•  Can there be peace on earth and goodwill among the people of the world?

•  Can there be peace and goodwill among neighbors and even within families and homes?

Deep-rooted concerns in the hearts of many people, including Christians, have continued throughout history to steal peace and goodwill from the world.

The world is deeply divided among individuals, families, tribes, and nations.

People around the world hold very different mentalities or mindsets. Individuals, groups, and nations tend to defend or argue about issues from their own mindset.

Strife and world wars have been spawned throughout history by this reality.

Yes, there can be worldwide peace and goodwill.  We must look to heaven and to God in the Spirit realm to find peace and joy now and forever.

Abide in worship and turn up the praise music of our hearts.  There is delicious excitement of peace and joy in harmony with God in heaven and on earth.

Redemption’s new life is in the Spirit presence of the pure love of God from within us released into the natural reality of our world.

Every human being, like all beings born of a mother, is born a living being with certain drives and desires placed by God through nature.

The initial programming from God is vital for the newborn to stay alive and grow.

Our newborn human minds are not developed to understand and make decisions.  Yet our programming of drives or desires set in us by God is alive and functioning.

We are programmed to receive affectionate love and tender care.  We are born with a God-given desire for love, to love and be loved.

Our being responds to the sensing of love through cuddling, gentle touching and soft speaking.

Our mother’s warm, soft breast touching our lips activates the God-given drive to open our mouth and begin sucking.

Warm milk flows, providing nutrition to sustain life and establish our God-given instincts of appetite.

Anything that comes to our senses that is not of love or that causes discomfort triggers our God-given response of crying out loud in increasing levels until the situation is changed.

Learning begins at this point as the data of the actions and reactions is stored with all the preloaded drives and desires.

The nature of a person begins to take shape at this point and continues to develop very rapidly for the first six years or so.

The formation of the person’s nature continues at a slower but still rapid rate for another twelve years or so and is generally mostly set, slowing down for the rest of our lives.

However, a person’s nature is still subject to change by an extreme event or spiritual awakening.

The aptitude or bent in each individual, set by God and inherited from parents, always has some effect on the developing nature of life.

However, the inputs of life training events can greatly pervert or disrupt the bent or gifting planted by God through nature.

People of Peace and Goodwill

A natural person who is blessed with God’s tender loving care from birth through childhood will by nature be a happy and blessed person of peace and goodwill.

A person without that loving care will grow up a needy and often contentious person, striving to gain more of something to fill the empty place in their lives.

People saturated with God’s love will prosper in serving and always be filled and never striving to gain more or to take from others.

Most people in this world now did not grow up in the tender care of God’s love and are therefore bent toward strife and need.

GOOD NEWS!

Good News!  They can start over in Christ Jesus, the Messiah. In Christ, their old nature can become crucified, and they can be Born Again.

This time they can begin life in the loving, tender care of God in His people of love.

However, if the tender loving care is not there for the newborn-again believer, he may grow up a religious but unloving or otherwise damaged believer unable to continue to grow into the full stature of Christ in our lives.

It may be harder for the damaged believer to die to the unloving part of religion than it was as an unbeliever to turn to Christ to be born again the first time. In both cases, death comes to the old through Repentance.

It is easier to repent of our gross sins of the flesh than to repent for our unloving practice of our religious judging and condemning of brothers and sisters, some of whom were trying to help us see our lack and need for more of God in our lives.

The death of repentance for our past unloving religious efforts sets us free to move into greater realms of Spirit love and increasing wisdom of humility and supernatural power of God.

Personally, I came to a point as God was taking me deeper into the Spirit revelation of His loving kingdom on earth that so much of my past religious life was exposed as wrong that I went to God and laid all that I believed at His feet and asked Him to give me back all that was of Him and to do away with the rest.

The real came back quickly, and the rest is gone.

As a Man Thinks in His Heart, So is He

We are what we think in our hearts.  Where do the thoughts of our hearts come from?

They are like seeds planted in our minds and hearts by what we receive, either through our natural senses or through our spiritual senses from the spirit realm.

Our senses are hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting. We have all five senses in the natural body and in the spiritual realm within our spirit being.

The thoughts planted in our hearts come from words or pictures we have heard, seen, or felt and have received into our hearts.

The thoughts in our hearts determine who we are and how we are. Our thoughts are what we believe, and they become what we do and speak.

Our human brains are somewhat like a computer; what it receives, hears or sees repeatedly, especially from a respected source, becomes fact or truth to our minds.

The Spirit of God in our hearts can know and discern truth based on God’s infinite knowledge and wisdom.

Humans without the Spirit of God within the heart are easily misled or deceived by cunning repeated lies mixed with a candy coating of a taste of truth.

Religious Christians without the fullness of Spirit God in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit in their hearts depend upon their natural minds to discern the written word of the Bible to guide their lives with truth.

Without the fullness of Spirit God in us to help us to discern the written word of God, we will not come to the full reality of truth from reading it.

By the reality of Spirit God within us, the written word is alive and opens the light of the love of God to flow into our hearts and eventually our minds.

Our thoughts, that determine who we are and what we say and do, become the thoughts of the mind of Christ in us.

We become the Sons of God, bringing forth The Kingdom of God/ Love on earth.

What we see and hear, that which we listen to, read or watch, will affect the thoughts in our minds that become who we are and the life we live on earth.

We cannot change who we are by trying hard to be different or trying to act like we are loving and kind and at peace.

We can and must change what we hear, see or read to change the thoughts in our mind and hearts to change our lives.

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”   2 Corinthians 10:4-5.

“Rejoice in The LORD always. Again I will say, rejoice!  Let your gentleness be known to all men.  The LORD is at hand.  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.  The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.”   Philippians 4:4-9.

Love and Forgiveness

“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;  bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.”   Colossians 3:12-13.

Unforgiveness in us squelches the advancement of God in us and opens our lives to the works of darkness to steal our peace, joy, strength, and eventually our health, all with pain and suffering.

We must forgive anyone or anything that has offended us. Forgiveness is not just for the perpetrator of the offense.

It is for us! Our loving Spirit God in our hearts cannot relate to the evil lack of love in the bitterness of unforgiveness.

Spirit God is squelched by the presence of unforgiveness and cannot provide His peace and well-being in our lives.

The devil does not care who or what the unforgiveness is against, just as long as it is there, giving him access into your life.

It may be a person or an institution, government, business, yourself, or even God, for what we thought He did or did not do for us.

Forgiveness is first a decision, not a feeling. In earnest prayer, confess out loud your decision to completely forgive the situation, and pray for the person or thing.

You are not agreeing with the act that was done but releasing yourself from your judgment and allowing God to deal with the person or thing.

Feelings of pure love will return to you, bringing peace and goodwill.

Put on Love

“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.  And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to The LORD.  And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of The LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”Putting on love is putting on the life of Christ.”  Colossians 3:14-17.

Love is immortal, abundant life. Putting on love is the outer garment of the eternal Spirit God/Love in Christ by Holy Spirit in us.

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”   1 Corinthians 15:53.

Eternity is a forever now!  A clock in eternity would have one word on it: “NOW!”

 

Be made whole in His love,
~ Ron McGatlin

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Ron McGatlin Ron has over 62 years of seeking to serve God in ministry and business. Barbara has served in pastoral and Christian education positions for over 10 years. They currently make their home in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, USA. Ron has written 5 books on revival and the in-breaking kingdom and continues to write powerful apostolic/prophetic articles published weekly in the OpenHeaven.com Digest.

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