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I had a terrible dream. It was such a bad dream that immediately I woke up, I literally protested to God.
We were at one of the beaches alongside Lake Victoria, in Kenya. We had gone fishing with my two sons. We had been there for quite a while but hadn’t caught any fish. We stopped fishing and started admiring shells in the water. Abruptly, it occurred to me that we should be gone.
Just as I was walking out of the water, I spotted some groundnuts (still in their pods) in the clear water. I wondered who had dropped them there. I reached out and picked one. When I broke it open, the pod had nothing inside. I wanted to check the others—I happened to like groundnuts. I, however, felt some “heaviness in the air”. I felt very uneasy. The urge to leave the water was strong. I started walking away and thought that my sons were following behind me. About six steps away from the water, I turned to see if my boys were following. They were not. They were still in the water—admiring things, their back to the lake. I called them and urged them that it was time to go.
Looking further into the lake, I saw a crocodile, slightly submerged in the water and moving at a terrible speed towards my boys.
I shouted at the top of my voice calling them to get out of the water at once and come to me—running! I shouted again, and again, telling them to run for their life. They never moved, they instead asked for more time—just a moment to check the things they were checking.
“You don’t understand! I say come out of the water at once—run!” I desperately commanded one more time.
It was already late! The crocodile had reached my elder boy. I shouted one more time in terror and despair. It was the kind of a shout that would wake one up from sleep. I woke up just as the crocodile was stretching to pounce on my child.
Usually when I have a terrible dream, the first thing I do when I wake up is, “Thank God, it was just a dream!” Not this time. The dream was so traumatising, one of the worst I have had. It is a terrible thing watching helplessly as a crocodile makes the last move on your child.
When I woke up, I immediately protested, “You know I don’t like a nightmare like this. Why did You allow it?” I was so awake it was as though I had not been sleeping a while ago.
I realised how this dream was “real”. One of the reasons this dream disturbed me a while was that it has, time and again, been a reality to some people. Many people have watched helplessly as their loved ones are ravaged by a wild animal or a calamity. It was like I had just experienced it. This made me contemplate over the reality of the unexpected disasters that can happen when we least expect them.
This was one of the occasions that I would say God answered me promptly. No sooner had I “protested” about the dream than the answer was there:
"The pain you felt is not even comparable to the pain I feel when I call My children to Me and instead of letting go of the things they are preoccupied with and run to Me, they still hold on things while still asking for more time to continue being in the wrong place. The result is that the enemy catches up with them. They end up being devoured".
God emphasised that some of His children are in the wrong places—they are in the territory of the enemy where he (the enemy) can easily reach them. Despite His call that they steer clear of the territory of the enemy, they allow themselves to be lured by things that are empty like the pods that distracted me as I was moving out of the water. They hope to get things in them but instead, they just expose themselves to serious danger.
Like my boys asking for a moment to continue admiring the shells, many of God’s children don’t notice that it is time to run for their dear life and get to the Father—at once!
God is speaking to someone and saying, ‘Let go and come to Me quickly. Not a second to wait—soon it would be too late! The time is NOW!’
Think through the places you usually hang out in; think how “exposed” to danger you may be in some of these places. A good way of looking at it also includes the “timing”. Sometimes the danger in a place is not defined by “the place” per se. Sometimes it is the timing that makes a place dangerous. Being at the “right place” at the “wrong time” would change the “right place” into a “wrong place”. Timing is very important. I must also point out that the timing we are talking about here is not only the clock or season. It also includes the sharpness to tap the voice of God within you. When God calls you out of a place, it is “time” to let go whether it is morning, evening or night; it is time to escape whether it is autumn or summer, etc.
The enemy knew that I liked groundnuts. In the dream, he tried to lure me into staying a little longer in the water. Though I was willing to check on the pods, they were empty. The enemy uses what we like most as a bait to keep us at the “wrong place”—his territory. As long as he keeps us at his territory, he can get us anytime he wishes. Alternatively, he may keep us at the “wrong place” not to hurt us—at least for a moment—but to keep us away from the “right place” where we could feed our spirit. His intention is that if he can’t destroy us immediately, he would want to keep us away from our Father as much as he possibly could. This is how some places or situations might not seem to pose any immediate danger but they would be enough to keep us away from the “the place of security”.
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Excellent words of wisdom from the Holy Spirit.
Prophetic for me. I will listen.
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