Dream: Freedoms Lost and Restored (2019)

I had this dream back on September 15, 2019. At that time this dream was shared with multiple churches and key family members and friends. Today I share this dream with the entire body of Christ in order to spur us on toward prayer, and bring hope in what people and fellow believers may see going on around them in the world today. This dream specifically speaks about freedom in the United States of America being lost and restored through unity and prayer. Have you read my memoir, Healing Wings, by Natalie Sherwood? If not, go grab a copy on Amazon today CLICK HERE to walk along side my healing journey from Guillain-Barre' Syndrome. You will hear much more than a recovery story and see the hand of God in my life and yours today. I also have a marriage workbook called The Mission of Marriage CLICK HERE that can help you and your spouse either reconnect or connect for the first time. Dive deep into the mystery of WHO your spouse is and what makes them tick. Want to get your very own Young Living Essential Oils? CLICK HERE and grab yourself some of my favorites like Lavander, Thieves, Frankincense, and Lemon. Honestly, I have so many favorites it can be hard to choose.

Scorched Ground - Dream - 5/13/2020

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Scorched Ground – Dream – 5/13/2020

I had this dream in May of last year, during COVID and before Winter Storm Uri.

 

Dream:

In this dream the setting was ‘soon’.  It was not now, and it was not in the past, but it was soon.  It was also a further SHAKING of the earth, and specifically the Christians, those that love and follow God.  The non-Christians were equally shaken, maybe even more so, but the outcome was to make the Christians rise up and do what they are suppose to be doing. 

Wayne and I were out doors, and when we look out from where we were standing the land had been scorched.  The trees were still standing, and some plants and bushes were still there, but all of the ground, earth, dirt, grass and low creeping plants hand been scorched as in fire and were completely burned up and lay bare.  The fields, hills, yards and more were bare, burnt, fallow dirt. 

As we looked out we were at perfect peace and KNEW exactly what we were suppose to do, yet we could ‘feel’ the panic, fear and other emotions rising up off many on the earth. 

We began praying while heading to seek out other believers, many which may not have previously been considered mature, to make sure that they also KNEW what their current job was, and if not, to help teach them.  We made our way to one particular friend in the Sugarland area named Brandon to be sure he was alright and knew what to do.  When we reached him he was doing exactly what he was suppose to. 

Brandon was standing up on an elevated area looking over vast barren and burnt fields.  As he stood there he was in a posture of worship, standing tall with his arms and hands outstretched toward those fields.  He was praying over the ‘land’, just as we had come to inform him to do.  When we reached him in his elevated location he never let his posture change or his arms lower, but smiled and greeted us happily with his facial expressions and his voice.  None of us spoke of or felt fear, but he said, “Man guys, this is wild.”  We all three nodded and smiled and Wayne and I responded, “It sure is.  Wild.”  We talked a few moments making sure he knew his part and before departing to check on the next set of believers.  Once we had checked on our assigned set of believes we would also take a stance to stand, look over and pray for our ‘fields’ in earnest.  We were praying for them as we checked on the others, but it would become more concerted.

He said, “Yes, I know what to do.  I am suppose to pray over the harvest.  First the lettuce will spring up, tiny little sprigs.  Then those will grow in size and cucumbers and tomatoes will grow up.  Finally (after other crops spring up) the bread will grow, and that is the end result.”  We nodded that he was correct and were very happy that he knew that.  It is important to note that only one crop would grow at a time, so the lettuce would grow until it turned into cucumbers and that would grow until it turned into tomatoes and so on until finally the bread would grow.  Interesting to note, I knew the end result was NOT Wheat with which to make bread, but actual loaves and rolls, baked to perfection and shined with butter on top.  Already baked bread growing.  And we referred to this process as the harvest growing, and the harvest was not ready until the ready-made bread was growing.  Also note, while we were standing there with Brandon, tiny sprigs of lettuce were already beginning to pop up all over the barren land before him!

End Dream

 

PS – I looked up what the name Brandon means since I was curious why God chose to put him in our dream.  His name means, “Beacon Hill.”  Wow!  Hill of hope, safety, light…whatever you think of a beacon as.

Friends, get ready!  There is more ‘shaking’ to come.  I do not know what it looks like, but it will feel more scorched, barren, dry than this Coronavirus.  Also, we were at perfect peace and knew what to do, so do NOT fear and BE PREPARED for God’s supernatural provision (yes, still do what you know to do.  It is our job to be prepared and let God do the rest).  And third, it IS HARVEST time, and prayer is pivotal.

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Walking Through Fire - Vision from June 2020

 Walking through fire – Vision – 6/14/2020

 Vision I had during 1^st service worship on Sunday morning, June 14, 2020.  This was approximately 5-months ago.  At the time of this vision our church was doing 3 services due to COVID-19 social distancing.  All staff and volunteers were wearing masks.

 Vision:

 During worship the sanctuary around me faded away and now all I see is an inferno.  Not just one inferno, but every city across the nation, and possibly the world, is engulfed in an inferno of fire.  And this is not just any fire, but it is HELL FIRE.  It is consuming, hot, and destructive…

 Then I see believers begin to become small individual bonfires.  Not the same fire that is in the cities, but Holy Spirit, heavenly fire.  As more believers begin to ‘catch on fire’ we begin moving toward each other and unite by joining hands, linking arms, or putting a hand on another’s shoulder.  I notice that as we link up to one another our small individual bonfires become a raging, consuming fire.  I saw our Pastor front and center of this local group of consuming fire believers. 

 We began to walk in one accord, and with purpose through the cities of hell fire.  As we purposefully walked through the hell fire our Holy Spirit fire began to consume the fires of hell so they had no more power, and our Heavenly fires grew larger and more powerful. 

 I noticed that this was not easy work.  It was hard, hot, sticky and purposeful, but we were not harmed or burned. 

 

End of Vision

 

 The amazing-ness of this vision reminded me of movies where you see a fire or explosion and you are holding your breath wondering if the ‘good guys’ survived, then just when you think all hope is lost the ‘good guy’ comes striding out of the fires holding the baby or child or whomever needed rescuing.  

This is a call for Believers both around the world and in the United States to UNITE in prayer.  The hell fires of Satan desire to consume, but we have the true Consuming Fire of the Holy Spirit inside us.  Let us ignite through prayer, worship and unity and watch what the Lord can do as we fall to our knees.  It is not easy to wage a spiritual battle, but it is worth it as we know that the Victory is the Lord's.

Freedoms Lost and Restored

 For lack of a better title I called this dream: Freedoms Lost and Restored

I had this dream just over 1-year ago on the night of September 15 / morning of September 16, 2019.  I have shared this dream with a handful of people over the last year, and they can vouch for the fact that I had it BEFORE this election and the time we are currently in.  

I tend to lean toward this dreaming being for now, but as I do not know the future it could certainly be for another time.  Time will tell, or you can feel free to ask God yourself.

 Setting:

A beautiful white sand and blue water beach on the shores of the USA.

 Dream:

As this dream begins I am standing alone on the beautiful white sands of a beach somewhere on the shores of the USA.  I can see the crystal blue water, feel the soft gentle breeze and even taste the slightly salty air.  It is pristine and peaceful. 

 As I stand there I begin to look around and notice very specific items dotted around the beach.  The first thing I see is the Bible lying on the sand.  Then I see the American flag.  As I look more I see prayer, then the Ten Commandments, marriage, food, money, homes, jobs, the justice system, law and order, and the white house. 

 As I spy each new object I realize two things.  One, these are our freedoms; and mostly freedoms that we take for granted like food and prayer.  Two, these freedoms had been gathered and placed in this one location.

 While making these observations I begin to notice other believers popping up all over the beach with me, and each of them had the same bewildered expression on their faces as to say, “Why have our freedoms been gathered here?”  There were hundreds (maybe thousands) of believers dropped onto this beach at this same place and time.

 While we were all standing, pondering and observing the waters began to rise like a high tide and covered all of the freedoms set about on the sand.  The water rose until every last freedom was under the water, but as we stood on the sand above we could still see our freedoms just under the surface of the clear blue water.

 Then a thick, putrid, oily sludge began to move across the waters starting from the horizon line as far as the eye could see and moving toward the shore.  This foul smelling toxic sludge was thick and sticky and moved to the shore to cover every drop of water, quickly burying our freedoms under it until they could no longer be seen or felt.

 The believers gathered there on the shore began to weep, mourn, wail and cry out to the Lord in deep groaning prayers to restore our freedoms to us.  We cried out in unison as one loud wailing voice of a mother that had lost her child, full of grief.

 While the believers were falling to their knees weeping and praying, a riotous mob formed in the distance on the dry land behind us.  They were screaming and uttering foul and diabolical threats while charging toward us to kill us and make us stop praying.  As they ran toward us in one evil accord the large hand of God slammed down in front of them creating a wall between them and us.

 We were unmoved and continued to battle in prayer on our knees.  The more fervent and united we became the more I saw what looked like a sweet smelling incense rise off of us into the heavenlies above. 

 Once this fragrance reached a thick cloud a strong, fresh wind began to blow across the face of the water.  The wind pushed away every last speck of that thick putrid sludge and restored the beautiful beach and clear waters.  The wind also brought the water level back to normal and exposed our once hidden freedoms. 

 We praised and thanked the Lord that our freedoms had been restored, but then I had a deep internal knowing that the restoration of those freedoms was temporary.

 

The dream ended.

To me, this is a call to prayer right now.  Believers, call out to God for our freedoms to remain on earth as it is in Heaven.  

Trump Rally - Dream - Late 2018

Dream: Late 2018

Setting:

Inside a Trump rally.

Feeling in the dream:

This dream was very intense, prophetic and peaceful yet urgent.

Dream:

In this dream my family and I went to a President Trump rally.  He was already President of the United States, but was on a circuit going around the states speaking.

As my family and I walked into the rally to head toward our seats I was approached by on of Trumps personal aids.  The aid asked me to please come with them.  I told my family to go on ahead to our seats that I would find them later.

I was escorted to the back area of the building where Mr. Trump and his entourage were preparing for the rally, and was introduced to Mr. President by them saying, “Here she is Sir.”

Trump began looked me in the eye then went about his business of getting ready, but asked me to speak to him.  So, I just started speaking about God’s love, peace, protection and plans.  As he walked around the aids told me to follow him because I had not been dismissed.  So I followed him around speaking the truths of God’s Word to him and over him.

At some point I told him that I had written him a letter a few months back.  He asked one of his aids to go find the letter (apparently each letter was filed and saved).  The letter was brought to me and he asked me to read it to him.

I warned him before reading it that the letter was only 3 sentences and that it was prophetic.  He asked me to go ahead and read it to him.  So I read the three sentences to him.  He nodded then told me to wait here while he went to speak. 

I waited on the wings of the stage where I could see him but was still waiting in the back for him to return.  After he completed the rally he came back over to me and agreed that the note had indeed been prophetic and that he wanted to follow through with what it stated.  (I remember saying the sentenced out loud in my dream, but when I awoke I could not remember them.  I so wish I knew what that letter said.) 

He asked me if I knew why he had called me back to him, upon which I shook my head ‘no’.  He said it was the peace that followed me around, and that he wanted that peace now.  So he prayed, we prayed for that peace to follow him wherever he went.

I believe this is a call to prayer.  Whether any one of you is for or against our current President, he is our current leader and must be girded up in prayer.  I also believe it is a call to both walk in God’s perfect peace and to pray for the leaders of our nation to also walk in that peace and protection, and that they would hear and obey the Lord.

Kissing Clouds - Dream - 8/16/2011

Kissing Clouds

My mom had this dream early in the morning on August 16, 2011.

Note: Over the last 6 – 8 weeks I have had the feeling that the church(s) in the surrounding areas (should come together in special services for the purpose of praying.

Feeling in the dream:

Started off with a sense of “what should we do” and “things are not right.”  End of dream is rejoicing and praising.

Setting of the dream:

Inside an SUV driving down the road, talking and concerned about lack of rain.  It is daylight on a clear day.

Dream:

The dream takes place inside a vehicle something like an SUV.  The interior of the car was all black in color.  The passengers were also wearing black.  Everything inside was black and kind of dark and dim even though it was daytime and bright outside.  We were comfortable inside the vehicle seated in our cushy, plush, leather seats.   We were oblivious to any other traffic or anything else that was going on outside or around the vehicle. 

I was sitting as a passenger in the left back seat behind the driver’s seat.  There was a male driving the vehicle and to the right of him was a female passenger.  I got the impression we were family.  We were discussing the events of the time with a sense of urgency while talking about the fact that we desperately needed rain to come to our cities.  We were asking each other what could we do about this drought.

Then the female passenger in the front seat said to us, “don’t worry, I have heard when the clouds kiss it will begin to rain”.  I became very excited and began asking “when will the clouds kiss, when are they going to kiss?”  At that moment, I leaned back and began to look up thru the sunroof of the vehicle in order to observe the clouds hoping to see what the clouds were doing.  As I watched the white cumulus clouds thru the sunroof, the clouds began to move merging together in the sky becoming no longer many separate clouds, but now were two large clouds instead.  They took up most of the sky. I could see the sky was blue and clear beyond them, and they were not scary or ominous in any way. 

One cloud formed on the far right and one on the far left.  Then they began to move toward each other.  As they did, a face like that of a human profile began to form on each cloud, as if now facing each other.  They began to fill the whole sky as they slowly but purposefully began to move toward each other.  The closer they came together both clouds lips began to pucker and eventually touched like a kiss. 

The very moment the clouds kissed it began to rain without any hesitation.   This was not just a little rain but huge, weighty, large raindrops began to pour down like a deluge, raining hard once the clouds kissed.  We immediately began to jubilate excited inside the car, praising and thanking God for this wonderful rain. 

Rain was pounding onto the windows of the automobile and all around outside but it was not yet raining inside the car even though the sunroof was open.  I remember thinking that it was strange that the rain was not coming inside the vehicle yet realizing if it did it might damage the interior of the car.   

The thought then came that we must close the sunroof of the car or it will get all wet inside so I began to reach up and close the sliding door layer of the sunroof.  Then the driver of the vehicle began to try to quickly close the window or glass part of the sunroof thinking rain is going to still pour in getting wet some of the vehicle’s interior.  In the dream the glass part of the roof was never closed when the dream was over.

Word Interpretation:

One car:  Beginning

Black Car:  luxury – lack, famine, and sin

Three people:  Conform, obey, tradition (family): natural or spiritual family – church

Daytime:  Light, knowledge, truth, manifest, good, evil revealed

Drought:  Blessing withheld (because of sin)

Person having the dream and in the dream: passenger or student

Sunroof (open):  Covering or Government

Up (looked up): North, Heaven, judgment, and Spiritual warfare

White clouds: Pure, righteousness, truth, and innocence, blameless

Blue sky:  spiritual (in a good way)

Two clouds:  Divide, judge, separate, discern

Becomes One Cloud: Beginning, first in time, rank, order or importance, new

Rains immediately:  good change, glory or revival

Rain pouring:  Life, revival, Holy Spirit, Word of God

Kiss:  Agreement or covenant

Dream Interpretation:

This is a new day in the land and in the church.  We have been living oblivious to lack and need and our own sinfulness.  There is a new concern as dryness and drought are becoming more obvious.  As truth becomes manifest evil is revealed along with the need for conformation and obedience to Christ.  The Church will know that our hope is only in the Lord!  The answer is for His covenant people to come together united, looking upward to God in prayer, in unity and in agreement to seek His purity, His righteousness and truth.  This is done thru worship in the form of praise, prayer, confession of sin, and repentance (spiritual warfare praying is needed to defeat the plans of the enemy).  This prayer not only involves praying for physical rain but for spiritual rain as well along with praying for our government and our leaders.  When we/the church obeys in doing this, the atmosphere in the church and in the earth will change, the glory of God will fall and revival will come.  Then God, who has purposefully withheld the blessing (which is rain both physically and spiritually), will open the floodgate and the rain will come and the church will rejoice, praising His name.   The sense of urgency we felt denotes that there still is a little time left to accomplish this but not much.  Time is short.

The part of the dream about not being able to close the sunroof I believe may have a double or two-fold meaning. 

The first meaning may be depicting God’s covering or protection from harm.

The second meaning may be showing the government trying to stop the rain from actually coming into the church.  

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Attack - Dream - 2007

 *NOTE: This dream is violent and contains both guns and death.  I can not control the dreams I have and am simply putting out there what I dreamed.  I am not condoning the use of guns nor killing and murder.  These are all symbolic, and the symbols are described in the interpretation below the dream.  We must act in LOVE.

Attack (Dream 2) – January 2007

This dream has recurred 3 times over the past week, and I suspect it will continue with time.

Feeling in the dream:

The world seems to be in a state of Marshall Law, but no military personnel are around.

Setting of the dream:

Five of us are at the church in a 2^nd story room in the back of the church’s Mansion.  The five people consist of my husband, my mother, two unnamed church members and myself.  We are there in the middle of the night (around 2am) because this is the shift we volunteered for.  We are up in the room, sitting in a circle, cleaning guns with all the lights off and being careful to whisper even though we are laughing and making lighthearted conversation.  Not a single light in the mansion or on the streets are on…we are working by a small, dim lamp.  The guns we are cleaning are semi-automatic 9mm weapons.  We have already been there one hour, and our shift would not end for at least another hour.

In this upper room the wall along one side (under a window) is lined with one row of clean, loaded guns; all facing the same direction and ready for use.  Each of us is in the middle of cleaning one gun, and there is a very large pile of dirty, disassembled guns in a corner on the opposite side of the room; each weapon waiting to be cleaned and placed in its proper place.

As we work I hear what sounds to me like a VERY LOUD CRASH outside (like the sound of a vase breaking).  I tell everyone to “Be quite,” and I turn off the lamp.  The others ask, “Why?” (I was the only one that heard the crash.)  While I crawled over to the window where the prepared guns were lined up I stated, “We are under attack.”  I peeked out the window and saw 13 invaders jump out of a van preparing to surround and attack the church Mansion.  I began tossing 2 prepared 9mm semi-automatic weapons to each person in the small group, and stated, “It’s time.  Spread out.”  I grabbed the last two weapons available and ran down the hall to the room on the opposite side of the building.  The four others went to their appointed posts.

Now at my post, I quietly opened a window and just as it was open one of the enemy jumped off the roof using a rope and was attempting to break in through the window.  The enemy was very prepared and was carrying a fully automatic weapon.  I shot him just as he reached the window and he died.  I then climbed out onto the ledge of the window and jumped down to the ground behind a bush where another of the enemy came around the corner with his automatic weapon ready for use, but he did not see me, and I shot him.  When I shot the second attacker I noticed that I did not have a 9mm semi-automatic weapon like I had passed out to the other four in our group, but I was using a revolver.  I also remember thinking ‘how can I defeat the enemy that has automatic weapons and I only have a revolver.’  While this was all going on the only sound heard was the sound of automatic and semi-automatic gunfire coming from around the Mansion, otherwise there was deafening silence between gunfire.  Just as that thought flashed through my mind I heard a man say, “you killed my friends, now you will die.”  I jumped up, spun around and shot my third enemy. 

Just as I killed the third assailant, the other four that had been in the upper room with me earlier ran from around all sides of the Mansion to where I was.  When they reached me they stated, “All of the enemy has been killed.  We won!” 

We all put our arms around each other and quietly began walking back up to the preparation room.  As we walked in silence I stated, “This was only the first attack, we must be prepared for more.”

Initial Interpretation of the dream:

This is my initial interpretation.  You may see something different.

I believe part of this dream is now, and part of this dream is for the future.

1. State of Marshall Law = world trying to dominate over Christianity.
2. Middle of the night = a time when we least expect an attack. 3^rd Watch Midnight – 3am.
3. Complete darkness = we prepare even though we are surrounded by darkness.
4. Preparation room = prayer room.
5. Dim Light (lamp) = without full knowledge or understanding
6. Laughing and Light hearted conversation = we are not taking the task as seriously as it is.
7. Shifts = we were not the only 5 preparing thought out the day.
8. Guns = prayer, scripture, spiritual weapons.
9. Crashing sound = warning from God that an attack was under way.
10. I was the only one that heard the sound = we are not all ready to hear, but we must all be prepared to fight.
11. 5 Warriors = Works, Service
12. 13 Invaders = we were outnumbered by more than double. (2.6 times)
13. 13 Invaders = 13 means Rebel; rebellion; revolution; rejection
14. 5 people = It takes a team to prepare; isolation will not do the job.
15. Appointed posts = we all knew our appointed post and went there quickly.
16. Prepared guns = only a small number of our weapons had been prepared and ready.
17. One row of prepared guns = we had only begun this preparation task recently.
18. Disassembled guns = we still had a lot of work to do to be prepared.
19. Enemy’s Automatic Weapons = the enemy was more prepared than we were.
20. Our semi-automatic weapons = we were not preparing as strongly as the enemy.
21. My revolver = I was able to defeat 3 of the enemy with only a revolver. (Not sure what else this would mean except that God can use us even if we are not fully equipped.)
22. Three of us defeated 3 enemies each, and Two of us defeated 2 enemies each. = We will not all have the same task, but we all have to be prepared.
23. None of the 5 prayer warriors were injured. = On an early attack we come out strong.
24. 4 stated “We Won” – we though this small attack was it, and now it was over.
25. I stated, “This was only the first attack, we must be prepared for more.” = we will have battles as a church in the spiritual world BEFORE the war.

We must ‘load’ our spiritual guns by being fully prepared in His Word and Prayer.  We must wear our armor and be ready to fight the enemy of our souls, Satan.  Yet, we most love one another in this task.

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Tornado - Dream - 2008

TORNADO

I had this dream for the first time early this morning (July 29, 2008). 

Feeling in the dream:

Frustration in trying to complete a competition that seems to have been sabotaged.  Fear in the building once the intensity of the dream begins.  Relief once the dream ends.

Setting of the dream:

The dream begins in a large school cafeteria with tables/sets put up everywhere.  I am in a cooking competition in this cafeteria.  Every contestant has his or her own table/set.  Each participant has a practice round then a live round where one of the camera crews goes “live” to record your portion of the competition.

Dream:

The dream starts with me in the middle of my practice cooking round where I have to create a main dish and a dessert.  Since this is my first competition I choose easy dishes that I should have no problem completing in the allotted time frame.  I do not know what the main dish was, but the dessert is a simple strawberry shortcake (pound cake, strawberries, whip cream and honey).  As my practice round comes to an end I realize that I will not be able to complete my dessert, and I am cutting it close to not finishing my main dish.  I can’t understand why and am frantically trying to figure out how to correct things for the live take.  I am frustrated and worried that I will not do well in the live competition when all of a sudden (without notice) the cameras go ‘live’ on me.  I am shocked because the camera crew is suppose to allow us to reset our stations and count us down to ‘action’.  I feel sabotaged, and at first I try to start the live round, but then decide that this was unfair.  I march off the set to the person in charge and tell him what happened.  He says back to me, “We have bigger things to worry about than that.  There is a tornado headed straight for us.”  He pauses, looks me right in the eye and says, “If we make it through this tornado you can have your re-start.”

I look up and see through the windows at the opposite end of the cafeteria a HUGE tornado headed straight for us.  The tornado is a dark blue color.  The room grows dark and people begin to panic and be filled with fear.  I say with authority to the man in charge, “We will get through this tornado.”  I then begin walking toward the end of the building where you can see the tornado through the windows.  I am walking intently, as though I have a mission, toward the tornado, and I am praying in tongues with my hands in the air toward heaven.  (I can feel the strong winds, the fear and the intensity.)

The tornado comes into the building and items are flying around us, but no one is hurt and the building itself remains whole/unbroken.  As the tornado comes up to me an evil spirit (who is also dark blue in color) comes out of the tornado and walks up to me with his hands in the air.  He is speaking another language.  He puts his hands palm-to-palm against my hands.  I continue to pray in tongues and the spirit continues speaking in his language.  After a minute the spirit begins to yell, “No, no, no.”  After several minutes of this praying face-to-face and palm-to-palm the spirit goes back into the tornado and dissipates. The sky immediately turns light and the birds are chirping.

Everyone is all right and I get my re-start.

My dream ends.

Interpretation:

Part of my interpretation came from my Mom that was listening to a preacher when she woke up this morning. What the preacher said answered my dream.

Cafeteria: symbolizes the church

Dessert (bread, fruit, honey): Bread = church, provision, substance;  Honey = power, wisdom, knowledge, anointing;  fruit = fruit of the spirit

Televised Crew: Message, prophecy, preaching

Windows through which I saw the tornado: Truth, prophecy, revelation, understanding, blessing, exposed

Strong Winds: Demonic or strong opposition

Dark Blue tornado & spirit: Evil Spirit

Raised Hands: Worship, surrender, spiritual warfare

Building whole & unbroken: Church stands strong through storm

Light Sky afterward: Knowledge, truth, evil revealed

The church/believers are under and have been under a strong attack.  Strong like the winds and destruction of a tornado.  We have been feeling like we are sabotaged in our efforts, and many times these efforts should be seemingly easy tasks like the recipes I choose in the dream, but we are simply unable to complete them.  It is as if we are taking one-step foreword only to take two steps back.  (Physical, mental, spiritual, financial, health wise…. this is in every area.).

I feel this dream is telling us to PRAY and push through because we are about to get our re-start.

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Circus - Dream - 2/2017

Dream: February 2017

Setting:

Outside at night headed to prayer meeting at the church.

Dream:

I was heading to a prayer meeting in the middle of the night at the church.  A small group of us was getting together to intercede for the church, nation and world, and whatever else the Lord would lead us to pray about.

I parked and as I walked toward the church I realized something was off/wrong.

Though it was dark in the parking light with only a few street lamps and stars to light the way, the church lobby was lit up through the windows as if it was occupied.  This was strange because only a very small group of us was to be using a small quiet room off the main area.

When I stepped foot inside the lobby I immediately knew that this was NOT good and NOT of the Lord. 

Many people were gathered inside the church lobby and sanctuary.  They did not have the permission of the church and were gathering there in the secret of night.  A large number of the people were wearing masks (like the phantom in the Phantom of the Opera), and still others were dressed as clowns.  The music playing on the loud speakers was circus theme music that beckoned each person to come to the ‘main event’ inside the sanctuary. 

Also, most of the people there seemed to be larger than the average person, towering over me like a sluggish giant.  I say sluggish, because everyone seemed to be moving in long dramatic movements, kind of like slow motion.

I pushed my way through the crowd, and as I did many of the giants would try to grab my arm.  When I would look at them their faces would distort and they would laugh loud ghoulish mocking laughs.  I felt as if I could see directly into their souls when we made eye contact, and the souls were that of devilish circus clowns creating chaos and disorder.

The dream ended.

Interpretation:

I feel that this dream is trying to say that the world is making a circus or mockery of the church.  Using it for their wants and desires instead of for the loving relationship of a Holy God.  I also feel that this is stating that the enemy is trying to infiltrate in secret. 

We must pray, gird up and battle against the spirits of laziness, complacency and even a spirit of sensationalism for an audience that seeks entertainment instead of intimacy.

This is happening in secret and in the dark hours of the night when we are least guarded.  Guards, man the walls in the heavenlies. 

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Black Snake Dream - September 2012

Black Snake  9/2012

I had this very short dream once this past week of September 23 – 29 and have been thinking on it ever since.

Feeling in the vision:

Lack of alarm, possibly a bit ignorant, deceptively calm and accepting.

Setting of the vision:

Gathering of all the prayer team members and leaders of the church.  Everyone from all areas was there, prayer altar, healing, and prophecy…  In the dream I could only see our legs and feet below the knee and the floor.

Dream:

I saw the lower legs and feet of the entire prayer team(s) gathered together in a meeting in the sanctuary.  Everyone was standing and walking around talking to each other with great joy.  God was at work in this meeting and everything was good.  Then I noticed a snake slithering around our feet on the floor and even entering in on the light conversation as its front end was risen off the floor and standing like a man face-to-face with us.  At first the snake startled me and I yelled, “Snake” but when no one responded or even reacted at all I let my guard down.  This snake did not say much or do much, but mostly just listened to our chatter and would ever so lightly enter in with just one softly spoken word.  I was still un-trusting of this snake and decided to get a better look at him.  As I did I realized that this was no ordinary snake, but rather he was HUGE.  He was as long and fat as the largest anaconda snake, but he was entirely a shiny deep black in color.  He could stand up to almost full human height, yet most of his body was still on the floor…he had to be 20+ feet long.  He was woven in between all of our legs and feet, but he was not touching any of us.  He seemed to be around and between most of us.  And, he was as poisonous as a viper.

Interpretation:

I really think this has a simple interpretation.  I think we must be mindful of our heart and our thoughts as we step forward and pray in ministry and alone.  We must not allow the enemy to slander or stop or interfere with what God is doing.  I also believe that we must enter into our ministry roles completely EXPECTANT for God to arrive in His full power and glory, and to not put God in a box.  I also felt that the ‘snake’ was whispering things to us that would cause us to be ‘shy’ or ‘hesitant’ or ‘worried’ about what other would think about us trying to inhibit us from our reckless abandon that we are called to.  Also whispering things like, "what if God doesn't heal?"  "what if He doesn't come through?"  and other twisting, doubtful, slanderous thoughts that came softly and subtly.  He was trying to subtly steal the power from the church body.

Snake: Demon, threat, slander, critical spirit

Black: Sin, ignorance

Our Feet: Heart, thoughts

Moved! (Part 4 - Final Episode)

Now it was time to accept on of the two offers on the table.

Lord Help us!

We learned that one of the two offers was actually a cash offer, so that would speed up the process, but would still delay us by a few weeks.  The turnaround simply takes that long.

So, with the offer accepted, we began negotiations with the sellers of the blue house to try to extend the closing date 'just in case' we couldn't close by June 8th.  And all the 'powers that be' said we could close on June 18th at the earliest; ten days later than we needed.

Here is where everything gets hairy and our patience is continually tried.

At first, the Blue House Sellers decided that since we have a contract on our house that they would indeed let us push back the close date on their house 10 days.

They also said we could do a lease of the blue house for whatever days we needed between the sell of our house and the close of their house so we would not need to move twice and find temporary housing.  Wow!  Sounds great.  Looks like everything will work out.

Because of the possible need for a lease, they agreed to let us start moving some of the kids toys, clothes and dishes into their house on June 2nd to make the day of the coming 'big move' easier.

We worked up a lease agreement just in case that would be needed, and started moving our non-daily, essential items into the new house.

Oops!  Not so fast.

Now that the Blue House Sellers knew that we had a contract on our house we started getting phone calls from their realtor (who we did not know before this process, but is now a great friend of ours) not only daily, but several times a day about 'changes'.

We were 'stuck'.  Having to sell our home or possibly face legal actions, and the people of the house we were buying were suddenly not so agreeable.

They began asking for money.  Lots of money (in addition to a lease if that was needed), for various and sundry different things.

Then they started threatening us with not closing.

It felt as if they suddenly didn't want to sell their home after-all.  Give us extra $ here, here and here, and some more extra $ just because, and we may go ahead and close, but hey, maybe not.

This went back and forth several times a day for several days in a row and I thought I may just scream.  I was worried about the stress it was causing my husband, and the realtor had never seen anything like this before.  Why had the sellers suddenly become so offensive in the sell of a house they have been trying to sell for a year?  They didn't' even live there, they had moved out of state and the house sat empty.

Every time we thought we had come to an agreement they came back with more, more, more needed.  It felt wrong and dirty.  It felt like the enemy didn't want us to move or have this house, and maybe even worse; get us into some strange legal battle that we never thought was possible.

Then suddenly the blue house sellers decided that we did not have permission to have our stuff in their house and started demanding 'storage fees' for the items we had moved into the house in advance.

Then a day later they changed their tune and said it was OK, just leave the stuff there.  But dont' move anything new in, don't turn on the a/c and don't go hang out there.  Well, we hadn't been doing any of that stuff...sooo.

What do we do?

I have already had the utilities changed for specific dates, and now I have to change them again.  That is trash, water, gas, electricity, phone, Internet...  And the movers had been set.

After praying and praying Wayne and I realized that the only answer was to close on June 8th; the original closing date.  So we told the Lord how we felt and what we thought we needed and asked Him to show up big time.

We called the underwriters and they were able to move the closing date up to June 14th.  Four days earlier, but still six days too late.

I was told to change the utilities again to the new dates we had set, so I called all those companies and made change requests.  And called the movers for the new move date.

Even with the move up of the closing date the sellers were still going crazy and asked for even more money.  What is going on?  So we prayed again and called the underwriters again.

And guess what?

We were able (ahem...God was able) to get the closing date set on the sell of our home to June 7th and the closing of the new blue house to June 8th.  The original closing date.

The title company ladies, the realtor, our friends and family all said WOW!  That is a miracle.

Both the realtor and the title company ladies kept saying, "I have never seen a closing moved up so many days and so quickly.  This is a miracle."

Well, guess what?  God is in the miracle working business.  He didn't want us extorted.  He didn't see the need for us to pay tons of money to the sellers.  He didn't' even think there was a need for us to lease.  He saw to it that we would close and move in and be done with it.  Period.

So, I called to utilities companies and movers again to change our change requests.

Oddly enough, the sellers of the blue house were upset that we made it to the original closing date, so on June 7th the sellers of the blue house told us to go get our stuff out of their house.  The stuff they told us to put there to make our move easier.  The stuff they said was OK.  Now, the day before we move OUT of our house and into their house they want us to move the stuff out of their house.  For ONE DAY!  I am doing last minute preparations for the move, but now I have to go move out items that I had moved in over a handful of days taking several trips.  I had moved all my posts, pans dishes, closets and toys.  Now I have to move them out so I can move them in again the next day after our closing on the other side of town.

So, go move out our stuff we did.  Honestly, I prayed the entire time.  I was nervous about what these volatile people could be capable of.

The next day we went to the closing with the threat that the sellers would not sign and send the paperwork, so we were not sure if we actually would be closing on a house that day.  Even with movers showing up in a few hours.

We walked into the title company and the ladies said they had received the overnight-ed documents, she just had to open them to make sure they were properly signed.  And...they were!

We closed on June 8, 2018.  The original closing date.  And guess what sits next to our front door?  A stone that says, "Established - June 8, 2018 - By the Glory of God"

God still does miracles today.  Not only salvation.  Not only healing.  Yes, those too, but He is interested in the mundane, daily details of my life AND YOUR LIFE too.

Give Him the details of your life.  Talk to Him all day long.  Listen for His responses.  Love Him like a best friend and He will actually become your best friend.

                                                                                    -Natalie

PS - The closing date ended up being more important than we knew.  Come to find out that the sellers had taken out a short term loan to keep the house on the market long enough to close, and that lone would mature and all interest would be due if they were not able to pay it off on June 8th.  So God not only had our best interests at heart, but He had their best interest at heart too.  They were just too stressed at the time to see it, but I pray that they KNOW His great love for them now.

PPS - We also found out that the sub floor of the upstairs has scriptures written all over it because the former family had a scripture and prayer party before laying down the permanent flooring.  So we are set on a bed of scripture and His Word is literally a banner over us.

Oh, and did I ever tell you that God named our new place?

Yup!  He calls it Redemption Road.  And He has big plans for us here.

Moved! (Part 3)

Now we had an offer on the table for the blue house, and it was time to also put our house on the market to sell.

Immediately God began speaking to me.  Much of the messages He spoke seemed very cryptic at first, but looking back we can see how each and every word He spoke fit perfectly into His plan.

From the very beginning God said to me "I've Got This."  Seems like funny words coming from the God of the universe, but He said them nonetheless.  Those words said so much to me.

First, they said that He does indeed 'have this' blue hose buying, and current house selling situation.  He is in control no matter what we think, or what could possible come down the road.

Second, it seemed to be a warning that this would not turn out to be the simple buy-and-sell process that we expected.  A reminder for us to lean on Him when confusion and trials come.  Proverbs 3:5 - Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Another thing He kept repeating to me was the words "1-week."  Although He said 1-week, He never did tell me exactly what that 1-week meant.  Hubby and I made various speculations.  Everything from 'we will sell our house in 1-week' to we will sell our house with just 1-week left on our contract.  But this 1-week phrase kept us on our toes and on our knees in prayer with God.  After-all, He was the only one that could answer the questions about His timing.  We ended up accepting the offer 1-week before our original closing date of June 8th, 2018.

Then God started speaking to me in dreams...again.

I had two dreams that both happened in real life just as they had played out in my sleeping hours.

The first dream was me in our house and many people coming wanting to buy it.  Two of the people that wanted to buy our house in the dream were people I recognized from our neighborhood.

Well, that happened.  We had over 30 people come to look at our home.  That feels like a lot when you home-school 3 kids and have to keep the house clean and make yourself disappear at any given time so strangers can come look at your home.  Also, two of the people that wanted to buy our house were from our neighborhood!  One was the newly married children of some neighbors of ours, but they were not sure they could scrape together the money or not.  And another one was a couple that was buying a larger house in the neighborhood and didn't like how the inspection reports came back, so they were trying to decide if they should make an offer on our home or not.

Then I had another dream.  In this dream we had 3 offers on our home and in the end of it all had to choose which offer we were suppose to take.

Guess what?  That dream also happened.  We had one offer on the house that we decided not to take.  Then we had two more offers and we had to decide which one we was for us.

The offers were actually pretty stressful because they were basically the same offer by different people, and they all came near the very end of our contract period.  It all came down to timing.  We were running out of time for when we needed to close on the Blue House, so we needed to choose the offer that would fit into that time frame and not drag out the selling process even longer.

You see, the sellers of the Blue House said that they simply would not extend our closing date, so if we accepted an offer that dragged out the closing of our house then we may be left homeless due to the owners of the Blue House not cooperating with us for an extension.

So, we prayed.  We prayed and prayed and prayed.  We did not want to move twice.  We didn't want to go hunting for another home when it took us years to find this one.  We didn't want to be homeless trying to find a place to live in a lurch.  We were down to the wire for our contracted closing date on the Blue House.  It was the end of May, and our closing date on the new house was set for June 8, 2018.  Yikes!

So what did we do?  I sent out text messages to some of my prayer team friends and asked them to pray.

I also sent messaged to a few of my close prophetic prayer teammates and asked them to let me know if the Lord told them anything about me to let me know.  (I did not give them details about my situation because I wanted them to hear from the Lord and not be swayed by my personal details.)

Wayne and I sat in the closet and prayed a lot.  God spoke a lot.  But the decision was ultimately ours.  Do we move forward and lean on God, or do we pull the plug and stop now?

I told God that if this all worked out and we did indeed close on our New Blue House on the official closing date that I would make a stone of remembrance to sit at the front door: Established - June 8, 2018 - By the Glory of God

After all those prayers and prophetic messages coming in from my friends and all the words the Lord had been speaking I decided that Wayne and I needed to sit with two men that I have known, loved and trusted since I was a small child.  They are both prayer warriors and prophetic prayer ministers, and maybe what they would say would make sense of this situation for us and help us decide.

The men agreed to let us come sit with them, and they prophesied over us, then they listed to what was going on, gave advice and prayed.  We left feeling like we should keep moving forward.

I'm sure that everyone we spoke to throughout this particular time thought we should just stop, but that was not what Wayne and I were feeling.  Would we pass this test or go down in a brilliant flame of destruction?

You see, at this moment in time we had the ability to halt everything.  We could not accept the offers on the table to sell our house.  Then our contract on the new house would fall through because of the inability to sell our current home and close timely.  We would simply stay where we were, lose our earnest money and and continue life as usual.

The problem was, I knew that God was calling us to something different, and I also knew that if we didn't move now we probably never would move and step out to that something more that God was calling us to.  It reminded me of that dream I had about my hubby's birthday where we were all still in the same place, a family, but discontent and not living to the potential God had for us.

Or, we had the power to accept one of the offers on our house.  Pray it would close on time (the realtors and title companies said it was impossible to close that quickly because turnaround was longer than 3-weeks.  They insisted that we WOULD NOT close by June 8th.  Period.). 

Or not close on time and know we have to now look for another home while living in a temporary place and moving twice.

Since we felt like we must move forward to obey God, which offer do we accept?

Will we sell and close on our house in time to close on the new home?  According to the Title company that was impossible.  But we serve a God that make the impossible possible.

Eeek!