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Posted: 01/17/2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

“Spirit Spring”

By Ron McGaltin

Are you sensing an anticipation of a spiritual springtime coming forth this year to coincide with the natural springtime?

There is an intense feeling in me of something exciting coming forth among the maturing sons of God in this natural spring of 2013. It is like a time of fresh beginning of an exciting journey that has been somewhat dormant for a while. It is like fresh seeds sprouting with vibrant new life of purity and praise lifting their fresh green leaves to receive the precious light of God shining down upon us.

For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations (Isaiah 61:11).

As the earth is revived with fresh life and growth this spring, so the hearts of the people of God can be revived with fresh life of righteousness and vibrant praise to our God. Hope is birthed with each new leaf and swelling bud of a bountiful harvest to come over the next two or three years of spiritual and natural preparation for the turbulent times coming upon the world. Yes, true revival is in the air, and the spiritual trees of the kingdom of God lifestyle are budding with the anticipation of much summer fruit.

As birds singing praises call forth the springtime in the natural, so the adoration of praise and worship calls forth the Spirit Spring season of rebirth and fresh life. The songs of real life in the Spirit of God fill our hearts with confident expectation of the glory of the season before us. We are alive, really alive, spirit, soul, and body alive in God, filled with His righteousness, peace, and joy of productive fruitful life.

The fresh new life of preparation brings cleansing to the land from the past season. The old decayed life of the past becomes the composted soil in which the planting of the Lord will grow to fruitful production. This two to three year season of spiritual and natural productive growth is for the provision of the dark times soon coming upon the world. This is the time of strengthening the people of God for the times of cleansing judgment soon coming upon the people of the world.

Beyond the cleansing from the many manmade gods that are ignorantly worshiped in the secular and religious worlds is the fullness of the kingdom of Christ upon the entire world. Even the Christian religion that was long ago infiltrated with the things of the fallen world will endure severe purging in times of great darkness. Foreign gods are first being removed from the religious church and then from the entire world.

Foreign gods are foreign to God.

A large portion of the things traditionally accepted or tolerated in the Christian churches of the world are things foreign to God. Anything foreign to God is from a foreign god. We cannot continue to live in the great blessings of God nor can we enter into the great season of the kingdom of God while continuing to give portions of our lives to other gods – to things foreign to God.

The time we are now entering is very much like the time of Joshua preparing the people to fully occupy the Promised Land.

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God (Joshua 24:1).

In the first thirteen verses of Chapter 24 of the “Book of Joshua,” Joshua gathers the people and reminds them of all that God had done for them in bringing them through all the victories and blessing to the good place where they are at the time.

Here in the USA and in much of the world, God has blessed us in the same way through many victories and prosperous life. Also like the people of Israel in Joshua’s day we have become a mixture of worshiping the true God and other gods that are foreign to God. Much of what the church adjusted to in centuries past and especially in this day is foreign to God.

Beginning in verse 14 Joshua dialogs with the group and brings a strong word from God. I believe that this word is again coming forth from God to us in this hour. God is speaking a strong word of correction in preparation for the season ahead – a word of whole-hearted commitment to the true God and of completely putting the foreign gods away from us. There are many things that Christian people are attracted to and attached to both in the church religious systems and in the world that are totally foreign to God.

 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River in Egypt. Serve the Lord! (Joshua 24:14).

It is NOT always good to continue to follow all of the traditions of our fathers that were on the other side of the river from where we are now and where we are going. The Lord is moving His people toward a greater kingdom revelation and expression than our forefathers had in the past. Some of the teachings and limitations from the past that have been carried forwarded firmly in religious church people are foreign to God and must be purged. God can remove what is not of him and return that which is of Him if we will simply lay all our beliefs and practices down at His feet and allow Him to give us back only what is not foreign to Him.

I can well imagine the dialog between Joshua and the people in the following verses being replicated today between God and many individuals and groups.

(15) And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (16) So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; (17) for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed (Joshua 24:15-17).

The response to their statement of faithful commitment must have been very shocking to them as it possibly would be unto many people today. They were told straight out that they could not serve God, and that He would turn and do them harm after doing them good. Through Joshua, God said that He would consume them if they turned from Him and continued to serve foreign gods.

But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins, if you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, for then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”

And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord!”

So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him.”

And they said, “We are witnesses!”

Joshua said, “Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel.”

And they said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!” (Joshua 24:19-24).

The message is clearly to believers. Joshua was not talking to strangers. He was talking to the people of God.

We have been greatly blessed of God, and now as we prepare to enter into the age of the greater fullness of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, it is imperative that we turn from our involvement with everything in our lives that is foreign to God. The Holy Spirit of God is here to help us discern our foreign gods and their effects in our lives. The grace empowerment of God stands ready to empower us to put away every residue of all that is foreign to God in our lives.

Nations, tribes, groups, and individuals that have served God, but now continue to serve other gods, will soon encounter the harm and consuming of God. Even now the nations and the people are beginning to experience the inevitable results of turning from the one true God. It is the nation whose God is the Lord that will prosper.   

Experiencing the “Spirit Spring”

The leaves fall from the trees and the tender plants die to the ground through the cold winter. In a similar spiritual season everything in our lives that is foreign to God must fall from us and be dead to us, and then we can experience the fresh new life of the Spirit Spring arising in us – the fullness of the kingdom within.

Supernatural strength from God within will empower and guide us to full spiritual and natural preparation for the dark times of world-changing events ahead that will prepare the spiritual soil of the world for Spirit Spring in the world – the fullness of the kingdom of God that now reigns in us, then reigning on the earth. The kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdom of our God.

The first cleansing of foreign gods is within us, the people of God, resulting in our Spirit Spring beginning this year. The second cleansing of foreign gods is the future dark times of cleansing in the world that will eventually result in the Spirit Spring for the entire world.

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Edited by Ron McGatlin on 01/18/2013 at 9:09am
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Posted: 01/17/2013 at 10:29pm | IP Logged Quote Lyn McSweeney

Love and blessings Ron!

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Posted: 01/18/2013 at 9:55pm | IP Logged Quote Colleen Philip

Hi Ron, yes, I've been sensing this also.  Here in Southwestern Ontario last week we had 15 degree celsius weather (in the 70's) it was sooo spring-like that it was eerie in mid-January!  Someone said locally their daffodils have started to sprout too. 

Yes, it's soon that Spring season, a new one in His Kingdom's fullness as you've said.  And time to ask Him to pull up all the dead debris that's gathered in our lives over the long long winter of dead religion & our degree of inferior life that we've lived here, separated from the truth & fullness of His Kingdom!   Thank You Father that our long wait is nearly over!

Keep the truth coming Ron to lead us on home!



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Posted: 01/20/2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

Colleen Philip wrote:

Yes, it's soon that Spring season, a new one in His Kingdom's fullness as you've said. And time to ask Him to pull up all the dead debris that's gathered in our lives over the long long winter of dead religion & our degree of inferior life that we've lived here, separated from the truth & fullness of His Kingdom! Thank You Father that our long wait is nearly over!

Amen Colleen, There is going to be a big "spring cleaning" soon. Fresh life in the Spirit.

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Posted: 01/21/2013 at 8:38pm | IP Logged Quote Colleen Philip

Let it come Ron, let it come.  After the cleaning then comes the Habitation!  Yes Lord Jesus, Your Spirit & Your Bride say Come, Please.  Let Your final preparations be made so that Your Abiding Presence may come & remain within & upon us, that we may show You to this world that needs You so much!

 



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Amen! Thanks Ron.
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Posted: 02/02/2013 at 7:59am | IP Logged Quote shalini balan

Praise the lord....Its so encouraging to read this word.After reading this post i went and saw my diary where i record things during my quiet time...lord said boldly ask and gave this scripture on Jan 22
 Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
    it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain to all people,
    and plants of the field to everyone. Zachariah 10;1  .

Its such a blessing to be confirmed.Glory to the most high.
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Posted: 02/02/2013 at 8:19am | IP Logged Quote Karen Ramsey

Thank you, sir, and thank you Shalini. January 29 I heard: "We've had our season to stand under the clouds and ask for rain. Now's the time to stand in the place of thunder and send it." Confirmation of a calling to go to a deeper, yet somehow higher, place of intercession...



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