The Tabernacle

I have written before about prophetic trips that we feel the Lord has asked us to go on. Recently we went away camping for the weekend. Helen & JM had picked this spot & I had felt the Lord indicate to us that this was to be a prophetic trip, in that He wanted us to take His presence there. We went to Bonney Lake State Park, due East of Denver just a few miles from the Kansas/ Colorado border.

After we had arrived and set up our tent, the neighbouring camper came over and asked if we had a radio. He then went on to tell us that he had been listening to his and that there was a Tornado about 15 miles away over the border and a hail storm coming our way with golf ball sized hail. He was considering leaving. Well we had just weathered a hail storm at our house in Denver and we had $17,500 dollars damage in just half an hour. The thought of that in a tent wasn’t too attractive!

So we sought the Lord as to whether we should pack up and go? (Although I don’t know to where as we were hours from anywhere.) But we felt Him say to stay, so we hopped into our very thin feeling tent and tried to get to sleep. The wind was howling through the trees and there was rain being blown into the tent, but after some time and lots of prayers we got to sleep. The Lord had spoken to us about taking His presence out to the border, in a Prophetic act to stretch out the pegs of the Tabernacle if you will, from what He had been establishing here in Denver, there were massive thunder storms both nights, so the atmosphere was certainly responding! The second night there was so much rain that we nearly couldn’t get out on the gravel roads as the surface had broken through and we were driving in thick sticky mud. Anyway I had a real sense that we were driving the stakes of what we had done here with the Tabernacle out to the border, so we also drove the few miles out across the Kansas border on the main interstate and visited an old dying US country town. Then a few days later we drove to Breckenridge which is towards the other border (West), to go for a hike with great friends there. I feel the Lord has sealed things East to West. Go God, I certainly don’t fully understand but please use us as you will and achieve your goals here.

I recently heard Bill Johnson say: “I don’t truly value the Holy Spirit unless I recognise and celebrate Him on others.” He was talking about celebrating the Holy Spirit on others and honouring THEM for it. I think this ties in well with what this video is saying.
Both of these speak against making our own kingdoms, but the power of joining in. Encouraging and honouring what you see of God on others. This is Kingdom of God stuff!

What can you see God doing on and in others that you could celebrate, encourage or join in with?

Ok so now I am getting excited, I had just put up the previous Blog when this came into my Email.

Blow the Trumpet!
A Call for Repentance and Prayer
Joel 2
Global Day of Prayer, 23 May 2010

32 Days to go

195 Countries

Dear Friends

Sunday 23 May 2010 is a very unique day in the Christian calendars, when the Eastern Orthodox tradition of “Kneeling Day” and the Western tradition of “Pentecost Sunday” converge on the same day. Thus the 10 year celebration of the Global Day of Prayer is very significant in that hundreds of millions of Christians from all over the world will kneel simultaneously in a day of repentance and united prayer before God, expecting the glory of the God to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. (Hab.2:14)

Christians everywhere in the world will assemble to pray. Many will gather in small groups in homes, many will assemble in large stadiums and other public venues. In some places, television, radio and internet will help to connect and align our prayers even more.

Global Day of Prayer

Today the skies over Briton and Europe are re-opened after 6 days being closed to air traffic due to the Iceland volcano.

9 days ago I posted the previous Blog about waiting and this being a time to wait between Passover and Pentecost.

It seems to me that God initiated a bit of ’set apart’ time for about 7 million people, let alone the people on the other side of their journeys. 1 cloud.

Only God can work with those kinds of numbers, I look forward to Pentecost this year, May 23rd.

Source the Melbourne Age. -

Airlines face a vast task after an estimated 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe alone.

“Airlines have nearly 7 million passengers stranded around the globe. Australians account for about 60,000 of them, with a quarter being carried by Qantas. Airlines also have planes out of position.”

Helen & I have been struck again in the last weeks by this word in Acts 1:4-5

“On one occasion, while Jesus was eating a meal with them, he told them, “Do not leave Jerusalem but ‘wait’ for the gift my Father promised. Remember, I have told you about this before. 5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

So what the Disciples had to do in order to receive the magnificent gift of the Holy Spirit was: Wait! Yep that’s it, the most magnificent powerful gift that God has ever given to human’s and all they had to do was ‘not do’.

We are now in this same period of time between Passover (When The Lamb was killed to deal with sin) and Pentecost (When the Holy Spirit was given). In this time Jesus told His disciples to ‘wait’ in Jerusalem. We have felt to set aside some extra time just to ‘wait’ on the Lord no agenda, no talking just waiting, resting in His presence eager to hear what is on His Heart. On Saturday night Helen and I both had a wonderful time with Jesus doing just this. Some friends of ours called today and told us how after we had shared with them that they too had set apart time and just waited on the Lord. This resulted in an unusual boldness as they taught Sunday school this morning, and after the lesson ‘teaching the kids to wait on God/ hear His voice’ they took the kids into the sanctuary where the main church was and one of the kids spoke out what they had heard and this was then followed up by a matching prophetic song, and God got to hijack the rest of the service. Very very cool report, all inspired by the kids. Go God!

Then tonight it just struck me to share this and encourage people to just get with God in this season of waiting. This is a special time and I don’t want anyone to miss out. No agenda’s no talking just come together and take the time, as long as it takes, to hear what is on God’s heart.
I can guarantee from my experience, it will be surprising and life changing, God is very very Good and He loves sharing His heart with us.

If you have a go at this please share your experiences here so that others can be Blessed by your adventure.

We had a local Intercessor and prayer warrior at our house on Saturday night, God seems to have these people strategically placed in cities, praying and interceding, changing outcomes at the will of the Father. We certainly know of some in Munich, Tubingen and in Adelaide and many other cities, now we have met some of God’s prayers here in Denver.
While he was here He asked God for a word for us and also why we were here. Here is the picture that God then gave.

When I inquired of the Lord for something He had for you & simultaneously asking why you were here I saw the following:

I saw Jesus standing over the landscape and He was very large: towering above the surrounding countryside, big and tall enough so anyone in this region could easily see Him.  You both were standing on the ground like in an open field and He was standing directly over you.  You were not visible, rather engulfed inside of him on the ground.  He was absolutely glorious and shining like gold brighter than anything on earth … literally radiating His Glory in indescribable splendour.  I felt the Lord saying this is a picture in the spirit realm of what you are bringing with you here, i.e. Jesus in all His true Glory and Splendour for all the people to see Him … not you, nor anyone or anything else, but Him.

That is it, and of course not “it” because there’s so much more about this than even I could imagine or conceive of!

Thank you for being faithful … I pray He keep you in Him always, giving you a love for Him and out of that His Bride that is pure, unspoiled holy as He is.

We are greatly encouraged by this picture and we believe it is a great picture of Tabernacle. Centring and focusing on Jesus and what He does, not on man and his efforts.

‘God who has called us is Faithful, He will do this.’ 1Thes 5:24

For more scriptures on God doing this see http://all4him.org/scripture-prophecy/he-will-do-this/

Uptown is the name of a building in Munich, Germany. A few years ago Helen & I were living in Munich and God very strategically and repeatedly pointed out this building to us. The full story is here.

This Blog is about hearing God’s voice and then what we do with those words, it is also about the Greek spirit and how this tends to make our thoughts centre on us (MAN) and what we do rather than God and what He does (Hebrew thinking).

Just a few nights ago God gave me a download about how I can assume way too much of the need for me in God’s plans. In the opening of the Uptown story I say how God said to me “I want the top 5 floors of that building for My worship house.” Where I believe I went wrong was that I also inferred that I had to achieve this for God, or that this would involve me in a major way. (Greek spirit, me at the centre)When this additional thought came to me I was gripped by fear. Why because this extra thought wasn’t from God and it was meant to grip me with fear, and successfully did get my eyes and thoughts off of God and His greatness and onto me and my smallness. As I look back I also realise that I expected to be playing a big part and central (there it is again Greek Spirit, glorious me at the centre). What had God said? “I want the top 5 floors of that building for My worship house.” He was just letting me in on His plans, He wasn’t stating His desires and then expecting me to fulfil them for Him, that is sooo backwards in Gods economy. He is God and I am so very not! As it turns out we did get to go up to the top two floors and we played worship music up there and we made some spirit led declarations. We also followed a prompt to prayer walk around the building again making declarations. This is what God prompted and allowed, what didn’t happen was the stuff that I added that included me and what I was going to do.

In the last year God has been talking to me about Tabernacle amongst other things being like Angelic staging or rallying points. That God is using these set apart places for supernatural purposes. So what we dedicate and set apart in the physical, God is then using in the supernatural/spiritual, helping and participating in the releases that He wants to bring to cities and Nations.
This throws a whole other light on Uptown for me. The top 5 floors of this building, the premium/best floors stayed empty for years after the building was completed. So did God achieve exactly what He said He would? “I want the top 5 floors of that building for My worship house.” Was our part simply in preparation by coming into agreement and in the declarations and prayer walks?
Then of course God did exactly what He said He would, as the other floors of the building were rented out the premium top floors remained empty, or at least empty of other businesses.
The apartment that we stayed in for our last season in Munich was provided for us ‘rent free’ the full story is here. This was a gift from a very special family who said that they believed in what God had called us to and wanted to offer this apartment as a first fruits offering unto the Lord. Initially this apartment wasn’t available as planned, Helen & I then returned to Australia for the birth of our son. Later when the apartment did become available it sat empty, set apart and waiting. A few months later we returned to Munich and lived in this lovely light filled apartment. Previous to this revelation I would have said that we arrived and set up a Tabernacle there, but I can clearly see now that God had already established His Tabernacle in that set apart place (The cost was incurred the space was set apart, Holy, with or without us in it.) and was well underway achieving what He wanted to with no need at all for Helen & I to do anything at all. God loves our hearts and our efforts but He is God, not us as Thessalonians reminds us 1Thessalonians 5:24 God, who calls you, is faithful; he will do this.”

As I reflect on this I am sitting in the new Tabernacle room of our home in Denver. This home on a hill above Denver has sat empty for a year before we moved in here. Has God done the same thing here, that this time He set this place apart designating its purpose, using this place for His supernatural and spiritual purposes long before we arrived in this country? Greek thinking tends to focus on us and our efforts but I am coming to see that the things of the spirit are not determined by the things of this world, it is the other way around.

So my update on Uptown is that I believe God did exactly what He wanted to with that building, I believe I added thoughts that people would be involved and praying and praising up there. I think it is OK to dream like this with and for God, but it isn’t OK to think He has failed if our dreams are not fulfilled.
The picture at the top of this Blog is the image of the building from above from ‘google earth’. You can see the cloud of His presence over the building. After God said to us that it was finished, that He had done what He wanted to in Munich and that it was time for us to leave, I looked again and the google earth image no longer showed the cloud. The top floors are now rented out to a business.
Oh to be ‘IN’ on His plans and to be able to try to be useful rather than to have our efforts in fact mucking things up, God help us get over ourselves and look to You and what You are doing I pray.
Thank you that You are God and that You love us and that You are doing mighty things on the Earth.

Today was a good day! It reminded me of The seventh of September.

To start the day I had a 9:30 meeting with a local pastor. This was a great time God has so obviously prepared this guy and has been moving him on a track to be really open to the things of the Spirit and we are developing a great friendship, we sat in starbucks for more than 3 hours ‘as iron sharpens iron’. (Proverbs 27:17) talking about the deeper things of God and calling each other to those deeper things. I love that this relationship came as I just followed a prompt and wandered along to his church one Sunday just a few weeks ago.

After this meeting I went down to the Bank where I had to do an address change, I met with our ‘personal banker’ who we have been building a relationship with. She is from Africa so as ‘Aliens’ in this land I think we have an affiliation. She has from the beginning known why we are here and what we are doing. This visit I found myself talking with her in depth about hearing God’s voice about how God loves to leave an element that requires us acting in Faith. About the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22) and how we can look at the fruit of words we hear in our mind, and see if the fruit of those words matches with the fruit of the spirit or indeed if they match with the opposites of these fruit. Being the opposites of the fruit of the spirit indicates two things, one that it is NOT from God, and two that these words are from the enemy and need to be dealt with accordingly. That is NOT listened to or taken to heart. She said she would be taking the risk and obeying God next time, you see she wants to find out for herself just how good and reliable God really is. I did also get the banking stuff done somewhere in the conversation as well.

I left the Bank and went to an electronics store where yesterday I had purchased a printer. The included software DVD was cracked so unusable so I went to the store to get another one. This took the longest time waiting for this to be sorted and while I was waiting I got to talking to another lady that was waiting. She had just recently moved from Texas, she asked why I was in the USA and got very excited, especially in the spirit when I told her why we were here and what we were doing. I have no doubt that it was a divine meeting and that God wanted and wants us to connect in some way. we will see what He wants to do from here.

It has been a good day, I haven’t listed everything that happened here but when I got out of bed I knew of one meeting, now as I ponder going to bed I can reflect on at least three. Yes I believe God had set up and prepared all of the meetings, preparing me and them to be ready to 1 peter 3: 15 “Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if you are asked about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. 16 But you must do this in a gentle and respectful way.”

I love the thought that God sets meetings and opportunities before us, I can even live with the fact that I believe that I was supposed to be inconvenienced with a cracked software DVD so that I had to go back to the store, also that I had arrived at the store close to five hours after I had planned as I had been waiting and then talking with people about God all day. But otherwise I would have missed this lady and God’s next appointment for me. God you have my life, thank you that you are taking it and using it, I want to be more and more available for your meetings, help me to be hearing you and flexible enough to look for Your timing and Your appointments in the day, help me please to not let my appointments and tasks and agendas over rule yours. Thanks Jesus I love you Amen (So be it.)

This morning as we were preparing to leave for the Shabbat service, I paused for a moment looking out the window onto the Rocky mountains.
As I was looking out the window I believe I received the following download.
‘Where you put your presence is important’. Then I thought about how it is said about Gen X’ers vote with their feet. Meaning that if they don’t like something then they won’t show up at it, this has been at times portrayed as a lack of commitment or not honouring. Yet I thought I heard the Lord whisper to me ‘the Generation that I have prepared to host My presence needs to be careful with what they do with their presence’. Wow… I believe that while it has always been important to all generations to keep pure, to watch what they watch and participate in. This is very much more important to the current generations. The Lord is revealing Himself in new ways, He is training people to Host His presence, not just in set apart Tabernacle type spaces but also in the Tabernacles of our bodies.

What we do with our Tabernacle bodies is important! If we invite Jesus in to come and Tabernacle with us, that is to ‘stay’ then very much so everywhere we go everything we see, we are subjecting God to. Sometimes I am a bit shocked when I see people’s visual diet. What they watch on TV or movies, what they are happy to talk about. Now I’m not saying everyone needs to become a strict legalistic monk. But I am saying that if we want to host His presence in the stay permanently sense, then we need to be thinking also about our presence, the one doing the hosting, and where we allow it to go.

It is 1:44am where I am right now in Denver Colorado, and 5:44pm back in Melbourne where my body clock still thinks that I am. So I am awake although I really wish that I wasn’t.

I have been pondering the question “Where to live?” Not so much where here in the city as we haven’t seen it yet or gotten any sort of feel for the city, but in this in between time of our home in Australia being sold and us buying another over here, I have been, to be honest, struggling with letting go of our life in Australia and trying to embrace, at least the prospect of a life here in Colorado. Do I even want to live here?

I know the promises that God has spoken to us and over us about this season, and I will be rereading those, but something wonderful happened tonight. Helen had woken before me and when she saw that I was awake she said she had just been blessed by reading Ezekiel 47:1-13. So I read this passage and then The Lord took me to the Psalms and especially Psalm 46:4. I was so Blessed and my eyes were taken back onto the Lord and what He was up to instead of me and my circumstances. I just felt centred again and a great calm returned to me.

So where do I want to live? In the scriptures and in the presence of the Lord hearing His voice and being in His presence. That is my desire and I honestly believe that the best way to find favour with a King is to trust Him and to do as He asks. At least this is my belief and why I am here now in Colorado, it is because I Love Jesus, and honestly trust Him with all that I am and have. I have spoken out many times to many people that ‘I honestly believe that God can do a better job of running my life than I can.’ I stand now in Faith of this belief, looking to God for His answers and His provision.

Thank you Jesus I love You.

I have just posted a Blog and link on the Tabernacle Blog.
I think it is an important word for our season.

Tabernacle blog

1-9-09 Our latest Video Blog. **It’s just a minute and a bit**

Please view the video then here is a link to stay up to date with our needs in the coming days as we transition over to Denver on September 18.

www.All4Him.org/walk-with/needs

Thanks so much for your prayers and partnership with us.

All4Him

For all of the options for walking with us in this adventure please see www.All4Him.org/walk-with

Bill Johnson came to our church on Sunday and spoke a great message that just so rang of Tabernacle for me. Hosting God’s Presence.

I love how this guy sees God and the world, he is an excellent teacher.

here is the link

I highly recommend taking the time to hear it.

The Lord has been downloading thoughts to me for awhile about Blind Spots, mainly He has been speaking to me about how by definition we are blind to them we don’t even know that they exist.
Maybe we see others get uncomfortable around us at times but that is pretty easy to rationalise off as ‘their problem’. So we just continue on ‘blindly’ after all we are doing great it is everyone else around us that has problems.
How do we react when people say something to us? Are we open to suggestions of other ways to see things? Is this a way to discover our humility or do people get to see a different side of us when they make such suggestions? I don’t advocate that you should invite every person that you meet to speak into your life, I don’t think that is particularly wise, but I also don’t think that it is wise or healthy to not have anyone to speak into your life, we need to make sure that there are people that we have actually invited to do this. Do you have these people in your life? No one gets to have a perfect human to fill this role just imperfect ones, let’s face it they may even stuff it right up and they will probably say it wrong, but the flip side of this I think is worth the risk. What if they get it right or even half right, then I get to take that ‘blind spot’ to God and He can then put His light on it and show me how to deal with it. One more blind spot dealt with. Tough yeah, takes humility yeah, but I do want to be easier to live with and to be around. Beats the stench of Pride any day!

This is a short video containing a “GOOD WORD” from Bethel church.

I have been reflecting on hardship and seeing some very clear blessing in people’s lives as a direct result of them encountering severe hardship.

I am reminded of being told ten years ago that Russian Christians were praying that the Christians of the West would suffer persecution, in order that their faith would become more real and grow in depth. It is one thing to have faith in God when you don’t need Him and an entirely different thing to have faith in God when you absolutely DO need Him and you are in grave danger if He doesn’t come through for you.

Helen & I have met some amazing people on our travels, people with an amazing depth of faith. We’ve lived with a German Princess, who was in Indonesia as a child during WWII. She was born into Dutch royalty and her Dad served in the Dutch army in Indonesia when they were overrun by the Japanese. This lady, her Mum and sister said goodbye to their Dad and husband one morning knowing that they would never see him again. Stories of her childhood years in a Japanese internment camp being fed crumbs by her Mum who slowly withered away,and near the end of the war turning down two chances to leave Indonesia, as they heard God say not to take those options!! Imagine staying under those circumstances. The ships they were offered were sunk by Germans! Eventually they got home safely and transitioned from the internment camp in Indonesia to a castle in Holland. She had not seen a fork before let alone sit at a table with 3 forks set before her.

We have a good friend who is very high up in the world of finance in London. She holds a job that many people would give anything to have. She and her family of origin were refugees from Vietnam. Her Mum had married a Chinese man and this later became politically very incorrect. She remembers the raids during the night from the police,and being forced to stand outside in the middle of the night as a little girl. She remembers having to leave and being stripped of their property and wealth. We really cannot imagine what this was like in reality.

Last week I met with a guy here in Melbourne who is now a Youth Pastor. Last time I met him he was married, now he isn’t. He told me his story of betrayal, of divorce, of shame. Then He told me about God, as a matter of fact you couldn’t have stopped him if you tried! Scripture and the goodness of God just ran from his lips. He had tasted and seen that the Lord is Good! Psalm 34:8 “Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who trust in Him!”

The thing that these people have in common is that they KNOW that God is GOOD. They don’t have to be told this or quoted a Biblical text, they know it as their personal testimony and their life experience. Because when it became very very dark in their lives, Jesus, the light, shone brightly and gladly proved Himself to them.

I am also reminded of 2 young guys that we took on a missions tour into Russia. They both had their passports and visas stolen while we were there and therefore were unable to leave the country. Of course God came through powerfully and miraculously. They both went into full time missions. They KNOW the character of God, and their HARDSHIP experience has made it much easier to trust God, their own testimony proves this to them.

How we can avoid hardship like the plague? What are we missing in our character development? What are we missing in our faith development? What are we missing in what we KNOW about God? What are we missing in what we are believing about God?

What are we ascribing to the devil as unwanted hardship that could well be the Lord wanting to promote us? The Hebrew root word for bless or kneel (to be humbled) are the same. When a Hebrew says to you, “May the Lord bless you”, it can be translated “May the Lord humble/humiliate you”. As when you are humbled or humiliated it is then that you are unable to operate in your own strength and that you open an opportunity to make some space and time for God to act, allowing Him to prove Himself to you.

So when Hardship comes are you going to avoid it? Or look for God in it? If your finances are suddenly reduced are you going to stop tithing? Stop or reduce giving to the work of God, or would you INCREASE what you give away opening a door to taste n see if the Lord really is GOOD?!

I have seen an ADVANTAGE in the faith journey of people that have endured hardship. People who chose to look to God instead of becoming bitter; their faith moves to the facts of their own testimony. When hardship comes we have choice: avoid it at all costs and become bitter if we have to suffer it, or take it as an opportunity to taste n see if the Lord is GOOD and to allow Him to become bigger for us.

When is something real? Helen & I have been working towards applying for visas to live and to base All4Him the Tabernacle from out of Denver in the USA, we believe God has asked us to move there.
It has been a long journey as I found it quite hard to get good visa information, anyway.
About a week ago which was about a week before our scheduled interview at The US Consulate God said to me “Mark you will be granted these 5 year visas” at that point I chose to believe that it would happen, that our visas were granted in the spirit and it was just a matter of walking out the steps to see them eventuate in the physical. Yesterday at the conclusion of the interview the guy said to us “I will grant these visas they will be forwarded to you in a few days.” Were they real then?

In a few days we fully expect to have our passports back with the visas in them.
But when is it ‘real’ that we have our US visas? What are we basing real on? When God said that they would be granted, was that the point? Or when the visa guy said that he would grant them, is it OK for me to put more faith in what he says than what God says? Or is it only real when our passports have the visas inside them? Or when we have our passports back with the visas in them?

For me a week ago when God said that the visas would be granted, it was then that we had our visas there were still some steps to go through, if we hadn’t turned up for our interview I don’t believe we would have had US visas miraculously appearing in our passports, there were some steps to follow through with in the physical world even though they had already been released in the spirit. When God said that they would be granted, He ‘spoke them into existence’. It was certainly easier to believe this when the visas guy also spoke them into existence. “I will grant these 5 yr visas”. Why is it really easy to have faith in what this guy that I have never met before said, yet much harder to believe what God says? Will it only be irrefutable in a few days when they are in my hand, or is it irrefutable now, or last week? I think that depends on our faith.

But is was a very interesting exercise to muster the faith to live in the reality that we had visas in the real as soon as God said, that is even before our interview as what God speaks into existence always happens.

I have owned this house in Diamond Creek for twenty one years now. Just 3-400meters down onto the main st from us is a reception centre called ‘the Abbey’. It is called the Abbey because that is what the buildings once were, an Abbey. They sit right beside a still functioning Anglican church.

Now in the last 7 years God has taken us deeply into the contemplative stream showing us clearly how our Christianity needs to be about Christ and what He does and has done, not about us and our efforts. (Greek thinking that focuses everything on us and our efforts and very little on God and His efforts. Yuk! I want to praise God, not me and my efforts.) We have lived in Germany and searched out and discovered ‘Thin places’ like monastery sites that have 1000 years and more of Christian presence, we have loved discovering the keys that God has revealed about how continued prayer and devotion to Him has unlocked major mission movements and shifts in the spirit throughout history.
God impressed us greatly just over a month ago when we were about as far away from here as you can get, literally on the other side of the planet both in a north-south and an east-west sense, in Northern Scotland, where we were in a church by a Loch where there has been a continuing functioning church running on the site since roughly the year 600! What a special and thick sense of the presence of God was in that place. Wow!!

On the weekend back here in Melbourne, Australia I went for a little walk over a hill and found myself overlooking the abbey, when God said to Me “yes Mark that was a Tabernacle ‘a presence place’ a place for My presence where I was worshiped, it was about Me”. I was dumbfounded, here we are pioneering this ministry, at times feeling so alone and misunderstood here in Australia, that the new world doesn’t think in the same way as the old (Europe)yet here just 400 metres from where we live and where we have established a ‘Tabernacle for His presence’ was a much older one. How could we have not seen that sooner, how could we have never made that connection, Diamond Creek has a monastic heritage, and that is where God placed us.
Thanks God that you so know what you are doing, even when we cannot see it though it is SOOO clear.

I watched Tom cruises new movie Valkyrie on the flight home from London.

During our time in Germany I was again confronted with and reminded of the fact that God isn’t finished with the German Royalty. As we sat with some of them for many hours on this trip I felt the prompting of God that He was up to something here. My hunch is that it has to do with providing an alternative Godly leadership example within Germany, or at least a Godly reference point for other leaders to come to.

Then on the way home I watched this film and here was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg of the German royal families involved in the leadership of and being the one to attempt to carry out this assassination attempt on Hitler.

When Helen & I lived in Germany we would not watch Hollywood movies of World War 2 as these were always from the victors ie America’s perspective. Ie ‘Germans bad, Americans good’. God had asked us to go to these people and to live amongst them and to be involved in calling them up to their potential and calling in Jesus. A very big part of this is to walk in the freedom of God’s forgiveness for past sins. Especially the sins not performed by this generation or in many cases by their parents either but by even earlier generations. World war 2 ended more than 60 years ago now. Yet constantly in the newspapers Nazi stories and every new movie was still saying ‘Germans bad’, this message has well and truly gotten through, I can tell many stories of how and how destructive this has been.

It was so refreshing to see a movie that showed Germans who disapproved of Hitler’s actions attempting ‘in an almost impossible situation’ to do something about it. (The attempt cost all of them their lives). Ie the plot was ‘Some German’s good!’ What a refreshing change, the German people are people too.

Over 5 years Helen & I based out of Germany and I can personally testify that we met many wonderful German people. Also that many that we met had wonderful faith, surpassing the faith and Godliness that we have seen from other nationalities, Helen & I learnt much from them.

I want to strongly challenge the Hollywood endorsed all encompassing view of ‘Germans Bad’. Hitler was actually an Austrian, yes their fathers did atrocious things, yes this is true. But God has very big end time plans for Germany and it’s people, the Fatherland has a big role to play and the royalty of that country are still there and in place for a reason, let’s have a view bigger than we’ve been spoon fed by movies. I want to come in line with what God is doing and saying about these people and I can testify that these leader people have a big role to play, I encourage and welcome their input, and am glad to call many Germans close friends.

Here I am in London, where it is clear that the multi-cultural factor is very advanced, there is such a dynamic mix of people here and many people we have met are actually second generational. ie they were born here in London. Phil who we are staying with is Chinese by ethnicity yet he was born and bought up in Liverpool, his wife was born in Vietnam yet grew up here. The nations are here.

I have just glanced at the Melbourne newspaper on-line and I noticed this article about Muslims getting a dedicated prayer space in a University. Helen & I have spend the last seven weeks traveling Germany and the UK, speaking about the importance of ‘Making Space both physical and time’ in our lives. Setting apart a physical space so that we can enhance our connection with God, how we excited we were to hear of the steps being taken to open such a space for God in Munich and here in Melbourne is a battle by some Muslims to also be given such a space.

Space is important, what we do with it is important. When space is given over and dedicated to a specific purpose, especially in the supernatural, it matters and it is important. Lets not as Chrsitians be last in this.