Do You Hear What I Hear?
One day, while speaking to a sister in Christ who came into the place where I work, I said, "One of these days I'd like to ask people to write down what they have heard from the Holy Spirit, and then see what, if anything, the common factors are."
I'd like to know what the Holy Spirit has been telling other people besides myself. I'd like to hear about the visions they've had or the dreams they never forgot. Jesus said, as recorded in the eighth chapter of John, "It is written in your law the witness of two men is true." Bear with me. In first Corinthians chapter thirteen, Paul wrote, "We prophesy in part because we know in part.....". Back to John, chapter sixteen, beginning with the thirteenth verse, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will shew you things to come."
Honestly, I am fascinated with and by the power of God through the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit which speaks to a person on behalf of God the Father through faith in Christ Jesus. So I'm going to tell you what I've seen by visions, heard through prayer, and dreamed in slumber. And I'd like to know from anyone what you've heard, seen, and dreamed not only to confirm the power of God and the truth of God's Word, but perhaps learn the ultimate question, "How much longer, Lord?"
HEARD
When praying for the sick: "I want to heal my children if they will believe."
Laying hands on the sick: "Speak my Name," and "Believe in Me."
Just praying about personal problems, situations, or personal needs: "Do you believe?", "What do you want?", "Trust Me.", "I am always with you.", "Do you love Me?", "Its coming.", "I am coming back, soon.", "Feed my children.", "Expect great things.", "I am going to open the windows of heaven above you.", "I will bless you.", "My word is my bond.", "Give it to me.", "Let me do the work."
Concerning sowing in faith: "My word is the seed, thy faith bringeth the harvest." Regarding reaping: "As I have blessed you to be a blessing unto others, I have blessed others to be a blessing unto you."
Regarding my community: "Pray for peace, not judgment."
Regarding the church (perhaps): "I am going to break the back of the spirit of Jezebel."
In rebuke: "You want the circus.", "Whose money is it?!", "Watch your mouth."
SEEN BY VISION
Jesus, while hanging on the cross, looks to his right directly at me and says, "I did it for you."
Jesus standing between and above two tablets of stone.
Blood running over a stone tablet chiseled with an unknown language.
Jesus standing next to a tree in the middle of a vast plain with mountains in the background, offering me a piece of fruit from the tree.
Myself standing next to a very bright light in space, looking down on the earth totally covered by pitch black darkness. (Picture an ebony marble)
Jesus standing in a field of ripened wheat waist high waiving his arm across the heads of grain. (The field is weedless)
The face of a man with a full, yet close shaven beard smiling with joy from ear to ear. (To this day I've never seen this man)
While praising God for a healing for which I'd been praying for someone else after being called out by a televangelist (it was pretty specific), for a split second I saw an angel. He was huge. He had golden hair, was smiling and had an almost iridescent radiance about him. By the way, the person died, although to this day I don't believe they should have. I believe they wanted to die, knowing what awaited them.
IN SLUMBER
Entered through a garage door into a two story building with crude bathrooms, sleeping quarters, and a central room. In the middle of the room were six four legged stools with a book on each one. Somehow, I was able to walk and look down upon each book. All the books were opened in the middle, and each book had the same thing written on the pages: Luke 2:18. When I looked back, I saw a muddy shoe print on each of the books.
In a dream I was being chased by what I believed in the dream to be the devil. Finally, after I could not outrun him, I fell to the ground and cried out to God in an unknown tongue. Instantly, the devil was gone.
More than a few times, after I am asleep, I see myself leaving my body and floating up toward the ceiling of our bedroom. I know I'm dreaming because of where I see my wife and how she is sleeping verses where she is in the dreams because sometimes I'm able to wake up after the dream. They're not all alike, but they are similar. I want to leave my body in spirit form so I can float to the third heaven and be with Jesus. Unfortunately, I rarely make it past the outside of our home. When I try to re-enter, I am attacked by something evil in our bedroom. It seems like a long fight to get back to the place from whence I first began. This has happened several times in '07.
I see myself walking with other people into a place with a large room. Hanging from the ceiling are different kinds of scavenger birds all having been stuffed. I leave the room, separated from others, and am walking through a maze of different shops selling all manner of items. I see and walk towards a larger space where an overlook has been built. It is all white with white lathed railing around the entire circle. As soon as I step into the circle, suddenly I am standing before a brilliant, beautiful translucent figure of light surrounded by what appears to be people seated in a circle around the figure. I cannot see their faces, but all of them are saying the same thing, "Holy, holy, holy." Then, a petite woman with gray hair wearing a green, knee length skirt comes to me from my left and with joy hugs me and gives me a kiss on the cheek. Before I release our embrace, I hear another woman call out my name. As I turn to see who the woman is coming toward me from my right, the dream ends.
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I know to most people hearing from God and/or seeing in the Spirit sounds too far out to be true, but to many, many passionate believers it is common place. Most of those people, however, are reluctant to share with others these types of experiences out of fear of what their peers may think of them. Nor will the vast majority of believers seek out the supernatural of God for fear of being deceived by demons. On the other hand, unbelievers frequently chide or ridicule those who openly use their Spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are not given to believers to be used for personal gain or gratification. They're given by God through the Holy Spirit to be used by the direction of the Holy Spirit not only to edify the Body of Christ (the church in the broadest sense of the word), but ultimately glorify God through faith in Christ Jesus. The gifts of the Holy Spirit reveal God.
Before I close, I, personally, do not like to dream. I pray every night before I pass into sleep that the Lord will grant me a peaceful sleep. I pray HE will protect me that I sin not against HIM. I have had my entire life an all too visual dream life during times of sleep. I would not miss ever having another dream for the rest of it. If I cannot be with the Lord in my sleep, then I pray I never have another dream.
Mike
P.S. After writing this, the Lord told me how to have a restful sleep without bad dreams. In prayer, place your dreams under the blood of Jesus. I’ve done this every night since receiving the instruction from the Holy Spirit and have yet to have another nightmare of a demonic nature.
Also, lest I forget, one of the most powerful times I heard directly from the Lord was during a time when I did not join others in a prayer circle due to a low time in my spiritual walk with the Lord. A 79 year old retired pastor took my hands as I prayed and prayed with me. When he finished, the power of God came upon me and I heard these words, “What do you think is impossible for me?” I melted in tears knowing there was only one answer, “Nothing, Lord.” |
