Adventures in Glastonbury
Glastonbury definitely was preparing me for Africa…. spiritually, physically and emotionally! Going to Hong Kong and China last year gave me a taste for how life feels in the Far East where the supernatural seems to be so much more part of daily life.
Miracles were marketed much the way we might advertise cars or hi-fashion. Unlike our culture where eyebrows are often raised at the prospect, the East seems to accept the miraculous as an everyday part of life.
We in the West have much “over” the eastern culture as far as material comforts, but I can’t help but crave their inculcated belief in miracles.
I have got to see how Love is expressed through miracles. Love generates miracles, as well. When we learn to love, wonders naturally follow.
I myself am a firm believer in miracles. I see them everyday. I’ve come to understand miracles as everyday occurrences waiting only for my acknowledgment.
I’m going to work with Heidi Baker and Iris Ministries …
ministering to the poor, the orphans, healing the sick, raising the dead,
loving the unloved and driving out demons….miracles there are normal.
I experienced the supernatural with Jackie Pullinger at St Stephen’s Society in Hong Kong last year butHe has been AWAKENING me to what can and will happen HERE and
He wants to do the same with you! NO EXCEPTIONS! It all happens as a by-product of being a friend of God. God is SO real and relational that it blows people’s minds.
As a team preparing for Mozambique we have been speaking out each other’s destiny over each other, hitting towns with the goodness of God, sharing God’s love for people in bars, cars, on the streets, anywhere and everywhere we go…..seeing many precious people loved, healed and encouraged.
On one of our weekend residentials we went into three bars where the Lord had led us to specific named individuals to pray and encourage them and as we prayed for them, others asked for prayer. As we walked the main street we were given the opportunity to stop and pray for people as they sat in their cars.
Whilst being out with ‘Beautiful Feet’ we’ve seen drug addicts and alcoholics sober up and come into their right mind while their creator took away their pain and nightmares.
This barman got all the customers to stop and let us pray with them …. and asked me to pray for his new born daughter before we left. ( this is my attempt at bar tending) We encounter young people quite regularly who are hungry for the supernatural and they have encountered the Lord through us, getting saved, healed, delivered and feeling the Lord’s presence touch them in many different ways, through laughter, heat, and by feeling peace and some even felt drunk when we prayed.
He wants you to ENCOUNTER HIM so you can be an encounter to others
Since I stopped ‘doing a Jonah’ (and running away from God and His goodness) in 2008, I’ve had lots of different prophetic promises spoke over me from various unrelated people, some about ~
- TRAINING and EQUIPPING people,
- RELEASING them into their DESTINY,
- BEING A LIGHT in DARK PLACES,
- Then more specific ones about meeting and letting Wiccans, New Agers and Druids experience God’s love for them…
- Organising and being used in conferences and large gatherings/ceremonies/music festivals…
- I would also see places/lands and people groups in visions or dreams…
I always kept a book of them with the dates and details of the words id been given or more recently I’ve recorded them on my phone, so I wouldn’t forget any of them. At the time when someone gives you a prophetic word/promise it seems too huge and seems too impossible but in your Spirit you know there’s life on it… so don’t rule out the crazy ones! (Always align them with what it says in the Bible and remember His power is limitless and He can use anyone, He even used a donkey! So there are no exceptions)
One word I was given back on the 5th May 2010 in Bethel, California by an amazing prophetic lady went as follows- At the time I didn’t know any Druids or very little about them….
“I see circles in your life and in an around it,
It has to do with the Healing of the Land and people
and for the Druids and what they carry…
they have tried to fashion their circles
over the land that are really cold and uninviting
and your angels go and just burn all of the coldness away.
(See Psalms 115 v 1-8)
You’ve been assigned fiery angels ( Hebrews 1 v 7) which run around in circles and they create a wind tunnel which brings in God’s presence and changes the atmosphere for people to encounter God. It melts the hearts of ice and turns the cold hearted into massive heartbeats of Heaven.
Like Daniel was for the Magi, showing them the true way while they were learning the Eastern Mysticism your going to do that for the Druids. Your going to be able to take the Druids and everything they know about the nature and the way God works through the land and sky (Romans 8 v 22) and your going to be able to show them Jesus in it and they’re going to follow you, they are going to follow you everywhere. They are so devoted and loyal and they’re going to turn their devotion and loyalty to you because of Jesus in you!
And the revelation your going to have is going to be so astounding, so astounding that they are going to fall to their knees and be like ‘who is this God that you serve?’
And you do it out of LOVE and honour and respect for who they are,and what they have delved into because they have stewarded a place in the earth that the Christians haven’t stewarded yet and your going to teach them how God wanted them to steward it.
You’re answering a cry in their heart not just for Jesus but for who they are called to be, THE GATEWATCHERS. People who don’t know you are going to think that you are an angel, those who don’t know the supernatural are going to think you’re an angel.
You’re a Gatekeeper for Heaven – you have had keys and you’ve had them since you were little to open into the mystic and the supernatural and to show people what belongs there and what is there and then you have keys to take them back into this earthly realm. Your going to be able to take people on trips like you’ve never ever known before, where you can walk into drug colonies and take them on way better trips than they’ve never known….”
This word was given to me before I had even met the lady who took me to Hong Kong to work with Jackie Pullinger with the Drug Addicts there and before I had met any wiccans, new agers etc…
Just to explain the terminology, a Gatekeeper is sometimes described as someone who knows and experiences access into the Spirit World, one who makes it possible to commerce with the spirit world. For example Druids usually do this at Stone Circles and Shamans/Wiccans have ceremonies with their gatekeepers for portal openings and closings.
I had met and introduced Jesus to Wiccans and New Agers since that prophetic word in the past few years (at the Giant’s Ring and in Newcastle) but id never met a Druid until Glastonbury nor witnessed any ceremonies apart from the solstices at the Giant’s Ring.
So to hear and see the ‘Gatekeepers’ at Glastonbury (right outside my tent/work) open the portals/doorways to the energy from above and below made it very real.
I was able to walk around while they did their ceremonies and invite heaven to come as Jesus says reading from the (Amplified Bible) “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19
Isaiah 22:22 says
“So he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open.” He alone will open or shut the gates of “death” and “hell.”
I could feel His presence and they knew there was something different.
There was one guy who I could feel watching me. He was really quite petite and grey looking with dreads and wore hempy type trousers and robe tops. I later found out he was the Shamanic Priest. ( * Shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments/illness by mending the soul. The shaman also enters supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Shamans may visit other worlds/dimensions to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements. The shaman operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world.)
That night a few of us at different times put oil on our feet and walked barefoot around the ceremony sites and campsites, singing and praying in tongues, worshipping God openly, you certainly did not look or feel out of place singing in tongues as most people were manifesting, naked or on drugs (actually the majority were all three!)
Everyone I met was so SPIRITUALLY AWARE and lived out of the Supernatural. These Shamans, wiccans and pagans were nice people. When I told people where I was going and who I would be working with a lot of them were talking about spiritual warfare but I believe God doesn’t want to pick a fight . He wants to LOVE. His love is SO disarming and SO powerful. God loves pagans and witches a lot, it’s just unfortunate sometimes that we don’t. From studying ‘Spiritual Warfare’, the weapons of our warfare have been talked about, preached about but the greatest weapon we have against the devil is love, when God wanted to redeem a world that came into the sin of the devil He sent Jesus and He used, simple pure love, He was love. So that was what we did, we loved them and they responded.
Love conquers all fear, all coldness…. I love how this describes it, Psalms 115 “1 Not to us, LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. 2 Why do the nations say, “Where is their God?” 3 Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. 4 But their idols are silver and gold,made by human hands. 5 They have mouth mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 6 They have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell.7 They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them will be like them and so will all who trust in them”
So if this is talking about the foreign gods attributes then our God FEELS,He is moved emotionally, He cries, laughs, mourns, rejoices, His senses are alive and interacts with ours, He is not a stony faced Grandfather-like Michelangelo painting, We can experience God in deep, REAL BLISS!
I believe in the law of ‘beholding and becoming’- the more you spend time with someone the more you become like them – it works in the opposite too, whatever you worship you become like them, if you worship gods made of stone you will become numb and unfeeling just like the gods chiseled out of stone. WE CAN FEEL AND PERCEIVE AND EXPERIENCE GOD! 2 Cor 3 v 18 “ And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit”
Maybe you hear all these stories and think ‘flaky’ but God wants you to experience Him in ALL His colour, sound, LIFE.
The stone circle and the fire outside our camp were the spiritual center of the Festival. It was at the Stone Circle I saw numerous people practicing ceremonies, trances and tripping out on drugs. I sat on the middle stone and started praying. I was aware Heaven was there; the Lord let me see the angels, feel His presence and it was as if everything going on was slow motion as I worshipped Him and asked for people to come there and be AWARE and AWAKENED to Heaven.
Before we left for Glasto we had a house party in Cardiff where people prayed and prophesied over us. While I was there a lady walked in and it was really funny because when she walked in I could see her (in the spirit) wearing scuba gear. I asked her what this meant and she said it was her nickname ‘Scuba’ as she delves into the deep things of God. She prophesied me and said that “ there are going to be three people that come to me at the festival and your going to speak really specifically into their lives and lead them to the Lord, 2 girls and a guy”
So as I’m sitting there at the Stone Circle remembering this a guy comes over and sits beside me. Instantly the Lord starts showing me things about him, the secrets of His heart ( 1 Cor 14 v 25 “And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed” ) … I asked him if he is a cyclist and if he hurt his elbow in a competition in Germany in January this year. He looks freaked out but says YES and I continue to tell him what the Lord shows me for him. He asks me my story, I tell him my testimony and about two minutes later he is asking to know this Jesus, who knows all about him. He had been to all the psychics and spiritualists and he came away feeling worse than what he had before. He said when we were speaking he felt a real peace and knew that I could not have known the things I said if it had not been for His creator sharing it with me. He wanted to know the God I served and who loved him.
A few minutes later a lady approaches us on the stone and just says ‘I need to know what your talking about?’ The guy is laughing loving this and I share my story and he shares his. I let her know that Jesus knows all about her, that she is a teacher and has two daughters etc and she comes to know the Lord there too.
I have to go back to work by this stage and on my next break I know I have to go sit outside the Shaman’s tent. He shows me where to sit and as I sit down a lady comes over and asks if she can sit with me, ( I know this is the second lady that was prophesied about) so I listen to her story, she tells me she is a spiritualist who seen me in a dream and knew she had to ask me my story. She had come on her own to Glastonbury and was devastated as she had been coming the last 14 years with her now estranged hubby (who she had to separate from as he had stole from her to feed his addictions) In the spirit I saw her crying over a son and I told her and she burst into tears saying her son had been diagnosed with leukemia. She was so precious, she let me pray with her there in the Shaman’s tent in front of loads of people and gave her heart to the Lord.
One night I’m in the tent (which Is like a big tepee) and I see his shadow walking around the tent, trying to open the windows and reach in to get me. As soon as he does, my spirit starts singing and I see my friend worshiping playing her flute and these amazing colours come out off her flute and create a whirlwind like a rainbow of colour and sound around the tent, blocking out his access. The funniest thing was he was cross and was trying to get in but when he touched the colours he started laughing, ridiculously, then he would pull his hand out and get cross and do it again. Psalms chapter 2 v 4 says “He who sits in the heavens laughs” and if you really come into an experiential revelation of what it means ‘to be seated with Christ in Heavenly places’ then you can STAND in the midst of all kinds of darkness and LAUGH along with the Lord, even amongst the enemies of the Lord raging against you and He wants them to feel it too, His JOY, His Life and colour and sound.
Next morning I told the guys what happened and wondered if it was a dream or was I awake. I checked the outside of the tent and all the zips were undone, so it seemed pretty real. I asked the Lord to confirm that He was on the Shaman’s heart. That he had encountered Jesus. Previously the Shaman wore old looking hemp robes and had dreads, no labels about him at all. The next day he comes he comes up to me wearing something totally out of character, a zip up top that said Gsus across his heart! That was the sign I needed. He looked brighter and gave me a big smile.
Later that day I went up on the hill to pray and I asked the Lord to show me He was working on His heart and all I needed to do was be the light and pray. Next thing I open my eyes and the Shaman is right in front of me smiling and then He raises His hands to Heaven and smiles and disappeared!
The following day we hear a piper up on the hill behind us, we can hear that he is playing modern day songs amongst the bustle of all the other music when all of a sudden we are aware of God’s presence and he starts playing ‘Amazing Grace’. I hear someone on the stage beside us stop playing and say“ the Holy Spirit is here”…. The piper told one of our friends that someone on the other side of the 900 acre site had heard that chorus and felt compelled to bring him a drink of water from that distance, it took him so long and it was so hot he drank half of it but wanted to tell him how much he had appreciated it! CRAZY!
Loads of other things happened which ill share with you another time but on the way home I fell asleep in the airport in Cardiff and I saw a field of apples and what appeared to be a druid king who had a broken heart and I went over and started mending his wounds while praying and speaking life over him …. I woke up and started playing with my iphone, I typed in Glastonbury and up popped Wikipedia and the ‘Fields of Avalon’ which was where we stayed ….I read that it means the Island of Apples and this fruit once grew in great abundance. Apples represent God’s breath and fruitful harvest!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon
I read on that “ a noblewoman called Morgan, later the ruler and patroness of these parts as well as being a close blood-relation of King Arthur, carried him off to the island, now known as Glastonbury, so that his wounds could be cared for”….
I love the Lord speaking to people on Airplanes.
He picks your seat you know!
A lady was sitting by the window and I felt the Lord highlight her left leg to me and I asked her if she had a sore left leg. She looked confused ‘how did you now?’ and it started from there. She had bad circulation in her leg and they were contemplating an amputation, so she let me pray.
She asked me my story and she listened and asked a lot of questions. The Lord gave me loads of specifics for her. She believed there was a God and had always felt she had not been able to live her dreams out as her husband had died after eight years of marriage leaving her with seven young children.
I kept hearing the names Andrew and Alison and asked her who they were, She cried and said they were her only two kids who had the same degenerate heart disease as her husband. She let me pray for them too. The Lord gave me such sweet comforting words for her that she had been faithful to her kids and her mission field at home and that He was always there for her and she could live out her dreams with Him….
I find it interesting how God started my story with my elbow being healed. Then experiencing signs and wonders. He moved me closer and closer into the very heart of the gospel. All the signs and wonders are great and all, but they aren’t smack in the center of God’s heart. Neither are miracles. Hong Kong and Romania had me moving into His love for the lost and the broken. But im getting to know the Father of Lights, the center of all things, and it’s going to make some people very uncomfortable. Especially religious people.
If we aren’t going to love the world around us, then we might as well pack it all up and go home. If we don’t love, and if we don’t bring freedom with us, then we are simply another religion, lumped in with the rest of them.
The truth is, the light of the world resides within us.
And we have but one Father and He loves you, no exceptions to that …
He’s here…… for you
He loves you
He loves you
He still loves you
He will always love you
He pursues you
He will love you way more than you love Him
