My Father, Gilbert wasn’t given to dreaming, or maybe I should say, to sharing his dreams with us. The only one I can remember was when we pressed him, “When you were a boy Dad, what did you want to be when you grew up?”
“A Mountie.” He replied.
Well we never did emigrate to Canada, and he was buried just a mile or two from where he was born, in Gilnahirk, on the outskirts of Belfast.
The Gaelic name, “Gilnahirk” means “The hill of the horn blower’
When Bob Jones prophecied to me “I see you sounding a trumpet throughout the land.” I knew at least part of that prophecy was a reference to the song, “Lord Jesus We Enthrone You.”
I taught it one night at our Gilnahirk Fellowship. That was it! But the wind of the Spirit picked it up, on “the hill of the horn blower” and within a matter of weeks I discovered it had literally, circled the globe!
One afternoon, after our family had made the decision that we should move to North America, I went for a run up the Gilnahirk Hill, past the graveyard.
It had been raining hard, and as I dug in, to climb the steep hill, a torrent of water came pouring down the “sheugh”*
I heard The Lord say,
“It will flow out of the North”
I knew he was talking about the flood of the Holy Spirit.
He brought this prophecy back to me the other night, and as I reflected on the developments north of the border, He began to point out why Hilary and I have both been deeply moved (like so many) by what is currently happening in Canada.
As we shared together the next morning, she reminded me that her ‘spirit had gone out’ toward Canada before mine, when as a teenager she chose ‘Canada’ as the subject for her Queen’s Guide Award project. She in fact made it there before I did, with the Queen’s University ladies hockey team, playing all the way across from Montreal to Vancouver Island, and visiting old school friends along the way who had emigrated west…….. many years before we would.
We ended up calculating that between the two of us we had been given 10 assignments in Canada. You’ll recall #10 keeps cropping up for us. It is the number for “Re-establishing God’s order”
Each of these trips were accompanied by ‘signs following.’
For example in 2008 we attended a family wedding in St JOHN’S, New Brunswick. It was the first of 8 weddings we would attend that summer where each of the weddings corresponded to the 8 MIRACLE SIGNS in John’s gospel which in turn prophecy of the 8 DAYS OF TABERNACLES.
So the first of the ‘miracle signs’, in St. John’s gospel, the changing of water into wine at the WEDDING in CANA,………..corresponded to our first WEDDING in CANA-da in St. John’s!
This sign points to how we will be changed at the coming of the Lord (1 These. 4)
On another occasion our flight within Canada was delayed, and we had an unexpected layover in Montreal. We decided to have some lunch, and so picked a table outside a Downtown restaurant.
Then in the middle of my meal, “CLUNK!”
……..a piece of brick had fallen off the building – and landed on my plate!!
“So what does this mean Father?” We asked.
“I’ve got work for you to do here.” He replied. “Building work!”
Because time was limited, I ran through the streets and up to the top of the Mount for which the city was named, the Mount Royal.
An obscure monument at the top identified the different nationalities that had founded the city and I realized I had a claim to being a citizen of each one!
But even more importantly, God had orchestrated that a few years earlier Hilary and I be ‘arrested’ by leaders of the indigenous Ojibwe people from the region, befriended by them, and then given a ‘Joshua’ commission…… that wherever we would place our feet on his behalf, God would give the land!
So commissioned by the Lord, and also by his assigned ‘stewards’ of the region, I proceeded to circle the top of the Royal Mountain of The King, singing, first in English
Lord Jesus we enthrone You, We proclaim You are King
……………and then in French,
Jesu, nous t’adorons. O Jesu notre Roi.
I knew that this was what Father meant by the “Building Work”…....
“And as we worship build a throne.
And as we worship build a throne.
And as we worship build a throne.”
I realized that what God had seeded in Gilbert senior’s heart had to wait a generation to find fulfillment when by His orchestration, Gilbert junior came to the right place at the right time, and as we have done similarly on all 5 continents, used the ‘trumpet’ we had been given, to pray the ‘Caim’** over the land.
So as “God’s Mountie”, with the authority He had granted, from the Royal Mount on earth to the Royal Mount in heaven, I then issued the invitation,
“Come Lord Jesus and take Your place…..in this place….as King of CANADA.“
The last time we travelled across the border to Canada was to escort our dear sister Carolyn who was being ‘replanting’ back in her homeland. Our two cars were ‘packed to the gills.’ The girls drove together and I was alone, so I had hours to worship and pray. It was not lost on me that the major stretch along which we were driving was called The King’s Highway. So once again I knew it was a ‘set up’ to issue the invitation to King Jesus, to come and take His place – in CANADA!
I realized that it was probably along that same King’s Highway that many of the TRUCKERS have recently come. I believe their coming as the FREEDOM Convoy is an answer to the prayers of many people over the years, including ourselves, for Canada, that there would “FLOW OUT OF THE NORTH” – the ‘River of LOVE.’
From this song, which I quoted last week, the chorus resounds…..
Flow River flow, into a mighty sea.
Flow River flow, setting the captives FREE
Flow River flow, soon ALL THE WORLD will see
This River of God, this River of GRACE and MERCY
This River of God, this River flows out through you and me.***
*https://www.irishslang.info/fermanagh/fermanagh/sheugh-shuck
**https://newedenministry.com/2020/09/13/caim/
*** There is A River. The Trek CD