All War stems from one universal division separating mankind.

Boiled down to its deepest origin, almost every conflict stems from Supreme, Almighty God versus the belief that there is no God greater than the mind or intellect of man.

In other words, man and his knowledge and intellect as his own God.

It may appear to us that the War is over the things of this life or wealth which buys the things of this life.

The necessities and desires of this life are things like clothing, housing, and that which produces these things.

Fertile land, water, herds of animals, cattle, sheep, hogs, forests of trees for fruit and lumber and in the modern world, minerals, metals, petroleum and more to produce and power life.

Yes, it seems the wars are for these things, and that is true.  However, who has these things assured of God and provided by God?

Those who honor and worship God and are thankful to Him are blessed and filled with all these things in abundance.

Those who seek His Kingdom first have these things added to them by God.  (Matthew 6:33)

Those who dishonor and despise God, seek to be their own god, and make idols to worship are never satisfied and can never have all they want of the things of life.

They are not blessed by God and greatly envy the well-being of those who are blessed with abundance of the things of life.

The ungodly who never have enough then seek to kill and destroy the blessed of God to take away what they have for themselves.

Therefore, in its simplest form, most all war is related to God or no God.

All issues of strife among individuals and families as well as nations and tribes are most often from this same issue of God or no God.

When there is no real God involved on either side, then the war is only against someone who has what someone else wants from their own natural or animalistic values and understandings.  That is like the jungles of survival-of-the-fittest.

God’s Order of Love

God’s order is that His well-supplied people are to give to the needy or poor while loving them into relationship with God in Christ by the Spirit within us. Without loving them into following God as Lord and Savior, giving to them only grows them into a powerful enemy that will eventually attempt to destroy us and take over our land and all we have.

God knows the hearts of the people and can guide us in our giving. God loves all people and desires that they all come to Him. Yet He does not give His best to those who will not come to Him.

Victory in the War With the Ungodly

There are many examples in the Bible of God’s people going to battle against God’s enemies, with the loud praises of God going before the army, assuring victory, sometimes without even an arrow being released by God’s people.

Praising God releases the power of God.

Praise is the unrestrained release of love and joy, an expression of honor and respect for His worthiness.

The strength of sincere praise to Almighty God releases God’s power and all heaven to us.

At the same time, it disheartens and weakens the enemy.  It often brings confusion to the enemy’s hearts and minds, and they destroy themselves.

One good example is found in 2 Chronicles Chapter 20. Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, learned that three armies had come together as one and were on their way to destroy Judah.

He prayed earnestly, calling upon God, pleading his situation, and asking God to intervene.  He called the people together before God.

A prophet spoke, and Jehoshaphat led the people to call upon and trust God.

“So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in The LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”  And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to The LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying:  “Praise The LORD,  For His mercy endures forever.”
Now when they began to sing and to praise, The LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.  For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.”  So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.”   2 Chronicles 20:20-24.

Consider Gideon in Judges 7, who, with three hundred men armed only with trumpets and pitcher lamps in their hands, defeated a vast army from two nations gathered to destroy Israel.

“And every man stood in his place all around the camp.  The whole army ran and cried out and fled.  When the three hundred blew the trumpets, The LORD set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.  And the men of Israel gathered together from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.”   Judges 7:21-23.

In many other examples in Scripture, the people of God fought and overcame God’s enemies with strategy and strength from God.

God’s New World

Beyond the cleansing of the old world arising from the ashes, the beauty of God’s new world sprouts and grows, filling the land with the beautiful and peaceful love Kingdom of God.

“‘The Spirit of The LORD God is upon Me, because The LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of The LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of The LORD, that He may be glorified.’
And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.”   Isaiah 61:1-4.

Mankind will fulfill his original calling to have dominion on earth and be fruitful and multiply.

In fact, it has sprouted underground long before the cleansing fire of God clears the way above ground.

At the time of this writing, the sprouting underground is now growing in place.

Unseen to most of the world, many hearts are sprouting pure love for God.

A deep hunger for the Spirit reality of the life and power of God in Christ, by the Spirit filling our lives with the glory light of God’s pure love.

Under the surface cover of darkness, God’s powerful Kingdom foundation of love is growing into this world.

The Enemy’s Last Stand

The enemy of God, “the great Satan”, manifesting in the hearts and minds of lost generations deceived by evil darkness from the dark ages of this world apart from God, has taken the airways with spirit divination in a final effort to stop the takeover of this world by the love-power of God in the hearts of mankind.

The time of the prophesied great deception is at hand, in which even the elect of God are in danger if this time is not shortened by God arising in His people in the fullness of His great love, power, and wisdom. (Matthew 24:24.)

The New Wine Season Again

Many of us in the over-fifty age group may remember the new wine season of the late eighties and nineties when The Holy Spirit was poured out upon many people in many nations of the world.

Supernatural miracles were abundant; millions came to God in a far greater and more sensational way.

Praise and worship were tremendous.

Those of us in the midst of it were greatly affected, and our lives were taken over by the tremendous spiritual intoxication of the new wine.  We were literally drunk on the New Spirit Wine of God.

Definitely, God reintroduced much of this world to the miraculous works of The Spirit.

God poured out His Spirit on flesh because He had no truly prepared holy people to pour it out on, and the Spirit’s power had to be made known in reality to the world.

This was a major step in the gradual piece-by-piece transformation of this world toward the Kingdom of God.

We mostly thought we had it all, but we did not yet really have the pure, holy LOVE of God in the experience of our lives.

We thought we did, but we did not truly grasp the reality of the all-consuming, sacrificial fullness of God’s Love.

As pure holy love is being poured into the hearts of the people of God in this season, many are sensing the moving of pure love of Spirit, bringing another New Wine season that is much better than the previous outpouring.

Much is different, but the Spirit’s reality and power are driven by and covered with the LOVE of God first and foremost.

The New Wine of Love

The outpouring of the New Wine of Love is not building a ministry, Church, or business.

It is not about great buildings or any other tangible structure or organization of mankind. It is the love rule of all life on earth as it is in heaven.

It fills every heart and life with pure love and peace, causing love to connect everything and everyone to the perfect order of God.

With every part enhancing the other parts around it.

We no longer will judge one another, but in love discern needs and ask God, “What do I need to know about this?” and then ask God, “What do you want me to do about it?”

The miracle-working Spirit moves in love through our entire lives.

As we go along the way God has sent us, love guides us and brings those before us to be healed and to be enhanced with the Love Spirit of God.

In the normal process of the day, without concern or delay, love fills our lives and the room with the warm, good reality of the exhilarating, satisfying new wine of love for God and one another.

As we go, God will lead us into situations with people and groups with needs and fit us in to supply some part of that need.

Likewise, people will connect with us to help us by supplying our need.

All life, all people and all things on earth will work together in the tapestry of God and His world.

The new “new wine” is supernatural power and wisdom of love in our whole life and the entire world.

It is not just for Sundays or special meetings or times.  It is the way of life every day and everlasting.

The old wineskin of church form and centralization of Spirit activity within a pattern of performance on Sunday morning in a special building cannot fully contain the new wine of love praising God.

Socializing in accordance with the rules of social etiquette or religious pretention is an abomination to Spirit love reality.

The new wineskin of pouring out our love in sincere communication and actions with God and one another is the reality of community.

In wisdom, by The Holy Spirit speaking truth in love, establishes deep and true relationships with one another in God.

The Holy Spirit is God within and among us.

“Then He spoke a parable to them: ‘No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.  But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.  And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’”   Luke 5:36-39.

The traditional Church systems are an old wineskin.

God’s Kingdom of Love cannot be poured into the old systems and ways, no matter how much we loved their taste.

A new taste is now arising among God’s People.  Selah!

“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you The Kingdom.”   Luke 12:32.

 

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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