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In This Issue
1. KINGDOM PRODUCTION IS KINGDOM PROVISION – By Ron McGatlin
2. NEW ARTICLES ON OPENHEAVEN.COM
3 . NEWS HEADLINES
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KINGDOM PRODUCTION IS KINGDOM PROVISION – By Ron McGatlin
Can you feel it yet? Do you sense a change taking place in you?
There is a wonderful transformation taking place within many of us who are shut down from the life that suddenly ended. There is a greater life in the Lord being formed in us. It is the beginnings of the kingdom of God lifestyle coming forth on earth.
The new lifestyle may not be exactly as we may have been led to believe in our past religious training. For many, if not most of us, it is a much more practical real-life lifestyle than we were previously led to believe.
THE NEW KINGDOM LIFESTYLE
The new kingdom life is a Spirit life with God in us fully empowering and guiding our practical and productive natural life according to the will and plan of God.
It is a fully satisfying and fulfilling life of inner peace. The satisfaction of a productive life releases joy in our hearts and lives.
Entertainment and spectator sports are no longer needed to give us a temporary sense of real life activity and joy of winning. Deep effervescing joy fills our hearts and lives in the production of the purpose of God in our lives.
THE KINGDOM PURPOSE OF GOD FOR OUR LIVES
The primary purpose of our lives is to love God and love our neighbor. Love produces serving through meeting needs. We love and serve God when we worship and honor Him. We also love and serve God by serving His people especially those of the household of faith. (Luke 10:27) (Galatians 6:10).
How do we serve God by serving people? What does it mean to serve people?
Whatever God appoints us to do in this life, it is our means and place of loving and serving God by the production of something or some service that meets the needs of mankind and the world around us. (Matthew 25:32:45).
Yes, God’s primary purpose for our occupation, profession, job, or ministry is to meet the needs of mankind and the world around us.
Our production may be in natural physical needs of man such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, and much more, or mental, emotional, educational, or spiritual needs of encouragement, mentoring, prayer and agreement and more.
LOVE MOTIVATES AND EMPOWERS US TO PRODUCE
Production of things and services in each of our lives becomes provision for others. In the kingdom lifestyle that we are now coming into, all needs are met as the love of God in us motivates and empowers us to become productive in making and doing that which is needed for the people and the world around us. (Galatians 5:13-14).
This truly becomes very enjoyable and satisfying to us. We sense God giving us new ideas of better ways to produce more to provide more for mankind and the world around us.
The law of sowing and reaping takes over, and we are further blessed with growth and increase. Natural prosperity develops for families, tribes, nations, and the world as we all produce in the realm or field in which we are led of God to love and serve.
We have no need of entertainment or fleshly pleasure seeking. We sincerely find great strengthening, enjoyment, and satisfaction in loving God and people by serving God and His people with the production of our lives. We have joy in real life and have no need of games or make-believe fantasy. Games are not needed or desired in the real life of a mature productive believer.
GAMES ARE FOR CHILDREN TO PREPARE FOR REAL LIFE
Children who never grow up and are locked into playing games instead of moving into real life are not productive. They are dependent on someone else’s production to provide for them.
The functioning kingdom of God lifestyle operating in a family, tribe, or nation provides guidance for children to grow up into real life and become productive. (1 Corinthians 13:11).
Taking away the need for children to be productive by continuing to give to them without teaching them to be productive by serving is called spoiling them. The term spoiling means to take away life from them and cause their life to be ruined or wasted. A spoiled food is fit only to be thrown away.
A grownup spoiled child is a spoiled or useless adult who has had his/her life stolen. They must have someone or some group to hand them the necessities of life. They only play games instead of fully entering real life in the family, tribe, nation, and world.
Do we have a generation of people in the western world who have been robbed of real life? Yes, for whatever reason our family and educational systems have been altered to produce fewer productive people and more dependent people who are robbed of productivity. What can and must be done for the afflicted people who have been robbed or spoiled? Also, many of us are partially afflicted with some of this mindset. (2 Thessalonians 3:10-15).
THE CURE OR REDEMPTION FOR THIS CURRENT WORLD
THE PEOPLE MUST BE BORN AGAIN AND GROW UP IN THE REAL-LIFE KINGDOM OF GOD LIFESTYLE.
There is truly a start over available in a rebirth experience of becoming a new creation by laying down our past life and receiving the Spirit Christ Jesus as our savior and LORD. The life of the resurrected Christ will become one with our human spirit and become a new creation in Christ and Christ abiding in us. (2 Corinthians 5:17) (Philippians 3:13-15) (John 15:5).
The process of our soul or mind, will, and emotions must be renewed through the word of God and the life of Spirit Christ in us by the Holy Spirit. Our spirit and life need to be saturated or baptized with the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ fully formed in us. (Romans 12:2) (Galatians 4:17) (Colossians 1:27) (Acts 1:5). (Luke 3:16).
Under the new headship of Christ in us, the love of God will cause us to become truly productive in the kingdom of God on earth.
Do you think maybe that a loving God would desire to see us all including the afflicted grown children to be changed, transformed into productive sons and daughters in the kingdom of God?
I sincerely believe that is what is happening to us in the sudden end of some of the past lifestyle we were living in the beginning of this year of 2020.
Do you also see that a loving God would also allow the further shut down of our old ways to make room for the reality of the much better lifestyle of the kingdom of God to be formed in us?
Is it not reasonable and right for God to be forming the new mindset and actual production of love-based service becoming the source of peace and joy in us now in the kingdom lifestyle?
HOW LONG WILL THIS SHUTDOWN LAST?
On an individual level our personal shutdown will last until it is no longer needed to cause us to complete our transition and transformation into a grown up son or daughter of God who no longer needs or desires the past life: until we are walking in the kingdom of God lifestyle, until we are in love with God and serving Him in worship, and by serving His people by providing their needs by our God-given area of production.
On a family, tribe, nation, or world level, the shutdown will continue until the individuals of the group are transformed or they are taken away. One will be taken and the other left.
Taken away does not necessarily mean they are lost. It does mean they leave this life and are no longer present in the family, tribe, or nation. Many may be taken to heaven to their reward. They may have finished their work or for some reason were not to be a part of the new kingdom of God life on earth now. (Matthew 24:40-41).
God is not willing that any should perish, and full provision is available to everyone who will receive God into their life through the work of the cross of Christ Jesus by believing in their heart and confessing with their mouth. (2 Peter 3:9) (Romans 10:8-13).
In this same way, if a child of God believes the resurrection life of Christ Jesus is now in him or her producing the kingdom of God on earth and confesses this with their mouth, that person may remain to finish their part in experiencing and establishing the kingdom of God on earth now.
KINGDOM WITHIN BECOMING KINGDOM IN THE WORLD
Many prophets and forerunners saw the kingdom at a distance and proclaimed its future coming. Jesus came and said, “The Kingdom of God is AT HAND.” Today we see and experience the kingdom of God WITHIN and coming forth in the world by Christ in us by the Holy Spirit. The resurrected Christ abides in God’s kingdom people by the Holy Spirit bringing forth the kingdom of God on earth now in this season. (Matthew 3:2) (Luke 17:20-21).
Though the experience of the dissolving of the old seems difficult to many of us, the new life of Christ forming of the kingdom of God in us and then out from Christ in us into the world is the greatest life possible on earth.
THE END OF THE FALSE HUMANISTIC KINGDOM OF DARKNESS
At this very moment in world history, an all-out attempt is being made to stop the production of the kingdom of God from coming forth on earth. A desperate worldwide attack from the principality of Satan with armies of fallen angels and demonic spirits have deceived and seduced many people in the leadership of this generation. A huge effort of smoke and mirrors, lies, and deception is working through deceived leadership in all higher levels of world governance, education, media, entertainment, and religions to destroy the kingdom of God within the hearts and lives of the people on earth.
ALL OF THIS DARKNESS WILL DISSOLVE IN A MOMENT AS THE KINGDOM PEOPLE AWAKEN AND ARISE TO RESIST THE DEVIL AND THE DARKNESS BY THE LIFE AND POWER OF CHIRST THE KING. AND WITH ONE VOICE THE PURIFIED HOLY PEOPLE OF GOD WILL RELEASE ALL THE POWER AND ANGELS OF HEAVEN TO DEFEAT THE ENEMIES OF GOD AND BRING FORTH THE NEW EARTH AND THE NEW HEAVENS AROUND IT IN THE GLORY OF GOD IN CHRIST ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
“Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory. Selah.” Psalms 24:7-10.
“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” James 4:7.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:33.
Ron McGatlin
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2. NEW ARTICLES ON OPENHEAVEN.COM
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KAIROS MOMENTS GENERATE KAIROS MOMENTUM – By Wolfgang Simson
We live in a kairos moment of historic crisis and opportunity. Anything that can be shaken is being shaken; only that which cannot be shaken remains safe ground – the Kingdom of God. We can almost hear the rock of Daniel 2 gathering momentum, just like a divine striker ball on a billiard table about to hit the huddle. Cut out without human hands, it is hurling through the air, aiming straight for the brittle foundations of an increasingly dysfunctional and toxic world system, before it grows into a mountain that fills the earth.
“The Great Kingdom Boomerang in the US and the Nations” – Ben Lim
This is a time where there will be a great resurgence of the presence of God. These bans, these fears, these restrictions, and these limitations are times that are actually leading people closer to God. Whatever the devil is meaning for evil the Lord is using it and is turning it for good. There is a move of God that is happening and the Lord is bringing and pushing the people back to the simple Gospel; to the simplicity of child-like faith.
“Pathway to the Heavenlies” By Duane Stewart
Man, in his fallen state, like the former earth, is without form (order) and void. Meaning that darkness also covers the mind, the soul of fallen man, but the Holy Spirit hovers over him to bring order out of his chaos. When creation became disorderly because of the adversaries fall, God’s first divine command began the process of transforming the chaos back into His divine order. Gen. 1:3, “Then God said, let there be light; and there was light
I HAD A DREAM AND HEARD THE LORD SAY “I AM ABOUT TO DEAL WITH AND BREAK THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION” Lana Vawser
I had a dream recently and I heard the Lord saying over and over “I am about to deal with and break the spirit of religion” God is going to deal with the religious spirit in this new era in ways we have never seen. I still remember the day many years ago when the Lord whispered to me “A mighty move of My Spirit is coming and if you do not have eyes to see and ears to hear and live close to My heart you will be greatly offended by the move of My Spirit”
WHAT ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE WHO WILL DIE? – Mario Murillo
Few seem to be talking about the death toll that may result if the economy remains shut longer than it should. I reject the notion that wanting to reopen America puts “profits over people.” I see some on the Left putting political agenda over people. Lives Depend on…
I HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD AND I HEARD HIM SPEAKING OVER THE CHURCH ‘THROW YOUR CALENDAR IN THE FIRE’ – Lana Vawser
I began to see people running towards the Lord and they were throwing their calendars in the fire. The atmosphere resounded so deeply of surrender of ‘what things should look like’ and even what ‘2020’ should look like. It was a deep place of surrender to Him to allow Him to bring forth change in this year that He desires. It was the place where fear was being surrendered to Him, control was being surrendered and as this place of surrender was taking place the scene shifted and I saw a HUGE sun rise. It was HUGE. The scene heralded “NEW DAY”. I watched in this vision as the sun began to rise on a “NEW DAY” upon the Church. I then began to hear the words being declared loudly “THE SON IS RISING”
“The BIG Reset! How to Use Your Spiritual Weapons” Faith Marie Baczko
GOOD NEWS! God has checkmated the enemy’s move in the present crisis. The enemy’s plan was to release calamity on the earth, but God is strategically using this virus in His plan to bring forth transformation in the world! The people of God have been in prayer, intercession and expectation for a big move of God for years, and God has now answered with the BIG RESET – the precursor to a great awakening and a great in-gathering of souls into the Kingdom of God.
3 . NEWS HEADLINES
What the Chinese Church learned from COVID-19 Apr 16, 2020
China (MNN) — For most of the world, the COVID-19 crisis is still ramping up. But in its place of origin, its influence seems to be dying away. That came in part because of China’s quick response. “As soon as China came down with this COVID virus, and as it was…
Set Free: finding freedom in Christ after trauma Apr 15, 2020
USA (MNN) — The National Council for Trauma reports that nearly 70 percent of adults in the US have experienced trauma in their lives – that’s approximately 223.4 million people. The number grows exponentially worldwide. Since trauma is such a widespread affliction,…
Prayer Alert News: UK, Europe, and Worldwide April 10, 2020 Apr 10, 2020
Praise Reports Stories of hope Survived COVID, felt God’s hands Europe EU becoming climate-neutral EU will raise more than €15 billion to fight coronavirus British Isles Pray for Boris Johnson NHS submit prayer requests 10,000 testimonies in a time of crisis £750…
Prayer Alert News: UK, Europe, and Worldwide April 03, 2020 Apr 3, 2020
Praise Reports Airborne prayers combat airborne virus Crisis cheer Europe Italy: unrest in the south European shortage of fruit and veg British Isles £16.5 million donation to fight coronavirus Feed the nation Hope for the countryside International Justice Mission…
Rodney Howard-Browne Closes His Church, and Addresses ‘False Statements’ About His Arrest Apr 2, 2020
We did not hold church to defy any order; nor did we hold church to send a political message. We did not hold church for self-promotion or financial motives, as some have wrongly accused. We held church because it is our mission to save souls and help people,…
South Africa Acknowledges Jesus Christ on National Television before Lockdown Apr 2, 2020
“Father, this evening, we want to thank You LORD for Your Word. And it is clear that Your Word demands a declaration from us this evening. And so we declare LORD that we will fear You. We declare LORD that we will hope in You.” -President Cyril Ramaphosa…
FDA Approves Use Of Trump-Supported Drug to Fight Coronavirus as Positive Results Emerge
Apr 2, 2020
One doctor declared that it would be ‘irresponsible not to pursue this option aggressively.’ Paul Smeaton : Apr 1, 2020 LifeSiteNews.com [LifeSiteNews.com] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued emergency authorization for experimental…