Dream on....

For years, the Lord has had me record all my dreams. Sometimes I'm not even sure if the dreams I'm recording are spiritual (as not all dreams are). This year, however, I have been blown away by how many dreams He's reminded me of. When He does, I always run to my "journal", which is just a word document I've been keeping for a few years. I run a quick key word search to locate the dream and the revelation that pours out is CRAZY! Gotta love the Kairos moments.

Today that happened. No idea why but I pulled up my "journal" and saw a dream that was so many years ago it didn't even have a date. Recording your dreams doesn't have to be time consuming; this one was one simple sentence:

Man charged me 71 cents for a single quantity of something at an Ulta3 type of store.

That one sentence caught my eye and I couldn't get away from it. Then the Lord started speaking, "Go to Psalm 71."

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
2In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
3Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
6Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.
7I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
8My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
10For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
11and say, "God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him."
12O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
13May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.
14But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
15My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
16With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
19Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
20You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.
22I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
23My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.
24And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.


Then I felt Him say. 71cents. Psalm 71. That is the cost you had to pay in following after Me thus far. Ulta 3 is a beauty supply store. That's the cost you had to pay for beauty. Not what the world considers beauty but what I consider beauty to be. He was letting me know back then that there was price to be paid for the beauty I desired to have in Him.

What in the WORLD!!!! :) That encouraged my heart SO much today! The last several years have been a tremendous battle spiritually. I've cried out to the Lord so many times about so many things. 2 Corinthian 10 3-4 says, "For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

I have warred with spiritual weapons and watched God be faithful to me. Ugh! That moves me to my core! The God of the universe is faithful to me. He has to humble Himself just to look at me yet He is faithful to hear me and move on my behalf ....

Psalm 113:5-6, "Who is like the LORD our God, who is enthroned on high, who humbles Himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth?"

Just encourages me to keep recording whatever randomness I happen to dream about. You never know...God could be in it. So dream on.... :)