Great White Eagle

Great White Eagle

I saw in a vision this morning with a view from the sky above and looking down on the North American continent. A great White Eagle appeared over the continent. The Eagle was flying over the central part of the continent calling out, “Mercy Triumphs over Judgment!”

As the eagle was flying I saw the faces of the American people of all colors, creeds, and beliefs lifting their eyes up. Most were unable to see the eagle; however they knew something was outside of themselves drawing their attention away from self-interest to something higher.

The prayers spoken at the inauguration were decrees and declarations that created the winds and updraft for the eagle to fly higher and higher until all the land experiences the Grace given to him in the power of Psalm 91.

I then saw two scriptures appear as if typewritten and floating in the air from sea to sea. These two scriptures over laid the continent and slowly descended upon the ground to be planted as seed into the soil of America.

Matthew 19:26

“With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 11:19b

“Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

My prayer for our new president that he will be guided by wisdom from above in all he thinks and considers. That love will not be compromised by the zeal for justice. That grace and mercy will under-gird his heart and emotions. That counselors will be endowed with prophetic insight to guide all decision making. That every course of action will bring greater freedom, prosperity, equity, and justice for all.

From the darkest nooks and crannies where the homeless huddle in hopeless despair, to the Native America reservations marginalized and ignored, to prison cells of harsh sentences guided by racism not true justice. To the middle-class workers struggling to get by and to the highest penthouse of the rich and famous, just as lonely and broken as anyone else in America.

Let Mercy now triumph over the judgement; our actions in America have demanded.

I now hear the words, “Baby Boom” an era of unprecedented growth and fruitfulness. 

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Mirror Mirror

When you look into the mirror who do you see? Look into your own eyes and tell me who is looking back at you. In the reflection, you will either look with the filter of your past and how your failures want to define you, or who people say you are. Or you will see the truth who God says you are.

The world around us is always setting up mirrors to reflect a distorted image to prevent us from ever discovering the truth. Each mirror is often like a carnival side show with twisted glass to show you a counterfeit image and in every way to trick you into believing that the contorted image is reality. 

Many paths lie before us ones to the left and ones to the right. Each one offers us easy solutions, simple pleasures, and an invitation to anesthetize our fears. And all we must do is agree to simply become a sleeping soul unaware of the slippery slope falling away before us into a life that produces very little of what could have been. Many step up to this carnival ride that goes around and around only to stop, often too late to change a life that never touched what it could have been. Are these the tears He will wipe away on that day?

There is a way out and it is through a very narrow door, hidden by court jesters, dancing distraction and deceptions, all arrayed to prevent us from ever learning the truth. If we will take out the sword of the Spirit and hack our way through underbrush of lies, you will find the narrow gate.

Once you find the gate it seems to be locked and franticly we search for the key, often giving up all hope because every time we think we have found the right combination, we fail to see the door open. It is nly in the ultimate place of desperation where we fling away all other hope and from our hearts we cry out for an answer that none of our feeble efforts can produce.

Finally, we find The Key, and see written on this key of gold, “Death to Selfishness,” “Death to Self Determination,” “Death to Self-Centeredness.” Slowly the tears begin to fall upon our cheeks as we face our true enemy and the power behind it. It is our own arrogance, independent spirit, and rebellious nature that will not submit to authority. Only those who choose to fall on their own sword or fall on the Rock! And surrender to the process of removing the outer husk of a seed that must be planted deep beneath the earth, dying only to live again as He sheds His warmth, moisture and sunlight on the soil of our souls. Like a hand reaching up from the depths of momentary light affliction we break through the surface into the light. Now we are ready to take the first steps to true life, no longer living by a self-centered compass but an exterior faith that only exists by putting our hands in His. Now we are ready for the baptism of Fire.

We pass through the gate like hot medal super-heated to the point of melting only to be extruded by the pressure to survive and a tenacious courage to find the truth and the One who will explain it to us. Out the other side we come, re-molded into another image, one that is a true reflection of our Father, the one who created us. We find ourselves no longer with the power of pride but the dynamic power of faith in the one who holds all the answers to all our questions.

We come out into a wide open and spacious place of abundance. We hear Him whisper in our ears, “The war is over!” It was won long before we drew our first breath. He has always been here waiting for us to arrive. The gate is there few pay the price to find it and still fewer allow Him to take them through the extruding process of pressure to be conformed into His image. Only when we discover we do not have the power alone to surrender, do we abandon all self-effort. Like one who has jumped from the highest mountain, do we trust that His arms will be there to catch us.

Every single human being on planet earth is being pulled now to choose which path they will follow. Not every path lined with roses may be the right path. Will you choose the road that looks good or the path that Jesus is ahead of you on? It is so true that it is the, “Road Less Traveled,” that leads to our liberty and the reflection of His eyes through ours.

Only the mirror of the Holy Spirit will reflect the truth.

But O what joy and O what rapture for those you will not stop until they are in His presence and hear Him say, “Well done, welcome home!”

“I surrender all, All to Jesus, I surrender; all to Him I freely give”

One of His sons and one of your brothers

Dan