Thoughts of Glory

Decision Time:  A Dream

On February 15th 2010 I had a dream in which I was an observer of a large company of people who has come to a set of crossroads. Four roads had met forming these cross roads and all the people had come down the same road and now faced four options. They had the option of proceeding right, forward or left or they could return from where they had come from. In this dream I was also aware of the Lord who also was observing this. I looked at the Lord and without speaking I conveyed to Him the thought of “what is going on here?”   Then I began to understand the meaning of this situation, there was no spoken communication between me and the Lord, but nevertheless there was very clear unspoken communication between us. There are times and seasons in God, some of these seasons are critical, some are optional, some are time sensitive and have far reaching ramifications. We need to understand the difference between the perfect will of God and the permissive will of God. 

Romans 12:2    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Life is full of choices and it is these choices that determine how we live our lives and how our lived end up. Many times we weave in and out of the perfect will of God resulting in our lives being a mix which limits us greatly in our walk with the Lord. The permissive will of God is that which God permits but is not His perfect will for us; this often results in the loss of many privileges and blessings. Our protection against the enemy is predicated upon you and I being in the perfect will of God, we are told to first submit ourselves to God before we can resist the enemy; James 4:7. Because we all have free will and the right to choose God permits Christians to continue in the permissive will of God albeit with limited aces to much of His grace and privileges. Living on this level is not sufficient to protect us from the encroaching darkness. The prophet Isaiah prophesied about these End –Times.

Isaiah 60:2    For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
This phrase “Gross Darkness” in the Hebrew language has the thought of dripping with thick darkness. In order to survive this darkness it is needful for us to be in the perfect will of God.

As I continued to observe what was happening in this dream I became aware that each road had a name. The road they walked down to get to the Cross Roads was called The Past. The road to the right was called Selfishness, the road to the left was called Fear and the road straight ahead was called Glory. I then began to see that some turned back and began to walk back to where they had come from these people could not leave the past behind and move on into new and greater things in God. Some began to turn to the left and go off in that direction, this primarily was because of fear. This fear was generated from not being able to trust the Lord with their lives and move on into the unknown, their lives were reasonably comfortable and they were not about to change or risk changing this. Others turned to the right and went down the road of selfishness, simply they wanted to do and go where they wanted, this selfish motivation determined their direction. Finally a group began to walk straight ahead and began walk up the street called Glory and I noticed that as they began to eagerly walk down this road it got lighter and lighter. I then turned to see the others who were walking down the other roads and as they walked it began to get darker. This encroaching darkness was very slow at first almost imperceptible but the darkness slowly increasing the further they went down the road. As I looked at these people upon whom the darkness was slowly encroaching the story of The Frog and the Kettle came to mind.

The Frog and the Kettle

A famous experiment was once conducted that involved placing a frog in a kettle of water. Don’t know who ever thought up this experiment, but it serves as an excellent illustration. If the frog was placed in a pot of boiling water, the frog would immediately jump out so as not to be scalded. Then the frog was placed in the water while it was yet cool. As the frog sat contently in the water, the water was heated one degree at a time. The frog adapted to the gradual changes in temperature until it boiled to death!

Many Christians today are not aware of the encroaching darkness and are adapting to it without even knowing.  Finally I became aware of the fact that what the Lord was showing me in this dream was Time Sensitive, in other words many Christians were being brought to a point of decision in their lives and their response to these decisions were limited in time. I had the distinct knowing that the time limit was the first quarter of this year. We need to be very carefully about the decisions we make over the next few months as they can affect the rest of our lives. We cannot afford to be in the permissive will of God.  God is now proving those who He can trust, over the next few years we will see moves of God and changes in the church unparalleled in history, and history will truly become His-Story reaching its fullness and glory in the few years that we have left.

Blessings
Neville Johnson  February 18, 2010