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Worldwide Kingdom Awakening News and Views
Published by Ron & Barbara McGatlin - Basileia Publishing
In This Edition
1. Humility, Faith and Spiritual Wisdom
2. Christ and Antichrist - Video
3. Top News Headlines
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1. Humility, Faith and Spiritual Wisdom
God’s Kingdom Tribal Lifestyle
Part 1 – Kingdom Life Basics
Chapter 2 – Humility, Faith and Spiritual Wisdom
Pride is a major factor in fallen world living. It is often considered a virtue in the old-world order of human competition. Humility is often considered as weakness in the competitive lifestyle of the passing evil world systems.
In the kingdom of God, pride and arrogance are recognized as sin that God hates and that leads to destruction (Prov 16:18). Humility is a valued virtue that opens the door to great grace from God. God always resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6).
In the natural fallen world, human intelligence and cunning or shrewdness are considered as wisdom. This worldly wisdom involves envy and self-seeking that leads to confusion and many evil things (James 3:16).
In the kingdom of God lifestyle, spiritual wisdom is pure, full of peace, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality or hypocrisy (James 3:17).
Being Transformed from the Old-World Order to the Ways of the Kingdom of God
A significant transformation is taking place in the hearts of believers. Religious pride and arrogance are giving way to the pure, holy, and humble character and nature of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit. Love is becoming tangible as Christ is being formed within His people.
Through the natural processes of life we grew to be conformed to the ways of the fallen world. It was not in our thoughts or intentions to do so. It happened by natural means as the things of the fallen world systems were planted in us and grew to become our life experience. The new life of Christ cannot be fully formed in us until the old is laid down to make way for the new. The process of transformation from the old-world ways to kingdom living involves our willingness to lay our lives down presenting our bodies as living sacrifices holy, acceptable to God (Rom 12:1-2).
Christ, planted in us by the Holy Spirit, will grow in us as naturally as the old-world ways grew. By the renewal of our minds, we are being transformed to have the mind of Christ. The seed of Christ planted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit will cause the structure of our lives to be rooted and grounded in the love of Christ Jesus (1 Cor 2:16) (Eph 3:17).
A life structure of submission and obedience to God will result from being rooted and grounded in the love of God. The Christ life is planted in us and naturally grows from the seed of love. It is an easy yoke of freedom.
The life-structure of submission and obedience is characterized by humility, faith, and heavenly wisdom. We know that we are loved. We know God loves us and that all things will eventually work for our good. All fear and insecurities are dissolved in the midst of God’s love growing in us. It is easy for us to trust and believe. We feel secure, confident, safe, self-assured, and considerate of others.
We know that it is God who has supplied all of our needs. This causes us to feel HUMBLE, thankful, and meek and leads to a gentle, caring, and yielding attitude toward others. The central characteristic of our life-structure is a sense of ABUNDANCE, a feeling of having all we need and more. It doesn’t matter how much or how little we have, we feel no sense of lack. We have no driving wants or frustrating needs in our heart.
Psalm 23:1: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires (or wants) of your heart.
Philippians 4:19: And my God shall supply all your need (or lack) according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
The Light of God Fills Our Lives
The Spirit of God fills our lives with the enlightenment of Christ. Spirits of truth, wisdom, understanding, and revelation come to dwell in our spirits. We are open to receive the lightof God which flows readily into our lives. We can hear and obey the direction of God for our lives. We are able to have intimate communication with God. His truth is revealed to us from His Word by His Spirit. We can hear and understand spiritual truth with clarity. Deeper reality from heaven is revealed to our open hearts. We have enlightened ability to discern truth from error.
Isaiah 11:2: “The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”
Ephesians 1:17-18a: ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened ...
1 John 5:6b, 4:6b: And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Becoming Fruitful Sons of God
We become fruitful kingdom sons as Christ’s life in us flows out to transform the world around us. The attributes and assets of heaven are available to flow through us from the throne of God. With purity, holiness, and humility we acknowledge that all things are possible – we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. There is nothing remaining within us that will limit or misuse the power of God in us.
We will do only what we see and hear the Father doing. Even if we were starving we would not command a stone to become bread unless the Father directed us to do so. We have no needs that can drive us. We are satisfied with what He has provided. We are always Spirit led and never need driven.
We are trustworthy as a faithful bride. The powerful gifts that God releases in us will never be used to meet a personal need, when God has not so directed. We have the power of Christ within us to command a raging storm. However, we only have the authority to do so when we hear from God. When He tells us or shows us to do so, we have the power and the authority to turn the storm or command it to be calm. We would not turn the direction of a storm when God has not said, though thousands were in peril in its path. However, when God says to do so, we will quickly command the storm, and it will obey.
Becoming a son of God means becoming one with the Son of God. It means being led only by the Father. Becoming a full mature son of God is a process. It is a process of no longer being ruled by one’s own soul or anything else other than God. It is a process of becoming filled with the love, power, and wisdom of God and the fullness of the Spirit of Christ.
If you were the son of a duck, you would be a duck. You would think like a duck, walk like a duck, quack like a duck, and swim like a duck. If, through becoming one with the only begotten Son of God, you are a fully adopted son of God, you will think like God, walk like God, speak like God, you will be a son of God on the earth. In His sons God is on the earth, walking about, thinking like God, and doing like God. Mature sons of God rule and reign with Christ on the earth.
Jesus was one in number when in His natural body. He was multiplied in the first century disciples. However, they were few in comparison to the many sons that are coming forth in this age of the return of the kingdom of God reality through oneness with Christ Jesus in the Holy Spirit. This is not at all an elitist thing.Every human being has the potential of becoming a son of God. It is open to every person in the world. The elite One is Jesus
Sons of God are followers of Christ. They follow more than church doctrines, dogmas, precepts, and principles. They follow the light of God within themselves. They move in spiritual realms guided by Christ within, by the Holy Spirit. Sons bring forth governing forces from heaven by the Holy Spirit to establish the Father’s will on earth.
In the past ruling and reigning with Christ was seen as occurring only after Jesus’ bodily return. In the kingdom, it is being revealed that Christ in His people is the potential for ruling and reigning in life now. Now, the governing forces of the world are subject to Christ and, therefore, subject to Christ in us.
Col 1:27: To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Rom 5:17: For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
2 Tim 2:11-12: This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
Rev 1:5-6: and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 5:10: And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.
Jesus is the King. He is the only bona fide ruler of the earth. He is the highest power over the earth and all that is in it. Christ Jesus has at His disposal all power, wisdom, and knowledge. All of the attributes of the Father are in the Son. There is nothing impossible to Christ; nothing is too hard for God.
Nothing is Impossible to Christ in Us
Christ not only has all power, He also has all authority. Christ dwells in sons and sons dwell in Him.
We may need to pause and let it sink into our spirits that all things are possible through Christ in us. Our natural minds do not have the capacity to even begin to receive the fullness of this reality.
Father, open our hearts and minds to fully hear and receive the reality of Christ in us. We ask, Father, in Jesus’ name, that You fill and saturate us with the love and fullness of Christ by Your Holy Spirit – dissolving every hindrance, every doubt, fear, unbelief, and all limitations within us that in any way restrain the fullness of power, love, and wisdom of the life of Christ from flowing through us to rule and reign in this life now – transforming this world to You kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Thank you Father! You are glorious and worthy of all worship and all praise. In the glorious name of King Jesus, Savior and Lord of all we pray. Amen and Amen.
Keep on pursuing Love. Love never fails
and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
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2. CHRIST And ANTICHRIST - Video
By Kriston Couchey
CHRIST And ANTICHRIST - Vblog 9 - http://vimeo.com/28434082
For Additional Biblical Teaching Material on This Subject, Go Here: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37675&a mp;PN=1
3. Top News Headlines
Sudan: Entire Nuba Mountain Christian People Suffering Ethnic Cleansing - 9/1/2011
"There are 70 to 90,000 people that are probably going to die in the next month to two months." "The people of the Nuba Mountains, no one can hear their voice. They're suffering in silence. We need to be their voice," "The United States and all the nations of the free world, have to quit ignoring this.They have to take decisive action." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37669&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is now the clear front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. - 8/30/2011
Recent polls show him with a significant lead over the other candidates. Perry burst into the GOP field a few weeks ago, dramatically altering the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. Tea Partiers rally around his tough talk on entitlements like social security. But it's Perry's economic record in Texas that excites mainstream Republicans. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37650&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
The Ominous Handwriting on America’s Wall - 8/31/2011
An earthquake rattles D.C., and a storm ravages the East Coast. Is God speaking to us? I’m not a doomsday prophet, But I did pause to ponder the significance of the freakish 5.8-magnitude quake last week. The White House was evacuated, the Washington Monument was closed indefinitely because of cracks, and the National Cathedral’s central tower was seriously damaged. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37664&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Dozens Accept Christ After Paralyzed Woman Receives Supernatural Healing - 8/30/2011
One Saturday, Mohan and six Bible college students headed off campus to an unlikely place. They wanted to share Jesus’ love with the prisoners and guards in their state’s central jail. In spite of their original plans, the students didn’t make it to the jail. Instead, they went to a village whose residents were all police and guards working security jobs at the jail. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37657&a mp;PN=1
Boko Haram spreads fear throughout Nigeria - 8/31/2011
A suicide car-bomb attack that killed 23 at the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital last week has been claimed by a radical Muslim group with ties to the world's deadliest terrorists. "Boko Haram" actually translates 'Western Education is a sin.' This group who is very opposed to the westernization of Nigeria wants the entire country to be under Sharia law. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37665&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
News From British Isles, Ireland and Europe - 9/1/2011
Live-in couples more likely to divorce - Fears change to ONS figures sidelines marriage - Pre-abortion counselling could cut abortions - Charity launches ad campaign to help people in housing difficulty - Commission wavers over Christian cases in Europe - Parliamentary inquiry to assess Christian freedoms - Estonia: Spirituality in the world's 'least religious' country. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37670&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
'Impossible' Evangelistic Meetings In California at The Orange County Uprising - 8/26/2011
Huntington Beach pastor Mike Harris said what was happening last night in the big white tent of meeting at the Orange County Uprising was "not possible." But it was a letter from prison and a dream that finally caught the full attention of Harris after 200 young evangelists - called Circuit Riders - showed up in his "backyard" here in Surf City four weeks ago. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37614&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Muslims from Niger Help Kill Christians in Nigeria - 9/1/2011
Armed Muslims from Niger entered Nigeria's Kaduna state this month to help Islamists there invade Christian communities. In the early morning hours of Aug. 21, the Muslim extremists entered Fadiya Bakut village in Bajju district and attacked the home of Andrew Allahmagani, the district head in Fadiya. Boy, 10, and security guard for local official slain. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37671&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin UPDATES -- August 2011 - 9/1/2011
- Indonesia, Sudan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Zimbabwe. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37672&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Hairdresser Cuts Into Kingdom of Darkness With Scissors - 9/1/2011
It's a country, where less than 4 percent of people actually know Christ. It's in Europe but is poorer than some African countries. And it also has the world's leading per-person alcohol consumption. Moldova is a nation full of troubled hearts. "I gave three sisters haircuts. The third girl was so fussy that her sister heard the gospel and accepted Christ into her life!" Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37673&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
The debate over Sharia law creeps into American politics - 8/26/2011
A panel discussion in Tennessee took place this week, addressing a growing legal concern in the United States. "Sharia law is basically Islamic law, and that deals with everything from legal issues to social issues and marital issues--it basically controls every aspect of one's life." Under Sharia law, something that's illegal is to convert away from Islam. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37611&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Schools in Missouri, USA are being sued for using internet pornography filters - 8/26/2011
Schools in Missouri, America, are being sued for using internet pornography filters – because the filters may also block some homosexual websites. Superintendent of the Camdenton School District, has said: “We do not specifically filter sites promoting alternative lifestyles. We do specifically block sites that are inappropriate and will continue to do so.” Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37612&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
BREAKING NEWS - Release of Christian prisoner Vahik Abrahamian after enduring one year of captivity in Iran - 8/30/2011
Pastor Vahik Abrahamian, a 45-year-old Armenian Christian, was released from prison during the morning of Monday, August 29, 2011, after suffering greatly behind bars for a year. Pastor Vahik and his wife, together with family friends were held for 44 days in solitary confinement. All were subjected to intensive interrogation and severe mental and psychological torture. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37655&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Christian Convert Attacked with Boiling Water by Muslim Asylum Seekers in Norway - 8/30/2011
"Ali" (not his real name), an Asylum seeker in an immigration center in Jaeren, Norway, had boiling water poured over him after he converted to Christianity and would not comply with Ramadan fasting rules. He and the other converts at the center now fear for their lives. The message from other asylum seekers: "If you do not return to Islam, we will kill you." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37651&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Ahmadinejad: ’No Room for Israel in the Region’ if Palestinian State Formed - 8/30/2011
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says after the formation of a Palestinian state there will be no room for Israel in region. Ahmadinejad also urged the West to stop supporting Israel. "You and the Zionist regime will have no base in the Middle East," he warned, and dismissed the West's support for a two-state solution as a tactic meant "to save" Israel. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37649&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Home Churches Offer Safe Haven for Christians in Violence-Stricken Mexico - 8/30/2011
40,000 deaths have occurred since 2006 connected to Mexican drug cartels. In Mexico-U.S. border towns, people have been affected by the violence through the death of friends or family, or the kidnappings for ransom. "People are afraid to gather in large groups. They're seeing their pastors abducted out of the pulpit right in front of their eyes and held for ransom." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37648&a mp;PN=1
Nigerian Army Said to Help in Slaughter of Christians - 8/29/2011
Muslims with the alleged help of Nigerian army personnel killed 24 Christians this month in central Nigeria's Plateau state. The attacks started Aug. 11 in Ratsa Foron village, where assaults that day and on Aug. 15 left six Christians dead; also on Aug. 15 in Heipang village, Muslims killed nine members of one Christian family along with another Christian. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37638&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Oral Roberts University Wins Half Million-Dollar Grant - 8/27/2011
Oral Roberts University is getting a more high-tech, thanks to a grant from a Tulsa, Okla.-based energy company. ONEOK has awarded ORU a $500,500 grant to build a technology boardroom to support the College of Business’ Shark Tank program. The program gives ORU students the opportunity to pitch business and project ideas to investors during their senior paper project. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37625&a mp;PN=1
The Slain Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's Son Abducted in Lahore - 8/27/2011
Shahbaz Taseer, a son of the slain Governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, was kidnapped in broad daylight in Lahore on Friday, August 26, 2011. Reports state that Taseer's Mercedes was intercepted by more than four men in a black Land Cruiser as it drove down a street. The Taseer family has been receiving threats from the Taliban since the assassination of their father, Salman. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37626&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
Most new HIV cases found in gay men, US stats show - 8/26/2011
Men who have sex with other men (MSM) account for the majority of new HIV infections in America despite representing just two per cent of the population, official new figures have revealed. The American Government’s (CDC) has released figures estimating that new HIV infections remained stable at around 50,000 per year between 2006 and 2009. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=37613&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1
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