My Dream

Over the last few weeks, I had been praying and asking The Father to bridal my tongue, because at night the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy.

I want to be sure without a shadow of doubt that what I am sharing is from His Spirit and not my flesh.

One morning shortly after my prayer, right before I awoke I had a dream. You know that place where you begin to hear things around you, but you’re still asleep.

In my dream, I’m asking Jesus to bridal my tongue, so that the only things I speak are His Words. I feel Him smiling over me, like He had been waiting for this request.

He points and I see a large long rectangle object floating towards me. It looks to be the same shape of a boxcar train.

As it gets closer to me, I see it’s a giant loaf of bread. Since, we know the father speaks in metaphors and riddles, I had a knowing it was an answer to my request.

His Bread or Manna was floating towards me and when it was right in front of me, I read in large red letters “Wonder” and then the letters changed to “JOY”.

Both the words were brilliant red. The loaf of bread kept coming towards me, reducing in size, until it went right into my belly. I woke up.

The interpretation of my dream is pretty obvious, that His Manna or Word of God shall be His Voice or bread for my blog as he placed it in my belly to be formed.

However, the words wonder and joy in red kept nagging at me.

I did a little research and the color red of course represents the blood of Jesus, but it also can mean, love of God, atonement and salvation.

In other words, the Word of The LORD coming through my keyboard [pen] shall cover these wonderful aspects of God.

“At the same time, God also testified by signs and wonders, various miracles, and distributions of gifts from The Holy Spirit according to his will,” Hebrews 2:4.

Then, The LORD began showing me “His Breath” which serves as a powerful force throughout His Word.

We already know this, but when you take a closer look, it’s such a joyful wonder. God breathed “the breath of life” into Adam. (Genesis 2:7)

We only read one verse that actually speaks of His breath in 2 Timothy 3:16,

“All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness.”

As we read His Word each of these aspects are revealed to us. Jesus “breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive The Holy Spirit‘” to His disciples (John 20:22).

In 2 Peter 1:21, we are told that

“no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by The Holy Spirit.”

In each case, God’s breath represents His perfect power. I am in awe of his powerful breath through scriptures because they instruct, convict or correct for training in our righteousness.

This is God’s gift to us, guiding us in how to live in order to please Him and serve others. James tells us this,

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change,” James 1:17.

As I continued to study this a bit more, The LORD led me to,

“My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding. I will incline my ear to a prover; I will express my riddle with the harp,” Hebrews 2:3-4.

I am beyond thrilled now, because over and over His Spirit is confirming that I am hearing and speaking His words not mine. I am His voice in the wilderness.

To be clear, I am in no way puffing myself up, just a little fear of wanting to stay on His narrow path and the enemy can be kicked to the curb! 😊

“The fear of The LORD is the beginning of wisdom and who follow His precepts have good understanding….” Psalm 111:10.

Each of us are to become just like King David continually turning to scripture for answers to our questions:

“Give me understanding and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart,” Psalm 119:34.

I often pray and fast to get clarification before sharing His Word, but any doubt invites the enemy.

Prophetic Word

Over the last few days, I have been hearing God’s breath through Ezekiel 4.

He often directs me to specific passages to read during my devotion. This experience is called a Rhema word where the scripture comes alive by The Holy Spirit and my eyes are opened and I can “see”.

His Spirit touches my spirit to comprehend a verse in a new way that is appropriate at the time.

Sometimes, The LORD will give an image while reading scripture to help further my understanding or to clarify my understanding given within His scriptures.

He is very faithful and patient, therefore, I must be patient and faithful in being His Voice in the Wilderness.

So in my study, I find Ezekiel following God’s command to perform a sign-act, a symbolic representation of the siege of Jerusalem and resulting famine [suffer or hunger].

As I was reading, His words within the pages begin to stand out providing a message that much of His Bride is under siege with burdens [bound, contained or harnessed].

The Word of The LORD came over me saying, “Angela, the time has come for My Bride to open My Word.

I want to challenge each one to seek and find my wonder and joy by reading Amos.

The name Amos means, “Burden Bearer!”

Each reading your blog, carries burdens not of their own. Over time, these burden unless laid at My Feet become sickness, confusion, bitterness, anger and so on… within their temple.

You see, this is not how I want My Children to live.

My design is for each to have empathy for others and then cast all cares onto Me.

These burdens must be laid down. You are to be free, free in Me,” says The LORD.

“Listen to Peter, “Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.” (1 Peter 5:7).

Prayer

Come now let’s pray:

Thank You Jesus for loving me and caring enough that you came to earth and lived among us.

Thank You for being my Protector and Defender. You know how we all suffer. There are many days when my head is down, because I am so burdened for myself or others.

You were able to listen to your Father and keep a healthy balance while here on earth . I would like to learn to walk in balance with you.

Father, please point out areas of my life where I am out of balance, taking on more responsibly than what you have designed for me.

Forgive me, when and where I usurp your place by carrying burdens that are not my own.

Please train me Father to develop my spiritual flexibility to have a strong healthy spirit. I want to walk closer to you so that I am balanced, grounded and not ashamed of my workmanship for Your Kingdom.

If I harness myself to a responsibility that you did not give me, please forgive me for accepting it.

Please reveal what the harness is so that I might repent and receive your forgiveness.

I want there to be nothing holding me back in my walk with You. I pray in your loving Name of Jesus. Amen

My Reflection

Beloved Saints, God is for us no matter what we carry.

No matter what you are suffering, God has plans for you. I personally have battled with an auto-immune disease over the last 25 years which has attacked my spine and sight.

I found stress is the key element for bringing my disorder to the surface. To avoid these attacks, I must listen to the nudge of The Spirit to rest and cast all my cares to Jesus.

Once I learned to firmly anchor myself in God’s character, I was able to bear the burden through prayer.

This took some training by His Spirit to learn to discern what I was actually feeling and to then give the necessary work to be done by Jesus.

It may not be done in the way I think, but that’s the beauty of Faith (Hebrews 11:1)

Before I learned this tactic of casting my cares onto Jesus, I use to see 1:11 or 11:1 all the time.

Looking back, I believe it was a subtle hint from The Father to give my burdens to Him.

Do not be too hard on yourself, I am fully aware of the burdens we carry for others.

Like you, I am a nurturer, so helping others comes very natural. In fact, we can see where someone else needs strengthening and we would want to help.

Am I right so far?

Then all of sudden we feel responsible for making this happen. Now, their burden becomes all twisted within us! It’s almost like an emotional knee-jerk reaction that turns into controlling the lives of the people we are trying to help! Ops!

“Hear my prayer, O Lord; listen to my plea! Answer me because You are faithful and righteous,” Psalm 143:1.

Slowly, His Spirit showed me that this behavior not only made me sick, it led me to my spiritually imbalance.

My nature of nurturing was working through my flesh. I became attached or harnessed to the responsibility of their burden separating me from Jesus. Plus, my Joy was under siege!

I began to turn what I saw into a prayer and invite Jesus into the situation. He partners with me and takes the responsibility on Himself. He uses His strength to make things happen, rather than mine. Hallelujah!

His Spirit also helps in our weakness. When we do not know how to pray as we should, His Spirit Himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us with deep feelings that words cannot explain, (Romans 8:26).

His Spirit taught me that doing spiritual work with the strength of my soul, rather than the strength of the Spirit is like taking the battery out of a car and expecting to drive to the store. Now, I plug into God and I can have joy everyday!

Burdens can sometimes be gifts we carry so that God can reveal more about His character to us. What burden are you carrying today that you want to prayerfully give to Jesus?

Spend some time releasing it into Jesus’ care. He wants to help you break free and experience His Joy!

We serve a God of Miracles! His heart is for you. Trust His Heart!

Give Him everything, so He can restore you into His Righteous “Burden Bearing” Bride.

 

Shalom
~ Angela Reese

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Angela is the owner of “Fruits of His Vine” website, to encourage and equip those still in wandering, or in captivity, to find our Savior in His Holy Tabernacle.

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