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Three Dreams

Three Dreams

31 May 2014

During the first half of this year, I have had three dreams, which I now believe are a prophetic trilogy.
 
(1)   I dreamt that I was in a meeting, crying out, "Get out of the building, or go down on your faces!"
 
Upcoming outpourings of the Holy Spirit are going to bring a renewed emphasis on the holiness of God...especially so far as His "other-ness" is concerned.  Usually when Christians consider the Lord's holiness, it is only in terms of His moral perfection.  But when we say that He is, "Holy, holy, holy!" (Rev 4.8), we are also affirming equally that He is completely and totally and absolutely "other" and infinitely different to us.
 
"To whom then, will you compare God?" (Isa 40.18)
 
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways my ways." (Isa 55.8)
 
So God is not predictable, as human beings understand that word.  He is faithful, but,
 
"How unsearchable his judgements, and his paths beyond tracing out." (Ro 11.33)
 
Neither is He prescribable.  The illustrious, Christian Apologist, C.S. Lewis has said that God is "not safe"!  Any Believer who anticipates that national, Last Days' revival is going to be anything other than a "wild ride", and "off the rails", has failed to do their Biblical, theological and history "homework".
 
(2)   I dreamt I was in a meeting, conducted by today's "leadership" generation...in their 40s.  All were praying in tongues.  As I prayed more and more loudly, the rest became quieter.  Then I prophesied, "A move of the power of God is coming, beyond all of our words and phrases and descriptions and paradigms."  I continued to try to prophesy, but had no further vocabulary up to the task.
 
There are two words used in the NT to described God's power...(dunamis) "dynamic ability", and (exousia) "sovereign right"!  In future revivals, I anticipate that Christians will be able to maintain their equilibrium, by accepting being repeatedly knocked off balance by the Holy Spirit's sovereign determinations, timings and choices.
 
"Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power (exousia) to throw you into hell." (Lk 12.5)
 
God "worketh all things after the counsel of his own will." (Eph 1.11)
 
(3)   I dreamt that I was lying on the floor during a meeting, and water was bubbling up out of the ground.  I started to flick some of this water out over the congregation.  Every person splashed was instantly healed.  As this was happening, some people in the meeting began to yell out at me, "You can't do that!  You can't do that!"
 
This really is a picture of "upside-down" church.  The preacher is down on the floor (humbled), not up (exalted) on the podium.  The anointing is bubbling up (unexpectedly), not falling down (predictably).  Nevertheless, God is in fact being God, and people are being saved and made whole.  But even in the face of incontrovertible evidence, some are reacting negatively?
 
Getting ready for revival means humbling (lowering) ourselves, and preparing for God to be completely and utterly and totally God...in Himself, His choices, decisions and actions.
 
"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promises and not fulfill?  I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it." (Nu 23.19-20)
 
"God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM.' " (Ex 3.14)
 
 
(This message, "Preparing For The Holiness of God" - April 27 -  can be heard in its totality at www.hopetauranga.org.nz/podcast/)