A couple of details in our sister Veronika West’s posting of last Friday on her Facebook reminded me two very special items on this blog and upon checking them I realised the prophetical wheels just keep on accelerating in synchronicity in ten-year cycles – like a pair of hands (10 digits).

The first is very personal as it concerns how I became involved in prophecy 30 years ago and, as a consequence, why I went on to write.  SO, let’s jump into my time-capsule and take a trip in time back 30 years as told in Why Write/blog..

‘On my late father’s birthday 13 July 1996, I’d planned to attend a local healing prayer group’s day conference in Upper Basildon, Berkshire but got delayed by a phone call about three lots of verses in the Book of Joshua. My late arrival meant I missed the announcements and didn’t get a schedule. All I knew was that it was run by a team from the renowned St Andrews Church, Chorleywood (which I’d once popped into the day Bishop David Pytches gave an account of visiting Toronto and the Outpouring).

So, after worship in my relatively nearby church, the various sessions unknown to me started and I just went along with my Reading-area friends, only to discover they were heading into a ‘workshop’ on prophecy – I felt extremely out of my depth. HELP!

Being a relatively young Christian, prophecy was completely new to me and after a very brief outline of the subject the lady teaching us directed us to stand in a line – weird, like being back at school! She walked up to each of us in turn and said something.

When it came to my turn, as she stood in front of me, her eyes practically popped out of her head – she was staring at something over my own head – an eagle!

Eagle-eyed by John Mark Long: courtesy http://www.propheticartists.com

Then out of her flowed a torrent of Holy Spirit information! Fortunately I was able to jot it all down and of the many ‘words’ delivered, one was about prophecy and another was about writing.

Twelve years later (2008), Nina and I went to a church meeting in Guildford YMCA being run by a South African, William Mitchell, who looked straight at me and said, “There’s a book in you!” – “Huh… really?” thought I. Well it did gell with part of the unexpected prophetical download I’d been presented with in ’96!

HENCE, the chorus of this worship song regularly used at Ellel Ministries, Pierrepont in Frensham, would take me soaring with the eagles

“Hold me close, let Your love surround me,
Bring me near, draw me your side,
And as I wait I’ll rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on in the Power of Your love.”

NEXT, we look at the second wheel when I first came across Veronika’s gifting 10 years ago and which directly related to a fascinating examination of specific scripture I’d read about in a book…