I have always been kind of skeptical about the Lord speaking through dreams. Always seemed a bit charismatic for me. The only dreams I ever experienced seemed like attacks. They would always press buttons that opened up old wounds or created fear in me. A couple days ago I was humbled by, what I feel is the Lord showing me that I have been a bit blind. I received affirmation through a dream that I believe is crystal clear, and just what I needed at the time.
In my dream I was coming home from work and I walked into my apartment. I sat my keys on the counter and then realized that everything in my home had been rearranged. There were pictures turned sideways and in odd arrangements. The furniture was placed in weird spots and nothing seemed comfortable to right. I started to rearrange things back to normal, trying to get a grasp on why everything was moved. Then I turn and sitting on my couch was a person from my past. A relationship that ended and wounded my heart so deeply I thought I would never heal. I stopped dead in my tracks.
This person proceeded to tell me that I shouldn’t change things back. That they had moved everything around to the way it should be and I should feel at home here because it is what I like. What I should like. I listened to all the justifications of why things were moved and changed and all of a sudden I stopped them and yelled “ I don’t want to go back! This is what I like, this is who I am so please leave!” And that is when I woke up. Instead of waking up feeling defeated or upset I woke up empowered and affirmed. I felt free.
Although healing has happened since that relationship ruled my life, it has been a continual battle to run from the life that I was living. Doing whatever I wanted no matter who it hurt. Hurting myself because of poor choices. Running from the people….the God….who cares for me most. I am a totally different person now. In a totally different world than I was. So this dream, was a declaration of freedom for me. An affirmation that I am where I am suppose to be, striving to be the man I am suppose to be. Obedience has set me free!
So, from a skeptic of dreams to a believer in them I want to share this joy with my readers. I feel like the Power of dreams is taken for granted and over looked too often. I pray you too get to experience this awesome way that the Lord speaks to us; his children, and the freedom and direction it can bring.
