Dream: Alligator in the Water

I had this dream, Alligator in the Water, on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. This dream shows the delipidated state of the church as a whole, and it is a call to stop flirting with the world, listening to what tickles our ears and stimulates our flesh, and to quit petting the alligator. Rather, we, as image bearers of Christ, must rise up in Spirit and Truth ready to take on the call He has for us. 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.

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.  

White House 2 - Dream - 2008

WHITE HOUSE - 2

I had this dream July 30, 2008  

Feeling in the dream:

Playful, joyful, enjoying our home.  Confused as to why someone would not seek help.

Setting of the dream:

Again, I live in the same huge mansion with my family.  This is our home, comfort place, and dwelling.

Everything in the home is white.  White walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, and fixtures.  The floors are a white tile with white grout.  The room I am in is the HUGE bathroom (almost like a spa).  There is flowing water, waterfalls, fountains and pools everywhere in this room.  It is a place of relaxation.  The actual sinks, toilets, showers and tubs were in little rooms off this great big bathroom/spa area.

Two foreign Men come to our home and are seeking a place to stay.  We allow them to stay for a few days. 

I am in the bathroom playing in one of the pools of flowing water with a fountain in it.  It is fun and joyful.  I am laughing and enjoying myself.  One of the men is in the bathroom and I beckon him to come in.  He refuses, but I persist insisting that the water feels great and it is so refreshing and fun.  The man finally agrees, but instead of jumping in he grabs a flat board to float on, and tries not to touch the water.  He seems fearful of the water. 

(Scene Ends)

The scene skips to me out of the water and needing to wash my hands.  For some reason I need to use the sink that belongs to the second man.  I see the man and ask him if I can wash my hands in his sink.  I can tell he doesn’t want me to, but without speaking he nods that I can.  He seems squirmish.  I go into his sink area and begin to wash my hands, but I find that the sink is clogged.  (In the dream the clogged sink is all I see at this moment).  I walk out and say to the second man, “Your sink is clogged.”  He nods a yes at me.  I then say, “Well, why didn’t you tell me?  This will only take a moment to fix.”  I then go get a plunger and remove the clog.  The second man is upset and walks away seemingly defeated.

My dream ends.

Interpretation:

In this dream the men ask to come in and we allow them to, but it seems that their motive for coming to the church that the home represents is for sabotage.  In the two days that they were here they clogged up our sink on purpose.  It was discovered and easy to unclog, but was not accepted by the foreign visitor.  He acted defeated at the unclogging.  The clog was sin, wrong thinking and purposeful.  We must remove the clogs from ourselves so the love and ministry of Christ can go forth unhindered. 

The first man was scared of touching the water when I invited him to use it because the water represents the Holy Spirit.  It was the cleansing water of salvation, and he was not there to receive the Lord, but to stop the message of the Lord from going forth.  

(You will probably find more)

I had trouble writing the interpretation of this dream and the last one.  I understand it in my head, but can’t seem to put it to paper.

Mansion/Home: Church

White: Spotless, righteous, truth

Tile: Firm Ground

Bathroom: Cleansing; prayer of repentance

 

Water: Word, Spirit of God

Water fountain: Holy Spirit, Salvation, Source

Swimming Pool: Spiritual place, Church home, family, God’s blessings

Sink – Where water and cleansing flow from

Clogged Sink – stopping the flow

Two Men – Separate

Man - Demon

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White House - Dream 1 - 2008

WHITE HOUSE - Dream 1

I had this dream June 2008. 

Feeling in the dream:

Hiding, listening, looking for a way out or escape.

Setting of the dream:

I live in a huge mansion with my family, unlike anything I have ever seen before.  This is our home, comfort place, and dwelling.

Everything in the home is white.  White walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, and fixtures.  The floors are a white tile with white grout.  The room I notice in this house is a HUGE bathroom (almost like a spa).  There is flowing water, waterfalls, fountains and pools everywhere in this room.  It is a place of relaxation.  The actual sinks, toilets, showers and tubs were in little rooms off this great big bathroom/spa area.

Suddenly my family and I find ourselves in fear and we climb up into the air ducts of the home to hide.  We can see several men in our home uninvited.  The men are whispering and looking for us.  We can hear what they are saying, but it is muffled.  We are unable to find a way out, but we go undetected by the men.

My dream ends.

  

Interpretation:

Mansion/Home: Church

White: Spotless, righteous, truth

Tile: Firm Ground

 

Water: Word, Spirit of God

Water fountain: Holy Spirit, Salvation, Source

Swimming Pool: Church home, family, God’s blessings

Bathroom: Cleansing; prayer of repentance

Air Ducts: (or attic) spiritual realm, attitude

Whispering: Hiding, sneaking

It feels as if the house/church has been infiltrated by uninvited visitors, which I may call false teaching and doctrine.  This falseness is sneaking and hiding, trying to change what truth really is.  Actual truth is hidden as a treasure and can not be changed.  (You may have more)

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Two Water Storms - Dream - 1/2019

Dream: January 24, 2019

Natalie Sherwood

Setting:

Two Water Storms

Intro:

I had two dreams the night of January 23^rd, morning of January 24^th that went together. I awoke from the first dream and could only remember a little bit of it, but when I went back to sleep it seemed to continue on to the second dream which I remember in detail, and I feel the same things took place in the first dream.

Dream:

In the first dream I heard about these two powerful storms that had started on the earth.  They were powerful and dangerous, they never stopped, yet they also never moved; they stayed stationary.

I KNEW that I had to go see these storms myself.  I was drawn to them like a mission in my life.

When I told my mom about them and how I felt about needing to go see them she said, “Well, OK.  I’ll take you.  Let’s go.”  So we jumped in her car and went on a road trip to go see these two storms (they were in different areas of the world, yet we were driving there in her car).

We arrived at the first storms location and a huge wall had been built around the storm.  The wall had a museum inside it that tried to explain the storm and where it came from and what it was.  It also contained a restaurant and there was a town built around the wall of the storm.

The storm itself reached all the way up to the sky.  It was made entirely of water and wind, but it stayed contained in one spot about the size of 3 acres.  You could not see the storm from outside or inside the wall because the wall was so tall it covered the view of the storm.  The wall was solid except for one set of large double glass doors that you could look through or even enter to go see the storm.  It was EXTREMELY RARE for anyone to enter the double glass doors to visit the storm area, but many came to peek through the glass a good distance back.

I remember that I entered the glass doors to go see the storm, but I don’t remember anything else about the storm in this particular dream.  I have full details in the second dream.

I left the storm area knowing I had completed what I was suppose to, but felt even stronger that I had to go see the second storm.

I woke up.

Intro:

When I woke up I knew I had been in a very special and important dream, but was unable to remember very many details, so I asked God to give it to me again if it was important.  I fell back asleep.

Now began the second dream.

Dream:

I knew I had to go to the second storm.  There was no question…I was called to go there. 

My mom and I jumped into her car and went off on our journey.  It was not a difficult journey, just like a road trip that would take a few days.  This second storm was in an entirely different part of the world.

When we arrived this storm and town was just like the first one.  The storm was stationary covering about a 3-acre plot of land.  A huge wall had been built around the storm to contain the storm and to keep people from seeing it from the outside.  Again, inside the wall were a museum, shops and restaurant.

The storm area was completely surrounded except for one set of double glass doors.

When my mother and I entered the wall she went off to grab some food, use the restroom and look around while waiting for me to do whatever it was I felt I needed to do.  We agreed to meet back in the restaurant area when I was done.

I trodded carefully down the hall that lead to the glass doors.  Once I reached them there was a man standing there that said, “Are you going in there?  Almost no one goes in there, and if they do they stay far back from the storm near the door.  It’s dangerous you know.  Be careful.”  I nodded then placed my hands on the handles to open the door.

I slipped in and as the door shut behind me I realized that nothing else mattered.  The storm was all I could feel, hear and see.  It was bright where the storm was.  The sound was a violent windy roar with waves crashing.  The winds were strong, powerful and whipping.  All sound would be completely drown out by the noise of the storm, and I was the only one in there. 

A platform had been build around the entire circumference of this circular water storm, and the edge of the platform stopped about 2 inches from the beginning edge of the storm.  The storm itself was completely water.  I would like to call it a water tornado that reached all the way up to the sky and took up the entire 3 acres of land, but it didn’t spin in a circular motion.  Rather, the water/waves took on the characteristic of fire, lapping and leaping into the sky.

I felt every movement in this place.  I felt the heaviness of each step I took, felt my hair blowing across my face and whipping around my head.  I heard the roar and felt water and mist completely envelops me like standing too close to a waterfall. 

I stepped forward until I was just about a foot away from the outer wall of the storm.  I looked up at its height and sideways at its breadth…it was overwhelming.  I knew that if I stepped into the storm I would be completely consumed.

Once I finished my observations I reached out a tentative hand and rested my palm on the very outer fringe of the water storm wall rising above me.  I closed my eyes and just stood there in awe.  I do not know how much time passed.

At some point I knew I had completed what I had come to do and felt compelled to leave.  I was filled to overflowing. 

When I left and went to the restaurant people were looking at me, pointing and whispering.  There were shocked and amazed that I had not only gone into the area of the storm, but had stepped forward and touched it for a long time.  I kept walking and didn’t even notice them.

In the restaurant I ran into two ladies that were very strong fellow Christians that I had known since childhood.  They came up to me and we all stated that we didn’t know each other were there.  I asked them if they were going to go see the storm.  They said that they were going to go peek in through the glass door, but probably not go in. 

Then they noticed that I was dripping wet and asked me if I went in.  I said to them, “The storm is very dangerous, but it is also safe.” 

At that moment I knew it was time for me to leave (now the dream shifts to a different scene), so I run outside and jump into my Dad’s truck.  My mom was now gone from the dream and my Dad was the one that was driving me home. 

While riding in my dad’s truck on the road trip toward home he says to me, “We need to stoop and get that tooth checked out.” 

I give him a funny look and say, “What are you talking about?  My teeth are fine.”

He insists that something is wrong with my tooth and that we need to get it checked out immediately.  So I conceded and told him to take me somewhere even though I felt fine and my teeth were fine.

He pulled into a tiny strip center and we walk into a doctor’s office (not a dentist), and standing there was my childhood doctor.  She was so happy to see us, and it was odd to find her somewhere in the world on this journey not close to home. 

I sat in a dentist chair for her (even though this was a doctors office), and she looked inside my mouth with a dental mirror.  She said, “Oh yeah, this tooth has to go.  It has a cavity trying to form at the gum line in the very back and it needs to come out or it will infect the other teeth.”

I gave her a strange look and said, “How can I believe you?  My teeth look and feel fine.  They don’t even hurt.  How do I know you aren’t just trying to pull out my tooth for money.” 

She said, “I’ll show you, but first let me look at your other teeth.”  She took a good long look at each of my other teeth and said, “Your other teeth are absolutely beautiful.  They are perfect, not a single speck of tartar or plaque.  And they are so straight.  Now, let me show you the one on the top back.”  She held up the mirror and sure enough I was able to see a small rotting cavity at the gum line on the very back of my top left molar, the tooth the furthest back in my mouth. 

“Fine, if it needs to come out let’s just get it over with then we will be done with that.” I said.

I closed my eyes; she reached into my mouth with her tooth extraction tool and pulled my tooth out with NO painkiller.  It only took a moment, but when she extracted my tooth I felt the pain (even in my sleep)

I told her that when she pulled out the tooth I felt ‘white hot pain.’  She said that was normal, but only lasted a moment, and made sure that I no longer felt any pain.  I agreed that the pain was short lived…only a moment.

“There that is done, and your new tooth has already grown half way in…it should be all the way in by tonight, and it looks perfect.  Absolutely beautiful.”  She said.

I said, “What?  That was an adult tooth, not a baby tooth.  How do I have a new tooth?”

She said, “It doesn’t matter, you have a perfect new tooth coming in.”

Then I got back in the truck with my Dad and we continued our journey home.

The dream ended

Interpretation:

Mom/Mother:  The Source, church, love  (my mother was driving me on this journey)

Father/Dad:  Authority, God, author, originator, source  (my father was driving me home and telling me about my tooth and insisting I have it taken care of)

Driver:  Control, Christ

Storm:  Change, spiritual warfare

White Storm:  (this storm was light, wind and water…no darkness) God’s power, Revival

Light: Manifest, revealed

Water: Spirit, Word, Spirit of God

Troubled Water: Healing

Wind: Spirit, Holy Spirit

Wall:  Barrier, obstacle, limitation, unbelief

Door: Entrance, Christ  Window:  Revealed, truth, prophecy, revelation (Glass doors)

Doctor:  Healer, Authority, Christ

Teeth:  Wisdom  New Teeth: New or stronger wisdom, the old and decaying being removed

Top Back Left Tooth: 

            Left: Spiritual, weakness of man, God’s strength demonstrated through man’s weakness

            Back:  Past, previous, unaware, unsuspecting, memory

           

Revival is coming and may already be here, but it is being walled off, contained.  We are trying to contain the power of God and not allowing it to move.  He is fearsome, scary, dangerous yet safe.

If we allow God, the church and the source will lead us to Himself, and God, the author and originator will lead us from Him to what comes next.  He will be faithful to help us extract past wrong thinking, memories and experiences to bring us to new wisdom.

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How To: Use Essential Oils

In previous posts we have discussed how important it is to use only 100% Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils.  (For more on that read here)   I only use Young Living Essential Oils. 

Now that you have the right oils you need to know how to use them.  I have compiled graphics containing the most common ways to use Young Living Essential Oils.  Here - We - Go!

SMELL

Smell is the easiest way to use essential oils, and it is the best way to begin using the oils if you have had no prior exposure.  The oils can be smelled directly from the bottle, worn as a perfume, diffused or even added to special jewelry (like Sacred Arrow Jewelry).  When inhaled, the oils immediately stimulate the olfactory senses and can pass through the blood-brain barrier.  To enhance the usage of an oil, always smell it prior to using it any other way.

FEET
I absolutely love putting oils on the bottom of the feet.  This is a great way to apply the oils to a child/baby, or to use an oil that you don't care for the scent.  The feet are the last sensitive area of the body, and also contain the largest pores of the skin.  The feet absorb the oils very quickly into the body and pass the amazing properties through to the entire person.  Good for a general whole well-being effect.

SPINE
I often use the spine method in conjunction with the foot method mentioned above.  I especially like to use this on my kiddos.  It is very effective in getting the oils into their body, they can still smell the oil, but there is no risk of them getting the oils on their fingers and rubbing their eyes.  Our nervous system runs through our spine, and the Raindrop Technique is administered on the feet and along the spine.

SKIN
We use the skin method when trying to obtain a localized result.  If I have a pimple on my chin I will apply Purification directly to the pimple (not on the bottom of my feet or spine).  Or, if my kids get a mosquito bite I will apply lavender directly to the bite; and so on. 

TONGUE
Applying oils under the tongue are especially powerful in various desires.  One way I like to use them under the tongue is when I want to unclog my sinuses or ears.  Something like peppermint under the tongue does the trick for me.

WATER
Ingesting the oils is excellent and powerful.  You can simply drop your oils in water, tea, honey or clear vegetable capsules and ingest.  Some of the oils taste great, so drinking water with lemon, orange, tangerine, grapefruit...is a treat.  If you have a scratchy throat, drinking hot tea with honey and lemon oil is soothing.  And if you want to use a strong oil, or combination of oils, using a vegetable capsules is highly effective.

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