A Celebration!
By Chad Taylor
(Chad Taylor speaking what God told him about
the dancing and worship we did at Feast of Tabernacles Conference
on 10/8/98)
He’s been asking me for quite a few days now, "Chad, do
you see something in this dance?" So I got in the middle of
it, like I should, and the Lord gave me an interpretation, at
least part of it, of just what’s taking place in the natural
and what’s taking place in the spirit.
The Lord quickened me to the verse in Joel. The bridegroom is
leaving his chambers and the Bride her closet. The reason the
bride’s in the closet - she’s making herself ready.
She’s getting dressed. She’s making herself ready to
come out of that closet and meet the bridegroom, and this is the
celebration of that. We’re celebrating the "coming
out" you might say, and meeting - a wedding feast.
That’s a celebration time. And that’s what’s
happening in the spirit - a celebration.
The second part of that is the celebration of the returning son.
Listen to this one. This one’s important. This is a
celebration of the returning son to the Father. When the prodigal
came home there was a celebration - the fatted calf - and they
threw a party. The prodigal’s coming back. God’s
calling them in. This dance and these cries, these songs,
they’re making a sound out here. It’s going out into
the land, and it’s calling the prodigal home. It’s
calling God’s children home. And they’re getting
stirred. They’re in the pig pen of this world, and
they’re getting stirred. They’re getting anxious and
restless. And they’re hearing a celebration call.
They’re hearing some music. They’re hearing some dance.
And they’re saying, "Man, there’s a lot more in my
Father’s house than out here." And they’re coming
home, and it’s the celebration. The return of the prodigal
and the backslidden. The celebration.
And the Lord spoke to my heart he’s returning his people
from captivity. They’re taking the instruments off
the willow trees that they hung up there. They hung them
up there in captivity, and God’s returning us from our
captivity. He’s giving us back liberty and freedom to
worship him, and it’s a celebration of liberty. We’re
taking down our instruments off of the trees we hung them on so
long ago and playing them again. And playing them again. So,
it’s a celebration. So many different ways of celebrating.
And the fourth thing God spoke to my heart was, "Chad, see
this area right here where they’re dancing? This is going to
be the city streets. Downtown Seattle, downtown Spokane, LA, New
York, Minneapolis … I don’t care (what cities you name)
…Drain, Salt Lake City. This is going to be the streets of
this country." It’s going to break out, and God’s
people are going to be filled with the joy of the Lord.
They’ll be dancing in the streets. Mardi Gras for Jesus.
They’re going to be celebrating the soon coming of the Lord.
It’s going to be all over the streets. It’s going to
break out of these walls - any walls that we have - natural or
supernatural. It’s going to pour out into the streets, and
they’re going to be dancing for celebration because they
have liberty and they’re finally satisfied in their heart.
And that’s what’s going to take place.
This is a demonstration of what’s going to
happen all over the streets of America. And maybe in some sense,
it’s already happened. But it’s going to happen all
over the streets of this country. It’s going to be a
celebration time. People are returning home to the Father.
It’s going to be a celebration time, and we’re just
demonstrating - God’s demonstrating it through us right
here, what’s going to take place out in the streets of this
country because God’s visiting us.
Amen. Glory.