Topic: Warfare
Sat. May 28-Sunday May 29
Morning: after doing some yard work, eating, etc… Mom, Dad, and Jon had gone to an eating party at Jon’s friend’s house with lots of other people. While playing a game of Rummy and another card game with Mark and Tim, Sandra calls. (We let the answering machine get it) She needs to talk to Mom. It’s “kind of an emergency.” Tim calls Mom while Mark and I are playing our card game to let her know and then joins in with the next game. Later… Mom calls… “Joel. Pray for Julie. She’s not in the Hospital or anything but it’s important” (on the answering machine once again). I pray feeling worried and wondering what is going on. I’m done playing Cards… Go on the computer to see if anyone is online… negative… I call Finks to see if any information can be given to pray for… Sandra answers. “Hey Joel! I just talked to your mom…” [I know this]
I ask my question. She doesn’t know what to say but wants to ask me about the graduation before she gives the phone to Brian. Brian doesn’t know what Julie is OK with him sharing. I understand and continue praying and asking God for guidance. Peace, Knowing He’s there, to Know His Love…
I go to help Rob and Halley load up the U-hall with Mark and Tim. Time’s up for me so I leave them there to help while I go home and get ready for Jon’s Graduation.
Graduation parking took some time… Graduation took some time… played Game Boy SP for a bit while praying still not much direction (wonder why)?{Sarcasm}
Go to Ruby Tuesday’s with Mom, Dad and Jon to fill up. It’s Cold in there. The warm air outside felt good. By now the sun is getting close to setting. I tell dad I’m not sure if I am still going to go to Riah’s wedding reception. Heading back on Cap. Circle, I decide to go even just to help clean up if it’s over already. I drive by Lake Ella and see a friend outside the Doors of the building (that helped recognize the place). I found some parking on the opposite side of the lake and walked back. I proceeded to pray at the door of the place Opening it for anyone going in and out. Fun times… Help take out a few things at the end (quite dark now except for the Lake’s lights)… Find some friends at a pick nick table. Betsy: “I’m feeling really anxious” (That’s not a good thing) I think. But I am worried as well. We all know why but Brandon and Adam are in the dark. We discuss what we want to do; we pray, we sing, Kim shares about what she is to do in the morning. It’s decided to go to Sonic’s for some hydration and then meet at the girl’s house to go together to Life church to pray. I get rid of some on the way to my car after a good run. I lay down on the bench while they eat and drink. I still feel anxiety, can’t pray for the time… can’t get up. Time to leave… Glad someone helped me up. Take Adam to his place (now I finally know where he lives too… Right next to my hack buddies!) Head back to the girl’s place. They have some nice yellow roses blooming nicely on the table. I set down my stuff, get some water. Quote from Return of the King comes to mind! Pippin: I don’t want to be in a battle, But standing on the edge of one is more than I can bare.
Gandalf: It’s the quiet before the storm
Or something to that effect
I take some Advil with the water, finish it off, and by then Adam and Brandon have arrived. We head out in one car with Brandon driving. We pray on the way.
Arriving… Huge Stronghold here… We park… No one gets out… Betsy gets all hands in and prays for the Armor and the Blood over each of us. Adam says we need to repent. We do…
Anxiety, Lust, Not being focused on Him… more I don’t remember…
Peace… I’m done… I wait… More of us are done… We’re ready… “How do we proceed?” “Worship” “Worship” “Worship” “Worship” “Worship” we each say. Brandon turns off the car. We get out. I put my bag down and start walking around the car testing the perimeter. It’s small. 3 Yards around the car on 3 sides… I started from the front of the car near the entrance of the church and walked counter clockwise around it but stopped on the side towards the road. Betsy and Kim get out guitar and drum respectively I walk back towards the entrance, pick up my backpack and put it by the car. Betsy and Kim set up behind the car on the sidewalk and begin to play. From there it’s closed eyes, clapping, dancing around and around expanding the boundaries. I’m walking now… toward the back of the church on the woodsy side opposite the road. I stop… Can’t go there yet… I continue around… next pass Brandon and Adam come with me. We can now go a bit further to about the center of the building on that side. We can’t go further. We need the girls with their instruments. We head back, let them finish a song (short wait) and get them up to play while heading that way. We push back towards the woods on the left. Adam’s Yelling Yeshuaaaa! There’s a circle of hay bails. Looks like the fire circle hasn’t been used in a while. I hope that changes. We head towards going behind the church… Some resistance… The girls have sat down behind us continuing to pray. Brandon, Adam and I press through; up the hill behind the church I’m closer to the building assigning guard angels while Adam and Brandon are closer to the line of battle.
I rebuke some at the windows and continue to set angels in their place. There’s a group of trees in the back there not part of the forest within the “church” property. “You are not allowed even there!” I say. We continue around the side that the road is on Clearing to the road. We come back around to the front Betsy and Kim storm the door. I continue the assigning of guard angels and then move to praying for ministering angels and worship angels to fill that place and surround it staying at the ready for when they are needed.
I head around to the woodsy side again. I pray for the offices of the building. One window on that side shows a small light coming through… slightly blue… probably an emergency light… I head back towards the front. Adam says there’s a dragon on the roof of the building stretching all the way across… I picture it in my head. It’s tail hanging off the roof on the side of the woods and it’s head on the side of the road. I don’t see wings but think about if it had any they would come out over past the car to the tree line of the parking lot. Adam is ACTUALLY seeing parts of it. Brandon is hearing it and talking to it telling it, it has no place there any more. Adam and Kim go to the tree side, Brandon and Betsy to the side towards the road, playing and praying. I’m behind the car lying against my backpack feeling it is almost done. Betsy’s drum echoes in the woods. It sounds like a huge roar in the distance. I picture a huge Lion twice as big as the building and dragon. It seems to get up sluggishly, heading off the building to the side still within the property. Brandon takes it to the road and past it into the far woods. Kim is reading a passage; Brandon comes back and reads some. Adam’s been laughing. We finish with a few more songs, passages, a note on the door, tired, excited… check the time… almost 4 Am!… Back at the girl’s place we discuss each of our P.O.V. to an extent. Betsy wonders what the reaction to the “writing on the wall” (her note on the door) will be. Brandon “suggests” going back for no more than 2 hours to see when the pastor comes in early in the morning (half kidding). Kim had gone to the same window to pray as I did. Brandon had heard the dragon say reasons it WAS (used to be) allowed to stay there and reported dancing in the street after sending it to the other side. Words describing the night were strange, random, interesting… None of these were in my mind. Awesome! And Fun! Were mine. I’ve been expecting such things since Brazil, only having tiny tastes (in my mind) of the spirit. I still do not see anything in the Spirit. I can imagine it from what I sense, but I pray to see it clearly. I fight to stay awake on the 30-minute drive home. At home I forget my tired eyes and get a leftover burrito and some water and eventually go to bed. Next morning I wake up easily, nice and refreshed. At the Vineyard I draw a picture of “Life Church” as it is now, guarded by the Lion with a very sad looking dragon across the street barred by trees.