May 19, 2022: Dream...Luke 15:32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”
This was my message, and while I spoke, I kept my eyes fixed on that door waiting and watching for my pastor Dan to come in. After it was over we went into the breakroom with my pastor who finally arrived, and the CEO of Gold Kist/Cotton States walked up and told my pastor: "Son, I don't know what your message was but I am convinced it could not have surpassed what this lady shared with us. Dan was given a check for $40 and said this: You know when I arrived I was ready to open the door and go in when the Lord spoke to me and told me not to open that door as she is watching that door, for your arrival and would stop speaking, but I need her to finish her message. That being said, back to my boss Wayne ...
Wayne interviewed me for a secretarial job working for the Gold Kist part of the company and told me he remembered me from that time my pastor did not show up and I spoke. He said they had been having these speakers for 40 years or since it's beginning and had a saying, if your pastor doesn't show up you have to give the message! I was the only one who had actually ever done it, and he said it was the only message he recalled every word I spoke. I was amazed and it got me that promotion.
A few years later, I gave birth to my second daughter Elena and she was born without her left arm, it stopped like an amputation right under left elbow. Before we knew if we had a boy or girl, we knew her hand was missing. My boss Wayne, called me and told me something he never talked about, but felt the time was right to tell me. He related how he had gotten polio as a child and one leg was about 4 or 5 inches shorter then the other. As a child he wore braces [like Forest Gump] and lived on a cattle ranch, in which all hands were needed to work on this farm. Wayne told me his dad would make him do chores with no assistance and never seemed to consider his polio/braces that made things very hard for him. His father, looking back, helped him by doing that, as he grew up not feeling sorry for himself and felt he could do anything he set his mind to. He told me to let this child learn likewise and when she really needs help give it, but to believe in her and never let her see you feel sorry for her over her disability. He said if you believe in her she will too. I never forgot those words from Wayne.
DREAM... [Please note, God only uses people in my dreams as representatives to get the point or message through he needs... Wayne was his choice]
Now... the dream: I dreamt I was at a funeral, the viewing and the casket was opened and I knew it was this boss, Wayne. I did not at all recognize him as he seemed dark, evil, like Vincent Price in old time horror movies, but I knew it was him. I kept staring at him and trying to see the image of the Wayne I knew but could not. He looked like evil in form of a person. I could not accept what I was seeing, I felt Wayne had to be in there somewhere, and took my hands and placed them on his face, got very close to his face and very gently, lovingly spoke: "Wayne, are you in there? Wayne, it's me, Sharron Wright or you may remember me as Sharron Kruse, but look at me Wayne! Wake up, speak to me as I know you are in there somewhere, wake up Wayne!" I began to notice a slight twitch in his closed eyelids and kept holding his face very affectionately speaking to him, and life began to come back into his face, color began to come back and he opened his eyes as if trying to figure out what was happening. He was alive, as it were, from the dead!
I want to clarify that I in no way think this dream is saying Wayne was evil, I feel it perhaps was the old Wayne that was once dead and new life came into him, he was once dead but now alive, new creation, old things passed away through Christ. We, the church, can bring dead things back to life through Christ. I also think that people can loose hope and we must encourage others that may be struggling and having doubts, fears, feeling forsaken by God and others, during this time of apostasy and great testing of our faith. Let's be the light and salt God needs us to be during these final days before our departure.
I feel this is for the body of Christ and made me think of the church at Sardis in Revelation, which see below. Also another verse came to mind regarding the prodigal son story, the brother who was dead and now alive... celebrate! I also recall the church at Laodicean church who was dead, also down below, along with the great commission from Jesus before his ascension.
SCRIPTURES:
GREAT COMMISSION:
MARK 16:14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
16“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
17“And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18“they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Matthew 10:8 NKJV — “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
DEAD CHURCH
Revelation 3: 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
2“Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.
3“Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
4“You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
5“He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
6“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’
LUKE WARM CHURCH:
Revelation 3: 14“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceansfn write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:
15“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
16“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,fn I will vomit you out of My mouth.
17“Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—
18“I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
19“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
20“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
21“To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
22“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’ ”
PRODICAL SON:
Luke 15:11Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.
12“And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
13“And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
14“But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15“Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16“And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
17“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18‘I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
19“and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
20“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
21“And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23‘And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
24‘for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
25“Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26“So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.
27“And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’
28“But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.
29“So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
30‘But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
31“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.
32‘It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”
