In the first part of the dream I am at my church and one of the ladies at the church was helping me set up for youth. I turned out the lights so what ever I was planning would be a surprise. Then I started to see them and their parents come in and the parents turned on the lights so I came up to see what was going on and there were parents, teens, and children coming and I went up to one of the children and asked how old they were and he said nine. Then I told him he was to young then turned around to see some celebration practice going on behind me. The next part of the dream gets interesting. I go over to a wall where the other lady that helped me set up youth and then set down leaning against the wall she wasn't there any longer but all of a sudden I realize it's a dream and in my thinking or terminology I felt like I woke up in the dream and realized I could look around and was able to start to think what is the Lord showing me. I looked around then an saw a white wall with two beams holding the wall up. I kept looking around in total amazement that I knew I was dreaming. I looked at the white walls closely and I could see them at areas fade in and out. Then I believe I saw a Jewish priest with white robe and hat. With a blue sash tied around his waist but he faded in and out. Then as I kept looking around I herd my alarm start to go off and the whole scream I was looking at in my dream closed and I was looking at my eye lids I think is how You would describe it. I have herd from one person that the Lord took me to another place. I have had one other dream that I woke up in like this one but no more.
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In the first part of the dream I am at my church and one of the ladies at the church was helping me set up for youth.
When people set up for events, they are doing a thankless job that others barely even notice, and rarely acknowledge. Setting up, you might exert a lot of energy, pray over the event, care about how the seating is arranged, find risky things like open windows and blocked fire alarms... but no one sees all that you put into it. Their focus is usually the event itself.
In your dream, one person decided to appreciate the work and support you in your efforts. Symbolically, this could have been someone who is praying for you, or lobbying for you to get paid for your work.
I turned out the lights so what ever I was planning would be a surprise.
This seems to show that you put far more into it than was required -- you selflessly cared about the people while you were doing behind-the-scenes work.
Turning out lights can represent turning off information... but it's not clear how that would delight people when the lights came on. Usually people react with anger when they find out they were denied information. You might know more about what this could mean.
Then I started to see them and their parents come in and the parents
turned on the lights so I came up to see what was going on and there were parents, teens, and children coming and I went up to one of the children and asked how old they were and he said nine.
Then I told him he was to young then turned around to see some celebration practice going on behind me.
You were in a position of authority, screening and discerning. Again, making sure the whole event went well, without getting glory for your work. (Maybe even flack.)
The colorful celebration was probably what others wanted to focus on, and they didn't want to face the practical realities and necessary limitations.
The next part of the dream gets interesting. I go over to a wall where the other lady that helped me set up youth and then set down leaning against the wall she wasn't there any longer
A wall defines a room -- it is the limiting edge. Also protects from the outside, shelters, keeps things temperate, and blocks things out. Your leaning on this defining wall might show that you found rest in doctrinal limits, or comfort from something that defined what this room was about. Maybe just relief that you had rules that backed you up -- people couldn't get too mad at your for kicking out underagers, because others had agreed on the rules.
She suddenly disappeared -- your only compassionate connection between the effort you were expending, and the shallower events going on. You lost that understanding from someone, and that person who would back you up.
but all of a sudden I realize it's a dream and in my thinking or terminology I felt like I woke up in the dream and realized I could look around and was able to start to think what is the Lord showing me. I looked around then an saw a white wall with two beams holding the wall up.
Maybe this is God showing you that He has sanctioned these boundaries and protections? That you were okay when you used them, even if others criticized you.
I kept looking around in total amazement that I knew I was dreaming. I looked at the white walls closely and I could see them at areas fade in and out. Then I believe I saw a Jewish priest with white robe and hat. With a blue sash tied around his waist but he faded in and out.
The blue sash might have been like a prayer shawl, a visible statement of devotion and even humility to abide within God's precepts.
Loins girded with truth... not allowing robes to flow freely, but to be constrained and gathered in by God's protective principles. A Jewish hat is similarly a decision to come under God's authority. There is comfort, identity, and purpose in working for His Kingdom, and not allowing things to get out of control.
Do people gain respect as priests by allowing too much freedom? Encouraging
"parents" to create their own rules? A priest fasts, prays diligently, shows up on time for temple preparations. A lot of quiet foundational work goes on in the priesthood, that people never see.
1 Peter 2:9-17
YOU are a chosen race, A royal priesthood, A holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people OF GOD; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. 12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation .
Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Then as I kept looking around I herd my alarm start to go off and the whole scream I was looking at in my dream closed and I was looking at my eye lids.
My guess -- it seems that God was showing you the validity of the quiet work you do, year after year. The "you" in the dream seems content to be out of the limelight, and more involved in the preparation that goes into others' ventures.
Everyone needs reassurance, especially when people can treat us poorly for the choices we make to be less visible.
I remember one year when I worked the sound system, sang in choir in the balcony, and taught Sunday school... running from one thing to another. A long-standing church woman said to me, "I haven't seen you in church in a while -- are you avoiding anything?" She didn't see me because I was not up front doing the visible work, or sitting in a pew being seen.
When people set up for events, they are doing a thankless job that others barely even notice, and rarely acknowledge. Setting up, you might exert a lot of energy, pray over the event, care about how the seating is arranged, find risky things like open windows and blocked fire alarms... but no one sees all that you put into it. Their focus is usually the event itself.
In your dream, one person decided to appreciate the work and support you in your efforts. Symbolically, this could have been someone who is praying for you, or lobbying for you to get paid for your work.
I turned out the lights so what ever I was planning would be a surprise.
This seems to show that you put far more into it than was required -- you selflessly cared about the people while you were doing behind-the-scenes work.
Turning out lights can represent turning off information... but it's not clear how that would delight people when the lights came on. Usually people react with anger when they find out they were denied information. You might know more about what this could mean.
Then I started to see them and their parents come in and the parents
turned on the lights so I came up to see what was going on and there were parents, teens, and children coming and I went up to one of the children and asked how old they were and he said nine.
Then I told him he was to young then turned around to see some celebration practice going on behind me.
You were in a position of authority, screening and discerning. Again, making sure the whole event went well, without getting glory for your work. (Maybe even flack.)
The colorful celebration was probably what others wanted to focus on, and they didn't want to face the practical realities and necessary limitations.
The next part of the dream gets interesting. I go over to a wall where the other lady that helped me set up youth and then set down leaning against the wall she wasn't there any longer
A wall defines a room -- it is the limiting edge. Also protects from the outside, shelters, keeps things temperate, and blocks things out. Your leaning on this defining wall might show that you found rest in doctrinal limits, or comfort from something that defined what this room was about. Maybe just relief that you had rules that backed you up -- people couldn't get too mad at your for kicking out underagers, because others had agreed on the rules.
She suddenly disappeared -- your only compassionate connection between the effort you were expending, and the shallower events going on. You lost that understanding from someone, and that person who would back you up.
but all of a sudden I realize it's a dream and in my thinking or terminology I felt like I woke up in the dream and realized I could look around and was able to start to think what is the Lord showing me. I looked around then an saw a white wall with two beams holding the wall up.
Maybe this is God showing you that He has sanctioned these boundaries and protections? That you were okay when you used them, even if others criticized you.
I kept looking around in total amazement that I knew I was dreaming. I looked at the white walls closely and I could see them at areas fade in and out. Then I believe I saw a Jewish priest with white robe and hat. With a blue sash tied around his waist but he faded in and out.
The blue sash might have been like a prayer shawl, a visible statement of devotion and even humility to abide within God's precepts.
Loins girded with truth... not allowing robes to flow freely, but to be constrained and gathered in by God's protective principles. A Jewish hat is similarly a decision to come under God's authority. There is comfort, identity, and purpose in working for His Kingdom, and not allowing things to get out of control.
Do people gain respect as priests by allowing too much freedom? Encouraging
"parents" to create their own rules? A priest fasts, prays diligently, shows up on time for temple preparations. A lot of quiet foundational work goes on in the priesthood, that people never see.
1 Peter 2:9-17
YOU are a chosen race, A royal priesthood, A holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people OF GOD; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. 12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation .
Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Then as I kept looking around I herd my alarm start to go off and the whole scream I was looking at in my dream closed and I was looking at my eye lids.
My guess -- it seems that God was showing you the validity of the quiet work you do, year after year. The "you" in the dream seems content to be out of the limelight, and more involved in the preparation that goes into others' ventures.
Everyone needs reassurance, especially when people can treat us poorly for the choices we make to be less visible.
I remember one year when I worked the sound system, sang in choir in the balcony, and taught Sunday school... running from one thing to another. A long-standing church woman said to me, "I haven't seen you in church in a while -- are you avoiding anything?" She didn't see me because I was not up front doing the visible work, or sitting in a pew being seen.
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That what you said pretty much sums up I think what has went on. I don't have to have the lime light. I love working with teens to help them see that God loves and cares about them. I have rules that we follow and I feel safe to follow them. Lately I have needed help and there hasn't been hardly any. Even that lady that did some help left the church. I don't get paid and some have felt I should. The part I put into doing youth have been a lot but that is because the Lord put it on my heart to give and do it as unto the Lord not just a job that I see some people do. My reward is seeing them find Jesus and how he can help them in their lives and its been prophesied that all that I have done will show up and it may be years before I hear about how the Lord used me to sow God's love into them. Thank you for your post.
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Wow -- it is wonderful that you are doing all this for them. Working with teens can be very consuming, 24/7.
Strange how the woman vanished, and the reality was so similar and abrupt.
My parents used to invest loads of hours per week in teen ministry, without pay, and taking on many risks. Parents used to accuse them of things instead of thanking them.
But the fruit of their efforts went on and on... spread outward, and kept going. As you say, years from now you will see even more.
I attended a reunion where several people came up to me and said they became pastors because of the influence of that group, and our family's devotion to God. I didn't even remember them attending!! And I didn't know how many people in school knew I was a Christian. I suppose that just being there, standing up for our faith, gave other people the gumption to step out in their own ministries.
Whenever I wonder whether I am doing too much for free, I remind myself that volunteer work is more entertaining for me than movies or hobbies. It gets me out of myself, my routines, my limitations... and brings me into others' worlds. There are challenges to meet, colorful varieties of thought and personality, and an underlying purpose to it all.
I hope that you can get some help or support in what you do for the teens!
Strange how the woman vanished, and the reality was so similar and abrupt.
My parents used to invest loads of hours per week in teen ministry, without pay, and taking on many risks. Parents used to accuse them of things instead of thanking them.
But the fruit of their efforts went on and on... spread outward, and kept going. As you say, years from now you will see even more.
I attended a reunion where several people came up to me and said they became pastors because of the influence of that group, and our family's devotion to God. I didn't even remember them attending!! And I didn't know how many people in school knew I was a Christian. I suppose that just being there, standing up for our faith, gave other people the gumption to step out in their own ministries.
Whenever I wonder whether I am doing too much for free, I remind myself that volunteer work is more entertaining for me than movies or hobbies. It gets me out of myself, my routines, my limitations... and brings me into others' worlds. There are challenges to meet, colorful varieties of thought and personality, and an underlying purpose to it all.
I hope that you can get some help or support in what you do for the teens!
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