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A few words from folk in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, India, New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Lebanon, Kuwait, Malawi, other African Nations and more.....
Dear Faithful Servant {Ron McGatlin}
My name is S B and I live in Florida. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your ear staying tuned into the Fathers heart. I have been a subscriber to Open Heaven for some time now and it seems as though the Lord uses you to speak volumes into my spirit man. Its as though He has you take a bow and just nicely tie it around many of the words He has been releasing and bringing into my path.
Again thank you for your continued obedience to build and advance His Kingdom rather than promoting your own. That wineskin is still prevalent here but Holy Spirit is releasing the clarion call for those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying about those towers of babel.
Thank you again and I look forward to hearing all that He continues to reveal to you,
With heart burning within,
SB
Hello Ron, I just want to thank you for your website and especially your articles. I am grateful to the Lord for connecting me to you, as what you are saying and teaching is so in line with what He has been showing me. Your articles and Kingdom Growth Guides are also helpful to extend my understanding as I seek God for what this next stage of my journey is about. GW - New Zealand
Hello Ron,
I am a son of God, 30 years old, just married (2weeks ago :) , of Lebanese nationality and Armenian origin. I am an elder and a member of the board in our newly born Church.
I follow your website's updates daily and receive your weekly OpenHeaven.com Digest and read them with much interest. I would like to share something with you as I believe that it will encourage you greatly.
On Monday evenings, we have special hours of prayer in our church. around 120 people from the congregation (only those who operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit) gather to receive fresh revelation and fire from the Lord. And the messages we receive there every monday are the same as the ones I read in your newsletters. This has been a great confirmation in my heart from the Holy Spirit that your articles and your inspiration is genuine.
We have been persecuted greatly (thank God) for the shift we made from separating from the traditional orthodox church and becoming an in dependant Church so we can proclaim His Kingdom in Lebanon and the world. The Lord has blessed us greatly. We became a church with God's grace, now we have ministries in Greece, Iran, France and Armenia.
In Lebanon, religious bondage is high and this shift of living for God and Holiness is very rare. Your articles have been a great encouragement to me as I hear the same voice of the Spirit talking to my heart and calling me everyday to a deeper relationship with the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. I know that we are living in very special times as I see how the heat of the Kingdom is showing in the lives of the believers around me and angering the devil and those who are lost in the world.
I never remember it being this way. People were indifferent to spiritual movements or simply sarcastic about it. Now they are mad! It is such a rare thing in the body of Christ to find people who preach holy living, self denying and allowing the Spirit of God transform characters and attitudes into the likeness of our Lord. I thank God for your ministry and bless you in Jesus name. May your ministry expand like a vineyard in this world give much fruit for the Father's glory.
SP - Lebanon
Thank you Ron McGatlin! Your newsletter BLESSES me! Deeply. Both of your articles today were just for me. :) The Holy Spirit speaks so perfectly through your words and the love of Christ permeates through every paragraph.
Pure water for my Spirit today!
Sondra
Louisville, Ky.
Ron, I just want to encourage you by letting you know the Kingdom Growth Guides have had a tremendous positive impact on myself, my wife and several friends in just a few weeks.
People are already preparing to use the Guide to launch group studies to feed the hunger you correctly identified as being ignored by most traditional churches -- the hunger to truly know God and be filled by the Holy Spirit.
The Guide answers so many questions raised by people who have attended church for years, even decades, yet still feel empty.
Thanks so much for your faithful service and loving, patient heart as you wait for more followers to join you in this wonderful crusade. God bless, Al Boyce - North Carolina, USA
Brother Ron,
I have just completed my first read of Basileia Letters Vol1 & Vol 2. I wanted to send you a quick contact to let you know how much I enjoyed and appreciated each and every sentence. I enjoyed this so much so that it is my intention to share it with others.
My wife M and I live, work and minister in Kuwait and out from here.
I thank God for your attention to the heart of Holy Spirit...
God touch you.
RK - Kuwait
Ron, I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but I am just so thankful for you. I truly thank GOD for you and Barbara. I really appreciate your last two articles. I am truly thankful. ABBA FATHER I truly thank YOU for this man. Joseph - North Carolina, USA
Ron - Just to say that we are now using the Kingdom Growth Guides in our home group.
Thanks again, we always look forward to Openheavennews each week. Peter - Australia
Hi Ron
After four years of discipleship we feel we have broken through into mature brother and sister in Christ with you. For the last few months your weekly incredible revelations and impartations have flowed immediately through our church group and beyond, and all those we minister to and with.
Ron, be truly encouraged, the Lord is using you awesomely and we honour you as a mighty man of God - fully immersed in the one true God.
Keep pouring out the Substance!
We are hungry sponges to receive.
Copious Blessings
Lindsay and Geraldine Moore
Flames of Fire
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ron, you are one of the most INCREDIBLY true voices of the spirit of our Abba Father. I have been in ministry for years, and have been so encouraged that we are finally getting busy about our FATHER'S business rather than our own. Thank you for your powerful messages. They rock! Favor & blessings to you! Sandy
I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am for your obedience and service to the King! It means so much to me to find your Kingdom Growth Guides (thank you Great Holy Spirit)!! It is so valuable to me!! I am so blessed to receive such assistance. I am along to #06 and it is like hammering down securely what I have been learning by way of the Spirit for awhile. I am so excited and want to be saturated with these truths and utterly transformed to demonstrate His glorious Kingdom here. It is what I was made for!!! Thank you Ron McGatlin!! May our God bless you in every way for your devotion!!! To the King of Kings!!!
Peace and Joy,
Jewels C
I want to thank you for all the news that I receive. What a blessing to our family and friends to read all about what God is doing all over the world. Marilynn - Australia.
I'm just writing to say. Thank you. Your role in these powerful New England outpourings is not insignificant. You are the one that God used via email to hook me up with the folks on Cape Cod that led to my first meetings there. Larry - Texas
We appreciate the great work that you are doing with your team to edify and for the revival of the body of Christ. We had been receiving many lists from Europe and America here in Africa where our Mission is based; but let us tell you that we really find you work more edifying for a Mission like ours. Dr A.Z.- Africa
I subscribe to very, very few lists (of which yours is key) and have unsubscribed from many less strategic ones. We are based in Africa and I appreciate your grace and understanding. Ernst.
I want to thank you for your precious ministry. I've been reading your newsletter for 5 years. I was really encouraged by the news letter, and I can pray for the needs in the whole world.... T.T. Japan
I for one thoroughly enjoy your newsletters and your perspective - not being afraid to say what really needs saying. Trish, New Zealand
The OpenHeaven newsletter is a real blessing, and I just wanted to show my support for it. Keep up the Good Work! Andy N. UK
Thanks for your faithfulness and perseverance in serving our Lord and His people around the world. RM. - Kansas
After reading your first 3 books (actually devouring them) I can't explain the intense desire for the fire of God in our church. Thank-you for your devotion to God and the body of Christ, I know my coming to this site wasn't an accident... Sheree - New York
God is proud of you for being honest, faithful, & persevering, too. LL. - Calif.
Ron,
I hardly ever drop an email to someone I have never met. Today is an exception.
I've only just recently began reading from Open Heavens (I stumbled on to it from a search I did that brought up Wade Taylor's name). The recent entry on "Spiritual Leadership in a Natural World" was simply the best on leadership I've seen. The revelation that you are receiving of the coming age resonates deeply with my spirit, so I just wanted to drop a note of encouragement. I believe the Lord has raised you to be one of the voices for the this time and season. The fact that you are a "hidden voice" is of no surprise. I believe God has gifted you to communicate His heart and intentions to a remnant for this hour. The things you are communicating are direct confirmations of what I have been hearing from the Lord myself. Thanks for your obedience.
Blessings,
Jim
I have been so blessed to be a recipient of you OpenHeaven Mail. Elsbeth, - England.
My husband and I are truly blessed by your ministry. Thank you and God bless you. C.N.
Dear Ron & Barbara,
Thank you so much for regularly sending me "Open heaven Digest" for the last couple of years. I have been blessed. My name is George Samuel and I am pastoring a congregation "Delhi Revival Center" in the capital city of Delhi for the last 20 years. The latest issue of Open Heaven really touched my heart and I want to say a big thank you for being sensitive to the Holy Spirit as you communicate the servants/pastors through your writings. I am right now in Dubai to visit and encourage some of the new believers from India who are now in Dubai.
I believe God for a Holy Spirit revival in India,especially in the capital of our nation which will result in the ingathering of souls and thereby see a tremendous expansion of His Kingdom in our nation. Please join with us in praying and believing God to this happen in our nation.
Thank you again for sending us Open Heaven Digest.
George Samuel - India
Ron:
Your word of walking in the Spirit -- is profoundly "dead on" the money. We desperately need to "pay the price" of detoxing ourselves from what we can organize and "pull off" and get fully consumed with the glory of God. I really appreciate your words.
Brother,
Don Lamb
Pennsylvania
Hello Bro Ron,
It's me Michael Parsons. I know it's been a while since we last communicated but I'm the one who was in the throws of leaving my traditional church setting and launching out in God. Well, let me tell you what has happened in the past year. After I informed my bishop of my decision he kindly requested his ordination papers back and that was fine.
I gave him his papers and began meetings at a local homeless mission in a neighboring city and have led many souls to Jesus in the interim. In the past 3 months a group of Kenyans living in Frankfurt, Germany requested that I come and teach them. Well, to make the story short our group is getting larger by the week and people are coming from over 100 miles to attend our meetings.
I've been teaching them who they are in Christ Jesus and am about to begin teaching on the believer's authority. My how "all" of our lives are changing and the presence of the Lord is increasing week-by-week without having to prime the people through praise and worship before I speak.
There's a genuine hunger for the Kingdom of God and revelation is ceaseless on the opposite side of tradition. I can remember the first time I read one of your articles I was hesitant because you weren't religious like I was and I kind of thought you were a threat but I kept reading your weekly articles and today I can gladly say Jesus is Lord without having to filter everything through a man. God bless you Ron and your wonderful staff.
Michael Parsons
Dear Brother Ron,
Happy new year to you and family. I just came back from Africa, yesterday January 16, 2008. I am from Africa but resides in NJ.
I recently fell in love with your ministry. As I rely on the grace of God in order that I would grow and be used effectively for what He has called me to do in his Vineyard, I found your ministry dishing out the very thoughts the Lord has put in my heart. I mean what I need to be fed on in order to intimately relate with our Father God, through Jesus Christ by the power, instructions, guidance, comfort, rebuke and leading of the Lord's Spirit in me.
As I have not yet made it, I am humbly praying that God would use ministry like yours to enlighten me in those areas that He needs me to operate. My prayer is not only to be a willing vessel but to be an effective witness of our Lord Jesus Christ in Spirit and power and not on philosophies and wisdom of men that have founded many ecclesiastical organisations which camouflaged themselves as the true body of Christ. Very promising and exciting on the outside but when viewed through spiritual lens would come out as deadly spiritual cancer. I was once a victim, but as the Lord began to open my eyes, I saw the light and thus, the way out. To God be the glory.
I thank God for your ministry and I pray for the ministry as you pray for me.
Brother Frank Dara
Dear Ron
I just want to thank you for your articles in OpenHeaven.com Digest.
I am almost 56 have known the Lord all my life and been an active member of Church. I have been to the local Bible College and got a diploma in Christian Ministry. However for the past 5 years I have learnt more at the Lord's feet and got closer to him than all the former years. What he has been saying and teaching me has been quite radical to my thinking and what I have been taught.
I guess I have been having my mind transformed but I feel more free and understanding of his word than ever before. This has led me away from the church system that I had always loved and therefore isolated me and my husband a bit. It has been a painful process in part and lonely but the Lord has now put me alongside others who are going through the same transition. Your articles I came across through a round about way at the Lord's leading I believe and have been a confirmation of what he has been showing me. For this I am grateful as sometimes I wonder if I have it right as I seem to be going against the mainstream current.
However I am very glad I am where I am and do not want to go back to the former ways.
I just want to encourage you and thank you for making your articles available,
May God Bless you abundantly,
Gail
New Zealand
I received your Smithton book first and while that was good reading, it in no way prepared me for the blazing truths and freedoms contained in "Overcoming Life on a Small Planet!" I am so excited and can't wait to read "Basileia Letters". I am requesting a 2nd copy of "Overcoming Life" to share with my pastor and my bible study... it is exactly the tool needed to bring real kingdom living home to all of us. Thank you so much! RK - Wisconsin
Thank you so much for the emails we receive regularly - it is so wonderful to hear of all the great things God is doing around the world. I have cried out to God for a long time to link me up with what He is doing and I now feel a part of what He is doing around the world. Every time I read your mail I just sit at my computer and worship Him and thank Him for His faithfulness. Ivan - Australia
Appreciate your faithfulness in producing Open Heaven. And, I want you to know I appreciate your wisdom, and your gentle, loving approach to sharing the truth!! - RL Kansas City, USA
Ron:
Just a word of thanks for your newsletters. They continue to be a blessing to us. This last one on Equally Yoked was magnificent. We have had numerous opportunities this past week to share this word with prayer ministry clients and much freedom has come for us and for them as a result.
Blessings, Brother. We appreciate you!
Resting in the Father's Embrace,
Roger and Gerri Taylor
Places In The Father's Heart
Dear Ron;
Your article this week put words to my spiritual reality. Selah! Yes Amen!
Our Kingdom Growth Guides small group had real revelation break through this morning. And, with the revelation came excitement, a personal knowing. The previous guides (001-004) began to come together as they each began to read passages and connect them to their new understanding. It was indeed a very exciting time, punctuated with spontaneous prayer, and a sense of unity.
Thank you so much for your on-going ministry to me and through me.
Cate
My precious brother Ron,
I just read your article on living in the Spirit, and my heart is doing cartwheels. What a blessing you are to our precious Father and the body of Christ.
It is time my dear brother for the true body of Christ to stand up and be counted. I believe we have entered a new season where it is now Christ living in us and us living in Him, and He will move our hands and our feet and our hearts, and whatever else He needs, to bring us to the place where we need to be for Him and for His glory.
These are glorious days we are living in, and even as chronologically you and I are about the same age, I believe we will see this glorious Bride of Christ rise up and take her rightful place in our time. I just had to write and thank you for your obedience in posting this, it brought such joy to my heart, and of course as we both know, more importantly, to our Fathers heart.
Be blessed my precious brother in Christ,
Yours in Christ,
His bride eternally.
Marie - New Jersey
I am humbled by the precious love and godly respect for what the LORD is doing on His beautiful planet. - Ron McGatlin
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Worldwide Kingdom Awakening News and Views
Published by Ron & Barbara McGatlin
In This Edition
1. The Spring of 2010
2. SPIRITUAL CHURCH (Ekklesia)
3. A Word for the Season
4. TOP NEWS Headlines
1. The Spring of 2010
By Ron McGatlin
Life returns again in twenty ten.
The dormant season of winter is a season of lifelessness. A season in which life in plants goes underground either in a root systems or as dormant seed to come forth in the spring restoring full life and fruitfulness. Life goes on in the dormant or winter season but at a different level than in the excited productive revival season of spring.
Revival means a return to life. Somewhat like the natural seasons the excited fruitful spiritual life of God endures cyclical seasons. Seasons of returning life always follow a dormant season. These are not annual seasons but vary in length of duration and intensity. Both the dormant and revival life season can be longer or shorter and more or less intense.
Return or revival of spiritual life is also likened unto waves upon the sea. Smaller waves are common and rhythmical one after another. However, when the winds of the Spirit greatly increase the waves become very large and further apart. They are much more powerful and can bring massive change to the shore line.
I believe that I hear the Lord saying there are massive waves of fresh revival life returning extreme and exciting spiritual life to masses of people worldwide beginning to spring forth in the spring of 2010. Like a dormant tree first there is the bud that becomes the blossom and leaves and then the small green fruit and finally the mature ripe fruit.
As the unusual winter snowstorms continue to hold natural life in dormancy the buds of spring are appearing ahead of the normal cyclical season on some of the trees in the area where I live.
Even now as massive quaking and shaking of the earth and other cataclysmic events bring devastation, the buds of revival life begin to flood hearts and flows out into the streets in midst of devastated cities. In the dark night of winter, hope sees the budding of the joy of the Lord to come in the morning of springtime.
Devastating pain always produces bitterness or resentment in the hearts of independent people who trust in themselves. However, those who trust in the Lord God Almighty are drawn even closer to Him in utter dependence upon His love and spiritual life of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit during the painful experience of devastating events.
The outpouring of the love of God in response to His people moving close to Him in full dependence and adoration of Him spawns huge waves of His spiritual love and power in living demonstrations and manifestations among those who love and trust in Him. This is revived life returning to His people. This is the springtime of revival life bringing beauty in the midst of tragedy. God is love. Revival is the experience of the great flow of His love pouring into His people and His world.
Those who have slipped into living for self and other gods are convicted of their error when impacted by the wave of His love. Many will repent of their false gods and turn to Him with their whole hearts. Their hearts and lives are changed as the life of God by His Spirit fills them afresh.
Can you feel the excitement in you heart building by His Spirit, as revived spiritual life from deep within begins to flow toward the surface? There probably has never been a season in-history when the world was so desperately longing for the real life of God. The crumbling world conditions are rapidly eroding the trust of people in their false gods. The futile self-life and pleasure-seeking is decaying into purposeless and sick existence without real life.
A rotting tree bears little or no fruit. Dead wood must be cut out to restore the tree and prepare for fruitfulness. A season of deep repentance and cutting away is coming to the church as the real life of the Spirit shines forth the real love and true kingdom of God life of Christ Jesus into the vast pool of desperate longing of multitudes who have once tasted the glorious life of God.
Isa 61:11: 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.
Isa 42:9: Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."
Spiritual revival life leads to true spiritual church (ekklesia) reality, and kingdom of God living becomes reality on earth as it is in heaven. God and man, heaven and earth, come together in the true spiritual church.
2. SPIRITUAL CHURCH (Ekklesia)
By Ron McGatlin
We are as explorers moving day-by-day further into a new land – a land we have never before seen, filled with things we have not yet known. Almost every day of our journey reveals awesome sights about which we may have heard but were unable to understand or even imagine until our eyes feast upon it. Our senses are quickened as we examine new things with great excitement. Suddenly, what we have only read about and could not fully understand now makes perfect sense as we partake of and experience the reality of that which has previously been only a promise.
The future has come to us now. The glorious reality of God and His kingdom is presenting itself more as we reach each new horizon and partake of the previously unseen spiritual reality of God. Truly our eyes are lifted up unto the hills of God, far above the darkness of the fallen world, unto the heavenly order descending from above. Truly what God has prepared for those that love Him had never entered our natural minds until this blessed day in which the Holy Spirit is revealing it to a new generation of maturing sons of God.
We are more than being revived. We are being made alive in areas where we have never lived before. Our spiritual senses and spiritual lives have been so dulled by centuries of natural living and natural reasoning and understanding that, though we were alive, we were as dead being blind and deaf to supernatural spiritual reality.
The supernatural works of God were foreign and appeared impossible to us. We relegated all current supernatural to only demonic sorcery. The supernatural gifts of the Spirit that should have been part of our daily lives were not functioning. Our natural animal instinctive living led us to look unto our own ways devised by our prideful natural minds to provide for our natural appetites, while the world died spiritually and drifted into a realm of deep darkness far from the light and life of spiritual living in God.
We made church into a human endeavor of natural functions and developed religion in an attempt to reach God with our natural efforts. We took a devious shortcut in life and developed religious forms and ways to eliminate the costly real way of the cross of self-denial and acceptance of spiritual reality. In bypassing our personal cross experience, we missed the resurrection life of Jesus that came to move us out of our natural ways and into the supernatural spiritual ways of resurrection life in God.
Praise God we have come to a new horizon, and the brightness of the light of God has appeared. Forerunner scouts have returned to the camp of explorers with glorious reports of real spiritual life of God just ahead. We are moving out at first daylight to experience the real assembling of God with His people.
The Ekklesia church is not a natural thing; it is a spiritual reality. The Ekklesia is made up of spiritual beings called out of the natural world and into spiritual reality, gathered unto God in the Spirit - a spiritual gathering of living stones – an assembly of Spirit God, Jesus, many angels, and spirits of just men made mature in Jesus. All of our questions about headship, structure, and organization of church are dissolved as the Ekklesia comes together by the Spirit in the heavenly New Jerusalem on earth as it is in heaven.
Heb 12:22-24: But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
For many centuries the church has been, for the most part, a gathering of natural beings with only occasional visitations of the Spirit touching the spirit within mankind. For the most part, natural effort went into performing religious rituals and praying mostly faithless prayers to a perceived distant God. It became a lukewarm church primarily concerned with social order and well-being. Skilled orators preached from a level of a higher caste than the ordinary laity who sat quietly at weekly meetings. Some received a sense of guilt and need for repentance of their sins, while others daydreamed or fought to stay awake.
Probably no one even thought or dreamed of a gathering of spiritual beings on earth— together with an innumerable company of angels—God the judge of all, Jesus the firstborn, and spirits of just men made perfect. We are so accustomed to living in the natural earthly side of our natural/spiritual being that the concept of the spiritual heavenly Jerusalem gathering on earth is hard for us to even think.
I believe God is speaking to His people today to step out of our natural side into our spiritual being side and look over the next horizon into the gathering of spiritual beings with Christ Jesus, Father God, holy angels, and spirits of others redeemed by the blood—and living in the better things of the spiritual realm. The Holy Spirit is bringing all this to pass. Our spirits come together with the Holy Spirit, the entire God family, and multitudes of angels.
Can we see it? Can we allow the reality of the spiritual Ekklesia to enter into our minds? Can we prepare now to come together in our next gathering as spiritual beings and not as natural people? No longer filled with conversation and considerations of natural things but filled with spiritual things – waiting upon the Spirit, instead of natural planning. This is moving into the next horizon of the reality of walking in the Spirit, abiding in Him and He in us. This is God dwelling with His people. The light of His glory will fill the room, and our hearts will knit together with God and one another.
2 Cor 6:16: … For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people."
Rev 21:3: And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
Rev 21:23: The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
Supernatural will become natural in spiritual gatherings. There will be no need for pumping and hype, no need for natural human intervention and control. The Spirit of God will rule as the headship of Christ Jesus becomes fully evident. It is the family of God from heaven and earth coming together, worshiping the One who sits upon the throne in perfect harmony – multitudes of angels blending their voices with the spirits of justified men in heavenly melody rising to high crescendos and flowing as a mountain stream lightly through the valley and suddenly flowing with great strength and joy into a glorious waterfall to again come into deep pools of fresh sweet clear life in perfect peace - heaven and earth in perfect harmony praising God upon the throne.
Mat 18:20: "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
John 4:23-24: "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
Keep on pursuing love. It never fails
and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
3. A Word for the Season
By Kriston Couchey
When the Lord asked me if I would give a word for the season we are entering I said yes. I tried to write it down in the exact words and the order given.
"This will be a season of hardships and victories. Faith will grow, and the fruit of faith will be seen. I am bringing sharper correction to the body. What I have released of kingdom undestanding for many because they have been seeking me will now become common knowledge in my church. There will be a greater accountability and greater judgment for disobedience.
I am raising up choice vessels to bring my presence and power to bear in my church. These will have power to shut up the heavens for those who reject my words to them, and the power to open the heavens for those of my people who will receive. These are my witnesses that I am God, and I will do what is Mine to do.
To those who have kept my word in the previous season and have persevered. You are not a child anymore, but a man, and I speak to you as a man who knows fully why I do what I do. As a mature son I send you. The first fruits have been ripened and the vine has cast it's fruit. The seeds are now going forth to be planted, yet the harvester will overtake the planter.
All the prophets have prophesied will be seen in this hour as the culmination of my plans for the earth will not be delayed any longer. There is much more but you cannot bear it at this time."
(My own words) Lord, are you saying I cannot bear it or the people cannot bear it at this time.
"I am saying you cannot bear it at this time."
In His Love
Kriston Couchey
4. TOP NEWS Headlines
40,000-Plus Haitians Have Professed Faith in Jesus Christ Since Earthquake; Pastor Believes Vision of 1.5 Million Haitians Coming to Christ is in Process of Being Fulfilled - 3/2/2010
40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since the major earthquake. "In Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, 'thousands upon thousands filled the streets seeking God and asking Him to spare them." Many conversions took place during the three days of prayer and fasting. "People were in the streets, begging God for forgiveness and mercy." Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31277&PN=1&TPN=1
Son of Hamas Founder Shares Faith Journey, Reveals He Spied for Israel in New Book - 3/2/2010
The son of a Hamas founder whose Christian conversion made international headlines released the complete story of his faith journey Tuesday in a memoir brimming with spy-novel-like drama. Mosab Hassan Yousef's book details a six-year-long conversion process that originated with a Bible study in Jerusalem and resulted in his departure from the Islamic terrorist organization... Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31274&PN=1&TPN=1
Governor Huckabee highlights 'mission calling' at Fox News - 3/2/2010
Following his quest for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, Governor Mike Huckabee shared at an NRB press conference, in Nashville how he'd now found his mission calling at Fox News channel, where he hosts his own weekend show "HUCKABEE." "I take my Christian faith to work with me everyday." Huckabee served as 44th Governor of Arkansas. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31276&PN=1&TPN=1
Ministries Extend Relief Work to Chile - 3/2/2010
Despite budgets already stretched by relief work in Haiti, Christian aid groups are mobilizing teams in Chile. Samaritan's Purse and World Vision were among the first to have workers on the ground in Chile, Samaritan's Purse sent truckloads of food, blankets and other relief supplies from offices in nearby Bolivia. World Vision began distributing blankets and water. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31275&PN=1&TPN=1
Haiti Judge Wants More Information Before Releasing Last Two Missionaries - 2/27/2010
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says he wants to hear testimony from two real estate agents, two pastors and another man from a border town. Some of the testimony is expected to be about the orphanage the ten American missionaries intended to set up in the Dominican Republic. Eight of the group have already been released. Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter are still in jail. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31237&PN=1&TPN=1
Intrusive School Sex Survey Prompts Students with Leading Questions - 2/27/2010
The school used the same line often used by pedophiles -- Don't tell your parents. But one student broke the rules and took a copy home. A California law forbids such surveys without parental permission. Beyond that, the survey is useless from a research perspective. That's because instead of taking a neutral stance, it coached students through loaded questions. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31233&PN=1&TPN=1
European Union Moves to Defend Persecuted Christians - 2/27/2010
The European Union has established a working group to protect persecuted Christians. On a related matter, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports Italy's foreign minister has promised an international conference on religious freedom. It also says Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. The ICC believes Muslims are the worst persecutors. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31230&PN=1&TPN=1
Christian School Teaches How to Lead A Mosque - 2/26/2010
Hartford Seminary was founded in 1833 by the Congregationalists, who trace their roots to New England's Puritans. It opened its doors to the first Muslim on its core faculty in the 1990s. That was shortly after deciding to pursue Christian-Muslim relations. But a director of a DC think tank is worried about the flavor of Islam interacting with the school. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31210&PN=1
Studies: Belief in God Relieves Depression - 2/26/2010
The operative term is "caring." Researchers at Rush University found people with strong beliefs in a personal and concerned God were more likely to experience an improvement. The patients had been diagnosed with major depression or bipolar depression. The study follows on the heels of Canadian research showing belief in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress. Read On: http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=31207&PN=1&TPN=1
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