Passionate Love, Intense Hope & Extreme Faith By Ron McGatlin www.openheaven.com basileia@... A people are arising in the wilderness. A people young and old filled with the passionate love of their God. A people unfit for the religious duties and worldly pursuits of their past lives. A people of transform ation who truly love not their lives to the death. A people of humility acquainted with grief and emptied of loftiness and pride. A people who always have enough no matter how small their portion. A people who understand the real meaning of overcoming evil with good. A people who are warriors laced with peace, radical in passion and extreme in faith. A people who are as Christ is in the world. Is Jesus really enough? Is God truly sufficient? If we look at the world events as reported on the evening news, there is much reason for doubt and fear. Even a temptation to rise up in resentment leading toward hatred for the seemingly insane violent acts of Islamic terrorists. While Hindus beat Christians and destroy churches in India and the government in China beats and imprisons Christian leaders, church buildings are being burned even in the "Bible belt" of southern USA. Severe persecution is more rampant today in more nations than ever before in history. Multitudes are being martyred as Islam and other religious and tyrannical forces seek to eradicate Christianity. In the western world, secularists boldly proclaim godless immorality and self-indulgence as the right way to live and Christianity as bondage and foolishness. Young minds are implanted with the perverse principles and inverted reality of godless secularism and immorality. In the name of tolerance young minds are trained that every religion is of equal importance to worshiping the one true God. Psychic practices of witchcraft and other evil supernatural sorcery is subtly trained into children and taught in schools. We live in a world gone mad. If you define insanity as being out of touch with reality, then insanity is the normal reality of the masses of today including many Christians. Much of the church has lost the mind of Christ. It has lost its "salt" and is trodden under the feet of man. Mat 5:13 You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. While much of the church suffers with being out of touch with reality, pleasure-seeking, and secularism, Islam and other religions of the world are possessed with a passionate, intense and extreme form of religious insanity. One thing shared by worldly secularists and religionists alike is a passionate hatred for Christians and an intense desire for extreme action against the people of God. If we look to the world situations it appears that Jesus is not enough and God is not sufficient to bring forth the kingdom of God from heaven on earth. From looking at what the natural eye sees it appears that Islam is on its way to fulfilling its agenda to destroy all other kingdoms and rule the world. God is awakening His people by passionate love. Through the battle fields of desolation, loftiness and pride are broken. In humble brokenness we can enter the presence of His pure love. Passion for the things of this natural life fades away in the presence of His pure love. Experiencing His love ignites passion within His Bride for Him and Him alone. We are made spiritually alive (awakened) by passion. Awakened and consumed by His passionate love we are intensely focused only upon God and are no longer focused upon the world events as reported on the evening news. Doubt, fear and anger are no longer being planted in us to rob our hope. The intense experience of becoming one with God who is the very power by which all things are created and continue to exist, lifts our hearts into intense hope and extreme faith. God is calling for a holy people of passion. A fully awakened Ekklesia of passionate sons of God walking in a new level of godly intensity will move into extreme faith to bring forth the supernatural intervention of Almighty God to conquer the k ingdoms of this earth and transform them into the kingdoms of our God. God in his love spared not His only Son but sent Him to the cross to redeem the world. God did not spare Israel of old, His chosen nation, when they lost their passion for Him. Only a remnant were spared to return to the love of God. God is intensely passionate about this thing. The nonchalant response to God's ultimate passion by some Christians worldwide and especially westernized Christians has thwarted the potential release of the power of God to defend, protect and empower for victory. Because of a lack of passion for God, hope and faith have become weak and the people have become powerless to defeat their enemies. Victory will elude a passionless people until they return to the one true God with their whole hearts. As long as the people called by His name have passion for most everything else instead of Him there is no just hope of victory, but instead there is a certain expectation of fiery trials, devastation, and premature deaths. (Heb 10:27) These are extreme times that call for extreme measures from God's people. The way things have been done in the past have led to where we are now. Much of the tools and methods we have used in ministry and life in the past have proven themselves inadequate to accomplish the work of God at hand. The wilderness of lukewarm "Christianity" of past generations has led to corruption and immoral insanity throughout the western civilization from top to bottom. Yet the broken heart of God continues to pour out His passionate love calling for a generation that will throw down their other gods and seek Him and His kingdom with their whole hearts. People of passion are incompatible with the diluted version of Christianity presented by many westernized Christian systems of religious practice. "Sunday only" religion and "pew sitting" along with other token responses to the passionate love of God seem as a foolish version of man-centered religious pretension to those who are experiencing the passion of God's love. Only a whole-hearted response is acceptable to people of passion. God must fill their entire lives and continuously on a daily basis consume their present reality. Islam and other passionate false Pharisaical type religions with intense focus on many rituals and formalities of daily public prayer, extreme obedience, and worship of another god offers the intensity and extremity to create a sense or purpose and reality. Islam and other extreme religious systems seem to provide what some people were hoping to find in Christianity. God has given dominion privileges to mankind so that what mankind passionately believes and gives strength to will come forth into the world. The people of God are the potential limiting factor to false religions and evil works. We are also the potential for godliness and true holiness in the world. What we bind is bound and what we loos e is loosed. Not just by our words but by powerful demonstration of the kingdom of God brought forth from the Christ within, by the Holy Spirit of God, bathed in the pure "agape" love of God. God is calling for a great shift to a new level of passionate love, intense hope, and extreme faith. It is time for the house of God to really see the house. A great light must shine in the hearts of the masses that call themselves Christian to see clearly the weakness of watered down westernized thinking and practices and the overcoming strength of godly passion and extreme faith. The Babylonian reality of self-seeking, sexual immorality, greed, childish obsession with pain of personal injustices, loftiness, pride, and every perversion caused by practicing man's traditions and believing doctrines of demons is being made evident and destroyed by fire. The saltless "church" is having here covering lifted to expose her corruption for destruction. Ezek 43:10 KJV Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. The pure holy remnant are becoming forerunners to lead many into the fresh reality of becoming holy as He is holy. The Bride in all her glory is being formed into New Jerusalem as Babylon is burning. God is calling, come out of her My people come into My extreme passion of love, hope and faith. My mercy is now this day sufficient just as it was in the days of Noah until the day the ark was closed. The "reluctant prophets of Jonah" are speaking destruction and the plucking up of that which God has not planted and correction to that which has left her first love. The words of Jesus are ringing out in love. "..except you repent you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:5). In the words of David, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who can tell whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the c hild may live?' (2 Sam 12:22). There is yet opportunity today for God to spare repentant masses that will become intensely passionate for Him and turn to seek Him with their whole heart. Though the sickness of death is upon them, the "child is not dead yet." "Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him; A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. Let the priests, who m inister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'" Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people. Joel 2:12-18: The kingdom of God will not come through passionless Christians. The victory is to the conqueror. Jesus has conquered all. Every principality, every evil power is defeated in Christ Jesus. The failure of those who name His name is caused by being apart from Him and His victory. Jesus did not abandon us when He went to the Father. He returned in the Holy Spirit to abide within His people. Many have left Him as they quenched the Spirit. Manifestations of evil principalities and powers are dissolved in the world and the kingdom of God manifested into the world by Christ in His people through the Spirit. "Christ in you" is the mystery that u nlocks the victory and releases the glory of God to cover the earth. Repent and return to your first love and be reformed into the image of God in which you were made. Rev 2:4-5: Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place; unless you repent. People of the wilderness arise and come together before Him and cry out. Cry out for cleansing of the people who are called by His name. Cry out for those in whom there is no salt to season the world. Cry out for those in whom there is no victory. God is fully able to deliver us unto pure holiness and spare us from violent desolation. Forerunners move out and lead the way - show forth the brightness of His glory - move out with passion and boldn ess. You are "more than conquerors" through Him. All things are possible to Christ in you. Do the works of Him who has sent you while it is day. Pray until you hear His biding and then obey until it is finished. Hear and Obey. You shall overcome Islam and all false loveless religions and all godless immoral secularism. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 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