Dream 554 – Are you willing to minister to the lepers?
Received on Sunday, January 2, 2022
Communion
Dear Father,
Thank You for another day! Each morning, I wake up and I am so thankful to still be here. I am thankful for a comfortable bed to sleep and dream. I am in a safe place out in the middle of nowhere. This is a perfect place for these dreams as there are very few distractions.
Knowing that Your Clock and Calendar are moving along in Your perfect timing helps me to understand that this block of history has been planned from the beginning by You. You are not the Father of an ‘improvisational calendar’ and I am so thankful it has all been planned in advance by You. This means that nothing we do will change Your plans and Your desired outcome.
This means that thousands of us were handpicked and selected by You for this very time. This means You raised up the unlikely, chosen from the beginning. Many of us, me included, have too many failures to count. We are the lowly. I would often hear my mom say something to me that really hurt…
Mom: “I always thought that, of all my children, you would be the most successful.”
I was the least in my family. Flashforward to my time at Penn State. My Dean of Architecture handed out diplomas in alphabetical order. Because of my maiden name, I was the first to receive a diploma. This professor was the most brutal of my professors. In order to avoid his control, I dumped my Art Education Degree to focus on graduating with my Design & Illustration Degree. When I accepted my diploma, he said something to me that left me in complete shock…
Professor: “I thought you were the most talented of the students. I was hard on you because I took you for a fighter. I am hard on the good ones.”
I was in complete shock. This is the guy who blamed his heart condition on me. He waited until now to say this. This came way too late. I could barely respond…
Me: “But I thought you hated me.”
Now it was his turn to look completely shocked. The look on his face told me that he somehow didn’t remember all of the verbally abusive things he had said to me. I now see clearly that this happened because God was closing a door to take me down a different path. I was grateful as the programs I would have taught with my Art Education Degree mostly closed down in the following years.
In the end, I am so glad that I always had sports. It was my life, as well as my brother’s. Sports granted me a segue into college. My sports scholarship was the only reason I was able to afford to go. So much of my life has been a disappointment to those who thought I could have done better. However, looking back, it wasn’t really me choosing my path at all. Father, I now see that it has always been You choosing my path.
I never conformed to the status quo. I was always judged by others harshly. I was passed over for promotions. People would rip me off and then spread false rumors that I was a thief to them. I then noticed a pattern. Within a few months or a year or two, those who did this to me received some sort of retribution that could have only come from God. In one of these cases, I was ripped off $20,000 and then the ones who did this were sued for $380,000 and lost.
There have been so many years of this pounding. I worked for many builders, designing hundreds of homes in the northwest. However, I never really got credit for any of my work. Those in the trade knew my work, but I was kept apart from winning the awards. I selected all of the materials, cabinets, stones, flooring, hardware, lighting and other things, yet not one thanked me for my work at award shows.
After a while, I realized this had to be supernatural. Oh Father, You are truly a genius. I am sure that I would not have been Your choice had I thought I was greater than others. I have been humiliated for so many years. I never amounted to anything other than who I am in You… and You in me. Well, Father, the world has fallen. The world is in steep decline with no apparent cure without You.
Please do not let this be the end of our stories here. Many of us have been called the least of these. We have been ‘passed over’ again and again. We have been the ‘not good enoughs’ and the ‘failures’. Right now, we are the brown sparrows that blend in with the landscape. We are the ones that the world forgets about. Still, our hopes are in You, Father. You made a Nest for us to flock together and offer mutual support.
Oh Lord, I am so grateful for each of the Nest members. I simply can’t wait to sing Psalm 84 with my Fellow Sparrows. Thank You, Father, for each one of them. Please bless them in great abundance! My dreams last night were quite detailed. I had prayed for another dream where I would actually get to see You and it was granted (Sub-dream 1). I was in a delightfully deep sleep during each of the below three Sub-dreams…
Sub-dream 1 “A Sparrow for Ten Pieces of Silver” begins…
I was sitting at a table across from Jesus. I was so excited to see His handsome face again! I asked Him questions about my childhood. I asked Him questions about my failures. Even though the memory of many of His answers are now blurred, He answered every one of my questions. He comforted me and dried my tears.
He then showed me things to come. While I could see the events clearly during the dream (they were spectacular), my memory of these have now been blurred. I can no longer make out all of the actual events. I watched myself in the future and I could see that I had such great joy. When He was finished showing me, I dropped to my knees…
Me: “Oh Lord, I apologize for ever doubting Your selection of me. I am so sorry for harshly judging myself. I am sorry for questioning God’s choices in selecting me. I never saw in me what You have seen. It is impossible for me to see myself as You do. Your love for me is always undeservedly unconditional even when my love for myself is usually questionable.”
Jesus: “Then you are in a good place. Now you know why you should not question My choices. As you have seen, I see the heart. I do not see you as man sees you. Now, what did you see that proved to you that you are a threat to the enemy?”
Me: “You showed me that the enemy has never stopped campaigning against me. He has never let up, not even for a moment.”
Jesus: “He would then dishearten you until you cried out to Me. We then sharpened your irons together. Did you notice that the enemy then handed Me ten pieces of silver?”
Me: “Yes. What were these silver pieces for?”
Jesus: “The enemy presented this to God in exchange for you. He then told the enemy that you were not for sale and that you had been purchased from the beginning. He told him that his money was no good. Erin, I will now give these coins back to you, but greatly multiplied.”
Me: Joking around. “Hmm, I would have thought I was worth at least one gold coin to the enemy.”
Jesus: Laughing. “The enemy is always looking for a bargain.” He then became more serious. “Now, the enemy put a worthiness amount on your head and he did this with thousands more. He thought he was being clever by paying a premium. However, he knew you were of much greater value to God than this. God then told him that you were priceless and not for sale. Ever since and for many years, he has been trying to detract from your value.”
Me: “So, this is why he made my life so hard? This seems ridiculous to me!”
Jesus: “Yes, but this is because you still do not fully understand. The enemy presented this and then used My Words against Me in My Father’s Courts. Here is the conversation he had with My Father…
Satan: “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, two sparrows for a penny, five sparrows for two pennies?”
God: “Erin is priceless to Me. However, I will match and multiply your offer as recompense back to her as payment for the affliction you send her once her time of punishment is over.”
“My Father then placed the bags of silver in the room with the thousands more for times soon to come as recompense for Your troubles. In the eyes of evil, the enemy offered a high price for you based on his valuation over the years since the Temple Sacrifices when sparrows were purchased by the poor. His goal was to do what they once did when eating sparrows… put them on skewers over a fire.”
Me: “Hmm, shish-kabobbed sparrows. That’s awful.”
Jesus: Laughing. “Even though you have always been Mine, I am sure you felt skewered and over a fire many times.”
Me: Smiling. “Yes, and roasted too!”
Jesus: “Well, here you are now.”
He said this as He pushed the bag that originally had the ten silver pieces towards me. It was labeled ‘Ten Silver Pieces as Multiplied by the Father’. It was now a beautiful bag vs the previous plain sack cloth. Without knowing how I knew, I knew that this bag was now very heavy with His treasures. I wanted to open it as I was curious, but as soon as I reached for it…
Sub-dream 1 over…
Sub-dream 2 “The Gift of Enhanced Eye Sight” begins…
I was in my childhood home in the East Bay Area of California. The house had expanded and was now quite fancy. There were many stray cats there trying to get me to pet them. My mom then arrived. She handed me a small white business card 2” x 3” made of handmade paper. It was embossed with a child’s handprint and had details etched in Sepia Tones. In the center of the child’s hand was an embossed and engraved heart. This did not look new age. It was beautiful.
Mom: “Erin, there is an engraved name on this. I thought, since your eyes are better, you can see.”
I moved the card closer to my eyes. My eyes changed and I could now see microscopically. I saw pencil that had been erased many years ago. The pencil had microscopically broken paper fibers and I could make out the name. It was in the cursive handwriting of a nine-year-old. I was able to make out this person’s name.
Me: “Mom, who is this man?”
Mom: “You will need to ask the Lord this. This is personal and meant just for you.”
My mom now looked very young. She was changed and working on something at our former home. I took several items with me.
Me: “I will see you soon.”
She smiled as I went out the backdoor. It was unusual that I would leave out the backdoor, but I was sure there was a reason for this. Once in the backyard, I noticed that there was a tree that was not from Earth. It was beautiful. The tree had a white trunk and green branches with leaves like feathers. The fruit of the tree was white. I stared up at it for some time. It was amazing!
Sub-dream 2 over…
Sub-dream 3 “Having Mercy on the Stray Cats” begins…
I was once again in my childhood home in the East Bay Area of California, but this time lying in bed. Over my head was a glass ball. In it was a glass horse running inside the clear ball. I was distracted for a second and, when I looked back, the glass horse had been replaced by a light grey mouse. It was trying to get away from something.
I then looked toward the ground and saw stray cats. I didn’t like these cats that much. My window was only three feet off the ground. I opened my window and gently removed the cats. When I turned to free the mouse, he had somehow disappeared. I then saw a new born kitten on the ground. It spoke to me…
Kitten: “Please don’t send me away. I went through a lot to come here to be with you. I promise to be good.” The kitten was adorable.
Me: “Okay, you will come with me in my pocket.”
With the kitten now securely in my front pocket, off I went to the old ball fields (which no longer exist today). I decided to use the restroom there. When I opened the door, it was disgusting. There were also many unclean stray cats everywhere.
Me: “Lord, what is it with all of these cats?”
I then saw my old cat, Bailey, who died many years ago. It was all so very odd.
Sub-dream 3 over…
Me: “Lord, please help me with these dreams.”
Jesus: “Erin, come up!”
He once again spoke to me while I sat in my devotional chair. His Voice was very clear.
Jesus: “Well, the first dream (Sub-dream 1) will remain a bit of a mystery… at least for right now.
“In the second dream (Sub-dream 2), I show you that you will have new eyes to see. You were brought back to this home as this home was the home of your greatest pains. You had cats, but they had tragic deaths. As a child, you struggled there. You wrestled with tragedy in that room. You learned as a young child to deal with many undesirables as strangers came and went there at that house.
“I then used this to instruct you on how to read people. You learned by asking questions. You learned by taking interest in their stories. You then left in an unconventional way by using the backdoor. You used the backdoor because your stepfather took his own life there. You were then relocated north. Once there, you developed the fruits of the Spirit.
“In the last dream (Sub-dream 3), you had mercy on these cats.”
Me: “Yes. I am not as much a fan of cats as I used to be as they kill our little birds and animals in our yard. Still, they are cats and they do what cats do. They are Your Creation and that is how You made them.”
Jesus: “This was meant to be an analogy of the places that you will soon go that you will not like. You will minister to the ones who desire to be near to Me. They are the undesirables, the stray cats of the world, deserted and left on their own, lonely. You will then heal them there and give them the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Me: “Yes, Lord. However, I must admit that I was really hoping for children’s wards in hospitals and elderly shut-ins.”
Jesus: “Well, Erin, there will be some of these too. However, no one wants to go to the latrines of the world. Can I count on you to do this as I ask?”
Me: “Yes, Lord, of course.”
Jesus: “You will see and encounter many who will be like lepers to the world. I now ask you one more time to make sure that you are sure. Erin, can I count on you to do this as I ask?’
Me: “Lord, if You are with me and I am strengthened, I will go wherever You take me.”
Jesus: “I am pleased with your answer.”
Me: “I love You, Lord.”
Jesus: “I love you too. Many intercede for you daily in Heaven, including your mom.”
Dream over…
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