Lighthouse...Christian Dream and Vision Interpretation

[HumbleBee]

Hi there LeeS!

Would seem your dream could be an exhortation to seek your Mom's advice, bare your heart to her who would have more experience than a friend. Seeking counsel from only a peer is unwise and opens the way for deception and demonic attack. So as you talk with your Mom, your fears (concerns) will be relieved symbolized by the bear following your Mom out the door.

I had a dream last night where I was in bed and talking on the phone with a friend. Into the room came a very large animal, but I dont remember what kind of animal it was. It smelled around then left without seeming to notice me. I continued talking on the phone and then an extremely large black bear came into the room. My bed was in the corner of the room and this bear took up the rest of the room. This bear began sniffing the air as if trying to pick up a scent. Then it climbed onto the bed. I pulled the covers over my head and began screaming for my mom. I was very frightend and could do nothing but scream as the animal circled on top of the bed much like a dog will circle it's bed before laying down. Then my mother popped her head into the room and the bear saw her and then followed her out of the room. I woke up.

 

[Dr. Holly]

I hope this is the right place to post this. My father is a Methodist minister. In his home town, he visited a Pentecostal church. The pastor had a word of knowledge that someone had been praying for their daughter. My father immediately knew that this was for him, as he had been praying for me. As he spoke with this pastor, he had a vision. The pastor put it this way, "There is a man who is wandering back and forth in front of your daughter. No intention is known as to what he represents, or whether he is there to hender her or help her, but I can see him just walking back and forth."

This has been weighing heavily on my heart since I was told about it. I left my now "ex-hubby" and I put it in quotations like that because we were only married by common law. I was living with him for 4 1/2 years after a 7 year relationship. I was saved at the time, but was not living the Christian life. Thank God I am now born again. I mention these things because it might provide information that is needed. So my question is: Could this man represent my ex who God is bringing to salvation to restore the relationship for His glory? Or is there another meaning for this?

Thanks so much for all of your imput. It is greatly appreciated!

 

[HumbleBee]

As he spoke with this pastor, he had a vision. The pastor put it this way, "There is a man who is wandering back and forth in front of your daughter. No intention is known as to what he represents, or whether he is there to hinder her or help her, but I can see him just walking back and forth." So my question is: Could this man represent my ex who God is bringing to salvation to restore the relationship for His glory? Or is there another meaning for this?

Would agree that your ex could be in a season of decision (walking back and forth)...recognizing that continuing in relationship with you means he needs to become a Christian as well! The man pacing could also symbolize your ex's worrying about you and your serious health issue that I read about on your profile.

Here are some Bible verses to hearten you! Please take with prayer!

1 Samuel 12:13-14 Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen and whom you have desired. And take note, the LORD has set a king over you. If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the LORD your God.

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.

Psalm 37:3-6 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

Psalm 41:1-3 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth...The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.

 

[Dr. Holly]

Hi HumbleBee! Thank you so much for your reply. After reading your response, I realized that I hadn't been too clear on the situation. I actually have not talked to my ex since I left him - which is a little over a year now. Does that change things? I highly doubt that he even knows I rededicated my life to the Lord.

Thank you for your inspiration as well. ((hugs))

 

[HumbleBee]

Sweet Shalom VAGal!

Nada changes, since this vision been weighing much on your heart and your ex is the most likely person that the pacing man would represent. Plus your being willing for restoration of your relationship implies you hope that will happen! God is surely your God of hope! Would seem that He been working wonders in your ex (in a season of decision), making reconciliation even more possible!

Psalm 62:5-8 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah

Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD...

Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:14-21 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Hi HumbleBee! Thank you so much for your reply. After reading your response, I realized that I hadn't been too clear on the situation. I actually have not talked to my ex since I left him - which is a little over a year now. Does that change things? I highly doubt that he even knows I rededicated my life to the Lord. Thank you for your inspiration as well. ((hugs))

 

[Dr. Holly]

HumbleBee, you are truly blessed with a unique gift from God. Praises be to Him for using you in His ministry. Thank you for all of your help... you have helped my troubled mind May God bless you richly

 

[HumbleBee]

"Your Imagination and the Fulfillment of Your Dreams"
by Todd Bentley, Fresh Fire Ministries Web: www.freshfire.ca


Right away, I want to share what I heard in the spirit recently - God is bringing to fulfillment the desires of our hearts that were birthed in His presence. As well, this is a season in the spirit when God, through us, will bring to pass the dreams of past generations. Remember, David had it in his heart to build a house for the Lord. Nathan the prophet confirmed this when he said to David, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you" (2 Sam. 7:3). Actually, it was David's son, Solomon, who was the one commissioned to build the temple of God. But the Lord honored the desire of David's heart by choosing his son Solomon to carry out this huge task.

Dreams and desires birthed in God's presence are always brought forth in the timing of His sovereign will. But having said that, I believe that God is now bringing us into a season for the fulfillment of dreams and desires He's placed in our hearts.

As well, God is releasing supernatural grace and favor in this season. I've actually had encounters in which God permitted me to ask anything I wanted - He also promised to fulfill my request. It's a season, similar to the one Esther experienced, when she received the favor of her husband, the King (Esther 5:2,3). There are seasons of seed time, sowing and harvest; seasons of seeking and asking, as well as receiving. We are entering into harvest time and we need to receive favor, grace and anointing from the Lord so that we are equipped to enter the end-time harvest.

The Lord also spoke to me that it's now time to advance, to walk by faith into fulfillment of the dreams in our hearts. For those who advance right now, God will open up great opportunities. I actually saw a door standing open in heaven called "Opportunity." As we take hold of divine opportunities, we will see strategic fulfillments in our lives.

PROPHETIC WORDS HAVE POTENTIAL

I know it happens fairly often when believers hear a prophetic word that's given to someone else, they think, "Oh, that sounds like it's for me. Everything about that prophetic word describes my life. But the prophet isn't speaking it over me. I wish he would call me out. That's my prophetic word." Have you caught yourself thinking that way? Sometimes we don't embrace a prophetic word because we weren't called out, or the prophet wasn't laying hands on us when he spoke the word. Well, you need to know that it's all right for you to claim and receive a word in the spirit that God gives someone else if it rings true in your heart. I've been in many meetings where a word of knowledge has come through a prophet for someone, but I knew the word was my prophetic promise, too. So I received that word by faith because it completely described my heart and my situation.

People ask me again and again in conferences, "Well, Todd, can the prophetic word you just gave in Wales apply to me over here in Scotland?" Or, "Can I receive the prophetic word that was given in Ireland?" Yes, you can, if it rings true in your heart when the prophetic word goes forth. You can definitely jump in on somebody else's promise because it could be for more than one person.

Also true personal prophetic promises and words prophesied by others in past generations over ministries, cities and nations all have great potential for fulfillment. However, their fulfillment only comes when we take responsibility to seek the Father's instructions in bringing them to birth. Although great prophetic words do not come with guarantees, God takes a special interest in resurrecting them, in seeing them fulfilled! In particular, He is longing to see the fulfillment of prophetic destinies that even go back several hundred years.

Recently, the Father revealed to me, in two prophetic encounters, that prophetic promises made 300 years ago have great potential for fulfillment! The first encounter was surprising - a vision that included Winnie the Pooh with his jar of honey! In the second experience, I was taken into an open vision to meet with the Father in a place called the field of dreams. I'd like to share the honey vision with you first.


WELL OF HONEY

Honey is a reoccurring theme that's popped up at different times during my ministry. The word of God says, "...and with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you" (Ps. 81:16). Some years ago I had an experience with Christ (the Rock, the Source of the honey) that I can only describe as a glory, liquid, honey cloud that came into my home. At times I've been so deeply in the manifest presence of God that it was like swimming in liquid honey. Talk about being satisfied! And once after being in the presence of God for about 10 hours when my wife saw me, she fell down under the power of the Holy Spirit just as our friend yelled, "Todd, your face is glowing!" Remember how Saul's son Jonathan ate some honey and, after he ate, his countenance brightened. "Look now, how my countenance has brightened because I tasted a little of this honey" (1 Sam.14:29). We must eat the honey, too. Listen! Glowing with the brightness of God's glory, we'll reflect the Lord's heart, His love and saving power to lost humanity.

Recently after I was permitted to give a prophetic word to a man and his wife from England, I went into a vision as I laid hands on them. I saw a cellar inside a giant oak tree and then I saw an old industrial building. But I also saw Winnie the Pooh with a jar of honey! Next came a picture of a healing and deliverance center and I knew that God was releasing an anointing for healing and deliverance through this center. So, I prophesied over this couple, describing the prophetic picture and what I sensed God was saying. Right away they smiled and said, "Todd, we just purchased an old building in an industrial area for a healing center and during the launching of the center we actually read the story of Winnie the Pooh!"

Lately I've been thinking about my encounter with this couple from England because I've had a reoccurring vision that connects with Winnie the Pooh's honey! In the spirit I keep seeing an ancient well dated 1710 and 1740, uncovered and filled with honey! In the Bible honey always symbolizes revelation - the source of all revelation is Christ. It's like this well of honey is full of the revelation and redemption which flow from Jesus Christ!

My sense from the Holy Spirit is that the two dates of the vision signify the timing when some prophetic promises were written and recorded by prophets concerning: cities, churches, ministries and organizations in England and Wales. I mentioned before that the Lord wants to redeem unfulfilled prophetic promises over other nations and cities of the world that go back more than 300 years. (We can discover past prophetic words from historical books or on the internet.) I keep seeing conditional promises right now in the heavens concerning: nations, cities, regions, churches, movements, and denominations. But the Lord is just waiting for faithful believers to seek Him for discernment about different true prophetic words that haven't come to pass yet. Remember, unfulfilled true prophetic promises still have potential! We can activate that potential by faith.

Let's take a walk now in the field of dreams...


FIELD OF DREAMS

I had a profound prophetic experience recently that went on for about two hours. Here's what happened. While I was pacing in my hotel room I was taken in the spirit to an area that looked like a deserted battlefield. I knew in my spirit I was walking in the field of dreams. All around me I could see bombed out tanks and discarded or lost empty artillery shells. Pieces of armor littered the field; I could see a helmet and shield almost hidden in the sand. Here and there cannons and different types of instruments of war, from about the 1700 or 1800's, dotted the landscape.

Then I saw the Father walking in the field of dreams. I knew where a sword was buried and I realized that most of the armor was either lost, discarded, covered or hidden by the sands of time. I had a strong impression that many warriors had abandoned their post; they had run away from their promise and dream. Some had become hopeless, disappointed and discouraged from the battles in life; they threw away their treasure.

I watched the Father reaching down tenderly picking up an old piece of armor. As He dusted off the sand, His breathing began to change to deep sighs, filled with emotion. I sensed His heart as He embraced each piece, taking it close to His chest, holding it there, just as if it was a child. Then He said, "Son, these are lost dreams, these are prophetic promises."

Then it dawned on me that many saints of old had thrown away their prophetic destinies because they ended up despising prophecy. They just abandoned them. Others tried to keep their prophecies by fighting the good fight of faith, but when the battle became fierce they ran away. When the temptations of the world came, the Christian warriors just left their post, all their prophetic words and dreams. Whole churches and movements, cities, nations and individuals walked away from their vision, abandoning their dreams!

Then the Lord said, "Todd, I want you to walk with me for awhile in the field of dreams because I want to speak with you about my heart's desire for this season. It's time to redeem prophetic promises again for individuals, churches and movements, cities, regions and nations. I want believers to dream some old dreams! I want them to dream some old visions! The dreams and visions are not lost forever. I want to resurrect them! My word will not return unto me void! It will accomplish the purpose for which it came out of my mouth" (Is. 55:11). Then, God began offering the old, discarded, lost dreams and visions to me. But I knew instinctively they were intended for all of us - He was inviting each one of us to dream with Him. And then He asked me this question, "Todd, what do you have in your heart?"

 

[HumbleBee]

"Your Imagination and the Fulfillment of Your Dreams"
by Todd Bentley, Fresh Fire Ministries Web: www.freshfire.ca


FINDING OUR TREASURE

I don't think we understand just what is in our heart, the treasure that the Father has placed inside each one of us. We need to recognize and see our treasure because, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matt. 6:21). So I want to ask us this question: "Where are our spiritual eyes?" We can't see in the invisible realm or discover our treasure if we don't know where our eyes are. The apostle Paul spoke about how God would enlighten the eyes of our understanding, or the eyes of our heart:

"...the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints" (Eph. 1:18).

The meaning for 'eyes of our understanding' is: mind, will and intellect. Also, the 'eyes of our understanding' is translated, literally, as the 'eyes of our imagination.' This is the same realm that little children naturally live in; the realm of the imagination. Parents will often say about their children, "They have quite the imagination!" There are all kinds of things that children fear are lurking under their bed or in their closet! And for adults, it seems like they have more fear in unknown dangers of the unseen realm than they have faith in the unseen promises of God.

Listen! Our spiritual eyes can be found in the imagination. I believe that we can have Holy Ghost, sanctified fantasies. From the moment I was born again, I had a burning earnest desire, a deep longing inside of me to preach to tens of thousands of people. I couldn't stop thinking about this, sometimes until three or four in the morning. Scripture says, "....Meditate within your heart on your bed and be still" (Psalms 4:4). That's what I would do at night - meditate and fantasize about stadiums filled with people. I would preach to them in my mind! I didn't even know the Bible yet; I had no idea I was an evangelist. I would have a three-hour miracle service in my mind, people being miraculously healed and making decisions to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior!

I was just a brand new believer, but there was already this seed planted in me to preach to thousands of people. I would have this whole preaching thing going on in my head. And then I would say, "Lord, forgive me. I'm sorry. It's pride for me to dream that I'm ever going to reach more than one person or be successful. It's pride for me to see stadiums filled with people. Lord; forgive me... forgive me."

Many of us in the church today have shut our imagination down. When we've imagined something, we've called it pride and arrogance. It's like we don't want to dream because it could be a dangerous thing to do. I would try to shut my dreams down because they were my own longings. I would hear people say, "Todd, be careful. You're going to get a big head. You're going to get proud. Be careful. Just thank God that you're saved." Others would caution me about having these dreams.

Now I believe that the Father wants to build up our faith and help us have a greater understanding concerning our imagination. I want to loose in us the power of God concerning our imagination. The greatest way to develop our spiritual eye is through understanding the power of a sanctified imagination. This is a realm of the spirit that God is inviting us into. We have spiritual senses that we can exercise: "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Heb. 5:14).

When we exercise our spiritual senses by dreaming with God or fantasizing by the power of the Holy Ghost, we will discover our treasure, our heart's desire. There is something inside each of us the moment that we were born again - a seed of desire, a treasure that God planted. Holding that treasure in my heart I couldn't stop dreaming about many of the things that I do today. I still dream that lives are touched by miracles; I still dream about apostolic centers emerging and staff coming to work at Fresh Fire. I dream about the release of millions of dollars that will help us do the work of the ministry. I dream that multitudes of children will be saved. I dream! It's a powerful place in the spirit. You know... God will do exceedingly abundantly above anything we can even ask or think (Eph. 3:20). Guess who gets to do the thinking and the dreaming? We do! And the Father will lay a solid foundation, safe boundaries within which we can dream with Him.


PLACE OF SAFETY

Not only does the Lord want us to have day dreams, but also spiritual visions and dreams that come by the Holy Ghost in the night season. We can also receive the seeds of destiny, or a dream, through a prophetic word which comes by the mouth of a prophet. Either way, no matter how the dreams come into our hearts, they are birthed by God's Spirit. God is the one that plants the desire in our hearts and if we don't allow those dreams to take wing, we will never see them come to pass.

Recently I heard the Holy Spirit say, "If you build it they will come," and I remembered the movie Field of Dreams. As that well-known line came to my memory again and again, I kept thinking, if we dream it they will come, or if we'll dream bigger and if we'll be released to dream, they will come. There is something important about believers birthing and bringing forth - calling forth those things that be not as though they were through dreams - that paves the way for the unsaved to come to Jesus Christ. I'll speak more about the field of dreams later.

There is an invitation in the spirit right now to dream with God, to lift our vision higher. But God has established conditions or boundaries so we can dream in a spiritually safe place. Boundaries, discovered in the Bible, help us stay in the center of God's will; the place of safety. With this in mind, I would like to define six boundaries that will lay a foundation for dreaming with God. Remember, God is retrieving dreams; He's redeeming prophetic promises that go back even hundreds of years.

1) We must have our hearts completely set on delighting ourselves in the Lord with continual thoughts of pleasing Him.

"Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart" (Ps. 37:4)

When we dream with God, it's as if a 'spiritual incubator' is created where we can birth the reality of what we desire and dream. God wants to grant us the deepest desire and longing of our hearts, but the key to receiving is always delighting ourselves in the Lord. The word 'desire' means: that which intensely burns inside us. "Heart" here means: intellect, awareness, mind, imagination, inner feelings, deepest thoughts or inner yearnings.

What burns within me every day are souls, nations, harvest and how to accomplish the Great Commission. It burns in me! I weep and I dream about the harvest sometimes until three in the morning. Talk about being driven! It's such a burning intense desire in my heart to preach the gospel! God will grant the inner yearnings and passionate desires of your heart too.

2) The condition to asking what we desire and dreaming with God is found in intimacy with Jesus, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly I say unto you, He who believes in me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these will he do because I go to my Father. Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son" (John 14:10-13)

The key to the powerful works of Jesus is found in verse 10: "I am in the Father and the Father is in me" - oneness.

3) Jesus Christ spoke about doing nothing on His own initiative; only doing the things that please His Father:

"...and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.' 'He who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone for I always do those things that please Him'" (John 8:28b,29).

The Father can entrust the kingdom to us when we obediently concern ourselves with pleasing Him; doing nothing apart from Him.

4) When we abide in Christ and when we are one with the Father, we have the mind of Christ.

"But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2:16b.)

During one season of my life I became so in tune and one with the Father. I mentioned earlier that I would desire something and even before I could pray for it, I would have it. One time I was out of peanut butter. I didn't pray about it or tell my wife. I just desired peanut butter. At that time I had just prayed 10 hours in the glory. Well, the next day my wife opened the front door and there was one jar of peanut butter on the front steps!

I believe that as I became one with Christ, I began to see that the key that brought the gift of peanut butter was that I had become so one with God that I had the mind of Christ. Remember, I had been in the glory for 10 hours. It was a place of intercession where the moment I desired it and thought it, I had it even though I didn't pray about it. My desires became His desires and my thoughts became His thoughts.

5) The foundation of friendship with God is vital

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me." "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it will be done in you." "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." (John 15:4,7,10)

Jesus talks about believers bearing fruit and doing His works out of abiding in Him - that's the place of intimacy and obedience. It's here that we are permitted to ask what we desire and it will be done for us.

6) We must quiet ourselves and wait in silence before God and put our hope only in Him.

"My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him" (Ps. 62:5) King David spoke to his soul and commanded his soul to wait silently for God. Desires and dreams get planted by waiting in silence. Our expectation and hope is birthed out of waiting in God's presence.

God is inviting us to dream with Him as we abide within His boundaries, the center of His will and the place of safety.

 

[angelwind]

This post is sooo amazing and timely...of course the Lord is amazing and timely...the word of instruction fits exactly into where I am in the Lord at this time. Thank You Jesus!!!

 

[angelwind]

Hi HumbleBee!!!! The Lord's blessings upon you sweetie.

I had a dream this morning...I was at an "amusement park or place...I had a boat and was using it I guess on the water. I was finished and loaned this boat to a lady with long blonde hair. Then I went "on" and was busy doing something with what looked like rock climbing...waterslides...I'm not sure...but I realize it is time to leave and I wonder if the lady will return the boat. I had forgotten about it for a while.

As I'm leaving this place...there is the lady with the boat parked on the street...there are a lot of towels llying over the sides of the boat...I get inside and see it is a lot cleaner now than when I loaned it to her.

She hands me something...but I say no money or payment...that was not in the deal...I see something like embroidered dollies in my hand folded over two cards. They were like large business cards. One card has charachters I can see but cannot understand...the other card is written in English and as I'm reading I realize I'm reading "fine" print without my glasses.

I say my eyes...I can "see"...I'm healed...I jump out of the boat and there is a car "I think" parked behind the boat on the street...I go to the window of this car and say John I'm healed.

That John was John Wimber...a pastor I used to sit under...he had a lot of healing miracles in his ministry and he began as a street evangelist. He was also a muscian...a whorshipper of God.

NOW!!!!

I told this dream to my husband this morning with tears in my eyes. He also had a dream last night about a boat.

He was or we were in a boat together and the streets were like water ways...but we kept going and going and could not get "out" or "anyplace"...then we or he makes a turn and we are out to open water...the ocean...then upon getting back and putting the boat on shore...he leaves for a moment [potty break]...comes back and someone asks him about the boat and he says...his wife loaned the boat to a lady.

I know the Lord is speaking to us in these 2 dreams...I understand part as I beleive I have been praying about my spiritual eyes for a long time...the opening of my understaning to things in the word and just this week wanting to "see" Jesus in scripture. Not to mention having a high interest in healing prayer and ministries. A lot like what the previous post is saying.

Can you add anything to this dream?

 

[HumbleBee]

Hugggggggggs angelwind! Insight interspersed...

***I had a dream this morning...I was at an amusement park or place...I had a boat and was using it I guess on the water. I was finished and loaned this boat to a lady with long blonde hair. Then I went "on" and was busy doing something with what looked like rockclimbing...waterslides... I'm not sure...but I realize it is time to leave and I wonder if the lady will return the boat. I had forgotten about it for a while.***

Amusement, the state of being amused, entertained, or pleased; something that amuses, entertains, or pleases; deep thought; muse; a diversion that holds the attention. So surmising first that Jesus is pleased with your devotion to Him and second, He would seem to be rewarding you and about to send you on a spiritual joyride to refresh you from time in the furnace! A boat tends to symbolize liberty and deliverance (power ministry). A lady with long blonde hair could represent the Voice of wisdom and enlightened understanding, whom Proverbs likens to be a woman. Since you had a boat, maybe symbolizes that previously you had more freedom, yet temporarily gave it up for the sake of spending more time with Christ and gaining His wisdom from above! The rockclimbing could be a symbol of the tough times you have endured, physically and spiritually, feeling like you in an uphill battle, with slow progress, not much firm footing, nor comfortable place to rest. Rockclimbing could also represent ascending the hill of the Lord and spiritual advancement! Waterslides would surely indicate a new season of joy and refreshment for you!

***As I'm leaving this place...there is the lady with the boat parked on the street...there are a lot of towels lying over the sides of the boat...I get inside and see it is a lot cleaner now than when I loaned it to her.***

Would think this confirms that you are about to embark on a Divinely-sent jubilee season, since you are no longer weighed down with past emotional baggage (boat a lot cleaner). The towels could symbolize much coming comfort from the Holy Spirit (and you ministering to others), as could they represent new Christian (loving service based) relationships, since boats symbolize relationships as well.

***She hands me something...but I say no money or payment...that was not in the deal...I see something like embroidered dollies in my hand folded over two cards. They were like large business cards. One card has characters I can see but cannot understand...the other card is written in English and as I'm reading I realize I'm reading "fine" print without my glasses. I say my eyes...I can "see"...I'm healed...I jump out of the boat and there is a car "I think" parked behind the boat on the street...I go to the window of this car and say John I'm healed. That John was John Wimber...a pastor I used to sit under...he had a lot of healing miracles in his ministry and he began as a street evangelist. He was also a muscian...a worshipper of God.***

Doilies tend to symbolize being off the hook, free of vexation and would certainly be a confirmation of Jesus healing you from your allergies and other afflictions! Two large business cards could signify that our Lord is calling both you and your hubby to a specific area of ministry. You meeting up with a former pastor and proclaiming your healing describes your vindication and sharing your awesome testimony!

NOW!!!!

I told this dream to my husband this morning with tears in my eyes. He also had a dream last night about a boat.

***He was or we were in a boat together and the streets were like water ways...but we kept going and going and could not get "out" or "any place"...then we or he makes a turn and we are out to open water...the ocean...then upon getting back and putting the boat on shore...he leaves for a moment [potty break]...comes back and someone asks him about the boat and he says...his wife loaned the boat to a lady.***

This describes what you been through because of your health issues...not getting out much. The Holy Spirit seemingly has you both on a narrow path. As does this seem to foretell the power ministry for which God been preparing you. Your hubby will obviously be involved. He about to open you both up to an ocean of Divine opportunities! You may have felt like an abandoned beached whale of sorts (boat on shore). Your hubby leaving for a moment could symbolize how at times you may have felt Jesus left you. Your hubby coming back confirms that Jesus hasn't forgotten you and that your forthcoming healing, liberty, and power ministry be in His winsome hands! What a blessing that your hubby had a similar dream! WOW!

Isaiah 54:2, 10 Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes...Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Matthew 18:19-20 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them."

 

[angelwind]

Thank You HumbleBee...thank You Lord for Your lovingkindnesses and Your truth. I will bow down toward your holy temple and give You thanks.

 

[HumbleBee]

From Jane Larsen

I had a vision of a man in a flower garden. The garden had a very high and old stone wall around it. He was pruning very overgrown flowers. The garden was a mess. I saw roses that were over 6 feet tall, battling to reach the light as long grass and weeds grew in mad abundance. There was a blaze of colours, pink, red, yellow, lilac. As I watched, the man was patient, spending a great deal of time over each plant, focusing all his attention on one at a time, as if unaware of the mess all around him. As I watched the Lord laid this in my heart:

You are safe from the ways of the world as a pruning is taking place. See, I have hemmed you in, to the front and the side, and you are safe with me. A great work is being done. A cutting back and a cutting away. The old ways will be removed, all that is not needed for your walk with me will be thrown aside, and room will be made for new growth. See, my hands are gentle and my touch is light. I stand by your side as the old is removed, and I cover the scars with love and patience until they are no more.

The walls will come down. When you stand renewed and complete, the walls will come tumbling down and you will walk forwards in strength and might and power. I will lead you through the fields, I will guide your steps over the mountains and I will light your way along the path you will walk. I will be your guiding light and my truth shall follow you, cover you, as you walk the righteous walk, free from all tnat held you back, from all that choked you, from all that tried to destroy you.

For now you are in a quiet place and a work is being done, a slow and a thorough work as I prepare you for your walk. There is nothing that will be pruned that you will miss, nothing that you will want, for I am restoring and replacing and filling you with the Gifts of my Spirit, with love and patience and understanding, with wisdom that you will share and carry with you. I take away the weight and the burdens with my loving hands and ease away your pains. A new day is dawning and it is the day that you will walk forwards unencumbered.

 

[Hadron]

I have been troubled, for lack of a better word, by the Holy Spirit all day. I took a nap and I had a dream... was strange, of course, but I don't remember the details too well.

I was hiding under a blanket - it was inside like a warehouse or some other large interior building and the blanket was like 100ftx100ft square (not exact dimensions). I was under one corner and there were three "reapers" or ghosts of that nature with scythes or some such long bladed things. They were circling above the blanket, but they couldn't find me.

Then someone or something pointed out, "See they didn't find you," or some words of that nature.

Thanks for your insight.

 

[HumbleBee]

Penumbra! Reading your dream is such a Divine Confirmation! As I was about to post a dream and interpretation that be very similar! See if this helps you understand yours...

Posted with permission and my interpretation following:

I'm standing in this huge open area / it's a bright day, lots of people around - doing whatever.

Then I feel a presence, somewhere to my right, something or someone that wants my attention, I feel this - no words are spoken.

I turn to my right, look.. In the distance I can see a tall thin figure in a grey robe, face hidden from view (grim reaper). It approaches me, the other people see nothing.. The figure approaches. Un-naturally quickly.

It stands towering above me. Turns around and swings it's scythe at a person. At this time I feel it is trying to show me that it has the power to take life, and that the person who has been supernaturally hit by the scythe will die within the day.

The figure then approaches me closer, seems to gaze upon me for a moment and then moves it's head from side to side as if it was saying "no it's not your time"..​

I awake - strangely I am not frightened by the dream, I can remember it clearly... It was almost as if the dream was not meant to scare me but to "enlighten" me...

My Interpretation:
Saw your post and was intrigued, as am into Christian Dream Interpretation. So from that perspective would say your dream could be a Divine Wake Up Call...that God has mercifully given you a reprieve. The Grim Reaper figure could represent the devil who takes lives prematurely, whereas Jesus is the Prince of Life working to give you long life, and even promises you eternal life!

Your not being frightened seems to be a deception. The devil wouldn't want you to be scared of him because if you were you would avoid him and not listen to him, nor follow him. This dream could be him trying to recruit you. It would make sense to be chummy with a higher power who has said he spared you. The Bible describes the devil as the father of lies, so he is lying trying to get you to believe that your life is in his hands. Deliverance from death does not come from the devil, but only from Jesus! Christ is the One you need to heed!

John 10:10 Jesus said...The thief (is the devil) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days...

Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD.

 

[Hadron]

Hi Humblebee,

Thanks again for the insight.

~Pen

 

[throwingbones]

Ok... here goes...

I was in a bed and I couldn't move; almost like the bed was a giant magnet. I tried raising my hand, but couldn't. Then, my hand raised 3 times on it's own but I was holding a golden scepter. Then a tall, shadowy person walked into my doorway and then left. I then realized I was under some sort of spiritual attack and called out, "God help me." Then I awoke.

Keep in mind, that I wasn't in my own bedroom in the dream.

 

[HumbleBee]

I was in a bed and I couldn't move; almost like the bed was a giant magnet. I tried raising my hand, but couldn't. Then, my hand raised 3 times on it's own but I was holding a golden scepter. Then a tall, shadowy person walked into my doorway and then left. I then realized I was under some sort of spiritual attack and called out, "God help me." Then I awoke.

Would agree seems like a spiritual attack...the devil could be trying to keep you bedridden, in an attempt to prevent you from serving Jesus and furthering His kingdom. The golden scepter could represent God's favor upon you and your humility to call on Him for protection from the devil. Greater is Christ in you than he who is in the world!

 

[xsynerinc]

{dream fade in}
a view from way up above the house. and i could see that my bedroom was exposed to the elements. it had no roof.

then suddenly i was standing in the dining room where i could see into my bedroom.

i saw myself in bed sleeping. then suddenly this me sat up, just as a bird from outside flew down for a dive bomb but missed because i'd sat up in bed.

that me realized that there was no ceiling to my bedroom.

the first me continued to watch as this second me got out of bed and went towards the door to the cellar (walking through the dinning room, not seeing the first me).

and after the second me had gone down, the first me followed.

across the first couple of stairs was stretched a spiderweb. i must have kicked through it because i found myself at the bottom of the stairs (how did the second me get downstairs without breaking through the spiderwebbing) in the room just outside where the first me had gone into the furnace room.


inside i saw the first me pulling on a roll of plastic - (the sort used to cover over windows during winter). but the roll wouldn't budge.

an unrolled portion of it was stuck in a pile of dirt or ash over in the farther end of the room.
the first me walked over and tried to pull the caught roll from the pile but it wouldn't budge either.

finally the first me decided to just carry the roll up and let it unravel as she went in order to get the plastic up to the bedroom. (intent. use the plastic to cover over the open area for a ceiling).


the second me stayed in "the furnace room", that in this dream looked like a garage sale. every possible space was crammed with items hanging from the ceiling. shelves were attached to the walls full of more items. and tables were against each wall piled high with things.. plus more items on the floor so there was just barely enough room to walk.

all the items had dust accumulation, depending on how long they'd been there. each had a tag to indicate how long.

the second me curious, reached out and touched an old stiff washcloth hanging down from the ceiling.
when i touched it, out popped a visual "homemovie" of some event of the past.
before it could play all the way through the second me somehow stopped it.

{dream fade out}

 

[xsynerinc]

{dream fade in}
a view from way up above the house. and i could see that my bedroom was exposed to the elements. it had no roof.

then suddenly i was standing in the dining room where i could see into my bedroom.

i saw myself in bed sleeping. then suddenly this me sat up, just as a bird from outside flew down for a dive bomb but missed because i'd sat up in bed.

that me realized that there was no ceiling to my bedroom.

the first me continued to watch as this second me got out of bed and went towards the door to the cellar (walking through the dinning room, not seeing the first me).

and after the second me had gone down, the first me followed.

across the first couple of stairs was stretched a spiderweb. i must have kicked through it because i found myself at the bottom of the stairs (how did the second me get downstairs without breaking through the spiderwebbing) in the room just outside where the first me had gone into the furnace room.


inside i saw the first me pulling on a roll of plastic - (the sort used to cover over windows during winter). but the roll wouldn't budge.

an unrolled portion of it was stuck in a pile of dirt or ash over in the farther end of the room.
the first me walked over and tried to pull the caught roll from the pile but it wouldn't budge either.

finally the first me decided to just carry the roll up and let it unravel as she went in order to get the plastic up to the bedroom. (intent. use the plastic to cover over the open area for a ceiling).


the second me stayed in "the furnace room", that in this dream looked like a garage sale. every possible space was crammed with items hanging from the ceiling. shelves were attached to the walls full of more items. and tables were against each wall piled high with things.. plus more items on the floor so there was just barely enough room to walk.

all the items had dust accumulation, depending on how long they'd been there. each had a tag to indicate how long.

the second me curious, reached out and touched an old stiff washcloth hanging down from the ceiling.
when i touched it, out popped a visual "homemovie" of some event of the past.
before it could play all the way through the second me somehow stopped it.

{dream fade out}

thank you Bumblebee for your interpretation. dealing with the memories of the past in order to be able to move on into the things of God is very much what i feel that dream is saying.