I did have a thing when the snipers out east were causing such an uproar. I prayed and prayed and an inaudible voice told me while I was reading posts on this forum that they would be caught in two days. I almost thought about posting it here, but thought that might not be a good thing to do for a couple of spiritual reasons and draw attention to myself. If I had had any real information, I might have gone out on a limb and called someone risking being ridiculed. Anyway, it was not looking like they were even close to catching these snipers, but exactly two days later that trucker cornered them. And the interesting thing was that he had prayed with his friends. I believe with all my heart that God led him to be at that place at that time.
Maybe we shouldn't blab these things. If it would save a lot of people and was real specific, I think we should tell someone. It is a tough, tough call, and the authorities have enough false leads to follow.
I met a nice young guy in therapy about seven years ago who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was catholic and talked as normal as you or I. He had trouble focussing on his job and was in danger of losing it which he did because he was away from work so long. Anyway, he occasionally had hallucinations or visions or whatever. Nobody takes any of that seriously. Finally in a therapy group, I asked him WHAT HE SAW. He said he saw knives falling from the sky. Later it occurred to me that it could mean a harbinger of a coming reign (rain) of terror. Or maybe he was just mentally off. But he didn't seem like your usual mental case. He was curious about Fatima and started going to church again.
Some of this stuff is messages in symbolic form that need to be interpreted. Some of it is just plain crazy.
The last precognitive dream I had was really crazy. It was a couple months ago and I am in a real spiritual funk for a long time lately. This dream was crazy but it was about the transformer on the pole on the corner by my garage. A neighbor was holding a hose and streaming the water toward the transformer, but it was only going halfway up the pole. I didn't have much strength, but I took the hose from her and the water shot higher almost to the transformer. I remember thinking if I hit the transformer, it will explode. The next morning about 10:00 or so I was sitting at my computer and there was a loud explosion like a bomb went off. There was no power interruption and my computer didn't crash. Sure enough, in another hour or so, the power company truck came and did something to the transformer. That thing does blow a couple or three times a year especially in storms. I don't know what to make of such a crazy thing. It almost seems too much for coincidence but why would anyone dream such a crazy thing especially when they seldom have dreams they even remember?
I have a feeling I am going to wish I hadn't posted this nonsense.
You are welcome to FREEPMAIL ME in the future and ask me to post things anonymously.
I understand your feelings and experiences fairly easily, I think.
I think your sensibilities are sound enough, in my book. We all see through a glass darkly and must grow in discernment by Holy Spirit's teaching, gifting and empowering and leading.
Certainly we test things by The Spirit and by Scripture.
And some of us sensitive birds of rare plumage are rarely understood even by other authentic Christians. Sometimes it seems that God creates some of us so uniquely for HIS PLEASURE that we don't have a great breadth and depth of congruent interface with others. We have to grow in learning that HE IS ENOUGH. There can be a lot of paradoxes along that road!
Anyway--welcome. If you want to ask a mod to remove a post for a good reason, they are usually ammenable. But I don't see anything wrong with your post.
If the naysayers hassle you, ignore them.
Blessings,
I wouldn't place it in the category of nonsense. On the contrary we're alive in the spirit.
I've found some dreams to be a testing and involve temptation. For this reason, I sometimes am able to discern that the dream isn't being sent by God, but might be a spiritual testing as part of a spiritual maturing process. I say this because I know God doesn't tempt.
Counter to this end, is the dream in Scripture Acts 10, of the sheet being lowered from heaven from four corners laden with 4 legged beasts and being told to eat thereof, and the dreamer being told to eat the non-kosher or common and unclean items. He discerned it wasn't proper out of legal obedience, but was then told that just as it had been created by the Lord, nothing He created nothing unclean.
He then encounters the centurion who ad been directed by an angel to Peter's house. I find the entire story shows how some situations may arise, where God doesn't become nearly as legalistic as men might suppose, yet his actions and plan have definite purpose and consistency.