“Ambush in the Upper-Room”
July 3, 2010
"Update at the end of the message" 9-11-2010
The dream began with my being on what I believe was the ground floor of my house/dwelling. I knew I had to go upstairs for some reason, to either retrieve something or to accomplish a task.
The “upstairs” was not merely on the second or third floor but when I arrived upstairs, I instinctively knew I was twenty floors up.
As I was walking from one room in to another, there was an ambush.
Unseen entities (knew there were two) came from both sides. In just a lighting flash of a moment, each grabbed my arms as though their hold upon my arms were as vices of steel, absolutely unmovable.
At first I saw nothing but
when I first felt these for lack of a better term arms, grabbing mine, I looked
down to see what appeared as florescent green arms encircling my own. At this
same time, a hand tried to cover my mouth but since my head was free, I was able
to pull my face from the hand and began shouting the name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!
It took about 3 to 4 times of saying His name and the attackers fled.
James 4:7 states, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
In the first encounter, I quickly learned of the Power in the Name of Jesus; within just a few times of saying that wonderful Name, the attack almost immediately ended.
Keeping that in mind, why is it then, when we are under attack, do we not use His Name more quickly and “if” we do why does it seem that deliverance is slow in coming.
Am I alone in this lack of understanding of how to respond to the onslaught of the enemy? With each passing day we see the hardship of injustice and calamities mount and we have become so impervious to the suffering that we say in our heart, “Oh well, a sign of the times.” We in many ways have come to be pacifists.
Are we really so defenseless or is there One who champions righteousness. Can we or can we not call upon the Name who has no shadow of turning, One who makes crooked ways straight.
Perhaps I am missing something here, am I being too simplistic?
We have been born in to a priestly tribe in the house of the King.
We have All authority and All privileges and All obligations to appropriate the things of God.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on
his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God. John 1:11-13 KJV
HaShem, The Name is always available to us; His seal is upon us,
And He has engraved your name upon the palm of His hand.
May all men hear and be drawn to that Wonderful Name, Jesus!
Blessings to you and your house,
Steve Grable
http://jeremiah111.org/
UPDATE: 9-11-2010
After having this dream and having had others like it over so many years, I asked the Holy Spirit the reason for it.
About a year ago, in another dream, I was told by the Spirit, because I was declaring the things of God, confessing
the Word of God, taking communion the devil assigned to me was losing ground. In
that dream, I felt almost as if I were receiving a field promotion. I heard the
Spirit say, "because you have chosen to enter the fray, the enemy assigned to
you is losing ground and has called for another demon of a higher ranking to
assist him in his fight
against you." That same night, within a few hours, indeed I was attacked in
another dream but again won the victory.
In the above dream, when I went upstairs, I did not find myself on the 2nd or 3rd floor but rather I knew
instinctively that I was 20 stories up. Additionally, it was here in the upper-room that I was attached not by one demon but two.
After sending this dream out, I continued asking the Spirit for further meaning of this dream.
This dream above took place on July 3, 2010. The next month, august there was an
attack that that shook me,
then in Sept another and another. Three different attacks took place, two were
monetary and one physical.
When the first happened I did not take thought of the dream, however when the
quick succession of the last two
I then realized the significance of the warning within the dream.
The reason I feel led to share all of this with you is to possibly be a help to you. As events proceed on God's
divine schedule, we will be either a victim or a conqueror! Just saying we are
more than conquerors does not defeat the devil, we must appropriate the things
of God in order to be Overcomers. We will be as one who exercises good communication skills or one who stumbles in the dark because
of our
inability to hear and understand what the Spirit is saying. We are hindered many
times by our attitudes and being unteachable. We must learn "His ways!"
I feel this should be sent out to dispel (one person's idea that I somehow
needed deliverance) and to convey to all of you, when you receive these types of
dreams, many times they are sent to educate you as to the enemy's scheme against
you. In this particular case, the Spirit was warning me of an impending attack
coming against me, to prepare me, keeping me close, and when calamity comes,
His name is available to us! We are More than Conquerors through Him who loves
us.
We are to be about exercising our Spiritual Muscles, for what is coming, many
will not endure to the end. They will insist upon
relying on their "old ways" but will become weary walkman as they are
exposed to the horseman.
Many of you may not have understanding of these things, it may seem foreign or
even that anyone who has these types of experiences are somehow
outside the will of God. Perhaps they are involved in sin or possibly they are
not "close enough" to the Lord to be protected. Nothing could be more wrong or
further from the truth!
Saints, "Learning to war in the Spirit",
these
are training wheels to our faith!
2nd Corinthians 10:3-5 states,
For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
When someone is undergoing "our continuing education", it will come in many
forms.
Do not be quick to judge a thing when you have little understanding of it.
The Spirit of the Lord will be moving in greater frequency and a
more precise way to bring
wisdom to our words and actions.
When you have a dream, (pizza dreams excluded), ask the Spirit of the Lord what is the intent of this dream.
The Lord is not frivolous but seeks to communicate with you on a level that is
beyond and more pure than when our minds are cluttered by the cares of the
flesh. If you ask the Holy Spirit and continue to knock asking for dreams,
He
will give them to you, He will not hold back. Ask Him, pursue Him and be sincere
with Him in your request.
You will learn more during these night seasons than you ever imagined! He will
reveal things to mature you,
to educate you, to warn you and to give you a vision through sharing with you future events that you will be involved.
In summary, the Spirit will bring us in to full stature as we put on the character and beauty of Christ.
His ways are beyond anything we can think or imagine, you will be blessed right out of your sox!
Joel 2:28 states, 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:
Seeing as most
of my interaction with the Spirit has been through dreams,
that must mean that the Spirit "thinks" I am an ole guy!
Blessings to you and your house,
Steve
http://jeremiah111.org/