Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Over the weekend I had a dream that I wanted to share along with a couple of scriptures that God has shown me since. In my dream, I was in a house and there was a storm approaching. The winds were starting to howl and it was getting very dark. There was one particular cloud that started to drift over the house. It was a dark, square-shaped cloud that had four spouts coming down from the bottom of the cloud. As I continued to watch this cloud I realized each spout was taking turns spewing fire down to the earth. One of these dropped a raging inferno right in the front yard of the house I was in. In my dream I remember being very afraid. It was a huge fire and it was quickly spreading to everything in the yard.
The next thing I saw was an unknown man with an extinguisher and he quickly put the whole fire out. In my dream I remember feeling very relieved. I felt threatened by the fire and I felt that the man had saved us. I also remember walking out to the faucet on the side of our house and shutting off the water that was connected to the man’s extinguisher. As I did, I said, “Wow, you got here fast!” This was the end of my dream.
As I kept going back to the dream throughout the day and asking God for revelation, He showed me tongues of fire like in Acts 2. Although in my dream I felt this cloud and fire were something to be feared they were actually a sign of Holy Spirit falling. My fear of this Holy Spirit fire was what gave permission to the enemy to extinguish the flames. And he didn’t waste any time in doing so. He was glad to make me think he was helping me.
One scripture God showed me since my dream is 2 Corinthians 1:9-10:
9 Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
In my dream, I was trusting in my own abilities to take care of myself. I wasn’t trusting in the God that was asking me to go into His fire. I wasn’t trusting in the God that would be with me in the fire. Am I willing to go into any fire He calls me into knowing that He will be with me and deliver me?
Zechariah 13:9 says:
9 I will bring the one-third through the fire,
Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
Am I willing to go into the refining fire? It may even be a furnace of affliction as it says in Isaiah 48:10. Sometimes it takes drastic measures to burn off the things that are holding us back in our walk with God.
Final Thoughts…
In the next couple of months and probably even years, the safest place for us to be is going to be in God’s refining fire. He has started and is going to keep purging everything that is not gold or silver. There is no reason for us to try to hold onto anything else. It won’t stand up in the fire and it will only distract us from God’s best for us. Lord, teach us all how to submit to Your refining fire. We want to continually die to ourselves so that we can live for You. We repent for not going where You have asked us to go. We repent for putting fear on a higher throne than You. Let Your fire fall!