September 2005

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THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

“This gospel of the kingdom will be preached as a sign to every nation and then the end will come.”
The gospel of the kingdom is the joyous message of the advance of God's rule of love to rescue man from oppression and misery and restore him to God's care, God's purpose God's image and God's blessing. It is a message of great love, great joy and great hope.
The gospel of he kingdom is the announcement of God's historic and continuous intervention to restore us to Himself through the atoning sacrifice and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
It is firstly a gospel of forgiveness of sin - but it is much more. It is also the message of the restoration of our lost destiny and purpose. We who once were sons of darkness through the redemption become sons of light and sons of God.
We have a new identity a new destiny, a new nature, a new purpose and a new spirit. Identity- with Adam and his fallenness is replaced with identity with Christ and. His dominion. The curses of separation are replaced by the blessings of the Father's house. Our relationship with the earth is altered, as now in union with the resurrected Jesus, we become agents of His love hope salvation healing and redemption on the earth. We are no longer waiting to escape the burden of the earth but we are agents of blessing to it.

This gospel of the kingdom proclaims not only that individuals can be restored to God's purpose but also that ultimately the whole creation will be brought back to His dominion at the return of Messiah Jesus to Jerusalem.
And so the gospel of the kingdom must include the following elements:

• Forgiveness of sins,
• Emancipation from darkness including deliverance from dark spirits and their bondages
• Receiving the Holy Spirit the life of the resurrected Jesus, which transforms and empowers us to see the kingdom live in the kingdom and walk in the love and joy of the kingdom.
• Surrender to God's purpose & to the leadership of the King of the Kingdom messiah and Good Shepherd Jesus
• Blessed rule of God over our spirit mind bodies and circumstances, bringing us kingdom wisdom, healing and sure supply
• Restoration of God's image in us and our new identity as sons of God
• Commissioning to manifest God's emancipating power to others.
• The eventual triumph of God's kingdom over all earthly kingdoms

The kingdom of God includes not only the full restoration of man to fellowship with God but also the benign and blessed rule of God over our spirit soul body finances life and eventually over all nations. Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God is at hand. God's grace, power and mercy have come to lift us like Cinderellas from the ashes of our fallen-ness and into loving fellowship with him in His Father's house. His kingdom covers every area of life,

#1 The area of the spirit
Our spirits are released from their chains of guilt and filled with the life, love and joy of God's Spirit, and presence,

#2 The area of the soul - the mind
• Our wills no longer dulled by confusion can actively choose the will and purpose of God,
• Our understanding of who God is and who we are in relationship to Him is completely revolutionized.
• Our emotions once oppressed with heaviness vibrate to the joy of heavenly places.

#3 The area of lifestyle and behavior.
Released from the bondage of separation from God's provision our daily work becomes not only a channel of provision but also a means of serving others with our natural and spiritual gifts.

#4 The area of the body
Jesus manifested the arrival of the kingdom of God by healing all who came to them. He then took all the diseases of mankind upon Himself and sent His followers to proclaim and apply these benefits to the people of the earth.
Health is the greatest of all temporal blessings. The Lord not only took our sins but He gives resurrection life to our bodies,
"The spirit which raised Jesus from the dead will give life to our mortal bodies. " (Romans 8:11) Our bodies are sustained and energized by a supernatural life force - the Holy Spirit.
"The kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of his Messiah. " (Revelation 12:18)
The scriptures tell us that the final victory of the kingdom and destruction of "the unkingdom" will be preceded by
1) The gospel of the kingdom being preached to every nation
2) The regathering of Israel.
3) Increasing troubles on the earth such as war famine, and natural disasters before these plagues are finally vanquished at the return of the Lord working directly and though His people

A Kingdom Not OF But TO This World
"The kingdom of God is not food or drink but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Rom15)
God's kingdom brings peace, love, joy, health, and hope and wisdom to this world. The world yearns and seeks for these things but cannot find them within the closed circuit of its own systems. Jesus the man form heaven brings these things to us from the realm of heaven and through us to the world around us. Earth cannot operate without the rulership of Jesus the love of from) God and the life of the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is found on earth wherever we receive this heavenly empowerment for life and show it forth by expressing the love, joy and peace of the Holy Spirit.
The Kingdom of God brings to every area of human need what every political order strives to bring but cannot and brings what every moral seeks to establish but cannot. It is the yearning and hope that God has placed in the heart of every one of us.
The world will increasingly discover this and the pressures of the times are preparing -us to be increasingly hungry for and open to the gospel life power of the kingdom of love and joy. The rediscovery of the full gospel of the kingdom will revolutionize the way we express Christianity in the years ahead.
#5 The Area Of World Government
Finally the kingdom includes the replacement of the present ruling kingdoms of this world i.e. the present political economic religious and educational systems with the rule of Jesus when He returns.

What Others Say
" The gospels refer to the church 3 times and to the kingdom 124 times. Obviously church is important but the message of the Kingdom must be our focus " - Charles Carrin

'In the will to work pure good and nothing but good.. to give out as much heaven as possible to all, and no hell to any, the deepest secret of the Kingdom of heaven is given us, namely, that we are in and that we are what we give out. If we give the love of God to all, we open ourselves ever wider to Him, and to His love, and find ourselves increasingly in His kingdom....
He longs to make a divine interchange with us, taking away everything in us that should not have been and should not be, and giving in its stead everything we should be. - Rufus Moseley, (Manifest Victory p.8)
"The gospel of the kingdom is not just about heaven and eternal life - it is about heaven coming to earth." - Rick Joyner (Morningstar June 2005

"The Kingdom is bound up with no culture, no nation, no race, and no religion. It is open to everybody everywhere on equal terms. Jesus never used the word religion, for He was not founding a new religion to set over against other religions, for religion is man's search for God. the Gospel is God's search for man. So anything good in any race religion or culture which is worth preserving will not be lost in the kingdom."
- E Stanley Jones (The Unshakeable Kingdom & the Unchanging Person)

'In this dispensation the emphasis is on the Kingdom within, but in another dispensation there is to be an external manifestation of the kingdom. To say that the Kingdom is going to be brought in- by- the earth being swept clean by wars and cataclysms is not true: you cannot introduce the kingdom that way, it is impossible. Nothing can bring in the kingdom saving the Redemption, which works in personal lives through the Cross and in no other way. - Oswald Chambers

Israel's Disengagement
The heart of every believer who loves God's plan for Israel must have been pierced, as ours were, to see the Jewish people expelled from their legally purchased
homes in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria, Israel's heartland.
What made it even more tragic was that the evacuation was not the result of the pressure of war but was a unilateral pullout at the orders of Israel's own Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In ordering the pullout Sharon (under international pressure) ignored the legal democratic process and bypassed the Knesset.
Sadly the disengagement (which if it happened to any other ethnic group would have been condemned as an enormous violation of human rights, and would have been described as 'ethnic cleansing') passed by with almost no objection or from the media and world powers.
We Christians tend to become overly focused on the legitimate interests of our own nations that we often lose the vision of the kingdom of God. We neglect and lose sight of our call to live to a different set of agendas, than those of the world and to be a counter culture to the world of materialism, greed and self-interest.
It is time for all serious believers to CHOOSE to follow Jesus and the values of His kingdom rather than the seductive values of the left or the right, which are short of the kingdom of God.
As for Israel we feel quite sure that the Holy Spirit in His sovereignty will use this terrible tragedy (where its own people have become instruments of making parts of its own inheritance "Judenrein") to pour out on them the promised repentance spoken by Zechariah.
"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born... On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.
"And on that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit." (Zechariah 12: 10 -13 1-2)

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee.

Dear Friends,

It is time once again to keep in touch and update you on our lives and ministry.

At the end of March since last writing, we left for four months of intense ministry in Europe During our time there we spoke at over 100 meetings in Ireland Northern Ireland England, Finland , & Estonia.

In Europe, which has relied, so much on tradition for its identity Christianity has to be rediscovered. David duPlessis used to say “God has no grandsons’ each generation has the responsibility and privilege of discovering the kingdom for itself. And each generation requires a evangelization. Even the most traditional churches realize this and they too are committing themselves to this agenda.

From year to year we can see the Body of Christ grow and mature in Ireland especially in the new churches, where the Lord is raising up and developing some excellent leaders. In the secular environment of Europe Christianity is emerging as the real counter culture to the culture of materialism and nihilism.

We were blessed by the warmth of our welcome in Ireland and by our ministry in Finland where Ulo & Kaarlo Jarvilheto, and Yuha Ketola of the International Christian Embassy in Finland, hosted us,.

In Estonia which was part of the Old Soviet Union we spoke at Olivista church and several other churches as the guest of Ulo Niinemagi. . From the failed ideology of communism the message of the kingdom bring such hope to people who have been left disillusioned by failed political promises. There is a hunger for a supernatural heaven sent gospel and heaven sent visitation.

In September we travel to Canada for some ministry and in Vancouver area and to attend the International healing room conference in Spokane Washington.

In October we look forward to returning to Israel with our eclectic group to the International Christian embassy conference where we have the opportunity to speak on the subject of the values of the kingdom. Returning form there in late October and early November we have and itinerary of meetings in France and Switzerland.

. Our deepest thanks to all of you who help us with prayer and finances. Without you this ministry does not exist and we are deeply grateful to you.

One in His great love and service,

Paul & Nuala

E-mail us: paulandnuala@att.net