OpenHeaven.com Digest August 23, 2024

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LIFE IN COMMUNION WITH GOD – Ron McGatlin

World conditions now demand the full authority of God manifesting in mankind, demonstrating the LOVE, POWER, and WISDOM of GOD.

Only the manifested LIFE of the GLORY of GOD in CHRIST JESUS will destroy the evil now taking over America and the world.

THE KING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, SPIRIT GOD IN CHRIST JESUS, MUST NOW APPEAR ON PLANET EARTH THROUGH HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE!

The power and wisdom of the manifested love of God in His people, who are one with Him through a full communion relationship, will now change this world.

WE ARE HERE FOR THIS TIME

Many of you, like myself, have been being prepared for this all our lives.

Through a progressive search from one denominational church system to another through many different churches I found parts of greater life in each. Yet the practical and often painful real-life experiences were my real training ground that eventually led to an end of my search. It was a supernatural, overwhelming experience of communing one-on-one with God in Christ that opened pure, holy revelation of the real kingdom of God. The reality of “God is love” and that all things exist and work together by LOVE was the end of my search.

In all of creation, there is no other source of pure holy love. Pure holy love is only available by communion with God. God loves every person on earth. However, the natural fallen man’s mind limits his connection with God.

 Our natural minds cannot communion with God. God is Spirit. John 4:24: “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Through receiving Christ Jesus as our savior, our spirits are born again yet our natural minds must be renewed. Our natural minds have been conformed to this fallen world. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2a.

Our redeemed spirit and Spirit Christ in us will transform us.

The world and religion seek to conform us from the outside.

Spirit Christ, by love, transforms us from within.

Before the work of Christ Jesus, the word of the law sought to conform people and provided sacrifices that could not fully redeem mankind but looked forward to the coming of Christ to provide the innocent blood sacrifice to atone for all sin at His death on the cross.

Christ Jesus was resurrected from death and ascended to the throne of God and now lives in believers by the Holy Spirit to destroy sin.

It is Spirit Christ Jesus entering us that instantly redeems our spirit. As Christ Jesus abides in us and we abide in Him, His Spirit in our spirit over time transforms our minds from within. It can be truthfully said that we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:16).

We are first and forever spirit beings, now in a natural earthly body with a soul of mind, will, and emotions. Spirit is who we are. Yet to the natural man, the spirit is not even recognized as real, much less the reality of our existence.

Religion desperately tries to commune with God through the soul. Struggling to conform our mind, and control our will and our human emotions is a life-long effort that can never bring us into full communion with God.

Becoming one with God is a Spirit work and reality brought about by God through love. We become His workmanship in Christ Jesus. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 3:10.

We always in this life are spirit beings, and we always have a soul. The big question is which is in control of our hearts and lives, our soul (mind, will, and emotions) or our spirit.

Our spirit is ultimately always feeding the soul with foundational reality, atmosphere, and precepts of either light or darkness. There are many spirits that each fall into one of the two categories of either God’s light or the devil’s darkness that can affect our spirit which feeds our mind.

Spirit is always first, and knowledge is never to be first.

Our mind’s understanding of knowledge will be according to our spirit, with whatever spirit is affecting it, either light or darkness.

Our spirit will select the sources of knowledge that we will seek to receive from. The atmosphere of God in our spirit will guide us toward the right sources of knowledge from which to receive.

To truly commune with God, our spirits must be filled with the Spirit of God in Christ by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:9b-11: “…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.”

THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE

For way too long, religion has tried to commune with God by teaching knowledge of the written word, musical programs, corporate prayer for needs as we see them, reciting pre-planned liturgies, facsimiles, symbolic rituals, and more.

First, there must be the filling of the Spirit of Christ and Father God flooding our spirits with His love and life. And then following the Spirit of God will lead us to seek and find true knowledge and wisdom. After that, real worship, real communing prayer on our knees or laying on our faces or standing tall with arms raised, or with absolute stillness and solitude or shouting and dancing, with tears of overcoming love, or big smiles and laughter, all this and more will flow from Spirit God bringing the life of God.

God will be present in our spirits and minds as we begin doing all that He has for us every day of our lives. Nothing will be able to take us away from our place of peace and well-being in God.

MINDS AND KNOWLEDGE – TOOLS OF THE SPIRIT

A religious skeptic might say that we need knowledge to be saved or have anything of God.

However, a good criminal or tyrant leader and even the devil himself can have a great intellect and great knowledge including knowing the Bible from cover to cover.

Consider the Pharisees who knew the Bible of their day more than anyone. Yet, Jesus said they were sons of the devil. In modern terms, the worst person in the world may own a great computer system with all knowledge stored in it, which he will use as a cybercriminal to steal and destroy.   

Yes, we need knowledge and clear intellect.

Yet, knowledge and intellect are of no value without LOVE. And there is no love without SPIRIT GOD. We must hear the Word made flesh in Christ Jesus by love.

Even created nature all around us speaks the knowing of God. Yet it says nothing to a person who chooses not to see the love of God. Their knowledge puffs them up with pride, and they will not consider anything of God. Only extreme tragedy in their lives may at some point break their pride leading to great depression and death or an openness to look for more.

That person is blinded to Spirit realities and is basically helpless without an entrance of love through external intervention. God has prepared intervention for those who will be turned.

What is God’s prepared intervention?

INTERCESSORY SPIRIT INTERVENTION

As God leads, we are to pray for people to be touched by the real love of God. And bind the powers of darkness that are blinding them and keeping them from experiencing the love of God.

God gives specific instructions to specific prepared prayer warriors to push back and destroy the works of the devil’s blinding and blocking of the love and light of God in a specific person’s life. In bold prayer pushing back the blindness and blockages to the love of God in the person and releasing holy angels to help lift them out of darkness into the light of the love of God. This type of in-depth call and commitment is not for everyone, and the intercessor must be led by the Spirit of God. It is a matter of timing. God knows when and will make it known to a called intercessor.

However, love’s intervention and powerful prayer are for everyone who asks for it.

The key to effective intercession for those who are seemingly hopelessly bound and blinded is LOVE. The pure holy love of God can get through where all else has failed. The release and revelation of God’s love today is greater than it has been in modern history. Things that would not move in the past now may work in the increased release of the love of God in Christ by the Holy Spirit.

Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. Isaiah 60:1.

Ron McGatlin
https://openheaven.com
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