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One thing leads to another…………

I spoke with a good friend in New Mexico after posting the last P.S. blog, about the number 44 representing the Chosen. He and his wife have both experienced within a few weeks the trauma of a parent dying, resulting in them having to make some major life decisions. He shared how they had experienced Father’s “beautifully precise and personal care” guiding them in these decisions…… and then the blog arrived answering the question he had been asking for some time about the meaning of the number 44 which kept cropping up in his life. The blog confirmed that he was indeed, “Chosen”

….. But I also realized that not only was HE chosen but that THEY were chosen – chosen to be together as husband and wife, and that WE were chosen to be together as brothers and sisters through countless ups and downs over these 27 years!

It only takes 27 hours at the FREEDOM! retreat for the same spiritual and relational reality to begin to form.

Sitting in a circle at the close of this intense experience we pass the cross pictured above around, giving each one the opportunity to give testimony to what the retreat has meant for them. Beyond comments about personal breakthroughs, “Fellowship as it’s meant to be” is an oft heard comment as our Father works yet again, ‘the miracle of community‘ in our midst. Yet each one has ‘paid their dues’ as they have come in humility and with courage to seek help from the Lord through their brothers and sisters who ‘walk in the light’ as they ‘get real’ in testifying about their own journeys from darkness to light.

The retreat starts with a focus on Paul’s words in Ephesians 1 about being Chosen. Although each one needs to first grasp this in a uniquely personal way, look how Paul writes this truth,

“Blessed be the God and Father of OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed US in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places even as he CHOSE US before the foundation of the earth that WE should be holy and blameless before him.“

Hilary and I have been catching up on the episodes of The Chosen series whose success has been another miracle. What a great title, because although Jesus was The Chosen One it begs the question so “Who then are these ones he has chosen?”

Much of the story revolves around the refining process overseen by Jesus as the relationships develop between these diverse characters who are often ‘butting heads’ Yet they are destined to become bonded together as the future apostolic foundation of the ‘dwelling place’ God is going to build with ‘living stones’ to become ‘The Community of the King’. (When we were given that name “Community of the King” for our fellowship in Belfast it was not to describe who we were, but whose we were. We knew there was much work to be done for us to become, a true reflection of King Jesus, to whom we had bowed the knee.)

I have started reading a book that just came into my hands, by being rescued from a box, destined for the local ‘Thrift Store’!

When I opened it up, and the front cover snapped off (to become a useful bookmark : – ) I realized it had sat for 30 years without ever being read. It’s time was now! Just as Humility was the Andrew Murray classic that burning itself into my soul at the start of my journey, it was as if this was his ‘bookend’ book for me! The Power of The Blood of Jesus describes the golden thread in scripture of this foundational fountain…….. that I remembered I had written about in a song.

There is a river whose streams make glad the City of our God

A river of love that’s flowing now from his throne above

Even the foulest sinner is covered by his blood

So join me as I run and dive into redemption’s flood! **

With spiritual warfare at a height within God’s creation we need to remember the description of The Community of the Chosen in Rev. 12. “THEY overcame him……. by the BLOOD of the lamb, and by the word of THEIR TESTIMONY.”

Oh and yes, that most important line…….”and they loved not their lives unto death.” That essential ingredient that is recognizable in every member of that CHOSEN COMMUNITY – and depicted in the Orthodox cross above, where life blossoms out of death.

Indeed it is “As we walk in the LIGHT as he is in the LIGHT then we have fellowship with one another and the BLOOD of Christ cleanses us from all sin.”

This is God’s prescribed pathway to experience the miracle of His Chosen Community, that we,

.…………..WALK IN HIS LIGHT and that we TRUST IN HIS BLOOD.

I noticed the latest merch’ from The Chosen highlights a line Jesus is given to speak after offending the corrupt, self serving, establishment leaders by breaking their man made traditions in order to remain faithful and true to his heavenly Father.

“Sometimes you gotta stir up the water.” he explains to the disciples, as he walks in the shadow of three crucified men. He knows this is where his destiny will lead. This ‘brood of vipers” will instigate his death. He will submit to the cross. Then as he bears the sins of the whole world he will speak the words, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

This too is how we are called to walk as His Chosen Community.

Father confirmed I should post the following video by Canada’s Amazing Polly when I got to minute 47. An immigrant from Romania says to a Trucker,

“Please don’t leave. Please stay. GOD CHOSE YOU to free this country.”

“I know He did.” The Trucker replies.

We have never lived in a communist country but visited Romania on a skiing trip just before the fall of the Ceaușescu regime. We sampled the terror of tyranny in our hotel room the final night. We were praying for and gifting a bible to our beloved instructor, when there was knock on the door. The color drained from his face as room service entered with our order. When the waiter left Gelu explained to us that it was against the rules for him to be there and that every other person was in the employ of the SS. Thereafter a photo of Gelu remained on our fridge door for many years as the family fervently prayed for his safety and his salvation, That is one story I cannot wait to hear the ending of!

How inspiring to see God’s sons and daughters of LIGHT, being formed into a Community of the Chosen and ‘stirring up the waters’ as they hold fast in humility and with courage to a testimony that we pray will reveal the wisdom, power and love of God in Christ Jesus!

2 of you picked up on this!

…….Tom in Duluth and Lydia in Wales, who wrote, “Happy Twosday! 2.2.22! Made me think of ur blog.“

I can check who is opening and reading the blog each time. This morning I noticed a lot of folk had clicked on it 2 times.

I counted 44 of you….. that would be 22 + 22.

44 represents ‘Chosen’

Time to ‘Arise and Shine’ all you “Sons of Light” : – )

“Thank you.” to all of you who partnered with us last week end for our “FREEDOM!…to dance and sing” retreat.

Each time, Father seems to take us still deeper into his love! Those who came spoke of how our opening prayer, “We See Your Presence”* was instantly answered and this presence was tangibly felt throughout the weekend. With ‘worship from the heart’ and ‘fellowship as it’s meant to be‘ the team then testified about how God’s grace had met them in their weakness….. and Jesus had set them free! Armed then with hope and instruction from the word of God, people entered into their personal prayer session – and emerged, transformed by the Spirit of God!

In the closing circle Tom commented “That is the first time I have seen at the end, every single person in the room (of every shape and size!) freely and joyfully dancing and singing around the communion table” – the location of our fifth and final step together, as we – Receive the Father’s love!

In response to my email request beforehand to ‘Praying Friends”, two of you had echoed back to me a phrase I had used about our Father’s,

…“beautifully precise and personal care for ALL HIS CHILDREN.”

Let me give you a very personal example of how we saw this happen……

I woke the day of the retreat to discover I had lost my voice! So I asked our first born Robin, who is now part of the team, to step up and lead. The first night ended with his sharing one of his own songs written to describe his journey home as ‘a prodigal’. It begins, “Life creates the conditions for life”. The gentle Spirit of Life swept across the room as he repeated the powerful final line……

“And we’re never gonna die when we’re perfectly aligned!….No we’re never gonna die when we’re perfectly aligned”

The next day a book ‘just happened’ to arrive in the mail for Robin. A friend of his had somehow been prompted to buy it and send it to him. It was by one of his favs – Jesse Lee Peterson. Flicking through it his eyes settled on chapter 22. The number 22 has always been “Robin’s number’ It represents “Sons of Light” the chapter was entitled…….

Just as Robin was ordained to open up the retreat, so we saw it had been ordained that he finish it off by reading the moving story of how Jesse and his prodigal son after many years and much pain had been brought together again – by their loving heavenly Father. As they say, ‘There wasn’t dry eye in the house.’

I hesitated momentarily, – then went ahead, and with my gravelly voice croaked out a painfully a propos version of ‘Sealed with a Kiss’** depicting that and this wonderful reunion of father and son.

I’ve written before about how we often find our personal story has been a microcosm of what is or is to come in God’s big story in the world. For example you’ll remember how for a couple of years we had to learn how to deal with our local neighborhood bully by going to the ‘divine court’ in heaven and simply ‘not complying’ on earth, This happened just prior to the Global neighborhood bully emerged in full force two years ago! Again this weekend, we encountered our Father’s,

.…”beautifully precise and personal care for ALL HIS CREATION.”

Mid retreat I received an email from a friend (and blog reader) who is now a missionary in Thailand. He and his family had been a part of our fellowship during the exciting time when we had just moved in and were together finishing off building, “The Big Green House” He drew our attention to the fact that this weekend there ‘just happened’ to be another Global initiative for FREEDOM!…The Freedom Convoy.

I had just been teaching about the smiling face of Dad conveying his loving heart. Listen to Sheldon – how his words and face convey (or would that be convoy : – ) our Father’s heart!!

Tucker Carlson interviews Sheldon Andreas who is one of the truckers participating in the trucker Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. pic.twitter.com/02yjPcy3Bm

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 29, 2022

As I played this, I pointed out how we had also just taught about Forgiveness, and were hearing God speak not just through the Trucker but through the interviewer, Tucker who commented, “They snarled at you…. and you smiled back!

At the beginning of the weekend we had been lead to read Psalm 139 and spoke of how ‘fearfully and wonderfully made‘ each person was, and the remarkable fact that, “If the three feet of DNA in each of your 7 trillion cells was joined together, it would circle the earth……. 2 million times!” As the psalmist would say…… SELAH!

Then just as the retreat drew to a close, another ‘Praying Friend” and blog reader from Ireland…..on the other side of the GLOBE from Thailand!…..was prompted to send us this video.

So in the light of such HEAVENLY ORCHESTRATION………….

both at a PERSONAL and a GLOBAL level.

How could anyone doubt, but that…..

God our Father, our Creator and our Redeemer will bring in due season, each Person, and ‘The Whole of Creation’ into, “the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

The passage of scripture we were lead to at the end, was Micah 4, which begins,

 “In the last days

The mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and peoples will stream to it.

² Many NATIONS will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.“

Micah then describes how this GLOBAL FREEDOM! will flow from PERSONAL FREEDOM!

⁶ “In that day,” declares the Lord,

“I will gather the lame
    I will assemble the exiles
    and those I have brought to grief.
⁷ I will make THE LAME MY REMNANT,
    those driven away a strong nation.
The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion
    from that day and forever.

We do not promote or charge for these retreats, merely inform people and ask they contribute toward their food if they can, and then trust God will ‘gather the lame’. Robin of course with his amputation, in a literal fashion represents “the lame”, but it is those who come in a ‘weakened’ state, knowing their need and ready to be set free who experience this liberty,…….freed now, “to serve before our Father’s face.” ***

On the fly leaf of this ‘used’ copy of the book we discovered it had been signed by the author, and addressed to Steve (Crown) and Diane (Divine) – It ‘is ‘the lame’ whom God has graciously gathered, who will be Crowned as Overcomers, and who will in turn with Him, become, the Divine ANTIDOTE for this ailing Globe.

Hallelujah!

* from Good Morning’ Dad

**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYUWycW14QA

*** “I Am Your Son O God.” from Come Lord Jesus.

I often find that the people God speaks to me through are blissfully unaware they are being used as a ‘prophet’

Rob wrote again after reading the last blog. His final sentence was,

“Taking pictures of boots in winter makes one wonder if you were standing barefoot!

Holy Ground indeed. : )” 

Unwittingly Rob was giving a ‘divine segue’ into that ‘whole other story‘ about the unrecorded song that I referenced in the last blog…..

But let me first digress. There are in fact two songs that over the years have been my most sought after. Repeatedly I have had to say to folk looking for them after a live performance. “Sorry. That one is not recorded!”

Many years ago I was prompted to give these two songs back to the Lord. I decided not to ‘put my best foot forward’ so as to speak, in a ‘self promotion’ sense by making a recording of them, but to dedicate them as a thank offering to the Lord and only use them in ‘live’ situations when he released me to do so.

The first song was, “You Came To Me”.

The second song was inspired by Ps.19 and is entitled, “The Heaven’s Declare.”

The chorus resounds,

‘And the whole of creation cries with one voice,

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

A few years ago I did finally feel released to record the two songs and was given from this chorus the title for the album,

“The Whole of Creation.”

Ben and I have been working on it in fits and starts, because of different circumstances, now for over several years.

One day as we sat in his studio talking over “The Whole of Creation” album, I noticed the digital readout behind him kept changing….. but repeatedly returned to 1188

Father pointed out to me this was the middle verse in the whole Bible, Psalm 118:8.

I realized this this verse was “The Heart of the Whole” message of scripture.

“It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.”

Surely this is what the last few years has all been about…..a testing of where we are placing our trust.

We have been witnessing the Psalm 2 ‘kings of the earth’ rebellion against the Lord.

Not only have these ‘kings’ been tested by God, but all men have been tested as they have responded to the abusive mandates issued by these little ’emperors’ The application of their absurd decrees has resulted in untold harm to people’s bodies and souls, often unto death.

I sense the Lord’s anger especially against church leaders who have gone along with this devilish plan, joining in the fear mongering and shame based motivations to ‘comply’ with this evil agenda that has damaged ‘the sheep’ whom they have been charged to care for!

When the leaders of the people self righteously asked the prophet, “Should we fast again in the 5th and 7th months as we have done for so many years?” God’s word to Zechariah (chapter 7)was,

“Ask all the people of the land, and the priests. When you fasted and mourned (read, ‘went through the ‘virtuous’ actions of masking and social distancing’) for the past seventy years…… was it really for me?”

“This is what the Lord Almighty says. ‘Administer true justice, show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.'”

These vulnerable ones are those who have suffered most over these last years while the rich and powerful have garnished at their expense more wealth and power.

Take for example, the elderly – dying alone! And the children – deprived of the most basic elements of nurture, smiling faces and warm embraces! Instead being injected with dangerous toxins to defend against a condition from which they have a 99.9987% recovery rate? https://mighty.stonekingdom.org/posts/20231544?notification_id=2216881146

I didn’t intend writing all this when I started the ‘whole other story’ about the unrecorded songs, but was confirmed in this line of thought when someone later in the day sent me the following video which I strongly encourage you to watch.

It is a talk by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

Do you remember the series of blogs I wrote when in Ireland when the number 10 kept popping up? Over the last few days I have been aware when I’ve put my hand in my jean pocket I have felt a loose 10 dollar bill and a dime…a TENPENNY piece. (Illustrated above)

I realize now Father was drawing my attention back to the meaning of 10 – “The re-establishing of God’s order.”

In the first 30 minutes of this video I believe this medical doctor functions as a ‘prophet’ as she weaves together her medical knowledge with the scriptures to describe what is actually going on in the world today.

https://rumble.com/vsto8c-dr.-sheri-tenpenny-whats-in-the-covid-19-vaccines.html

Prophets can be gnarly rather than ‘nice’. Try reading all the ‘red letter verses’ in the gospels – not just your favorites! This is why He and they are often shunned, rather than welcomed as those who’s gift must be received, if the sheep of God’s pasture are to be cared for, and his nature in it’s wholeness and holiness is to be fully manifested through the church.

At the end of her forthright message Dr Tenpenny as a true prophet offers hope, the hope that can only come when we are willing to take personal responsibility and be restored to God’s order through a repentant heart.

Her message is the same as Hilary and I received in the middle of the night a number of months ago and made available in our piece “Consider then the kindness and severity of God” In that piece I used the 5 biblical steps which we will be teaching and applying at our FREEDOM! retreat this coming weekend, specifically to the act of choosing to invite someone to inject into the Holy Ground of the body you have been given stewardship of, ‘the temple of the Holy Spirit“, an ‘unknown’ and ‘untested’ substance.

Thankfully a few verses latter in the Zechariah passage we read of God’s promise to bring Restoration specifically for the elderly and the children,

“This is what the Lord Almighty says. “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand, because of his age. The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”‘

Back to those two 10s in my pocket. 10+10 = 20

This is the number for Redemption, for no matter what we have done or not done, God is our Redeemer and we know, He is able, and will, work “all things together” for our good and for His glory!!

Amen!

P.S. Back to the songs and ‘a whole other story’ next week!

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