Mulberry House Christian Fellowship

Hello to everyone. we have just had a great weekend with Andrew Pearkes and Keith Willis -several healed including folk from the street outside! Our next weekend will be with Steve Hepden 28-29th November – theme likely to be staying on the edge and the calling of Elisha. Below there are some new prophetic  words – one from me on the subject of fresh revealtion and a couple given us by Dave Hood.  Hope they speak to you.

Anne

PROPHECY FROM THE EDGE
August 2009

Walking the shore line with Jesus

I had a dream recently in which I was walking by the shoreline with Jesus. It was very peaceful with a feeling of the humanity of Jesus and his approachability. We were both barefoot and Jesus was telling me to follow His footsteps attentively. I tried and found that we were walking right at the very edge of the sea. One minute it was on wet sand and the next waves were lapping our feet. We were talking although I have forgotten some of what was said. Jesus was telling me to simplify my life and to stay in the simplicity of the Gospel. I did not feel any rebuke but simply refreshed and drops of water were spraying me from time to time from the waves. The words which came were that the yoke and burdens of Jesus are easy and burden light. I for one have a tendency to make things too complicated. I need a call back to simplicity very regularly.

The angel between the water and the land

At the same time I was aware of angelic presence and heard someone singing the chorus which has the words “Is this your mighty angel who sits between the ocean and the land?” I was aware of a mighty presence there at the water’s edge.
Revelations 10 talks of such an angel;
“Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, robed in a cloud, with a halo like a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, and his feet were like columns of fire. He had a little book open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. “
The chapter goes on to talk of the angel bringing intervention into our time on the earth and of John being told to take and eat the scroll which was in the hand of the angel.
“Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke again to me, saying, Go and take the little book which is open on the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land. So I went up to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it. It will embitter your stomach, though in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. So I took the little book from the angel’s hand and ate and swallowed it; it was a sweet as honey in my mouth, but once I had swallowed it, my stomach was embittered. Then they said to me, You are to make a fresh prophecy concerning many peoples and races and nations and languages and kings.”

I AM the Word

I felt in the dream that when this particular angel appears, that one of his roles is to release fresh prophetic revelation. I felt the Lord saying that the season has changed and that the freshness is going to come in a new experiential way. We have been used to giving and receiving words – this is about meeting and experiencing THE Word Himself. It is quite a different thing.

Fresh prophecy

It seemed to me that these verses are going to be very important to those who live on the coasts, the peninsulas and on the islands. John knew the human Jesus but was being prepared to meet the Jesus of Revelation. I had a sense of a new kind of prophetic beginning to hit these areas of the world. New, fresh prophecy being released with a bitter sweet taste to it.  A new experience of Jesus who is able to walk the shoreline with us but who is at the same time Lord of Lords.

Bittersweet Words and Earthy People

What was odd was that at the time of talking to Jesus I had a bitter sweet taste in my mouth .I was eating an orange along with the peel. It was not unpleasant but quite invigorating , just like the spray from the sea – at least in the dream ! Sweet and sour together. Just like the bittersweet scroll.  There are going to be prophetic words which will sting in order to bring sweetness in there. New and fresh and tinged with the humanity and the glory of Jesus.

Words “from the edge “

I heard the Lord saying that this angelic presence would be present to those who walked on the “borderlines”. This angelic presence comes in narrow, tight and at times very uncomfortable circumstances when it is the right time for the scrolls to be revealed. Prophetic people are going to be called here. These people would be living “on the edge”.

I had a series of pictures of this “edge” and the “borderlines”.

The first was the sea shore where you are very obviously between the sea and the land. Peninsulas and islands are close to my heart and came to mind here.
Fresh revelation will come here.

Then I saw again a place near Tekoa in Israel where an early monk and desert father named Haritun had come from Anatolia to found an early monastery.They lived on the borderlines too in caves where animals lived too – right on the edge of what we would call sustainable human life. Right on the edge of desert and arable land. Right on the edge of village life and wilderness. Right on the edge too of what many of us would call sheer eccentricity and sanity. In the world and not of it in a very visible way. In the case of Tekoa in direct contrast too with Herod’s amazing sunken palace on the hill opposite.
More importantly these people lived  right on the edge of the heavenly realm and the visible physical world. Heavenly encounters through their everyday graft and work with the people around them .An open doorway to heaven through their prayer lives. .

Pushing back the darkness

I heard that it was here on these borders that the darkness would be pushed back by those who would pay the price. Huge walls of darkness threatening to invade and overtake the nations and cities.  It will require a discipline and an endurance to live in this borderline place with the Lord.  Whole communities of people walking that narrow line. We see a part with the emerging prayer houses and worship centres . It will become a life style and a life saver for nations.

In our area we would call this a “thin place” – a place where the veils between the physical world we see and the reality of the invisible spiritual realm are very thin. Many are going to be called to this place to receive a heavenly wisdom which will impact the world and the Church. Living here will be a challenge – many have visited this place but we are being called to live here day by day.

Position yourself

We need to be in the right place for Jesus to speak the refreshing word to us. We need to know where he wants us to be. There are many, many borderline places in the physical and the spiritual. We need to be humble as Jesus was in the dream, to be with humble people and to let our lives maybe a lot more narrow that we have been used to. He will keep us in that narrow place and the prophetic word will root in us and go out from that place on the edge  -wherever that place is for you.

Anne Griffith

UNLESS IT FALL AND DIE – this came to us from Dave Hood

I am bringing my people to a place of death in Me

And because it dies it will yet live and rise again. Unless it die it cannot bring forth life and light. Many have tried to manage me, and to marry themselves to the idea and notion that is Me. But it is I who chose them, not they that chose me. For they need to know it is not just their calling but it is MY CALLING, mine, and mine is a path that is set for victory.

Victory in areas and ways that cannot be imagined or performed but acquired – knowing not just what is required but rather KNOWING ME. My ways and my time, my house – KNOWING Me IS that requirement – and adhering, knowing and being guided by my own ways and not their ways or a way that is a mixture within a world that I desire to make My imprint upon.

An imprint that is designed to change the very ground of man, but it is to be a place of MY FEET and not just theirs – I will give them the place where the soles of their feet stand, but it must be IN My own feet and in MY own place. For many wanderings and lusts and desires have offset the angle of my house and its lines and plans are not as now what I have designed them to be.

I will not be fitted into mans plans for me or my people, I will not be drawn, planned and mapped out at the behest and design of man, for its not THEIR house I am building but MY House and My House is mine own, it belongs to me and all who come into it will find me – not another model of me or presentation of me – but Me in Myself as I myself only am and can be.

There is no plan drawn or thought of that can design its true and righteous expression of me, none, but I am about my Fathers business and I will build my own house, true and upright and not obtusely planned or plotted – whose walls and angles will not hang according the scalene thoughts of man or this world. I am who I am and none other shall build  Me – but who will share in my glory – who will come with MY trowel in my hand, who will come with me to cover MY plaster and walls – WH0..? who will follow my plan, like  Bezalel and Oholiah …*** (see footnote) who I ordered their lives, minds and skills to afix of me a representation of my wisdom in the building thereof – is my own body not also such a tent – is it not also a place where I have chosen and designed MY people, HID in Myself to dwell in with me – yet it is used as if it was theirs, run by them, for them and not for me …for Me – do they not know have they not heard I am God and I am Lord and in and with me  and APART from me there is NO other – EXCEPT for me there is only death and not life. Only danger and destruction, only a further delineating of my lines and diluting of my Truth and more and further distorting of me.

I need no other gods to build me, no other or more gods to represent or display me – I display myself – I do it – I have always done it and ALWAYS will continue to do it.

I will take down their posters and promotions, plastered on the walls of the highways and bye ways of this world’s life and tear them down and rip them up – and rip their ceiling away from above them and their floor from below them – And if I need it to be, trample them under my feet for it is an anathema to me – it is a circus a travelling circus seeking to amuse and entertain and show and GRANDSTAND not Me as Lord and master but themselves and all that is within their tent.

They think they are master of it – there is a master for sure but it is not ME … there is only I, there is none other like me or higher than me – yet I bid my servant and children my workers and presenters of the art and order that is me to come to Me – to come to me for my thoughts, my hearts, my plans, my drawing, my blueprint designed so far ahead of things its revealing in full would take their breath away.

Will you not put down your own tools and trowel, and stop your tinkering, your building your planning and plotting and follow hard after, hard I say, hard after me – till there be no more left before me – hard I say after me, not after your pleasures or yourselves but me . It is coming time and is – for you to rend your hearts and not just your garment, to let loose off and from you your disguise and compromise of me and all its weavings, dyeing and colouring that you have sown  into the FABRIC OF YOUR LIFE AND THE FLIELD OF MY CHOSEN BLESSING – and have the audacity to call if Me, to name it me, as if it were your child you are birthing and bringing through – hear, hearken and listen, it is not your child it is mine, it always has been, never yours, but destined and designed and designated as MINE.

It is Time to spend MY time with me, come, come to my waters come to my tree where we can see the verdant slope of my meadow and valley, the rest, the rest that is ME, in Me, ceasing from your own work and following ONLY Me – Come for here just as I told to Nathanial and Jacob and my Isaacs – is the place where my ladder is planted near and by thee. Where over your head is the shade of an open heaven, accessed by me and for thee, for Me to share and all mans and your burdens care.

Come, that my step will be your step that your shadow is my shadow, that your words will be my way and your way be my day.

Come, all you who are weary and heavy laden, come and enter into My rest, rest from your own work, from your many words and dictates, lay down your life to take up mine – I lay down my life no one take it from I lay it down for you, will you again lay it down one more time for me.

***In chapter Exodus 31 [10] the main builder and architects are specified:

“God spoke to Moses, saying: I have selected Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, by name. I have filled him with a divine spirit, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and with all types of craftsmanship. He will be able to devise plans as well as work in gold, silver and copper, cut stones to be set, carve wood, and do other work. I have also given him Oholiab son of Achisamakh of the tribe of Dan. I have placed wisdom in the heart of every naturally talented person. They will thus make all that I have ordered, the Communion Tent, the Ark of the Covenant, the ark cover to go on it, all the utensils for the tent, the table and its utensils, the pure menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, the sacrificial altar and all its utensils, the washstand and its base, the packing cloths, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, the vestments that his sons wear to serve, the anointing oil, and the incense for the sanctuary. They will thus do all that I command.” (Exodus 31:1-11)

This also came to us from Dave

Today Sept 5th 2009 , while washing dishes, I found myself singing – I am he that liveth, that liveth and was dead, behold I am alive forever more. This is from Rev. Rev 1:18 I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Shortly after that, I went to read these scriptures, and realized that the lord had given me a word, 5 years ago.

I realize that in part, we have entered more, into these moments and times than we had 5 years previously – so I sense to share what was written then – because – it was written then, partly for NOW

The Ring – The Lord Of The Rings

This word has come to me on a number of occasions over a period of 4/5 weeks; I believe it maybe appropriate for our time(and now) ( and future) and hopefully encouraging.

But I would say to you that generally speaking it is wonderful to have God doing great things, a healing, a testimony, deliverance, seeing him move in his miraculous ways. And how we wish these moments would be more often and more continuous – it’s great when times and things go well and go right – glory to him then. But equally, there are times when things do not go well, glory to him then also. In fact they often go in reverse, go wrong, things which could have gone in this direction go that way, things which should have succeeded do not, effort on our behalf that should bring reward and success doesn’t, it seems to fail, to fall and its energies dissipate like mist and fall like dust. Apparent Blessings no longer happen and life seems to have you by the neck and the question we ask is – is God still in this thing, is God still with me, is God still for me.

Sometimes we may feel as if we believe, other times it is clear we do not. So on the one hand it may be unwise to think that bad things should or will not happen to you – this is untrue – in this world you will have trouble – but fear not for I am with you and I have overcome the world. It may also be equally untrue to say that because bad things happen, God is not in it or with it. Some of you may be facing trouble and problems now, some of you perhaps not, but sometimes we need to be prepared.

Take for instance the FISHERMAN UPON THE SEAS- who goes out to fish in his boat to catch a catch, – does he go without first checking the weather, or without having the right vessel and right clothes, his oilskins. – He, if he’s wise, needs advance preparation or knowledge. – EVEN then – we can sometimes be caught unaware – but Gods word says – I do not want you to be unaware – and even a good weather forecast can throw up the sudden unexpected storm, that when caught up in it may go on for days and sometimes for weeks. With this in mind this is what I believe Father wants to bring to you

I was at church about a while ago and found myself reflecting on the book the Trilogy, Lord of the Rings. I remembered how there were several rings, but that there was “one ring that would rule them, the one ring to find them, the one ring to bring them all, the one ring binding them ” There was the one ring. The book and film was very much a story of the search for this one ring by the enemy’s of the realm and for the ring bearer himself.

In the bible the number 7 is thought of as the number of perfection. As I continued to think, verses in the book of Revelation came to mind. Revelation 1:9–20. READ – Here it speaks of the 7 churches and the 7 golden lamp stands and of the Lord Himself; his face was like the sun, shining in all its brilliance. In verse 20 it says, spoken of by the Lord Jesus “the mystery of the 7 stars that you saw in my right hand and of the 7 golden lamp stands is this. The seven stars are the angels of the 7 churches and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches.

This is how I related it to the story of the Lord of the Rings. To me the seven churches represented the perfect church, perfected in Jesus. This in their total was his one church, the sum of the perfect whole. These seven churches mirrored the seven rings that existed in the book and film and that Jesus had an aspect of the church, where? Jesus had this there, IN HIS HAND. – for in his hand he had 7 stars, which the word says, were 7 angels. I feel the angels, represent things that are SPIRITUAL – and these are held, and held in PERFECT SPIRITUAL BALANCE in Jesus’ hand. In other words things pertaining to the church, to you, to me, to us all, were and still are, held securely in HIS hand.

In another sense as stated in the book and film, there was ONE ring that would bind and unite them all. You are his one ring. “ Corinthians and Ephesians talks about the Holy Spirit as being given as an earnest, a guarantee, a deposit of what is fully and finally to come and it is often spoken of the Spirit been given, as a sign and symbol of an engagement that has already taken place through our new birth in Christ. We have been engaged to Christ as his fully intended bride. And his Spirit if you like is His engagement ring to the church for the wedding that is about to come.

What does this tell us, – many things perhaps, – but to me it tells me this. Not only are you IN his hand, but you are ALSO on HIS finger. He wears YOU his church, AS THE ONE RING – AS would A Husband wear the ring upon his wedding finger. You see LOVE is the one ring that binds them all, the ONE RING of love combining them all. The nation Israel considered an engagement AS ALREADY WED.

Looking at Revelation 1:20, where are you? – Where does he have you? Now, today?

He has you IN His hand – And He has you ON His finger.

He does not hold you as a juggler might, balancing and throwing balls up in the air with one hand, in order to cause the audience to see how daring he is and how he can have you gasping at his dexterity, with the thought that perchance he might drop you. No, he has you held within the BALANCE of BOTH his hands, exercising control for you and does not play with you as one would a toy.

And because this picture is also of the bride that is yet fully to be, you can be sure that in order to fully and finally bring you to your wedding place, that you are not just in His hand or on his finger, but constantly ON HIS MIND – and the reason for that, is that you are constantly IN HIS SIGHT – as sure as that ring is constantly on HIS finger, so are you constantly in his sight. Why, for he constantly sees his Spirit, his deposit in and on you, guaranteeing you, marking you – as his bride and he wears you and it with pride – in the same way that THE wedding ring he sees upon HIS finger, marks you as his bride. This mirrors in a similar way to the one who is engaged, making PREPARATION for the Day itself, the Great Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Even an engagement ring REMINDS the bride of the wedding to BE – and it is its SIGHT, SEEING of it that fills her with joy.

Why are you constantly on his mind and constantly in his sight?

Because…. you are constantly in his hands and constantly on his finger

And because you are constantly in his hands and constantly on his finger

You are also therefore, as are ALL THINGS, – constantly IN HIS CONTROL, despite what is going on with you or around you, whether within the church or out of it. Control and balance may be beyond our scope, it is not beyond His.

This vision and prophecy we have just read about were given to the apostle John in the book of Revelation- and were given him on the island of Patmos, in what were bleak and hard times, in times of trial, difficulty and unrest. – He personally was experiencing forced hardship in the islands mines -. Despite this and IN THIS the Lord Jesus Himself appeared to John and gave him some of the most wonderful, awesome and encouraging revelations. Just as he did to his namesake John, the Baptist, who when locked up in prison, at the day of execution – DOUBTED – because things had gone wrong and perhaps not according to what he had expected – and asked via messenger if HE JESUS was REALLY the one or had JOHN made a mistake and should he expect another. John was in prison because he had done the right thing in exposing the adultery in the ruling governments family  – we to doubt like him, if things go wrong especially when we do the right thing“ In Luke 7:22-23…these were Christ’s words to him -.”Replying to his, doubt, to Johns concern -, Go back and report to John, what you have seen and heard. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me. – No he had not made a mistake – AND – the Kingdom continues, despite what’s happening.

In the light of what is going on with you, in the light of all that is going on around you – or all that is amiss or awry with your life or the world or the church. – look at Madrid, Iraq or Israel, even in its present stripping of its communities or the two Tsunamis**and more, the London bombings and the great storm Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico, the upheaval in Iran –the economic climate and upheaval – God is in control of both it and you – and is concerned enough about you to take time and come to you with a message, – a word that affirms you, strengthens you, warn and encourages you to see that the kingdom STILL WILL and is continuing ON despite evidence seemingly to the contrary and that you are personally not forgotten.

There has not been a mistake, there has not been a fumble, YOU, the ball have not been dropped, nor you, the ring lost. Nor amidst the turmoil, the glare or the stares forgotten, nor is he dazzled nor blinded, for HIS is the face shining like the sun in all its brilliance, the blinding brilliance of his all great love – in the unrest, in the fire and in the trial is one seen…. like the Son of man – shining on you and with you, even through, beyond and above the fiery flames of the furnace. – and how great is the Shining one when he appears. His feet like yours are positioned with you, standing in the same fire, the same trials that you are standing in.

Want more convincing. Ok. For you he says, “One more then”. Gollum, you know was a creature that had walked many different paths, not all of them bad and his pursuits, particularly after the ring, had led him to the depths of torture and of dismay. Perhaps we may feel we have been where he is. Gollum perhaps is a picture of man in his utter despair – and such was his fixation and obsession, actually called the ring “his precious”. – This is precisely what he our God and Father calls you “ Isa.43: 4…precious, Precious and honoured are you in my sight and I love you, you and all the Gollum’s are precious to him… hear these words, they are written especially from him to you…as he looks towards you his ONE RING, secured and secure on His own finger -. You, – you are my precious, precious ones, – you are the ones I most seek after. You are in my hands, you are on my finger, you are constantly on my mind, you are constantly in my sight, and you are constantly in my control. Precious and honoured are you in my sight and I love you.

To round it off – after receiving this and pondering over it, asking God, to confirm his word and wondering like many do, did I really hear right – this incident I’m about to describe to you happened a day or two after, being given the go ahead to share it with you. I work(ed) in a Youth Centre and in the morning around 8; I arrive and meet with J our head cleaner before work.

She says to me – have you seen my new ring – would you like a look – ok let’s see it then – so she takes this gold ring off her finger and hands it to me. On the outside, it had little footprints, imprints of bare feet, indented into the gold – like the ones in the footsteps poem, walking right around the outside of the ring encircling it from start to finish, – wonderful I said, – look on the inside she said – and there inside the ring were words engraved, – not the whole footsteps poem but some of the key words. Wonderful to look at – but the words clearly had a start and a finish so that you could recognise the start of the message inside – the inside part that is closest and TOUCHES the skin. The first words that started the engraving were.  MY PRECIOUS CHILD – well how wonderful – what a way to confirm his word, prepared for me BEFORE I had asked for it – If it was prepared for me – it was (and is) prepared for you

With it I heard him say these words concerning the footsteps around the circumference of the ring – he said – MY WALK WITH YOU IS CONTINUOUS AND COMPLETE, THERE IS NO PART OF YOUR WALK OR CIRCUMFERENCE OF YOU LIFE THAT IS NOT REACHED, and COVERED OR INCLUDED.

It was then that he reminded me that he had said sometime whilst I was preparing this for you – YOU ARE ENGRAVED upon the PALMS OF MY HANDS – I HEAR HIM SAY AGAIN, YOU ARE ENGRAVED UPON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS – if you think of the cross BOTH hands were nailed securing for us freedom and control with God – with these words he gave me a sense of his continuing presence with me – and he gave me a picture – of J our cleaner and Jesus Himself. A man and a woman – I saw J extend her LEFT hand to him – the wedding hand – and Christ carefully took her hand into his RIGHT hand – like a bride presenting a hand to her groom, just like a wife to her husband, allowing him to take her by the hand – with these images came the words – YOU NEED ONLY LET ME TAKE HOLD OF YOUR HAND TO ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU OF MY CONSTANT COMPANIONSHIP, MY CONSTANT LOVE AND MY CONSTANT CARE – So every time I see J, I am reminded of his love and constant companionship to me, like wise – can you see – he extends his hand to thee

Over the days God brought to me his prepared words and THESE words today that God has brought to you were prepared for you – because he clearly loves you, he dearly cares for you and he wants you to know it, he wants you to hear it and he want you to believe it –ESPECIALLY NOW- and to stretch out your hand to him for he has and now is stretching his hand out to you.

My precious; my precious child, you are my precious ones; you are the ones I most seek after. I have you in my hands, you, I have on my finger, it is you that I constantly think about, – it is you who are constantly in my sight, you, are constantly in my control. Precious and honoured are you in my sight and I love you.

This was given me early 2004…how much more has changed and happened in the world, your church and with yourself since then…and TODAY, what is happening with you – but praise be to God His word is eternal and will never pass away but is set like the sun and the moon in the heavens for you and is accessed by the one who loves you beyond price, who now stands within the veil for you, interceding and making prayer for you.

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Hello to all,
Here are some thoughts I have had over the summer put together which hopefully will interest you in this season!

Covenants

Many covenant relationships are going through the fire. I saw many gold rings, very precious and beautiful which represented covenant relationships. They had been taken from fingers and were being thrown into the fire by the Lord. I heard the Lord say that he was refining and purifying our covenant relationships -some were expanding in the heat, some were contracting, some were charred almost black I noticed though that they were forming rings for each of our finger – true mature Ephesians 5 – fold ministry.The Lord wants maturity in our covenant relationships and it is He who is behind at this time. He is the one who decides on this earth who we need to be connected with and how these partnerships fit together. We will come out of the fire purified again but there will be some changes.

Divine Rights of kings

Three times over the summer different people said to me in different settings that there was a real issue over the divine rights of kings to rule. In these historical settings the insistence of various European kings to be regarded as God’s appointed agent, not subject to the laws of the land or any government had led to wars on a vast scale . The surface issue might have historically been the differences of religious beliefs but underneath was a man wanting to be absolute dictator. We need to watch for this in the world and in the Church. God is breaking our shoulders so that the government can be on HIS shoulder. Some strangleholds of power need to go in our lives, churches and nations.

Active Rest

One of my friends received this expression as where we are meant to be at with the Lord at this season. Not passive, not asleep but keeping watch. I heard the Lord say it was like the soldiers who have to come to attention before their commander but where the commander tells them to be “at ease” so that he can talk to them more informally and intimately while they are at rest but still listening and alert to any new orders. We need to obey or we can miss some important instruction at this time. It may come more easily as we rest but it will be much needed.

On the Edge

Fresh prophetic revelation is being released – Rev 10. The angel between the water and the land is releasing scrolls and we need to be aware of a radical change in our mind set about receiving and giving words. Jesus is about to show us that He IS the Word. ( Dream is written in full separately)

Modern Monks

We have been doing much research into past moves of God involving monastic communities – often those who lived on the edge of our world and lived out being in this world but not of it in a real sense on an everyday basis. There are some keys for us here -certainly in Europe.
This is what I heard the lord say about the monks.
“There is a wind and a change of season which will propel you higher and to where you need to be. There are keys in monasticism you need but they need to move further on and further out. There is a race of my followers who will be as salt and light in dark days. They will group together and will camp on the outer limits of where darkness and light come together. They will be the fabric I will use to hold and pull things together. They will truly understand the new and the old wineskins in these days. That old wine was honourable and good but the skins are not for today. The store holder brings out of his treasure things old and new out of his treasure. He display and honours the past but he does not fear the new. “
Manuscripts of old were written on SKINS -they cost. There was sacrifice. New manuscripts will cost too. The rhema word will continue and take up again what was forgotten and lost. New Nazirites to finish the task.

Watch the trade routes

God is about to reveal more than we have thought here. Watch the trade winds –we are going to have to be very sensitive as a window opens to allow us to move in the areas of trade in a new and different manner. We will have to choose whether to change direction or not. The wise virgins took oil at the right time. We need the wisdom to make the right moves at the right time so that we will not be caught out with no supplies when it matters.

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Walking the shore line with Jesus

I had a dream recently in which I was walking by the shoreline with Jesus. It was very peaceful with a feeling of the humanity of Jesus and his approachability. We were both barefoot and Jesus was telling me to follow His footsteps attentively. I tried and found that we were walking right at the very edge of the sea. One minute it was on wet sand and the next waves were lapping our feet. We were talking although I have forgotten some of what was said. Jesus was telling me to simplify my life and to stay in the simplicity of the Gospel. I did not feel any rebuke but simply refreshed and drops of water were spraying me from time to time from the waves. The words which came were that the yoke and burdens of Jesus are easy and burden light. I for one have a tendency to make things too complicated. I need a call back to simplicity very regularly.

The angel between the water and the land

At the same time I was aware of angelic presence and heard someone singing the chorus which has the words “Is this your mighty angel who sits between the ocean and the land?” I was aware of a mighty presence there at the water’s edge.
Revelations 10 talks of such an angel;
“Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, robed in a cloud, with a halo like a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, and his feet were like columns of fire. He had a little book open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. “
The chapter goes on to talk of the angel bringing intervention into our time on the earth and of John being told to take and eat the scroll which was in the hand of the angel.
“Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke again to me, saying, Go and take the little book which is open on the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land. So I went up to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it. It will embitter your stomach, though in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. So I took the little book from the angel’s hand and ate and swallowed it; it was a sweet as honey in my mouth, but once I had swallowed it, my stomach was embittered. Then they said to me, You are to make a fresh prophecy concerning many peoples and races and nations and languages and kings.”

I AM the Word

I felt in the dream that when this particular angel appears, that one of his roles is to release fresh prophetic revelation. I felt the Lord saying that the season has changed and that the freshness is going to come in a new experiential way. We have been used to giving and receiving words – this is about meeting and experiencing THE Word Himself. It is quite a different thing.

Fresh prophecy

It seemed to me that these verses are going to be very important to those who live on the coasts, the peninsulas and on the islands. John knew the human Jesus but was being prepared to meet the Jesus of Revelation. I had a sense of a new kind of prophetic beginning to hit these areas of the world. New, fresh prophecy being released with a bitter sweet taste to it.  A new experience of Jesus who is able to walk the shoreline with us but who is at the same time Lord of Lords.

Bittersweet Words and Earthy People

What was odd was that at the time of talking to Jesus I had a bitter sweet taste in my mouth .I was eating an orange along with the peel. It was not unpleasant but quite invigorating , just like the spray from the sea – at least in the dream ! Sweet and sour together. Just like the bittersweet scroll.  There are going to be prophetic words which will sting in order to bring sweetness in there. New and fresh and tinged with the humanity and the glory of Jesus.

Words “from the edge “

I heard the Lord saying that this angelic presence would be present to those who walked on the “borderlines”. This angelic presence comes in narrow, tight and at times very uncomfortable circumstances when it is the right time for the scrolls to be revealed. Prophetic people are going to be called here. These people would be living “on the edge”.

I had a series of pictures of this “edge” and the “borderlines”.

The first was the sea shore where you are very obviously between the sea and the land. Peninsulas and islands are close to my heart and came to mind here.
Fresh revelation will come here.

Then I saw again a place near Tekoa in Israel where an early monk and desert father named Haritun had come from Anatolia to found an early monastery.They lived on the borderlines too in caves where animals lived too – right on the edge of what we would call sustainable human life. Right on the edge of desert and arable land. Right on the edge of village life and wilderness. Right on the edge too of what many of us would call sheer eccentricity and sanity. In the world and not of it in a very visible way. In the case of Tekoa in direct contrast too with Herod’s amazing sunken palace on the hill opposite.
More importantly these people lived  right on the edge of the heavenly realm and the visible physical world. Heavenly encounters through their everyday graft and work with the people around them .An open doorway to heaven through their prayer lives. .

Pushing back the darkness

I heard that it was here on these borders that the darkness would be pushed back by those who would pay the price. Huge walls of darkness threatening to invade and overtake the nations and cities.  It will require a discipline and an endurance to live in this borderline place with the Lord.  Whole communities of people walking that narrow line. We see a part with the emerging prayer houses and worship centres . It will become a life style and a life saver for nations.

In our area we would call this a “thin place” – a place where the veils between the physical world we see and the reality of the invisible spiritual realm are very thin. Many are going to be called to this place to receive a heavenly wisdom which will impact the world and the Church. Living here will be a challenge – many have visited this place but we are being called to live here day by day.

Position yourself

We need to be in the right place for Jesus to speak the refreshing word to us. We need to know where he wants us to be. There are many, many borderline places in the physical and the spiritual. We need to be humble as Jesus was in the dream, to be with humble people and to let our lives maybe a lot more narrow that we have been used to. He will keep us in that narrow place and the prophetic word will root in us and go out from that place on the edge  -wherever that place is for you.

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Here’s the word from Louise we read out this morning:-

‘HeartQuest ‘ Ministries
by Louise Davidson received 26 June

Testing of man’s hearts
For some time I have been hearing the same word from the Lord……..

“I am testing the hearts of man. In every area I am testing, testing the motives, and the willingness to be obedient to My voice”.
The times are coming, swiftly, where many will fall way because of the pressures of life, temptations and, because of the persecutions and offences that will arise against My church.
You must be ready and strong in Me, My children, or your hearts will fail.
I am testing ‘platforms.’ The platforms, that have been build in My name are being tested, rocked, shaken, to reveal their true foundations, whether they  have been build by Me or by man’s ambition, because Jesus said, ‘I, will build My church’ and He meant it!
Many good works have started well but, as time has gone by, the platforms have been added to by man, not by Me. These additions have weakened, rather than strengthened, My ‘works’ and so they will fail unless they are refined.
Where man, or ministry, has become more important than Me, I will pull down these false idols, for no man shall steal My glory.
Again I am looking to the hearts of man and there is no fear for those who love Me unashamedly and are willing to humble themselves before Me..

LEADERS
Many of My leaders, in this time, are dealing with major personal problems, in their health and in their relationships. Much of this has come about because of doors that have been left open to the enemy, like competion, control, and unforgiveness.
My Word cannot be taken lightly where a seed is planted there will be fruit.
This is not a rebuke but to bring revelation, so that MY kingdom can be built in My strength not man’s.
I am sending my servants to bring freedom and healing, receive them and their gifts that I am bringing to you, in humility and wisdom. These are tools to overcome the enemy’s plans to kill, steal and destroy My children.

DOORS
At this time I am also opening and shutting many doors. It is a fast work that I will do because the time is short. As a door opens, My people need to be ready to walk through it. These are doors of revelation, opportunity and power. Only those who are looking for Me will see them. Those who are seeking My face and building My kingdom.
In these times of economic crisis the doors of opportunity will be a sign and a wonder to the world, as I show favour to My people. Again I say only those who have eyes to see will see, and  those who have ears will hear.
I am also shutting doors, doors that lead to the past and to old ways. These doors must close so that the new can flow, bringing freedom, to My people.
There are many who are resistant to My Spirit but, My will, will be done because I have ordained a thing, so it will be. Selah.
I seek the hearts of those who are willing to know Me and serve Me in love, not looking for man’s approval but looking to know Me and My heart. Keep your eyes set on My purposes and you will see My Kingdom come here on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Amen

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Watch the narrow places of the world

Thrones have been tumbling. There is a major shake up going on. This has caused severe congestion on the earth and in the heavenlies. On the earth this has caused a displacement. There is a contesting going on to get through narrow gaps. For God’s people it means taking the narrow path. On the earth places which are already narrow are being highlighted. I saw the Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar and Suez  -there are others. Strange things have been happening since then which we need to link up in order to have understanding  – a meteor shower over the Channel, congestion so heavy that mercy ships headed for Africa via the straits of Gibraltar have been delayed. I am sure there is more.

God is still exposing hidden things

This is still a season for righteousness and holiness and many hearts are being exposed and tested. The motivations of our hearts are laid bare  -the foundations of the earth are being revealed. This will mean shake ups and scandals plus some unusual phonoemena with weather – I cans see rivers and lakes showing their beds and sunken treasures coning to light.

360 degree rainbows

God is coming full circle  -several of us have seen full rainbows. It means the other side of the promise, the completion of things. God’s faithfulness to His people.

Watch the desert places

God is showing the deserts and wilderness places. The highway of holiness is being built here. Be careful how we judge at this time. I heard that God was taking our idols  – including people we put on pedestals. We are going to see some who have fallen being used to build up this highway in the desert. I saw the highway and it was being paved with those who might feel are gone and unusable but God is using them to show the way  -the stones were singing, calling out warnings and encouraging those who wanted to use that highway.
The highway of holiness is forming

In the nations

Iran  -I have seen the robe of a religious leader being rent. I felt the Lord saying that it means division such as was shown to Jereboam and that all is not what it seems.Way beyond what we see on our TV screens too. Jereboam had to go into exile for a time but then returned to fulfil the prophetic word. I sense there will be whole regions being torn away and exiled leaders returning. Like Jereboam though, there will be attesting of the heart. Jereboam returned to idolatry but could have been  godly leader as it had been prophesied over him.

Pakistan/Afghanistan

A real danger to these nations out in the wilderness is quietly preparing. It has been for years .It is beyond any government’s power to deal with this and needs prayer. In mountain regions I see whole villages who have been sworn to secrecy and enslaved  – too poor to protest and too far from central government to be readily observable. Again there is the side we see in the media and another agenda behind.

France

A time of singing and gladness   -of Jubilee, of Sabbath rest even for many of God’s people but do not be distracted  – keep your eyes on the cleft in the rock. God is doing  some feeding in the wilderness but it is to strengthen you for the times ahead. It is a stopping place and not the final destination. A new commissioning is coming on the nation.

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We are having some interesting tales of doors and keys here. Debbie and Paul could no longer get their keys into their locks and wondered why until the Lord told then that the strategies we had been using in this past season are not going to work in this next one. Then the Lord mentioned new doors to me. It was a great idea until the joiner came and condemned our front door and porch as terminally rotten   -my new door is on its way very physically. Don’t know about the porch !
We are being unlocked from our past where we have been frozen and locked up, blocking our pathway forward. In the places where we have been hurt and felt failures it seems as though we have stayed there   – so have the people who were around then. Time to do some unlocking. We cannot confront today if we are still in our minds the little people we were some years back. We cannot have the past back to make it any better but we can ask the Lord to unlock us from our false perception of ourselves. Like the ugly duckling, we might need our brothers and sisters to help us move on from being the ugly little unwanted bird. Time too to let others move on  -it may even be that the people have died but we have locked them in too –right in the place they were when the past hurts and failures occurred. They too have moved on and today we have to deal with a changed playing field.
God is still dealing with our character and showing us that holiness and integrity are more important than anointing or gifts. We have to submit to the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in us to do the work or we will end up condemned and religious. That is not what this season is about.
The whole communications area has been hit by huge displacements as thrones have been tumbling down. The after affects have in the spiritual and the natural blocked up the airwaves and the channels of communication  -it will be a narrow place to come through and will be contested. God has purposed this to bring us through though and we will see our way better after a while.

Anne Griffith

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Cross Fell is the centre of the UK geographically speaking and as such is very strategic. It is the highest point in the Pennines and has views over to the Lakes, Yorkshire, Cumbria and many other places on a clear day.

Our interest on this occasion was to pray over the watershed here located a few minutes down from the summit of the fell. Here the streams either run into the Irish Sea on the west or the North Sea on the east. The Tees and the Eden both start their respective journeys here. We also wanted to pray for East/West relations in the UK and abroad and to pray for spiritual authority in the airwaves over the area. There is a radar station on the top of Dun Fell just opposite on a clear ley line with the summit of Cross Fell.

On the summit we prayed for God’s new season of righteousness to appear – this Passover started a new cycle of 28 years of the sun. Jewish people believe that this was the same position the sun was in at Creation and also at the Exodus from Egypt. This new period marks the time when the Messiah is to return. We prayed to be aligned with Jerusalem and Israel and that there would be change as the sun of righteousness himself begins to rise over the UK.

We felt much new age influence in this area and prayed to take authority over the mixture coming in. A family group from the local area arrived at the summit at the same time as us and began to talk about the education system which is distinctly confused in their local school in matters of religion! There was a feeling of staleness over the immediate area so we prayed that the winds would blow away stale air in the dark corners. A feeling too that this was for churches and for local government.

We prayed for joy to come too on the airwaves and into the hearts of the people of the area. It feels as though much has been robbed and stolen in this area and that people do not know the joy of the Lord at all.

At the watershed line we poured out salt for cleansing of the waters and for a new season to come in the Spirit. As we prayed opposite the radar station here we saw a glider overhead and felt to pray for God’s people to be able to soar on the winds of the Spirit. We prayed for the watchmen and sentinels to be like stealth bombers in the region and for the watchmen anointing to increase. Just as the radar station is supposed to alert the nation’s security systems of intruders we prayed that in the Spirit there would be plenty of watchmen to pick up in the natural realms and in the spiritual any threat and danger to the land. We also prayed to expose sin in high places and to take authority over twisted and perverted communications. We prayed that the ley line would be broken and that the enemy would not be able to pervert and twist and manipulate communications. Thee was also a feeling that the watchmen in the radar stations were missing many things – change is needed here too.

On the way down we met a lady who said she had heard music. We had been sounding the shofars and singing as we went but we felt there was also angelic help. The banners are just beautiful in the open air – we used the joy banner, the wild geese and the goose flying out of the darkness into the light.
We have asked for some signs to encourage us in what we prayed – keep your eyes open because God likes to surprise us!

Many blessings

Anne, Alwyn, Jonathan, Laura Anne, Andy, Alan, Lynda, Diane, Laureline, Gareth and Hayley.

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I knew something was up when my time system started to act up. First the bracelet on my trusty, battered and scratched watch which had been climbing with me, visited many nations, left on numerous pulpits and rocks suddenly snapped. Very disorientating as I was in the middle of a prophetic weekend where I wanted to keep an eye on the time. Never mind, I was given another which I liked very much and it was doing well. When I wore it for its first visit to Israel it stopped on arrival. This time I did start to wonder what God might be doing and thought I had better listen. On getting back to England I discovered that my third back up watch had also stopped in sympathy with the other two!!
Then we discovered in Israel that this was no ordinary Passover -it was a new 28 year cycle for the Jews where they say special prayers, believing that the sun every 28 years returns to the spot it was in at Creation. God is shouting to us loud and clear.
It’s to do with the sun of righteousness too is rising with healing in his wings! We are in a time of Daniels, of judges and justice  – we have been here for some months now and we have an unusual authority to command that justice be done and that things hidden be exposed.
Use it for the media  -we can shout out that the truth is going to be shouted from the housetops. Unrighteous and biased journalists can be removed and those who are wanting to present the truth can be raised up at this time. Governments can be led to take a stand for righteousness. When God’s people demand justice expect results! You might have to wait to see the results  – Daniel too had to wait for his answer to come through – so will we but the answer is on its way!
We have been learning about deserts too – in the Negev desert.We are a bit short of sand deserts where I live in the natural ! Did you know that there is enough water underground in the Negev to last 800 years ? Getting to it is the problem. Did you know that the quality of the water there  -it’s salty – makes cherry tomatoes sweeter? Miles and miles of greenhouses in the Negev came as a shock to me but it’s true!
Anyway what does the desert mean to you? For me it’s place of stripping, it’s a place of letting God speak instead of  us yakking on so he can’t get a word in edgeways, it’s a time for prayer and drawing in to God’s heart, it’s place of military training and equipping for God’s army, it’s place of community, a place of resistance to the institutions the world and the Church have put in place, it’s a place where we make our kingdom choices for ministry, it’s a place of refuge.. It’s important! The deserts are going to blossom with communities of believers who will link up with one another in the nations and raise such an altar of perfume and praise the desert Bride will be glorious again. Israel will pioneer desert agriculture, drought and water management as never before and will actually sell some of her know how to nations which are currently her enemies. Water wars will hit the headlines big time.
Watch the Sinai  -it is going to be given back to an unwilling Israel at a future point and will be like hot potato. This area is a huge natural bridge between continents and is acting like a huge magnet attracting radical worshipers. Why? Because it’s God’s holy mountain and it still calls out. The problem being of course that it calls ALL manner of worshipers – hence the increasing number of radical terrorist groups here plotting terrible attacks on civilian populations. You might not agree with them but they are radical and they do worship. Other problem – their worship system is very legalistic. Why? The Law was given here. It affects those who come here.
What about the prophets? They too will have to run for the holy mountain to hear that gentle whisper from the Lord. There will be a rush to the desert in end times and communities rising up again in desert style. The desert move is not finished   -it is going to know it’s finest hour and complete it’s task. God is raising up a new order of Nazirites  – Messianics and Gentile believers who will form one stream eventually and complete one kingdom task.
Don’t forget to pray for Egypt  – interesting isn’t it that Egypt worshiped the sun so much ? Her national Church is rising. She will need help to deliver the multiple babies she will birth at this time. Her government is taking a stand. Her church is taking a stand. Watch the Copts rise up and fulfil their destiny. Keep an eye on the old centre of Alexandria because she will be a centre for the Lord’s people once again. Discipling, signs, wonders, revelations. A place of potent prayer and healing of conflicts in the region. Keep a prayerful eye on those who work in the hotels  -there are some radical, humble Christians here who are praying for safety in Egypt and also some other cells with quite a different agenda.

As for us here in the North East of England we are having a wonderful time in worship with the Lord. The sense of His presence is overwhelming and we don’t want to go home. The sense of oneness in Him is coming more and more clear, the need to be deeply joined together as Jesus’ last prayer for unity in John’s Gospel. You can’t artificially create unity we have discovered. We are all too different, very fiery too in our characters and prone to our own opinions! Maybe you are too! But when God comes in such love and holiness we don’t seem able to manage to talk about our own opinions any more!
Pharaoh is not keen on letting us go -some of us are exhausted with the strain of crippling compulsory shifts which leave us exhausted when we do get to our joint meetings  -or we are just being told that we have to work or lose the job. It’s not easy. The rest of us are facing unemployment with 600 applicants for one job where they can pretty much demand the hours they want. So some are exhausted and others have plenty of hours to worship God but no jobs or money either! Wow have we prayed! And bound and battled. And Pharaoh’s heart is getting harder and more unwilling to let the people go. Yet we are sure and certain that God is permitting this to shake us free from the slavery of this world’s system .We doubt the early Roman church -a bunch of slaves from all over the empire got time off on religious grounds to attend church on Sunday either from Nero ! We have a battle to win here in the NE  – we tend to get affected first by adverse economic conditions  -well we want to be the first this time to be able to speak and witness at first hand what God is doing to get us out of the pit ! If this sounds brave and dramatic to you – it isn’t! We just don’t have anywhere else to go!

God told me in Israel that he is sweeping the land with a broom of holiness  -a very appropriate picture for Israel in the process of sweeping out the old leaven for Passover. This is not just for Israel though  -this is for everbody. The religious ones will get the urge to “work harder to get holier “ and will just hate those who are not interested. This will lead to some heightened persecution but God will use this to set some key Orthodox in Israel free. The pressure will be so intolerable that they will jump to safety. Expect too the down side of this with other religions’ radical groups who will react to the broom by making already difficult living conditions even more strict and punitive in their efforts to be holy. For our group in Israel we felt this holiness of the Lord asking us to be silent and hear Him. As if so much that we had known and prophesied was irrelevant and that another time is beginning where we will not so easily prophesy without seriously seeking the face of the Lord first. Flattery, twisting the words to suit, pleasing man , our own agendas  -the Lord is dealing deeply with prophetic hearts. Awesome in the true sense of the word.

What else ? A huge emphasis on bringing a corporate prophetic word and most of us singing our words in worship. A battle over sounds and colours in the heavenlies where everyone does their part. Sometimes there are no words at all – just the sounds but we see what the Holy Spirit is wanting to do each time. We step out and then later on we get the explanation.

Watch the islands  -they are not always in our news as they are so tiny but they are a sign for End Times events . Watch Martinique and Guadeloupe  -there have been riots over food prices and joblessness and this is just the beginning. Watch Germany  -one of our community sees Germany being greatly accelerated in to God’s purposes.

Geneva has been much in the news with the walk out of so many delegates after the speech of the Iranian President. Geneva is the capital of human rights and compassion but it is only an hour away from Evian les Bains where the refusal of our nations to act to protect the Jewish people led to the Holocaust. This is a battle with Humanism and the same spirit of radical Islam which was behind Hitler. Humanism wants peace and nations to be nice and tolerant with one another. It is not going to happen  -watch now and pray to see what will happen now. Humanism has to be toppled  – it is not an option for us as sons and daughters of Zion. It can do some good works but ultimately it cannot hold back the flood of hatred in this world and it too will have to change to survive.

We are in a watershed time  – you can either retreat from here and go into your shell hoping Jesus comes back fast or see what God wants from you in this new time cycle.

Anne Griffith

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I am just catching up with what God has done recently. Normandy was a joy  -we looked at changing faces of Church with a great group of folk and looked at ancient mantles which are available to us still today when we know where to look. What do we mean by this ? An “ ancient mantle “ is an anointing which drops on  a particular person or people group at some point in human history and which often does not end with the demise of those folk  -rather if we are willing to come again in centuries after we can cleanse, take on and run with what our forefathers knew but God is giving us in this day a finishing anointing to go all the way with that mantle in our generation.
Not much time before going on to St Etienne for a teaching on the importance of having a pure vision for the Lord and dealing with generational iniquity which holds our eyes captive today. First time I have taught this one but it was very illuminating to pardon the pun. Folk reported the Lord having healed painful traumas and areas where eyes had seen cruel or violent events. The Lord also told me that there are areas where the enemy has a right of passage through the generational line to pollute and interfere with the eyes. We need to go much deeper on this one .
Some wonderful understanding too of how cities interact together. Folk from St Etienne, the city of the blacksmiths and some from Toulouse, the city of communications and the heart of France came together in the Spirit. The eyes of our HEART are important  -if you hit the heart, you lose the revelation of the eyes. The blacksmiths need to put up burnished shields in front of the heart to blind the enemy and protect the eyes.
At home in Mulberry House we have been encouraged by seeing many things revealed to us being in the news. We noticed China wanting to put into the world economy huge sums of money  -very much in line with the word received that China was going to overflow her borders. The same overflowing though will bring about End Time events good and bad. This same overflowing will cause the Chinese Church to be released to her destiny like never before and bring her back to Jerusalem. That Great Wall will be breached.
We have had a few warning about rest and shifting responsibilities too. I have called it Wild Geese, Zulu Drums and Suckers   -the whole word which is a corporate one is enclosed below.

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Hi to all. Here is a corporate word for you with love from Mulberry House. We think it’s for many more than us ! Be blessed and let us have your comments ! We accept comments in English, French , Italian, Russian or German by the way!!

Burdens are shifting shoulders ;

The wild geese were wiser than many of us in their V formation ! The places changed, the leaders were relieved when tired and the hurting geese were attended to. God is saying that too many are tired because of the people meant to come and relieve them not being there. This has been as much a reason for major ministries crashing as the refusal of leaders to relinquish control. I don’t know how you all of you out there operate in leadership. We are working on a wild goose pattern where the five fold ministries bring the saints into maturity. It’s hard going at times but we are getting there and the saints are being released into their anointings step by step.
Shoulders mean authority. The keys are on the shoulder of Jesus. Even the army marks rank and authority by insignia on the shoulder.
The challenge –  are YOUR shoulders ready to bear more responsibility ? If you want to grow in authority they will have to.

One of our community had a great picture of a tiny remnant of people facing a huge force of very angry Zulus. Needless to say the Zulus had the clear advantage. BUT the strategy employed by the heroes in the film was to create two waves. One line of folk would stand up and fight but would then would kneel down and rest while the second wave came to take their place. Do you see the spiritual dynamics ? A clear time for rest and warfare, intimacy and strategy coming out of that place. The saints taking the place of the weary ones.
Do you need to get down on your knees or stand up right now? !
Is your balance right?

Watch your heart!

We also had a clear picture given us of a heart which was not beating correctly. There were blockages in the arteries and the extremities of the body were turning blue from lack of oxygen. Message  -watch the state of your heart urgently ! Watch those who are isolated and are turning blue through lack of love. Watch the stress levels of your lives. Remove the blockages  – hard fat deposits build up over the years often linked to  a bad diet. What do you feed on  -physically and spiritually ? Gossip, rubbish ? Do you get  a regular work out in prayer and intercession ? Do you hold on to resentments and anger ? Do you expect to be waited on hand and foot ?
We’ll see you in the gym !

Drums  -not necessarily Zulu dawn !

We had a picture of a drum being tightened, expanded and extended before being refastened very tight. Drummers will know what we mean. The Lord is tightening us so that  A NEW SOUND CAN BE PRODUCED – yes again the Lord is interested in the sound you make.

Narrow spaces

We are coming through a very narrow gap  – one of our folk saw it – and we are moving through one by one. You are so confined at the moment with one person behind and one in front. We can support one another BUT each person has to make the decision to go through by themselves. We are again going through the eye of the needle , through the fire . Remember though that the Lord is behind this with much joy. He has a MUCH bigger place for you and that there will be a great joy in coming through. We were given  a picture of some small fish being released into a bigger expanse of water. Even the goldfish grows in comparison to his bowl ! We are being moved on into  a bigger place so that we can expand but before you can expand you have to move through  a very narrow channel to arrive in that bigger place.
Suckers on roses ;

Are you a gardiner ? I do like my roses and it is time to prune ! Do you know what a sucker is ? It is a seemingly healthy and strong shoot coming from the base of the rose which needs CUTTING OFF. The Lord has been telling me about the necessity of cutting off spiritual suckers. How can you tell the difference ? The sucker NEVER produces flowers or fruit BUT it will, if neglected take the cultivated rose back to wild, weakening it and ultimately taking it over.
Wow ! We too need to allow the Lord to prune and train us and we need to allow him to cut off those things, those relationships, those mindsets which are sucking the life out of us ! Get real ? Recognise that there are relationships and some seemingly gorgeous folk who drain and suck the life out of us and stop us fulfilling our calling.
Hard but you can’t take them through the eye of the needle.
Jesus is the true vine who has the right to cut off every single branch that does not bear fruit. Let him do it !
By the way, I think it also has to do with the mystery of iniquity. The Lord gives people choices to be pruned but when there is a creeping lawlessness and desire to do it our own way, the Lord then has to separate between His own cultivated and trained vine which takes its strength from Him and those branches which suck the life out of the saints. Very hard I know but it’s what I heard.
I’ve seen some good spring offers on secateurs if you are interested !

God wants to MULTIPLY but you have to have the unhealthy bits cut off first !

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