I HAVE KNOWN MANY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT GOD SPEAKS TO PEOPLE IN VISIONS AND DREAMS. I HAVE HEARD SOME PREACHERS SAY IT'S NOT TRUE. MY PERSONAL BELIEF IS THAT GOD CAN SPEAK TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, EVEN IN DREAMS, BUT THERE IS ONE RULE THAT GOD CANNOT AND WILL NOT BREAK. HE NEVER, EVER, NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES WILL SPEAK CONTRARY TO HIS HOLY WORD. IF IT DON'T LINE UP WITH THE BIBLE, BE SURE IT'S NOT OF GOD.
NOW MY GREAT UNCLE OSCAR USED TO DREAM OF A BLACK CASKET RIGHT BEFORE SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY WOULD DIE, AND MY DAD WOULD DREAM OF A STORM WHENEVER OUR FAMILY WAS ABOUT TO ENTER INTO A STORM. (SOME SORT OF TRIAL)
THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES I WAS STRUGGLEING UNDERSTANDING A CERTIAN PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE WHEN GOD WOULD GIVE ME INSITE TO IT IN A DREAM. ONCE IN A DREAM GOD TOLD ME TO SPEAK TO A GUY I WORKED WITH AND GIVE HIM TWO SPECIFIC SCRIPTURES. THE FIRST SCRIPTURE WAS GIVEN IN CHAPTER AND VERSE (EXAMPLE JOHN 3:16) THE SECOND VERSE HE GAVE ME THE WORDS AND WHEN I WOKE UP I LOOKED IT UP. THE VERSES WENT PERFECTLY TOGETHER. IN THE DREAM HE HAD SAID THAT THIS MAN THAT I WORKED WITH WAS INTO SOME TROUBLE AND THE SPECIFIC TROUBLE HAD BEEN REVEALED ALSO. THE VERSES WENT PERFECTLY WITH THE TROUBLE I HAD DREAMED THIS GUY WAS IN. WHEN I WOKE UP I STRUGGLED WITH WHETHER TO OBEY AND GIVE THE MAN THESE TWO VERSES OR NOT. I THOUGH "HE'S GOING TO THINK I'M CRAZY IF I JUST GO UP TO HIM AND SAY GOD WANTS ME TO GIVE YOU THESE VERSES". IN THE END I DECIDED TO OBEY, AND LATER THE MAN TOLD ME IT WAS JUST WHAT HE NEEDED. I CAN THINK OF MANY OTHER SITUATIONS WHERE I BELIEVE GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ME IN DREAMS. BUT AS I SAID, HE WILL NEVER SPEAK CONTRARY TO HIS WORD, IF IT DON'T LINE UP WITH THE BIBLE, IT'S NOT OF GOD.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE DREAM I HAD LAST NIGHT, OR SHOULD I SAY DREAMS..........
I DREAMED OF A PREACHER, SOMEHOW HE HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED BACK INTO TIME WITH A BOX FULL OF PICTURES FROM HIS PAST
HE WAS TRANSPORTED BACK TO A TIME WHEN A GREAT FLOOD HAD FLOODED THE CHURCH WHERE HE PREACHED, HE ARRIVED WITH MANY OF THOSE IN HIS CONGREGATION TO FIND DESTRUCTION INSIDE AND OUT. THE PEOPLE WERE SORROWING AND CRYING, UPSET AT WHAT THEY SAW, BUT AS HE LOOKED AT THE PICTURES IN HIS BOX, HE SAW ONE OF THE CHURCH RESTORED BACK, BETTER THAN EVER, AND HE FELT PEACE IN HIS HEART BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WOULD BE ALRIGHT.
HE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW AND THERE HE SAW A VERY YOUNG BOY AND GIRL, THEY WERE AT A WELL. THEY HAD BOTH WENT THERE TO DRAW WATER AND WERE FIGHTING OVER THE BUCKET. HE LOOKED BACK IN THE BOX AND SAW THE PICTURE OF THE YOUNG BOY AND GIRL AND THOUGHT BACK TO THE DAY WHEN THEY WERE FIGHTING AT THE WELL AND GOD HAD PROMPTED HIM TO GO DOWN AND INTERVIENE IN THE FIGHT. HE REMEMBERED HOW AFTER TALKING TO THE TWO OF THEM THEIR ATTITUDE CHANGED AND THEY HAD APOLOGIZED TO EACHOTHER, AND HOW YEARS LATER THE FRIENDSHIP THAT HAD BEEN BORN THAT DAY BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM BLOSSOMED INTO A VERY HAPPY MARRIAGE. NOW, BACK INSIDE THE FLOODED CHURCH HE LOOKED INTO HIS BOX OF PICTURES AND SAW THEIR WEDDING PICTURES AND MANY OTHER PICTURES OF THEIR HAPPY LIFE TOGETHER OVER THE YEARS, THEN AS HE LOOKED ON THIS SCENE TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE HIS WINDOW ONCE MORE, HE FELT THE PROMPTING OF GOD TO GO AND SPEAK TO THESE TWO ONCE AGAIN AS HE HAD DONE MANY YEARS BEFORE.
BUT THIS TIME THE PREACHER THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, "I KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDS UP, WHY WASTE MY TIME GOING DOWN THERE, THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED SOMEDAY ANYWAY"
AS HE TURNED BACK TO THE PICTURES HE SAW THEY WERE NO LONGER OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE, BUT HE SAW THE PICTURES OF TWO SEPERATE AND LONELY LIVES. THAT WAS THE END OF THAT DREAM, THEN AS IF I WERE BACK IN THE TIME OF JOSEPH , IT WAS IF GOD WAS GIVING ME THE INTURPITATION OF THE DREAM.....
IN A NUTSHELL IT WAS THIS, WE NEVER KNOW HOW WE EFFECT THE FUTURE, FUTURE BLESSINGS AND LIVES. WHAT WE MISS OUT ON OR WHAT OTHERS MISS OUT ON BECAUSE WE FAIL TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE WILL OF GOD. WHAT BLESSINGS COULD HAVE CAME TO US OR OTHERS HAD WE JUST OBEYED WHEN GOD TELLS US TO DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF DOING THINGS OUR OWN WAY? THE TEMPORAL BLESSINGS ARE ONE THING, BUT HOW MANY ETERNAL BLESSINGS COULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED HAD WE KEPT AN OBEDIENT HEART? HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE IN HEAVEN BECAUSE OF OUR OBEDIENCE? BECAUSE OF OUR DISOBEDIENCE, HOW MANY PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE ON OUR HANDS AT THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST?
IT MAKES YOU WONDER HOW DIFFERENT THINGS WOULD BE, COULD BE IF WE WOULD JUST BE OBEDIENT EVERY TIME GOD PROMPTS US TO DO SOMETHING. THE BEST LIFE WE COULD EVER HAVE WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE VERY CENTER OF GODS WILL.
THE SECOND DREAM OF THE NIGHT WAS ONE ABOUT A GATHERING OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS. TWO OF MY BEST FRIENDS WERE THERE AND I WANTED TO GET A PICTURE OF US ALL TOGETHER BEFORE THEY LEFT. IT WAS GETTING LATE, ABOUT 9:30. ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD A CAMERA, BUT I WANTED MINE.
I SEARCHED AND SEARCHED BUT I HAD MISPLACED MY CAMERA, I KEPT LOOKING AND LOOKING AND FINALLY I FOUND IT.
I WENT BACK TO FIND MY FRIENDS AND MY DAD SAID THEY HAD ALREADY LEFT. IT WAS NOW 11:00PM I WAS UPSET, I REALLY WANTED TO GET OUR PICTURE MADE TOGETHER BUT THEY HAD ALREADY LEFT. MY DAD SAID TO ME, "YOU SHOULD HAVE TOOK A PICTURE WITH YOUR FRIENDS CAMERA, HE COULD HAVE GAVE YOU A COPY, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO HAVE ONE PICTURE ON HIS CAMERA THAN NONE AT ALL" "NEXT TIME YOU'LL LEARN"
IT'S AS IF I KNEW THIS WAS MY ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A PICTURE MADE WITH BOTH OF THESE FRIENDS, I WAS CRYING AND SORROWFUL OVER THIS MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
AS THE DREAM ENDED, IT WAS AGAIN AS IF GOD WAS GIVING ME THE INTURPITATION OF THE DREAM. IT WAS THIS........
DON'T PUT THINGS OFF, FOR WE ARE NOT GUARENTEED THE OPPORTUNITY IN THE FUTURE, TIME IS SHORT SO WE MUST DO WHAT WE CAN WHILE WE CAN. WE SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT THOSE THINGS WE CAN'T DO, BUT WE SHOULD DO THOSE THINGS WE CAN DO. DON'T WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT THE ABILITIES WE WISH WE HAD, BUT USE THOSE GOD HAS GIVEN US, NOW, WHILE WE CAN.
JOHN 9:4 I MUST WORK THE WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT ME, WHILE IT IS DAY: THE NIGHT COMETH, WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK.
NOW I WON'T GO SO FAR TO SAY THAT GOD WAS SAYING TO ME WERE IN THE 11:00 HOUR IN HISTORY, AS IT WAS IN MY DREAM, ALTHOUGH I DO BELIEVE WE ARE, AND PERSONALLY, I COULD BE IN THE 11:00 HOUR IN MY LIFE, WE ALL COULD. I BELIEVE WHETHER IN HISTORY OR PERSONALLY, IT'S ALMOST MIDNIGHT, WERE IN THE LAST DAYS, IT'S ALMOST MIDNIGHT AND IF WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING FOR GOD, NOW IS THE TIME.
AS I WOKE UP, ALL THE THOUGHTS OF THISE TWO DREAMS CAME TOGETHER AND IT WAS IF GOD SAID, WRITE ABOUT IT AND PUT IT ON YOUR WEBPAGE. NOW I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE A BLESSING TO ANYONE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF ONE PERSON WILL READ THIS, BUT I WILL TRY TO BE OBEDIENT.
TO SUM UP BOTH DREAMS, WE NEED TO BE OBEDIENT TO GOD, DON'T TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF IT WILL BE WORTH IT, IN OUR OWN MINDS OR QUESTION WHAT IT IS HE IS LEADING US TO DO, JUST DO IT, IF IT LINES UP WITH HIS WORD, JUST DO IT AND LEAVE THE REASULTS TO HIM. NOW IS THE TIME, WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE ON THIS EARTH, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THE TRUMPET MAY SOUND AND HE MAY CALL ALL HIS CHILDREN HOME. THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO WORK, IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO OBEY HIM. THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BLESSINGS WHICH WOULD COME FROM OUR OBEDIENCE WILL BE LOST, AND POSSIBLY, SOULS WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED BECAUSE OF OUR OBEDIENCE WILL BE LOST.
IF GOD SAYS "SPEAK TO SO AND SO" DO IT............THEY MAY GET SAVED, YOU MAY HELP THEM GET THROUGH A TRIAL...A TEMPTATION, ETC.....
IF GOD SAYS "GIVE" JUST DO IT.......IT MAY HELP REACH LOST SOULS, YOU MAY FEED A HUNGRY BODY, CLOTHE A COLD CHILD, ENCOURAGE A STRUGGLING PARENT.
MATTHEW 25:35-40 FOR I WAS AN HUNGRED, AND YE GAVE ME MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YE GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER AND YE TOOK ME IN: NAKED, AND YE CLOTHED MEa: I WAS SICK, AND YE VISITED ME: I WAS IN PRISON AND YE CAME UNTO ME. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE AN HUNGERED, AND FED THEE? OR THIRSTY, AND GAVE THEE DRINK? WHEN SAW WE THEE A STRANGER AND TOOK THEE IN? OR NAKED, AND CLOTHED THEE? OR WHEN SAW WE THEE SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND CAME UNTO THEE? AND THE KING SHALL ANSWER AND SAY UNTO THE, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU , INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT TO ME.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOUR OBEDIENCE TO THE PROMPTING AND GUIDANCE OIF GOD WILL BRING, OR WHAT GOOD IT WILL DO.
JUST DO IT!