DREAMS & VISIONS PART B

 

SEE THAT BLUE HOUSE SHOE, WHEN YOU READ THE DREAM THAT IS IT! RIGHT THERE EXACTLY! THE SHOES GOD USED TO CHANGE MY ENTIRE LIFE!

GOD SPEAKING THROUGH DREAMS

This my personal testimony of a few dreams God has given me throughout the years. I remind you, before you go any farther, please go and read DREAMS AND VISIONS PART A, without first reading that this will not be very clear about God given dreams and visions.

Remember most of our dreams are not on a national level but on a personal level.  So let me begin, with my first God given dream at the age of 9 years old in 1956 (that year is important) it would reoccur exactly the same throughout my life time until I was 27 years old and born again in February 1974 (again the date is important). The story behind the dream was, I was not raised in church, went occasionally between 8 & 9 years of age. I had zero knowledge of things that would take place in this dream. When I was 9 years old my daddy died, in my fear of death and God, I came home from the grave and announced "I will never go back to church again" and so be it. But from that statement God began to speak to me in a dream. And over the years I got older, but in my dream I was always the 9 year old child.

It was very dark, I was afraid, hiding in a store doorway, on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. I was all alone, but a lot of activity was going on, I looked up and saw the moon as red as blood, on the street were lots of people walking to one place, both the dead and the living. (I knew this because I saw my daddy who was dead and my mother and sisters who were alive), I did not want to get in this line of people, I was terrified, yet I found myself in the line as I walked I began to go up a hill, by now I am crying and crawling, I knew that at the top of the hill was Jesus. When I reached the feet of Jesus I saw through my tears that He was wearing these bright blue fuzzy house shoes. And immediately I would wake up and think just a dream Jesus wouldn't wear fuzzy blue house shoes.

Over and over this would happen the dream never changed not one time. In the summer of 1973 God had stepped up His drawing me to Him. I started reading the bible (now that's another story), going to church but not saved searching for something to fill this void in my life. Christmas of 1973 I received a gift from my husband it was "Bright blue fuzzy house shoes" exactly what I had seen on the feet of Jesus since 1956. Suddenly I realized a dream that I thought was just a weird child's dream, became a reality. In February 1974 I surrendered my life to Jesus and never had that dream again. So what did the dream mean? In December 1973 when I saw the blue house shoes I knew this reality: "Judgment day was coming, for all people." I would never have known that as a child, but God was wooing me to Him. The blue house shoes I thought was weird, God placed them in my dream for that very day in 1973 I would open that gift and know the dream was real. Now not too long ago I searched to see when those house shoes were made to sale, 1972. I could shout right here! God placed in my dream something that was non-existent at that time, that would shock me and wake me up 18 years later.

Over the years I would periodically have dreams this one is not about a church but about the whole body of Christ. The people of God not the building itself. At this time in my life I was an AWANA commander at my church. Again this is not about my church or my church family. I will tell what it was about at the end.

In my dream I was at an AWANA meeting in our gym, for some reason I got up went through the doors to the other room. There I found chaos, children being dragged off to hell and no one was stopping them, I grabbed one child and said "You can't have her", I turned looking for help and saw a man opening chairs and closing chairs like he was sitting up a room, I called out "why are you not helping"? He answered "This is all I know to do" and he continued to do that one thing. I woke up!

The dream did not return but I sought God the only way I knew how at that time, I acting on what I thought He was telling me (a personal word for me), but over time I began to understand it wasn't a dream about me remaining in AWANA, like I thought at first. But it actually was the moment God placed on me a burden for His bride. To pray for the equipping of the saints, that they would know how to use their God given talents, spiritual gifts and fulfill the calling God had placed on their lives. You might say God had given me a Kairos moment, now that I understood, will I align my prayer life with the meaning of the dream and walk in what God just gave me, or refuse. You see when God speaks we have a choice to listen and obey or walk away. 

FOOTNOTE: The children and AWANA meeting were not the focus of the dream, I made it my focus, but God used this because it was relatable to me. The real focus was the man just opening and closing chairs and his words "This is all I know to do"!

Another more recent dream along these lines, was probably the most ugliest thing my eyes had witnessed. In the last two dreams I was involved in them, in this one I was on the sidelines seeing it all playing out in front of me and unable to move to stop anything. In this I found myself screaming "God get me out of here". This dream was three fold God in this gave me a personal scripture in answer to a prayer I had "Again God what is my purpose now?" Which is now hanging on my bedroom door. The rest as horrific as it is He immediately gave me understanding and scripture.

In my dream I was watching I couldn't move and they couldn't see me. I saw a long table with people sitting around eating this big feast but what they were eating was body parts of different people, a leg, a arm etc. Now they didn't kill the person just maimed them, they only took one body part from one person. I was sick at what I was seeing and praying to wake up but the dream continued, I saw in the background a young girl running, I saw a man trying to find her and help her, I knew he was not a threat to her but she kept on running. Then I heard this old woman scream out, "Get me some young fresh eye balls to eat", in horror I saw two men grab the young girl, strap her into a chair and take out her eyes and sew her lids together. Now I am crying and screaming "Get me out of here"! I saw the man trying to help the young girl who had been running from him reach her and comfort her. Immediately I heard these words "Eye have not seen"! 

 I sat straight up in bed knowing that was a scripture for me. I searched and found 1Corinthians 2:9 "Eye have not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him". Now I said Lord You went through all that just to tell me You still have a plan and purpose for my life. Needless to say God was saying more than that. I couldn't go back to sleep as I pondered on the dream, I remembered (the Holy Spirit brought to my memory) a scripture you will find it in 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. What God was showing me was because there is a lack of unity in His body, the enemy has been damaging the body as a whole by stopping God's people from using their God given talents and gifts. Our gifts are irrevocable, but we can sit and soak, murmur and complain, be offended and find ourselves not being who God desires us to be within the local church body or as we minister other places. Like the young girl running from the man trying to protect her, she found herself hurt by the very church that should have been her safe haven. If you haven't figured it out it was Jesus she was running from. In this God showed me once more to continue to pray for His church, as there are a lot of religious people out there who will quickly devour any gift or talent that would be in opposition to what they think. Here I gave you the first dream of a burden and one I had a couple of years ago. There had been others in between, that God would use to reaffirm this prayer burden He has given me. Knowing this I pray as He shows me specifics and will continue until He releases me. Did you see the specific way I am to pray in this.

Two more the last most recent dream I had and a very old one I had.

Recently, it seemed I had not had any God dreams in awhile. Then one night I had these dream, not really involved in the dream itself, but trying to get involved. I saw my 18 year old granddaughter leaving work, a man was after her, he grabbed her held her down, and attacking her, I couldn't get to her, she couldn't hear me or see me. I would then wake up.

 I would pray "Lord don't let me have this nightmare again", but I would again and again dream wake up, dream wake up I finally said to myself I think God is saying she is in danger something is coming, so I prayed and felt that was settled. When I got up, looked on Facebook I saw a news article about the children being rescued from a trafficking ring. Immediately the eyes of my understanding were opened up and I knew God had just laid a burden on me to pray for the children stolen away and used as sex slaves, pornography, work slaves. You see God used someone I loved very much to pull my heart toward all the children I did not know. But I am to pray for them. So to align myself to the dream I pay attention to what is happening, and I continue to pray for the children to be rescued. I continue to pray for for God to reveal and expose all that are part of child trafficking. And God is doing just that.

This next dream happended years ago. Some parts of this dream I truly had no clue what God was actually trying to say or do. So I took them as a satanic dream to upset me. And it did. It involved my daughter who I thought was saved, yet she wasn't.

In the dream my daughter would be in a room with these demonic creatures hanging off the walls and trying to get to my daughter. I came in pushed her out of the room, shut the door and I began to rebuke the devil, quote scripture, speak the name of Jesus. Then I would wake up. 

Now somewhere I have this written down, but this is pretty much how I remembered it. I had that same dream more than once, my daughter says 3 times. I never mentioned this dream at the time because I thought it was so demonic it could not be of God. Then my daughter was saved, one day she began to talk about this horrible demonic dream she would have about these demon creatures coming after her and how I would come in and put her out of the room and start quoting scripture. Seeing we were having the same dream, as we talked about it. We both realized that in these moments God gave me the exact dream satan was giving her, so in the dream I could fight in the spirit realm where she, at that time, was unable to do. Never has that happened like that again for me. How God did it I can not say. But I know God was using me in that moment to protect my daughter. And I praise God for it.

This is really her testimony of what she was going through at that time in her life.

I have had many more dreams, but not every night or every week or even every month. I have had very few that I felt were specifically for my church, and shared only to who I believed needed to hear it. But even in those few dreams, God was really directing me on how I should be praying. So you see I have never had a dream that impacted the world, but they each one have impacted my life and my family. Too many place too much emphasis on foretelling some hugh, national event. That we tend to forget God cares for each of us, and He desires to spend time with us, as we gather with Him to pray, praise and read His word. And when we are still and calm He will place a dream in us, to help us in the direction He wants to take us.

I hope you have been blessed and encouraged in both these blog posts. Search the word, allow the Holy Spirit in you to teach you about how God today still gives dreams and visions to His children.

P.S. remember you should read Part A first.