Another Dream

Last night was very interesting. I was watching some preaching and nodding off just before midnight and had a very interesting experience. I nodded off and was caught up in a strange dream where everything was shadows and I was in this car that was out of control and drove directly into the shadow of a man. I woke up fearful. I was so sleepy and realized that I had just nodded off. So I said a quick prayer and went right back to nodding off. I immediately went into another dream where there were 3 very beautiful ladies walking very purposefully towards me but their faces were demonic looking. Again I woke up terrified. This time I realized that the enemy was attacking me in my sleep. I grabbed some anointing oil that I keep beside my bed and anointed my forehead, rebuked the enemy and invited the Lord only to project dreams to me in my sleep. I then promptly went back to sleep.

I went into this dream where I was driving on this highway. I was very peaceful, calm and content as I drove. It was a beautiful highway and I was looking for my exit on the right. I got to the first right turn, looked at it and said "No, that's not my exit" then drove on. I was alone on this highway. There were no other cars or pedestrians on it. Looking up ahead I saw on my left a man who looked to have been hit by a car or something. Either way he was lying face down on the side of the road and he was dead. He was wearing a lime green shirt and either jeans or Khaki pants. I looked at him and thought to help but thought it may be dangerous. His shirt glowed strangely. Like it was alive even though he was dead. I slowed down then drove past. As I was driving I thought to myself, "maybe I should call the police" then immediately said to myself "No. I don't want to get involved with that" and kept on driving. Again I saw another turning in front of me to my right and as I came up to it, I realized that this was still not my exit. When I looked ahead of me I realized that the highway stretched out in front of me. I thought to myself "I guess my exit is farther up." Then I woke up.

I woke up knowing that this dream was significant but fearful at the same time. Looking at my watch I realized that it had only been about 20 minutes since I had fallen asleep. It entered my mind that Daniel had called God the interpreter of dreams. So I prayed that God who I was sure had given me this dream would also give me the interpretation. I immediately fell asleep again till morning. When I woke up in the morning God began to interpret the dream to me.

One thing you have to understand is that earlier on in the day God had spoken to me about the calling he has for my life. He has also been speaking to me about destiny and my purpose here on earth. One thing that I have now understood with greater depth is that I must be holy as he is holy so I can present myself before his throne on a daily basis to seek him and to worship him. This is the only way that he can then download to me the pattern for what he has in store for me. The last few days have been days of consecration and asking God to give me a new heart. In the process God has also spoken to me about my future and the changes I need to make. This dream was to clarify some things for me.

I realized that the highway I was traveling on was the highway of holiness. According to the word of the Lord, few travel on the highway of holiness. That is why I did not see anyone on it. It was also why I felt so peaceful, calm and content as I was driving. The car represented my life as I traveled on the highway of holiness and the exits I was looking for where in terms of the business decisions I had been asking God to help me make. I have been wanting to exit employment and focus on the business ideas God has given me but he was telling me that the time to exit was not yet. Isaiah tells us that whether we turn to the left of to the right, we shall hear a voice behind us saying this is the way, walk ye in it. God was telling me that the time to move out of employment to my own business was not yet. God is a God of times and seasons and he does not want you to move prematurely.

Then I asked God about the dead man on the road. He told me that that was the flesh. The flesh must die. I had been talking to God about killing my flesh earlier in the day. On the highway of holiness flesh must die and stay dead. Green is the color of life. Remember that the man was wearing a green shirt that glowed in such a way as to show that it had life in it? Well, that was to signify that if one is not careful as they travel the highway of holiness, the flesh can rise up again to bring about sin. The reason I got a check not to touch the man is because the flesh would have come alive again in me should I have touched that shirt that was alive due to the corruption of the flesh.

Jude vs 23 says "snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh."

Don't we serve an awesome God? In one dream he tells me to stay put, confirms to me that I am walking on the highway of holiness and instructs me to beware of the flesh. No wonder the devil was fighting me tooth and nail before God could give me the dream. I believe that in the spirit realm the enemy had seen the angel of the Lord standing by me getting ready to deliver the message and he was trying to make sure I didn't get it. Well, I have purposed to anoint my head with oil every night and welcome Jehovah to minister to me in dreams and night visions as I sleep. My God is good oooooohhhh!!

The 3rd Dimension

I feel like I have never known God. This dimension is like nothing I have ever seen or heard yet I know that there is more to him. He is so much deeper than I can ever imagine. I have received an invitation to go into the cloud of his presence. Not just to sit here and strain for the light of his glory but to go into the cloud and like Moses, commune with him face to face. It is almost scary. I am in such awe of God! Now I understand Juanita Bynum's book "The Threshing Floor." There is a level in God where you approach with care. Where you make sure you are clean and you have your priestly garments on. This is the third realm. The Holy of Holies.

Today I have received revelation on two things:

1) That my highest calling is to come into his presence every day and to bow before him and worship him. I must make time for this regardless of my schedule. I must give him the first part of my day, when I am still bright and fresh ready to hear what he has to say.

2) That the work of my hands is really his work. His project. He has just commissioned me to oversee it for him much in the same way that Moses oversaw the building of the tabernacle, or Solomon the first temple.

It has been a journey to this third dimension of doing business. At first business was a carnal undertaking, then I realized that this was my calling. However, even then, it was MY business and I gave to God a percentage of the profits. I owned the business. Today he said, "The businesses are mine. You work for me. You have nothing of your own. You are only a steward of what I put you over, for the earth is mine and the fullness thereof."

I repent in dust and ashes for usurping your place oh Lord. Forgive my ignorance and renew my mind in this area.

Needless to say I have handed it all to him. He is the owner. I make no major decision without first talking to him. I meet with him every morning for his direction and the way forward. He is my Lord and I have no other. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

They Exchanged The Truth Of God For A Lie

Last night Dr. Wanda Turner preached a most powerful sermon at the Woman of Distinction Convention where she shared from her life. One of the most important and note worthy things she said is that what you are going through may not even be about you. It could be for someone else that you may know how to encourage them or to give them sound godly advice from experience. This morning I began to realize that my single hood was one such situation. How will they know that God can keep a single girl and prosper her without the help of a man, when so many women think of a man as their way out of a bad situation?

Further, I began to inquire of the Lord regarding my preservation. I'm not sure if I have ever shared this before, but I am a Virgin. I have never had sex. And yes, I will be 34 this month. I used to think that I had kept myself because I would say No at all the right times. This morning God showed me that his hand had been on me. That it was he who enabled me to escape the situations that others have faced. How do I explain that no one ever molested me as a child, that I was never raped even when I walked home alone in the dark? How do I explain saying No every single time with my boyfriends and never giving in even when the pressure was intense from him and my body? Or when in my riotous stage of life I went out drinking and clubbing and still came home in one piece? That was the hand of God on my life. I didn't keep myself a virgin. God kept me and I will praise his name forever more.

Funny enough, having made it through all that, I am now faced with a different kind of pressure. Society does not expect a woman of my age who has a great career to still be a virgin. Most people look at me like they can't figure out what I am waiting for. Others point out my age and tell me to hurry up and at least have a baby. The pressure is crazy. Then a few years ago the devil decided to add his own kind of pressure when I developed uterine fibroids and had to undergo uterine surgery. My Doctor looked at me and said I had about 5 years to have a baby or else the fibroids may recur and who knows how that would go? That devil is a liar!!! The pressure to go out and have sex is intense and in some cases the reasons look valid.

But what shall it benefit me to gain the whole world and lose my soul? Would I risk my soul for momentary pleasure or for a baby? When I stand before God what shall I say if I fornicate? No. Nothing is worth my saviors frown. Even if I never have sex or children I will not go against my saviors will. Today, I repented for thinking that I had preserved myself. God alone has preserved me and that for a reason that he will reveal in due time. I told him how people make virgins (especially older ones) feel out of order for refusing to indulge and asked him why it is so. He responded by sending me to Romans 1:25 the first part of that sentence reads as follows:

"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie..."

If you are still a virgin regardless of your age, stay that way until you are married. This is the will of God concerning you. Those who try to urge you into sexual sin have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. Do not join them in their futility. Romans 1: 22 - 32 reads:

²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones (Lesbianism). ²⁷In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men (Homosexuality), and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done...

³²Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

If you have not had sex yet, stay hidden in Christ. If you have already had sex outside of marriage repent and let the Spirit of God give you the strength to abstain. Retain the knowledge of God and the wisdom of God that you may be preserved. Even sex is for destiny and purpose!!

Do NOT Lean On Wealth!

Psalm 100:3 says

"Know that the LORD is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his;

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture."

God made us and because of that he knows us more than we know ourselves. God knows the heart of man. He knows what we can handle and what we can't. His law is for our preservation. We should therefore embrace it.

Isaiah 2:7-9 says

⁷ Their land is full of silver and gold;

there is no end to their treasures.

Their land is full of horses;

there is no end to their chariots.

⁸ Their land is full of idols;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their fingers have made.

⁹ So man will be brought low

and mankind humbled—

do not forgive them.

These were a blessed people. They had food to eat, great wealth amassed and kept but it was all to their destruction. Anyone to whom wealth is entrusted by God, must first understand the reason for this wealth. The wealth of the wicked will not be given to those who do not know its purpose. Nor will it be given to those who just want to hoard it and say "See how good God has been to me." The wealth of the wicked will only be given to those who will favor the righteous cause of the Lord. Therefore renew your mind where this matter is concerned. That God may entrust you, first with true riches of the Kingdom and then secondly with material wealth.

In the passage above we see a group of people who were blessed of the Lord. However, they did not understand that wealth in the hands of the righteous was to fulfill the cause of Jehovah. As such they amassed for themselves great wealth and their hearts were turned away from God to this wealth. They began to worship it and to bow down to the work of their hands. There is real danger of the heart turning away from God to wealth, if you amass it for yourself!!

In the book of Deuteronomy 17: 14 - 20 we find Moses giving Israel instructions on what to do when they get to their promised land. The land of their destiny. He instructs the King thus:

¹⁶ "The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again." ¹⁷ He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold."

Why does God say this? Because he understands the power of great amounts of wealth to turn the heart of man from God. Does this mean that we should be poor? Not at all!! God himself delights in the prosperity of his saints! He wants to put vast amounts of money into our hands not just so our bank accounts can read in the Gazillions, but so that we can feed the hungry, clothe the naked, educate children, help the widow and the orphan. It is so that we can be his channel to reach the unreached and to demonstrate his love and care for humanity on the earth.

Look at what a King was to do to safeguard his heart and the reign of his generations:

¹⁸ "When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. ¹⁹ It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees ²⁰ and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel."

The King was to handwrite for himself on a scroll the whole law of God. That ensured that he read it word for word and internalized it. Psychologists have proven that there is a connection between reading something and then writing it down and how well the brain absorbs and remembers it. Then he is to keep the scroll with him and read it daily all the days of his life!!! This is the way to preserve your soul when the wealth of the wicked comes into your hands. Read the word of God day in and day out. Make notes. Internalize the word. Let it go deep into your spirit and deep into the chore of your heart. Then you will revere the Lord your God and will follow his laws in humility not thinking yourself better than your brothers.

On day one of this wonderful month of September I have understood that:

1. It endangers my soul to hoard for myself great wealth and not use it for the Kingdom of God.
2. That this word of God must be my protection. I must read it and meditate on it especially when I walk in the kind of money God has ordained for me, that my soul may be preserved.

I leave you with this very sobering thought found in Isaiah 1:31:

That if you insist on hoarding and are led astray to worship wealth and the work of your hands

"The mighty man will become tinder

and his work a spark;

both will burn together,

with no one to quench the fire."

September - My Month of Travail and Birthing Destiny

In the animal kingdom when the time comes for an animal to give birth we often see them retreat to a secret place where they travail until that which they have been carrying within them is birthed. During this time they do not eat or socialize. They focus on the duty at hand. I sense that the time has come for me to travail until I birth destiny. In this month of September I have heard God asking me to come away with him, just like he told Moses, that I too may travail and birth my destiny in God. The things we will be dealing with are as follows:

• The condition of my heart - Do I have a new heart? One that has set its affections on God alone?
• The Book of Isaiah - I sense strongly that God wants to open this book up to me so that I get it and walk in the mysteries there in.
• Release into my Destiny and Purpose - My time has come!

I will therefore be blogging about this things most of all in this month. You are welcome to take the journey of discovery with me.

I want to point out that this month of September is the 9th month of the year. A human baby is carried to term within 9 months and is then birthed. I am therefore not surprised that God has called me into the secret place to be with him at this time. As I fast and seek his face like Moses on the mountain, I am expecting divine visitations, direction for the next season of my life, wisdom to navigate that season and increased anointing for the work set before me. When this season is done, I expect that the glory of the Lord will have been transfered onto me from exposure so that my face shines like Moses' face. He is a good God.

The interesting thing is that I feel a need to record this season on this blog. When I think of it I am not quite so surprised because often we see in the Bible the Lord asking his people to write down the visions, visitations and what he shares with them. I look forward to this month, this season and what God has in store for me. Keep me in your prayers. God bless!