What a Day we live in! A turning point indeed for America and the whole world.
As those of you who know us are aware over the years we have found the ‘little picture’ of our personal life experiences often intersects with the ‘big picture’
Last weekend it happened again!
Let me share it with you for your encouragement.
32 years ago, the year before our whole family moved to America, I was invited to a small gathering of brothers in Estes Park Colorado.
One afternoon finding myself alone in the cabin, I picked up the guitar and was given the song, The Heaven’s Declare. (An all time favorite but as yet unrecorded song, it is after all these years planned for the album Ben is currently working on, The Whole of Creation.)
Last weekend we were invited back to Estes Park again, this time to participate in the wedding of one of our spiritual daughters who had lived as part of our family in The Big Green House for four years.
32 is the number of God’s covenant love….into which we are invited as a married couple.
I became aware when we were there that this was yet another Victory Lap.
You’ll remember the song I was given to sing on each Lap was On The Day You Were Born better known as The Freedom song.
I was to sing it not just for the individuals but for the nations. It is based appropriately on Zephaniah 3:17 (17 for victory and the initial 3 laps)
You’ll remember the timely gift featured on the last blog post….the 17×5 (Victory of Grace) sign
Having last year completed one Victory Lap east in this nation then one to an eastern nation then a third to a western nation, this completed a 4fold assignment, by going west in this nation to another state we had visited many times in the past.
The bride and groom had requested we have ‘a prayer meeting’ for those who wanted and had arrived the day before the wedding.
I opened up that morning with Good Mornin Dad and as you can see above, Dad showed off his ‘smiling face’ in the sky overhead.
I sang the song as from Father to the 25 gathered….
‘On the day YOU were born I danced over you….you’re the child of my love,……you’re my choice.’
Many in the room had never met before, and so we then went around the circle and so each person was named as they received the truth of Father’s word to them from everyone else.
We came to the bride and groom and all sang….
‘Vincent you’re the child of my love you’re my choice…….Nicole the child of my love you’re my choice.’
When you ‘marry’ these two names, you get……
The Victorious Victory of The People.
I realized this was a proclamation for the nation of America.
This same weekend Donald Trump has been inaugurated as President of this nation. He has committed to see power taken out of the hands of the ‘kings of the earth’ and returned ‘to the people’.
This was the heart of Jesus message in ‘the sermon on the mount,’
……that true (kingdom) power and victory do not lie without, but within each person as they surrender to and become disciples of the one true King of Heaven and Earth.
At Denver airport as I walked through the gate for the return flight, the airline attendant called me back.
‘Sir! Be prepared for me to check that guitar….It’s a very full flight!‘ she warned.
As I made my way down the aisle I noticed there was one overhead compartment large enough to hold my guitar that was still available. I hoisted the guitar, which had accompanied our proclamation over America, into its ‘grace space.’
….and then noticed the bin number.
.…..and then the letters
……The Banksters defeated.
‘The one enthroned in heaven LAUGHS…..I have set my King on my holy hill’(Ps.24,6)
“Freedom! Freedom!
Let all creation sing.
As we take the hand of our Father
As we take the hand of our King.”