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Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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Have you ever had a dream that was prophetic or from God?
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Topic: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams (Read 16972 times)
denim&lace
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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October 16, 2009, 09:40:09 AM »
Quote from: Cherika Four Seasons on October 16, 2009, 02:39:04 AM
I think this is an amazing dream Snowflake, reminds me of how Jesus invites us to be "married"
to him - and how he changes us when we accept the invitation
This was my thoughts also as I read Snowflake's post...
something else about accepting the bride and not shunning her because she had been a bad girl... letting the groom change her as he made her into the bride acceptable to him... not really sure how to put words to the thought...
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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Quote from: snowflake on October 15, 2009, 09:50:37 PM
I had this dream about two weeks ago. I can’t get it out of my mind.
I was with my parents (not sure if it was my real life parents or just two people I “knew” were my parents), talking with a man that I felt that I knew. He was looking for a wife for his son (whom I also knew), and I was one of the girls he was considering. I felt that this was a great honor and that the son was a very good man. I couldn’t believe he was even considering me. After a moment, the father said we could think it over and let him know. If we said yes, then we would be engaged immediately and begin planning the wedding. As we walked away I started thinking that I was crazy for not just saying yes right then. So, we went back, but there were people around and we couldn’t get through. I knew that another girl had already said yes, and this was the engagement party. I was so disappointed that it could have been me, and that I should have said yes right away, but didn’t. I had a great time with the family of the soon-to be bride. They were very nice and I enjoyed talking, eating and dancing with them. The girls all had long hair and dresses…Then, I got a glimpse of the bride to be. She was pale with hair that was sort of choppy and obviously dyed black. She was wearing a knee-length, tight black dress. I knew she had been a bad girl and was surprised that she was one of the girls considered. But, I also knew that she understood how amazing it was that he had considered her, and just knowing that, changed her. With this thought, the dream ended.
This dream bothers me because I don’t know if it has a personal application or not. I think about it often. I don't want to miss an important opportunity like I did in that dream. Any insight would be appreciated!
Thank you Jesus!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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October 17, 2009, 10:55:46 PM »
Yes, I noticed the spiritual parallels in this dream as soon as I woke up. It still bothers me that I didn't say "yes" right away. Once I thought I should, and decided to go back, it was a weak stomach feeling, that I had missed the opportunity. Yet, at the same time, I was happy for her... I don't think I have ever analyzed a dream so much before!
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denim&lace
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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October 17, 2009, 11:17:18 PM »
I just finished reading The Vision and Magdalene in the book made me think of the bride in your dream.
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snowflake
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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October 19, 2009, 11:15:18 AM »
D&L: I haven't read that yet...
I hope to be able to get it when we get a definite address to receive mail!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 02, 2010, 12:53:55 PM »
I deleated my post that I had on here a while ago. The first part of what I shared was a dream, but the ending was from my imagination that I thought up of after I woke up.
I was convicted from a verse in Jeremiah, chapter 23 verse 32, that made me realize I am not to spread false dreams nor to spread something that God didn't show me to share.
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 02, 2010, 03:30:16 PM »
Well done, naturalgirl.
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 04, 2010, 04:33:42 PM »
Just out of curiosity, which part was your waking thought? I have meant to go through this thread and to pray about the various dreams here, and have yet to do so, but yours was one that I had prayed about, and of which I think I had clear understanding.
Anyway, which part was not the strict dream?
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 15, 2010, 10:27:52 AM »
Yeah, it certainly isnt always a good thing to tell others about what we dream because those who dont dream dont understand. They just think that those of us who do have meaningful drams are crazy or on to many drugs or something. Sometimes it is best to just keep it quiet. But other times it is good to tell. I experienced that this week.
I had a very vivid dream where I could hear the words "stand in the gap for (a certain person)............ intersesspory prayer while in the gap........................tell sister BJ to pray in the gap for so and so"
The dream was lengthy and those words could be heard coming from several different people in the dream and sometimes they come from nowhere.
Everyone else in the dream stood around as if they could not grasp the meaning of the words. I was getting frustrated with others for not praying for so and so. They just stood around chit chatting acting like all was normal except for one lady. She was joining me in prayer and standing in the gap praying intensly and crying with me to God.
I told her about the dream and she responded back telling me that for some reason that certain person in my dream that I am to pray about was on her mind a lot too and she didnt know why. She thanked me for telling her about my dream because it confirmed to her that she needs to listen to that urging from God when He lays someone on our hearts.
The person her and I are to pray about is from Haiti and we both know this person personally.
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denim&lace
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 15, 2010, 10:50:54 AM »
Wow BJ. God is so cool...
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 15, 2010, 11:48:02 AM »
That is awesome!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 16, 2010, 05:15:26 AM »
I had a weird dream last night that kept me awake afterward for some time thinking about it. I am not sure of the exact situation I was in, but I remember feeling frustrated with all the responsibilities of being a wife and a mother to lots of little ones (not so far from the truth!) At one point, I looked up a recipe for a poison that would kill me and I decided since I couldn't handle it, I was going to drink this and commit suicide. It was very disturbing to me both in the dream and after I woke. So I made it, drank it, and laid down on the floor waiting for it to take effect. During this time, I got scared and felt I had really messed up. I thought of my children living without me and my husband without his wife. I felt sorry for my actions. Then at some point, I realized that the poison wasn't working. It was of no effect. I realized then that God must have stopped it. I felt ashamed but thankful for his mercy. Here is where it gets fuzzy, because I believe when this happened, I woke up and asked God in a half-dream state, "what did I do wrong?" An answer came very clear to me that is still in my head this morning....."YOU LEFT YOUR POST"
This prompted me to ask God forgiveness for anytime I have complained to my husband and to Him for not "taking care of me" in the last week, or feeling like I was being ignored. I have to add, that this attitude has been popping up a lot this last week as myself and my three little ones all have swine flu right now. It is miserable. Anyway, I have a thankful attiitude this morning and I feel like God has shown me that I need to study, strive and work harder than ever to keep my "post" as a wife and mother.
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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January 16, 2010, 05:47:06 AM »
Wow MrsHope...thank you for posting that!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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February 15, 2010, 02:09:54 PM »
Quote from: Sweet E on July 22, 2009, 07:56:59 PM
I have only had a few dreams that I felt had meaning. One was an answer to a question I had cried out to the Lord about. When I awoke and prayed, I understood what the dream meant. I have had other dreams that I wondered about, whether they had meaning or not. I have been thinking about one in particular that I had almost a year ago. I got up the next morning and wrote the whole thing down so that I could remember it. I am typing it almost verbatim...
I dreamed that I was with my family visiting a church. I found the nursery and was given a small child to care for during the service. It was a baby, at least in size and appearance, but not in strength or understanding. Somehow I knew the baby was wise and mature in mind. I could tell by the look in its eyes.
As soon as I took the baby in my arms it grasped my fingers with its tiny hands in an alarmingly strong grip. I don't think I could have pulled my hands away if I had wished to. Most of my attention was spent trying to keep the baby upright... it kept turning over, trying to get its face close to my hands (as if, maybe, to bite me?). I began to hold it out arm's length away from my body.
A lady came into the room and began to check the baby's welfare. For the first time, I saw that there were medical cords around the baby's throat, like an IV. The lady (nurse?) said something like, "Maybe we should try this," and changed/added something to the IV. The baby began to jerk, and a few minutes later, it died.
(Looking back, I think that the baby was sick/dying the entire time I held it.) I was not sad or grieved when it died, but strangely moved. It was "touching" somehow. I heard in my mind the moment it died sweeping music, loud and dramatic. It was the movie score of Prince Caspian, lol. Even in my dream, I wondered how I could remember the music so well.
I awoke. I prayed and asked God if this dream had meaning, and if it did, that He would show it to me. I was quiet and waited, and fell back asleep and dreamed that my family was in an open area outside a house at twilight.
The sun was already set, but it wasn't fully dark yet. We were happy and laughing and playing. There were fireflies everywhere. I caught one and ran to show it to Mom and Dad, then let it go. I skipped past Dad and noticed that he had a bunch of fireflies on his back, glowing in the semi-darkness. I laughed and wondered if I had any on my back. I went dancing around, twirling and skipping... I even laid down in the cool green grass and rolled over and over, laughing in delight. Everyone was happy and full of joy. I remember thinking, "This is the perfect end to our vacation." I think I dreamed about us being on vacation before this, but I don't remember. That part is a vague memory.
We finally began to go inside the house for the night. I was on the porch walking towards the door when I noticed two dogs running towards me. The one seemed like a regular dog, but I knew the other was the "baby," only in different form. Maybe it was the eyes? I was mildly alarmed, and shouted, "NO!" to the dog/baby, and they both stopped and melted way. I went into the house.
I'm still thinking (and praying) about this one... There are a couple things that seem to correspond.
Thoughts, anyone?
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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February 16, 2010, 12:16:24 PM »
A couple nights ago...
I was standing on a track getting ready to run a race. I was stretching and practicing my starts when I looked around and noticed that there was only one other person in the race with me. She had long blond hair streaming down her back and when she turned to look at me I was shocked because she was obviously mentally handicapped... possibly downs syndrome. The caller indicated it was time to run so I took the block and was pondering if I should let the girl win or if I should go ahead and win but not allow myself to get so far ahead that she would feel bad... I knew I couldn't just run to the best of my ability and leave her too far behind. Then the starting shot was fired! Boom, we were out of there. She was to the outside of the track so she started ahead of me and I was amazed because she could run so well, and then as she was running she threw up her hands and was lifted into the air. I stopped in my tracks and watched as she hovered about 50-60 feet in the air. She was talking and smiling, then she gently was put back down on the track and she turned and ran toward me yelling, "Go! Go!" As though she was cheering for me to run on. Somehow I knew that she had just encountered God and I thought, "I want some of that!!!" so I ran toward her, then past her and as I was being lifted up into the air I woke up.
This dream was so real and so sweet. Almost like a hug from God.
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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February 16, 2010, 02:51:40 PM »
D&L . . . I have tears in my eyes after reading your post. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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February 16, 2010, 04:32:40 PM »
Quote from: SC lady on February 16, 2010, 02:51:40 PM
D&L . . . I have tears in my eyes after reading your post. Thank you so much for sharing!
Ditto what she said...*sniff*
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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March 20, 2010, 02:48:11 PM »
I had this dream about 2 weeks ago.........
I was in a town where we used to live, and some friends from that place were decorating a very expensive house. It was a big brick house and looked like it had been built recently. I remember thinking that the bedrooms were really small (almost closet size!!) but the bathrooms were huge. There were two bathrooms and each had a whirlpool tub that could fit a small family in it! The people that we know were trying to convince us to move into the house. The pastor we had from there had paid for us to stay there for a week, but it was too expensive to rent for any longer. I asked dh if we were going to rent it and he said that it was way too much. There was even a young girl and her husband we know who were being paid to live there and take care of the house.
Anyway, I looked around one more time and felt an overwhelming desire to want to stay in such a pretty place, and I stopped and yelled some thing like : "No! I don't want don't want this luxury, I want to be poor!" and immediately the dream faded in gray smoke.
I know this it is a weird dream, but I can't stop thinking about it. When we lived in that town we did have a lot and now we have less than we ever imagined .... but we are happy this way!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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March 20, 2010, 03:16:30 PM »
Snowflake, sounds interesting. It sounds like maybe there is still part of you that wants what you used to have. Don't we all look back and want what was good there? But it also sounds like you know that the present situation is where you should be. It might be that God is trying to teach you that very thing. And maybe you'll have to make that choice sometime.( Between what you had and what you have now.) Like you did in your dream, listen to your husband, don't long for what he can't afford...Be happy with what he provides. And it seems like you already are.
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Cherika Four Seasons
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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April 25, 2010, 09:32:19 PM »
So I had a dream a couple weeks ago that I want to post...
It was scary and sad but also AWESOME in a way that is hard to describe. I just felt so loved and happy the entire time.
I was with my little family, and we were in hiding for some reason. I was married, and we had a little boy... I'm not sure how old. Could have been anywhere between about four and eight.
He looked like my little nephew Jesse but with darker hair and glasses,and a slightly rounder face, and he was very smart! (as is Jesse). And I loved him, he was so real to me in the dream. He knew lots of things and seemed very wise for such a young child.
So we were hiding out, in the house I'm living in now actually, which belongs to my parents but I currently live there with my sister and brother-in-law and their kids.
But then a lady, one of our neighbors, saw us through a window, and I saw her go to tell on us. I told my husband and began trying to smash a window so we could escape out the back, but I couldn't, it was too hard. So then my husband broke it, and told me to take the kid and run.
We left out the back way into the bush behind the house (i live in a mountainous area, so there is a lot of bush surrounding where I live...no one owns it, it is crown land), but we were soon surrounded by little primary school kids wearing white polo shirts and blue shorts (school uniform), who were trying to grab my son and take him with them.
All the while, I was preparing the kid to be separated from us.
I was saying things like "if they get you, they will tell you that there is no God, and that we did not love you....but don't believe them. They are liars. " He was very brave about it, but I was determined not to let it happen.
I'm not sure where my husband was at this point....I think he was still inside the house. I couldn't seem to keep all the school kids away, so in the dream, I somehow managed to find my husband and sit down in front of him (at his feet, it was weird!) and I told him I needed help.
He came and fought all the school kids off (like not hurting them or anything, just pushing them away)and the three of us managed to get away into the bush. We crossed the creek and found a little "outhouse" kind of thing and some people took us in...gave us a meal. The dream ended there.
The weirdest thing about it was that, although I was frightened of losing my child, I was also happy the whole time, and felt so much love for my little family. They were really precious! I trusted that everything would work out, even while I was preparing for the worst. And it did!
I don't know for sure that the dream was literal or prophetic or even from God....it just seemed really special. Sad AND amazing. Its ironic because I only ever wanted to have daughters...but now I know I would love to have a son!
Oh, and there was lots of others little details and conversations in the dream....It would take forever to write it all down, but I think that's what made the dream so life-like.
also, there were other people hiding out with us at the start of the dream, but I'm not sure what happened to them. They weren't there later on.
P.S I think we were hiding because of the school kids.. we had been required to send him to join them, wherever they were, but refused, so that's why we had to hide in the first place, so that we could all stay together. I also think (i hope this isn't a little detail my mind added later?) that we had been hiding out for some time, at least a couple of years, before being discovered.
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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makes you wonder if someday they won't outlaw homeschool...
So good you always felt loved and that you trusted everything would work out! Someday it is possible that is all we may have, is Faith in God. Pray that should that time, ever come, you'll have that kind of faith and peace in Him. He has never promised those times won't come. In fact I believe we are warned that they will. And for many people, in many places, times like those have already come.
I have found a really great way to build my faith in God is to read biographies of faith-filled people in desperate times. To name a few~ The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. ~ God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew~ Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Rose ~ Here is one that tells the story of several faithful women
http://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Women-Their-Extraordinary-God/dp/1581346735
These stories are wonderful testimonies of how trustworthy our God is.
We can prepare for hard times but in the end it is often God and Him alone that provides the way for us!!
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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April 26, 2010, 07:46:19 AM »
That's really interesting, Cherika.
Thanks for sharing. Like Beth said, it's awesome you felt love and peace even in such a hard time. If I were you, I would write down a version with all the little details included, as much as you can remember. Just be careful not to add anything...
The part about you sitting at your "husband's" feet and explaining you needed help really interests me, because it reminded me of a dream I had a couple weeks ago and forgot until I read your dream this morning.
There was more to it, but the main gist was that I was with my friend working with her (as I do a couple days a week) and there was this weird guy there... really really creepy, but I'm not exactly sure why. I just felt that he was. I was overcome with a feeling of fear and was freaking out and trembling... My brother was there too and I went and stood/fell in his shadow, which is strange because he shouldn't have had one indoors.
That's all I remember....
Many times when I have a dream I feel might be from God I make a point of asking him, as in: "God, does this dream have a meaning? Are you trying to tell me something? If so, please open my eyes to understand..."<I'm quiet, listening...> I've only had a few dreams I knew for sure where from Him, but like Mary, I treasure up the rest in my heart, remembering and looking, just in case.
E
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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Quote from: Sweet E on April 26, 2010, 07:46:19 AM
. I was overcome with a feeling of fear and was freaking out and trembling... My brother was there too and I went and stood/fell in his shadow, which is strange because he shouldn't have had one indoors.
That's all I remember....
sounds like the whole headship thing we've been talking about on another thread. If our fathers aren't there, often it is a brother who becomes our protector.
edited to add: or husbands, It should have read if our father or husband is not there...
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Quote from: Beth on April 26, 2010, 01:33:22 PM
Quote from: Sweet E on April 26, 2010, 07:46:19 AM
I was overcome with a feeling of fear and was freaking out and trembling... My brother was there too and I went and stood/fell in his shadow, which is strange because he shouldn't have had one indoors.
That's all I remember....
sounds like the whole headship thing we've been talking about on another thread. If our fathers aren't there, often it is a brother who becomes our protector.
Yeah... Sounds like it to me.
I was there helping my friend today and hoping that if any scary guys walked through the door my brother would be right behind them, lol.
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Thanks for the links Beth!
we had to read the hiding place at school a couple years back when we were studying the holocaust....its a great story! but the others I haven't heard of, so I will check them out.
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That's really interesting, Cherika. Thanks for sharing. Like Beth said, it's awesome you felt love and peace even in such a hard time. If I were you, I would write down a version with all the little details included, as much as you can remember. Just be careful not to add anything...
I really should start a dream journal hey! sometimes I feel a little silly taking my dreams too seriously though, but like you said, I just gotta pray that God will reveal their significance (or lack there-of) when the time is right.
thanks for your thoughts
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Re: Prophetic/meaningful type dreams
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Quote from: Cherika Four Seasons on April 26, 2010, 09:31:08 PM
Thanks for the links Beth!
we had to read the hiding place at school a couple years back when we were studying the holocaust....its a great story! but the others I haven't heard of, so I will check them out.
God's Smuggler is about a man known as Brother Andrew who,during the days of the iron curtain smuggled bibles into Russia, he saw miracles take place in the process of doing this.
http://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Hardcover-Elizabeth-Brother-Sherrill/dp/0739419013
Evidence not seen is about a missionary woman who is taken prisoner during wwII on the island of New Guinea. Her husband is killed and it is her story of how miraculously God provided for her.
http://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Not-Seen-Miraculous-Jungles/dp/0060670207
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9k5WuqIuSQ
can also listen to her give her testimony as an 83 year old woman here
I really should start a dream journal hey! sometimes I feel a little silly taking my dreams too seriously though, but like you said, I just gotta pray that God will reveal their significance (or lack there-of) when the time is right.
thanks for your thoughts
the links above have been added in I need to learn how to separate quotes...
I don't believe all dreams are from God. But I do know that he has taught me much through my dreams. I don't write them down, the ones I believe are from God I just always remember. But it'd be okay to write them down. Not everyone always understands what God is saying and so it's okay to ask someone who might. Always take it with a grain of salt though. When I dream something that I believe is from God I wake up and seem to know what He was saying to me. My husband has had a few dreams also and I seem to understand the message there too, yet he doesn't. When I explain what I think it means he usually agrees that is probably what God was trying to say to him. But I am careful to not put much weight into them. I think I would be very hesitant to make a major life decision based upon a dream. It would just be too easy for the enemy to deceive us.
Besides, it is usually just what God is saying to me personally anyway.
I did dream a warning about someone close to me. I felt compelled to go to them. What they did after that was up to them. Dreams are fascinating though aren't they?
* I wanted to add that in the above case I dreamed a dream of warning about this person several times. I went to the person and left it up to them what they should do. But it was so painful for me to watch the dream "play out" in their lives that I asked God to stop giving me the dreams. Mercifully He did. I've not dreamed of them like that since. I think we can pray about our dreams and He knows what we can handle and what we can't. I don't want to dream prophetic dreams, too painful... and God has given me that. He truly loves us, doesn't He?
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Quote from: Beth on April 27, 2010, 08:02:59 AM
I don't believe all dreams are from God. But I do know that he has taught me much through my dreams. [...] But I am careful to not put much weight into them. I think I would be very hesitant to make a major life decision based upon a dream. It would just be too easy for the enemy to deceive us.
Besides, it is usually just what God is saying to me personally anyway.
Right, Beth. I dream in technicolor every night it seems, so I'm really glad all dreams aren't from God!
I'd be in trouble for sure... I wouldn't make a decision solely on a dream, but I think that as I am seeking God about something, He might lead me through His word, on in prayer, or even in a dream while I'm sleeping.
Quote from: Beth on April 27, 2010, 08:02:59 AM
I went to the person and left it up to them what they should do. But it was so painful for me to watch the dream "play out" in their lives that I asked God to stop giving me the dreams. Mercifully He did. I've not dreamed of them like that since. I think we can pray about our dreams and He knows what we can handle and what we can't. I don't want to dream prophetic dreams, too painful... and God has given me that. He truly loves us, doesn't He?
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I haven't ever had a prophetic-type dream before. This dream that I had a couple of months ago was different because after I dreamed it I was dozing / sleeping / praying and I remember it felt like God was “pointing the dream out to me”. He wanted me to take note of it and remember it.
In my dream, a friend (a member of the church we used to go to) told me that she was going to get married again (I knew that she meant to the same man – ie. she simply meant she would do the ceremony over again). I remember the weeks of preparation: the flowers, the cake, the invitations...
and then she was driving up to the wedding venue in the car. I realised that she was no longer the friend I first referred to but a different friend (also from my old church).
There was a great amount of fanfare as she prepared to enter, the usual getting the bride ready at the back of the church and then she started to walk down the aisle. I remember that it seemed so important to her how she held herself while she walked – that she walked carefully and perfectly doing all the right things along the way down the aisle. She was the one that it mattered to and the one in charge.
I remember her sigh of contentment and relief when she reached the front, she had done it right, now she could relax. She looked up at the pastor standing ready to marry her. I started to wake up and just as I was waking something struck me as very strange. I looked to the side of the church and there was her husband standing in the shadows at the front – one of the spectators – not at all part of the ceremony. The dream ended.
I told my husband about the dream the next day and we prayed together – asking God to show us the meaning if He wanted to.
My husband said:
“What comes to mind is the Bride of Christ – the church – and her relationship to Jesus – the church having a wrong expectation about the wedding – wanting to be the centre of attention but not being close to Him. Not thinking about the Lord or going to Him or noticing Him.
We wrote down the following:
I think the friends getting married represents the church and the husband represents Christ.
Christ remains in the shadows while his bride is so busy building the church organisation “the wedding”, so focused on her own goals, so much trying to do the “Christian” thing – that it is not much about Christ at all.
This verse came to mind
To the Church of Laodicea
Rev 3v19 “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Also my husband said
“Why them in the dream – why those two ladies. The are both strong women who have had leadership roles in the church while their husbands have played more supporting roles.”
What implication has that for the church, how should the church be in terms of its relationship to Jesus. The church (the bride of Christ) wanting to be in charge of the relationship - not letting their husband (Christ) lead. The church being like a strong controlling wife. (ie. An organisation can have a personality – the church having a personality that wants to control)
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Wow... all I can say is, "Yes." I am so glad to hear you two working as one, hearing from the Spirit of God.
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Wow, Learning Lady! Thank you for sharing!
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