Last Wednesday morning I made two final tweeks to the blog I had been working on before releasing it.
Firstly, I added to the ‘tongue in cheek’ humorous paragraph, the name, Super STEVIE the Steamroller.
Secondly, I added at the end, the phrase, to “REVERSE the CURSE”
A few minutes later, I turned to read that day’s blog at “God’s Kingdom Ministries”, only to discover that STEPHEN Jones had just written about REVERSING the CURSE.
Chances???
He was describing how in 2008 they had been lead to co-operate with God in undoing the damage caused through the ill treatment of the First Nations of the land by some of the newcomer ‘Christians’ including presidents, most notably Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act lead to the infamous “Trail of Tears” as the indigenous people were forcibly moved westward from their homeland to a reservation in what is now known as Oklahoma.
You can read the full blog here if you’d like. https://godskingdom.org/blog/2021/08/the-rise-of-the-house-of-elisha-part-9
One morning on a bike ride in the locality of the home provided, on the side of Belfast little known to us, almost hidden behind hedge I noticed this sign……
I turned off the main road and sure enough there was the cottage….
As I walked through the museum I noted certain things that had given cause for some to compare Andrew Jackson with Donald Trump……
As I wandered around to the back of the back of the cottage I realized there was only myself and the Lord!
“So how should I pray Father? ” I asked. Often in these situations both in Ireland and in the USA I have been lead into identificational repentance, acknowledging like Nehemiah, “I and my father’s house have sinned.”
Nothing.
“Then what should I sing Father? Often in these situations comes, “Lord Jesus we enthrone you, we proclaim you are King….come Lord Jesus and take your place.” But another song rose up…..
“You are here, You are here, in our hearts, O so near.
You are here, You are here, in our hearts, O so dear, Yeshua.“***
I looked up and noticed this sign beside the railway track…..a #10 once again. A smiling sun broke through the clouds…. It was as if Father was saying, “My plan to re-establish my order is well advanced!”
The next day we met with local friends who had hosted a delegation of Native American intercessors who had visited that same spot a few years previously. When the locals had asked forgiveness for the sins of the fathers, Chief Linda had replied. “That work has been done. It is now time for us to say ‘Thank You.’ ‘Thank you for coming.’ ‘Thank you for bringing the gospel to us.'”
I was reminded of how back in America we had become friends with Alvin, another Native chief. His grandmother had been a baby on The Trail of Tears. He taught us a ‘Jesus’ lullaby that the believing mother’s had sung to the children to settle them when the soldiers would have alarmed them when sounding their bugles.
Sometimes you know you have been given a song that can bless the many but is also meant for a particular time place and person. I remember saying to Alvin, “I would like to gift to you a song I have been given from the Lord.” and began to sing……
“On the day you were born I danced over you. On the day you were born I rejoiced.
On the day you were born all heaven proclaimed, “You’re the child of my love. You’re my choice.”
And there’s freedom, freedom, freedom to dance and sing
When you know the love of the Father, when you know the love the King.
You’ve come this far now step farther out, out of THE TRAIL OF TEARS
You’ve come this far now move farther in while all of heaven cheers,
Freedom, freedom, let all creation sing,
As we take the hand of our Father, as we take the hand of our King.”******
All of us are responsible to play whatever part we are given as intercessors knowing that we are simply adding another layer of prayer to that which has been growing for generations, until the time comes for the fulfillment of those prayers. We are privileged to be alive at such a time of fulfillment.
There are a few series of blogs I have written and then stopped, not because the story was concluded, but because I had been given nothing more to write on the subject at that time. One such series was GODSELECTION.
As I biked out again onto the main road, I noticed the name of the street on which Jackson’s cottage stood, I smiled and wondered how that unfinished series would end : – )
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w92Q9LDVOE&t=12s
****** from The Ascent of the Bright Hostage available from paulkyle.org Spotify etc.