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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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