In This Issue1.Supernatural Spirit Reciprocity
2. The Real Her – Amanda Leonard
3. ‘The Awakening’ – Clay Sikes
1. Supernatural Spirit Reciprocity
By Ron McGatlin
Connecting to and loving God is a reciprocal response to the unconditional love of God. All of heaven and all that God has is contained in and expressed through His love. Fully responding to His love releases the potential of all God is and all God has into this world in and through those who love Him with their whole hearts and lives. (1 Cor 2:9-10).
Obviously, no human being can contain all that God is. However, Christ Jesus while in His human body was a clear and perfect reflection of God along with all that God is and has. (John 14:7-11).
Therefore, we as human beings in Christ and Christ in us can indeed become perfect reflections of all that God is. We do not encompass or contain all that He is, but we can reflect all that He is into this world. Thus we are the light of God from heaven on earth. We are the light of the world as we reflect Christ Jesus and all the light of heaven into this world. (Mat 5:14).
Natural creation on earth as God designed it in the Garden of Eden is a picture or replica of God’s glory showing forth His nature and character in all terrestrial and celestial creation. (Rom 1:20).
Impurities of sin mar the reflector of our human lives and distort the reflection of God into the earth and out to all creation. This distorts the whole plan of God’s creation. All sin or disobedience to God is from one single source: the lack of being in love with God. All that is out of order in creation comes from or roots in being disconnected from the experience of the love of God. (Mat 22 36-40).
The complete healing for every evil of this world rests solely in the love of God. The glory of God will cover the whole earth when all human beings made in God’s image are connected into God’s love and are fully experiencing the all-consuming, all-powerful love of God. (1 John 4).
All lack on earth is the direct result of mankind not experiencing the love of God. Lack of health, lack of provision, all lack of peace, joy, righteousness, and any other lack of any good thing in this life is directly traceable to mankind’s not fully experiencing the love of God. (Mat 6:33) (Rom 14:17).
Lack is a part of the death of separation from the fullness of life with God.
When Adam fell death came upon mankind. Death began the moment Adam became separated from the full experience of the fruit of the love of God. (Rom 5 12) (Gen 2:15-17). God always loves all mankind and all of His creation on earth. It was man’s free will choice to deviate from the way of God and the fruit of His love. (Rom 8:38-39).
The way to the full experience of the fruit of God’s love was restored in Christ Jesus, Yeshua Messiah. (Rom 5:15-20).
The purchase of His blood shed upon the cross and the power of His glorious resurrection has provided the way for all mankind to return to the full fruit of the love of Father God now in this life.
The return of the perfect life of Christ Jesus in the Holy Spirit now provides the potential for every living person and the whole world to be fully consumed and empowered by the LOVE of God. The potential return to the Garden of Eden life on earth is now potentially available to all mankind. This is the good news (gospel) of the kingdom that Jesus proclaimed. (Mat 4:23) (Mat 3:2) (Mat 10:7).
Why then does it often seem so far away?
Experiencing the fullness of the fruit of the love of God now with its Garden of Eden lifestyle begins with BELIEVING. (Mark 9:23) (Mark 16:14-20) (John 3: 15-18)
To believe is to have total faith. Simply stated most “believers” do not believe and therefore do not experience.
Why do we not believe?
Again, simply stated, because we believe something else in place of this gospel of the kingdom.
How did we come to believe something else, another good news (gospel)?
Believing or faith comes by hearing. (Rom 10:17). It is a fact and reality of the design of the psyche and mind of man that what we hear repeatedly, especially from a trusted source becomes what we believe to be truth. (Mark 4:24) (Phil 4:8-9).
The most trusted source for many people that are seeking God is the Bible, that which we call the written word of God. When the written word is read and discerned by the Holy Spirit who wrote it, absolute truth from God is heard in our hearts and becomes what we believe, our faith. (1 Cor 2:10-12).
Many centuries ago the Holy Spirit was replaced with natural human understanding of the Bible. The natural fallen minds of man cannot discern the written word, for it is spiritually discerned. However, the minds of man, by using natural intellect and reasoning, can discover answers through biblical interpretation that are palatable to the natural mind. (1 Cor 2:13-14).
Dear friends, what we have heard taught and believed derived from the traditional teachings of past centuries has been at best incomplete and more accurately a mixture of biblical truth mixed with traditions of men and doctrines of demons. (Mark 7:6-9) (1 Tim 4:1).
There is an enemy that veils the minds to receiving truth. (2 Cor 4:34).
That which we have heard repeatedly from the most valued sources in our lives is reality to us. And much of that which we heard was NOT THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM that can position us to receive the fullness of the love of God and take us into the restored Garden of Eden type of life on earth in love with God.
Often the people who have the most difficulty receiving the true gospel of the kingdom are those who grew up in the church under the teachings of a gospel of salvation to go to heaven when we died but without the truth of the gospel of the kingdom of God. (Mat 21:28-32) (Mat 7-21) (Mat 23:13)..
The hope of heaven after death is a wonderful truth that seems even more valuable to me as I now progress through my eighty fifth year on earth. However, it is not the first priority of God for Planet Earth.
We are redeemed to bring forth the LOVE and LIFE of God to restore the earth to its original perfect design in which all things work together in harmony producing life on earth as it is in heaven. (Mat 6:10)
God is much more interested in bringing heaven to earth than taking us to heaven when we die.
The gospel of the kingdom of God cannot only change us but change the world around us, thus bringing the life of heaven to earth rather than just living in a type of hell on earth and only experiencing heaven in an afterlife. The gospel of the kingdom that Jesus brought to earth from heaven is about redeeming and restoring mankind and this world to “as it is in heaven.” Mankind is being redeemed and restored as kings and priest of heaven on earth now in this life. (Rev 1:6).
Many times those who grew up in the hell of corrupt life can hear and believe the real kingdom before those who were trained in religion all their lives.
However, the door to the real kingdom of God is available to all who will lose their lives to gain the life of Christ Jesus and His kingdom life now. (Mark 8:35). Love is the key and truly experiencing the kingdom is a born again experience to a whole new person in a whole new world. (John 3-3). The all-consuming love of God is the most powerful force in all existence. (Heb 12:28-29).
The reciprocity in supernatural spiritual love with God is life abundantly to the glory of God bringing forth His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
All things are possible to those who BELIEVE.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
2. The Real Her
By Amanda Leonard
Her disp
osition was different as she walked into the living room. Her wet little feet soaking the carpet and her towel wrapped around her skinny little eight year old frame. “Momma”, she said and then paused, I could already feel the seriousness of what was she was about to say.
“Momma, I don’t feel like myself. I said something yesterday that was not me. I said something bad about someone and that’s not who I am.”
This Momma’s heart skipped a beat, as I watched her have an epiphany, she was seeing the REAL her. She realized while in the tub that what she had said the day before did not align with her original design, the her that was created by the Father.
Sadie said she asked the Lord for forgiveness. She told me that He said He was not upset, He was so excited that she realized that that was not the real her. He was glad she came to Him and did not run from Him. He also told her about the power of her words and to be careful what flows from her lips.
This same little girl today was so moved with compassion that our whole table at the Mexican restaurant was moved to tears, sobs actually. My aunt Becky Meyers was in pain, as she’s been battling cancer and Sadie was sitting across from her. I watched as her face changed and she pushed her plate away from her because she couldn’t eat anymore. She put her head on the table and began to cry, this was more than just emotion, it was deeper. Her emotions were stirred but she was moved with real compassion and love for her great aunt so much that she felt her pain. She hugged Becky’s neck and they embraced and cried, we all cried. She was with her in her pain and the Lord began to speak to me so clearly about the body of Christ and what it truly means to say, “I’M WITH YOU”. Sadie couldn’t say a word but her heart was wide open and we could all read it loud and clear.
Our Father is so amazing and He’s sooo BIG in our little ones. I learn so much from them, as I watch their relationship with the Father grow. There’s no junior Holy Spirit. He showed Sadie her true identity as His daughter, as the real her and taught her without me even saying a word. I’m overwhelmed by His love and goodness.
Amanda Leonard
TIMEINHISPRESENCE
3. ‘The Awakening’
By Clay Sikes
Amongst Christians there has been individual understanding for years that now seems to be transitioning, moving in a (full body) corporate understanding. Better said, “understanding of the masses” – the Body. Individually, we were aware of God’s indwelling (in us), and to varying degrees accepted that phenomenon as fact. Change is in the air however, as the ‘Body’ is awakening to His presence within – a true move of God affecting the entire Body of Christ – He in us!
There is an emerging revelation – “It is not I who live, but Christ who lives within me.” It is as if the Body understands “Greater is He who is in me than He who is in the world.” Indeed, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Christ has returned in and through His Body, and He is awakening His people in a massive way. This awakening has purpose – Body Function. Can you imagine a ‘functioning body,’ coming together in one common purpose – glorifying the Father? A Body with identifiable favor and blessing, doing mighty exploits, revealing heaven on earth? It is happening now, as each person brings his/her gift to an appointed body, lays it down for the good of the whole, and begins functioning as a unit. We are seeing it now at Coastal Solar (www.coastalsolar.com) in Hinesville, Georgia – a true experiment in Kingdom function on the mountain of business and finance.
We are not humans who happen to have a spirit, but ra
ther Spirit beings who happen to live in a body on a planet called earth. We are on assignment. We were known to God before the foundation of the earth – we are on loan here: Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven, sent to share the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. It is the time of the body’s awakening, manifestation of sons, the kingdoms of men to become the Kingdom of the Most High God (Daniel 7:27/Revelation 11:15). This Kingdom transformation is taking place through Kingdom Ambassadors whose assignment is the government of God on earth as it is in heaven.
UNTIL we awaken to our assignment on earth, and to the fact that we are ‘placed’ here with specific purpose, we will continue to wander and wonder aimlessly; but when we ‘awaken’ we begin to ‘see’ what we have never seen – our future. We begin to ‘see’ those we are called to ‘converge’ with, to create with, to flow with. What was not visible becomes crystal clear – ‘We See.’ Joshua and Caleb could ‘SEE’ what Moses, the ten spies, and a million followers could not. This is the vision we long for – to escape the trap of ‘natural eyes only.’ We are not to make final assessment on what we see and hear with natural eyes (Isaiah 11:2,3 – 2 Corinthians 10:7 – Psalm 112:7).
The corporate awakening in the Body of Christ is linking people in Divine purpose as never before. We are birthing our future by seeing it, speaking it, knowing it, and making plans for it. We are moving into an entirely different realm on earth, as we usher heaven to earth with a new mind – the mind of Christ where “all things are possible,” and no limitation exist. The minds of men fight this – it is not natural, but supernatural, as the spirit inside begins to control the soul (not normal, not natural, but oh so freeing!) The Father is my source, not a job, business deal or opportunity, my bank account or credit line. I answer my call to His appointed sphere for me, as this is the ONLY metric for which I will be judged by; not my good works, giving, or church attendance.
The first signs of this (for you) will be a sense of divine connection to others, as almost at the same time emerges a sense of knowing what these connections are all about (what you are suppose to do together). This is not an isolated phenomenon, but rather a major move of God, a Kingdom evidence of the greatest move this earth has ever seen!
Clay Sickes
www.lighthouseprophecy.org
4. News Headlines
President Trump Builds a Coalition as His Security Adviser Warns of War with North Korea May 4, 2017 | News
“We have a situation where lots of administrations before us, and many others have just watched this situation transpire, watched North Korea build the capabilities that it has today, and watched them put missiles in the mountainsides, and here we are…
‘Everywhere We Go, People Ask for Bibles’: Pastor Says Muslims in Middle East Have ‘Huge Thirst’ for Gospel May 4, 2017 | News
Pastor Rashad is so dedicated to sharing the Gospel, he’s even formed a team of former Muslims who are now following Christ, helping him in his outreach activities. Leah Marieann Klett : May 3, 2017 : Gospel Herald [Gospel Herald] A pastor in the Middle East who…
UPDATE: The Amazing Details of That Stunning Rescue and How Little Marshal and Addyson are Doing Today May 4, 2017 | News
“I just want to hug those people who helped us,” Emily said, adding that it was “by the grace of God” that the men were able to open the doors of the submerged truck and rescue their children. Aimee Herd : May 3, 2017 : Breaking Christian News,…
Christians plan new global response to persecution and genocide at Washington Summit May 10-13 May 3, 2017 | News
Spotlight will focus on the Suffering at Historic summit By Bill Bray, Special Campus Correspondent, ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON, DC (ANS, May 3, 2017) – How should Christians love their enemies and respond to the growing wave of genocide and persecution around the…
Islamic State Tries to Impose Sharia on Christians in Egypt’s Sinai May 3, 2017 | News
Christians said Muslim terrorists published death lists of local Christians online or pushed them under doors. Dale Hurd : May 3, 2017 : CBN News [CBN News] Even as it increases attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the Islamic State is also trying to…
Pro-Life Leader Appointed for Big Post in Trump Administration, Replacing a Planned Parenthood Activist May 1, 2017 | News
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Victory Belongs to Jesus”: Christian Student Gets a Win in LGBT Case—What He Did to Get Expelled May 1, 2017 | News
“When you find yourself in a situation like mine, remember that victory belongs to Jesus. Stand for Him and He’ll come and rescue you.” Emily Jones : May 1, 2017 : CBN News (United Kingdom)—[CBN News] The London High Court ruled in favor of a…
Does ISIS represent a perversion of Islam or its very embodiment? Apr 28, 2017 | News
“Contrary to what the many apologetic Muslims in the West offer as an aberration of Islam, ISIS is the militant Jihad required of Muslims by Quranic doctrine,” Goodman noted. The refusal by Islamic groups to acknowledge this is an act of deception, which is allowed…
“These People are Made from a Different Substance”—Egyptian TV Host Astounded by the Forgiveness of a Christian Woman Widowed during the Palm Sunday Bombing in Egypt Apr 28, 2017 | News
“The Copts of Egypt are made of steel! … If it were my father, I could never say this. These people have so much forgiveness. But this is their faith and religious conviction.” WWM Staff : Apr 27, 2017 : Charisma News (Egypt)—[Charisma News] A woman…
Campus communities join National Day of Prayer May 4 Apr 27, 2017 | News
Thousands organizing local prayer events for Thursday. Student prayer collectives will be joining with churches and community groups on Thursday, May 4, for the National Day of Prayer (NDP). Campus ministries and prayer events are taking place this month on 3500…