In this dream, a large group of women (including myself) were in our familiar place, doing familiar things when suddenly, Jesus appeared in our midst and asked us to leave our familiar life behind to travel to a new destination that He had chosen for us. Some of us were willing to go to this new destination, but most did not want to leave their familiar place and familiar things.
Those of us who were willing then gathered around Jesus to receive instructions for how He wanted us to travel to the new destination. His instructions were as follows:
- He wanted all of us to walk on a certain path and He did not want us to leave that path for any reason.
- He wanted each of us to rely on Him for help, strength and guidance throughout the journey; therefore, He did not want us to physically support or carry one another, although we were allowed to encourage each other.
- He did not want us to compete with each other along the way.
- He wanted us to keep moving forward toward our new destination no matter what we may encounter.
- He did not want us to compare our progress with that of others.
- He did not want us to use any shortcut or any means of transportation in order to make our journey shorter or easier.
After Jesus finished giving us these instructions, He told us to be ready to leave by a certain time. We were hoping Jesus would tell us what we should do to get ready, but He did not. Instead, He let us decide that for ourselves.
We were also hoping that Jesus would tell us how far we would have to travel and how long it would take to reach our new destination, but He did not. Nor would He tell us anything about the new destination other than, that we would recognize it when we saw it.
While I was getting myself ready, I noticed a woman filling a large, accordion-style file box with documents she intended to take with her on the journey because she believed these documents contained knowledge that would be necessary and useful at the new destination. However, I sensed that if she took these documents with her, they would become a stumbling block that could prevent her from reaching the destination. But I did not say anything to her because the decision was entirely hers to make.
When the appointed time came for our departure, Jesus led us to the path that He had chosen. Then He pointed us in the direction of our new destination and sent us off with His blessing. As we began to walk along the path, we all assumed that the new destination could not be very far away, otherwise Jesus would never have expected us to walk there. Because of this, we tried to walk as fast as we could, hoping to get there as soon as possible. Before long, it felt like we were in a competition to see who would reach the new destination first. But then, I remembered that Jesus did not want us to compete with each other. Therefore, I decided to walk at a normal pace and focus on the path ahead.
I soon discovered that this path was leading us gradually and continuously upward. After walking along the path for quite a while, I became weary and a little weak, so I stopped and sat down on the ground to rest. But stopping to rest did not renew my strength. Instead, I became even more weary and weak. So I tried to stand up, but by then I had become so weak that I no longer had enough strength to stand on my feet. For a while, I just sat there on the ground, feeling frightened and confused. But then, I remembered that Jesus wanted us to keep moving forward no matter what. This made me realize that I disobeyed the Lord by stopping to rest, so I asked Him to forgive me. I really wanted to obey the Lord, but I didn’t know how to keep going when I was so weary and weak. After pondering this dilemma for a little while, I came to realize that I should have asked Jesus for the strength to keep moving forward. So, I asked Him to give me the strength to keep walking along the path, but He did not. Instead, He gave me the idea of crawling along the path. I did not like that idea at all, but I was certain that Jesus wanted me to crawl. Therefore, I pulled myself up onto my hands and knees and asked the Lord for the strength to crawl. Then I began to crawl forward along the upward path.
Jesus did give me the strength to crawl, which helped me to keep going. However, when other women walked by, they looked down on me in such a way that l felt humiliated. I also felt inferior to them because they could walk and I could not. This tempted me to compare my progress with theirs. But then, I remembered that Jesus did not want us to compare our progress with that of others. Therefore, I resisted this temptation and continued to crawl along the upward path.
Crawling slowed my progress considerably, but at least I was making some progress. After crawling along the path for a while, I saw a woman suddenly speed by me riding on a bicycle. Then, a little while later, I noticed a small bicycle rolling along beside me on its own, with no one riding it. I wondered if it belonged to someone, so I called out to another woman who was nearby and asked if she knew who owned that bicycle, but she did not. The little bike kept rolling along beside me, tempting me to hop on and ride it. But then, I remembered that Jesus did not want us to use any means of transportation to make our journey shorter or easier. Therefore, I resisted this temptation and ignored the little bike as I continued to crawl along the upward path.
Crawling also made my journey much more difficult, especially when I encountered obstacles along the path. Sometimes, I had to crawl past thorn bushes that scratched my face and arms, and my hands and knees were scraped and sore from having to crawl over rocks. However, I was determined not to stop again. So on and on I crawled, although I still couldn’t understand why Jesus would want me to crawl. Then one day, I began to realize that I was learning some very valuable lessons down on my knees.
When I first had to crawl on the ground while others were walking all around me, the humiliation I felt revealed the pride I had in my natural abilities. And the inferiority I felt because others could walk when I could not revealed the insecurity that was in my heart. Then, because having to crawl on the ground so severely limited my ability to move about and to see where I was going, I learned to humbled myself and ask Jesus for help, strength and guidance. And as the Lord helped me to keep crawling along the upward path, I gradually learned that natural strength, natural knowledge and natural abilities would never be sufficient to help me reach my new destination. However, I also learned that God’s grace IS sufficient to help me, for His power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). And by the grace of God, I eventually learned to rely on Jesus for help, strength and guidance.
The longer I had to crawl, the more I learned. I learned to surrender my life to Him and die daily to my selfish, willful ways. I learned to patiently endure suffering and hardship. I learned to persevere in faith and not give up. And I learned even more. I learned that God is always with me; I learned that God is always trustworthy; I learned that God is always faithful, and I learned that God loves me for who I am, not for what I can do. And the more I learned, the more my faith and trust in God and my love for Him grew as I continued to slowly crawl along the upward path toward my new destination.
One day, after crawling along the path for what seemed like a very long time, a faithful traveler, who was just ahead of me on the path, suddenly began jumping for joy and dancing with great energy and strength. Then suddenly, she was no longer dressed in her dirty travelling clothes. Instead, she was clothed in a pure white, beautifully embroidered gown and an equally beautiful, white embroidered scarf was covering her head. Somehow, she had just been transformed into the most vibrant, joyful, beautiful woman I had ever seen! Then, with a shout of joy, she ran up the path and disappeared from sight.
As I continued crawling along the upward path, I was so amazed by the transformation of this woman that I made a comment regarding her extraordinary beauty to other women who were nearby, but they misunderstood my comment. They thought I was sarcastically mocking her because I was envious of her. On the contrary, I was very happy for her. I tried to explain this to these women, but they did not believe me. And this made me realize that they, themselves had become envious of her because they had been comparing their progress with hers. But because I had already learned not to do this, I was not at all envious of the woman who had just been transformed. In fact, I felt very happy and blessed to be able to witness her transformation, and it was such a great encouragement to me that it increased my faith and determination to keep going.
I didn’t have to crawl much farther up the path before a sudden burst of strength and energy surged through me, causing me to jump up onto my feet and shout for joy. Another woman nearby also jumped and shouted for joy at the same time as I did. I looked at her, then at myself and realized that we had also been transformed. Both of us were now clothed in a beautiful white gown with an equally beautiful white scarf covering our heads. And somehow, our view of everything around us had suddenly and drastically changed. Before, I could barely see beyond the next step in front of me on the path. But now, I had a new and much higher perspective that enabled me to see above and beyond the world around me. Then we looked up the path and saw a large stone building situated in a light-filled clearing just above us, and we immediately recognized it as our new destination. When we saw that we were almost there, we shouted for joy and began running up the path toward it.
I arrived at the new destination just before the other woman and found myself standing in front of a very large, beautiful stone house that had stone steps leading up to a wide stone porch. Then I ran up the steps onto the porch and stood in front of a large, ornate wood door. As soon as I saw that there was no lock on the door, I knew that I had been given free access to this house because I had learned to give God free access to my heart on the path of transformation.
So I opened the door, stepped inside and found myself standing in a massive room that looked like it had been prepared for our arrival. On the left side of the room stood a very long, ornate wood dining table with many chairs placed around it. The table was covered with a pure white tablecloth and each place was set with glistening white dishes, white drinking glasses, white napkins and pure silver cutlery.
On the right side of the room, at the far end, I noticed a very large, beautifully carved door that was at least the size of a double garage door. As soon as I saw it, I somehow knew that this door would remain closed until an appointed time, and then the Lord would open the door and send us out to do His will. This reminded me of what the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 16:9-11, “For a wide door for effective work has opened to me…”
The walls and floor of the room were made of large slabs of uncut stone that was unlike anything I had ever seen on the earth. As I stood there gazing at everything around me, a few other women entered the building and were standing near me, looking around the room.
Then, a tall, regal looking woman entered the room from a doorway located on the opposite side from where we were standing. We watched her walk over to the dining table and placed a few things on the table. It seemed like preparations were still being made, so I asked her if we had arrived too early. She looked at me and smiled, and then said, “Watch my back.” That prompted me to walk over to the table and look closely at everything that was on it. I noticed that one knife at one place setting was a little smudged, so I picked up the knife and showed it to the woman. She then took the knife from me and replaced it with a new, shiny knife. That is when I understood that she wanted me to be ready to assist her because many more would arrive at the new destination in the days to come.
Our new destination was so beautiful and unlike anything we had ever seen before that I couldn’t help but wonder if we were in Heaven and if this table was being prepared for the marriage supper of the Lamb. However, Jesus told me that we were still on the Earth, but we had arrived at a new and higher spiritual place of preparation wherein we would learn to live in the intimate fellowship, unity and oneness that He had prayed for in John 17:20-25,
“…That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
END OF DREAM
Comments:
For those who are wondering why there were no men in this dream other than Jesus, it was only because the Lord used women to represent those who are called to become the Bride of Christ, which includes every Christian.
All over the earth, there are many men and women who have been Christians for a long time, and yet they are more in love with the world than they are with God. But God will never be satisfied with that, so He has been lovingly and patiently trying to wake Christians up, grow them up and bring them into alignment with His heart and with His will. However, for too long many have been ignoring the gentle wooing of the Lord. Therefore, God began to use a stronger means of awakening. Though God did not create the Covid-19 pandemic, He has allowed it to use it for His own purposes. This has caused some Christians to wake up, but many still want their lives to go back to normal. However, God does not want that because our so called, ‘normal’ way of life and our ‘normal’ Christianity is what has lulled much of the Church into a spiritual sleep that has been turning the hearts of many Christians away from Him.
What God does want is for Christians to love Him and His Son enough to be willing to leave their normal, familiar life behind and follow the narrow path of transformation.. But many have not been willing to travel this path and of the few who have, some have tried to do it their own way, which can never produce the pure, spotless, mature Bride that Jesus is longing for. Therefore, God is now shaking everything that can be shaken (see Hebrews 12:27) both in His Church and in the world so that every Christian will awaken and see the true condition of their hearts. Even then, will they choose to surrender all and follow Jesus up the mountain of the Lord on the narrow path of transformation?
The apostle Paul spoke of this path in Philippians 3:7-14 when he said, “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
For those who do choose this path, the cost will be great and the journey will be difficult, but the prize will be well worth it because Jesus will lead us every step of the way, lovingly guiding us “…until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity]” (Ephesians 4:13 AMP).
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