A reader wrote:

Hi Paul
Following on from your blog. A Canadian friend sent a short message. They would not have seen the video in your blog. 
…We learned from a friend in church today  who has studied pharmaceuticals something amazing about the blood of lambs.  She told us that about 80% of pharmaceutical companies use the blood of lambs to produce anti-snake venom . Of all animals, the blood of a lamb for snake bites… considering the blood of Jesus…..that’s incredible
I decided to check it up and this was the first link Google had. 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-05-23/sheeps-blood-provides-rattlesnake-anti-venom/1576314

Blessings Margaret 

Dr Brian Ardis hypothesis about snake venom has created some controversy. If in the end of the day it is found to have some substance, we know God has gone ahead by providing through the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, our full salvation which we can enter into by faith.

A few days ago I was standing in line at the grocery store waiting to check out, so I opened my phone to read a message that had just come in from my friend Mike. The subject line was The Epistle of Paul (McAree). Mike wrote, with his inimitable wit and insight……..

Hi Paul.

Thanks for posting the video of the above mentioned. Twenty and six years ago we met Paul in a restaurant in New Hope. As Ruth was just a few weeks pregnant with Ellie, Paul commented that she was the skinniest pregnant woman he’d ever met. As we said our goodbyes and look-forward -to-seeing-you-agains…Paul would affirm each future hope with “God willing.” I know he borrowed this phrase from the book of James, but he said it with a smile & an ardent conviction that made me realize he knew this experientially. So I started saying it too. He set a fine example…my experience would catch up.😊

But when I watched the video I didn’t recognize the distinguished grey haired gent because in my mind he still had a full head of whatever color hair it was back then. (The only other thing I know about Paul is that Hilary nearly killed him with oregano but he seems to have gotten over that. Even if it did turn his beard white)

As I listened to his abridged life story, I was compelled by it. He is every bit a living epistle! (which is the serving suggestion given by that “other” Paul) Paul McAree: A true “mensch” in every sense of the word. As moving as the rescue story is, I would have been just as moved had it not been included. His ministry is inspiring. His words are eloquent and his humility is genuine. The decision to follow Jesus has paid big dividends on this side of the world to come and will have greater rewards on the other side. The LORD has certainly exalted him in due season. This man is like the finest aged whiskey and his bottle is about to be opened for all to savor. If I ever do see him again, I will extend to him the heartiest of handshakes. Every quarter century or so I get encouraged by his object lesson on how to walk with God. I wonder what’s next?😊

Feel free to forward this to him if you think it will give him a boost. Even righteous dudes need a little shot in the arm occasionally.

McCabe!

As I glanced up I noticed in front of me at the Checkout, the above edition of National Geographic on the magazine rack. “How appropriate!” I thought, and snapped it!

The life of Jesus, The Good Shepherd, is now illustrated to the world through his disciples ….like Paul.

As was apparent from the setting in which Paul gave his powerful testimony he is Catholic. My blog readership is very broad, including people from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches as well as many with no denominational affiliation. I realized that in the last blog with Dr Brian Ardis, the Pope was not painted in a good light. I wondered how some of my Catholic readers might respond.

On Thursday I received the “Renewal Ministries” newsletter in the mail. We have known Ralph and Ann Martin for nearly 40 years. They stayed with us when they were in Belfast in the 80’s to lead a F.I.R.E. rally (Faith. Intercession. Repentance. Evangelization.)…. and trace their ancestors in the depths of County Cavan : – )

As I opened it, I noticed it was a special edition focusing on “The Shepherds.”

I flicked through the newsletter, then went to Youtube, where the title of a recent podcast caught my attention. So I tuned in to listen.

Ralph was expressing grave concern about some recent developments in the Catholic church. A Cardinal who had recently been promoted by the Pope to a very influential position was talking about the need to change the Church’s teaching on homosexual union to adapt to the times! Ralph talked about how disastrous this would be for the Church. He then quoted Benedict XV as saying that the church would indeed lose it’s standing in society, it’s money, it’s buildings and it’s people and then Ralph said ‘We’re heading toward a division because God is gathering A REMNANT that’s really faithful, that’s really committed.”

What grabbed my attention was not only Ralph’s words, but what was in the background in the recording, even at one point, unwittingly pointing to it……..

Yes! It is exactly the same icon that I had photographed the previous day in connection with Paul McAree’s testimony at the top of this post! This is the Christ Pantocrator, the most important Christian icon depicting Christ as ‘The World’s Sovereign Ruler.’

Notice the text where Ralph is quoting is from Psalm 2 which I did a blog series on some time ago. Here is the next caption………..

The final caption I captured to end on a most hopeful note was this……..

Although we may not agree on every detail of doctrine, it is our living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ who oversees every detail of life, that will unite us as A REMNANT drawn from all walks of humanity to become in our united love for Him and one another, a ‘motley crew’ indeed, but a shining illustration of The Good Shepherd.

This weekend, we are reminded of how our confidence is based not only on our Shepherd’s Goodness but on his Greatness. “Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep.” (Heb.13:20)

On Thursday the WW4K** also met and watched and discussed the Brian Ardis interview. The verses we were lead to conclude on were these from Mark 16…
¹⁵ He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.¹⁶ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

God is indeed bringing good out of evil as we go forth in the authority of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ‘The World’s Sovereign Ruler’ to proclaim this Good and Great News!

…….as we become the icon

**Warriors of the Word for the King. (or 4 Kyles….. three grandsons (11)(12)(13) and me)

This riveting interview is a ‘must see’. Beyond the depth of evil revealed, here is another illustration of the overcoming life and love of Jesus The Good Shepherd shining through a member of His body on earth.

https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html

This is another most encouraging report about how the Tanzanian people have responded to the replacement regime following the murder of the popular President John Magufuli.

President Magufuli in Africa, like Paul McAree in Ireland, expressed the heart of “The Good Shepherd” by being willing to lay down his life for the sheep.

You may remember I first reported on this through Amazing Polly on a blog on March 27/28 2021

REPORT FROM TANZANIA – MORE GOOD NEWS FROM AFRICA!

by Bushiri

AUTHOR’S NOTE: whilst reading the following, it would behove the reader to bear in mind that President John Magufuli was one of the most popular African leaders of recent history. His support base amongst ordinary people was real and enormous, due to his genuine warmth, his determination to put the people first and to rid his country of corruption, fat cats and government idleness.

Just ask yourself: Which other leader anywhere in the world has ever voluntarily HALVED his own salary and given the other half to worthy causes? Magufuli did that, and a lot more besides, throughout his entire five-and-a-half-years’ presidency.

And such was his success at pulling his country up by the bootstraps that he was known locally, and affectionately, as “the bulldozer.”

It is almost one year now since the assassination of the world’s one and only sovereign leader who waged open warfare against the COVID-19 Cabal.

This is a first-hand account of the situation on the ground in Tanzania since the hit squad was sent in to eliminate the only leader who fought the Cabal and their ‘vaccines’ head-on, out in the open, from day one…

Within a few weeks of President Magufuli’s murder, his replacement, Samia Suluhu Hassan, a female World Economic Forum attendee, set about installing the Cabal’s COVID agenda. It was a thoroughly depressing experience. I know. I was there to see it.

Gone forever were Magufuli’s maskless smile and palpable warmth, replaced now by daily images of a cold, insentient president and her entire entourage all muzzled, as per the Cabal’s orders.

In rapid succession, in came the following:

• a campaign of fear launched by the media
• images of ‘COVID patients’ in hospitals
• tight COVID controls at the country’s airports and borders
• directives to force the public to wear face masks
• face masks in all government buildings
• a masked police force
• masks in hospitals
• antisocial distancing
• masks in schools
• masks in the streets
• no handshakes
• public transport forced to operate at half capacity
• messages from government on our mobile phones, warning us about COVID and promoting the ‘vaccine’
• palpable fear between old friends and families
• import of COVID ‘vaccines’ banned under Magufuli

“She is poison,” were words often heard in the street when Tanzanians compared the new WEF-appointed president with Magufuli.

But then, after just one week, something happened. Something truly remarkable…

After just one week of all the fear and insanity, the people of Tanzania had had enough.

Call it the legacy of Magufuli, call it divine intervention, or perhaps just plain old common sense, but it is a fact that within just seven days, great cracks began to appear in the COVID narrative in Tanzania.

First it was the police. Working in the tropical heat, they quickly realised that they were suffocating behind their masks, so they threw them where they belonged – in the bin.

So, when you see that the police themselves are questioning the narrative and distancing themselves from the nonsense, what happens?

Everyone else follows.

And so, whilst the new president and her acolytes appeared on TV daily, all masked up, pumping out fear and promoting COVID ‘vaccines’, out in the streets the people of Tanzania were having none of it and, believe me, the mass non-compliance was a sight to behold.

I do not know how many of you reading this have borne witness to an entire nation engaged in peaceful, silent, civil disobedience, but I can testify first-hand that it is one of the most moving phenomena you can possibly experience: Like a warm, silent, gentle current passing from one person to the next, leaving everyone with a smile.

Quietly, THE WHOLE OF TANZANIA STOPPED COMPLYING.

THAT’S 50 MILLION PEOPLE in a land almost five times the size of Britain.

And so today, with the exception of the country’s airports (which 90% of Tanzanians will never enter), life goes on as it always has.

Children go to school without masks, people work freely unmasked, the police absolutely do not enforce any COVID rules, public buses are packed to the hilt. The fishermen sail the ocean, farmers till the land, tourists come from Europe to taste the freedom they once had. The markets are absolutely bursting with millions of smiling people buying and selling, hugging and hand-shaking, and the clubs and bars pound out the tunes whilst men and women are allowed to do what men and women have always done – meet, dance and romance, no passes required, no poison required, exactly as God intended.

It is a blessing from God to be here.

I write off with this final anecdote to put a smile on your face:

In a recent conversation with hospital staff in Tanzania, they informed me that the government had ordered them to launch ‘outreach programmes’ to inform the public about the danger of COVID. I quote from that conversation:

“…So we packed the hospital vehicles with equipment and staff and took off to the rural villages deep in the bush to inform them about COVID. When we arrived there, we found the people working in the fields and we called them together. 

“We asked them if they had heard of coronavirus, or COVID. They all just frowned and looked at each other. ‘What?’ they asked. They had no idea what we were talking about. So we tried again. And again they just shook their heads. 

They were completely bemused. So we stopped what we were doing and thought about it all right there. Then I looked at those villagers. They were fit and healthy. They were born under the hot sun. They worked their fields day after day, and you could see their muscles hewn from physical work, their gleaming skin, their white teeth. They were in perfect health.”

At this point in the conversation the doctor paused and shook his head. He looked embarrassed before concluding, “Then I looked at us people from the hospital. You know what, we were the ones who looked sick compared with those villagers! We were the ones who needed lecturing about health. So I told the staff to get in the vehicles and we drove away. We will not go back. Those villagers should be left as they are. They don’t need all this.”© 2022 Credence ECHN extra pages • Theme Xena

Please listen to this recent testimony of an heroic real life drama involving my good friend Paul McAree. Paul produced all my Irish albums including ‘O Ireland.’ This story is powerfully prophetic. It begins at 32 minutes, and lasts about 30 minutes.

https://churchmedia.tv/knockbridge/video/teaching-meetings-27-mar-1358

“For the winter’s past the spring has come and the King of Summer’s here.” **

Cycling along the boulevard, the song I recently posted, rose up from my spirit…..

“O the love, the love of Jesus…..O the love that rescued me….O the love the love of Jesus…………Forever found ………Boundless and free.”

As I came to the last line, “For the love of Jesus knows no end..……”

I glanced up, and saw this sign……..

Our invitations to St. Augustine over the years came from a dear friend who went to be with the Lord a few years ago. She said if I were to ever attend her funeral she would like me to sing the song that begins,

I’m walking through this life my friend, three foot of the ground

Nothing here can touch me now, I know I’m skyward bound,

For there’s a joy within my soul that just won’t go away,

It started when He called my name, the day I heard him say…..

Heaven is here at last my friend, heaven in is your heart

One day soon we’ll fly away…now is the time to start

Heaven is here at last my friend the Spirit gives you flight

When that day comes we’ll soar with Him…

So take off in this life!

When we are in step with the Spirit

….. Heaven, (that is in our hearts) and earth kiss….. as they meet in life!

As Psalm 85 puts it……

Love and faithfulness meet together;
    righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹ Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
    and righteousness looks down from heaven.
¹² The Lord will indeed give what is good,
    and our land will yield its harvest.

Though we have been going to St. Augustine for many years, in this ‘new season’ we discovered a number of ‘hidden gems’ heretofore unknown to us!

Just a few minutes walk from where we were staying we found, “Les Petits Pleasures” an authentic ‘piece of France’ in the heart of the USA with a ‘larger than life’ French Boulanger

We took great delight in sampling Les Petit Pleasures that Father had dropped in our laps : – )

Hilary opted for the healthy fruit while I stuck to our ‘Carnivore’ diet choosing the “Bear Paw” : – )

I realized with this ‘taste of France’ on earth, that the deeper delight was how it rekindled the taste of heaven from our times of ‘koinonia’ with dear French brothers and sisters with whom we translated, rerecorded and presented in French in Nice, France the musical Come Lord Jesus, as Viens Seigneur Viens. For the divorced couple who were reconciled by the love of Jesus at that presentation it became a life changing experience of ‘Heaven and earth kiss’.

Running along the water’s edge at Crescent beach in the sunshine I had the same realization. Relishing God’s wonderful world, along with the Spring Break throng, in this Floridian culture, was delightful. The deeper delight however was recalling that this was where without fail each year Father had given me the next installment of the message he wished us to deliver to his people in this place at this time!

Once again – a revelation from heaven for this time and this place

…….and being with you, nothing else I desire.” (Ps.73:25)

A final revelation came as we noticed this sign……..

“God has given us all things richly to enjoy” (1Tim.6:17)

This includes the beauty of all the diverse cultures in our Father’s world. What we need to BEWARE OF…. of is when we fail to delight in our primary identity – as God’s beloved children. If we place any other allegiance natural or chosen above this….. it becomes idolatry…..Beware of the French man or the Irish man or the ……….

This is the human weakness exploited by the demonic ‘powers (that think they) be’ who would have our individual identity be subsumed in a group identity where they pit us against one another in an effort to divide conquer and control. The bible calls this the sin of ‘party spirit’

They will fail, and Jesus’ prayer will be answered…….”that they be one.…that the world may know” (Jn.17)

“The winter’s past, the spring has come, and…….. “

This morning on my first outdoors run of 2022 I met a lady walking her dog – also out to enjoy Minnesota in this new season of spring.

“Hallelujah!” she exclaimed spontaneously!

Jimmy Owens taught us in Come Together in Jesus Name that “Hallelujah – is a word that means the same in every language.”

I have no idea her politics, her race, her religion, whether she was ‘jabbed ‘or not, but these things will no longer matter, when

…………..the “King of Summer is here.”

Then all the earth will exclaim, “HALLELUJAH!”

As Psalm 85 finds it’s complement in Psalm 67…….

May the peoples praise you, God;
    may ALL the peoples praise you.

Then the land will yield its harvest;
    then God, our God, will bless us.

** King of Summer on “O Ireland” CD

Last Thursday, Hilary and I returned from Florida to discover that the ‘hole in the ice’ season in Minnesota was gone….along with all the snow!

Our last visit to ‘the Sonshine’ State, was ‘pre-covid’ and our experience this time underscored that sense that we have ‘crossed the threshold’ into a new season as God’s plan for this nation and humanity moves forward.

The week in St Augustine was not only filled, but topped and tailed with grace. It was a Flori-DA-DAY : – )

Booking ‘last minute’ air mile flights, there were only a few scattered seats I had to choose from.

“Let me see if I can get you together” said the agent at Minneapolis airport our way out. We knew the trip was ‘in step with the Spirit’ when we ended up side by side in row 27 on our way to the 27th State having listen again that morning to our life chapter Acts 27 at our home on 27th Avenue!

“Let me see if I can get you together.” said the agent at Jacksonville on our way home. We ended up next to each other in 5A and 5B, and then again in 2A and 2B….. leaving from Gate 22. (22= Sons of Light)

The seats on both flights were an ‘Upgrade’…..as was the car our friends had left us to use……a Subaru Outback, the model ‘up’ from our Subaru Crosstrek……. also just recently purchased…… and again, with another ‘double grace’ message on the license plate!!

If you have been reading these blogs over the years you will be aware that there have been two ‘cradle sites’ of this nation we have been repeatedly lead to. New England, and in particular the small town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where friends have faithfully stood, pastorally, prophetically and prayerfully for many years. I therefore made a big deal of it when early on in the ‘scamdemic’ it was in that spot that ‘The Great Barrington Declaration‘ was crafted. When it was casually dismissed by Dr John Campbell and actively suppressed by Dr Fauci, I knew it was likely a voice of sanity and truth in the midst of the madness!

We must have visited St Augustine in Florida 20 times since we moved here! It is a ‘foundational’ city…… where the first ‘eucharist’ was celebrated on north American soil and the first mission ‘Nombre De Dios.” established. Sadly although the name of God came with those first Spaniards, often the ‘Spirit of God’ has been grieved as the nature of God, ‘the servant king’ has not been revealed through his church. It is for a ‘restoration’ of an ‘authentic’ expression of the kingdom of God that we have prayed on each visit there over the years (often at ‘Christ the King’ church!) inviting King Jesus to come and take his place.

On this trip we had many winks and smiles from heaven indicating that the time for those prayers to be answered is here.

At a national level we arrived just after Gov. Ron DeSantis had hosted a Roundtable discussion that resulted in Florida leading the way to counter the false ‘Bablyonian’ narrative. The three doctors from the Great Barrington Declaration where among the invited experts contributing to the reestablishment of a foundation of truth and integrity. So we felt personally encouraged to see these two ‘cradle sites’ both featuring in this ‘turn around’. In a summary of an article by Dr. Mercola two of the G.B. doctors are referenced…….

“According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID, yet children have been forced to bear the burden of disease prevention. “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children,”

“According to Dr. Sunetra Gupta, what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” Doubt was cast on things that were certain, while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about. Decision makers chose to do the very things we knew, for certain, would cause harm. They inverted the precautionary principle to minimize harm, and chose to maximize harm instead.”

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/covid-roundtable-discussion?s=r

Our previous visits to St. Augustine had been filled with P&P (preaching and praying). This trip was more characterized by R&R (“REST” and re-creation).

We borrowed our friends beach cruiser bikes and were given a lock with the combination code…….

I rotated one of the barrels. it was a momentary, almost effortless move. The result was powerfully prophetic……..

The cloth that has been used to obscure the face of God’s creation will now become a sail that will be filled as the Spirit of God, propels forward into God’s destiny, the people of ‘His kingdom’

A trumpet blast can sound the alarm, be a call to battle, be a declaration of victory…..or all three.

I have said previously how I believe we are currently in World War Three. Because it is an informational war where the Mainstream channels have been ‘captured’ by “the powers that (think they) be”, most are still unaware of this. Fortunately many are beginning to ‘Awaken’

I have for example previously mentioned Dr John Campbel, a popular ‘covid’ analyst. I have not questioned the doctor’s sincerity but his narrow perspective, and a naivety when it comes to trusting humans and their institutions. In a recent video he analyses the Pfizer documents which the company wanted to keep hidden for another 55 years and that reveal massive health dangers from the experimental ‘jabs’ Campbell had been urging people to get. His conclusion is “This is quite alarming!” **

“Awaken with J.P Sears” uses forthright satire to help us to ‘Awaken’ ……sounding the alarm about what is ‘hidden in plain sight’.

Information such as this excerpt from Schwab’s book is not something you will ever see on BBC or PBS……

The way in which this is playing out is described by Dr Lee Merrit in this interview about the “DNA war against humanity.”

https://brandnewtube.com/embed/n7vKc1dYcoMpGJJ

For some of you “Sounding the Trumpet” ……..of alarm!…. like this, might be a lot of ‘truth bombs’ all at once………which is what I began this blog with the song affirming God’s already established victory in Christ.

Gideon’s army was a small company whose victory ended up benefiting all the people. As they blew their trumpets and broke the earthen jars revealing the light …..it raised the alarm…… in the enemy camp! The trumpet blast was also a call to battle as fighting ensued……. but with the enemy fighting among themselves! The trumpet blast proved also to be the Lord’s victory blast!

One of our visits to New Zealand was just after Lord of the Rings had been filmed there. After picking up our camper van in Auckland we decided to purchase the cassette tape set of the BBC Radio4 dramatization of the Trilogy to listen to as we toured the islands. It was uncanny how when we came to a certain part of the story we found ourselves in the location at which the movie had been set.

Then we came to the end of the story at MORDOR where Gollum wrestling the ring from Frodo, plunges into the lake of fire precipitating the destruction of MOUNT DOOM and the whole evil empire, as Frodo is whisked away by the eagles to safety. (Ex. 19:4) For Frodo on his odyssey with the ‘one ring to rule them all’ the mountain of DOOM became the mountain of his DESTINY.

As I pondered this I thought how the name MORDOR could be taken as MURDER. After all this is the avowed purpose of God’s enemy who seeks to steal, kill and destroy those who bear his image and likeness.

We pulled into a parking lot in the region where the final scenes had been filmed, at the foot of what looked like Mt DOOM in the midst of the barren volcanic landscape. It was a bleak day and there was not another soul around. Then I noticed on the ground another cassette tape, only this one had the guts of the tape pulled out, strewn over the ground. We had been hearing about how Satanists would speak curses onto tape and then unravel that tape/curse at the targeted location.

So once again we got out our trumpet and blew it…….

“Lord Jesus we enthrone you. We proclaim you are King ……….of THIS place……..and of the whole of creation! Come Lord Jesus and take your place.”

As J.P. and Lee conclude, in this ‘evil day’ we are called to stand as Gideon’s army, bravely, without fear, knowing that as we Sound the Trumpet that we each have been given, we too shall in due season see the Lord’s victory. Then it will become clear that Mount Doom for some…… has become Mount Destiny, for that Overcomer company

O the blood, the blood of Jesus

O the blood, that ransomed me

O the blood, the blood of Jesus

For ever found. Boundless and free.

For there is nowhere that the blood does not extend

And there is no one that the blood will not befriend

And there is no wound that the blood can never mend.

For the blood of Jesus knows no end!

**https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/dr-john-campbell-the-pfizer-documents-this-is-quite-alarming/#utm_source=Rumble&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Rumble+ads&ref=generaldispatch.whatfinger.com

“You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.”(Ps. 66:12)

We have just returned from a few days of deep ‘koinonia’ in the depths of a winter wonderland of lakes and woods…..“Up North”.

One of the highlights was the ‘bonding’ of being ‘partners in sauna’, or was that partners in trauma, as seconds after emerging from the 210 degree log cabin, we plunged through a hole in the ice into Burntside Lake…….then back into the heat of the ‘fire’, then once again into the icy ‘water’ for a double baptism with twin Thomas!!

In the afterglow, we paused to look up into the same ‘pollution free’ sky that Abraham would have wondered at, thousands of years ago. There we too saw the promise of “abundance” demonstrated in the countless stars in the heavens on the far side of some ‘fire and water’ for Abraham too.

This was the perfect place and time for Sharon to produce her book just published, 365 devotionals under the title, “Heaven and Nature Sing.”

As we gathered to pray that God would abundantly bless this inspired anthology, I started up,

“The heavens declare the glory of God

The earth echos back, “His love spreads abroad.

It runs in the streams; streams in the breeze,

Bursts forth from the earth and explodes in the trees.”

And the whole of creation cries with one voice,

“Your Maker loves you; Rejoice! O man. Rejoice!”

Camp Du Nord with the Rupes, and Lynx Lodge where we wrote, “The FREEDOM! song”, brought back wonderful memories…..

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.”

…….Yet looking forward, we all sensed ourselves on the verge of another ‘Kingdom’ birthing.

“You’ve come this far now step further out

Out of the vale of tears.

You’ve come this far now move farther in,

While all of heaven cheers,

Freedom! Freedom!……”

My mind wandered “Down South”

…….this time to Australia, and to a FREEMAN there……Kathy that is.

Kathy Freeman was the Aboriginal hero of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but not before that major faux pas at the opening ceremony when the lift that was meant to carry her up ‘through fire and the water‘ faltered….. as if our Father was wanting to make a point – such as highlighting the above scripture??

Kathy did indeed go on to experience ‘abundance’ in the glory of the gold.

That was in the days before the shameful events of the last years when ‘men rode over the heads’ of Kathy’s people, herding them into ‘Covid concentration camps.’

My mind wanders to another Aussie experience. This time in the Aboriginal Homelands were we were invited by our friends Peter Greenwood and Dan and Sue Armstrong to serve their Aboriginal family.

Sharing with those of a different race and culture and language, again many hundreds of miles from the polluting glare of ‘citilization’, the stunningly clear night sky again became my ‘black board’ with the constellations providing the ageless illustration of the good news of God’s love….. with the Southern bonus of the Southern Cross!

“The Heaven’s declare the glory of God”, once again providing the musical setting…….the spirit of the song, if not the understood words, urging a response to our Maker’s great love……..Rejoice! O man. Rejoice!

Somehow I have only one or two photos from that trip, but it only takes one……..

This was the canyon we visited one day after the ‘once in a lifetime’ rains had fallen that year, and we had the rare privilege of seeing in the heart of this vast land, ‘the desert bloom’. As we hiked down to the bottom of this canyon, along the normally dry river bed there ran a stream of crystal clear water.

It was as if I was compelled to simply lie down in it and experience Dad’s love washing over me. I can still go there in my spirit and feel the light of the sun shining through the water through my closed eyelids bathing me in life!

“So Father what is the meaning of the JORDAN RIVER that you have had me writing about?” I have been asking.

The answer I seem to have been given is this…..

JORDAN Peterson’ teaches and demonstrates how to die well in life. James and Denise JORDAN teach and demonstrate how to live well in death.

Both of these are embodied in Jesus baptism in the JORDAN river. This is where he ‘legally’ died. it is also where he ‘legally’ was raised again to life, and as the Spirit descended and rested on him, he received the blessing from his Father’s heart,

“This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”

Even as I rose from that river of Dad’s delight, so too I believe will the Aboriginal people, and all those oppressed by the devil throughout the world, arise as from the dead into newness of life,

………and shine as ‘stars’ in their Father’s kingdom.

“……so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.” (Phil.2:15)

P.S. We arrived back and were soon reminded of life’s challenges….. a car crash….. an unexpected bill!!

I called the eye surgeon’s business office to appeal the $210. “We would be happy to cancel that charge.” was the welcomed response.

I recalled that it had been 210 degree heat “Up North”.

210 represents Jacob’s trouble.

Seems like another encouraging sign……the trouble is going to be cancelled….as we pass through the fire and the water…..into a place of abundance!

Hallelujah! Thank you Father!

If the JORDAN RIVER is represented by JORDAN Peterson from Canada in the North, that same river flowing to New Zealand in the south finds another namesake there…… James and Denise JORDAN.

One of the first gatherings we had here at Rivendell, was with Kiwis, James and Denise. I remember it well. We had about 100 people crammed into the Upper Room. At one point as we danced up and down ‘in synch’ someone burst in through the door shouting, “STOP!” He had been alarmed by the reverberations and shaking fixtures and doors throughout the main house!! Fortunately the floor did not give way with the resonance…… and we all lived to tell the story!

The Jordans were bringing the message of the Father’s Heart to Rivendell in 2002, the same year the ‘father figure’ of the movement, Jack Winter died. We were privileged to get to know Jack in his last years in his Minneapolis home.

On one of our early visits to New Zealand we met with James and Denise in their homeland. I remember being told if you draw a line from Jerusalem through the centre of the earth, the nearest city you would reach would be Christchurch, New Zealand. So from Jerusalem, it is literally at …….the end of the earth.

We hadn’t heard from them for many years until a few months ago when they sent an email. James wrote,

Years ago, when I realised that the Father had given Jesus a “Son-sized” assignment (the salvation of the world) I saw that for me to be a son appropriate to who our Father is, I needed a “son-sized” vision. 

Therefore, to see this revelation of God’s Trinitarian Love go into every stream of Christianity, every culture, every country, and finally face to face with every person, is what we live for.

The above photograph of a lion and Zebra, natural enemies, drinking side by side from the same watering hole was part of their message.

Thus took me back to the week Hilary and I spent at the Bay of Islands, next to the Waitangi Treaty site. The Psalm we were due to read the first morning was Psalm 67.

Each subsequent morning Father checked us from moving on, and had us read again Psalm 67! I described how we were on the ground floor, our room opening out onto the hotel gardens. Well each morning as we read we noticed a new species of exotic bird would appear before us! We knew these represented different ethnic groups or nations and that it was a confirmation of God’s word in the psalm,

“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us; may your ways be known on earth, your salvation among ALL NATIONS.”

At the end of the week we flew from the North Island to Christchurch on the south island. Bible open on the tray table in front of me, I was pondering the psalm once again, when the man next to me asked what I was reading.

“Psalm 67.” I said.

He said,

“I have just left my successful engineering business in the North Island to return to a YWAM base in the South because God has been speaking to me about this being a time to devote to training people for the wave of evangelism that will go from here to the ends of the earth.”

Then he said.

“The psalm God used to speak this to me, was the one you are reading…..Psalm 67!”

The next time we were back in Ireland we were dining with friends on one occasion, when I was taken with the tablecloth which had a variety of different birds drawn on it. The material was particularly durable and so Hilary enquired where our friend had bought it.

The next day we went to the store to see if we could purchase the same cloth for our long table at Rivendell. As I sat waiting in the car, I noticed a simple young man walk by in front of me. He paused, gesturing at the license plate of the neighboring parked vehicle, and mouthing words. When he moved on, I got out to see what it was he could possibly have been describing.

The number plate read 67. EZ. This what he had been repeating to himself, “67,. EZ. 67 EZ….”

It was as if our Father was answering the question.

“Is Pealm 67 possible?…… Could the revelation of God’s love and his salvation pssibly go to every nation…. even to every person?”

The answer he said was……..“EASY!”

May THE RIVER of God’s Spirit revealing the love of the Father in the gift of the Son go forth from the NEW ‘ZEAL of the Lord’ LAND at ….the end of the earth

…….. To the ENDS of the EARTH.