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Last night I had a dream; I woke
up and went back into the dream two or three times. Though I did not
see Him, I knew the Lord was in the dream. We were observing the manifested
actions of someone. At the time, I didn’t know if it was an individual,
group, or perhaps the church. I had stumbled upon factual account
of “Peoples’” actions. A number of pages had already been recorded
in the book and new ones were being added. As the new accounts were
being written somehow simultaneously, one or two of the previous paragraphs
were disappearing and being re-written.
At the same time I was also observing a second story being played
out, it was the life of the same person, or group. I saw the “beginning
to the end”. It was totally different from the one written and being
re-written in the book. In the dream I was aware that I was a writer,
I remember saying to the Lord, "oh please let’s go ahead and rewrite
the whole story now!” He said "oh no, their book is being rewritten
as they press into me and what I have for them”.... end of the dream.
That Sunday morning, as my pastor preached, the dream replayed before
my eyes more clearly and distinctly during the sermon. The Holy Spirit
revealed to me that the Lord and I were seeing the people as they
were walking out their destiny IN the realm of TIME. The other
story was in the spiritual realm OUTSIDE of TIME –He had allowed
me to see the story as it was in His heart from before the foundation
of the world. I was seeing the desire of His heart. The one in His
heart was not on paper, but like a video playing a movie with lots
of different story lines, plots, and characters. I was becoming frustrated
with the process of ‘them walking their part of the story out’. Being
a writer, knowing how the story was going to end, and “waiting, waiting,
waiting “to see the final draft was really getting to me.
He said, "What you are seeing
here in my heart is the result of the words I spoke out into the atmosphere
before the foundations of the earth and they are a sure foundation.
They are written on the table of my heart. My people have taken some
detours from the steps or paths I ordered/established for them; some
have even fallen down. Their times of detours and falling down have
caused some problems which some of them focus on too much”. He said,
“I am not moved by what I see written on that paper. If only they
could see what I see. You see the story being rewritten as they are
getting up and getting back on course in the steps I established.
I promised that restoration. By the time they get to their destination
the story will be completely rewritten and it will read just the way
you saw it outside of time."
(Psa 139:1418 NRSV) I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame
was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately
woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed. How weighty to me are your thoughts,
O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them--they are
more than the sand; I come to the end--I am still with you.
NRSV
(Psa 37:23 NIV)
If the LORD delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm;
(Psa 37:24 NIV)
though he stumbles, he will not fall,
for the LORD upholds him with his hand. Our steps are made firm
by the LORD, when he delights in our way; though we stumble, we
shall not fall headlong, for the LORD holds us by the hand.
(Isa 46:9-11 NIV)
Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there
is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the
end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. From
the east, I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to
fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what
I have planned, that will I do.
(Eph
1:4 NIV) For he chose us in him before the creation of
the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined
us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance
with his pleasure and will--According as he has chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure
of his will.
Psa 23:3 NIV)
he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for
his name's sake.
(Acts 3:20 NIV) and that hwe may send the Christ,
who has been appointed for you--even Jesus. He must remain in heaven
until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised
long ago through his holy prophets.
Isa 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build
the old waste places: thou shall raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shall be called, The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in. (and being recipients of restoration
they shall become facilitators of the restoration)
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