I am somewhere in South America.
A mother weeps as her two-year-old child lays dying of a malnutrition caused illness. The young mother herself is bent and jaundiced from starvation. It is very clear that if someone does not do something, all of them will die.
I begin to weep in exhausted grief. I’m too tired to get angry.
I just flop down on the ground and watch as people eat grass, get sick from it but try and eat it again to stay alive.
I am perplexed at how this is allowed to happen.
There is so much arable farmland on earth, why are people not farming? Why are people not helping one another?
I hear my favourite voice in all of the universe speak from behind me.
Friendly man:
“It may surprise you even more to know that many of those reading what you record are angered by you even mentioning poverty. Mammon has the completely self-obsessed.
For most people on earth and the vast majority of those who call themselves believers, my instruction to go to the poor is unimaginable. It is thus because they do not love me.
Why then are you surprised to see the world in the state that it is in?
Stay focused Courier. Remember that love must be at the centre of everything that you do.”
Me:
“I struggle to stay focused my Lord. I want to be where I can help directly!”
Friendly man:
“I need you where I have placed you, building the infrastructure that will equip and send out missionaries. I need you as a beacon to every believer that seeks to help the poor and advance my kingdom.
Listen to the angels that I have sent to you, continue to sacrifice all that you sacrifice, stay focused.
There was once a man who desired to save many sheep from a flooding river. I sent an angel to tell him to build a fence between his and the river.
He would not listen.
Instead of building the fence, he dived into the river to try to save his sheep.
Had he listened, a few hundred sheep would certainly perish but he would have saved thousands more.
Instead he drowned while he was trying to save one or two and after he drowned, thousands flocked into the flooding river and drowned with him.
If only he had listened.”
Me:
“He probably read the parable of the good shepherd who would leave ninety-nine sheep to chase after one?
Friendly man:
“A good shepherd will make sure that the ninety-nine are protected before he leaves them.
I know that you long to be in the trenches Courier. But you must first build the fence.
Impatience is not of the fruit of the Spirit. For patience is trust and you cannot say that you love someone if you do not trust them.
If you love me, you will trust me and follow my instructions. You must be kept safe so that you are not distracted from building the missions base.
For I have sent many out as sheep among the wolves and they need a place of safety, provision and rest. Do as you are instructed and many more lives will be saved than you could even imagine by your own efforts.
If you desire to win a war, you must look after the commanders and keep the army well provisioned.
There are tens of thousands of missionaries who obey my instructions to them and listen to the Holy Spirit. But they need you and the seven to follow the blueprint that the angels have brought to you.
You (plural) will create a portal of rest for tens of thousands of leaders. You hardly even need to raise and train new ones, simply create a place of rest for those who are already in the field and they will come to you.
But they will not trust you unless you are feeding and caring for more children that they are.
To create unity, you must be recognized as a man of peace. And you must be known only to those who seek peace.
For the peacemakers are called children of God. But my children know my voice and they cry out for help daily, waiting for me to help them.
The Holy Spirit works in the hearts of many who are able to help the peacemakers, but most turn a deaf ear. For they hate the poor and they hate me and they hate anyone who lays his life down for me.
If you had to stand upon a pulpit and tell everyone to sell all that they have and follow me, they would throw you out of the church and warn every church about you. It is thus because they hate me and love their possessions too much.
If you love me and speak as I speak, you will be hated and rejected. For I came to save the world from itself and fools hate to be proven wrong. They will murder you to protect their lies. Do not underestimate the hatred in the hearts of men Courier. Do not assume that people want to hear the truth.”
Me:
“Though I know they speak the truth; I receive more persecution for my claim to meeting with angels each night than I do for the truth itself.”
Friendly man:
“Those who love me will recognize what is from me, regardless of the source. Even if they thought that you might be lying about seeing angels, they would respond to the truth that you share and judge the truth.
But those who do not love me would not receive the truth even if I were to appear to them myself. This is not about whether or not you see angels Courier, this is about whether or not people love my word.”
Me:
“And I am receiving much persecution about being isolated thus. I am happy to take the hammering, but many doubt that a loving God would desire that I am alone.”
Friendly man:
“You will be persecuted no matter what you do, for obedience to me is to automatically be hated by the world.
But are you truly alone?
Or do you begin to see more and more peacemakers come to you?
I tell you this Courier:
You have been isolated from the world so that you may become a harbour to my commanders.
They shall come and go in their tens of thousands and many shall make pilgrimages from afar to pray where they hear a man prays for them each day. They will not even need to meet you or know your name. Just the idea that someone cares enough for them to lay down everything that he loves for them shall be an encouragement to them.”
Me:
“And this is what many people have a problem with. That people will come to worship me.”
Friendly man:
“No. They will love me all the more knowing that I have called people to pray for them. People need hope Courier. They need physical love and they need a place to call home.
But every time we set up a safe haven, it turns into a place of manipulation and control.
This vision shall be known as a place of receiving, where the weary and heavy laden may come and be cared for. And their joy shall be restored by the childish nature of the place. For every drop of this infrastructure shall appeal to children.
Let those who have been burdened by their work among the poor come and play. Let them come and rest. And let them leave refreshed and fired up.
None worship you and none will worship you. One of the reasons that we chose you because you are so silly. You could not look pompous and falsely holy if you tried.
One minute with you and every drop of idol worship seeps into the ground. As a matter of fact, those who hate truth and simply come to be in the presence of ‘the mighty Courier’ end up hating you because you do not fit their picture of a leader.
Do not worry about idolatry Courier. Just be yourself and you will put them right off.” (He laughs).
I laugh with Him for a while and stand there grinning like an idiot.
Friendly man:
“Stop making this vision seem so heavy in your mind. Your part is easy for you as everyone’s part is easy for them.
Have fun with it Courier. Focus on loving people and do everything in love. Even if you need to speak in authority and have to hand them over for the destruction of their flesh so that their soul might be saved, do it in love.
Have fun, laugh as much as you can. Enjoy fun times with crazy people that I send to you. Don’t make this heavier than it is supposed to be.
Continue to seek first my kingdom and relax into your blueprint. Let me order your steps, leave your persecutors to me.
You are isolated so that your ear is not talked off by worriers, gossipers and doubters. I have commissioned the angels to allow only very special people to have your ear.
Continue to record all that you are shown and make peace with the fact that as this vision grows, you and all who love you will be hated. But know that you will be hated exactly as I was hated for you are saying exactly what I said.
To live in community takes love and trust and it is the truest test of both.
Those who truly love me will leave their lives for me. They will walk away from Sodom and Gomorrah and they will not look back.
Create a fun place that is open to the public, a place that is known for prayer and care. Create a space that is famous for carefree laughter and artistic expression. Create the ultimate children’s fantasy where parents can worship and pray all day if they like. Or just sleep if they need it while their children have fun close by.
My yoke is easy, my burden is light but you need to lay down your burden and your yoke to pick mine up. You cannot carry both.
I love you Courier. Never doubt that!”
I wake up.
