Coronation 2023

As you know we’re in the USA, but we were able to view the Coronation online as it happened through BBC News.

A few days before Coronation Day we had the opportunity to watch a short video on YouTube by leaders of a Prophetic Group in the UK which included an exhortation to pray specifically for a tidal wave of Truth and for a Godly remnant to rise up and, as His Ecclesia, to build His Kingdom in our nation.

In that context we prayed for the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla and for all that lies ahead under their reign.

As I watched the Service on Saturday I became personally aware of the Presence of God at this crowning in an ancient Abbey. Whatever the extent of the expressed faith of the King and Queen, I watched and prayed as the elements of their coronation unfolded. I listened to the words, saw the human interactions and the many symbols of monarchy and expressions of the Christian faith that are central to the crowning of monarchs in the United Kingdom.

I know that there are so many areas of unbelief and impurity in Christ’s church on earth today and that the Church of England has openly departed from God’s Word and His Spirit in many ways.

But, despite this, and the cult of celebrity and fashion that was apparent in the Abbey and at the forefront of many commentaries, I had such a strong sense of the gravity and weightiness of the words and actions in the service that I believed that the Lord of Glory was present.

I started to write a poem yesterday and struggled with the beginning.

I then had a spiritually disturbed night.

But today I wrote the rest of the poem. I would love to know what you sensed from the Coronation service. I want to be praying in the right attitude and discerning spiritually in His Truth….

Please do let me know your reactions to this poem, for my desire is only to give glory to the true King of kings.

Coronation 2023

The rains of spring were heralding a modern coronation
While summer skies, the year before, marked times of jubilation
But, when that summer faded, and a precious monarch died
A royal prince became a king, a new queen at his side 

And though he was already king, we waited for the day 
When things of royal beauty would crown the month of May
But beauty is a fleeting thing and kings are born for more 
And God Himself was waiting within that Abbey door 

The splendour of the service; the power of the words
The Presence of His Majesty, the One who undergirds
The King of kings in glory was watching over all 
O, dear United Kingdom, He hears His remnant call 

The cry from God’s true lovers, the people of His Word
Has reached His very Throne Room; the place that prayers are heard
And oil of true anointing, from Heaven’s perfect King 
Is dripping from His glory to touch an earthly thing 

For there is yet a chrysm - a precious, precious thing
The blood of Jesus speaking here upon an earthly king 
The One who has the Sword of Truth is going on before
To overrule the darkness that’s crouching at the door

Vivat, vivat! The cries go up - and silver trumpets sound 
As king and queen are honoured there, upon God’s Holy ground 
Yes, life is celebrated here, as flowers embellish gowns
And monarchs feel the weightiness of great and ancient crowns

There is no way to bear that weight without the help of God
Whose perfect Way to kingship is the way that Jesus trod 
For Jesus is the only Name to which this earth will bow 
And Jesus must be honoured, for He is God’s King now

His yoke is still an easy yoke, for those who wear a crown
His burden light for rulers and those of high renown
Who bow the knee in homage in His own Kingdom great
And travel as He travelled - no carriages of State 

The King of kings and Lord of lords was at that coronation 
His Presence for all tribes and tongues and every generation  

Your Majesty, true King of Life, we ask You for salvation 

God save our new crowned king and queen. 

God save our precious nation.

I pray that Charles – and Camilla – will realise (like Queen Elizabeth II) that this weighty anointing can not be carried without God’s help. And that they need to be yoked to Jesus; carrying only the burden that He assigns to them so that they may truly find His rest to sustain them in the days ahead. This nation of ours needs to turn from the darkness of pride and self sufficiency to true dependency on God.

As they, and the nation that they lead, turn to Jesus, we will live again in Truth. No earthly “salvation” will do.