Today I would like to share a profound spiritual dream from 2004 that illustrates the power of prayer. In the process of preparing this writing I performed my customary search for photo images that were relevant to the sharing to bring the words alive for the reader. I have to tell you, though, that I really struggled in trying to find an image to illustrate what I ‘saw’ in the following experience of God. I did my usual search through Photobucket and Google Images, only to realize I was wasting my time! Why on earth did I expect to find a picture of God?
So, the image you see above was the closest thing I could find with my limited time that symbolically portrays what I saw. Today I think the words of the dream will have to be left standing pretty much on their own in illustrating something that just can’t be illustrated.
I offer this experience today because I hear and see all around me the difficulties, trials, pain, sufferings, discouragement and weariness of many. I share in it also! It is not easy to keep walking this earthly life, especially these days, even with faith. How much more difficult it must be without it…
Sometimes the only thing one can do is pray. The funny thing about prayer, though, is that it is invisible to our earthly eyes. Often we pray without really knowing if it is doing anything, because we can’t see it. Sometimes we are fortunate to see the outcome of our prayer, when circumstances are mitigated, loved ones are healed or requests are granted. Many times, though, things do not go as we expect and it seems that our prayers are for naught. It would be so much easier if we could see behind the scenes and understand why it seems God answers some prayers, but not others.
In truth, no prayer is unheard by God. However, it takes great trust, when things don’t seem to go our way, that He is answering our prayers in perfect ways. Unfathomable ways. Every now and then it is helpful to have a little encouragement in the journey, and the following experience was, for me, and hopefully will be for you, an incredible motivator and consolation.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 2004
I dreamt I was on my living room couch preparing to put food in my mouth and then I was struck – BOOM! – by an enormous energy blast that sent me lying back on the couch unable to move or speak. I was frozen. Then my mother (the character in the dream was my human mother, dressed in blue – it did not appear to me that it was Mary) walked in the front door of my house and I walked up to her in spirit because my body was left immobile on the couch.
She motioned to me without speaking to come and sit with her in my living room to watch something. The television screen in front of us opened by itself and I was then shown pictures of me speaking to people in various snapshot scenes outside of the current time/space. As I watched this I was also speaking to another character in the dream – another mother – and was telling her information about God and was speaking to her about the Rosary and other things.
Then on this television screen I was shown energy blasts and changing scenes of me speaking to various people I know and love, and saw myself giving them information. Over and over again I was shown these energy blasts one after the other (boom, boom boom!) which showed me different scenes. I was frozen in time, but I was shown I was able to help all these people. In the moment I was frozen I was shown how my desire, prayers, words of good intention and wanting to help others goes out to each person.
Then, after being shown this screen of flipping pictures of me and my words in many people’s lives I was taken in spirit out of time and space to somewhere far away – like outer space, but hard to describe. It was not dark. It was a place of MASSIVE energy with a soft beige lighted background and in front of me was God.
God appeared as this energy – luminescence – FIERY, ELECTRICAL THING – that looked like a round depthless circle of radiating energy bands, with electrical fire crackling across It and around It constantly. I was then shown that each time I acted or did things to offer myself to others in prayer, acts of suffering, etc., God would fire a ball of energy that welled up from inside His being and send it – BOOM!!! – at very high speed, like a hurtling energy ball of crackling fiery energy, into that person’s life. WHAT I SAW WAS AN AMAZING AND UTTERLY INDESCRIBABLE FORCE OF ENERGY!!! I understood that these balls of energy came as a result of my acts and that God would then sent these bursts – these electrical balls of light and energy – into the people as a result of my requests.
I saw God from an angle (as if I could see His front and slightly behind Him as well). He appeared to be a ‘flat’ circle of radiating energy and light, but I knew He was actually a radiating circle of depthlessness. I refer to Him as depthless, because although He appeared flat from this angle, I saw that the fiery balls were drawn from somewhere deep inside Himself – from inside His epicenter (the very centre of the radiating circle of light). I could see that the energy balls were drawn from somewhere inside His being, so even though His face, or front, appeared flat to me, I knew that He was depthless. (This is very hard for me to describe and I feel that no matter what I say I cannot do the experience justice with human words).
Then I was all of a sudden back in my body on the couch and rose in utter amazement and JOY!, JOY!, JOY! I started to run around the room telling everyone and screaming “I’ve seen God! I’ve seen God!” No-one believed me, but I proved it to them by telling them what I had seen in the flash of time when I travelled out of time and space ‘to’ God to see what my actions were procuring for others. I’ll never forget the sight of seeing this energy Magnificence, like some science fiction energy vortex/plane/circle.
In this dream the intention was to show me how God sent these energy blasts to people to help them in response to my requests (prayer). As I gave this information to people to make them realize I had been ‘there’ in this dream, they misunderstood and thought I was elevating myself.
In response I said:
“No!!! Joy upon joy upon joy!!! This is how my actions are helping others!!!”
It is indeed very hard for me in writing to share the utterly profound nature of this dream as I experienced it. These experiences differ from ordinary, everyday occurrences and leave a profound mark on the one that experiences them. Also telling is the way that an experience like this changes a person, in a way only God can! The vividness of my many experiences, even those in the dream state, have left me so profoundly changed, that this change, from who I was ten years ago, to who I am today, stands also as my witness to the truth of God.
All I ask from you in response to this sharing is that you never, even for a minute, underestimate the power of your prayers, acts and sufferings. Do not give up, even though you cannot see the fruits of your labour! God wastes none of it and Oh what joy you will have in Heaven one day when you see what you have done…
Karen
The Deliverance Ne†work 