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The Goal of Life
What is the goal of your life?
What is God’s purpose for you?
What potential has God built into your spirit, soul, and body?
What limitations are upon your life?
Is what you have been and done all the fullness of your God-given potential?
To this point mankind in general is not yet functioning in the fullness of our designed purpose and potential.
The lie of the serpent in the garden has grown into a cloud of thick darkness that has hidden from us the reality of who we really are and the potential we really have.
False belief systems have created a veil of darkness between man and God.
The enemy will do anything and everything that he can to keep you and me from the reality of who we really are and our God-given potential of the resurrection life of Christ in us with its power and authority.
The next great moving of God in restoring man fully to God will probably involve a much greater revelation of who we are and more of what God has prepared for those who love Him.
There is a deep longing in my heart to see the people who name the name of Jesus awakened to who we really are – to the fullness of potential that is available to every follower of Christ Jesus.
If I had only known.
I wonder if when we leave this life to reside in the heavenly realm with God if we might be shocked to see what we left undone and unused that was available to us in this life. Might we then be thinking, “Wow, if I had known what I see now, life could have been much greater. I could have been much more fruitful and productive in God’s work. If I had only known.”
Would Father God possibly reply something like, “I told you plainly through the written words of my Son and my apostles and prophets. I wanted to tell you clearly by my Holy Spirit, and I even sent prophets to speak confirmation of what I had prepared for you to walk in on earth. Why would you not hear and believe?”
The greatest and most joyful moving of God on Planet Earth is poised just past the end of our finger tips. It is “at hand” awaiting our hearing and believing the reality of who we are and what God has allotted to our lives in this world to release the fullness of His LOVE upon the hearts and lives of the people on earth.
A Great Hunger
A fresh hunger is developing even now in this season in the hearts and lives of believers both in churches and out of churches. There is a longing for something more, something real and powerful. Most do not even know what it is for which they are hungering. This is not a new thing, but it is a thing that for some is becoming unbearable. The Pentecostal Charismatic moves of God have moved many out of their dormant place as pew sitting spectators. However, now for many the excitement of the charismatic revival and renewal has waned and is no longer satisfying our hunger.
Both those who never made the shift into Pentecostal and Charismatic moves of the Holy Spirit and those who did make that move are now both coming to a new place of hunger beyond their understanding. Neither more sitting listening to teaching and preaching, nor moving in the spiritual gifts with exuberant praise and intense worship can bring the desired fullness that satisfies all of our hunger. Even watching miraculous healings, deliverances, and spiritual manifestations will not fill our deep unfulfilled hunger for very long.
Personally I have experienced a deep satisfaction and fullness in my heart and life through receiving the revelation of the kingdom of God reality now in this life. Yet, even in this past week I have again began to feel a fresh hunger. Perhaps it is a vicarious hunger to some degree as I sense the lack in so many precious followers of Christ Jesus who seem to be parked by the roadside on their journey with God. But more than that, perhaps it is a hunger to truly come to know and experience ALL that God has prepared.
I feel a sense of revival type spirit as I experienced back in the 90s. Yet I know for a certainty that God does not want to reproduce the revivals of the past. There is an awakening that is greater than the great “first day” awakening to the cross, repentance from sin and being born again. It is also greater than the powerful “second day” awakening to the powerful works of the Holy Spirit gifts and return of the prophetic and apostolic works of God. There is a greatest awakening. There is a “third day” awakening piling up in the heavens near earth ready to be released as a great flood covering the earth. This is the deep hunger that is coming into the hearts of God’s people.
What about those who have missed both the first and the second awakenings?
The lost generations of ungodly people multiplying rapidly on earth are not overlooked by God in this awakening. These along with the multitudes of religious church people and ex-church people of “first-day” and “second-day” believers are all full candidates for the moving of God in this greatest “third day” awakening that we are hungering for in this hour.
The Greater contains the lesser.
All that has been implanted and grown into place in the Body of Christ on earth in the past will all be inherited into the hearts of the ungodly who have not known God, when they turn to God and receive the third-day fullness. They will not have to go through the same process as we may have gone through in the past. This last great move of God that will not wane is what the earlier moves were leading toward. They were like pieces of the puzzle that is completed in this final moving of God with us. Like those hired to labor in the field of the master, those who worked only one hour will receive the same wage as those who worked in the field the entire day (Mat 20:1-16).
All of what God has restored in the past will be encompassed in the “third-day” awakening. God through past history has been restoring and changing His people building toward the fullness that is fulfilled in the third-day outpouring, the “Tabernacle” of God with His people. His people will be holy and pure having no taste or desire for their past life. The fruit will be evident in the lives of the third-day New Jerusalem people. There will nothing enter in that defiles.
This is a sovereign work of God in and through His people.
The invasion of the Holy Ghost gliding into our hearts is hidden under the cover of the darkness that is now ruling in this world. The Holy Ghost of Christ Jesus is imparting the powerful fire of the all-consuming LOVE of God. LOVE is the all-consuming nature and the power of the continual presence of God in and with His people. LOVE is the primary characteristic of the manifesting (coming) of Christ in His Body now on earth.
The first two great awakenings poured out faith and hope. The third-day greatest awakening will pour out the pure holy Love of God that destroys all the works of the enemy, heals all of our past, and fills us with the powerful attributes of Christ Jesus.
Maturity comes quickly as the death of our old life is finished, and the fresh new love life of Christ Jesus with all faith and power overcomes the things of this world with the pure holy all-consuming love of God flowing in and through His chosen people. Thus the things of this earth become as it is in heaven. The King and His kingdom rule upon this earth, and the goal of this life is reached. The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our God.
Do not fear, little flock, for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you His kingdom (Luke 12:32).
Are we ready for this greatest third awakening? Are we looking with great anticipation for this marvelous time of the manifestation and realization of Christ Jesus our Lord and King to fully tabernacle (dwell) within us and among us presenting Father God literally abiding with us? Can we grasp that this will mean the beginning of the end of life as we have known it on Planet Earth? Are we now spiritually awake enough to watch for this season of the greater fuller manifestation of God in us and with us?
He has come to us Spirit to spirit to abide in us and take us from this life to abide fully in Him now to rule and reign with Him on earth. The Lord God of heaven is with us now and is poised (at hand) to be poured out upon all who are ready and watching and then to be poured out upon the entire world.
32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35 “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
The full manifestation of God with His people is now upon us, literally at the door. There are not words strong enough to truly communicate the magnitude of the season we have now entered.
Ron McGatlin
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