Monday, July 4, 2016

Dream: Now Is Your Time

05-24-15 Dream – Pomegranate tree, eagle's nest, weasels


I was in my driveway at home. I had just walked out of the front door of my home. It was a beautiful sunny day and it seemed as if I had been cooped up in the house for days. It as if I was stuck in a funk for days and was just coming out of it. I was excited to get out of the house and felt a new sense of expectancy and renewed encouragement and motivation. I was going to get in my car to leave, but I noticed there was a pomegranate tree by the driveway next to the frontend of my car. It was loaded with beautiful deep red pomegranates with huge crowns on them.
 
 
I noticed a large eagle’s nest on top of the short tree so I reached up and pulled the top of the tree over so I could look into the nest. There were two smaller nests inside the nest.
 
 
One nest had two baby eagles that looked like they had just hatched. When they saw me they immediately opened their beaks and leaned forward towards me as if to feed them. The second nest had two weasels in it and when they saw the two eaglets move towards me they rose up and stood between me and the baby birds.
 
 
One of the weasels began growling at me fiercely as if ready to attack and defend its prey. End of dream

Interpretation:

Be very careful at this time who you associate yourself with and who or what you allow yourself to be influenced by because God is about to bring you out of a time where He has had you parked. Whatever the vehicle in the dream may mean to you, your business, career or maybe ministry, whatever it is, it may seem like every aspect of your life has been at a standstill, but it has not. God has been at work on you internally and relationally because both of these areas will have great impact on you in the season you are about to enter and will determine how successful you will be. Things are about to take off again. The flow of provision, increase and prosperity will begin move forward, rushing mightily, and for some, even overflowing their banks. Pun intended. The pomegranates represents God’s sweet anointing; fresh and free flowing. It also represents the fruitfulness many of you are accustom to enjoying, but have not experienced for some time now. Joy, wisdom, good health and even new growth is just ahead. It is within reach and can be easily attained just as easy as I reached up and pulled the top of the tree down toward me to look into the nest. It is done by faith because God rewards faithfulness. The internal work being done is to rid us of compromise, which is the result of being double-minded. So God has been shining light in our darkness so that we will repent and make course corrections in our hearts. I believe this is represented by the young eaglets in the nest. What God has been doing in us is new and delicate. It must be nurtured and cared for carefully to bring it to maturity. They can represent many different things such as a seers anointing, prophetic person, revelatory gifts, breakthrough or the ability to see in the realm of the Spirit, which is rare, but one thing is certain and that is that it represents a double portion/anointing being released. Compromise will bring certain death to this if it is not dealt with. The weasels in the nest represent heart attitudes, but also relationships in our lives the Lord has been dealing with, some to end and some to strengthen. IF the Lord is leading you to end a relationship you may have to have the courage to confront someone in love, but then if the Lord is leading you to strengthen a relationship you may have to be willing to be reconciled. Only you and the Lord know. Weasels would be very dangerous to young eaglet hatchlings and would only seek to devour them. No other purpose for them to be in the nest! Prophetically, a weasel represents a: person that won’t keep a promise; “weasels out”; squealer; informant; wimp; betrayal; warning not to befriend former enemies; they seek to defeat and devour you at any given time. Jesus also mentioned little foxes spoiling the vine:

Songs 2:15 Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes. NKJV

Songs 2:15 Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming! NLT

Absolute obedience to the Spirit and Word will ensure blessing promised to us through our Covenant with God.

Malachi 3:10-11 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. NLT

·        Crops – a crop is any cultivated plant, fungus, or alga that is harvested for food, clothing, livestock fodder, biofuel, medicine, or other uses. To see a crop in your dream represents the time to reap from you investments, and hard labors has come. You can expect to experience great increase in favor and financial blessings.

·        Insects – signifies minor obstacles, problems and annoyances that need to be dealt with and overcome; messengers of irritation, someone or something may be “bugging” or a “harassment” to you; insects are symbolic of exactness, attentiveness, and have keen senses; systematically devour and destroy things bite by bite; manage your thoughts and prioritize your values. Lev. 11:22; Deut. 24:19

·        Disease – Emotional upset; sickness, infirmity, bodily weakness, bondage from evil; dis-ease. Matt. 4:23; Is 53:5

Malachi 3:10-11 Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space. And I have pushed for you against the consumer, and He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts. YLT

·        Miscarry – premature delivery of a promise before the preparation process was completed to sustain life, the death of something new, curse of barrenness, aborting one’s fruit or potential, Is 66:9. The premature demise of a new beginning; abortion or loss of an idea; the failure of a project, the passing by of a promotion, or the ending of a relationship. The literal loss of a baby’s life before it was able to be born at full term. Not taking the necessary step or care to bring a new thing forth in its proper time.

The Lord is warning us to be sober and vigilant because things about to take off again. Those who have been feeling idle are about to hit the road again with full tanks. The enemy would like nothing more to reacquaint you with the wrong people, wrong associations, wrong influences or people who spitefully use you. God will give you the authority and dominion in the realm that you know you are called to, but have not seemed to have the power and authority to rule in that realm. Also, no compromise, no complaining, no murmuring and no mixture! Do it God's way without complaining and you will enter into that which the Lord has prepared for you. Remember it is just within reach, so close and easy to reach. It is just as easy I reached up to the top of the pomegranate tree and pulled it down to me. So stay focused and purpose in your heart to be obedient to do all the Lord asks of you. Your reward is within reach. This time it will not abort. This time it will not be cast before its time. This time is your time. It’s time.
 
Receive this blessing:

May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make His face shine upon you;
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you;
And give you peace.


Shalom Shalom!

Samuel

 
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Friday, July 1, 2016

Prison Ministry Report: June 30, 2016


The class continues to grow! Last night was week four and the class has more than doubled. We are just about at capacity. The Lord's presence was so tangible last night beginning with worship, during the lesson and during the anointing service. We are working on breaking free and uprooting destructive habit structures and thought patterns. Wow! The men are starting to understand that God is God, but He is also Father to them. This is foreign to many of them because many have been rejected by their earthly fathers or have never met him, but God is coming in an healing them and beginning to build and establish a new relationship with these guys. It is so amazing to see how they are so free during worship. They dance, shout, jump, cry, laugh and begin to overflow onto each other. It is an amazing sight.

Some of the truths the men have learned so far:
  • Cycles of bondage and strongholds begin with a wound, progresses to a stronghold, sin and disobedience, darkness and eventually demonic oppression.
  • A wound is just a deficit of love.
  • A stronghold is a fortress of thought. It in of itself is not demonic, but provides a way for demons to enter. "Habit - an act repeated so often that it has become involuntary. There is no new decision of mind each time the act is performed."
  • Habits are both relational and behavioral, and they affect EVERY relationship we have.
  • Sin and disobedience is how we get our "love need" met with we do not allow God to meet that need for us.
  • Darkness is not an absence of light, but a sensual love of self, a lack of revelation.
  • Demons inhabit darkness.
PURPOSES OF STRONGHOLDS
  • 1. Strongholds produce negative thoughts within us that block us from receiving or giving love.
  • 2. Strongholds restrict our knowledge of God and His love.
  • 3. Strongholds give us tunnel-vision, so we don't clearly see right from wrong.
  • 4. Strongholds shape our value systems and distort our relationships in how we value and treat other people.
  • 5. Strongholds make straight-thinking difficult, by guarding our weak spots with false feelings and emotions.
  • 6. Strongholds constantly send negative messages to our mind, will, and emotions.
Mark 1:11 "And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I Iove; with you I am well pleased. ", NIV

EVERYONE needs praise and affirmation. A need is something that, if unmet, makes a person sick. But, if met, makes a person well. And, when we get well, we can help meet the needs of others.
Each wound and criticism acts like individual building blocks of the fortresses (strongholds) in our lives. They can cause us to draw negative conclusions on how we relate to people and, ultimately, cause us to do what we do NOT want to do.


Hallelujah! The men are learning why they do what they don't want to do and how to do what they want to do.

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Houston, Texas 77014

Receive this blessing:

May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make His face shine upon you;
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you;
And give you peace.


Shalom Shalom!

Samuel