I dreamt last night that I was traveling in some unfamiliar place but needed to find the restroom. After searching, I finally located one and went into what I thought was a restroom but upon entering, I discovered it was a joint male-female bathroom. To me restroom meant a sink and toilet but this one seemed more a bath or shower room, like the athletes use after a game. I remember the tiles were three shades of sky blue: light, medium, and dark colors and it was all tile. It look like a giant shower that had toilets in it too but they completely vanished in this collection of blue tiles! It was like a maze and I was trying desperately to find my way out, once I got in and I began walking faster and faster. I kept going around and around the perimeter of this bathroom space and I began to get more frustrated because I couldn't find the doorway! The tiles exactly matched so you couldn't tell where the doorway was, because of the way the tiles had been laid out. As I began to become more frustrated, stressed and anxious over the situation, I started praying, "Lord, please help me find my way out... I just want out!" I kept pounding on the walls and pushing on them as I walked around and around this bathroom maze but nothing would give. When I couldn't find my way out, I began to pray louder and harder, pushing and pounding on the walls as I walked, when someone on the outside heard me! It was a man - he had heard my prayers and cries of desperation and opened the door a bit and said, "I can help you with that, I can help you find the way out, but, I have one request first. I would like it if you would include me in those prayers of yours, if that's not too much to ask. Please, just include me in your prayers - do we have a deal?" In the next scene I was outside this bathroom...it was as if I was suddenly transported to a portable diner window where you order food - one of those mobile units that sell food in high traffic areas. The man that came to my rescue was there, serving food during the lunch rush. There was a long line behind me and as I was getting my order, my rescuer was finishing his prayer request! Several ladies behind me overheard our conversation and tapped me on the shoulder and asked if they could be included in this group prayer time - they wanted to know if they could join me. They started asking me for my information and we started exchanging emails, phone numbers, and contact information so they could be part of my prayer time. I was explaining to them that I prayed every day and it usually took me from 1 - 2 hours each day to cover my requests as my lists seemed to keep growing and that it did require a commitment daily but it did work. I then woke up.
Maybe the Lord is trying to show or reveal to us that the answer to our country is joint prayer of believers: "Act 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. Consider 2 Chronicles 7:12-22:
12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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