A Time To Dance - A Prophetic Journey to Release Canada's Destiny

by David Demian

When we began our journey in Canada, the cry of our hearts was that, as we humbled ourselves in brokenness and repentance, the Lord might hear our prayers, turn His face toward us and heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14). When the Lord revealed to us that it was our anti-Semitism, past and present, that was withholding His favour, we walked in obedience to the steps He revealed, from the 1999 Gathering in Winnipeg to the Dinner of the St. Louis and the Journey of Hope. None of us could have understood the urgency of our journey to restore God's favour to our land the way we now see it post-September 11th.

It was in the fields of Gadara during our trip to Israel in May 2001, that the Lord opened a new chapter in our Canadian journey. As French and English Canadians repented to one another for their historical division, we felt the Lord directed us to our next step in the journey of healing for our nation. In October 2001, English Canadians from coast to coast answered a call by Quebec leaders for a 40 day fast for French Canada. This was a call both for the healing and release of French Canada and for the preparation of the hearts of all Canadians to embrace God's vision of unity for our nation: a covenant of love.

The Wedding
A few years ago, the Lord gave me a dramatic picture of His desire for English and French Canada. I was driving and as my eyes wandered to the license plate of the car ahead of me, it suddenly changed. I saw interlocking wedding rings on one side and the words "I do" on the other. Tears sprang to my eyes so quickly that I had to pull the car over and when I did, the Holy Spirit said to me, "David, this is My desire for English and French Canada. English and French Canadians live in Canada right now, but they don't call Canada home. And David, I'm longing for Canada to be their home and My home too."

I believe the grace of God is going to come upon this nation and make us fall in love with each other. I saw in my spirit a huge wedding in Quebec. There French and English Canada will commit to one another and to the land according to God's original design. (Isaiah 62:4) And a representation from the church in England and the church of France will be present at the wedding. And like all good parents, they will cut the ties and say, "Church of Canada, we release you to your own unique destiny for which the Lord has called you."

A Courtship
Before there can be a wedding, a man and woman embark on a courtship as a way of finding out if they love each other enough to commit their lives to one another. At the Gathering in Charlottetown, PEI in August 2002, the French people opened their hearts and expressed their cry for intimacy and passion. At the same time, supernaturally, God birthed a desire within English Canada to open their hearts to walk in intimacy with French Canadians. As the Ontario leaders stood on behalf of English Canada, they presented the Quebec leaders with roses and a proposition: would Quebec consider courting English Canada? Maybe, they suggested, we'll fall in love with one another and want to get married!

As the Quebec leaders accepted to walk on this journey with English Canada, representatives from France and England, who had journeyed to Charlottetown, came forward. Alain Lopez, representing France, blessed us and asked God to liberate us into our destiny. Roger Mitchell, representing England, beamed like a proud father as he recited the blessing of Joseph found in Deuteronomy 33:13-16 over his spiritual "children".

As a first step in the courtship, leaders from throughout English Canada joined with the Quebec leaders for their regional Gathering in Quebec City in October 2002. Quebec City, the only remaining walled city in North America, originally had an eastern-facing city gate, the "Hope Gate" that had been destroyed. Feeling prompted by the Lord, the leaders from Atlantic Canada came to the stage and stretched out their hands symbolically over the assembled Quebec leaders and re-opened the gate of hope from the east. Immediately the Quebec leaders turned and lifted their hands towards the Ontario and Western leaders who were arrayed behind them, and prophesied hope west to the rest of Canada. It was in this act that the Lord revealed to us the next step in our continuing journey.

A Time to Dance
For everything there is a season
A time for every purpose under heaven…
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4)

From the conquest of New France in 1760 until today, Canada has been in a season of mourning, a time of weeping as two peoples have struggled to live together. But now as the church in Canada has chosen to position itself in humility and brokenness and to come into intimacy with the Lord, He Himself is declaring a new season over our nation.

"Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come." (Song of Songs 2:10-12)

The time has come for the release of hope throughout our nation.

The time has come for the healing of French and English Canada.

The time has come to dance.