When I first began earnestly seeking God’s plan for my life, I began learning about how He corrects us in our dreams at night. Prior to my supernatural awakening over a decade ago, I did what all other church people do: deceive themselves into thinking I was “ok with God” and needed very little correction. But, as soon as I began diligently studying God’s parabolic dream language, I learned what it looks like when God has a few things to say to you about your character. This was a major eye opener because I quickly found out how totally screwed up I was and how much work I had to do! Well, this is the episode where we deal with the hard reality of God’s expectations of us and, how long we will continue going in circles forever until we get serious and do what He requires.

God’s Paradox: Correction Means Love

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Proverbs 3:11-12 (KJV)

In the natural realm of our daily life, we typically associate someone being harsh with us as hate. Most of the time, that is probably true due to the fallen / sinful nature of man. However, in the Bible we learn that God’s ways are opposite of us and have a much higher purpose in mind. God the Father is very much like a natural father on earth in the sense that He is a disciplinarian. We learn about parenting from many passages that include instructions on how to raise a child so that they do not depart from God’s standards of righteousness later in life (Proverbs 22:6). We also learn that to harshly discipline your child is to save them from Hell (Proverbs 23:13).

This is God’s way and He treats His own children as such because He knows that is the only way we will learn. When I entered the military, I became very acquainted with this sort of training. In basic training, we are yelled at, woken up early in the morning with banging on our doors, blasting horns and all the like. After 6 weeks of this harsh treatment, we are stripped of our civilian character traits and made increasingly into a highly disciplined soldier who can obey authority and perform well under the pressures of wartime environments.

As I learned more about God’s true nature as a father (especially in my dreams), I began to see the wisdom in military basic training. I also began to see how completely out of order I was most of my life, having had no dealings with God as He was now in my dreams. In my blogs and ebooks, I have written more about what correction and rebukes look like in our dreams and how God requires us to respond properly to His disciplinary measures. Let me just say that my early years of supernatural awakening was quite a BIG eye opener.

But, it really took me a while to come to terms with the idea that God’s harshness with me actually indicated His love for me. Despite my time in the military, I had become accustomed to the worldly view of harsh rebukes and I oftentimes became very afraid (in a fleshly way) of God’s chastisement. Retraining my mind did not happen overnight and I often became very wary of what kinds of dreams I was going to get when I had a really bad attitude (as the result of God taking everything away from me). Just as I had gone through military basic training in the natural realm, God was putting me through spiritual basic training in His kingdom realm.

Your Righteousness, Or God’s??

And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

Luke 19:22 (KJV)

Now that we’ve briefly established the fact, along with my experience, of God’s austere nature as a father, we need to deal with our proper response to His correction. In my process of learning and being trained by God, I came to realize that when we submit to God’s rebukes, we are acting in humility. Contrarily, when we reject and argue with God, we are acting in pride and rebellion. This distinction is extremely critical to our earthly and eternal life because, the way we respond to God indicates whether or not He will give us the things we need and want in this lifetime.

As the years have passed since I discovered the huge assignment God has for me in the energy technology invention realm, I began to wonder what was taking so long for me to go from dreams to reality. I’ve had many years of dreams about my invention, and subsequently, two more years since receiving the technical design for the device, and still my money has not shown up. When God wants to bring you into your own “promised land”, He looks for very specific character traits as I’ve written about extensively in these episodes.

Your promised land is the purpose for which you were created and most of the time, it involves money and material possessions. In my case, in order for me to build my invention and start the business, a very massive amount of money is needed. In order for God to be able to trust me with all that (when I’ve never had anything like that in my life), He has to see that I will not destroy myself with the blessing He was saving for me (as Solomon and the Israelites did).

Something that God has been really impressing upon me is that, even though I’ve made light years of progress in my spiritual development, there are still things I need to work on. Nowadays, when He chooses to use imperfect people (in ministry) to bring things to my attention, I need to be very watchful about how I handle correction as I once was a decade ago.

Deceiving Oneself: Critical Danger

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV)

See, the tricky part about spiritual development is that we start to deceive ourselves into thinking we “have arrived” and there’s nothing wrong with us anymore. We concoct false notions in our mind that we are “beyond reproach” and God can’t send anyone with a level of spiritual authority (in our “chain of command”) to speak into our lives.

What I’m trying to say here is that, we start to become filled with spiritual pride and self righteousness. We leave humility far behind and now we are on the path to eternal destruction where God will ultimately reject us as He did to Solomon, the Pharisees and many of the Israelites. This is why Jesus warns us that the way to Heaven is a very narrow road and very few enter in that gate.

Recently, I had a phone call with someone in prophetic ministry where I was tested in this exact way. I really thought I had reached a point where I knew exactly what was going on and I did not need too many people telling me certain things (WOW). It’s too big a topic to fully detail here but suffice it to say, I had to listen to that very quiet subtle voice of the Holy Spirit telling me to shut up, listen and do what I was being told.

In the big scheme of things, I did have a few dreams with similar themes that kept repeating. In the midst of dreams showing me I was right on the edge of getting into my promised land, I also had some showing me something was on hold. As I considered what I was told on the phone, and compared it to my dreams, I realized God had a couple things He required me to deal with before He gave me what I knew should be coming.

If I were to tell you I did not argue with the message from the call (in my mind), I would be a liar. I thought about disputing something while on the phone but, fortunately, I kept my mouth shut and just listened. I knew there was some kind of test going on and if I had put up any rebuttal, God would have given me a failing grade and delayed my rewards.

When you’ve waited as long as I have, and you’ve had dreams of being “so close” but still waiting week after week for what you should have by now… well, you start to get smart. You become sensitized to your attitude and you start thinking really hard about how much longer you want to see those weeks go by, still living on almost nothing, and watching the world go by. You learn by unpleasant experience that you better listen to God’s messenger, even if you believe some of what they said was not totally right.

So… that’s where we are today. This episode was inspired by a very recent phone call and a series of dreams that all lined up to say the same thing. As part of my efforts to take God seriously and obey His correction, I felt it was a good idea to honestly work through some of my issues here in writing, hopefully to the benefit of those who want to learn what I have and likewise walk into their own promised land.

I hope you will do that! As soon as I get what I’ve been waiting for, believe me, you will read about it right here!!

To be continued…

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