To preface this blog, I sometimes get dreams with lessons and messages from God. I often contribute this to me being a one-wayer and forgetting to sit in silence and receive God’s words for me when I bring before Him struggles. The joke is when I am asleep He runs the conversation without me interrupting and trying to “help” Him. 
The Dream:
It starts off with me going to the swamp everyday. I go there to read on the banks. I go there to jet ski and boat. I go there with friends and family. I go there to watch the alligators stalk their prey. I just go. One afternoon I go to the swamp, I get on a raft and I paddle out into the middle of the body of water. I try to relax there but find myself feeling uneasy and afraid, but with a slight excitement as to what might come. Understand, you do not have to grow up in the South to know that there are alligators in the swamp.
The longer time elapsed the more I questioned “Am I going to be bitten by an alligator today?” The excitement fades and I am afraid! What have I gotten myself into? I paddled on a raft to the middle of an alligator infested swamp, what was I thinking? I start to pray, “God, please protect me from these flesh eating animals, I do not want to be attacked, I do not want to lose an arm or a leg or worse, my life. “ (Here comes the climax and result of me shutting my mouth to receive words from my Father) God looks down on me and says “Katie, my daughter, what are you doing on an unstable raft in the middle of alligator infested waters? Go home my love!” I do as He commands and paddle to the shore; I jump off the unstable raft and begin my journey home. Just as I thought the story was over, I hear a woosh sound. I look over at the raft in the water and the biggest alligator (he must have been the king of the alligators) has jumped straight into the air, jaws stretched as wide as they can be. The raft I was just resting on was devoured, I was being stalked from underneath the water and I did not know it. Once again Papa God saved my life from the enemy.
For clarity I have created a key:
Day trips to the Swamp = My daily choice I had made to go to the enemy’s camp. Not only physically going places I know I shouldn’t be but by my actions and my thoughts
Alligators = Demons/Satan stalking me to steal, kill and destroy
Unstable Raft = Representing the lack of stability, not being founded on the Rock of Jesus Christ
Psalm 40:2
New International Version (NIV)
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
Question For You
What alligators in your life are you letting get close? Will you make the choice to jump off the raft and begin the journey home? Or are you going to continue on the raft until you get bitten, or worse?
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