The Dream

[GraftMeIn]

I just wanted to share with everyone about a dream I had. The one I had the night before writing the prayer/poem To My One And Only. It was sort of bothering me alot at first, but now I have a better understanding of it and feel I need to share it.

Before I went to sleep the first 4 lines of the prayer came to me. Then when I went to sleep I had a strange dream. I was with my husband in a church with a couple of friends. We were preparing some tables, setting them up and getting them ready for a big event. We were preparing for the wedding baquet of the Lamb. For Christs return.

Now for the part that realy bothered me. My husband and friends starting singing. What they sang was very troublesome, they were singing don't give me your Jesus.

I awoke the next morning and finished writing the prayer. But there's a much deeper message in all of this.

We all need to make God our one and only. We need to make Him our first love. We also need to help prepare others. Of course we can't do this without His help, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But the time is drawing shorter day by day.

Those others in my dream are those who are supportive of me and what I am doing in a sense. but continue to reject Jesus as their own saviour, for fear of what others might think. They believe in God and want to go to heaven, but they continue to let what others think stand in their way.

  Oh Lord, I want you to return quickly, but not so quickly that those around us wont be saved. Help us turn their eyes to you Lord, and away from the world and it's ways.

 

 

[Gerry]

"Don't give me your Jesus"! Oh how well do I know this song! And it is always sung it seems, loudest by those we love the most.

I am reminded of those who, have at a point of learning, taken a wrong doctrinal stance, but who, having been convicted of that, are reluctant to make an open change for fear of what "others" will think.

Those who have wrongly attacked me, but will not admit that because of what others will think of them for having done so. I know that I, myself, have resisted confessing wrong in times past, because I was afraid of what others would think of me. We stupidly spend our time in fear of "others" rather than in fear of God, who is the only one we should ever fear.

Recently I showed one what the Bible says in simple and clear language about one issue. But to accept that would indicate the person was wrong about an issue and this person could not face friends and say, "I was wrong.

Yes, we spend way too much of our time, being "Right" rather than being "Receptive" to the teaching and leading of the Holy Spirit. Now is not the time to be Right, in our own eyes, or the eyes of others. Now is the time to be YIELDED to the Holy Spirit, and to the teaching of our Saviour.

And it is very appropriate that the setting for this drream was a Church. For I have found in the last two years, that Churches all over are singing this same song. "Don't give me your Jesus". Churches today have their own agenda, and there is no room for Christ.

I have told the story many times of a small church not far from me. In this Church, there is a period between Sunday School and Worship service that usually extends to as much as 15 minutes. In this time people congregate in the Sanctuary and talk back and forth. But just as it is time for the service to begin, it is as though some one yells "Jesus is coming" and someone runs to the door and locks it, so that the service may continue on without His interference.

Sad, but the air is heavy with this feeling and it is as if everyones breathes a collective sigh of relief that the door was locked in time.

Ye, you are so very right. We MUST make Jesus our FIRST Love!

 

[ZiSunka]

We were preparing for the wedding baquet of the Lamb. For Christs return.

My heart started beating so fast when I read this! Oh to be setting the table in preparation for the Lamb's marriage supper! A pure joy ran right through my heart.

Though the rest of your dream is disturbing, remember that you cannot make that decision for your loved ones, to follow Christ or to reject him, they must each decide on their own. You may present Him, but they must choose to accept Him. Our job is to keep presenting Him. Which I need to do more of.

Thanks for the encouragement and the admonition!

 

[GraftMeIn]

You're right Gerry, about it being sung loudest by those we love the most. And it truly is sad when you see some who want to fight scripture with scripture in order to see things the way they want to see them, instead of what God has already made perfectly clear in His Word.

 

[GraftMeIn]

Originally posted by lambslove
My heart started beating so fast when I read this! Oh to be setting the table in preparation for the Lamb's marriage supper! A pure joy ran right through my heart.

Though the rest of your dream is disturbing, remember that you cannot make that decision for your loved ones, to follow Christ or to reject him, they must each decide on their own. You may present Him, but they must choose to accept Him. Our job is to keep presenting Him. Which I need to do more of.

Thanks for the encouragement and the admonition!

thanks Lambslove,

 Yes the second part of the dream was disturbing, But wow! what a message it brings. All we can do is keep displaying How God works in our own lives. And show others the Love of Christ, Allow the Holy Spirit to work through us. And leave it all in Gods hands, trusting in Him to accomplish it all in His time, and not our own.

 

 

[ZiSunka]

And doing what we can to introduce people to Christ. That's the most important thing I can be doing right now!

 

[Gerry]

Originally posted by GraftMeIn
You're right Gerry, about it being sung loudest by those we love the most. And it truly is sad when you see some who want to fight scripture with scripture in order to see things the way they want to see them, instead of what God has already made perfectly clear in His Word.

I am awed, stunned, and amazed! I am truly watching the Holy Spirit in action today!

Praise God for this awesome anointing he has poured out on you!

 

[BigEd]

how often I had sung that song in the past... Thank God , he was so patient with me for so long.

 

[GraftMeIn]

Originally posted by BigEd
how often I had sung that song in the past... Thank God , he was so patient with me for so long.

I'll praise Him for bringing you back! And pray he does the same for many others

 

[Blessed-one]

We all need to make God our one and only. We need to make Him our first love. We also need to help prepare others. Of course we can't do this without His help, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But the time is drawing shorter day by day.

a very frightening message... GraftMeIn. Let's start the preparation today.