HEAVEN'S DEEPEST RIVER by Ron McGatlin

We have entered the time of transition to the kingdom of God. God is sending forth His sons empowered from heaven to establish His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. God wants to take you into the deepest river of heaven to be transformed and empowered.

Many are having supernatural encounters with God for empowerment today! The supernatural empowerment to establish the kingdom of God is in this deepest river - all the power - all the life - all the wisdom - everything needed. God is now taking His sons to a new place in Him.

At this writing I am almost 69 years old and have sought to serve our Lord for 48 of those years. I have had many experiences with God and a few major encounters. What happened to me a few weeks ago exceeded all my previous experiences with God.

One of the most significant past encounters with God happened almost 20 years ago when I stood before the very fire of God and received anointing and love from the Lord and the Father.

The feeling that nothing greater could ever happen to me was shattered recently as I experienced an even greater encounter with God.

A few weeks ago at a Thursday night prayer meeting at World Revival Church, I was lying on the floor before the altar in the Spirit and God began dealing with me. I began to feel a great desire to be in the fire with God and not just standing before Him. I had never even had this thought before but now it was burning in me. The Word came to me that we have not because we ask not. I remembered that almost 20 years ago prior to that encounter I had asked to see the Lord and to receive anointing.

I asked God to take me into Himself - into the fire with Him.

Immediately I was transported into the fire of God and my life is forever changed. Everything of me is totally ruined for anything but God. I wept inside almost continuously for weeks and often outwardly. I am consumed.

Heb 12:29: For our God is a consuming fire.

I had never dreamed what it would be like to really be literally in the Father - in Jesus and in the Holy Spirit - to literally be in the actual Fire of God. To come to Jesus is awesome. But we need to remember that it is a primary purpose of Jesus to take us to the Father. And that He and the Father are one.

I was exposed to a brief glimpse of the unfiltered pure heart of the Father. It was an overwhelming shock to know His heart - His feelings about His children - His desires - His responses to His children - the very affect we have on the heart of Father God astonished me and broke me to nothing. What I encountered in the heart of the Father has consumed my life.

This encounter has made me to hate disobedience (sin) with a passion - It has generated an intense passion to bless Him. This has removed all shallowness and self focus and replaced it with an increased passionate depth of love, obedience, desire to serve Him, desire to worship Him and praise Him, and to see His kingdom established on earth.

The first thing that overwhelmed me was the indescribable intensity and vastness of the love of the Father for His people. It is absolute purity and absolute passion, an unending unstoppable immeasurable flow of God. I have no words to describe the experience of becoming one with the love of God. It is inexpressible love.

The next thing I experienced in the heart of the Father was unfathomable intense pain - immeasurable sorrow - deep distress beyond measure caused by the indifference of those He loves. The lack of response or improper response to His awesome love has created a vast brokenness in the heart of the Father.

The deepest river in heaven is the broken hearted ness of Father God.

Father God, the source of all love - the one that is love - the one with love beyond all we can imagine has a broken heart filled with painful desperate passionate longing. One cannot be deeply hurt by those whom one does not love deeply. The more deeply one loves the more deeply one can suffer pain from that love. The love of God for His children and His Bride exceeds all love.

The casualness of God's people toward His complete passionate love has created immeasurable pain in the heart of God. God's heart is breaking for His disobedient unresponsive Bride who chooses to ignore His great passionate love and to seek romance with other things of this world.

The glory of the next great outpouring of God upon the world is dependent on the people of God responding to God's love by drawing close to Him and stepping into the all-consuming fire.

God is greatly pleasured when love arises from earth to Him in heaven. When we respond to God's love and send it back to Him with our commitment, our obedience, our praise, worship, and honor giving prayer, our sacrifice of fasting, and sacrificial offerings - when we become living sacrifices to Him.

As we respond to His love, the more we give, the more we receive. God is so pleased and so gratified when filled with the love response of His people that he pours out blessings of everything we need and more. He comes with His presence in great glory and manifest among His people. He pours out special anointing of healing, deliverance, and miracles. We have all the money, all the goods, all that we need to fulfill His plan and more when we truly respond to His love by giving our lives as a living sacrifice.

We must fill His heart with our total love for Him. We must give Him generous expressions of that love. Those who will sacrifice their self-life to live only for Him and will come all the way into His consuming fire of love will greatly bless Him. We must fill His heart with joy by properly responding to His unconditional immeasurable love.

The greatest result of all this is that we actually become a blessing and a giver to our loving Father. But surely the next greatest blessing is that as we give, we receive. The deep river of power, strength, wisdom, gifts, miracles, and all that is needed to establish His kingdom on earth is released from heaven. Every apostle and every prophet, pastor, evangelist and teacher of God who fully enters into this fire and sacrifices all as a gift to God will have the empowerment to establish the kingdom of God on earth now.

The powerful love of God will flow through leaders and whosoever will abandon this life and move into the fire of God. Nothing will be impossible to us as Christ is formed within. Even if we have great revelation of many facts, times, and other things, they will not profit unless we are put to death by the awesome love of God.

It is time to pray for God to finish us off - to go ahead and consume us now. That we may enter fully into the very heart of God through our brokenness.

There is today an open door without veil before the church to walk into the holy of holies - the fire of the Father himself and it will only be done through brokenness.

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