OpenHeaven.com Digest March 29, 2024

IMAGINE A WORLD RULED WITH SPIRIT LOVE – Ron McGatlin

True Faith does not deny the bad things that exist. It changes them! Faith works by love.

The lack of real love in the world has been in the past and still is the cause of the world’s degrading conditions.

There is only one source of true unconditional pure holy love. Spirit God is the one source of true love. God is love.

THE FAILING WORLD SYSTEMS

By any natural measurement, the conditions of life in this world are rapidly declining. The quality of natural life for masses of people is staggering as governments fail, economies crumble and displaced people wander from nation to nation searching for the necessities of life.

Strife and war are increasing in all walks of life. Trust and honesty are casualties of the times. Poverty and homelessness are at an all-time high. At the same time, there are more millionaires and even billionaires in the world than ever before.

Political forces battle to gain control both psychologically through propaganda and mind control or with armies and military force.

WHAT IS GOD DOING ABOUT IT AND WHAT CAN WE DO?

The situation is extremely complex with many facets of lack and need on many fronts with unique circumstances in various people groups and nations. Yet all the problem situations when investigated to the depth are rooted in one basic universal reality.

The LACK OF THE LOVE OF GOD FLOWING IN AND THROUGH MANKIND IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL LIFE AND WORLD DISORDER!

Without being in a true in-love-with-God relationship mankind is left to natural animalistic or dark spirit influences to guide his desires, actions, and beliefs and eventually the world.

Religion and knowing about God and the Bible is NOT being in a true in-love-with-God relationship. God is Spirit and it is by the Spirit that we can commune with Spirit God. We are drawn by His unconditional love to fall completely in love with Him.

This is beyond all things in this world. It is the most beautiful all-consuming passionate love that man can experience. We gladly lay down our lives as we receive His life of pure indescribable love. We no longer live the life we once lived. It is crucified with Christ. The life in us becomes the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. The Spirit Christ abides in us becoming one Spirit with our spirit.

Paul described it this way in Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

This is NOT life as we have known it in the Christian religion of the recent past. It is life as the first-century disciples of Christ knew it. This is what God is doing to change the current failing world into the loving kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

SPIRIT LIFE IS CHANGING THIS WORLD

Being in love with God brings His order of life in and through mankind. God’s wisdom and power flow through our love relationship with Him to order our lives within us and then out to influence the world around us.

Resurrected Spirit Christ is alive and in us who are in love with God to release the will and plan of Father God in this world now. This is not done by our might or power but by the Spirit of the LORD. “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6.

All this and more is available now waiting for His people to receive and accomplish the works of God in changing the world. The key is for us to walk in it. This is not a natural work. It is a work of Spirit God and specifically the Spirit of Christ.

LIVE AND WALK IN THE SPIRIT

Walking in the Spirit is walking as Christ in doing only what we see the Father doing.
“Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” John 5:19.

Living and walking in the Spirit is the only way to experience the reality of being in love with God.
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” Galatians 5:25.

By walking in the Spirit in our daily lives we will not fulfill the things that are from our old understanding of our natural minds but will fulfill the will of God in our daily lives.
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16.

In Christ and Christ in us, we will not do and speak according to the old natural life. We will do and speak as mature sons and daughters of God abiding in Him as He abides in us.

“…..those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” John 15:1-4.

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” John 15:5-7.

Followers of Christ Jesus, follow Father God by the Spirit Christ from within as a loving divine constant companion.

“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” Romans 8:9-11.

SPIRIT LIFE EXPERIENCE IS MORE THAN NATURAL LIFE

I have met the love of God and my old life was crucified in the overwhelming all-consuming love of God. Nothing else in this world is ahead of Spirit God in Spirit Christ by the Holy Spirit in my life. Among the deepest loves and strongest passions of natural life are not even a close second to the consuming passionate fire of the in-love union of oneness with God. I love what He loves, rejoice when He rejoices, and cry when He cries.

There is nothing that can separate me from the love of God. There is no more tears of sorrow but often tears of deeply grateful and passionate love. God is so worthy of it all that to hold back anything from Him is unthinkable. I can do no less than plead with you and all mankind to come to Him with your whole heart and all that you are and have to Spirit God. His love for you is unconditional and encompasses all you need or will ever need in life now and forever.

Love Never Fails and
His Kingdom Never Ends!

Ron McGatlin
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