Dream 292 – An Angel encourages us to ‘trust Him a bit longer’
Received on Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Communion
Dear Father,
I do not want You to grow tired of me. One way I know for certain that You are greater than any man is because You put up with my constant pursuit. Why do I continue? Because I believe. I believe You are my Creator. I believe You are my Father. I believe You love me or You would have thrown out this piece of clay long ago.
I know You love me or You would have started fresh. I believe that You are God over all things on Earth as well as over Heaven above. You are the God of what we see and that which we cannot see. The telescopic realm is amazing, but so is the microscopic realm. You are the God over all of this as You are the Creator of all.
I find that writing today is a bit uncomfortable as my right arm has numbness and tingling. It could be a pinched nerve from yesterday’s long car ride. Father, the trip went well and I just know it was because of all of the prayers we received from our Nest family. Lord, please bless each one with abundance for their loyalty and faithfulness.
At this point, the doctor’s appointment yesterday did not reveal anything that we did not already know. However, and on a bright side, we now have two more tests authorized that should be able to give us our answers (if healing doesn’t come first, of course). Sadly, I just found out that I have a cataract starting to form in one of my eyes.
Father, I know that we have so many here on the Nest that love us and pray for us and that some are discouraged that I am not healed yet. Please grant them patience, along with me as I too grow impatient, as we await Your perfect ways and Your perfect timing. As You have told me before…Your ways are higher AND better than ours!
Oh Father, while I do not want to anger You nor do I want to have You grow tired of me, it actually hurts my heart to verbalize my pleas for healing yet again. I do not want to speak it nor do I want to see my pen write down the same sentences, the same prayer requests, over and over.
While perhaps You do not tire of me because You are God and You have infinite patience and an enduring heart, I am small and have very little patience left. Time is also a concern of mine now as time seems to be a luxury I cannot really afford any longer. Oh Father, You know my needs before I even ask for them.
Is it Your desire to have me go before the King as I am today? I am now a worn and battered bride and do not look at all like what I had seen in the mirror in Heaven recently. Oh Father, discouragement has now set in and deepens whenever I look at my children. They too have hoped for and prayed for Your miracles.
It is very possible, if not probable, that all of these tests, pains and heartaches are to create a grand paper trail of evidence of my current condition. Even though I ‘get it’, I still feel miserable from the ‘delays after delays after delays’. I know You promised to do so much in ‘a single day’, but we would find so much joy from something wonderful ‘in the meantime’.
My number one request would be the healing and transformation of my two sons. This would mean the world to me and I could easily continue with my non-healed condition if I could experience their change. Please, Father, if not me or not now, then please, please, I beg for You to have mercy on those who need You so much right now.
Please give us hope and a future. Please consider our prayers and answer them. I ask this on my knees today and in Your Name, Jesus’ Name, the Name above all names. I know You have told me to have joy, but I am having so much difficulty today. I am sad today and in pain, and not just physically, but also in my heart.
I had several dreams from last night and the night before. Some of these have been dreams of me packing up to leave. I am doing tasks to ready our household for this. I have historically received dreams like this during actual moves in the physical. I believe this is usually because I am stressed and making certain I do not forget things to do.
This time is different though as we are not actually in the process of moving. Quite simply, we still do not know when, what, where and how this will all occur. While there were several of these ‘moving’ dreams, there were other dreams as well…
Sub-dream 1 “Kitchen full of dirty dishes” begins…
I was in a kitchen that I did not recognize. As I looked around, it was easy to see the evidence that a large dinner party had just taken place. There were stacks and stacks of dirty dishes all around me. What made this amusing is that the dishes were from various sets of dishes that I have used in the last 20 to 30 years, as well as the Costco dishes we are currently using. I was informed that it would be my task to wash and dry all of the dishes by hand before we would be allowed to leave. Since I could not leave the dishes, I began the task of washing each of them.
Sub-dream 1 over…
Sub-dream 2 “Brochure of a Mountain Resort” begins…
My husband and I were looking at a beautiful brochure of a resort in the mountains near a beautiful river. We were to meet someone important there. We seemed much younger than what we are today. We spoke about our need to get to this resort someday. Right after saying this, we were supernaturally brought to the very spot that was shown in the photo of the brochure instantly.
Sub-dream 2 over…
Sub-dream 3 “A Marketplace run by a Coven” begins…
Please note that my youngest son does not have an ATV and that we do not have a Target store nearby to us. The nearest Target is actually three hours away by car.
It was approaching fall and we were about to leave to move west. I asked my youngest son to drive me and my daughter in his ATV to the nearby Target store. While he is 18 years old, he was only 10 years old here. When he was age 10, he was so handsome. He was smaller in stature and usually had a mischievous, but good-spirited, grin on his face.
As was the case when he was 10 years old, he had developmental delays so his speech was slow and his voice very deep. He was innocent and naïve again. While this has not changed drastically to today, the greatest change has been his physically maturing. In many ways, he is still like that 10-year-old he once was.
We went into the ATV and started to drive down a very muddy road. While we soon realized we had gone the wrong way, my son made a right turn into a massive canyon instead of making a much safer left turn. Just before plummeting into the canyon, he stopped it. However, the front tires of the ATV hanged precariously over the edge.
I was glad that my daughter was seated in the back because her weight may have helped keep us from plummeting. It probably also helped with traction as my son was then able to back the ATV away from the cavern. We then managed to get back onto the right road and it was not long before he dropped us off at the Target store.
As we entered the Target store, we noticed that they were having a special market day event for fall and back to school in the center of their store (which would be quite silly in real life). There were street vendors there selling their wares at the tables they had set up. The place was quite crowded, so we found it difficult to move around.
There had not been much that interested me when I spotted a beautiful massive carved ‘dough bowl’ filled with colorful gourds of all shapes and sizes. To get closer to this bowl, I had to navigate around the entire perimeter of the market. As I did, I was then also able to see some beautiful linen and sisal table runners and placemats.
I was happy as I saw many novelties that could be used to decorate for entertaining during the harvest fall colors. When I finally got up to where the massive bowl was, they were now all sold out. The only one left was the display bowl with the gourds in it. I motioned to the sales woman to come over.
Me: “Do you have anymore of these bowls available for sale?”
Woman: “I am sorry, but we are all sold out today.”
Me: “If I were to come back tomorrow, will you have any to sell?”
Woman: “Possibly. Are you interested in any particular color?”
Me: “Well, I really like greys, greens, yellows, oranges or whites.”
A man I did not recognize then walked in behind the next table. I could tell he worked there and knew this woman. He had piercings all over his face and was difficult to look at. He also had quite a few tattoos.
Woman: “Okay, now that he has arrived, I can find out.” She then turned to the man that had just arrived. “Darrin, do you know if the coven has more of these bowls for sale?”
Darrin: “Yes, we have quite a few.” He then looked over at me and squinted his eyes slightly. I could tell he was examining me. An evil smile came onto his face as he addressed me. “Yes, indeed, we have several of these for you to take into your home.”
Now that I knew that these bowls were made by a coven, there was no way I would purchase one of them. However, I felt I was to ‘play this cool’ and was not to raise any suspicions as to why I was no longer interested.
Me: “Thank you. I will return tomorrow.”
Darrin: He now had an evil grin. “No. No, you won’t.”
Me: “Excuse me?”
Darrin: “You won’t come back.”
As I was not to confront him, I decided to give him the ‘non-answer’ of “Okay.” I felt we then needed to walk away immediately. As we walked away, I could hear them whispering in curses. As we walked away, we passed a table with beautiful rock-based candles. This was basically a hollowed-out rock with wax and a wick inside.
Me: “How much for these ‘rock candles’?”
Man: “Those would be $2.75 each.”
Me: “Okay, I will take three of them.”
When I went to pick them up, they had mysteriously turned into three flat pieces of polished jasper rock in my hand. The man did not seem to notice that they had changed.
Man: “That will be $38.50 with tax.”
Me: “How is that possible? You told me that they were $2.75 each.”
Man: “No, I said $12.75 each, plus a minimal vendor tax.”
Even though I really wanted to, I decided not to argue. After paying the man, we walked away from his table. As we walked, we came up to a woman selling table linens. I could tell that they were Austrian in origin.
There was one beautiful placemat in particular that interested me. It was made of two textures of natural linen. As I looked at the placemat, I noticed that Darrin had come by. I was not pleased with his arrival. I decided to pretend to ignore his arrival.
Me: “How much for this placemat?”
She looked over at Darrin with a questioning look. He smiled and nodded. She then smiled back at him before replying to me. She had an accent I did not recognize.
Woman: “$138.50.”
Me: “What? Are you serious? For one placemat? For that price, I want to take a closer look.”
She handed me the placemat and I looked it over closely. It was only upon closer inspection that I had noticed that it was horribly sewn. I left it on her table and we just walked away. As we did, I heard them laughing at us. By then, we noticed that almost all of the fall items on the other tables had almost sold out. I shook my head.
Me: “I think that we should just leave now.”
My daughter: “I agree. Let’s go.”
As we were leaving, we bumped into a young mother tending to her three children.
Mother: “Can you believe what is happening here? We can never come back! Look at what they are selling for toddlers to wear!”
She held up a piece of clothing for me to look at. The t-shirt was light lavender with a design in a rainbow shaped into a pyramid ‘spirograph’ triangle. The triangle had a stem coming off of it and was labelled ‘True North’ underneath.
Mother: “This shirt really is not pointing up to our God in Heaven. Two of the points are on Earth and the point going up is for the north. It is also not referring to the Trinity.”
I decided I would whisper my reply to her as I was less concerned with this clothing item than the ‘coven items’ she had in her cart.
Me: “The items in your cart have all been crafted by a coven. All of them.”
Mother: “Oh no. Thanks for letting me know.”
She then dropped the shirt, grabbed her children and left the store, abandoning her cart full of goods. As I inspected the shirt more carefully, I felt that she had worried for no reason about this particular item. I then felt the Lord download to me that it really was pointing to Him and that the rainbow was a ‘holy reminder’ of His promises.
Me: Talking to my daughter. “Let’s go somewhere else for decorations.”
We both laughed and left the store.
Sub-dream 3 over…
Sub-dream 4 “A Motion Painting of Jesus with His Sheep” begins…
I was browsing over several paintings in an art gallery. One of the paintings was a beautiful pastural landscape with a flock of sheep and a shepherd. When I looked at this painting closer, I was amazed to see that the Shepherd was Jesus and that the painting was alive. I watched as Jesus walked with His sheep. While this painting was so awesome that I would pay anything for it, I did not let the gallery owner know this.
Me: “How much for this painting?”
Owner: “That is a special painting. Just $420 and it is yours.”
Me: “Done.” I then casually handed him a stack of $20 bills.
Owner: “Can I wrap it for you?”
Me: “No, thank you. I will take it just like this right off the wall.”
I took the painting off the wall and started to walk to the door. As I walked, I looked at the painting again. I could see Jesus as the Good Shepherd and He was laughing and smiling at me. My heart jumped with happiness as He was looking right at me.
Me: “Whoa, did you just see the painting move?”
Owner: Laughing. “What? Yes, you just took it off the wall.”
It was clear to me that he was definitely not seeing what I was able to see.
Sub-dream 4 over…
Father, my husband just came into my room to tell me that his favorite cousin had just lost her battle with Cystic Fibrosis. This happened last night at around 5:15am. She was in her early 40s. While Jeff does not cry that often, we cried together.
Her father was with her when she declined to have another breathing tube put into her lungs. This decision was made at around midnight. According to her dad, she knew Jesus and had a smile on her lips and a face full of peace when she took her last breath.
The timing was interesting as we had just prayed that we would all be Transformed and that we could go and heal her. The fact that she was still alive is a miracle. There were twenty children in her Cystic Fibrosis group when she was a little girl and all of them had died one by one. The last one died 15 years ago. She was the last survivor.
For those who have never had a breathing tube, I can tell you from personal experience that it is terrifying. You never get used to it and I panicked every time I woke up with one going down my throat. The gift of breathing easily is a gift that most of us just do not appreciate enough. To breathe with difficulty is horrifying.
Oh Father, I just know that this wonderful woman is there with You, running and breathing in the rarified air of Heaven. Her lungs are now filled and she can breathe freely. While You did not answer our prayers exactly how we had hoped for, You did answer them.
It was just last week that my husband and his kids had talked with her. Despite being in the hospital with pneumonia, she was upbeat, funny, kind and gracious. Father, please bring peace to her family. Please bring peace to my husband. While he is very happy for her to now be in Heaven, it is still difficult to say goodbye in this life.
Father, all people die. They are born and then they die. While Enoch and Elijah have not experienced death yet, the Scriptures outline that they too will not be exempt. Even Jesus died but then He rose three days later. The only ones who will be exempt from death are those to be raptured at some date in the future.
As sure as there is birth, there is also death. Oh Father, there is no greater joy than birth and there is no greater sting than death. Thank You for the promise of eternity. Thank You for Your promises. Thank You!
Father, You put it on my heart today to study 1 Peter 5. This happened prior to my husband coming into my studio area to tell me his cousin died. When I reread this Scripture in light of her death, this seemed to be even more significant. Why do I feel that there is even more to this chapter than I originally thought?
Jesus: “Erin, come up.”
My feet were back in the healing waters in the garden / pavilion area. I was facing the rock wall spouting water that fed the beautiful healing pool. As I looked, I noticed that the arches spouting water, with the sun shining on it, created a series of rainbows. There were twelve arches of water fountains.
As I observed this beauty, I reflected on how such beauty could only be designed by God. He is truly the finest water feature designer in all of the universe. As I gazed upon it, my thoughts started to wander and I wondered about those who have gone before us.
I felt my attention being drawn towards the pavilion. It was then that I noticed that there were several angels in the pavilion. They were setting another place at the King’s table. I received my answer. I had a smile on my face as the angel approached me.
Angel: Smiling. “I can see that this is your favorite place here.”
Me: “Well, it is for now…while I wait for the King. Once He arrives, my favorite place will then be wherever He is.” I began to cry. “I am getting so tired of the way things are. I want so much for God to use us and for God, the King, to reveal His majesty. So many are suffering. If only the King would soon find us pleasing and worthy of His promises and miracles.”
Angel: “Erin, will you trust Him a bit longer? He has answered your prayers. Is your friend not better here than where she had resided? You will see her one day and you will rejoice. She resides here with the King in a place prepared for her many years ago. She has so many friends here and there is a great celebration. Now, whom do you mourn.”
Me: “Those left here without her.”
Angel: “While I understand, Erin, look…there are more shoes.” He pointed to the archways with flowing curtains. “Release your friend to the King. You are His also, Erin.”
Me: “I am sorry, angel, but the news is still new to me. I…I…I…”
Angel: “Look, Erin, or you will miss the gifts the King sends ahead of His arrival.”
Just then, a huge number of hummingbirds started to fly in and out of the fountain arches. Their iridescent feathers were shining like jewels. It was so amazing that my mouth dropped open in awe.
Me: “Oh wow, this is so beautiful!”
Just then, one came over and landed on my arm. It was studying me. It had iridescent feathers and were white like pearls. It had silver and gold wings. It tilted its head back and forth as it looked at me. It suddenly flew away and went right through the arches. The other hummingbirds then followed and I began to cry.
Angel: “Now, please delight in the King’s gifts, Erin. He knows your heart. He loves you. He delights in you. He has not removed His promises. He is coming. Remember that you are here early.”
Me: Crying. “I still do not understand.”
Angel: “Soon you will, Erin, so do not worry. As you have come at the appointed time, the King also comes at the appointed time. He is coming! The King is coming! Now, rejoice!”
He looked so happy and enthusiastic for me, I became excited again. I smiled at him.
Dream over…
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