Mixed Utterances: God's perfect words mixed down through my broken silliness. Take what are His seeds! And love and leave the rest. Peace.

The Lord is growing tired of the pride of the nations. He wants each of them to lay down their crowns now-to humble themselves before Him and seek His Face. It is astounding when we are anywhere near His Presence that we would imagine not giving Him all we have. France with its beauty and wit. England with what should be her wisdom and intelligence.

I saw this week in prayer a network of His Glory over England. It was filled with worship and prophetic release. There were synapse points where the Glory shone more brightly, but it was increasing and was to go out to the nations and carry these rivulets and seeds of His Glory. The Glory would increase as England humbled herself.

Over France it was very different. I saw little bonfires all over the country-much like a Mcdonald's map, but the flames were houses and communities centered in Him. They were in nearly every village, but did not connect as in England. For in England the Glory was so high intensity-like pure worship. And it glowed together with tremendous force able to sear the whole Island and then go out and burn into other lands.
In France, it was less like a network and more like individual bonfires. But they illuminated the entire nation in an ordered way. There were, however, no connecting pathways between them as in England.

Over Germany I saw bolts of the Lord's heavenly knowledge entering in forceful streams-almost metallic and releasing people from mental bondage and loosening them into His Truths.

In Russia, it was similar but more about releasing people from intense inner bondage. I saw this happening among the people rather than the leadership. It was like an inner releasing from shackles which gripped the inner man.

I felt His Heart for little Czech Republic-like it was a tender child of His, or a fawn who He cared for intimately. His love would wash gently and gentlemanly over the sore spots of the people's hearts. He felt much as He felt towards the tribe of Benjamin towards the Czech peoples. Like they are precious in His Heart and in His Arms.

How wonderful that His Heart goes out to each nation in a unique manner! His love always touches each so differently and caringly and specifically.

Over Korea, this surge of knowledge and power imbedded in the prayers of this people. A prayer movement resulting in Mercy releasing-unifying the people through the heart.

Over China-His Heart and direct intimacy was sweeping into and over the poor and working people where He allowed in. His love was gently but forcibly sweeping into their hearts beneath the militant metal canopy over the government forces. It was a people movement.

God then showed me Himself up over all the nations wanting their unique offerings, wanting them to lay down their crowns so that he could cause them to sparkle in their true glories-which all come from Him.
He is drawing all the nations to Him as He restores His true Body and unifies them in and through Christ.
Many of us are being taught to be interdependent on a new level, and beginning to work more as a whole Body. The apostles are slowly emerging to help place people in their proper relations with one another in the Body-especially in terms of leadership. At this stage, most of us have been shown our callings and where our base anointings lay, but we are not yet working together properly. When this restoration is more complete, we will move as a Glorious Bride and gather the full number.

God has begun judgment with His People in order to bring us to a full expression of His Church. We are being re-taught Ephesians and the full scriptural vision of what His Church was and is to be. It feels like a slow process, but if we endure this restorational season we will truly experience a new level of His Glory and incarnation on earth in our lifetimes.

It is as if The Heavens are being downloaded-the songs and sermons placed in His People with a new consistency. We are feeling new levels of humility and especially LOVE in this season as He brings us to a fuller unity. Also there are new levels of surrender required of us. Anyone who is willing to give Him ALL the credit and glory will experience incredible amounts of His Power and anointing entering their lives.

As prophetic people, we must be praying more consistently and specifically to be given WISDOM-for without it we will act prematurely as many of us have been shown our callings. There is a temptation to jump out before His timing. We MUST WAIT! I believe that the enemy will tempt us with passing glory if we use our anointings early, but this would be a huge mistake. We must wait as He gathers us in teams and partners us with His chosen ones who we are to minister with.

Also he is teaching many of us prophetic people to be very teachable in this season. We really know so little after all! Especially about exactly how He wants to put all the giftings together in terms of church leadership. It is a time of listening and waiting and confirmation of callings. But will very soon be time to go and possess the land.

I think prophetic people also need to be calling forth other prophetic people in this season, and in this way to train up the anointing of prophecy. We need to be recognizing and then calling forth other prophetic folks to really stand into their callings. After this we need to begin to trust the apostolic folks to help direct us how to work with the rest of The Body. We must not get isolated now!

Prophetic people especially need the pastoral people-those who have been given God's eye to see and recognize our giftings. For we must receive the pastoral care we need to stay and remain very balanced biblically and in terms of physical and mental health in this season. For once you know what areas of your life that God is anointing for His service, it is the enemy's plan to get you too weak or off balanced to walk tall in your call. Spend time hanging out with those who have true pastoral callings, and receive comfort and wise counsel from them so you won't get knocked on your butts!

It is an odd season of already not yetness! We know who we are, but we are not yet unified with The Body enough to be fully effective or even properly covered by one another to do the full intended Purposes of God. In the meantime, we find ourselves warring as the warfare increases in the Heavens. Remember in this-that God IS OUR STRENGTH.

He keeps reminding me that I cannot win a single battle. That as soon as I humble myself and ask for His help-and then let Him, by faith, defeat the enemy, I return to rest in Him. All the Power is His as always!

I've felt this for a long time, and even seen images of it-for these spaces look different in different locations. But now in this season, I am beginning to move into the groove of it-you know actually hearing the sounds of the boundaries of it; and seeing the paintings and sculpturings of it. It is like the art itself both holds and is a part of building the tabernacle. And this tabernacle is like the Old Testament one in that it is a tabernacle of Meeting-ie places to meet with God. And in this sense it is evangelistic. But the priest of this tabernacle are not focused on reaching the lost-but rather they are solely focused on both being and building a place for The Most High to dwell.

They are just like the anointed craftsmen that God had Moses set apart to build the original Tabernacle in Exodus. And they have a similar anointing or calling.

I have met these young emerging Levites all over the world, but it still always surprises me. They are called to care for the things of the temple you know. Like it is not a pastors call or a traditional evangelist's. But really to bear the Glory itself of His Presence, and build art and structures which can carry this Glory-which of course is the Glory of His Presence.

You know that moment before the children of Israel are about to cross over and "possess the land". well, what comes first is the ark of the covenant and the stepping of those anonymous Levites into the Jordan to part the waters. It is the Presence which always proceeds the possession! So we feel these artist being stirred-the young Levites are emerging; and of course they need covering, which is why God is getting all us clowns in line and saying please cover and call forth and help name these guys, cause we haven't passed this way before and the hour is getting late (like old Bob Dylan sang).

So He raises up prophets to call forth and free these young anointed artisans and apostles to tell them where to go and get them in line. Then those patient pastors come alongside just a shepherding to their heart's content. And those steadfast teachers keep breaking it down at just the right moment, and in understandable doses. But the thing is this new level of unity in the Body is not just so we can get more thoroughly equipped-it is to go in and get plain offensive-to take the land, so The Man can come, and we can start the partying!!

This week in prayer, saw this huge Glory ball over the Roxy in Sheffield. The force was increasing from within and drawing people rapidly towards it. It was ignitive but also had peace at the core-a stillness inside turbulence. I saw that it was formed through the compression of storms-got the sense that what God was going to birth there would require leadership and others to pass through storms, but that something about that would make it sturdy. Again like the Old Testament Tabernacle drew people by its sheer Glory and majesty so did this ball of His Glory. It was not aimed out really, but rather was drawing people into it, by its sheer magnetism.

There was also a cumulative and exponential growth in force to it. Like it was less about expanding its size than it was about increasing its force. The force was The Glory itself-His Glory-ie His Presence, but in this rarefied form.

I couldn't help but think of it as a huge disco ball of God's Glory, and that He was about to get funky with us all. That the great neo-disco movement was about to get its disco ball installed!

Remember that the Tabernacle in Moses day was made by anointed craftsmen and artisans. We are saying "creatives". But what is their Kingdom function? It is not just to decorate existing worship modes! But rather to create these unique tabernacles for His Presence. This web site itself is an aspect of such a tabernacle which is why it is so anointed. So those that handled the crafting or building of what God had told Moses, had a special anointing to do it! So do we. We get that funky anointing that those artisans were under. Now also remember that the tabernacle was to be a resting place for His Glory! That glory-cloud could come down and settle-and it did! But first they had to build it.

How cool is that-like this cloud of His Glory which was also up on the mountain settling down on earth in and through this great art object. See I don't think people know how significant the arting is-it is not merely decorative! It is the actual Place of Meeting. God chose to indwell in their art, and He is about to indwell in ours!

So be kind to you rainbowed artist friends because they are carrying the temple articles and just about to build a tabernacle for His Glory to land once again on earth with a radiance they Church has been dying to see!!

I see these levitical artist everywhere I go. And the Church is not yet calling them forth, because It has not caught this vision of what God is up to-but watch out, because you can feel this funky rumbling of the emerging Levites, and they are carrying gold and acacia wood and cedar and heading to a disco near you!

Now all this might seem silly-all this talk about the restoration of the tabernacle and such, but I dare you to ask God about it. Yikes-cause I mean the raw anointing coming down for this fresh work is enough to fry your beans.

Tabernacles where people can meet Him. What more do we want. If art facilitates that-why not get funky and into it. Now it may not look very churchy in the traditional sense-although sometimes it will, if the people involved have that scene inside them. But test it by its fruit, and test it by its funkiness too. Is the Presence of God up in that House?

Remember that the anointing falling on these emerging artisans is for a specific purpose-it is not to build a tower of babel-ie to make a name for yourself (as the art world is so fond of espousing). It is a part of God's larger purposes, and for some reason at this moment in history He wants dwelling places on earth (could it be to draw the full number of gentiles in so He can go sip arabic coffee in Jerusalem-perhaps). But the fact is an anointing falls to fulfill a purpose that He has-and He can use anyone, but He is choosing to use these artist. And web sites and cd's and paintings, and poems, and e-mails.

So it was a good week. And all this from just one good party!

Love you bro-blessings and shalom of The Most High, Derek