Wednesday 23 August 2023

Walking on the beach road with Luke at 6am, still thinking about fighting and training, when the Lord draws me inward, into Him, and says:

            Look at me! Pick up your eyes and your perspective! Look at me!

            My immensity is the presence you feel. That is the power of my Love!

I am chagrined and chastened, for I realize that I have not deliberately and carefully put my armor on before going out. I feel something – angels? – pressing a covering, not a helmet, a covering onto my head.

            I know you are considering my prophets and my apostles, my evangelists, and considering how to gather and where and when. Rightly as a commander you would ask, ‘How many have we got with us?’

            Listen to me: I say that the gathered voices shall become louder than the noise around you now.

            Gather and make a joyful noise!

Later in the day I hear these words, reminders, encouragements:

            You have heard the rumblings and felt the motion, for My warships are underway, and you are underway with them. Now! Set a watch!

            Remind my children how many have stood a watch so they will understand. For every parent who has stood the night through for a child, for everyone who has prayed for loved ones sick or dying, for lonely ones standing until reunited, every prayer, every intercession is a watch stood for My Kingdom, and Well Done. Do Not Relent!

            Remember: You fight like you train.

            Keep asking: What are the healthy vital signs of your nation?

            Now, now, child, now: You are on a wartime footing.

Tuesday 22 August 2023

On the beach at 5:30 with Luke, and the Glory appears like this:

I am thinking, trying to quiet my mind while walking, thinking about warfare and the intensity of the battles when the Lord asks me a question:

            What is that thing you say, child?

And by this I knew that He meant this: “We fight like we train, we play like we practice.”

He chuckles, a comforting sound:

            You are training and practicing so you will fight as I command, fight to win completely, fight like skilled craftsmen.

“We are Ecclesia Rising, Father, and we love you.”

A line of writing appears in the sky; you can see some of the remains in small dark clouds in the foreground above. It appeared and was gone before I could capture it. The first and last characters in the string were ה (“He”), and ת “Tav.”

‘He’ is often used to represent the name of God as an abbreviation for Hashem, which means The Name and is a way of saying God without actually saying the name of God (YHWH).

‘Tav’ is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means ‘truth’.

Thursday 17 August 2023

Driving with the windows open, the Lord speaks these words above the wind noise:

            Consider electricity, electronics, electrons, elections, and the elect. What is the root, child? Consider the connections.

I spend a long time looking up definitions, etymology, and reading from Strong’s Concordance before it jumps out to me: I kept thinking of ‘elect’ as the root, but it’s:

            EL

            Yes, child, now you’re getting it. I AM the Almighty, I AM the all-powerful, and I AM the connection. From the infinitesimal – much smaller than what you call electrons – through every cell in the hearts, minds, spirits and bodies of the elect, and beyond any frequencies of your electro-magnetic spectrum, as you call it.

            Yes, I AM the connection.

Tuesday 15 August 2023

Walking the beach road with Luke at 5:30 in light rain, we both stop to listen to something peculiar. I can’t speak for his dog ears, but I clearly heard a deep rumble and thrumming, as though many large engines were starting up. I remember the sound and sensation: on a large ship everyone onboard can hear and feel the engines coming to life and they know: We’re getting underway, things are being stowed and watches are being set.

The Lord speaks into this engine sound:

            Get ready! Stay at the ready.

            I am your friend as well as King, and I call you friend.

            Stay alert for Me. You will see something you’ve never seen before.

Sunday 13 August 2023

[Music in my ears: “Shake it Off”, Taylor Swift]

Awake at 5am, and grieving. Luke and I were on the beach at 5:50 in a gentle rain. Are you water-washing me, Lord?

I opened my mouth to pray and started to say, “Lord, I am lost and don’t know …” I was going to finish with “…what to do”, but He interrupted me with this:

            What do you know for certain, child? Consider the ‘I know’ statements from a Samaritan woman, from Peter, from Martha at the tomb of Lazarus.

The woman at the well, answering Jesus, said “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” (John 4:25)

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” He might as well have put the words “I know” in front of his answer.  (Matthew 16:16)

Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” (John 11:24)

            Hear me, child: I AM Messiah, I AM the resurrection. Not ‘I was’ or ‘I will be’, but I AM. Before Abraham was, I AM.

            I AM the resurrection, so you are free. You are not bound by tormenting thoughts that tell you what you have done, haven’t done, or what you are not now.

            I free you from that.

Something like black tentacles snap off me, an electric feeling.

            When you take your communion – in remembrance – think of resurrection, power, freedom. Not in what I endured to bring it. You are free, and what honor and glory is it to me if you are still bound? Start there, in communion, with resurrection, because I AM, I live, and I walk and breathe with you.

            You grieve, and I grieve with you, even as I help your steps in freedom into the coming, not into the ‘what has been’.

There is a pause for all that to sink in, and I start to answer, “Lord, I believe …” but He continues:

            You are to know this, live this, when you believe!

            When your thoughts come: ‘What about the blessings? What about the healing? What about … ‘ so much more, Remain Steady on the foundation of a resurrected life, and on all My assurances.

            This is what it means to keep your eyes on me – the Living Me – Yes, it is a continuum, a living and forever process. It is not linear, as you would say. These feelings and thoughts of “Oh! It’s not working!” are not from me. Because I AM working, loving, leading you, leading all my children who, like sheep, look for, listen to, and watch their good shepherd.

            Remember then and know for certain that I AM leading into the glorious future.

            You are still being shaken to snap off the stuff that tries to cling to you, to distract, wound and kill you – now pay attention: These are tactics, child! – all so that you lose focus on me.

            The authority you take is to start within you first, and then for others. You are strong and steady when you walk – and you must walk – with me, because you are mine. In that walk, you demonstrate to the world my truth: that my resurrection is true, not was or will be. No matter, child, who speaks against you or about you.