Dreams and visions have always been part of my life.  Everyone in the family had them at times and we believed in their messages but weren’t always good at deciphering them.

The first dream of consequence happened when I was 7 years old.  It simply depicted a pretty church with a steeple and stained glass windows, suddenly falling across the road in an earthquake.  It was frightening and scared me.

Back then, we believed the end of times was the end of the world.  And we believed that Babylon the Great was the Catholic church.  We even expected an Antichrist to come from it.  So we quickly interpreted my dream in light of these beliefs which were fairly wide-spread in the Pentecostal community then.  Maybe they still are, somewhere, in some church, I don’t know.

Anyway, I was thinking about that dream recently and saw a whole new message inside it.  Recently, more of my traditional beliefs have tipped over like a spiritual earthquake.  And the church as an idol, has come crashing to the ground to lay as so much rubble on my inner road.  There have been scary moments when my faith shifted and I wondered what I’d hold onto without these beliefs to bolster me.

When we are steeped in our religious doctrines, our world hinges on all kinds of things that actually have very little to do with Him and our relationship with Him.  Rituals like saying “in Jesus name” after every prayer.  Convoluted language like Christianeze.  Group-think that anchored me in a tribe of manipulation. So many things that tipped over and lay at my feet, powerless.

I discovered Father on another level and leaned on Him.  He was all I ever needed, all anyone ever needs. 

For a few years, my dreams and visions increased.  Father orchestrated fabulous plays to help me understand what was happening in my spirit.  And He packaged them up in dreams and visions. Some of them, like the ones about my gown and accessories, helped develop my Identity into the Bride that He created each of us to Be.

But there are different kinds of dreams and visions, too.

Twice I’ve had premonition visions: exact screenplays of a car accident that happened moments later involving loved ones.  I learned from those visions that I could change the horrible outcome through my unity with Father.  Taking fear and panic to Him, I asked for my loved ones to be unscathed.  Both times the accidents happened just as I saw, but ended just as I asked.

I love dreams and visions, and the miraculous part they play in my journey with Father.  But I’ve found that courses or conferences about them are like horoscopes in the newspaper, too generalized to be of much real help to me.  I’ve also discovered that I completely miss the real message when I interpret them through church doctrine.

All of the spiritual realms are inside of me (and you).  They are the only ones that pertain to me or have any real consequence in my existence.  And through the years when I’d interpret world changing meanings into my dreams, I lost the pearl of great price: the message that was meant for me, personally.  Those were the real messages, with real meanings, and they were meant to prosper my spiritual growth to higher and higher levels in my spirit realm.

I know now that I’m not a victim to anything.  No world events or other people’s decisions can actually affect me……unless I believe they can.  The rain that falls ….. on the just and the unjust ……. doesn’t cause me pain or destruction unless I believe it can.  And I don’t believe anymore.

Rather I believe this world is my tool.  I’m not it’s victim.  It’s my blank canvass.  I’m not it’s slave.

This is why Jesus sent Peter to get the gold coin from the fish’s mouth.  The world and it’s systems were of little consequence to Him.  He didn’t have to conform to them and play by their rules, by getting a job to make money to pay taxes.  And He didn’t have to work hard at political matters to change laws and protocols. 

Jesus ruled and reigned the only world that actually mattered – the one inside Him, where He and Father were One.  From there, everything else must bow.

This is the revelation that enhanced dreams and visions for me into marvelous messages that play out before my eyes.  They don’t fall to the wayside unfulfilled anymore.  And I’m not reaching for fulfillment in futuristic world events.

Dreams and visions are my tools into my spiritual realm inside.  They are marvelous treasures packed full of keys to unlock great mysteries.

Blessings on your journey into the mysteries.

Faith