The other night I listened to the latest “Johnny Enlow Unfiltered” on Elijah Streams.
Excited by the things Johnny shared, I went upstairs to tell Hilary, only to discover she had spent the evening on that endless task of ‘sorting through another drawer’
She had come up with an intriguing find!
It was a letter, but a letter she couldn’t remember having ever seen before!………. and yet it must have sneaked into the slim pickings we brought with us from Ireland 28 years ago, and hidden itself in one of the suitcases to make it’s way……. back across the Atlantic, for it had been franked in New York and bore an American stamp with the picture of a Swedish pioneer’s covered wagon, like the cover of our TREK album!
Interestingly, Minnesota is by a wide margin the State with the most inhabitants of Swedish origin….. and is also where the Kyle family ended up on their pioneer Trek from Ireland! Imagine that!
The letter had been addressed in beautiful freehand script to “Miss Sadie Kyle.”
My auntie Sadie, the firstborn of my father’s 5 siblings had never married. We had cared for her in her last days and she had died just prior to our emigrating to the US. She had left us a kind gift in her ‘Will’ which I remember using to pay for the first of our recordings, Come Lord Jesus. (I recall thinking we should call our enterprise “Auntie Sadie Music” 😀)
Any money that came from the music was ploughed back into the next project! So the ‘spinster’s mite’ that was sown, has indeed reaped a great ‘spiritual harvest’ through the release of (to date) 7 subsequent albums.
I noticed for the first time the number of the Kyle family home. It had been number 33.…..the biblical number for ‘A Sign’
A hauntingly mysterious old house built by a Russian piano maker, it had stood at the end of a long rhododendron lined driveway when there had been little else on the now full and at times frenzied, Gilnahirk Road!
As we carefully opened the letter, the next layer of intrigue was a pink tissue parcel bearing the same distinguished script and identifying the sender.
We eagerly unfolded the tissue to discover a pair of what must have been the finest of New York lingerie in the day…. a pair of silk stockings….from a “Richard Kyle”!
With more questions than answers we searched for more clues to the human story or the heavenly sign!
I looked at the date when it had been sent and did the quick calculation. It had been mailed exactly 75 years …to the day when we had ‘found’ the mystery letter….12th March 1948.
(Which also happens to be the date when Hilary was exactly 2 months old!)
I woke later that night, as Father gave me ‘the bottom line’ so as to speak. It was the year! I realized the year the letter had been mailed – ’48 – WAS THE SAME NUMBER AS THE JOHNNY ENLOW EPISODE I HAD JUST WATCHED!
I believe discovering the ‘mystery letter’ had been Father’s way of highlighting to us the importance, relevance and timeliness of what Johnny was saying in Episode 48.
The human story remains shrouded in mystery!
The episode begins with some introductory reflections on the current political situation in the US. Then Johnny talks about the emergence of a deliverance ministry that is currently taking place. He concludes with sound wisdom gleaned from mistakes from the past, including those concerning the full story behind The Jesus Revolution movie I recommended in the last blog.
Next week end we will be hosting at Rivendell another FREEDOM! retreat…. on St Patrick’s weekend! Patrick means, Hostage Looser!
Last week at Rivendell, we had lunch with Matt Lozano, Neal and Janet Lozano’s son and Director of Training for “Unbound” who happened to be in the cities doing a Catholic parish retreat. As we were chatting an invitation came in for us to do a FREEDOM! retreat at a local Non Denominational church’s Men’s weekend. We have a number of other invitations on their way!
It seems God is alerting us!…that now is the time God intends to use His Body on earth to bring deliverance to people in a powerful and yet balanced way. Johnny’s emphasis on focusing on loving the person, helping them take responsibility and understanding their authority in Christ rather than on demonic manifestations, resonates with our approach.
So this preamble is by way of encouraging you to take the time to watch the episode….especially if you are a part of our FREEDOM/YSF prayer teams here or in Ireland!
P.S. It is a long interview but all worth hearing. A hint I have found is to change settings from normal speed to 1.5 …or faster if you can keep up 😀
P.P.S. We would appreciate your prayer support for this upcoming FREEDOM! weekend. People can still register at paulkyle.org/events