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1. Love Never Fails and His Kingdom Never Ends – By Ronald D McGatlin
God is Love, and the increase of His kingdom has no end. We are seeking to fully enter into a vast, timeless, ever expanding Spirit kingdom of pure holy LOVE. (Isaiah 9:6-7)
Our finite minds cannot perceive of an ever increasing reality without beginning or end. God and His kingdom always were, now are, and forever shall be.
The eternal Spirit of God is the origin of all life and all creation.
All power, all wisdom, all understanding, and all life emerges from the eternal Spirit of God to form the everlasting kingdom of God.
The Endless Ocean of God’s GLORY of LOVE
The majority of Planet Earth is covered with water. In biblical figurative symbolic language, water is one of the major words used for the Holy Spirit. For example, John 7:38 speaks of rivers of living water flowing from the heart.
The Spirit of God brings the LOVE and GLORY of God.
I recently received a call from our dear friends Dick and Laurie Broy. Laurie is an intercessor, and Dick is more prophetic. While in prayer they had received simultaneous corresponding visions that involved pools of Glory coming forth on earth and the water of God flowing from the throne of God to earth. As it flowed it became larger as a large river with strong currents. There was much more to the visions. I mention this here because it resonated in me and after prayer helped me to see the GLORY of His LOVE, LIGHT, and LIFE as an endless Spirit “ocean” of God’s GLORY from which all things emanate.
All the heavens and the earth and all that is in them have emerged from the eternal Spirit “ocean” of God to the GLORY of God.
The Return of God’s Glory on Planet Earth
This is the season of the GLORY of God emerging by the LOVE of God in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit into this world. Maturing Spirit Sons of God are sovereignly being baptized, filled, and saturated in the flow of love and glory from the ocean of God.
As emerging restored Sons of God overflow with the love and light of the glory of God. Glory pools of God’s pure love are forming around them. This will generate many glory pools of God’s love here and there across the earth. The light of the glory will shine out into the darkness drawing the people out of darkness and into the light of the glory of God’s perfect love.
Many people who have been made spiritual orphans by the fallen world systems of secularism, religion, and the cares of this life will see the Glory pools of God’s Love. They will be drawn by chords of love to the pools of Glory to be fully reconnected to Father God and receive the living water of life from God’s Spirit ocean of Glory.
The Cleansing Love of God
The glory of God’s love is deadly to the evil world systems. As the glory manifests, the ungodly ways of the past are destroyed. There is no place found for the darkness of evil spirits and lying ways of the passing evil world order of the devil and foolish men.
As it flows down into this world, the pure clear stream flowing from the throne of God becomes a massive rushing river of cleansing force that dissolves evil in this world. The same peaceful pure river of God that flows life and glory to the people of God is a turbulent disruptive force of dissolution to the works of darkness.
The cleansed renewed world of the kingdom of God will beautifully reflect the glory of God back to God and out to all creation as a testimony of the character and nature of our loving Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God is love. God is Spirit, and God is light.
1 John 1:5: “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”
The light of God is in Christ Jesus. When Christ Jesus is in us, we become the light of this world.
John 8:12: “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
Matthew 5:14: “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Philippians 2:15: “…that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.”
The god of this world has blinded the people of this world to the light of God.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6: “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
The pools of the Glory of God’s Love and Light are opening the eyes of the people of God who sit in darkness.
Matthew 4:16: “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”
The brilliant light of the GLORY of the gospel of kingdom of God on earth is flowing into the hearts of sons and daughters transforming them into mature Sons filled and overflowing with the Glory of the Love of God. The light of God in His Sons of Glory is dissolving darkness. As more and more come to the light and are fully reconnected to their Father and filled with the Glory of His Love, the pools of glory increase to eventually fill the world.
The kingdom age missional church is not carrying just the message of the gospel of salvation. Now in this age, it is to carry the gospel of the glorious kingdom of God reality of God’s love bringing the power and wisdom to transform the world to God’s original design and pattern.
The Pattern of God’s Kingdom on Earth
The Spirit pattern city of the kingdom of God on earth is the New Jerusalem that is coming down from heaven into the earth as the Bride of Christ: the mature people of God full of the love and light of God on earth.
Revelation 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.”
More on this next week.
Ronald D McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
October 31, 1904 – Moriah Chapel Wales. A Young man named Evan Roberts spoke to the young people of His Church. What followed was – The Welsh Revival. This Song – “Here is Love, Vast as the Ocean” was sung more than any other song during that Great Revival in Wales.
https://youtu.be/j5xKLT4dy-E “HERE IS LOVE VAST AS THE OCEAN”
The following is a modern live worship moment from Bethany:
https://youtu.be/wogUYxW2KCI “LOVE LIKE AN OCEAN”
Video 04: Love Never Fails and His Kingdom Never Ends
https://vimeo.com/252595321
2. A Marketplace Awakening – By Clay Sikes
It is as a room full of close relatives ‘awaken’ to find an enormous and joyous tasks awaiting them. It is what they have been waiting for their entire life – life on earth linked to heaven’s purpose. Joy fills hearts as, for the first time, they recognize themselves and each other in a whole new realm on earth – His appointed sphere of time, individual appointment and purpose in the marketplace.
The ‘awakening’ taking place is a worldwide ‘people’ coming to realize being ‘chosen’ to make the Kingdoms of this world obsolete; they are, in fact, discovering they have been chosen to create Kingdom entities upon the earth that will displace (replace) the systems of men. They have learned they are appointed and anointed to co-labor with Christ to build as He says ‘build’ in appointed spheres. It is the primary job of every individual ‘to rest’ in this assignment – to not get ahead or behind, but be lead of Christ, not pull Him along. In a perfect state, just go along for the ride; He will take care of everything. When ‘things’ start coming, and they will, sit quietly and patiently as a weaned child before touching those ‘things,’ as flesh cannot touch this exciting move.
When the focus is upon building a temple in which He can dwell, on bringing about God’s will into the earth, resources and skilled craftsman will ‘come.’ Should the focus revert to ‘making money,’ the mission will be aborted as this is NOT about money. Focus entirely upon obeying God. He will spare no expense to work through you to establish His habitation in His people on the earth. Though opposition will be heavy, He promises to contend with those who contend with you.
Rest, His rest, is the key to accomplishing this mission. Don’t get busy (this is a trick to distract). A resetting of Divine Order has been released into the earth for this work begin. This is not a work of productivity, but rather a creative effort. Creativity spawns energy, while productive efforts require it. Physical and mental fatigue will signal wrong direction and motive. Energy and life will affirm the correct path.
Clay Sikes
www.lighthouseprophecy.com
3. Moment by Moment Communion – By Curtis Crews
The Pattern of our lives is revealed by the Author and Finisher of Our Faith.
To be Spirit filled is glorious but many stop there never imagining that this is provision for our journey through the wilderness. It is here in this personal wilderness that God in His sovereignty allows the enemy to examine our faith to see if he can find anything of himself in us (John 14:30). It is here that outward provision is stripped away and the temptation is to satisfy ourselves.
Luke 4:3-4 “And the devil said, ‘If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.’ And Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
Yesterday’s word was valid and met the need. The temptation is to act on that word today and move out in our own direction and strength.
There is a proceeding word that is God breathed and birthed out of a moment by moment communion. We are to live in that moment and move by its leading.
May we each be reduced to the simplicity of just walking with Him and loving and worshiping Him and letting Him lead us. Everything that God has for us will become our spiritual reality as we abide in Him.
By divine design the wilderness weakens and ultimately renders powerless anything in us that would react to the enemy. The wilderness exposes the lies we believe. These lies are the children of the enemy (John 8:44) and give him visitation rights. His only power is to keep us in that place of deception.
The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus liberates us and renders the enemy powerless. It is not just a single act of faith but a walk of faith that brings us to a place of complete dependency on our Beloved.
As we live in Him we move out of the wilderness in the power of the Holy Spirit in love, joy, peace and trust.
Song of Solomon 8:5 “Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?”
Luke 4:1-2 “And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Being forty days tempted of the devil.”
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