Dennis Scudder:
Picture: We were in a ship together as a church the whole church in this ship in maybe Antarctica just about to hit this iceberg. Pete and Jim and Dave were in the front of the boat and the rest of the church just behind them and literally about to hit this iceberg and I thought wow this is a strange picture - then suddenly we hit the iceberg and the whole thing (totally) illogical just split apart and was completely taken out and disappeared and the we went through the iceberg and came out to the other side and it was still waters. Pete sensed this was for the church; that we are in a place - coming against some big things, I don’t want to interpret it as such but felt that it was basically spiritual and also to do with the building - those were the two things that instantly came to me. That once we get to the still waters that’s absolutely amazing, God wants to bring us into a place of plenty, rest and receiving more and more from Him.

Donna:
I saw this ship coming up to the iceberg and the waters in which it was before it hit the iceberg were like pack ice, bits broken off the iceberg, and the ship had been going through that. Someone else had the word it’s a bit like us (being buffeted around) it’s not always been that easy in the church over the last couple of years for different reasons and we can have that feeling that we’ve been buffeted around. But as the ship came up to the iceberg and was taken out and we came into that still water –I could see a huge area of clear sea no icebergs at all and it was an open horizon - nothing to see wherever you looked and there was that sense that we were going to be going somewhere. Where do you want to go? What God’s got for us is amazing. God is going to take us to exciting places.

Dave West:
Some of us get excited by that prospect and others think that we’re all going to die (who hasn’t thought titanic). Different words come to us for different reasons. When you’re forewarned, when you know something is coming, you are less disturbed by it. When this ship hit the iceberg there was an impact, a judder throughout the ship God gives us different words for different reasons. We respond, not necessarily a spiritual response, but according to our personality. Some people like high risk things at the funfair other people don’t and that’s ok. The measure of right response is not how you feel about it, it’s what you choose to do with it. We’re not asking you to get excited about hitting an iceberg head on, what we are asking you to do is brace yourself. When God gives us prophetic words it’s because we need them. The more specific they are the more specific needs to be our response. I saw this ship shudder and those who were braced did not suffer quite as badly because they were forewarned. The measure of success is staying on the boat, as the ship hit the iceberg (some of us are front of boat people – bring it on that’s ok but we’re not all like that) I saw some people understandably ran to the back of the boat. Who was asleep in the back of the boat during a storm. Isn’t it nice to know that Jesus is at the back of the boat as well as the front of the boat. Stay in the boat. The only reason you might get off the boat is if you thought it was going down, but God says it’s not. The Iceberg is the thing damaged by the impact not the boat. So brace yourself and listen. The word is we are going through. The word is the other side it’s different. Like the Beatitudes, there’s the difficulty but there’s always the blessing. It’s worth it for what’s the other side.

Others added:
I can see the clear open water on the other side and it’s full of fish, some big fish. The bow is razor sharp.
The wisdom of man would be to go round the iceberg, it’s about being prepared not being afraid.