Poinsettia dream: MY times are NOT yours

The Dream started in my home - a couple of people had gathered to celebrate passover - we were praying but I decided to leave the house and go to a friends house as I had heard that they were also celebrating.  My friend opened the door for me and in welcome said "happy Pesach" - I handed her a gift of a potted poinsettia in full bloom and as I walked through the door - we both laughed as poinsettia's are associated with Christmas.

My friend pointed me towards the lounge area and said that there were 20 to 30 people in the lounge waiting to celebrate Pesach - as I peeped into the lounge I could hear people chatting but I saw in front of me a fax machine - It caught my attention as reams of paper was pouring out of it with a message that had been received - the paper was everywhere.  The machine held my attention.

I woke up at this point - turned to my clock at it was 7:07 am and today is also the 7th.


Thinking it through

My friend = Is has Jewish connections and led me to look at the Jewish calendar & celebrations.

• Day 7 of the 7th week of Counting the Omer is the final day between Passover and Shavuot which is the giving of the law of Moses to the Hebrews - the time when they entered into the covenant with God.
• "This holiday is likened to our wedding day -- beneath the wedding canopy of Mount Sinai , G‑d betrothed us to Him. G‑d swore eternal devotion to us, and we in turn pledged everlasting loyalty to Him." (taken from Chabad.org)

• Shavuot is also the celebration of the wheat harvest and the ripening of the first fruits, which is the reason for the other two biblical names for this holiday: 1) "Yom Habikurim" or the "Day of the First Fruits." 2) "Chag HaKatzir," the "Harvest Festival."

• We would know this as Pentecost - The Hebrew celebration is due 8 to 10 June 2008
• I had a similar word last year about the first harvest of the Hebrews when they had settled in their new land.

Numbers in the dream and on waking

• 7's = perfection, wholeness of God, completeness, finished worked
• 20 = Holy; redemption. (Ex. 30: 12-14; Rev. 4: 4)
• 30 = Beginning of ministry; maturity for ministry; blood of Christ. (Luke 3:23; Gen.41: 16; Num.4:3)

Poinsettia = associated with Christmas - therefore birth of Christ

• Christ was the word who lived/lives with us
• He gave His life - thereby establishing the new covenant between God and mankind.
• Represents celebration
• Living plant
• "During the 17th century, Franciscan priests in Mexico began to use the flower in nativity processions because of its brilliant colour and holiday bloom, A favourite flower in many countries with its beautiful red, star-shaped flower. It is called the "Flame Leaf" in Central America or "Flower of the Holy Night" (The poinsettia legend) The flower is associated with miracles."

Fax machine

• point where messages are received
• don't see the sender
• It can be switched off and thus not receiving !!
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• Joy

Combustible prayer (rings of fire)

Zechariah 2:5 (NKJ) says^,  “For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.”
 
Praying about the Global Day of Prayer event at Millwall (May 2008) God laid on my heart a beautiful picture of a pond with the proverbial gentle ripples caused by a stone being throne in the middle - the ripples were gentle and peaceful - as I was thanking the Father for this peaceful, gentle picture, I heard in my spirit the word "epicentre".  I asked what this was about.   

The picture started to change and beneath the gentle water were rings of fire – almost reflecting the ripple effect from above – rings of fire from the centre and moving outwards - starting small and getting bigger as they moved out with tremendous power. Everything in their wake was raised to the ground. 

Sharing this with others at the time a number of people confirmed that they too had experienced pictures of rings of fire whilst praying.

As we pray, heavenly activity is released and is far more powerful than we can imagine. The rings of fire are circles of prayer and that’s where revival, healing and the move of Holy Ghost starts – combustible prayer.  

How do we set the world on fire ...... PRAY!

Joy

Choose life

Thursday 27 Dec
Dream .......... In my dream I was preparing for my preach this coming Sunday. The scripture given me in the dream was the Choose Life passage from Deuteronomy ....... still in my dream I spent some time thinking about it and about the old and new covenant.  Suddenly I was in church on the Sunday and I had not written anything down - I knew the message was in my heart - but as I like to have notes (need notes) I left the service during the worship time to write down my four main points.  I sat quietly with a piece of paper (almost like a post-it-note) and wrote down my four points - but I could not see what I had written and then I was called into the service to give the talk.  There was no sense of panic (which I get into a bit before preaching)

As I woke up from the dream I knew in my spirit that the key message was that this was about choice and that we, individually and as the body of Christ, have a small window of opportunity to make the choice between life and death / curses and blessings.

Wednesday 2 January
Vision ......... I was walking along the pavement in central London (very much like Victoria street where the pavement is broad) and suddenly - moving towards me - the pavement was heaving and concrete blocks were being ripped open as in an earthquake.  The pavement continued to break open with the gap increasing and I knew as it came towards me that I had to make a choice to jump to either one side or another or I would fall into the open chasm that was coming towards me.

Joy

The new day will dawn

Sunday 23 Dec 2007
Vision of an African plain just before dawn ......... everything silent, almost of holding a collective breath in anticipation of the dawn.  The sky was clear and on the horizon was the hint of a spectacular sunrise. I felt such an intense peace with a sense that everything (trees, animals, humans) was bowed in anticipation of the dawn.

In my spirit I heard the whisper "The new day is dawning"

The picture, rather rudely and suddenly, switched to an air-force base runway, again it was dawn and my eyes were drawn to the tail end of a fighter jet (I could only see the rear end of it) and suddenly the engine roared into life and the flames and heat came out from the back.  I had the sense that the fighter jet was being revved in anticipation of 'take-off'  - very like the jets that take off from the ships - they rev like mad then almost catapult off the ship.

Joy