[Joshua]

About a week ago I was dreaming. The dream seemed almost real as of course some dreams do. I was walking with Jesus and the twelve disciples. As we were walking along some of the disciples split off from us and went to other places to share the good news. There was no sorrow for these departures even though we did not know when we would see them again only that we would. There were only a few of us left when we came upon a heavily injured man. He was still alive but could barley move and pretty much couldn’t formulate a complete thought. I took pity on this man and picked him up and brought him with us. I knew that Jesus could heal him of his wounds and make him whole again. The man smelled so bad that it was hard for me not to gag and he was so bloody and filthy that I got covered. I did not feel that I could just leave him so I carried on. The man kept trying to make me understand something that I knew couldn’t be right. After a while we came to a stream. I put the man down next to it and suddenly he had his face fully into the water gulping down mouthfuls of water. I also kneeled down and drank from the stream. This man was famished and dehydrated. Once again, after cleaning us both up a bit I picked this man up and started to carry him once again. After a while the engorgement of how much he had drank overwhelmed him and he threw up all over me. It was gross but my compassion to help this man was greater than anything else. The man passed out while I was carrying him. I asked Jesus, “Why haven’t you just healed him? We all know that you are capable.” Jesus answered, “Because he hasn’t asked me to.” 

 

A couple of days later I was asking God what he meant to share with me through this dream. As he revealed it to me I share it with you. I have been walking with Jesus for a while. There have been people who have been around for a time. Sometimes they come back or stay in touch, sometimes they don't. We'll meet again in Heaven someday. The helpless and heavily wounded man is a representation of the trapped souls of the WMSCOG. The expectations and public corrections placed on these folks have beaten them down. The overwhelming undue influence of pressure to learn the ways of the WMS have lowered the members to a point where even some of their conversations don't make sense. The water that you both drank represents the truth but because of the bondage and torrment the members are under they cannot keep the truth inside them. You must keep bringing the truth to them. You cannot save them! When they want the truth. When they want to be healed. When they want to be free all they have to do is ask me.

[MountainMom]

[MountainMom]

He also forgot the word "not". 

[Love'n Honey]

Then it would read ChurchDestroyer101 is not lame. That's not the message I was going for….. Ok. I'll stop being me. =) Love and Honey!!

[Joshua]

I just want to bump this for you. Perhaps you have also had some dreams or visions that you would like to share.

[Jesus_will_set_u_free]

Now that you are talking about dreams, there were a few times in the past that I pray to God, for Jesus to be revealed in one of my love one dreams, and for Jesus to show my love one the real truth and show her that the 2 gods she is  really worshipping are merely human beings, many times i prayed for that. 🙁

[Joshua]

I still think that they cannot serve two masters. They will despise one and love the other. If their mother god is all about love then the members must not worship their other god except out of obligation. Something's not right here!

[Joshua]

This is a combination of a dream and some of the reading I have been doing as of late. It's also possible that this is a call for change as we have now entered a new year. Here goes:

As I was dreaming I was searching through a flea market for unusual and attractive items to purchase. For those of you not familiar with the term flea market, it's a place where a lot of people come to sell things that they've owned but no longer want or have use for. Well, as I'm walking from booth to booth looking at what is being offered I come across a very rare Rembrant painting. Don't ask me how I knew it was a Rembrant I just knew it was a very rare and expensive piece of art. Unfortunately this painting had not been very well taken care of and had also been splattered with mud. It was in no where near perfect condition. I knew that if it was restored it would be worth quite a fortune but in its current condition I doubt that anyone in their right mind would even display it. I bought it knowing the value that it posessed. The problem that I faced is that I have no idea how to restore artwork and I'm sure that if I tried to clean it up I would only succed in destroying it. The treasure would be lost forever. In my dream I made the right choice and took it to a professional. The expence was more than I thought it would be but knowing the potential value I paid the price. The professional took painstaking care and pride cleaning and restoring this lost Rembrant painting and when he was done it looked as if it had just been painted. Everyone who saw it was amazed and after hearing the story of how I found it almost lost and disgarded they were even further amazed.

I woke up understanding exactly what this dream means. God places a high value on us and even though we are dirty and covered in mud He still paid the price for us and makes us whole. When you look at others, the members of the WMSCOG for example, do we see the masterpiece of Gods hand or the mud and filth of the WMSCOG? When they look at us they are taught to view us as dead and lost. If God viewed us as dead and lost then He would not have paid the price that He did for us. What's more is that He makes us whole and includes us in His family. When you look at others, do you see the mud or the masterpiece? Remember, God is the one that cleans a person up. If we try to do it we will likely make things worse and possibly lose the masterpiece for all eternity. Our job is to see the value in others and to treat them with the value that God places on them. Make this your goal for the New Year and maybe the friends and loved ones that are trapped in the WMSCOG will come out and get cleaned up by a God that loves them.

[Joshua]

I just wanted to bump this so that others could read and relate to some of the ideas and dreams written here. Enjoy!

[Joshua]

I was talking to a friend yesterday and I remembered this post I made several years ago. Please respond if anything here relates to your situation or if these stories touch you at all.