Of dreams and visions

I have been very skeptical.
Doubt about the dreams and visions that others claim to have been receiving from God.

I believe those are just results from what we have been thinking and wanting in our lives during the day that makes us having these "illusions" during the night for dreaming what-we-want-to-dream-about.

My viewpoint did not change...
Until God Himself gave me visions and dreams.....

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Vision

It's during one of the Chi Alpha meetings on Friday night.

As Pastor Linda was doing the altar call, I bowed my head, starting to pray in tongues. I had never done that before. I mean, I never pray when there's altar call. Usually, I will just stay at my seat thorough the call. But anyway, I prayed. That night.

Then I began to see a vision. Very bright. I saw there's a guy standing up boldly, opening his arm to receive Jesus. I could not see his face. But I know that's a guy.

At first, I thought that was just because I had been praying and wanting God to save someone. For we had been desperately praying to God to shine His truth to someone there that night. See? I thought the vision was just the result of what I wanted it to be.

But, just when I was doubting about the vision I just had, the guy sitting next to me, Danny, stood up suddenly and opened his arms in the air, declaring that he wanted to receive Jesus that very night!
It's exactly the same as what I saw in my vision!

Oh God! Oh God!
Tears poured out of my eyes. God is real. He is real! So real!!!

And He knew my heart and the doubt I had. And He wanted to reconfirm me that dreams and visions are real.

My God!

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Dream

I had a dream several nights before going to Evansville for my Spring break.

I was with a group of friends, four or five of them. I did not know who they really are because their faces were blur. We were standing outside of a multi-stories old garage building. The building looks eerie and it was so old that the painting started to peel off of the wall.

I stood outside of the building with my friends.
They started to tell me the story of why we were there.

There is a guy living in a room inside that old garage building who can catch evil spirits. To reward himself, everytime he caught one, he would take pictures of the spirits and hang them on the wall of the building.
I could see the pictures of the evil spirits in my dream. They were so horrifying. They look like gas, red in color, with hollow eyes and mouth. They were in distorted shapes.
Even now when I am writing this, my heart is pounding so heavily, I am still scared from how they look. The images are so vivid in my mind.

So, my friends were very excited about this guy and they wanted to go into the building to meet him. They tried to persuade me to go in with them. But I rejected. I was so terrified.
In the end, they left me alone outside the building and went in. I tried to plead them not to go in but they would not listen to me.

I prayed and prayed. Prayed to God to lead them back.

And then, I woke up.

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I could not feel peace after that dream. I tried to forget it but it kept on haunting on me. could not figure out why was that so.

I tried to tell Pastor Linda about my dream but I was not sure. It could just be another random dream that I have. I do not want to be look stupid and being too superstitious.

At one point, I even started to doubt if the Holy Spirit inside me is actually an evil spirit.

I was so scared and confused at the same time. I was lost.

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On Wednesday night (during the break at Evansville), Bev was sharing the dream that Joy had. After listening to her dream, I had the urge to tell them about my dream. But I paused and waited. Because I was not sure if I should tell. What if they think I was just trying to make something up.

I kept quiet for some time. Trying to supress my urge to telling them about my dream.

But I could not hold it. Something inside me telling me that I MUST TELL THEM.
I MUST. NOW!
(Even though I still did not know what my dream meant until that time)

Anyway, I told them.

Right after I told them the whole dream I had, suddenly I got the realization of what my dream was all about. It was so strange. All of a sudden. I could understand my dream!

I was able to give interpretation to my dream.
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When I had my dream, I still did not know that Pastor Linda was going to share the topic on baptism in the Holy Spirit with the students in USI on Thursday night. And Josh made fliers with words writing "How to get God's supernatural power inside you".

There were students on USI campus who even asked if we were preaching about Satanic practice.

Even after I knew about the topic of the message and the writings on the fliers, I did not relate it to my dream earlier that week. It just did not occur to me how they could click together. So well.

Suddenly, my dream made so much sense to me!
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There is spiritual warfare going on.
There are students out there who are very interested in supernatural power. Drugs. Witchcraft. Spirits. etc.

And they have been searching for these things. In a wrong way of course.

And God want us to pray for them. So that they would know the gospel and having God's spirit inside them instead of man-made stuff. And worse, evil spirits.
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I could not stop being amazed by God. And by what He is doing in my life as well as others'.

He knows. He knows I have so many doubts.
But He did not condemn me, but kept giving me confirmations to strengthen my faith.

To prove that He is real!!!
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I hope you would not be freaked out after reading this post.

I am just sharing with you the supernatural things that God has shown me these days.



"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

Joel 2:28,29