Another Crazy dream... "Cleansing Fire"

This is probably the most Seriously Ridiculous dreams I have ever had. I wrote the whole thing down the day after I had it and I wanted to post it up on a blog as well. So here it is.

The world was going crazy. People were fighting all over the place. Everyone was trying to get power and control and there were rumors that a great storm was coming that would destroy everything. Most people didn't believe the storm was coming or that the world was coming to an end, the reason being that they were too consumed with themselves. When you are consumed with yourself you can't see anything around you. I wasn't sure what would happen but I trusted in God.
  As the day for when the great storm drew near presidents and prime ministers denied that anything would happen and that everything would be fine. I knew better and so did everyone else in the world who followed Christ.
   On the day of the storm I didn't know what to do so I decided to head home. When I got home there was nobody there. I looked through my whole house and my entire family was gone but I had no clue where they went. After searching for a while I went back outside and a girl pulled up in to my driveway. Immediately she got out of the car and told me to get in because we were going somewhere safe where the storm wouldn't harm us. In the dream I knew that I was good friends with this girl but I didn't know who she was or how I was good friends with her. As i got into the truck she told me that there had been places hidden all over the world that would keep you safe from this specific storm. They were built years ago and nobody knew about them. People even built things over the top of the land that was created as a safe place and so those buildings became safe spots. While she was telling me this I looked behind me and saw the clouds. Up to this point I had still retained some doubts about the severity of the storm but after seeing the clouds all doubts faded away. These were not normal clouds. The clouds were pink, red, gray, and orange. They were gigantic as well and towered over the mountains to the west of Redding. As, they came over the land loud cracks of lightning sounded. The lightning was forming and moving around inside the clouds and the sound of it was terrifying. It was like no sound I had ever heard a cloud make before. The closest thing that I could compare it to is the sound of a whip mixed with the sound of a crackling candy wrapper in a silent room only a million times louder.
  At the same time I was seeing these clouds roll over the mountains the rest of the world was seeing clouds of their own. One female politician who was involved in some of the wars looked out her large glass doors in her huge government building that overlooked a large city in the middle east and was taken aback as she said, "they were right."
  Back in the truck the girl was driving very fast, but glad that the safe spot was not far from where I lived, because the storm was going to start at any moment. Then I turned to her and asked her, "how did you know where it was if it was hidden?" She replied, "because of her," and pointed out the passenger window. As I turned and looked out the window I saw a shadowy figure that I could only barely make out that I hadn't seen before. At first it was just a black silhouette but then it came more into focus and I turned back to my friend and said, "it's a deer!"
   Guessing that this deer could talk, I looked back at it and asked it why I couldn't see it before. The deer said," I don't know but I think it is because people don't take the time to stop and listen, they are too busy doing things that they can't see or hear us. We are guides. There are hundreds of us all over the world and our job is to guide people to the sacred locations where they will be safe from the storm." I wondered to myself how many times I had been too busy to listen to my own personal guide.
    The deer then told us to turn left and pointed out a metal gate and told us it was the building just beyond the gate. We pulled up to the gate jumped out of the truck and ran over to a shack type overhang that looked like it had been built to house cattle. The building had one wall made of wood and chain link fences cover two of the other places where one might expect a wall to be and the roof was made of tin. It was very open and didn't feel very safe but the deer encouraged us that it was a sacred place that could not be touched by the storm.
  From our safe location we watched the clouds keep getting larger and larger over the valley and more people began to show up with their own animal guides, someone even had a giraffe. Then I looked over to the deer and asked her, "who sent you to guide us?" She responded in  a way that suggested she wasn't 100% sure of the name of the person, " Jesus I guess." Then I looked up and saw a large bolt of lighting growing in the cloud and I knew it was time and the storm was going to start. I knew that the sound of that one lightning would be too terrible to bear so I put my hands over my ears, closed my eyes, and laid down on my sleeping bag that I had rolled out on to the dirt floor and somehow fell asleep, everyone else also fell asleep as well.
  I may not have heard the sound of the lightning but everyone else in the world did and also experienced its effects. The storm caused fire to engulf everything that man had created. Every house, every building, and every person that was no in a safe spot was consumed by fire. there was nothing anyone could do because they hadn't heard the guide calling their name. Only one family found safety after the storm had begun.
  A single mom with two boys fixed a very large dinner for her family because she knew it would be their last. Before they finished eating the fires reached the house and smoke began to come in to the house. The sad woman held on to her kids and said, "everything is going to be alright." She thought to herself, "if only the water in the house worked we could at least fight it off," but not even the water could have held off these flames. She told the kids to go down in the basement and as she followed behind she saw water leaking from the pipes and prayed that her kids would not have to die like this.
   She knew that the even though there a foot of water had leaked into the basement from the leaking pipes that it wouldn't be able to stop these flames so she waited in fear for the fire to come. But, as the fire began to engulf the rest of the house and water started to evaporate from parts of the basement, the flames did not enter the room. And, it was at that moment she realized and said out loud, "God has made a safe place for us." Little did she know that God had created that specific location a safe place knowing that her basement would be there.
    The politician viewing everything from her expensive building was not so lucky. She watched the lightning fall, the glass on her doors crumble from the explosion, the whole city consumed and engulfed with fire until she was ultimately consumed herself.
    When we woke up the skies were clear and beautiful. The world had been sanctified and made knew. Everything in it that was not of God had been burnt away and everything else had been made a 100 times more intense and beautiful than before.


Pretty Ridiculous huh???

-B

River of Life

Prayer is our greatest tool and our greatest resource in the Kingdom of Heaven. What is so amazing about prayer is that "God" the creator of the Heavens and Earth litterally takes the time to listen to an insignificant human being like me, not because He has to but because He thinks that everything I say is important. One of my most favorite ways to pray is to sit behind a piano and just begin to play whatever I feel like playing, mainly a 2 or four chord progression because I can only play chords, and then sing my prayers out. Sometimes they flow with the music and sometimes they don't. My number one favorite way to pray, which you can decide for yourself if it is biblical or not, is that when I don't have any special words to say I just start singing. I sing no words or anything I just start singing whatever notes or making whatever noises that I feel somewhere deep in my gut, or in my spirit. In times where I have just let go of everything, all my fear and pride, and let the Holy Spirit lead me in prayer, because I don't always know what to pray for, He comes and helps me to pray whatever it is that I need to pray for.
It blows me away that our Heavenly Father doesn't need us to pray but chooses to act through what we pray and also knows the moments that we are not going to really know what to pray for and gives us His Spirit to help lead us when we don't know what to say. Think about that for a second. That is Seriously Ridiculous. The Spirit of God is a River of Life within us. He leads us in what to pray and there is power behind every word that we pray. There is no need for God to use us in prayer and still He desires us to pray. He even desires us to lean on His Spirit seeking what it is we should be praying for. I confess that so often I forget about all the things that I "should" be praying for and it is in those times where I am quiet and listening to God, whether intentionally listening or just paying attention to His voice as it is keeping me awake late at night, I am moved to pray. When I am behind a piano or some other music is playing and I believe the Spirit leading me to pray these images come to mind of persons, events, or things in the spiritual realm and I just sing about whatever i see. However it is we pray, when we pray out there is life and power and strength in waht we speak. Not becuase of how powerful or strong we are as humans but because of the power of the living God within us.

B