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Jesus Loves You: Make Heaven Your Eternal Home by Ps Barbara Miller 27.7.24
Indigenous Friends of Israel International seminar 22.7.24 Speakers Ps Avi Mizrachi, key leader from Israel and Ps Milo Siilata, Pacific leader from NZ.
An Evening with Lilian Schmid – new Book “For His Glory”
Aug 19, 2024 08:00 PM Sydney Time ON ZOOM
An Interview not to be missed.
-What an encouraging contribution to the ministry of prayer. The book ‘For His Glory’ by Lilian is a very personal and relevant discussion on not only the need for constant prayer but also the need for biblical forgiveness, suffering and healing. This is not just any ordinary book but rather it is a daily reminder of the need for all of us to live out 1 Peter 3:15 and so to be ready to ‘give an answer’ for the hope that we have in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lilian has managed to bring together the essential requirements for Christians, and indeed non-Christinas, who wish to live out a biblical worldview. This book is by my bedside table constantly.
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Below are some comments from the Reviewers (full texts are inside the book): “For His Glory… will challenge you to life solely and fully for Christ” – Mark Bilton, Independent Chair, Strategist and Leaders Advocate.
“It gives me great pleasure to commend For His Glory as Lilian’s testimony and as significant fruit of her calling” – Rev. Peter Robinson, former CEO of Generate Ministries.
“A tour through God’s orchestra where we get to stop and wonder at each part as they contribute to this symphony For His Glory” – Dr. Jim Twelves, Christian Educator.
“Personal, biblical, and very inspirational” – Marina Maria, Founder, Global Gospel Worship Radio.
“Full of golden nuggets from a tried and tested international prayer leader” – Ps. Barbara Miller, author, co-founder of the Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace.
“Will make you jump from one revelation to another” – Olivier Fleury, founder of JC2033, Lausanne, Switzerland.
“I see many of the solutions to problems that I have had to face” – Rev. Dr Jeffry David Camm
“Lilian has managed to bring together the essential requirements for Christians” – Greg Bondar, Managing Director – Australia & New Zealand, Every Home for Christ.
These books are also listed on the website at https://prayerstrategy.org/books Both books are available as paperback books and Kindle eBooks. For His Glory is also available in hardcover, shipped from Amazon in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy (Amazon hardcover books are not yet printed in other countries).
End of Free Worship and Prayer by Ps Norman Miller, Tabernacle of David Cairns 20.7.24 Ps Enoch Lavender from Olive Tree Ministries shared about his new book “Jubilee and End Times” at our Sat service. See it on Facebook where it was livestreamed except for the tail end – https://www.facebook.com/cfirpTOD/. Subscribe to our Facebook page for more livestreaming of our services and to our Youtube page.
Sons of Abraham conference Sydney 2015 Ps Barbara Miller Isaiah 19 Highway Sess 16
This may be a surprise addition but I shared a prophetic word on Facebook and I received an email from a reader who wanted information on the Isaiah 19 Highway. I thought others may be interested too so I have included my earlier conference message here.
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Hi Saints – Don’t Miss Out on this Amazing Conference – Church and Cultural Challenges!! 27-29 July Lifestream Church Canberra
Nights are free and day regos are $30. 4 hours worship first night starting 7pm & worship & speaker last 2 nights starting 7.30pm Regos open 1pm 27 July & session one at 2pm
See full timetable and more details here register for the conference on Eventbrite bit.ly/440qyGA
Photo above of PNG team who came to more than one of the 4 conferences we hosted at Parliament House Canberra – 2004, 2010, 2011 & 2012. We are fundraising for the leader of this team Ps Dora Kua to come to our July conference this year. Some funds have come in praise the Lord. Please pray if you are meant to help sponsor Ps Dora.
Also we need sponsors for Australian Indigenous delegates both for the Canberra conference and the Cairns Indigenous Friends of Israel conference 18-20 August where Ps Avi & Chaya Mizrachi from Israel will be speaking. Please pray if the Lord wants you to help.
It is about 20 years since we have asked for financial support so please be a sponsor and be blessed sharing in the spoils of war.“And who will listen to you in regard to this matter? For as is the share of him who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the provisions and supplies; they shall share alike.” 1 Samuel 30:24.
If you can’t get to Canberra, you can register to zoom into the event live to listen to and view the speaker sessions at a cost of $45 for the 3 days. Please contact us if you want to do this as it is still being finalized and we can send you the registration details and special link. You will be very blessed!
Sessions will also be videod for those who want a physical DVD and an order form will be available soon. Email us (here)
LEFT – We are pleased to have a team of Indigenous pastors from Taiwan attending our Canberra conference including Ps & Mrs Chen who attended our 12.12.12 conference in Sydney. RIGHT – We are also pleased to have Ps Joy Tan and her daughter Serene from Malaysia to attend our Canberra conference. Here Norman and Barbara are pictured with our Malaysian family Samuel, Ps Abraham, Ps Joy and Serene Tan and friend Jamie in Cairns recently.
You are in for a very interesting session with arts and media expert David Jack (above) who is one of the speakers for the Church & Cultural Challenges Conference in Canberra. He has given us a taste of what he will share in the following.
The Truth will set you free by David Jack
“In the Post Modernist age where do we find our Saviour? In Jesus or the World?
In media the power of film and TV can be a great thing but it can also beguile and deceive. So much portrayed through media the arts is set up against the church.
Those active agents fighting this influence are few but tenacious, we will explore and discuss them. What can one person do? If we are to be a light unto the nations it starts with each of us in our daily walk to reflect the characteristics of Jesus.”
Glen Sebasio on guitar and Ps Norman Miller leading worship at Lifestream church Canberra for an Australia Day prayer conference in 2019 that we hosted. In 2020, we hosted an Australia Day conference at Grace church Canberra. We have also led a Tabernacle of David workshop at Lifestream in 2018.
Norman believes the worship at the Church & Cultural Challenges conference will bring such a presence of God that people won’t want to go home afterwards but will want to stay in the presence.
He has Acts 16:25-26 on his heart:
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
Be prepared for an earthquake that will set the prisoners free. When the jailer woke up, he was going to commit suicide as he thought the prisoners had fled, but Paul led him and his family to the Lord instead. Be prepared for an awakening where people wake up from the world’s woke agenda and we have a revival!
Norman and Barbara were blessed to speak recently at the Gold Coast at a meeting of Chinese pastors and leaders from the Gold Coast and Brisbane. It was good to catch up with our friends Judy Chiem, Debbie Tien and Monica Peng there.
Correction – The Calvary Hospital pulled down the cross after the ACT government’s forced takeover, not the government. Please continue to pray that there will be a Senate Inquiry to this situation.
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Click on the photo to watch the video. – Ps Peter Walker is a speaker at our Church & Culural Challenges conference in Canberra 27-29 July. this his interview on 40 stories. He will speak at the conference on the need for reformation.
Hi Saints – Don’t Miss Out on this Amazing Conference – Church and Cultural Challenges!! 27-29 July Lifestream Church Canberra
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CALLING PASTORS, LEADERS, 5 FOLD MINISTRIES, WORSHIPPERS & INTERCESSORS TO CANBERRA 27-29 JULY TO STRATEGIZE & PRAY RE THE CHALLENGES OUR CHURCH & NATION ARE FACING
God is the Answer, Excerpt from a longer message on Identity Politics and Christianity by Ps Barbara Miller
Click on image to see video – Amanda Stoker debates Voice with Chris Kenny on Sky News – ‘Majority of concerns’ on Voice to Parliament ‘are legitimate’: Amanda Stoker
ALL CHRISTIANS WHO LOVE ISRAEL ARE INVITED TO THIS SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A SHABBAT MEAL AND HEAR FROM GIFTED MESSIANIC JEWISH PASTORS FROM ISRAEL PS AVI & CHAYA MIZRACHI 18-20 AUGUST AT TABERNACLE OF DAVID, 33 LAKE ST CAIRNS. IT IS CO-HOSTED BY INDIGENOUS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL WHICH IS OPEN TO NON-INDIGENOUS AS WELL.
Left top Townsville meeting with Ambassador 6.7.23 & right top Cairns meeting with Ambassador Amir Maimon 5.7.23. Left bottom Barbara and Norman presenting her 2 Cooper books to the Ambassador at his request. She gave her If I Survive book to him at the JPB. Right bottom David and Carol Jack. David videod events at JPB, Cairns & Townsville & helped organise Cairns & Townsville events .
It was a blessing to attend the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast at the Gold Coast 3-4 July with Albert & Heli Veksler and team from the Knesset in Israel and MPs from the Pacific and Australia. We thank Jamie and Jillian Pryor, Jane and Tim O’Neill and Dale and Ruth Smith and others for all the work they did organising.
It was special that the Israel Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon spoke at events with Jews and Christians in Cairns and Townsville at events afterwards and that Rabbi Riesenberg from Melbourne spoke at the Cairns event. Norman and Barbara were blessed to speak in Cairns and Townsville on the Indigenous Friends of Israel along with national leaders from Bridges for Peace, Christian Friends of Israel & others. See the last newsletter for more details.
CROSS REMOVED CALVARY HOSPITAL MAKE SUBMISSION BEFORE CLOSING DATE TOMORROW 17.7.23
The cross at Calvary hospital Canberra being removed by ACT government after forced takeover because they don’t do abortions. Also the Catholic hospice Canberra taken over by the ACT government because they don’t do euthanasia. We need to protect our religious freedom in Australia and faith-based institutions. Warwick Marsh and the Canberra Declaration team are urging us to sign a submission re a Senate enquiry which has to be in by close of business Monday 17 July – tomorrow. Not only is it an attack on the sacredness of life but It is an abuse of property rights and an abuse of proper parliamentary procedure and consultation.
See this video for the strategy for the Calvary hospital submission HERE This link will take you to a page on the Canberra Declaration that will make it easy for you to make a submission. click HERE.
Using Canberra Declaration’s sending facility, submissions will be sent to:
The Senate Inquiry Committee who are receiving submissions until close of business, Monday 17 July.
A copy will be sent to the PM, the federal senators in your state, and your local federal MP.
The Messianic Training Centre is a ministry of Celebrate Messiah. We offer courses from a Messianic Jewish perspective in biblical studies and languages, Jewish history and culture, and effective Jewish outreach.
Date: Each Thursday night, 27 July to 7 September 2023
REPORT FROM ALBERT VEKSLER, HOST JERUSALEM PRAYER BREAKFAST
The Mayor of the City of Gold Coast Tom Tate was our host and we had several dignitaries present from Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu – altogether 16 nations prayed for the peace of Jerusalem.
We saw something phenomenal that we haven’t seen before – governments sent their official representatives to the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Gold Coast: Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka sent Deputy Prime Minister Gavoka; Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Marape sent the Minister of Community Development and Religion, The Hon. James Peter; Cook Islands Government sent Minister of the Crown, The Hon. Vainetutai Rose Toki-Brown; Solomon Islands’ government sent The Hon. Peter Kenilorea Jr., Member of the National Parliament and the Vanuatuan Prime Minister Kalsakau sent the Deputy Speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament MP Noris Kalmet and MP Jean Baptist.
From Australia, we had Mr. Robert Moelhoek, a Member of the Queensland Parliament, and The Hon. Stuart Robert, a (recently retired) Member of the Australian Parliament. Robert Ilatov, the co-chair of the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, MK Tatiana Mazarsky and MK Ohad Tal represented Israel. In addition, we had delegates from Estonia, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua, New Zealand, the Philippines, Samoa, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Deputy Prime Minister Gavoka shared how God had turned around the political situation in Fiji, after the opposition leader, former PM Sitiveni Rabuka prayed at the JPB Canberra in 2020, and promised to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Not only did the Head of the Opposition become Prime Minister again, but recently the cabinet made the decision to open the Embassy in Israel.
Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Gold Coast 3-4 July. Top Left – Pacific leaders and Aboriginal leaders Rev Les Baird & Ps Norman Miller read scriptures on opening night along with other teams. Top Right – Final song with Pacific Islander singers and Norman & Barbara Miller. Botton left – Sheena Tranter from the Commonwealth Prayer Movement UK with Norman & Barbara & Bottom right Judy Chiem, Taiwanese leader with Barbara.
Daniel Simon and Graham McLennan, speakers at Church & Cultural Challenges Conference
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MESSAGE FROM DANIEL SIMON, SOLICITOR HUMAN RIGHTS LAW ALLIANCE, A SPEAKER AT ABOVE CONFERENCE
The book of Romans tells us to “Live in harmony with one another… If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”
For centuries we have understood that living in harmony with others means respecting their freedom to speak freely, express their opinions, and live according to their faith. But these hard-won freedoms should not be taken for granted. In Australia today Christians find themselves under increasing pressure to stay silent, to compromise on issues of faith, and to leave their beliefs at home or in the pew. It is increasingly difficult to be open about our faith in the workplace and to form faith-based communities, schools, and charities. But these freedoms are important for all Australians, not just Christians. We should desire a society in which these fundamental freedoms are valued, so we can be free to speak the truth in love and to “overcome evil with good”.
The law in Australia provides some protection for the fundamental human right of religious freedom. But as society becomes increasingly hostile to Christianity, the gaps in the law are being exposed and conflicting rights are being given priority. Freedom of religion is seen as an excuse for people of faith to discriminate against minorities. This is seen especially in the area of LGBT issues, and Christian schools are currently at the frontlines of public debate about conflicting rights and freedoms. The Human Rights Law Alliance helps to protect the rights of Christians and Christian organisations to stay faithful to Scripture and serve freely in their communities.
MESSAGE FROM DR GRAHAM MCLENNAN, FOUNDER NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS & CHRISTIAN HERITAGE RESEARCH WEBSITE ETC. A SPEAKER AT ABOVE CONFERENCE
I will be sharing about Understanding our Christian History with a presentation from the www.chr.org.au website which will include Individuals. Institutions, Documents and Events.
The website includes various Resources such as Books, Biographies, Multimedia, Defence and the ANZACs which was founded by returning Chaplains from Gallipoli, Stories of Revival in Australia including our Indigenous, and God’s Sovereignty in the development of Australia with our Pioneers, Statesman including those in spheres of influence in Law, Government and Education. ………………………..
CALLING PASTORS, LEADERS & THE 5 FOLD MINISTRIES TO CANBERRA 27-29 JULY TO STRATEGIZE & PRAY RE THE CHALLENGES OUR NATION IS FACING – AT LIFESTREAM CHURCH
You can register for the conference on Eventbrite and day regos are now available – bit.ly/440qyGA
Support for Canberra Declaration’s Prayer & Work to Save Calvary Hospital ACT + Amazing Angelic Vision by an Intercessor. Also a call to attend the Church & Cultural Challenges Conference in Canberra 27-29 July
Prayer by Ps Norman Miller at Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Gold Coast Australia 3-4 July 23
Brief Reflection re Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Gold Coast 3-4.7.23 & After Events with Israel Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon in Cairns 5.7.23 & Townsville 6.7.23
ALL CHRISTIANS WHO LOVE ISRAEL ARE INVITED TO THIS SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A SHABBAT MEAL AND HEAR FROM GIFTED MESSIANIC JEWISH PASTORS FROM ISRAEL PS AVI & CHAYA MIZRACHI 18-20 AUGUST AT TABERNACLE OF DAVID, 33 LAKE ST CAIRNS. IT IS CO-HOSTED BY INDIGENOUS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL WHICH IS OPEN TO NON-INDIGENOUS AS WELL.
The Israel Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon spoke at events with Jews and Christians in Cairns at Royals church pastored by Adem Xhafer and at the Baptist Church Townsville pastored by Garry Wynn. Other speakers at both events were Ps Joel Baker from the Sunshine Coast, Matthew Chivers, head of Bridges for Peace Australia, Ian Worby, head of Christians for Israel Australia, Barry Rodgers Director of the Australian Lighthorse Association and Ps Norman and Barbara Miller, founders of Indigenous Friends of Israel. Rabbi Riesenberg from Melbourne who works with Christians in SCAFI – Southern Cross Alliance for Israel, spoke in Cairns only. David Jack, also of SCAFI videod all events. John Lockwood of SCAFI also attended both events and spoke at our church on 8.7.23
Ambassador Amir Maimon pictured with the Miller family in Cairns.
4 Hours of nonstop worship at Church & Cultural Challenges Conference Canberra 27-29 July
Shirley Miller, Barbara Miller, Norman Miller, Colleen Burfitt and Thomas Miller
Blessings to all our wonderful readers!!! A lot is happening but God is in control no matter what we see around us. Nevertheless, we need to discern the times (Matt 16:2-4) and, as 1 Peter 3:15 says: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.”
Church & Cultural Challenges Conference Interview of Barbara Miller with Neil Johnson Vision Christian Radio 30/5/23. The early bird rego for this conference ends on 12 June. Neil asked Barbara about the Voice Referendum as well. See https://reconciliationandpeace.org/events/2023-conference/
IFI – expressing the voice of Indigenous people, the First Nations voice, in support of Israel through education and advocacy
PATH TO TREATY ACT QLD
THIS STORY WAS BREAKING NEWS AT THE TIME AS I WROTE IT BEFORE THIS LEGISLATION PASSED THE QLD PARLIAMENT – Queensland’s Treaty Law has had an astonishing dream run. But can it last? By Barbara Miller The Spectator 13 May 2023 SEE HERE
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 27-June 3 – National Reconciliation Week with the theme – Be A Voice for Generations. Ps Norman usually opens proceedings in Cairns with a prayer and we host some activities. We can give you some snippets next newsletter.
July 3-4 – Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Gold Coast with hosts from the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
July 5-6 – The Israeli Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Amir Maimon, will then come to Cairns and Townsville and we are involved along with SCAFI, Bridges for Peace, CFI, ICEJ, Beersheba Vison, Kingdom Builders, Olive Tree Travel and local churches in each city in this event. This is in our role as the founders of the Indigenous Friends of Israel and founders of the Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace. These events will bring together Jews and Christians. Norman will share for 10 mins.
This event is about Jews and Christians standing together to celebrate Israel’s 75 years as a nation reborn.
July – Also wonderful friends from Malaysia, Pastors Abraham and Joy Tan will be visiting us. Stay posted
Aug 18-20 – Shabbat and Indigenous Friends of Israel conference in Cairns with Pastors Avi and Chaya Mizrachi from Israel (see above)
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A MIRACLE OCCURRED AT ULURU – THE RAINBOW SERPENT AND ITS EGGS LEFT ULURU AFTER PRAYER – CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Prayer at the rock at Uluru at Ps 24:7 convocation 2005 hosted by CFIRP
Prayer with local Aboriginal woman by Ps Peter Walker and Ps John Blackett in our convocation setting which was the Tent of Promise
We travelled to the base of Uluru in July 2005 for onsite prayer as part of the Healing the People Healing the Land Ps 24:7 convocation. It was hosted by the apostle prophet team Norman and Barbara Miller and the Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace, We used two hire buses of 100 people followed by other buses from Kalgoorlie, Darwin, and Tennant Creek, and cars of people who had come to the conference.
We set out from the tourist town of Yulara to Ayers Rock or Uluru at 2 pm Saturday 23rd July 2005 for an afternoon of prayer. For many, it was their first visit to the rock but others had paved the way. There was old and young, people from the desert and people from the coast, people from the bush and people from the city, male and female, black and white but we were all one in the Lord.
We had permission to be on this land from the traditional owners and had already received a welcome to country.
On arriving at Uluru, we stopped for some prayer in preparation. Norman said seeds were going to be planted, seeds of righteousness, godly seeds, and right foundations. He read from Gen 12:2-3 about the nations being blessed through Abraham and that whoever blesses his seed will be blessed and whoever curses his seed will be cursed. He said we want to be a sheep nation and bless Israel. Also, we need to plant seeds of honoring.
He honored God and all those who have gone before us and God’s covenant people. (We were with the Australian Prayer Network who hosted the National Prayer Gathering at Uluru in 1999 and there have been others paving the way).
Norman said we need to prophetically connect or be grafted as the wild olive branches into the natural olive tree of Israel. He said he would ask Hilary Moroney, as a person of Jewish heritage, to do this. Gloria Dyer and another lady of Jewish heritage joined her in this.
Norman said that part of the vision of the conference was to see a highway opened from Uluru to Jerusalem. He said on his last visit there 18 months ago, there were some rabbis dancing with joy in the streets of Jerusalem and they drew him into the circle to dance with them.
This was so special but he also wanted to dance with Jews in his land, even the heartland of Australia. The Lord made that possible on Tuesday morning when we danced with an Israeli, Madav, at the base of Uluru and crossed a bridge together, prophetically declaring that we were opening that highway from Uluru to Jerusalem with our prayer.
Norman then read excerpts from Romans 11:11-21 about the ingrafting. He also read Mt 7:24-27 about building your house on a rock.
Barbara honored God, the Anangu people on whose land we stood, and the Jewish people. She then led prayers of covering and protection because of the spiritual warfare that was about to occur. She led people in repentance so we could come to this event with clean hands and a pure heart and would not have any chinks in our armor.
We put on the armor of Ephesians 6 and prayed for the covering of Ps 91. Barbara prayed for the covering of the precious blood of the Lord over us and all that pertained to us and that angels would fight fights for us in heavenly realms. Also that the hedge God put around Job would be around us so the darts of the enemy could not get in.
She prayed for the blessings of Deut 28:1-14 for obedience to be on us and that the Lord would help us to be obedient so that we could receive the benefits of this scripture. We prayed that we would be the head and not the tail and that the enemy who came at us in one way would flee from us in 7 ways and that no weapon formed against us would prosper.
She prayed that the Lord would confuse the airways of the enemy and bring confusion, division, and ambush on them so they would fight each other and not us and also for the awe and terror and fear of the Lord upon them. We spoke that the battle was the Lords and that He would send His angels out ahead of us.
Barbara prayed to break off spirits of revenge, backlash and retribution and to cancel all assignments of the enemy against us. This was to include our conference, the prayer at the rock, our families, our churches, our workplaces, our health and finances and all those praying for us wherever they were.
Hilary asked people to pray in tongues. She then repented on behalf of Jews and non-Jews and asked the Lord to graft us into His true olive tree. She asked that Australia would be a sheep nation and stand with Israel. She thanked God for her heritage and asked that Australians would have a heart for Indigenous people as well.
Norman generally has a theme for the year and he declared the theme for 2005 – “Alive, Thrive and Revive in 2005” and “Ministry of the Arts – Apostolically Releasing the Saints”.
Barbara had shared in a previous session on spiritual mapping that the Mutitjulu waterhole was the home of the python snake, the poisonous snake and the rainbow serpent so this was the chosen location for most of the prayer. We basically had a four-hour trip, three hours of prayer, and just less than one hour’s travel, including circling the rock before returning to Yulara.
On arriving at Mutitjulu waterhole, Norman read Mt 16:13-19 about the church being built on the rock of revelation that He is the Lord, that the gates of hell would not prevail against it and that He had given his church the keys of binding and loosing. He thanked God for the loosing He was going to do in this place.
There was concert prayer ie a lot of people praying at the same time. Norman then asked the Lord to loose the 7 seals and to let His glory loose in this place. He read Rev 5:1-10. Only the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Jesus the lamb that was slain) is worthy to open the seals.
There was the sound of shofars and shouts and the roar of the lion of the tribe of Judah. The strategy of roaring like the Lion of the tribe of Judah was a strategy the Lord showed Barbara in Cairns and then led Barbara and Norman to use with effect to help bring breakthrough in Malaysia and Thailand at Bangkok Breakthrough conference. Muslims and Buddhists had loudspeakers blaring but Christian churches around the world are quiet.
Norman declared that the Lion of the tribe of Judah is not going to be intimidated by that ancient serpent. The Ancient of Days will have His way. He then read from Rev 20:1-3 about an angel from heaven seizing the dragon, the ancient serpent, the devil and then he was bound for 1,000 years. Norman then asked for another roar from the Bethany Gate and some more roaring went up with the sound of the shofar. There was a flag with the lion and the Star of David on it which Bruce Poulsen held. There were many other flags as well.
Norman and Barbara turning the key over the nation at the convocation. Ps George Annadorai, a speaker, holding the microphone
Brendon Cook, an Aboriginal leader from Tom Price, Pilbara WA claimed the rock back in the name of Jesus. He had boomerangs in his hand as he declared that the rock was the Lord’s. “I, Brendon Cook, son of the Most High God, claim this land back for Him in Jesus name”. God reigns.
Barbara had done a session at the conference on spiritual mapping and now prayed re the central creation story to this location which was the python woman or kuniya who became greatly enraged and sought revenge on the Liru or poisonous snake men (Aboriginal tribes identified with another part of creation) who had killed her nephew.
Kuniya did a powerful magic dance and then killed the Liru warrior who dropped his shield. In the process of her dance, she had stirred up the dust and poisoned some plants, particularly the spearwood bush. After some repentance and prayer by Aboriginal elders, Barbara took authority over these spirits of anger, revenge, witchcraft, murder, and death in Jesus name and prayed in the opposite spirits of blessing, joy, peace, love, life, and the Holy Spirit. Aboriginal elders and others prayed in unison.
She prayed that the Lord would remove the poison from the land, plants and waterhole. Norman later put some eucalyptus leaves in the water and prayed healing over them.
Barbara asked Aboriginal women to come forward as it is a birthing site and some women from the Northern Territory prayed in their language. An Aboriginal woman from Perth, Gloria Dyer, prayed to break the curse of barrenness off the land and into all territories.
“Father into all territories, I pray for an arrow to go from this place into the darkness and from Israel into this place. With the revelation of the blessing of the mothers of the land through the Holy Spirit, I break off the curse of barrenness over the land and release the men and women, and children of the land. “
Katie Hagen, an Aboriginal woman from Brisbane said,
“I call on the wind from the north the south the east, and the west to breathe in this place and the dead shall live. This is the day the Lord has made and we rejoice in it. I have given you the former rain and the latter rain. I have given you abundant rain. It shall rain. It shall rain. I have given you rain this day. We ask that the wind of the breath of the spirit of God will take the blessings to the 4 corners of the earth from this place. What you’ve declared to us is for all eternity.”
One of the men said this is a new birth of this nation.
Barbara agreed and said you can see in the formation of the rock that this is a birthing place and that is why we are here. She said the Lord had given her a vision of a white statue rising out of Uluru, the bride of Christ, and the words:
“Out of the ancient womb comes the 21st century church.” She said “I declare that all things that are not of God that have been birthed in this place are cut off in the name of Jesus and that any false covenants, false creation or false birthings are cut off in Jesus name. We cancel it out and nail it to the cross of Calvary.
We pray sterility over it, miscarriage over it and abortion over it in Jesus name. Sterility. It will not be able to come to full term. But we speak life to it to birth things that are of God. We speak life to it and draw forth that life from it.
This is a beautiful place. You’ve created it to remind us of You, not any other god so we speak here this day that this land be a monument to You and not to any other god from this day forward. It will birth the children of God. The earth itself cries out to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to come out and come forth into the kingdom of God. So, we open up a well of salvation in this place. Pour out rivers of healing waters from this place.
From this day forth salvation will come forth from this place. This very earth, this very waterhole, this very rock is calling out to the people to come into the kingdom of God so we open up the wells of salvation. Pour out rivers of salvation from this place. We declare that healing rivers will pour forth from this place. We speak that the children of this nation of all ages will come into the kingdom.
The earth and the Holy Spirit call you into Jesus’ arms. I prophesy a huge revival across this nation! We break off the tomb over the womb in Jesus’ name. We break off a spirit of death over this place in Jesus’ name and we say that what You wanted from the beginning will come forth in this place. We speak that a nation can be born again in a day.
We declare that from this day forward, this will be a place of pilgrimage where people will meet with You just as people make pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Lourdes. This will be a place of pilgrimage because they will know they will meet You here. People will come to this water to be healed just as they went to the Pool of Siloam to be healed. We speak that the mountains and the trees and every living thing including human beings will sing praises to God. This will be a place of praise. “
One of the women prayed that the pastors speak to this rock for rivers of living water to pour forth. Another woman read Isaiah 26:1-2 – a song will be sung in the land of Judah, open the gates that righteousness may enter. Then v 14-15 – “they are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin and you wiped out all memory of them. You have enlarged the nation O Lord“
Norman read Isaiah 9:6-7 and prayed that the government of Australia would be upon the shoulders of Jesus and that there would be godly alignment of government structures. He prayed that the government would align itself with godly authority; that the government would have God’s heart, godly order, and ways.
Shirley Miller, Norman’s mother, said she remembered a song about ‘whither pilgrims are you going.” She said with joy we draw water from the wells of salvation.
Barbara asked for Aboriginal men to pray. Ps Peter Walker from Sydney spoke of John 4 the Samaritan woman at the well and the mountains worshipped on. He suggested that it was time to not worship as in the traditions of the past but to worship God in spirit and truth. He also spoke of the broken cisterns of Jeremiah’s time.
He said the Hebrew word of water is maim and the name of the rainbow serpent or water serpent in Aboriginal is Miamba. He said the woman who followed Paul in Phillipi had a spirit of divination or python spirit. He said rather than scattering let someone lead and we all focus on the one point.
So Barbara asked people to pray in tongues and to pray in concert as she prayed. She spoke to the python spirit and said,
“Your time has come! You are no longer welcome in this place! Your time has come! This is no longer your domain! We command you right now to come out of this waterhole in Jesus’ name! Leave this waterhole in Jesus’ name! Spirit of divination, leave this waterhole in Jesus’ name.
You’ll not drink from this waterhole any longer! This place will not support or nourish you any longer! We speak that this place will not receive you but will reject you! That the land itself will vomit you out! Push you out! It will not want you because you make it poisonous, barren, and lifeless.
We break off all restrictions associated with the python spirit in Jesus’ name and we cut off that spirit that would squeeze the life out of Christians in the name of Jesus.”
As Barbara continued to pray in this vein for some time, the people were singing “Oh the Blood of Jesus”, blowing the shofar, or praying. We were all of one accord. It was as if we’d all come to take this place back for the Lord and we meant business. There was much prayer.
Norman said this same spirit is a world ruler. In 1998 at Jerusalem, he had repented on behalf of Indigenous people and other Australians for the promotion of the rainbow serpent. He had also led a small prayer delegation on Sydney Harbor Bridge to take authority over the rainbow serpent in February 2001 after it had been flashed over the Bridge with the New Year’s Eve fireworks.
He had read Isaiah 27. He asked the people assembled at Uluru to repent for exporting the rainbow serpent overseas and taking financial advantage of it in Australia through merchandising. Non-indigenous people have to repent as well. We need to take responsibility and accountability. Those assembled did so.
Barbara said that before continuing with the rainbow serpent, if they could finish the python spirit. She wanted to pray in the opposite to fill the void. She said Gloria had broken off the curse of barrenness. As we’ve now broken off the restrictions and squeezing the life out of the python spirit so we need to pray in expansion. Someone can pray the Jabez prayer.
Barbara read Isaiah 54:1-4. “Sing O barren woman, you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband says the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. Do not be afraid you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace, you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood”.
Barbara said, “This (Is 54:1-4) is a word from the Lord for the nation of Australia:
“God is going to enlarge the church in this nation. Where the church has been desolate, God is going to bring expansion. This is corporate. This is what God’s doing, not you or me. God is doing this through those assembled here. God is going to enlarge the place of your tent. When you go home, tell your pastors to build a bigger church. We’re gong to have spiritual children in place of the barrenness.”
Norman declared a church without walls and Barbara agreed – a church without walls, expanding into the community. Some churches in Australia are shrinking e.g., Catholic and Anglican. But God is going to bring expansion to His kingdom in Australia. There’s going to be revival.
Barbara then read from Isaiah 66:7-9. Can a country be born in a day? Yes! Can Australia be born again in a day? Yes!! Those gathered declared this. “Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?’ says the Lord. No!! Barbara declared, “There’s a delivery going on here. There’s a birthing going on here. God’s redemptive plans and purposes for Australia are being born here. “
Barbara Jennings said she saw a birthing canal and water and blood.
Ps Peter Dunn said the Lord had been speaking to other intercessors who weren’t here but who had been listening to the Lord in support of this program. Issues in our history are the treatment of Aborigines, prisoners rebelling against authority, the treatment of migrants, the Eureka Stockade etc. There is a connection between these things and what comes through a spirit of Baal.
He said the Afghan camel riders rode the land speaking the Qu’ran and Islam into the land and particularly into the waters. They called their religion a religion of submission, not of submission to the Lord but a conquering spirit. It’s a militant spirit.
Gloria Dyer aid the Lord showed her Baal worship here about 3 years ago.
Barbara said she fully agreed but was checking to see what Peter had in mind to do because if it was short, we could do it now but if it needed some time to do it properly, it would be good to finish the rainbow serpent prayer off because that was the present flow, and then come back to the Baal/Islam prayer.
Norman likened the Afghan/Muslim claim on Australia and intermarriage to Aborigines to the Gibeonite deception of Joshua and mentioned the rainbow serpent’s use of alcohol to control his people. Norman said that as gatekeepers and watchmen we had allowed things into the garden and God speaks against irresponsible watchmen. (We had wanted to deal with this Islam/Afghan issue at some time during the conference so it is good that it happened at the rock. We sensed before Uluru that it would be like a Mt Carmel confrontation.)
Peter said it was short so Barbara said for Peter to lead us now and he said he believed what was required to deal with Baal was a Joshua strategy of a 7 fold victory shout of saying the Lion of the tribe of Judah 7 times with increasing intensity. We did this and ended with more roars, shofar blowing, and shouts of victory.
Norman said this was part of the 7 shifts we’ve been doing. He then completed leading the prayer re the rainbow serpent. He read Isaiah 27.1:
“In that day, the Lord will punish with His sword, His fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; He will slay the monster of the sea.” He said “I read this here in your presence today. God is going to slay this reptile of the sea.”
Norman said to pray that the tourism industry would not feed that thing. He asked if there was a tourist operator who could stand in the gap to repent. Geoffrey Stokes, an Aboriginal pastor from Kalgoorlie stood in the gap for tourist operators re the use of the rainbow serpent.
Norman asked people to blow their shofars and he did as well. Singing broke out. Barbara prayed. Norman prayed to crush the serpent and its eggs in the name of Jesus and he asked us to prophetically stamp our feet and crush its eggs. He said “No more hatching. No more hatching. We march along as the army of the living God with the serpent under our feet. We crush your head and we break your back in Jesus’ name. Let the roar go forth!” There were roars and more shofar blowing and flag waving.
Joye Alit led us in a song “And I will serve no foreign gods.”
Barbara declared,
“We speak that no longer will the people of the land call out to the rainbow serpent, Wanampi, for water as they have traditionally done in this place but to You O Lord for the natural and the living water. We declare that the people will see that the rainbow serpent has lost his power and we speak that they will no longer invoke his name.”
Muriel Jencke and Ruth Webb were holding a banner “Elohim Bara” declaring God the Creator.
During his session at the convocation, Ps Vuniani Nakauyaca, our speaker from Fiji, had prepared, with the Aboriginal leaders, some water that had been cleansed with salt, anointed with oil, been used to wash the feet of non-Indigenous leaders, and then mixed with the red earth of the land. It had then been blessed and prayed over and the land was dedicated to the Lord.
This was now to be used to cleanse and heal the Mutitjulu waterhole. He said:
“It is an honour for me to be here, especially after we have been through the process today of cleaning it up. We’ve done confession and cleansing. This is a wellspring. You know the spiritual significance of the place. It is time to make a declaration. Prophetically you speak what you want for your tribe or nation as you scoop up the soil and water with your hands and put it in the waterhole eg the end to tribal fighting etc. This place will be no longer sacred as it was but sacred to the Lord and everyone who comes here will be impacted and touched, including tourists. I’m sensing something opening up already. God is rejoicing already.”
He asked Ps Carl Musch to pray first. He said the first thing Jesus asked us to do was to repent, to change our thinking. The rock was the centre of the nation.
As the people, one by one, took the soil and water in their hands and cast it into the waterhole with their prayers, Gloria knelt before Brendon and said that she gave him back his shield that our women knocked from his hand. She asked forgiveness for Aboriginal women taking spiritual authority from the men and prophetically gave it back and asked God to raise him and them as mighty warriors for Him.
This was important in that it came in the opposite spirit of a story of the place where the python woman knocked his shield from the hands of a Liru or poisonous snake man and killed him in revenge because her nephew had been killed in revenge earlier by his tribe.
Muriel Jenke had given Norman some white stones in Thailand at the Bangkok Breakthrough conference, which he took to Uluru. The stones were thrown prophetically to the north, south, east, and west, 3 for the tribes and 3 with the scriptures in each direction. The white stones were calling new life to the tribes and the coloured stones declared the word of God.
Brendon Cook threw the last six stones together into the water. Five formed a cross with one stone further out as a Joshua stone. The cross was last year raised prophetically across the nation before the 24/7 convocation in Canberra by the Bendigo intercessors.
Roger Wall, one of the intercessors from our Tabernacle of David church in Cairns had a piece of coal that came from Wales and was given to our church by intercessors Gail and Rowland, believing to sow some seeds of the Welsh revival. He threw it into the Mutitjulu waterhole and prayed for revival over Australia and beyond, knowing that this was a birthing place.
The most amazing thing happened as we left the rock (Uluru). Veronica Coutts from Palm Island took a photograph of Uluru on her digital camera and it showed a snake with its head cut off (cut in two) and it was rising up from the bottom to the top of the rock and leaving with its eggs. John Andrews also captured it on their camera. The Lord had His way.
Witches had been trying to infiltrate and thwart our conference all week but they left after the prayer at Uluru showing that they could no longer draw power from the rock. We had witches stalking our worship team and we had to remove a few women dancing like snakes during worship.
We urge you to pray to continue to hold the territory taken as we know that witches from around the world come to Uluru and try to activate the powers of darkness. However, Dianne Taylor believes what happened is unstoppable and relates it to a prophecy of Dr Ian Pelser some years ago:
“As I watched it formed into the head of a spear and the shaft attached to it were the evangelists, pastors, and teachers. The head of the spear was the apostles and prophets that needed to meet and to gain strength in the truth that this really was what God was calling them for in this end-time work. Then as this was accepted it became the spearhead… and as the word went out and they became accepted and working in their positions the shaft became attached to the spear and itbecame ‘what was thrust into the earth, piercing the hearts of men in holy conviction unto salvation and the harvest became “unstoppable’.”
There are some conference videos available and a video of the prayer at Uluru is available:
What on earth could a caterpillar have to do with politics or worship or – wait for it- the Voice?
Dream
On the night of 24 March, I had a strange dream about a caterpillar-like creature that was light blue and see-through and maybe 2ft long and very light that would occasionally somersault and moved around a lot. I couldn’t see any legs. It was kind of floating just above the ground. I say caterpillar because it had a curvy body like waves up and down.
There was an old white woman on my right and somehow her head got attached (sewn on with needle and thread) to both ends of the caterpillar. I don’t know if she was decapitated as I didn’t see her after this happened but there was no blood and her head was shrunk to fit the size of the caterpillar. It seemed to move from left to right even though it had 2 heads.
There was a woman on the other side of the caterpillar whom I could not see but she said she owned it and called it a train, “That’s my train.”
I don’t usually remember dreams but this image is staying with me still many days later. My husband Norman woke me up at one point because I was making a noise. I said I’m OK I’m praying against something. I went straight back to sleep and don’t remember anything about it but I don’t think it was the same dream as the caterpillar. When I woke up in the morning, I remembered the caterpillar dream and all I was getting was that it was a hybrid – part insect part human – not good.
Norman came up with the words train wreck, miscarriage, and two-faced. Also, the caterpillar in the Bible that destroys crops, finances etc. And also, that caterpillars transform into butterflies.
Cartoon re train
I was surprised when I was researching a photo to go with my article about the Voice that I found one (and used it) about a train with Voice written on it that was coming around a corner very fast and about to run over Opposition Leader Peter Dutton who was on the rail track. Someone was calling to him to “train coming!” So, is this caterpillar symbolic of the Voice?
Caterpillar Dreaming
Well, as you might imagine, I was reluctant to share this with anyone. However, I did share it with one trusted intercessor and her husband and she said the two women in the dream could be witches. She asked me if there was anything in Aboriginal culture about caterpillars. I immediately said yes, there is a caterpillar dreaming in the Northern Territory.
So, I searched for it on the internet and found that the story is actually around Alice Springs. Interesting considering all the problems that have made headlines recently there re youth crime, alcohol abuse, and family violence. See “Prayer Points for Alice Springs and All Communities Affected by Similar Issues” https://reconciliationandpeace.org/2023/02/reconciliation-newz-buzz-feb-2023-no-2/ and “God’s Voice Shakes the Desert” prophetic word and message by Ps Norman Miller 29.1.23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60GJRNMzwXw
But there was much more. I came across an article about the caterpillar dreaming that said it was the story of three caterpillars and one of them was greenish blue. These caterpillars turn into the hawk moth.. It is a creation story where the caterpillars form the land around Alice Springs. They are decapitated and form the MacDonnell ranges.
The last sentence was very interesting because it quoted a renowned elder of the area, Wenten Rabuntja, whom I knew of when he chaired the Central Land Council, using the word train.
This seemed to be a lot of coincidences – a blue caterpillar, a decapitation and a train.
Emily Gap signboard from Innerscribe website
Yipirinya means caterpillar in Arrernte and the region was created by giant caterpillars. Their creation story begins at Anthwerrke (Emily Gap), just east of Alice Springs in the East McDonnell Ranges. They then travelled west towards Alice Springs creating the topographical features along the way. The story goes:
“But after leaving Ntyarlkarle Tyaneme, they came upon the ilperenye (green beetle men) at Ntaripe (Heavitree Gap). There a great battle took place, with the caterpillars defeated and many beheaded, their bodies now forming parts of the McDonnell Ranges, joined head to tail as travelling caterpillars are seen to do, their decapitations creating the spectacular gorges that cut through the ranges.”
The writers emphasise the inclusiveness of the story,
“Indeed, the Arrernte see this inclusiveness as intrinsic to the Caterpillar Dreaming. The story emphasises that the caterpillars converged on Alice Springs from all directions – north, south, east and west. Mparntwe (Alice Springs) is “everybody’s four corners” a meeting place – where people from all over (indigenous and non-indigenous alike) are “all mixed up together” – a place in which everyone can belong, a melting pot in which all work together in community. As one Arrernte elder expressed it so eloquently:
We got to be like the two train-lines. That train, he cannot run on just one line.” (Wenten Rubuntja)
If you have followed the journey of constitutional recognition, you will know that it has morphed (changed slowly) and then undergone a metamorphosis or transformed significantly over the years just as a caterpillar transforms radically into a butterfly or moth. However, this is seen especially since the meeting at Uluru where it changed from recognition in, and removal of racism from, the constitution to Voice Treaty Truth. It was a seismic shift that all state and territories are moving to implement, not just the federal government.
Blue Caterpillar makes its way into the media
The blue caterpillar or hornworm is also in the Alice in Wonderland story using a hookah to smoke tobacco. He tells her to eat the mushroom so she can magically change her size.
Norman said that he thought there was a usurping spirit behind the Voice. I said yes, I agree, and amazingly, the blue caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland is called Absolem (a similar name for the usurping spirit, Absalom.) https://tvovermind.com/caterpillar-alice-in-wonderland/
I researched the hawk moth and found there is a cartoon where the blue caterpillar uses the strong feelings of people to magically turn them into evil humans in exchange for helping them reach their goals.
Okay, these are all stories -a dreamtime story, a movie and a cartoon. But is there anything else here? Magic is still practiced in central Australia according to Aboriginal pastors.
Trains and songlines
Our church hosted a conference in Parliament House Canberra in 2004, the head of the nation and then in Uluru the heart of the nation in 2005. At a visit to the Institute of Aboriginal and Torrres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra around this time, I was told there is a songline from AIATSIS to Uluru and shown the spot as it was marked. At that time, I was not used to carrying a mobile phone and so I didn’t take a photo and I can’t find a photo now. However, there are prominent projects re songlines and one of them is about a train. There is an Aboriginal song about it as it traverses their country as songlines do. Their website says:
“The Nyamal train song is known as a Japi song, a public song that was composed by Pilbara stockman Mangkayipirti or Larry Brown. It tells of the sights and sounds of the train’s journey through Nyamal country.” https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/singing-train
AIATSIS explains that, “Ancient songlines criss-cross the continent and link people, places, and practice. By singing the songlines, Elders evoke the ancient stories of Country.” https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/marlaloo-songline
There is a big effort in Australia to reactivate the songlines which are worldwide:
“Songlines or Song line in Australia refers to the Earth’s subtle energy currents – known as ley lines in UK, snake lines in India, Dragon lines in China – also related to the Hartmann and Curries lines known well in Germany, geomancy and feng shui.” https://www.spiritsafaris.com/songlines/
Two heads or two-faced
Occasionally we have two heads in nature e.g. in snakes and turtles. It’s generally interpreted as a lack of responsibility and accountability because of undefined authority or boundaries and leads to confusion. I can see this in the Voice and I can see the two heads are the ALP represented by Prime Minister Albanese and the Referendum Working Group.
Interestingly, a “two-headed woman” is a traditional African American term used to describe women gifted with access to the spirit world as well as to the material world.
Wesley’s Revelation 9:19 Bible Commentary
Revelation 9:19 “The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.” NIV)
This commentary says,
“Their riders fight retreating as well as advancing: so that their rear is as terrible as their front.
For their tails are like serpents, having heads — Not like the tails of serpents only. They may be fitly compared to the amphisbena, a kind of serpent, which has a short tail, not unlike a head from which it throws out its poison as if it had two heads.” https://www.godtube.com/bible/revelation/9-19
The amphisbena is an ant-eating serpent from Greek mythology which had two heads.
But what about two-faced? The Cambridge dictionary says, “Someone who is two-faced is not sincere, saying unpleasant things about you to other people while seeming to be pleasant when they are with you.”
If we apply the above to the Voice, there is the potential for deceit, characteristic of the serpent, the potential to be destructive and hurt, and the potential to be insincere and mislead.
Train wreck and miscarriage of justice
One news commentator has since called the proposed referendum on the Voice a train wreck. Is it justice for less than 4% of the population to override or hold to ransom over 96% of the population? As Prime Minister Albanese said, it would be a brave government that would reject the advice of the Voice. (The Australian 3.8.22)
False worship?
Obviously, I was not going to release this without much prayer about it. After all, I have been a supporter of Indigenous rights for 50 years, often at the coalface. But it is the Lord’s Voice that must hold pre-eminence over other voices. I need to be prepared to sacrifice friendships and my good name and my pet theories if that’s what the Lord calls for. So, the rubber hits the road.
As I prayed for confirmation that my dream was from the Lord rather than one that was not relevant, I felt the scripture of Leviticus 14:12 was highlighted to me.
“Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.”
I then got 2 Corinthians 5:18-20:
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”
Reconciliation May Go Backward Rather Than Forward
Briefly, there have been huge strides towards reconciliation between First Nations and others in our nation. The Voice is liable to take us backwards rather than forwards as it is a divisive process.
Not only that, it has the potential to be very divisive for First Nations people with each other. When the National Native Title Act 1993 came in, many First Nations people saw it as a step forward but it has created huge divisions with Aboriginal groups fighting each other for many years over who has native title to various areas all around Australia.
Politics of Atonement
So, what do we have here? The place for making things right is primarily between us and God but we also need to make it right with those we’ve wronged. Matthew 5:23-24:
“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.”
For those who are trying to make things right with our First Nations or Indigenous people, this is a worthy endeavour. However, if we are not guided by God in how to do it, can we make mistakes? Yes, we can.
I prayed that if the Voice is a guilt offering to make things right and reconcile further with First Nations people, what are we offering or laying down or sacrificing and what is the altar on which we are offering it?
Is it equality of citizenship? Is it our desire to have a society free of racism and discrimination? Is it democracy? Is it our Judeo-Christian heritage? Are we opening the door of parliament and government for an Aboriginal earth religion? And is it the altar of woke or the altar of race?
Is the ancient serpent trying to further take over our government? Let’s face it, the serpent has already made plenty of inroads. Our constitution and government are based on Judeo-Christian values and these are increasingly being challenged.
What is power-sharing like in a democracy? The doctrine of the separation of powers divides the institutions of government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial: the legislature makes the laws; the executive puts the laws into operation; and the judiciary interprets the laws.
If someone or something really wanted to undermine our democracy, how would they do it? Why of course, add a fourth arm just as powerful as the three existing pillars – the Voice with the power to be consulted early by the legislature (parliament) and the executive (ministers and public service) on most matters.
If the Voice is not satisfied that it has been consulted properly or heard with effect, it can challenge the matter in the high court (the judiciary). It will have the constitutional right to do so if the referendum later this year is successful. This is not a modest proposal as Albanese says, but a radical one.
Is there a connection between Uluru and the Caterpillar Dreaming?
The recognition of First Nations people in the constitution has been a long process and I have covered it in my book Secrets and Lies (www.barbara-miller-books.com).
The Uluru Statement from the Heart which has led us to where we are today was made symbolically at Uluru, the heart of the nation on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum which enabled First Nations people to be counted in the census and for the federal government to legislate regarding them.
Did the location of Uluru make a difference? Why did I see a caterpillar if the caterpillar story has no connection to Uluru? What are the dreamtime stories around Uluru?
Norman and I and our Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace hosted a conference at Uluru in 2005 at which First Nations and other Christians came from all over Australia. We were welcomed by traditional owner Bob Randall who spoke at our conference and sang his famous song for us Brown Skin Baby.
Well, we certainly stirred up the witches. Firstly, we had a call from Pastor Noel Mann that there was a group in Brisbane who put a huge advertisement in The Courier Mail maintaining that they were hosting our conference and inviting people to attend a preliminary meeting in Brisbane. We quickly flew to Brisbane and confronted them at the meeting. We also watched the registrations coming in to make sure we didn’t register them.
While we were at Uluru, we had witches stalking the rooms of our worship team. We had hired the Tent of Promise tent and at the conference itself, we had uninvited women dancing like snakes during the worship who had to be removed. It was a full-on battle. After we prayed and took authority over opposing spirits at the base of Uluru, it all stopped so they were probably drawing their power from there. Fortunately, it was an amazingly successful conference and we haven’t had that type of direct confrontation again.
Prayer at the base of Uluru at our 2005 conference – Healing the Land, Healing the People
We went to the base of the rock Uluru and had an amazing time of worship and prayer with many Aboriginal elders and non-Indigenous prayer warriors. As we went to board our buses back to where we were staying, two people took photos of the rock and both reported that night that on their cameras were photos of the rainbow serpent and its eggs leaving the rock. They had not seen it in the natural.
The Lord had been at work! Unfortunately, because of its sacred nature, new agers, the occult, and the local Aboriginal people reinvoke the ancient spirits of the land. So, while amazing ground was taken in the spirit, it is not easy to maintain it.
I studied the local stories before we went to Uluru and spoke about them in a spiritual mapping session at our conference. The creation story of the Anangu people of Uluru is all about snakes.
“There lived two tribes of ancestral spirits. Invited to a grand dinner, they did not show up because they were distracted by the Sleepy Lizard Women. The hosts, in anger, sang evil into the mud sculpture, which thereupon came to life. Then began a massive battle, which resulted in deaths of leaders of both tribes. Due to the amount of bloodshed, and remorse felt by the Earth itself, it rose in grief, becoming Uluru.” https://oursonglines.com/blog/uluru-dreamtime
The rainbow serpent is seen as the main creator spirit in Aboriginal Australia, its creative stories belonging to many tribes. Wanampi is the Anangu Pitjantjatjara word meaning rainbow serpent and they are believed to be dangerous creatures guarding waterholes. Anne Axelby, Flinders University, says in Wanampi: Rainbow Serpent of the Desert that:
“It is said that Wanampi assumes the form of a rainbow when offended. In its rainbow state, the Wanampi is revered by Anangu, but the Wanampi can kill intruders by taking their spirit.”
Conclusion
There does not appear to be any significant relationship between the caterpillar dreaming and the dreamtime stories of Uluru. It is likely to be a coincidence that there are 3 caterpillars at Alice Springs and 3 snakes at Uluru – python, Liru the venomous snake, and Wanampi, the rainbow serpent. However, I think we need to keep in mind the role of the snake in Genesis and the role of the serpent in Revelation. We may think these are just stories but there are spiritual realities behind them.
The Lord has been putting on my heart the words enchantment and bewitched. The church and other faith leaders have come out publicly in support of the Voice:
“The Catholic, Uniting and Anglican churches, the Australian National Council of Imams and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry on Friday will join Australian Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus and the National Council of Churches at Barangaroo in Sydney to endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart.” Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli told The Oz: “I am personally moved by the deep yearning expressed in the Statement from the Heart, and I am so encouraged that faith leaders have offered a response from the heart of their own spiritual traditions.” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/the-oz/news/aussie-religious-leaders-call-for-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament/news-story/0f440d4098b87120ef33593ed121ae65
I was led to the verse:
“You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.” (Galations 3:1 NIV)
I think it’s important that I note that I respect Aboriginal culture and I think that other Australians should also. Nevertheless, we need to discern the difference between respecting it and making an idol of it.
I am reminded that many years ago, an Aboriginal priest from Yarrabah said to me, tapping his chest, “I’m a culture man but the church expects me to give up Aboriginal culture.”
This was a dilemma for him, feeling torn between the two. I said, “It doesn’t matter whether you are black or white, you need to give up those parts of your culture that don’t line up with the word of God and keep those parts that do.”
I gave some examples – loving money more than God, making an idol of sport, or of achieving fame or anything that we give higher allegiance to than God or would offend God. He gave a sigh of relief, saying that he didn’t realise that white people had to examine and give up parts of their culture too.
I do want to also call out syncretism within the church, a matter I will come back to.
