Overwhelmed by God's Love – Cleansed by His Fire

By Ron McGatlin

My God, My God, why have Your people, Your creation, forsaken You and turned their backs to Your love - love that is far above and beyond all understanding and all knowledge and all strength in all of Your creation?

The longer that we live and the closer we come to complete intimacy with God, the more we no longer exist and the more He lives.

My dear friends, we are as dead men emptied of all life and as an empty carton or shell filled with the life of another – the life of Spirit God. Every intricate part of our being is becoming fully alive with only the pure, holy, glorious life of Christ Jesus – having nothing of our own and everything of His, abiding in these miraculously made earthen vessels prepared for God’s dwelling.

My fellow sons and daughters of God, the time has come; the season is here to be completely consumed in the fire of His love. There is no room and no place in our God-made miraculous human bodies, souls, and spirits for even a tinge of the past Adamic fallen life. There is no place in our lives for even a hint of sin or past wounds. Our healer, our purifier has come as a consuming fire to make us new creations in Christ Jesus by His Holy Spirit.

THE AWESOME WORSHIPFUL RESPECTFUL FEAR OF GOD IS UPON US.

Forerunners are being prepared to carry and impart the glorious all-consuming cleansing fire of God’s love. The fire of His love flowing to all who are abiding in His presence is setting us free. God is washing away all of our lust, religious pride, and every dirty part of our past Adamic fallen ways. All of our wounds and bruises are being healed as we remain in His powerful presence and receive by the Spirit from his ministers made flames of fire.

The 21^st century outpouring of His fire and love is a reality and is beginning now to flow into gatherings and meetings, especially where there are young people who are ready to receive the liquid fire of His love purging and cleansing them by His HOLY presence.

The words of the prophet will flow from ordinary people, filled with the Spirit and moving in His powerful presence. Dreams and visions are speaking the spiritual will and plans of God in indelible images upon the hearts of His maid servants. His young men are seeing visions, and His old men are dreaming dreams. The Spirit of the Most High is upon us and within us.

The awesomeness of God is being revealed. His plan and design for mankind was and is beyond our ability to even think and cannot be calculated. The Spirit of God is opening eyes to see the absolutely incalculable miracle-working love and power of God. The intelligence and wisdom of His design for life is infinitely intricate and perfect in every detail. The miracle of human seed and egg connecting through a love relationship that mirrors the intimacy of life as the Bride of Christ, the Wife of God, receiving His seed and producing His children into the world is an unexplainable miracle. The spiritual children of God are miracle made.

In the natural realm, no one can understand or explain how some cells get together and began to multiply extremely rapidly until they begin to form into a tiny heart and blood vessels and all the parts of a human body perfectly balanced and fit together in the womb. Miles and miles of blood vessels are formed and filled with life sustaining blood, vital organs develop and all this is from the start of tiny cells.

Some way the heart starts beating, and life begins to come about. In only about nine months, a living breathing human being comes into the world an unexplainable mystery of God’s designed work. So it is in the spiritual realm as spiritual children are being produced in the love relationship with God. The Body and Bride of Christ are being miraculously formed and becoming His life in this world.

God is far beyond what we can even think in our limited natural minds. Personally, I am overwhelmed by growing closer to Him and seeing His absolute magnificence and glory of His love, ultimate power, and wisdom so far beyond that we seem as foolish and ignorant in even our greatest abilities and understandings.

Being Overcome in the Spirit

This all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God is who we are encountering in the 21^st century outpouring of God’s consuming love and fire. Is it any wonder that people fall to the ground sometimes like dead while God works on them rearranging who they are – cleansing trash from their lives – taking out the bad and useless and replacing it with Himself? He is reprogramming sons and daughters to carry His kingdom to the entire world.

Many of us are familiar to some degree with this kind of work of God from past outpourings. However, many others that are younger or that, for whatever reason, were not fully tuned into the past outpouring are not at all familiar with this type of cleansing work of God. Still others have encountered false or counterfeit works put out by the enemy to seek to discredit the real. What God is bringing today is pure and holy beyond the mixtures of the past. The next layer or work of God is coming forth in this new 21^st century.

“Slain in the Spirit” is a non-biblical term that has been used to describe the many examples of people encountering the presence of God in biblical history and in revival history of past centuries. A much better term is “being overcome” in the presence of almighty God while God deals with us or does spiritual surgery on us. Biblical terms are statements like, fell into a trance or in a trance I saw a vision, falling down before Him or fell as dead before him or fell on my face, in a deep sleep, or I was in the Spirit. Saul/Paul fell to the ground and heard a voice; these and other terms are used biblically in describing the experience of encountering and being overcome by the presence of God and sometimes in the presence of angels (ministering spirits from God).

The term slain in the Spirit was, to the best of my knowledge, coined in the early powerful revivals in America in the 18^th and 19^th centuries when observers saw people at the revival gatherings laying out in the fields overcome by the Spirit of God. It looked to them like a bunch of people that had been slain. Thus the term was born: slain in the Spirit.

The Lukewarm Church

During the long reign of the lukewarm religious church, false teachings were devised to discredit this and other manifestations of the power of God. Most church people were taught against these works of God and now are often convinced that they are not real or not from God. The lukewarm church did not have the powerful presence of God and devised teachings to cover their lack including the end of many of the spiritual gifts that have been and are being restored layer by layer to the Body of Christ in spiritual outpourings.

The plain truth is that throughout biblical and natural history when human beings encounter the presence of All Mighty God, there is often a reality of being overcome and falling in His presence. It is always to be lifted up higher into spiritual things and often much cleansing is taking place.

Purification for Kingdom Reality

In this 21^st century outpouring that is now beginning, people are encountering the powerful presence of God when they come together. As people are prayed for, the presence often comes, and the people are overcome as God works bringing purification fire in their hearts, minds, and lives. Healings and deliverance sometimes take place as part of the cleansing.

Where there were scattered recorded examples in the biblical accounts of encountering God, now in this day the encounters with the holy fire of God is more prevalent and available. The fire and love of God have come to us in these latter days of God’s revealing and restoring work with mankind. People are turning to God with their whole hearts, and the love and fire encounters are repeatedly happening in gatherings of kingdom seeking people of God.

The focus of the 21^st century outpouring is the LOVE and FIRE of God leading to the kingdom of God being formed in the hearts and lives of God’s kingdom disciples.

Mixture often developed in the past outpourings. God is bringing now a pure and holy work in which none will enter and remain that defile. We are now experiencing the cleansing work of God making ready a people in whom Christ fully dwells.

The cleansing is not always pretty. There is much filth in the bath water that must be drained off and replaced with fresh showers of clean water to further cleanse the people of God. I believe that this kingdom-focused outpouring that is spontaneously coming up in spots across the world will spread across the world in the next several years. It is preparing a pure and holy people who have the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven dwelling in them.

The cleansing of God’s kingdom people prepares the way for the great harvest of the earth and the fullness of the kingdom of God ruling and reigning on earth. Those who will not be cleansed will not remain beyond the great earth-cleansing fire of God that comes to destroy all evil from the earth and bring forth the glorious kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven – the kingdom that is without end in the beauty of His holiness.

His Love in Us

We are so overcome by His glorious majesty – our hearts so melted – so enamored with Him that nothing else really matters. Nothing or no one can move us from adoring Him and yielding our lives completely to Him. Persecution, misunderstandings, or rejection from those we love and care about is a small sacrifice and means little to nothing to us in the awesome presence of His pure holy love. He is so magnificent, and we so love Him that adversities are insignificant to us in His presence. We truly love our enemies, those who persecute or spitefully use us. We are so filled with Him we cannot help but love. God’s love is all-consuming. Truly our God is a consuming fire.

Are we now able to say with Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal 2:20)? 

Praise God for the fresh outpouring of His love and fire. It is for such a time as this that we have come to the kingdom.

Keep on pursuing Love. Love never fails
and His kingdom never ends.

Ron McGatlin

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Ron,

God truly is pouring out his Love.

God bless you,

Amen to this post Ron and Glory to God!  Cleanse us with your Holy Fire Lord!  Make us Holy as you are Holy!  We want to be more like You! 

Yes Lord, overwhelm us with your love and cleanse us with your fire.  We are a people thirsty for righteousness and hungry for our God.

Blessings to you, Ron.

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Hi Ron,

Liked your article, just felt to share something was given to me to share with others.

Love IN HIM
Kerry

HIS SIGN and WONDERS, expel HIS PASSION, HIS SPIRIT, HIS HEART on earth IN HIM!!

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While many worry about the signs and wonders, they lose sight of the GREATEST SIGN, Christ who lives in US!!

While many worry about  unclean spirits, or other spirits attaching themselves to them, it's about us attaching ourselves to HIS spirit in us!!!

While many worry about HELL their eyes are taken off the KINGDOM of God in us now!!

JESUS and HIS GIFTS are inseparable, but it's about seeking the relations with Christ, not the gifts.

It's about KNOWING HIM, which bring the natural flow from HIM.

If we seek what HE has and gives, we have to ask - why and what is seeking the gift before the giver?? It's our flesh!!

Our flesh seeks to get for ITSELF, but there is no reward in a gift, but only IN growing and seeking to grow UP IN HIS Faith!

Then we ask - are we seeking reward, or HIM?

HE IS OUR REWARD!!! HIS gifts are IN HIM and as our KING and HIGH PRIEST, HE will flow through us in them, as we SEEK HIM FIRST, they are part and parcel of HIM Living, moving and breathing in us, through the union of our relationship with HIM.

If your chasing God's heart and HIS will in your life to move with HIM , YOUR NOT going to be chasing the gifts, the signs and the experience, or to experience the same experience over and over again, or to make them happen.

God has HIS process to bring us into a place HE can mold us, grow us up in HIM, into a maturity that holds HIM up - not us!

 Instead we should be delivering the Greatest Sign, HIS Spirit and the KINGDOM of God in us, by just letting JESUS flow, as our high priest in our lives!!! But our greatest blockage is us, our flesh, our wants and desires that stop HIS flow!!

We can experience AMAZING signs and wonders!! !AMAZING mind blowing unseen spiritual signs and wonders, that others might not see, or understand, unless HE wants them to know, or see. Even when shared with it others, often it's not understood unless they have experienced similar and even then it can be so varied depending on what God is doing and why?? To even get the old mindset around it ourselves takes time, as it take time for God to renew the old in HIM, often it's our flesh holding us and others back, if we don't give HIS spirit time to renew our thoughts to understand in HIM fully what it ALL means and how HE is using it!!

Life IN HIM is about Trust and trust is ALL the change, that flows from knowing HIM and living in HIS Spirit, this flows from our obedience to move and breathe IN HIM, which flows into those around us and into this world through the unseen of HIS SPIRIT, from being attached to HIM.  We grow up IN HIM, by what we see in HIM, and through the deposits of what HE puts into our spirit, of the unseen growing forth into our being. Explosive visions of magnitude will happen within HIS heart in us, as HIS passion flows through our AMAZING relationship and obedience to be in the oneness of what we were created to be IN HIM!!

Therefore it's not that God is not moving in such away through HIS people now, but more that it's a place of LIVING in HIS glory where HE IS GLORIFIED - NOT the vessel!!! And what we see and understand IN HIM is we are HIS sign and wonder, and it is between us and God to grow our trust on NEW levels of HIS heart in us, that we grow to new levels IN HIM, where man can't help but SEE CHRIST IS ALIVE and MOVING IN HIS REMNANT!!!

Act_17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

It's all about us overcoming the flesh, in every aspect, that the HOLY SPIRIT presences in our lives to overcome!! It's about learning to move and breathe IN HIM through our being intimate with HIM, which is how we learn to grow UP IN CHRIST!! It's not about law-ing it over others, or our opinions, but helping this world to SEE HIM in the fullness of HIS SPIRIT living in HIS what is an earthen vessels who have grown into a maturity IN HIM!

HIS spiritual coming right now, is to those who ask to see through HIS eyes and mindset (not through the old mindset), as they will walk, and talk with HIM 24/7, but not just in a physical way, but through growing strong in our new mindset and heart in HIM!!! Living in HIS grace is to move and grow in HIS glory, to see the old mindset peeled away - strip by strip!!

It's those who DON'T get lost, or lose focus in doctrines of the nitty gritty, which is neither here, nor there when your living in HIM, it is not of stupid little things, that will be thrown out by God, in HIS timing, as it those people who are drawing closer and closer to HIM, in HIS LOVE to rise up and GROW UP to be SEEN IN and WITH HIM, to see so much more through HIM!! It's by walking up to HIS table in the willingness and trust to what HE serves up, that allows us to sup with HIM in the new of HIM, 24/7, which means new levels of trust and growth IN HIM. LIVING IN THE UNSEEN Of seeing more AMAZING things through HIS EYES, which just can't be explained, but just experienced IN HIM, as HIS SIGN and WONDERS, who expel HIS PASSION, HIS SPIRIT, HIS HEART, as they come to walk in the fullness of HIS maturity, as they walk as ONE on earth IN HIM!!

Thanks, Mary, for you confirmation. Love and Fire are being poured out upon and into the sons of God. We do not intimately know God until we love those who persecute us and spitefully use us.

More Lord! More love and fire cleansing and healing your people.

Ron

Amen Jeff, thanks for the confirming report.

Ron

The 21^st century outpouring of His fire and love is a reality and is beginning now to flow into gatherings and meetings, especially where there are young people who are ready to receive the liquid fire of His love purging and cleansing them by His HOLY presence.

The words of the prophet will flow from ordinary people, filled with the Spirit and moving in His powerful presence. Dreams and visions are speaking the spiritual will and plans of God in indelible images upon the hearts of His maid servants. His young men are seeing visions, and His old men are dreaming dreams. The Spirit of the Most High is upon us and within us.

Ron