Another Dream Post -Did God Warn??

[Gerald Creasy]

So yesterday I laid down to grab a nap right before work and while I slept I dreamt about a coworker, Bernie, a young man studying to be a Baptist missionary.

I'll get to the subject of the dream later but when I awoke I was intrigued by the oddness of the dream being that I had dreamed about Bernie and rarely dream about coworkers.

I thought maybe I'd mention the dream when I got to work last evening.

As I drove to work I forgot the dream and did not remember it again and pulled into the parking lot. I was reminded of the dream because the only parking spot open was by Bernies van.

So I clocked into work and twenty minutes later I was standing before my computer work station well on the way to forgetting the subject when I heard a voice behind me, Bernie, saying "What do you think of dreams?'

"Funny you should ask Bernie cause I dreamed of you last night and I never dream of you."

Bernie sat his toolkit down and said, "Okay, let me hear it."

I related the dream. "You and I were sitting in your house talking and you said "I think this house is haunted" And I-being a scoffer- laughed and replied "What do you mean?"
"After the lady in the next apartment leaves for work, I see evil moving within/coming out of her apartment."
The apartment house is like a huge M and one apartment leg can see directly across to the other leg of the apartment house.
In the dream I had a view of what he saw and it was like a manifestation of a dark hazy figure.

That was it!!!

When I finished relating the dream to Bernie all the color drained from his face."Man I am scared!

When I ask him why he realted the following:

When he awoke that morning his wife told him she dreamed of him which she never does. She said "they were living in a new place and that the neighborhood was rough and women were getting raped and gangs of rough kids were hanging around. And Bernie knew about all this and did nothing about it."

Whe he went to do his daily Bible reading -he's reading straight thru the Bible - his daily reading was on Joseph and the Cup Bearer and Baker in jail and their dreams.

He came to work that evening and an Apostolic man walked up to him and out of the blue asked "What do you think about Dreams?"

ANd then I came in and he asked me.


I was struck by some common themes of his wifes dream and my own. Evil against women in a place he lives AND he KNOWS or witnesses it.


So What do you think?

[dolfan]

I think I'm praying for Bernie and his family right now, that's what I think. Y'all can make of it what you want to.

[scooter]

I love the feel/chill of such faith building instances in life.

What a wonderful example of true confirmation.

These are the type of real life happenings which help us to trust God all the more.

As for Bernie, it's time to embrace the prophetic.

[MacUser]

Interesting. Let's see how it plays out.

The question I have always had is even if it is a warning.. can we even change it? Does it deal more spiritually as in preparation for the COMING event.. rather than any ability to warn/change/abort it?

I don't want to sound crazy.. but I worked my best to CHANGE an event shown to me as it was perceived a negative only to have it exactly play out as shown. I was ready for it when it began to unfold.. but changed nothing.

[KBevangelist]

I think God is speaking Gerald.

I know, in my own life, I have had several dreams of warnings, events or situations that will transpire.

I also do believe that you can pray for mercy and protection and some events can be altared by God because we pray.

No doubt praying for your co-worker

KB

[Jennifer Smith]

I love the feel/chill of such faith building instances in life.

I do too! I have had something like that happen to me recently, although it didn't actually involve a dream.

As for Bernie, it's time to embrace the prophetic.

Why do you assume he doesn't?

[jessea]

It proves the truth of the scripture that says "old men shall dream dreams"

[Brenda]

Peter and Cornelius in Acts (10) must of been a couple young men.

They had a "vision."

Just a thought...
I wonder how we would handle it if something like that happened to us?
Would anyone believe us if we told anyone?

[EagerBeaver]

I am praying for Bernie and the fam as well!

I wonder if these dreams are happening right now, if the Lord is trying to tell many of us something collectively. The feeling I get is that we need to strengthen each other and pray protection and peace.