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So what happened?

Now I don't know how, or if, this would be relevent, but perhaps the barber shop had something to do with Jesus tending the branches on the vine? I'm not sure. That's what I was thinking anyway. Could be wrong though.

A little off topic, but an interesting praise report: I heard a story of a woman that goes to a church I attend who felt that God was telling her to give $1000 to someone. She obeyed, and got something like $25,000 from a different source.

I have a question about tithing.

I've been tithing by paying the entire tithe of the month, at the beginning of each month, rather than paying the 10% every week. Do you think God still agrees with this?

Ok, thanks. Also, I later discovered it wasn't the Colombian youths who said the thing about tithing, it was some other vision, but it was them who mentioned the thing about Mary winning her salvation, but they did also mention something about dancing being a sin. I don't know. I've been asking God His opinions on these visions, since I was brought up believing that dancing, unless it's dirty dancing, is ok.

Here are some dreams I've had over the past few weeks or so. I'll start from the earliest and work forwards. These are only fragments I'm afraid.

1) I dreamt that my sister had visions of Hell. In the vision, when she got there, she had to do this sort of dance, where she stands tall, arms pointing at a 45o angle down and away from her sides, and she shuffles sideways to the right.
-(I had been reading some testimonies of people having visions where Jesus gives them a tour of Heaven or Hell, and wondered at some of them since some seemed a bit strange.)

2) a bear, (in human form, but I knew it was a bear) that wanted to hang out me and some people I was with., We told it it was impossible, since it's mother would be furious when it saw us.

3) A child playing in the yard, a mountain lion is in the yard. I yell for the child to come, at first it doesn't, then it gets inside and I manage to close the door on the mountain lion, but as I run through the house (a house I have never been in IRL) the lion somehow gains entry, and I'm panicking, running from room to room warning the mountain lion is in the house. (I don't see the mountain lion in the house, I do however know that it did break in, or was simply still attempting to break in.)

4) My dad (who is married) was in a conversation with this lady, and brings up the phrase. "My girlfriend." This makes me feel angry, since he is married to my mom, and in the dream I was thinking he was referring to someone else.

5) I dream I'm on a school bus. This one man from college residence I remember was driving the school bus. It was noticed that there were seat belts on the bus. They were black and came across the windows. I tried buckling up, but it was uncomfortable and awkward.

6) I had a dream that I was chosen by this teacher to be given a tour of this expensive house. I met this guy who was the owner of this house, making sure to address him as "sir." Although I didn't call him sir every single time. [Later on that day IRL, I realised this man has striking resemblance to Toronto's mayor.] Later on, he becomes this elderly lady who has trouble standing and needs to hold onto me. The car we're looking for is nowhere to be seen, and the teacher who is with me tells me that his car is (invisible? I don't quite remember) Afterword, this lady's husband comes, and we find out either 1) she is the husband's wife, and another lady is cheating on him, or 2) She isn't really his wife, she was cheating on him. Can't remember which is which.

7) I was playing this maze puzzle game. And I completed this one course, but got stuck in that one where there is this pillar thing in the center of the room, but when I go around it, it's like appearing in a different room entirely itself, like an impossible spacial situation. Then I go through this doorway, and find myself with my feet glued to a cube of burning sulfur, where apparently I'm in Hell because I wandered through the doorway, because I didn't trust God enough, or was misled somehow.

Not sure what these dreams mean. I think I understand 7. I sometimes wonder if I am walking right with The Lord or not, and almost always asks Him to reveal the truth to me. Thoughts? Interpretations? Prophetic words? Thanks and have a Blessed weekend.

I was wondering about a big controversal issue, and what you guys might think of it.

Now don't get me wrong, I am a tither, however I do wonder if it's right to enforce it on others.

I read this story about some Colombian Youths who had a revelation of God showing them Heaven and Hell, and in one part, there are apparently Christians in Hell today because they failed to tithe. At the same time, I'm uncertain about the accuracy of this testimony too, because in the part of their revelation of Heaven when they were talking about how the Catholics treat Mary as Holier than others and this is incorrect, it did mention, "...like all other people on Earth she had to win her salvation." This winning of the salvation seemed to strike me as really odd and makes me question the vision.

Anyways, what do you think of this?

We were praying over missionaries in church tonight, when I asked God to "open my spiritual eyes". I saw tounges of fire on various members of the congregation in my mind's eye. It was very cool. Some flames were different shapes than others. Like one was tall, but skinny, a few were kind of like what you'd expect to see in drawings. I assume the different shape means the different way The Holy Spirit works through people.

There are have been times when I get opportunities to share my faith with someone online, and then the connection dies.

I just want to add the comment to the title of this forum: "God doesnt always make sense, but His Word is still Truth."

I believe (not rebuking the title, just want to add) that God always makes perfect sense, it is us who don't understand. God Bless you all. :) :) :)

This may sound like an odd question, but what is paraphernalia?

I had one experience like this. It happened the next day.

Thanks very much. I've lately been confused with experiences of God giving certain people tours of Heaven and Hell, and teaching people things that are really strange.

For the friend who got married, she got married in real life. She was not the same girl as Sarah in the dream.

I had a nice nap this afternoon, a bit of an odd nap. I kept transitioning between different dreams, even entering lucid dreaming at one time, being aware I was in a dream, and at that point I was frantically looking around for symbols and what was important.

So a really really whole bunch of really weird things happened in the dream, in one case I was time traveling to Noah in his post-flood part of his life. Just for the complexity, I'll mention bits of two of the dreams.

Okay. In one part of a dream I was at a friend's house, who got married, but she was living in this wooded area, and a whole bunch of us were in this hot tub. I was a bit concerned by what was in this hot tub. (Some sort of animal or something), but an unknown lady told me to come in and sit down, so I did, and sat beside my mother who was there. Then I was startled by this black spiky looking fish in the hot tub, but I just sort of shrugged it off, assuming it was nothing to be afraid of, considering these people were assuring me that it whatever animal was in there previously was ok, but then the host (the lady who was the owner of the hot tub, and the location we were at) looked at the fish, and started acting scared like. "Oooh, this is serious." Look. So the black fish had it's mouth open and started chasing around my right toe in the bathtub. (Just to fill you in on something, I do have warts on my right foot in real life.) It was at that point I was startled awake, or I transitioned to another dream, I can't quite remember. But when I went back asleep, the dream resumed shortly after where it left off:

Apparently, while I was "away" from the fish dream, I had lost consciousness in the fish dream (according to everyone else. Really weird huh?) But anyways, supposedly when I lost consciousness, the fish had apparently not bitten me. In the dream itself I credited this to God as always taking care of me.

The second dream was weirder and took place where I was sort of time traveling to Noah's post-flood era part of his life. I was there, and so was this girl who I like in real life, who apparently was Sarah in the past. (Abraham's wife Sarah, yet in the dream she was Noah's wife. Apparently being stuck in the past forever and living out the rest of her life under the name Sarah.)

In one part of the dream, I was worried that I had dropped a match in an ark, so I went in and checked around to avoid a terrible fire that would have consumed Noah's life. (In the dream, it had since become a physical appearance of a barn, yet we were thinking of it as an ark. A yellow truck was also seen in the dream, so it wasn't like everything looked like Noah's era, just some sort of symbolism of it.) Anyways, at one point I looked up and saw really really dark clouds, stormy ones, I went into this house, and into the basement, and when I outside from the basement, the clouds were gone and blue sky, except for when I walked up to the window and looked about westward when I could clearly see storm clouds there. Anyways, I went into the barn ark, and found not one match I had apparently dropped, but five. One of which had been gray, from being lit, the rest were red, from not being used. I also saw a matchbox thing.

Very confusing for me, most of my dreams contain so much content it's hard and confusing for even me to put the pieces together. Any thoughts?

Ok, here's my situation I'd like wisdom from God for. Maybe a prophetic word, maybe that the right doors will open. I've liked this girl for a while, and I've asked God whether it was right for me to ask her out, and I thought He may have confirmed it, or if I should look for someone else, but then a friend of mine from my hometown this evening phones and says that she likes me and wants to date me, but the thing is...I don't want to! She lives in a different town and I don't want to enter into this long distance relationship. So now I'm mixed up. I'm not sure if God sent her (she has asked me if I was interested in dating her before, and I've replied no.) But the timing of this seems very strange to me. I don't know what to do. :\

Sometimes I wonder if I committed it or not. It causes me to worry. What exactly is it? Anyone else have this issue?

Last night I had a dream that I was back in my hometown, and my pastor was there, and my dad, and some people I believe from the congregation, although I didn't recognize them. Anyways, the church had this most bizarre ritual. We would take a gold moulding, and place it in the oven where we would mould these letters of our names, we would then brand the letters on our arms and spell out our names on our arms. Even though the moulding was only 60o, it was still painfully hot. When it came to me, I didn't want to do it. Not because I felt uneasy about it at the time, but it looked painful, so I left my house, because we were in our house, in the kitchen at the time.

I went to this bookstore, and was browsing the bookstore, and was in this magic section, (witchcraft type magic) and I found this book (wasn't sure if it was in that magic section, or just passed it) that explained the origin of that branding as being some sort of North American Aboriginal thing. (Which in reality it isn't) So it made me feel uncomfortable that we were adopting other spiritual beliefs into our Christian doctrine. It was a really bizarre dream.

I had a weird dream last night. First...a little history: I have a rather unique sense of humor, and one of the things I like to do is add humorous commentary if I'm watching a movie or TV Show. If any of you has seen Mystery Science Theater 3000, or Rifftrax you know kind of what I'm talking about. Anyways, when I add comments I do try not to say anything that would be mean or anything like that, and if I'm with other people who would find it annoying or in a theater I wouldn't add comments at all.

Last night I had a dream where I was in a movie theater, and for whatever reason, I yelled a swear word out loud, I then wondered where that came from. Then my youth pastor, who also was in the same theater came to me, asked if that was me. I admitted it was, and he basically told me that this type of language wasn't for Christians.

I'm wondering what this could mean. Maybe even my comments that are okay aren't good? Doesn't seem to make much sense. Any thoughts?

lol, thanks. I usually go on a walk every night and talk to God about it. I did that tonight, and one thing that I felt God reveal to me was, "Be patient." Not as an answer to the dream, but my reaction to it. I should be patient for His answer, I was like..."What if whatever it is I'm sinning right now? What if it's our music? Our witnessing? Our- Our- Our-."

Thanks, the question is...what is it exactly that The Holy Spirit is pointing out to me as being wrong?

Okay, so I had an afternoon nap today after church and I had a dream which was really weird. There was one part where in the residence I was in, I was getting in trouble for not leaving the building when the fire alarms were being set off, and it was caused by some of the lights being left on too long, since in the dream the heat sensors were right above the light bulbs, but I didn't even hear the alarms go off in the dream that I recall. Also, at one point, a security alarm in the part of the building I was in was turned on, but I, and several other people were still inside, but the alarm didn't go off or anything, even though we kept walking past the sensors.

Then came the disturbing part of the dream, I dreamt that the people in my dream (even me at one point) suddenly fell into inappropriate premarital relations, but the scary thing is my church accepted this as not a sin! I kind of remember my church all gathered in one place, (I think some kind of boxcar thing, but not really) and I was praying for a deliverance from this bondage my church was under. What does this mean? Is there something wrong with my church? The church? Me? Or some other meaning?

I had a dream that my family and I went to Toronto for a vacation. (IRL we visited there for a vacation before) I remember we had very little money, and we were only staying for a few days. Anyway, I wanted to get out and tour the city, or do something, and then a hotel maid comes in and gives scissors with red handles to my mom, who apparently left them the last time we stayed in Toronto, (broken scissors, they were kind of spit apart). Anyways, later on my friend Sam who IRL lived in residence with me, but moved out, suddenly dropped by in our hotel room. He soon left and my mom suggested we both go out to the movies since I wanted to do something. So I go out into the hallway. It's almost a maze in the halls, and Sam was nowhere to be seen, even though he left the hotel room no more than what seems to be ten seconds, but I did see hospital patients in the hallway, one guy on an IV drip of some sort.

I usually go on nightwalks and talk to God and spend time with Him. So I brought up various issues in my life and asked Him about it tonight. I felt again He said it was okay.

It could be that. I sometimes wonder if there's something in my life that God wants to change, but when I ask Him to reveal to me or if something I'm doing is okay, I usually think He says it's fine. (IRL it took several days before the light could be changed by college residence, until then I was washing in the dark)
I'll add more details from the dream: I went in the bathroom, remember looking at the switch, flicking it on and off on and off several more times, and I remember thinking, "not again." Since IRL the light did indeed burn out. Also in the dream, I looked at myself in the mirror. It seemed to be a bit of a darker image of me, (obviously because the light was off) but I noticed that I seemed to look...different, in the mirror. Any interpretations? If I am doing something wrong God wants me to repent of I really want to know.