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1. BEYOND “Revival Renewal Outpouring”

2. Awaken To The Transition In Your Life
3. Sons Manifest!
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1. BEYOND “Revival Renewal Outpouring”

By Ron McGatlin

Truly revival, whatever you choose to call it, is one of my very favorite things in this world. Barbara and I were greatly blessed in the late 90s and early 2000s to be a part of the Smithton Outpouring, one of many places around the world where God supernaturally poured out His Spirit impacting multitudes across the world. Truly our lives were dramatically changed in that season of a mighty move of God. We really thought that nothing could ever be any better or more fulfilling than God meeting with us in such miraculous ways.

Every day it seems more and more believers are awakening to a fresh work of God that is beyond the awesome reality of the exciting life we experienced in those past moves. Some of the same results of the past moves will continue in this fresh moving of God. Yet there are some significant differences that far exceed the past.

There have been many major waves or moves of God in history, especially in recent history. Each of these moves brought increased restoration of God and His heavenly kingdom coming forth into the hearts and lives of His willing and spiritually hungry people. They were like powerful waves on the ocean. Each wave imparted its part of restoration and change and then flowed back out to sea leaving the people more prepared to receive the next part. Between the waves there was a space of relatively dormant time.

Why did the moves of God stop, and why was there a dormant season? Why could there not be a continuous flow of the moving of God progressively taking the people of God further into the fullness of restoration?

Personally, I do not believe that it was ordained of God for moves of revival, renewal, and outpouring to come to an end. Much like the children of Israel began the miraculous move from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land. They could have entered directly into the land. God’s best was for them to possess the land at that time, but their lack of faith and trust caused the move to turn away and wonder in the wilderness until a new generation was mature and ready. Then the next move began, or more accurately the continuation of the first move was completed.

Evidence is clear that the revival moves of God in recent history ended because of man not because of God. The tendency of man is to take charge and bring his control and structure to what God is doing. When that happens, the Holy Spirit who brought the move pulls away and the move of God ends until the next generation of people are hungry enough to make room for the Holy Spirit to bring the next part of the continuous moving of God.    

After the Holy Spirit has pulled away, people often try to keep things going with their own strength using their own natural ingenuity. They devise programs and systems that become powerless religion that can be easily invaded by worldliness and spirits of darkness posing as angels of light. The religious work without the Holy Spirit can become as a stagnant pool in a dried up river.

THE GREAT NEWS

The moving of God that is now invading God’s people contains the missing ingredient that allowed or caused all past moves of God to come to an end. The cure for the thing that prevented them from moving seamlessly into the next part of revelation and impartation from heaven is now being sovereignly poured into God’s willing hungry people.

If you have been following the OpenHeaven.com Digest articles over the past six months you know that the missing ingredient that is now invading us is the pure holy all-consuming LOVE of God at a level we have not known before. The fire of God’s love is purifying our hearts from within by the Spirit of God. All that is in us that causes us to feel the need to control or structure things according to our satisfaction is being consumed in our becoming so in love with God that our lives are no longer our own. We literally are becoming one Spirit with God as His Holy Spirit imparts the life of Christ into us until we become one.

The move of God now coming forth is an invasion of the Holy Ghost imparting the all-consuming LOVE of God at a level we have not experienced in the past. The fire of this absolutely pure love completely purifies our hearts and lives.

It is truly Christ abiding in us – the end of all self-seeking and self-thinking.

We are truly consumed in love with God – so consumed in love with God that we finally completely love one another.

There is no battle with sin and self. We are truly crucified in Christ. It is His life and His faith that lives in us.

This move is internal. It is within and is a sovereign work of God alone by His Holy Spirit. It cannot be worked up; it simply is all there is.

It cannot be counterfeited or contaminated. Simply it will not become a mixture. Nothing can enter that defiles.

This is our truly becoming God’s people and He becoming our God with us.

It is our becoming, by His pure holy love, completely cleansed to truly be one with God and one with every person who is truly in Him.

The pure love that consumes us is the ingredient that has been missing in all the past revivals that brought the gifts and miraculous works of God.

There is no end of God’s love; it does not fail or fade away. It is fresh every morning. Therefore there is no end to this moving of God.

This moving of God is coming under the cover of darkness unseen by the fallen world and in the midst of cleansing judgment falling upon all in this world that lifts itself against God.

There is no fear of the darkness in this place of total love of God. Though thousands are destroyed around us, it will not touch us in His perfect love. Whether we live long or short lives in this earthly body is not the most important thing. Death has no sting for us and cannot touch the pure holy love of God’s life in us.

This is the season of the reality of “God with us” in pure holy love – the tabernacle of God with His people.

This moving of God does not depend on organizations devised by men. It is within our hearts and rests solely in God. It is not dependent upon meetings or good preaching or corporate prayer or great music. Its only dependency is the fire of God’s love consuming our hearts and lives.

How do I get there?

Probably the best way to consider that heartfelt desire of hunger is to first recognize that we do not do it – God does it, or it is not done.

However, we can possibly get ourselves into a position to receive what God is doing now. We probably all have a sense that our life as it has been will not survive the experience of becoming one with God by His invasion of pure holy love. It seems obvious that many things regarding our desires, thoughts, and priorities will endure significant change or perhaps transformation is a better word. The serious matter is that probably we cannot make ourselves really change or be transformed.

I am not sure any of us have the full answer. However, we know there are promises of God that if we seek Him with our WHOLE hearts. We are told to ask, seek, and knock. It matters who we ask and whom or what we seek and where we choose to knock. If we seek from religion or even our church or from anyone or anything other than God, we will be disappointed. A term that has been repeated by some is to become “a laid down lover of God.” There may be some things involved in getting into position to receive. He did say you have not because you ask not.

That’s all good, but how can this really happen for me?

How will God invade me with His Spirit? How will Christ actually be formed in me so that I truly experience His life and love? Probably only God knows the answers that are specific for each individual.

However, by experience we can know and share some things. Most likely very serious and devastating situations and circumstance will be involved. Emotional pain and extreme loss of people and things that we valued brings severe even deadly pain within as it leads us to the death of our past self-life. God will never move in until there is a sufficient space of emptiness available within us.

The intense pain within us is a major step in becoming a new creation of Christ in us. Some will choose to fight and resent the pain. These will become bitter and move toward separation from God. However, those who are in a seeking mindset when the pain comes will choose to forgive everyone involved including God, and instantly the consuming pure love of God in Christ by the Holy Spirit will flood into their hearts and lives.

This may happen over a period of time and move progressively as we ask and seek and keep on asking and seeking, and then when the door appears knock and the love of God will pour into us. There may be touches of God as many have experienced in the past revivals that make us aware of His goodness and the joy of being with Him in His presence. These experiences are preparation for the time of the invasion of love that God sovereignly pours into us as we become truly willing to die in His arms forever in the greatest love story ever told.

The darkness of severe tribulation upon the earth provides the pain and loss to accelerate the process of death to our past self-lives making room for the Holy Spirit of God to replace our past life with the true life of Christ. His holy love becomes who we are and what we do in this life and in the life to come. Truly God’s invasion of pure holy love is the greatest love story of all time and creation. God is love.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit – Gal 5:25.

 

Live in the Spirit, Walk in the Spirit,

 

Ron McGatlin

 

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2. Awaken To The Transition In Your Life

By Clay Sikes

 

There is an obvious transition in which many are now finding a ‘pre-fall’ place in the garden where we live in its coolness, and yet partially remain in the pain and toil of ‘post fall’ circumstance and a fallen world. As the world loses its grip upon our very being, we are seeing and experiencing the newness of life in the Kingdom. What separates us from the beggarly elements of this world? The Word. Transition is a major part of this journey, and offers elements of both systems, but we will escape this ‘transitional’ part of the journey as we travel to a City not made with human hands.

Testimony is a Kingdom characteristic and has an incredible ability to impart truth. I pray that the testimony shared here imparts clarification, direction, and understanding of the times. What we are experiencing, in short version, is the transition between our existence on earth as humans, and revelatory knowledge of existing on earth as a spirit, commingling with God’s Spirit. For those in this incredible transformation, it is like losing the shell and penalty of our human bodies, and the shallowness of our soul; and now entering into the limitless bounds of our spirit – a true freedom from the dimensions of earth. There is absolutely NO FEAR of death. Nothing can hinder a man who knows he is a spirit first and foremost, on loan from heaven, and a true foreigner ‘placed’ upon this earth FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE. To awaken to this fact is to escape the limits of human understanding – nothing is impossible with God, even greater works than Jesus.

We are like a tiny unhatched eaglet bound by a shell, yet we flex our little wings, use our soft beak and break out of the encapsulating shell we are bound by. A ‘breakout’ is happening; the shell is breaking, and we are “coming out of her!” This is being experienced by those whose complete and utter dependence is upon the Father; who have left their idols far behind, and whose heart is filled with His love. These have moved into the third-third of time (Tabernacles) and spiritual dimension (the Holy of Holies). Holiness is not an objective but a lifestyle. Life is no longer about man in service to God, but rather God living in and through man - oneness.

Life as we once knew it is no more, as it is no longer about us, but Him who lives in and through us. We are true bondservants; HIS, for whatever purpose He chooses. No longer must we worry about provision, healing, etc., as He cares for His own. He speaks to us in the cool of the garden, and we fellowship with Him often. We feel His love. We worship Him constantly with all of our being. Heaven has come to earth.

 

Clay Sikes
www.LightHouseProphecy.org



3. Sons Manifest!

By Clay Sikes

Faith is a gift from God, but does not come into maturity until it is tested. Faith MUST BE TESTED to mature. ‘Faith test’ are, in the beginning, hard on our flesh, but eventually guide us into incredible ‘peace in the midst of the storm.’ Those bearing the heavenly title ‘Overcomer’ are those whose faith has been ‘tested’ by the fire of affliction, who walk with a limp, and carry the ‘mark’ of God. In today’s world there are many ‘overcomers’ in training; and these ARE who “the whole creation is groaning for.” There is a graduating class soon to walk the isle and receive their diploma. When these graduates ‘hit the earth,’ the Kingdom will come in demonstration. Get ready earth “for the manifestation of the sons of God!”

These men and women are fearless, bold, obedient, and one with God – He in them, they in Him – ONE! Agendas? They have none, except His. Purpose? To glorify the Father. The Army of God is gathering. Purpose is being revealed for just such a time as this. Get ready!

The most exciting time in the earth’s history is upon us. Soon, and very soon a shaking will begin, and the world’s system will diminish before our very eyes; and in its place will come a Kingdom not made with human hands – the Kingdom of God. The kings of this world will soon know the fragile state of their kingdoms, as those ‘tested sons’ arise with Kingdom answers – Josephs, appointed and anointed. Only those whose complete and utter dependence is God will come through this shaking unscathed. Self-dependency will be exposed in every area of life. Test this word; try it in the depths of your being. To some it will bring fear; to others a rejoicing. Fear of the Lord is healthy; run to Him while He can be found.

Rejoice O ye sons, your time is at hand!

Clay Sikes
www.lighthouseprophecy.org




4. News Headlines


Who Is ISIS? The Jihadist Army's Savage Ambitions - Very Informative VIDEO> - 6/20/2014
As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues its Iraqi terror campaign, Jerusalem Dateline explores some of the questions surrounding the jihadist army. How will this jihadist army's rise affect U.S. policy in the Middle East. How will their ambitions impact the region's Christians. CBN News' John Waage, Erick Stakelbeck, and Julie Stahl address these questions.


ISIS to Iraqi Christians: 'Obey, Pay, or Leave' - 6/20/2014
ISIS has targeted Christians. Many fled to the relative safety of Kurdish Iraq, but most still fear the wrath of the world's most brutal jihadist group. About 25,000 Christians have fled to Bartilla, but CBN News couldn't find one who would talk on camera. The conditions in Bartilla are abysmal. There's no water because ISIS turned it off. And there's no electricity.


News From British Isles, Ireland, Europe and Worldwide - 6/20/2014
Scottish police drop charges against street preacher - Myanmar: God hears children's prayers - Over 8 million abortions since 1967 Act in Great Britain - Delays in cancer tests may put lives at risk - Forced marriages outlawed in UK - Iraq: Refugees amid total chaos - Iraq: International response to crisis - Sudan: Churches destroyed and schools confiscated - More>


ISIS targets Christians in Mosul - 6/20/2014
The radical Sunni terror group that overthrew Mosul and now threatens Baghdad and the entire region is already targeting Christians for persecution. ISIS seized Mosul, a city of two million people, a week ago. After American-trained Iraqi soldiers turned and ran, ISIS captured 72 tanks, 700 Humvees, a cache of Stinger missiles, and looted $480 million from local banks.


Christian Pakistani MP Murdered by Own Bodyguard - 6/20/2014
“Another manifestation of the extreme anti-Christian bigotry that pervades Pakistani society.” Pakistani MP Handery Masih was shot and killed by his own bodyguard outside his home. Masih was a committed Christian and well known as an advocate for the rights of religious minorities in Pakistan, who are persecuted for their faith.


Obama Expanding Gay Rights with Executive Order - 6/20/2014
Obama is praising an executive order he plans to sign soon that expands protections for federal lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers. But because of your help, we've been able to do more to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community than any administration history," Obama said. The executive order has been drafted.


Iraqi Christians Ask for Prayer amid Jihad Rampage - 6/19/2014
As the terror group (ISIS) sets its sights on Baghdad, thousands of Iraqi families have fled to the Kurdish area of Iraq -- just 65 miles from Mosul. It's unlikely that ISIS will venture further north because they face a formidable foe in the Kurdish military. It's a key time for the region and especially for the Kurdish people. Iraq and the Kurds face an uncertain future.


Over 550 Christian girls kidnapped in Egypt since 2011 - 6/19/2014
276 Nigerian schoolgirls in April and twice as many Coptic Christian schoolgirls in Egypt have vanished slowly, one-by-one, in kidnappings that remain unsolved. Since January, 2011 through March, 2014, over 550 Christian girls were kidnapped by Muslim men and forced to convert and marry their abductors, often after suffering violence at the hands of their kidnappers.


Humanitarian Crisis: children refugees flood into United States - 6/19/2014
Children refugees are flooding into the United States because home is no longer safe. According to the New York Times, 47,017 children have been caught crossing the border without parents since October 1, 2013. That is 92% more than the same period the year before. The majority of the children are from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.


Analysis: Terrorist Army ISIS Rampages Through Iraq - 6/13/2014
I appeared on CBN News today discussing the lightning advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through Iraq. This terrorist army is now driving southwards towards Baghdad and the Iraqi military appears unable or unwilling to stop the jihadist onslaught (although Iraqi forces may now have some unsavory help). http://www.cbn.com/Erick-Stackelbeck-on-The-700-Club.


MORE NEWS HEADLINES

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