Visions and Dreams

[BroMatt]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

In the last dream I had I was eating breakfast on the beach with an old girlfriend from 20 years ago, along with Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.

Don't know what it all meant......

Breakfast on the beach? Watch out for the sand!!

[Fiyahstarter]

I posted the below message in 2007 on another site. Thought I'd share:

I tossed and turned last night with situations on my heart. I wasn't even really sure what was bothering me, but something wasn't quite right. So I searched my heart and asked, Lord, is it me? Do I need to know something? Am I missing something? And I knew He was trying to get something through my thick head. So I started going over events of the past days... What is it? What am I not realizing? I knew I was missing something.

And I slept fretfully, and I dreamed about a "long, thin box" being in the corner of my bedroom. It was a box I did not put there. And something about the box was very bothersome to me in my dream. It bothered me because it was there and I hadn't known it was there. I should have known it was there. Where did it come from? It wasn't the kind of box I would have ever picked out ... and I never bought anything that long-shaped before. So why was that box there? What purpose did it serve? And I woke up, and sat straight up in bed, heart pounding. And again, that feeling that "I am missing something." So I prayed, and I asked the Lord to talk me... to show me what I needed to understand. I prayed for revelation. And I waited, and I listened... and I waited... and I waited... and I listened... and nothing came to me ... and I fell back to sleep.

Morning came...Monday morning... I get up. Mondays are NEVER my friend, but this morning, I am especially bothered. I have an urgency about something. OK, here we go again. What is it? Pray for family. Come up against the devil... again. (Mondays seem particularly attractive to the devil... don't know why. Maybe it's because we are all so BLAH about going back to our routines, and maybe the devil sees his opening... so I pray special hard Monday mornings before I go about my business.)

So I'm driving down the road, and I pop in a sermon tape of one of my very favorite preachers (he's from Tennessee...by golly, that has GOT to be God's country down there... I believe I'm moving to Tennessee someday)...but anyway, I'm listening to his message... and he's talking about how one of the problems in the church is that people aren't realizing their worth. He's talking about each saint needing to find their purpose in life and fulfill it, and unless they set their minds on their calling, they will never be happy... they will become bored... and will not know their purpose in church... or even in life. And I'm thinking, and actually saying out loud, "YES... that's what I see, too! That's the very point I am trying to get across... We have to find our destiny or we will never be satisfied. And dissatisfaction leads to boredom... which leads to bickering... which leads to judging... which leads to hating." And as I am sitting there feeling the revelation, then the preacher says... "But everyone has a different calling. And everyone has a different need. And your calling will be to fulfill the needs of some, but my calling may be to fulfill the needs of others. And some of us are called to coddle the new babes in the Lord, and therefore are more sensitive to the youngens. And others of us are called to help those with addictions and spirits of depression. And those are equipped to cast out and overcome. And some of us are sensitive to the needs of the elderly, who may have at one time been strong servants in the Lord, but age is bearing down on them. Some are drawn to the sick and needy, and want to lay hands on to heal. And others of us feel compelled to bring in new souls and our desire is to see large numbers of people come to know God. But everybody's CALLING is different. Everybody's PACKAGE (box) is different."

Our packages look different, are shaped different, and serve different purposes. And you may not even be aware of that package over in the far corner...because you are so busy concentrating on your own package... BUT THAT's OK... because we need all of the boxes to have a full arsenal for a successful church.

The preacher went on to say, "During EVERY ONE of my services, I have to throw out the net. And I have to be able to have something to offer for each type of person in this congregation: Those who don't know the Lord yet, Those who know God but are struggling with a personal crisis; those who need deliverance from addictions; those who are hurting and feel unloved and unwanted; and those who are young in the Lord and need foundation. And each of you, in your different callings and with your different personalities, helps me achieve this goal of reaching all of these types of needs."

WOW! I see, Lord! I see, Lord!

Help us build up our arsenals, Lord. Help us to be sensitive to all types of needs... help each one of us to realize our calling and to do the specific work you have for us. Help us to realize each other's worth so that together our body members will form fitly together for your purpose... I pray this in the name of My Lord Jesus Christ.

[Godsdrummer]

I just have one question have you allowed the dreams to help you change directions in your life or are you still in the same rut?

[BroMatt]

Originally Posted by Godsdrummer

I just have one question have you allowed the dreams to help you change directions in your life or are you still in the same rut?

In that I started this thread, I will take that question as though directed to me.

I began a multi-decade search, spending 15 years or so just looking at foundations (as I type this, it still sounds so outrageous to me), and I believe that it took me so long because I was so very THICK! My brain was stuffed full of things I believed, things I was taught, and conclusions based on the teaching and believing.

If God says to you, "You are way off the path, get back on the right path." and then places the burden on you to make efforts to get it right, there was (at least for me) an overwhelming feeling of the job being nearly impossible to accomplish.

Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Psa 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Luk 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Like a man standing in a desert with sand dunes piled everywhere, and the wind has erased your own footprints made just a few minutes before, the task of finding the foundation and building on the foundation was impossible, but it was also impossible to just keep throwing more construction into a building that could not be fixed and must be torn down because it was not properly founded.

If one would "dig deep", certainly it would help to know where to dig. I realised in a brand new way that Jesus was talking to ME when He said to search the scriptures.

Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

I still search every day. I take this as a serious life long project. I will always search the scriptures.

The trouble with digging is what you find, and what it means, and what do you do now?

Dan 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Dan 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Dan 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Dan 9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

1Sa 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
1Sa 3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
1Sa 3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
1Sa 3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

We live in a day when the TRUE word of the Lord is precious, and there is very little open vision. Eli is a shadow of a fat ministry that doesn't realise that they are going blind because the process is a slow "waxing".

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

They will know we are Christians by our condemning them to hell because they didn't obey Acts 2:38, opps, I mean by the love we have one for another.

In the day Jesus came...

Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. (John)

However consider the next verses...

Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luk 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Jesus is saying, "I can't get a response out of you!!! Nothing that I do will get you to respond!!!"

I was the fat, going-blind minister, I am the one that needs to dig deep and found the building of the house on the rock, and I want to hear Him when He calls my name.

Jesus has completely wrecked my plans, dismissed my good ideas, and called me to follow him. I am so thankful now for that which I hated as I was going through it.

This walk begins with each of us bending the knee and bowing the head, and when we stop doing that, we cease moving forward, until we once again obey Him by bending the knee and bowing the head.

[Godsdrummer]

Matt

I understand, don't belittle the time it took you to get to where you are, thank God that you have. It took me 20 years to be able to release all the teachings and traditions I was raised with and preached and taught in order to let God truely speak to me. Not to say he did not speak to me before, as he speaks to each individual in the place they are in thier walk with him. I thank God we will be judged by the knowledge we have not the knowledge we should have.

I like what you said. "Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

I still search every day. I take this as a serious life long project. I will always search the scriptures. "

Isn't it funny what you find when you change the perspective of how you look at scripture. I found that when I quit looking for salvation and eternal life I found true relationship, I see God.

"They will know we are Christians by our condemning them to hell because they didn't obey Acts 2:38, opps, I mean by the love we have one for another."

This is the problem of many, we are wrapped up in what we call truth we have missed the boat, true relationship with God. We look for a temporal kingdom with a throne and all the trimmings, that we fail to see that kingdom is here right now. We miss the thought of God that he created us just like we are to have a personal relationship with him by choice in this life. Not the life to come.

[Blessed56]

I am thankful to finds others that have been given dreams and visions concerning religious teachings......my dreams have been to show me just how self righteous my thinking had become, how judgmental my thoughts had turned to those not of the same faith, and to the lost, how blinded and deaf I was to the word of God, and much more. It's been hard to receive and come to understand, but it happened to me. I think the hardest though is to realize that I have not backslid-den, as the church world would consider you. I'm just thankful for the dreams and visions and the hunger to search the scriptures, and to repent daily as I received understanding from the Holy Ghost. I have not attended a church for 4 years, I study at home with my husband. Pray more post what God is showing the church.....please don't think I think you should not attend, that's not what I am saying......many need to go, I just had to come out!

[BroMatt]

I have recently had a series of dreams involving combines ( a modern machine designed to harvest grains), huge beautiful powerful combines with great ability designed for the harvest, all of them stuck, broken down, or otherwise being unused. Again last night I had a long dream concerning one that was stuck, surrounded by the stupidest people I have ever seen (I don't know how to otherwise relate what I saw).

I tried to advise them how to get the combine unstuck, but the tires were off the machine and it was sitting in mud, which was later revealed to be open sewage running down the street.

I believe that OLD TESTAMENT prophecy speaks of a spiritual combine that God creates that harvests the last day harvest, that we are in it, that we never will believe what we are not taught and preached, and that we should expect stunning supernatural harvest in these final days, and that we should pray for it, and that we (you and I personally) should expect to be a part of this last day work of God.

15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Isaiah 41:15-20 (KJV)

[Sam]

Over the years I have had several visions. Some I have recorded in writing and shared with others and some that I felt were just for me. I don't remember any visions that had doctrinal impact.

I can't recall any dreams that I felt were "from the Lord" but I have had several that I think came from the other guy.

I retired from General Electric on March 1, 1998 after 32 years of service. I have had recurring dreams/nightmares over the years of being back there. The latest one was just a few nights ago and I awakened exhausted from hours of walking in the dream.

[KWSS1976]

MLK had visions and dremas...

[Sam]

Originally Posted by KWSS1976

MLK had visions and dremas...

and, depending on our various religious, moral, ethical, and political persuasions we may consider that those visions and dreams may have come from various sources.