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Date Posted: 09:06:46 01/27/07 Sat
Author: article posted by Joshobel
Subject: Transition By My Spirit Says The Lord

Transition By My Spirit Says The Lord

By Ron McGatlin

'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD. Zec 4:6

Intellectual might and mental power will not guide us through the transition from the religious church age into the reality of the kingdom of God. The movement into the kingdom of God lifestyle is not a horizontal move but a vertical one. It is not a restructuring of organizational church methods. These horizontal things and more will be affected by the transition into kingdom, but the transition is a vertical one. It is first internal within the hearts of God's people. It is a work of the Spirit of God moving His people into an intimate spiritual relationship with Him.

The inner kingdom must be experienced before the outer kingdom can flow from God's holy people into the world.

The transition is first a transformation from horizontal to vertical inner spiritual reality. It is a move into the comfort and goodness of Christ within His people by the Holy Spirit.

In the kingdom there is comfort and joy.

In the kingdom, there is peace, joy, and righteousness in the Holy Spirit. God is a God of comfort and inner peace. The kingdom of God is not without tribulation and persecution in the world, but it is a place of His comfort in our tribulations. The kingdom is not a place of unrest, terror, and torment. It is a place free of fear, strife, and endless toil.

Acts 9:31: Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

2 Cor 1:3-4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Seeking God's spiritual kingdom by the Spirit.

The basic error of the Pharisees that caused them to miss the King and the kingdom was their dependance on mental strengths to discern the Bible (Old Testament writings). They devoutly searched the written word in their unrelenting zest for truth but failed to hear the Lord speaking to them.

Luke 17:20-21: Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; "nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." (or "in your midst")

In recent centuries the organized church has done much the same. The written word and the teaching of it by men of the clergy became elevated above the Holy Spirit who originally spoke the word to holy men of God that was written by their hands. Teachings developed by theologians based upon the written word became mighty and powerful in the minds and hearts of Christians. But the same mistake that the Pharisees made of using intellectual and mental power to discern the written word has led to at least an incomplete if not erroneous view of the real kingdom of God.

Not hearing and discerning the written word by the revelation of the Holy Spirit has led to deception.

Deceived prophetic teachers continue to proclaim teachings and projections of current and future events based upon their interpretation of the Bible without hearing from the Spirit of God. With intellectual power they view the state of current affairs, compare it to the written word, and devise a theory of current and future events based on their view of the written word without hearing from the Holy Spirit of God.

Many people are locked in a prison of unbelief regarding the reality of the Holy Spirit's speaking into the hearts of men today. This mistake continues to lead to the same error today as it did with the Pharisees; they continue to miss the kingdom of God coming forth on earth from heaven by the Spirit of Christ being formed in holy people of God today.

The turn to the written word as the ultimate standard while ignoring the spoken word of God was caused by a major breakdown of truth and accuracy in people claiming to speak a word from God. The lack of mature holy people and the multitudes of immature unholy people who cannot hear God clearly, but yet who are speaking as from God have caused a great mistrust in modern day prophesy.

Religion has become filled with unholy, unrighteous men who name the name of God and hear and speak messages of mixture. These contaminated words are abundant and troubling. In an effort to safeguard people from the mixture, many minsters have proclaimed a message of dependency only on the written word and caused people to loose their ability to hear a current word from the Holy Spirit. This phenomenon is a testimony of the depraved condition of modern man and a backlash to the demonically inspired false prophets among us.

One result of this is a lack of ability to change or transition.

Making the transition from error that is locked into people from their past religious views can be very difficult, if not impossible. Having a lack of real spiritual discernment, they simply believe that if a spoken word of the kingdom does not line up with their previously taught views of the written word, it should be quickly rejected. Thereby they may unknowingly reject a word of kingdom truth.

We need to allow the Holy Spirit to guide our pure hearts into the same kingdom of God truth that Jesus taught, preached, and lived. There is no substitute for an intimate one-on-one relationship with God by the indwelling Spirit of Christ. Only in oneness with God can we accurately understand the written word and receive the spoken word of God by the Holy Spirit. Until the written word becomes the spoken word in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, it cannot be clearly and accurately received and understood.

The Bible is a great standard of truth when revealed by the Holy Spirit.

There are today some holy men and women of God speaking the truth of the kingdom from the written word by the Holy Spirit. Probably, there are more truly holy people of God alive today than at any point in history. The transformation of the people and the transition into kingdom of God living requires a holy remnant proclaiming the same message that Jesus preached two thousand years ago. The gospel of the kingdom assaults some of the strongholds of religious doctrine of the past. However, it brings some of the true teachings of the past forward with increased truth and light.

For some of us it may seem there are many words spoken and not much really happening in this transition from religion to the kingdom of God. Do not be disheartened; there is a lot going on beneath the surface. Not all is within our sight. It reminds me of many years ago as a boy seeking to get fresh cool water from a deep well with a hand pump. A lot of rapid strokes of the pump handle produced nothing but air. But as I continued pumping the handle rapidly while seeing no results, suddenly the water reached the top and each stroke of the pump gushed forth cool clear water. What I could not see was that the water was coming up the pipe in the well as I pumped. The kingdom is not established by pumping; but, as we each continue to faithfully do what God has given us to do there is much going on beneath the surface or more accurately among a remnant.

WORLDWIDE KINGDOM REVIVAL WILL COME!

Suddenly the kingdom of God will fill all the available containers and overflow across the land as rivers of fresh, cool, refreshing life from heaven pours out. The last major revival will be a kingdom revival that will change the spiritual climate of the world. There will be no end to the works of God generated by the kingdom revival that will pour out in hearts of His people and upon the land. The land made barren because of the evil works of man will be restored and become alive in the great outpouring of the kingdom of God.

I don't know about you but for me there is no greater reason for living and giving my all into His hand to do with as He pleases. As we give Him our whole hearts and seek His kingdom and His righteous way of being and doing, the God of comfort will comfort us in our tribulations and persecutions which are only for a season. The Spirit of glory will rest upon us and His glory will cover the earth.

Gal 6:9-10: And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Keep on Pursuing Love,
It Will Never Fail,

Ron McGatlin

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