Gathered Around the Fire

THE BARLEY LOAF IN THE OVAL OFFICE DREAM FULFILLED  August 22, 2017 Four years ago today, in 2013 during our 40-day prayer campaign, I saw a two-part vision during a prayer meeting. In the vision a barley loaf rolled up Capitol Hill until it came to rest leaning on the rotunda of the Capitol building, then another barley loaf rolled into the oval office of the White House, filling it from top to bottom and from side to side.  In 2013, I thought it was speaking about President Obama since he was the seated President of the United States at that time.  But with the events which have taken place over the last year in the 2016 election, I now believe we have seen the beginning of the fulfillment of this vision during the 2016 elections; That resulted in 'an over-comer, unexpectedly "rolling" into the oval office and President Trump has also been seen to be leaning on Congress and the Senate on Capitol Hill.  Here is my account of that vision on my 5...

Someone that you know, probably drove hundreds of miles to see the sun extinguished for a few moments around noon today. They may have been planning their trip for days, weeks, or even months or years!   I had a friend who drove this weekend to the "Show Me" state in hopes of having the sun, moon, and stars show him something of the grandeur of God's created Cosmos.  Where I live it was only a partial eclipse, but at lunch today with some friends, we stopped for a moment outside the restaurant and put on protective eyewear to catch a glimpse of the "small" beginning of the eclipse.  Using the protective glasses you could see the process without the resulting blindness that would come without the protection. The change in light level was unnoticeable to the naked eye at the beginning. But, 60 minutes later it was definitely darker, because of the heavy cloud cover where we were it was not apparent if it was the shadow of the moon or the shadow of the c...

I went to lunch with a friend today and he encouraged me to send out this post. If you don't mind, I will share what I am thinking about today as I get ready to observe Teshuvah. Teshuvah (return) is a season to reflect and it starts at sundown today  (at the second sundown if you count the eclipse that happened at 1:05 PM CDT as the first sundown)  It begins 30 days just prior to the feast of Trumpets, 10 more days after  Trumpets  makes it a 40 day season of "returning" to the LORD. leading up to the celebration of the Day of Atonement (known as the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.  "Don't just do something, stand there" - Henry Blackaby In his books on Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby says that we need to find out what God is doing and then join Him in doing that thing.  According to the biblical calendar laid out by God Himself,  God is granting grace (the empowerment to respond) ...

We read in Scripture that; God gave Adam (red-earthy) dominion over the entire earth, and all created things.  Adam gave away that dominion during the intercourse with the devil the Fall of Man. Jesus as the second Adam regained that dominion through the Cross, descending into Hell and ascending again with an immortal (glorious) body.  In order for FULL restoration of Adam's (earthly) dominion to take place, a Son of Adam must again rule over the whole natural earth. Fortunately, Jesus qualifies as a son of Adam, since He was "born of a woman, born under the Law."  therefore He is the only one who qualifies to rule in Adam's place. The church is his bride and she is the only one qualified to rule in Eve's place.  Sometimes in Sunday school class or children's church, we simplify our destiny in God by using the phrase when I get to heaven, as though that is the destination and the culmination of our lives. if we compared this to a modern wedding/m...

JESUS' LIFE IS SUMMED UP IN THREE SIGNIFICANT DATES! I believe, that if we understood the volatile changes that occur at these three times in a person's life, we would prepare our sons and daughters ahead of time to navigate these seasons of change with grace and purpose.  Circumcision of Jesus (8 DAYS OLD) And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present  Him  to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),  Luke 2:21 The Boy Jesus Amazes the Scholars (12 YEARS OLD ) His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the c...

DELAYED PROMISES  They missed the two-part fulfillment, required of long-term Biblical prophecies, as we often do today. Everything Jesus put his hand to during the Passion week was purposeful and timed down to the hour, even to the minute, to align with the 'Instructions'. (the word Torah is sometimes translated as the Law but its literal meaning is instructions) . He was purposefully walking out by obedience to the fulfillment of prophetic words given centuries earlier, stepping into a prophetic dimension, to become a sign and a wonder by his physical obedience to the Father. Amazingly at the same time, His actions were declaring a more' spiritual' or FULL-filling far into the distant future, some even a few millennia away. Many had an invitation to a front-row seat, to watch these things unfold during the first century, but they simply missed it, because they did not discern the times. Many of us today are still missing it, we are ignorant of God's plan f...