The Thief of Joy

 

You Are Amazing

 

Counterfeit Edens - 26th February 2023

When we can’t get the Edens our hearts long and desire, we create “Counterfeit Edens” to satisfy our heart's desire. It is here in our “Counterfeit Edens “ that we create our own “Counterfeit God’s” that we have fashioned in our minds. 

I felt God saying “it is time to lay aside our Counterfeit Edens and return to the real Eden. It is time to leave our own Edens of self-effort, self-righteousness and self-achievement and return to the lover of our hearts. For only in Christ is their satisfaction. Men have built their own ministries, sung their own songs, and created their own music but the time is coming for the invitation to come into the fullness of your new Eden. A place you were birthed to live and delight in. I am calling you into a place of delight, my place of intimacy. Leave behind your counterfeit Edens and come with me into a delight beyond your wildest dreams.” 

TRAPEZE - 25th February 2023

My wife recently had a dream where she saw a line of people standing in a queue waiting for a trapeze. As the people jumped on the trapeze they looked down to see that there was no safety net. She asked me what I felt it meant, and here is what I felt God say,

“We are entering into a time when the safety net will disappear. All that we held as secure and safety will start to shift like grains of sand in the wind. A time when we won’t know the truth from the false, the fake from the real. A time when the media will cause confusion, doubt and fear.”

“But know that the trapeze is secure, it will hold you! You are safe and secure in Christ. You are held in the everlasting arms of the Father, he will keep you, he will  hold you, he is your safety. He has given himself to you, you are his beloved, his treasure. This is a time to let God hold you.”

No Event is the Final Word

 

The Drummer

 I felt God say today, “I am drumming out a call to my people. I have released a drum beat to call you in to me as my possession.”

The Drummer has arisen and calls out to his children an eternal beat to arise and take dominion. Thus is not a day or a moment for sleeping, for the resurrection life of the Holy Spirit is in you. You have the heart beat of God and the drummer is calling you. Listen, to the rhythm of life, the rhythm of the resurrection, the rhythm of the redeemed, the righteous, the forgiven. 

The Drummer is moving and invite’s you to move with him. To know the rhythm of grace, for you are now birthed into the day of the Lord’s favour. Let his heart beat be your heart beat, let his desires be your desires and let his song be your song. This is the day to release captives from prisons, heal the broken and open the eyes of those that are blinded.

The Drummer has released his song of freedom and calls you into his dance of grace and his story of love.

The Drummer

I felt God say today, “I am drumming out a call to my people. I have released a drum beat to call you in to me as my possession.”

The Drummer has arisen and calls out to his children an eternal beat to arise and take dominion. Thus is not a day or a moment for sleeping, for the resurrection life of the Holy Spirit is in you. You have the heart beat of God and the drummer is calling you. Listen, to the rhythm of life, the rhythm of the resurrection, the rhythm of the redeemed, the righteous, the forgiven. 

The Drummer is moving and invite’s you to move with him. To know the rhythm of grace, for you are now birthed into the day of the Lord’s favour. Let his heart beat be your heart beat, let his desires be your desires and let his song be your song. This is the day to release captives from prisons, heal the broken and open the eyes of those that are blinded.

The Drummer has released his song of freedom and calls you into his dance of grace and his story of love.

The Skies Are Red

There is something inspiring in a painted red sky. Red skies always remind me of scarlet soldiers and scarlet armies. It was prophesied by Nahum that an unstoppable scarlet army would arise and carry redemption and restoration to a forsaken city and land. Very often what we consider forsaken, God sees as a picture waiting to be painted. Nothing is forsaken to God. God who paints a red sky, declares the day of the scarlet army is arising. Creation exists to declare the glory of God and his red skies declare the victory of the cross.

The next time I see a red sky I need to BE aware of the victory Christ has won and that he declares that victory in the sky to all,

An Invitation

 Everything that exists is invitation to connect with the unconditional love of God and the truth found in Christ.  How we perceive life can alter our outlook on the world around us. We can look at life as a frightening place full of dark corners, hard edges and harsh lessons or a place to behold and experience love in everything that happens. Our outlook determines the nature of our heart to flourish.  The most mundane act becomes a divinely inspired experience when we hold it tenderly in love and open deeply to its truth in this moment.

But it is in this moment when we can get caught up in web of existing and start to feel the pangs of the lie of separation.  The necessity of everyday life, making ends meet, raising a family, enjoying a career is a place where we can easily forget the great story of creation and settle for a story of need. Getting involved in ordinary living has often been portrayed as a distraction from the purposes of God. But in fact, this is just a smokescreen to cloud our minds from the whisper of God.

A Reconciled Reality

 In a reconciled universe, it means that God has received us into His favour and brought us back into harmony with Himself. This reconciliation is the good news of the cross, God is not our enemy, He has received us into His family and has repaired the damage sin did to our relationship. And God did this through Christ. God was present in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world back to himself.

This reconciliation means that Christ has restored the whole world back to himself. So this means that without man’s help God has gone ahead and repaired the damage in the relationship, gone ahead and restored us to a place of His favour, a place of harmony with him. On the cross, God cancelled the sin debt of mankind. Through Jesus’s death, God was not counting men’s sin against them. This means that our sin did not keep us from God.

The eternal reality was reconciled with the earthly reality as God forgave our sin through Jesus’s death on the cross. Through Christ we are now received into the embrace of God.