1. Rivers of Love

By Ron McGatlin

The one most important thing – the most valuable substance in all of creation is God’s pure love.

The most regrettable waste in this world is nations once enlightened with at least an earnest of the love of God, turning to the darkness of godlessness and existing without the most valuable crown of life. All awareness of who we really are and who God really is was lost when we turned away from God’s love provision.

God’s pure holy love is the ruling substance of life on earth that can order every aspect and system of natural and spiritual life on earth. It is the crowning glory of man, and yet it is now foreign to most of humanity. Over a period of time gradual degeneration and perversion has polluted and destroyed the pure love connection with God for most people in the world including many Christians. And the very sad thing is that they do not even know it. Most Christians and many secularists sincerely believe that the pseudo love facsimile they have is the full real thing.  

A pseudo substitute for the real love of God has been manufactured in the minds and hearts of the people of the world, with help from the powers of darkness.

Spots of Love Poured Out Amidst the Darkness

After having turned away from the pure relationship with God that Jesus brought in the first century, there have been spots throughout history where some here and some there have again been connected into the pure love of God. However, for the most part the mixture of demonic and worldly ungodliness in both religious and secular beliefs has left mankind barren of the real love of God ruling in this world.

All of the systems of man governing and functioning in this world are either totally controlled by or mixed with the godless principles of “Babylon.”

In the past few centuries and especially in the twentieth century God has been greatly moving upon man to restore a foundation for the return of the love of God ruling in all aspects of life and governance on Planet Earth. There has indeed been progress in this awesome endeavor to persuade the hearts of men to willingly turn back to allow the pure holy love of God to rule and reign in our lives and subsequently in the world.

However, the battle between the darkness of Babylonian lifestyle and the light of God in New Jerusalem lifestyle has reached extremely intense proportions worldwide. The entire world seems now to be raging against Christ Jesus. His pure holy love is now being established in a mostly hidden people on earth.

Great Deception

Impure deceptions and false extreme religions have been ignited across the world, and the poison of darkness threatens to engulf the entire world. The enemy is spreading intense false love for the ways of darkness and hatred for the true light of the pure holy love of God.

False love promises there is no need for purity, no need for holiness; the fleshly life in this fallen world is a good thing, and seeking to lay down your life at the altar of God is needless and foolish. False love produces a false security without the process of change. Evil has become as good, and good has become as evil to the deceived masses of religious and secular people under the spell of the father of lies and mother of harlots.

A Personal Word

Please allow me to share from my over 80 years of experience of viewing these things taking place. In the early years of my spiritual journey, I knew that I wanted to love but did not really love people. After many years of seeking to serve God with much spiritual growth, encounters, and experiences with God, I sincerely believed that I had the reality of the pure holy love of God. I would have had serious debate with anyone who said differently.

With all certainty I can tell you that one can never know that he or she is not truly experiencing the pure holy love of God until it sovereignly invades their life.

Many experiences and revelations and encounters may be required to prepare us to become the true love of God. God is faithful and may take us through unimaginable experiences of devastation and loss and then times of blessing and spiritual encounters leading to great victories. He may allow us to experience more pain and suffering than we believe we can stand to bring us to a place beyond earthly knowledge in the reality of becoming His pure holy love, becoming dead to the things of sin and self, and completely engulfed in His presence forever. This is when we know that what we had before was not the pure holy love of God.

Some of you reading this are truly there and have become the love of God on earth. Many reading this only think that you have been through a lot and have the pure holy love, when in reality you are yet in process and are soon to be truly known of Him and become His love on earth.

The words in Matthew 7:23 “depart from me I never knew you” are not always His final statement. In my own experience years ago, He once sent me away or pulled back from me for a season. It was the greatest darkness of suffering that I ever experienced. I had already seen the loss of everything that I valued in this life. All that I had was Him and His presence. When He pulled away from me, there was more pain than I could stand; the heavens closed and became as brass even the earth seemed hard and dead. My cries of desperation to God for help were unheeded. Had the time not ended soon, I would not have lived. After He returned I knew for certain that there was NO life without Him and that nothing was of value without Him. I thought I knew His love. But what I really knew was His value to my life. I was yet to become the pure holy love of God.

It was in the mid to late 1990s when sovereignly the pure love of God invaded my being and poured His love into and through me to the point that I became more than a carrier of His love but became His love. There was no longer a coming and going of His presence. I have heard from others with similar experiences. Your experience and encounters may have been and probably will be different. We are all different people and require somewhat different experiences in our journey to becoming His love and abiding always in His presence.

The Greatest News of All

The greatest news is that we have now entered a season when the Holy Ghost is sovereignly invading His prepared people with the fullness of His all-consuming love, transforming us into a new creation of His love and life. Literally nothing is the same as it was yesterday. Love is there in us for everyone including our enemies and those who spitefully use us. We are strongly drawn to others in whom Christ is abiding. However, it may seem strange that some others are repelled by what God has done and is doing in us. God’s love is connecting and disconnecting us according to His plan and purpose.

This is the living moving fluid spiritual life that God is preparing in us. It is a fountain flowing as a river of love that may disappear from view of the world as it flows underground to emerge into view in another place and time with the fresh clear water of the Spirit bringing pure holy life unto a dry parched world of the ashes of the burned-out, ungodly Babylonian ruled world systems.

A Parable of Rivers

In the natural, rivers in mountainous and desert regions may flow above ground in plain sight, or they may flow underground unseen. Underground streams may join together with others below the surface. They may emerge later downstream as a larger stream. Some underground streams flow through caverns as a visible stream if one is in the cavern. Others flow through the soil strata of sand or gravel.

A river flowing down from mountains through desert areas may go underground when the environment becomes too extreme such as a season of desperate drought. It may again rise above the surface as rainfall returns to the area and conditions are again favorable above the surface.

While it is below ground the river may be further purified. It may also form the equivalent of lakes underground. People on the surface in need of fresh cool water may drill down into these aquifers and pump up water to the surface.

There are also underground streams that are made by man. In growing metropolitan areas streams are sometimes contained in conduits and covered over for structures to be built over the streams. They are completely hidden underground while man builds his thing upon the surface.

You may be sensing some parallels of natural rivers and the spiritual river of God’s pure love. The river of love is now flowing into hearts and lives beneath the surface of the darkness of human activities. The darkness of religion and secular beliefs ruling in the world is creating a major drought of God’s rule in the world. The holy river of God’s pure love reality is moving underground and becoming even more pure and joining with other streams. While above ground the beginnings of fiery cleansing judgments of God are shaking, are burning away the evil world of severe darkness.

You will possibly glean more as you meditate on this parable of rivers and the spiritual reality that is now taking place in this season of history.

We are entering a season when the pure holy love of God in His people will not be prevalent in the affairs of evil world order. There is a separation taking place as God’s people are spiritually and naturally coming out of Babylon.

Subsurface alternate ways of supporting spiritual and natural life are being shown to some of God’s people to prepare alternate somewhat underground systems of life for people of God during this duration of strong adversity in the visible world.

All we need is in the secret place of the pure holy love of God.

Flowing through love there is power and wisdom to accomplish all God has for us to do. There is righteousness, peace, and joy even during this coming season of severe cleansing judgment. Read again Psalm 91.

Psalm 91: begins with: He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust…

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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