BeLOnGings

I finished the last blog by referencing a song that I have had more requests for than any other.

Although “You Came To Me” was written over 40 years ago, a recording, as of today, is still not available….. but that’s a whole other story!

Another line in the song goes,

“….and now you come so faithfully each day.

And I know that you’ll be coming still if I’m ever old and grey.”

When I have occasion to sing the song nowadays, as at our last Christmas Day family gathering, I have to amend that line to,

“…now that I’m old and grey : – )’

It continues,

“So this is grace.……

I’m beginning now to see

That it’s not that I sought you out

But that you first loved me.”

We discover that the grace of God in our lives is most apparent not when we are strong, but when we are weak. This is counterintuitive in that our pride glories in our strength! Paul delighted in his weakness because it gave him the opportunity to boast in the Lord whose grace was revealed as he humbly acknowledged that he was not “in control’…. but God was! (2 Cor.12:7-10)

Following the last blog, Rob wrote to me.

“Hi Paul, 

Thanks for your words of encouragement. 

It reminded me of a recent poem I wrote…

“I’m wrong about a thousand things every day, but I’m right about one……… The Lord is merciful”

In your post, you used the word ‘thousand’ as in “Jesus comes to us in many guises, ‘a thousand times a day.'” 

In the poem I wrote, ‘I’m wrong about a thousand things.’  

So held together by a thousand**

.…..our awareness of brokenness opens the door to deeper intimacy with Jesus, who is engaging us to dive deeper into trust and joy in Him.“

I smiled again at the amazing timing of Rob’s email.

Here’s the story……….

Last year this ‘old dog’ learned a new trick! My friend Brian taught me how to Cross Country ski. (A recreation peculiar to Why O Why Lord Minnesota and a few other fringe States!)

Rob had handed down his old skis and boots to his niece, our granddaughter, Ana.

(You might remember in a recent blog her reading…..“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God……..the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it“)

Ana in turn passed her uncle Rob’s skis and boots on to me, but alas after a few outings, the 30+ year old boots perished!

So this Christmas, my present from the family was……..

The problem was when I went to try them on, they failed to click into the bindings! I called on Brian for help, and we discovered that there are two types of boots and skis. “Ah! Maybe a mismatch!” We thought. But when we looked we discovered, “No! They are both inscribed with NNN for New Nordic Norm.”

On closer examination we then found that the boots were not the standard NNN, but NNN……B.C.

The metal bar on the boot was failing to engage because it was thicker.

B.C. stood for……. Back Country!

Now the phrase, “The New Normal” is one everyone has been hearing over the last few years. It is one of the catch phrases used by the Globalists who want to establish a New World Order, where those who are still alive after the depopulation agenda plays out, are told they will “own nothing and be happy.”

If you want to look into this more, I came across this hard hitting satirical article by CJ Hopkins. https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/18/the-last-days-of-the-covidian-cult/

God fearing, bible believing folk can however, have a much more hopeful outlook than CJ as they see God’s good and sovereign plan unfolding.

About a week ago Stephen Jones began publishing prayers for the coming of the kingdom of God in different nations, that this will become for them, “The New Normal”.…..The Kingdom of God.

One night the Lord showed me that this was the message behind my ‘boot error/mistake/weakness’

The B.C. stood for Before Christ… in his second coming.

We would shortly witness these nations being transformed as he returns to do His second ‘living’ work.

So Hilary and I were lead in the light of our boot story to add Norway (in fact Scandinavia) to the list of nations to pray for at this time, for “The New Nordic Norm” of the Kingdom of God.

The next day we found Stephen had added Norway to the list!!

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2022/01/prayers-for-the-nations-part-2-norway

The first nations he had listed for prayer are ones to which we have been invited by locals and sent by the Lord, over many years….. the U.S.A. the U.K. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

We have trekked across all of these lands, singing and praying that the King and his Kingdom would come to them.

How thrilling to discover…. that the time is now near!

**1000 = God’s glory.

I wonder which version of my post you read from last week?

I rushed ahead of grace! Instead of asking the Lord when I should post, as soon as I got the second witness to the content I just went ahead and hit the “Post” button!

A few hours later it occurred to me that I had forgotten to write probably the most important paragraph, in the version I had composed in my head before committing it to paper, so as to speak!

I went in to make an edit and realized a fair number of people had already opened and read the post. I added..

“In The Silver Chair all three of our heroes are very aware of their own weaknesses and failures. For example Jill keeps forgetting the signs she was told by Aslan to remember. However in the end they are all humbled as they watch Aslan, the redeemer, work ALL things together for good!”

So, my error was concerning errors!……….

…and as I’ve said before often when I make a mistake I find it is the Lord drawing my attention to something he wants to highlight for me…..and maybe for you?

…in this case….. GRACE.

Jill had forgotten the important things that Aslan had told her, Eustace failed to recognize an old friend. We too often err because we have forgotten what God has said, or because we fail to recognize Him as he comes to us in many guises, ‘a thousand times a day.”**

Aslan (Jesus) graciously draws us back from regret for past errors into the joy of his presence in the present!

It then occurred to me I could also enhance the post by adding a song which begins,

“NOW…. may the God of hope.”

The chorus goes…

He who has called you

Is faithful and He will do

All he has promised to

…… in you.

Here is the link…

Let this New Covenant promise, fill us with ‘the hope of God’ in this coming year

…… that even if we get the timing wrong,

“God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all we could ask or think”!

** You Came to Me ….on the album yet to be.

Last Saturday night we were babysitting for three of our grandchildren. We decided to watch the old BBC version of C.S. Lewis’ The Silver Chair, produced when their parents were their age!

It was 5/17/2020 when I began drawing parallels between this story and what has been going on in our world. The dramatization was a powerful reminder of how those early senses around the ‘scamdemic’ have proven true.

The evil serpent queen representing biblical “Bablyon” works in conjunction with the Harfung Giants to control and exploit people.

The corruption of these malignant corporate giants who feed on ‘little people’ like Eustace and Jill continue to be exposed. Here are a few examples.

Big Media.

https://www.prageru.com/video/can-you-trust-the-ny-times?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_3503965

Big Education. Big Medicine. Big Politic.

In the dramatization it stuck me that when Prince Rillian was finally freed from the bewitching power of the Queen and restored to sanity

……….he rips off his mask!

The spell broken and the enchanting Silver Chair destroyed, our three heroes (like these three heroes above) lead the way out of the dark and deadly underworld back into the light and life of Narnia where Aslan is honored as King.

I mentioned that we were now in the 32nd year since I had received the hope filled prophecies from Paul Cain and Bob Jones.

32 represents God’s covenant.

The Old Covenant represents man’s promise to God which he can never keep. The New Covenant represents God’s promise to man which he cannot but keep.

It is described in Jeremiah 31

“³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.“

Although we in the church have paid lip service to honoring the New Covenant we have often not lived this out as we have continued to trust in our own efforts to save us while at the same time limiting God’s ability to bring forth salvation for all mankind according to his expressed desire.(1Tim.2:4)

In The Silver Chair all three of our heroes are very aware of their own weaknesses and failures. For example Jill keeps forgetting the signs she was told by Aslan to remember. However in the end they are all humbled as they watch Aslan, the redeemer, work ALL things together for good!

…and guess what?……the final price of the car came out to be ...32.

There was even a confirming message for us in the temporary license plate of our CrossTrek!

….which added up to…. 32!

Bob Jones in his ‘100 year prophecy’ said that the decade of the 2020s would be characterized by “Rest”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXZ22oVNk2I

“Rest” is reflected in our home address …2721 Park – view Blvd.

God’s words to Moses at the Red Sea deliverance were, “Stand still (Park) and see (View) the salvation of God.”

Rest is the fruit of entering fully into the New Covenant

Again this is ‘spelt out’ in the numbers of the license plate!

In Psalm 95 God talks about how by hearing his voice, we can enter into his “REST”

Psalm 91 begins, “Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find REST in the shadow of the Almighty.”

Sandwiched between the numbers 95 and 91 is the number 17

17 represents VICTORY.

In the final scene of The Silver Chair, Aslan’s blood ‘of the new covenant’ is seen to bring Price Caspian back to life! Under Aslan’s watchful eyes the resurrected one then joins with the emboldened Jill and Eustace as they put those enemies who have been bullying them….. to flight!

As we REST in the finished work of Christ, and “follow the lamb wherever he goes.” we are looking forward to participating in the outworking of this VICTORY,

……as we cross the threshold and emerge into Aslan’s Kingdom!

……in this 32nd year that spreads out before us!

I get one blog at a time. I publish it…… and then am given the next.

My final sentence in the last blog, about our entering the higher level of faith and anointing of Tabernacles was

“…across every land.“

It subsequently occurred to me that we had only ever ridden in one other (Tabernacles) Subaru

…..and that was in Africa!

Our friends, the Gordons, from the community in Belfast served the Lord faithfully for many years in Malawi. They had been part of our group of young married couples called “As Partners Together” named from Philipians 1:5, “…as partners together in the gospel.”

Noel and Linda’s AWD Subaru was essential for the terrain in Malawi! Throughout the 80’s we visited them and other ‘kingdom’ folk we had been connected to on the continent.

Paul Dell from the Transvaal, was an unpretentious grandfatherly figure, who had been used by God to transform a whole rural region in South Africa.

I remember one evening he took us out onto the porch of his farm house, and asked us, “What do you hear?’ We described the beautiful music of an African forest at night.

“A few years ago” he said, “You would have heard the drums of a hundred witchdoctors!”

The Prince of Peace had come to the region as this man of faith had simply proclaimed the kingdom of God with signs and wonders following. Barren desert had given way to fruitful gardens, sickness to health, fear to faith and death to life.

It truly was a foretaste of ‘God’s kingdom’ coming in South Africa!

A few months later, sitting on a park bench in London, Bob Jones had noticed Paul walk by, and turning to my friend said, “That is the most anointed man in Africa.” At the ‘Prophet’s conference’ at H.T.B. that evening, Paul Cain signaled him out and said, “If you continue doing what you have been doing, South Africa will be the first truly Christian Nation in the world.”

In the early 90’s we sensed the Lord was ‘loosening our roots’ and a move from Ireland was immanent, we flew to Johannesburg to discern if that was where we were being sent. It was at the time Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I knew that although he was being hailed as ‘a savior’ there was another Savior coming who would more truly and fully save that nation.

I recall standing on Table Mountain, Cape Town, at the Rhodes monument commemorating where the expansion of the British Empire into Africa had begun. looking north, and singing,

“Lord Jesus we enthrone you we proclaim you are King of Africa…….Come Lord Jesus and take your place!”

……and seeing a light sweep upwards from South Africa over the “Dark continent’.

A few years later I was to stand on the Rock of Gibraltar looking south….. and singing the song again……saw the dark continent once again flooded with light.

At a personal level on that trip, we heard a ‘No’ to Africa…… and shortly thereafter a ‘Yes’ to America.

The Gordon’s son Adam and his wife Laura however and their children have been called, as partners together, to serve in Uganda with a flourishing group, Engineering Ministries International. They are literally putting up physical buildings as an expression of God’s love.

…….. Adam recently sent me this short recording from the heart of Africa.

Over the last few weeks Stephen Jones has been writing about some profound kingdom building developments at a high level in South Africa. Stephen also a number of years ago had a vision of light sweeping across Africa. You can read about these developments on recent blogs at https://godskingdom.org/blog#latest

As the camera pans across the landing strip with the invitation, “Come Lord Jesus and take your place…” being sung by the African people.

……….is the man walking away from the plane that has just ‘touched down’ a sign from the Lord, that Africa’s time has now come to more fully receive the King and His Kingdom?

This morning there was an interesting headline in The Epoch Times….

“South African Study: Omicron may signal end of acute pandemic phase.”

A friend wrote,

“Dear Paul,

This year we too purchased a ‘new’ car. God is provisioning all of us with ‘rubber that grips the road’ to travel safely around ‘the road’ to and in Zion. We also got a car with all wheel drive for any ‘off road’ adventures in God.

Also, a week before Christmas the Holy Spirit said a word to me in prayer time: ‘Transeamus’. As a choir boy we sang Britten’s ceremony of carols each year in NYCity. One of the mediaeval poems he set to music was ‘There is no Rose”. The final words are ‘Transeamus Transeamus’. Latin for ‘we are crossing over, we are going across’ This year there is a cross trekking and crossing over, or definitely a setting out, as you describe in your ‘Voyage’.

Transeamus (let us cross over).

Collins”

When neighbor John called in the other day he told of how his Great Grandfather from Germany met his Great Grandmother from Sweden on the boat crossing the Atlantic. They got married at Ellis Island and then set off west in a covered wagon eventually homesteading in North Dakota. What a different world of risk taking, hardship and adventure!

The story reminded me of the cover of our Trek album above.

The Bright Hostage Trilogy was recorded after our much faster and more comfortable passage to the New World.

First came the Voyage. Like St. Brendan, 1500 years ago we trusted the wind and the waves of the Holy Spirit to bring us across the Atlantic to God’s apppointed destination.

The Trek then focused on the next season of our responding to invitations to travel the length and breadth of the USA to share the good news of Jesus the Son.

The third album focused on our making the final Ascent up the mountain of the Lord’s temple, to the Father.

These three albums not only reflected the persons of the Godhead, but our journeying personally and corporately through the 3 major feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, and moving from the Outer Court to the Holy Place to the Holy of Holies.

Last week we picked up a new car! I found this a hard decision to make. My mentality has always been to ‘make do with what we have’ I am still learning that a ‘poverty gospel’ can be as skewed as a ‘prosperity’ gospel! Our 13 year old car still runs, but In the end, the purchase did ‘make sense’ to me, and Hilary and I came to peace “between the cherubim” that this was the time and this was the car we were being directed to buy.

The last time we spent money like this on a vehicle was when we first arrived in the States. At that time we were lead to buy a new vehicle. “Big Blue”, our Dodge Ram Van, carried the Von Trapp Kyles to the four corners of the nation, and every State but a few.

I woke the other night and as I waited, Father began fitting some pieces together………

It dawned on me the name of the car we were buying was a CROSS TREK.

Then I realized the date we would be picking up the car was 122221. Whether you start at the beginning and read forward or at the end and read backwards it takes you to Psalm 122 which I referenced in the recent blog “Crossing the Threshold”

“We are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem” (v.2)

21st December was a “Turning point’ – the winter solstice. The 22nd was the first day after crossing this threshold

Psalm 122 is one of the Psalms of Ascent which the children of Israel recited as they went up to Jerusalem 3 times each year to celebrate the feasts.

Jesus fulfilled the first two feasts of Passover and Pentecost at his first coming.

Over these past 2,000 years we have been making an Ascent, toward the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles at his coming again.

When I woke, the clock had said, 3.33. This multiplies to 27.

We had come to the US as 9, and since then God had added 18.….. 9+18 = 27.

I was born on 27th, we were married on the 27th, we moved to the US 27 years ago, and now live on 27th Avenue.

The number 27 represents “The Ministry of Salvation preached by the overcomers under the anointing of Tabernacles.”***

When I fell asleep again that night, I had a dream in which I was driving a new vehicle. A vehicle can represent a ministry. It took a new set of skills to drive this. I was moving very quickly, and as I came to a sharp bend met a blue bus with Crystal written on it’s side.(Representing the heavenly realm?) I felt very peaceful, steered around it, and continued without slowing down.

I believe God was speaking about an ‘UPGRADE’

We are transitioning from the ‘covered wagon’ style TREK……. to a ‘Subaru’ TREK.

Subaru is the Japanese word for Pleiades.

The Pleiades, is mentioned in Job 9: 9, and 38:31,32. They are the Seven Stars representing the Seven Churches of Revelation 1:20.

God named the stars revealing His plan of salvation.(Is.40:26, Ps.19:1) They establish His Virgin birth (Virgo), His dual nature as Son of God and Son of Man (Centaur), His death on the cross (Crux) as the Ram (Aries) and the Goat (Capricorn), His victory over the serpent (Scorpio), the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as the result of His work (Aquarius), the Church and the Overcomers depicted by the sign of the two fish (Pisces), His second coming (Taurus) at the feast of Tabernacles, and finally His rule as the Lion (Leo) of the tribe of Judah.

The Pleiades is in the constellation of Taurus. The brightest star is Alcyone. It’s Hebrew name is Succoth, Booths, Tabernacles. The focus of the Seven Churches in Revelation is the feast of Tabernacles and the emergence of the Overcomers out of the Seven Churches.

I believe this TREK ‘UPGRADE’

…….is where under the anointing of Tabernacles the Ministry of Salvation will be carried by the Overcomers

…..across America

…..and every other land!!

***https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-biblical-meaning-of-numbers

This year we saw milestones for two of our Firstborn.

Robin our Firstborn son married Cori on a beautiful fall day in October. We were so grateful that all the family were able to make the joyous event.

On December 24th, 2003 our Firstborn grandchild, Ben and Kim’s daughter Ana-Marie was born. She turned 18 years yesterday! We were delighted to hear her do the final reading from John’s gospel, at RiverTree school’s Festival of Lessons and Carols. A ‘Nana’ recording….Fill in the first line and enjoy the good news!……..

December 25 of 2 B.C. was when the Magi arrived in Bethlehem, bearing gifts for the King. Jesus was already three months old at the time, having been born at the feast of Trumpets, the evening of September 28/29.

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2021/12/christmas-musings-and-a-divine-court-date

We rejoice in his incarnation so that that he might become, “…the FIRSTBORN among many brethren.” (Rm.8:29)

May you and your family’s celebration today……… which would then approximate more to the time when Jesus was conceived, rather than born!…..be filled with love, joy, peace, and hope at His coming again.

The last blog finished with the children singing “Deliver me”

The Passion translation renders Psalm 8:2,

“You have built a stronghold by the songs of children. Strength rises up with the chorus of infants. This kind of praise has power to shut Satan’s mouth. Childlike worship will silence the madness of those who oppose you.”

The last two blogs have highlighted this ‘madness’ and our need to ask Our Father. “…..and deliver us from evil”

The heroic, Dr Joseph Mercola for years has talked about the benefit of vitamin D. Adequate levels of this important nutrient are likely the single most important factor in maintaining health in the face of the ‘covid’ crisis. Fraudulently labelled by the government and Mainstream media as part of a “Disinformation Dozen” this Joseph has been marginalized and maligned by the Mainstream fraternity of ‘healers’

A few days ago he published as always a well researched article entitled, “The Two Biggest Thugs in Modern Day History.” The article is of course unavailable now because of how truth continues to be suppressed and free speech censored. The two people he described, both featured in videos in my last two blogs.

I knew in advance about one of them, because I had an experience one night many months ago when the Lord woke me and said, “I am going to show you evil.” I waited, expecting to see maybe Hitler, Mao, Stalin or Gengis Khan. Instead, it was the so-called ‘healer’ Dr. Anthony Fauci who appeared in front to me.

I fear both Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates will ultimately be seen to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people.

As Dr. Peck points out in “People of the Lie” these ones who are being used as instruments of great evil should be the object of our pity rather than our anger, for ‘There but for the grace of God go I.”

Deliverance however, is at hand.

Evil is as old as the devil, God’s servant, who we read was already on the JOB, in the oldest book of the bible!

Another one of his early assignments was when he incited the fraternity of Israel’s jealous sons to throw their young brother, Joseph, into a pit, maybe to kill him, certainly to sell him into slavery.

And yet the end of that story which becomes the end of every story, where the devil has been given his head, is when Joseph’s brother’s, recognizing their error, fall down in terror before the one they have betrayed. Joseph responds by saying to his brothers,

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, THE SAVING OF MANY LIVES.” (Gen.50:20)

The Satanic depopulation agenda that has been advanced by the likes of Fauci and Gates is clearly of evil intent. Jesus contrasted the devil’s INTENT to his own when he said in John 10:10,

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

As the enemy’s evil plans to rob us of life becomes more and more exposed and obvious, so God’s greater plan that we might experience MORE ABUNDANT LIFE is also being revealed in our day!

Both the story of Joseph and the story of Job affirm to us that,

….after we have gone through some real pain,

we see how……

“God works ALL things together for GOOD.”

….both for us and for our family and friends.

I have been referencing personal prophecies we received in 1990 from the prophets Bob Jones and Paul Cain, that are being fulfilled NOW – in this 32nd year. Interestingly 32 represents God’s covenant promises!

At the time we received them we were leading a fellowship called, Community of the King in Belfast. In recent years we have worked under the title Coming King, derived from the song “Lord Jesus we enthrone You, we proclaim You are King…..Come Lord Jesus and take your place.”

At a large meeting in Maysfield Leisure Centre, never having met us and in the natural knowing nothing about us, Paul Cain signaled us out, named us and began to speak……

“I see you sitting in a place where there is a number 6 – and you’re looking in number 8 where the King’s presence is supposed to be dwelling…. and it’s not as exciting as it used to be. But the King is still there…. and He’s coming! …………..”

“Is this making sense to you? – Wave your hand if it is – Sure it is!”

It sure did make sense, because at the time we lived in a semi detached (duplex) – number 6, Kensington Drive. We had put a door on our landing through to the other part of the duplex which was number 8!….. Number 8 housed the office for Community of the King!

Paul went on to say,

‘You’re going to have such inner peace, and ‘glory’s’ and ‘hallelujah’s’ springing out of your life.

He finished with,

“I’m letting him see my face again and he’s going to see my glory….and you’re going to walk all the days of your life in the house of the King – in the fellowship of the King! Great joy is going to accompany this in the name of the Lord!”

I recently realized that this year I turned 68. 6 + 8 = 14. 14 is the number for DELIVERANCE

“So what is the significance of the photo?” ‘ You’re wondering.

You might recognize our neighbor John. He arrived up a few months ago in great pain and with very restricted movement in his left arm. He had dislocated his shoulder. He had delayed seeking medical attention because in his own words. “I ain’t going to that hospital cause they’re going to want to ‘jab’ me!'”

So I had him sit down and with the help of Duck Duck Go, refreshed my Med’ school memory, and then began pushing and shoving and twisting and turning in an attempt to reduce the dislocation. All however to no avail. As you can see, he’s a big man and it looked like he’d left it too long.

“Ah well John.” I said. “We’re just going to have to ask God to heal it!”

We prayed, and he left.

John came to our circle the other night, and I asked him, “John how is the shoulder?

“Look” He said, stretching his arm in the air. “No Pain!”

He had forgotten to mention it!

We had a good laugh together, and lots of ‘glorys’ and ‘hallelujah’s’

D(ELIVERANCE) DAY is for HERE and for NOW!

I just realized, his name is actually Russell Brand!………Obviously Brandon was a Freudian slip!

On the previous blog I gave the number of references in Robert F Kennedy’s book as 22,000. It should have read 2,200………Again I find my human ‘mistakes’ are often because Father wants to highlight something for me. Interestingly 22 is the number for ‘sons of light’

DR. ZELENKO EXPOSES THE SATANIC DEPOPULATION AGENDA!!!

A lot has changed over the past few years, not least who it is we ‘hang out’ with!

It’s as if our Father has taken a pack of playing cards, shuffled them and redealt us a hand. When we glance down, we are surprised at who is in that hand …and who isn’t!

More than just a rearrangement……. we are experiencing a whole ‘paradigm shift’!

Bob Jones alluded to this in the prophecy I posted in the last blog. He said,

“What He’s doing right now in the church is uniting whosoever will with one another. Because these weapons being released cannot be handled by one person. It will take teams to handle them and usually TEAMS consist of about twelve people. These teams will be united with one purpose in mind and when they go to war they will make decrees and declarations according to the heart of the Father. These decrees will be established according to the will of the Father.”

You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways. (Job 22:28).

When people ask me, “What church do you belong to?” I know they often expect a ‘cultural’ rather than biblical answer as we acknowledge membership in a denominational (including non-denominational denomination!) organization that we have joined, that probably has as it’s primary focus a meeting on a Sunday, in a building.

This is one aspect of the paradigm shift that God has been accelerating through events over the last few years, as we find ourselves going ‘Back to the Future” rediscovering a more New Testament model where ‘church’ is identified primarily as a ‘kingdom’ lifestyle out of a family/ home base, where God elects to ‘joint’ people as members of an ‘organic’ body which is a source of life and a setting for service

……… as Bob said, ‘teams of about twelve people’…..“united with one purpose”. That purpose is ultimately to bring to the world, “the light of God’s favor”

I was reflecting last night on how we now find ourselves in a number of such ‘teams”– diverse and different, and sometimes overlapping.

These team members seem more conscious than ever that they need to be, ‘lead together by the Holy Spirit’ (Matt. 18:20) to walk together in the light and in covenant relationship, in mutual availability and vulnerability.

As Dr Zelenko points out, we are every moment, individually and collectively being ‘vivified’, and albeit less dramatically than in his miraculous testimony, have been spared…..‘for such a time as this’

It is as we look down at the hand our Father has dealt us, we see the TEAM/S he has given us to work with in these pivotal days. In one of these groups the other night someone had a vision of ‘circles around camp fires’

On a broader front we are also finding in this new paradigm, our TRIBE.

In the above video Dr. Zalenko tells the story of his 4 year old daughter saying to him,

‘Daddy you are my brother”

“How is that ?” he asks her.

“Well if God is your Father and he is my Father that makes you my brother!”

Amused, he acknowledges his daughter has just shown him some truth about their relationship he hadn’t realized before!

Nowadays we find ourselves relating with people in a broader TRIBE, we would not have expected….people like this brilliant Orthodox Jewish truth teller from New York.

The spiritual battle we have been engaged in over the last few years defies ‘natural’ fault lines such as religion or politics, class, race or culture. This war is between good and evil, over what is true and what is false.

The good doctor speaks very plainly in this powerful message that the issue that will unite us in purpose is our commitment to ‘Rise Up’ and stand for ‘truth’ as we choose to fear no man but serve God alone.

This drives home the point that the sort of ‘faith’ Jesus prized was not primarily theological orthodoxy but a living trust in a sovereign God.

The man most honored by Jesus for his faith was a Roman centurion. He likely followed the religion of the day but when Jesus encountered him for the first time on the road his words of approval (without regard to what his ‘beliefs’ were) rang out, “I have not seen such faith in all Israel!”

Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart where faith resides, and if we seek to look with his eyes he will help us discern those who are of this TRIBE of truth and faith. (Which I might add, is not the same as ‘the church crowd’!)

……for Jesus said, “Whoever is of the Truth hears my voice.” and Paul added, “Faith comes by hearing.”

If you have read this blog thus far (having not previously hit the’Unsubscribe’ button!) you may be on one of these TEAMS I’m in…… and are probably part of this TRIBE. Thank you for still being here!

We do find ourselves in these days of shaking apart, that we might be shaken together, with some unlikely folk…….. who are still thinking critically and searching for that truth.

As a friend said to me the other day,

“I never thought I’d been listening to Russel Brandon in bed at night!…….STRANGE BEDFELLOW!!”

This is not to say that I am suggesting you accept everything, everyone I have named or linked to on the blog says……not at all! The ‘discernment of spirits’ I spoke about last week is more important than ever in these days.

For example, the ‘packaging’ on this link around Dr Zelenko’s address I found unhelpful. Similarly the next video I’m sharing below about ‘mass formation’ I can track with until the last song! I believe it is a very different song that will set us all free – more akin to the song I’ve posted at the very end, from our grandchildren’s uplifting and heartwarming Festival of Lessons and Carols today!

Ultimately that song to liberate the whole of creation will be the ‘new song’ of Revelation 14:13….. which I believe we are beginning to learn to sing!

Hallelujah!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4rD38QyfZ2nd/

VERSE 3

But now sleep, Son of God

We’ll watch in awe

You’ll fulfill the Father’s plan

Reconciling God and man

Now Your promises to keep

Must sleep

Chorus

Sovereign One

Born as Mary’s son

Prince of Peace

One day You’ll deliver me

Deliver me

P.S. As always, we appreciate all your comments and any questions.

Love always,

Paul (and Hilary)