[True story from the file TESTIMONIES --> DREAMS & VISIONS A.J. Brown Ministries website]
Effortless Intercession Weeping
Connected to the Presence of the Holy Spirit
On Jan 7, Tuesday night, 2004
I had a dream where I was aware of a man sitting at a table who had committed sin, and I assumed that the man was me. I heard all manor of rebuke towards him, and condemnation. I heard scriptural rebuke, and strong rebuke, such as would make the man feel like a really bad sinner.
Then I saw another man who I knew spoke as an oracle of God walking around behind him in the room, and he spoke comforting words to this man, telling him that God loved him.
The words which this man spoke were full of weightiness. They were not light or shallow, but they seemed to be deep, with powerful emotions, such as would come from the very more tender places of the heart of God.
These words which he spoke were tender, merciful, compassionate, and pitiful, full of heart-breaking love, full of forgiveness and desire to spare, and as soon as I heard the words that came out of his mouth I immediately began to weep in the physical flesh, even though I was completely asleep. I wept so much and so hard that I woke myself up to find I was weeping.
I felt the power of the Holy Ghost on me as I always do when he shows up in my bed; a general numbness was on me. After I woke up the numbness lessened and I could no longer weep anymore. The weeping was so beautiful that I was displeased that I had stopped, and I tried to continue to weep but it was no longer easy, I had to struggle now, because the emotion behind it seemed to have faded quite a bit. The emotion which I felt, and which had caused me to weep so easy and so beautifully, was a feeling of great purity of feelings on the inside. It felt like pure liquid compassion, pure tender-mercy and love.
As I listened to him speak, I felt as though he was speaking the words to me. The words that he spoke affected me emotionally, as though by listening to his words, the desires of his heart became the desires of my heart. The emotions of his heart became the emotions of my heart. Therefore I figure that the emotions that I felt came by the Words which I heard him speak, and I see this scripture talk about that: Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
It was like a kind of overwhelming desire to forgive that I would have filled my whole bedroom with tears at the mere thought of any harm coming to man at the table, who was me. It was an overwhelming desire to spare him from even any possibility of feeling any guilt or penalty for sins. Perhaps it is the same feeling that caused Joseph to weep so hard when his brothers told him about the pain that his Poppa would go through if any harm came to Benjamin, and the overwhelming love in him that caused him to run to a side room to weep, even though they were the very people who had gotten him locked into prison for so long. It was not a struggling kind of weeping, but as the scripture says, Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he wept aloud. This is what was inside of me that cause me to weep so easy in the dream.
After I awoke I still felt the numbness so I tried to relax and enter back into the dream. I set my mind on the man who had spoken, and I could almost think to still be able to see him a little. I felt the numbness become stronger on my body, and I almost started to weep again without effort, as I refreshed my mind of what the man had said. But I could not find the dream again, and the numbness went away soon enough.
I was reminded of how on December 20th 2003, the day of the outpouring, I had begun to weep in the meeting because, I could no longer resist the Spirit. And I also remember how at Faiths intercession meeting, the day when the man who would walk around singing literally began to cry, and the presence of the Lord was so strong Faith literally was out of control in her strong crying I had gotten down on the floor early in the meeting and I was surprised at how easy it was to weep, it just flowed out of me with no effort at all, and I enjoyed it so much and wondered why I was able to weep so easily. Both these cases are examples of a connection between effortless intercession weeping, and everyone in the room feeling the presence of the Lord strongly.
Effortless Intercession Weeping
Connected to the Presence of the Holy Spirit
On Jan 7, Tuesday night, 2004
I had a dream where I was aware of a man sitting at a table who had committed sin, and I assumed that the man was me. I heard all manor of rebuke towards him, and condemnation. I heard scriptural rebuke, and strong rebuke, such as would make the man feel like a really bad sinner.
Then I saw another man who I knew spoke as an oracle of God walking around behind him in the room, and he spoke comforting words to this man, telling him that God loved him.
The words which this man spoke were full of weightiness. They were not light or shallow, but they seemed to be deep, with powerful emotions, such as would come from the very more tender places of the heart of God.
These words which he spoke were tender, merciful, compassionate, and pitiful, full of heart-breaking love, full of forgiveness and desire to spare, and as soon as I heard the words that came out of his mouth I immediately began to weep in the physical flesh, even though I was completely asleep. I wept so much and so hard that I woke myself up to find I was weeping.
I felt the power of the Holy Ghost on me as I always do when he shows up in my bed; a general numbness was on me. After I woke up the numbness lessened and I could no longer weep anymore. The weeping was so beautiful that I was displeased that I had stopped, and I tried to continue to weep but it was no longer easy, I had to struggle now, because the emotion behind it seemed to have faded quite a bit. The emotion which I felt, and which had caused me to weep so easy and so beautifully, was a feeling of great purity of feelings on the inside. It felt like pure liquid compassion, pure tender-mercy and love.
As I listened to him speak, I felt as though he was speaking the words to me. The words that he spoke affected me emotionally, as though by listening to his words, the desires of his heart became the desires of my heart. The emotions of his heart became the emotions of my heart. Therefore I figure that the emotions that I felt came by the Words which I heard him speak, and I see this scripture talk about that: Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
It was like a kind of overwhelming desire to forgive that I would have filled my whole bedroom with tears at the mere thought of any harm coming to man at the table, who was me. It was an overwhelming desire to spare him from even any possibility of feeling any guilt or penalty for sins. Perhaps it is the same feeling that caused Joseph to weep so hard when his brothers told him about the pain that his Poppa would go through if any harm came to Benjamin, and the overwhelming love in him that caused him to run to a side room to weep, even though they were the very people who had gotten him locked into prison for so long. It was not a struggling kind of weeping, but as the scripture says, Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he wept aloud. This is what was inside of me that cause me to weep so easy in the dream.
After I awoke I still felt the numbness so I tried to relax and enter back into the dream. I set my mind on the man who had spoken, and I could almost think to still be able to see him a little. I felt the numbness become stronger on my body, and I almost started to weep again without effort, as I refreshed my mind of what the man had said. But I could not find the dream again, and the numbness went away soon enough.
I was reminded of how on December 20th 2003, the day of the outpouring, I had begun to weep in the meeting because, I could no longer resist the Spirit. And I also remember how at Faiths intercession meeting, the day when the man who would walk around singing literally began to cry, and the presence of the Lord was so strong Faith literally was out of control in her strong crying I had gotten down on the floor early in the meeting and I was surprised at how easy it was to weep, it just flowed out of me with no effort at all, and I enjoyed it so much and wondered why I was able to weep so easily. Both these cases are examples of a connection between effortless intercession weeping, and everyone in the room feeling the presence of the Lord strongly.
