Dream 87
The river in front of us is in full, violent flood. Massive trees come tumbling down the frothing torrent to show off just how powerful and just how fast this mass of brown devastation actually is.
The skies crackle darkly above us and water runs down my face sticking my hair to my forehead.
This is crazy weather and that is one angry river!
Gatherer stands beside me watching the epic display of the power of nature and then speaks.
Gatherer:
“Swim upstream son of sorrow.”
Me:
“Sorry what??”
Gatherer:
“Dive in and swim upstream.”
Me:
“That water would carry me a mile downstream before I could even take my first stroke. Even then, this water is traveling much faster than I can swim.”
Gatherer:
“The instruction comes from the Holy Spirit. Dive in and swim upstream son of sorrow.”
Me:
“Uh. Ok.”
I strip down to my pants and take a fee deep breaths as the rain hits my bare skin before diving into the torrent of raw power and swimming frantically.
I take stock of where the river has carried me, fully expecting to see unfamiliar surroundings somewhere downstream.
I am slightly upstream of where I dove in and despite the wild waters around me, I am staying in the same place.
I swim to the center where it seems calmer and smoother and swim there, keeping pace with the banks of the land under Michael’s calf.
Gatherer appears on the water beside me.
Gatherer:
“Swim in the rough areas, over there rather!”
He points to an area of the river that looks like a frothing, furious washing machine.
I shrug and swim there, wondering if this is going to kill me but it is exactly the same as the smooth area. I simply stay parallel to the land under Michael’s calf.
Suddenly I am on dry land beside Gatherer again.
Gatherer:
Faith in the commands of the son have the power of the Father.
Nature bows to the wheat son of sorrow and it wars with the chaff.
Those who trust in God bare fruit even in the dry season because the commands of God supersede even the laws of nature.
To trust in man is to place your faith in the final product but to trust in God is to place your faith in the command. All power has been given to the son, thus all commands from the son continue the full authority of the Father. There is no power or natural law that supersedes the authority of the son.
But this power is not harnessed by the ambition of man, it is harnessed in every command of the son.
To obey the son is to walk in the full authority of God. Thus no fear is needed and no faith in anything other than the command itself.
Not even that river, with all its fury, can disobey a command from the son. That which is impossible with man and nature is completely possible with the son.
Only obey what He commands and and that same power shall flow through you.
For the one who does what is commanded does not act in his own strength or authority. He acts in the strength and authority of the one who sent him.
Know this son of sorrow:
Do as you are instructed and fear nothing. For not even the gates of hell can stand against a single servant who acts fully under the authority of God.
Me:
“Wow! That is am awesome revelation!”
Gatherer:
“Many follow their own ambition and wonder why the power of God is not present. It is thus because God only empowers those who work under His instruction. Outside of obedience is there no power. Merely a form of Godliness but completely absent of power.
The power of God accompanies then commands of the son. For the the son expresses the perfect will of the Father.”
Me:
“So those who wish to see the power of God on full display must simply fulfill the commands of the son?”
Gatherer:
“The greatest power is through the greatest command, that you love God and love one another. Wheat embraces this command, chaff contends against it. For love is active and intentional and sacrificial and unconditional. To obey this command is to open the floodgates of supernatural power. Such love raises the dead and heals the sick.
Do not underestimate the power of love and do not underestimate the power of obedience to that same instruction son of sorrow.
Those who love as an act of obedience will love without expectation and therein lies the true power of God. For this perfect love casts out the spirits of fear and mistrust and sets the spirit of the saints free to boldly do all that the son commands.
Those who love the son do what the son commands. And the son commands love.
To love unconditionally and expect nothing in return is impossible without the Holy Spirit and to submit completely to the commands of the son is impossible without the Holy Spirit.
Pray then that the Holy Spirit would grant you the power to be completely obedient to the son. Pray that the Holy Spirit would give you the power to place your faith in the act of obedience itself so that every command from the son is manifest through your hands.
Place no longer your faith in foolish trinkets and empty plans that do not advance the kingdom but place your faith in obedience to God. Do as the son commands son of sorrow, therein lies the true power!
Where the son sends you, go! And what the son commands you, do! For God will never send you without His power to accompany you.
And in doing as the son commands shall you see the Father’s will be done and His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
The kingdom is all son of sorrow!”
Me:
“Hallelujah, I shall place my faith in the commands pf the son! The kingdom is all!”
I wake up.
Place your faith in obedience to God