The glory!

Have a sense that the truths in Isaiah 60 will be revealed in the coming year.

God's bright glory has risen for you. The whole earth is wrapped in darkness, all people in sunk in deep darkness, But God rises upon you, Nations will come to your light, Kings to your sunburst brightness.....

The Message

TWELVE

There was a time when I used to count days and then months the same way. Now I find it's the years that fly by and create the memories. Days and months have become blurred as the years have taken on enormity and meaning.

I wonder what flavour, tone and cadence? What people, places and news headlines?

I hold these questions lightly and with unshakable faith that whatever the memories of 2012 ......I know we'll all be one step nearer to the fulfillment of God's given and eternal purposes.

Happy New Year everybody.

Prayer from Kibera for Japan - English.m4v

Eleven

I feel as though I were born for 2011
There's a sense of finally finding myself and being nearly home
As the year unfolds there is poignancy about the number
11
Chaos and disorder
There is a shaking happening around the world
TRANSITION between 10 and 12 ....divine order and Godly governance
I embrace the choices that the year holds
It's taken a long time
50 years of waiting ....and now.....
so near
so dear
'So hear!'

Wonderful

Had an encounter with an angel on Wednesday evening.

It was 'Wonderful'

God commands His angels concerning us and is wonderful in all His ways.

Soaking in the land

Israel - Jerusalem - Gallilee - what a blessing to finally walk the ancient pathways. Some people are happy to listen to tour guides and capture the memories on camera. I found myself responding in silence and awe, preferring to savour and soak in the land, sketching and capturing the moments in water colour washes. 

 - Garden of Gethsemane -

- Masada -

 - Mount Carmel -

 - Sea of Galilee -

- Peter's Denial -

- Bethshan -

The 'Ancient of Days' and Lord of angelic hosts

Walking in the steps of Jesus was so inspirational- treading the ground where He walked and seeing the land He journeyed through. Nothing, however, compared with the Wednesday evening when four of us stood on the balcony of our hotel and watched the angelic army hosts riding towards the old city. 

We had ventured out on the balcony to pray over the Supreme court and Knesit buildings which faced the hotel. With a full moon glowing through low moving cloud we were intially stunned at the beauty and power of seemingly peculiar weather. The longer we stood however, the more we realised we were observing something quite supernatural. 

The low cloud was very fast moving and wherever one looked it seemed to be rapidly flowing towards the old city from every direction. At times the buildings in front of us were blocked from view as we observed what appeared to be horses and angelic beings in the clouds riding towards the city. We became awe struck at the power and might of our God. Worship and praise came from our lips and we gazed in wonder at the unfolding scene.  Heavenly army hosts were on the move and there was an increasing intensity and awareness of God and His majestic supernatural power.

It remains one of the highlights of the trip for me...to have been there as a bystander to something awesomely spectacular taking place. Whatever was going on in the heavenlies...we became mightily assured that GREATER is He that is in us, than he who is against us.

I know who's side I wanna be on!