The LORD says, “Today, I AM Commissioning some of you into Service in My Kingly Forces!

You are Flower-class Corvettes, versatile and manoeuvrable, small but mighty. You will fulfill multiple purposes in My Kingdom.

The last few years have been very difficult. You try hard not to feel hopeless as prophetic words are speaking of revival and blessing yet the walls of your Jericho still look intact.

You feel you have been wandering in the wilderness for more than forty years and unlike the Israelites your clothes have worn through.

A thousand sermons, platitudes and sympathy given by other Christians leave people untouched.

It is not because their hearts are hard but because those Christians don’t really understand what others have gone through. People feel unheard, ignored and dismissed.

You are different. You have suffered and lived through hardship yourself. You are battle-scarred.

People will see the genuineness of your faith and be drawn to My Spirit within you. It is not too late to serve My kingdom.

Like the Flower-class corvettes of the RN, with names like Hyacinth, Sunflower and Periwinkle, the world has not always taken you seriously.

You have looked foolish and weak in their eyes.

I chose you for a reason. The enemy knows just how deadly you will be. That is why you have struggled for much of your life, sometimes for generations. You are weary and rundown.

Yes, you made your own mistakes but the enemy has tried systematically to take you out or at least tie you down.

I am breaking this now.

I choose the weak and the foolish and make them strong and wise because they honour Me.

Your love for Me and faith in Me are all that is required for service. My Power is made perfect in your weakness.

Say yes to Me. Your bite will be far more dangerous than a tiny dog!

As Corvettes provided coastal patrol and convoy escort to shipping, rescuing people survivors of attacks and defeating U-boats though they had superior power, so you will protect, help and deliver My People.

You are anointed for service!

I give you My Glory. I give strength to My people.

You will rise up and walk in the full power and authority of My might.

You will break chains and set captives free.

You will speak words of life and display My power.

Like the Flower-class Corvettes, you are versatile. You are suitable for war and for peace, for protection and for commerce.

You will serve your own nation and serve other nations readily. It is all worship to Me and your service will be long and successful.

You will move from task to task easily as I require. This will confound the enemy and confuse even My faithful remnant but your flexibility and responsiveness to My voice is My delight.

My Sunflowers and Hyacinths will defy worldly expectations but My precious child, I have always known how strong you are.

My Spirit is upon You. Go forth in My Name. Protect, deliver and overcome.”

Related Scriptures: Luke 10:19-21, 1 Corinthians 26-30, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Luke 4:17-21, Joel 3:9-10, Luke 1:35

Some of you may be wondering about this. I already knew roughly what Flower-class referred to but I have learned much more in the last twenty-four hours!

If you say “Corvette” today, most people think of a car, especially a little red one.

In most navies a Corvette is actually the smallest class of warship, multi-purpose, manoeuvrable and surprisingly powerful for a smaller vessel, often used as coastal patrol or fast attack craft.

Flower-class corvettes were small convoy escort ships used by the Royal Navy in The United Kingdom. Late in the 1930s, as the risk of war with the Nazi regime in Germany increased, so the need to protect shipping became obvious.

The Flower-class developed from a commercial whaler, so they were cost-effective, quickly-made and more easily produced in small commercial shipyards not already involved in war production. Naval reserve forces would be more familiar with handling them, as well.

They were widely used by the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy. The RCN vessels tended to be named after places but the original RN corvettes were named after flowers.

It is believed the Admiralty were fully aware of the devastating propaganda value of mighty U-boats being defeated or outwitted by vessels named HMS Violet or HMS Mignonette. HMS Sunflower and HMS Hyacinth were particularly successful.

Flower-class corvettes earned the nickname “the pekinese of the ocean”, after the little breed of dog. They guarded convoys carrying vital supplies, defeated several U-boats and rescued survivors of attacks on other vessels.

They were used to some extent by other Allied nations too. For example HMS Periwinkle and HMS Begonia both saw active service in the RN and later in the United States Navy as USS Restless and USS Impulse. HMS Buttercup became HNoMS Nordyn in the Royal Norwegian Navy. There were several others.

The Flower-class were adaptable because of their origination as whalers.

Long after the war, when the various navies no longer needed so many small warships, many of the surviving corvettes were converted into commercial vessels and continued in use for years. Of the 294 made, only 1 remains, HMCS Sackville, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

 

~ Iris Maud, UK.

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Iris Maud, UK.

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