| Re: Interpreting and Understanding My Dream [message #406 is a reply to message #396] |
Mon, 28 May 2012 00:10   |
Ashleyd
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Thanks very much for your reply Seeker. I really loved reading yours and your wife's story. Not sure if Im chatting with Mr. or Mrs. Seeker but I would be delighted to chat with you both more on this topic because it's one of the reason's why I believe I was led to this forum. There were ways that I could really relate with both you from that story. After having inquired of the Lord about my Spiritual Gifts and then being given those dreams I prayed some more on what I was meant to do to prepare so that I can use my gift for the Lord's purposes. I have never known or met anyone who had gifts of the spirit like this and knew anything about it. Seeing spirits is not something that I am currently able to do except for brief flashes of things I think I see sometimes but then usually talk myself out of somehow. And like I said, its something that still seams a little frightening to me and when I was young I was terrified of the possibility and I would worry about it. More or less, I usually sense spirits rather than actually see them like I did in my dream. Since joining the church the Lord has communicated with me often through dreams and as my testimony grew of the reality of where the dreams came from I began to have more of them.
I had an experience once where I had been studying and praying and I laid down for a nap and before I laid down I knew something was going to happen. I quickly fell asleep and the details of what happened are a little fuzzy but I can remember sort of floating up high above the earth. I have had many dreams before where I dreamt that was happening, only in the other ones I usually got REALLY scared and would soon after jolt awake. And it would end up being like a falling dream only I always feel the sensation of hitting the surface and my body would literally jump and I would wake up. But this time was different. I wasn't afraid at all and only felt peace and happiness. Soon I became aware that the Lord was with me. He was teaching me and pouring pure knowledge into my mind. I cannot remember the majority of what He was telling me but I do remember the excitement of it and the amazement I felt at how much I was able to comprehend and retain and how quickly I was absorbing the information and with such clarity. It felt amazing. Then I became aware that our time was coming to an end and that I would be waking up soon. I felt determined to remember at least some of what He had shared with me. The further away I drifted from him and the closer I got to waking up no matter how hard I fought against it I began forgetting. No matter how hard I tried the information just seemed to disappear. But right before waking up there was one last bit of information that I could still remember and I told myself to repeat it over and over and was determined not to forget it. And I began repeating it over and over in my mind so as to fight the forgetting. Then, suddenly wham. I Jolted awake and as soon as my eyes opened I was still repeating what I had been told over in my head. I had a little notebook and pen that I always kept by me when I slept and I wrote it down as quickly as I could so I would not forget it. Once I wrote it down I sat and marveled over what had just happened and I had the oddest feeling that I had not just been sleeping but that my spirit had actually left my body. But I had never heard of that happening when someone was sleeping at the time so I wasn't sure if it was even possible. I only recently have learned that sometimes people's spirits can and do leave their bodies while they sleep and that feeling I had about that experience was confirmed. I was so happy to find that out. The words I wrote down sounded like scripture verses. I have looked in the scriptures and never found these verses EXACTLY anywhere. But the verses themselves ring true and do coincide with what the scriptures say. The verses were as follows: And whosoever shall abide in the light; shall abide the day And whoseoever shall not abide the day; shall be set about in darkness. And I immediately knew that the verses were pertaing to the coming day of the Lord when He would return in all of His glory for the world to see. I was given to know that it meant that everyone who seeks the Lord and gets to know Him now would be protected but those who don't seek Him early and wait would be unprepared to endure His presence and they would be burned up at his coming and stuck in darkness and confusion. Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth kind of thing. So the verses were not exactly super "fun." But I was and am still amazed and grateful that I was able to remember them and that the Lord would even endeavor to teach me anything. lol.
So I have been given dreams from time to time and my testimony continues to grow in the reality that He does give normal, lay people like me dreams. Though I do sometimes still question at times whether certain ones come from Him. Because likewise I am bothered in my sleep by evil spirits sometimes too and those dreams are always horrible. And then you also have your normal run of the mill dreams cooked up by your subconscious and imagination and judging from the craziness of some of my dreams I must have an active imagination.
But back to the original topic. I don't see spirits when I am awake. And aside from the times I have heard the Lord call my name out of sleep and the one time that my cousin and I heard some heavenly noise that we couldn't explain. (We had fallen asleep in the car while on the highway and didn't know we fell asleep -obviously, but what woke us both up was some heavenly sound that to this day I couldn't tell you what it was except that it wasn't earthly. I had no idea she had heard the sound too and my mind would have probably soon forgotten it if she hadn't asked me "Did you hear that?" And suddenly I said, "Wait, You heard it too?") But aside from those instances I don't really see things or hear things when I am fully awake.
I know that I have conversed with my Father who passed away last year in my dreams more than once. The first time it happened was not long after he died and I asked the Lord if he would allow us to speak while I was asleep because by that time I had figured out that our spirits can converse with others while we are sleeping. I asked him to please just allow me to remember enough to know it happened. And then that night while I slept I did in fact talk with my Father although I wasn't allowed to remember most of the conversation, just like I had asked, I remembered just enough to know he was ok and that I did talk with him. Since that time I have talked with my father a few times in my sleep but usually am never permitted to remember anything we talk about.
So after trying to accept that those recent dreams are from HF and were an answer to prayers - and he knowing that communicating with me through dreams seems to work for me because I have Faith in that avenue- used that means to give me my answer. But since then I have been at a loss to find out exactly what I am supposed to do. So I prayed for help and guidance and that I would be led to whomever or whatever tools I needed to better understand that type of Gift and what a seer really is and how to prepare myself for what he wants. I have been studying my scriptures on it since then and still praying. But I still have no idea what to do with that info. Obviously I need to be prepared but how do you use a gift you never have before? Is it just something that's going to suddenly start to happen at some point? These are all questions I am asking the Lord but when I was on this forum reading and saw others talking about seers and something about a book I knew it wasn't a coincidence. And I then asked the Lord if it was He who brought me here and I felt the Spirit confirm that to me. So I guess Im just here mostly to learn and I am eager to do so. :)Sorry for the very long winded reply.
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