Visions and Prophecy — “Oh Canada!”
“The Spirit of God Speaks! Dreams”
— Visions and Prophecy. “Oh Canada!”
Today I am going to talk about the Truth and reality of how God, and why God uses Dreams and Visions, Words of Knowledge, Words of Wisdom and Prophetic Words to direct us, encourage us, and to protect us!
I’m also sharing a very recent Dream that I had and how it confirmed God’s Plan for a local Church that Steve and I were invited to minister at.
So often people think The LORD only speaks to “specific people” and that He cannot speak to them in the same way. So, I think we need to understand clearly as believers what The LORD said in Jeremiah 33:3.
“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
He also says in The Book of James, if any man lacks Wisdom, let him ask of God who will give to all liberally and will not withhold it!
The one big catchall is that people think God‘s going to speak to them at the same time, or in the same way, or in the same fashion, He has previously, and so when they don’t hear from Him the same way all the time, they wonder somehow if they’ve missed it.
Time and time again The Bible talks about night visions and dreams that The LORD used to instruct his people, and to protect them!
Here are a few Bible verses that give examples of biblical Dreams, provide guidance on how to verify the source of this type of revelation, and show God’s purpose in using them.
“Surely The Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing His Plan to His Servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7.
“To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand Visions and Sreams of all kinds.” Daniel 1:17.
“For God does speak — now one way, now another — though no one perceives it. In a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds.” Job 33:14-15.
One thing about hearing from The LORD is this. There has to be an element of The Word of God undergirding anything you receive in a Vision, in a Dream, or through other people who are used in the prophetic gifts of Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom!
It is out of The Word of God that prophecy then is solidified!
I’m going to share with you one of my most recent experiences, to encourage you to know that as we act upon what The Holy Spirit shows us, He can then move corporately. He likes to move among groups of people!
Steve and I were recently invited to speak at a wonderful fellowship not too far from our home in a city called Brighton, Colorado.
So, we were praying about it and told the pastor and his wife that we wanted to Pray first before we committed to saying we would come, because, we wanted to make sure what we were supposed to share, and to be sure it was the right timing.
We had gone to bed one evening and I had gotten back out of bed up to get some water and was just restless and not ready to sleep. I read for a while and finally got tired enough to go back to bed and fell into a deep sleep.
I then had a very vivid Dream.
In the Dream I was standing up behind a pulpit or podium, and Steve was standing there with me and I looked out into the congregation and I saw a young man who was very tall and had on a gray colored t-shirt — he had a beard and had a baseball cap on and was wearing black framed glasses. He was halfway between the congregation and about six seats in and he was to my right as I was facing him.
As I was standing there, I felt The Holy Spirit standing behind me.
He said to me, “People want to receive their Prayer Language. If you will tell people exactly what I want you to say, I’m going to move on and within them today. They’re going to experience the fullness of My Joy with their Prayer Language by speaking in tongues.”
So, in the Dream I said these words, “I had a Dream and The Holy Spirit showed me that they were people here who would be moved on by The Holy Spirit and will receive the blessing of praying tongues, and there are many here who have been afraid of it or who have not been able to get a release for some reason when they were prayed for. As I stand here and begin to pray The Holy Spirit‘s going to come on you in a very gentle and soft presence, and we’re just going to all lift our voices and in that moment and you’re going to be able to be released to pray in tongues.”
In the Dream, I was watching the young man and I pointed out him and I said, “You are one who has been wanting The LORD to bless you with speaking of tongues, aren’t you? And he raised his hand up and was crying and he said “Yes!”
And in that moment, I just said to him that The Holy Spirit is gently touching you right now, just begin to open your mouth and begin to speak, and he did!
He immediately began to pray in this beautiful prayer language and then the whole place erupted with people cheering and crying and the room was filled with The Spirit of God and the whole room was lifted up in Worship and Praise to God, with people praying in tongues and laughing joyfully.
There was lots of crying and Worship, because they could feel the love and kindness of The LORD everywhere.
I then went back to sleep and slept deeply I guess, because when I woke up in the morning I was aware that I had slept long and hard.
Steve was already up and was drinking coffee and reading, so I told him about the dream and that The Holy Spirit had said that there were people at this Church (the Church’s name is “Fearless Church”) that had been wanting to receive their Prayer Language and speak in tongues, but they just had not had the release, or, anyone help them with that.
So I told him that The Holy Spirit said if we will tell them that The Holy Spirit said that there were those to be filled today, The LORD would honor it and he would do a great and precious thing in that service.
Now, we had not yet been in this couple’s new Church facility before, because we had known them from their older building location.
When we walked in, it was exactly like the building that I saw in my dream, which was amazing, because I didn’t even realize it until we walked in, so I knew this was definitely the time and the place for what God was wanting to do with this special meeting.
After very beautiful worship, Steve got up and began to share his message and was teaching. I was just kind of looking around and then paying attention to what Steve was sharing and you could begin to feel this calm and peace come over all of us.
Steve shared about The Love of The Father and about how much God is calling us to a place of greater hunger for His Presence.
As he began to wind up that part of the message, I joined him on the platform and began to share about what Words of Knowledge and Prophetic Ministry, (what they were), and as I looked out into the congregation, there was the guy halfway down the middle to the right about six seats in that I had seen in my dream. He had on the exact same gray t-shirt, he had the beard he had the black glasses and he was very tall.
I just began to act out and speak exactly what I saw in the dream that The LORD had given to me, and I said the exact words, and sure enough this young man lifts up his hand and we began to lift our voices and he was immediately overwhelmed with the power of God, and began to speak out in his Prayer Language.
We began to tell other people to begin to lift their voices and do the same thing, and the entire room began to speak out in their tongues, or they were praising God, or just praying in English, and some people were praising in Spanish, but for a long time there were many people were just spontaneously being filled with The Holy Spirit and speaking with the evidence of tongues in languages they had never spoken.
Now, this led to a tremendous amount of joy and all were shocked and in awe at the presence of God suddenly overwhelming their congregation!
They had been through a very difficult time since they had had such lock-down and restriction problems and pressure from the local government.
There had been a lot of grief and death and a lack of continuity in the people. It seemed as if The Holy Spirit just wanted to come in and bring this peace and hope to them.
Not too far after that then, we began to minister in the prophetic gifts of Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom.
People stayed for an additional full hour! We did not ask them to do this! They were hungry to be loved, they were hungry to be at peace, and they were like gentle lambs receiving The Word of The LORD, even some Words that were not easy to receive.
But the atmosphere was primed, simply by a Dream that The Holy Spirit had given to me, and then asking us to obey him and act on what we had seen and heard in the dream.
What I’m saying about all of this is that, sometimes it takes just a dream or a vision or a thought that comes to your mind while you’re going about your daily business.
It is a catalyst then that The Holy Spirit can use to open the Door to a sweeter or greater move of God in a meeting or a gathering, or in a coffee shop, depending on where The LORD happens to have you go.
He knows exactly what to do in every situation that we are sent into, and knowing the timing of The LORD was right for us to go minister to this body of believers, was all because of the fruit of prayer.
I now would also like to share or update you about something that The LORD had me share a few months ago regarding Canada.
I will include the link right below for you to go read or listen to the entire word again, but again, when The Holy Spirit begins to speak he does confirm these things.
“The Powerless Against the Mighty — A Word for Nations“
Word for Canada starts at minute marker 11:34
Many of you are aware of the things going on at the Canadian border and of course, the entire globe is fighting tyranny.
In this prophetic word The LORD had me share something that I did not understand at the time, but I knew that I needed to deliver the word at that time. Now in review, it is happening and coming to pass.
Here’s what that Word said:
“Canada will experience one of its most prosperous seasons ever known, for a short season.
The LORD would have Canada know that they must deal fairly with the wealth that they will produce and pay back the First Native families, and with Godly equity.
If this is not addressed with wisdom and integrity, Canada will have to pass through the sorrows of disobedience.
Canadian Intercessors are being awakened and called up to stand in the place of prayer for its leaders and tribes.
Now is the time for soberness, It is not the time for silliness and laughter.
It is a sober day, with a command for sober prayers.
“Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect).” 1 Thessalonians 5:6.
“So Get up! Stand UP ! Be Purposeful,” says The LORD! “How do you not know that through your borders I can bring a North American Wave of Justice and Restoration?””
As you have just heard or have just read, The LORD knew these events were going to take place on the border of the united states and Canada way before I ever spoke it out.
I am certain that The LORD spoke these words or similar words to other men and women of God.
Months ago he breathed these words out so that others might hear them and pray about them.
I believe that when The LORD gives a word especially specific to any nation, it is first a call to prayer and repentance. From that then, the outbreak of moves of God can take place.
I encourage you to not fear the supernatural. If you are grounded in The Word of God and a person filled with the spirit, God is going to speak to your spirit and instruct you in the way you should go.
He is not going to talk to your mind, because you will talk yourself out of anything that takes risk or costs you laying down your own intellectual reckoning.
We are living in a time where hearing from God will literally save your life. It is not a time to hope we have everybody else hear from God, and tell us what to do.
I am almost certain that anything I share today is something The LORD has been stirring in the hearts of the majority of you that are listening. And it is confirming things deep in your spirit that you needed to have sorted out in order for you to proceed.
My prayer for you today is that you understand there is a stirring in the heart of God to move upon his people in a dynamic and extreme power that shakes the core of evil in the world.
It will cause a great upheaval, because darkness resists light. But light penetrates past darkness.
You are a light in this world, because of The Lamp of Christ inside of you. Take the bushel basket off and let that light shine.
Yes it may cost you something. If it doesn’t cost you something to be strong in The LORD then we are pretty much guaranteed to be lukewarm and passive.
These are the days that God has prepared for you and I.
He planned for you to be here today in this very hour in this very moment. He has words to speak out of your mouth that are his words that will help break the darkness over peoples lives that have no ability to understand how captive they are to the narratives of the world.
Don’t underestimate The Power of God’s Words coming out of your mouth when you are talking to someone.
It takes just one anointed obedient act to set a captive free. It takes just one obedient act done while stepping out in courage to open the ears of someone who has been deafened to truth most of their life.
If the Words are rejected, understand that a seed went inside of them and was planted. Someone else may come along and water that seed, and someone else may harvest what comes from that.
But in the end you were obedient to plant the seed, and all of the joy and the glory and honor of a new soul or someone set free, goes to Jesus.
Psalm 31:24 is what I want to speak over each of you today!
“Take courage! Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in The LORD.”
In His Shadow,
~ Mary Lindow ©
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Mary Lindow has a passion for encouraging others – all generations, careers or vocations to live expressing excellence through personal integrity, healthy accountability, and wise management of talents and skills. She’s a sought after keynote, inspirational, humorous speaker and teacher across the USA and internationally in Ministers & Spiritual leaders Conferences, and training seminars for various organizations.
AMEN MARY! Excellent words of advice & wisdom!!!
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I’m with the tall guy in the glasses. I want the baptism of the Holy Spirit and evidenced with speaking in tongues.
It is late in my life and I have waited a long time for this to happen for me. I hope it will happen now.
The word of God says, “Open wide your mouth and God will fill it”. I ask the Holy Spirit to fill your mouth with the sounds like a baby attmepting to speak, then a complete flow of ease and a heavenly lanuguare that makes no sense to the mind, but overwhelms the heart, flowing out of the Spirit. Go ahead, open your mouth and begin just as I said. Simple faith, like a child, no embarassment.
Thank you Mary! The First Nations story is complicated yet their restoration work has been copied within the USA Reservation systems too of unearthing and revealing the sins of the governement against them. The Father has confirmed to me and others that there will be a 2 Samuel 21 moment for them in restoration of all that has been stolen which also occured with the Gibeonites. Death under Saul and recompense under David as he inquired of the Lord during a 3 year famine.
Our prayer is to loose them into their full inheritance in the Father that their hearts and ours would be knit together as one in Jesus. The original treaties were made in good faith of friendship and sharing and our ancestors broke and betrayed their covenants for generations. Same in the USA.
I think it is sort of interesting that I believe out of the state shaped like Gods right hand will come a mighty move of God not
Less then 60 miles from Canada I have been waiting on it for 38 years waiting is over and all is about to begin. In fact like a wind before a storm the signs are everywhere. Many years ago I seen it as a atomic bomb of Gods glory going off less then 60 miles from Detroit. I guess we are all about to see. I heard everyone will know. Are you all everyone?
And the Lord spoke to me when I read the part about the man in the dream in the grey shirt standing and speaking in tongues, “And it has only just begun for My People are so hungry for truth and so ready to receive My Presence.”
More to come, Mary, much more as many doors are opening. Love and blessings, Sandi
So many…. So hungry.