January 2005

Leaving Town

Well, I'll be gone for the weekend, but I'll be sure and make a post as soon as I get back.

For now, let me leave you with some thoughts from my morning devotional the other day.

I was reading in my Good News Bible, in Revelation 2, when I read one of the most encouraging and challenging calls to action, in verses 24 through 29:

"But the rest of you in Thyatira have not followed this evil teaching; you have not learnt what the others call 'the deep secrets of Satan'. I say to you that I will not put any other burden on you. But until I come, you must hold firmly to what you have.
"To those who win the victory, who continue to the end to do what I want, I will give the same authority that I received from my Father: I will give them authority over the nations, to rule them with an iron rod and to break them to pieces like clay pots. I will also give them the morning star.
"If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!"

My Church

If you're curious as to the church I attend, it's The Father's Church, which is located in Dallas, TX.

After having grown up in a much larger church, I was invited to attend TFC before it became what it is now. At the time, I was in college in Dallas, and lacked transportation to my parent's church, but that was God's plan.

After I left school, I returned to my parent's church one last time and came to the realization that the Lord wanted me to make TFC my church. Although we've gone through a lot of upheaval, I thank the Lord that He placed me in TFC as I know that I would not otherwise be as receptive to what the Lord has done, is doing and will continue to do in TFC and in me.

Having grown up visiting large numbers of churchs all over the world and hearing many different men (and women) of God speak, I believe that Pastor Crawford is as close to a direct conduit from the Lord for this present time, as I could ever be under the authority of. For that reason, among many others, I feel in awe of the Lord that He would require me to be a part of TFC.

Praise the Lord!

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Categories: apologetics, hereandnow

Welcome

This blog is my efforts journal my dreams, poems and other thoughts regarding whatever the Lord is currently doing in my life spiritually. I will also include other aspects of my physical life, but this blog will be separate from any other business blogs that I may host.

While not totally anonymous, I will be changing people's names and places, so as to protect the innocent, both from themselves as well as from me.

The name of this blog comes from a dream I had several years back. It was a part of a unique 2 night series of 3 dreams and while I felt that at least one and maybe 2 of the dreams had been fulfilled as of September of last year, it wasn't until that time that I received confirmation on the "Green River" dream.

I may share the other 2 dreams at another time, but since this blog is named for the dream in question, I will relate it at this point in time.

As I said, this dream was one of 3 that I had in just 2 nights. In this dream, I started out in a executive board room type setting, nice dark panelling, with an extremely large conference table in the center.

Around the table were a group of high level movers and shakers, none of whom I recognized. What I did realize was that I had just completed a large presentation and was sitting by patiently while they discussed it and other items of business. While I was definitely expecting an answer, they didn't seem to be giving any indication as to what that answer might be.

Finally, the conference ended and we left the room. The next scene had me at the curbside of the same building, watching as what was the main leader of the group was about to enter a very nice stretch limo. I seemed anxious to finally get an answer however, and so just before he stepped into the limo I stopped him and asked what the answer was.

He looked at me and informed me that I had received permission to go ahead, then he got in and left me standing on the curb.

Immediately, I was taken to a large tract of land and knew at that moment that this enormous piece of property was what I had based my proposal on. From my vantage point, I could view the entire tract of property, as if I was flying above it.

In the distance I could see at least a mountain or two, but I couldn't tell if it was an entire range, and I knew that the property stretched all the way to the mountains. It was a very lush and fertile piece of property, very green, with a river flowing through. The river was also green and was the sole source of supply for the lush and fertile property, but it was obviously more than enough.

At this point the dream ended, however up until last September I never remembered the color of the river whenever I recalled the dream, just the fact that it was the reason that the entire piece of property was so fertile. However over lunch with my dear friend S and our mutual friend J, I was asked what color the river was and I immediately responded, without stopping to think about it, "green."

When J heard my response, he reminded me that green was the color of Life/Supply and represented prophecy, present truth, and healing. He also pointed out that my recently started business was exactly that, a way for the Lord to use me to provide financial life/supply and healing for those who need it most: moms, the smallest investors, and others that Wall St. tends to ignore.

That is how I came to name this blog, when it came time for me to have it. The 13 stands for my favorite number, my brother's and my birthdays, and the fact that it is the "Perfect Number".

More on that at another time.

Blessings and welcome