I recently had a dream where the Lord took me on a journey in the Spirit and allowed me to see the bowl of mixture being destroyed, particularly in the Western Church.
The dream began in the Mountains or cliffs in Israel with the most beautiful views and prime property looking toward another mountain in close proximity with the ocean between. These apartments were built right into the side of the rock of the mountain. In the dream there was a lack of understanding to the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’, particularly the Western Bride, of how one could afford to live here. Next in the dream the Bridegroom was coming up the mountain and responding to the Western Bride’s inner desire to receive prayer from Him. However she was not facing Him, she was facing west. She was on her knees just outside the apartment though facing west, with her face away from the north mountain with a small wall of separation before her. It was located just outside the door of this apartment at the peak high point of this mountain symbolizing the western wall.
The Bridegroom came straight to her to pray for her as she was on her knees, and answer the secret petitions of her heart but she could not receive the power imparted because she was still locked in with Western communication. Her hands were raised to receive prayer, though she was also trying to power her phone off, and receive the power of the Holy Spirit at the same time. After, she knew she would have to create, or make her own manifestation because she could not fully receive in the moment He was near.
Next in the dream I was taken up in the Spirit and transported through this scene of paradise and taken to a different country and placed on the ground to go up an escalator. I was now elevated to a higher ground level and walked through DSW (designer shoe warehouse) before I was taken to a dim Kitchen with the prophet Joel.
I was standing before a kitchen sink where I was shown a large clear glass mixing bowl. While the bowl had an appearance of purity and transparency, there was no saving the bowl, as it literally couldn’t be saved as it was going to be destroyed in the kitchen sink disposal. It was impossible to remove as the garbage disposal hole was too small to extract from, but underneath the bowl fit with plenty of space.
This was overseen by the prophet Joel standing behind me in the dream, while he communicated the bowl could not be saved.
I believe the Lord is saying, He is removing the bowls that have prepared a diluted gospel of mixture and dealing with the communications of man and his ‘power’ and systems that have left His Body unprepared with no footwear for battle. The Lord is continuing to deal with the hidden sins, beliefs, doctrines, behaviors, self, etc, and all that is hindering from His burning love.
The mixture has created a lack of understanding on the value of counting the cost to serve the Lord whole heartedly, and also a deficit on the value of obtaining her oil that she may abide in paradise. It was not the Lord’s unwillingness to help her that left her (He was on her left side in front of the door of the apartment) that caused her to not receive the power of the Spirit, it was her allowing distractions from other ‘powers’ and communications that turned her away from true North.
A Bride without the Holy Spirit is an unfitted and unprepared Bride. It is the Holy Spirit that leads one to Jesus, and enables us to live an overcoming and victorious life for God. Furthermore this exposes a wanting and waning flame of love within her heart. Even in prayer the Bride is coming up short, for there is mixture that has diluted her understanding and great need for Oneness and abiding.
In this dream there are both personal and governmental implications. The destruction of some systems and ways are imminent. In the dream the bowl belonged to someone whose name means war, strife, church, spring, and fountain. Even the meaning of the name is full of mixture and is diverse. The symbolism speaks that personally we need to continue to yield to the cleansing of the Holy Spirit, that we may be pure and holy springs sourced from the fountain of our Holy God, and corporately gain understanding on the reality of the nearness of the return of the Lord. “The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, believers) say, “Come.”Revelation 22:17 AMP
There is an outpouring of the Spirit as spoken of in Joel 2 that is also imminent, however there is a greater brokenness being required and asked of us especially in the American Church as both ‘Love and War’ are impending. The question is will we be prepared and footed? We also know that in the book of Joel much strife, contention, war, and calls for repentance are written of prior to the great outpouring. There is a dire urgent need to fully receive the Holy Spirit and be one with Him for the days ahead. America has not understood she is naked, and coming up short. Without the Holy Spirit we can not abide in the inner chambers (apartment in Hebrew) of the Lord’s heart, we can not dwell on the Holy hill of Zion.
America I saw the pendulums swinging in the Spirit, back and forth from one extreme to the other. Justice and Mercy are held in the condition of our hearts. The Lord is sounding the alarm for repentance. We can not come away another time. There is not another time…. Today is the day His Holy Fear must grip our hearts. We must fully awake now. We cannot be like the sluggish Shulammite Bride who sought the Bridegroom when the time was appropriate, convenient, and comfortable for her while even after just being admonished by the Bridegroom to catch the foxes that were spoiling the vineyards.
“(Bridegroom) You must catch the troubling foxes, those sly little foxes that hinder our relationship. For they raid our budding vineyard of love to ruin what I’ve planted within you. Will you catch them and remove them for me? We will do it together. (Bride’s response) But until the day springs to life and the shifting shadows of fear disappear, turn around, my lover, and ascend to the holy mountains of separation without me. Until the new day fully dawns, run on ahead like the graceful gazelle and skip like the young stag over the mountains of separation. Go on ahead to the mountain of spices— I’ll come away another time.” Song of Songs 2:17 TPT.
The late prophet John Paul Jackson said directionally left in a dream can represent your calling or something you’re called to do and the right directionally represents faith and strength. With this application in mind, even as the Bridegroom was standing in front of the apartment door built on the split rock and directionally to the Western Bride’s left, I believe she has left her calling to live in the secret place as she has not understood how she can not afford to live there, due to the diluted discipleship and teaching she has received. To fully receive from Jesus and see Him rightly we need the Holy Spirit, and yes the calling is costly but the diluted gospel has left her in this state without eternity’s mindset. She has put her faith and found her strength in the lesser power and teaching of the souls husbandman. A divided heart has led her amiss and to the idolization of the pride of life.
The Lord is mighty to save, are we ready to receive Him? May we seek the Lord while He may be found! Holy Spirit give us ears to hear in this hour, give us eyes to see, awaken our hearts again to Love’s sacred and Holy flame!
“Blow the trumpet in Zion [warning of impending judgment], Sound an alarm on My holy mountain [Zion]! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble and shudder in fear, For the [judgment] day of the Lord is coming; It is close at hand, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist, Like the dawn spread over the mountains; There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty, The like of which has never been before Nor will be again afterward Even for years of many generations. Before them a fire devours, And behind them a flame burns; Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden, But behind them a desolate wilderness; And nothing at all escapes them. “Even now,” says the Lord, “Turn and come to Me with all your heart [in genuine repentance], With fasting and weeping and mourning [until every barrier is removed and the broken fellowship is restored]; Rip your heart to pieces [in sorrow and contrition] and not your garments.” Now return [in repentance] to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness [faithful to His covenant with His people]; And He relents [His sentence of] evil [when His people genuinely repent].” Joel 2:1-3, 12-13 AMP
“When the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the daughters of Zion and has cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning, then the Lord will create over the entire site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud by day, smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory and brilliance will be a canopy [a defense, a covering of His divine love and protection].” Isaiah 4:4-5 AMP
Below is an excerpt from Watchman Nee
Experiencing the Fundamental Deliverance from God
If we want to experience deliverance from God, this deliverance must be fundamental, not fragmentary. God has to work in us to deal with our strong point, and He has to break it. Only then will our spirit be released without mixture being imparted to others. If we have never been touched by God in a fundamental way, we may act somewhat spiritual when we remember to do it, but we will manifest the self once our memory slips. Actually, in both cases, whether we remember or we forget, the spirit that we release is the same, and the things that are carried by the spirit are the same.
The problem of mixture is the biggest problem among workers. We often touch life in the brothers, but also touch death. We touch God in the brothers, but also touch their self. We touch a spirit of meekness, but also touch a stubborn self. We find the Holy Spirit in them, but also find the flesh in them. When they stand up to speak, others sense a mixed spirit, an impure spirit. If God intends for us to serve Him in the ministry of the word and if we have to speak for God, we have to ask for grace. We have to say, “God, work in me. Break my outer man, tear it down, and separate it from the inner man.”
If we have not experienced this deliverance, we will express our outer man subconsciously every time we open our mouth. There is no way for us to hide it. As soon as the word goes out, the spirit goes out as well. We are the kind of person we are; we cannot pretend. If we want to be used by God, our spirit must be released, and this spirit must be pure. In order for us to be pure, our outer man must be destroyed. If our outer man is not destroyed, we will carry our own cargo with us when we serve as ministers of the word. The Lord’s name will suffer loss, not on account of our lack of life, but on account of our mixture. The Lord’s name will suffer, and the church will suffer as well.
Extracted from “The Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit”, CWWN, (Set 3) Vol. 54, Chapter 7: Separation and Revelation, a message given by Brother Watchman Nee in Kuling during his training for his co-workers between 1948 and 1949, published by Living Stream Ministry.
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