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Recently the Exodus has been on my heart. The Israelites are released from bondage and form a covenant nation at Sinai. They then muddle about the wilderness for 40 years for lack of hearing. Over the last few weeks God reminded me that my family has already come out of Egypt and we don't need to wonder the wilderness for 40 years. Blessed be God who brings awareness.

What did the Israelites need to enter the promised land? Well, they started with a return to the covenant. They went back to the beginning. For My wife and I the beginning, the place where the bride-groom saved us, where we entered the covenant was the Salvation Army.

In 2005 I officially left the Salvation Army and joined the independent movement. I did so under the instruction of God. I don't always get reasons with the instructions. Blessed be the God who knows that plans he has for us. I have learnt a lot "outside" the Salvation Army. That is learning I will take back with me.

I recently wrote to several people about a dream I had. I woke knowing it was prophetic and had significant meaning for me.

I dreamt about a window/mirror. Through windows we see. In mirrors are reflected an unbaised truth. In this mirror God reveals what was occuring in the spiritual. In the mirror I saw a younger me with an Egyptian oblisk covered in hieroglyphs. This represented the old man that was slowly waring away over time but still influencing everyday actions. Then the ground shakes and the oblisk crumbles to the ground and the reflection of myself shows a different older self. This represents the new man growing in Christ.

The mirror itself had an ornate gold frame with hebrew characters incribed around the edges. This now seems obvious to me but once upon a time would not have. The covenant law of Moses instructs in Duetoronomy to write the law on the door posts of your house. This instruction brought about the custom of the Mezzuzah. Inside the Mezzuzah is the Scripture from Duetoronomy that describes the law and its blessing. I believe the inscription on the mirror frame was the same. I must learn to see everything through the covenant. I must return to the covenant I made with God when he took me out of the metaphorical egypt of sin.

I have felt a certain sense of peace in regards to this movement. I can't ignore what I learned over the years but I can use it in the mission of my covenant with God. A covenant known as the Articles of War. Why the Articles of war; "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but agaist principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12)