Dream: A Cry For Help!
Last week, August 26th, 2022 [Friday] I had a very realistic dream, so vivid was this dream that I woke myself up screaming for help! Here is the brief dream and it's confirmation I received this morning while on a 1st morning light, prayer walk with our Lord:
I dreamt I was out for a walk in the country, exactly like the area I now occupy, cow pastures, farms, plush green grassy fields... truly peaceful and beautiful, quiet. I was walking alone, along a wooden fenced pasture along the outside of this fence and came to the corner, and was evaluating my next steps searching for the road, as I realized I was actually on a hill that was quite steep and sloped down and the grass there was quite long, above my knees when suddenly I spotted a brown furry image right at bottom of this field. I tried to figure out what it was, a big dog? What was this thing? Suddenly it seemed to catch my scent and lifted its head looking back over its shoulder and I realized it was a huge grizzly bear, very angry and it jumped up and ran at me intent on my distruction. I looked around and there were families, people there on the road as if a popular park on a busy weekend. There were many people around as I screamed at the top of my lungs, "HELP, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME, SOMEONE ... I NEED HELP! I froze, struggling to scream loudly from complete fear. Unfortunately no one even glanced in my direction. I actually woke myself up screaming help! Then this morning the Lord let me experience something very similar on my prayer walk! [Just not a grizzly bear]
Each morning at the break of day, I take prayer walks as soon as it's light enough and this morning I felt the Lord wanted me to trust him and take my two dogs towards the entrance of our community. It is the longest part of my walk but usually the most concerning as one house has three dogs, a small Jack Russell, a big German Shepherd, and an old medium black dog. The Shepherd has gotten out before and tried to get our German short haired, Oreo, in a confrontation, with Jack Russell joining in attempting to attack my little Angel... a small Maltise. This Shepherd was in fight mode towards Oreo. I avoid taking them lately down this path due to these dogs running free. But this morning when I inquired to the Lord which direction, he said towards entrance. I walked almost to my turning point near subdivision entrance, when a new dog came charging at us, and he (she?) was big, very furry and was intent on fighting with Oreo who was larger in height but was totally trusting me, both my dogs were being very obedient (this was the Lord's doing, I knew) as usually Oreo will charge after the aggressor with a vengeance, as he has been attacked too many times with my daughter Christina on her walks. But today he seemed trusting against this angry dog coming within inches of bitting Oreo! I started screaming at the top of my lungs at what reminded me of the above dream. I felt the Lord meant for me to witness this, which was these two men right there, near the road and this attack, putting lawn equipment into a trailer/pickup, but ignoring my screams for help! I had a hard time getting away, backing up, as this dog kept jumping back at Oreo and Angel. The house that owned this dog's front door was open and I kept looking and hoping to see someone hearing my screams, dogs barking in fight mode to help me but no one came. I finally yelled "No! Stop, stay" for what felt like the tenth time and managed to break away and as I glanced back, finally saw his owner appear at the front opened door oblivious to the whole encounter!
I cried all the way home at people's lack of compassion to an old lady screaming for help and neighbors right there ignoring us, not wanting to get involved! I feel this is the mentality of the church these days to cries for help right under our noses, and we "tune them out" not wanting to get involved. Where are God's good Samaritins? We need to read the fast of Isaiah 58 that the Lord desires, and be about the Father's business as this world is not our home. People are crying out for help, answers, and God... will you heed these calls, these cries for help? We will have to answer to our Heavenly Father one day as we look back upon our lives through the eyes of our Lord and see us from his perspective, to see what he saw - will you be ready for this examination at the judgement seat of Christ? I know I'm not but perhaps these prayer walks will help me see now, here, while I still have time to change, how about you? Prayer and his word are a good place to start.
SCRIPTURES [came to my mind]
“Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.33“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. 34“So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.35 “On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.’36 “So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?”37 And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Isaiah 58: 3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’
“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And exploit all your laborers.
4Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day,
To make your voice heard on high.
5Is it a fast that I have chosen,
A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the LORD?
6“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
9Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
10If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
11The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the LORD honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
14Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
