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So I'm stoked! It's so amazing when you ask God something and He answers...and yes obviously not in ways we expect.!!!!
All right, so Pastor Ken just finished up a series on the book of Daniel and living in a Babylonian culture which essentially means confusion, an anti-God city. He simply stated that we have been inserted into our culture to interpret the dreams and visions of others. God speaks to non-believers ALL THE TIME they just don't recognize it!
Now for me, the past week or so, I've wanted to know Jesus in a REAL way, hard to explain other then that I just need this doubt to be non-existant! "God I BELIEVE, but forgive my UNBELIEF" Seriously, I've been in some just really wierd funky fog of confusion and just plain CRAZINESS it seems like. So I begin praying and I get on the subject of prophecy. I see pastors prophesizing over kids, saying things they couldn't possible know unless it was from God, and well I was like "God I can't tell you what to do but a suggestion...prophecy would be really cool, it's never happened to me, and it would sure seem like you're REAL if that happened..."
I got my prophecy...just not how I expected, it wasn't through a pastor but through me...hmmm. Here's what happened: I had a prophetic dream, not just for myself but for our generation as well, I didn't realize this as prophetic until just recently. My dream was about the Armor of God in a video game setting. People (myself included) were walking around holding some sort of black veil type thing in front of their face, so obviously they couldn't see what was happening, where they were going, etc... it was called the Helmet of Salvation...odd right. The next focus of the dream came upon the Shield of Faith and the Sword of the Spirit...it was ineffective. The sword was too small to be able to do any damage, and whenever we went up to attack something, we would stumble and drop the sword. The armor was too HEAVY!
This is my take on it: the black helmet of salvation is the opposite of authentic Christianity. It's a mask, just going through the motions: church, small group, outreach, etc...but not TRUELY believing it...it's deceit, no one can see what's happening b/c they have bought into their own deceit and don't know anymore what is truth and what is a lie, just walking around blind!
The issue of the shield and sword is that too many Christians aren't prepared. Not gonna lie, we want the rosy perfect life right...but when it comes to obstacles and attacks we haven't learned how to handle it and so aren't sure what do...our feeble attempts fail (dropping the sword, can't lift the shield high, etc...) The armor is considered too heavy a burden and yes myself included has considered quitting and going back to the life before Christ...taking the easy way out. We are heavily run by emotions instead of fact. It's a mark of FAITH to still believe even when you don't FEEL like it!! But God's not too fond of the easy way out he's all about the character building stuff: the good news is that God doesn't want his people to quit, and give up, but he wants us to know he has the strength we need in our weakness and embrace it! Like a video game, there's always a second chance, a chance to start over...it's the same with God isn't it!
Embrace WEAKNESS for it produces STRENGTH which allows for VICTORY! Even though you "feel" like you're losing, believe the Word of God that there is indeed VICTORY, there is HOPE! You may have LOST this battle but Christ has already WON the war!!!
So I'm stoked! It's so amazing when you ask God something and He answers...and yes obviously not in ways we expect.!!!!
All right, so Pastor Ken just finished up a series on the book of Daniel and living in a Babylonian culture which essentially means confusion, an anti-God city. He simply stated that we have been inserted into our culture to interpret the dreams and visions of others. God speaks to non-believers ALL THE TIME they just don't recognize it!
Now for me, the past week or so, I've wanted to know Jesus in a REAL way, hard to explain other then that I just need this doubt to be non-existant! "God I BELIEVE, but forgive my UNBELIEF" Seriously, I've been in some just really wierd funky fog of confusion and just plain CRAZINESS it seems like. So I begin praying and I get on the subject of prophecy. I see pastors prophesizing over kids, saying things they couldn't possible know unless it was from God, and well I was like "God I can't tell you what to do but a suggestion...prophecy would be really cool, it's never happened to me, and it would sure seem like you're REAL if that happened..."
I got my prophecy...just not how I expected, it wasn't through a pastor but through me...hmmm. Here's what happened: I had a prophetic dream, not just for myself but for our generation as well, I didn't realize this as prophetic until just recently. My dream was about the Armor of God in a video game setting. People (myself included) were walking around holding some sort of black veil type thing in front of their face, so obviously they couldn't see what was happening, where they were going, etc... it was called the Helmet of Salvation...odd right. The next focus of the dream came upon the Shield of Faith and the Sword of the Spirit...it was ineffective. The sword was too small to be able to do any damage, and whenever we went up to attack something, we would stumble and drop the sword. The armor was too HEAVY!
This is my take on it: the black helmet of salvation is the opposite of authentic Christianity. It's a mask, just going through the motions: church, small group, outreach, etc...but not TRUELY believing it...it's deceit, no one can see what's happening b/c they have bought into their own deceit and don't know anymore what is truth and what is a lie, just walking around blind!
The issue of the shield and sword is that too many Christians aren't prepared. Not gonna lie, we want the rosy perfect life right...but when it comes to obstacles and attacks we haven't learned how to handle it and so aren't sure what do...our feeble attempts fail (dropping the sword, can't lift the shield high, etc...) The armor is considered too heavy a burden and yes myself included has considered quitting and going back to the life before Christ...taking the easy way out. We are heavily run by emotions instead of fact. It's a mark of FAITH to still believe even when you don't FEEL like it!! But God's not too fond of the easy way out he's all about the character building stuff: the good news is that God doesn't want his people to quit, and give up, but he wants us to know he has the strength we need in our weakness and embrace it! Like a video game, there's always a second chance, a chance to start over...it's the same with God isn't it!
Embrace WEAKNESS for it produces STRENGTH which allows for VICTORY! Even though you "feel" like you're losing, believe the Word of God that there is indeed VICTORY, there is HOPE! You may have LOST this battle but Christ has already WON the war!!!
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