In many of my dreams lately, I along with another family member are asleep and I awake because I sense we are being watched. I wake up and see a lion looking at us, stalking us, and I know we are his prey.
We get away each time but are stalked by a lion all throughout the night (in my dream) and they are so very scary. It feels so real. I know it's 'just a dream' but they weigh on my mind for a few days afterward.
I'm open to anyone helping me find the meaning. I was shown a verse just a few days ago about the devil roaming LIKE a lion. But he is not a lion.
A little background. The past year I have been praying and reading and studying the word, and am at a place in my life where I feel I am spinning my wheels. I have asked God to open my eyes as to what I need to do or what is going on that I feel this way. I have heard a speaker I like a lot say that sometimes doors do not open for us while God prepares us. I feel I have been preparing a long time for something and feel I am close to knowing what God's will is for me next. I don't feel anything is an accident, and I know I came along this website as a part of learning and growing.
I had a dream, not long ago, about a number of things. It was long, involved, and involved my co-workers and such. At the end of the dream, I ended up flying. There was one part in it where I was trying to close a window... and suddenly I saw these kittens in there. I started to get the kittens out when this wild cat... some type of wild cat, came out. Bobcat, mountain lion, lynx, something like that.
I locked the cat up, told my boss about it and he sent in a guy with a dog. Thinking I was joking or something. They ended up in a tree. Which was, yes, in the room.
All of the events ended up coming true shortly afterwards, but they were all metaphoric. The flying, for grace from God, in this case, meant success at work. The window problem, a problem I discovered in our work, for which I was initially not taken seriously for.
This dream helped presage a new stage, a very productive and successful stage in my career and get me out of a rut I was in... well, that is, the grace of God got me out the rut. The dream sealed that it was of Him. Because of these problems. These stupid problems which only I can fix.
So, we should remember well that adversity, whatever adversity comes upon us, God is in complete control.
So, the lion can represent many things.
I have also had other dreams where I would come upon a bear, a lion, or another wild animal... and the senation was completely real. I do not know what all these dreams purpose served, but I am sure they served a purpose, regardless. Some dim reminder in the back of my head of some incoming danger which I have long sense faced.
The reoccurence of your dream, makes me wonder if it is not speaking of Satan stalking your family. But do remember, God is in complete control. Satan may be there, constantly accusing you, but it is God who says or does not say if he can do anything. Just like in Job.
It is in God we 'move and live and have our being'. So, there is no challenging of the power of the Almighty.
Evil is given allowances, freedoms, to do certain evil things. But that freedom is only temporary.
Any one's accusation who is found to be false, receives the punishment they were seeking:
Deuteronomy 19:17-19
17 the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. 18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother, 19 then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.
While none of us are truly innocent, Jesus is truly innocent.
And He gives us that innocence to us, by taking upon Him the curse of the Law.
Anyway, I would not worry about impending threats, but rather trust in God and put all worries up to Him. Pray to Him over such matters and ask for mercy from Him. He is good to give it.
As far as for seeking on what one must do... one must do good. It really is that simple. What power we get from the Lord depends on what it is we need to do. And what we need and want to do depends on whom we love and how badly they need God.
Who do you love.
Who is it that need's God's grace, who is it that need God's power?
Studying the misery of the oppressed is a very worthy pursuit for such matters. Few wish to bother their comfortable lives with thoughts of the afflicted. We prefer, much moreso, to consider our comfortable sorroundings and not look into the horrible suffering of others... for doing this brings their sufferings into our lives.
But it is this very empathy, this very love, which gives our life all meaning.
We find more life this way, for love is life and that love is what connects us with these people. This can not be found while studying the lives of the comfortable and the rich in spirit of this world.
