Dreams. Sometimes they are circumstantial. Other times they are spiritually significant. Last Sunday night (June 10, 2007), several of the girls in my bunk area were having bad dreams. Not nightmares. But disturbing, realistic, spiritual dreams. Monday evening, we prayed over each bed, asking the Lord that they would no longer have these bad dreams. (See Brady’s blog on dreams.) That night, I had disturbing, spiritual dreams and so did a few other girls. Did God hear us? Should we give up?? Answers: Yes and No, respectively.
Tuesday evening, we prayed again, seeking the other WR’ers to pray with us. While we were praying around the house outside, the Lord reminded me what He had been teaching me this past year- I should pray for the Lord’s filling with good where He’s taken away. The girls in my room and I took this to heart, praying that God would replace the bad dreams with prophetic dreams.
That night, I slept soundly! No bad dreams! I woke up an hour before my alarm, thanking God that I had no bad dreams. Then I fell back to sleep and had this dream: A red barn and silo in the background and a large field of tall wheat in the foreground. In my sleep, I remember asking the Lord what this means. It didn’t look anything like the parts of Swaziland or South Africa I had been! He said, “It’s about the WR.” So I thought, “OK, I’ll remember this barn….” And the Spirit pointed out, “It’s not the barn, see…” and then I proceeded to see many other pictures of tall wheat in fields. It looked like a slide show, flipping from one picture to another, some with rolling hills of wheat, another with wheat and a water tower, another with a windmill in the background, another with flat fields. Then I woke up.
The safari filled my mind most of the day. (See my Lions… Blog). At the end of the day, I was mentioning my dream to a couple girls. One girl in another room had the same dream! She saw fields of wheat. As she was mentioning this, the Lord finally revealed the meaning to me – the harvest of people’s souls, plentiful and ready for God to reap into His kingdom. But before I could speak, the other girl who dreamed spoke this same meaning.
God also confirmed this with Scripture, through my daily readings throughout the prior week. Currently, I’m reading in Psalms, Proverbs, Jeremiah, and Matthew. While on the WR, as I sought the Lord’s face for ministry leading, I read Jeremiah 25:3 – “I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.”
Before I left for the WR I read Matthew 9:37 – “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
God amazed me in being faithful to answer our prayers – taking away the bad dreams and replacing them with prophetic dreams.
Please pray with me that His harvest will be plentiful, and that we as His laborers will be used to reap His harvest. In other words, pray that many, many will come to know the Lord this year on the WR, specifically praying for the upcoming children’s camp and construction ministries in South Africa. After all, the Harvest is plentiful.
How about you? Will you be a laborer with me? Through prayer for our group and the many peoples who have never heard? Through going to the nations? Through sharing with others in your hometown?
