are growing strangely dim.
Indeed. We seem to be passing through such doors and sensing that they are being permanently shut behind us. What’s more! We don’t even care that they are passing away. Matter of fact, we are glad. We feel relieved. Once removed from our interest, we see how empty and shallow they were.
Now, we find ourselves on a path walking hand in hand with the Lord of our lives. We see others on their own path with Him. We can relate to them in spirit. We can fellowship with them in the Spirit, but we cannot walk their path with them, nor they with us. The Lord dogmatically says, “There is not room for three on this path.”
We are alone with Him, but we are not lonely. We have never felt closer, more comforted, more filled with praise, worship, and a sense of awe.
We know where are we going. We have prayed for this walk for many years, not always knowing that this is what we were praying for. Now that those doors are closing and we feel the Lord’s hand in ours, we know that we are presently on that glorious highway of holiness.
Yes. We are entering the Kingdom of God in fullness in preparation to reign and rule with Him on the earth in heavenly places.
There! Look up! It lies before you. That path you are on, that highway of holiness. You don’t even want to look back. Even if you could, nothing remains to be seen.
                                        
I wonder. Has this been your experience as well?
                                        
 
Permission is given to forward this e-mail as is and to translate it from the original English in another language with the following disclaimer: The author of this material is not responsible for the accuracy of the translation and does not necessarily endorse the views of the sender. 
 
Charles Elliott Newbold, Jr
 
 


3. Top News Headlines


Murder of Christian brothers sparks riots in Pakistan - 7/21/2010
Communal tension that had been simmering for some weeks in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad, exploded into Christian-Muslim riots on Monday, July 19, 2010, after unidentified gunmen killed two Christian brothers who had been accused of blasphemy, which they had both strongly denied. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33414&a mp;PN=1


Revival as missions, pure and simple! - Rolland and Heidi Baker - 7/15/2010
Dust hangs thick in the air, a shining cloud in the bright light pouring in from outside. Rhythmic, pounding feet are kicking up every loose particle on the cement floor. Fire is in the atmosphere. Perspiration is pouring down every face. Life is in the building! Our Mozambican bush believers are dancing their hearts out, celebrating with all their might. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33337&a mp;PN=1


Christian Center Expected to Open Near Proposed Ground Zero Mosque - 7/16/2010
Bill Keller, host of the evangelistic website Liveprayer.com, says his 9/11 Christian Center near Ground Zero will begin holding Sunday prayer meetings in September. The proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan has generated a firestorm of controversy. Cordoba House is named after a caliphate that ruled from Spain until the year 1492. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33355&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


US Supreme Court Grounds Announced as No Prayer Zone - 7/16/2010
The intrusive words of a cop may end up costing the government money, if corrective action is not taken before a lawsuit is filed. A private school teacher took her class to the US Supreme Court recently, when the incident occured. The students were quietly praying among themselves on the grounds, when an officer told them to leave. He cited a statute forbidding parades. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33356&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


'Thought Police' Slam Religious-Inspired Media With Fine Totaling $125,000 - 7/18/2010
Spain has announced the penalty against Intereconomia for broadcasting video of gay pride events and asking "Proud of what?" The ads were intended to promote the traditional family. The media group is being accused of what is commonly called "hate speech." Spain is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, which promotes freedom of expression. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33376&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Finding Faith and Employment at Church - 7/19/2010
Madison and her husband were living in a hotel and had only a bag of rice left to eat when she walked into Christian HELP. After losing a $350,000-a-year job and having a heart attack that depleted her savings, the Washington, DC, resident had moved to central Florida to take a position that ultimately fell through. She found a job within two days. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33392&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Amazing Surprise at Birth: Blonde, White Baby from Two Black Parents - "She's beautiful—a miracle baby," says baby's mum. - 7/21/2010
A Nigerian couple, living in Woolwich, South London had quite a surprise as their third child was born this week. Both Ben and Angela Ihegboro are black, as are their first two children, but baby number three was born with clear blue eyes and long, curly blonde hair. The baby baffled genetic experts, since she is not albino and neither are aware of any mixed-race ancestry. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33411&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Dagestan police try to find answers to pastor's murder - 7/21/2010
Authorities in Dagestan are trying to find the underlying cause of the July 16 murder of 49-year-old Artur Suleimanov. He pastored the largest church in the capital city, with an active inner city outreach. He was shot just outside of the Hosanna House of Prayer. Dagestan population is 98 per cent Muslim. The Church faces harassment and intimidation from various groups. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33412&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


The Role Played by Muslim Women in the 'abduction and forced Islamization of Christian females in Egypt' is on the rise - 7/21/2010
The role of Muslim women in the abduction and forced Islamization of Christian females in Egypt is on the rise, with ever changing methods of deception. Victims are mostly minor girls, however, one of the most recent abductions was a Coptic Christian family. On June 29, 2010, a Coptic mother and her children left her home to visit her mother. They never arrived. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33413&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Papua , Indonesia: tensions high as military "sweeps" Puncak Jaya - 7/22/2010
Papuans are ethnic Melanesians and predominantly Christian. Their land, which was annexed by Indonesia in 1969, is being strategically, purposefully and rapidly colonised by Javanese Muslims, resulting in Islamisation and marginalisation. Indonesian military and militarised police forces are presently conducting 'sweeping operations'. Thousands are mistreated and displaced. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33438&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Victory for BC Pro Life Students! - 7/22/2010
"It's a great victory, and the terms of settlement show that the UVSS acknowledges YPY has been treated wrongly over the past two years." Youth Protecting Youth, a pro-life student group at University of Victoria, BC paid a heavy penalty for posting Feminists for Life's College Outreach ads on their campus. The University revoked YPY's official club status and funding. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=33437&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


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