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Worldwide Kingdom Awakening News and Views
Published by Ron & Barbara McGatlin - Basileia Publishing
In This Edition
1. The King's Business is Love
2. Stepping Into Glory
3. Top News Headlines
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1. The King’s Business is Love
By Ron McGatlin
Spiritual transformation of the natural world is beginning to affect every person and every aspect of life on the planet. The whole world is in the process of beginning to experience the intervention of the fire of God. The boiling cloud of the fire of His Presence has been gradually moving closer to the earth for decades. Since the 1990s, the fire cloud of His Presence has been hovering near the earth sending streamers down that touch here and there on the earth. The full cloud of His fire coming closer now is just barely beginning to touch the world and will soon fully set upon the earth.
Today, in this immediate season, there are bolts of fire like powerful lightning proceeding from the cloud, striking humble pure-hearted forerunners among God’s people with the fire of the kingdom of God on earth. Immediately electrifying them and quickly flowing to all that are gathered with them. No one in the gatherings that is fully impacted by the lightning strike can ever again be the same as before. In these lightning struck gatherings across the world, all that remain are instantly filled with the potential to carry the kingdom of God and impart it to many others who are prepared to receive. The spiritual lightning strike welds the people who are in the gathering together in love. Relationships are formed in a day that will last forever. A nation/tribe can be formed in a day.
Love produces liberty and freedom.
The predominant characteristic and major principle of the kingdom is God’s love. The kingdom is held together by love. Love brings purification leading to holiness. Love is the most powerful motivational force in the world. Love causes us to serve one another. The love of God in Christ consumes us and causes us to desire Him and to serve Him with all we are and all we have. His love flowing through us fulfills all the law and produces perfect obedience. Love destroys all fear. Love opens the way for us to prosper in all endeavors of life.
Faith (believing) is the second greatest characteristic or principle of the kingdom of God. Faith works by love. Love prepares the way for faith to operate. Faith allows us to know and relate by love in the spiritual realm that we cannot see with natural eyes. Faith working through love can release supernatural power of God to function and flow in and through us. Power to fulfill the will of God and bring forth His righteousness in His kingdom on earth comes by faith through love.
Peace and joy are never far behind righteousness produced by faith and love. Because of faith through the love of God, hope (positive expectation) fully endures even the darkest valleys of the shadows of death remaining in this world.
Living the kingdom lifestyle sets us in liberty from all fear, anxiety, worry, striving, resentment, jealously, envy, anger, hatred, and all other forms of stress. Freedom from these death and disease causing factors allows us to be healed and move into greater wellness in our bodies. In the kingdom lifestyle, greater prosperity of our spirits, souls, and bodies increases our potential for prosperity in all of the King’s business that we are given to steward for and with Him.
Babylon is Falling – New Jerusalem is Forming
The message of the ministers of fire, reaching to every high-rise mega city, to the mountain villages and the caves of the forest lands is in part, “come out of spiritual Babylon my people. Set your heart toward spiritual Jerusalem. Make haste! For the time has come for this great harlot religious, political, and economic system with all its patterns of life to be judged of God, and it is coming down.”
The patterns of Babylon must be dissolved before the patterns of New Jerusalem can rule the whole world. The people seeking to enter the city-of-God lifestyle must have the Babylonian patterns and ways broken, removed from their lives, and replaced with New Jerusalem patterns. The Babylonian system has been deadly to the saints of God. Many have fallen, and many are in captivity to Babylonian ways. God’s people are warned to come out of Babylon lest they receive of her plagues.
Revelation 18:2-4: And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a habitation of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues."
The time is short. God will do a quick work. Forerunners, struck by this lightning, will be quickly transformed and quickly moving in the power of the Spirit to carry the fire of the kingdom of God to multitudes fleeing from the crashing of Babylon.
The great roaring cloud of the fire of God touching earth will soon fully be upon the earth and will leave only smoke and ashes of Babylon. The call of the hour is gather in relational kingdom seeking gatherings and be transformed in the presence of God. Run out of Babylonian style religious and secular, social, economic, political gatherings and connections. Run toward the New Jerusalem presence and power of God and seek to empty your head, heart, and life of all the ways of Babylon. Christ Jesus by His Spirit will guide us and empower us to transition into the reality of Spirit-led powerful yet humble ways of His life in us.
Do not be deceived by the relatively short season of seemingly peace in Babylon. Do not believe the false words of peace, peace when there is no peace in Babylon.
The kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God, and we will be a part of it by the love, wisdom, and power of the Spirit of God in us.
All things are possible to those who believe the words of God.
Luke 4:18-19: "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."
2. STEPPING INTO GLORY
THE QUANTUM LEAP
And he (Enoch) walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him. Gen. 5:24 (RHE) Get ready for a quantum leap. The term "Quantum Leap" comes from the world of physics and refers to an all at once abrupt transition from one energy state to another. We have come to a tipping point where our next step is a step into the glory of God. As we step into His glory, He is stepping into us, and will reveal the very nature and authority of God to us and through us. Like Enoch, Those walking with Father will be seen no more, it will be Christ seen in us.
PARADIGM SHIFT
We are shifting from the wilderness to the promised land, From gathering manna to flowing milk and honey, from just enough to abundance, from simply exercising gifts to walking in sovereign Glory. The Lord Himself is coming to rest in glory in and upon His sons. -- and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.We are that Temple. "Christ in me" is more then just a slogan. He is coming in such glory that everything is about to change. The rules are about to change. Truth will not change, but our understanding of it will be much clearer in the light of His glory.
As everything changes no flesh shall glory in His presence. No more business as usual. No more fence sitters or passive agreement. Presumption among His people is leaving. The reality of heaven is invading earth and the laws in the realm of heaven trump the laws of the natural world. Nothing is impossible and there is nowhere to hide.
HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE BECOMING ONE
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven This is a prayer that both heaven and earth dimensions would be ONE in their expression of Father's sovereignty. The kingdom of God is not a "place" as we perceive time and space from an earthly perspective. It is a dimension in Christ which is manifest in and through people. When Jesus said "I Go to prepare a place for you" it was a "place" in Him in the realm of the Spirit. It is a "seat" in the heavenlies where we are seated RIGHT NOW.
Jesus told us to pray "thy kingdom come, they will be done on earth as it is in heaven." He DOES reign over all, and in heaven His will is done perfectly. He is coming in fullness to His temple that we might manifest on earth the reality of His reign in heaven. The New Jerusalem (the bride) descends from heaven; meaning that in the fullness of time those seated in the heavenlies that are ONE with Him in Spirit will fully express what already exists in heaven. Heaven is coming on earth and His will is being done. He has lifted us up into heavenly places. Heaven earth are ONE as we manifest on earth our ONENESS with Him in heavenly places.
His purpose is to bring His kingdom (place of God's reign) "at hand" or right within mankind's reach. This does not mean He is coming to take us away to another place. We are ALREADY sitting in that place prepared for us. He is causing that place in heaven to manifest into the realm of earth. He is the unifying the dimensions of heaven with earth. Everything is about to change and will never be the same again.
This quantum leap is the manifestation of sons in the image of their Father. This is the quantum leap, this is paradigm shift, this is the transition. This is the day of the Lord!
In His Love
Kriston Couchey
http://my.opera.com/Boanerges/blog/
3. Top News Headlines
Bad Omen? Brotherhood to Form Political Party CBNnews.com - 2/16/2011
The Muslim Brotherhood announced plans on Tuesday to form a political party in Egypt, underscoring its intentions to play a key role in the country's future. CBN News Terrorism Analyst Erick Stakelbeck discussed what senior Israeli officials said about the Muslim Brotherhood becoming a partner in a governing coalition. Watch the video. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35677&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Will the Muslim Brotherhood Win in Egypt? Video> - 2/15/2011
Many foreign policy experts believe that the radical organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood will gain great influence in Egypt. This secretive group has had many Western observers uneasy for years. The Brotherhood was founded in 1928 in Egypt, with the goal of spreading Islamic sharia law worldwide and uniting all Muslim nations into one Islamic super-state. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35669&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Young Christian allegedly tortured and killed by wealthy Muslim - 2/15/2011
"These episodes follow one another in a context of social and religious discrimination. Muslims believe they can dispose of the lives of Christians, who come last in the social scale, treated as objects. They are helpless victims of attacks." Only after blocking streets to get attention and appealing to the authorities did the police officially record murder charges. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35670&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Middle East unrest, Muslim openness globally Because of uncertainty and fear, Muslims are looking for truth. - 2/17/2011
With unrest spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, country leaders are doing all they can to preserve their power. The political unrest coupled with an uncertain faith is a recipe for changed hearts. "Their governments are oppressing them. They aren't allowed to read Bibles. The internet is blocked. People can't blog. This is creating a hunger." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35689&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Consumer Prices Skyrocket Around the World - 2/17/2011
Gasoline, food and clothing prices are rising and are the result of a perfect weather storm in the U.S. and abroad. For Americans already working with strapped budgets, the price of basic staples -- everything a family needs -- is rising. Corn prices have risen 73 percent and wheat prices have topped 67 percent. So what does that mean for consumers? Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35687&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Afghanistan: Jesus appears in prison - 2/16/2011
Afghanistan in May 2010 footage was nationally televised of Afghan Christians being baptized and in prayer gatherings. The broadcast triggered protests throughout the country and calls to execute Christians. Musa, a father of six and an amputee in a letter written from prison in Kabul said that he had been beaten, forcefully sleep deprived, and sexually abused by prisoners... Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35678&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Ted Haggard Endorses Gay Marriage - 2/15/2011
In the cover story of a prominent homosexual magazine Haggard says, "I believe that churches, synagogues, mosques and temples should have total freedom to have whatever types of unions they believe is godly." He also says he believes the church is in another "the Earth is flat" crisis and may face embarassment in 10 or 20 years over its current position. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35671&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
A Former Prosecuting Attorney and his wife are now providing 'hope' to the needy people of South Central Los Angeles, birthplace of gangs like the 'Bloods' and the 'Crips' - 2/17/2011
South Los Angeles is considered to be the forefront for gang warfare and poverty in the "City of Angels," with much gang violence and crime. It was the birthplace of many gangs famous for their notoriety. So why on earth would Doug and Cathy Kelley, Make this area their home? "Believe it or not, we are very contented living here and don't look upon it as a big sacrifice," Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35690&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Defender of Asia Bibi Gets to Keep His Cabinet Position - 2/13/2011
Shahbaz Bhatti has taken a lot of heat in his position as Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minority Affairs. He's been the subject of death threats. Most recently, extremists were upset he wanted Christian mom Asia Bibi pardoned for a trumped up blasphemy charge. That's why it's surprising that during a recent government reshuffling, Bhatti retained his post. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35655&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Government May Lift Gay Church “Wedding” Ban inEngland and Wales - 2/13/2011
Currently when a gay couple in England or Wales celebrates a civil union, no hymns or Bible verses are allowed. But the government is expected to announce plans soon to allow homosexuals to register civil partnerships in church. Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, says he does not want churches to be told what to do. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35653&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Lawmakers in Congress Push to De-Fund Planned Parenthood - 2/11/2011
A pro-life group recently used undercover video to catch Planned Parenthood workers violating laws that prevent underage and unauthorized abortions. They can be seen giving advice to a couple they thought were a pimp and underage prostitute. This has led to a massive move to cut off Planned Parenthood's millions of dollars in government grants and contracts. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35625&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
California Wants Lesbians as Mandatory 'Role' Models - 2/12/2011
California may soon be required to portray lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and those who have chosen other alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models to children. But supporters of traditional morality are hoping to defeat Senate Bill 48. This raises an important question. Would California schools be required to promote pedophilia? Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35632&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Prayer Movement 'Rising Up' Australia - 2/12/2011
Flash floods and a powerful cyclone have taken a toll on Australia this year, but in the midst of their hardship, many residents have found the "good news." Pockets of revival are breaking out in the country and miracles have been reported as a result of the prayer movement "Rise Up Australia." There are even reports of the raising of the dead. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35639&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
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