John,
I want to share a dream the Lord gave me the other day.
In my dream, I was in the meeting room at your house, and all the chairs were lined up around the outside walls, facing the center of the room. I was standing by the equipment we do the Livestream with, when two Spanish men walked into the room. They came up to me and ask me, “What is this place?” I told them, “El Dorado”. Then they walked back towards the fireplace and went into the closet where we keep the tables. I knew they were there to perform.
There were people sitting in all the chairs around the room, people I did not know. Then the men walked out of the closet and stood in front of the fireplace, started to play Mexican-style music, fast tempo, upbeat music, and everyone who was sitting down started clapping to the rhythm of the music. The two men started swaying with the music like they were getting ready to perform. Then the closest one to me looked at me and noticed that I was not clapping. Then he stopped all the music, and looked at me, and asked me, “Why aren’t you clapping?” I told him, “I don’t feel like it.” Then he looked at me real disgusted, and asked me what my name was, and I told him, “El Dorado”. Then I woke up.
I felt like the dream was from the Lord, but I did not understand right then what he was telling me. I got to thinking about the dream and wondering why the only thing I said was “El Dorado”, so I looked up the meaning of “El Dorado”: “(1) a city or country of fabulous riches thought by 16th century explorers to exist in South America and (2) a place of fabulous wealth or opportunity.”
After I read the definition, I understood what the dream was about. The first time he asked me, “What is this place?” and I answered “El Dorado”, that’s what we have, a city of riches and gold all around us from what pastor John has provided for us from the Lord. And when he asked me my name and I responded, “El Dorado”, that’s what we all are if we love and live this truth: a place of riches and gold all around us. We become the El Dorado that people travel all over this world to find, a great city of riches – and here we are, right in front of their noses, and they can’t see it or touch it.
I love how God uses men and their lust for things of this earth (like gold and hidden cities full riches that they spend their whole live trying to find, and even dying for) to help us see what we have, hidden in these earthen vessels, that he has given to us when he put us in his kingdom. We have all the gold and riches we need in us if we believe it. We live in the best place on earth!!
Stuart