There are some benefits to being in the desert. Actually there are quite a few. I will mention just one during this blog post.
Prophetic dreams.
Being alone with God in your thoughts. Having HIS input through HIS WORD. Having Holy Spirit speaking to you without the constant rumbling of others and their (all-be it wise) teachings and advise filtering out everything the Lord has just spoken to you.....has it's advantages.
Honestly, as much as I have tried on my own to get to this place (where I am now in the dessert with the Lord) with out actually being "in" the dessert place. I have never actually been able to get there. I have gotten close by taking time away "all by myself" for 5 days. Up in a cabin on the top of the Smokey Mountains. No T.V. no phone. No people. Just me and the Lord. Five whole days. Still not the same. Nothing quite like being lead into the dessert by the Holy Spirit of God.
It is not always the most pleasant of places to be, but I will say this, being in the dessert is definitely the most self revealing places, that is for sure!
Also being in the dessert I hear from the Lord allot more than when I am comfy cozy on the mountain top. Or at least it seems I do. Perhaps it's not that I hear more frequently as much as the God encounters are much more dynamic. Much more super natural and life altering. Kinda like Moses when climbed mount Horeb and saw the burning bush. Or Jacob when he was in the dessert place and wrestled with the angel of the Lord.
It is without fail that when I am lead by Holy Spirit into this time - this season - this - place in the dessert, spiritually, this is when I go through a time of deep, deep cleansing, spiritually.
All is stripped away from me. Everything that is unnecessary in my life. (at least the things that God deems unnecessary for the completion of His work in my life)
Things and people that I have some how let get between me and my relationship with the Lord.
Of course, yes, this
is what I desire.
During this time in the desert my thirst for the Lord
becomes greater and greater. I am even more desperate than ever before for
Him.My life? Well it can become a bit uncomfortable. For both myself and those around me as well.
Ah hah!
As I learn what the Lord is
doing in my life. As I relearn that He is in control.
I begin to once again
rest in faith that all is well and trust in His unfailing love for me.
That's when it
happens.
That's when when the
encounters begin.
The
dreams. The
visions.
God speaks.
People have often asked me why
does the Lord speak to me like He does. Through visions and dreams. While I am
praying. While I am reading the Word of God or through my dreams at
night.
I don't have a pat-answer.
I do know that I have always heard from the
Lord. I have always had dreams from God. Even when I
wasn't able to discern that it was "his" voice or that my
dreams were from the Lord. I look back years later and I remember what I heard
or I read a dream I wrote down in a journal as a young child and I can clearly
see it was HIS voice I heard;
that the dream was clearly
from him.
Well, last night I had
a dream. I believe it was a dream from the Lord
warning us that very soon the churches of the
America will be in the control of the U.S. Government.
In the dream the Presidential Limousine tried to run me down and instead the secret service had me thrown to the ground to try and keep me "out of the way" so the limousine could get through without any problems to the church. (I am a watchman)
The limousine that was supposedly carrying the President of the united States of America, had dark windows and I knew the man inside was an impostor. (this is why the secret service wanted me out of the way. I was correct...deception at work the supposed Presidential administration is not looking out for the best interest of the people)
I told told the S.S. (Secret Service) all I wanted to do was carry on and continue my way down the street. (I was warning people along the way of the deception) But they would have nothing to do with that. They were insistent that I be no where around the Presidential limousine so the S.S. had me physically thrown to the ground. I actually hurt my hip and leg from being slammed against the hard cement ground.
As they threw me up into the air and as I fell and hit the ground I called out, "So this is how the President of the United States treats any one who opposes him now - Physically abuses them? Someone call the press!"
Instantly the press was there and taking pictures.
I
stood up and began to call out to the small church/hospital across the street
where the Presidential limousine had stopped in front of. I was quoting
scripture and trying to get the peoples attention but no one could hear me. Then
the quad/ S.S. that thew me to the ground seemed to feel remorseful, seeing
how he had hurt me, and handed me a mega phone. I began to quote scripture and
warn the people about how the Government was now in control of all the small
churches. People started to come up to me and handed me pieces of paper with
secret information about the Gov't....they were folded...I opened them up and
read them out loud through the mega phone. Soon the people across the street
standing in front of the church, whose attention was on the Presidential
limousine, was now on me.
I
finished by saying,
"The ONLY WAY to escape their control is this
way...." Then I laid my hands on my hip and leg which were hurt
and said, "In the name of JESUS be
healed!"
Instantly
I was made whole.
I gave the mega phone back to the Secret service man
and walked away.
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Let me just say that this dream has left me very
sober. It was quite vivid. I have not shared all the details. Just touched on
some of the major points.
Yesterday the Lord spoke very clearly to me.....
,"Soon."
Brothers and sisters I have many friends all over
the globe. Only here in the USA do we as the Body of Christ (generally speaking
of course) feel as though everything is, "A-Okay." Or perhaps, "not quite so
bad." A great many believers feel that when things do start to get bad that
there will be a great rescue for all the saints of God.
Well I have news for those who believe that. It's
not new news by any means and it's not from me.
That is NOT the case.
Today all over the world tribulation is already in
mid swing. Our brothers and sisters in the Lord are suffering greatly beyond
anything we can even imagine. Even that which some of us (sinfully) choose not
acknowledge.
People are dieing. Being brutally murdered; martyred
all over the globe for Jesus name sake.
It is coming our way.
Soon.
Are we ready?