When Birds Flock Together

On the morning of January 29, 2009 I SUDDENLY HEARD A LOUD SOUND … I looked out to see a large flock of birds “congregated” out back by the pool at our Arlington, Texas home. I saw many varieties of birds on the POWER LINE, in the PALM TREE overlooking the POOL, some perched on the FENCE, and others on the ROOF next door. The SOUND was loud and militant!

I saw at least 4 varieties of birds: male/female CARDINALS; male/female BLUE JAYS; male/female ROBINS (red bellies … robins?); and a PLAIN gray variety that I am not familiar with. They were moving TOGETHER. It was a VERY VERY unusual sight that I believe symbolized the many different spiritual giftings within the Church Body. The palm trees were symbolic of Deborah's palm out of the book of Judges. Deborah was a judge and warrior. The birds symbolized the “ARMY OF GOD FLYING (could be a literal interpretation) AND MOVING TOGETHER IN THE SPIRIT … UNITY IN DIFFERENCES ... GRIPPING HIS POWER”!!! Some are in "high places”, some on the "wall (the fence) as Watchmen", some “shouting from the rooftop”, some HIDDEN ONES". There was quite a ROAR OF UNITY coming forth with all the chatter!!!!!! A SIGN!!!!!! The Army of God is RISING! It was SUDDEN and POWERFUL! They moved together!

“ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.” Ecclesiastes 10:20

There is a pattern I have always seen in the Old Testament when reading stories of God’s people, the Israelites. There was peace in the land until “sin entered the camp” … their sin caused the Lord to allow their enemies to come against them … then His people would begin to cry out to Him for help, His intervention. God would hear HIS children’s cries along with their repentance … and out of His great love and mercy, He would send a deliverer.

The United States of America is saturated in sin. It is time for the Body of Christ to wake up, get involved, pray, reach out beyond our comfort zones and differences, REPENT for our multitude of sins, TURN FROM OUR SINFUL WICKED WAYS, and RETURN TO OUR GOD!!!

There is an ARMY OF BELIEVERS within the borders of our country … a remnant … that need to join together in UNITY to make a LOUD SOUND THROUGH IDENTIFICATIONAL REPENTANCE, INTERCESSION PRAYER, WORHIP, and DECLARING FROM THE ROOFTOPS, MOVING TOGETHER rather than moving out as lone rangers making their own way …. creating a ROAR before our HOLY GOD … crying out to HIM to bring the CHANGE that President Obama banked his political platform on. Yet, may it be a SPIRITUAL CHANGE that will surprise even the President!

Lord, we cry out to YOU …. FORGIVE our nation of our sins … we cry out to YOU to CHANGE THE HEART of our new leader to lead this nation in HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS before you, our Holy God. Your word in Proverbs 21:1 says that you are able to change the heart of the king just as YOU are able to change the direction of the waterways …. YOU ARE ABLE to turn our country back to YOU.

“The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will.” Proverbs 21:1

Father, may we, your people, CRY OUT IN UNISON as we petition you on our behalf to send a Deliverer … JESUS CHRIST … to the hearts of ALL the people and to the leader of our nation! We CRY OUT TO YOU TO CAUSE THIS “PROPHETIC INTERCESSION ROAR” TO AWAKEN YOUR BRIDE, the CHURCH, from her slumber, to come together in ONE VOICE, in all HUMILITY to BOW TO YOU, our ONE GOD, asking you to DELIVER US (U.S.) FROM OUR SINS! AMEN

STAR OF WONDER

It was Christmas Eve . . . a week prior to this final day of 2008 . . . New Years Eve 2008. My sister had asked me, the week prior to Christmas Eve, what plan we could come up with that would bring a meaningful touch to the evening. My response was to suggest that we do what Michael and I did with two of our own grandchildren the year before . . . let's have the children read the Luke 2 Christmas story aloud prior to our time of gift opening. In this way we would have the children’s attention and the adults would certainly be listening to the sound of their small voices. The real wonder of this was the fact we would do it at all. Our family gatherings have never been centered around open spirituality . . . it was simply understood this was the time of year we celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth.

The four children were assigned 5 verses each. Noah, 11, started out followed by Carter, 8. Kaylee, 8, was a little shy in front of the entire family, so Noah willingly read his little sister's part. Taylor, 6, read the final verses. The entire family was captivated by the children as they read the story of Jesus’ birth. I was personally captivated by the spirit of God that filled the room and the hearts of our family like I have never seen before. More than likely, that was the case with the others, if truth was to be known!

Perhaps 30 minutes later the 3 boys, who had made their way outside into the cold night to run off some of their Christmas Eve energy in my sister’s front yard, came barreling into the house to find me. Noah, our oldest grandson, led the troop and excitedly ran to me asking, “Grandma, you have got to come outside! We have found the star that was over Bethlehem when Jesus was born!!” What Grandmother wouldn’t venture out in the cold to see a sight like this at the urging of 3 young cousins who had made such a discovery?

Out on the front sidewalk the 3 arms pointed up above to the brightest star in the sky as Noah announced the position of the very star that led to baby Jesus many years ago!!! The two other boys ran back into the house to get my sister, their own “Gamma”. As she came outside and responded to the sight in the sky the same as I did . . . with wonder and amazement to match the same that was spilling out of the boys . . . the youngest, Taylor, declared the very words that would pierce into the deepest place in the heart of my sister who has been alone for the past twenty years . . . “Gamma!! The star is over your house!!! You are the goodest one of God!!” Taylor shouted the same words over and over again!! He was convinced that his Gamma was indeed the “goodest one of God”! Taylor then told his Gamma that her house was "going to Heaven" (because the star was right over her house), so she asked Taylor where she was going to sleep. He replied, "In your house - you will be in Heaven too". Luana's quick response to him was she was NOT ready to go just yet!!

Those words, the celestial sighting, and that evening would be remembered forever in the hearts of my family. Perhaps a new tradition has been established . . . to honor the ONE whom honor is due . . . by celebrating JESUS CHRIST and the wonder of God’s signs in the sky . . . the star that led my family to HIM!

My "HEART"

Today as I typed the two words “my heart” I saw a message. . . simply, I saw HE . . . EAR . . . HEAR . . . HEAT . . . ART. All of these words are within “my heart”! HE, the Lord, is within my heart. My ear heard what my eyes have seen (that’s Hearing Eyes Ministries). Sometimes the HEAT is turned up in my heart to feel the FIRE of HIS PRESENCE. The ART I saw I believe to be the “creative” side of what GOD CAN AND WILL DO if I believe . . . creating something from nothing! Then, when you take the letters within the word HEART and rearrange them you will see what I saw . . . EARTH! HE who has an EAR to HEAR and see that the HEAT in our heart (our lives) that is from HIM will have the creative mind . . . ART. . . . to see HE came to EARTH to draw our HEARTs to HIM!! All you have to do is . . . believe and HE will come into your HEART!!!

“She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world (earth).” John 11:27 KJV