THE STONES CRY OUT NOT JUST FOR THE UK!
Well we now have the election date here in the UK – a month of campaigning and persuading and positioning behind the scenes. God of course is very present and interested but what is HE saying to His people at this time? Not just here in the UK but to all of us. Our vision is always of course limited but here are some themes which have been recurring in our part of the world which may ring true for you too. Sorry if this seems heavy and you could do without it in your life but read between the lines and you will see hope and God’s sheer goodness and faithfulness to us!
WHAT MESSAGE SHOULD THE STONES CRY?
Jesus said that if the disciples were silenced, the stones would cry out. Obviously the enemy really does want the voices of God’s people to be silent and the stones DO cry out. For good or bad they cry out their message. Just look at a castle, a pagan temple, a dolmen or a stone circle or some church ruins. You cannot remain unaffected by the message. Over past months the Lord has been stressing the importance of:-
-Turning off ungodly messages which have been wrongly programmed into stones (false altars, monuments ancient and modern which cry out death, idolatry, false sacrifice, mockery of God.). The ungodly messages pollute the earth and the airwaves and bring people and the land under a curse.
-Reminding stones which have been forgotten about that they can return to their original godly mandate if there was one. Many stones were used for godly purposes once but were scattered and used for something different and finally forgotten about. Now is the time for the gathering again of those stones to complete any mandate from God in this age.
-Commanding stones which have been taken from their original places and used to rebuild elsewhere to be loosed and to return to their first godly purpose.
-Calling out of oblivion and death stones where the enemy has seemingly caused all trace to be lost.
Much of this is to do with forgotten apostolic mandates given to saints long ago which are to be completed today. Moves of God shut down or misunderstood, begun well but polluted by man, twisted by wrong ideology or historians. The physical stones and the living descendants of the living stones need to be aligned to call out again the right godly message. God is wanting to put us on His righteous bedrock where we will let Him.
WORKING WITH THE REMNANT
God always has His remnant in the land in any diaspora. This January the Lord showed me a stump under the ice and snow of our bitter winter weather that rose again with such force that it almost knocked me off my feet. It sprouted branches, fruit and leaves so fast I was astonished from what looked as if it was a dead, burnt stump.
“And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste,
But as the terebinth and the oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.” Isaiah 6:1-13
If you were God maybe you would be very concerned with watching over that holy seed in the land but God’s ways are not ours it seems. He actually burns and purifies the tenth part of the whole in order to preserve the seed. If you are going through that burning process right now, it might not be much fun but maybe God has greater purposes in it and can still use that holy seed to effect change in his timing and purpose. Do not forget that if this was for Israel, the chosen people it will be no less true for those grafted in on Hebraic roots to the olive tree.
It is so important right now to cry out that the spiritual descendants of past moves of God would hear the truth of their identity and begin to wake up from their long sleep. There is a gathering again in the land.
Help will also come from the diaspora scattered in the nations. Israel is now a nation but much help and man ideas had to be developed in the spiritual genes of those in the nations and taken back to the land. Watch God move because there are many tribes, races, moves of God scattered to the flour winds which are going to follow the pattern of Israel. Great Britain will be no different. The British Empire did much harm and much good. The Commonwealth has been much criticised but there is good to come from these places too. Ancient mandates still stand.
EYE OF THE NEEDLE
We are still struggling here to get through that eye! It is a VERY tight squeeze this time. Some of us feel that although this is what we have prayed for we now feel out of control of our circumstances. More than ever we feel we are NOT ready for God coming in power. Maybe it’s a good thing too. This is truly a time for the hard baked grease to be scoured off us to get through that narrow place. The year of tens is certainly a pithy place to be. We are finding that we just can’t have it our way any more. The fear of the Lord is there as we realise our extreme dependence on him .Yes it sounds trite and we have been saying this for years but now it is like standing on the edge of a cliff with no option than to jump. Seems like absolute surrender is the only was out and we are cornered – by our own prayers too which seems typical for God!!
ALL CHANGE – THE MAD HATTER AND THE UK
I apologise to friends abroad if you do not know that Johnny Depp alias Captain Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean has just become the latest Mad Hatter in a new film of Alice in Wonderland. The problem is that even though I don’t particularly like Johnny Depp, this is shouting at me for the UK. It seems to me so highly prophetic that the cry of “all change” goes up round the tea table while our political parties all shout about change but nothing concrete happens. The dormouse is still asleep in our national teapot and we are still shouting to lop off heads as if that would improve anything.
God has been taking to many folk – even if you do not see the prophetic sign of the dormouse, the hatter and the ever changing tea table in the UK. I was in a church recently when all of a sudden the worship team began to play a strange rhythm on the drums – it sounded just like Big Ben although I was not even in the UK. It was like the time ticking away before judgement actually. God had me watch the 39 Steps some time ago where the hero hangs on to the pointers of Big Ben to avert national disaster. Sorry if you think Christians should not quote from films. I think it’s OK if it is backed up by the Bible. Well I was reminded of this scene again that morning where the hero stops time just before midnight. God is Lord of time and there are so many instances where He can and will intervene. For the UK I had a picture of a clock – not Big Ben but a sun dial and was reminded of two passages of Scripture. First of all the finger of God moving to show the king that basically his time is up – Daniel 5:25-26 “This is what the words mean:
Mene. God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
Tekel. You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Peres. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.”
In the case of this king it was too late. The writing was on the wall and the judgement decreed. The kingdom changed hands and Daniel amazingly survived. I do not either mean anything about our Queen and believe that God honours her for her stance and standards and will protect the nation as a result – We Brits really need to be singing that she lives long! The nation though is not in a good state and the writing is on the wall. I saw where the enemy was pointing too and indicating to God that it was time for judgement.
Can we change this? There have been so many prayer initiatives and hopeful signs. Revival often comes at difficult times. While praying a few days ago – coincidentally over some “old stones” which had forgotten their mandate, God showed me a crack opening. Interestingly we were proclaiming over the north and I was reminded that we are in a time when magnetic North and true North coincide. A shadow fell in a precise moment of time and I heard that at this time there was the possibility of “going back” ten. The story of king Hezekiah came to me in 2 Kings 20. The godly king falls ill and is told by the prophet Isaiah that he will die. Understandably he is upset and begins to weep and turn his face to the wall and remind God of the way he has tried to follow him. God hears and Isaiah is told to return and tell the king he will recover and live another 15 years. Hezekiah asks for a sign he will go up to the house of the Lord in three days and is told he has a choice – to make the sun dial go forward or back ten degrees. This jumped out at me for our nation.
“ It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps, said Hezekiah, Rather have it go back ten steps.” In other words cause time to go backwards.
Here I feel a few things:-
Judgement is decreed BUT God wants to test hearts to see if we ask further.
We can “turn our face to the wall” and REMIND God of the righteous acts of the nation in the past and the righteous acts of the saints. It is good to ask forgiveness but pleas for mercy because of right doing can buy time when we ask with good hearts.
The ten degrees back I believe are for years where we can ask God to reverse decisions taken in the life of the nation which have brought reproach and guilt.
The fig poultice is to disinfect the wound and will no doubt sting but it will cleanse and bring healing.
The fifteen years are the allotted years of grace to use wisely – whether or not it will be literally fifteen I do not know. It depends on our reaction right now.
NEW BROOMS SWEEP CLEAN?
Last year the Lord showed me in Israel a broom of righteousness sweeping the nation. Whatever sweeps Israel will also sweep the nations but it may not be very obvious at first. It will be interpreted according to the “glasses” you wear of course. Orthodox Jews have become more purist and religious and have turned very strict in their attempts to “purify” their land of influences like Christian missionaries. As a result visas have been refused to many. Many have had to leave Israel. The religious spirit has risen up in its own attempts to “purify” the lands – all kinds of religious spirits in all kinds of religions who feel the broom and then act according to their ideals. We need to watch out for the perversion of what God wants to do and what we in our ignorance can perceive he wants to do in our churches and nations. Nationalist movements have started up in the nations with renewed fervour and it is not over yet. All they are doing is trying to purify their lands of what they see as harmful influences from the outside. In this nation the Lord showed me that the House of Commons would be swept clean and that he was about to go through it with his broom of righteousness. We have had the scandals of MP’s expenses and this has paved the way for elections where nobody can truly predict the results. Confidence in politicians is at an all time low.
I can’t tell you who you should vote for but God is looking for righteousness in the house!
RULE BRITANNIA?
This last winter the Lord showed me an old coin where the nose of Britannia had been defaced for some reason. A symbol of the nation even though a demonic one. He told me that Britannia’s nose was going to be rubbed in the dirt. A sign of shame, disgrace, punishment in the nation. I doubt anyone thinks the nation is currently doing too well unless you really do have your head in the sand. Now though it seems that Britannia is to be taken off our coins and is to be replaced by a lion. I doubt it looks like a godly lion but a new era is beginning. The weak lion though needs to roar and be transformed by the Lion of Judah himself.
POPPIES FROM THE SKY
The people of Wooton Bassett are keeping up their vigil to escort home the bodies of the dead soldiers of Afghanistan. This happens regularly despite efforts by extremists to hold offensive marches in the opposite spirit while using our laws of freedom to attack the nation. Whether you agree with the actions of the nation there or in any other place the nation is grieving for the loss of so many young lives. Yesterday a 21 year old from our own Gateshead was killed and another family is plunged into mourning. Just before the terrible bombings in London a few years back the Lord showed me a silence over the UK, the city of London in danger and then poppies falling in millions to cover the land in a thick carpet. Many folk had warnings. Many prayed. It could have been so much worse except for the prayers of the saints. As a celebration of victory which coincided with dates form the last World war, poppies were dropped form the sky over London. This was to me shocking enough but the truth is that what the enemy plans is much worse – I saw poppies so deep that I could no longer see the ground. I am not a prophet of doom by the way. I just know that there are many more plans afoot to wreak havoc. God of course has HIS and WE are part of them. We have time to act but it needs for us to hear and obey.
THE UK – AN EXAMPLE
I felt I heard that our nation was going to be an “example” of God’s nature. He is reminding us of two sides to His nature. He is “good, compassionate and tenacious to His people”, committed to them in covenant purpose in His way. Covenant cuts two ways though. Moses sees this “goodness” of the Lord from his safe place. He hears the Lord God proclaim His name and nature;
“The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished; He punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.”
Exodus 33-34
We will see BOTH sides of God’s nature in this time ahead.
FINALLY – LESSONS FROM PURIM AND PASSOVER
Esther saved her people by her bravery and commitment – even though she took some persuading. BUT the order of the king could not be reversed – only changed by allowing the Jews to know in advance what would happen to them and allowing them-to protect themselves against their enemies – by force if necessary. Moses saved his people by telling them to stay inside, to prepare to leave Egypt and to apply the blood of the lamb to the doorposts. BUT if they had just agreed with God and done nothing, they would have suffered the same as the Egyptians.
ICELAND AND VOLCANIC DUST
Today it is very peaceful and still due to the empty skies in our area. An amazing sunset last night due probably to the dust in the atmosphere. Late last night before going to bed, I asked the Lord what was going on with these strange events. Several of our folk have seen dark clouds over the nation but we have not thought of volcanoes affecting us in this way. I was reminded of the events that led to the failure of the Icelandic bank and the way those in this nation started to demand that Iceland paid back what it owed. Their leader asked for time and pointed out that they were a small country in a real crisis which would take more time to resolve. I felt the Lord saying that we needed to be reminded of Iceland as we had forgotten that we too owe billions to others who could easily begin to demand payment from US. We would also say we needed more time. We need to show mercy – not that the banking system in either nation is perfect but because God wants righteousness and mercy.
I have sense of suspended time over the UK at the moment – we need to use it wisely.
Many blessings,
Anne Griffith