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Showing posts with label Dreams. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

I Dream of a Scripture But Can't Remember It!

This is nuts. Lately, for the FIRST time in my life, I'm having dreams almost every night. The only thing different in my life is my nightly prayers - the new approach to praying.

The last TWO nights the dreams didn't make sense, I also forgot a good chunk of them. I'm convinced, however, that the answers I wanted are hidden in them.  For example, the night after God named himself to me, I had a dream with a Bible scripture in it that I could not remember.
My Question To God:
"Is there truly only one way to you? So if I accept Christ, then do I have to go around looking at others, especially family and friends as if they are doomed?
That doesn't make sense to me. They do that which they were taught from birth, how is that their fault? They are good people and pray to God more than I ever have.
Does accepting you Christ, mean that I have to shun or judge others? Because I will never be able to do that, I don't have the heart for that, especially my family!"
God's Answer Through a Prayer:
I had the following dream:
Someone very dear to my life is lying down, she's not feeling well, nothing serious, just a Cold. I leave whatever I was doing and come rushing to her. Ironically, the minute I climb into bed, I'm now laying on HER thighs.
She's actually running her hands through MY hair and somehow she's comforting ME? Weird...SHE was the one that was ill?
Suddenly, I see a small piece of paper lying on the pillow. I pick it up and open it. Instantly I recognize that it's a scripture from the Bible. I ask her "What is this? Where did it come from?"
She simply smiles at me and the dream ends :(
My analysis of the dream?

Frankly. I have no idea. But for the life of me, I can't remember the scripture on that note. Again, I sought council from a friend. She feels the dream is more a representation rather than direct. It was probably an answer to my prayer.

1.  The significance of the scripture was to reveal the dream as Holy - that's all. What was written on it was not important. Think about it, if that was not there, I would assume I was simply dreaming about a person I was missing.

2.  Since I was a child, whenever ill, I always ask my Mother or my Sister to run their hands through my hair, it brings me peace. It's weird. I typically fall asleep no matter how much pain I'm in. The person in the dream was doing just that - it symbolized love and peace.

3.  I forgot the scripture. Perhaps that means that my parents are NOT shunned. What's on that note is not important, it's that relationship with God that is!

4.  I was distressed. Well, obviously I went to sleep sad thinking about what to do, how to do...

5.  The dream ended on a smile from the person with me. Well, it's her smile that I've always spoken of. It has this way of lighting up my day. So again, that dream was all about bringing me peace.

Perhaps God was trying to tell me to relax. "Don't worry so much." Be at peace and let HIM handle all these details. In a way if you see, my question to him was answered in that dream (even if I don't remember all the details!).

"My Name is Christ"

It's taking a lot of strength for me to make this post - but I will now. So, have you read THIS post? Couple days ago, titled, "The 3 Steps To Getting an Answer To a Prayer?" I made this post after something happened one morning.

3 nights ago before sleeping, I prayed to God. I thanked him and I posed the following question:
"I've been praying to you for years now, granted my style of praying has changed a lot recently. But, I've never had a name for you. I always just called you 'God.' But everyone I meet in my life has a name. Religion seems to be based around 'naming you.'
So you must have a name, right? If so, please tell me your name. What should I call you?"
The next morning, around 9:30 AM and I had 4 words come to my mind. It was in that weird state when you're not awake but you're awake enough to think.

I remember suddenly thinking "My Name is Christ." 

When this happened, I was in shock, even in my sleep. I even chuckled a bit and said to myself:
"WOW! Is that for real? Did you really just directly answer my prayer?
OR is this my subconscious playing tricks on my mind? Do I somehow just 'want' your name to be Christ for 'other' reasons and so I'm tricking myself?
OR since I've been mostly studying Christianity lately, am I just having this reaction because I am immersed in the name Christ right now?"
I'll be honest, I'm scared to accept what I heard. Why?

Because it means a LOT of changes in my life. It means fighting with my family maybe? It means recognizing and accepting. It's just all a bit too much at one time for me?

I spoke to a friend last night and she is convinced that what happened is the Truth and my prayer was answered. She told me NOT to worry about "what's next" and to simply keep praying. The only thing, she said, that I need to do right now is:
"Believe and ACCEPT that his name is Christ. Let him guide you out of the dessert and lost feeling and he'll show you what needs to happen next. Don't jump to making changes or anything - just ACCEPT."
BTW, I also laughed because apparently God is a man of a few words. LOL. He answered a 20 minute prayer with 4 words. My kind of guy!

** I think my finally posting this on the blog is sign of my accepting my prayer. Last night when I prayed, I DID call him "Christ." Not Jesus or God, just Christ, the name he gave me.