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Posted: 01/24/2013 at 1:19pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

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1. Only By My Spirit, Says the Lord
2. Layers Coming Off... Truly Walking in the Spirit
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1. Only by My Spirit, Says the Lord

By Ron McGatlin

The ultimate source of supernatural strength from heaven is now very near. The fulfillment of heaven’s desire for God’s people is at hand. The potential to receive and release heavens supernatural unlimited life to change the world is hovering (brooding) in the atmosphere of earth. The FIRE of God’s LOVE permeates the atmosphere ready to explode into the hearts and lives of emptied available ordinary men and women. In this season, any human being that is alive has the potential to quickly be prepared as a vessel to connect into the fire of love from heaven and bring heavenly change to the world around them.

The season is coming to an end for believers ignoring the Spirit of God and filling their lives with other spirits of false gods, while at the same time trusting in the mercy of God to sustain them. It is the mercy of God that is bringing a halt to our walk of mixture.

An intense longing for truth and for that which is real has risen up in the hearts of many believers. A strong distaste for our past lives is developing in some who are being cleansed and emptied of religious spirits and humanistic endeavors of self-righteousness, self-promotion, and self-pleasure. Self-sufficiency is being washed away and replaced with trusting God in the consuming fire of His love. Passion for the Spirit and the things of the Spirit are destroying the spirit of independence, and our striving in our strength to accomplish our desires and call it the work of God.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6b).

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).

An Awesome Release of Holy Spirit Life Now

You can call it revival, outpouring, move of God, awakening, or something else. Terms mean different things to different people. Probably aspects of all the past moves or works of God that is implied by all of these terms is included in what God is doing this year in parts of our world.

When His Holy Spirit in His manifest presence washes over us, the real love of God fills our being and consumes our self-esteem. We become extremely humbled as our hearts are melted in His magnificence and glory. No one has to tell us that it is all about Him. There is nothing else but God in His magnificent glory. The spiritual light of His glory obliterates everything else, and we only see and are only aware of God and His presence consuming us.

As we lay down our lives before Him and become one with Him in His love, life changing impartation and mantels of commissioning are planted in our hearts and lives bringing clarity of His direction and empowerment for our place in building His kingdom in His people and subsequently in His world by His Spirit. Thus we become the Bride / Wife of Christ our LORD, going about our Father’s business in the world carrying the seed of God and raising up children of God for the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven.

The End of Empty Meetings of Religious or Social Order  

Life in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit of God brings a strong distaste for existing only in a religious or social order. Gatherings barren of the manifest presence of the glory of God are recognized to be empty and void of real life. Foolish games and social banter with its self-focused natural attractions between personalities and entertaining cuteness or sophisticated intellectual prowess under the guise of Christian fellowship makes one think of Jesus’ statement that He would spew the lukewarm out of His mouth.

Do not be deceived. The wisdom of man is still foolishness to God and is unbearable to those who are living and walking in the Spirit. The all-consuming love relationship with God is the way of God to bring forth His life to rule and reign in every aspect of life on Planet Earth.

Religion without the fullness of the Spirit of God is the mother of immorality and spiritual adultery.

Spiritual adultery is believers having other gods while betrothed to the Lord.

Why would a Christian want to get involved with other gods? The answer is simple they feel a need or lack in their lives beyond what they are getting at many churches and what they are taught by Christian teachers with the same lack in their lives. In the fallen world, they find something that, at least temporarily, fulfills their lives. That something becomes to them a source of feeling alive. It becomes their false god added into their lives along with their religious beliefs and practices.

The false gods may be things that are from God and are good in their proper place of God’s order. Sex is one of the most common false gods. Sexual desire out of God’s order can take control of people’s lives and drive them into ruin seeking that which makes them feel alive.

Sports are another major player in the false god realm of modern cultures. Competitive sports become the reason for living to some participants. And for many spectators sports can become the thing they live for that adds excitement to life as they become obsessed. This list could go on and on with the many good things that have become gods to many people of the world, including Christians.

There are also many things that, although they may be socially accepted, are viewed by many believers as ungodly and unnecessary. Yet these also can become false gods to people of the world including believers. These things like alcohol, drug abuse, and other addictions easily become gods that drive the person and control their lives.

These false gods are especially debilitating to believers who know they should have a true number one allegiance to the one true God. Yet, they are driven by something else that fulfills their lives instead of the manifest presence of the real God by the Holy Spirit.

Many believers have come to the place of a salvation experience in which they acknowledge Jesus as their savior. Yet, for various reasons, including improper or incomplete religious teachings, they either ignore the fullness of the Holy Spirit or devalue the place and work of the Spirit in their lives. This leaves a vacuum of the exciting experience of life in the Spirit and presence of God. The vacuum seeks to be filled by drawing in false gods to bring a sense of being alive. The foreign gods replace the exciting life they should have in living in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit.

Supernatural Living and Walking in the Spirit

Much if not most of the world has turned away from the one true God of all creation or have never known Him. In this day, God is making Himself known by His Spirit indwelling His people causing them to become witnesses of the one true God to all the earth. Supernatural works of the Spirit are becoming more common as more and more believers are maturing into living and walking in the Spirit of God. The kingdom of God is present on earth and made manifest in the works of Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit coming forth in our lives.

In America where I live and in much of the western world, our nations have taken a wrong turn of accepting many false gods and failed to take the road of knowing and serving the one true God. However, we have now come to another fork in the road. This fork is an opportunity for individuals to turn onto a narrow road different from where the nation is going onto another road that is the way of the ONE TRUE GOD and all of His life and glory.

Whatever you want to call it, there is a turning of a portion of the people in America and the western world off of the national road of many gods and on to the road of the Spirit to the fullness of the glory of God in His manifest presence. As more and more people turn to seeking the kingdom of God above all else, a new worldwide nation is being birthed in the Spirit. A nation within other nations that is set apart to the one true God and filled with His Spirit pouring out His love and the supernatural works of Christ as witnesses is now being formed. The nation within many nations will in the future become the seeds of the worldwide kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

From all the nations and tribes of the world, people are coming out to become citizens of heaven establishing the kingdom of Heaven on earth. Truly pioneers are moving to a new frontier of supernatural life in the Spirit. The Israel of God with its glorious capital city of New Jerusalem, God’s holy nation of people living with Him, ruling and reigning with Him in this life is being formed on earth. The most exciting life on earth is living and walking in the Spirit that is forming Christ within His people to fully redeem the kingdoms of this world.

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

Ron McGatlin

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2. Layers Coming Off..... Truly Walking in the Spirit

By Amanda Leonard

This past week the Lord began to show my friend and I during worship, some things that were happening right now in the Spirit. My friend and I work at a local hospital and we have been going into the chapel at lunch time to worship and spend time with the Lord. As we worship, His weighty Presence comes and He has been showing us things. I feel lead to share what He has shown us this week.

My friend had a vision and in her vision she saw angels that were coming now. She saw that these angels were peeling layers off of people. As the angels would pull off these layers, some people wanted to keep these layers on and they would actually pull them back on. These layers were very weighty but these people were comfortable with these layers on.

In contrast, there were those who were willing to have these layers removed from them. The angels would come and peel back, layer after layer. My friend asked the Lord, "What are these layers, Lord?" He began to tell her that they were religious layers that have come upon His people. They were mindsets that have been passed down by man, do's and don'ts of religious law, doctrines, things other people have placed on us, etc.... Lots of people were comfortable with these layers, because it's all they had ever known.

God showed me at the same time an outline of a spirit man. This man had no visible features, just a glowing outline of a spirit man. I could see inside this man and all I saw was the man's heart. Inside his heart was a new green stem, new growth, with a single bud coming from the stem. The Lord began to show my friend and I that as we allow these angels to peel back these religious layers, that our spirit man will become dominant; this is when we truly begin to walk in the Spirit. God created us Spirit beings, that have a soul, and we house this body.


Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, [a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Romans 8:19 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God
.

God is peeling off these layers of religion, to reveal the sons and daughters of God, Hallelujah!!!

We can choose to keep them or we can willingly let the Lord do the work that He wants to do in us. I say, YES LORD!!

The Spirit of Adoption is covering our land as we realize by the Spirit who we are in Him and who He is in us! HO! Father is showing His children the place they occupy in His heart.

This time of peeling the layers at times will not be easy but it's necessary, says the Lord.

It's an exciting time, praise Him through it, as His angels peel back the layers and the fullness of who He really is will be revealed to those willing to walk in His Spirit! Praise be to God!!!

Amanda Leonard
http://www.miraclemade.com/




3. Top News Headlines

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Website Reached Millions with Gospel Message In 2012 - More than 4,100 Finding Christ Each Day through Online Evangelistic Ministry. - 1/23/2013
Nearly 8 million people around the world were presented with the message of Jesus Christ in 2012 through the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's www.PeaceWithGod.net ministry. Of those, nearly 1.5 million - more than 4,100 per day - registered that they prayed a salvation prayer in response to the presentation. Since May 2011, more than 9.27 million have viewed. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42517&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Mark Driscoll Questions Obama's Faith on Inauguration Day - 1/23/2013
In an impassioned tweet, Mark Driscoll, founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, wrote: “Praying for our president, who today will place his hand on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.” The post has been retweeted more than 3,100 times. “President Obama 'spiritually blind' or 'evil hypocrite' wrote Piper, a former. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42524&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Fiscal despair reveals new crisis in Greece - Many Greeks are afraid to imagine a future. - 1/24/2013
Austerity measures have taken hold, and their bite runs deeper than winter's cold. The new measures limit family benefits and force the middle class to pay over 40% of their annual salary in taxes. "We have more than 20,000 homeless people in the city of Athens. It's a very tragic situation." We have seen a lot of people committing suicide because of the crisis. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42532&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


News From British Isles, Ireland, Europe and Worldwide - 1/24/2013
Colombia: American Christians spread Gospel to FARC guerrillas - Syria: Horrible life for Palestinian refugees - Christians' rights trampled on by 'obsessive political correctness' - British culture 'increasingly pornified' - Serbian churches have been targeted in Kosovo - Saudi Arabia: Leader calls for interfaith dialogue - Much More> Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42531&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1 


Christian Girl in Pakistan Forced to Convert, Marry Official’s Aide - 1/23/2013
Asma is hardly 15 and Ghaji is thrice her age." "I told him that I wanted to speak to Asma for the last time, so he handed over the phone to her. 'What have you done my child, my child?' I asked as Asma burst into tears. (She said), 'They are not going to let me return home, mother - do something.'" "We told police but the official refused to listen to us." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42527&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Sudan: racial-religious genocide in the ’new south’ - ’worse than Darfur’ -- but who cares? - 1/23/2013
'The ethnic cleansing by the Islamic government is largely complete. . . . Rebel areas are depopulated and largely empty.' He says that in Blue Nile, some 450,000 people have been affected with fields and villages being razed as Sudanese radio calls for the region to be 'combed' and cleansed of Africans who are de-humanised as 'black plastic bags.' Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42526&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1 


American Pastor Jailed in Iran Barred from Trial - 1/23/2013
Saeed Abedini, the Iranian-American pastor imprisoned in Iran since September for his faith, has been banned from taking part in his trial. His Iranian lawyer was barred from the courtroom as well. Prosecutors, continued to bring testimony against him before Iran's infamous "hanging judge." He has been charged with undermining national security by starting house churches. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42525&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Netanyahu Wins, But Left Makes Unexpected Gains - 1/23/2013
More Israelis went to the polls Tuesday than in more than a decade. They voted for a change in the government, but it's not the change most people anticipated. How will the election impact U.S.-Israeli relations? David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh and author of the book The Islamic Tsunami, has more, on the Video. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42523&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


US Demands Release of American Pastor From Iranian Prison - 1/23/2013
Stepping up the urgency of American response, the White House on Friday called on Iran to release a jailed American pastor facing a trial that could send him to the gallows. Saeed Abedini, is a native of Iran and a naturalized American citizen. His lawyers say he faces a lengthy prison term and even the death penalty at the hands of one of Iran's most severe judges. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42522&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1&TPN=1


Protestors Rally across US to Defend Second Amendment - 1/23/2013
Americans in 49 states participated in "Guns across America" rallies, with many expressing their opposition to President Obama's campaign to pass tougher gun laws. Protestors waved signs that read "Don't Tread on Me" and vowed to fight for their Second Amendment rights. "You know the Second Amendment protects the First and all the others." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42521&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1 


Miracle from Myanmar - 1/23/2013
The waves of liberty in Myanmar (Burma) that began back in April, 2011 is spreading around the world. The pent-up hopes from decades of oppression burst out in many areas besides the booming economy, free press and flourishing political parties. Christian minorities and unreached tribal groups, causing a revival of Christian missions in the country of 56 million souls. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42520&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Muslims Attack Christians in Egypt on Rumor of Sexual Assault - 1/23/2013
Thousands of Muslims from Marashda and surrounding villages attacked eight Coptic homes and businesses, including five pharmacies, which were looted and torched. Coptic-owned cars were also torched. A medical check of the Muslim girl proved her "virginity," the attacks "took place after the Muslims knew of the medical verdict and the sexual assault was only a rumor." Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42519&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Alabama Supreme Court Recognizes Unborn as Persons in Landmark Ruling - 1/23/2013
The strongly worded ruling is the most important affirmation of the personhood of the pre-born child since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. “The Court has dealt a massive blow to the constitutional fraud of Roe v. Wade by recognizing that the preborn child is a person,” “The  ruling is a monumental victory for the personhood rights of preborn children,” Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42518&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


Some Hostages Killed in Algerian Rescue Raid - 1/23/2013
The government of Algeria attempted to rescue the hostages, including several Americans, who were held by Islamic militants near an oil complex in the Sahara Desert. The raid,may have resulted in the deaths of most of those kidnapped. Islamic militants said earlier 35 were killed along with 15 militants after Algerian military helicopters attacked with machine guns. Read On: http://archive.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=42516&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1


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