Gathered Around the Fire

The Lost Kingdom  The (Lamb of God) gave his life on the wooden cross his shed blood delivered us from the kingdom of darkness much like the blood spread on the wooden doorposts on the first Passover delivered God's children from the Death angel in Egypt. His bodily resurrection on the third day was the demonstration of the effectiveness of that victory. Even the Miraculous crossing of the Red Sea, (on the third day) was the evidence of their freedom from the power of Egypt. God buried their past with their identity as slaves in the baptism of the Red Sea,  Some would set up camp here and remain to bask in the light of that deliverance.  But the pillar of cloud did not stay on the farther shore of the Red Sea, It lifted up and went into the wilderness, and the children of Israel followed it into the wilderness and they spent 40 years there. The wilderness is where we encounter God. The disciples were led for forty days after His resurrecti...

  WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DARIUS?  In the second year of Cyrus Many prophetic voices have spoken of President Donald Trump as having a 'Cyrus' anointing, but in the biblical record, we read about another leader's name as well, whose name was Darius. In the book of Ezra, we see a return to, the building of the house of God whose foundations had originally been started under the decree issued by Cyrus but were completed under the rule of Darius.  At least one bible historian believes that both these kings may have ruled concurrently, while others place them up to 18 years apart. Cyrus (King of Persia - Daniel 10:1) made the Decree to rebuild the temple, (Ezra 6:3) The laying of the foundation documented in Scripture (Ezra 4:24) is recorded according to the years of king Darius' (the Mede) reign. So if a 'Cyrus anointing' is about rebuilding the infrastructure  according to the original Cyrus ( during his second year .) We also see ano...

A voice in the wilderness... "Prepare ye prepare ye the way of the Lord." RETURN to the Lord . The Seven Feasts of Israel were the annual events commanded by God for them to commemorate in remembrance and were to be celebrated by all. All males 20 and older were required to show up o be cut off from God's people. But they also embodied a prophetic glimpse forward into the future in the NEW Covenant. Twice during the year, in preparation for the feasts that foretold Jesus in his first and His second comings  they set aside a period of reflection and of purging. The very first 13 days of the first month of Abib  they were required to remove all leaven from their houses. This was a natural ritual that mirrored a spiritual reality. The act of searching for and removing natural leaven from their houses was meant to parallel God's children searching their own hearts and removing any sin and the cares of this world.  The reason for pra...

"COFFEE CREEK" Series "Skytop Lounge" Car - An Eerie Dream - closely linked to reality 47 years earlier.  An eerie - historically accurate dream, with slight modifications. I have shared this with some others but I forgot to post this after writing it out last December. In my dream, I saw a 70-foot-Long Passenger train car with an observation deck on one end. A band of pink ran down the entire length. The rest of the car was polished silver metal.    This picture is an extremely accurate drawing of what I saw and yet it was not drawn to illustrate this dream. It is the diagram of a rare limited set of train cars that traveled to my hometown all the while I was a child until was 16, but to my knowledge, I never saw them in real life. In my dream, there was a commercial bathroom or two (all gleaming white porcelain tile) and a couple of bedrooms (large rooms with 6-8 single beds) set up like a series of beds with a side table, and a lamp, and a chair. B...

CELEBRATE GRATITUDE - IT IS AS RARE AS A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER It was a particularly heavy snow that day and on top of what the heavens dropped gracefully upon the earth, there was the added job of removing the man-made slush thrown on top of the snow already piled high on the public sidewalk. Even with my heavy-duty two-stage snowblower, it was bogging down and I had to slow my forward advance to keep the engine running at the optimal speed. My oldest son lives on the same side of the street that I do and only two houses lie between our lots. So my habit has been to run down the sidewalk with the snowblower engaged and clear the public walkway for the two houses in between. We have to travel that route anyway, I might as well run the blower and in most snow storms it can run at 'top speed' as I cover the distance in between our respective lots.  On this day unknown to me, my next-door neighbor was suffering from pneumonia and she felt bad because her ...

  IS IT TIME FOR A SPIRITUAL SPRING CLEANING? In the modern church, we do not often observe ancient paths? We have replaced them with our modern ways and we like them well enough, but there is a pearl of deep wisdom to be discovered in the ancient paths. Following them may bring a deeper revelation about God our Heavenly Father and his plan of redemption for Adam's race. The ancient congregation in Israel followed a tradition taken directly out of the   Scripture and those paths predate the modern church observance of Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Easter by a few millennia, the latter has a similar stated purpose but is a clever counterfeit.  This ancient path encourages all to repent, to hunt down and eradicate all sin in preparation for the first coming of the Messiah. Preparing our hearts to receive the grace freely given through His 1. death 2. burial 3. resurrection This pattern came directly out of the Scriptures, whereas Lent, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Easte...

"What is written on my heart?"  It seemed like an easy question... for about 7 seconds and then it quickly became overwhelming... I struggled with that question for about 15 minutes; How should I know? The next question was designed to create focus, "What one thing has defined your life?"  Really? Just One Thing?  The words hung in the air. I could feel their weight. Then I recalled a question I had often asked young people when I was helping them sort out their priorities... "If you could do anything, what would it be?" That was the question I posed to myself. "David, if money was not limited?"  "If time was freed up totally?" "What would you do with your days, weeks, months, and years?" "What legacy do you want to leave behind when you pass over to that other place?" I don't know about you but I can already feel the Yeah-buts percolating to the surface of my conscious thoughts. 'Yeah but, I don...