What should a believer do when a dream is not simply a dream but a heads-up from God? Pay attention—and if permitted, share it with others.
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WATCHWORD GIVEN: A lesson from a God-given dream at the beginning of June 2024
June 1, 2024. Right before I awoke that morning, a vivid but puzzling spiritual dream transported me to a place with no walls.
It had the quasi-appearance of the natural world but everything in it—the fluid movements, my son and me, the atmosphere—was more of a vaporous soul state rather than our tangible, three-dimensional body-soul realm.
It all started with a rectangular thermostat. Temperature gauge levels were vertical on its left side, lowest at the bottom. On the far right of the thermostat was a round control button.
What first caught my eye was the emergency gauge—every level was lit with red, from the bottom to the extreme top and supernaturally rising even beyond it.
Jumping up, I hurried to the thermostat, concerned the heat would cause a fire. But the right-side control button wasn’t working.
I rapidly pushed the button multiple times—the temperature gauge wouldn’t budge. Finally, with persistence, it started to decrease to a safe-normal level.
Right afterward, I sensed-saw my son walk by it, leaving a vapor-ish trail behind him and then he sat down to my left.
Once again the thermostat shot up to a red-warning level. And yet again, I lunged toward it and pressed the control button—this time with much more ease. It returned to a safe-normal level. Then, I woke up.
THE RED-ALERT INTENT
Colors hold meaning, in the Bible and in our spiritual dreams. Red has been linked to power, wisdom, anointing.
Walking in a maturing faith means flowing in what He has promised and what is realized in the Spirit—His power running through us, His wisdom graciously pouring over us, His spiritual gifts recognized, operational, deepening.
Our spiritual-thermostat walk—how we’re called to live in this hour of humanity—can play out in two ways:
1. Controlling the spiritual climate around us to encourage, comfort, and lead others in His promises and truth—like helping my son in the dream.
2. Stabilizing our atmosphere and “soul temperature” while others (believers or not) are acting more like a thermometer, rising and falling as the wind blows, creating an environment around them that’s a hot chaotic emotional mess spilling onto those who also aren’t walking in God’s spiritual thermostat range.
We all know the enemy is working overtime, disrupting the atmosphere of believers and nonbelievers. Becoming a thermostat believer is critical in today’s erratic, unpredictable political, spiritual, cultural environment.
May you remain stable, maturing in the faith, unshakeable, standing on the constant Word of God—not letting the helter-skelter highs and lows of others shift, control, or influence your atmosphere—your spiritual walk, your spiritual sight, your spiritual footing.
Remember: Emotions shouldn’t dictate to your soul . . . your soul is attached [clinging] to God, upheld by His right hand, and should be directed by Him. —Psalm 63:8(9)
A THERMOSTAT SPIRITUAL WALK
Romans 8:26-30
Breathe this in: The Spirit of God helps in our weaknesses. He makes intercession for us per the will of God . . . He’ll use everything for your spiritual good . . . He has called you, justified you, and will be exalted, glorified through you.
1 Peter 1:1-9
Rest in this: In God’s mercy, he gives us the living hope through the resurrection of Jesus our Messiah—an undefiled, incorruptible inheritance reserved for you in heaven. Yes, we’re grieved at times in trials, but know without question that your faith is more precious than gold, tested by fire to give honor and glory to our King Jesus.
James 1:2-7, 23-24
Stand firm on this: Your trials perfect your faith. Even with a mustard seed of faith, humbly ask God for wisdom and He’ll give it abundantly. Peer into the Word, absorb and release faith-in-action (trust). Hold who you are in Him close to your heart—so you aren’t like a wave driven and tossed by the wind or like a person who looks in the mirror then turns away and forgets who he is.
He who has begin a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.—Philippians 1:6
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Lighthouse by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com
Gold thermostat by Mona Msanii on Unsplash.com