(Recap.) God still speaks to us in our dreams at times, and if we are listening. I’m not talking about actually hearing him speaking, but rather having a dream, waking up, and KNOWING without a doubt of its origin. It’s not something you looked for. It was just there and when you wake up, and you know ~without a doubt~ that God has spoken to you. The dreams are also unusually vivid and real.
Here is the second of two dreams that I had. Again this dream came to me directly in response to an unusually deep, faithful, prayer I made to God the night before about something very trying in my life. The dream I have written out here, I careful wrote down right after I woke up from it.
September 18, 2006
I was on a flat cliff with a rocky edge and scattered plants. A large arched stone gate with no walls on either side and raised iron bars sat randomly on the west edge of the cliff. Far below, a weightless walkway coming in from the southeast from a place behind the rocks led to a castle in the sky, but the castle could not be seen. Only its towers and bits of the outer wall were visible through the clouds. The towers were seven times wider and loomed seven times higher than any built by man, towering even above the clouds. Whisping clouds surrounded everything, but the castle still loomed out of the sky. Only sky could be seen beyond the castle. It was a sunny day and the bright warm rays lit up the moving clouds, glared in my eyes, and warmed the stones of the castle with light. I stood at the edge of the cliff surrounded by my friends. With undoubting faith, I stepped out onto one of the clouds which was not there prior, but rather instantly appeared below me, saving me from an otherwise certain death. I departed from the cliff and the cloud slowly but swiftly descended upon the castle - the Kingdom of God. As I neared, I was overwhelmed with the joy of the Holy Spirit and I said my last loves to my friends on light breathes. Just as I neared the castle, I awoke to the sound of my roommate’s alarm, for it was not yet my time to see God’s Kingdom. I wrote out my vision and I was also filled with this thought: “Place God first always and think of others less fortunate and unknowing.”
This was one of the most amazing experiences in my life. An amazing joy on a level that I had never experienced before. The images in my dream were also some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Words cannot come close to describing it. My spirit has been forever changed. I speak here not with intent to boast, nor in denial of my many shortcomings, but rather merely to make known what I feel that I am pressed to share, that it might be an encouragement for others as it was for me.
“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” -- (James 1:2-8)
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