I am a dreamer. I have always loved dreaming. I learned from my dad to love flying dreams and ones in which I jump from and onto large things. I do that in real life anyway, but I love it exaggerated beyond my current physical limitations, even if many of those are just in my mind. I love dreaming even more when I realize in the dream that I am in a dream, because I can suddenly do impossible things. I love Inception, Source Code, the Matrix Trilogy, and What Dreams May Come. None of those invented lucid dreaming or the idea that dreams are a huge indicator of past, present, and future events, feelings, and thoughts. Of course, I also love daydreaming and setting huge goals for the future that override "realistic" expectations based on the past and present. The dream world, as far as I understand it, is one type of connection to eternity, a very real framework, because of the amount that can happen in a dream lasting only milliseconds or seconds and because of the power dreams can have when pursued. The dreams you have, I believe, are also a good measure of spiritual maturity, especially those you control, and only you can figure out why. The scripture I love about this, which encourages me that dreaming and prophecy are very current and very much linked, is Joel 2:28, which says, "It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions" (NASB).
I say all that to say that I also dream things about people, sometimes those I have been with, spoken to, or thought about lately and sometimes those I have little or no connection with, at least not recently. I then try to contact those people, whoever they are, to pass on what happened, whether or not it makes sense to me. Often I have no idea what something means, especially if nobody I know was in it or if too many people I know were in it. Once I had a dream about a girl I have not yet met but whose face I can still see clearly (unlike most vague blurs of unknown people), whom I believe will be my daughter, and one day we will know. Once in a while, I offer a full or partial interpretation, sometimes they say why it is relevant, and sometimes they tell me it doesn’t mean anything right now. When a dream is negative, I am always tactful, but I don’t hide a challenge that it may contain.
Last night, I had a dream that included several people I know personally and satan, whom I don’t know but who apparently knows of and doesn’t like me… It comes in pieces, as do many dreams, but I’ll recount what I can and what I can interpret.
My dream began with receiving a lot of text messages. Right now, I don’t remember what any of them said, but it seems like they were from different people. The rest of the dream being the context, I remember hearing a business and ministry leadership consultant talk about receiving a lot of texts from desperate leaders, of churches and of corporations, and it seems like the messages I kept receiving (many of them 5 or 6 part messages) were in desperation, which brings to mind the spiritual enemies of doubt, fear, and guilt. – The defenses against these (faith, love, and hope) are far more powerful, so be encouraged that 1. if you have faith and do not doubt, doubt loses; 2. perfect love casts out all fear, God is perfect love, and God does not give a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind; and 3. there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, and instead of guilt we have a blessed assurance (a firm hope) in Jesus Christ, that He cleanses everybody from sin who changes their mind and thinks beyond themselves and the world to Him.
Next, I know that I was with many of the girls Christie and I work with, and I expressed my fatherly love to all of them and they thanked me, as I was about to face a great challenge. – On some level, we are all about to face a great challenge. We do not need to say goodbye to our loved ones as though we may lose, but we must take every opportunity to love and thank those connected to us. The challenge is always going to be to confess Jesus Christ and stand up for your personal relationship with God through Him and Holy Spirit, having a true and vibrant life of praise and worship of God, or to deny Jesus Christ, not standing for anything or standing out, and thereby be denied by Jesus Christ to God the Father. Whatever area of your life currently has a test, it will be passed by confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, because He has promised to rescue you when you do, and then you will advance into your next season.
Next, I was in a room with many people I do not know, one of them a police officer, and I came face to face with satan in the form of a female, old witch, who was bring a negative atmosphere to the room and trying to curse everybody and everything. However, I realized she was satan in the flesh and confronted him by cursing him back in the name of Jesus and telling him he has lost to the power of the blood of Christ. I pushed him down next to the police officer (who did nothing to me because he realized what I was doing), and I don’t remember if satan died or just lay there, but everybody was OK, so I moved on. – Satan has already been defeated, but he is alive wherever the Kingdom of Heaven has not been preached. As the Kingdom of Heaven is about to be expanded, he tries to steal the Word, but whereas I used to have dreams about demons inhibiting my ability to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ, I now have dreams where even satan in person has no influence over me. This is personal to me but it also represents the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven is expanding, so satan is losing power, and you will also experience that growth in power over principalities and powers. When we walk in the authority of the blood and name of Jesus Christ, satan can do nothing but lie down on the ground like an elderly, infirm woman who can no longer even bruise our heels. The world around us is offended by and restrictive of half-way preaching the name of Jesus (with no power), but when the Kingdom of Heaven is preached, we not only can but will do all things through Christ, who strengthens us, and the world becomes impressed and supportive, because they want what we have. Once we know the truth about our authority and satan’s lack of power outside of what we let him have in our emotional and mental weakness, the truth sets us free, and we can then move on to fixing what he did when he used to have power over people.
Next, I was with some others who know, love, and obey God, entering the huge living room of a very large house, and we read a note instructing us to watch a recorded TV show before we continued to search the house for people. On the DVD was a news report about the body of Christ hiding from persecution, as though Christians were ineffective and weak. – Mass media is a huge communication tool, both of the enemy (for lies) and of those called out of the world (for truth), and it is being used for propaganda to convince people to be afraid. It is also being used by God’s children to spread the Word of the Kingdom of God, because nothing is more powerful, good or bad, than the thoughts we communicate via words and turn into corporate unity. If we buy into the idea of fearing for our lives and not seeking out to minister to those in Christ who are hurting and overcome the world just as Christ in us already has, we might just as well have 666 tattooed on our forehead and right hand and bow to a big statue chanting all hail king satan. That is not going to happen for those who worship in spirit and in truth.
Next, I continued with my team to find rooms in this huge house that still had lights on. We didn’t go upstairs, and sure enough we found a room that people had been in recently, which still had lights on, and we found a trapdoor leading to a basement full of people worshiping God. I began to join in, getting my praise on in spirit and in truth, and an usher came up to me and told me that I should not be dancing the way I was but to do what everybody else was doing. At that point I realized that almost everybody else was dancing in the same way, singing the same, and waving their hands together at just the "right" times… So I had found the church hiding from the beast, who had apparently begun to strangle the world and increase the persecution of Christians, even in America, and even the underground church was "doing religion" and faking worship. A lady I used to work with was caught up in some motions, but I recognized her and said what I thought was going on, and she realized and was set free. – Continue with the team God has placed you with to find those who still have some light within them. Light other places up if you need too, but don’t look in high places for people who need your help; look for people who are growing faint, and help lift them up out of low places. If you are growing faint, don’t become disoriented, conform to the world, and follow the crowd; instead, humble yourself and ask for advice from those you see around you who are strong and unique. This is not to say that any group is all fake, because I was not the only person questioning what was going on, but it is a warning that weeds are still growing among the wheat. What matters is not that anyway but whether you as an individual choose to know, love, and obey God no matter what is going on around you.
The strangest part of this dream was my response to the religious usher who told me how I was supposed to worship God, basically to do whatever the beast of false religion thought proper worship should like… I pushed him down like satan and stomped on his chest, and then I woke up to the cottage alarm that I had not deactivated 15 minutes ago. – This did not signify to me that we should be physically violent, with anybody from an atheist to a religious hypocrite; it signified loud and clear that we should be spiritually violent, with anti-religion and false religion just as much as with demons and satan himself, by using the resources we have to “stomp” false leadership and worship out of our environments. Read Matthew 11:1-19 and ask for your own complete revelation, but “the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force” means two things: 1. that the enemy will take the Word however he can (with physical weapons), and 2. that we must colonize Earth with Heaven however we can (with spiritual weapons). We must be alarmed enough about falseness to wake up and drive it out.
Your tests are fast approaching; have no doubt, fear, or guilt in Jesus’ name, because the blood of Christ is sufficient to wipe out all imperfection. Stand firm in the authority and image of God.
