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Day 18 - Good Times

So its Saturday...the weather is so beautiful. Last night it was nice and cool out (finally). Ralph and I went to a friends house to hang out after teaching class. We spent time preparing and eating vegetarian "Daniel-Fast Friendly" meals. It was so much fun. I'm learning new recipes each day to help us through this long 40 days of just brown rice, fruits, vegetables, sprouted grains and fish. I'll post up later, a few really cool recipes that I've come across. Anyway, we made fresh hummus last night for the first time. It was an okay attempt. We enjoyed it either way. ;o) Then we sat around talking and laughing for hours. It was great! Its nights like those that prove to me that we don't have to go anywhere and spend lots of money to have a good time. Just quality time with great friends laughing. It makes me realize just how blessed Ralph and I are.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 - (The Value of a Friend) - Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor.10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

I mean, there are so many people that don't have friends or just great acquaintances even. So many people long to have great friendships but go about it with the wrong intentions. If you are there to rely on friendships for validation or self esteem, or to fill an empty void you

Can anyone find the 911?

My point exactly

clock in kitchen...

If your wondering why I posted this picture....scroll down to a few posts before this and see my blog on numbers. 4:11

My prayer books

I love these books. My mom gave them to me and Ralph a few years back when we were really getting into prayer and intercession. They are like gems. They have lists of different subjects and written out prayers with scriptures for you to pray. I like them because they help you along the way with prayer language. Sometimes I go blank and say "Lord I don't even know what to pray for this situation" and these books are like (excuse the expression) "how to pray for dummies"

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Numbers in my prayer time

I went to the prayers about debts...and lo and behold...there it is...the number 11

Psalm 119

Ok, normally I have my little prayer journal list and go through each page praying for certain things, individuals and situations. But today I took my prayer books out called Prayers That Avail Much (which I have had sitting on a book shelf for God knows how long) and decided to pray a couple of prayers from each book. While doing that, I ran into a few numbers that made me sort of giggle mid way through my prayers.

Numbers Everywhere!!

Ok, I'm not one for numerology or anything like that. But I do believe the Lord speaks to us in number meanings sometimes. So I've noticed that for the last few years, I always see the numbers 911. I see it on clocks, radios, speedometers, TVs, street signs, phone numbers. You name it, I see it. It got kind of alarming for a while there. I began to worry like whoa....is that about September 11th or an emergency going to happen? I had exhausted so many options as to what it could mean. It wasn't until just recently however, that I began seeking the biblical meaning of numbers. The thing is, that since the beginning of the summer, I've seen many many numbers with 11 behind it. For example, I just happen to mostly see 4:11, 6:11 and 9:11 on the clock. EVERYDAY. I don't deliberately wait until that time to see it, it just happens. Now I know your probably thinking (ok so what I've seen that a million times). However, I see them everywhere all the time. Mostly the number 11. I told my husband about this a month ago or so and he asked me to show him and point out every time I see the numbers. So I have. He asked me to look up the meanings so I did just that. Here's what I see all the time:

3 = Divine completeness, perfect testimony, restoration

4 = God's Creative Works, reign, rule, kingdom, dominion

5 = Grace, Redemption, serve, works

6 = Image, man

7 = Perfection, complete, finished, rest

8 = New beginnings, liberty, sanctify, manifest, reveal

9 = Harvest, fruit, fruitfulness, promises brought to fruition, Fruit & Gifts of the Spirit

11 = Prophetic, revelation, transition, end, finish, final

Whew!!! I am super excited about the new season I'm in. God has been rapidly speaking to me and I see these numbers everywhere. 311, 411, 511,611,711,811,911, and just 11.

So I figured, it would be pretty interesting to post pictures randomly to my blog every time I see the numbers. Stay tuned for the pics. This should be interesting ;o).

Dancing at Spanish Festival - Calle Orange

 

My Wifey breaking it down @ Calle Orange

 

This is our boss (owner of Salsa Heat Dance Studios, Mike Barbieri) dancing at Calle Orange. I said WEPA like 50 times in this video

Salsa Heat Dance Studios  

Before you begin reading please note my punctuation isn't the best so if you find yourself turning blue because I haven't had a period or comma for a paragraph or longer FEEL FREE to take a deep breath at any moment and keep reading...

Ok so every year Rachel and I go to The Calle Orange festival. We HAVE TO be there every year because we are instructors with Salsa Heat Dance studios and we own a Salsa Heat location otherwise I trully wouldn't pay to go. Now as a Christian Calle Orange is not the easiest thing to stomach. Mainly because Half of the women there were wearing less fabric then my Nephew, Did I mention my nephew is only 1 and a half. Now if that wasn't enough there are Drunk Guys trying to cop-a-feel on any chick that walks by and if you decide your going to watch one of the regge-ton concerts be aware you might get yourself in a gang fight because you wore there colors. (just kidding about that last part) . Its is definitely a day to remember. For the most part we end up staying at the Salsa Heat booth. We ask all of our students to come out and represent and if they wear a SH Shirt the get a free class card. Now you have to love the older generation that believe they know everything there is to know about Salsa and they could teach you a few things if you let them. We always hear the"Oh i know how to dance salsa already,my uncle/dad taught me when I was a kid or "Oh I already know how to dance Salsa I have been dancing Salsa since I was a fetus<~~~ just joking and over-exaggerating if you haven't notice I like to do that sometimes so please don't take it the wrong way. But anyway In all that we see we end up having a great time hanging out and having our own SH party with the other SH instructors, Mike and Karen and all the students or previous students we haven't seen in years. Hope you like the Videos...

Halloween ugh....

I love the fall season. Love the season of harvest. But hate the season of Halloween. Growing up a christian was always a challenge at school and with friends regarding the Halloween season. I hated when I was a kid, that I couldn't dress up or go trick or treating. I mean, hello....I loved candy. My parents tried to explain to me why but as a kid, I really didn't understand the significance of participating in that holiday. Here I am thinking "whats the big deal, its just a costume with candy. I'm not doing pagan satanic worship for crying out loud....I'm just going with the flow."

Well as years have gone by, and as I have made a conscious effort to live my life solely and completely for the Lord, God has opened my eyes up to the true significance and meaning of Halloween. He's opened the eyes of my understanding that I can truly understand what I was doing in the natural that was affect the spiritual.

Is this image a day to celebrate?

 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT...

THE TRADITION OF HALLOWEEN?

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."  Song of Solomon 2:15

Foxes sometime in search of food would enter into the grape orchards and devour the grapes and spoil the crop. However, the little foxes were too small to reach the grape bunches so they would chew on the vines and it would kill the whole vine. Instead of the farmer just losing his crop, he would lose his vine which was more disastrous. Spiritually some things we do or allow, that we might think is little or insignificant, can also be disastrous for us.

Some may consider celebrating Halloween as only a little compromise. However, it is the "little foxes" that spoil the vines and this little compromise can open the door to other evils. Many Christians do not realize that certain traditions that are celebrated in the world have evil origins. Just because our society partakes in certain activities does not make them acceptable for Christians. We must look to Christ and His Word to see if the traditions of this world are good or evil. 

Mark 7:13: "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

 

One very evil tradition is the celebration of Halloween. No Christian should partake in the activities of this holiday, nor should they allow their children to do so. We can discern the evil of this day by taking a look at the festivities that are associated with its celebration. Children are dressed as witches, goblins, ghosts, little devils and fortune tellers. All these are representatives of Satan's kingdom. Games played at carnivals promote fear in children as they are ushered through spook houses and horror rooms. Skeletons, black cats and bats represent death and darkness. No carnival is complete without the gypsy who tells fortunes. Satan has gained man's approval to celebrate his day by simply making it a tradition that seems like a fun day. The opposite is true, however, as more damage and harm are done on this day each year than any other holiday. Children are taught to go door to door chanting "trick or treat." It is unchristian to demand a gift under threat of playing some trick. Police are on the alert for juvenile vandalism and caution parents to be watchful.

I can't believe people actually call themselves Christians and turn around to decorate their houses like this.

Because so many of us have grown up celebrating Halloween, and seemingly did not experience any negative effects, some feel that not celebrating Halloween at all is an extreme measure.  However, we would encourage you to pray about this.  Is any holiday that glorifies death and darkness (even in fun) a proper thing for a Christian to do since we have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light?  

1 Peter 2:9: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light."

Whether we feel that we have been really hurt by celebrating Halloween or not, is only part of the issue.  How does God feel to see His people making light of demons and witchcraft?  Shouldn't we be thinking about how to honor Him and show our love to Him?  Where do our loyalties lie?

Gee its just a mask...whats the big deal...(am I the only one with common sense?)

Ok...so take a pumpkin, carve out scary images and leave it on your front door (hmmm....I would rather ask for angels to encamp around my house...not demons)

Most Satanists celebrate this as their high holy day and even offer human sacrifices to the devil. Until recently, most Christians have not questioned this traditional celebration, but rather have gone along with it by even bringing Halloween parties into the church. The earliest Halloween celebrations were not held by the early church, but the Druids in honor of Samhain, the "lord of the dead", and his demons, whose festival fell on November 1. Halloween actually means "holy or hallowed evening."

According to the Roman calendar in which days began at midnight, the evening of October 31 was the eve before the hallowed day; hence Halloween or All Soul's Eve was kept throughout the ancient pagan world. All Hallows Eve, because it is the day before All Hallows' or All Saints' day, was a holy day in the Roman Catholic Church, Episcopal Church, the Church of England and the Greek Orthodox Church. This festival honors all martyrs, known and unknown, who have died for the church. During the time of Constantine, these two holidays were merged in an attempt to Christianize the heathen. The church could not prevent these heathen practices, so they thought "taming'" them would be the answer. They were, of course, not to worship their gods on the church's "All Saint's day." However, as it is with all compromises, soon the evil overrode the good, and hence we still honor these heathen practices by celebrating Halloween. 

I am guessing this is what Halloween Horror nights looks like....Wow...looks like tons of fun (said sarcastically)??

Parents have a responsibility not to allow their children to be exposed to these evil celebrations. What might seem to some as innocent children's games is a "little fox" that can open the door to satanic influence and even demon possession in some cases. Children can be tormented with a spirit of fear that can come through this involvement that stays with them throughout their lives. It also introduces children to witchcraft, making it easier for them to become involved in cults and occultic activities. When children are taught it is alright to play with the things of darkness, it does not give them the repulsion and resistance that they need to stand against greater Satanic involvement. When the things of Satan are taken lightly, as games and fun, it sets our children up to accept evil rather than to resist it. This "little fox" is not only spreading evil to children but has been a curse for the church and our nation as well. As Christians, we should spread the word to others about the evil tradition of Halloween. 

Ephesians 5:6-12: "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."

God, open the eyes of their understanding!

Ephesians 1:15-23

 ¹⁵ Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding^[c] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
²² And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

 

Such a long day

My day started out early, mind you, I didn't sleep much last night (crazy experiences). I spent the better portion of my day at my moms house. Which is always nice. I get to talk to her about dreams and such. We do the coffee and sushi thing every so often. I noticed a lot today. Being there opened my eyes to a lot of things. It was more confirmation of what is to come and the dreams I've been having. I got to practice by doing a few dream interpretations while I was there. That was pretty cool. Then the day went into work mode. That was fun...and exhausting.

Psalms 92:12 ^- The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Now, I get to spend time with my hubs who I haven't gotten to really see much of today. If not at all. Its a blessing to just have some time to spend with him. Reading and chatting about the day. Anyway, its about that time for me to drift off into my nightly conversations with the Lord. I pray the Lord gives me wonderful dreams tonight!

New Seasons in Life

So its about 12:20 a.m. I'm sitting at my dining room table. I'm listening to the webstream live from IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer in Kansas City). I'm pondering about the new season that Ralph and I are currently going through. I have this feeling inside of my spirit of excitement and anticipation but on the other hand, I'm not really sure where the Lord is taking us. I just know one thing for sure....what is ahead of us is going to bring us much joy. One can only imagine whats ahead in their future I suppose. However, when the Lord gives you little clips and scenes or even puzzle pieces of whats ahead, the only thing to do at the moment (besides major prayer) is pondering what its going to be like. Strangely, I've never made

Day 14 - Latest dream

This morning I had a crazy dream. It lasted about a split second. I saw two clowns. Both clowns were riding on unicycles. That was it. Now, to most people, this dream means nothing. To me, it shook me up a bit. I went and looked up the meanings of everything and I got the following:

2 = division

clowns = fools, foolish works of the flesh or not taking God seriously

unicycle (bike with only one wheel) bicycle = works, works of the flesh

1  = unity 

Wheel = spirit life

So basically its a dream talking about two foolish people not taking God seriously that should be unified in their spirit life but instead are divided because of

Calle Orange Festival

Hubs was teaching a quick class at the festival

Mother in law was there on the right hand side

Salsa Heat guys

Tony "snaps"

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So what now????

Have you ever received information that makes you feel like you are stuck between a rock and a hard place? Like you really don't know what to do? Sigh....that is how I feel about my dreams. I get these downloads from the Lord and o now what? Yes I pray about them. I intercede over them. But what about dreams that are warnings? What I mean is....what about dreams that you know the Lord is showing you for a purpose? But dreams that are a warning of events to come, or pending judgments on that person's life? I know the Lord won't give me more than I can handle...but I have no idea what so ever, how I am supposed to handle some of these dreams.

Sigh...I feel sort of painted into a corner. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to complain about this. I very much so, want do the will of the Lord no matter what. I know the Lord will give me strength and wisdom to do what He's asking me to do however, I've never been in this situation before. Now I'm not saying I have to be the one to warn these people. But the Lord did show me and the Lord has given me specific instructions in some dreams. Wow....what a privilege. Its that double sided feeling. Excited but nervous. I know in some dreams, I have to just bring it to the Father in intercession and that is it, because its not my place to say or do anything about it.

Gosh I think I tossed and turned about dreams all night last night. I must have slept maybe two solid hours without waking up. I was awake so many times that I woke Ralph up (which is rare). I was so exhausted from lack of sleep that it was super hard for me to get up this morning at 9:30a.m. Seriously! Ok, I'm done whining about that lol. Lets see how tonight's line-up of dreams pans out. I'm hoping for prophetic dreams. Those are my favorite!

Until tomorrow, I pray sweet sleep over everyone. May the Lord bless you and keep you and may the Lord give you wonderful dreams! 

Proverbs 3:24 (New King James Version) - When you lie down, you will not be afraid;  Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.

Training Team life

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Training Team fun

Ralph's training team

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Day 9 - Prayer Time.....

Psalm 27

A Psalm of David.

The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?

Then the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.

Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
 
One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD,
And to inquire in His temple.

For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.

When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.

Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living.

Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!

Oh Lord, your my strength and my redeemer! Forever I will love you! Jesus you are beautiful.....and so worthy. You are the beautiful Savior....and I am in love with you! Thank you Lord for hearing my prayers. Thank you for the privilege of knowing you, and being used by you to pray for others. Thank you for the gifts of the Spirit. I give everything I have to you. You are Beautiful and Holy and so Worthy of everything I have and everything I am. Your mercy is new everyday. Thank you!

 

Ralph playing angry birds

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Ralph at the table.....

So what is Ralph doing this late at night? Playing angry birds at 12:30a.m.

Nini with her new glasses

My niece has new glasses. She looks so cute. I never thought I'd see the day that my little Nini would be this old and wearing glasses. I guess I still remember her with fat cheeks and diapers. Sigh....how they grow up so fast! Pretty soon she will be graduating elementary school and going into middle school. Wow....I'm not even going to go there. PS....thats my shirt she's wearing (sigh...)

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Jesus Wept.....

Today I woke up with a heavy burden on my spirit. Kind of this sullen type of burden. Like the heavy weight of being poor in spirit. Now that doesn't mean financially poor. It means that my spirit was feeling quite negative when I woke up. I'm not saying that I feel depressed. In fact, its actually a good thing because as an intercessor, that is the ammo for my prayer time.

This past Sunday we had a guest speaker (Rhonda Calhoun) come for our ATB weekend. She talked about her heroes in the bible which were Jesus, John the Baptist and Mary of Bethany. Something she said during her message Sunday struck a chord in me. She talked about how Jesus wept. When she described the relationship that Jesus had with Lazarus, Martha and Mary, it put into perspective why Jesus wept. She talked about how when Lazarus died, his sisters Martha and Mary came to Jesus weeping because of it. They fell to His feet weeping and that is when Jesus wept.

Have you ever had a friend that was there with you when you cried your eyes out for whatever reason, and you are so full of sorrow and hurt and pain,

Day 5 - All Authority Has Been Given To Him.....

Have you ever had a day where you wake up with a song stuck in your head? That's pretty much a typical way to wake up for me. I always have a song stuck in my head. Sometimes its a song that was in a dream. Other times its just music playing in my ears while I sleep. I love it. Its like God puts His personal "IPOD" on so I can just hear what He is saying to me at the moment.

Today I've this song called Ride On by Ryan Condo. The words are right out of the bible "All authority has been given to you (meaning Jesus) by the Father.....you love righteousness, you hate wickedness, just like the Father"..."gird your sword, upon your side, oh mighty One, Ride On..." Ahhh...I just love it. I love thinking about Jesus on His white horse riding with a sword upon His side. Wow, what a vision. Makes me want to dive back into the book of Revelation.

Today's Song of Solomon class was just awesome. After class, Ralph and I went home and spent time dissecting a few dreams that a friend sent us via text message. All I can say is....wow! I am so amazed at how the Lord speaks. Once we were done with interpreting the dreams we were just in awe of how God gives us this puzzle and we have to put it together using discernment, knowledge, wisdom and interpretation tools (like books etc.) The funny thing is,

Trading it all for love

What an awesome service there was today at OHOP! I found myself just weeping before the Lord today during worship. These last few days have been pretty intense for me in the spiritual department. I guess because of the fact that the Lord has been speaking to me (whether it be through others or through dreams). Today I literally felt this tug in my spirit to cry out for mercy (which ironically happened to be a theme this morning), over families of OHOP'ers. Just as I am crying out to the Lord in prayer, PC begins to pray about mercy then the worship team starts singing mercy, mercy, mercy.....over Orlando. Boy did I start to weep after that. I mean, it was a direct confirmation to what I was praying at that very moment. My heart became burdened. My heart ached. It was so tender and raw that I felt as if any more intensity would have pushed me over the emotional edge. I tried very much, to hold back from just sobbing away in front of everyone. I couldn't help it. It was pouring out of me like a well that sprung up from the ground. Once worship drew to a close, I began to feel peace and stillness in my spirit. Honestly, I was also thinking about the mantle of Esther. That made my whole being shudder in the presence of God. I knew something was happening in the spirit realm, I just wasn't sure what it was. I knew my prayers were reaching the heavens and filling the bowls of incense. Oh how I long to hear the voice of my heavenly Father reveal to me, the mysteries of His heart.

Lord, guide me in your perfect will. Open the eyes of my understanding that I may be enlightened to know the hope of Your calling. Give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. Give me eyes to see and ears to hear. Speak to me in my dreams oh Lord - amen

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It's like whoa.....

Sometimes I have a lot to say. There are other times when I'm speechless. Today is just that day. I got a word from the Lord that was a confirmation of what I've heard before.

I don't even know how to feel about it, but I just have the urgency to pray about it. It's one of those moment where the Lord opens up "Pandoras box" in your spiritual walk and now that its out there, I'm left speechless. Sigh......the Lord is very mysterious but so very specific about speaking and confirming things to me. I realize I'm basically speaking in parables to those reading, because I haven't exactly spit out what said. All I will leave you with to ponder is just one word.....ESTHER. That being said, I'm going to sleep now, to allow the Holy Spirit to talk to me about this in my dreams.

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Day 4

“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”- Psalm 19:14

It's Saturday! I love the weekends. I get to see Ralph more often on the weekends, and that is always a good thing. Today we have the Salsa Heat Kissimmee Social and we will be going to that later on today. Check back later for videos or pictures of the social. 
Salsa Heat Dance Studios

Dream Book - Day 3

"All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you" (John 14:25-26)

Last night as I was sitting in bed before going to sleep, I decided to read a few more chapters of my dream book. The more I read this book, the easier it is to understand the way the Lord speaks to us.

What I appreciate about obtaining knowledge, is the fact that when you discover something new, its like your entering this new door in your life that reveals so much about yourself. Well, knowledge about dreams that is. I'm learning that the same way Jesus spoke in parables on earth to His disciples, is the same way He speaks to us in dreams. Through parable language. I love this quote from the book I'm reading: "A true dream is the divinely coded parable language of God. Anyone without the Holy Spirit cannot understand this language, even if i appears to be simple."

Wow....about 1/3 of the bible speaks about dreams. Isn't that amazing? Often I used to wonder why it is that dreams are so weird or so random (well in my opinion at least). Now that I have been studying and trying to understand dreams,

Day 2

Woke up this morning around 5:45am. Ugh! Not by choice however, but because I just woke up from a pretty disturbing dream. You know, as I'm reading that dream book I mentioned a few days ago, its teaching me little by little how to understand the dreams that I keep having.

I wont go into any types of details about the dreams I have unless I feel its ok to do so. Last nights dream is definitely going to be a no-go. I just feel so unsettled about it. I laid there in the dark in my room while I just prayed and prayed. I don't know what else to do when the Lord gives me dreams like that. I just happen to have a handy little kindle application on my phone and I have another dream book downloaded on my kindle. So I turned on my phone and looked up certain symbols. One being a black horse.

My Dream Journal

Dates back to 2003

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Some fun pics of the Advanced class

 

Dancing in Class with the students

 

 Ralph's advanced 1class

 

Tessa showing off her new Salsa Heat Bachata Team shirts

 

Izzy being a goof....always up there in the DJ booth

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Teaching Class in Kissimmee

Love the Kissimmee students

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Prayer

I spent a while today re-doing a list of prayer requests that were given to me a while back. I took some time and just went into my room to pray. Its amazing how God just reveals so much if you just sit and listen to Him speak.

I put on my itunes and just let one of the songs by Cory Asbury (Always Faithful - Prophetic Song) play on repeat. I left it on while I just prayed over everyone and everything I could possibly think of. I love how as I'm praying, God brings people to my mind to remember to pray over. I had people come to my mind that I haven't thought about in a long time. I also remember dreams I've had that I know I need to keep interceding over. 


For those of you reading this that have no idea what intercession is or anything that OHOP (Orlando House of Prayer) is about. Allow me to explain.

Day 1

Early morning with my homemade pumpkin spice latte, my dream book and my laptop. Time to set up my prayer and reading timeline.

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Books that Ralph will be reading....

*Bible - New Testament all the way through to Revelations. He's going to be doing a certain section each day.

*The Coming Kingdom by Jim Maher. Ralph says this is the best and most detailed book on how to understand the book of Revelation. He can't stop talking about how awesome this book is.

*Growing in the Prophetic by Mike Bickle. Great book from what we hear. Ralph will be starting this book very soon.

*The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer. Ralph just begun reading this book today. Its a lot of meat to chew on. ;o)

Books I'll be reading during my 40 days

*The bible....I will be more focused on the book of Jeremiah but I will also be reading Romans and Ephesians as well. 

*The Knowledge of the Holy by: A.W. Tozer. This book is deep. I have to read one paragraph 5 times before it sinks in.

*Illustrated Dictionary of Dream Symbols by: Dr. Joe Ibojie. By far....one my favorite books I've read yet. I love this book. Its very detailed and specific about how to understand dreams, which ones are visions and which ones are dreams etc. Its very informative.

*Mourning for the Bridegroom by: Dana Candler. As Ralph and I are attending the Monday night Song of Solomon class....I am also reading this book...which goes hand and hand with the book Song of Solomon which is in the bible ;o)

40 Long Days......but well worth it!

So I decided I was going to join in with OHOP on the 21 day fast but decided to go a full 40 instead. I chose to do this not only to focus on the upcoming events in November....but rather to consecrate myself in a time of prayer and studying the word for 40 days. I have desires to go deeper with the Lord and I have a longing to know more of the mysteries of God. I want to spend more time in prayer and fasting certain things during this time. No movies (I never watch tv but only dvds at home), no FB or really media in general. I am only going to allow blogging. Its a good way to just journal how I feel and the progress of my 40days. When I was in my prayer time this afternoon, I really felt the Lord tugging on my heart to go deeper in fellowship with Him. I can't wait to write about dreams the Lord gives me during this time. Its going to be quite an interesting time of consecration for sure. ;o)

 Stay tuned!

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