It say's in Joel 2:28 that in the end times the young men and women will Prophesy and the old men will Dream Dreams. If I were to fit into this in anyway I would have to be a Dreamer of Dreams since I'm in my late fifties.
When my Grandfather was in his eighties he gave me an old King James he had used for years. The book didn't get much attention for the first ten plus years because I was too busy
committing as many sins as I could. I'm a timber faller or what in the old days they called a lumberjack and I got a job with a guy way out in the boonies. As you can imagine there's only so much fishin' a guy can do and the nights are long up here in the winter so I wound up reading "THE BOOK". I didn't understand a bit of it and had to force myself to finish the whole book before I threw it in a drawer sure I would never open it again. The trouble was the nights didn't get any shorter and there still wasn't anything to do so I thought I'd try reading it again. This time I actually understand some of the stuff in it so I read it through again. It seemed that each time I read it my understanding was multiplied greatly. It actually got to be fun and in all I think I read it about six or seven times, cover to cover, over the course of the next three years.
As time went by I tried to live some of what I'd learned but it caused a lot of trouble with friends and family. For some reason they all seemed to like me better as a sinner. I backslid for a while trying to please all of them but it didn't last because it wasn't me any more so I determined to live the way God wanted me to no matter what anyone thought. Then I faced the same dilemma most of us do sooner or later. Just what is it that God really wants me to do to please him? The search was on. I checked out every religion and philosophy known to man and found out there is an endless number of opinions on this subject. As time went by I seemed to always come back to the same conclusion. Almost all men teach that the fundamentals are fearing (that is obeying and worshipping) God and treating all other men and women justly. It seems as though most all good people in the world have no problem agreeing with those fundamental principals.
A few years ago I got a another job which required me to live away from home for weeks and months at a time. There is something about being alone in a solitary place that seems to cleanse the heart and the mind. I did then and always will pray for God's guidance in my daily life so it shouldn't have come as any surprise when I started having dreams that I actually understood. I had been having vivid dreams for years but never even considered that they could mean anything and that I should try to remember them. God opened my eyes to what was happening when He gave me some dreams that I simply could not get out of my mind until I wrote them down. Though at the time most of them didn't make any sense, when I'd go back and re-read them a few days, weeks or months later they became more clear. I don't consider myself special in any way and believe God does this with everyone but very few people take the time to listen. Please go through this site so I can share a dream that I had and truly believe came from God.
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