We were camped in the desert
A permanent place No one knew God had gone But they were still a plantin. Struggling get roots deep down In dusty old ground “We will establish a church With hard work and cash” Too busy to see The cloud moved on Told it was gonna rain Wow, the preacher produced different type of thunder cloud Strutin away Waxing downright eloquent High on a stage An incredible show Powerful words Perspiration was runnin You had to look out His spit was a flyin Veins protruded around his apple red neck I sincerely hoped he wouldn’t stroke The crowd yelled “preach it, preach it” I was Carried with the tide I called “bring it on, praise God” I didn’t know I was being filled with religious pride He was a preachin and a condemin A downright Hollywood display But In my bed I trembled Scared If the preacher was right And the rapture was true Will they all go Will I be left to stay No one told me it just don’t rain where cactus grow But have you heard of artificial rain The preacher made it The people drank it Men in three piece suits Women in long white dresses They cheered on the preacher man Drinking the artificial rain It was four men They stepped on the stage A barber shop quartet I was confused again They didn’t look like barbers In perfect matching attire The crowd did swoon In strange harmony they sung I didn’t understand I was used to Led Zeppelin Eyes filled with dust We from the street Bewildered in a thirst Someone needed to say “You can’t drink artificial rain” It was 50 years ago That hope was bliss The Spirit wasn’t in the sky He was with us On the street Innocence, adventure, love A strange wonderful purity Folk guitar in hand Our church was the parks, the beach Street songs Sweet songs No more drugs No more sex We were special to Him He made sure we knew The world called us the JESUS FREAKS We didn’t mind We honestly thought He was just with us It came as a shock Someone said “He was in church buildings” Far-out Excited Let's go and see THE ENCOUNTER WAS NOT THE GLORY WE SOUGHT Some churches demanded “Get your shoes on boy and get a hair cut You are entering the house of God Come back when you look like us” It was culture shock May as well had been in China With nowhere else to go Into the cage we went A few real good men Some mothering moms Helped keep us sane Some very bad men Looking pretty holy Fooled us for a while What we left behind in our quest for truth It was there in the church Of polished shoes and suits It was hard to take in There was lust unchecked Between Sunday to Sunday In clandestine dark Things committed in secret WRONG THINGS A young street lad's wife Taken by his friend the preacher A burden the young idealist had to bear It changed his life This happens to men There is no power to be pure Drinking artificial rain Oh, where are the streets The simple love A guitar and a beach I don’t like this building Built in the desert I found lizards there They are sure they captured God And God likes them the best HEY! LISTEN EVERYBODY THE STREETS ARE A COMIN THEY ARE ONCE AGAIN BUT FILLED WITH GOLD IT’S COMIN FROM THE FUTURE IT’S LIKE A BREATH A HOLY WIND ONLY THE INNOCENT AND FORGIVEN WILL BEHOLD HE’S A COMIN FOR THEM I HEAR IT I FEEL IT I SEE IT JOY ADVENTURE LOVE MAN WILL NOT DEFINE THE DiVINE LOVE WILL DEFINE MAN HE’S COMIN TO BRING PEACE TO ALL HE WILL OPEN THE CAGES THE EAGLES WILL FLY HE WILL BREAK THE STRUCTURES OF THE INVISIBLE IDOL THE WORD WITHOUT THE SPIRIT THE CHURCH WITHOUT LOVE THE LAME WILL WALK THE BLIND WILL SEE BROKEN HEARTS MENDED JOY AND PEACE WE WILL LEARN TO BE AT REST AND SING THE SONGS OF THE KINGDOM ON GOD’S BEACH WITH BEAUTIFUL SAND AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TRUST YOUR WIFE WITH THE PREACHER MAN “HE’S A COMIN” Dan
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The dream is real
Regain the dream Pass through the pain The power is great It's not where you're looking But the dreams still real My tears are for more dreamers I put away my sword It's taken on an earthly form You are not my enemy Not my dream robbers But they are there Only the broken They have the best dreams Why stand for applause Dream The stage has stolen Wonderful dreams blocked The dreams the young ones need Let's have tears for the dreamers To come alive again In the clouds Riding invisible wind You can bring Heaven to earth Dream, Dream, Dream Dreamer Dan As a young kid, I was fascinated with the Indians as we called them. They were noble, colourful and contained a mystery that I wished I had. I loved their connection and reverence for nature.
As with black slaves, they too were looked at as less than human by the European settlers. European sicknesses and diseases some say wiped out perhaps 75% of the aboriginal population. Treaties agreed upon in good faith were routinely broken by the white man. Much more than their land was taken. There was a dark plan to control and change their very essence. The Black Hills of Dakota given to the Sioux Nation under a treaty was overtaken by a greedy gold rush. The government of the USA did nothing. Most of us have heard of the Cherokee "Trail of Tears." This was a forced inhumane march to a very distant reservation. This took place after their own land was arbitrarily confiscated and given to white settlers. The forced march was impossible. It was strewn with the bodies of the old, the sick and children succumbing to the brutal winter and hunger. The church was not innocent. The First Nation culture that lasted centuries was decimated by the "do-gooders" of the denominational churches. Children were taken from tribes and parents and placed in residential schools. Here they were stripped of the only life they knew. Names given by loving fathers and mothers had meaning and gave them pride. These names were substituted by empty European names. The First Nations floundered through an alien existence. A noble proud race ended up sitting defeated in government compounds waiting for handouts from the white man. The eagle is the most beautiful animal that came out of the mind of the Creator. An acquaintance of mine was in charge of the aviary at the Toronto Zoo. He placed this majestic bird on my arm. I have also seen eagles stuck in cages. Probably because they were wounded. It was incredibly sad. The smell was heartbreaking as they had to defecate where they lived. Their appearance was far from those who were free to do their acrobatics in the open sky. This reminded me of the plight of the First Nations after the Europeans crushed their unique identity. They depleted the ancestral hunting grounds defying the laws of respect towards nature. For sport and skins, the once 60 million buffalo were shot from trains and left to rot. Others hunted them to near extinction for the skins only and left the flesh to decay in the sun. I had a job living in a group home for dangerous youth. Jimmy was a First Nation lad. I sat with him for many hours. I took him to the coffee shop to meet my friends. I could not help but love the teenager aware at all times that he could again snap and do tremendous harm. There was a difference between Jimmy and white offenders. There was a lost spiritual element. His mental impairment reminded me of the eagle in the cage. The Europeans in the rush to take Indian land failed to understand that putting them on government reservations destroyed their inner soul. The soul of a people that was meant to fly free like the eagles in the sky. I am not sure if I am offending some by this post. It is my heart and as I continue I hope you will understand. As a Christian, I have grieved and also repented of our misguided ways towards the First Nations as well as much outright cruelty and disrespect. YET!! I have seen a Great Wonder emerge in spite of the injustice given to them. EAGLES ARE RISING AGAIN! Many First Nation people have been touched by God. This is among the most beautiful things I have seen. Tribal chiefs in full regalia, covered with eagle feathers worshiping the Lord. The scriptures say "To them, He (God) gave them the power to become the Sons of God." This inner spiritual impartation radiates through these chiefs and their people with a very unique Glory. A Glory that carries an invitation to all humanity to a deep intimacy with our heavenly Father. Did the white man bring Christ to the Indians? I walked with an apostle being his prophetic man for a number of years. He was a tremendous man. He told me of a time when God sent him to an Indian tribe in the USA. When he got there the chief told him that the Great White Spirit told him the apostle was coming. It is my belief that long before the white man came, the Creator revealed Himself to many of the tribes of the Americas, Africa and all past cultures. The author of the Word of Himself, the Bible, is breaking into our theology showing us we know so little about wisdom Love and Greatness. Christ is called the Ancient Of Days. He did a lot a long time ago that we know little of. My First Nation brothers and sisters, I as many others see your destiny. We will always be with you in the Beauty and Greatness of your Rising and that we will see each other in the One who calls Himself. "I AM" First Nation Folk you will teach us how to fly in Spiritual Realms. Teach us how to fly and the way of God's Eagles. Your forgiveness of past injustice has placed you in a special place in God's Heart. You will set free many Christians locked in smelly cages to fly freely in open heavenly skies. There is an incredible hidden nobility that will emerge in today's stage of history that will be very significant in saving America from the destructive control of socialism and utter chaos. This vision was given to me in my last year of bible college in 1978. As a ministering team, we were sent to two black churches in Montreal. I was treated like gold. I also have a relationship with a predominantly black church in Manchester England. The love between black and white was like a family with the same Father. This church in my heart is also my family. The young pastor from Uganda is one of these noble leaders. I saw the rise of three groups of people. The blacks, the first nations, and women. These three groups were seen as less human and defiled. We are paying the price of the mind-blowing injustice that goes back centuries.
Both the world and the church failed to see that all mankind were created equal. Being a white male looking back at my ancestry no one was pulled from their homes, locked in chains, and called subhuman. Why will the blacks arise? Is it by violence? More money? Political acknowledgment? No. This will not stop the systemic racism, and in many understandable ways the black anger. Then what is it that changes hearts on all sides. It is FORGIVENESS. To ask to forgive the history of slavery is a BIG deal. Blacks are rising who have done this monumental act that breaks the chains caused by this unimaginable historical injustice. There is an honour from the Father that is lifting these courageous saints of God to the place of authority our nations need. I know many of them. You are in very high esteem of our Lord and a great many in the church. Continue to lead us deeper into worship. Deeper revelation of the Love in Gods Word. Taking us into the HOLY OF HOLIES. As an older prophetic man you have always been in my prayers. I am filled with elation and hope for this time. You are a living wonder of Gods Grace and Mercy. NOTHING I want to be nothing. My conclusion of life on the planet. Nothing I no longer want to know who I am. What I did know I really didn’t like. No self reflection No self deduction No lasting conclusions After all is said and done To be a nobody I have succeeded Do the birds know they are birds? After they hatch and the sun opens their eyes do, they know what a bird is. Yet they know what to eat and where it is. Who told them? Umm, there is something here. Taken care of from above. Yes, I want a bird brain. How about a cow. Do they know they are a cow? NOOO They just are A BABY! Do they know they are not a cow or a bird? A baby is nothing. We make them something but to themselves they are nothing. A flower. No struggle to be pretty. Does not show off. Just is. A nobody. You see God loves nobodies. He chats with the nothings. The somebodies can’t hear them. They are Lost in self. Polishing identities. Too much noise in the brain. Life's stage demands self identity. IMAGE I don’t want image. I don’t want a stage. It gets me in trouble. Then I fail. Being nothing is safe. I don’t have to prove my self worth to anyone. I hope I have none. God reveals Himself to nothings. The old self couldn’t cut it. He had to go. Could not find the love he needed Hey, what is this. Like water poured in a cup. He began to fill my nothingness. It’s way better than me. Hey, you're kidding. He calls me his Son. I am glad I wanted to be nothing. NOW I AM EVERYTHING! SON…DANNY BOY…. God’s Precious Something. Matthew 6:25-34 Matthew 18:4 I come to speak.
Not from a physical place but from the clouds and the winds. Though my physical form is weary, for a time I am not here. I appear before man for purpose not gain. To take gain would mean losing my hidden home. To bring my being from realms unseen To again be cloaked in human flesh Is a suffering worth enduring. To see this world cloaked in pain. The wars. The deceptions. The sickness. The sadness. At times it is too much to bear. I go back to the cloud and the wind. The place of clarity The place of freshness. The Author of this beauty has a heart for those below. For Him In Him I will go. Down through the pollution of hate and greed. Clouds of darkness and children crying. To the wars. To the deceptions. The sickness. The sadness. My breath is fresh from the Ethereal winds. I bring heaven's experience to the dark. To both the “haves" and the “have nots.” To bring Heaven's healing breath. The joy of unearthly love. The Father of all has had enough. An army is coming with lungs filled with life. Speech that restores. Hands that heal. It’s those who ride the wind. Bringing the storm to the cruel. They will blow their houses down. When I get weary and overwhelmed He brings me back. Heavens Heart Beat is Him. It is in me. It is for you. In only a moment of time. The time of eternity. I am refreshed. Greater than before. I go again. To you and you. Dan The old testament law being able to convert the soul from darkness to permanent light has to make us think. As so often happens, the wisdom of God comes after we are perplexed, trying to understand what He is saying. His Word is a mystery. It is a doorway to the treasure room. This statement I am going to make will cause many to be bewildered. Well, it did with me. The heart enters the Kingdom before the mind. The condition of our inner life lets us through the door or keeps us out. Being allowed to pass through is very significant and shows us the Lord can and will have pleasure in us. It is only here we can see (understand) the Kingdom principles of life in this world, a life full of true peace and love for all of the earth inhabitants. How deep we go in God is directly related to our humility, the absence of pride. To lose our "center" opens us to receive His. The Lord's center is selfless; we see this at the Cross. He emptied Himself for us. Losing ourselves to abide in Him is the goal, and the Holy Spirit in ultimate wisdom takes us there in degrees. From Glory to Glory, we go deeper into Love and Security, ever-emerging to a more fabulous place in God's heart.
There is a most incredible "doorway" question that enables heaven to fill our hearts. The answer is to do with Old Testament law. The apostle Paul in Romans 7 teaches that the law shows me I am in darkness in my soul. My condition will not allow me to the freedom the law can bring by full obedience. We know this is where Jesus comes in. Jesus took my darkness. My inability to continually do what is right is beyond my desire. I end up doing wrong. I sin. Now, what is sin? It is separation from God. Being separated from God's Love is the reason I fail. For thirty years, Jesus lived in His community. He was a carpenter. Every day He saw things that were not right around Him. He probably was tempted not to pay taxes to the cruel Roman domination. But He did. His body probably had natural ebbs and flows. He did not succumb to sexual desire, crooked business practice or disobedience to His parents. The Bible says in all ways we are tempted He also was but did not give in. It is most important to note Jesus did not pull His God card. He did not have a more significant edge from heaven than any of us. He made it by His faith. The same afforded to us, and we could not do it. JESUS IS OUR HERO!! Most know the story, Jesus died on the Cross for all humanity. The most excellent exchange in all the cosmos took place. He gave me His light for my darkness. He was the innocent one who took on my separation from God. I could go on forever in theological terms to reveal the heart of God, the Cross and our redemption to Joy and peace and, most of all, the Love of the heavenly Father. I only wanted to put a foundation to bring my thought into the current plight of the world's condition. After Jesus paid my penalty, God raised Him to His place in heaven. Incredibly took us who received forgiveness with Him! It is difficult to understand, but all the provision is there for us to know we are in this world yet separate from it. Few seem to have had the experience that we are heavenly people. The church, for the most part, is assessed by much of society as being irrelevant. By faith, this is changing. A surrendered remnant coming out of all church groups are coming to the plate. This message is for them. We know we are in a spiritual war. Our weapons in this war must also be spiritual. Before becoming a believer in Jesus Christ, I was occultic and a spiritualist. I saw and walked with dark powers, spirits. From hidden realms to the naked eye, they appeared before me and talked with me. The source of evil driving this world comes from this hidden dimension. It is in this dimension the actual battle resides. Many of this remnant of believers is focusing the struggle on what they see on earth. The unseen realm remains with little challenge. We must ask the Lord for grace. It is better to be known as a soldier by the dark invisible dominions and high places of evil spiritual power than to be recognized by man. The war is in the heavens. The chaos on earth is the spillover. One only has to read in the book of Daniel chapter 10:13. It took two mighty angels, one being the warrior angel Michael 21 days to get through the invisible heaven blocked by the evil spirit named the Prince of Persia. How do we bind the strong spirits ruling the demonic realms? Someone has already done this. One more powerful than the angels, God himself in His Son Jesus the Messiah. Then why are these diabolical spirits still doing their destructive reign upon humanity? With Christ as our head, we exercise the warrant legally won by the Cross and arrest the principalities and powers and spirits of wickedness in high places. WE BRING THEM DOWN! Defeated and afraid of believers entirely given to God's Love by way of the Cross of Jesus Christ, the dark powers know when we are on the offence. We have the Holy Spirit and all the angels of God with us. We must have the heart mentioned in Revelations 12:11. "They overcame him (the devil) by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death." NIV How is this done? These are the steps that I have learned over the past 48 years—much of these years in warfare.
Well, this has been very hard to put together. I have felt oppression from the beginning to the end. We are in dark times with this virus and corruption emanating from virtually everywhere. It is our time as the church in this world to bring truth, light, and love. Will we touch the world with our Father's heart imparted to us by resting in Him and loving him, or will we be driven by causation? If it is the latter, we only will end up with empty religion given to the world. THEM HE GAVE THEM THE POWER TO BE THE SONS OF GOD. ![]() I am reminded of Moses telling Aaron to put a brass serpent on the end of a pole. The poisonous snakes were biting the people. Moses said, "look at the brass serpent, do not look down." We are in this place. Our help comes from above not below. The wisdom of God is clear and clean. It preserves us and protects us. This situation of COVID 19 is just a warning shot over the bow of the ship called God's church. It is to wake us up. As a result, we can wake up to two things, the wisdom of God or just the situation on hand. This is what Hebrews talks about. The double-edged sword that separates the bone from the marrow as so with the soul from the spirit. This overlooked scripture must be the key element incorporated by all to see the turn of the kingdoms of the earth to Christ. Bear with me as I attempt to teach on this. 11 Chronicles 7:13-14 13 When I shut up the heavens so there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land or send a plague among MY people. Let's look at this. Who did this? It was God. He allowed this to take place. It was not the Liberals or Democrats. Things happen like this when people are separated from God. Esp. and mainly the church. It is consequences; consequences are judgement to good or to bad. We are seeing the bad but it is also good. It is wake-up time. The question is in our wake up, do we end up in a zeal without wisdom or do we connect with God and walk in His revelation. This question is crucial. One way will end in defeat and mudding the waters, the other will be a clear victory. 14 If MY people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray. There cannot be true prayer without humility. Many are called but not all are humble. and seek my face Seeking Gods face must come before asking of His hand to be involved in the conditions of mankind in trouble. Seeking God's face is not as easy as it may sound. It requires our own retrospect. The Holy Spirit knows us. Our power to change things hinges on how much we see or understand our Fathers heart, His face. and turn from their wicked ways. To say we have not been wicked shows we are the problem. If we acknowledge our separations from God, we will have a marvellous result . Then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and will heal their land.
It is not a Republican or Democrat thing. It is a "US" thing. There is an incredible disclosure in the USA. Evil is being uncovered. There are many now looking up at the brass serpent. Doing the 2 Chronicles proposition from God and I believe we are seeing some results. We must keep this up. I personally am doing more prayer. Talking with God and Loving Him. I have more power in my proclamations and I know I am changing the spiritual atmosphere over the things I pray. Prayer, communication with God. Loving Him for who He is and not just for things we see must be done. Loving and honouring humility and seeing others more important than ourselves is some of the greatest keys to divine power over demonic control. These characteristics are what we put the armour of Ephesians 6 on. Without this character, we are hollow behind the armour and the enemy knows this. God may allow more problems to come before a significant army will rise to rule the nations in integrity and mercy. |
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