Dream 628 – Give All of Your Burdens to the Lord
Received on Sunday, August 21, 2022
Communion
Dear Father,
You are wonderful in majesty and glory! You are perfect in love. Your capacity to love the unlovable is beyond our abilities to comprehend. You are with us still and You are greater in us than he who is in this world. I am thankful to You, Father, for loving us beyond our human earthly selves here. There is something great that You know and understand about us because You created us.
You know what each of our stories are because You created us. When You say You have a plan for us in Jeremiah 29:11, we can know that it is truth and can believe it. You have plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans for hope and a future.
This made me look at the promises in Your Word in a fresh and new way. In my first days at church, they taught that prospering meant material and financial success. As for today, we have been under great spiritual attacks over the last two weeks. I have been so sad that I have been brought to my knees.
At times, I am both disappointed and disheartened. This all culminated in a type of heartache as I was cleaning up flood waters in our basement at 2:00am. I was already not feeling the greatest. I was dialoging with the Lord over my situation and I was upset. I recited Jeremiah 29:11 to the Lord.
Me: “Lord, are You mad at me? We must have a spiritual breach in the house as it can’t be just the physical. I bring to You a reminder that Your plans are to prosper me and give us hope and a future.”
Jesus: “Sure, on the surface and as you read this, it is true. However, perhaps revisit what I have said about the hour being very late and that I rebuke those I love. I love you.”
I then went into prayer and looked over my week. Was there something I needed to repent for? I am always discovering this or that. As for this week, I really had very little interaction with anyone. I was under attack, but I didn’t engage. I purposely did not engage even when goaded. All the signs were here of an attack from every area. Still, I couldn’t find any breach. As with our flooding, I knew why it was flooding and where it was coming from.
For the last two weeks, I have had a deep excruciating pain at the right-side base of my neck to shoulder and down my arm. It is impossible to write or keep it in one place before the pain is so unbearable it brings me to tears. I have been off of my technology because my head can’t bend forward without severe arm pain. It has been an extremely rough time.
On Friday, we drove to a massive flea market. It was my son’s 23rd birthday on Saturday and he requested that we road trip there. My husband and my older son were out of their element and it was overwhelming for them. There was something different about this flea market. I sensed an atmosphere of despair and desperation. It was a fulfillment of the beginning of the dreams that the Lord gave me almost nine years ago of a time ahead.
Well, here we are. There were open markets of people selling all that they had. When I spoke to a few people, they claimed they were selling the estate of their family member who had passed from Covid. It was very much a ‘name your price’ kind of scenario. The ratio of sketchy sellers to normal sellers was about 80 / 20 here. At a normal flea market, this ratio is usually around 30 / 70, a lot more normal.
My kids ‘in the know’ said that there were many fakes in the Funko-pop collectibles there. Still, my daughter found a beautiful vintage picnic basket with leather buckles and red-checkered fabric lining. She was excited. I also found something that excited me. It was a stitch sampler that was framed with the following saying…
“I said to a man who stood at the Gate of the Year, Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God, that shall be to you better than light, and safer, than the known way. From the King’s Message – 25 Dec 1939”
Me: “I love this framed saying. How much?”
Woman: “$12. Almost all you see here is from my deceased uncle’s estate. He died of Covid recently.”
Me: “Sure. Done.” Even though it was a hot day, a refreshing cool breeze then passed through her booth. “Whoa, you have the best booth and a miraculous cool breeze.”
Woman: “God’s favor is upon us here.”
Me: “Yes, definitely it is.”
As I walked away, I realized that this woman’s booth was the only booth where I had felt God’s presence. Later on, as we drove away from the flea market, I decided to do a little study on the meaning of ‘Prosper’.
“The meaning of Prosper – deeper than material. Flourish physically. Grow strong and healthy. Being successful. The Greek meaning means ‘to help on the road’ or ‘succeed in reaching’.”
Interestingly, this was from an article from the Tri-Cities Herald where I used to live in Washington State during my ‘desert period’. When I reflected on the King’s Message, specifically the part of the Gate of the Year, I dialoged with the Lord again…
Me: “Lord, are we at the Gate of the Year of our Lord?”
Jesus: “Erin, the hour is very late!”
He said this with emphasis on the words ‘very late’! This made me feel that ‘The King’s Message’ was written for us and for this very time we are now in. This fit in with the dream I had last night…
Sub-Dream 1 “Turning Back towards the Battles” begins…
I approached a gate of iron. The gate was caked with oil and sludge. Next to this dirty gate was a beautiful gate right on my path. It was nighttime. There was no moon. There were only stars to illuminate my path. I could hear distant thunder approaching. I suddenly realized that it wasn’t thunder. Instead, it was a battle or war approaching. I knew the beautiful gate had been put there by the Lord for my escape.
Me: “Oh Lord, please open this beautiful gate. I want to leave this place and move onward.”
As the hours passed and I had sat there in darkness, it became lighter as dawn approached. I then prayed again.
Me: “Oh Lord, thank You for the break of morning!”
I now heard birds instead of the sounds of raging battles. The sun then broke over the horizon. The distant hills were now illuminated in sunlight. Just as the terrain lit up, I heard the distinct sound of a lock turning. The beautiful gate was now open to me. While I bolted toward the gate at first, I suddenly stopped short of stepping through. While I was so excited to leave the place I was in, I began to cry.
Me: “Oh Lord, my heart is breaking for those behind me in the battle. I cannot step through. Oh Father, here I am, at the Gate of Heaven. While I long to be inside these Gates in the beautiful Land You prepared for us, I just can’t, in my heart, do this. Will You please prosper me here on Earth so that I might continue the good fight? I want to help You help the lost.”
I backed up and closed the beautiful Gate. I had made my decision.
Me: “Be with me, Lord. Fill me with Your strength. Heal me for Your Glory. I pray for this in Your Name, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen.”
I turned and began to run back toward the sound of the battle. As I ran, I felt strong and healed. I knew that He would use me in a mighty way. I no longer had any fear.
Sub-Dream 1 over…
I then decided to write out a poem that was written in 1908 as part of a collection titled ‘The Desert’!
“God knows
And I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God that shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way. So I went forth and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking day in the lone east.
So, heart be still
What need our little life, our human life, to know if God has comprehension? In all the dizzy strife of things both high and low. God hides His intentions. God knows His Will is best. The stretch of years which wind ahead, so dim to our imperfect vision, are clear to God! Our fears are premature; In Him, all time has full provision.
Then Rest
Until God moves to lift the veil from our impatient eyes, when, as the sweeter features of life’s stern face we hail, fair beyond all surmise, God’s thought around His creatures, our mind shall fill.”
Me: “Oh Father, let this be the Gate of the Year of Your Favor upon the nations. Please let it be the Year of Your Favor (Isaiah 61:1-3). Father, please let this be the Great Year of Liberation. Open the floodgates from Heaven. Let the horns sound from the mountain tops. Lord, bring in Your liberty!”
Jesus: “Erin, come up!”
He once again spoke to me while I sat in my devotional chair. His Voice was very clear.
Jesus: “Erin, I am here and I am with you. Remember that I rebuke those I love so you quickly turn from your course. Stop and come to Me. I do this with those I love when your path needs correction, understand? Now, when I say that the hour is very late, what is it that I am saying?”
Me: “Well, the hour is growing much closer than it was before.”
Jesus: “Yes. Those I have called for My service needs to be ready for what is very soon to come.”
Me: “How do we ready ourselves?”
Jesus: “Years ago, when your accident occurred, you had all the correct insurance papers and coverage. At the first level, it appeared you had more than enough. However, after the accident and upon further review, key disclaimers to your policy that diminished your ability to make your claim were discovered. You then felt betrayed by the system, a system that was supposed to be there to protect you.”
Me: “Yes, Lord. It was heartbreaking. This set up years of battles. In the end, I received very little. I then went bankrupt.”
Jesus: “Well, I have given you a New Contract. This Contract has no ‘fine print’. It is fully open and the writing is clear. These are the plans I have for you. I signed them and sealed them with My Signet Ring. It was approved by Me. However, what did I therefore require from you?”
Me: “To obey Your Commandments and love You with my whole heart, soul and strength.”
Jesus: “Have you done this?”
Me: “I thought I had been. Lord, I have been afraid. I have worried about various events that never have come to be.”
Jesus: “Okay, so let Me explain this. To love Me with your whole heart means that, no matter what comes, no matter what threat, no matter what imagination, if God is with you, then who is against you? If I am your King, your Groom, and you are My Bride, then won’t I stop anything from coming against you? Does this not mean any threat and by any means?”
Me: “Yes, Lord. I am so sorry. I am so, so sorry. My fear is so great. I worry about my upcoming trial, over provision, over my children and over looming health issues. It has been so long and I am tired. I am weary and my heart breaks. I pray and things don’t happen as I expect. I scramble to meet my 6:00pm Shabbat and I seem to fail every time. I am almost always late.”
Jesus: “Oh Erin, Shabbat rest is to be joyful. It is not a punishing stone. It is to be restful and relaxing. I am not the God of punishment. Erin, I don’t sit here with a clipboard marking down failures. I don’t shake My head and say ‘oops, there goes another blessing’. You think wrongly of Me. This is a heart issue. On the day of rest, you are to rest and not work.
“You are to spend this time in joy and thanksgiving, not in exhaustion and regret. You spend the first few hours saying ‘oh, I should have done this or I need to do this’. It is the same for the last few hours. You think ‘okay, so I need to do this or that by 6:00pm’. Do you see how this is not helpful?
“Now, when you don’t rest properly, then your next few days are filled with pain and unrest. This is because you did not rest fully for the allotted time. This is the battle you rage, Erin. Your healing starts here with Me at the Gates. I have your hand… now, turn and hold Mine. Erin, you can do this.”
Me: “I thought I had been resting, Lord. I am sorry. You are speaking the truth. I do this.”
Jesus: “Well, Erin, how about we start fresh? I have prepared you. Your heart is ready. However, when you are worried about various things that are not in your control, you are not fully trusting in Me. Trust Me. I am here. I am with you. The world brings troubles. However, you are to take heart as I have overcome the world.
“Erin, do not be afraid. The enemy looks for breeches in your walls so he can flood you with all of the bad fruits. However, I am the King, your Groom, who brings you good fruit. Remember that My yolk is easy and My burden is light. Can you give Me your cares, your worries and your struggles? I promise to make this light and your shoulder will not hurt.”
Me: “Oh yes, please, Lord. My arm hurts terribly.”
Jesus: “Well then, let Me take your cares.”
Me: “I will. I love You, Lord. Thank You for Your Grace and Your Love. Thank You for Your ‘not always’ gentle rebukes. Will You heal our walls from the flooding too?”
Jesus: “Yes, I will provide all you need. I am with you. I love you. I am over you, your family and your house. I am over your friends, their families and their houses. I am with you. Now, look at the Year of the Lord’s Favor through a different lens. Remember, eyes wide-open and with clear vision. You are My servants and My Spirit is upon you…
- You will bring Good News to the poor.
- You will bind up the broken-hearted.
- You will proclaim liberty to the captives.
- You will open the prison cells to those who are bound.
- You will proclaim the Year of My Favor and the Day of Vengeance.
- You will comfort all who mourn.
- You will turn headdresses of ashes into beautiful headdresses of joy.
- You will provide the oil of gladness.
- You will provide the garment of praise.
“You will do this, not in your power, but in Mine. This is a very good time, Erin. Rejoice as I am with you, now and forever.”
Dream over…
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