The LORD unfolded something unusual but profound to me a day or two ago.

This is one of those long-winded, esoteric, rambling words I seem to get all too often, for which I can only apologise.  But I ask you to bear with me as I think it’s quite important.

When I was a teenager I walked with God, but I didn’t yet fully understand about Prophecy or  Prophetic Imagery.

I would see images and have ideas others dismissed, so I stopped sharing them.

I also used to get ideas for scenarios and dialogue I mentally filed away for writing later.  A short story, a novel, a play, a screenplay, who knows?  Bless teenaged me!

One of those scenarios was a Military Commander in a vaguely historical setting.

They could be either a male or female character.  That’s significant.

They start as just a lower-ranking Officer and as time progresses, they rise through the Ranks.  Gradually they gain power.

But they also grow more unstable.  Life throws personal challenges at them and positions of power can be very lonely places.

Isolated from emotional connection, the character becomes despotic and later on, delusional as well.

Eventually they are overthrown and imprisoned.

Instead of just being put in a cell, the character is held in what looks like a mansion, with wardens and staff dressed as servants.

Life is made to seem as normal as possible, as though the character is free and not imprisoned at all.

One day the character is led to a room with a scale model of the territory they had once governed.

They are told this is the actual territory and that they are now so very great and powerful, it appears to them that the territory is merely a tiny model, but it is genuine and real.

The character doesn’t believe it.  They were never stupid.  They know they need to escape.

But day after day, they are shown into the room with the model and told that it’s real.  The character begins idly toying with the model.

Later they start manoeuvring the pieces as though real.

Eventually they choose to believe the model is real and give up trying to escape, so they can stay in the world of fantasy, where they can control life.

I never bothered trying to work up the scenario even when I was a teenager, as it was clearly so preposterous.

But over the years occasionally it came to mind, particularly after Coldplay released their song Viva La Vida which has the words, “I used to rule the world, Seas would rise when I gave the word.  Now in the morning I sleep alone, Sweep the streets I used to own….”

I recently heard that song again, for the first time in ages.

Then two days ago The LORD said to me,  “It wasn’t just a scenario.  That’s why you think of it intermittently.

It is a Prophetic Image and Warning I have given you when you were young, to carry to others, but you didn’t realise how significant it was.

Your Prophetic Gift doesn’t look entirely the same as others, so they haven’t always recognised or honoured it.

The character you saw was male or female, because this Prophetic Image is true for both.

Listen!  This is exactly how many of My Children are living!

They are trapped in a fantasy, in a room playing with scale models, instead of stepping out in Faith in the real world.

The enemy has distracted them from My primary purpose for their lives, by showing them this imaginary alternative, and My Children pursued that instead of holding to their course.

They have incarcerated themselves in a living tomb.

Retreating there so frequently has formed neural pathways in their minds and turned their real affections towards imaginary objects.

Remind them who they are in Me.

Tell them:  You have been given new life and liberty by My Blood.

I have given you a partnership in My Family Business.

I do nothing by halves and neither should you.

I called you to rise up and walk in My Authority.

But enduring this earthly life, with its joys, terrors and sorrows, has eaten away at your soul.

Some of you continue in My Calling as I planned, but you have not stopped to treat your wounds.

You are numb inside, merely going through the motions out of duty.

Some of you became disheartened and you have settled for a vaguely holy mediocrity instead of the beautiful adventure I intended for us to take together.

Some of you went completely off the rails.  You think you don’t know how to find your way back to Me.  But I AM right here with you.

You have retreated into a fantasy.  It is easier for you to cope by entering this fantastical domain, controlling imaginary worlds that are miniature models, instead of coming to Me and working with Me to build in reality on a much more vast scale for My Kingdom.

You have lived with these fantasies for so long you no longer notice how abnormal it is to live like this.

It is not healthy in the natural and it is not healthy in Heaven.

Feeding the fantasy is feeding a monster.  You don’t understand what you have let in.

Think with the mind of Christ.  Your mind and your heart must be yielded to Me.  Your imagination must be wholly Mine.

What you think of most is what you worship.  I AM a loving God — but you must have no god but Me!

Repent and receive My Forgiveness and be healed and cleansed.

Step away now from that little scale model.  Close the door to that room forever.

Consecrate yourself to Me and I will set you free from your captors and that gilded cage.

Let go of those wrong little dreams and come back to Me.

You had such big, big, dreams.  Such pure and holy dreams.

How I long to help you make them come true.

It’s not too late.

It’s never too late for you, My Beloved!”

~ Iris Maud, UK.

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Iris Maud, UK.

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