Redux?

Driving into Cape Town to pray and tour District Six with a new group I was pondering the above word; asking God, 'what does that mean to Blood N Fire, RSA?'

Today also marks the first day back to school of the new year. Cape Town's summer vacation happens in December/January. This is when the temperature really begins to heat up and all the businesses close down for Christmas and New Year's Day. Around the 15th everyone goes back to work full throttle.

I was in Cape Town on Second New Year for the Coon Carnival. Prophetically I saw beyond the bright, creative uniforms of the bands and choirs that march in the parade through the city. I saw a team of worshippers like those who went out before the Lord's army into battle. I saw a people formerly displaced, go from the bottom of the pecking order to the front of the line to worship God, delight themselves in His Presence and Glory and celebrate life! They were dancing upon injustice, prophetically declaring our God will come! They were crossing over the Jordan into the Promised Land! I saw them prophetically celebrating a time to come like Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed of in his I Have A Dream speech! And now my secret will be out, I began to believe! God was doing a redux even in the Second New Year! Despite the Roman calendar, despite all the wrong doing, corruption, racism, etc. God was doing a new thing in Cape Town! He would rebuild His Kingdom and here were those in whom He was beginning! And I prayed for families all across the Cape and South Africa to make room in their hearts and lives for the new thing God was doing in their lives. Wow!

So on my way into town today I had a renewed sense of urgency for prayer for Cape Town. God wanted to be in communities, families, fellowships, schools, businesses, restaurants, bands, boats, planes, etc. He really meant for Cape Town to be a refreshment station for the world! School children needed to realize their rightful places in His Kingdom today. They needed prayer to overcome the jitters of the first day at school, they needed to meet good friends that they would begin to build relationships for the rest of their lives with, their families, moms and dads needed prayer to be the parents they were created to be. Parents needed prayer for their marriages, fathers needed prayer as leaders of households. Prayer for provision was so very necessary! Prayer for our leaders in families, churches, city and country government also became very urgently needed! We need prayer for unity! Unity not only among the races, unity in our vision, in our quest to take our rightful positions and have the courage to step into our rightful places and take back the promised land!

And then, I got it! Blood N Fire, you need to also cross over the Jordan, leave behind the old, step into the new! Be strong and very courageous! Do not fear, God has not left His throne! He IS in the midst of a redux!!! Elijah said to Elisha when he asked to receive the double portion of his spirit: "If you see me then it will be so." Where is the Lord God of Elijah now, Blood N Fire?

God said to Joshua, "Moses is dead, therefore lead the people into the promised land." For Blood N Fire I believe that means, the focus has moved from David to the sons-- "who knows that you have not been created for such a time as this?" I am pretty sure of it! It's time! Arise and go forth into the nations! Arise! Go Forth! Like Nehemiah, we have spent the last few years quietly repenting, fasting and praying; seeking the heart of God for permission to rebuild and favor with the king.

Revelation 12:10: "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night has been hurled down.
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice....