God has worked so much in me since the last time I posted on here. He has shown me over and over again how much easier all this is if I just stay in Him and not worry about any of the rest. I now understand that the child I so long for will be given to me if its His Will for me and I am now satisfied with that answer. He has shown me that He longs for us to love Him just as we long for His love. There is a place in Him that only his children can fill just as there is a place in me that only He can fill.
A couple of months ago, the Lord gave me a dream. At the time I believed it was for this one person whom the Lord told me it was for; however, God has continued to stir this dream up inside of me while giving more light and further interpretation to it and now I know this dream is meant for all God's children as well as the Word of the Lord which was given to me following the dream.
The DREAM:
There is a fortress and inside in an inner room is a child sitting alone in the room in a chair. The room is completely empty. There is a woman there, who is a witch, who torments the child. She cannot physically harm the child but she does torment him emotionally and mentally. My heart aches for this child and I just want to break in there and grab him and take him far away from there, but I know that if I do the authorities will take him from me and return him to her, as the child is there legally. She is the legal guardian. Also, she would be very angry if I were to take him away from there and once the child is returned to her she would take her anger out on him and the torment would be that much worse for him. I am then given the correct way to handle the situation and I'm told to "set up watch" next door so I can then get the "proof needed" to legally free the child from this woman. I go next door (which is like a tower) and I "set up watch" in the room at the top and there are others there with me and we wait to get the "proof needed".
The INTERPRETATION:
The child in the dream represents the new heart which God gives us (Ezekiel 11:9 and Ezekiel 36:26). The new heart is child like which is why God says to come to Him as a child. (Matthew 19:14 - But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.")
The woman (witch) in the dream represents the enemy that torments the new heart with all of our failings and sins keeping our new heart locked up in bondage and unable to grow closer to God, which He is calling us to do.
"Setting up watch" represents praying and waiting on the Lord to give direction and following His way and not ours or obeyeing when He speaks. Our way never accomplishes freedom only God can do this. (Habakkuk 2:1- I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart*, And watch to see what He will say to me . . .) and (Isaiah 21:8- . . . I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.)
*ramparts means - fortification or a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place. Other versions of the Bible have this word as "watchtower".
WORD FROM THE LORD (for those who will hear):
I have brought you out of the house of bondage and you have not obeyed My voice. Judges 6:8-10
You have lied about the Lord and said “it is not He” and “neither will evil come upon me nor shall I see sword or famine”. And the Prophet becomes wind for the Word is not in him. Thus shall it be done to him. Jeremiah 5:12-13
Do you not fear Me? Says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My Presence? Who has placed the sand as the boundry of the sea? By a perpetual decree that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But you have a defiant and rebellious heart. You have revolted and departed. You do not say in your heart, “let me fear the Lord my God who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for me the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away and your sins have withheld good from you. Jeremiah 5:22 -25
Also, I have set watchmen over you saying listen to the sound of the trumpet, but you have said you will not listen. Stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk in it, then you will find rest for your soul. But you have said you will not walk in it. Jeremiah 6:16-17
Return backslider, says the Lord and I will not cause My anger to fall on you for I am merciful. I will not remain angry forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God. Return O backsliding child, says the Lord, for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:12 -15
HEAR MY WORDS or behold I will certainly bring calamity on you – the fruit of your thoughts. Because you have not headed My Words nor My Laws, but rejected it. Jeremiah 6:19
If you hear My Words my covenant with you will be . . . ISAIAH 54 -
"Sing, O barren, You [who] have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You [who] have not labored with child! For more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
"Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.
For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
"Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
For your Maker [is] your husband, The LORD of hosts [is] His name; And your Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.
"For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
"For this [is] like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
"O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.
All your children [shall be] taught by the LORD, And great [shall be] the peace of your children.
In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Indeed they shall surely assemble, [but] not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
"Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue [which] rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness [is] from Me," Says the LORD.
AMEN!
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