The enemy sets up camp

Recently, one night I saw a dream wherein the enemy was setting up camp in a city. There were no specifics revealed as to who they were or which place it was, but the dream continued for a long time. I saw how they dug trenches, built fortifications and set up their weaponry. Most of it was an aerial view so I could see clearly that it was an elaborate process and their plan was to kill and to destroy.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit may not give us any specifics of where and who, but only wants us to pray that the plans of the enemy may crash and be shattered.

God is seeking believers and ministers who will pray and intercede according to his desires. Will you volunteer to be one of them? If you are already an intercessor, stay true to your Savior.

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God refreshes the weary

A minister and his family joined the church that I used to minister in. He and his wife were at crossroads in their ministry having given up a house church because of local opposition. They had quite a few believers in their house church who were directed to join other churches. Their passion for Christ had been blunted by the recent happenings in their life. A few days after they joined the church that I ministered in, one night I had a dream about them...The minister and his wife  were standing by a river dismayed and confused, not knowing what to do. After a while they decide to swim in the river and soon their countenance changed; they were refreshed and rejuvenated and had joyous faces as they came out of the waters.

God, here was showing, how joining the new worship and being filled with the Holy Spirit, would refresh and rejuvenate their lives, which at present was dull and dreary.

They went on from strength to strength as they attended this new worship and in God's good time he went on to minister to the congregation and even become the local Pastor.

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31:25)


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Perseverance

I usually record my daily audio messages on a recorder and then transfer it to my laptop for editing and mixing. Recently I recorded an audio message with perseverance as the theme  and accidentally deleted it while transferring it from my recorder to my laptop. I wondered for a while as to what was to be done, whether I should re-record it or not, whether to skip sending the message that day or record it at a later date and while contemplating these things, I heard the still small voice in me say, "Persevere". I was not very enthusiastic when I heard that but gave in to the voice and redid the whole message.

Perseverance (persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success) pays off on the long run and especially in Christian ministry, one needs to persevere, because that's the path our Savior chose to walk. He persevered despite adversaries and adversities and achieved the goal that his Father had set for him to achieve- Salvation for mankind.

Christian ministry has its ups and downs, the mountains and the valleys experiences, (not as projected on TV with some preaching only blessings or the mountain experiences). The valley experiences bring discouragement, depression and frustration and it can last a while, but as ministers we need to persevere to achieve whatever goal God Almighty has set for each of us to achieve. The Holy Spirit of God, as our Counsellor, will help us in this matter.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1, 2)

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Grumbling

There are times when I complain and grumble while I speak to God. It happened sometime back when I was passing through difficult times as someone related to us as a family was troubling us much with his words and deeds. As a family, we had been praying to God for easing the situation but to no avail. Thus the grumbling for God's delay in answering our prayers.

The grumbling was while I traveled back home after my morning session at the clinic. That afternoon as I took a short nap, I saw a dream in which I was in my consulting room and a patient who stood near me suddenly collapsed and fell to the ground. As the dream ended, I was frantically calling for help from the support staff. When I woke up, I prayed fervently that nothing I saw in the dream may actually happen at my work place.

When I reached the clinic, a patient who was waiting to see me came in and told me that he had suffered an allergic reaction to some medications I had prescribed the previous day. At night, he had to be taken to the emergency unit of the local hospital and was given injections and medicines to get rid of the allergy. He said he had endured a difficult night, but was better now. I remembered the dream while he spoke to me and prayed another prayer in my mind.

I examined him for any lingering allergy and seeing that he was good, I sent him away assuring him that he would do fine.

The dream, the problem the patient endured and me...............what was all this about?

It was just God telling me to stop grumbling........He had been working faithfully while I was sleeping well the previous night....the problem could have been worse with the patient as I saw in the dream, but the restraining hand of God was helping me as well as the patient.

Sometimes we grumble, as the Israelites did in the wilderness, though we experience God's faithfulness day in and day out. They had the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire everyday and the manna too, yet they grumbled.

We must realize that God is continually working on behalf of his children whether we see it or not.
As Jesus said, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working." (John 5:17)

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Luck

In a dream that I saw sometime back, I and my younger daughter are attending a lucky draw (which we hardly ever do) with many exciting prizes to be won. We wait expectantly for our numbers to be called, but other numbers are called and the winners boast about the trophies and prizes they receive saying that luck favored them. This goes on for sometime and then we look at each other and walk away from the place coming to a realization and speaking to each other, that what people speak of as luck is not for us and that as believers in Jesus Christ everything that we get in our lives is given by God either as wages for the jobs or work that we do or as good gifts from our merciful Father in heaven.

James writes in his epistle,
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (James 1:17)

Some Christians justify their stance of playing games of chances frittering away their money and time, by quoting a verse from Ecclesiastes which says,
"I returned and saw under the sun that: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all." (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

 But as believers in Jesus Christ, we must realize that for us, every blessing that we receive, whether monetary or otherwise is a gift from our loving Heavenly Father because we have put our trust in his son Jesus Christ. Luck has nothing to do with anything that you may even win in a thing that the world calls a lucky draw.

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Prior Warning To Pray & Avert Sickness

A couple who used to earlier worship with us had a beautiful girl child. They were born again believers, standing true to Jesus in their faith, involved in Bible study, prayer and worship. One night I saw a dream where I saw myself speaking to this family about spiritual matters and as I observed, they had another young infant with them now. He was in his father's hands, but had an abnormally large head, a condition medically termed hydrocephalus. The dream lingered for a while as I kept looking at the infant and then it faded.

This was a warning from the Lord to pray that the next child that would be born to this family may not have this serious illness. I informed the couple of the same and we prayed together for the matter, that nothing adverse as seen in the dream may happen when they had another child in the future.

God loves his children and cares for them and through his Holy Spirit makes known to them things that yet remain hidden in the future. Jesus said, 
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. (John 16:13, 14)

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A need for cleansing

In a dream, I saw myself standing under a running water shower and explaining to an young evangelist, how God desired that he cleansed himself of the unrighteousness in his life. The running water shower with which I was being bathed here represented the Word of God.

We may do many things for God and his kingdom, but sometimes forget to cleanse ourselves and live close to God. What matters to God is holiness, without which the Bible says, no one will see God.

A few verses regarding this matter goes in this manner.....
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:25-27)

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy." (1 Peter 1:13-16)

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Thiefs

In a dream  I saw some time back, I saw myself warning an young evangelist of how other Christians would use his works, especially the songs that he penned, with their names on it. When I called up the young man and told him of the dream, he told me that many people had already done that when he had published his first song. That had troubled him and he had questioned them who had done so, but he also said that, now he no longer bothered about such things, because even if they had done so, it would only take his work farther and bring glory to God.

I have experienced the same on a few occasions when I send out Christian devotionals on the web. There was a guy who used to send me back the same devotionals with his name typed underneath. It troubled me initially and I confronted him by email, but he did not seem to bother to reply and kept doing the same for a while. God must have dealt with him, for after a while he stopped. 

Anyway, we can learn a few things from Paul the Apostle who wrote regarding such things to the believers in Philippi.....Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. (Philippians 1:15-18)

God's divine protection

In a dream that I saw in September 2015, I am seated in a vehicle that resembles a inflated circular seat and my father is sitting next to me. Suddenly the vehicle takes off in to the air at great speed and as we rise upwards to a great height, I look down at the buildings and the other things on the ground. A strange fear grips me as we ascend and the vehicle swirls in the wind; we seem to be travelling to a far off land which resembles an island as we approach it. I fear that we will not make it to the place and perhaps I would fall down from my seat and perish before we reach our destination. But as I look to my left side, I see my father's left arm enveloping me and holding me in such a way that I would not fall. The dream ended with us landing at where we were heading.

This was another dream where God affirmed that his loving arms are always enveloping me when I pass through difficult times in my life. Will I get through/will I make it?, is often a question that arises in my heart when I go through such times, but God has been faithful every single time and His promise to never leave and never forsake stands true. In the dream, God the father was represented by my own earthly father as it has been in many other dreams that I have seen.

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms..... (Deuteronomy 33:27)

Jealousy

Even ministers of God are sometimes jealous when other ministers are blessed by God Almighty in the projects that they undertake. Once when we had released a new Christian song album, I presented a free copy to a minister of another Church, who was an acquaintance. He was friendly whenever we met and we spoke of ministry matters often.
When I gifted him the copy, he was surprised that we were in to music ministry and even more surprised when I told him that we were recording songs for more than 10 years and that this was our 10th album. When we met on a couple of occasions later, he would just say a greeting and walk away.
One night, as I slept, I had a dream wherein I was walking in a corridor and saw this minister standing in priestly robes talking to a young woman. As I approached them, he avoided looking at me and kept talking to the woman. I passed by and as I walked away I knew in my spirit that he was purposely avoiding me because of pride and jealousy in his heart for I had achieved something that he could not.
The Bible says, "Jealousy is as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire; a most vehement flame. (Song of Solomon 8:6)