1 Peter 1:6,7
“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith -of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire -may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Conversation
Papa, I love You. I worship You with all my heart. Please draw me closer to Your heart; I want to know You more.
Come My daughter, I love you. All is well with you. You are Mine.
Papa, do You have a word for me today?
I love you My dear one.
Thank-You. Knowing this deep in my heart, grounds me. Help me be able to remember this and stand on it in the time ahead. Papa, the word, “sunshine” came to mind. Is there something You want me to know about that?
You are dearly loved, My daughter.
Thank-you Papa that I am dearly loved by You, by Jesus.
Come My daughter and rest, you are Mine.
Reflection
Hello everyone, welcome to today’s page in my journal! The Lord wakes me up most nights at certain times after He’s given me a dream, which I sometimes don’t know the meaning of but other times I do, and it’s such a great comfort to my heart. I absolutely love sharing what God is doing in my heart, hoping it’ll inspire you to spend time with God everyday and grow the most fulfilling relationship with Him!
It’s really stormy out and apparently the roads are icy so I’m going to stay home today.. Last night I couldn’t sleep very well but I still went to Shopgym this morning. We’re doing a gymnastic theme so we did pull-ups, cleans and skipping.
When I woke up this morning I had these lyrics in my heart, “My God is with me I know he’s alive, how can I keep it inside. Praise the Lord oh my soul!” I had a quick dream where I was running alone across a field, running away from an enemy. Then I saw a small group of people, a team of about four or five, facing my direction, and I noticed they were wearing pants. I think this represents work, though I’m not sure. They all looked at me as we walked towards each other. They had already been walking towards the enemy. They didn’t know who I was and I didn’t know them, but I told them we needed to work together and face the enemy together.
Yesterday we watched Kung Fu Panda! Dragon Warrior? The swinging bridge in the movie reminds me of the swinging bridge my friends and I went to about a month ago. God is so amazing with how he leads! Because of the dream I had not too long ago about a dragon makes me think that God wants to work in a mighty way in my life. Because of my journey with Jesus and how God is drawing me closer to Him, I already know that God is doing such an amazing thing, but I know that I don’t know it all. In a dream a year or two ago I also was given a blank map, and I think I’ve needed to discern where the Holy Spirit was leading and follow him. In that dream I was following two lovebirds as they were walking in a museum with a maze of hallways, but then I lost sight of them and was given the map. I know I need to believe in myself and have confidence as I follow Jesus. I believe I’ve come a long way since the beginning. I know God/Jesus’ love in my heart and I’m fully confident in that. We went out for lunch and the white rice noodles in my soup reminds me of the movie, which represents the thing that I don’t want to do but what I feel I’m being pressured into doing. I understand the point of view about work absolutely, and I’m not a lazy person, but I have a Holy fear of God (not scared), and I absolutely cannot turn my back on Him. So after I’ve worked on my sermon a bit more and have practiced and presented it, then I’ll sub part time again. I know that God wants me to step into such an amazing thing, and because subbing is a requirement at this point, I’ll continue to do that until God takes me out of it. But God’s purpose for my life is my number one focus. I’m so thankful that Jesus is still running after me, even though it’s been so long.. Thinking about my last recording, I’m wondering if I need to post it.
Something that I thought was so cool from the movie is the line, “Today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present.” I love that! About two weeks ago I discovered that we had mice! So my husband bought those sticky pads and put them out. Two days ago I saw that there was a mouse stuck on two of them, so I’m hoping there aren’t any more! Blessings…
October 31: Last night I was almost asleep or I had just fallen asleep (I got woken up almost right away), and I saw a picture of rows of tall rich green plants. I was at ground level and I saw bright yellow sunshine, shining between all the rows of green plants. Last night I went to bed just before 3:00. Today I’ve been writing on paper, a lesson plan for the message I recorded the last time about Joseph. It’s going to be more interactive and slightly different but saying the same thing. For supper today I’m going to make home-made pizza and cut it the way I saw in my dream a few days ago!! Hoping I’ll have time to take a quick nap so I don’t fall asleep behind the wheel after our church event tonight. I forgot to mention about the movie, Jungle Cruise, something else that stood out to me was at the beginning the tour boat went underneath a small waterfall, reminding me of the dream I had where someone was being brought through a waterfall, like it was two waterfalls.. one on each side of the person. Blessings..
November 1: I had a few dreams last night: A few of us (I think), including Jesus my husband went into the youth room (I followed Jesus in), and then I was standing right in front of a couch that I had been sleeping in a few days before that. The couch was piled high with the winter blankets that I had used, and some of the blankets were falling off, onto the floor. It felt like others had also been sleeping and had their blankets still there too, but I didn’t see that part. Then I had the winter blanket that had been on the top of the pile in my hands and I was folding it, planning to fold all of them and put them away. Jesus was waiting for me to fold them up and clear off the couch so that he could sit in it and lead the meeting that was going to take place right after I had finished cleaning up all my blankets. When he had walked into the room, he had sat down on a bed and was watching and waiting for me to be done. I had a feeling like the whole group of us had had a sleep-over a few days before that. I’m thinking that I’m finally spiritually waking up and leading a bit more.
In this next dream I was inside the east entrance of my church, standing close to the door that I always use (closest to the doorbell). I had gone there to lock the doors and had begun to close the door that had been open, but then I thought to myself that there’s a few minutes left so I should wait before I locked the doors. There was a person/man standing close to me and I asked him what the time was. There was a folding door in front of the regular door, and that door was metal. (The sliding door always remained open until it was time to close and lock it at the end of the night.) That’s the door that I closed a little but then reopened it right away, thinking I was closing it too soon. When I saw the folding door, I didn’t see the regular door, so when the folding door was open, the whole doorway was open so that the students could just walk right in without having to push the door open or touch it. When I checked to see if the door was locked, it was the regular door that I checked; I saw the metal bar going across the door and I think I saw that it was pressed in, which means that it was unlocked. I’m not sure what the folding door represents (I’m folding? closing up? but then I opened it up again; opened my heart again maybe. I think because of the recent hardship I had stepped back a little, but now I’m back in it again, thank-you God!)
I had a vague dream where I was circling some words on a white piece of paper, and the word I saw as I was circling it was the word, noble.
In this dream I was standing in my kitchen (not my actual) in front of the sink, washing a short white hose underneath running water in the kitchen sink. The hose was about two feet long and was folded once. I was squeezing it like I was squeezing it like I would squeeze a sponge. My husband was in another room and Jesus my husband was in the next room, stalling to leave because he wanted to see me. Yesterday while driving back home from church Lucas noticed a car pass us (same direction) with the licence place POPP 38, thought that was neat!! I was with my mom basically all day. We went grocery shopping at Sobeys afterward and I stayed and had a late lunch at her place. She had made chicken noodle soup. In the song with the kids I also waited for them to sing the high note, but it was such a quick moment and I had no time to think.. but I also stopped because the leader stopped, not sure though if I should have kept singing; I can’t worry about that or it’ll drive me crazy! Good night… blessings..