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FRAGRANT PRAISE
STORIES FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE
CHAPTER THREE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dreams are an important part of our Christian walk as believers. We all dream.  Dreamers are spoken of in the bible as prophets! God's people dream prophetically not realizing He has spoken to them to speak through them. 

  Charm Dream

I was given a necklace in a dream. This necklace seemed to come from somewhere very ancient. It was a square medallion piece about the size of my palm. I saw an image cut within it of a person walking. There seemed to be a celestial body cut towards the top of the medallion, like a planet or something. It was majestic. It seemed to have silver and gold flecks in it. One of the things I saw hanging from the chain was a deep golden-yellow pendant that opened.

I must have dropped it because it became stuck under my shoe.  At some point, as I held the pendant, and medallion together, a small tiny key fell out from under it.

There was an engraving of an elephant on it.

 Then as I was holding and admiring this square medallion, I heard the name “Nathan.” I woke up that morning remembering the dream clearly.

Nathan means “ He Gives” in Hebrew. Nathan was also a prophet to King David.

 God gave these things to me as a prophetic symbol To encourage me In my walk as a seer!

In Hebrew, Nathan means, "He Gives", Nathan was also a prophet to David the KING!

God gave these things to me as a symbol.

Silver-tipped wings and feather of Gold Psalms 68:13

A youthful bride she is a new day dawning

A page still attached to the binding-

A wooden bow still bendable in rough cut -brand new state

You'll never forget the Lord!

If you stay as a youth in the SPIRIT, the pages of your book will continue to turn BURN! Your life as it unfurls in the wind of the SPIRIT will blow keeping the pages burning like a fire shut in your bones.

Keep your knees oily and you'll burn fresh oil!

 

Don't grow old and forget God! Find him in your youth!  

Your New Day is your day of redemption your glistening bliss of YOUTH.

Where I bend my knees, at the footstool of ZION, I cap the mountains where I praise!

A youthful bride she sees her day drawing, fresh daily, fresh daily bread brings her into her lover daily!

    

   

December 25, 2014

I awoke to this dream around 7 a.m. Christmas Morning.

In the dream, I was in a church building with other believers. I was standing in the back of the church. As I was standing in the back of the church I began to disappear.

My hands and feet began to disappear but also grow.

I began to walk down the aisle of the church. 

The people there began to show me to everyone.

They said, "Look at her"! I looked at myself in astonishment. I was smaller than everyone else.

 I was like a giant in the room- 10 feet tall. I was as surprised as they were.

Then, I heard these words, "The Pentagon has been closed! They don't need those people anymore, and we don't need the Pentagon anymore!

This dream speaks of the CHURCH arising out of the dust (see An Army Arising page)

We will be known in the land and understand things that only GOD could know. They will begin to call on us to understand strategy, meaning the government but the CHURCH too! The church will grow in the hidden place, but as it's hidden it will become a giant!

We will be known as we are known!

For now, we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.  I know in part, but, then I shall know just as I am known. 1 Cor 13:12

     

Dream March 14, 2014

In this dream, I saw a garment of Light. This garment was not a garment I was wearing.

At first, I just appeared to be a clay earthen vessel.

But then all I know is I began to glow. Some words were out all along the garment or clay vessel. I understood these words were the words of LIFE- HIS words. This made me glow. To explain the cutouts I would have to say It would be if someone used a cookie cutter to cut out an image. It left behind a hole where the image would be.

Next, my garment began to take on the shape of an hourglass.

It was then that I began to see a greater light. 

I understood there were greater lights fastened on the inside of me. 

As this greater light burned with me, it would shine through the cut-out words causing my garment of glow, but at the same time, there were brighter lights that shined through beaming through the cut-outs.

I knew and understood that the light within the center of the garment was the greater light.

This greater light shines within us - his word.

If we put the word inside of us it becomes imprinted upon us, and then can shine through us being greater light-our SPIRIT-HIS BREATH!

  

 

Fly Like The Wind

This is a prayer from a dream I had in February 2020

 

There’s only one direction for those seeking rest.

It’s in the upstream.

In the high heels where the high tops meet!

The high plains, in the high mountains,  the high streams.

It’s there you’ll find the source.

The source is in the high tops!

It’s the kind of water that makes men’s hearts thirsty.

It’s High Praise.

No more idols on this high hill!

No more trophies of men, no accolades of men will make it on these high hills!

 

 

My banner is fanning me on!

My banner is rolling!

The wind is carrying her forwards,

She’s on her own!

I can’t touch it!

I can’t fix it!

I can’t bend it!

The wind, the water, the waves are satisfied with bending it!

I’ll flow with the current!

I can see myself flowing now upstream without getting hurt!

Father, I pray that I can flow upstream without being wounded!

I pray I can flow upstream without developing calluses!

I’ll choose to flow upstream without turning around!

I will not go back and get what’s behind me!

what's behind me, is a current that’s pushing me forwards!

I can’t get behind the current, I have to get ahead.

My spirit already knows what my soul doesn’t!

I put my trust in the current!

Not the current of life‘s issues, but in the currents of the wind.

The current of the water!

The wind is in the water!

Without your breath, blowing,

Without, Hey, I won’t make it!

Without, your breath,

Without, your breathing breath, there’s no current, there’s no water flow, there’s no upstream, and there’s no downstream, there’s no fountain, there’s no river, there’s no spring, there’s no stream, without your breath!

Without your Ruach Ha Kodesh.

Without your wind, your streaming wind, no current will flow!

Without your voice, without hearing your voice in the wind!

I hear you, Jesus! I am listening Holy Spirit, my friend!

I release it, and I let it go!

So, Gather me, my lover. Gather me to the Mountain of spices.

Crush and press me!

Gather me up to the mountain on the high hills where your voice is heard.

Your Voice is in the mountain.

The young ones, the oracles soar there.

The voice of my lover

my friend

This was a prayer I prayed a couple of years ago- when I had a dream of seeing one of my blue/ green banners rolling down a highway. It was rolling/ tumbling like a ball, like a river.

I couldn’t stop it, I couldn’t grab it, or rescue it. I knew I wasn’t in control. All I could do is watch it roll!

It was February 2020- I was really discouraged and wanted to give up on my calling in ministry.

It wasn’t long after that I heard Holy Spirit speak to me to make a smaller style Jesus banner and charge $40.00.

That was the beginning of a company that carry JESUS banners across the United States in strategic areas. 

I’m learning to fly!! I’m learning to give it away!!

I’m learning it’s not mine anyway!!

Psalm 42:7-8 KJV

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

A Whole Unique Piece

I've always admired stained glass. I have a few pieces in my home that are treasures.

Recently, I was at church where I found myself standing by a stained glass window. 

I happened to have a multi-colored JESUS banner waving in my hand. 

I didn't put it together then, but Holy Spirit was trying to relay a message to me that morning.

You see stained glass is always just pieces put together to to relay a message. 

 

Much like the Rachels, the Josephs, the Leahs, and the Mary we all have a story. Each story is unique and builds upon each other into a bigger story.

VISION

I had a vision- dream Saturday, March 4th, at 4 a.m.

Dream:

Holy Spirit and Jesus were with me in the foyer of my home- near the dining room table.

A friend, Debbie M. was standing in front of me speaking- her hair was on fire- she represented Holy Spirit,

she said: he’s coming!

Then immediately, I saw Jesus ( but only his forearms)

His forearms were holding my forearms, but his forearms were above mine- ( hairy muscular side up) My arms were under his.

His hands were resting inside the pit of my elbows.

We were holding each other like this.

I bent down, kissed his forearm & touched my cheek to his forearm, resting it there for a moment.

Song of Solomon 5:13

His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,

Banks of sweet-scented herbs;

His lips are lilies

Dripping with liquid myrrh.

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Song-of-Solomon/5/13

This morning he gave me the interpretation in Deuteronomy 4:44

( It’s his word written upon my heart. it’s bound to my forearm and written upon my heart)

This was even a number the Lord kept showing me since 2020 - it’s a sign

- now I understand the number 4:44- I did not see 44:4 but 4:44!!

It represents God’s oath/covenant that he will not break with us/ even our children bc of his love for us. He showed me this ROD his word ( his forearm represented his word/ I kissed it and me laying my cheek on his arm meant I’ve given my cheek to him- in other words I’ve turned the other cheek many times -we are commanded to do that too!

He’s also saying-if you let me, I’ll fight for your cause you’ve turned-

2. Jeremiah 8:21-22

“Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?”

By referencing the balm of Gilead as a way to heal the nation, Jeremiah is foretelling the coming of a person who is like a balm of Gilead.

The only person who can truly heal the wounds of the people.

Jesus is a Balm in Gilead.

The Lord showed me as an intercessor we have prayed for our nation and bc he gave his oath to forgive us if we turned and prayed he would heal our land.

The lady Debbie or warrior Deborah prophesied and said: He’s coming! He’s here!!

it means healing to our LAND/hearts/ souls/bodies/ world /our nation.

Be encouraged !!

The Lion is roaring!!

God is saying: I’m sending my old lions to roar over the young lions!!

I’m sending Lion Hearts / brave hearts/ John the Baptists/ John the beloved/ Esthers/ Marys to go ahead, to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord-this AWAKENING -of this next generation’s ( youth) it will take the old coming together with the new!!

 

 

 

Sticks of Ephraim and Joseph

This is a follow-up to the rod of God / American flag banner we finished this past spring. In understanding the rod of God we must also understand that the rod/staff together is likened to the "ONE HAND- of God or Judah and Joseph coming together, or Leah and Rachel as ONE, Soul and Spirit, Join and Marrow flowing as one. God has joined Judah and Joseph (Ephraim) (two sticks together) explained in Ezekiel's dry bones passage. one nation one king …16“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him. 17 Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand. The Rod flowing through the red and white bars of our nation's flag is indicative of God's breath or HIS saints arrayed IN colors moving across the land weaving in and out as sent ones in battle attire. Jesus represents the ROD of God and as our intercessor within Holy Spirit represents the Staff of God and as our Advocate flowing out of us- so you see there's an inhale YH and then an Exhale WH- Yahweh YOUR BREATHING! Night to NEW Day Darkness to LIGHT evening to morning open graves to coming up from the graves speak to perform it earth to heaven then heaven to earth a fullness to an overflow inhale to exhale than to rod to the staff male to female but they are ONE! a bent bow to Ephraim's fruit first adam to last adam from dust to SPIRIT When you become one in all of these you are fruitful praise or a raised praise or fragrant praise.

 

Hat Dream

December 10, 2023

This morning I had a dream of a straw hat! There was a delicate silk chiffon that had been sewn inside the under part of the brim of this straw hat . Also, I saw little tiny, red and blue crystals hanging from the edge of the brim. I was wearing this hat! The pictures are from the west end evangelistic outreach in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tara and I went over yesterday and join this ministry outreach. Here’s the interpretation - What I saw was the leaders of this work have put together (over the last 10 years- a simple, but enduring lasting work in Christ- it’s full of works in love- that’s the extravagance, ( it’s like the people are “his extravagance” we are the straw “ simple but extravagant too!) we are the extravagance Jesus is drawn too! They laid him on a bed of straw in the cave where he was born: This simplicity endures to the end- it might be straw, but it’s the simplicity of the gospel that endures! 1 Corinthians 1:13 -the work these people are doing shall endure, because it’s built on a solid foundation! Their strong foundation is not Of the strength we think of- ( brick and mortar) but a foundation built on love, flexibility, simplicity of the gospel, getting dirty for someone else, giving of your time, thinking of others, that’s the foundation God builds on! So I saw this delicate silk chiffon sewn underneath the brim- God showed me transparency and a pure work! with these little crystals, dangling at the edges, brim of the hat- was his river of blood and water flowing out of this work these people are doing! It was his redemption flowing to God’s people! His Crystal transparent River of Life- rivers of Eden! the Lord showed me that this work isn’t showy, cause the hat he showed me had nothing on the top, No feather, flowers, ribbon- ( showing off what you do) nothing like that! this hat’s beauty was on the underbelly - underneath - underside of the hat- u have to peer under it to see it’s beauty and fine details, but if you do youll see its transparency, you see the simplicity, you see the delicate Ness of it - hard work-consistency, persistence, faithfulness- He also showed me my banners- they r like that too- simple but profound! Praise God!! Lov you’ll all! Charlotte But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. ((The call of the disciple is to extravagant love for Christ. By definition, the word “extravagant” means to exceed boundaries or proceed further than necessary. In some instances, extravagance can look wasteful or crazy. But while loving God unconditionally might look crazy to the watching world, it's never wasteful.))

Policeman with sparkling blue eyes dream

 I was in the driver's seat of my car parked on the right side of the street. I seemed to be somewhere downtown in a city. It was daylight out.I was alone. All of a sudden a policeman stepped over to me. He was a very large man, he weighed about 350 to 400 lbs. He asked me what was I doing. I said, "I'm praying." He walked around the front of my car and opened the passenger door. He didn't get in the front seat but left the door hanging open. He then opened the back door and got into the back seat. As he climbed into the car I could feel the car spread out and enlarge. I heard a whoosh sound. I looked over my right shoulder at him and saw his eyes were BRIGHT SPARKLING BLUE. Then, he turned around in his seat and got on his knees and put his head in the seat, and began to pray. I was in amazement! Next, a lady from the country of India came walking from the rear of the car. I could see that she was wearing a red and blue saree. She came around the back of the car and asked us what we were doing. I told her we were praying. She got in the car with us. The car grew even larger. It began to spread out WIDE! Then other people began to join us all getting into the back seat. The car continued to grow larger and larger spreading out in width each time someone would get in. I could hear it crackle and stretch. The passenger car door that the policeman opened continued to stay open. No one ever got in the front seat with me. I wondered about that.

The scene changed.

I was in a room. In my left hand, I was holding a can-of some type preying it open with my right index finger. As I did, It broke at the joint. It turned entirely to the right! Without thinking much of it, I took my left hand and popped it back into the joint. I felt no pain!! It was straight! I noticed a man standing on a ladder to my right. He said in a high pitched voice: Oh, you are doing good NOW!! I looked back at my finger> It changed from rough and short with no polish to being highly manicured with a high lacquer coat of HOT PINK!!! The shape of the nail stood out to me. It was in the shape of an ALMOND. THe nail seemed to be very strong, durable, and beautiful! It had no chips at the edges. It seemed to be freshly polished. This was a very vivid dream.

Fourth night of Hanakkah dream

Dream on the morning of the fourteenth of December The fourth night of Hanukkah I was up pretty late last night so I slept in till 9 a.m. this morning. I woke up at 7:30 from a dream. I fell back to sleep till 9. In the first dream at around 7:30, I dreamed I was with a group of ladies on a bed of shimmering water. I didn’t see them but I knew they were there. One of the women presented me with a ring. I saw her index finger and thumb only. That’s how she presented the ring to me. She lifted it off the bed of shimmering water as though it was floating. It had a golden band with a square stone. The stone was similar to an opal. It was greenish-blue in color and shimmered like the waters we were on. In the center of the stone was a raised diamond. The diamond stood out to me. It wasn’t inset in the stone but seemed to be floating on it. I heard in my spirit: “We are a group of women that pray.” After I woke up I immediately remembered a ministry called: Ladies of Gold. Their focus in ministry was worshipping God and making intercessory prayers for the nations. I had two more dreams right afterward this dream. In the second dream, I was attending a Christian conf that a group of women was hosting. I caught only the last of the conf because I got there late. The women paid my fee which was only seventy-five cents. They told me that was all I owed! We all giggled!!! Side note: seventy-fifth wedding anniversary is diamond. A diamond jubilee! The third dream: I was crawling through a semi-truck packed full of cut fruit. I saw melons, strawberries blueberries. So much fruit was there. It was unpackaged fruit. It was strangely thrown in there, loose. I saw something in the center of this massive amount of fruit. It was different from the cut fruit. I crawled over all that fruit. It was kinda funny what I was doing!

Dream June 29, 2020

Medical Dream 

 

I found this dream this morning as I was going through some prayer notes. I thought to share it with all of you. I found myself standing outside of a small medical building. I felt a strange tickle in my throat. Instead of clearing my throat, I reached into my mouth and pulled out two long strings throwing them to the ground. Next scene I walked into the building’s waiting room. I saw a bright light shining all around me! A woman approached me and said, “You’re going to have to get a vaccine.” I did not want it. As I began to leave I noticed a man. He was very angry! I noticed my medical records were out on a steel table for viewing. As I ran out of the building I knocked the table over, spreading my files out into the floor, scattering them. The next scene As I walked outside, I happened to look down where I had thrown the two long strings, and laying there, where TWO dead rats ! interpretation These people were trying to use me for experimental purposes! But because my eyes were opened ( God shined His light all through me, and around me) - I knew what was going on. Because I had disposed of the rats before entering the building- it made my eyes open! I was seeing clearly! Praise God for discerning of The Spirit!

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