1. Love Stronger than Death

By Ron McGatlin

I recently received a very encouraging email from a very dear friend. She was powerfully used of God in the exciting Charismatic moves of God in the past. I could listen to her for hours excitedly telling of the many supernatural experiences of those years of powerful ministry. God is still pouring fresh revelation into her in the last few weeks, and she is again overcome with His great love and intimate presence.

Here is a portion of her email:

Love Came Down

I would like to share an interesting incident with you. This incident happened about two weeks ago as I was driving. I had been hearing the verse from the Song of Solomon 8:6 over and over again in my spirit for several days and nights. It says in part, “Love is as strong as death.” It was changed from "as strong as death" to "stronger than death." I was puzzled by what I heard. What I heard was "Love is stronger than death."

While driving along, I began to weep because the Spirit of God was so strong in the car. The famous story of the British officer and his greatly loved but fatally injured Gurkha aide was brought to my remembrance. As the story goes, in the middle of a fierce battle, the officer commanded the wounded Gurkha not to die. The wounds were definitely fatal as everyone knew. To the amazement of all, the Gurkha lived. It was definitely a miracle. As I pondered on this story, I felt the Holy Spirit was explaining to me that, from time to time, men were able to use spiritual truths even if they did not understand them. In this case, the strength of love conquered death. Sort of like the centurion in scripture who understood chain of command.

I was reminded of Acts 2:23-28 in the Amplified Bible. ....."But God raised Him up, liberating Him from the pangs of death, SEEING THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it....therefore my heart rejoiced...I saw the Lord constantly before Me, for He is at my right hand that I might not be shaken....You have made known to me the ways of life; You will enrapture Me {diffusing My soul with joy} with and in Your presence".

The rabbis would teach on the fact that joy and love were linked together. They also taught that joy was the opposite of fear. Many prophecies have been given about the outpouring of joy that will accompany the coming end time revival. The great love that is getting ready to be poured out will be stronger than death. Love was as strong as death under the Old Covenant, but under the New Covenant, love is STRONGER than death. And Jesus was the first fruits of that truth.

The Chinese Church started taking the street evangelists back to their homes after they had been shot by the soldiers and praying over them. They believed that their prayers could raise them from the dead. This is exactly what happened. The soldiers got tired of seeing the same guys preaching on the street, so they began hacking them to death with swords. I can't wait to hear the next news.

I kept weeping for a while over the revelation and what I saw in my spirit that would take place in the near future. LIFE MORE ABUNDANT. We are only beginning to understand what He meant by that statement. We are actually going to have to make each other take some rest. The results are going to be so exciting that it will be hard to stop and rest. Imagine going among veterans and seeing all of the arms and legs growing out. And that is just the beginning. We will be living continually "with and in His presence."

Love never fails. "The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in you." Let that Spirit grow and flow out of us. Blessing upon blessing to you. Miss you all,

Roz

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We are only beginning to grasp what God has truly prepared for those who love Him. We are just now beginning to grasp something of the real POWER of LOVE. The strongest force in heaven and earth is the pure holy love of God.

The same love that has come by the Holy Spirit to saturate and overcome our lives with his pure sweet love. Love for God and love from God for one another that is beyond understanding. In the tangible presence of God, there is love manifested that takes over our spirit, soul, and body with energy from heaven and deep peaceful knowing and trusting in the presence of God permeating every part of our beings, transforming us from who we were into the life of Christ from heaven on earth.

There is no more death, as death cannot exist in the pure holy life of the love of God. The final victory over death involves the pure holy eternal love life of God indwelling and surrounding our lives. Nothing of death and evil can come near us as the pure love of God sets us apart from natural limitations into heavenly supernatural eternal love life. Truly all things are possible as we walk as one in Christ and Christ in us.

Who knew? How could we have ever guessed that love of God is the total answer for all issues of mankind on earth? What a marvelous beyond understanding transformation is this fulfillment of the work of Christ Jesus from His incarnation, perfect life, death on the cross, resurrection, ascension, and His return in the Holy Spirit to indwell all who will come to Him with their whole hearts with His abundant life now and eternally.

Now really, what is it in this life that is more important than experiencing this kingdom of God’s love? Yes, everything else in life will be added; it will all come into place when we truly seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness that all comes from and works by the love of God fully resting and abiding continually within us.

Honestly, is anything more valuable, more important than seeking the kingdom of God? What a tremendous key to open the door to all access to the reality of heaven now in this life and in the life to come. What a waste it has been to have spent hours, days, and years seeking needs and pleasures of this life - striving to gain what He has prepared for us from the beginning.

God is love, and love is life. This is the narrow and glorious way. There is no other way and no other life. All else is death. The greatest of everything in this world without God is only death – there is no life in it - no peace, no joy, and no righteousness. There is nothing outside of the love of God that is righteous.

Separation from God and the presence of His love is death. The finest things in the kingdom of darkness are death and are of no value. Every person who seeks to find his life without God will find only emptiness in the end. Existence in this world is without the pure holy love of God is worthless. This is why people kill themselves and one another; their existence is but one disappointment after another. The devil dangles a carrot of false value before them leading them to move further and further from the only true life in the presence of God’s pure love.

THIS IS THE AWAKENING THAT MUST COME! Love is the force that will transform the people to transform the world. God’s love is the only reason for continuing in this life. Multitudes coming under the umbrella of the all-powerful love of God is the power of the third great awakening. Nothing else will do the job. Now is the day of love that is stronger than death. Love destroys death and creates abundant life.

Now is the time for every one of us to turn from our wicked way of death in seeking the things of this world and seek God and His kingdom with our whole hearts. Nothing else will do what must be done. It is the power of the love of God that transforms evil darkness into glorious light. Come to His light – come to His love – lay it all down before Him – do not stop until His love has consumed you, and the world will be transformed around you and your path will be filled with light before you. You shall walk as Christ in the creative power to rebuild the old ruins into the glorious city of God on earth as it is in heaven.

The third-day awakening is an awakening to the pure holy love of God. There are some among us now as forerunners of this new day who are overcome and overflowing with the fullness of the POWER of LOVE. Inspired and empowered from heaven with the passion of the love of God that cannot be restrained. The liquid fire of God’s love within is taking us to a whole new level of abandoned to love, leaving our past life behind to move with the cloud of His fire of love.

Who can describe the glory of His love consuming and transforming us from within?

Love beyond words,

Ron McGatlin

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basileia@earthlink.net





2. The Greatest Shift and the Next Two to Three Years

By Ron McGatlin

Many of God’s people are soon to experience a strong sense that our entire lives have been moving toward this season of worldwide shifting of life from one existence to another very different reality. It will feel like we were born and prepared all of our lives for this time.

It can accurately be said that this world will never again be what it has been in history and as we have known it in our lifetime. Knowledge of the past history of the world would not prepare us for the unprecedented works of God on earth. The entire planet and all that is on it will be forever changed from what it has been and is now to what it will be.

The Voice of the Scoffer

The scoffer will say nothing really changes and the world will go on just as it has been for millennia. People come, and people go. Nations arise, and nations fall. Wars are won and lost. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the moon keeps its cycle, and nothing really changes. The world just goes on as it has been. Man in his limited natural mentality without God develops many philosophies and platitudes of earthly wisdom to placate human emptiness and futile existence.

Soon the voice of the scoffer will be heard no more. That which has been ignored and rejected will arise to the forefront. The failed pursuit of mankind to rule independently without God while trusting in himself and his natural strengths of intellectual prowess has built world systems fit only for destruction.

Abrupt Awakening

Abrupt awakening to the reality of the kingdom of God and the one true King, Christ Jesus, is imminent. All that lifts itself against God and His Christ will perish from the earth. The fire of God from heaven, the all-consuming fire of God, will devour the stubble of man’s foolish workings and all that is not of God in His earth.

The beginnings of these extreme events over the next few years coupled with the outpouring of the miraculous light of God working through His forerunners will awaken all of God’s people to receive the greatest shift of all time.

The Greatest Shift

This shift in and among the people of God is the disconnecting from the natural world order and the connecting to Spirit world order. The Spirit God manifesting on earth in the mature sons of God will open the way for multitudes to move from a natural based way of life to a supernatural spiritually based way of life in Father God by Christ Jesus in the Holy Spirit of God. The all-powerful, all-loving, and all-wise Spirit God abiding in and with mankind will bring all things into the perfect order of God on earth as it is in heaven. Man’s connection to and dependency upon the natural fallen world order will be forever severed. Mankind will again take our rightful place of dominion on earth bringing the order of God from heaven into all life on Planet Earth.

The Next Two to Three Years

The next two to three years is the time of inner spiritual preparation to endure the extreme intervention of God upon the earth that is to come. In this brief period of final preparation, the light of God will increase rapidly among and within God’s people. At the same time evil darkness will continue to increase among those who do not seek God.

During this time of preparation, spots of sporadic manmade and natural disasters will occur at a record pace that will serve as preparation of God’s people for the cataclysmic events to come. However, in general, it will be a prosperous two to three years for God’s people. It will be a time of spiritual and natural opportunity to be adjusted and moved about. Alliances and connections will be changed during this time of preparation and many geographical locations will be changed as well.

Both from natural circumstances and from Holy Spirit unction, there will be intense division and separations among people and groups. And by the same forces there will be people and groups joined together in bonds of the love of God becoming as one loving family. Supernatural spiritual love from God will bring complete unity and agreement among the people of God. At the same time supernatural spiritual division and separation from many previous alliances with individuals and groups will occur.

Entering the Time of the End of One World and the Beginning of Another

Beyond the season of preparation, there will be a progressive increase of intensity of cataclysmic apocalyptic events that will change the face of the earth. The events described in “The Book of Revelation” will progressively come to pass and as written the world’s population will be significantly reduced in number. Everything that exalts itself against God will be brought down.

God’s remnant people will be pure and holy as Christ Jesus fully abides in them and the love of God binds them together. Supernatural miraculous works will be the way of life among them. All the world and nature will begin to be healed at the hand of Christ Jesus in His people. The New Jerusalem lifestyle will be the order and the way of the people with their God ruling and reigning on earth. The earth and the people will be a new creation filled with the light of God. All things will be under the feet of the Lord. All things will be gathered in Christ, and the glory of God shall fill the earth.

All this while the world endures extreme chaos as the fire of God cleanses the world of the works and ways of the evil one and all that follow his ways. Revivalist and harvesters, get ready and step out now! Multitudes will turn to God with their whole hearts, and yet many will curse God and perish in the same fire of God.

The Kingdom is First Within

Today it is possible to experience the fullness of the things to come within our hearts and minds. In fact if the kingdom is not experienced within, it will not be brought forth in the world. The purity and holiness of Christ Jesus can fully abide in His people now. Individually and in groups, it is the will of God that the fullness of the kingdom of God with all of its love and power become the way of our lives now. Miracles of healing, deliverance, and whatever supernatural work God desires is reality within His people. Life without stress free from covetousness, greed, or lust or any other darkness is God’s desire and plan for His people now.

Walking in the Spirit and becoming one with Christ Jesus as He abides in us and we abide in Him truly causes us to live in this world as Christ and not as mere men. Through the preparation time as we practice walking in the Spirit, we are crucified with Christ and raised again with Him. The resurrection life of Christ now lives in us as we live and walk in the Spirit.

This is the time to move with confidence into the preparation of fully living and walking in the Spirit of God. It is not a time to wait for someone else to lead us or show us the way. By the Holy Spirit we can move with assurance into intimate oneness and commune with Christ Jesus and the Father.

We must now develop a complete trust in the leadership of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit. All other allegiances and dependencies must become secondary under the authority and rule of God in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Those who live by the Spirit will live in God. Those who live by the flesh or natural fallen world wisdom will perish.

Seek the Lord now while he may be found, and do the work of God now, for the night comes and will be endured before the dawning of the day arises upon the whole earth. The glorious kingdom that now abides within will explode from the pure holy people in whom Christ dwells to fill the world, in the dawning of that great day beyond the soon coming season of darkness upon the earth.

Behold the Lamb of God! Arise, shine, for your light has come. The kingdom of God is at hand.

(This article was originally published as it is here on January 10, 2013. It has been almost 18 months since it was first written. We have already lived at least half of the period of time of special rapid preparation. Are you feeling the change?)

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

Ron McGatlin

archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net



3. News Headlines


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The daughter of a Muslim father who left her and her mother at age six, Ibrahim, was raised a Christian and is now a practicing Catholic, is considered a Muslim in the eyes of Sudanese law, and is therefore accountable to the Public Order Code, which is not supposed to apply to Christians and Jews. she was given three days to recant her Christian faith, she refused.

Four Kidnapped Girls Escape Boko Haram, 219 Still Missing, Official Says - 5/29/2014
Four more girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, leaving 219 still missing. Fifty-three escaped shortly afterwards. The girls' abduction shone an international spotlight on the militants, whose violent desire for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria has killed thousands in Africa's top oil-producing state.


A Pakistani Pregnant Woman Is Stoned To Death for Marrying the Man She Loved - 5/28/2014
25-year-old pregnant Pakistani woman murdered by 20 members of her own family as an ‘honor killing” in broad daylight - in front of a Pakistani city’s high court. Relatives tried to drag her away from her husband she resisted, and her father and brothers started pelting her with batons and bricks until she died in a pool of blood, as horrified people looked on.


Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin May Update - 5/29/2014
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Nigeria Says it Knows Location of Abducted Girls; Use of Force in Any Rescue Attempts Ruled Out - 5/28/2014
More than 470 people have been killed since the 200 girls were abducted nearly two months ago. Nigeria's Chief of Defense said it now knows where Boko Haram terrorists are holding the schoolgirls. "We can't go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back." Military and intelligence personnel from the US, UK, and France are continuing in the search and rescue.


Asia Bibi Death Sentence Appeal Cancelled Again - 5/28/2014
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi's appeal hearing on her death sentence was again cancelled-for the fifth time. No new hearing date has been set. Bibi's four previous hearings were also cancelled at the last minute. Bibi, a mother of five, has been in prison sentenced to death for blasphemy since 2010. The accusation followed dispute with a Muslim.


'Culture of Sex, Violence' Complicit in UCSB Rampage - - 5/28/2014
Nearly everyone who was wounded in last week's shooting rampage in Santa Barbara, California, are out of the the hospital. Thirteen people were injured, three were shot dead, and three were stabbed to death. America's worship of sex and violence is partially responsible. America needs Jesus or "it will be given over to the sex cults and the death cults."


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