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Invasion of Love and Truth
By Ron McGatlin
As people of God come together, they may be coming from different places of service and activity as well as different geographical locations and cultural situations. They may be at different levels of spiritual growth in moving toward becoming mature sons of God. Yet, they can all become as of one Spirit and one mind as the Holy Spirit comes into the gathering like a bright fog and settles upon the gathering releasing the all-consuming love of God’s presence filling every heart from within and saturating every person from without in pure holy love.
Hearts melt in the love of His manifest presence. Love flowing into all the wounded and damaged places of the soul brings healing. Pain is turned into love. Rock fences of religious boundaries and theological positions melt away in the pure love of God’s presence with us. Agendas that were created by fear, pride, mistrust, and doubt among brethren are dissolved.
God’s perfect kingdom order is imparted among and within the group. Christ Jesus is manifest in the lives of the people. The Spirit of Christ begins to move among the people expressing the love gifts of the Spirit of God to implant the will and purposes of God within the people. Fresh life and clear specific direction can be imparted into the hearts of the people. Connections occur as the Spirit causes a joining together of the people to one another in perfect order.
The kingdom of heaven on earth is established and ordered by the Holy Spirit as each member of the Body is perfectly joined to the one Head, Christ Jesus. Literally the resurrected life of Christ Jesus flows into and abides in the hearts and lives of the people. Direct personal communication with Christ at the throne of God through the Christ within His people becomes the life of God in us doing the will of God on earth as it is in heaven. Pure and holy supernatural reality becomes the norm for our lives, and all things are possible as we simply believe what Christ within us is revealing from the throne room of God. We will do nothing apart from the instruction and empowerment of Christ within us by the Holy Spirit.
Truth is manifest through love.
It is not possible for the truth of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit and the manifest presence of God among us to be received or understood by the natural mind apart from the Holy Spirit. Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned. Even many Christians do not receive and experience the fullness of the reality of the manifest presence of God joining us in love to Christ and one another. Intellectually they may know the facts of this and may believe that they are walking in the fullness of it. The experience of becoming one with Christ and one with one another is clearly taught in the Bible. Yet the reality of experiencing the process of receiving and properly responding to this and other layers of revealed truth may not yet be real for them.
God has restored layers of truth that was lost to the church during the falling away during the dark ages. Over the past 500 years or so, layer after layer of truth has been restored to the church. As each layer is restored there is an experiential learning curve of people adjusting to the newly re-revealed truth. Like children with new toys, they do not fully understand the new toys, and there may be lots of misuses and abuses of the toys by the excited child.
With the restoration of the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit only just over a hundred years ago, there were lots of things that happened as the children of God began a learning season of life in the Holy Spirit.
Strong reactions against the restored truth are not uncommon with each restored layer. This was and is very true with the restoration of the supernatural works of the Holy Spirit.
Well-meaning teachers have maligned the true works of the Holy Spirit by failing to recognize the immaturity of the children of God attempting to move in the reality of the works of the Holy Spirit. A gross and dark picture can be painted by pointedly presenting the faults, mistakes, and childish abuses of the people seeking to move in the work and gifts of the Holy Spirit without presenting the great value and truth of the reality of the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. The strong teachings against the work of the Holy Spirit and the watered-down teachings presented by some have mentally locked many Christians out of the valuable reality of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit and the mighty works of God in Christ by the Holy Spirit.
This is not necessarily a permanent failure.
The current undercover invasion of the Holy Spirit is bringing change in the hearts of some as they experience the work of Holy Spirit seemingly just appearing in their hearts as their previous mind-set melts in the powerful presence of the love of God.
Many strong blockages that have separated people of God both from the fullness of becoming one with Christ and with one another are being melted as people of God are being transformed in His presence.
Many may be set apart for a season to deal with the sense of death they feel within, caused by separation from the fullness of Christ in the Holy Ghost and separation from parts of the Body. Like a disjoined branch from the vine, a disjoined soul from the manifest life of Christ in the presence of God by the Holy Spirit experiences a death process. That is not necessarily totally a bad thing in the end.
The death of who we were and the strong beliefs that have separated us are a vital part of entering into the greater fullness of the resurrection life of Christ that is only available fully connected into the vine of Christ by the Spirit of God.
All that we experience of Christ Jesus in this life is by the Holy Spirit.
The life of Christ is brought to us and manifest in and around our lives by the Holy Ghost. The experience of hearing and obeying God is by the Holy Spirit. The grace of God flowing the love, power, and wisdom of Christ in us is by the Holy Spirit.
Christ is alive today and doing the same works that He did in His natural incarnate body. The kingdom that He announced in His natural body before the cross is now being formed on earth by Christ in His many membered body.
The existing Babylonian lifestyle is coming down. The Babylonian lifestyle that was planted and has thrived in the darkness of the lack of the manifest presence of God is being destroyed before our eyes. Babylon must be destroyed before New Jerusalem can rule in this world.
The New Jerusalem lifestyle is the life of God with His people. It is coming down from heaven now to earth by the Holy Spirit of God. Literally it is being formed in the hearts and lives of His maturing kingdom people.
As the undercover work of the Holy Spirit continues to bring the manifest presence of God to transform His people individually and in small clusters the New Jerusalem, life of God with His people is becoming reality under the cover of gross darkness in the world. The gross darkness is covering the masses while the light of God is arising upon His people filled and saturated with the life of Christ by the Holy Ghost in the loving presence of God.
Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you (Isaiah 60:1-1).
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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