I will continue to ride the wave of last week, because after asking a few questions here and there to see how the last posting was understood, I felt it was necessary to deepen it.
Dreams are never trivial. They may have three origins: our own thoughts and concerns, the enemy of our souls or the Lord. Indeed, the book of Job teaches that while we sleep, God speaks to us in one way or the other, by dreams and visions of the night, but we do not pay attention to it (Job 33.14-15). In the latter case, the dream is a way that God uses to show us what He is actually doing or what He wants/ will do in the field of our lives. It is a vision of the building that He is erecting; and our collaboration is essential for the work to be completed. Indeed, “We are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.” (1Co 3:9) Other versions say, “We are labourers together with God.”
When this is understood, we also understand that the harvest (of our blessings) is ready and plentiful (hence the dream), but there are few labourers available to harvest in our field (they are busy harvesting in theirs); and so, we don’t hesitate to take the plunge and do our part: we labour WITH God before asking Him to send more workers in (Lk 10:2).
Imagine you are a civil servant somewhere in Africa, and you dream that someone with whom you’ve been angry for some time has come to see you and the visit went well. Then, you took your BMW and drove to a big shop selling furniture mainly imported from China, and which obviously belonged to you. And after that, when you went back home, you noticed that you were swimming in glory – so to speak. A few details of the dream like your face and that of the visitor, gave you an indication that these things were probably going to happen soon.
This dream reveals that from the civil servant that you are, God will make you a businessman or woman. You will become independent, have a successful career in furniture and will be importing from China. God’s part here is to create opportunities for you and give you favour with men; so that doors open before you and success and prosperity follow your endeavours. It is God who will show you the kind of furniture to buy, help you meet the right people in China, facilitate the necessary administrative procedures etc. However, you also have your part to do for this GREAT harvest to be reaped quickly.
1) Reconcile with the person you saw: you cannot be blessed if you do not forgive or ask for forgiveness; Jesus Himself taught this in the Gospels. Through this dream, God is telling you, 'Here is what I want to do for you; but there is this obstacle: remove it.' You can decide to wait until the person comes to you instead of you making the first step. But aside from the fact that it is unscriptural (Mat 5:23-24), it will make you lose time. Indeed, God will not move until the problem is settled; and if the person does not show up before a year or 2...
2) Gather information about the furniture trade and use your savings to go buy some in China, knowing that God is with you in EVERYTHING you do according to His will (revealed in the dream). If your savings are not enough, pray that God shows you what you can do alongside your civil servant work to generate funds for the furniture business. You can also request to be laid off and use the severance pay to finance the vision.
3) Change cars and buy the BMW that you can afford. It is not necessary to wait until you have the store and the rest before buying a BMW.
To do so is to demonstrate by works that we really BELIEVE that God has spoken and that we have complete faith in what He has said. It is actually putting a stone to the edifice that God is building… in our lives. And it is aligning the heavens and the earth and allowing the will of God to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
If we remain seated with 'faith' that through our fervent prayers and fasting, God will manage to touch the heart of the person with whom we are not on speaking terms for her to come to us; that He will find a way to send us to China and sit us as the top of a big store, we will never walk in the glory foreseen because we would have left a reap and bountiful harvest, OUR harvest, rot in the fields.
What I say for dreams applies to any prophetic revelation. If God shows you that X is sinning or crying in a vision, you do not get up to go tell them or tell it to Y and Z; instead, you must ask the Lord what He wants YOU TO DO with what He has shown you: you must collaborate (co-labour) with Him.
If a servant of God gives a word of prophecy, go to the Lord and find out what is your responsibility towards what has been announced. Don’t just say ‘Amen’ and go lie down waiting for the manna to fall from heaven. And by the way, remember that when manna fell in the desert, the Israelites had to go gather it and prepare it: they had their role to play in that harvest.
Go back to all the messages that you have received from God through dreams and visions or else (hence the importance of writing them down) like Mary who treasured all the things that the angel had told her and pondered them in her heart. Then, truly become God’s fellow worker in this business. Put yourself to work and do your part diligently, so that nothing rots in your field and you enjoy your harvest more quickly.
God bless you!
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