I just returned from a long weekend in Atlanta, GA where we (Marg, Josh, Mom, and I) went to a couple of different “Mountain of Worship” (MOW) events. Great experience…fun three nights, but the point of this writing is the vision I received while there.
I am not much of a vision person, not meaning that I don’t believe in them…I do, but rather I have not experienced much in that area personally. Maybe that’s changing...I hope it is. I actually had two separate visions very closely related, as well as close in time. We were about an hour into the current worship time when the first one came…
While worshiping, the bongo drums just seemed to stand out to me very powerfully. As I was listening I could sense Jesus dancing. I didn’t “see” anything, not even in my “minds eye” (whatever that is), but I could sense Him and His movements. I’m not going to try to explain this so that it makes sense, I’m just going to tell the story. I knew the WHOLE point of His dancing was to simply have fun, and He was (I learned Jesus dances a lot like I would if I had enough courage). He invited me to join him, which I did, briefly. I opened my eyes for a moment to reengage this world (not sure why) to discover I was still safe and ready for more. It now seemed the first vision was simply a warm up for what was to come.
This time, when I closed my eyes someone was in my vision PLAYING the bongos. It didn’t take me too long to discover it was Jesus doing the playing. He sat off to the left in front of me. I was then aware that I was in the midst of a very large crowd…all christians. There was a “performance” of sorts going on in front of us that we had gathered to watch. It was the Holy Spirit dancing before us in a beautiful display that only God could put on.
All of the sudden, He grew to a tremendous size and filled the sky. I could sense Him saying, “You like fireworks…watch this!” This was followed by amazing blasts of color and feelings to the awe of the crowd…all of this to the rhythm of Jesus’ Bongos. The color show finalized with a large purple “cloud” above us. The cloud then fell down to us as handful size purple flames! A few of us couldn’t wait to catch them, but most fell to the ground and went out. It was clear that everyone in the crowd who wanted to catch the flames did. While it was exciting to have two handfuls of purple flames personally, it was much sadder to see the vast majority fizzle on the ground.
Those of us with the flames started to rub the hands of those who became willing, who then also had the purple flames. After awhile the entire crowd had two hands full. I noticed the individual flames became one huge purple flame over the whole crowd. Some how, we joined with other groups who were also ablaze and became a mountain of purple flame. From the mountain I was a part of, I could see other mountains also ablaze in the distance.
I was then given a perspective from space, and could see the entire Earth ablaze in purple flame. Finally, one person shot up from the Earth and flew past me. It looked a little like the final scene from the only good Matrix movie. It was Jesus! I had a sense of Him saying, “There you go Papa…what do you think of that!”
I don’t want to try to interpret this vision, but only share what I saw. I will tell you this however…the point in time of the vision when there where only a few holding the purple flames did not feel special, but sad. The only desire at that time was to give it away as quickly as possible and see everyone have the same thing.
I am not much of a vision person, not meaning that I don’t believe in them…I do, but rather I have not experienced much in that area personally. Maybe that’s changing...I hope it is. I actually had two separate visions very closely related, as well as close in time. We were about an hour into the current worship time when the first one came…
While worshiping, the bongo drums just seemed to stand out to me very powerfully. As I was listening I could sense Jesus dancing. I didn’t “see” anything, not even in my “minds eye” (whatever that is), but I could sense Him and His movements. I’m not going to try to explain this so that it makes sense, I’m just going to tell the story. I knew the WHOLE point of His dancing was to simply have fun, and He was (I learned Jesus dances a lot like I would if I had enough courage). He invited me to join him, which I did, briefly. I opened my eyes for a moment to reengage this world (not sure why) to discover I was still safe and ready for more. It now seemed the first vision was simply a warm up for what was to come.
This time, when I closed my eyes someone was in my vision PLAYING the bongos. It didn’t take me too long to discover it was Jesus doing the playing. He sat off to the left in front of me. I was then aware that I was in the midst of a very large crowd…all christians. There was a “performance” of sorts going on in front of us that we had gathered to watch. It was the Holy Spirit dancing before us in a beautiful display that only God could put on.
All of the sudden, He grew to a tremendous size and filled the sky. I could sense Him saying, “You like fireworks…watch this!” This was followed by amazing blasts of color and feelings to the awe of the crowd…all of this to the rhythm of Jesus’ Bongos. The color show finalized with a large purple “cloud” above us. The cloud then fell down to us as handful size purple flames! A few of us couldn’t wait to catch them, but most fell to the ground and went out. It was clear that everyone in the crowd who wanted to catch the flames did. While it was exciting to have two handfuls of purple flames personally, it was much sadder to see the vast majority fizzle on the ground.
Those of us with the flames started to rub the hands of those who became willing, who then also had the purple flames. After awhile the entire crowd had two hands full. I noticed the individual flames became one huge purple flame over the whole crowd. Some how, we joined with other groups who were also ablaze and became a mountain of purple flame. From the mountain I was a part of, I could see other mountains also ablaze in the distance.
I was then given a perspective from space, and could see the entire Earth ablaze in purple flame. Finally, one person shot up from the Earth and flew past me. It looked a little like the final scene from the only good Matrix movie. It was Jesus! I had a sense of Him saying, “There you go Papa…what do you think of that!”
I don’t want to try to interpret this vision, but only share what I saw. I will tell you this however…the point in time of the vision when there where only a few holding the purple flames did not feel special, but sad. The only desire at that time was to give it away as quickly as possible and see everyone have the same thing.
Saaaweeet! :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you all had a good time in Georgia and that it left you with something lasting.
ReplyDeleteDuring worship, I often start focusing in on one of the instruments, watching and listening as the musician uses it to contribute to the creation of beautiful music. I'm so tempted to go into something about how God uses each of us as a small part of creating something wonderful, but that just doesn't sound like me.
The purple flame vision is really cool, especially the "look at me papa" part. Makes me think of my "rock star".
Missed you this weekend and I'm glad you got back safely.
Awesome!!! Sounds like an amazing experience. Missed you(and your beautiful wife) also.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a cool vision!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great weekend...my 75 year old mom got zapped by God and said hello to the carpet, up close and personal like. Sixteen year old Josh, lost control of his body WHEN HE LEFT IT for a moment while being prayed for. Gold dust flying, feathers floating, all in the midst of amazing worship of Jesus that went on for over an hour. Somebody needs to put that Holy Spirit in a box, because I'm telling you, He can ruin a nice orderly service in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteOops...I was mistaken. Some of this stuff didn't happen during worship, but during the ministry time hours into the service.
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ReplyDeleteBy the way, wouldn't it take a really large box?
That's the problem Doug...there ain't no box big enough! Thank you Lord that you are so much bigger than our understanding of You!
ReplyDeleteAwesome awesome awesome. Share your vision but protect the heart my friend.
ReplyDeleteJust out of curiosity - see anyone you recognized while there?? :o)
I wasn't sure if you meant did I see anyone I recognized in the vision or in Atlanta, but the answer to both is no...other than Jesus.
ReplyDeleteThe more I go along, the more I realize how very little God cares about our religious crap...Our doctrines, our theologies, our disagreements on non-essentials. He will work through the quiet little Methodist lady who isnt sure she believes in speaking in tongues but knows she loves Jesus. And just as quick He will work through the extroverted pentecostal holy roller who prophesies at any chance he gets...As we learned this past week from Larry Randolph - the question Jesus has is "Do you love me?"...If you do, nothing will be impossible for you!
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