2011-11-23
Canada: The Oil is Flowing

What an incredible weekend we had in Mackenzie in Northern British Columbia last weekend! I was ministering on the Issachar Anointing, and truly this is a season for Issachar! If ever there was a time to understand how to “see” what God is doing, it is now. I always like to take a prophetic gift wherever I go to give to the leaders to demonstrate what God is saying. Over the weeks as I was praying about this event, I had in my mind to take an hourglass because it speaks of Issachar and has been a recurring theme at the Tent. So when I went out to look for them, they were nowhere to be seen in the stores. On one of my trips, my eyes fell on a pair of crystal cut perfume flasks, so I picked them up as a “back-up”gift. This back-up gift ended up being what God intended in the first place.
Included in my bags was a number of bottles of my One Eleven anointing oil that I had prepared for the conference with Randy Demain that were still around. When I got there and was unpacking my bags, I went to pull out the anointing oils which I had wisely double bagged. To my surprise, one of the bottles had opened a bit and oil was everywhere inside the bag. There was no evidence that I had lost oil in the bottles, but everything was covered in oil. When I brought them out, I became covered in oil as well. I thought this was probably a good time to put some of that oil in the gift flasks that I had brought, but when I tried to do that, I got oil everywhere! My room filled with the fragrance of oil poured out.
We had planned a Shabbat meal on the Friday night with the leadership to get to know each other and when they asked me what I thought was going to happen that weekend, I said that I wasn’t sure, but there was something about oil being poured out. I told them of my experience with the oil, leaving out the flask part. At that time, we were reminded of a prophesy that was given years ago that we had heard of when we were up north in Rankin Inlet. Some years ago, Kayy Gordon, an apostolic leader who opened up the Arctic to the gospel in the early days had been asked by a leader from South America, Hector Jiminez, to take him to the most northern part of Canada because he had a word from God. Kayy flew him to Cambridge Bay because it was as far as they could go. He got out of the plane and read Psalm 133: How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes...He began to prophesy that oil was going to be poured out from the north, the head would represent Canada, the beard, the United States and the robes would be Central and South America. After he gave this word, he got in the plane and flew back to South America.
Then as God is always up to surprising us, when I woke up in the morning there was a message on my Blackberry with a prophecy from Chuck Pierce. At the end of this prophesy about revival being released he said this: Canada is an anointing flask poured out. We knew God was telling us something big about Canada. We decided that at every meeting we would declare Psalm 133 at the beginning. The amazing thing was that one of the leaders up there was from Brazil, in South America! So we had her declare it in her South American accent. We kept saying, “What are the chances that we would have someone from South America up here at a time when this was all happening??” No chance. We were declaring from the North once again that Canada was an anointing flask poured out. The meetings were great, and the people just soaked up the word that was given, but you know sometimes when God chooses to demonstrate what He is saying, it becomes bigger than that.
It is also incredible that it is only recently that I have felt compelled to begin to produce anointing oils. I bought the oil essences and produced the first oil for our Shatter! Conference with Steve Swanson and then the next set for our Shatter! 2 Conference with Randy Demain. This was the oil that went to Mackenzie. One Eleven speaks to me of Joshua One Eleven where God said “Get ready, for in three days you are going to cross over this Jordan and take possession of the land I am giving you!”

Beams of Light

On the final service in Mackenzie, as we were preparing for the meeting, our friend from South America came running to me to tell me to come outside. She kept saying that they had been praying for a sign, and here it was. When we got outside, there was the most incredible display going on. I have never seen anything like this. The ordinary lights on the buildings were shining up like huge beams of light into the sky and they were shimmering like diamonds! They appeared almost like the Star Trek “beam me up” lights. Everywhere all over Mackenzie were these beams of light glittering and dancing straight as an arrow up into the sky. I tried to take a picture of it but my camera couldn’t pick it up in the darkness of the night. As I am writing this, I recall an experience I had when I was in Scotland in the Hebrides. I was sitting in my friend’s living room talking to a man about the 48 revival. As we were talking, a beam of light came upon him and I felt like the two of us were about to be beamed up! This happening in Mackenzie is the only time that I have ever seen anything close to that. Amazing that Mackenzie is a Scottish name!

We all came away with a sense that we had been given an appointment with God. God is up to something big in Canada. We are about oil in this country. And the oil is about to be poured out in a flask that is being prepared. It’s going to be messy, but it is going to be wonderful. The fragrance is going to fill the air and people from all around are going to come to see the light of the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I have asked the group in Mackenzie to write up what they experienced on the weekend and we will be sharing that in another newsletter. God is on the move. Let the oil flow.

Many blessings,

November 7, 2011 (2011-11-07)
What’s With 11-11-11?

Over the past year, there has been so much come out about the number 11. People have been waking up at 1:11, and 11 after most other hours, and seeing the number 11 everywhere. This coming week there are significant meetings taking place on 11-11-11, including The Call, Detroit and a global worship movement that will have people from every nation worshipping God at a set time in their time zone. Eleven is the number of chaos or transition which signals a move to the governmental number of 12 and there is a growing sense that something big is on the horizon globally.

Last year, in the 11th month of the Gregorian calendar used in North America, a group of prophetic harpists including Dan from the Tent of David did something really big. They went to the 12 gates of Jerusalem and released the sound of the harp (not heard for thousands of years like that) through these gates and prophetically pulled the nations of the world through the “right time” gate into a global awakening. One of the things about this that only God could orchestrate is that unknowing to them until a few days before they went, they had scheduled to do this on 3/11 in the Hebrew calendar (the 11th day of the 3rd month). Three elevens!! The wonderful thing about this was that there were representatives from several nations of the world doing this act. Jerusalem was speaking.
Several years ago Dan & I had probably one of the most significant periods of our lives, which represented a shift in our lives and ministry. We made a series of trips to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland on a word from God. We had never heard of this place nor anything about it and God spoke directly to us and told us to go there on a specific mission. He told us to “Rekindle the fires of Revival, the Duncan Campbell revival”. We ended up having such God encounters on those visits that we were never the same. Last summer when I was swimming in our pool, the Lord asked me a question. He said “How long ago was it that I spoke to you to go to the Isle of Lewis. Think! Think!” So I began to think. I realized that it was 11 years ago on 11-11. I had no idea what it meant but it stayed with me.

Then yesterday I was meditating on this 11-11-11 phenomenon and the thought came to me, “I wonder what date on the Hebrew calendar that 11-11 falls on?” I discovered that it was Chesvan 14. This meant nothing to me so I went to the internet to look up what happened on Chesvan 14. To my utter amazement, I discovered that Chesvan 14 was the day that the Balfour Declaration was released in November 1917! This declaration begins with these words. “His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..” Arthur James Balfour was the Foreign Secretary of Britain and was a Scottish politician!

When I read this, I was so overcome with how big God is. I believe that in this heightened prophetic time, that God has His eye on the nation of Scotland. He has not forgotten this one act by a Scottish politician that set a course for the establishment of the Nation of Israel. We all have read about revivals around the world that occurred around 1948 after Israel became a nation. The Duncan Campbell revival on the Isle of Lewis was an awakening that happened at that time. But could it be, that God has a very special time reserved for a people whose spokesman opened the door for the Jews to return home and become the nation of Israel.

The other amazing thing to us is that over the last month or so the Tent has been planning a trip to Scotland. We had talked about it over a few years, but suddenly it seemed to catch fire. Dan & I and a group of 7 others will be returning to the Isle of Lewis in April of next year. What does God have for that small island in the north of Scotland? I don’t really know, but I do know that He took two people out of a Fire conference in Ottawa and sent them over 5000 miles to tell them that God had heard their prayers. I have long stopped trying to put a timetable on God. I only know that He does nothing by accident.

The other incredible thing is that I received a call from my Scottish aunt this week to say that she was leaving for a life-long dream trip to Israel. She left today and will be in the land on 11-11. Scotland, you are coming into your time. Just as you released favour to the Jewish people on Chesvan 14, so the favour of God is about to be poured upon you.

As we move through the period of transition into an unprecidented era for the church there has been a sense that there will be a greater unveiling of Jesus as never before. Yesterday I was meditating on how God always announces things in a big way. On Mount Sinai when he ushered in the law, he came with a loud shofar blast and a dense cloud. When Jesus appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos, his voice was that of a shofar blast, and He talked about coming in clouds. As I was thinking on this era of the unveiling of Jesus, suddenly on a clear day a dense cloud began to roll up the river in front of our house. It became so thick that we couldn’t see the other side of the river. It rolled past us for several minutes and then it was gone. One of the signature sermons of Duncan Campbell in the Lewis awakening was taken from Isaiah 64: “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down..for when You did awesome things that we did not expect, You came down and the mountains trembled before You. Since ancient times, no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, Who acts on behalf of those Who wait for Him”. He’s coming. His timetable is perfect. And when He comes, we will see an unveiling of the majestic Saviour in greater splendour and glory than ever before. Just as Moses walked into the dense cloud and heard things he did not know, and just as John was wrapt in the Spirit and was taken through a door to see an ascended Saviour, so He is coming to a waiting people to do things we could not expect.

Many blessings,
Tent of David Ministries

October 30, 2011

In the Gospel

What a tremendous weekend we had last weekend with Randy Demain! There were so many reports of people being blessed, healed, and taken to a new level of understanding of the Kingdom of God. Randy is one of those people who leaves you with so many truths that you have to let them brew in you and become part of you. Each meeting stood on its own with incredible authority and anointing.

The first evening was about Randy's visitation concerning the menorah and how we were to become the menorah. In Randy's experience a large menorah was put inside his chest. This particular message was so real to me I had a visitation of the menorah early one morning at the Tent (see Sept 25 newsletter). The week after this, we heard Randy speak about his menorah experience on Paul Keith Davis' site. I believe that this is a now word for the church. WE are the lampstand! He wants to invade us and cause the Glory to shine forth. The meeting concluded with a powerful time of impartation of the authority of the menorah. Something shifted.

The second message on Awake, Arise, Overcome and Occupy was probably the highlight message of the weekend and as usual, it came on Saturday morning when the really hungry people come out! He also had an amazing word for the Tent out of Matthew 11 that we will be unpacking for a long time. It's time not only to overcome, but to occupy! The revelation that we are the capstone generation is still resounding in many people's hearts. In that meeting he announced that he was not just going to have a healing meeting at night, but rather he was going to be releasing the Kingdom of God.

The Saturday night meeting was a fantastic night where so many sick were prayed for. We have had reports of people totally healed out of that meeting of things like fibromyalgia, hearing loss, major back problems, etc. The message from this night was the one that carried me away. He used the scripture "Believe in the gospel" and said that the truth of this one phrase changed his life. The Lord just shifted the emphasis of the words from believe to in the gospel. When we begin operating IN the gospel, inside the gospel, anything is possible. This truth has been reverberating in my spirit all week. When I light the menorah in the morning and pray for the Tent, I say, "Let us be in the gospel, let us operate today in the gospel. Let us understand what it means to be in the gospel". Then, this Friday night, we had a tremendous time when heaven opened up and we began to join with the sounds of heaven for an extended period of time. No next song, just heavenly music. As this was happening, I could feel myself stepping into the realm of the gospel. It was like a swirling sea all around me that was so wonderful that words are difficult to describe it.

When we were on our trip to Israel, I had some time alone with the Lord one morning and I asked the Lord where we were as a body at the Tent. I heard Him say, "You are in the book of Mark". At the time I thought, "Wow, the Book of Mark is all about what Jesus did!" And this is true. However, with this revelation out of the weekend, I realized that the book of Mark starts with the words "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God". We are at the beginning of being in the Gospel! Let God come and invade you with this truth. Oh, to be living and breathing in the gospel. He is coming with a new understanding of His power, authority and Father consciousness.

Then on Sunday morning Randy spoke on end time apostolic mandates, and left us hungering for more. So we are happy to let you know that Randy will be coming back in the spring for the weekend of May 11-13. Mark it on your calendars now.

What did God do this weekend? I mentioned on Saturday morning that we have been contending for a well of healing to open up at the Tent. We have seen people healed, yes, but not to the degree that we see in the Spirit and desire for the Eastern Gate of Ottawa. I also said that we did not decide just to have a good conference where people went away feeling like they had a nice time. The reason we brought Randy Demain to the city is because he is known as a man of authority that carries a breakthrough anointing. This weekend we saw a crack in that artesian well. We felt an increase in the realms of authority over ancient strongholds that have held this region back. It is time to Awaken, Arise, Overcome and Occupy.

Let fresh revelation come to you. It is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. How we desire to be in the gospel. Step in. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Many blessings,

Tent of David Ministries

September 25th 2011
For Such a Time as This

I am always amazed at how God seems to speak the same thing in many different places and through different means. The picture above was taken in Jerusalem and sent out by Martin Sarvis in an Israel prayer letter this past week. Just prior to this, I had been at the Tent in the morning and had an amazing spiritual experience. As I was kneeling down at the front of the sanctuary looking towards the back door and worshipping God, I suddenly began to see several menorahs in the air. Following this, I saw a thick red coloured cloud cover the back part of the sanctuary at the entry way. Off to the left, I saw a rainbow at the window. There was such a sense of the heavy presence of God that I couldn’t move. Although I was on my way to work, I didn’t want to leave. I just wanted to stay in this “Presence”. After a while, the red cloud began to dissipate and I slowly made my way out the door and into my day, the sense of the experience still lingering.

This was on a Wednesday morning, and the following weekend, a man from the Tent who comes in before me in the mornings to light the menorah came running to say that on Thursday morning when he came in very early, as soon as he walked through the entry doors there was such a presence of God that overtook him. He said, “I didn’t want to leave!” But what did it mean? Menorahs appearing, a red cloud, a rainbow...

Not long after, Paul Keith Davis had as a guest on his monthly School of the Spirit broadcast, Randy Demain. Randy is coming to be with us on the weekend of October 21-23. Randy began to speak about Psalm 111 and how it is known as the Menorah psalm and it is the Psalm for this year. If I wasn’t paying attention, I am now! In this teaching, Randy began to tell of an experience that he had while he was in Jerusalem where he saw a large menorah and it slowly got closer and closer to him until it went inside of him. He felt like the Lord was saying that we are to become the menorah. The menorah represents the seven Spirits of God in a particular order. The middle branch represents the Spirit of the Lord Jesus and then from left to right, the others speak of the Spirits of God as outlined in Isaiah 11. They also represent the colours of the rainbow as light is broken down into its primary colours. So the branch on the left would start with red, next orange, yellow and so on. Randy also taught that the seven Psalms beginning with Psalm 111 are the menorah Psalms and represent the next seven years. Each year would have a focus on one of the aspects of the seven Spirits beginning with Wisdom for 2011.

As I listened to this, suddenly my vision in the Tent was making sense. Menorahs, the red cloud, the rainbow. Red is the first colour of the rainbow! The sense of the Presence of God being so strong in the building that day told me that this infilling of the menorah into us is going to be so glorious. God wants us not only to exhibit these things, He wants us to become these things! Martin’s picture out of Israel was simply, as always, Israel prophesying what is about to be ours. I find the picture so compelling as it seems that the menorah is drawing you into it. And the rainbow shape over the top is just too amazing to be a coincidence!

Through all of this experience, I felt that God was putting His seal on having Randy come to the Tent at this time. We have such a strong sense that this Tabernacles is going to be like no other. Paul Keith Davis teaches that the one Feast that has not been fulfilled is Tabernacles and that before Christ returns there is going to be a time when God comes and makes His habitation with men and then the time of the great Harvest will be upon us. Could it be that we are entering into such a time? Up to now, we have had wonderful seasons of refreshing from God, but, oh, for Him to tabernacle! This is what our hearts have been longing for.

When Steve Swanson was here, I mentioned that I felt that Steve and Randy were bringing a one-two punch to Ottawa, as in 2 Chronicles 20. Steve represented the worshippers going first and then Randy was coming in to take the spoil. There is a sense that we are on the threshold of Heaven on Earth. Do you feel it? Let Heaven invade your space and position yourself for what is about to take us all into new dimensions of God. For such a time as this!

Preaching the gospel for over 25 years, Randy has served as pastor, teacher, and church planter. For the past several years, he has travelled full time as an Apostolic Revivalist. Randy regularly conducts harvest and healing crusades, training events, and speaks at conferences worldwide. His heart is to see the body of Chris operate, not just in word only, but in demonstrations of the Spirit and power. Randy is the author of books such as Dominion Surges and the Nephilim Agenda and operates in a powerful seer prophetic anointing.

If you would like to hear a little of what Randy is like, click on the following link: http://www.whitedoveministries.org/
Randy appears in the “Word for the Moment” found on the top right of the website with Paul Keith Davis.

Many blessings,
Tent of David Ministries

August 30th 2011
Fire In My Bones

There's a revival that's burning in me....it's a fire, it's a fire, it's a fire in my bones...gotta let it out!
(song by Steve Swanson)

This weekend's Shatter! conference with Steve Swanson at the Tent of David began and ended with the song quoted above. From beginning to end, there was a declaration going out over the nation of Canada that the time was NOW for FIRE to be released in our nation's capital and across the land. From the opening night we were a force announcing change in the nation. On Friday night, the theme went to a Glory train sounding its bell as it moved across the land. Then, on Saturday morning, the most beautiful glory came in as we positioned the Canadian flag at the front of the sanctuary and had the fans blowing across it. As the flag fluttered and danced to the tempo of the worship, it was as though an anthem was going out over Canada. Steve had written a most beautiful song entitled "Great and Marvellous are Your works, Lord God Almighty!" and as we sang that song it was as though we were announcing by faith all the glorious and marvellous things that God was about to do in the land. People began to position themselves under the flowing flag and declare the glories of God. It was the most incredible sight.

Previous to this on our recent trip to Israel in April, we had been on the Golan Heights looking down from the heights of the north to the Galilee and beyond. From this beautiful vantage point Steve's song "Great and Marvellous" just burst out of me!! I couldn't help it!! Since then, it has become part of me, so when he began to lead us in it on Saturday morning, it was as though God had given it wings. This is our song for Canada! There was such a sense of God's hovering presence over our nation. Then on the Saturday night, things went up another level. A number of the group had just come from The Cry on Parliament Hill, including Steve who had gone up with Dan to be part of what was going on there. When Steve got there, he was invited to play on the steps of Parliament along with the group at the Cry. Then, in our evening meeting, as the worship progressed, Steve began to prophesy that the people in the north land were going to declare what they see. We then began to spontaneously release decrees out over the land. Many, many in the audience came forward to release powerful prophetic decrees concerning what God was about to do in Canada.

During the weekend, we had a number of children participating in the worship. One of the little girls ended up lying down on one of the pews at the back. Someone went to her and asked her if she was tired. She said, "No, I am just lying here listening to the angels". There was an incredible sense of angelic activity in the building all weekend. Her ears were opened to it! Steve has often remarked that there seems to be way more people in the Tent than those who are actually seen. This has been told us many, many times. One of Steve's observations about the people who came out to the meetings were that we seemed to have more of a heart for the land than in most places he goes. He said, "You people are part of the dirt. You feel a love for the land that is different. " And there was such a love for the nation that was almost palpable that kept coming forth.

We ended the weekend with the “Fire in my Bones” song. Then on Monday morning, the front page of Ottawa Citizen was filled with pictures of the sky that looked like fire that came with the sunset on Sunday night. One of the declarations we made over the Ottawa region was a release of unleashed fire! Just prior to Steve coming, we had ordered some flags and had one especially made similar to the flag of Ottawa and the designers of the flag called it “unleashed fire". I believe the heavens were declaring the glory of God and coming into agreement with our declarations!

Canada, there is a fire in your bones. The time has come to let it out. The heavens are declaring the fiery ones have descended upon this region!

Please mark in your calendars the next Shatter! Conference to be held at the Tent on October 21-23 with Randy Demain. (More details to follow) We have such a sense that Steve and Randy are bringing a one-two punch into the heavenlies over Ottawa and we are going to see a great shattering of the work of the enemy over this region and WE are going in to take the spoil!

Many blessings

Tent of David Ministries

July 25th 2011
Becoming a Prophetic Church

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? Isa 43:19

Just this weekend, the Tent of David did something we rarely do. We closed our Friday night watch and attended a “Glory School” at Peace Tower Church with Joshua Mills and Steve Swanson. You can always tell who is hungry in a city. It was the hottest weekend of the year and the church had no air conditioning. It had to be in the high 40’s in the building and yet the place was full. There was a revival spirit in the air. During the course of the weekend, Joshua said many profound things, but this one thing really stuck with me. He said, “God is speaking all the time, but many times, we just don’t perceive it”. God can be speaking in things all around us, and we just pass by and don’t stop to consider.

What does it mean to become a prophetic church? It means that our levels of perception rise. Over the course of the last number of years, we have been training ourselves to perceive. When the eyes of your perception are open, it is truly amazing what God reveals. Often, He speaks in fragments of truth that will propel you to search out the thing He is trying to convey. Often one person will receive a portion of the mosaic, but it is only when the body comes together that you begin to see the fine portrait that He is painting.

This newsletter will be a collage of what God has been putting together for us at the Tent to point to the times and seasons we are in. Perhaps it will confirm some things that God has been speaking to you.

The Hummingbird:

On Sunday morning, after we had been thrilled with the prophetic words over Canada through Joshua Mills and Steve Swanson, I was sitting on my deck crying out to God saying, “I don’t want to be on the outside looking in when you do this great thing in our nation. I don’t want to be just happy that it is happening somewhere else. I want to be part of what you are doing.” It was a deep cry. Suddenly, my eyes caught sight of something in the garden. At first I thought it was a butterfly, and then I realized it was a tiny hummingbird. I took note of it because Karen had told me recently of a time on her holidays when she was crying out to meet with God and a hummingbird came by and just stayed near her. So, when I came in, I looked up “hummingbird” on the computer. What I found out was so amazing. The hummingbird does not have regular coloured feathers like other birds. The feathers actually contain prisms of light in them! When they turn one way or another, the light passing through them suddenly turns the bird from an ordinary grey to a brilliant green, or red or other amazing colour! They are reflectors of light! They also move extremely fast when they fly, but because their wings move so quickly, they must come into rest for extended periods. In fact, they spent 75% of their time in rest and only 25% moving. But when they move, it is spectacular!! How like what we have been trying to build at the Tent of David. Learning how to move in abiding rest and being reflectors of His light. I felt God was saying to me, through the little hummingbird that we are not to be concerned. When He turns us on, we will move with lightning speed. We just need to know that the most important thing is knowing how to rest in Him. A really good part about this story is that we had a good friend in the meeting on Sunday as I shared this and she said that she had the same experience in her garden and had gone in to look up hummingbirds and knew exactly what I was going to say! The tapestry was being woven.

The point about this is that I had to stop and perceive. God was speaking but I had to see that He was speaking.

Ezekiel and the Wheel within the Wheel:

This is a theme that the Lord has opened up to us over the past several months. It began with my visiting our friends, Alex and Rosetta Florence in Edmonton. I was at a prophetic conference and during the worship at one of the meetings, I felt to lie down on the floor face down. As I did this, I saw the word, “Ezekiel” in black letters float by my face. I had no clue what it meant at that point in time. But it was such a different thing that had never happened to me before (it has happened since then), that I kept it in my heart. Then we were holding a teaching session on seeing into the heavenlies with Sadhu Sundar Selveredge from India and he said he had one scripture that he was going to use for his entire series. It was Ezekiel 1:1! “..The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God”. So I started to get excited about Ezekiel. What was God saying to the church at this time? Then Cathy, one of our worship leaders started to have visions of rainbows forming a wheel within a wheel as in Ezekiel. Pieces, fragments. Then, this weekend. As we were worshipping, Joshua Mills began to prophesy about revival coming to Canada and he began to see the wheel within the wheel. He kept declaring this vision as he began to walk through the entire nation of Canada province by province. Steve Swanson also had an experience as he was on Parliament Hill watching the changing of the guard. He began to weep and weep, so much so that people were looking at him. He had to leave and go around to the back of Parliament where the weeping continued. He told us with such certainty, “You mark my words, within 6 months something big is going to happen in Canada that will change everything”. Since then others have reported to us of seeing the wheel within the wheel. The picture is becoming clearer, but we are still in perceiving mode to see what Ezekiel has to do with the nation of Canada. We have had other things related to this coming to us at the Tent but we are still processing some of it. He’s doing a new thing! Do you not perceive it?

The strange goings on in the garden:

I have said for some time that our house is a prophetic house. There is so much that happens here that I could write a book. Last week Dan & I were out walking near our garden and suddenly we noticed something growing out of our beautiful almond bush. When we looked closer we saw that it was raspberries!! Then, as we looked again, we noticed a small tomato plant growing where we had not planted any tomatoes. Then we went further and on our deck we have big pots of pansies and out of one of the pots was growing a big canna lily plant! We had never planted any of these things! We were just sitting thinking about all of this asking, “What does this mean?” , when we got an e-mail from a good friend who was asking about some strange things going on in her garden. Her hosta garden that she had for around 10 years had begun to change. The plants that had stripes were now plain and some had two types of colourings in the same plant! I told her what had happened in our garden and she immediately e-mailed her friend in Chuck Pierce’s church in Texas. They have been planting an Israel garden representing the twelve tribes and in the Benjamin section they noticed basil growing where they had not planted basil. The Lord spoke to them and said “You are going to reap where you have not sown!” These plants are speaking of what is coming to Canada. Steve had been declaring “It will all change by 6 months from now” and Ruth’s plants were all changing colours. We were reaping where we had not sown! A harvest is coming! Everything is about to change! He’s about to do a new thing, do you not perceive it?

I do not understand fully why God has chosen Canada. I know our Prime Minister has taken a strong stand for Israel and that is part of it. But somewhere God has in His wisdom set aside a glorious future for this nation. Time is almost up. What you have been desiring is about to be displayed in such Glory that we will not recognize ourselves. It will all change. We will become the prisms of His light and we will enter into a time of His habitation in this land. Let God open the eyes of your perception. Let Him show you the new thing He is about to do. It may not come packaged in the way you thought. Yet He is speaking all the time.

Many blessings,
Tent of David Ministries

The Hourglass of Time

June 23, 2011

May 23, 2011

The Time Gate

Have you ever felt like you have so much to say that you don’t know where to begin?  This is what I feel today.  I just got back from speaking at a conference in Halifax and the significance of what God said and did out there is still reverberating.  My connection with Halifax began last year on April 19 when I was staying in a hotel on the harbour and the Lord wakened me in the night and said “Release the warrior spirit!”  When I looked at the clock, it was 3:11.  At the same time, our friends who had been ministering in Israel e-mailed us that they had been on the Isle of Arran in Scotland releasing the warrior spirit!  Here I was in “New Scotland” doing the same thing as someone in Scotland.  Since then, 3:11 has become a major prophetic theme out of the Tent of David and if you look back on our website to previous newsletters you can read all about that.  The other theme was “Shatter”.  The Lord spoke this word to us one Sunday morning at the Tent and then the week following we discovered that Chuck Pierce had prophesied that we were to pay attention to where glass shattered because it would be significant.  Following this, we experienced glass shattering at very significant times and places.  The biggest one was when my husband was in Israel last November and on 3:11 in the Biblical calendar they took 12 harps and released the sound of the harp out of the 12 gates of Jerusalem and pulled the nations of the world through the “right time” gate into a global awakening.  As Dan was coming back from his assignment there, a car suddenly drove past him in the parking lot and suddenly the whole back window of the car shattered in a thousand pieces before his eyes.

 Then on March 11 this year (3/11) imagine our shock when the Japan earthquake and tsunami tore through that nation!  The papers the next day had a huge headline, Japan Shattered. 

My connection with Halifax continued as Dan & I went to Israel for a  40^th anniversary trip.  One of the things that someone from the Tent told us we needed to do when we were up at Nimrod’s castle in the North looking at the Syrian border was to take a whistle and blow the whistle on the enemy.  So we took a whistle and on April 15 did just that.  We had just come from  a profound encounter at the Crossing the day before.  This is the place where the Israelites crossed over with Joshua, where Jesus was baptised by John and where Elijah threw off his mantle to Elisha.  When Dan & I got to that place, we were not sure if it would be open because it is a place that had been barricaded off by the IDF with large fences topped with barbed wire.  When we got there, we discovered the gate open and so we drove down to the spot.  We were not prepared for the sense of awe that we experienced in that place.  We could hardly move.  It was total Glory.  There are times when you step into a place where Location and Time come together.  This was what happened.  We knew that we had crossed over.  The fact that it was our 40^th anniversary year and God ordained that we be at that place right then was so significant to us.  That evening we joined our friends from the US and drove up to the Golan Heights to Nimrod’s Castle to do some prophetic surges in the Spirit from that place.  The sense of Glory there was also palpable.  I just burst into song from those heights singing Steve Swanson’s “Great and Marvellous are Your works, O Lord Almighty!”.  Then, when we left the place when Dan & I were in the car we blew the whistle!  Little did we know that in a place called Halifax, Nova Scotia, Rosetta Florence was blowing a whistle on that very day at a conference there with our friends Lynn and Earl Wambolt.  The whistle was from Signal Hill in Newfoundland.  If any of you know Rosetta, she is a powerful prophet who originates from Scotland. 

By now, something was stirring in my spirit about Halifax.  Lynn and I had talked about me coming to do a Gates Conference there for a few months but the timing seemed to be hard to nail down.  Then, one day we had a big wind storm here in our area and one of the glass panels on our deck blew out.  I was out that morning looking down on all this shattered glass on the ground and came into the house with the phone ringing.  It was Lynn asking me how soon I could come to Halifax. We felt that it had to be right away so we booked the long weekend in May.  Because the conference was about Gates, the first couple of sessions were about Location Gates.  What did it mean to be on the Eastern Gate of the nation?  We talked about how the Eastern tribes announce the new thing.  They also understand Time.  After the first session I was absolutely stunned to discover that the name of the church we were in was called Gateway Church!  Lynn had said previously that this church opening up was a miracle because she had been denied any kind of association with them by the pastor.  Recently the leadership had changed in that church and suddenly the Gateway Church had opened up to them! 

The final session was about the Time Gate. I told them the story about Halifax and me and how I felt that we were on the precipice of a huge time gate where when time and location come together, we are catapulted into a new dimension.  I talked about the word, “Shatter” and how it is very significant.  The final evening we made a beautiful Glory gate out of Glory fabric and the posts of the gate were two young people holding it up.  We also brought an old Jerusalem gate key and gave it to Earl and Lynn.  They then declared the gate open!  The first group that went through were the worship team because worship had to lead the way.  Then one by one people went through the gate opening everything you can imagine!  It was absolutely incredible.  Prior to setting up the gate a member of the Gateway Church came up and asked if she could say something.  She held in her hand a wrinkled red flag.  This flag was the El Gibbor flag that the Watchmen had taken across the nation and gifted to representative churches in selected cities.  El Gibbor stands for Mighty God.  The scripture on the flag was Psalm 24:  Lift up your heads O ye Gates...Who is this King of Glory?  the Lord mighty in battle.  She said that this flag was given to the church those years ago and had been left in a box somewhere.  She prayed and asked the Lord to show her where it was and in the bottom of the box the Lord led her to, was this crumpled up flag. It was as though the Lord was establishing the gate.  We put that flag on top of the Glory Gate and people came through under that declaration. Everyone was represented there.  All the generations, a historian, a university teacher, young people, a worship leader who goes to the university to hold outreaches.  It went on and on.  We knew we had done something very significant to prepare the way for Halifax to enter into a gigantic explosion of God’s power. 

That evening after the meeting, we were still overwhelmed with what God had just done.  Our conversation went to the Halifax explosion that had happened in 1917 where a munitions ship blew up in the harbour and flattened most of downtown Halifax.  There was so much shattered glass flying around that many many people were blinded if they were not killed.  The next morning, Lynn presented me with a gift.  She went out and bought the book about this explosion and the title of it was “Shattered City”.  We were stunned.  There is such a sense that whatever God is about to do in Halifax that it is going to come an explosion of power.  El Gibbor is about to show up and come through the time gate. 

I returned home to the Tent for the Sunday morning service and we walked through the gate there as well in alignment with what had been done in Halifax.  On our property we have a beautiful almond bush and right now it is in full bloom.  Jeremiah saw and almond tree and God said “You have seen well, Jeremiah, for I am watching over my word to perform it”.  At the Tent we scattered the petals of the almond tree on the ground and we walked through the gate into his promised word.  It was very good. 

If you know anything about Dan and I you know that we have made several trips to Scotland to the Hebrides Islands, the place of an awakening in 1948, the year of Israel’s birth.  Now I was in New Scotland declaring the new thing coming.  God is about to move in an explosion of power.  When I think about it now, the song I sang on top of the Golan Heights was to the Lord God Almighty, El Gibbor.  Incredible.  With all that is within me, I know we are at the Time Gate.  We will be catapulted through into something we can’t even describe.  In the story of the explosion of Halifax, people just woke up to an entirely new reality. 

Recently there were a number of tornadoes that tore through the southern part of the United States.  Those tornadoes started in a place called Edom, Texas.  Isaiah 63 says “Who is this who comes from Edom with his garments stained with Blood.  Who is this so splendidly robed marching in the greatness of His might?  It is I, announcing vindication, MIGHTY TO SAVE.

He’s coming!  El Gibbor is marching and a wave of power and salvation will suddenly be upon us!!

Many blessings

Tent of David Ministries