PROMISES OF TRANCE VISIONS ARE COMING 4/01/09

HEARD:  The fullness.  It will come in My time. 

Eph 3:16-19 NKJV

... that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height —  19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

HEARD:  What do we get until then?  More gifts.   Something special for you around the corner.  Don’t be afraid.  Gifts.  Plenty more coming. 

HEARD:  Going shopping.  Trances.   It will be completely My message.  Why is this important?  You can add nothing. 

COMMENTS:  Trance visions are important because although He honors our freewill and will not open or close a vision without our permission, when we are overcome by His Spirit in a trance vision, we can add nothing of our flesh or soul to what is seen or heard.  

DREAM: I went shopping and filled the grocery cart and I pushed it into the slot that was a perfect size prepared for the cart. I looked up and the slot was on the ground floor of many shelves that looked to be in a library.  There was an umbrella for 2 and also 2 purses in the cart.  I took them out to be with me.  I told the person helping me that this was where it was so He could come back for it.  Later, when coming out of the store, the cart slot was on the right side.  It was very dark so I asked for help and He held my hand as He walked in front of me down the narrow aisle to get to the car. 

[INTERP:  The special place set aside for the shopping cart was a symbol of a promise that we had sought Him to hear Him on a deeper level via trance visions.  And He is saying He has heard our prayers and those visions have a waiting place, a holding place made just for them.  And we were not to forget this promise and would come back for them in the right time.]

Acts 10:10-11 NKJV

Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened.

Acts 22:17-18  NKJV

Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance and saw Him...

GLOSSARY:  SHOPPING

DEFINE:  SHOPPING

To seek or search for something that you want to buy. 

SYNONYMS: To browse, look for, to check over, in order to purchase or acquire it and bring it home.

Matt 7:7-12 NKJV

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek , and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?  11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 

Heb 11:6  NKJV

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

CROSS REF

Ps 10:4

Ps 27:8

Ps 69:32

Ps 70:4

Ps 105:3-4

Ps 119:12

Prov 8:17

Song 3:2

Amos 5:4

Matt 6:33

Rom 2:7

Rom 3:11

Heb 11:6

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FROM 101 WAYS GOD SPEAKS (AND HOW TO HEAR HIM)

HE SPEAKS THROUGH GAZING WONDERStc "HE SPEAKS THROUGH GAZING WONDERS" (TRANCE VISIONS)

 “...Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.  Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance...” (Acts 10:9-10 NKJV)

Peter fell into a trance and saw the same vision three times about the Gentiles.  (Acts 10:10-16)  Obviously God wanted to get Peter’s attention.  Peter had a preconceived opinion about the Gentiles that God wanted changed.  It is recorded again in Acts 11:5-10.  Also, Paul had this kind of trance vision while in prayer in Acts 22:17-21.

I have noticed several things when the Lord gives me this type of vision.   First, even if it is an experience happening TO me, at no time has it gone against my will.  At any time I am free to have the vision close down or stop (although it being Him, I don’t want Him to stop.)   It is not something that takes possession of me and I lose control over my choice or will.  In fact, the liberty and freedom of my will is such, and the Holy Spirit being so gentle, that at the slightest hesitation He will stop.  He desires our absolute childlike faith in a Heavenly Father Who is our Daddy.  It is the enemy who binds, hinders, numbs, and chains up our wills. “Gifts” from the enemy are without freedom and liberty.

Secondly, these visions have a lovely common denominator.  In some form or another He knocks at my door, and I either hear His voice, recognize His Spirit, or know His Presence.  After I recognize Him, I invite Him and receive Him.  The recognition and invitation are within my heart.  My soul and spirit “leaps”  when He is so near, and I either call His Name, or recognize that it is Him.  The recognition of the Lord gives great joy, perfect peace, and invokes a strong drawing and longing for Him.  It’s like His Presence is a giant magnet and I instantly respond to Him.

I have never received Him without my state of spirit, mind, will, and body being  completely yielded.   It’s as though His mere Presence gives me the desire to yield my every fiber to Him to do with as He wills.  Always, it is in complete childlike faith in a Father Who is a Perfect Daddy.   He knows me and I have no other need.  He is EVERYTHING.  Yielding to HIM, has always been the focus of every experience in these kinds of visions.

Another detail has to do with the eyes.  It is as though the scales are peeled away and I see with absolute gazing clarity.   The sight is so real, so vivid, so clear!   It is like no sight we see on earth.  It makes 20/20 vision seem dull.  Emphasis should be on the word “gaze.”  Webster’s defines gaze: “to fix the eyes in a steady and intent look...fixed and prolonged attention...stare.”  Peter, in Acts 11:6 mentions he fastened his eyes on the sight.  That is a characteristic of this kind of vision.  It is an absolute fixed focus on what He is showing.  The concentration of the eyes is absolute and does not waver, it’s like describing a staring contest.   Balak mentioned he saw a vision and used the phrase, “having his eyes opened.”  (Numbers  24:4 and 16 KJ)

Visions of gazing wonder are different from picture visions.  I cannot remember receiving a picture vision when I had time to stare.  They happen too quickly.  Wonder visions occur by gazing or staring at the sight for a period of time.  Picture visions do not have the extreme clarity of reality.  Wonder visions are very clear  and the sight is three dimensional  as if one is there, but it actually looks more “real” than real life.         

The following is a vision of gazing wonder the Lord gave me as quoted from my journal:  “When I went to sleep on November 14, 1985, I had a strong yearning for Jesus.  As I slept, He came to me and opened my eyes.  I saw a huge, gigantic banner unfolding across the sky.  It said, “THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”  Suddenly I found myself in heaven looking down upon a vast desert.  It was dry, brown, flat, and immense.  As I gazed upon the lifeless desert, someone was standing above and behind me declaring the scroll of Isaiah 35: 

“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.  It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God.  Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.  Say to them of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold your God will come with vengeance; He will come and save you.  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.  Then shall the lame leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.  And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water...” (Isaiah 35 KJ)

After Isaiah 35 had been announced, I heard the Lord say, “And the desert shall blossom as a rose.  It shall happen all at once, and it shall happen suddenly.”  Immediately I saw the desert come to life.  The sight was astounding and oh so beautiful!  Everywhere blossoms emerged: this dry, lifeless region became a spacious garden of color and beauty.  Then I came out of the gazing vision.  As I woke, I was still in awe of what I’d seen, because it was so beautiful.  I knew the Lord was speaking a promise of what He would be doing to our dry desert like lives.  He was going to rain His Presence upon us and we would emerge with life and beautiful blossoms.”

QUESTION:  How does one go “shopping” for trances? 

ANSWER:  Shopping is a symbolic language for seeking God and His good gifts. He loves to give us His good gifts when we ask Him.  I ask for dreams, visions and nightly hearing Him every day and He is faithful to keep responding to my hunger for Him.  On a long term basis I have asked the He would return to me my gift of receiving visions via trances.  He is promising them for the future. 

Be faithful with what you have been given, then more shall be given.

And diligently ASK and SEEK Him for visions via trances. 

Matt 25:20-22 NKJV

"So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.'  21 His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

Matt 7:7-12 NKJV

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek , and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?  11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!