Engulfed in Light
This morning as I lay in bed, half awake half asleep I began
to dream.
God was showing me something…. It was as if I was dreaming
two dreams at once and one dream consisting of flooding, and what seemingly
should have been chaos. I saw large
ships full of military personnel in the middle of a city that had been
flooded. I saw people swimming in the
streets that otherwise would have been flooded with cars. I don’t have any interpretation of this part
of the dream or this other dream.
Then I immediately saw a representation of myself, my
spirit, piercing what appeared to be a sphere of light. I noticed that it took persistence but after
a while the barrier was broken and I was literally engulfed in this light. What struck me as peculiar was when I was
pressing in pushing to break the barrier, the sphere of light bent to surround
me…and just when I felt like stopping the barrier broke and I entered into the
light. I was still filled with some
darkness, but God reminded me of the scripture that talks about being filled
with light. There are actually a few:
Luke 11:34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also
is full of light. But when they are bad,
your body also is full of darkness. 35 See to it, then, that the light within
you is not darkness.
God caused me to also remember a recent conversation I had
with someone when I was explaining what people who have had near death
experiences said they experienced when they went to hell. Aside, from the screams, the fire, the
torment one common denominator among most of who have visited hell and come
back to live and tell about it, is the utter and complete separation from God
they felt.
He then revealed to me that as we are filled with light, the evil thoughts, or anything that seeks to exalt itself above
the knowledge of God, are the dark places.
They simply are places in our lives that God is absent. They either are places that are hidden, that He must reveal to us, or places where we have refused to let Him enter.
I then realized that the desires of my flesh are fading, God
is delivering me! How is this? I have always felt like I was fighting and in
fact I was, with these things I was in my own strength fighting principalities
and powers with my own intellect and knowledge. We have no power apart from God. I have no strength and the battle is His, as we press into Him, as we are transformed IN HIM... we move from being a victim into Him as the Victor!
The visual that He gave me of piercing that sphere of light,
and as I did it surround me, was His protection. He was that sphere of Light. Just about the time I was seeing this I
received a text message from a dear friend in Christ, Sieglinda who wrote these
words:
“Sending heartfelt prayers across the miles for Divine
Healing for your back and your every need this Day! We continue to choose worry or Worship- I’m
learning sometimes we experience in our physical body what is going on in the
spiritual realm of the Body in these last days ---don’t go inward, keep
reaching out. Your blogs and ministry
are right on – so far reaching, amazing, from God. “
The part of her saying don't go inward, was her saying (at least as I interpret it) is don't keep this journey to yourself, don't keep the good news to yourself, keep reaching out to others. So as I continue to move further into the center of this sphere, right into His heart (it is my desire) I want to tell the world about it! But I must go inward toward Him and reach out to others to bring them along with me on this wonderful, life changing, transforming Metamorphosis!!
God revealed to me in the dream and something that was
actually taking place at that very same time, that as we press into Him, as we
pursue Him, He surrounds us with Light, with encouragement through His
presence, His word and His people. I was
so grateful to receive that text message early this morning!! Thank you Sieglinda, not only were you
encouraging me, but you were being used so beautifully by God to confirm His
word through visions and dreams at the very moment He was speaking to me!!!!
We must pursue Him!
We must press into Him! I promise
you as I sit here and type - His word is true, His yoke is easy and His burden
is light!
He also showed me the image of the miracle of
conception. That process, of the sperm
persisting to break the seal, the barrier to enter into an egg is literally a
testimony of the Salvation and Sanctification we have through Christ. Can you see it? The journey the sperm must take
against all odds… the long journey of constantly and consisting pursuing the
prize… just getting there is half the battle, then to have the endurance, the
strength to continue until the barrier is broken…then and only then does conception
begin. That is when the relationship is
formed and all things are made new. The
two join together and multiply and as this relationship continues and the cells
which have become to numerable to count, form another living human being. This embryo grows and forms all the things he
or she needs to live life in the outside world.
Eyes to see, ears to hear, lungs to breathe… its simply and
overwhelmingly amazing. God does the
exact same thing for us supernaturally to live as spiritual beings through His
Word, His spirit. It truly is a miracle!!!
One definition of conception is this: origination, beginning. How true is this when we pursue God and
receive His gift of Salvation, it truly is the beginning of a new life in
Christ!!!
As we pursue Him, and we press into Him, we are surrounded
by light, and when we have that “break through” and we first meet Him, and see
Him for who and what He is, we begin to be filled with light. We are truly transformed….and we truly become
children of Light.
Ephesians 5:8 NIV
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the
Lord. Live as children of light.
God’s Word Translation
Once you lived in the dark, but now the Lord has filled you
with light. Live as children who have
light.
There is so much more to this vision, that God is continuing
to reveal to me, but I don’t yet have the words to articulate.
One of the “ah ha” moments is when I realized that this
battle is not mine, this war with the flesh – I simply must repent and turn
away from sin, and turn toward God. I
don’t need to stand there facing it and fight with it, talk about it or to it…
I simply turn my back on it and face Him!!!
When I do a flood of light starts to engulf me, surrounding me,
protecting me, encouraging me, lifting me up… and as I continue to press on
toward the goal, to Christ Himself, He begins to fill me with light and
flooding those places within me that are absent of Him, and my whole body is
filled to overflowing with Him, with His light!!!
I am not sure who this message may bless, but I was just so
happy and overwhelmed with the simple revelation of it all. God is so good sometimes to just “show me”
rather than let me struggle to figure it out on my own. I recounted this today in between meetings
with a good friend, Brooke… and I was on the verge of tears so I stopped, while
we headed into the meeting. I am so
humbled by God’s love for me. I often
use the analogy of trying to explain what something looks like to a blind man
who has never seen – I would imagine it would become frustrating for him with
descriptive adjectives of which he also may have no first hand visual knowledge
of… but if his eyes were opened, there
would be no need to describe it… seeing is believing and I tell you when God
gives me these treasures of just “seeing” it… I feel so humbled and so blessed.
Thank you God, Thank you!!!!!
For those that want to see the miracle of fertilization ... This really gives me a better understanding of the "straight and narrow" path, "many are called but few are chosen"...
