1. Leap of the Faith of God Within

By Ron McGatlin

A “Great Unseen Awakening” is occurring within and among pure-hearted maturing sons and daughters of God.

We are being awakened to a work of God that is beyond anything we have known in our lifetime – a work that is at least equal to the significant works of God recorded in the New Testament.

A final all-consuming work of God has begun that will have no end but flows seamlessly into eternal resurrected life now and forever.

Immortality is conquering mortality within the people of God who have become fully aware of the reality of Christ within and have become one Spirit, one flesh, one life with Christ - a life in which we no longer live but Christ lives where we once lived in His temple, this earthly body, His body on earth.

This is not a new thing. It is a part of the finished work of the redemption of the Cross – a work of God for which Christ Jesus came to earth and gave His sinless life on the cross and arose from the tomb alive. He then ascended to the Father and was seated at His right hand. Christ Jesus became a “life giving Spirit” and returned in the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to abide in those who abide in Him - Christ in the Holy Spirit becoming one Spirit and one flesh with us (His Bride) on earth. The two becoming one is the greatest marriage of all time and eternity. While at the same time, we are seated with Him at the right hand of Father God in Heaven.

IN CHRIST we are seated with Him at the right hand of the Father establishing the reality of our connection into the throne of God, our source of LOVE, wisdom, and power. CHRIST IN US in this world is the release of God’s LOVE, wisdom, and power from the throne into this world to bring forth the kingdom of heaven on earth.

The new part of all this is that this is now being revealed to His prepared sons and daughters. This revelation causes the agreement of man with God that is necessary to experience our crucifixion and the resurrection life of Christ to arise in us for the purpose of being fully released into this world.

The recognition of the reality of God in us through Christ by the Holy Spirit crucifies our past life including all of our sin and tendency to sin, all of our past man-made religion, all of our vain glory of past human accomplishments, and all of our noble deeds that were derived from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Recognizing the reality of God in us fully activates and releases the life of Christ in us and out of us into the world around us.

The overwhelming LOVE of the nature of Christ living in us dissolves our adamic natural nature and floods our spirit and soul with the all-loving, all-powerful Spirit of the living Christ. God’s supernatural nature of LOVE humbles us completely. The faith of God has full freedom in our being to form the will of God on earth and to change the world around us. We no longer are a hindrance to the faith of God in us. The perfect obedience of Christ is in us by the Holy Spirit that only does and says what the Father is doing and saying.

Thus the kingdom of God is coming forth on earth according to the model prayer Jesus gave us. “So He (Jesus) said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’” _{(Luke 11:2)}

Our natural lives are becoming as one with eternal God. King Jesus is present on earth in His people to bring forth His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

In this the spiritual fulfillment of Tabernacles is manifesting in our time. Tabernacles is the last of the three major Jewish feast that prophetically foreshadowed the then future works of God. The people of God who have fully experienced the manifestation of Passover and Pentecost are now experiencing Tabernacles.

The experience of Passover was and is manifested in the blood redemption or born again experience of salvation. Pentecost was and is manifested in the fullness of the Holy Spirit filling and saturating us. There is much detail involved in Tabernacles. However, the greatest characteristic of Tabernacles to me is the reality of GOD WITH US on earth. God intimately in us and among us – the fullness of the reality of Christ in us the hope of glory.

The kingdom of God on earth is coming forth as the people of God are fully prepared through the world-changing redemptive works of God pictured in the Jewish feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. In this the third millennium since God became a man in Christ and this the seventh millennium since Adam was created, the fullness of God intimately within us and among us is bringing forth His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. The presence of Almighty God is within and among His people in Christ by the Holy Spirit.

THE WORLD IS BEING CHANGED

Everything which is not of God will be dissolved, and all that is of God will arise in the brightness of His glory on earth as it is in heaven.

Christ Jesus is alive and well on earth in the hearts and lives of His holy people.

Take heart and be of good cheer. Be strong and very courageous. Yes, the journey has been long and at times very tedious especially for those called as apostles to open the new territory of each new era of the progression to the fullness of Christ in His people bringing forth the kingdom of God from heaven to earth.

Paul wrote: “My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.”   _{(Galatians 4:19)} 

In some of the words of an old Hymn, as I remember them, we sang about Christ in us and yet did not fully realize that Christ had really returned to earth to literally live in us. “He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way….. You ask me how I know He lives, HE LIVE WITHIN MY HEART!”

“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” _{(Luke 12:32)}

Ron McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net

2. Thy Kingdom Come

By Duane Stewart

Matt. 6:9-10, “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Matt. 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” By becoming a people that put God’s kingdom foremost in our lives, we enter upon the pathway of becoming God’s miracles. Putting God’s kingdom first is but the first step man can take concerning this pathway, but we cannot walk upon this path unless determining that His will, purpose, and glory is our first priority as we pursue His call on our lives. To do so we must turn to His word, which is the atmosphere in which we may understand His will, recognize His way, and hear the voice of His Spirit. Pursuing vessels are to watch for the little things, the little signs along the way, not in the great wind, earthquake, or fire, but rather in the still small voice. For often, the small, seemingly insignificant things or events ultimately determine our destiny.

Recognition concerning the truth that all things God builds are upon a sure foundation. God builds His kingdom upon His foundation, the rock Christ Jesus, not upon the sand of man’s doings. Is it not so that God is love and all that comes forth from Him He builds upon that love? Even as Jesus came forth, and now the many member body of Christ, love remains the sure foundation. With a person placed within Christ body, the pathway begins, which is a journey of increase. One of the greatest indicators that we are growing in our relationship with God is in our willingness to love. Matt. 22:36-40, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

God is love and love is not just something that He does, it is who He is. It follows then that we are never godlier, never more like God, than when we love. How easily we may look at these two commandments and say quickly, “I love the Lord,” yet struggle with loving our neighbor. Jesus made the second commandment as important as the first. We cannot fulfill the first commandment to love God without obeying the second command to love our neighbor. Nor can we avoid this problem by narrowing our definition of “neighbor” to just a people in our neighborhood, only speaking of those of our family, race, perspective, economical and intellectual level or religion. Jesus makes the world our neighbor by qualifying anyone God puts in our path, or who needs us, as “my neighbor.”

By allowing the love of God to be shed abroad in our hearts (soul = mind, will, emotions, desires), we begin to qualify for that place in Him as being “led by the Spirit.” The person who is led by the Spirit will do what is right freely, and not by the compulsion of any law. In this, we become free from laws bondage and condemnation. Gal. 5:18, “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” Love, a nature implanted at the acceptance of Christ, does live within us. In the progress of maturity, the receiving of Gods increasing Spirit of love reveals that God is, without which no person shall see the Lord. Love increases knowledge, which reveals God, which brings forth a “new birth.” 1 John 4:7-8, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” This birthing is more than being “saved from passed sins,” but it is the fitting for us to begin a walk in God’s kingdom order that makes faith come alive. Live faith enables each vessel to respond to God in all things. Enabling those sent ones to come and go according to God’s direction. John 3:8. “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Most Christians are well aware that at the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, the veil in the old covenant tabernacle rent from top to bottom. The rending of this veil speaks to us that God’s people can now enter into that Holiest of All, to stand in God’s presence, His throne room. Love not only opens the veil, but also enables us to stand, to live, and dwell in His presence. In that presence, a people can begin, through love, to see Him as He is. God’s word tells us, it promises us, that as we see Him as He is, we shall be like Him. Where is it that this presence of God dwells? Are we not told that the “kingdom of God is within”? He, dwelling within us, speaks of the heart of man, which becomes the Holy of Holies wherein God dwells. Therefore, as we do away with that “covenant of death,” the letter that kills, by a turning to that Spirit of love that abides within, the peace of God begins to rule over us. Phil. 4:7 declares, “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

A people of faith know that the hope of great blessings will not turn out to be false because the Holy Spirit gives evidence in our hearts of God’s love for us. Rom. 5:5, “Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given us.” This word love (agape) denotes an undefeatable benevolence and unconquerable goodwill that seeks the highest good of the other person, no matter what he does. This self-giving love gives freely without asking anything in return, and does not consider the worth of its object. Agape is more a love by choice than a love by chance. Meaning it refers to the will rather than the emotion. Agape describes the unconditional love God has for the world. Love, the agape of God, is the fruit of the tree of life, which dwells in the Holy of Holies, the heart of Spirit filled people. It is here, in this Holy of Holies that we can buy gold that we as over-comers are to buy. Love conquers all and buys all. Rev. 3:18, “I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; …” This fire is that which God has promised. Fire is the agent, which either purifies or destroys and unto the vessels who receives from Him, He purifies as fine gold. Matt. 3:12, “His winnowing fan is in He hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire”.

This love, tried in the fire, which buys the gold or nature of God, is the agent that also enables faith to create. Faith is the divinely implanted principle of inward confidence, assurance, trust, and reliance in God and all that He says. Faith is substance. Heb. 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is established conviction concerning things unseen and a settled expectation of future reward. “Substance” literally means “a standing under,” and used in the technical sense of a “title deed.” The root idea is that of standing under the claim to the property to support its validity. Thus, faith becomes the “title deed” of things for which we hope. The things hoped for, can be all the promises given to us by God. James 1:6-8, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

Unto the vessel who releases faith, because of love, the prospect of transformation into the likeness of Christ motivates each one to live righteously. These become a people who are continually changed, spirit, soul, and body. 1 John 3:2-3, “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Love is causing a people to know Him and because of coming to know Him, they are now becoming like Him, as He reveals Himself. Herein is the ability to know and abide in truth. The anointing of the Holy Spirit, whose illuminating power enables us to distinguish truth from error and to receive spiritual knowledge under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, is to know truth in a way that human instruction cannot provide. The Holy Spirit is able to bring revelation to the human heart filled with love. 1 John 2:27, “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him”.

Therefore, those things we see in Him, because of love, they likewise abide in those who are seeing Him as He is. Not as man would teach us intellectually, but as the Holy Spirit would reveal Him unto us. All things taught concerning God, the Holy Spirit confirms by the same Holy Spirit that abides in us. Remember, love enables faith to create in us a righteous heart that is the Holy of Holies. From this heart, the fruit of the tree of life is manifest as gold brought through the fire. Gold refined to manifest the risen Christ who sits within the throne-room of God. Within us the kingdom of God is come. Now, through love it must be manifest. “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven”.

Duane Stewart
https://voiceforgatheringsaints.wordpress.com/author/duanest ewart/




3. News Headlines

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Meeting between Netanyahu and Putin; How it Went and What it Could Mean - 12/2/2015 "I think this is an indication of the openness and the success of the relationship between Israel and Russia—our relationship." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a productive half-hour meeting Monday on the sidelines of the climate change conference in Paris. Putin said it was his pleasure to meet with Netanyahu. Full Article »

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Sewing Machine and Widow’s Dignity - More than a Christmas present. - 11/25/2015 Sani had been married only for five years when her husband died from alcohol poisoning. It was her fault. That’s what her in-laws said. They were so convinced, they threw her and their three grandsons out of the house. Though she found new life in the Lord, Sani and her sons still struggled for daily survival on the meager earnings they labored for. Full Article »  MORE NEWS HEADLINES  Unlimited permission to copy and post or reprint without altering text or profiteering is hereby granted subject to proper credits and inclusion of this web address: archive.openheaven.com . However, if an item not written by Ron McGatlin is marked Copyright, you should contact the original publisher for permission to reproduce. Thank you for forwarding OpenHeaven.com Digest to your email list. archive.openheaven.com basileia@earthlink.net