The Tabernacle Blog

Over 10 years ago while Mark & Helen were members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, they began to be stirred by ‘thin places’ that litter the landscape of the United Kingdom & Europe as they led teams of young adults on missions tours.

These ‘thin places’ where the distance between heaven & earth is so tangibly thin, began for them what is now their pursuit, creating such spaces for the presence of God. Affectionately they call them “Tabernacle Spaces”; a reference to the Tabernacles (special set apart places) of Moses & David that occurs in the Scriptures.

Over the years as they have lived in Germany, Australia & USA, Mark& Helen have witnessed the emergence of such ‘Tabernacles’ in the privacy of people’s homes as well as in public places such as church buildings.

From the very beginning, they have held a somewhat detailed vision of establishing a place where the nations would come to simply be in the presence of God. This ‘watering hole/presence place‘, they are now contending for in Sydney from the gateway of the Blue Mountains.

The vision they have seen is a property with one building centrally upon it surrounded by nature & space.

This building is the ‘Tabernacle space’. It is an open, accessible space full of light, continuous worship & the beauty of His presence. It is His space touched & filled by His presence.

Here people can freely seek God personally and corporately.

Mark & Helen are called to cultivate & nurture such a consecrated place devoted to Him. They are excited to help foster an atmosphere of praise & worship that delights the Father’s heart as people encounter His life changing presence, freedom & love!

For nearly 10 years now they have been & are seeing this in their ministry but believe that God wants to greatly increase this through a dedicated public Tabernacle Space.

This is a Christian Blog space specifically for people to write about their experiences with God in set apart Tabernacle spaces (‘modern day spaces’ like the Tabernacle of David or Tabernacle of Moses.)

Our desire is that this space would be a blessing & safe place for you to read and write what God is saying/showing. There are already some wonderful heart reflections and revelations here.

We have five categories:

My Tabernacle Experience: This is for blogging some personal experience in ‘Tabernacle’ places

Tabernacle at Home: This is for blogging your experience of setting up such spaces yourself. Many are the experiences all around the world.

Tabernacle Discussion: This is for blogging on topics and discussing about the Tabernacle. Please feel free to introduce a topic for discussion. ie. The Tabernacle of David, Old Covenant vs New Covenant.

Revelations about God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit: A place for bloggin your revelations about God, in Tabernacle spaces or from the Word or wherever. We love talking about how big, good and wonderful He is!

Sydney & the Blue Mountains – prophecy, words & pictures This is for reading & commenting on prophetic impressions from the nations written about the establishment of a Presence Place/Watering Hole.

Enjoy reading and getting a sense of what God is up to here. Feel free to add your own contribution or comment on what has already been written.

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K Johnson (USA)

“I love the pictures of Kurrajong, it’s so “outside the camp” & yet close enough in. There’s a good “feel” to that area …I just asked Him and I believe I heard “it’s the place where My glory dwells”. His land, Kurrajong is … a High Place for sure.

Scripture, as you know, says He rides the High Places of the earth … I see horses in the Spirit riding through/across that territory. I seem to be seeing horse’s hoofs pounding the ground … like a horse would just before riding out.

There are horses a plenty in that region not of this world, I can see it. They seem to be loosely gathered and milling about like you’d see in a movie when they come together before charging off on some adventure or purposed ride! I can see the breath from their nostrils as they neigh in anticipation, nodding their heads up & down. They are filled with purpose and really excited about it. This is sooooo coool. So powerful & beautiful and fearsome. They seem to be facing down the hill … maybe that’s where they’re headed? So maybe this is something that’s happening in preparation for something God is going to do in the (near) future(?) there… Their eyes seem to be blood-red in color, though not in a bad way, but good. I think of the Blood of Jesus, of course, and the “washing of the water of the Word” for some reason.

I also think of the Scripture in Revelations that says Jesus was riding on a white horse with His rode dipped in blood and the name “WORD OF GOD” written on Him. Hmmm, is there a blood cleansing of the land and people going back into the past (roots?) to present the Lord wants to do, for reclaiming and restoring the heritage of the Lord there, maybe in preparation for what He wants to do in the (near) future?

I don’t know that I can see the riders really clear, but I do see swords being brandished and waved about from these riders, which I believe are angelic hosts. Yes, they are brandishing swords, pure white silver swords, clean & pure (emphasis on pure — PURITY).

OK, now I see it raining, a plentiful rain spread abroad over the entire area … gentle and saturating and deeply penetrating and cleansing and refreshing and life-giving. Cleansing and life-giving.

Now I see blue skies over those blue mountains. And His Light so bright but not from the physical sun. Just deep blue skies and bright, bright light over the land & people. And a golden “hue” over the landscape.

I also seem to be seeing those swords now being driven into the ground, as if the riders, after doing what they were commissioned to do, are now staking the ground upon which they rode; they are exaulting the King for which they fight and ride – Jesus: yes, they’re in celebration at this act of driving their swords into the ground.

Oh, and I’m beginning to see new growth shooting up from the ground, the best way to describe is like what I would imagine is the beginnings of tall grass springing up.

I also sense there are clearly defined borders to that area for what God is wanting to establish there in … I wonder if He would show you these boundaries, like He did so clearly to Abraham for Israel’s Promised Land? Remember how He told Abraham to walk the land in Genesis 13:17 saying, “Arise, walk in the land through its length, and its width, for I give it to you.”
I almost see like a fortified wall around the area in the Spirit, kinda like the stone wall around Biblical Jerusalem, or cities in Biblical times. Is there a “Nehemiah’s wall” to be built (in the Spirit) around the land He’s claiming for His own there? One that would separate it unto Him for His Glory?”

JM Goatley – 5yrs old (Aust/NSW)

On his way home from school & just as we were turning from East Kurrajong Rd onto Putty Rd, JM suddenly burst out..

“I just saw an angel. He was standing in front of the street sign. He was big with wings & was holding bibles in his hands & had a sack of bibles at his feet.”

Anita (Aust/Canberra) – a Pioneer of Healing Rooms Australia

“I was out walking today & sensed this from the Lord for you.

* You are stewards. Where in the past you had been living by faith in receiving from others, now He’ll give abundantly so you can steward it to others. Some will come & say how can you have all this, your a Christian, you should be poor. This relates also to His presence with you. Where you have tended that in your home, now it will be extended into the world and others will be bought into that space where His presence dwells.

* I believe strongly that all this is going to be given to you. It will be given to you, simply put in your hand.

* 10 years ago in Sydney, I had a very detailed vision. I was in a large house on 5 acres. It had a cottage out the back & a leafy garden that was all important to the open heaven that was in this property. The central house was a presence place, heaven was open there on the second level & I saw rooms to stay in there. The entire second level was an open heaven zone. I saw colors of pink & grey, & there was a water feature there also like a found or pool. I saw leaders & normal people from the nations of the world coming in & going out of this place. The ground floor had a communal eating area, shops with bread & herbs in them. At the entrance of this property was a straight driveway which led to the central house. It was lined with roses. The driveway curled around to the front door & completed in a circle going back out onto the driveway. The gardens on the driveway & out the back where the cottage was were filled with the presence of the Lord. He had saturated this place & this was the place of His dwelling that drew the nations of the world. I beleive you are stewards of such a vision as this.

*I heard the words, “Time to take the next step. Step out!” Praise Him for what He’s doing as He indicates & declare it into reality.”

D Spakman (Aust/Vic)

“As I was praying for you tonight, I heard the words “Willow Glen”. I went & looked it up in Google maps & was amazed to see that there were only a few ‘Willow Glens’ in Australia, one of them being in Kurrajong.

I sensed that this was the name of a property also.”

A Graham (Aust/SA)

“As I was waking up this morning, I had an impression of a house with a leafy garden and a separate unit or studio. Somehow I knew that it related to your need for a house in Sydney and the requirement for a Tabernacle space. I had the impression that the studio and garden would be central to the Tabernacle space.

As I pondered this I felt led to do a quick internet search for such properties in Kurrajong (where you feel the Lord is drawing you).”

Joshua H – 11yrs old (Aust/NSW)

“I see God having you live/dwell in Kurrajong on the Grose Vale side around Willow Glen Rd.”

R Wilson (Aust/NSW)

“I see a house. It is beautiful. I see wide verandas around it.”

Pray with Simplicity “And when you come before God, don’t turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? “Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. “The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don’t fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: (The Lord’s Prayer) Matt 6:5-9 The Message.

K Traill (Aust/UK)

“This morning there was such a strong stirring in me. I went to your blogs & was reading your latest blog Helen when suddenly it was like I was in labour. I was crying and weeping and groaning and praying urgently in tongues while clutching my belly. All I could sense was that, ‘it was happening – I was giving birth’.

While this was happening I had some music on in the background and towards the end Misty Edwards song in the days of Noah came on and she was singing about the flood and the scoffers coming and that when the rain came it was too late. I prayed for God’s mercy to overcome and then again I felt Him tell me He trusted me, and that He was searching for more people that He can trust.”

R Lunnon (USA)

“As I was praying for you, I am picturing a mother giraffe giving birth. Don’t giraffes have to give birth while on the move as a defense from predators?

I believe the Holy Spirit wants me to give it to you also… The word ‘pioneering’ keeps coming to me. You are clearing ground in the Spirit. Pioneering can feel like a lonely job at times. Do not look at the response or the result in the natural. Another word that comes is ‘primer.’ You are priming the spiritual atmosphere.”

Dr O Gray (Aust/NSW)

“I sensed the phrase today, “Sydney welcomes you”. Simply you are wanted, valued, appreciated, friends – you are welcome.”

Pastor A Gilbert (Aust/Vic)

“I saw a vision. You were both in a watering hole/lagoon and you were immersed in it up to your necks. There was beautiful surroundings of Australian bush (eucalyptus etc.) and it was a beautiful day with the sun shining. You could see your heads above the water, and it seemed you were both drinking the water and also inviting others to come in and swim/drink also. It was refreshing water.

A Bible verse comes to mind, Psalm 34:8 “Taste and see that the LORD is good, blessed is the one who takes refuge in him”.

Dr S Vogelmann (Germany)

“I was praying for you, and I saw a picture of a house. It was a beautiful house. It had 2 levels & it simply fell out of the sky. Around it were hills & mountains in background. I saw you looking up at the sky & suddenly it just fell down at your feet. The look on your face was one of complete astonishment.”

I have just come from sitting with my wife listening & watching a session of worship from Bethel church in California then a sermon from Pastor Kris.

As I have been thinking during it and now after it I am renewed in my confidence that nothing is more important than getting back to where we started, I believe that our model of what our Christianity is supposed to be all about is Adam and Eve in the garden walking and talking with God in the cool of the evening. God’s original created order, Intimacy, not awkward, not loud and aggressive, but something so right, so oh this is so what I want to be doing right now and my heart is just singing and free. Actually my heart is aching right now as I think of this as due to our current living situation we currently don’t have yet a special space set aside ‘a Tabernacle’ where I can go and so quickly and easily just hang out with God where we can just ‘be’ together, to chat to have him stroke and calm my soul, to know peace. His Peace. This is only our second night here so I suppose I can give myself a break. :-}
Anyway like just then we can get so complicated, “but my circumstances”, “but I need this”, “first I need to do this”. No, as Jesus showed us in the story of the prodigal son, at any point we can RUN back to the OPEN arms of Father God. Luke 15:11-32 This is God’s desire that we would KNOW Him and therefore know that we can so Yes go to Him and Know Him and Know His peace… Hmm I am very aware here that words are just so not cutting it, human language can not convey what it is to experience God, to sit with Him, to hang with Him, to feel His pleasure, to know His peace, heck to know that He loves me and accepts me just as I am.

Nothing is more important than this, no thing that I can do no thing that I can say, no thing nothing is more important than this. As I ponder this I reflect on conversations that I have had where people have told me how they spend time with God so that they can do ministry, so they are empowered, so they know better what to do. Well this may contain truth, but intimacy to GET something to fill your own needs goes by another name. I’m talking about hanging with God for Gods sake, for the sake of the relationship. Just to hang out. When you can manage to drop the agenda, or the religious benefits and just want to hang out with Jesus as a friend and let happen what happens then I think we are getting close. Hmm maybe we could even let Him direct the conversation.

K Johnson (USA)

“In the quiet early morning hours this monring, I felt the Father placing you upon my heart by the Spirit. While reading in the Psalms, the Spirit highlighted Psalms 44.

“2. You drove out the nations with your hand,
But them You planted
You afflicted the peoples, & cast them out.
3. For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was your right arm, you hand, and the light of your countance,
Because You favored them.”

Several things jumped out at me for you. In the remembering God’s works in the days of their fathers, it was HIM alone who planted them (vs2). There’s that  word “planted” again & again in the context of it being His doing. I know you get this, though I really feel the Lord wanting to drive this truth deep into your hearts & spirits, like a stake; staking out the ‘ground’ or ‘soil’ of your innermost being with this truth that HE is going to plant you, HE is going to do this, HE will indeed do what is needed to make this happen, to plant you according to HIS will. He’s wanting to greatly strengthen or stake your faith so deep in HIM because it is by faith & His supernatural act/intervention that you will possess the ‘land’ He’s wanting to give you.

Though they had a part in going & possessing the land, it was NOT what they did that got it for them, but it was the hand & move of God going before them because He favored them!

The Good Shepherd has so faithfully prepared you by having you on a walk & path you’ve been on over the past 10 years or so. Because walking this path has required a walk by faith & trust in Him for all things,& yet beloved, I feel the Spirit saying that to cross over, enter in & possess what He’s prepared for you will call upon, stretch & require even more faith, trust & confidence you have in Him as you’ve never yet experienced.

I see Him asking you to play your part in the natural, for whatever that looks like, & yet saying to never place even the slightest trust or faith in what you’ve done, for to even consider thinking in the slightest “because I did this, therefore I will get this” would work against the truth that it is only HIM in every way who is going to do it. How this is going to play out is going to be a great testimony of the Lord, so that the way you crossed over, entered in & possessed will bear the fullness of His Name & Glory!”

Rev D Crabtree (Aust/NSW)

“20 yrs ago my wife & I had a vision where we saw a place set up exclusively for the presence of God. It was where Pastors & leaders especially could come out of the city of Sydney, getting away to ‘soak’ in His presence. It was a place pure with His Presence. We desired to do this but God asked us to start a church instead. There is a huge need for such a place in Sydney.”

L Roberts (UK)

“As I was praying for you, a picture of a house came to mind. It was a lodge –  a very nice, spacious lodge with timber (?)/wooden beams on the outside and very large windows on the upper level.  The house was nestled in a forest, and (I think) there were mountains behind it to a distance.  To be honest, it reminded me a forested, mountainous scene from Colorado USA.”

L. Harvey (USA)

I was praying for you this morning & the Lord showed me a picture. I saw a two story house with a wrap around porch. It didn’t seem like there were any other houses around it. There seemed mountains in the near background.