Keep Your Heart ~ sharing a dream and word the Lord gave me
In sharing this, I am being very transparent with you, but it's important that God's people be reminded of this and healed as well.
My husband and I (married now for 30 years) had a horrible argument, and I came away from it literally so angry that I did not even want him near me, not to mention not to touch me. Remember, I prefaced this with I am being very transparent...lol Anyway, I was in my bedroom, and he really isn't good at leaving me a while to let me get over things. He's kind of the 'everything has to be fixed right now' type guy, and I am kind of the 'let me spend time with God and I'll get back to you' type gal. He came into the room asking me if I'd pray with him, and at that point, I was still too hurt and angry, so I said no. He, of course, had a few things to say about that, but he did leave the room, and I laid down in tears and fell asleep. Then...
THE DREAM
I had a dream that my husband and I just had a horrible argument, and that he came in and asked me to pray with him, and, in the dream, before I could say no, I felt convicted and felt that I should pray with him. Remember I had just gone through the 'I don't even want him touching me' feelings in real life and so in the dream I still actually felt that way, but he came walking toward me and put both of his hands up as if I was to put mine up and we were to put our hands together (palm to palm is what I mean). Again, in the dream, I did not want to, but I still felt convicted, so I put my hands together with his palm to palm, and immediately I felt something rush through my body that I had never felt in my entire existence. It was an amazing feeling that could have only come from the Lord. And a beautiful feeling inside my entire body.
I began falling backwards, but not in my bedroom. It's hard to explain, but it reminded me of how Alice in Wonderland fell in that story. Free-falling with no cares, no worries of hitting a bottom. Safely falling in the Lord's hands somehow. There was nothing evil or nefarious about it. It was complete peace that passes all understanding. All of a sudden, while falling, I knew that what I was feeling was complete healing and even beyond healing, a wholeness that I've never had to this day. It felt like I was completely encompassed in the Lord's presence and filled to overflowing with His love, goodness, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and healing inside and out. I know it's hard to imagine, but that is why I am going on and on about it to help you in some small way to comprehend what I am sharing. Try to imagine it. Close your eyes and try to feel what I was feeling. It was like being consumed by the Glory.
When I woke up from my nap, I immediately heard the Lord say, 'Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life', which I knew was Proverbs 4:23. Then He reminded me also of John 7:38 which says, out of your heart will flow rivers of living water and then He said, you will dam up the love, mercy, grace, peace, and even the forgiveness that I need you to walk in for those I am planning to send you to if you allow the enemy (who is not your husband) to keep you in offence. For I can touch you and bring supernatural healing through anyone I choose, and how do you know that you aren't in offence at someone and rejecting My love, help, and healing through the very hands that I have always planned to lay on you?
He reminded me that we war not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12). He said My daughter, the enemy works overtime to get you into offence and unforgiveness. Why? Because he knows the power of 2 on earth agreeing in prayer (Matthew 18:19). He knows 1 can put 1,000 to flight and 2 can put 10,000 to flight. He knows My word even better than many of My people do. My child, bring everything to Me. For you are Mine, and I see the tears and put them in a bottle (Psalm 56:8) to remind Myself of why they were shed. I have indelibly imprinted (Isaiah 49:16) you in the palm of My hand, and I will repay those who have hurt you (Romans 12:19), but payment by taking vengeance yourself takes it out of My hands, and walking in anger, resentment, or bitterness poisons you and sometimes even those around you. Remember, My child, that offence and unforgiveness that you allow to linger, hardens your heart and not the person who hurt you in the first place, says the Lord.
Needless to say, I got over the hurt and offence very quickly and repented to the Lord as well as worked through things with my husband. I often think of Jesus and how He looked down from that Cross, seeing His own children killing Him. Is there any other betrayal, pain, or suffering at the hands of those who are supposed to love you that any of us can ever experience worse than that? No, He did it all, took it all, and paid for it all. Maybe the Lord had me share this as transparent as I could because one of you is holding someone in offence. Each of us have people close to us in our lives that have hurt us somehow. Sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident, but no matter how it comes, God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8). He asks us to be like Jesus. Jesus is our example of true Godliness. He is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6), and it is by living as He modeled that we will hear those beautiful words...
Matthew 17:5 NKJV
This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Sheryl York 🕊️
America Reimagined
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