Posted: 03/29/2011 at 8:12pm
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(Note: Revelation and impartation of the reality of the kingdom of God manifesting on earth continues to uncover what is sometimes shocking truth that adds more light to some of our traditional applications of scripture. Kingdom light is bringing fresh life for this life on earth that we had supposed to only have application in the final death and resurrection of our natural bodies. If you encounter fresh application of eternal life now in this article, please be patient and truly seek the Lord in the Holy Spirit to confirm what the Spirit is saying. Truly, we have NOT come this way before. There is much more scripture and teaching regarding these things that cannot be brought forth in this brief article. – Much love and respect, Ron)
Kingdom Impact
By Ron McGatlin
Trading Our Limitations for His Supernatural Life
Becoming One Spirit with Christ Jesus is no small matter. It is beyond our imagination – far greater than we could ask or think. It has not entered into the hearts or minds of natural man’s understanding. However, in this new season of emerging kingdom, God is revealing it to us by His Spirit.
In a moment of time we can be transformed by the Holy Spirit – changed in the twinkling of an eye by the powerful impact of the in breaking kingdom of God in the Holy Spirit. This is new, and we have not come this way before. Christ, by His Spirit, indwelling our spirit-being is transforming our weak spirit into His powerful Spirit that is HOLY HOLY HOLY.
No more mixture and no more falling back. What we could not do, Christ in us will do as we truly become one with Him. We no longer live but He lives His pure, holy life of love, power and wisdom where we once lived.
Yes, there may have been many years of “here a little and there a little” - years of three steps forward and two steps back – years of tearing down our foolish self-focused pride filled lives – years of our erecting our own castles in our own kingdoms - deceiving ourselves with religious platitudes from a god of our own making. We built precept upon precept and line upon line to be snared in our own works only to fall backward and be broken.
Isa 28:13: But the word of the LORD was to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little," That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.
In the passing church emphasis age we, for the most part, did not experience the kingdom impacting us, changing us in the twinkling of an eye. In this new kingdom emphasis age things are not as they were.
Judgment is coming swiftly to chasten and turn believers toward the now visible kingdom and away from our self-sufficient, do-it-ourselves lifestyle. Judgment of God is always for cleansing. Falling upon our faces in true repentance and crying out to God are often brought about through the severe disappointments of the devastating failure of a crumbling life under cleansing judgment of God. If everything kept on working well for us in our less-than-holy living, we would not be searching for change.
When our corrupt lives of mixture are being judged, a space for repentance is an awesome gift from God. In this emerging kingdom age, God provides a space for repentance for us to turn to Him with our whole hearts. Otherwise, there would be no transformation for us. We would continue in desperate disappointment and miserable life.
Are you getting this? Are you feeling the surge of kingdom impact upon your life? Are you sensing the magnitude of what we have walked into?
I tremble in awe at what God is doing in this day. I don’t know that I could have kept going if I had fully seen beforehand how big this change is in this time. I do not know words big enough to describe what it is like to realize that we are alive on earth in this season of the manifesting kingdom of God with its potential of transforming us instantly. God is renewing our bodies to be able to stand and carry the awesome power of the life of Christ Jesus. Our strength is being renewed to host the explosive fire of God.
Our limitations are dissolved in His supernatural life that abides in our spirits. Our spirits are consumed by His Spirit that permeates our souls and bodies changing who we are. Supernatural reality of Christ is available in all who are willing and believe. Supernatural life is not something to be sought after; it simply comes with becoming One Spirit with Christ.
Living Containers Made of Clay
Our bodies and souls are simply a container we live in – a vehicle for our spirit-beings to function in on earth. When our spirit-being is saturated and filled with the Spirit-being of Christ, we are transformed. Our spirit is no longer dominant within our living container (soul and body). Our spirit-being (who we are) is no longer who we were. The far more dominant Spirit-being of Christ becomes one with our spirit-being much as air entering a container becomes one with the air in the container.
We must decrease, and He must increase
There must be room available in the container for the new air (Spirit) to come in and permeate the air (spirit) in the container. There must be death (crucifixion) of the self-life that has been who we were. The cross experience of Christ Jesus truly becomes our experience. We are identified with the cross of Christ as we painfully die to our independent life that is no longer our own. Nothing we are – nothing we have is any longer our own. We no longer have any possessions, goals, ambitions or dreams of our own. There is no longer strength to stand – no willingness to get up from our face to the floor posture of emptiness. Emptied of ourselves we are ready for His new life.
Resurrection Life Only After Death
Actually, our spirit becomes dormant in this death event. We have no strength or ability to figure things out and make things happen. We do not even have a desire to do so. We have come to our end and find no reason to try to fix things again.
The Spirit of Christ Jesus can now enter our empty container.
The new air (Spirit) in the container becomes the fresh new life of Christ Jesus. Our dormant spirit becomes alive in the Spirit of Christ Jesus. It is His dominant Spirit bringing the kingdom of heaven life to our once dormant life that is now filled with His life. We cease to exist as we were, and now exist in Christ and He in us. We have literally become ONE SPIRIT with CHRIST JESUS.
We own nothing, and yet we have everything. We are now joint heirs with Christ. We are crucified with Christ, nevertheless, we live. Yet it is not we who live, but Christ in us. The life we now live is by Him – by His love, power, and wisdom. It is not even by our faith but by His faith we live. We walk on this earth as Christ, and the kingdom of God has come from heaven to earth. The Spirit of Christ within permeates our soul and body and our corruptible and mortal body has put on Christ.
What was corruptible has put on incorruption. Mortality has put on immortality.
Eternal life does not begin after the end of our time on earth. Eternal life is now in the manifesting reality of Christ in you (us). The kingdom of God is in full view as we each turn this major corner in our journey toward “our Father’s farm” – the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Keep on pursuing love. It never fails and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
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Edited by Ron McGatlin on 03/29/2011 at 8:14pm
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