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The following Revelation was received by Paul Davies on 6th Nov, 1998. As with all prophetic words, these must be weighed and tested with a spirit of humility and repentance. Where Bible passages are referred to, the interpretations given are not intended to be seen as the interpretation of the passage, but as God speaking to his people’s current situation by giving an interpretation.

During the recent Kevin Prosch Concert in Adelaide, South Australia, the Lord spoke to me after the performance of the support artist, Joe Vogels. Joe is a Kiwi, and shared of his Maori friends in Queensland who recently did a Haka  (war dance) to the Lord, which inspired his first song - a haka  with the words in Maori “Children Love God”. The Haka  is famous in Rugby Union as the All Blacks (NZ’s National Side) perform it before each test match. The Concert WENT OFF, and the Lord spoke three things to me very clearly.

1. We Australians need to repent of our attitude towards New Zealand - we see them as the “small brother” who is to be indulged and not taken seriously. The Lord is going to use New Zealand powerfully to impact the world when the Next Wave hits, and some things are going to be uniquely theirs. Australians tend to focus on the prophecies as though they concern only Australia, and forget that the ANZAC spirit encapsulates New Zealand too. God will use New Zealand to teach us important things.

2. The church needs to learn to do the haka, as a spiritual warfare tool. The haka  is a very in-your-face challenge, that says to an opponent, “we are not going to back down. If you want to defeat us, you’re going to have to work hard for it”. Anyone who has followed the All Blacks in the last 20 years knows that they are always the team to beat in Rugby, and they are never an easy game. Even on the backfoot, they attack, and quickly turn a seeming rout into a try for themselves.

The church needs to learn to say to the Enemy, “we are taking this ground and you are going to have to fight tooth and nail for it.” We need more Haka’s  of our own.

3. The church also needs to learn the “Maori Sidestep”. In Rugby, when a player comes to tackle the ball carrier, he tries to palm off the attack and sidestep the tackler. This causes the runner to lose momentum, and change direction. The church has tended to do this with the attacks of the Enemy. We are constantly sidestepping his probes, and effectively being turned aside from out original path.

The “Maori sidestep” was first used by the New Zealanders, and occurs when a player doesn’t try to avoid the tackler, but charges him head-on, bumps off the defender, and generally tramples him as he runs over the top - still on his original course. The classic example was recently when a small English winger tried to tackle All-Black winger Jonah Lomu (120 Kg, 100m in 10.5 secs). He did everything right: body position, feet spaced, back straight, but Lomu simply ran him over and scored. The Church needs to realise that the enemy is defeated already, and he is little. We are anointed by the Lord for the task He has set us, and we are not to deviate from that path, even to avoid the Enemy’s attacks. Instead, we trample him under foot, with eight aluminium studs per boot, and fulfil our objective.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet (Rom. 16:20).

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you  (Luke 10:19)

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Email:     pdaviesoz@optusnet.com.au

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