OpenHeaven.com Digest
1. What More Can God Do?
By Ron McGatlin
(Note: I believe this is an important word of understanding the times we are in. It is a bit long but please set aside the time to read in carefully and to watch the video link included. Brother Ron)
The voices of modern day prophets may seem to be contradicting each other. Some seem to be speaking of and expecting a great “fire of revival” to be poured out on America and other western nations, while others seem to be seeing great and terrible destruction and devastation of a great “fire of judgment” upon the same nations.
There are calls to pray for America, a call for God to intervene and pour out a great revival restoring the people of the land to godly sanity, while others proclaim the soon coming tyrannous takeover through economic failure and militant force, from within and without, destroying the nation under powerful judgments of God.
These descriptive statements may well be overly generalized, but they do represent the theme of the two seemingly different camps of prophetic word coming forth in this day. NEITHER MESSAGE BY ITSELF IS COMPLETE AND CORRECT. BOTH ARE TRUE THEMES OF GOD’S WORD TO AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN NATIONS and certainly have much to do with all the nations of the world.
God is both encouraging and warning His people.
My heart breaks as I sense the heart of God for this nation of the United States of America and other chosen nations that once honored God along with all the nations of the world that have been touched with the word and works of God in recent centuries.
God has greatly blessed America over the past couple of centuries. In numerous powerful outpourings upon the people, God has spoken clearly and demonstrated His love and power over and over again. Great works of repentance resulted in some of the great moves and works of God. Multitudes have come to Christ Jesus and given their lives to serve God. In powerful moves of the past, the Holy Spirit of God has been poured out without measure in demonstration of mighty miracles of healing and deliverance to bring the people to true holiness and mature faith in God.
Just as one example, please, before reading on, watch this video from a witness of some of the miracle works God has done in demonstrating His love and power to the people of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnYQxXWCME&feature=yout u.be
God has sent Spirit gifted men and women to bring salvation, healing, deliverance, power, and wisdom to His people. He has revealed the powerful work of the Holy Spirit and the reality of His kingdom unto people in America.
God blessed America to become the most powerful nation on earth and a great force to restrain evil in the world and bring freedom to multitudes. He blessed America to have the best living conditions in the world – a place where its people could live and prosper in freedom. God gave America and its alias victory in two major world wars. God has greatly blessed America in recent history.
YET WHAT IS AMERICA DOING WITH GOD NOW?
Some of the gifted men who received and flowed in the miracle working power of God have merchandised the word and works of God to gather riches for themselves. Many people have used their God given freedom and prosperity to seek the immoral pleasures of the fallen world to consume upon their own lust. The door was left open for angels of darkness posing as angels of light to plant dead religion and introduce “new age” and occult beliefs and practices in the lives of many people who were looking for God. The spirit of anti-Christ has invaded and eroded the true faith of the people of the nation to turn the works of God upside down.
It seems impossible that after God has done all these mighty works and much more for America, that this nation has been led to turn away from Him and even outlaw God in schools and government and is now beginning to persecute believers while seeking to completely eliminate the name of Jesus, a nation that is turning into violent, immoral, and ungodly people who no longer love God but love darkness.
What more can God do?
Because He loves us, He will turn us back to sanity by pulling back His blessing on the nation and allowing an enemy to rise up and take away the peace and prosperity of the nation. A people are rising up in other parts of the world and within this nation to kill, steal, and destroy in the nation that has turned away from God, not for punishment but for correction and cleansing. A mighty people who love and serve God will arise from the ashes. A nation of pure and holy men and women to establish the kingdom of God on earth. In brief, this is “what more God can do.”
It would do little or no good for God to do again the things that He has already done for the nation. There is no value in bringing more miracles of healing with peace and prosperity to this nation. It simply will not change the nation, just as it did not change the whole nation in the past. However, it did work and will work to establish a holy and pure kingdom people apart from the masses of people during and after the cleansing judgments cleanse the land – it will cause a harvest of many souls coming to God.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN PURE AND HOLY OUTPOURINGS OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD AT LEVELS RARELY, IF EVER BEFORE SEEN ON EARTH, WILL MANIFEST AMONG THE MATURING PEOPLE OF GOD. WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, THE GREAT CATACLYSMIC APOCOLYPTIC EVENTS OF SEVERE DEVASTATING CLEANSING JUDGMENT WILL PURGE AND DESTROY ALL THAT GOD HAS NOT BUILT IN THE LAND.
God Will Have a People
God will have a people filled with the life of Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit through whom the work of redemption and restoration of Planet Earth into the kingdom of God will be manifest across the entire world. This is the manifestation of the “finished work” that Jesus saw in the Spirit on the Cross.
The King’s Marriage Feast a Kingdom Parable
The King of heaven has prepared the feast of His kingdom life on earth and invited many. Those invited have mocked His invitation and persecuted and murdered the servants who He has sent to invite them to the gathering feast of His Kingdom life on earth – the marriage of His Son to His Bride. The King is now sending forth judgment on those who have refused His invitation to come to the marriage feast of the kingdom he has prepared for them now on earth – those who spitefully treated and killed His messengers. The King is now inviting you and me to come into the kingdom wedding feast.
Matt 22: And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. 4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.”’ 5 But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, and another to his business. 6 And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. 7 But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’ 10 So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
This parable is about more than being born again. Jesus taught about the kingdom of God, the gospel (good news) of the kingdom. His message was not about joining the church or getting saved to go to heaven. The good news (gospel) of the kingdom is about a marriage of Jesus to His Bride and not about a courtship or visitation. It is about a marriage, a becoming one Spirit and one flesh with Christ Jesus.
This parable is about the life of oneness with God. The life in which there is no separation between God and man through Christ Jesus in us and us in Him bringing forth His life and His rule (kingdom) on earth as it is in heaven. It is the kingdom of God lifestyle now on earth as mature Sons of God restoring the kingdoms of this world to the kingdoms of our God.
The offer is here and now to lose our lives and put on His life and leave our own activities of our own life to answer the King’s invitation to come fully into the marriage feast. Everything is prepared and ready. Those who were first invited have refused and now you and I are invited to feast with the King in His kingdom reality.
Again this does not refer to getting saved and going to heaven when we die. It is very sad but very true that much of the Christian church has not yet matured to the point of accepting this wedding feast invitation to live the kingdom of God reality of life now in this world by the power of Christ Jesus in us by the Holy Spirit. They may all be in heaven after death as they have believed. However, many are missing the kingdom of God life now – the life of heaven in them coming to earth invading this world with the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom of God is not an option that can be refused now in this time of the wedding feast that is happening in this season of “Tabernacles” on earth, God and man becoming one as the Bride of God in Christ Jesus.
The kingdom of God could not come forth in the generations behind us. There had to be a maturing of the collective people of God to receive the revelation of the kingdom. For centuries God’s people have been suffering the pains of growth as layer after layer of truth has restored the awareness of the words of Christ Jesus that the kingdom of God is at hand and within us, we who are the temple of God on earth. The great mystery of the ages is “Christ in you the hope of glory”. The hope of glory is now becoming the reality of glory in His kingdom people now at the prepared marriage feast of the Son and His Bride on earth.
Do not allow religious doctrines and theologies devised by men to keep us from the marriage feast. If allowed, these immature and incomplete teachings from the past can cloud our understanding and shroud the awareness of the life of the kingdom of God.
Father God, in the name of Jesus, open our spiritual eyes and awaken us to the fullness of Your kingdom life now. We choose to open our spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear the truth of Your kingdom life now …..
Ron McGatlin
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2. Americas Unusual Awakening!
WHY did my last post hit over 500,000 in 24 hours?
It started with predictions about the economy, then Blood Moons, then Harbinger, then ISIS, then Ebola, then Same Sex Marriage surge, then back to Ebola. Then my daughter Joy, normally buoyant made a comment curling up to go to bed…."my school is worried about Ebola and all this talk about the end times…why was I born now when all my dreams have no future?" Then she asked the question: "Why would any one want to live if that's the case?"
Something in me snapped. I lifted my hands to the air and started praying…and something began to rise up and settle over me… Jesus was rising up from the back of the ship.
My daughter is remarkably prophetic in a sensing and seeing realm. She can pick up on stuff and does not always know what to do with it. I realized that I needed to remind her that she is the believer in the crowd. She is the solution to the storm. A verse came to mind…"do not fear what they fear!"
I posted to address viral fear …and the word God gave went viral. It is a true Word from God.
We must STOP BEING PASSIVE with the devil and with our own lives. I am praying and pressing in now like I did when I was a younger minister.
America has lost its fear of God. When you lose your fear of God ANOTHER FEAR comes to take its place! Remember that.
If however you have the FEAR OF THE LORD you don't get fear of Ebola, Isis or another Great Depression. You get the COMFORT OF THE HOLY GHOST!" You who fear God can dismiss all other fears. (Acts 9:31…check it out)
AMERICA IS ENTERING AN UNUSUAL AWAKENING! It's an awakening of Christians waking Jesus up from the back part of their ship. Which is to say, it's an awakening of Christians crying out in a storm.
We have not been tested like this since the close of WWII and a brief period in the Cuban missile crisis and at 9-11.
THINK OF THE STORM AND THE DISCIPLES
"And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part (back part) of the ship, ASLEEP on a pillow: and they awoke him, and said unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
And HE AROSE AND REBUKED the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still." (Mk 4:38)
Then after this, Jesus turned and challenged His trainees, (slightly paraphrased for emphasis) - "WHY are YOU of all people, SO FEARFUL? Where is YOUR FAITH?"
We are entering a period of STORMS…but who knows if this is not actually intended to catalyze our awakening? Only a really great storm could get an over-fed, LARGELY COMPLACENT, totally self-absorbed church to awaken. An awakening of what? The anointing residing where He dwells DEEP inside our spirit man! "Deep calleth unto deep!" It's a deeper cry to a deeper place than we dwell.
The storm is life, the boat is your soul and Jesus is in the deeper part in your spirit (the "hinder part" of the ship, says King James)…
Jesus taught that to avoid the falling house in the storm of life you got to "dig deep" to find the rock. Dig past the emotional, mental, private life drama baby places where the soul is snared by cares of this life. Dig down until the spirit man rises up!
Once the spirit man rises up - keep your spirit in the ascended position and your mind and body under.
Make sense?
Lance
http://lancewallnau.com/
3. News Headlines
Southern Baptists open their ranks to missionaries who speak in tongues; reverses 10-year-old policy - 5/28/2015
In a surprise move, the Southern Baptist Convention says it will now admit candidates who speak in tongues, a practice associated with Pentecostal and charismatic churches, reversing a 10-year-old policy. The new rules also loosen restrictions on baptism, divorce, and parents of teenagers and came about on May 13, 2015 at the prompting of their new president David Platt.
'Fix It, Jesus' Emergency Prayer at Graduation Goes Viral - 5/28/2015
Don't miss this Video> A recent high school graduate in Alabama is in the spotlight for his impromptu graduation ceremony prayer. When Thursday night's Clay-Chalksville High School graduation ceremony was interrupted by a medical emergency, graduating senior Christian Crawford stepped up to the podium and asked everyone to join him in prayer.
News From British Isles, Ireland, Europe and Worldwide - 5/28/2015
Armed Forces prayer requests -Northern Ireland: Same-sex marriage call - Queen's Speech - Pakistan: Believers’ prayer requests - Iraq: More support needed from international partners - War intensifies in Yemen, civilians bear the brunt - Nepalese leaving their gods after second quake - Heattwaves, floods, droughts and tornados - Nigeria: Villages raided Christians killed.
ISIS used overpowering new weapons — “Vbieds” — to take Ramadi - 5/28/2015
Leading the suicide onslaught was a British Muslim. Even though they were vastly outnumbered, ISIS used dozens of formidable new weapons known as “Vbieds” in their stunning defeat of Iraqi forces in Ramadi. Vbieds are vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices. ISIS converted captured U.S. military armored vehicles resistant to small-arms fire into megabombs.
ISIS to seek nuclear weapon - 5/28/2015
“Article suggests that ISIS is expanding so rapidly that they will buy their first nuclear weapon within a year, and it will come from Pakistan.” "It’s going to go from Pakistan, to Libya, to Nigeria, Central America, to Mexico. ‘Presto! From Mexico we’re mingling with another 12 million illegal aliens in America with a nuclear bomb in our trunk.'”
Islamic State killed at least 400 people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, mostly women and children. - 5/28/2015
Hundreds of bodies were in the streets of the city. “The Muslims have killed more than 400 people and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did not follow orders.” State employees were among hundreds killed in the massacre. Among them was the head of the nursing department at the hospital and all her family.
Missing Chibok Schoolgirls—Where This Source Says They Are being Held - 5/28/2015
"We always talked about how we could escape. Sometimes we sat down and prayed together and hugged and cried. They were remembering their good moments with their parents and loved ones." The 200 Chibok schoolgirls are likely being held inside bunkers in the Sambisa Forest in Nigeria. "We are suspecting the girls are living with the insurgents in bunkers.
My Trip to Nepal: A Firsthand Look at the Aftermath - 5/27/2015
I visited one of the camps for displaced people in Bhaktapur. They had packed two truckloads of food to bring to this camp, where 1,700 people lived together in make-shift shelters. Next to this camp was the site for mass cremation. The burnt logs and ashes were reminders of the tragedy. In stark contrast children in the camp playing games with sticks and water bottles.
What now for Nepal? - 5/27/2015
“Getting through the monsoon season is going to be the tough thing. When I was there, it started to rain, and it POURED. It was unbelievable. It hailed in some places, we’ve got to get people under shelter as soon as possible. They’ll probably be getting more tarps, tents set up.” There are few places to get in out of the sun or rain.
Friar saved ancient Christian manuscripts from ISIS destruction - 5/27/2015
As ISIS seized the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria on May 21st, Friar Michaeel told AFP in Paris how he was gripped with the desire to preserve the remnants of Iraq’s 2,000-year-old Christian heritage. With ISIS fighters visible in the distance and bullets whistling over his head, Friar Najeeb Michaeel sprang into action to save hundreds of ancient Christian manuscripts.
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Edited by Ron McGatlin on 06/19/2015 at 2:04pm
Topic: OpenHeaven.com Digest May 28, 2015
