The Beautiful Dream
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For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. Jeremiah 29:11-13 NLT
Scene One
A Dark Place
I was standing alone in a dark place, looking straight ahead. There were no stars and no moon. All I could see were a few wavy strings of white floating vapor against a dark backdrop in the distance. They formed what looked like a ridge of mountains. But really, it was only a void—nothing beautiful to look at. My soul felt numb.
Someone was approaching me from behind on my right side. I didn’t see him, but I sensed his presence coming toward me. Strangely, I wasn’t afraid. As he came closer, I turned my head to the right and looked into his face and then his eyes. I felt lovingly drawn to him, even though I didn’t know who he was.
His face was handsome to me—of olive skin tone and clean-shaven. Though he had chiseled masculine features, his countenance was softly inviting. He had dark, medium length hair that was straight and layered, and his dark black eyes looked back into mine.
The Invitation
With the kindness of a true gentleman he asked me to dance with him—even though he spoke no words from his mouth. I quickly agreed, and then suddenly felt uncomfortable with the thought that he might discover my flaws. As he approached me I thought to myself, “I don’t know how to dance!” All I knew about dancing was that I should follow his lead.
Standing behind me, he placed his arms loosely around me with his hands on the front part of my waist. I placed my hands over his. He kept his head near my right ear.
Extravagant Love
As soon as he touched me I felt intense love like I’ve never felt in my whole life! His love permeated my being and all my cares were gone—all of them! I was instantly in love! He danced the most simple but beautiful dance with me—deeply romantic but purely innocent. We took slow steps swaying to the left and to the right. He even dipped me gently to the left and to the right. All too soon, the dance was over.
Then he stood beside me. Still saying no words, he asked to see me again and I eagerly agreed. I asked him when I would see Him again. He said he would return to me and gave me the day and time.
Scene Two
I saw my husband, Mark, and myself sitting together on sand-toned concrete bleachers, the big squared chunky kind. It was daytime and there were no other people there. The scene was zoomed in on the area where we were seated so that I couldn’t see how high or wide the bleachers were.
I was telling Mark all about the amazing man I had danced with and how much I loved him. The immense love and joy I felt when I danced with the man was still just as strong! Mark was so happy for me as I told him with great enthusiasm how the man’s love had completely transformed me. He wanted to hear all about it!
Scene Three
The man who danced with me was leading me into a room of his house. He was to my right as we walked, and I was still full of ecstasy! The opening into this room was wide, slightly arched, with curved edges and no doors. There was a table in the room, so I assumed it was a dining room, however, there was nothing on the table to define its purpose. There was no decor in the house. It was clean, white, and bright with possibly a faint sky-blue hue.
Meet the Family
As we walked toward the room, I wanted to ask the man when we could be alone again. I loved him so much! But I sensed this wasn’t the right time, so with joyful anticipation, I kept silent. It seemed that he was escorting me into a very important meeting with his family, but I was not anxious about it at all. Love and acceptance were in the atmosphere, and I knew I was right where I was supposed to be. I felt so special!
As we entered the room, we approached an oblong table. It had rounded corners and seated eight. He led me around the left end of the table to the first chair on the other side. I stood behind my chair like everyone else. My chair was across the table from him, next to one end of the table. The mother stood at the other end of the table. I turned my head to the left to look at her because she seemed to be in charge at that moment. She was rather large and she wore a solid pink dress like the one my mother wore to her grandchildren’s weddings.
Not Paying Attention
Absent-mindedly, I gazed upward and to my left at the blank ceiling. I was still daydreaming about the man I loved—even though he was right there across the table from me. I was still wondering when I could be alone with him again! He was so amazing!
All of a sudden I glanced back down and realized that everyone was seated except me! I felt so ashamed and full of fear. I didn’t know what to do. Right then, the mother stood back up and everyone at the table followed her lead. They stood as well. Then I heard the mother kindly say to everyone, “Be seated.” At that moment, I woke up from the dream.
Awake
On February 21, 2013, I awoke from this dream feeling like a teenager in love. But then I suddenly became alarmed! The man I had dreamed about was not my husband! I danced with the man in the dream, and I was so in love with him! I began to ask God to forgive me for having the dream. But right away I remembered scene two, where my husband, Mark, was thrilled about my love-relationship with the man.
Relief
At that moment, I knew this dream was from God and I had danced with Jesus, God’s Son! I can’t express the overwhelming awe I felt! Jesus came in such an intimate way to reveal His love for me. That morning, I was graced with tears of joy and anticipation. The dream contained secrets for me to discover. So, I asked the Lord for an interpretation and the dream has been unfolding to me ever since.
The Father
Around two weeks later, I was sitting at our kitchen table having some alone time with God and I asked the Father a question. “Father, why was I seated to your left?” I heard Him quickly respond, “Because I want you close to my heart.” I welled up with tears and was awestruck by His answer! His love was so strong that I had to stop everything and just let Him love me. I could not have come up with that answer on my own.
To this day I picture my Heavenly Father seated to my right drawing me into His love and faithfulness, the Holy Spirit at the other end of the Table assuring me that I am dearly loved and accepted, and Jesus across from me where I can look into His wonderful face! All my Brothers and Sisters in Christ from all over the world are there too, cheering me on! Our God is so amazing! I don’t know how He does it, but I believe each of His children have been offered the same seating arrangement. Father God loves us so much that He wants us seated very close—next to His heart!
A Short Interpretation
Scene One
Jesus, God’s Son, comes to us and offers to rescue us from the kingdom of darkness as only He can do. All Jesus asks is a sincere “Yes” to His invitation to becoming one with Him and follow His lead. The moment He touches us, Jesus supernaturally cleanses us from the guilt of sin (wrongdoing), fear and shame. To learn more about Jesus Christ, the Messiah, please click here Meet Jesus You can also find it on the home page.
When I woke up and reviewed the dream in my mind I couldn’t remember the day Jesus said He would meet me again. I think that was on purpose. If we know Jesus, He dwells within us and will meet with us through God’s Holy Spirit at any time. Jesus will also come again one day in all of His glory to take us Home to Heaven!
Scene Two
The Foundation of your Marriage
The main focus in marriage must first be on our respective love relationships with Jesus. That is the only way to have a healthy and joyful marriage. If a Christian couple is not walking by the Spirit there will be conflict and strife. But by living humbly before God, seated at His Table in the heavenly realms, there will be unity. The basis for this unity is God’s supernatural “Agape Love!”
Fill Up Your Bleachers
I was seated on earth with my husband telling him about Jesus. Telling someone about your encounter with Jesus, the Savior, is an obvious response. Eternal life was infused into your being through the Holy Spirit who came to live inside you! God’s life inside us is like a seed in our heart. Sharing Jesus is the first fruit of our spiritual tree! We have the rest of our lives to tell others about Jesus. As the Holy Spirit leads us, we can “fill up our bleachers” with new believers in Christ!
Build Only on the Foundation– Jesus Christ
My husband and I were sitting on the lowest step of the bleachers. As Christians, we begin our relationship on the Foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But God wants us to “go higher up the steps of faith and love in Christ Jesus.” God’s ways are higher than ours and He wants us to know what our inheritance is as His children.
The Body of Christ
If we follow the Spirit we are seated together in unity. We have been brought out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light, from death to life, from sin into the righteousness of Jesus Christ and from fear and shame into the love of our Heavenly Father.
Scene Three
The Spiritual Realm
You are a spiritual being with a soul and a body. When follow Jesus, He takes you to be seated next to your Father in the heavenly realms of the Spirit. Isn’t that amazing!? Our eternity has begun in the Spirit realm as we live on earth. We were born again by the Spirit to have an actual intimate loving relationship with God. As Christians, we can have two-way conversations with God continually because His Spirit lives in us.
Many believers pay a lot of attention to living from the earthly realm. But few pay attention to living in the realm of God’s Spirit– the heavenly realms. That is one reason why there is so much fear and anxiety in the Body of Christ. Many Christians have fallen for lies like, “I’m inferior to others,” or “I am a failure and I’ll never measure up.”
But our relationship with God has been reconciled through Jesus! Paying attention to our spiritual relationship with God is the only way to grow in relationship with Him. To read more about living by the Spirit go to LIVE BY THE SPIRIT.
God Sees Us As Perfect
We are seated next to our Father who loved us so much that He sent Jesus, His perfect Son, to die for our redemption. If we trust in Jesus, we are forgiven of every sin and mistake. God sees us as perfect! Our court sentence has been paid-in-full through Jesus! No matter what anyone says about us, we have been brought back into relationship with God and we can be at peace in our souls. What God says about us is what matters. It is the starting point of every thought, decision and action we take in this life. With the grace of God through Jesus as our foundation we can grow up by the Spirit to be more like our Father. His Truth will set us free!
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 NKJV
We Sit in the Atmosphere of God’s Perfect Love
God was gracious to me and allowed me to experience what God’s love feels like in this beautiful dream. God’s love is indescribable!!! The simplest way I can describe His love is that it feels like what we imagine Heaven to be like.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3b:17-19 NIV
God’s love is free of sin, shame, fear, sickness, demonization, darkness, pain, anxiety, stress, inferiority, confusion, terror and every evil thing! His love is His Presence, and He fills us with supernatural love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, a sound mind and every good thing. God wants us to exchange the effects of the kingdom of darkness with His extravagant love. We do that in counseling sessions with the Holy Spirit– alone with God. And sometimes He frees us when we meet with the Body of Christ and seek His presence. The perfect love of God drives out all fear.
The Heavenly Realms
When I said yes to Jesus in the beautiful dream, He touched me, all evil left and Heaven saturated my whole being. The darkness outside remained the same, but inside I was pure and full of light and love.
The Bible says that the moment we say yes to Jesus, we are born again and become one with God. He gives us His Spirit to help us combat the devil and the kingdom of darkness. But if we don’t stay alert by paying attention to the Holy Spirit, we can allow the lies of the enemy to take root in our lives. We have been given a wonderful gift as the Bride of Christ– the grace to be seated with God in the heavenly realms of the Spirit until the day He calls us Home to Heaven! Let us not be caught daydreaming when Jesus comes again!
Raised to Life!
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us,God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:4-10 NIV
Be Seated
I pray that you will step into a new realm with God—the realm of the supernatural, powerful and transformational Love of God in the Spirit. May you be overwhelmed by the goodness of our God and the extravagant Love He has for you. May the fellowship we have with Him and one another, seated together at His Table in the heavenly realms transform us daily by His amazing grace! And may our hearts be filled with the love of the Father for those who have not met Jesus. Spread the Good News!
You have been given a place of honor at God’s Table—next to the Father’s heart, across from Jesus, and lead by the beautiful and powerful Holy Spirit. We are living in the end times so let us pay attention to Him. More than ever before, Holy Spirit is now saying to the Bride of Christ, “Be Seated.”
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