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Worldwide Kingdom Awakening News and Views
Published by Ron & Barbara McGatlin - Basileia Publishing
In This Edition
1. Intimate Kingdom
2. Fire In The House
3. Top News Headlines
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1. Intimate Kingdom
By Ron McGaltin
Although there are similarities in earthly kingdoms and the kingdom of God, there are also vast differences. Earthly kingdoms are usually ruled by the king’s decree of law and order with severe consequences for failure to keep the law.
There is very little access for the people to the king’s throne room, and that is only by special invitation from the king.
The king usually provides little incentive beyond punishment for keeping the law of his kingdom. Equally, he provides no inner strength or empowerment to his subjects to keep the law and live in the order of the land.
A natural worldly king may or may not show mercy upon subjects who break the law. However, He has no capacity to impart within his subjects the grace empowerment to live in the order of his kingdom.
The Love Kingdom
The kingdom of God / kingdom of heaven is indefinable in human understanding with human words. Multitudes of parables can be used to portray aspects of the kingdom. However, only by the Spirit of God may the realities of the kingdom be communicated or understood. Human beings do not have capacity to see or understand the kingdom of God with their natural minds (1 Cor 2:14).
The kingdom of God is a Spiritual kingdom that is far above all other kingdoms. Christ Jesus is the King through whom and for whom all things were created and in whom all things consist. All the fullness of God dwells in Him, and He is before all things (Col 1:15-19).
The natural realm was created and is sustained (continues to exist) by the realm of the Spirit. The realm of the Spirit is supreme and preeminent over the natural realm.
The predominant characteristic of the kingdom of God is the LOVE of God. The kingdom of God is ordered by God’s love. The reestablishment of the kingdom of God on Planet Earth is the work of Christ Jesus. The kingdom of God is established on earth by Christ Jesus flowing His resurrection life by His Spirit into and through the hearts and lives of redeemed mankind.
The kingdom of God is the only kingdom in which the King supplies the inner incentive of His love drawing us into His kingdom, and reflecting out through us to the world around us. His love and grace empowerment within us causes us to keep the law of God effortlessly. Our hearts are overcome with love for Him and the desire to please Him. His will and desire becomes our will and desire. We become one with Him in love. His grace empowerment flows through us, and all things are possible to Christ in us. As we continue to live by His Spirit and walk in His Spirit like branches attached to the Vine, we bear the fruit of the kingdom.
The Intimate Kingdom
The kingdom of God is the only kingdom in which the subjects or servants become sons of God and have full open access into the throne room of the King. Access is through intimate relationship with Christ Jesus. The kingdom of God flows from heaven into His people through the Spirit conduit of intimate relationship with God.
The pure and holy love relationship of a godly man and his godly bride in the created world is a parable or picture of the spiritual intimate love relationship to the KING. The pure holy passion a man has for his beautiful holy bride is a picture of the love of God for His Bride and Wife, collectively the New Jerusalem. The complete love, adoration, and awesome respect that a godly bride has for her husband is a picture of the passionate love, adoration, and worship we have for our Husband, Lord, and King: Christ Jesus.
The kingdom of God coming on earth is the product of intimately relating to God.
For many centuries we have traded the intimate relationship with God by the Holy Spirit for religious understandings, rituals, and practices. Because of His mercy and desire for a people (a true Bride and many sons), God has used the religious church systems as much as He could. Our loving powerful God, Who skips upon the hills like a gazelle or a young stag, will not break through or leap over the walls we created. He will not break in uninvited to take us by force.
He has waited outside, peering in through our fancy windows, longing for us and calling to us to come into intimate relationship with Him in the Spirit. As we open the door and enter into intimate oneness with Him, the kingdom of God is within us and flows out from us to love and change the world around us into His kingdom.
Song 2:8 -10: The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice. My beloved spoke, and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Many sons of God were in the religious church systems asleep to the intimate Spirit-to-spirit relationship with God that leads to the reality of Kingdom of God life now. Yet, our hearts began to awaken within. We heard Him knocking at the door, and yet we found it did not fit in with our religious routine to arise and answer the call to come away with Him. As we hesitated we missed our visitation, and, when we went to open the door, He had left. Longing for more we left our walled houses to seek Him.
Song 5:2-6: I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, "Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one; For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night." --- I have taken off my robe. How can I put it on again? I have washed my feet. How can I defile them? My beloved put his hand by the latch of the door, And my heart yearned for him. I arose to open for my beloved. And my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. I opened for my beloved. But my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
I thank God to be a part of the forerunner generation receiving the uncovering of the depth of the reality of becoming one with Christ – the mystery of Christ in us, the hope of glory, that was first unveiled 2000 years ago. For two millennia, it has been buried under a world of religious false doctrines mixed with truth and sustained by traditions of men. The gospel of the kingdom – the good news that the kingdom of God is at hand - is again being preached on earth. A people in love with God are being formed to experience the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
" Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” –
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” ~Jesus~
2. Fire In The House! – Resend
By Kriston Couchey
SOMEONE IS COMING! As I woke in the middle of the night last night I heard a voice saying urgently "Someone is coming!" Hearing my dog bark outside, I went and turned on the outside light; no one came. I went to lie on the couch and while half in and out of sleep once more urgently I heard the words, "Someone is coming!" As I pondered this today, a portion of Malachi 3 came to me: "...And the LORD, whom you 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. "But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.A CONSUMING FIRE
A few nights ago I had a dream in which there was a man in ecclesiastical garments like those worn in the eastern orthodox or Roman Catholic Church. There was also a man who lay down with the man in these garments and rested upon him. It came to me in the dream that I must pray and release the fire of God to this man who rested in the arms of the man in ecclesiastical garments. As I laid my hands on him and prayed, the man's flesh began to turn fiery red and then to my surprise there were swirls of dark black mixed in with the fire. It was clear that the fire began to show the blackness within the man.
The Lord showed me that the man in the ecclesiastical garments represents hierarchical government in the church. The man resting upon this ecclesiastical system is those who are depending upon or "resting" upon this ecclesiastical structure or system rather then resting upon the Lord. The Lord is releasing the fire of His love to expose the sin and blackness that resides in His people. The church has come to depend upon or rest upon the ecclesiastical order of church system rather than the Lord. Call it denominationalism, pastoral care, or apostolic reformation, the fact is people have been trusting in, and looking to MAN and his wisdom, not God.
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
JUDGMENT FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD
Judgment is coming to the House of God. We are about to see a work of God in the church that is the result of the Lord Himself coming in the midst of His church and judging His people. He is coming to set His house in order. He is coming to take charge! This is a sobering season in which there will be no more toleration for many things. He is bringing a fire with Him that is going to clearly expose many things privately and publicly. There will be no one in His household, including you and I that will be untouched from the fire of cleansing that He brings. Whatever is in us is going to manifest.
Deep secrets in the hearts of men will be exposed by the Lord. Anger, hatred, jealousy, lusts, greed, perversions, pride, unforgiveness, bitterness, impure or unchecked desires, etc., all of these will come to the surface as He comes with fire. He is first giving us a chance to personally deal with it. As we melt like gold in a fire, the dross that comes to the surface must be repented of and dealt with. If we refuse to repent he will bring it to light before others, and if there is still refusal then it will become known and obvious to all. Removal is the last step for the unrepentant. We have rarely seen or known the depth of our sin and depravity before the Lord, but we are about to know it. More importantly, we are about to know His even greater mercy and deliverance of His love.
THE FIRE OF PASSION
It is truly going to be a time of weeping and mourning over sin and rebellion to the will of God. The fire of God's cleansing will also bring a fire of fervent passionate Love for God, our brothers and sisters in Christ, and a lost and dying world. This will be a time of transition the church has never seen before. This cleansing will release kingdom understanding and demonstration of power that are the signs and wonders many talk about, but never see. There is going to be "turnover" in leadership in many places where men have built with wood, hay, and stubble, and what they have built is seen for the burnable material it is. Many new voices of authority and direction of the Spirit will be raised up in the church.
In the end, Father WILL have a pure and spotless bride for His Son. Our Father in His judgments always remembers mercy.
In His Love
Kriston Couchey
http://my.opera.com/Boanerges/blog/
3. Top News Headlines
"Gigantic" Statue of Jesus Unveiled in Russia - 3/9/2011
It appears easier to erect religious statues in the former U.S.S.R. than other countries in the West. A Russian publication, Russia Information Center, reports that a "gigantic" statue of Jesus Christ will be unveiled in Prokopievsk, in the region of Kemerovo. The unveiling is part of ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the city. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35875&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Muzzammil Hassan gets 25 to life for beheading wife, Aasiya Hassan - 3/10/2011
A Buffalo man got 25 years to life Wednesday for beheading his wife in 2009. The 46-year-old lured his wife to the television studio where the couple worked. He then attacked her with a pair of hunting knives, stabbed her 40 times, then severed her head. The husband claimed as his defense that his wife was abusive toward him and that his actions were justified. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35879&a mp;PN=1
Unity from Egypt's revolution short-lived - Imam: "Kill all the Christians." - 3/10/2011
At least a dozen people were killed and roughly 140 wounded in violence between Christians and Muslims in Cairo on Tuesday night. "A local imam called out their people of the village to ‘kill all the Christians.' It is disappointing that so close on the heels of a grand sweep of democracy and good feeling between Christians and Muslims that we see such a quick turn back." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35878&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Sharia in the U.S.A.: Christians Jailed for Preaching to Muslims--Dearborn, MI Officials Sued - 3/9/2011
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. O’Reilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35877&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Protest Rally against Shahbaz Bhatti's Assassination - 3/9/2011
Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), recently organized a protest rally in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad, against the brutal assassination of the Federal Mnister for Minorities' affairs Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti. Hundreds of men, women and children from different walks of life participated in this rally to protest against this "inhuman act". Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35876&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Free Burma: 'Prayer is the Air We Breathe' - 3/8/2011
While global attention is focused on uprisings in the Middle East, Christians around the world Sunday, March 11, will be praying for the country of Burma, also known as Myanmar. Burma's military regime has committed just about every human rights atrocity imaginable against Christians. The Karen and other Burmese ethnics are struggling to survive. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35869&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
British-Nigerian Televangelist Pleads Guilty to Sexually Molesting Two Young Boys - 3/7/2011
His London megachurch has a congregation of three thousand with branches in Nigeria and Brazil. And he describes himself as teacher and evangelical preacher. But now Albert Odulele has a new title — gay pedophile. The Principal Pastor of the Glory House pleaded guilty to related charges recently. At least 591 members stand by him on Facebook. Nine or so oppose him. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35859&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
American Missionary Beaten, Tasered in Haiti - 3/7/2011
Missionary Daniel Pye has been imprisoned without charges for five months. Except, that is, when he was briefly released only to be arrested again before he could make it to his vehicle. Pye was even sexually assaulted in prison and forced to fight a man off in self-defense. News reports say he is in frail physical health. Pye's wife is expected to have a baby next month. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35858&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Mars Hill Pastor Seems to Suggest Universalism, But Book Isn't Out Yet - 3/7/2011
Is emergent pastor Rob Bell actually advocating Universalism or is he just playing devil's advocate in a clever marketing ploy? The world will know in a few weeks when "Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived" is released. Bell's promotions seems to suggest Universalism, which would mean he has put a fresh coat of paint on an old, heresy. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35857&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Campus Christian Group Targets Fraternities and Sororities - 3/7/2011
Imagine 475 college students — all members of fraternities and sororities around the country — flooding a hotel for a weekend. Imagine, come Sunday, that not one noise complaint has been lodged, no chairs are broken, no beer stains on the carpet and the hotel housekeeper says, “What a nice bunch of kids.” Improbable, but that is exactly what happened recently. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35856&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Texas Church Mourns Killing of Young Pastor - 3/5/2011
After a relative failed to reach Pastor Clint Dobson and his assistant, someone went to the church, found it locked, peered through a window and spotted them on the floor. Dobson was dead. At last word, the assistant, Judy Elliot, was hospitalized. Police suspect robbery. The 28 year-old pastor was a distant relative of Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35846&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Presbyterian Panel Acquits Gay Minister - 3/5/2011
It's a case of judicial activism in church court. A presbyterian panel has acquitted a gay pastor of violating the church constitution. The ordination standards require "fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman" or "chastity in singleness." And, of course, the Bible bans gay sex. But Reverend Erwin Barron prefers what he calls "the personal experiences we all share." Read On: http://www.christianpost.com/news/presbyterian-panel-acquits -gay-minister-49235/
Why This 'Secret Millionaire' Went Public - 3/5/2011
When ABC approached Dani Johnson about starring on a new show called "Secret Millionaire," she said no. When they tried a second time, she said no. Ditto the third time and the fourth. The Christian millionaire eventually said yes after God showed her giving away a big check on TV was to glorify Him, not her. Reas On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35833&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Eddie Long's Church Reduces Staff and Salaries - 3/4/2011
Businesses today shy away from the word "downsizing." They prefer "right-sizing." So, how does this apply to churches, such as Eddie Long's? If you believe megachurches are far from the New Testament example of organic fellowships meeting in homes, perhaps New Birth Missionary Baptist is edging in that direction. Officials blame the economy. Critics cite the sex scandal. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35826&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Parent Jailed for Denying Kids ‘Sex Ed’ Classes - 3/4/2011
What would you do if your parents were arrested for keeping your little sister out of sex ed classes? That’s just what happened to Heinrich and Irene Wiens. The Wiens didn’t want their four kids to attend a mandatory play and four days of related classes. They felt the material offered an extremely permissive view of sexuality. So the Wiens kept the kids home. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=35824&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
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