On Friday, April 29th, I had a dream that I felt was from the Lord and was concerning spiritual storms that we deal with as the body of Christ. I’ve written out the dream and what I feel God is speaking through it.
In the dream, while running down the street towards Wal-Mart, I looked up and saw that in all directions there were numerous tornadoes. I stopped under a large highway overpass that would shield me if a tornado came my way and I took out a cell phone so that I could take pictures of them. In so doing I began to notice very specific characteristics about these tornadoes.
I saw that the tornadoes behind me had already passed. I saw that the tornadoes in front of me had not yet come and that they were giant, monster storms in that they were much larger than the tornadoes behind me. I realized I needed to no longer pay attention to the ones that had passed, but needed to focus my energies on determining the best course to deal with the ones that were coming.
As I was standing under the highway overpass, I felt I was safe until a small, yet highly destructive tornado that was able to go under the highway overpass came my way. In the dream I saw that this tornado was filled with and empowered by demons, I also saw that the tornado was called Jehovah’s Witness. I began to pray and the tornado moved away from me.
Then the dream shifted and my grandfather was standing before me in his full naval military uniform. I saw that he had fought and persevered through numerous wars, and had also participated in an award ceremony that bestowed authority on him. This authority was pictured through a colored belt like a sash that had been fixed around his waist. In the dream, I knew that there was still a price to be paid so that the benefit of the authority could be passed on to me and if this price could be paid, then I would have much greater spiritual authority to deal with the coming storms. That was the dream.
The following is what I feel God is saying through this dream…
We have each endured and persevered through large storms, there are however much larger storms ahead of us. In the midst of these storms the Lord has provided us with a place of safety, a shield from the coming storms (the bridge). I felt God was highlighting as the bridge of safety the scripture that says Jesus is himself our way, truth and life. (John 14:6)
I was personally perplexed as to the demonically empowered tornado called Jehovah’s Witness that entered into my place of safety, until I read the following clip from Rick Joyner’s book, “The Harvest.”
In many ways, religious activity has been substituted for obedience and the presence of the Lord. Many of the good works being accomplished by the church today truly are good works—they are just not the works that we have been called to…It was Jonah’s rebellion that brought the storm on the heathen in the ship; the church’s rebellion and tendency to go the wrong way is the reason for many of the storms...
After reading this I felt the Holy Spirit quicken in me that the storm, the demonically empowered tornado that the enemy is sending into our space of safety is that of religious activity that God has not called us into. Religious activity, while being “good works,” if it is apart from the personhood of Jesus himself, is sin and sin is empowered by the demonic. This religious activity in effect creates a storm that moves us out from the place of safety we have in Jesus and exposes us to the damage of the greater storms that are coming.
In real life, when my grandfather was alive, he had fought in numerous conflicts including World War II. I felt the dream was reflecting on those wars my grandfather had persevered through as spiritual conflicts and I believe the belt in the dream symbolized a spiritual belt of truth that gives us authority over spiritual conflict. I think that God desires to highlight to us that we cannot bring peace to spiritual storms by coasting on other peoples past successes. While we are grateful for all that have gone before and for the freedoms that others have championed, we must personally be willing to pay the price necessary to have authority over spiritual conflict.
I believe that God is saying that the time to prepare for this coming conflict is now. We must be willing to pay the price by personally seeking God so that when the storms come we will then have the authority to be victorious through them. Jesus spoke to the storm and it became still. The measure that Christ is manifest in us is the measure that we will be able to speak to the coming storms and command them to be still.
If Christ were sitting here with us, the following is what I feel he would say concerning this dream…
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. He who remains in me will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
I am teaching you to be aware of your environment, to see the storms of life even before they get here, but while seeing the storms that are coming, do not be afraid, for I am with you. This is my mercy that you might pray and partner with me in averting what the enemy intends for evil.
Be aware of the storm of religious activity. Its winds can unseat from my place of safety those who are not wary. Instead of religious activity, renew the work you have done in the past by seeking me again. Be baptized in my Spirit again. Those who seek me will find me when they seek me with their whole heart and I will then release a new mantle of authority, a new anointing, fresh with revelation that will position you to be more than over-comers in the midst of the storms that are ahead. You are to be my mountain, established as chief over the other mountains that all might see and know that I am good.
Again, remain in me and I will remain in you. He who remains in me will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing.
History is marked by great triumphs, usually the result of great battles in which men and women sacrificed and persevered to see righteousness reign. We are entering into another of those times, which will go down in the annals of history and we are being given the opportunity to partner with Jesus to see his Kingdom come, his will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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