The craziest, most heart-warming, faith assuring and most beautiful thing just happened!!!! Earlier today I woke up from a nap crying.. but in a good way. I know this sounds weird, but hear me out. I usually fall asleep with background music playing on my laptop. So I’m sleeping, but it was more of being in a trance where I was aware of everything around me and could hear the music playing, but I was still dreaming. The song “without you” by for king and country was on. I remember this dream so vividly it’s amazing. I could feel God and the Holy Spirit so extraordinarily that it left me in tears throughout. I’m not quite sure how to put it into words, but while the song was going (still sleeping) I was just thinking of how I leave in two weeks and I don’t want to have to do it on my own. I was talking to Jesus and was asking Him to go on the mission with me. I was crying and saying “It’s not me that can go out and do all of this. It’s you and your strength within me that is making abling me to do this.” I started visualizing the ocean with a beautiful sunset and birds flying past and mountains in the distance and I was saying “I love the way you just make the air calm and everything flow. The way the ocean moves, the birds soar and the way the mountains still.” I could just feel Jesus with me assuring me that He is going to be with me when I leave to bootcamp and He’s all I need to be successful and do what I’m called to do. It’s so crazy how clear the dream was... I felt like I was sitting in the middle of the ocean watching the waves come to me, hearing the birds above me, and I was watching all of His creation at full peace. I’m so amazed and shocked right now. There was just something so magnificent about crying in His presence and visualizing everything so clearly and stunningly. It was a clear message that even though sometimes I feel like I’m all alone in the middle of the ocean and could have every reason to be afraid, God is with me in the midst of that and can make any circumstance beautiful. If you keep your eyes focused on Him, He will lead you right where you need to be. Dreams are the perfect way to hear from God. When you are dreaming, you are quiet, so you can’t ignore Him. Plus, you are not easily distracted. “For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it. He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. He whispers in their ears...” Job 33:14-16 NLT
