Dreams.
As with a lot of elements of spiritual living they can be dismissed wrongly, or exalted wrongly. Does God still speak through dreams? Yes. Does God want to make a big deal of how He speaks through dreams? No. The big deal is what He is saying in the dream and what of Him we get to know through the dream. Jesus is the only way the messenger is just as important as the message. Other than that we are grateful for the means, but more grateful for the essence of Jesus in the message.
So what about dreams?
I had one recently.
Someone was praying about some weekend event, some church function that would go on from Saturday to Monday. Someone was asked to pray about it.
Some of these prayers can be rather lacklustre and formulaic. Not so much a prayer as a list of things that you want God to do a bit like God is Tesco.com and you put in your order and wait for the delivery.
This prayer, however, was a heartfelt desire for God Himself to motivate, be the centre of and be exalted in every activity of that weekend’s conference. The length of the prayer wasn’t the issue, the intensity and fervency of it was more important. The person praying asked for the agreement of those around, but by the time it was in its flow it was as though it was a one-to-one conversation where God directed it with spontaneous and impromptu requests and insights. By the end of the prayer those in attendance were more in tune with the necessity of Jesus in everything than ever before.
Beyond that, everything else didn’t seem to matter.
It was just a dream, and yet …
Just blogging.
That is all.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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