Introduction

It is Thursday 26th January 2023 … but in Sept 2001, while washing dishes, I found myself singing – “I am he that liveth, that liveth and was dead, behold I am alive forever more.”

This is from Revelation 1:18,

“I AM He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I AM alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”

I realise that in part, today, we have entered far more deeply into these moments and times.

So I sense to share what was written then – because – it was written then, partly for now … Today I add … it seems every time there is a specific crisis The LORD brings this to the forefront.

But about a month ago, I was led to consider sharing it. But, being uncertain I let it lay.

Until today … where on this site, HKP, I saw a word shared by Deborah W Fry … “The True LORD of the Rings“ … 23rd January 2023.

Rather than just insert this into your topic… I thought it best that you, experience, what God is saying to you and us all. Then you can decide what you would like to do with it.

I simply hope that His Word will shine through whatever darkness is being shed in the storm that is raging; that His Words will be His Rebuke — and ours — to the wind and the waves and silence … the howling of its wind …

Why? Because in advance of the storm, He tells us, He purposes us, to … come over to the other side!

The Ring — The LORD Of The Rings

This Word has again come to me on a number of occasions over the past 4/5 weeks. I believe it may be appropriate for our time (and now — and future), and hopefully is encouraging.

But I would say to you that generally speaking, it is wonderful to have God doing great things — a healing, a testimony, deliverance — seeing Him move in His miraculous ways.

And how we wish these moments would be more often and more continuous — it’s great when times and things go well and go right — glory to Him then.

But equally, there are times when things do not go well, glory to him then also.

In fact, they often go in reverse, go wrong, things which could have gone in this direction go that way, things which should have succeeded do not; effort on our behalf that should bring reward and success doesn’t, it seems to fail, to fall and its energies dissipate like mist and fall like dust.

Apparent blessings no longer happen and life seems to have you by the neck and the question we ask is — is God still in this thing? Is God still with Me? Is God still for me?

Sometimes we may feel as if we believe, other times it is clear we do not. So on the one hand it may be unwise to think that bad things should or will not happen to you — this is untrue — in this world you will have trouble — “But fear not, for I AM with you, and I have overcome the world!”

It may also be equally untrue to say that because bad things happen, God is not in it or with it.

Some of you may be facing trouble and problems now, some of you perhaps not, but sometimes we need to be prepared.

Take for instance the Fisherman upon the seas — who goes out to fish in his boat to catch a catch,.

Does he go without first checking the weather, or without having the right vessel and right clothes, his oilskins?

He, if he’s wise, needs advance preparation or knowledge. — EVEN then — we can sometimes be caught unaware.

But God’s Word says, “I do not want you to be unaware” — and even a good weather forecast can throw up the sudden unexpected storm, that when caught up in it may go on for days and sometimes for weeks.

With this in mind, this is what I believe Father wants to bring to you.

I was at Church a while ago and found myself reflecting on the book “The Trilogy, Lord of the Rings.”

I remembered how there were several rings, but that there was “one ring that would rule them, the one ring to find them, the one ring to bring them all, the one ring binding them ”

There was the one ring. The book and film was very much a story of the search for this one ring by the enemy’s of the realm and for the ring bearer himself.

In The Bible, the number seven (7) is thought of as the number of perfection. As I continued to think, verses in the book of Revelation came to mind.

In Revelation 1:9–20, it it speaks of the 7 Churches and the 7 Golden Lamp Stands and of The LORD Himself; His Face was like the sun, shining in all its brilliance.

In verse 20 it says, spoken of by The LORD Jesus,

“the mystery of the 7 stars that you saw in my right hand and of the 7 golden lamp stands is this. The seven stars are the angels of the 7 Churches and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches.”

This is how I related it to the story of The LORD of the Rings.

To me The Seven Churches represented The Perfect Church, perfected in Jesus.

This in their total, was His one Church, the sum of the perfect whole.

These Seven Churches mirrored the seven rings that existed in the book and film and that Jesus had an aspect of the Church, where? Jesus had this there, IN HIS HAND. — for in his hand he had 7 stars, which the word says, were 7 angels.

I feel the angels, represent things that are SPIRITUAL – and these are held, and held in PERFECT SPIRITUAL BALANCE in Jesus’ hand.

In other words things pertaining to the Church, to you, to me, to us all, were and still are, held securely in HIS hand.

In another sense as stated in the book and film, there was ONE ring that would bind and unite them all. You are his one ring….

Corinthians and Ephesians talks about The Holy Spirit as being given as an earnest, a guarantee, a deposit of what is fully and finally to come and it is often spoken of The Spirit been given, as a sign and symbol of an engagement that has already taken place through our new birth in Christ.

We have been engaged to Christ as his fully intended bride. And His Spirit, if you like, is His Engagement Ring to The Church, for The Wedding that is about to come.

What does this tell us — many things perhaps — but to me it tells me this.

Not only are you IN his hand, but you are also, ON His finger.

He wears YOU — His Church — AS THE ONE RING — as would a husband wear the ring upon his wedding finger.

You see, LOVE is the one ring that binds them all — the ONE RING of love combining them all.

The nation Israel considered an engagement AS ALREADY WED. The love He loves Israel with, He loves you with.

“The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.” Revelation 1:20

Looking at Revelation 1:20, where are you? Where does he have you? Now, today?

He has you IN His hand — and He has you ON His finger.

He does not hold you as a juggler might, balancing and throwing balls up in the air with one hand, in order to cause the audience to see how daring he is and how he can have you gasping at his dexterity, with the thought that perchance he might drop you. N

o, he has you held within the BALANCE of BOTH his hands, exercising control for you and does not play with you as one would a toy.

And because this picture is also of The Bride who is yet fully to be, you can be sure that in order to fully and finally bring you to your wedding place, that you are not just in His hand or on his finger, but constantly ON HIS MIND — and the reason for that, is that you are constantly IN HIS SIGHT — as sure as that ring is constantly on HIS finger, so are you constantly in his sight.

Why, for He constantly sees His Spirit, His Deposit in and on you, guaranteeing you, marking you — as His Bride, and He wears you and it with pride — in the same way that THE Wedding Ring He sees upon HIS Finger, marks you as His Bride.

This mirrors in a similar way to the one who is engaged, making PREPARATION for the Day itself, the Great Wedding Feast of the Lamb.

Even an engagement ring REMINDS the bride of the wedding to BE — and it is its SIGHT, SEEING of it that fills her with joy.

Why are you constantly on His Mind and constantly in His Sight?

Because…. you are constantly in His Hands and constantly on His Finger

And because you are constantly in His Hands and constantly on His Finger

You are also therefore, as are ALL THINGS, — constantly IN HIS CONTROL, despite what is going on with you or around you, whether within The Church, or out of it. Control and balance may be beyond our scope, it is not beyond His.

This vision and prophecy we have just read about were given to the apostle John in the Book of Revelation — and were given him on the island of Patmos, in what were bleak and hard times, in times of trial, difficulty and unrest. — he personally was experiencing forced hardship in the island’s mines.

Despite this, and IN THIS, The LORD Jesus Himself appeared to John and gave him some of the most wonderful, awesome and encouraging revelations.

Just as he did to his namesake John, the Baptist, who when locked up in prison, at the day of execution — DOUBTED — because things had gone wrong and perhaps not according to what he had expected — and asked via messenger if HE JESUS was REALLY the one or had JOHN made a mistake and should he expect another.

John was in prison because he had done the right thing in exposing the adultery in the ruling governments family.

We also can and do doubt like Him if things go wrong, especially when we do the right thing!

In Luke 7:22-23… these were Christ’s words to him,

”Replying to his, doubt, to Johns concern, “Go back and report to John, what you have seen and heard. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of Me.”

No, he had not made a mistake — AND — The Kingdom continues, despite what’s happening.

In the light of what is going on with you, in the light of all that is going on around you — or all that is amiss or awry with your life or the world or the church.

Look at Madrid, Iraq or Israel, even in its present stripping of its communities or the two Tsunamis** (Christmas & Easter).

More, seen in the London/ Manchester bombings and the great storm Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico. Upheaval in Iran – the economic climate … even and especially — the Coronavirus as well as USA, Europe in disarray — God is in control of both it and you — and is concerned enough about you to take time and come to you with a message.

A Word that affirms you, strengthens you, warns and encourages you to see that The Kingdom STILL WILL and is continuing ON despite evidence seemingly to the contrary and that you are personally not forgotten.

I hear “There has not been a mistake, there has not been a fumble, YOU, the ball have not been dropped, nor you, the ring lost. Nor amidst the turmoil, the glare or the stares forgotten”

Nor is He dazzled nor blinded, for HIS is the face shining like the sun in all its brilliance, the blinding brilliance of his all great love — in the unrest, in the fire and in the trial is one seen…. like the Son of man — shining on you and with you, even through, beyond and above the fiery flames of the furnace — and how great is the Shining one when he appears.

His feet, like yours, are positioned with you, standing in the same fire, the same trials that you are standing in.

Want more convincing? Okay…. For you He says, “One more then!”

Gollum, you know was a creature that had walked many different paths, not all of them bad and his pursuits, particularly after the ring, had led him to the depths of torture and of dismay.

Perhaps we may feel we have been where he is. Gollum perhaps is a picture of man in his utter despair — and such was his fixation and obsession, actually called the ring, “his precious”.

This is precisely what he our God and Father calls you!

“Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life.” Isaiah.43:4.

Precious! Precious and honoured are you in my sight and I love you, you and all the Gollum’s are precious to him.

Hear these words, they are written especially from him to you, as he looks towards you his ONE RING, secured and secure on His own finger.

“You — you are my precious, precious ones, — you are the ones I most seek after. You are in my hands, you are on My Finger, you are constantly on my mind, you are constantly in My Sight, and you are constantly in My Control.

Precious and honoured are you in My Sight and I Love you.”

To round it off — after receiving this and pondering over it, asking God, to confirm his word and wondering like many do, did I really hear right — this incident I’m about to describe to you happened a day or two after, being given the go ahead to share it with you.

I work(ed) in a Youth Centre and in the morning around 8:00 am I arrive and meet with J our head cleaner before work. But straight away, she seemed eager to say something to me.

She says to me, “Have you seen my new Ring? Would you like a look?”

“Okay… let’s see it then!” I say. So she takes this gold ring off her finger and hands it to me. O

n the outside, it had little footprints, imprints of bare feet, indented into the gold — like the ones in The Footsteps poem, walking right around the outside of the ring encircling it from start to finish.

“Wonderful!” I said.

“Look on the inside!” she said — and there inside the Ring were words engraved — not the whole footsteps poem, but some of the key words.

Wonderful to look at — but the words clearly had a start and a finish, so that you could recognise the start of the message inside — the inside part that is closest and touches the skin.

Just like you, His ring, touches His skin as He wears you.

The first words that started the engraving were. “MY PRECIOUS CHILD” — well how wonderful — what a way to confirm His Word, prepared for me BEFORE I had asked for it!

If it was prepared for me — it was (and is) prepared for you

With it I heard him say these words concerning the footsteps around the circumference of the Ring —He said, “My walk with you is continuous and complete, there is no part of your walk or circumference of you life that is not reached, and covered or included or left untouched”

It was then that he reminded me that he had said sometime whilst I was preparing this for you.

YOU ARE ENGRAVED upon the PALMS OF MY HANDS – I HEAR HIM SAY AGAIN, “You are engraved upon the palms of My Hands!”

If you think of The Cross, BOTH hands were nailed securing for us freedom and control with God.

With these words he gave me a sense of his continuing presence with me — and He gave me a picture — of Joyce our cleaner, and Jesus Himself.

A man and a woman — I saw J extend her LEFT hand to him — The Wedding Hand — and Christ carefully took her hand into his RIGHT hand — like a bride presenting a hand to her groom, just like a wife to her husband, allowing him to take her by the hand.

With these images came His words – “You need only let Me take hold of your hand to allow Me to remind you of My constant Companionship, My constant Love and My constant Care.”

So every time I see J, I am reminded of His Love and constant companionship to me, likewise, can you see He extends His Hand to thee?

Over the days, God brought to me His prepared words, and THESE Words today that God has brought to you, were prepared for you, because He clearly loves you, He dearly cares for you and He wants you to know it, He wants you to hear it and He want you to believe it — ESPECIALLY NOW — and to stretch out your hand to Him, for He has and now is stretching His Hand out to you!

“My precious, My precious Child, you are My precious ones. You are the ones I most seek after.

I have you in My Hands. You, I have on My Finger, it is you whom I constantly think about.

It is you who are constantly in My Sight. You, are constantly in My control. Precious and honoured are you in My Sight and I Love you.”

This was given me early 2001.

How much more has changed and happened in the world, your Church and with yourself since then.

And TODAY, what is happening with you, His Church, His Bride — but praise be to God, His Word is eternal and will never pass away, but is set like the sun and the moon in the heavens, for you and is accessed by The One who loves you beyond price, Who now stands within the veil for you, interceding and making prayer for you; enjoining you to Father — His all embracing love, touching you, encircling you.

 

~ David Hood

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David Hood, is from Stanley, County Durham, England and was born-again 30 years ago. He began a more serious prophetic insight in the 90’s.

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