OpenHeaven.com Digest
1. LIVING LOVE BEYOND
By Ron McGatlin
God is bringing people together in holy gatherings, solemn assemblies of great spiritual depth. In God’s presence heaven is opening to the gathering of His chosen people. Father God and Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit are present in and among His people. Holy angels (ministering spirits) are with us for a greater work deep within us beyond what we have known in the past.
We shall forever reflect on the day that God does this work in our lives. The day when we are finally fully crucified by the cross of His love.
GOD IS CREATING A NEW HEART WITHIN US: HIS HEART, HIS SPIRIT, HIS LIFE, HIS LOVE.
THIS WORK OF GOD IN US IS BEYOND KNOWING JESUS – BEYOND ALL WE COULD ASK OR THINK – Beyond being born again, beyond spirit filling, beyond repentance, beyond charismatic experiences of supernatural miracles of healing, beyond kingdom teaching – YES, ALL of these things may be done in us, for us, and to us. Yet God is bringing a work beyond all of this in our day.
All who are receiving this work of God have suffered and endured strong opposition to come to this time and spiritual place of receiving God’s heart transplant. There are those who are not yet making it to this spiritual place of receiving His heart.
If you make it to this place, God chose and selected you, and you have endured greatly troubling life situations that have threatened your ability to go on with life in this world. For some it has been more than you thought you could bear. Truly, we will NOT go on in this world as we were. We have indeed come to the end of ourselves.
You may have felt the devil was destroying you. And truthfully the devil is killing, stealing and destroying you and your life as it was in the past. That thing which we cherished the most has been threatened with extinction. God is removing our past lives, our heart’s desires, the core of our life is dying in this day.
God is removing our past lives to replace our heart, our innermost being, our life with His life, His heart, His love in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit.
God is speaking to us about a whole new life lived by the Spirit deep within our being and not by the guidance of our human intellect and desires. A supernatural Spirit life completely free of human or demonic interference or disruption. A life of the pure LOVE of God direct from the throne of God.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you… (Ezekiel 36:26)
Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them… (Ezekiel 11:19)
Try as we may to change our lives away from dependency on fallen worldly wisdom, we continued to be a mixture of heavenly wisdom and dependence on fallen worldly wisdom.
There have been many reformations and revivals. However, we the church have never been free from the guidance of fallen worldly wisdom and therefore never able to truly become the fully purified holy bride the Lord has destined us to be.
That all changes in this day, not by anything that we can do beyond coming into full agreement with what God is doing in us.
As lambs to the slaughter, we willingly come to the cross of the love of God.
This is the day we die and are resurrected in the resurrection life of Christ Jesus and the Spirit that raised Him from the dead to a new life that is not our own.
The earth has long groaned in waiting for this day. Heaven rejoices with us at the end of the old life to the arising of the glory of the life of Christ in us – the end of the fallen world’s wisdom of foolishness and the beginning of the fullness of the pure holy wisdom from heaven flowing as rivers of living water into the world from the deep well of Spirit within our innermost being.
No longer will we draw from the stagnant cistern of worldly wisdom in our minds. We will now draw from the deep well of heavenly wisdom from the everlasting flowing well of living water deep within our innermost being. Christ in us is the flow of glory transforming the world around us.
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Revelation 22:1)
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)
And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. (Ezekiel 47:9)
The magnitude of this great exchange of our entire inner system of life being surgically removed from our spiritual guts and replaced with the resurrected living Christ in the Holy Spirit may not be clearly visible as we endure the early pangs of death. However, after the new resurrection Spirit life is installed into our being, the glory of God will fill our entire being and flow out from us. The flood of God’s powerful LOVE crucifying us and becoming our nature of Christ in us could not be seen or understood in our natural minds. It is beyond understanding but completely peacefully merged into the Spirit within us by God.
Do not fear little flock; it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. - Jesus
Ron McGatlin
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2. Charismatic Christianity Is Not (Necessarily) The Kingdom!
By Clay Sikes
Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition!
Is there a way to describe the pathway to fullness – the Kingdom (in us) on earth as it is in heaven? Is there a key for us to better understand this pathway? The answer is a qualified yes – the qualifier BEING, ‘unfettered by the cares of this world.’ The pathway to ‘fullness’ is cluttered (blocked) by human tradition – Human tradition is an arch enemy to Kingdom fullness (on earth as it is in heaven). What are these often unknown traditions? Why do our traditional mindsets make the word of God to no affect? Why does fruit from the wrong tree deny us The Tree Of Life – Communion with God? Why are human and religious traditions a block to Kingdom fullness? The answer – they are earthly and lack heaven’s understanding.
Our Kingdom pathway is ‘accessed’ by acceptance of the fact that it can be cluttered with tradition, often Christian tradition that is as worldly as…well…the world! Many bones (traditions) must break to achieve a level of fullness.
Religious men will always defend their right to eat forbidden fruit, and challenge any who don’t think like them. Every matter is tied to good and evil, right and wrong, always from human understanding. Kingdom men will always seek the face of God to understand His motive and will in all matters. Heaven’s perspective is often far different than the world’s.
The strength of the oppressor lies in the ignorance of the oppressed, and many Christians are bound by their constant feeding from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – forbidden fruit from a forbidden tree! The best slaves are those who don’t know they are slaves.
To the extent “the cares of this world” rule us, to that same extent do we experience a Kingdom void. We often connect the “cares of this world” figuratively to sex, drugs, and rock and roll, without recognizing the greatest subtlety of them all – eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eating fruit from the wrong tree is the greatest of “cares of this world,” as its fruit is far more deadly – the consumer doesn’t recognize the poison! It is here that I could write an epitaph of Christian causes galore, yet anything done apart from the leadership of the Holy Spirit is fruitless. We judge good and evil all day, every day. We routinely attach ourselves to causes, candidates, concerns, etc., based entirely on our human understanding without a remote thought of seeking God for His heart on the matter.
We are familiar with scripture that teaches “the cares of this world choke out the word.” We are seeing the ‘new season’ of the Kingdom – the time of fullness (Tabernacles); and the pathways to that fullness are opening before our very eyes. Do we have the courage to walk these hallowed pathways? Or, are we so steeped in our charismatic traditions, surrounded by fields full of sacred cows that we don’t realize ‘death is required to live this life?’
To walk the path into fullness, many traditions must be left behind, including sacred cows (often Charismatic theology). As with the opening Chapter in the Book of Joshua, a virtual fearlessness must be received (adopted), as this road will require levels of courage beyond the norm. Do not be alarmed as you proceed along this path, as you discover (uncover) the power that human tradition (the ways of this world) have over you.
To proceed deeper is to grant God permission to ‘break’ the world as He ‘grants’ you heaven. This is painful! “How will a man receive the Kingdom of God? Through much tribulation” (Acts 14:22). “Many are called, few are chosen.” The Kingdom of God is forcefully advancing, and those who have died unto themselves are stepping into the land, exercising spiritual violence against the god of this world – satan.
Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition. Be open and honest with your Father. Call to Him in prayer, asking that He reveal you to you. Be ready to repent, thereby removing the obstacles and hindrances to a ‘full on’ Kingdom flow in your life. Gain access in ways you have never known when you allow Him to slay your sacred cows (some of which will shock you when these are revealed).
God has come to occupy His temple
Topic: OpenHeaven.com Digest October 28, 2015
