I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams" Acts 2:17
I firmly believe we are living in this last days that Apostle Peter talks about on Pentecost day 2000 years back. And the reason is that I have the privilege to see visions from the Lord myself. Over the past few years, I believe the Lord has blessed me with many visions. And many of them are pertaining to people around me, some are future happenings, some are situations that are occuring and mostly are on things that I do not have any idea about. Sometimes I have interpretations, sometimes I don't.
But for all the visions that were given, one thing were resulted that I ended up praying for these people shown in the visions. They are normally friends/family that I know. In some situations, I was impressed enough to write an email, or send an sms of prayer to them to perform some form of edification, to build them up in faith.
Couple of months ago, I had an most interesting vision of a brother whom I consider dear to me. It was an pretty troubling vision. After some waiting and prayer, i send him an email to warn him about certain sins that might be happening in his life as the visions seems like he is facing a consequence to his sins. He replied in the email that he will like to know what is the exact vision details as he accepts the prayer I have for him.
So i went typing off on my Iphone 4. As i was typing it to near finish, LO and BEHOLD, an invisible finger backspaced the whole paragraph text, word by word, letter by letter! I tried, in desperation to stop the deletion but it was futile, i managed to stop it for a second or two, and it start back spacing again until everything was wipe out.
I was on a bus, when this happen. And my heart almost stop. Shock of my life. Sensing that it might be the Lord's doing, I typed an email to my dear brother and said that God probably does not want me to share with him the vision at the point of time.
Nonetheless, over the course of the next 2 month, the backspacing incident and the seriousness of the content of the vision lingered around my thought and prayer life. I seek God for a further and deeper interpretation and wait upon Him for the peace to release the details of vision to this brother.
Sometime later, I went to prayer mountain in Seoul, South Korea during my honeymoon in May. Once again, I find myself praying for this incident and vision. Then, on my train ride across the country to Busan, I find God giving me the sense of urgency and peace to release the details to my brother, including a different interpretation that seems more relevant to this brother.
So after i came home to Singapore this week, I send an email detailing all that i saw in the vision along with the new interpretation. My heart was settled at peace and I pray that he has the wisdom to test and to see whether its really a message for him and his family. As its sensitive and inappropriate, i shan't share this detail online. But suffice to say, its of great ministry and family direction imporatance for this brother. And that explained the pro-longed waiting upon the Lord to release this message.
And I just like to share that i received an email from this brother saying that I can never believe how timely and how relevant the message was as he was embarking on this new task given to him by the Lord. And its just so incredible! Praise the Lord! To Him be the Glory that he shall share the secret things with man.
I still await more fascinating stories to be told by this brother. But i am just so fascinated by the Lord alone on this interesting, supernatural visions that He has been blessing me with all this while. And I thought as you read this, you might have, as a Christ follower, had had a similar encounter as me and you are wondering what you should do with it, so i put together some key points below for you to know and thus decide on the best course of what you should do in handling the visions from God.
1) Visions are from God. He is the source. (read point 8 also)
2) If it impressed on your heart greatly, it means the Holy Spirit wants you to know the situation that's happening.
3) The top priority is to pray for wisdom , including interpretation to the vision.
4) If there's an interpretation, then you need to ask God whether you can release it to the person concerned. If you could , then next question is when should you do it. This takes great sensitivity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. And peace of heart is usually a great way to gauge the suitability and timing of release .
5) Its better to release it via a prayer coupled with scriptural support., i.e it must be biblical. I think God don't release a vision that's contradictory to His word.
6) Understand the heart of God, why does He wants to release the vision to you. What's His purpose.
7) Not every visions needs to be released, sometimes, the Lord just want you to have keep the person/situation concerned in prayer. One never have to release it unless and until the Lord asked him to.
8) Be careful that not all visions are from the Lord, as its spiritual, remember that the devil could be behind it and use them to deceive us. The key here is discernment and also to test the biblical portion of it. So it really helps that you know the bible well.
9) I believe its stewardship as well, visions are secret things from God, and we need to be responsible in handling them well. Do not anyhow disclose it to others. In the old testaments there were many prophets who were God's messengers and all of them were held responsible by God to deliver the message and also how they deliver them. So do be careful.
I am sure more can be added to this list, but suffice to say, visions from the Lord should not be taken lightly. When it doubt, check with leaders around you without divulging too much details.
God bless you : )
Praise the Lord!
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