12 September 2022

[Music: “All You Need Is Love”, The Beatles, 1967]

Dreams overnight of light fracturing, with mirrors everywhere. There were light beams from behind which then split, reflected and curved somehow.

Walking with Luke after intercessory prayers, and the phrase “visioning the future” is in the forefront of my thinking, so I pray out loud:

“Make me a vision-runner, Lord! When we are tasked, commanded to ‘Seek first the Kingdom of God’, show us, Lord, how and what to do first, and next and next. I know you have told me that we are ‘not on a wartime footing’, and I pray for insight and foresight in that. What would you have me say or write about that? What can your reawakened world look like? What does a world-wide year of ‘rest’ feel like? Can we even understand Peace? Will we embrace a complete slowdown, and not be afraid?”

The instant I am done speaking, I hear him say,

            Fear not, My child.

“Show us Your vision, my great I AM!”

Again, an immediate reply,

            Consider, child, the mountains brought low.      (Isiah 40)

            What will your world ‘look like’ when this occurs? Fear not.

            Consider again, child, every word that speaks of what you ‘see’ as vision, child.

            And indeed, live your lives in faith, in love, and not by sight.

All my considering takes me to Strong’s Concordance where I find these items:

Vision (2372) chazah – to gaze at; to mentally perceive, contemplate; specifically, to have a vision of; behold, look, prophesy, provide, see.

Also (4758) mareh – a view (the act of seeing); also, an appearance (the thing seen)

Also (7200) raah – to see (the Greek horama/horao, to discern clearly)

1 September 2022

A single statement from the Lord:

            I am precise, child – Everything else is an approximation.

Sunday 17 September 2023

Yesterday the force of the offshore storm was on display at high tide, near midday:

This morning, it was as though nothing had happened at all:

Standing in the tranquility, the Lord says:

            Are you at Peace? Then be in Peace even in the midst of the battle.

            Hear Me now: Everybody get in here close to Me! Closer than you could imagine. It’s Go Time.

Thursday 14 September 2023

Walking with Luke after intercessory prayers, and the sky and clouds above seem to reflect something about how small we are compared to the size of the earth we live on. There is a hurricane blowing up the coast; it is perhaps 300 miles away at this moment, but the wind is already blowing from the north, drawn by this huge swirling storm off in the distance. I am asking Father about it, thinking about size and scale, scope and distance, when He says:

            Consider that time and space is collapsing between you and the vastness of My Heaven.

Wednesday 13 September 2023

A night of fractured sleeping leads me to be out walking with Luke before 5.

The new moon can be seen in full profile, as though in an eclipse, a pale orange. The thinnest bright sliver is showing on the lower edge. Venus, the brilliant early morning planet, twinkles above and to the right. When the clouds move by, pale Orion and bright Sirius can be seen, along with Castor, Pollux, Elnath, and Aldebaran.

The tide is falling, sweeping out, and there is a feeding frenzy which I cannot see but can hear loudly. Birds are calling, squawking, crying, laughing in a continuous wave of excitement. The Lord asks me:

            What are they doing, child?

“They’re feeding, wildly, in joy at the swarming supply of fish.”

            I feed them, abundantly.

In the pause that follows, the noise of the birds becomes a physical presence.

            I feed you, I feed all my creation, every day, what they need, and so much more.

            Do not fear, for I am covering your all.

Thursday 7 September 2023

After intercessory prayer time, I am out with Luke. It is warm and humid, and I am in beautiful still peace, and You tell me:

            You are safe.

I revel in that for a long while, just walking with Luke, and there is one more word:

            Yes, change is coming, its very near.

In my spirit I know this: To be on-watch for the Lord is to be strong, alert, eyes open, sharp, clear, and focused.

“Be thou my vision, Lord. Keep me vigilant, prepared, perceptive, steady and steadfast, diligent.”

As I am getting in the truck, I see a number on a passing car: 447.

Psalm 44:7 says: “…but you give us victory over our enemies,
                                    you put our adversaries to shame.”

Isaiah 44:7 says: “   Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it.
                                    Let him declare and lay out before me
                                    what has happened since I established my ancient people,
                                    and what is yet to come—
                                    yes, let them foretell what will come.”

John 4:47 says: “…When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,
                                    he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was
                                    close to death.”

I read on further to verse 50.

                                    ““Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
                                    The man took Jesus at his word and departed.”
                                    [emphasis mine]

“Yes, Lord: We take you at your Word. Thank you and Amen.”

Wednesday 6 September 2023

Another night of fractured sleep. Wide awake at 4, with a gentle voice whispering in my ear:

            Get up and come out here.

Luke and I were out in the semi-darkness at 5. I was called to the waters edge. I thought about how much water there is compared to land, thought about the ‘laws’ of physics which try to help us understand how ‘gravity’ and ‘density’ hold all that water in its place, hold my feet to the ground. There was a deep laugh when I thought the word ‘laws’. I stood silently, waiting, staring out at the horizon, listening, feeling the cadence of the morning, the heartbeat of the water.

            You do not go into, go onto the water very far without a boat. What don’t you see, child?

“I don’t see any boats, Lord. Not a one, as far as these eyes can look.”

            You will see many more as you return to a different pace and structure.

I thought about that for a while. I could picture in my mind’s eye the waters busy with boats, carrying goods and cargo, carrying people to and fro. I asked, “At the pace of sail, Father?” But there was no more insight for the moment, except from Psalm 104: 25-26,

²⁵There is the sea, vast and spacious,
    teeming with creatures beyond number—
    living things both large and small.
²⁶ There the ships go to and fro,
    and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

Sunrise now, and the clouds are brilliantly lit. There is something that looks like a hammer or … a symbol, a letter character. It looks like ‘daleth”, which may represent a door. “Tell me more, Lord.”

Later that morning, I hear Him quite clearly:

            There are things your military must do in these coming times – more that just legal tribunals. They must do war things, and there are things you must do: Stand strong, facing forward, clear-eyed, when you see casualties. Do not lose focus on Me, on My orders and plans.