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A HEART TRANSPLANT AT GILGAL PART 5, GOING HIGHER STILL! By Robin Kirby-Gatto 8/10/11 In order to have this note come forth in great effectiveness it is necessary to read A HEART TRANSPLANT AT GILGAL, PART 4, GOING HIGHER because it precedes this note. Therefore, let us continue from the last note regarding how to go from glory to glory with the Lord. As stated in the prior note there is always a releasing by Holy Spirit to promote us into the next level of glory when we have been faithful to serve God’s house and come forth as a sweet fragrance for Christ Jesus as the sin nature and flesh have been crucified. The next level of glory we see Elisha go to is when Elijah leaves Jericho and goes across the Jordan. 6Elijah said to him, Tarry here, I pray you, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan. But he said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And the two of them went on. 7Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood [to watch] afar off; and the two of them stood by the Jordan. 2 Kings 2:6-7 AMP. Elijah leaves Jericho to go to Jordan, where he will be caught up by The Lord in a whirlwind. Prior to going across the Jordan Elijah tells Elisha to tarry still in Jericho while he goes to Jordan. Elisha continues telling Elijah he would not leave him, as long as Elijah’s soul lives. Jordan in Hebrew means to descend. Therefore, in order to go higher from glory to glory we have to maintain a position of humility with Holy Spirit, being crucified with Christ Jesus, where it is no longer I that live but Christ in me!!!!!! We have been crucified with Christ Jesus and raised up with Him, to be seated with Him in heavenly places! At this point we see the other prophets standing “afar off” and are no longer within an earshot from Elisha to tell him the Lord would be taking away Elijah. This indicates that God will not allow the flesh to come near His Holy Temple and only those who have yielded to the work of Holy Spirit and the fullness of God’s preparations for the Call, the destiny, come forth in crucifying the flesh nature, nature of man. When we get to this phase in the call of God on our life, very few people walk here. The best indicator by God’s Word in demonstrating the separation of those whom He is taking higher is identified in Zechariah 4. 1AND THE angel who talked with me came again and awakened me, like a man who is wakened out of his sleep. 2And said to me, What do you see? I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl [for oil] on the top of it and its seven lamps on it, and [there are] seven pipes to each of the seven lamps which are upon the top of it. 3And there are two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side of it [feeding it continuously with oil]. 4So I asked the angel who talked with me, What are these, my lord? 5Then the angel who talked with me answered me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord. 6Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts. 7For who are you, O great mountain [of human obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who with Joshua had led the return of the exiles from Babylon and was undertaking the rebuilding of the temple, before him] you shall become a plain [a mere molehill]! And he shall bring forth the finishing gable stone [of the new temple] with loud shoutings of the people, crying, Grace, grace to it! 8Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this house; his hands shall also finish it. Then you shall know (recognize and understand) that the Lord of hosts has sent me [His messenger] to you. 10Who [with reason] despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice when they see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. [These seven] are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro throughout the whole earth.11Then I said to him [the angel who talked with me], What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it? 12And a second time I said to him, What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden tubes or spouts by which the golden oil is emptied out? 13And he answered me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord. 14Then said he, These are the two sons of oil [Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, the two anointed ones] who stand before the Lord of the whole earth [as His anointed instruments]. Zechariah 4:1-14 AMP. Here the prophet Zechariah had been having a vision from the Lord and engaging in conversation with an angel of the Lord regarding the vision’s message. One thing Zechariah saw was a lampstand with seven bowls on top of it and two olive trees, one on each side of the lampstand, feeding it with an unceasing supply of oil. This indicates the fullness of Holy Spirit, The Spirit of the Lord, Might, Counsel, Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, and The Fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2) within the vessel flowing unhindered. This is the anointing of God’s fullness through Holy Spirit that has been brought forth in the vessel set aside for His purposes and plans. Zechariah 4:14 states the two olive trees are the “sons of oil” who stand before the Lord of the whole earth. Therefore, the anointing, the oil, of Holy Spirit in us has been brought forth as we have been faithful in the little and not despised the day of our small beginnings, yielding to the working of Christ Jesus in us coming forth from glory to glory that God has separated us from the flesh and brought us to Himself, bringing us up a dimension of glory that others have not reached yet. (It is our desire to continue to go from glory to glory all the days of our lives! Therefore once we have met this process once we will continually go back to Gilgal for a deeper heart circumcision and maintain a position of being crucified with Christ Jesus! Therefore we see Elijah and Elisha separate from the rest of the prophets and go across to the other side of the Jordan. 8And Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up and struck the waters, and they divided this way and that, so that the two of them went over on dry ground. 9And when they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me. 2 Kings 2: 8-9 AMP. In 2 Kings 2 Elijah then takes up the mantle, rolls it up and strikes at the water! This is symbolic of the God having removed (rolled away) the reproach from our souls now gives us overcoming power that we start walking in signs and wonders by God’s Holy Spirit bringing us forth into the destiny of God on our lives! Elijah strikes the waters of the Jordan and the two of them cross over on dry ground! This is the same thing the priests did as they carried the Ark of the Covenant, they stepped into the Jordan and Israel crossed over on dry ground! Now the Ark of Covenant, God has infused into our being, as in Elijah, that we now carry God’s presence! We have increased in the presence of Christ Jesus we carry within ourselves! Next, Elijah asks Elisha what he would have Elijah do to him. Elisha requests a double portion of “your spirit” be upon me! What this request is in actuality is Elisha saying that I want more of God than you have! I want your God Elijah but I want Him in a double portion! People think Elisha is after the mantle! LOL!!! But watch, watch what is asked of Elisha and what He cries out. 10He said, You have asked a hard thing. However, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you--but if not, it shall not be so. 11As they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire parted the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12And Elisha saw it and he cried, My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. 13He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 14And he took the mantle that fell from Elijah and struck the waters and said, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? And when he had struck the waters, they parted this way and that, and Elisha went over. 2 Kings 2: 10-14 AMP. Then Elijah responds you have asked a HARD THING! It is a HARD THING when you get closer to God and as you see God move in great signs and wonders that we have to KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING! This is when the soul is exposed to the light and once we get to this level of glory if we seek the signs and wonders, fame, blessings or THE ONE THAT GIVES IT ALL TO US! That is the last test Elisha had to pass! He had to be tested to see if there was any part of himself that might want the power, fame, or blessings more than he wanted God. That is why the test was that if Elisha would keep His eyes on Elijah, as Elijah said “IF YOU SEE ME, WHEN I AM TAKEN UP” that Elisha would have what he asked for from the prophet. We see the biggest show on earth as the heavens open and a chariot of fire and horses of fire parted the two men. There were more visual stimuli and auditory sounds than we could ever imagine! It was the supernatural manifesting in the natural! Elisha in the midst of it all, when Elijah went up in the whirlwind to heaven kept his eyes on Elijah and not the visual and auditory supernatural events of the chariot and horses of fire! He kept his eyes fixed on Elijah! Immediately Elisha cries out “My father, my father! The Chariot of Israel and its horseman!” He kept his eyes fixed on Elijah although the supernatural was continually manifesting before him in this catching away of Elijah. Immediately after Elijah is taken away by God Elisha takes his own clothes and tears them in pieces. This ripping off of the old mantle that Elisha does demonstrates that the love of God within us compels us to go further and pick up the mantle, receive the mantle, He has for us. The mantle of the prophet Elijah is left behind for the prophet Elisha to pick up and go forth. Elisha picks of the mantle and struck the Waters of the Jordan, saying WHERE IS THE LORD, THE GOD OF ELIJAH?! That is what Elisha was after!!!! Elisha was after the God of Elijah, the God that was made real to him by one who had prepared his spirit in receiving more of God! The waters parted as it had before for Elijah and Elisha crosses over with the new mantle and new authority! Then we see the process as Elisha crosses back over and goes to the different areas in which he and Elijah had come from. Remember the further we get away from the Jordan the more immature the people are of that area. Therefore, those who are in Jericho, the prophets, are more mature than those found in Bethel because we go from glory to glory and those in Bethel have not passed the test of being faithful with a little yet and have not moved forward to Jericho. 15When the sons of the prophets who were [watching] at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha. And they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him. 16And they said to him, Behold now, there are among your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley. And he said, You shall not send. 17But when they urged him till he was embarrassed, he said, Send. So they sent fifty men, who sought for three days but did not find him. 18When they returned to Elisha, who had waited at Jericho, he said to them, Did I not tell you, Do not go? 2 Kings 2:15-18 AMP. The prophets in Jericho could not believe first that Elijah had been taken up but they acknowledged the “spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” There is an indication that they acknowledged Elisha had gone up in a higher anointing, God has promoted Elisha to another level of glory! Then as they begin to speak to Elisha they still maintain a position of servanthood although they have been promoted because the greatest in the kingdom is servant of all. They indicate to Elisha that he has 50 servants to his access should he need them and request permission to go look for Elijah. However, these prophets have not come to a position of humility of being crucified with Christ Jesus and tried to step outside of God’s authority to prove they were right. This happens on occasion when someone has gone higher in the Lord, higher in the anointing, from glory to glory. Those who are used to seeing someone like Elisha serve and go through the process God requires, when promotion comes, then many are thrown off because they are used to you being in the lower position you went through to get to where you are now. They do not want to acknowledge God’s authority on you so they challenge the word of the Lord through you and are determined to prove they are right; they have not become acclimated with the promotion of the Lord in your life. The prophets insist they are right and so much so to the point Elisha gives them permission to go look for Elijah, and Elisha rests at Jericho until they return and state they did not find him. It is so funny because it is as though Elisha does an “I told you so” to the prophets that challenged God’s authority in him. When they get back to Jericho to report to Elisha they could not find Elijah he says to them “Did I not tell you, do not go.” God’s word in Elisha is being confirmed and honored by God and now they recognize it for what it truly is, Elisha was promoted by God! In Bethel after God in Elisha is honored, the anointing that rests on Elisha, then the prophets identified areas in which there was a need for God to show up in Jericho. 19And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, inhabiting of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad and the locality causes miscarriage and barrenness [in all animals]. 20He said, Bring me a new bowl and put salt [the symbol of God's purifying power] in it. And they brought it to him. 21Then Elisha went to the spring of the waters and cast the salt in it and said, Thus says the Lord: I [not the salt] have healed these waters; there shall not be any more death, miscarriage or barrenness [and bereavement] because of it. 22So the waters were healed to this day, as Elisha had said. One of the first manifestations of going to this level of glory is flowing in healing of the body, soul and spirit. The men of Jericho told Elisha that there was barrenness due to the defiled waters that flowed throughout the city. Elisha calls forth for salt where God heals the waters and stops the barrenness. Therefore, as we are salt of the earth we go forth in bringing the manifestation of Isaiah 61, to heal the broken hearted, bind them up with God’s Holy Spirit manifesting life and life abundantly, removing the curse of death in every area we come into contact. Let us look at another area too where God brings judgment on those who touch His anointed and bring harm to His prophets. 23He went up from Jericho to Bethel. On the way, young [maturing and accountable] boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, Go up [in a whirlwind], you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead! 24And he turned around and looked at them and called a curse down on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and ripped up forty-two of the boys. 25Elisha went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. The young boys in the city of Bethel, the House of God, The Church, not the world mind you, were mocking Elisha and taunting him. However, what they truly were doing was taunting the God of Elisha. Therefore, after continued mocking and profaning Elisha, Elisha turns around, indicating that he had to pass by them before he looked at them. Therefore, he had been enduring mocking for a period not just an instant before he spoke. When Elisha does speak he calls a curse down on them “in the name of the Lord.” At that moment two she-bears rip up 42 of the boys. Here the word has 4 indicating authority and 2 a witness. Therefore, there was a witness to the authority of God that Elisha walked in to those present. The she-bears is very obvious in that if you mess with a bear’s cub the mama bear does not put up with it. That is indicative of God who has scorn against satan who uses vessels and instruments as a device to come against God’s anointed. 1 Chronicles 16:22 and Psalm 105:15 “Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm.” This is why many are under judgment because they are coming against God’s anointed and doing them harm. Do you want to go up another level of Glory? Are you hungry for More of God? GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY!!!!! © copyright 2011
A Heart Transplant at Gilgal Part 4! Going Higher By Robin Kirby-Gatto 8/9/11 Glory to God!!!! We are moving forward with a HEART TRANSPLANT!!! God’s Heart!!!!! God I ask that you infuse everyone reading this with YOUR HEART and expose to the light the lie of the enemy that would hold them back in Jesus Name! AMEN! Ok let us begin with the next part of going higher in the Lord Jesus Christ, where we are looking with an unveiled face in a mirror being transformed into the very image of Christ Jesus from Glory to Glory! 2 Corinthians 3:18. This part of the Heart Transplant is a removing of the veils which hold us back from seeing Christ Jesus as He truly is within us! The Word of God says that the Kingdom of God is within! God Himself is within us through Christ Jesus! We now walk in the righteousness of Christ Jesus and as we have been crucified with Christ Jesus we are also raised up with Him! Therefore, the first two notes of the heart transplant dealt with God removing the reproach of the sin nature, iniquity from us! Now we are moving to another level of Glory whereby as God has removed sin nature from us we have veils ripped off of us so we can see Christ Jesus clearer than ever before and we walk in greater wisdom and revelation with the eyes of our understanding opened to know the hope to which we are called. (Ephesians 1:17). There is an ever increasing of God’s splendor, His glory, being revealed in us by Holy Spirit through our position of being in the righteousness of Christ Jesus and being seated with Him in heavenly places. I know from experience as I have grown in spiritual maturity it is as though when I enter a new level of glory I have this feeling of things seeming “weird” not bad but simply “weird.” Holy Spirit explained to me that when I feel that I am to know that God has brought me up another level of Glory in Christ Jesus and I am to become acclimated to that level by His Holy Spirit. Therefore, when we go from glory to glory one of the occurrences along with the increase in seeing in hearing in the spirit is that many times our natural senses have increased in receptivity, too. Two weeks ago Holy Spirit brought me up to another level of Glory in Christ Jesus and literally my auditory and visual senses were so heightened that all the stimuli coming from the environment was magnified ten times more than normal. I knew it was a day in which I could not be in a location in which there would be a stimulus overload. LOL! My oldest son, Christopher, was at Belk using his birthday gift cards and we had dropped him off there, returning later to pick him up. Upon our return I did venture to get out and go into the store on the prompting of Holy Spirit. When I did all of a sudden I began to hear people’s souls cry out. It was so crazy! I began to then later prophesy immediately because their soul cry was so loud and God’s mercy in me heard the cry to respond to them. Therefore, I began to prophesy to the employees standing around the register as Holy Spirit led me. Then as I prophesied the people began to obtain a greater hope than before. The employees erupted in laughter and joys, jumping up and down because the very things Holy Spirit had me prophesy were what they had discussed hours earlier! The incredible occurrence with me spiritually through this occurrence is that I could hear the souls of all of those people before God ministered to them. It was a discernment I had not entered into until that moment. Moreover, due to the lightening of God hitting my soul recently anytime there was doubt and unbelief operating in the room it felt like a wet blanket/cloak had been thrown on me, so I could understand why Jesus would have those with doubt and unbelief leave the room when He ministered; it was interference with God’s moving. Since, God had taken me up this increased splendor of His glory I was feeling “weird” to say the least. My spiritual and natural senses were on overload and activated measures beyond what I had in the past. Never mind the fact that God has brought me light years spiritually over the past 9 years from glory to glory, this was as though God brought me in a few months what would have taken 9 years. Therefore, the acclimation to this level of glory would take some adjusting by Holy Spirit getting me balanced in that level of glory. By the time I went to Where the Rivers Meet Conference in South Carolina the first week of August (last week) I had gotten my footing in the new level of glory and I flowed with Holy Spirit in a greater grace as a result. Therefore, at Gilgal, part of the heart transplant, us receiving God’s heart is so that we will after the circumcision and healing receive more of God in us through Christ Jesus! We have had more sin nature removed from us therefore there is more room for Holy Spirit to occupy and flow which causes us to go up another level of Glory with God. This is poignantly displayed with Elijah and Elisha. Before we go up a level of glory there is a requirement of us to be obedient and faithful with the small before God makes us ruler over much. 2 Kings 2 gives the depiction of this phase or promotion I should say when we get a heart transplant; when we receive God’s heart. 1WHEN THE Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were going from Gilgal. 2 Kings 2:1 AMP. Here, Elijah and Elisha were going from “Gilgal.” Remember Gilgal means to roll away the reproach. Therefore, it says in the word “When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind” indicating that God was promoting Elijah, taking him literally up to glory, it mentions “Elijah and Elisha were going from Gilgal.” This indicates Elijah and Elisha had been at Gilgal. In other words, before we get promoted we have already been at Gilgal, a place of circumcision of the heart, where God has exposed things in us in order that they might be removed by us laying it down at His feet, for Him to remove the reproach away from our hearts. Therefore, it was right after Gilgal that Elijah was sent forth into going to glory. 2And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel. But Elisha replied, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel. 3The prophets' sons who were at Bethel came to Elisha and said, Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today? He said, Yes, I know it; hold your peace. 2 Kings 2: 2-3 AMP. Here, Elijah is sent to Bethel first and Elisha follows him. When Elijah began his journey from Gilgal to Bethel Elijah told him to tarry because the Lord had sent him to Bethel. Many people would look at this and believe that Elisha is to obey with what Elijah is telling him by tarrying at Gilgal. However, Elisha new that it was a test and in order to go into a higher anointing, another level of glory he would have to PRESS THROUGH with the trials and tribulations that would occur in order to obtain the GREATER!!! THE GREATER ANOINTING!!! Holy Spirit showed me in 2003 that in order to get more of the anointing flowing in us that we would have to press through and be obedient beyond acceptable. What does that mean? Well, it would have been acceptable in the natural for Elisha to stay in Gilgal as he was told why Elijah went forth. However, although it would have been acceptable Elisha would have missed receiving the double portion mantle of Elijah. Therefore, what is normally acceptable for others is not for us if we want more of God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and to increase in the anointing. Therefore, to Elisha it was not acceptable to tarry in Gilgal but surely as Elijah’s soul lived Elisha would follow him. Elisha would not be deterred from following Elijah all the way. This occurrence is analogous to us following the Lord all the way in the call of God on our life to receive the fullness of the anointing He has planned for us. Therefore, the first place Elijah goes to is “Bethel” meaning House. When we get ready for promotion God sees how we are faithful in His House, The Church, in serving and being obedient to The Church before promotion comes. For many years, 7 years, I served God’s Church in serving in ministry other ministries and not my own. I didn’t have a ministry then all I knew is that I wanted more of Jesus and that is all I wanted. I have a bachelor and masters in social work, as well as a law degree (juris doctorate) and had no intentions of ever going into the ministry. However, God told me to serve other ministries and be faithful to attend the meetings he wanting me attending. Therefore, I did what God told me. This is one of the biggest steps many people who end up going on in the call of God on their life have to pass, serving where God tells us to serve. The prophets even come up to tell Elisha that Elijah would be taken up with the Lord. See there is not only Elisha’s promotion but there is Elijah’s promotion, too. Elijah’s promotion was grooming Elisha, one who would pick up the destiny God had for them and walk in the fullness of it! The Elijah mantle is to prepare a people ready for the Lord in Spirit and Elijah’s relationship with Elisha is demonstrative of that. Therefore, Elijah passed through Bethel symbolizing The Church, God’s House, where Elisha was faithful to serve. Moreover, the fact that the prophets in the area were telling Elisha “The Lord will take your master away today” symbolizes where the mocking spirit at times attacks us as we move forward in our destiny; satan and flesh cannot see what we see in the spirit! Therefore, do not be surprised if the mocking spirit starts rising up against you attacking you as you are fulfilling the call of God on your life! Next we see Elijah passing through Jericho. 4Elijah said to him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray you, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. 5The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said, Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today? And he answered, Yes, I know it; hold your peace. 2 Kings 2:4-5 AMP. Here Elijah instructs Elisha to tarry in Bethel as Elijah prepares to go to Jericho. There is still ap progression of the soul as we go from glory to glory. Therefore, the first level of going from glory to glory is when we allow God to circumcise our hearts at Gilgal, a place where we allow God to remove the reproach of the sin nature, Egypt, from our heart. Then we go to a place of being faithful with the little, not despising the day of small beginnings by serving in the House of God, His Church, in ministry. As we are faithful with a little God begins to promote us to the next level as we see Elijah going forth to Jericho. Elisha again instructs Elijah that he will not tarry in Bethel but rather as long as Elijah’s soul lived he would follow him, not leave him; Elisha has been instructed by the Lord at some point of this assignment which is why he will not abate (stop). Jericho means two things in Hebrew, it means fragrance and month. Therefore, this dimension of commitment from Elisha indicates that he goes through a state of maturity whereby he can become a sweet fragrance of the Lord to others. Elisha is after the God of Elijah not Elijah and that is what is so important here! Many people who come under ministers or anointed servants of the Lord are after that person’s mantle or anointing and not after God. This is a place whereby Holy Spirit allows a separation of those who are after the anointing or after God. This testing indicates that only those who pass through this test and continue to get promoted to the next level of glory are the ones God will promote. Therefore, the “month” of Jericho indicates 30 days. 30 is the time at which it was considered that Jewish men would begin their ministry. In addition the “fragrance” indications of Jericho identify those who will step forward in the call of God on their life becoming the fragrance of Christ Jesus, a sweet fragrance; not the fragrance of man which is a stench. This separation then allows you to go forward from the season of being faithful with a little and not despising the day of small beginnings to going deeper in the Lord Jesus Christ so that you smell like your lover, your Savior! As you smell like Jesus, then He begins to stretch out your tent pegs a little more for you to go forth in the ministry and the call of God on your life. The prophets again bring up to Elisha that his master will be taken away that day. Elisha’s continued response is hold your peace, in other words as of today, be quiet. Holy Spirit showed me something major in ministry as I continued to move forward in the call of God on my life. Let me preface this with OFFENSE WILL COME!!!! Holy Spirit allows offense to come because offense is to shovel out of us what is not of God. For those who have not read my book, The Glory to Glory Sisterhood, there is an entire section on Offense that gives you the revelation of what offense is to do in our soul. Either the sin nature will be uprooted or we will from the ministry we serve. There were many times that I could have been offended with others and in the natural had a right to be offended but it was a test for me before God would promote me, whether or not I would allow love to infuse me and love those who persecuted me and allow God to deal with their hearts. Holy Spirit literally zipped my lip all throughout the attack of the enemy against me during the time offense came toward me because I was being falsely accused of being a jezebel and other things on top of that, as well as treated as though I had some contagious disease that others might get. I did, the Dis Ease I had was JESUS and made others at a lot of DIS – Ease because they were not use to seeing Him in the manner in which I displayed Him. I am an abandoned lover that does what Jesus tells me to do no matter what the cost. Therefore, I was paying a huge price at the time. On top of that Holy Spirit was allowing my FLESH TO DIE!!!!! This occurred by two methods, the flesh dying, the first of which Holy Spirit would not let me speak! LOL!!! Holy Spirit was training me on the difference between the flesh speaking and the spirit speaking. I was given massive revelations during this time and while others would talk on the revelations they had on the subject matter Holy Spirit gave me massive downloads on, Holy Spirit would not let me open my mouth even once regarding those revelations; I was being tested if I wanted the glory and allow flesh to rise up or would only allow God to get the glory and speak when He told me to speak. Believe me just because we have a revelation doesn’t mean we are to tell everyone about it whenever we feel like it. LOL!!!! I KNOW BECAUSE HOLY SPIRIT TRAINED ME IN THIS FOR TWO YEARS STRAIGHT!!! Thank you Jesus that is over!  I see this test given many times to people and they cannot restrain themselves for letting everyone know what they know. I simply allow Holy Spirit to have me maintain patience in the fruit of Holy Spirit and pray for those in this test until they actually pass. A news flash is that promotion comes when we PASS this test! Therefore, many are not walking in the call of God because they still have not passed this test where they walk in the spirit and not the flesh, not letting the flesh nature be predominant in speaking. Next, the other method in which our flesh dies is that we go through different offenses whereby Holy Spirit allows the flesh and sin nature in us to die so that we become infused with the Love of Christ Jesus in us so our roots go deeper in Him! It is in this pressing in, this allowing the offense to expose the flesh and the sin nature in our hearts/souls in order to allow God to remove it from us so that it is all about God and nothing is about us!!!! This promotion from Bethel to Jericho indicates Elisha’s going forth from glory to glory by passing his test as a servant and moving forth into the test of allowing the love of God (Christ Jesus) to be molded in him in a greater measure, making him a sweet fragrance. As Elisha walks through and passes this test we see the flesh, carnal nature of man interfering again when the prophets instruct Elisha his master would be taken away by the Lord today. Again Elisha tells them to be quiet. Many times when you are moving forward in the call of God others might allow their flesh, carnal nature, to operate in them and attack you. You have to look forward and not give into the flesh nature of others that simply is a hindrance to distract you from going in the Way of the Lord. As we looked in the prior note where Peter reproves Jesus from going to the cross, it indicates the flesh is trying to tell the spirit what to do and Jesus rebukes Peter, saying that he is given to the nature of man. Do not let the nature of man, the flesh, of others be a deterrent, simply do not listen to the message of the flesh. To be continued……… By Robin Kirby-Gatto permission is granted to republish as long as authors name is attached. © copyright 2011.
A Heart Transplant in Gilgal Part 3 by Robin Kirby-Gatto 8-1-2011 As I have been ministering this entire message over the past week, twice already, once in Saraland, Alabama and the other in Alabaster, Alabama my heart has been getting infused more with the POWER Of GOD by HIS HOLY SPIRIT that I FEEL THE LIGHTENING OF GOD HITTING MY SOUL!!!! It is awakening me deeper to the call of God on my life and the attacks of the enemy to my soul that is individualized to me as it is for all of us; we have different circumstances, life traumas, etc. Holy Spirit so exposed one this morning as the Lightening of God hit my soul and I was riveted beyond measure to the attack of the enemy and God unveiled the revelation of it in this next teaching of the heart transplant so that God’s leaders would rise up to the CALL of GOD on their life and not back down!!! I tell you the lie of the enemy which had manipulated me many times over that was exposed to me today really took me by surprise; I didn’t see it at first because initially it look like God not like the lie of the enemy. But remember the enemy comes as an angel of light to make you think that it is God and it is not God! I thought of Peter today when Jesus had asked His disciples who they thought He was in reality and Peter had the revelation YOU ARE JESUS THE SON OF GOD, THE CHRIST!!!!! Immediately Jesus states yes this is not revealed to you by anything other than The Holy Spirit, God Himself, and Peter was correct! On this very revelation the Church of God would be built, that Jesus Christ, is the Son of God and Peter would be called “A Rock!” Shortly thereafter, Jesus speaks of HIS CALL!!!! Remember this continually throughout the note because the heart transplant of God not only gives us compassion but it gives us a boldness an authority of Christ Jesus in us that we are more grounded in Jesus, to WALK OUT THE CALL OF GOD IN OUR LIVES!! When Jesus spoke of His Call to go to Jerusalem and suffer things at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, as well as be killed then rising from the dead. Peter took Jesus aside to speak to Him privately and said “Lord, This must never happen to You!” LOL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Peter counseling Jesus!!!! That is too funny!!! Well, I cannot laugh too much because I know I have erred here myself and done this on occasion where God has rebuked me lovingly by His Holy Spirit. Jesus turns AWAY from Peter, whom He just declared to him, the Keys of the Kingdom were given to him to bind and loose things on earth as it is in heaven! Wow what a total 180!!!!!! However, Peter having walked in the anointing of Holy Spirit apparently thought his flesh was in submission and when he received a “thought” in his head that Jesus shouldn’t do something, instead of screening it by inquiring of the Lord or saying nothing proceeds to think he is still in the spirit when he is sadly mistaken and is rebuked by the Lord, Himself, stating that instead Peter was doing the work of satan (whose name I do not capitalize intentionally). Peter is rebuked for trying to “hinder” the will of God in the Call of Jesus Christ to fully walk as Savior! In the Amplified Matthew 16:23 states “But Jesus turned away from Peter and said to him, Get behind me satan! You are in My way [an offense and a hindrance and a snare to Me]; for you are minding what partakes not of the nature and quality of God, but of MEN!!!!!! See that word that Peter was partaking not of “satan” but of the nature of MEN! That is a revelation but let me unveil this to you by God’s grace and His Spirit!! This is going to pump you up; I know it did me!!!! A great example I will give you is that when I minister, I minister for HOURS!!!! I do not minister just a message and then pray and leave but God’s grace upon my life and the way He brought me up in ministry since I first began in 2003 was to minister for hours at a time! In the midst of 2003 – 2008 God gave me wisdom, knowledge and understanding to discern when I would need to rest, THANK YOU JESUS! However, this is what satan does today in my ministry, first one of the things Rich, my husband, and I have discerned, especially with me being a woman is that many men who are not secure in themselves will try and prophesy me on the pew and Rich up preaching! LOL yes this is true! Sometimes I even mention to Rich you don’t see that with T D Jakes and his wife, or some other great man of God. You only see it with women where the enemy attacks the woman. I don’t see it at all the other way around when men are the one anointed to prophesy and preach and then their wife is anointed to support them. Now I am not saying Rich does not speak and he will gladly tell you He does speak especially at 22 IS 22 (Isaiah 22:22 Company) our prophetic intercession ministry! However, on occasion satan will try to speak to us through whomever he can use to tell Rich and I that Rich is the one that is to be prophesying and his ability to prophesy is equal to yours is what someone stated recently! Moreover, they prophesy that Rich is to be preaching in front of everyone! LOL yes it is true they prophesy this to us!!! Rich gladly states that he knows his anointing and he knows his call and THAT IS NOT IT!!!! Rich states He knows my gift of prophecy because I am a prophet and he knows that we have different gifts and he does prophesy but distinguishes that he has a greater anointing to pastor and me to prophesy; that is our calls! He is a pastor completely as his father has been for over a half of a century, 50 years! Me on the other hand; I am a prophet and have compassion but I am not a pastor and know it well. It makes me appreciate Joyce Myers so much more because first of all being a woman in ministry at times is very difficult with all the religious and antichrist spirits that try and operate. Moreover, there are times when, in the past, during times of being misunderstood and undergoing persecution people literally thought I was a Jezebel because I was a strong woman and they saw Rich with me who in God’s grace is anointed with such wisdom that I pull from continually to propel me further in ministry, being meek. However, because I am so expressive and loud, yes I cannot help it; it is my personality and I make no apologies for it because that is how God made me. LOL. At any rate, with being misunderstood I would be treated as a Jezebel and called a Jezebel to my face in front of other people and God had me hold my peace and take the insult and not say a word while He placed me in “the bubble” of His rest, Hebrews 4! All that was in the bubble was love and Hebrews 4 and God allowed me to go through the misunderstandings and persecution and I would go to Rich saying I don’t want to do ministry anymore I want to stop during 2005-2007 and Rich would tell me “Robin you are not going to stop it is your destiny!” I didn’t stop because God used my husband to push me! LOLOLOLOL. People thought that I was literally controlling my husband and dragging him around with me to places and they didn’t know until later when God opened their eyes that I didn’t want to do ministry but God in Rich pushed me into the Call!!!! (FYI women do not look for another woman’s husband to push you into your call  it is in my book THE GLORY TO GLORY SISTERHOOD under coveting other women’s husbands). I have had many times on occasion someone desire a “man like Rich” or talk about him in an inappropriate manner or try and go to him aside from me to get counsel for their call, so I do recommend Holy Spirit’s book He had me write.  Also, in regard to authority of The Call of God there have been even on many occasions that while I minister for hours people are amazed and cannot understand God’s grace on me to do that unless they are in the stream with me while I am ministering and under the anointing to know that it is not me but only God that keeps me. For example, when I ministered at The Cave in Saraland, Alabama the weekend I gave this message, the message itself was an hour and a half, 90 minutes! LOL. Then I prophesied and ministered to all there which was another 8 hours of straight ministering. Believe me I did not feel it until I stepped out of the anointing, until the ministry was over because I Love it! I live for The Call that God has appointed me and I DO NOT BACK DOWN!!!!! When I minister for 10 hours straight I feel no hunger, I do not go to the bathroom, I do not know the time and I instruct those around me that when I am ministering there is no time and not to tell me and they bless me by not telling me the time until I am through ministering. When I am through then my body steps out of the anointing and needs rest and I get it! Moreover, during the move and our normal day living where we still only have one car, but I do not think about it, because I am not slave to the world system, to Egypt, and will not get a car until one of two things, God tells me or God gives me one! Therefore, I HAVE TO as a part of my life drive my husband to and from work and my children where they need to go, presently , Christopher to his job, and do ministry, too. I LOVE IT!! I DON’T THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE OF GOD’S GRACE! However, on top of that I have had people come up to me and prophesy in correction to me that “I am not disciplined” in spending time with the Lord, never mind, that I get up at 4:15 most every morning to spend time with him during the normal week when I do not have the time otherwise and I do my daily life requirements as a mother, wife and woman of God! I look at the people who tell me this and think, are they crazy! Ok they have no clue how disciplined I am by The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord which I have been immersed since 2002. LOL. However, just like Peter people talk out of their flesh and try to take me aside and talk to me privately or in front of everyone, when they are not even walking in their own call, to presume and tell me things in which I should not do or should do and have no clue of my relationship and acuteness in hearing Holy Spirit and walking with Holy Spirit. Believe me I am human so I do mess up however, there is a depth to me that unless you are my husband, family or very close loved ones people have no clue how I walk with God. Therefore, the process of Gilgal and the heart transplant is to also reveal to us the authority we DO WALK IN and not allow satan to gain one inch!!! Another example, is because I have been trained for 8 years!! Yes 8 years of ministering 8 to 10 hours at a time nonstop, Holy Spirit has trained me as a marathon runner for ministry leading up to our visit to the Philippines!!! I have had others tell me Robin you are not going to do all the ministry required of you, cannot minister everyday all day! You are right I cannot and I KNOW THAT!!!! LOL THAT IS WHY GOD CAN AND GOD WILL BECAUSE I KNOW! Like Jesus addressing Peter’s attentiveness to the NATURE OF MAN, I too at times have to address man’s nature and tell PEOPLE BY GOD’S GRACE I WILL MINISTER EVERY, EVERY, EVERY MEETING!!!!! I have seen the enemy’s plans!!!! Moreover, when I ministered in South Carolina in March I ministered 19 engagements in 12 days and each one was hours at a time and God in that time was preparing me for the Philippines; I only yield to God’s training and endurance classes, not man’s nature and with that use God’s knowledge, wisdom and understanding in The Call!!!!! Therefore, when people, many have, on occasion said to me that I will not be able to minister that entire month in the Philippines as scheduled, I do not listen to them; IT is God that has Called me, it is HIS CALL FOR MY LIFE! He has trained me for over 8 years for this call with endurance, perseverance, stamina, discipline and yielding to Holy Spirit for 8 years for the Call thus far! My normal schedule is waking at 4:15 during normal weekday, especially school year, even when I worked full time 40+ hours and ministered for 20 hours a week, on top of 25 hours a week of being a taxi, it is about God, about The Call, not Robin! Therefore, I will do it through Christ Jesus Whom I CAN AND WILL DO ALL THINGS! People simply see what they want to see everywhere even myself! That is why God has to give me a heart transplant so that I don’t allow myself to given into the nature of man on anyone else and their Call! I have to be given over to Holy Spirit! Especially since one of the anointing I flow in is a breaker anointing to get people into their destiny, into the Call of God for their life! As well as the enemy attacking my authority on that level, as he does all of us, in the past the enemy has attacked my authority in ministry to bow down and let others minister, where it looks like God but is not! It is a deceptive attack of the enemy. I will distinguish this from my anointing as an equipper of the gifts of Holy Spirit. Rich and I equip many in the gifts of Holy Spirit and I mentor and pour into women for THEIR MINISTRY, not MY MINISTRY! That is the difference. This is distinguishable from when I am doing the Call God has given me and ministering with others and at times where the enemy will infiltrate the ministry and have me “feel” as though I need to give the floor to someone else. God has showed me several times over the past 6 years how the enemy has done this to me in ministry and that is NOT GOD! Elijah trained Elisha, Joshua trained the Commanders, Jesus trained the disciples and they equipped them all in the training. However, Elijah and Joshua did not allow those they equipped to do their ministry. When you do ministry and have many people involved in your ministry and equipping them, there have been times the enemy has tried to usurp my authority the past six years by people in the meetings trying to take the attention, others trying to say how things should be run, others trying to tell Rich and I what we are doing wrong, etc. In being over a ministry with my husband for over 6 years, we have seen a lot and the enemy will do like that of Peter, where they do flow in Holy Spirit but still walk in the flesh and are attentive the nature of man, limiting God in your Call! THAT IS NOT GOD! The heart transplant at Gilgal is demonstrative of how God awakens you by bringing His thundering and lightening to your soul from Revelation 4:5!! Before the throne of God is thundering and lightening and seven torches with fire, which is the sevenfold spirit of God!!! It is bringing an awakening, a deeper awakening of God, of the Call and exposing to your soul where the enemy attacks your authority in Christ Jesus! We see this demonstrated at Gilgal with Joshua in Joshua Chapter 10 while Joshua is walking out his Call! 6And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us. 7So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the warriors with him and all the mighty men of valor. 8And the Lord said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hand; there shall not a man of them stand before you. 9So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having gone up from Gilgal all night. 10And the Lord caused [the enemies] to panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goes up to Beth-horon and smote them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 11As they fled before Israel, while they were descending [the pass] to Beth-horon, the Lord cast great stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah, killing them. More died because of the hailstones than the Israelites slew with the sword. Joshua 10:6-11 AMP. Here in Joshua 10:6-11, Joshua is camping at Gilgal and the men from Gibeon cry out for his defense of their nation. Joshua goes up from “Gilgal” the place where God has done a heart transplant bringing a circumcision of the heart in Joshua 4 and 5. However, scholars’ debate that this Gilgal is a different Gilgal from that of Joshua 4 and even state there are 3 Gilgals in the Old Testament. The point that Holy Spirit wants to make is that it is still a GILGAL, a place where God is working on our hearts removing the reproaches of the sin nature/iniquitous roots and replacing it with here, a Lion Heart Roar, of that of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, JESUS!!!! So that we walk in the CALL!! Here at Gilgal Joshua is instructed not to fear the enemy and that God had already at that moment delivered the enemy in Joshua’s hand before he even went to battle! God had won the battle in JOSHUA’S NEW HEART, THE HEART TRANSPLANT, WHERE HE HAD THE HEART OF GOD!! JOSHUA WAS AFTER GOD’S HEART AND WALKED IN IT! God brought judgment on Joshua’s enemies; casting great stones from the heavens kill.ing them! More died because of the hailstones than were slain by Israel! The battle truly is the Lord’s battle we simply trust and obey walking out the Call! 12Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, be silent and stand still at Gibeon, and you, moon, in the Valley of Ajalon! 13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance upon their enemies. Is not this written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14There was no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man. For the Lord fought for Israel. Joshua 10:12-14 AMP. Here when Joshua, after having his heart circumcised, walking in a heart after God’s heart and receiving courage and strength from God to destroy the enemy had risen up in great authority that he spoke to the SUN!!!! LOL!!! WOW!!!!! Joshua lifted up his voice with such a voice of victory and triumph, such an authority, after the nature of God, not man, and spoke with the voice of God to the SUN “STAND STILL!” And the Word of God states that the Lord heeded the Voice of Man! WOW!!! God give us Your Heart, a Heart Transplant that when we speak God you heed our voice!!!! God send us Your lightening and thundering to our heart, the sevenfold Spirit of God!!!! Since 2002 God would continually have me over and over again call in the fullness of Holy Spirit as prophesied regarding Jesus in Isaiah 11:1-3! God would continually have me call in The Spirit of the Lord, The Spirit of Counsel, The Spirit of Knowledge, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord to rest upon me. It is walking with Holy Spirit in all of these dimensions whereby we walk out our Call! 15Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. 16Those five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave of Makkedah. 17And it was told Joshua, The five kings are hidden in the cave at Makkedah. 18Joshua said, Roll great stones to the cave's mouth, and set men to guard them. 19But do not stay. Pursue your enemies and fall upon their rear; do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has given them into your hand. 20When Joshua and the Israelites had ended slaying them until they were wiped out and the remnant remaining of them had entered into fortified cities, 21All the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none moved his tongue against any of the Israelites. 22Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings to me from the cave. 23They brought the five kings out of the cave to him--the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. 24When they brought out those kings to Joshua, [he] called for all the Israelites and told the commanders of the men of war who went with him, Come, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And they came and put their feet on the [kings'] necks. 25Joshua said to them, Fear not nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage. For thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom you fight. Next we see Joshua “returned” and all of Israel with him, to “Gilgal.” Although, Joshua had been in a great battle and walked in such authority where God heeded his voice, staying the moon, Joshua walked in great knowledge, wisdom and understanding by God’s grace, knowing that he was only man, that after such a great feat he still needed to return to Gilgal, for further encamping, lodging with God in order to hear clearly about THE CALL! We are tested continually throughout our lives and our heart is exposed time after time again, most times, after our greatest victories, so that we maintain humility beyond ourselves to serve our Lord only and this happens by exposing our hearts at Gilgal! Therefore, Joshua returns to Gilgal with his men. Joshua received word that the five kings were now hiding in caves and now since his stone, the reproach had been removed from his heart, he now was able through God to be one to place the stone over his enemy! We become anointed by God to cause a rolling of God’s righteous indignation (the reproach, meaning disgrace) to be put on top of the enemy, demonstrated first of all when he instructed his men to roll the stones in front of the cave. Before, the finished the kings though, Joshua and his men went after others to not let them get away. Later Joshua, opens the mouth of the cave to deal with the five kings. Joshua has the kings brought out and calls his commanders, those whom he is pouring into, over, mentoring, and shows them how to put their feet on the enemy’s neck! While they have their feet on the neck Joshua instructs his commanders “be strong and of good courage, for thus the Lord shall do to your enemies!” Joshua is exhorting them as he has been exhorted by God! However let’s look further; Joshua maintains his position and does not let his commanders usurp his authority or the nation of Israel, he does not let them have opportunity to interfere with the Call. Many times, Holy Spirit has disciplined me in knowing when I am walking in the flesh and the spirit. For a lengthy time Holy Spirit had me wear a black suit every Sunday to church between 2002-2004. Moreover, during this time Holy Spirit began giving me massive revelations and would not allow me to speak on them because God was training me on walking in the spirit and not the flesh. While we were in bible studies, business meetings, or other places of fellowship people would be talking about the revelation they had about this part of God’s word, this scripture, etc. God had given me revelation that was mind blowing about that which was being discussed. However, God had brought me to a time of being silent, a SEASON of being silent, that although I had great great great revelation I was not allowed to give it because Holy Spirit had not instructed me to give it. I even at times would talk to Holy Spirit in my head and say, but Holy Spirit they are saying this and You showed me this and Holy Spirit would say Robin this is your test of talking only in the spirit and not in the flesh. Even at times when Rich and I were brought in front of a business to talk the microphone was given to me and I was asked to speak but Holy Spirit did not tell me I could speak so I refused to speak. They were baffled!!! The nature of man is to want to be heard and to speak about everything we think or we know! LOLOLOL. Sorry I cannot help myself I have been through this. That is why man times at meetings, bible studies, or fellowships when someone talks although it sounds so spiritual and holy I smell the flesh and I hear the flesh there is no spirit in it. Moreover, an entire 15 minutes nearly will be taken up by someone who is in the flesh pulling away from God only to give glory to themselves and how much they “know.” (You should read the book Holy Spirit wrote through me I am like this in that book consistently, ask women who have thrown it against the wall several times but by God’s grace have been healed because of the Truth of The Word and Spirit.) However, God has been and continues to be patient with me as well as many of His great men and women who have poured into my life as I grew up in maturity in the spirit and I ask God to give me continued grace with those people until they mature. Holy Spirit taught me YOU DO NOT TALK PERIOD UNLESS I HAVE TOLD YOU! Yes, you have got it! I get permission to speak before I do speak. However, again I am human and there are times where I have not asked and speak in my flesh and have to repent. 26Afterward Joshua smote and slew them and hanged their bodies on five trees, and they hung on the trees until evening. 27At sunset Joshua ordered and they took the bodies down from the trees and cast them into the cave where the kings had hidden and laid great stones on the cave's mouth, which remain to this very day. 28Joshua took Makkedah that day and smote it and its king with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. 29Then Joshua and all Israel went from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked Libnah. 30And the Lord gave it also and its king into Israel's hands, and Joshua smote it with the sword, and all the people in it. He left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. 31And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish and encamped against it and attacked it. 32And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hands of Israel, and Joshua took it on the second day and smote it with the sword, and all the people in it, as he had done to Libnah. 33Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua smote him and his people--until he had left none remaining. 34From Lachish Joshua and all Israel went on to Eglon, laid siege to it, and attacked it. 35And they took it that day and smote it with the sword and utterly destroyed all who were in it that day, as he had done to Lachish. 36Then Joshua with all Israel went up from Eglon to Hebron, and they attacked it 37And took it and smote it with the sword, and its king and all its towns and everyone in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it and all its people. 38And Joshua and all Israel with him returned to Debir and attacked it. 39And he took it, with its king and all its towns, and they smote them with the sword and utterly destroyed everyone in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and its king. 40So Joshua smote all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the [a]Lord, the God of Israel, commanded. 41And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even to Gibeon. 42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. 43And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. Joshua then gave orders for the commanders and Israel to continue the destruction of the enemy by slaying the king and the entire enemy at ONE TIME because the God of Israel, fought for Israel (Joshua 10:42). The Word does not say that Joshua fought for Israel; the Word says God fought for Israel! Joshua simply maintained his position with God as he was at Gilgal before he fought! God had given the battle to Joshua when he was at Gilgal! Moreover, after the battle we see in Joshua 10:43 Joshua returned and all of Israel with him, to Gilgal! There is a continual, forever, nonstop, place of returning to Gilgal! It is the place where we continue to lay our heart before the Lord, saying GOD SEARCH MY HEART! Joshua had just been in battle, there was a spilling of the blood of another man. It was a time not just to sing and rejoice but another life had been killed therefore it was a time to maintain a soberness of God’s love for even our enemies! This brings me to the point of Osama Bin Laden. When it was discovered about his death many people rejoiced. It is true that he was an enemy of God’s plans and purposes, after all though Osama Bin Laden, was still a man! A man created by God, created in the image of God! It is a time whereby we lay ourselves down and give our heart to God that although the battle is won God still has love towards our enemies because He created them! This was a perspective that Joshua had, which is why he returned to Gilgal to walk in a humble heart, a contrite spirit that could be a vessel utilized by God for His Will!!!! For The CALL!!!!! God infused this perspective into Joshua at the first Gilgal in Chapter 5 of Joshua. 13When Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up, and behold, a Man stood near him with His drawn sword in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, Are you for us or for our adversaries? 14And He said, No [neither], but as Prince of the Lord's host have I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, What says my Lord to His servant? 15And the Prince of the Lord's host said to Joshua, Loose your shoes from off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:13-15 AMP. I pray that God in fuse you for The Call! I pray that at Gilgal in this heart transplant God give you an awakening of His thundering and lightening in your soul to bring forth the Roar of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the authority of Christ Jesus in you to walk out the Call of God for your life!!!! I ask Holy Spirit to expose to the light any areas where satan is masquerading as an angel of light and usurping the authority of Christ Jesus in you! I ask for God to infuse you with grace to overcome this attack against your soul by healing you with His marvelous light, life and love in Jesus Name! I call forth a richness of His knowledge, wisdom and understanding to be imparted to you by His Spirit in Jesus Name! LOVE YOU!!!!! Robin Kirby-Gatto Copyright ©
 
 
 

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