OpenHeaven.com Digest
1. The Kingdom - Our Bridge to Proper Government
By Clay Sikes
We all are drawn to the government or country that most serves our needs. We want safety and security, and a government that will align itself with our way of thinking. In these volatile times there is no government or country that can provide that. God has offered us a country (called heaven), and a government (called the Kingdom), where our safety and protection is assured, our needs are taken care of, and another benefit no government on earth can offer – peace, righteousness, and joy.
The Kingdom is our bridge over troubled waters - God's government on earth (as it is in heaven); a divine government designed for divine citizenship. When we turn into 'seekers of the Kingdom,' our citizenship will be made known to us as we conform to Kingdom government in our personal lives. As this occurs, an enabling takes place that allows us to represent the Kingdom as heavenly ambassadors "on earth as it is in heaven."
Man's government doesn't work, nor do his systems (the world's system). Only the Kingdom is designed to survive the chaos of this 'appointed hour.' No longer will religion get us by, nor many of our so-called Christian doctrines - Jesus was not sent to earth to preach Christianity, but "The Kingdom!" His whole mission on earth was to get the Kingdom of Heaven into us on earth "as it is in heaven." When the Kingdom is fully established on earth (in us), we will subdue it; and we will reign with Christ "on earth as it is in heaven." The government of the Kingdom will replace the systems of men, and once again our God will rule the earth with a people who walk and talk with Him as friend.
God is now searching the earth for volunteers; those who recognize that a powerless church is an ineffective church – those who know there is a better plan than what many in church leadership teach. Will you say "Here I am, take me Lord?" If so, commit yourself fully, with full focus on seeking the Kingdom and His righteousness, 'and then' watch what happens in your life. Once your heart is set on the Kingdom (in you), "on earth as it is in heaven," extraordinary things will begin to happen - I don't speak from theory; I speak from testimony (Revelation 12:11).
If you seek, you will surely find! The only thing you will lose are stout traditions, mind sets, and preconceived religious notions. My people perish for lack of (Kingdom) knowledge" - Hosea 4:6. When we are free of the traditions that make the word of God to no effect, we are ready for a Kingdom journey (on earth) beyond anything we can imagine or think! Life and power are in the structure; as Kingdom structure produces Kingdom order, which releases Kingdom power. Historically, we haven’t had the structure right - we have falsely focused on Christianity when our true focus should be the Kingdom!
The message of Jesus was the Kingdom, not Christianity that focused us more on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and less on the Tree of Life (where our spiritual vitality comes from). Fruit from the wrong tree is deadly, as we’re often trapped by our interpretation of “good fruit.” Works outside the leadership of God’s spirit is a departure from fruit from the Tree of Life – the tree that entitles us to communion and communication with our Father. A true Kingdom man ceases from his own labor, enters into God’s rest and only does what he sees the Father doing. If your vision is cloudy and hearing muffled, perhaps you have engaged the wrong system.
We are now in the appointed time, as the Church Age has transitioned into the Kingdom Age. Never has heaven been so ripe to bring its fruit to earth. When lovers of Christ connect the dots to the Kingdom, power and authority will come to the church. We will become the head and not the tail, as our overcoming testimony will speak for itself - we don't serve a weak God! We serve the one who judges justly in the affairs of men - a God who blesses and cares for His own. Our part in enjoying this great government and Kingdom citizenship is "Seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness"….AND THEN….
Let this message stir you heart; let it begin a new work in you that will initiate the changes you have waited for.
Seek the Kingdom and watch what happens!
Clay Sikes
www.lighthouseprophecy.org
2. Beyond the Scope of Natural Reality
By Ron McGatlin
Spiritual supernatural life is being poured out to prepare the children of God for the season of worldwide change coming upon us in this day of the Lord. Supernatural interaction with Spirit God and holy angels is a portion of abundant life resources from heaven flowing through the pure holy love of God. Kingdom of heaven impartation of power and wisdom beyond human understanding is available for those with ears to hear and eyes to see by the Holy Spirit what God has prepared for those who love Him.
There exist two circles or realms of reality: one of which is God’s order, the other is inverted or opposite. The two realities were originally as one.
Natural human beings as descendants of fallen Adam lost awareness of the original reality and see only the inverted circle of reality.
In the Spirit, those of the seed of Christ have the restored potential to experience awareness of the realm of reality from which all natural life and all that is seen emanated.
Originally the two circles of reality were one. For all practical function the world was as heaven. It was a physical manifestation of Spirit God on display for the glory of God.
The Dimension of Time
Time is a dimensional factor of the continued existence of the manifestation of God’s physical or natural display. Or said another way, time is a dimension of creation. Time is the length of the existence of creation. In the eternal realm of reality, there is no time, only eternal now. However, in all creation there is time. All created things have a beginning and a potential end. The sustainment or continuation of time (a dimension of creation) is a function of the realm of timeless eternal reality. That which can be seen with the natural eye was made by that which is not seen with the natural eye.
Before the fall of mankind in Adam, the now inverted circle of reality or creation was a perfect physical presentation of the attributes of eternal Spirit God. The now two realities were then one in perfect harmony and alignment in every way prior to the fall. There was no death or decay involved in either time or eternity.
The sin of partaking of the tree of human knowledge as opposed to the tree of Spirit life caused an inversion of the circle of created reality to the opposite of its original design. This caused death to enter which defiled the physical presentation of the attributes of eternal Spirit God in natural existence. The inverted reality apart from God went into a gradual but steady decline of decay and death. Death is separation from God.
The redemption of Christ Jesus at the cross was and is for the final purpose of the reinstatement and restoration of the perfect harmony and alignment of the two circles of reality into one again, thus restoring the glory of God through the physical presentation of all of His attributes in fully restored creation on earth as it is in heaven.
God is a faithful covenant God, and His word is forever. God’s covenant with mankind that He made with Adam gave dominion of His created reality on earth to mankind. God will not break His covenant word. Because all mankind had fallen, God had to become a man in Christ Jesus to accomplish the redemption of His created reality including mankind. Mankind had to be redeemed and restored to his original state of life in the circle of eternal reality to restore creation to its original eternal reality. This is the process in which we are now involved at this time.
We are awakening to awareness of the eternal circle of reality.
Blind eyes and deaf ears are opening to the eternal circle of reality. A firstfruits company of God’s people are now taking up their cross, which is really their part of Jesus’ cross, to the loss of their life in the inverted circle reality. There can be no resurrection life into the circle of eternal reality life now unless there has been a death. Death must always precede resurrection.
From Death to Life by Love
The best death is a life laid down for God by love. The invasion of pure, holy love is washing away our limitations of Spirit life. We are so consumed in His love that we are no longer a threat of misusing the all-powerful resources of heaven. God can trust us with the resources to restore the physical creation to its original glorious design. The heavens are opened to us to enter and receive all that is needed to restore the inverted kingdoms to the holy kingdoms of our God. Mysteries are being unveiled. Wisdom and power are being released all in the bountiful resources of God’s pure, holy, all-consuming love.
More people are becoming aware and discovering the open heaven access to the eternal circle of reality along with its resources and empowerment to transform the inverted reality on earth. The inverted reality will eventually be completely transformed. The same power of creation that spoke the world into existence is available to restore, renew, and recreate Planet Earth and all that is on it.
The sometimes empty and powerless form of Christian religion will give way to the truly purified holy Bride of Christ moving as one with the Spirit of Christ, the Head of the Body. The mature sons of God are arising on earth to take back the land given to the enemy by generations that have turned from God’s ways to their own fallen ways. Cleansed and empowered by love, a holy generation will stand strong in the Lord aided by myriads of powerful angels and led by the glorified King of kings and Lord of lords.
The Babylonian style world has fallen and is now burning before our eyes. (Revelation 18)
The folly of entertaining ourselves with the foolishness of empty pleasure-seeking and placating our minds with weak religious form is over. While merchandisers became rich we played our games and titillated our flesh and generally turned away from the way of the Lord God. We have become as a generation of foolish people without real understanding. Our sin has reached heaven, and judgment has come. A fierce and blood thirsty people are arising upon the land – a people foreign to God fit only to destroy and to be destroyed.
Their rampage will only be stopped by the completed work of destroying Mystery Babylon and removing the false gods from the people of God. The great harvest of the earth has come, and both the godly and the evil are ripe to be harvested. The fruit of the generations is coming to harvest. That which God has sown has come to a harvest of glory, and what the enemy has sown has come to a harvest of destruction.
New Jerusalem is Coming Down from Heaven. (Revelation 21)
For those with spiritual ears to hear, New Jerusalem is a clear picture of life in the kingdom with the presence of God within and among His people. All this is in the complete absence of any of the darkness of the old Babylonian lifestyle. This is the purified holy Bride in perfect union with God. It is the one true circle of reality on earth as it is in heaven – the full expression of the attributes of God displayed in the physical circle of reality to the glory of God.
Beyond the scope of natural reality, the Spirit reality is coming into increasingly clearer view in the hearts of the Bride/Wife and the mature sons of God birthed and maturing in the Bride/Wife Spirit reality on earth.
At the same time strong delusions are given to those who have chosen to follow the evil inversion and will not turn. Their foolish minds are darkened, and they cannot see or perceive the eternal Spirit reality of New Jerusalem life on earth. However, every knee shall bow to God either in judgment or in the presence of the majesty and glory of God in peace, righteousness, and joy.
Today, in this season, is the time of the fullness of the gospel of the kingdom coming forth on earth that began over two thousand years ago. This is more than the end of the world as it has been. It is the beginning of the redeemed and restored world as it shall be.
Love Never Fails and His Kingdom Never Ends.
Ron McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
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3. We Are Not In Kansas Anymore
By Amanda Leonard
This may sound completely off the wall, but stay with me. I really believe that the Lord is using the movie, "The Wizard of Oz" as an allegory to reveal a much bigger picture involving the body of Christ. While we (a bunch of Kingdom believers who LOVE Jesus) came together from several different places, to the Outer Banks only two weeks ago to gather, someone gave a word about the name of the place being significant. We were at "Kill Devil Hills" and the name of the home that we stayed in was called "The Crowned Jewel". During one of our meeting times the last night, someone mentioned that what had happened during the weekend was like in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz" where the house fell on the wicked witch and she was smashed. Then someone said, "Weren't not in Kansas anymore!"
Something happened that weekend that I can't even being to articulate. We each felt it in our spirits but the words were inadequate when trying to give an explanation of what had taken place. The picture of the house smashing on the wicked witch was a good picture though of what had begun to transpire in the realm of the Spirit. As many lies concerning our inheritance were smashed.
Also, the quote "We're not in Kansas anymore" rang true, as we had embarked into a new dimension in the ways of the Kingdom. Everything had changed. Of course, God didn't change. He's been the same forever, yet we had tapped into some of the mysteries that maybe we didn't even know were available while still being alive upon the earth. It truly is a new time for the body of Christ. All the old has passed away and behold a new thing has come! (Isaiah 43:18-19).
So after leaving the Outer Banks, I believe that I heard the words "The Wizard of Oz and We're not in Kansas anymore" at least 10 times. Even, while I was at work one of the nurses had came out of a room and said "This lady is from Kansas. We're not in Kansas anymore!" Also a friend of mine was teaching her kids and they had no idea of what the Holy Spirit was speaking to me and they were talking about how the enemy is defeated and under our feet. Her son said, "It's like this mom, like "The Wizard of Oz" and he placed a sheet over his sister who was "playing" the enemy and had just her feet sticking out like in the movie. There was a pattern happening here so I began to inquire of the Lord because I was curious on what He was trying to show me.
Outline of Movie
I'll give a quick recap of the main events of the movie that Holy Spirit was showing me that pertained to what was happening now. In the beginning of the movie, Dorothy dreams of going "Over the Rainbow". A tornado comes and Dorothy goes inside this house. The house falls and smashes one of the wicked witches leaving her ruby red slippers for Dorothy. Then, the storyline continues and she meets the other characters who are need of different things brains, courage, and a heart. They journey to make their way to the "Emerald City". Dorothy is seeking out "The Wizard of Oz" for help.
As she goes along the yellow brick road in her red shoes, she meets another witch, the sister of the witch the house fell on. The whole time as they are following the yellow brick road, this wicked witch is trying to destroy her or at least get her sidetracked from her intended destination. She eventually throws water on this witch and she melts. They get to the Emerald City and see the wizard only to find out that he is playing a game of masquerades. He is really just hiding behind something that he is not. Dorothy had the answer the whole time, her red shoes which brought her back home.
Interpretation from the Movie
So now I'll try to explain what Holy Spirit was revealing to me through this movie. Firstly, the name "Dorothy" means, "gift of God", so put yourself in "Dorothy's" shoes. No pun intended :) You are a gift of God. You are safe and secure in His house. As tornadoes and whirlwinds of this life come at you, you are safe because He is your home, your safe place, your refuge, your defender. He is your firm foundation and while IN HIM the enemy is under your feet. The enemy and his counterparts are being smashed right now and they don't like it.
Romans 16:19-21: For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
God has given us grace through Jesus to stay on this path that He has placed us on and smash any lingering demons on the journey. These other counterparts may try to rear their ugly heads or get you off the path or away from your destination. So when they try to speak those lies just throw the "Water of the Word" on them and watch them melt away.
Micah 1:4: The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
You have already been promised (Over the Rainbow) your destination in Him, in His heart, in His Kingdom. As you see the enemy for what he really is, he will be as wax under your feet. The Lord has given you the weapons and is teaching you about His courts and His government. The Lord will give you Wisdom (brains for the scarecrow) and understanding, He will give you the courage (courage for the Lion), and the heart of Love (the heart for the tin-man) to release the captives and set them free. You have the BLOOD RED shoes upon your feet, His blood has paved the way for you to return back home. Through the cross and His blood every demon in hell has been defeated. You are NOT in Kansas anymore, you are now in His Heavenly Kingdom, walking without fear to the "Emerald City". The western church has been masquerading for far too long, the truth is coming to light. It's time for the true church to arise in holiness, in brokenness, in humility, in love and walk in power and authority and release the Kingdom of heaven upon the earth.
He is giving you strategies, responsibilities, wisdom and knowledge to walk this out. You are defeating every enemy in your life that has kept you from the destination of His heart, of His Kingdom.
As this journey is taking place, you will help set others free, to help others know their rightful place; that you are kings and priests after the order of Melchizedek. The emerald is a stone on the breastplate of the high priest. You are His crowned jewel, so go into His glory, watch the demons be scorched and walk in the freedom that Jesus paid for. He has made a way through the veil, to go back to the place you were born from and to walk in complete freedom.
Hebrews 6:19-20 This hope we have an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
1 Peter 2:8 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own people that you may proclaim the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Hebrews 2:14-15 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Brothers and Sisters, "WE ARE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE!”
In His love,
Amanda Leonard
https://timeinhispresence.wordpress.com/
4. News Headlines
Doctor Claims Boy's Dead Heart Was "Jump-Started" by the Holy Spirit - 2/10/2015
Three teenage boys fell through the ice. One, 14-year-old, had been underwater 15 minutes when rescuers retrieved him from the lake and begin CPR for 27 minutes. She entered the room where CPR was being performed on her son, she began "praying loudly." "'Holy God, please send your Holy Spirit to save my son.' All of a sudden, she heard them saying, 'We got a pulse!"'
Rescued Children Finding New Life Beyond City Dump - 2/10/2015
Just outside Manila, lies a dump thousands of men, women, and children call home. Each day almost 500 garbage trucks visit the dump site. Following close behind each truck is a small army of scavengers - children as young as three years of age. "PCF educates children for seven hours a day…feeds breakfast and lunch. They also earn take home food rewards by attendance."
ISIS Terrorists Crucifying, Burying Iraqi Children Alive, according to a report by the United Nations. - 2/10/2015
The U.N. says ISIS is systematically killing, torturing and raping children and families from the Yazidi sect and Christian communities. '" ***Mitchell spoke more with Christian World News co-anchor Wendy Griffith about that experience and his new book. Click play to watch that interview. (Watch the video to learn much more about ISIS.)
Multiple generations embrace challenge to pray for Israel at summit - 2/10/2015
With Christian speakers from the US and Jerusalem, a sold-out conference on Israel drew 1,700 and hundreds more on live streaming to a summit that organizers predict will grow into a global solidarity movement of Jews and non-Jews. As Christians align themselves with Israel they can expect both God's blessings, favor and protection, and persecution.
ISIS drives displaced refugees to Christ - 2/10/2015
An ethnoreligious community in Iraq was once inaccessible to native Iraqi missionaries, as members lived reclusively in distant mountains near the border with Turkey. Since Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities drove them from their mountain strongholds last year, however, Yazidis now account for most of the people who have turned to Christ through a local ministry.
"'God' is not a dirty word," High School Senior Wins Victory in Important Pledge of Allegiance Case - 2/10/2015
Samantha Jones, a New Jersey high school student, successfully protected the right of all her fellow students to continue reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in its entirety. After hearing Samantha and her family's case for the words 'one nation under God,' a state judge has decided to dismiss the American Humanist Association's effort to take "under God" out of the Pledge.
Military Chaplains the New 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell?' - 2/10/2015
Don't "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was once a term used to refer to homosexuals in the military. Now, however, the term is more often being applied to Christians in uniform. Military chaplains are feeling the pressure to conform to the new reality, as some label biblical values "hate speech." Now some chaplains are coming under fire from official government policy.
Israel Boycott Resembles Nazi's 'Judenfrei' - 2/10/2015
The Nazis sought to rid Germany of any trace of the Jews. This same anti-Semitic spirit has returned. It's a drive to erase any sign of Israel. Across Europe, more and more campuses, cities and regions are trying to become "Israel-free zones." The Leicester City Council in England voted to boycott goods made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Presidential elections postponed in Nigeria - 2/10/2015
The presidential elections will now tentatively take place on March 28 and gubernatorial elections on April 11. The reason for the postponement is that the security agencies are not available to provide protection as they will be starting a 6-week campaign against the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram launched a new attack on neighboring Niger.
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