A VISION OF GOD

Have you had a vision of God?  Do you want one?  The old saying is, ‘you don’t get because you don’t ask!’.  Actually it was Jesus himself who said this: ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’ (Matthew 7:7).  Have there been special moments when you’ve sensed God right next to you, in what you’ve seen, thought or heard?  Everyone who is called has heard a call, distant or close.  Some hear it in the early part of life as a child, some hear it in the crises of mid-life and others hear it in the very last parts of life.  It doesn’t matter when so long as you recognise and respond to the one calling.  So here are some visions others who’ve gone before have had and some thoughts to mull over!

‘And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days’ – Joel 2:28.29

in your DREAMS

Dreams can be powerful to shape us, for good or bad.  It is in that subconscious dream-world that we find some of our hopes and fears interacting in a space where we can also meet with God and hear him speak.  How can we know which dreams are plagued with phantoms, which are the often outrageous fantasies and which are the ones that can have meaning? Joseph and Daniel were given understanding of dreams and it shaped destinies of people and nations.  Young and old alike can be inspired by dreams and visions – the fact is we need more people who are: