The Tabernacle

I am reading through Proverbs, a chapter a night and verse 23 from Chapter 4 really stood out to me .

21 Don’t lose sight of my words. Let them
penetrate deep within your heart, 22 for they bring life and radiant
health to anyone who discovers their meaning. 23 Above all
else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.

As I reflect back, especially on my time in Hawaii. I know that this is what God was on about and has been on about relentlesly ever
since. The battle for mens Hearts, the battle for my heart. I have just read the little book EPIC by John Elderige, it is really good. It
is on about the same thing, this life we are living is a big Epic and we are players on God’s stage. the enemy wants to reduce and reduce
us, to get us staring at our belly buttons. Oh wo is me! My lot is so hard. When actually we are suposed to be glorious refections of God’s
very image, LEADING our families and our wives toward God. The enemy wants our hearts he wants to reduce and reduce and
reduce us. To fill us with crap and to steal our time. Well he cannot have my heart I ain’t drinking his cool aide. I will not believe the
crap he reletlessly throws at me, I will lead my family spiritually and towards God by loving Him with everything that I have got and
surendering everything, everything, everything to Him.

By believing that God IS GOOD! and that His plans for me are way better for me and every single one in my family than anything I can come up with. By believing that I can
trust Him.

So how can a young man keep his way pure? PROV 119:9 By living according to your word.

God wants to lift us up, for us to be and think bigger than just ourselves to get our eyes up and on HIM.

I will engage in the battle for my heart, like Nehemiah I will realise that there is a time to pick up my sword. I am willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with my brothers in this Faith.

Thanks Solomon I agree my heart is under constant attack, and I believe if this is a battle I lose or don’t engage in then ‘everything I do’ will be affected.

Lord I ask
you to help and guide each one of us give us the courage and the
wisdom to know the right steps. I love you, Thank you so much for your
son Jesus and the Holy Spirit you are a very great and cool God and
you DO know what you are doing and you are engaged and very involved.
Thank you, Thank you, I praise you.

An intercessor in Germany emailed me today with the following prophetic dream from Obii Pax-Harry a Nigerian lady living in the UK.

These words are from the heart of God. And he beckons to you his bride…

The Dream
A lady was attempting to communicate important instruction (a message) from a foreign nation to me through a dream. Although she spoke words, her words (intangible) came across to me as a “relay baton” (tangible) necessary to finish a race. She was standing in a room full of people; cutting a picture of a busy stock exchange trading floor. She could hardly hear herself because everyone in the room was talking at the top of their voices. It seemed that everyone in the room was trying to speak at the same time. She continued to make frantic efforts to pass on the message she had for me but the noise levels in the room were phenomenal.

The lady then tried leaning forward in an attempt to get closer to me, although there would have been at least twenty or so people standing between us. Still trying to communicate the message that would help me finish my race she then said, “Wait a minute,” and walked off to find a quieter spot from where she could speak without interruption. She tried standing on her toes to gain height advantage over the people that stood between us but to no avail. She kept trying to adjust her standing position, still intent on passing on the message she had for me.

Surprisingly, her focus was on positioning, not in shouting at the top of her voice, over other voices just to be heard. She knew somehow that if she could only stand in the right place, she would be able to pass on the message regardless of the noise. I was poised to receive, but the messenger was finding great difficulty in conveying just the message or instruction I needed to resolve issues. I woke up whilst she was still trying to find a quiet corner or a place from where the “sound” of her voice could travel better.

The Lord said, “First you must stop and listen!” He then cautioned, “turn down the noise level.”

Today we had an interesting event. It reminded me a lot of the 7th of September story on our web page. Helen said she felt the Lord told her to take our son for a walk in Hurstbridge, which is about 10mins drive away. When she told me I felt I was to go along as well, so off we went. Once we were in the town we asked the Lord where to go. We drove through the town and then turned up a road behind it. As we drove past another road we felt sure this was where we were supposed to go. So we turned around and headed down it. It was just a dirt track and it got much smaller as as it came to an end. Getting out we saw a walking path through a little gully then up the hill on the other side, so off we went for our walk. Near the top of the hill was another bitumen road and an unmaintained paddock with rows of apple trees and a dam with lots of straggly trees growing on the dam wall. I walked into the property and just started to pray. Was this where God wanted us to come? Was there something about this block of land? It looked very unmaintained. The Lord has spoken to us about a bigger place where He will establish a public Tabernacle, was this the land?
Then our son took off down the hill with Helen following him down calling me as well. But I felt to stop and to keep praying. I didn’t think God was finished yet. Then I noticed what looked to be a sign hanging from one of the fruit trees. I walked over and took a look. The sign announced that an experiment was taking place here and that different things were being done to the trees. The first tree was getting a monthly dose of fertiliser and potash, and also 15mins of Reiki each week. The other trees had the potash and fertiliser but no Reiki.

I have looked up Reiki. It is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy. The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy.” (from Reiki.org)
So there was a spiritual experiment going on here, and not a Christian one! Wow God had guided us directly to this place. I then had an overwhelming urge to curse the tree and actually curse it to death. There goes that experiment.

I later pondered on what had happened, how we were guided to that place and how I almost missed it. I had to hang in there, keep looking and keep listening. At times it can be very hard to keep going. We sometimes feel very alone. This was a nice reminder of one of our major goals and that is to ALWAYS have enough space in our lives to be available to follow His still small voice.
You have my life Jesus do with it as you will.