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Dream 115
I am in that wonderful, colorful place again. Fragrances touch my emotions, causing my heart to skip a beat with longing while symphonic perfection caresses my ears, touching the very core of my heart. I stand with closed eyes for a very long time before I hear the voice of the friendly man again.
Friendly man:
“All of this is available on earth you know. There is nothing here that cannot be made manifest there. I did not hold back a single drop of beauty, it is all there.
If you learn to love what you have been given, you will see it for what it truly is.
But you have believed the lies of the enemy and most of you have no idea how to love or even know what love is. So fear fills the void and becomes the foundation of your belief systems.
You fear humiliation and rejection so much that you dare not be the best version of yourself. You fear pain and failure so much that you do not put yourself between the wolves and the sheep.
So you sit there, filled with the potential to bring heaven to earth with a heart full of righteous intention but a life devoid of action.
Who will defend the weak if you do not? Who will speak for the oppressed if you do not? I sent you, all of you, every believer is called to be my voice.
This spirit of fear that is upon you. These crippling chains that tighten around your heart whenever you wish to do what is right.
Both flee in the presence of love.
Courier, you know by now that your assignment is to create an environment of absolute love. Feed the poor, house them, clothe them, educate their children, raise up might men and women in a heavenly atmosphere of love and acceptance. Teach others to the same. Raise them to see what love is, active, passionate, generous love.”
Me:
“My Lord. I will do as you instruct.”
Friendly man:
“But in your heart you doubt that it is possible.”
Me:
“I ignore my heart, I wish only to serve you. My heart is broken by the what it sees in mankind but my hope is in you.”
Friendly man:
“Courier. I see the cloud of hopelessness upon you. I see that you long for death and endure this life for the sake of the kingdom. I see how you force down the bitterness that threatens to vomit from your mouth and allow only honey to flow from your lips. You have no hope for mankind yet you persevere in the hope that I will intervene.”
He looks straight at me and places his hand upon my shoulder.
I am suddenly tired, even in this wonderful place with this wonderful man, every carefully practiced guard drops and I fight to keep my mouth shut as my disappointment threatens to flow from my lips.
Friendly man:
“Speak Courier. Let it go.”
Me:
“I have nothing left to say. I long for eternal sleep.”
Friendly man:
“Why? Why do you long to perish? Let the pain flow from your heart so that I may heal it.”
Me:
“I hate hope. I regret allowing myself to hope again. I do as instructed in the hope that it will bring change to humanity but humanity is so selfish that nothing changes.
Why don’t they care? I just don’t understand it. In serving you for mist of my life I have met maybe a few hundred who care among hundreds of thousands who cannot see beyond their own four walls or worse… their dogmatic, heartless religion.
It shakes my faith to the core Lord.
We have sacrificed everything to do what we see in your word but you seem to bless tyrants and ambitious, arrogant brutes while you throw those of us who care about the poor to the wolves.
You speak of active love but all I have seen in your service is persecution and lack. I have not seen substantial provision or any kind of real corporate help from your kingdom.
I see the corrupt receiving millions of dollars while the righteous struggle in the dirt.
I simply do not understand Lord.
Thus I serve you obediently but without hope for mankind. I do what I am instructed to do, wondering all the while why those who compromise seem to prosper.”
It comes out of me like a flood. I cannot stop it. And all the while this friendly man looks upon me with love and acceptance, devoid of frustration or any kind of anger. The flood continues out of me unabated.
Me:
“The worst part is the broken promises. I don’t understand why people build up our hope with false promises. We set out lives by what is committed, make arrangements based on what is promised and then we end up having to give of our own blood, losing everything we own to fulfill the promises made by others.
It is a perpetual cycle of deferred hope and it makes me so tired that I begin assume that people are lying all the time. Humanity makes me so tired Lord. The evil triumph while the righteous are forsaken.”
I stand there wishing that none of that had come from my mouth. I so badly want to impress this man but his presence strips every layer of pretense away so that I am left naked in his presence. Yet none of this seems to phase him in the slightest.
Friendly man:
“Courier. You are sent as sheep among wolves. The world is not yet ours, it still bows its knee before the father of lies. I want you to have a revelation of this so that your expectations are managed. You are there to change the things that you hate by creating the world that you want. The vast majority who call me Lord are lost themselves, waiting for champions to rise up and lead them on the correct path. I am not their Lord for they do nothing that I have instructed. Expect nothing from them Courier, simply love them and work to inspire them to follow me.
But you must take a breath and realize that you are not yet in heaven. The world is filled with darkness and men with dark hearts have chosen as Lucifer once chose. Fallen angel and fallen man are both demon and principality. And both oppose my servants vehemently.
Your assignment is to be the light in this darkness and to work with all your might for the salvation of mankind.
Do not expect man to be good, only God is good. Be surprised and overjoyed when man does good things for all who do good do so at great personal cost.
You must place your faith in love itself. Not in man, the promises of man, or the provision of man. God is love, I am love and so must you be love. As I was hated, so will you be hated and as I was persecuted, so will you be persecuted. But move only in love, act only in love and speak only in love. Love is all that matters. Those who love, love me. Those who do not love, hate me. The kingdom of darkness has no defense against love. So love, and love with good works and righteous action.
You are frustrated because you underestimate the darkness and you underestimate your role as my body upon this earth. You are the light as I am the light, if you do not shine, the world will perish.
Meditate upon this Courier. Do not place your hope in man, place your hope in love.
We will speak often and many questions will be answered but let love drive you Courier, the key to every answer you need is in love itself.
I am proud of you. Even though your own needs are met, you cry out for the needs of others who are in lack as if they were your own needs. Many will not understand this but it is why you are Courier. Rest assured, great provision is coming and those who bless you will receive the highest honors eternally but do not allow yourself to lose hope for I am with you.”
I wake up.
Not grinning like an idiot this time but certainly feeling like one.
Thank God for His mercy and grace which covers the folly of our ignorance!
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The kingdom of darkness has no defense against love