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Part 2.

I don't put a lot of stock in the spooky of the supernatural. But I had a dream a couple days after visiting my mother at the hospital that disturbed and excited me. I dreamed God was using me in one of our church services to encourage people to receive healing. I remember two things about the dream. There were issues with our PowerPoint presentation and I was wearing only one sock and one shoe. I remember in the dream I kept trying to hide my foot, while trying to encourage people to respond to God's presence. I didn't know what the dream meant. I kind of put it off to the side until the Sunday Morning Service.

Right before service started, we had a couple of unexpected guests. A upci missionary and his daughter. They are related to a family who attends our church. Again the element of legalism was present. I told the missionary I was glad to see him, I told him I loved him, and he still looked as young as he did 20 years ago when I first met him. He literally blew me off with some lame remark. No problem. I know he heard a lot of junk about me. It's hard to receive love from someone who has gotten a lot of negative press.

We were singing a song with the line There's no one like you, there's no one like you Lord there's no one like you in all the earth. Something about that line brought the power of God into the room. I got the cue to come up and to share the announcements. I shared the healing I witness earlier in the week. I didn't mention my mother's reaction. As I told the story, we went back into the bridge of the song. Everyone responded to the Spirit's move except for our two guests. I asked if anyone needed healing and two people came up to be prayed for. The first person said she needed healing for her feet. God healed her feet.

In the meantime while God was healing people, our audio/visual techs were switching laptops because of an issue with the overhead projector.

I don't know why main part of my dream had to do with feet and technical glitches in the video department. I don't know if it's a dream, vision, or as Epley calls it, a case of indigestion.

What's sad is the only people who didn't get anything out of the service were the legalists. Twice in one week God was giving people the opportunity to have something miraculous happen. Twice in one week, the so-called less spiritual received a miracle. Twice in one week, people who claim to be so holy and so righteous declined to allow God to supernaturally meet their need.

Why do people who claim to understand God and His ways more than anyone else, shut down when they realize the narrative isn't scripted the way they think it should read, but the person coming to Jesus with child like faith, goes out changed? Some things I'll be reflecting on the next few days.