A Brother's Dream

On morning I received a surprise message on WhatsApp, and after reading the message, one important thing transpired in me, in real life, which was foreseen by an old friend of mine during college days, a decade ago.

The text message reads:

[14/12, 10:24] : I was dreaming about u

[14/12, 10:43] : I saw that we r staying in some sort of a hostel and suddenly one of the guys went to your room and challenge u for a fight. So there was a fight between u and that guy and I was lying in my room. Immediately, both of you who was fighting came to my room and told me that u guys have to do some rituals to settle the matter. So all of u guys start kneeling down and uttered some words from a language unknown to me. After a while you compromised the matter with that whom u were fighting and handshake each other. While u guys were uttering some word I was so scared that I start praying and holding u and I was so relieved to see u both handshake each other later. After that, both of you left my room and I was alone again. Suddenly one lady came to my room and tempted me to fall into an adultery with her. At that moment there was a hesitation from me but the saddest thing is I fall into the temptation. That very moment I heard my wife calling my name from outside and I left that lady. 

At that very moment I woke up.

I was really really sad. I sat down on my bed and start crying asking the Lord to forgive me. I was praying and begging for forgiveness and weeping on my bed.

Then I heard my wife had also woke up. So I called her to come to my room. She came and I told her everything about my dream. I told her that I have failed the test n I have sin. I told my wife please pray for me.

Dear brother Palmei, back these days I feel very happy and peaceful after confessing all my past sin to my wife. For the last four weeks I so happy and peaceful.

But my dream had made me realised that I have given my heart fully to Jesus. I have just left Him outside my room.

Brother, please pray for me so that I would be string in the Lord.

[14/12, 10:46] : I mean Strong in the Lord

[14/12, 10:51] : My dream made me realise that I have not given my heart fully to Jesus. Instead I left Him outside my room and He is still calling my name.

Please pray for my spiritual life so that I'd  be strong in the Lord.

After I read the message, I called him and we prayed together.

Perhaps, it might just be a dream. Nevertheless, dreams can also be from God or the enemy or from the self. On pondering over it, I realised that there was a message in the dream. 

The date was 14th December, the day in which one of the brothers which I have been so burdened for, won the election as he re-entered politics. There indeed has been a struggling, perhaps, a spiritual fight, for the recovery of the golden lampstand in that city since I first met him and the believers in that locality. At least thrice, I was personally involved in the fellowship of "reconciliation" among the brothers who, for some reasons, have been under the guise of "misunderstandings." 

And when this brother decided to take the way he has taken, I sincerely prayed for him that the Lord would lead him through, and that the church would go on in sweet fellowship with the Body of Christ in other parts of the world even outside of their locality. And when on that day he won the election, I praised the Lord, not for the election per se, but for His leading for His move. This was symbolic of what a friend had seen in the dream.

The later part of the dream may be a matter of concern related to his personal life which also was good as it led him closer to the Lord, and initiated a fresh brotherly relationship with me, and I believe, a fresher love towards the Lord and his wife.