Next week end, in ones and twos people have been responding to our invitation, and are coming from the north, south, east and west to be welcomed to a FREEDOM! retreat here at Rivendell, to experience our Father’s house and heart of love. (Details are on the Events page at our website paulkyle.org )
This ministry is not just about helping unlock people’s personal prison doors so they can walk free as they appropriate the victory that is theirs in Christ. It is also that God the Father’s heart be “Un-Locked” so that it is more fully and truly expressed through these liberated captives!
As if to confirm this, today I received an e-mail request for this prayer from a lady called Victoria Rivera. It is the Victory of Christ (over sin and death) that will flow forth in a River of the Spirit – until the earth is immersed in the knowledge of the glory of God (his essential nature of goodness – his heart)…… as the waters cover the sea! (Hab.2:14)
In the early days of Community of the King in Ireland there were two brothers who experienced this victory in Christ.
The younger brother Keith married Jane and they moved from bonnie Scotland, Jane’s home, to be part of the community. They spent a year and a half living in our home where they had their first child, Shona, who is our Goddaughter. We continue to be ‘family’ to this day, and one of the last things we did before flying home from Ireland this time was to be warmly welcomed into their new home. It was designed and built by the two of them. Keith is the architect, Jane – the artist homemaker!
We ended up being the first visitors to their new home at number…….22 New Line Road!!!
…….remember the number 22?
That number that kept cropping up in an earlier blog means Sons of Light
……and what is the New Line?
– The Sons – not representing a sectarian line ‘of Ireland’ or ‘of Ulster’ – but of Light.
These are the “Sons of God” that we sang are to….“RISE AGAIN”!
If Billy Graham who died this year was a type of Moses, then Joshua (Yeshua) represents these ‘Sons of God” that are now to arise.
Keith took me to the back window to show me this view toward Scrabo tower. He told me, “That field was once barley, and is where scenes for the powerful Billy Graham video My Hope UK was filmed.” (You can find it on Youtube) Barley represents the Overcomer company – the Sons of God….”for in this hope we were saved.” (Rm.8:24)
The painting below by Charles Mackesy of the ‘running father’ hung in the guest room of Keith and Jane’s last home. It speaks loud and clear of the ‘new religion’, which as an ember being rekindled in this land, will manifest the ‘true religion’. It depicts God as the merciful and gracious Father welcoming us home. It is as this invitation is extended through hearts in homes like these, that the authentic fire of God’s love will engulf this land, and then as Patrick’s vision foretold, spread beyond it to the north, the south, the east and the west.
As we were talking together, Shona and her husband Dav and two children arrived in. They showed us the panoramic photo at the top capturing a spontaneously initiated neighborhood block party (the first I’ve heard of in Belfast!) as their hospitable home spilled out onto the streets.
Just like the parents, they carry our Father’s wide open heart of hospitable love.
Oh, and the name of this Irish family who are being used to reveal the Un-locked Father’s Heart?
Why……the Lockharts – of course : – )
P.S. What happened to the older brother you ask? Brett has also had a successful professional career as a Q.C. which is why last week he made the headlines on the BBC! Father has called him to labor in another part of His Irish vineyard : – )
The “deacon” brother also makes God’s hospitality a practical reality! (Acts.6)