"Your Dreams"

  "Strenghten the feeble hands, steady the knees that gives way; Say to those 

   with fearful hearts, 'Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come

           with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.'"

                                            I S A I A H 35 : 3-4

   I don't know much about interpreting dreams, but I do know that the Lord used a few weird and wonderful dreams in days gone by to reveal His plans for the future. Take prophet Isaiah. He lay down one night and had a very strange dreams. He found himself in the middle of a desert with nothing but sand stretching to the horizon. He felt depressed in the dream just like the bleak landscape. He felt hungry and thirsty and very unsatisfied.

    Just then, dream took an exciting turn. Put of sand pushed one small flower and then another. Soon grass sprouted and then trees loasded with fruit. Immediately upon awakening. Isaiah hurried to write down a fantastic description of the abundant paradise blooming and buding all around him.

    You can read about the strange and exciting dream in Isaiah 35. It's marvelous chapter for anyone with a fearful, faint heart because it talks about going gloom to glory from depression to ecstacy. The good news is that Isaiah forecast this for all of God's people! In Revelation 5:9, You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

   Rita Snowden wrote a book in 1937 titled If I Open my Door. In it he described a congregation that was planning to build a new place of worship. Central to its sanctuary would be a stained-glass window depicting children worshiping Jesus.

    The congregation hired an artist to paint a picture of the proposed window. He fulfilled the assignment, and that night he dreamed he heard a noise in his studio. Going to investigate, he saw a stranger altering his picture. He cried out, Stop! You'll ruin it." But the stranger answered, "You have already ruined it." The intruder then explained that the children's faces had all been one color, but he was using many colors. When the intruder said that he wanted children of all nation and races to come to him, the artist realized he was talking to Jesus Himself. In a world where racial differences often lead

to separation and conflict, and conflict, it's imperative that Christian work for unity and peace. Jesus went to the cross to bring salvation to people of every nation ( Revelation 5:9 ) our witness and witness and our fellowship must go beyond the barriers that have historically divides the human family ( Roman 1:16; Galatian 3:28 ).

     Is your spirit dried up like a parched desert? Has the joy and singing gone out of your life? Then ask God to replace the endless stretch of your dry days with the Living Water soon, out of the sand in your life, will push the beautiful Rose of Sharon.

      Lord of joy, strenghten my feeble hands and steady my fearful heart so that i can praise You today. Come soon, Lord, to open the eyes of the blund, to make the burning sands a pool, to crown our heads eith everlasting joy, and to mske sorrow and sighting flee away.