The Lord showed me before it happened.
I am usually an open book on my platforms. I am usually sharing immediately, knowing, rather it’s my storm or not, I could possibly be a beacon to someone in the distance. But, this I didn’t. Even when I felt the usual tug, I stayed silent, like it was my own and not meant for public eyes, even tho I felt the swirl in my gut to release.
I didn’t. I waited.
Maybe that was just me figuring this whole thing out. Maybe that was me just trying to be strong. Or… maybe it was me just pushing down and barreling through like it never happened.
Yesterday, it was 9 months since my Dad died.
NINE represents a lot in scripture. I am not a numerologist, but I do believe there are signs and representations in the Bible.
The 9 fruits of the spirit. Christ died at hour 9 of the day. There are Nine Attributes of God. The number nine often marks the end of a divine cycle or period. In the context of the Old Testament, every ninth year represented the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one.
You understand what I am saying. I am releasing this in my 9th month.
The Lord showed me before it happened.
The Lord showed me my Dad laying in the same bed he passed away in, before he did. I know what that sounds like to some who do not understand dreams and visions, or the language of God. But, rather you believe or not. It’s true.
I am coming on this platform today to testify that God still 100% talks through dreams to those who will listen and discern.
Having dreams is not out of the ordinary for me. It’s normal. Praying and asking for meaning, source, etc is not unusual for me. I am on alert.
I went to bed like any other night.
Me dream:
I went to a hospital. I was looking for my friend, Amanda, and I could not find her at all. I was searching the halls, and I was thinking to myself she should be here and she is not. While looking for her, I saw my step-mother, my dad’s wife, Karen, in the halls. (note: at some point i woke up and went to the bathroom, laid back down, and picked up right where i left off in the dream.) I was confused, why is she at the hospital, so, I went to her to ask if she was OK, and why she was there. I followed her behind 2 closed doors into another area of the hospital and I saw a room with a door on the right, and a window with curtains on the left. She walked into this room and I followed. I said, “what are you doing here?” She turned, and my Dad was lying in a hospital bed with no legs. I said, “what happened to his legs?” I looked at Dad, he was lying there on this back covered with the blanket.
I woke up. I sat up in bed. I was sitting up right, with a concerned looked on my face, like, what was that, what does it mean.
I know some of you are probably thinking that is nothing. He had no legs. He wasn’t… gone. But.. let me finish.
I asked the Lord what does this mean, and I heard, and it hit me like a ton of bricks… “YOUR DAD IS ABOUT TO HAVE HIS LEGS KNOCKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM.”
Why was it spoken in that way? I don’t know, but I do know I UNDERSTOOD it’s meaning.
I look over and grab my phone to write it down in my notes, and I had a missed call, and a voicemail from my older brother, Jr. I frantically get VM pulled up. He says: Crystal, you need to get to the hospital, it’s not good. (i am paraphrasing this voicemail).
It’s the afternoon by now. I sleep late. And the voicemail was from that morning. As I was dreaming this. Dad was AT THE HOSPITAL.
I hop up and get ready. I call my husband to tell him. I call my other brothers. I call my Mom. So she can be praying for him and her kids as well.
Then it happens. The C A L L.
But, they got him back and we were off to the hospital.
I told my brother, Jr, this dream I had.
I told my inner circle friends this dream I had.
And to pray specific against this.
It was strategic prayers I prayed.
When I got to the hospital, I walked down a hallway, behind 2 closed doors and saw a room with a door on the right, and a window with curtains on the left. It was the exact same room I saw in my dream.
I knew.
I called my friend, the one from the dream, and could not get a hold of her. And I never did until a day later. The friend I was looking for in the hospital that I couldn’t find, was also the friend I reached out to that I couldn’t find. (Please know, I do not say this in anger or bitterness towards her. This was just how it played out in my dream, and then also in real life. It is just an example of it “coming to pass.” I was going through something, but she was as well. She was surviving her own personal battle with Addison’s disease during all this and was just trying to stay alive.)
Here’s where, I struggled.
I know the power of words. I spoke nothing but life. I prayed against the spirit of death. I prayed against what I saw.
But. I just knew…
I spoke to my husband, I said I’ve prayed it all. Why did I see what I saw if my prayers aren’t to be against that. Was the Lord preparing me? Was the Lord wanting me to pray a certain prayer?
I went in to all this, feeling like I had insider information before it happened, knowing it would happen. How do you process this?
All I know, to say to any of this, was it hit me strong one day, and I told Sean, my husband, be alert to see me one day doing a facebook life teachings on dreams. Because they are real. This is all real.
I’ve found peace and solitude in knowing that it confirmed my faith more. Some may wonder, how, or why, since my Dad passed away on October 20th (my first born’s birthday, nonetheless,) I can give you my testimony now! To say the Lord is real, and alive and he is 100% speaking today.
In the Bible, dreaming dreams is referred to 115 times in the English translation. Some suggest that since we have the Bible, there is no longer any need for God to speak through a dream. However, the Bible itself is clear that as God pours out His Spirit in the last days, the visitations from Heaven will be accompanied by both visions and dreams. Since dreams and visions are going to be manifested through believers as the Holy Spirit begins flowing through out the earth in the last days, then we need to be made aware of these two methods of communication.
We are standing in the last days, which are marked by an outpouring of God’s Spirit. The outpouring of the Spirit includes prophecy through dreams and visions. We can miss the outpouring the Holy Spirit if we don’t have our ears tuned to hear. We will miss the voice of God for this generation if we, like Nicodemus, are only prepared to think naturally and miss the need to listen spiritually (John 3:4).
LOGOS / RHEMA
Logos, refers principally to the total inspired Word of God and to Jesus, who is the living Word.
Rhema, which refers to the spoken word. Rhema literally means an utterance.
Dreams are rhema words from God to build and strengthen.
PARABLES
Jesus’ preferred teaching method through the Bible was to use parables. Whenever Jesus spoke about the Kingdom, it was in parables. Through dreams, the Holy Spirit teaches the principal of referencing (linking truth with truth) seeking out truth, connecting the dots.
Parables keep us in communication with the father. If we knew everything there would be no need to communicate with him at all and what kind of relationship is that.
WHAT ARE DREAMS FOR?
Dreams relate what is happening in the spirit realm to the natural person. Dreams can build faith (Judges 6-8.) God progressively built faith in Gideon by a series of events and the final tool used was a dream. Dreams can be for revealing secrets, answering questions, warnings, guidance, correction, disclosure (future), prophetic words. Dreams have the power to divide between soul and spirit and act as a disclosure of the thoughts and intents of the heart
The Bible reveals that dreams have the power to divide between soul and spirit because they are a deposit of God’s living word to us today. You can be strengthened in faith by hearing the dreams of others, like Gideon, who was strengthened in faith by hearing two enemy soldiers sharing a dream. (Judges 6-8) God is still speaking, and He didn’t stop speaking at the completion of the Bible. What He speaks today will be in line with what He said in the past. Jesus is the same yesterday as today (Hebrews 13:8.)
IF DREAMS WERE IGNORED
no Isaac (Gen 20:3, 6-7)
no Israel (Gen 41:37-41, 45:5, 50:20)
no Solomon’s Kingdom (1 Kings 3:5-15)
no Jesus (Matt 1:20-24, 2:13,12)
INTERPRETATION
Dreams and their correct interpretation bypass the heart’s natural defense mechanisms (our logic) and allow the Holy Spirit to bring conviction and correction. Interpreting dreams brings Kingdom. If we lift our eyes and learn to interpret, then there is truly a white harvest field of souls before us (John 4:35)
Dreams relate what is happening in the spirit realm to the natural person. They can only be interpreted if the person is tuned into God. If we have a different interpretation that does not agree with the Bible, then you got a problem. Always be biblical centric. If you go for secular interpretations the dream is not going to get answered, there are things to be done for the kingdom that are not going to get done. What you misdiagnose you mistreat. Dreams can only be interpreted if the person is tuned into God. There are times when certain parts of what you see are not completely understood at that moment.
DREAMS ARE A REAL PART OF THE LANGUAGE OF GOD.. THIS IS HOW I KNOW!
