Bess’s Dream 4/16/2020
The dream took place in a house that our family lived in but it looked a little different from our actual house now. It had a screened in back porch that led into our kitchen area.
It was morning time and I was in our house alone in my bedroom when I heard a woman’s voice call out from the screened in porch. The woman and her daughter came on into the kitchen without waiting for me to invite them in. I was working hard to get to them before they came into the main part of the house, but I was struggling to move very fast because of my knee. I saw that it was two relatives of mine, a mother and daughter, whom I had not seen in a long time. As they walked in and looked around our house, the older woman made a sarcastic comment about how our house was plain and how it was dirty looking. I thought to myself that I didn’t remember our house being dirty or strewn about with things the night before when I had gone to bed, but now as I looked around, I saw several piles of laundry that needed to be washed and folded and dishes that needed to be washed. She had a condescending attitude towards me as I tried explaining to her that I had had knee surgery and I kept up with cleaning the best that I could, and that both Tim and Jonathan worked. I kept trying to explain myself to them and yet I felt so ashamed that things were out of order.
The older woman nor her daughter ever stopped to say why they had come to see me, and they never asked how I was doing, but they walked past me looking around as they walked towards the back of the house where our 2nd and 3rd bedrooms were. It felt like I was not in control but that I was following them and trying to figure out what was going on. I felt intimidated by them because they were pointing out all my shortcomings. When they went into the bedroom, the younger girl flopped down in a chair and the older woman picked up some papers and thumbed through them. I sat on the edge of the bed. They both were making cruel remarks about me and telling me I hadn’t amounted to much of anything in my life and that I didn’t have much to show for the life I had lived thus far. I kept trying to explain myself to them and respond to their accusations but they wouldn’t acknowledge me. With tears in my eyes I told them that they should leave. The older woman got right in my face and said it was too late because she was infected by the Corona virus, and she laughed a mocking kind of laugh. I felt an anger from Jesus rise up inside me and I knew I did not have to allow them to dominate me. I stood at the bedroom door and told them to get out of our house now. They started walking towards the back door to leave.
As they stepped out of the back porch door, I stepped out of the door, too. As I turned to step back inside, I saw Brother Earl, Jimmy and Sue standing right there at the back porch doorway. Brother Earl said he loved our family and it felt good being around us. He was very happy and was bouncing like he does in the prayer meetings. He was smiling and patting me on my shoulder. I could feel the good clean feeling and encouragement of the holy Ghost. Then Sue and Jimmy said the same thing, that they loved the feeling of being around us. We all could feel the Spirit moving on us. It was the complete opposite of the feeling I had felt from those two women. I felt encouraged and safe. Then I woke up.
I asked Jesus what the dream was all about. What I saw was that those wrong spirits are cruel, and they come to take over. They accuse and try to make you feel the things they’re accusing you of. They try to make you feel guilty, and they will tell you who you are if you don’t resist them by knowing who Jesus has made you in the holy Ghost and by keeping your conscience clear. In the dream I knew the house was tidy when I went to bed the night before the women came the following morning, but when they were telling me our house was dirty looking, I started seeing things the way they wanted me to see them, such as dirty dishes and dirty laundry, etc. Those spirits are unreasonable and they try to intimidate, and in the dream I found myself trying to reason with them. But when I stood up and had the right kind of anger in the holy Ghost, and told them to leave, they started heading out of the house. We need encouragement and fellowship to help us have right feelings and right thoughts about who we really are. Those feelings with Brother Earl, Jimmy and Sue were clean. We have to let the holy Ghost tell us who we are and not let a wrong spirit define us.