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Happy Friday!

Wow, everyone! Thank you so much for commenting on yesterdays blog: Last Night, I Dreamed I was Killed! Since this dream contains a very powerful message, applicable to all the tribe… I’m dedicating todays blog to its interpretation. Please go back and read the dream, if you haven’t already… then proceed.

interpreting the death dream::

Between here and facebook, and at prayer meeting last night… I received something like 30 possible interpretations! The reason I posted this dream in the first place was to demonstrate the prophetic nature of a dream… and give everyone an opportunity exercise the gift of interpretation.

I’ve had many prophetic dreams over the last 20 years… hundreds of visions and dreams. This is Gods primary method of communicating with me besides his written Word. I am a highly visual person.

Normally, I would have prayed over the dream and written an interpretation into my journal, without ever mentioning it to anyone else other than my wife and a few very close prophetic friends. This was powerful, because I learned so much from the multi-dimensions of this dream!

Really, I gained useful prophetic insight from every interpretation! I know it sounds bizarre… but God, showed me something highly transformational with every comment!

it had a warning nature::

This dream had a very strong warning nature (like spoken through Mark and Joe and some of the others on facebook). It exposed the dangers of a certain uncorrected course of action.

the had nucleus interpretation::

The interpretation that jumped off the page for me… (not because it seemed so realistic in the natural) was the one written by Ryan Huffer. When I read that interpretation something bounced inside me… like this is the nucleus! Then, in prayer meeting last night… Vickie Rankin handed me a printed copy of the dream with her notes and the whole thing came together, encompassing every interpretation!

it was about the old Chuck::

That dream did represent the old Chuck… afraid of confronting people one on one with truth.

it spoke about the danger of fear::

In real life, I wrote a letter defending the owner of that house in court many years ago (not about real estate… about something else). Even though I was very truthful in the letter (about what I knew about this man), my spiritual gut said otherwise. I may have been defending a guilty man. And this is a horrible feeling!

In the dream, I knew that something was wrong with what he was doing, but I was assisting him anyway. How many times have we all done this in the fear of confrontation?

In the future, I need to be very careful about speaking the truth in love to everyone… and not allow people to manipulate me into signing off on things that are against my convictions. This man was deceitful and greedy. He was stealing legal territory from his current tenant, violating his contract with his current tenant, etc.

it called for repentance::

The old Chuck, didn’t always have the spiritual courage to say NO WAY when the actions of other went against convictions. And that can become a deadly thing!

Now, I don’t want to be too hard on myself… because I have made many, many stands for truth, and I have demonstrated tremendous resolve with my own convictions, and I have been very protective of the ministries God has entrusted to my care.

But as I go forward, I have to be more bold than ever before about following Gods voice and his strong convictions in my heart.

I am asking God to forgive me for all of the times I’ve been too afraid of people to act fast enough. For all the times I failed to meet with people and tell them how I was really feeling. For all the times I’ve enabled destructive behaviors.

it promised a new Chuck::

Now! Read Ryans Huffers interpretation…

I think it’s because you’ve been stabbed in the back so many times by people that you “thought” were friends. You gave your life in an effort to help them, and they tried to kill you. They stabbed you over and over, until they thought you were dead. What they didn’t know, is that the old Chuck did die! The Chuck that died was the man that was afraid of the small things. He was afraid of being creative because the voices of judgement that surrounded him. Now YOU are not that man! You are the new and improved version. In this dream, you may have been killed… but the dream that is inside of you will never die and it will come true!!!! Don’t worry, be happy and have a great day!!!!

And God says to me, the OLD Chuck is dead! The NEW Chuck has graduated from this! How? Through a final STAB WOUND that brought about a year of DEATH and HUMILIATION.

it spoke of new LIFE on the other side of death::

All of that pain worked so much into my life that I would never be able to learn in a hundred conferences!

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”

In other words… what’s happening IN US is always far more important than anything that’s ever happening TO US! All things always work together for our good!

Now, as Mark said… in the season we remember Jesus raising from the dead… I am a resurrected person!

a final word::

Here’s the real exciting part of this whole experience! I wrote for 6 hours in my book yesterday on this exact subject, not knowing what I was going to learn from that dream until last night and this morning!!! Wild!

Thank you all, for getting so involved! That was fun and informative! Take some time to pray over the various components of this dream… and use it for making correction in your own lives. I’m praying for you all this morning… have a most triumphant friday! Enjoy this happy song…