Ali and the Awkward Dream

This, my friends, is absolute proof God is speaking.

So, last night I had this awkward dream. Honestly, I was kind of offended by it, but after the holy spirit interpreted it for me, it all made complete sense! Oh, how I love God. And oh how he loves us.

Now, my dream last night was totally insane. It began like this, I was at my church (Newspring). My preacher was speaking to me about anger management and they had me on a truck thing where I wasnt able to go anywhere. Now, if you know how big Newspring is and how many people go there, try to picture EVERYONE who has ever been there standing like 100 feet away from me, watching with complete intrest. I was SO confused, I tell you! So, Im staring at my senior pastor straight in the eyes, slighty offended that he is speaking to me about anger management. But, for some reason, I listen anyways, look behind me, and realize I have angel wings. O.o <<< that was my face.

But, after that, I looked down when he walked away. Only to see that there was a hole that he was going to put me in.

So, I got put in it, and then woke up.

From then on until going to Fuse today, I was super confused. But then, it all came together. It all came together what it ment. When Brad reminded us what being still means, I seen it.

After the service, I told my small group leader that the Holy Spirit interpreted my dream for me. Like, word for word. I thank God for what she made me do afterwords; and that was to write it down so she could read it. And, this is what came from the ink of my pen, word. for. word. :

These wings you have given me; they do not mean I am an angel.

These wings, they are given to me only by your salvation.

This world, it has put me in a box. A box I can only feel hopeless in.

But once I take the time to realize your wings of salvation can lift me up and out,

I can wrap them around the lost, the broken, and the beaten.

We all need to see this. We all need to know the Wings of Salvation can free us from the strong-hold satan has on our hearts.

It’s not only me, God. Let them see they can soar to the heavens whenever they please, also.

Im so exited. Thats what he gave me.

–Ali Neely

Guest blogger Joel Hobgood on dreams

Tiffany asked me to share with you guys a dream I had last Tuesday.

Check this out: For the past week or so I’ve felt like God wants to show me who He is in ways I have never experienced before. Wednesday night before I went to bed, I was reading through some posts on this blog and the stories got me thinking about how the Holy Spirit works in ways we don’t always understand. In Joel 2, there’s a passage that talks about God pouring His Spirit on all people and His sons and daughters will prophesy and have visions and dream dreams. So I think to myself “Why not?” and began to ask God to speak to me in my dream that night in a way that I could understand.

In my dream that night, I stood in an open field facing Joey West. We were praying for God to speak to Joey and reveal Himself because he’s seeking God desperately for something. As we prayed, I saw clearly in my mind my friend Beth and the number 4 in Roman numerals. Something about the vision told me that the number 4 was significant in her life. Joey and I continued to pray and I reached my right hand out and placed it on Joey’s neck. When my hand made contact with him, Joey lifted his head and said “There it is! I can see it, I can see it!”

Then I woke up.

As I got ready for class that morning, the dream was clear in my mind and I couldn’t help thinking that I needed to talk to Beth and Joey about it so I sent them both texts explaining my dream. Joey replied back saying he had a really weird dream but couldn’t remember the details, so I asked him if there was anything he was really seeking God for (like he was in my dream). He tells me “yeah dude, that’s crazy because I was writing in my journal last night that i was desperate to hear from Him about what to do with my life.” I told him that because he was seeking so hard after God, He was going to show him what that is really soon and recommended he read Psalm 14:2 and Psalm 34.

Meanwhile, Beth replied saying “there are definitely a lot of things in my life that have to do with the number four. that’s crazy!” This was on Thursday (4/2) and on Friday (4/4 – Hmm…That’s interesting…) we had a two hour conversation about discovering God’s purpose for your life. I had basically just met Beth the week before my dream. It is so clear to me that God desires to use us to speak His truth into the lives of others for His glory!

What do you think? Have any stories like mine happened to you before?

–Joel