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Posted: 02/20/2013 at 9:04am | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

HOPE IS FOREVER

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Hope is forever in those who know that God is always good.

Everything God is doing, has ever done, or ever will do is good. God never has done anything bad and never will do anything bad. Because God is good, there is hope. Hope is the essence of believing in God's goodness; it is the light for the future and the beginning of joy.

If, for any reason, we think we have seen God do something bad, we are wrong. Our perspective is not in order. Our goals are not God’s goals. Our purpose is not God’s purpose. All things that God does are good and work together for good to those who are in line with His purposes.

Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Our extremely limited view from our human soul can give us a false perspective of good and bad. If we understood the full scope of God’s plan and the eternal perspective of a given situation or circumstance, what may appear to our limited understanding as a very bad situation could be seen as good.

Only God can see the astronomical myriad of all events, their impact upon mankind, and His entire plan for the world. In the full scope of considering all things now, in the future and eternity, only God can accurately determine what is good and what is bad.

Job 2:10: But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

2 Corinthians 1:18-20: But as God is faithful, our word to you was not “Yes” and “No”. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you by us - by me, Silvanus, and Timothy-was not “Yes and No”, but in Him was “Yes”. For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”, and in Him “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

God is only positive. There is nothing negative in Him at all. If God did not provide judgment or chastening for man’s evil actions, but instead rewarded man with health, prosperity, and good fortune for his evil deeds, He would not be a good God. Everything God does is positive in that it all moves toward His ultimate plan. All systems of creation are designed by God to arrive at the ultimate goal He has in mind, which involves peace on earth and good will toward men in the kingdom of God on earth from heaven.

God has only good in mind for mankind. God’s plan is the beautiful, New Jerusalem lifestyle of peace and glory. God has no negative plan for man. His ideas are 100% perfect for man. He planned neither sickness nor disorder of any kind for man.

It is man who decides to come up with another plan. Man decides to disobey God and eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which is seeking to know what is good and bad from his own perspective. Rather than obediently partaking only of the tree of life, which is seeking to hear from God, from His perspective.

Man’s alternate plans are not good for man and lead to God’s chastening to bring man back to God’s plan. The results of man seeking his own plan rather than God's are built into God’s system of universal law and lead toward death, which is separation from God and His benefits. Even God’s chastening is positive and gives us hope of attaining God’s plan.

Hebrews 12 5b-6: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord; nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.

1 Corinthians 11:31-32: For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Hebrews 12:11: Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

God’s Deliverance from the Judgment of the Unrighteous

God is able to deliver the righteous and protect them from the judgment of the unrighteous, as He did with Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. But even Lot was affected by the evil of the land. He endured serious vexation and torment of soul because of the corporate living apart from God’s plan.

2 Peter 2:4-10: For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked (for the righteous man, dwelling among them, vexed [tormented] his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) - then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of glories (dignitaries).

Although the righteous are delivered, they may yet endure oppression because of the evil around them. Collectively, man is tied together in families, communities, nations, and the world. Each individual will bear, to some degree, responsibility for the life decisions of the whole.
 
We are foremost affected by our own life decisions; secondly, we are greatly affected by our family; and, decreasingly, less affected by our community, nation, and world. The whole world is in some way affected by every person’s decision not to live according to God’s plan.

Conversely, the entire world is in some way affected by our decision to live according to God’s plan. We first have the most effect upon our own life; secondly, we have a great effect upon our family; and decreasingly, have less effect upon our community, nation, and the world. But, we do have some effect on every person in the world.

The violent destruction of all the people including the little girls and boys in Sodom and Gomorrah may seem to us like a very bad act of God. Yet, it was good and not bad in the full scope of the world, mankind, and eternity. God sent the actual fire and brimstone, not the devil. Man caused it to happen by accepting the devil’s alternate plan and leaving God’s plan. The bad part was man leaving God’s plan. God, however, was good in destroying those who did. We cannot know the future death and devastation that could have been caused to the people of God by not destroying these cities and allowing them to remain and multiply. If God had rewarded them with prosperity, posterity, and longevity, He would not be a good God.

If God in mercy and love destroyed these, what must He do with those today who have completely turned from Him and will not come to Him, thus causing multitudes to be led away from God?

Rom 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 106: l: Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For his mercy endures forever.

God is good, and His mercies endure forever. The mercy of God is available to all. His chastening will cause those who will to turn to His mercy. His grace can then empower us from within to live in His pattern and plan. Then, we can participate in His beautiful holiness and peace. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Thank you, God, for your goodness! And thank you, God, for loving us enough to cause us to change! Thank you for our great hope for the future and our great joy for today!

Father, let the call be clear in this day. Let your people arise and proclaim the great love and complete redemption in Christ Jesus for all who will turn to You now. In the name of Jesus, we ask for great outpouring of Your Spirit upon the land, for Your fire to rise up in the hearts of Your people to boldly proclaim the gospel of the kingdom, empowered by Your Spirit to demonstrate Your glory to the world that many be turned to You with their whole hearts.

Hear our cry, O Lord, and bring a mighty rolling fire of kingdom revival and Holy Spirit outpouring across the land now in this year of 2013 and beyond. Father, we pray in the name of Jesus for your kingdom to come and your will to be done through the great outpouring of Your love and power to prepare Your people for the season of Your reckoning of all things that is before us.

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Posted: 02/21/2013 at 1:37am | IP Logged Quote Janine Nicole

amen! I am not sure we yet fully realize the scope of God's mercy and the purpose of all His judgements. Faith, hope, love and the truths that it is not God's will that any should perish,every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord! That is indeed God's ultimate purpose :)
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Posted: 02/23/2013 at 7:52pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

Thank you, God, for your goodness! And thank you, God, for loving us enough to cause us to change! Thank you for our great hope for the future and our great joy for today!

Father, let the call be clear in this day. Let your people arise and proclaim the great love and complete redemption in Christ Jesus for all who will turn to You now. In the name of Jesus, we ask for great outpouring of Your Spirit upon the land, for Your fire to rise up in the hearts of Your people to boldly proclaim the gospel of the kingdom, empowered by Your Spirit to demonstrate Your glory to the world that many be turned to You with their whole hearts.

Hear our cry, O Lord, and bring a mighty rolling fire of kingdom revival and Holy Spirit outpouring across the land now in this year of 2013 and beyond. Father, we pray in the name of Jesus for your kingdom to come and your will to be done through the great outpouring of Your love and power to prepare Your people for the season of Your reckoning of all things that is before us.

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Posted: 02/23/2013 at 7:54pm | IP Logged Quote Ron McGatlin

The great joy of the future is that the glorious work of God preparing His people, which has already begun now in the lives of many, will explode under the canopy of angelic warfare that will destroy the darkness and forever end the mass of MIXTURE. Then the Sons of the kingdom will arise and shine forth the glory of God’s kingdom of love to rule and reign across the entire world.

Like many others, my joy is great in the fullness of the glorious kingdom coming forth now from heaven on earth. Our lives have not been in vain but on the contrary have been and are now engaged in the most significant happenings of God and His people. I thank God for each of you who are moving along this great journey into the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to rule and reign in the brightness and full joy of His magnificent LOVE. What a joy and purpose to be a piece of His redemption of this beautiful planet and the beautiful creation that He has made.

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Posted: 02/23/2013 at 10:29pm | IP Logged Quote Gayle Getz

Amen Ron,,,"What a joy and purpose to be a piece of His redemption of this beautiful planet and the beautiful creation that He has made." GLORY TO GOD!!!  TY JESUS!!!  \o/\o/\o/  Love you ALL

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Dear Ron,

You nearing 80 and me 70 makes us elders in the Hope of Our Father in Heaven abd Our Lords Jesus's Hope, but before that hope can be enguaged ,one must stand in Faith.

And if in Faith then His Hope become the foundation of His Love in us, all of which is founded on the freedom that Truth provides.

 

 I agree with your” hope” and it is manifested out of one’s Faith, presenting the wisdom of God’s Love as the greatest outcome of the principle that  the Righteousness of God is foundational for the Peace of God and without that Peace then no Joy.

 

Your shared: His grace can then empower us from within to live in His pattern and plan.

 

From a prophetic perspective perhaps we are praying “amiss” via His pattern and pland ,that being  for something that is an old an powerless concept of what happen when men “gave up” seeking the church and being dead to the ideal of having anything religious , sought for the “first time”  the Kingdom of God.

 

I speak here of what some in our generation has experienced as a “Revival” of which there is no question Our Lord was present. However these events may have been just that as an experience of preaching what men thought was the way, and finding no power in and among themselves" sit down "dead in their souls on what to do and repented. Once Repented,... then the ability to “set” within the Power of the Perception or Our Lord Work within them manifested the Nine Gifts and the Nine Fruits of the Spirit of Truth to move for the renewal, resurgence, and revitalization of the minds of men so the “forgiveness” of one another, let alone their own subjective sins could be understood and manifested as “self control”. 

 

Self-Control ,so that whn offended did not scatter themselves in the fear of offence of speaking the truth about both their understanding or the lack of it...

So my hope for you this summer is not for a revival, but the Faith to set together in hope , power, and peace of a Kingdom Gathering....

 

Yes, one could say Revival is a “legitimate” supplication/prayer in the minds of a Gentile formed perception of and external physical mindset founded on the wisdom of this worlds “way of having a Functional Faith”. And all can see these church based events are manifested as any one of countless thousands of so called Christian Organizations called churches see’s as what “seems like” a righteous way, of being revivied but is it?

 

May be at this time we should remain dead in Christ!

 

 Or was  to form a revival even the Way of God, Who Himself as One Father Way, via His Grace would add to His Family and then approved of the ongoing un-for giving self-righteous stand of these individual Faiths, all divided in what, when, and how their proclamation’s are as a matter of Godly Truth “The only holy ones” who have the external right approach that surly has God blessing is on them because they are now rich in identity all due to their “own righteousness manifested as  “revival”.

 

But , if we are to speak truth in love can we  also set   as one (together)as manifested “forgiveness”  in the Peace of Our Lord and ask: “Is it a matter of a prayer of the past , present , of future ,by way of and for our  own understanding  of the present day Revelation of Christ ; as Our Lord Way of the  Kingdom God  that He “revitalizes” using this form of staged event that only the rich can attend?

 

 Better than that: “One of prayer for the “Kingdom to come” as a matter of supplication  only or does it alose come from Truth-filled  Godly Intersession?”

 

And who is it among men that would not say they want a “Revival” as a matter of praying in the Spirit, but what of the Godly Prophetic Intersession seeking the Righteousness of God as manifested Truth?

 

Here the Prophetic Word of God tells us we can confess with our mouths (even in a “revival” and forgo the believing in our heart’s to live in a patterned approach that allows us to relate in Peace via something within us = and ongoing eternal Kingdom Revival... in the light of our lives in Christ and not in the light of the world decieving men via an angel of light.

 

Perhaps there is a Kingdom revitalization going on right now, and because it is within and not without; where it cannot be seen and evaluated by men in ministry who say they can see, not knowing when they say they can see, Our Lord say’s they are blind; is something one could say that is not a matter of supplication but intercession in principle.

 

Perhaps we are still given not to go back to our place of life and are still stand around “gazing up into the heavens!”

 

Traditionally as a prophesied way of the Gentle mind set on division of the Truth of the Unity of the Faith is too hard to do,… as opposed to trusting Christ and Our Father in Heaven to bind us up in both the Spirit and Truth of a Oneness of a Kingdom within us!

 

The why not wonder why no revival has come; therefore why not be given over to the ideal there is no place to go to set in a one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women his: “our brethren”.

 

Act 1:11-14  Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.  Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.  And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.  These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

 

Is this THE WAY FOR THIS YOUNGER GENERATION, that as a matter of an old mindset that seemed reasonable functional but  in the use of a false concept of righteousness  we want “them to make “their “stand “as opposed to Christ’s Stand to show ( be seen)  doing and praying  via their good works = a form , yet void of power?

 

And could it now be more relevant of a church mind set/ thinking, as opposed to a Kingdom Way of thinking  = for this reason;  there is no healing of the sick, cleansing of any diseases, let alone raising the dead or casting out of devils because we thought these things should be a matter of our public identity?

 

 The reason being that:  No feely giving, then no freely receiving and no power of the Kingdom of God as a family Function of Our Father in Heavens’ Love; manifested in the Working Gifts of those of men and women of His choosing, but the so called and formed  theological sound way of a worldly Gentile thinking?

 

 However we want to thing one thing is for sure! This is the manifested and “Acceptable or Favorable Day of the Lord”…. is coming to an end…. and with it the False Way Satan has established his way of calling = that of the Church’s of Christianity, “The King Himself is allowing a correction, as the Mind of Christ has moved within the Body= His Body.

 

And what is that this younger generation, and some having come way from this old traditional thinking   has felt the Knowledge of His Understanding among them. And if you were to ask them in Spirit for the Truth, all are seeking not some Revival of Christ, but the Return of Christ for a Revival of mankind itself.

 And what is the proof of this HOPE?  I believe they will depart from this false way or worship given to charging for anything, let along the giving of personally charged published revelation as salt that has lost its “what”?

 

Luk 14:33-35  So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?   It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear let him hear…

 

And where are the Apostles and Prophets who have freely received, that can freely give without being accused of not loving as Christ loved? Charging for revival or anything else they can ask for just to keep the money in their own pockets to support and please their well trained conservative rich counter parts in the U.S. Congress.

 

Divided in Church’s, why not our nation HOPE?

 

Mat 10:7-8  And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

 

Last you wrote via your supplication:

 

Hear our cry, O Lord, and bring a mighty rolling fire of kingdom revival and Holy Spirit outpouring across the land now in this year of 2013 and beyond.

 

And I will pray via my intersession:

 

Thank you Lord for hearing our cry and bring the fire of the Spirit of Truth upon this nation exposing it sin of pride and greed outwardly, while moving quietly in your Way to bring forth the Kingdom of God into the hearts of men via the Revelation of your Only Begotten Son, for the coming forth of your Kingdom and your Power, and Your Glory the is not found in the way of the wisdom of this world… being beyond them that are rich.

 



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