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I had this dream a while back and knew that this dream was from the Lord and to share this exhortation with His people. I woke up from this dream with a burning in my heart. I have meant to share this earlier, but got busy with moving and all. The Lord had reminded me of this dream recently while meditating on His ways.
I saw in this dream many people. I saw that when these people lost their girlfriend or boyfriend they would feel the need to find another partner quickly. They had a fear of being alone. I saw clearly that one of the people was a true brethren (This tells me that the people in the dream are Christians). I saw that this group had relationship with harlots.
I was so grieved with jealousy seeing this group of people depend on relationships that were not healthy that I put it to heart to be an example of one who can live without depending on a boyfriend - relationship (dependent on man). I wanted them to see that they could do it too. So, I set fourth earnestly to do this, to help them see that they do not need to depend on relationships.
I felt the burning of jealousy. It was so real. (God's burden was laid upon me)
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
When I woke up from this dream I pondered the dream and ask the Lord for understanding. He opened my mind and made me understand.
The brother in the dream represents God's people who are dependent on man to know Him. Seeing this group having relationships with harlots means that many Christians have a dependence on man to know God. They receive their truth from man instead of seeking God themselves and having the Holy Spirit reveal His word to them. Its only through the revealed word (rhema) that Christians grow in confidence and trust in the Lord. Man cannot give you confidence in His word. Only God could do that and it is through seeking Him for ourselves. Man's teaching are to be used to point us to Christ and stir us on to seeking Christ ourselves.
Teachers and preachers should fear to have people look to them, but always desire to point His sheep away from them and unto Christ! When the Lord sees His people depend on man to know Him, He sees that they have committed harlotry, spiritual fornication. For man did not die for us and give us life, But Jesus. It is through Jesus that we have been given grace that enables us to KNOW HIM and have power to live godly (2Peter1:10; 1John2:27, Titus2:11-14). God is a jealous God and should be above man (James4:5)!
Seeing in my dream that the people were trying to find a new partner quick after loosing their old one means that many of His children depend on man and cry out to man for help instead of crying out to the Lord. God will not save them from their ways/trials when we direct our heart toward man for help. Our voice should always be directed to God for everything. Just like the psalmists who always directed their cry/help to the Lord. Their hearts were made STEADFAST toward His word because they KNEW HIM. When we seek to KNOW HIM intimately He WILL make our hearts steadfast toward Him, where we are not easily move to the left or right, but are able to stand firm on His word no matter what.
Meditate on psalm 57,61, 62, 91
Psalm 62 is a BEAUTIFUL psalm.
David is able to boast how he KNOWS that God is His defense, his salvation, that God is his rock and refuge! He is able to boast with confidence because he KNOWS God. He has a true relationship with God who has tasted His goodness, seen His faithfulness. When you taste the Lord it will bring trust and confidence in God for everything. And now, we have a much richer promise than David. So much more grace has been bestowed on New testament believers because of the finished work of Jesus! We have promises in the New Testament that are greater than those of the Old testament. But, many Christians do not realize this because they have not sought to know God in order that the Lord would give them a revelation of the freedom and rest (Heb.4) that is in Christ. Man can not give us the revelation that sets us free and makes us trust in God. Man can only point us to Jesus.
Psa 62:5 My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
Psa 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be moved
When we put God first, above man we will not be easily moved from His word. The Lord will make us steadfast in all His ways. We will not be shaken!
Psa 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory;
The rock of my strength,
And my refuge, is in God.
Psa 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psa 62:9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
We cannot put our whole trust in man for there is imperfection. All men are a vapor, unlike the Lord who is ETERNITY. Whom then shall we put our trust toward and pour out our hearts?
Psa 62:10 Do not trust in oppression,
Nor vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase,
Do not set your heart on them.
Psa 62:11 God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.
I say again, whom shall we put our trust in and pour out our hearts too?
Psa 62:12 Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy;
For You render to each one according to his work.
Grace(power from God that enables us to live godlyTitus2:11-12; 2Peter1:3) is multiplied to us when we come to know Him (2Peter1:2).
So many Christians are learning about God through other Christians and then they wonder why they cannot overcome the world or have rivers of living water flowing out of them. It is not a bad thing to learn about God through other Believers, but don't put your dependence on them to KNOW Him. So many have knowledge of God that comes from other Christians and not from God directly. Man has become God to them instead of Christ. There is a deep unhealthy dependence on man in the church today. You will hear and see many Christians running to and fro, from one conference to another desiring to experience God or to find Him there when the Lord is in US! I do not speak of the harlot conferences with false teachers (Todd Bentley, Rick Joyner...) but conferences with godly preachers. I am not saying that these conferences are bad, but that God sees the heart and many run to conferences to experience God through man, trusting that man will revive them. Many have spent more time reading and listening to sermons from Godly preachers than they spend with God alone.
The dependence on man has made many Christians become very bittered toward other Christians because they have put man above God, expecting them to help them stop sinning. They expect man to be perfect like God. When you depend on man and put trust in him you will become bitter because you are expecting man to be perfect like God, you expect them to be there for you and do the things that ONLY God can do for you. This is insane. Many of His people are like the Israelites who wanted a man to be their king, to stand in the gap for them instead of God. They want man to do the work for them, and hear God for them. They will not grow to maturity unless they make God above ALL. Many are still in bondage to the world and the principles of it because truthfully, they do not believe that God is enough, that they are complete in Him (Col.2:8-9) If, we would spend more time with God above man we would see how true and faithful God is to us, to His word. If, we would put God above man we would not be deceived so easily with the many false doctrines out there.
Let me remind you that I am not against teachers and preachers. God has raised many godly saints to exhort and help build up the body. But, teachers and preachers are raised up to direct His people to Him and not to themselves. There should be a godly fear in preachers to make sure that His sheep are not looking to them for things that only God can give. Woe to me if I take pleasure in His sheep looking up to me for truth and not encouraging them to seek Christ above ALL! Man cannot set anyone free, they can only direct you to God. It is Him alone that sets us free. Look to Jesus!
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