We’re back… so much to tell you… Europe’s Day
We’re back. We landed in Gatwick London last night after being at a strategic gathering of apostolic and creative people in Lyon. Prior to that we were in Montelimar for a five day event. I have so much to tell you but time is short today. Can’t wait to reconnect! Significant spiritual, geo-poltical and cultural shifts are happening. The signs are everywhere. Whatever happens next we are in new territory. What that new era looks like we are about to see it emerge right in front of our eyes.
More coming soon…
{Marooned with Purpose : Rhythm of Prayer}
When you engage in prayer over time you notice there is a rhythm to it, a natural ebb and flow like the tides. There are times where you are hidden, times where you emerge. I think the Celtic Saints understood this. They knew when it was time to wander through villages and touch the poor and kings, but also when it was time to be marooned by the tides on the islands such as Lindisfarne or Iona. Cut off. Knowing you can’t do anything else. It’s bliss. I’ve been marooned for months cancelling speaking to be with the One who truly speaks. The island, the cave, wherever it is you tuck away (for me it’s the basement or walking on the shores) becomes better than a palace! Because there you see Him more clearly. You find the Untouchable becomes touchable. Heaven is at hand. Closer than the air you breathe. Blurred already.
Jesus said “The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who really loves Me; and whoever really loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.” John 14:21
I think heaven is pulling us harder than ever before. A great drawing away with purpose. Face to Face. He is real. He want us to see Him and touch Him. A new generation that have seen the Risen One. Witnesses of the resurrected One. Seeing. Touching. Hearing.
Through this I believe Papa is restoring much of what has been lost from ancient paths of Christianity. I once heard the Spirit say “The answers to the mysteries of the future are hidden in the past.” The past holds keys, patterns, rhythms and way for us to follow in. They captured a dimension in that era of Celtic Christianity that we still have not really seen revealed. A different dimension of the prophetic and miracles, living in the Spirit yet being so natural and connected to the land that you could miss it if you weren’t looking through heaven’s eyes.
“St. Columba did not deny that by Divine Grace he had several times experienced a miraculous enlarging of the grasp of the mind so that he seemed to look at the whole world caught in one ray of sunlight.”
The oracles- seeing the world in a ray of sunlight, expanded hearts, infused knowledge, seven Spirits of God burning, changing a generation and shaping those to come. Releasing the poetic, the art, the culture and sounds of another realm.
This is part of our call on the Wild Islands, to see real deal heavenly earthy Christianity restored, a Christianity that is not empire, or popularity driven, but is kind, lowly, humble and honest, yet clothed in supernatural power and releases wonder. I think it’s in our DNA. I think it’s in the stones. Even the rocks cry out!
Peter said to the crowd gathered in Acts that “You are the descendants (sons) of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant” (Acts 3:25). This is an incredible statement! We are the sons of the prophets. What does that mean? The answer is in Isaiah-
“As for Me, this is My covenant or league with them, says the Lord: My Spirit, Who is upon you [and Who writes the law of God inwardly on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouths of your [true, spiritual] children, or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from henceforth and forever.” (Is 59:21)
We have the oracles of God, we carry on the Prophetic line biblical line. We get in on the action of heaven. We get to continue what they started. It’s not over. It continues fully in us. The new Oracles are coming to release this creative word again. They are emerging. With it will come miracles and wonder we have not seen since the time of the Celtic Saints.
We are in a radical season of engagement with heaven. The sky is wide open and the door is inviting anyone that wants to come. The key is desire and focus with faith. What you desire and seek is what opens up around you. When it has weight in your heart it begins to move in you and around you. I think God wants much more of heaven to come on the earth than we want to receive!
And I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may fix the [new] heavens as a tabernacle and lay the foundations of a [new] earth and say to Zion, You are My people. (Is 51:16)
He wants to actually plant heaven on the foundations of the earth. How much of heaven can we have? I think we’re going to find out as Papa blurs the boundaries and the horizon disappears!
In his bliss, Justin Abraham
Future belongs to the Courageous
We’ve just come from one of the most innovative conferences (if you can call it that). Two (extra) ordinary people Paula and Al Coates from Cramlington North England, share an incredible passion for children and families.
They have adopted five children (their story should be in a book) and are both engaging with Carers, Adopters and those involved in Social work, Education and Government. They are determined to shape a better future for the forgotten children swallowed by care. They want to see adoption rates rise, and those that adopt succeed (many fail due to lack of support and understanding of the the issues involved with often damaged kids). And they are crazy and courageous enough to do something about it!
In their (large) garden they hosted the LIVING STONES event. The first event of its kind to pull together the amazing people who live in this mad world of caring for lost kids. It was a great fun event for the little ones and the grown ups got to spend time together encountering heaven, relaxing and working through strategic issues and vision for the future.
To say we were inspired was an understatement. I feel humbled seeing guys like Paula and Al and the other parents, the price the go to everyday to press on, the tiredness and lack of resources they push through. And yet God is so clearly there. In a magnificent gritty real way. In a way that melts the hardness away. Love unfailing, messy love.
One of the treats for me personally (besides seeing Al again) at the conference (or mini-festival or whatever it was) was the appearance of one of spiritual fathers and mentors Martin Scott and his lovely wife the equally brilliant Gayle Scott. What a treat! Martin preached and I wish you guys were all there to hear it. He shared on how things keep swinging this decade and then almost getting back to normal but it’s all just a facade. The facade is going to come down and the opportunities before us are expansive. The future is there for the taking in the shaking.
Martin and Gayle have a blog it’s well worth adding to your weekly reading list (click here: 3generations to see). Martin and Gayle will be with us for a very special event in March 2012: focusing on the UK, Europe and Beyond.
Another well inspiring moment for me (besides Al’s Elvis impersonation) was Steve Lowton. Some of you will already known the name. He has been another often hidden prophetic voice who cut through the very heart of these islands and beyond in prayer walking – sowing the seeds of revival.
A true pioneer and innovator, he and his wife also adopted two amazing chinese girls. Steve shared on how our lives are a story and there comes a time when there is enough character development and there has to be a HAPPENING! There has to be something amazing that takes place. His talk was an impassioned rally call to live your STORY! My goodness I got some downloads on this one. Wish you’d heard it too. Bring it on Jesus! Let there be a great happening!
For more on Steve Lowton check out his blog site stephenlowton.wordpress.com -an inspiring innovate journey.
Finally, besides the fun and frolics hanging around with others creates we had the honour of having a prayer, dream interpretation and spiritual reading tent. Some space made for heaven to suddenly hijack. We saw Papa do great things. Many people cried as Holy Spirit came and revealed the secrets of their hearts. It was precious and it was fun pressing the boundaries to see how much Holy Spirit would show us. ‘Lorra glory in the glory tent!’
Big thanks to Tony and Jo Egerton for coming with us again our team from Manchester and helping out on so many levels – readings, artwork, prayer, face painting. And being willing to sleep in the garden! You guys are awesome!
Inspired. Challenged. Lots to think about from this week.
I could say a lot more but I’ll end with this – Let heaven melt you. Papa’s heart burns, his heart cries, his heart dances and sings. I see a people emerging who have his very heart- a company of burning hearts who’s story in heaven will be ‘Our fire never died’.
In his bliss, Justin Abraham
New Dimensions *Ian Clayton
Seriously if you only get out to one thing this summer – you’ve got hear Ian Clayton. It’s not just the words, it’s the realm of reality that opens up around him. He is a true pioneer of walking like Enoch. Head in the heavens. Body firmly planted on earth.
We were just with Ian in Scotland and I have to say it far exceeded my expectations. Heaven wide open. 12-13th of August – two days of your spirit being expanded and your eyes being opened into a brand new multi-dimensional world.
Gate Art Centre, Roath, Cardiff – for only £15 a day registration (optional amount)
Also with radical missionary Michele Perry – a one legged glory ball! Michele has 120 kids in Sudan and lives on the frontier of the wild wild border with North Sudan. Living in the face of guns, intimidation and the needs of the people, she is pulling heaven to earth with love. Michele will be sharing a session a day at the gatherings.
With Glory Company Band, Janine John, and Justin & Rachel Abraham & the wildfire team this is going to rock!
Blessings, Justin Abraham
Replenishing… walking the land
Connecting to the Land… the ancient paths… the rhythm of the Celtic Saints, the Monastics and the Desert Fathers. Disappearing. Ecstatic in the bliss. Blinded in the Gaze. Checked out of life to check into Life. Walking the Land we find the All hidden in all. He is hidden in plain sight. These photos are my journey this last week. Replenished by the unseen One in the Seen. This is Wales…
Bliss… Lost yet found… Justin Abraham
*NEW podcast online: The Unknown Path
Challenging, searching, compelling Holy Spirit words recorded in an unusual heavenly atmosphere.
An invitation to the Unknown Path to Exile from what we have known, with Justin Abraham.
Recorded in Godalming England at the Spirit Body Soul event this April 2011.
To listen follow this link:
http://companyofburninghearts.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-06T17_11_35-07_00
Or subscribe for free via iTunes.
Daring to believe!
Company of Burning Hearts
Other Voices: Paul Keith Davies
Check out this word from Paul Keith Davies. It resonates more than I can tell you. It contains many things we as a team have discussed over and over again this last year as we have journeyed through into COBH. The call to the hidden, the unknown path, the place of obscurity and prayer to see a new spiritual era birthed. In an age with many prophetic words and voices are calling for attention I cannot commend Paul Keith to you enough. This is where we are going as COBH, the hidden places to walk on the Clouds, the upward call, living to please One.
Paul Keith Davis:
God Says, “I Have Many Hidden Champions”
“I have many hidden champions living quietly in obscurity who have Heaven’s attention.” That is a statement I heard from the Lord in a dream while in Tucson, Arizona during our, “Sons, Taught of the Lord” conference.
On the second morning of our conference I had a powerfully vivid dream that provided a very encouraging message. In it, I found myself in a horse stable with the great racing champion, Secretariat. I was thrilled to observe firsthand Secretariat’s beauty and strength; his mere presence was awe-inspiring.
While admiring this incredible champion I was also reminded of the revelatory messages I have brought since 2002 involving Secretariat as a prophetic picture of God’s last day champions; men and women of valor with enlarged heart’s for God and increased capacity for His Kingdom. I’ve written about this in, “Books of Destiny” and shared it in numerous spoken messages.
At that moment a gentleman walked into the stable that I intuitively recognized as the foremost authority on horses. He watched for a moment as I admired Secretariat, then spoke saying, “Secretariat was a great champion—but there were many more just as great as he was who also had enlarged hearts and great capacity.” I was somewhat startled at that statement and argued slightly saying, “Secretariat was the single greatest champion ever. There was no horse greater than Secretariat.”
With that statement the man gently stated that he begged to differ. He went on to explain there were many great champions just like Secretariat who also had enlarged hearts and great capacity, but they lived in secret and in obscurity. I then realized that I was not speaking with a mere authority on horses, it was the Lord! I was receiving a much-needed lesson on a Kingdom mystery.
Many More Hidden
The Lord was letting me know for every celebrated champion known in a public forum, there are also many others just as great who are satisfied to live covertly and never widely known. Even so, they have Heaven’s attention and win great victories in His name and release considerable authority in the Earth.
Our Great Redeemer is going to touch His people and amplify our desperation for Him and His Spirit. We will be so filled with Kingdom there will simply be no room for anything else such as doubt, unbelief or the spirit of this world.
The end-of-the-age Bridal Company/Sons of the Kingdom will have increased capacity for God. The eternal truth of 2 Chronicles 16:9 is directly applicable saying:
For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His…
He let me know that many of these will experience profound increase and expansion and be given a public forum and ministry with various media outlets to promote the Kingdom’s message; but for every one of those there are many others that are strategically hidden. I knew that was a message for this hour.
Special Grace for the Hidden
There is a grace and anointing for those living in secret places whose “life is hidden with Christ in God.” Maybe they do not have a public platform, but there are many grandmas, grandpas, stay at home moms and others who have great capacity for God with vital roles in His plan. There is going to be a pronounced grace and favor placed upon their intercession and revelation that will have considerable Kingdom impact.
While sharing that in Tucson I was also reminded of another experience. It was the instance of having received a profound revelation that I had never read in a book nor heard someone preach. A revelation dealing with divine justice and its relevance in the last days.
I felt the Lord had perhaps extended His scepter to me and had directly given me this wonderful breakthrough revelation of Biblical truth. However, sometime after that I went into a vision and I watched a little granny who lived alone spending her hours interceding and praying for the revelation of the Kingdom. She literally bombarded Heaven with her prayers until the Heavens opened. It was as though she came directly before the Lord Himself and He extended His scepter to her like Esther. I watched as the Lord gave her the very revelation that I had subsequently received. I then watched as she began to decree and proclaim that revelation.
I was experiencing a parabolic picture of how revelatory insight is often gathered and released in the Earth. As she prophesied the revelation it was as though that message went forth from her mouth and broadcasted into the Spirit realm. It was a scene similar to that in Isaiah 51:16 saying:
I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”
She did not prophesy it to a crowd of people nor a corporate body, but privately under a powerful canopy of God’s anointing. I watched that message go forth from her mouth into the heavenly realm like a radio signal. I then observed myself enter my prayer closet and put up my “revelatory antenna” and spiritually discern or tune into the very revelation she had received and decreed into the Spirit. I then began to formulate that truth into written and spoken messages. I saw how the orchestration of Heaven involves us all in His plans and purposes and the fruit goes into all our heavenly accounts accordingly.
She actually received the breakthrough revelation and prophesied it into the Spirit. There are many key individuals who do not have a public forum or a large platform to share their revelation, but that is the way the Lord intended it. There are the “Simeons and Annas” that we discover in Luke 2 that live in obscurity but with a promise from God.
The Annas and Simeons
The prophetess Anna spent the vast majority of her adult life in the Temple praying, fasting and waiting for the Redemption of Israel. Simeon had an individual promise from God that he would not taste death until he had seen the “Consolation of Israel.” There you have these two individuals living in obscurity but with God’s promises.
They were satisfied to live hidden while contending for the realization of the promise. It was given to them with an incredible fulfillment by holding in their hands the Salvation of Israel, the Messiah, and Redeemer of the world. What a privilege!
The prophetic message and word of encouragement for these hidden champions is that grace is being granted for you to go into that place of prayer, intercession and birthing. The Lord has shown me these are humble and contrite individuals that do not demand a lot of attention or a large platform, but are satisfied having God’s attention; saints who know God and when they pray the heavens shake.
I want to encourage you in that destiny and responsibility. Continue to prophesy your revelations into Spirit realm. Though you may not be required to stand before a company of people, many of the most profound decrees and proclamations will go forth in a very intimate setting. Even so, that word will go into the realm of the Spirit and will not return void without accomplishing its purpose; that is, to make way for the Kingdom of Heaven to bring forth a Bridal Company/Sons of the Kingdom that will transform this generation.
Paul Keith and Wanda Davis
WhiteDove Ministries
Email: inquiries@whitedoveministries.org
The Unknown Path continued
We are seekers of Life, a Life less ordinary
It seems the further we go the more we change. There is no going back. Ahead is a new spiritual era, wonder
and awe, things we have not dreamed nor imagined. The known is left far behind in the Brightness of His Gaze. It is hypnotic and like a moth to the Flame we are drawn out to a place from which we can never return.
The Way is often hidden before us. It moves and turns off our conventional map. Beyond what we comprehend. We walk by faith not understanding. We are those that are lost in the depths of Love with no hope or desire to return. Plunging ever deeper into His death that His life may also work powerfully through us. Pure joy!
Ahead in our hearts we see the Wild Islands on Fire. Ahead we see Europe’s Day Rising. A great and mighty day touching into the core of Islam. A challenging day with the destiny of a radical generation in our hands. We embrace this day and groan inwardly for it to fully manifest and burn uncontrolled without boundaries or borders or limits. All we want is the Flame. His Flame.
What that looks like we do not know but we have glimpses of it in the past. People like Paul. A life blinded by the Light so he could finally see. One man who carved through his generation recklessly leaving blazing trails for those to follow.
In his own words -
SCUM-BAG APOSTLES (Apostle Paul)
“It seems to me that God has put us who bear his Message on stage in a theater in which no one wants to buy a ticket. We’re something everyone stands around and stares at, like an accident in the street. We’re the Messiah’s misfits. You might be sure of yourselves, but we live in the midst of frailties and uncertainties. You might be well-thought-of by others, but we’re mostly kicked around. Much of the time we don’t have enough to eat, we wear patched and threadbare clothes, we get doors slammed in our faces, and we pick up odd jobs anywhere we can to eke out a living. When they call us names, we say, “God bless you.” When they spread rumors about us, we put in a good word for them. We’re treated like garbage, potato peelings from the culture’s kitchen. And it’s not getting any better.” 1 COR 4:9-13
“If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!” 2 COR 4:8-12
Still want it?
Pure Bliss. It’s His Way. It’s the Way paved with bleeding love from a rugged cross.
Spend us Jesus. We only live once. In the words of Sadhu Sundar Singh -
“It is better to burn quickly and melt many souls than to burn slowly and melt none!”
Out of our control and in His, Justin Abraham
Spiritual Hunger
“Hunger for God is one of the greatest signs of life a person can have. It reveals an inner awareness of a greater destiny” Bill Johnson
Today I am writing from the heart once more. Today I want to discuss supernatural hunger. That ache that blissful longing that Jesus puts right in the core of you’re heart.
Hunger is Supernatural Bliss
I value hunger. It’s one of the greatest motivating forces you can ever have. When people get hungry watch out! Something is going to happen. Hunger is a gift. It is something God does inside of you to create tension and faith to pull on the unseen realm until it become a reality in you and around you.
“When we take away hunger from people – when we satisfy people’s hunger often times we take away the motivation God was using to make them move forwards” Kris Vallotton.
When I was a new Christian I encountered God night after night in my bedroom. It was a season that lasted a year where I wept at his feet with joy for hours at a time. During that time I kept crying out “Make me hungry Lord, make me hungry!” I remember hearing myself pray this and thinking “Why am I saying this?”. It was a Holy Spirit led prayer. He was burying something deep inside me that gripped me for the rest of my life. I later realised what had happened. He supernaturally put a desire in me that would never be satisfied. A desire for Him that motivated me to pray day after day, and to seek Him and engage with Him. It was a supernatural fuel to the fire. Even today in a day of encounter and bliss and joy, I find I am still hungry and daring to believe there is so much more coming in our time. I have realised like Bobby Conner’s says “He is the one feeding the dissatisfaction.” He is stirring something deep inside of us. Longing. It’s a bliss.
John Piper believes that longing and hunger is a part of the circle of bliss and is part of our lives as Christians. He writes-
“The Bible teaches us to desire God and to have joy in God, or delight in God. It illustrates both. Godly people are seen longing, hungering, thirsting and fainting for God. They are also seen enjoying, delighting in, and being satisfied in God.” John Piper
This is a wonderful paradox. A wonderful mystery. Being found yet wanting. Being complete yet desiring greater depths. It is a mystery that man would rather sweep under the carpet but to the mystics it was the world they lived in. French mystic Jean Guyon said she tasted such a sweet and powerful wine in the heavens that it consumed her with desire for more. There is a drink that satisfies but also makes you thirst. John Piper says that even int he age to come we will still be desiring and longing for more but it will no longer be subject to frustration. We will forever be exploring Christ.
Heaven responds to hunger
I believe God is stirring such hunger in out generation. People travel from all over the UK to gatherings where God is moving. People are connecting, seeking, looking for something that is real. God is the One doing it!
One of my heroes John G Lake saw God move in extraordinary power in his generation. He was hungry! He had the type of hunger we need. He cried out for nine months for miracle working power. He was already seeing the ‘stuff’ but it wasn’t enough. One day he was struck with what he called the lightnings of God. From that time on raw power went through him and in a short time the world was feeling its impacts. He left a mark on history. Very few have come close to the raw power he walked in. He said it was a result of spiritual hunger. He said “one thing matured in my heart, a real hunger”
In his biography he writes this -
“God’s purpose come to pass when your heart and mine get the real God-cry and the real God-prayer comes into our spirit, and the real God-yearning gets a hold of our nature. Something is going to happen then.”
I like that. There is a ‘God-cry’ that is a gift. It is supernatural. It is not self-effort. It is Spirit inspired. It is a wonder!
I believe God is stirring up hunger even in our bliss and satisfaction with Jesus. His work on the cross is finished and we walk from that rest. But our work here has only just begun. He wants to work through us to do the good works He has prepared in advance for us to do. He is feeding the hunger. He is calling us into new dimensions of experience and encounter. This is a truly amazing day to be alive.
RICK JOYNER says there is an incredible promise on our generation:
“There is a door standing open in heaven, and there is an invitation for us to go through it. Those who answer this call will be caught up into the Spirit, with the result that they will always be seeing the One who sits on the throne. This is the ultimate purpose of all true prophetic revelation- seeing the glorious, risen Christ and the authority that He now has over all.
He continues “Never has the Lord been as personal & intimate with His people as He will be in these days. Believers will be in awe continually wondering each day what great new things they will see.”
Don’t you want that? Blessed are the hungry for they shall be filled (over and over again).
In His bliss Justin Abraham
An Invitation
PROPHETIC WORD: EXTREME GENERATION
I was woken in the night and heard a specific word of revelation. I tried to capture it as best as I could… see if it resonates with you it certainly touched my heart. I want the unknown path a new way whatever that looks like. We have seen the limitations of what we have known and are hungry for a greater reality to manifest. Even with the current move we are aware their is a greater harvest, miracles and wonders yet to be released.
The GENERATION that I am raising up right now is an EXTREME generation.
They are going to look so HOT- so on FIRE – so extreme in their CONSECRATION and in their DECISIONS, and in their LIFESTYLES that they are going to be PERSECUTED even as I was persecuted. Because the BRIGHTNESS and HOLINESS of their lives is going to cause those who seemed holy to suddenly feels UNCLEAN and those who thought they were on fire to suddenly realise they weren’t on fire at all.
This FIRE that I am releasing on this people will cause them to make lifestyle CHOICES like that of the MONASTICS and MYSTICS of old where they will FORSAKE many of the patterns and things of this world to lay hold of the heavenly reality.
Some will ACUSE them of being RELIGIOUS.
Some will accuse them of being TOO heavenly minded.
And they will be MISUNDERSTOOD and ABUSED.
But they will be KNOWN by heaven and they will EXPERIENCE the REALITY of heaven unlike any other generation has. My HAND will come upon them HEAVILY. They will WORK My WONDERS and they will demonstrate My awe and My wonders. They will be KNOWN by ME. They will be those that OBTAIN PROMISES, see My FACE, stand in My COUNCIL.
The PRICE to walk in this realm is HIGHER than people realise.
It is more COSTLY. It is like a TREASURE in a field. It’s costs EVERYTHING to obtain this prize.
It’s going to be a DAY-TO-DAY decision. It will involve embarassment. It will involve humiliation, brokenness. It will involve making choices that seem ILLOGICAL, making choices that people don’t understand. It may mean drawing ASIDE when sometimes it’s inappropriate to be gone.
It will mean taking up YOUR cross daily and loving not you’re life unto death.
It is a GREAT WORK that these have been called to- but there is a great PRICE.
Are you WILLING to pay the price?
Are you willing to be one that WALKS in the POWER of the age to come. Each one is invited, many are called but few RESPOND and become chosen. But to those who respond they will be CHOSEN and they will be PRECIOUS in My sight.”
I believe this is one of many prophetic invitations to this generation. I once heard the Lord say “THE RADICALS ARE COMING”. We haven’t really seen them come through yet. We have to get more radical. The heavens are stirred in an unusual way this year. It has made me wonder what is truly going on. I had an sense of anticipation and excitement. I then found yesterday that Bobby Conner has also seen and said something similar:
“There is a great stirring in the Heavens, the hosts of Heaven are assembling, and something is up! You can feel it in the air, God is responding to the cries of His people.” Bobby Conner
Heaven is responding to the cries. It is stirred. Beni Johnson from Bethel said in her message on transition:
“I believe we are in the moment of Joshua chapter 1- and I believe the Lord is putting us on display before principalities and powers… and we will shine before the world. God help us to do it right!” Beni Johnson
God help us to do it right! Well said Beni! We need great grace to walk this kind of change out.
My prayer is that we might have courage and confidence to believe and respond.
Incredible days incredible challenge.
Living for Papa’s dream, Justin Abraham
Response to Two Pathways
Many of you are posting on Facebook, email and on the blog comments responses to the unknown path and the two pathway blogs. We’d like to share with you one of the responses – it’s a poem by a friend of ours with IRIS Ministries Sudan Michele Perry. She lives life on the edge close to a war zone looking after kids living in raw faith. She is a Jesus Freak. Here’s what she sent us -
The unknown trail
i peered ahead
the path was worn,
well traveled
its journey full of ups and downs,
winding round upon itself
but still assured somehow
of a certain destination
i looked down that worn road,
its path solid under my feet,
but it was not mine to take.
hidden in the underbrush,
there was another trail.
only one set of footprints
blazed its course.
it called for me to come
aside, come away, come up
higher along an unknown
way.
where the unknown trail
split from the worn road
the one whose steps had
made this way was waiting.
i was not to journey alone.
he had carved this trail long ago
footprints left from when
he had walked on time before.
i stole one glance at the worn road
i was leaving behind
for the underbrush, the unknown.
i didn’t envy those other travelers at all.
their path may be well defined
by the steady stream of people on it,
but they are alone among them.
at the end of the journey,
it will be the narrow way,
established in the heart of God,
and traveled by those who do not love their lives
too much to loose them…
it will be that unknown path,
with only one set of footprints
that will lead kingdom seekers
home.
–michele perry 1995
We need to see the real deal released again. Something beyond empire, celebrity, hype, programs, walls and man pleasing. Something beyond the suffocating stench of religious containment. It is a dangerous path and costly but the outcome will be beyond our imagination.
Yours in the hope of Papa’s BIG Dream. Justin
Two Pathways
This is a significant word for our time. It’s called ‘Two Pathways’ and it is by a UK prophet called Christine Larkin. Spoken in 2007 this prophetic word continues to impact & inspire me. We pray Papa give us the courage and faith to embrace the unknown paths.
Two Pathways
As I was praying about the next season I felt strongly that what is coming is not a new season, but a whole new era. A time which is more significant than any other time on earth in terms of the church being shaken into the purposes of God. Seasons will merge as we move forward, just as the seasons on earth are being mixed up and weather patterns are surprising forecasters, so the church will begin to be unsettled as the winds of change begin to blow on all that is ‘known’.
At the start of this time I saw two pathways opening up before each child of God. One was a flat path – called ‘Known’ and the other was a steep and winding path called ‘Unknown’. Along the first pathway were many words ‘of man’. The way ahead from the beginning of this pathway seemed to be clear – with a clear destiny/destination. Many voices could be heard discussing the best way to walk along this pathway. Along the second pathway were many words of the Lord. The way ahead for this path twists and turns and it is only possible to see a short way ahead. One voice can be clearly heard amidst the stillness and relative silence along the path.
The ‘known’ path will be for those who have faith to do great things for God. Those who take this path will find that they get what they have faith for. Much ‘success’ will be evident and the Lord will be present to speak wisdom to whoever will hear. Prophetic voices can be heard on this path and they are true voices – those who have seen what the Lord wants to do and many of the saints on this path are courageous and confident in the Lord, eager to serve him and willing to pay the price to see God’s will done on earth.
I knew that both pathways were costly to build and costly to walk on everywhere there were many places at which a ‘toll’ must be paid in order to go on.
The starting point is the same for both paths – they joined together at the beginning and it was possible to start with one foot on each path. But then they widened sharply and the only way to make a step forward was to choose which path to take. Each path was diagonally opposed and it was almost impossible to see the other path once the first steps were taken.
Each ‘step’ on both paths required choices – life choices, relationship choices, position and place choices. Once the first steps were taken there was no more opportunity to have a foot on both paths, as one path is the way of human choices and the other is one of abandonment to the leading of the Holy Spirit. However, the Lord was present on both paths. He was close to all who were walking on each of the paths. Once a decision was been made and the path was taken it was impossible to ‘view’ the other path. This was the grace and mercy of God to avoid confusion and judgement among the people.
Also, once a path had been chosen it was almost impossible to turn back. Both paths had the presence and purposes of God on each side. But they were very different.
The ‘unknown’ path looks very different. Everyone on this path starts off on their faces, empty of all confidence in their own ability. These people have faith in God, but have been brought to the end of their own strength. All old visions and dreams have become meaningless to them as they realise this is a new era and that they have nothing in themselves to bring. Badges of success from the past, though valid and true, are irrelevant for the new path. Each one on this path is aware of great weakness in their own ability. They start to walk almost like they are crawling, almost flat on their faces, holding on to hope in the strength of Christ. Few voices can be heard at the start of this path and there is only one prophetic voice to be heard at the beginning – it is a simple phrase repeated over these prostrate saints – “let him who has ears, hear, what the Spirit is saying”.
The two paths lay before us, Known and Unknown. The Unknown – where the Holy Spirit is totally in control. The Known – where people work hard to serve the Lord,
Both paths are populated with God’s children.
The starting point for the Unknown path is realisation, recognition and relinquishment of any vestige of self-reliance or expectation of ability to do anything in human strength. This starting point is not a choice – it’s a position, where self is at an end – personal ‘bankruptcy’; a crashing from self – weakness, wretchedness, blindness, and poverty of spirit – of self.
Helpless but not hopeless.
There’s stillness, a silence, not even sights or sobs – for these have gone before. At this place sights are really too deep to be uttered. The last breath of confidence in self is expelled.
Leadership on this path will be sacrificial to God and man – it will be to release people.
A new kind of church will emerge – built by the Spirit of God and populated by the those who have to hear and see what the Spirit is saying and doing. Any other way will be untenable on this path.
Badges of success gained before this point in time will be meaningless. They will be a hindrance and distraction. For it is not what has gone before that will count – it will be each step forward into God’s purposes, led by the Spirit. This is a new era.
New Era
You can’t read about it, learn about it, think about it or talk about it for it is not like any time before. It requires a place and position of surrender – to human plans or God’s leading.
Each path will be populated across the span of diversity in the church – from Catholic, Orthodox expressions, through to Pentecostal and Charismatic – all coming together by the Spirit of God.
This is the time for choices. Many people have been struggling in the past few weeks, unsure of what is happening and why they are feeling so unsettled. They know that something is about to change but are not seeing the way ahead. The next few months will be a time of significant choices. Even the smallest choice could have great significance. The choices will reflect the chosen path.
Let us pray for right choices, courage and commitment.
Christine Larkin
Unknown Paths
Are you willing to go off the beaten track…
go lower to the dirty earthy ground, get dangerously closer to his beating passionate heart? This is the unknown path. Away from success, formulas and man pleasing and going along with the crowd. Away from what is popular or normal. It’s the way of the mystics of old and the Enoch generation rising on the earth. Away from the limelight and predictable flows, away from what’s acceptable or the wisdom of this world.
A lifestyle where nothing is in your hands but the One thing that really counts.
In this place of exile you cleave because Papa becomes you’re only source of life & joy. In this place you don’t know what will happen – you may even suffer much pain and misunderstanding but if he’s with you it doesn’t seem to matter the same anymore. Even pain becomes a friend that pushes you deeper into the burning centre of his being and you don’t want it to stop until it’s done its full work.
Many have walked this way before off the beaten track, rugged strange people who shaped generations in an upside down way with an upside down kingdom. The prophets, the desert fathers, the celtic saints, and other rare people in history that shone and dared to believe the unbelievable. People that shaped history without compromising to the status quo and apathy of their times. Burning. The world had no grip on them. Jesus freaks… the Freaky Ones.
We don’t really know what is coming, how it will come or where we will go but what we do know is the future is not like the past and we are living during the biggest transition since the reformation. God is thrusting his people into exile from what is known and understood. A place of exile. From this place will be birthed a day of great awe and wonders like has not been seen since the time of Moses. A greater glory.
In exile like John on the island of Patmos you see the Lord like you’ve never seen him before with white hair, burning fire and a sword. When you’re pushed out of the boat and swallowed by a whale you find you are spat out at the door of destiny and change history and save a city. When you’re sold as a slave and taken to a foreign land you end up becoming the answer for the needs of a nation and your family.
History makers are birthed out of adversity.
History makers are birthed out of exile.
This is the unknown path.
Losing everything but gaining it All.
Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 1 Peter 4:12
Justin Abraham
Dreaming!
Dream….to create, to bring to life, to envisage, to imagine….
Do you dream?
Do you let your imagination run wild?
Do you have crazy ideas?
What do you do with them and who do you share them with?
It is time to dream! It is time to birth those ideas, that have been bubbling inside of you. It is time to create the space and the time for these dreams to come to life! I found this amazing quote on the internet ‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams’ – Eleanor Roosevelt. Wow!
Daddy has been bringing to mind to me recently, about dreaming with Him, somebody recently sent me a card with writing on the front that says ‘hope, dream, believe and the possibilities are endless’. I love it when God does that, starts up a conversation with you and then gets somebody else who knows nothing about your conversation to send you a card with words on it that is exactly what your conversation was about! haha! God also told me that one day on our holiday that I was going to see a sign that says dream on it, I said ok and kept an eye out, I saw in fact 2 signs with ‘Dream’ on it. I had not seen these before, I had seen ‘Home’ signs, ‘Love’ & ‘Hope’ signs but not ‘dream’. I bought one of them so that I can have a daily reminder of what Daddy is saying right now. I have seen more signs since, the message is getting louder.
Daddy is sooooooo for us, He wants us to have fun learning with Him, He loves it when we go for it. It’s like when a young child tries to play an instrument for the first time, or play a sport for the first time, it doesn’t matter whether you succeed or fail He loves you just as you are and is very, very proud of you for stepping out and giving it a go! After all isn’t that how we learn, through our mistakes!
When you start dreaming with Daddy you are going to have the ride of your life. It is time to forget past failures and fears and move on, time to have adventures with the King! hahaha, can you imagine what it’s going to look like, partnering with the Creator of the Universe! There are no limits. It’s time to spend time with Him, to look into His eyes and see what there is for you to do with and through Him. It could be starting a new business, writing a book, praying for the sick in your local hospital, travelling the world and meeting Jesus’s friends. He could start showing you an absolutely huge idea that blows all your boxes, but don’t discard it, hold it in your heart, pray into it and let Daddy breathe life into it, let Him give you the blueprints.
Some of you might need to ask forgiveness of the past fears and failures, maybe some of you have not forgiven yourself. There is freedom and Daddy is cheering you on!!!
Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
Time to believe! Be wild! Be free! Do some crazy things with Jesus! Who knows what might happen……
Rachel x
Blue Flame of Glory by Michele Perry
This Spirit word really resonates…
It’s a call to not just be free but to become willing love slaves for Jesus to re-present Him and to impact even the heads of Government and nations. It’s by Michele Perry of IRIS Ministris. She is an awesome love revolutionary. We’re aiming to have Michele with us in Cardiff in December or early 2011 We’d also like to take a team to Sudan next year God willing to spread the happy gospel with Michele. Check it out, this is what Michele experienced in her encounter:
“I was talking to Jesus on my way to bed. Then all of the sudden I was with Him and we were in a huge room with myriads of angels, more than I could count. His Presence came and enfolded me in a cloud of iridescent gold mist that sparkled and swirled, dancing around me until that was all I could see. Jesus walked up to me in this cloud carrying a container. It was simple and regal all at the same time. He showed it to me, told me to look inside and asked me what I saw.
I opened it delicately and saw a liquid blue white flame, not unlike electricity. It was stunning in its purity and consuming in its intensity. Jesus began to teach me about what I was seeing.
“Beloved this is the anointing I am pouring out today. It is a prophetic anointing that will take you beyond anything you have ever even imagined. It will be poured out on those who are willing to pay the price of no longer being their own. No longer will those who accept this outpouring be masters of their own free time or schedule and much of what was everyday activity will be exchanged for sitting in My Presence and listening to My heart.
The flame is blue-white, charged with energy and heat, the hottest part of My fire. Blue speaks of heavenly revelation and authority. What you are seeing is the blue flame of My glory. It is now being poured out. It is now being released. Not in small measure, not in trickles on one or two but in torrents on all those who will say “Yes” to Me in this hour.
Those who receive it will look foolish at times because you cannot contain or control what I am about to do in the earth. When this anointing is manifested, the people it is manifested through will not be able to tone it down or turn it off. My glory will pour through them like electricity through a live wire. If you try to hold it down you will get burned.
Be warned, like Uzzah, who with good intentions touched the blue flame of My glory and wound up dead for his efforts. No man will touch My glory. The people I trust to carry My blue flame will be broken, beaten outpoured worshipers whom I have tested and tried in the furnace of affliction and found them to be faithful in the small things. They will be those whom I can trust not to touch that which I give them to carry.
I am raising up a prophetic people in the earth today and the revelation I give them will set them before nations and governments to speak with authority My Word into the situations at hand. They will be as John the Baptists crying out in the waste places of the world, a generation of forerunners who are preparing My people for My return.
They will make straight in the wilderness a highway, for My glory is about to be revealed. They will decrease so I can increase. They will look strange and foolish to those who do not understand, but their very lives will be prophetic declarations of My heart. They will wander from place to place and experience rejection from the established structure in many places, for they will be a voice calling to My Beloved to turn away from all that would hinder Her from knowing Me.
These ones will be held close to My heart for they are My friends who wait and listen for Me and are full of joy at My voice. Are you will to pay the price and lay down any rights you have reserved to yourself in order to be abandoned to Me? This is the time that the blue flame of My glory filled with revelation and insight into My heart and plans is being set in the hearts of My people who have said, “YES.” Receive it… it is now outpoured.”
C’mon! I see it. We want it. Going lower to fly higher. Bless ya Justin
Mystic Clusters
I had an amazing dream this week. Wow it was a heavy duty rush. A supernatural encounter in my sleep. Without going into the details here ‘cos you’ll think what I saw is nuts, all I want to say is that it’s time for Mystic mentoring. For the grapes the emerging mystics to cluster together and let the sweet juice escape!
We’re going to learn to shine! Like giant bulbs we’re going to shine with heat and fire and holy light. Children of Light from a Kingdom of Light.
The exploits awaiting you are like nothing we’ve walked in before. God has truly saved the best wine until last. If you could only see what is through the door you’d give you’re whole life for the call. It is a realm no eye has seen nor did we dare believe for. A company of burning hearts deeply intoxicated by the Fear (intimate love & understanding) of God, living in the unseen to the seen, friends with heaven, breaking the rules of possibilities and showing that truly nothing is impossible with God. Demonstrating the true government and authority of the King.
Most of what is happening now is still hidden (like Moses when he was hidden away from Egypt). But something new is most certainly here and growing. In due time it will emerge with such power and glory, like Elijah and Moses they will shake entire nations. Elijah’s first prophetic word was before the King and he stopped the rain. Such things are going to come again. It is here and rising. The land is crying saying “We’re making space for the Sons of God- Rise and Shine out!” God is calling us deeper than we’ve ever known and once you’ve tasted this wine, this intimacy, this reality, this power, this union there is no looking back. It is ecstasy.
The future belongs to the Courageous, Justin & Rachel
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