Last night we received an email from a friend in Australia.
We had recently been in communication with two other good friends there. All three reported how challenging it is to live ‘Down Under’ at present. A friend of ours here went to mail a gift to her sister there and was told, “Australia aren’t accepting mail from overseas” The country seems to have reverted to the original ‘Penal Colony’ The tyrannical government has placed everyone under house arrest and insists that they get a dangerous experimental gene therapy to avoid an illness with a 99.9% recovery rate! Who would have thought when I wrote the blog “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World!” a number of months ago things would have come to this……where the inmates are now running the asylum! Don’t take my word for it. Have a look at this……
https://www.brighteon.com/fb55da34-06ba-426a-a1b6-da6e2cc680b4
I’m sure some of you were like me, shocked to the core!
………and yet it is also wonderfully clear to us that our three friends have all been growing by leaps and bounds in their discernment of good and evil in the world around them and in their faith and trust in a God who sees it all.
Our friend and his wife had passed through Minneapolis a number of years ago as they emigrated from England to Australia, where they settled initially in Melbourne.
They happened to be with us on his birthday and later he shared how our singing On The Day You Were Born to him had a ‘life changing‘ impact. We subsequently had a delightful visit with them in the beautiful pre-covid Melbourne.
It seems Melbourne has been particularly hard hit by the ‘plandemic’, and Father brought to my mind a little meditation in connection with the song On the Day You Were Born, that I had written in the “Gilbert’s Journal” companion to “The Ascent of The Bright Hostage” album…. after we had visited that city all those years ago.
It tells the story of one man’s betrayal by someone he trusted, but how God brought good out of that tragedy. I believe that individual’s story now sheds light on GOD”S GOOD PURPOSE that is being currently outworked for that city and nation even though at the moment they feel they have been ‘pinned to the bed with a knife‘, wielded by those they trusted.
Again the timing is interesting in that next weekend we are hosting another FREEDOM! retreat where in the light of the knowledge of our Father’s love we teach and help people in to take steps in prayer whereby Jesus can set them truly free – from the inside out!
The key song/ scripture we use is On the Day You Were Born
“On the day you were born I danced over you
On the day you were born I rejoiced
On the day you were born all heaven proclaimed
“You’re the child of my love you’re my choice.“
And there’s freedom. freedom, freedom to dance and sing
When you know the love of the Father when you know the love of the king.“
Here is the “Gilbert’s Journal” entry ………
When our family returned from Australia on one occasion, having spent a number of months working in a Christian community, we were given this gift….a giant card with dozens of blessings from our Aussie brothers and sisters.
We long to return to them the blessing, so we sing to them and to all on what was prophetically named by the first Europeans, “The Great Southland of the Holy Spirit'”…..
“You’ve come this far now step farther out
Out of the veil of tears and fears
You’ve come this far now move farther in
While all of heaven cheers…
‘Freedom, freedom! Let all creation sing
As we take the hand of our Father
As we take the hand of our king!'”
“May you all be ‘Mmm El – Bourne again‘ of the Spirit….. that ‘Down Under‘ may become ‘Up and Over’!