BeLOnGings

Flying home from California, looking out the airplane window, the still small voice whispered….

‘VAST’

Gazing at the ocean we call the Pacific, at the continent we call America and at the sky we call Space, I found myself, ‘lost in wonder love and praise.’

…and then there was that verse

‘How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them,they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.” (Psalm 139:17-18.)

A pause in his presence moment………

Back home I thought I would follow up on a James Bruggeman recommendation. (There is so much information coming at us all, I feel the need for a second witness from a truth seeker I trust and respect and then the third witness of that still small voice, before I click on a PLAY button……especially if the interview like this one is over three hours long!!!)

This is quite a different post for me, but when I realized after listening, that the man’s name was Kwast

Check out the pronunciation here…..

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Nl-kwast.ogg

To my ear it sounded like K – VAST……and I knew it was a wink from Father following on my experience of VAST on that Sun Country flight!

FAITH, TRUTH and FUTURE TECHNOLOGY in the VASTness of SPACE would be the title I would give to this eye opening, and heart warming conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n

P.S. I did speed this one up🙂

Moments after posting the last blog about Maurice and Carolyn’s ‘white cottage.’ Hilary, unaware of the post, laughingly called out to me,

‘Did you see what Paul Saladino has posted about his taking his ‘pack lunch’ to The White House reception? 🙂’

Paul, along with other natural health advocates I have linked to over many years, like Sayer Ji and Bobby Kennedy are now being consulted in the national commitment to Make America Healthy Again.

Johnny Enlow would identify Family (represented by ‘the house/cottage’ ) as the mountain where Health resides.

Is this “White House’ sign indicative that the Kingdom is coming – even at a national level , in our adopted homeland?😀

Johnny Enlow in his ‘7 Mountain’’ message, has correlated each of the 7 colors of the rainbow with a mountain of influence in society:

Red for Media. Orange for Family. Yellow for Arts and Entertainment. Green for Economy. Blue for Religion. Indigo for Education. Violet for Government.

The 🔥response grandson Roy made to the photo of those new ‘white shoes’ corresponded to the flash of orange color on the heel

Orange is for Family.

Just behind me on the wall of Abby’s living room where I was standing, I noticed a poster from another era she had hung there……

The scene depicted is the famous Irish tourist destination, the Giant’s Causeway. The invitation to “Cross the Atlantic‘ was the invitation Father issued to us 33 years ago, when the prophet confirmed our leading by saying to us, ‘I see you uprooted and transplanted ,and moving to a different continent! ‘ Within a year the 9 of us did indeed ‘Cross the Atlantic.’

The identical poster now happens to also hang in our landing in Minneapolis!

I noticed for the first time that all the family depicted are wearing white shoes! (The authority we can walk in through the righteousness of Christ)

Notice the two white birds the boy is pointing to in the direction of America.

I then noticed, that in the documentary about our home recently completed, entitled The Big Green House, it has in it’s opening scene, two white birds, just visible, again to the left, in the frame pictured below,! 🙂

The colors of the depicted family’s clothing speak of Family, (orange) but also Arts and entertainment, (yellow) and Religion (blue). These are other ‘mountains’ we are called to.

We now also find ourselves on the mountain of Media (red) through this film!🙂

I will post more information about how to see, The Big Green House documentary on a subsequent blog.

The painting at the head of this blog hangs in our friends Maurice and Carolyn Scott’s home. It was an artist friend’s depiction of their whitewashed Donegal ‘famine’ cottage, a family ‘haven’ for many years.

I think that it depicts the beautiful living flow of interweaving colors of kingdom life, we all called to manifest as we “Arise and shine’

‘Now may the God of peace who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus……..equip you with everything good for doing his will.’ (Heb.13.20-21)

Remember the previous photo?

The rainbow is the sign of the ‘eternal covenant’ sealed with the blood of Jesus that has brought us peace with God and that is the basis for our being equipped to do his will.

I remember from basic physics class 50 years ago that when all 7 colors of the rainbow combine it gives us white light.

I had painful feet when we arrived in Belfast. I had put on a pair of brand new shoes for the trip and they had blistered both heels.

Hilary suggested we just go and buy another comfortable pair and picked out several at TJ Maxx for me to try on. The best fitting pair however were white! My personal preference would have been for maybe grey, black or brown, but I knew she was right, and so conceded to the white.

It provoked a chuckle from daughter Abby who immediately circulated this photo to the family.

I knew Father was wanting to encourage ‘boldness’ …….that we can step forward with courage because we stand and walk confident in the righteousness of Christ, equipped by him to ‘walk in the good works prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.’ (Eph.2:10)

“The righteous are bold as a lion.”(Prov.28.1)

That day we had gone into Neighborhood , the most popular new coffee shop in Belfast, owned and run by Oshin, a good friend of daughter Abby’s. Neighborhood it is by name, but the happy buzz and friendly atmosphere it emanated was a ‘neighborhood by nature’ vibe.

We noticed the pleasant girl serving us was wearing a knee brace and so engaged her to ask about it.

The story went that she had a torn meniscus and was heartbroken that she would be unable to run the upcoming Belfast marathon. She’d never had an injury before and had been training for months for the event.

She sat down beside us and I told my story of being healed of the same condition in both my right and left knees!!

We took out an essential oil, rubbed it on her knee and prayed for healing.

She was overjoyed that we’d reached out in this way!!…….and later brought us the two white🙂 ice creams captured above as an expression of her gratitude.

On our last day in Belfast we visited Neighborhood one last time. Grace (Yes, that was her name🙂) bounded up to us.…..

‘I’m completely healed!’ She exclaimed!n

She described how she had just run a 10k with no pain and was planning to enter the half marathon in September!

So, let us, ‘Arise and shine!’ …get up, engage…be the dawn, set on fire!

When grandson Roy saw the white shoes photo, his response was…..🔥

Let’s get beyond our natural preference, exchange our black shoes for white, and step our fearlessly – bold as a lion!

This morning, lingering in our hallway, I noticed the rainbows cast through the cut glass in our door window had fallen on the feet of our Saint Patrick statue.

Under his feet and staff, is a snake.

Next to the statue is a Celtic blessing inscribed in wood….

Deep peace of the running water to you

Deep peace of the flowing air to you

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you

Deep peace of the shining stars to you

Deep peace of the Son of peace to you

You’ll notice the rainbow cast there, had fallen on the repeated….

Deep peace

I immediately went to the scripture. Romans 16: 20 that puts these two elements together, graphically translated in the TPT….

‘And the God of peace will swiftly pound Satan to a pulp under your feet(heel). And the wonderful favor of our Lord Jesus will surround you.’

Last night before bed Hilary and I both noticed we had sore heels, Hilary’s right and my left. Then during the night Father gave me the title Kingdom Come Colors for this blog series.

The hallway incident this morning reflected in the photo was Father’s confirmation that we are to follow in Patrick’s footsteps.🙂

This brought to mind another Saint Patrick figure of ours commemorating another incident from a number of years ago….

This serene Pat, again with the snake underfoot, was a gift to us from a family at Buena Vista in Colorado.

On their way to the church where we were ministering, they were mercifully delivered from what could easily have been a fatal car crash. We realized that at that precise moment, we had been leading the congregation in our version of the protective ‘St. Patrick’s breastplate’!

When they arrived at the church I remember the children producing their play breastplate, helmet and sword!

Dad had it all in hand….or rather ‘under foot’🙂

As ‘the God of peace pounded Satan to a pulp then, so his promise holds true for this ‘new day’ of increasing power and authority, we are entering into.

Make sure your seat belts are securely fastened. We’re in for quite a ride😀

That birdsong video just ‘disappeared’ again!! There must be something very important about that message!

Here it is again…..

……that the day after posting the ‘lion’ blog highlighting the difference between earthly and heavenly perspectives, the most powerful church leader from an earthly point of view was elected by men., ….and that he took the name LEO i.e. the lion.

From heaven’s standpoint the most powerful ones on earth are that company of those A – LION – ED with ‘the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.’

We just watched the first episode of The House of David on Netflix. It illustrates well ‘ the champions’ who like David have ‘ a heart after God’ (Acts 13:22) that He is training and raising up to destroy His enemies, and to rule and reign with him on the earth.

It is indeed now the time for them to ‘Come Forth !’

Please take a minute to enjoy the dawn chorus by clicking the link below🙂

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YD-U0THwqmI

I recorded this, one morning in Dunfanaghy, Donegal. Inspired by the beautifully evocative Irish movie, That They May Face the Rising Sun, I had walked eastwards along the backroad above the town. There I discovered an old graveyard. Indeed the graves were laid out correctly…….facing the east in anticipation of the resurrection!

Next to this ‘proper’ graveyard however, I discovered the ‘pauper’s’ graveyard with the following sign.

I found the song rising up in me,

A song for the pauper. A song for the queen.

For those trying to make ends meet in between

A song about riches that are way out of sight.

So we’ll sing it with all of our might.

So when I paused a few minutes later to listen to the birds rendering their dawn chorus, you can understand why this was the song that I joined in with…..

‘What would you do if I sang you a song

Bathed in heaven born of the earth.

What would you do if I said, “Sing along!

Sing along now for all that you’re worth.” ‘

On returning home, I was greeted with the sad news that our dear friend and brother Bill Millar, had just that morning, crossed over to join the heavenly choir!

On our last few visits home to Ireland we had been lead to join with Bill and the Millar family to worship in the early morning. It had been an outdoor/rural setting. We had been given the name Dawn Chorus for the gathering as we joined with all of creation to welcome this ‘new day’

The song “Yeshua” was recorded on the Trek album. The Reprise at the end of the album had a beautiful guitar accompaniment by the late Tim Lyles……. just honored in my last blog!

It speaks of this song being for ‘the pauper’ and also contains the verse,

A song for the boy always bottom of class

A song for the girl we always picked last

A song that can make us ALL winners tonight

So we’ll sing it with all of our might.

Here is the link to that reprise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvUk5PNlE4s

This was that same weekend that our own Rory McIlroy completed his Grand Slam Victory. This photo of ‘the Victor’ roaring (like the lion of the tribe of Judah) reflects his nickname Rors

In the photo below of Bill holding granddaughter Isabella he is wearing a ‘lion’ shirt with The King written on the sleeve!

Maureen wrote,

“The T‐shirt  Bill was wearing when he passed over depicted a huge lion’s head. It reminded me of Aslan.”

That was also the same weekend our son Ben released on line his new album, with one of my songs that goes,…

‘You came to me. You wrote my life’s first page

And you were there when I stepped out

To act on this world’s stage’.

Bill’s role may not have been that of a winner like Rory on ‘this world’s stage’, but he sure was a winner from heaven’s vantage point!

(Interesting how with my tech limitations Bill’s picture popped up smaller (more humble?) than all the others I used🙂)

Bill and Maureen shared the hope that we could ALL be winners in God’s Masterpiece and that God will indeed, as he hasn promised, restore ALL things.

This was why to the pastor’s surprise Maureen requested Psalm 67 to be read at the funeral service.

‘ I have never preached from this psalm nor ever read it at a funeral before!!’ He confessed to the gathered family and friends.

“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us— so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth. May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you. The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us. May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.”
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As Bill’s coffin was carried down the aisle the words and music rang out once again…

“Yeshua, Yeshua, Yeshua the song

……..and we’ll sing it for all that we’re worth! ‘

Here is the link to the full song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZLpkIiivU

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Please click below to listen….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VMEImuB2bw

We crossed the Atlantic ocean in 1994 and in the following few years traversed the American continent discovering and befriending our new homeland and its citizens.

Father continued to give me new songs journaling our journey of Ad-venture across the sea and into this ‘New World’

Having left behind in Belfast the gifted brothers and sisters who had produced the Come Lord Jesus, Good Mornin’ Dad and O Ireland albums I wondered if these new songs would ever get recorded for posterity.

Then one Sunday afternoon at St. Brendan’s Launch in Kieran’s Irish pub I met Tim Lyles.

We got chatting and I discovered he was a guitar teacher, a mean bass guitarist himself, and that on the side he also did some recording work.

‘Sure, I’d be up for helping you’ He said as I outlined The Bright Hostage project I had envisioned. Subsequently Tim magnanimously produced the first two albums of the Trilogy, The Voyage and The Trek of the Bright Hostage.

Arriving in Belfast a few weeks ago I learned of Tim’s death.

He had written a piece to be posted on FaceBook letting us know “I’m no longer taking up residence on this planet.” …but that he had moved on ’to ‘the Great Mystery Beyond’

The final paragraph read,

“Anyway, I hope there are many fond memories and funny stories you tell when you think of me. In the salient words of the great Memphis musician Jim Dickinson, “I’m not gone. I’m just dead.” I’ve planted enough surreptitious musical mayhem….that you should be able to recognize traces of me here and there. Hope you smile and chuckle a bit.”

I did indeed smile and chuckle when I read this, recalling the track, ‘Shake The Heavens’

To Tim’s chagrin I insisted that his lovable goofing around be preserved in the introductory bars of the final mix.

You can hear and engage with him having ‘a really fun time’ in the first 12 seconds of the track🤣

Last Sunday we joined with family here at Every Nation Church, Belfast. I was greeted at the door by Les, wearing this shirt….

(He told me he’d decided to change into this one at the last minute🙂)

The service opened up with a song with the words

‘There’s joy in the House of the Lord’

I knew Tim was sending us a message…….that he was now having ‘a really fun time’ in the Great Mystery Beyond😀

As I am typing this blog I’m sitting in a coffee shop …….and the song comes on……”I’m knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door.”🤣

…….I see heaven’s door opening, the angel turns and announces…..

“Relax. The Bass Player is Here.”

Like Nathaniel, Tim was ‘a man without guile’

Jesus told him,

‘You will see heaven opened and the angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man.’

He was referencing ‘Jacob’s ladder’ in Genesis 28.

As we shared the communion meal together at the close of the service on Sunday, I reflected on how the Son of Man, our crucified and risen Lord was himself, ‘Jacob’s ladder’ …….the bridge connecting these two realms of heaven and earth.

Tim now knows this more fully than ever accompanying us from the heavenly realm in the song……..

‘We now, our feet on earth

But hearts with Him in heaven above

He now, by sovereign grace

Is forming us as one in love. ‘

Indeed

Tim is not gone…….He is just dead.

…….and we continue to be connected

…….through the ‘Jacob’s ladder’

…….that is in our hearts.

‘Would The Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up.’ was the title of a play we wrote and performed, first in Kieran’s Irish pub in Downtown Minneapolis, and subsequently in numerous locations in the US, Australia and even back home in Ireland.

It depicted a Patrick far removed from the drunken, brawling Irish ‘Paddy’ characature.

At 3.14 the morning of St. Patrick’s day my phone, which I had forgotten to turn off, ‘pinged’

Believe it or not it was a message from saint Patrick!

Yes, my dear friend Paddy Murphy had sent me this message from deep in the Irish countryside.

‘Happy St Patrick’s Day. May the grace and love of the God he came to tell us of, impact your life afresh today.’

The timing was perfect. It was 3.14 Numerically this is pi. Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. It represents God’s infinite and unfailing LOVE reflected in love’s 16 attributes described in 1 Cor.13.

This ‘Paddy’ is a faithful and faith filled Irishman who with his wonderful wife Breda have battled and prayed and worked for years in the face of great personal adversity, as did his namesake, for the salvation of Ireland!

He is indeed a ‘Real’ modern day, living saint Patrick.

……Then all the world witnessed another ‘Would the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up.’ drama, this week, at The White House!

As in our play it echoed uncannily Patrick’s initial showdown on Tara hill with the dark druidic powers that held sway in Ireland at that time!

There has been much commentary on this. Here is one rather raw but truthful analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2P3XMHKzY

Johnny Enlow’s brilliant Unfiltered Episode 146 this week, connecting Enoch and Patrick, brings this conflict right up to the present day.

Here is that link….

https://rumble.com/v6qs42i-what-enoch-said-about-now-johnny-enlow-unfiltered.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

As we prepare to return to Ireland for 5 weeks on Tuesday, here is a story from our last trip that maps beautifully on to all of this……

At the end of our trip we took our friends Brian and Lyn to see London/ Derry, Hilary’s birthplace.

From the train we walked straight to the Guildhall. On trying to enter, we were told we would have to stand to the side because a very important person was about to arrive, unannounced.

As we waited, a fleet of limousines pulled up and out stepped the then Irish, Taoiseach (head of government) referred to in the above commentary, Simon Harris.

An orchestrated photo shoot with Harris and the newly appointed (not elected) African Derry City Mayor followed, before they walked within an arms reach of us into the Guildhall.

Brian and Lynn Hilary and myself realized it was the cue for a song, and spontaneously began singing together….

Lord Jesus we enthrone You…..We proclaim you are King of Derry and of Ireland.

A flock of doves in perfect formation then flew over our heads, as if heaven was approving and answering!

The four of us subsequently prayer walked ‘The Walled City’. Then we realized the gate we had started and ended at, was Castle Gate!

We smiled as we sang once again ‘Come Lord Jesus and take your place’ ….realizing we were inviting our ‘servant’ King of the Castle to enter at the most ‘humble’ of the 7 gates.

We sensed the ‘kings of the earth’ , that we had just been brought near to in that place and time, would soon be ousted by Jesus, the true High King of Ireland.

The next morning one of those photos of Simon Harris, posted above, made it onto the front page of the Belfast Telegraph.

It seemed the disarray of the flock of doves captured above Harris, was the contrary sign to the beautifully ordered and peaceful ‘dove’ formation we had been given, as we proclaimed ‘Jesus’ King.

It was no surprise then that shortly thereafter Harris was toppled as Ireland’s ‘head’, and that the corrupt establishment he represented, has now been exposed to the world from America’s White House.

This is indeed the time spoken of by Enoch and Daniel when the “kings of the earth’ will experience tribulation as they are judged and the kingdom of God is delivered into the hands of ‘the saints of the Most High’ (Dan.7;14)