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Ron McGatlin
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Returning To Love
By Ron McGatlin
The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. If I am experiencing something else such as strife, frustration, or depression, there is something else at work. Jesus brings freedom; it is someone else that brings bondage. The love of God produces in us His righteous way of being and doing, His peace that passes natural understanding, and His joy full of glory that is not tied to natural circumstances.
God resists the proud but gives more grace to the humble. Often adversity and our failures are used of God to bring us into a place of pure love and humility. Real love and humility are always worth all we went through to get there. Pure love from God and for God brings us to a brokenness of humility and a love for everyone, including those who act as enemies toward us. Real love for those who persecute us or spitefully use us is a part of the kingdom of God lifestyle.
Mat 43-44: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
It is easy to get so busy seeking to carry out the call of God that we lose contact with the intimate love life with God in our own lives. While seeking to help others out of religious bondages, we can be again entangled in bondage ourselves. Our intimate love relationship can be sacrificed in the complexity of trying to bring freedom to God’s people entangled under religious order of the passing church systems of hierarchical order of rule.
We must come back to the pure love of God expressed in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit. The real kingdom of God is love in action. It is established by love, operates by love, and is held together by love. Without the love of God there is no kingdom of Heaven on earth. Most of us reading this know these things. Yet, it is possible to connect into religious systems seeking to bring a new order of love and one day awaken to realize that we have begun to act and react in opposition to the existing systems and actually become part of the thing we sought to change.
This is somewhat like law enforcement officers dealing with underworld criminal activities so long that they drift into the same types of practices. They may begin to use illegal or at least immoral methods to accomplish the enforcing of the law. Crooked or abusive policemen are often a product of their environmental influence over a period of time.
Paul wrote in Galatians 6:1: Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
Galatians 5:1: Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
For me it is time to return to walking in the pure love of oneness with Christ and lay aside all else, to live in and demonstrate to others the pure love life of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Jesus did not first teach and preach the kingdom. He demonstrated it in love and power first and then taught the disciples who were ready to hear and understand. First demonstrate the kingdom, and then preach and teach the kingdom of God.
Keep on pursuing love. It never fails
and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
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Edited by Ron McGatlin on 08/31/2013 at 3:00pm
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YES AMEN!!!!
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"For me it is time to return to walking in the pure love of oneness with Christ and lay aside all else, to live in and demonstrate to others the pure love life of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Jesus did not first teach and preach the kingdom. He demonstrated it in love and power first and then taught the disciples who were ready to hear and understand. First demonstrate the kingdom and then preach and teach the kingdom of God."
BEAUTIFUL!
Edited by Kimberly Fowler on 08/30/2013 at 3:14pm
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Ron Wrote:
"We must come back to the pure love of God expressed in
Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit. The real kingdom of God
is love in action. It is established by love, operates by
love and is held together by love. Without the love of
God there is no kingdom of Heaven on earth. Most of us
reading this know these things. Yet, it is possible to
connect into religious systems seeking to bring a new
order of love and one day awaken to realize that we have
begun to act and react in opposition to the existing
systems and actually become part of the thing we sought
to change."
This is my story.... Acting and reacting until i am just
like what I am trying to not be like...
Thanx Ron
Kris
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Yes Ron, Love is God!! God is Love!! The two cannot be separated, per se, as Love and God are One. How can we understand it with our finite mind? We can't but it comes by revelation by the Holy Spirit as we are intimate with the Father and the Son. When we bask in the sunshine of His love it satisfies the longing in our hearts for His fellowship.
As the days progress into the end of this age and the Kingdom of God becomes more established in our hearts and our surroundings, the love of God will continue to flow out from us to others who desperately need His love. Forgiveness is the key to the fulfillment in Christ Jesus. As He has forgiven us, so we are to be forgiving of others. We are to love one another as He has loved us. That love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. As we give Him the reign of our hearts He will accomplish that which will bring glory to the Father and exalt the Name of Christ Jesus.
Beloved Ones, as we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, His love will be witnessed in and through us, and will manifest His glory in the earth. Keep watching and praying, while looking for and loving His appearing.
Even so come, Lord Jesus!!
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The kingdom of God on earth from heaven works by love, is held to gether by love.
Conversely it does NOT exist in unlove, and is divided and scattered by unlove.
Ron
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re up!
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Yes - this is so good, this is what it is about.
The love of God being shed abroad in our hearts. Being His expression in
the earth, so that all may see and behold the reality of His love.
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Ron and All ,
I have been witnessing a lot of disheartened people in these last few weeks and this morning received this word for your discernment . . .
You are my children in whom I AM well pleased . Do not be despised by others for I do NOT despise you  and my words to your heart are YES and AMEN !
I AM your Father in Heaven and on Earth so "BE" My Father's Heart to others for I AM very pleased in all you do in my Son's name ( "JESUS" ).
You are NOT defeated and I have NOT left your side !
So STAND UP and FIGHT the lies of the enemy with Christ Jesus for HE "IS" your Hope and Glory in whom I AM well pleased and He "IS" The WellSpring I have placed DEEP within your spirit so you are safe from ALL harm for you are sealed in My love against which there is no law or weapon .
"Rise Up Oh Well !" for your salvation lies within My Son and no other !
Rise Up Oh Well for the Voice of many waters is calling to you for His Glory !
Edited by Jeff Kingshott on 09/11/2013 at 10:46am
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Galatians 5:1: Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
I have been hearing this scripture over and over for the past few weeks. AMEN! BEAUTIFUL word.
Bless you,
Deborah
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1 My son, do not forget my teaching,
but keep my commands in your heart,
2 for they will prolong your life many years
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Rise up, oh well, within my soul,,,rise up, oh well, and make me whole,,,Rise up, oh well, and give to me that LIFE abundantly...haven't sang this song in a while...It was one of many songs we sang everyday when we lived in Big Bear, CA....We'd sit outside the resort office/managers quarters where we were living and sing out praises to Father God & to Jesus for hours-we'd get so blessed cuz the glory would get so thick we'd thought it had clouded up and was gonna rain many a blue sky days! lol,,,\o/,,,OH! And His love would flow amongst us & we'd just wanna stay put knowing His love & mercy, His grace & His power were touching hearts through out the resort area as we sang out praises to Him,,,It was truly an awesome glorious time, and to God be the glory for it ALL!!! TY JESUS! Love you ALL
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To teach love is one thing but to walk in love and forgiveness, not judging others is Jesus "TRULY" alive in us and no flesh remains .
God resists the proud but gives more grace to the humble. Often adversity and our failures are used of God to bring us into a place of pure love and humility. Real love and humility are always worth all we went through to get there. Pure love from God and for God brings us to a brokenness of humility and a love for everyone, including those who act as enemies toward us. Real love for those who persecute us or spitefully use us is a part of the kingdom of God lifestyle.
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@Jeff - so true. Words of wisdom
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Yes amen Jeff!!
WHO DO PEOPLE SEE IN ME AND YOU???
Who do people see in me and you?
Do they see Jesus is that what they do?
Do they see Him in the words we say?
In how we treat others day by day?
Do they see Him by the things that we do?
Do they see Him living in me and you?
It is who people see that matters by far
Because we may not be who WE say We are
Are we touching people with loving hands?
Do they know we understand?
Do they see Fathers heart do they feel His arms?
Do they feel His presence when they’re snatched from harm?
Do they see His life mingled with ours?
Do they know Him through us..know His power?
Who do people see in me and you?
Do they see Jesus is that what they do?
OR
DO THEY JUST SEE THE WORLD AND ALL THAT MEANS
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE SEEN IN YOUR LIFE????
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3I-rixEQI Love never
fails
Edited by Jeff Kingshott on 01/17/2014 at 4:19pm
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Amen to
"It
is easy to get so busy seeking to carry out the call of God that we
lose contact with the intimate love life with God in our own lives.
While seeking to help others out of religious bondages, we can be again
entangled in bondage ourselves. Our intimate love relationship can be
sacrificed in the complexity of trying to bring freedom to God’s people
entangled under religious order of the passing church systems of
hierarchical order of rule."
When believers separate from other believers to build a better church
so often the part that gets left behind is the joining in the vine to other Christians outside the new group, being bound together in love with the whole body of Christ.
This creates an emptiness and loneliness - a sense of isolation.
So often even leaders in what were vibrant groups seem to lose heart
and give up doing church completely.
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I AM BACK TO OPEN HEAVEN, I
was on West Africa Mission Trips for a long period.
Like this encouraging article
from Ron.
YES It is time we return to
the love of God, lay aside all else, doers—not hearers of HIS Word only,
walking in the perfect will of HIS love.
James 1:21-25 (NKJV) says
"Therefore
lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness
the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But
be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone
is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural
face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and
continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one
will be blessed in what he does".
GOD
BLESS.
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