Dreams and Visions

Understanding the LORD


Prologue

Greetings. If you are about to read the following dream please note that for me this was the most intense and powerful experience of my spiritual life.

In sharing this experience with you I realize I can only describe to you in the limited vocabulary that I have what transpired in that dream. I did my best to be accurate and to describe to the best of my ability the visual effects that were displayed by the Lord.

I can only testify that it was a life-changing event in the fact that an already special walk with the Lord was taken to a new level of intimacy. This experience also left me keenly aware of a new level of fear of the Lord.

I am now aware that He is Holy at a level that I never imagined. He is also a God that demands respect and purity from us who at the same time is very tender and extremely considerate to a level that I never imagined. He is merciful towards each of us and treats us as special people, as His own children.

One of the many aftershocks of this experience is that I am now aware that the Lord requires a greater effort from me to walk with Him on a daily basis. I share this because our relationship now incorporates a level of friendship that I have never experienced before. It is a Friendship in its best definition. He is truly a good friend and companion for each of us. I never realized how intimate He is of our daily events, surroundings and family settings.

I pray that this writing will be filled with the Lord’s anointing and assist you as you walk daily with Him.




Jim Cline

Summer 2005




Dream of Sunday night, the 13th.of February 2005

In the dream, my wife and I decided to attend a large church here in Phoenix that Sunday morning. We drove to the church, parked our little RAV 4 and entered the building. It was a very nice large church auditorium. I estimated that it would seat about sixteen hundred people. There were four rows of pews emanating from the front area below the stage. Two rows of pews were on each side of the middle isle. There were three main isles in the church.

We set down near the front of the church, in the left center area, in the third pew back from the front pew. We set inside the pew by two spaces from the isle seat.

The auditorium filled up quickly as we read our bulletin and greeted the people as they took a seat near us. Everyone was very kind and friendly.

The worship time of singing was very nice. They sang four regular songs. Two solo songs by two different women followed these. Both of the ladies had great voices.

After the worship ended an offering was taken. The song leader made general announcements. He then introduced the Assistant pastor as the speaker of the day. (This church had one main service each Sunday morning.)

Before I tell you about the sermon I would like to mention that the stage area consisted of a large open area around the pulpit. The stage was a least forty feet wide. Behind the pulpit, about six feet was where the orchestra was located. They occupied about ten feet of space. Behind them were four rows of pews for the choir. I mention this to share that the stage area was at least a third of the overall entire space for the building. It was a large stage and it was a long way to the back wall from our view.

As the Choir and orchestra exited the stage our speaker came to the pulpit.

He greeted everyone with a big smile and asked us to stand as he read from 2nd Chronicles.

His text was 2nd Chronicles 6-the entire chapter through chapter 7, verse 3. The last three verses stated that when Solomon finished praying, that fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering, and the sacrifices. It also stated that the Glory of the Lord filled the temple.

The assistant pastor then closed his bible and addressed us. He stated that he longed for this kind of event here again on earth. He wanted more heavenly fire to fall in his Christianity. He wanted a God that reacted to His people and their needs. He stated that he could not go on preaching a gospel about a God that did not send current date fire. He could not pray for anyone or assist any one with Christian encouragement with out fire from heaven falling.

As I listened to this man share, I thought that at least this was an honesty I rarely have heard from the pulpit. I also thought that the Lord was doing something here and that I would soon find out why my wife and I were attending this specific Sunday morning service.

The assistant pastor went on to state that he could no longer support a God who did not send the fire as promised in the Old Testament words of the prophets. God’s own Son promised that He would baptize us with the Spirit and with Fire - Mt 3:11.

The assistant pastor then turned to his left and walked away to my right side of the stage. I noticed that he had left his bible lying on the pulpit.

When the audience saw that he was off the stage the full auditorium began to murmur. I noticed that when about five minutes had passed a lady near us hit her husband on the arm and they got up and walked out quietly but quickly.

As they cleared the front door more couples got up and filed out. All were very silent but they did have eye contact with one another. They all looked as if they were confused and wanted to know ‘what was the next thing that would happen after this announcement”.

My wife and I were left alone in the large auditorium. She told me that....”She was going out to the car and that when the Lord was done with me that I could join her and drive home.” (She is definitely the wife of a prophet.) I knew that I was in a dream and that I had no control of the events of the dream.

As I sat there all alone in that auditorium I fingered my bible cover zipper tab. I decided to sit and read my bible a little bit. I would read at least until I found out what was the next thing that was to happen in this dream.

As I was reading I thought I noticed some movement near the aisle to my right. I looked over and saw some wisps of smoke slowly blowing by.

I thought ..”How weird”. I sniffed and I could not detect any smell of fire. There was no smell to the smoke. I went back to reading my bible.

As I sat there reading I was startled in my seat when I heard a clear, very sharp clap of thunder. It resounded throughout the auditorium several times. This single clap of thunder was so perfect. I remember thinking that the thunder was as if it was in tune. It sounded so crystal clear, as if it was a pure note. The fact is that it hurt my ears and shocked me at the same time. I looked up from my reading and the entire stage area was full of billowing clouds that were churning and moving in any direction. What was unique was that the clouds were not filling the auditorium. They were from the back wall to the backside of the pulpit. They did not come any closer to me than that back side of the pulpit. The churning was unbelievably fast and the clouds were very puffy.

I went back to reading my bible. As I turned the next page I looked up and found that the ceiling of the stage area was full of smoke. I remember thinking…. ‘Is there a fire back there?’ I was at peace so I went back to reading my bible.

As I read on I heard a second clear and very sharp THUNDER CLAP that was louder and stronger than the first one. (I have spent summers in Oklahoma and Kansas and not one storm or tornado ever sounded this loud or this clear) It was so loud that it hurt my ears. This indoor scene of billowing clouds and claps of thunder had my immediate attention.

By now the stage area was completely filled with churning smoke and puffy clouds and the rest of the auditorium was filled with more loud peals of thunder as the rapid firing bolts of lightening were bouncing all over the clouds.

Suddenly my life changed forever when a voice broke forth from the clouds. This voice was louder than the noise level I heard when I visited Niagara Falls a few years back. To me the biblical term ‘Voice of many waters’ has very little descriptive ability when compared to the voice I was listening to. I was able to discover that I had a great ability to cower under the pew while I was shaking and quaking like I had been hit with a Taser .

The voice stated, ….”How dare he talk to my sheep like that. How dare he leave them stranded and without any hope. How dare he presuppose my plans for this present day are abandoned? He does not want to see my fire now.

I am tired of MY representatives leaving MY sheep without hope in ME.

I am tired of MY representatives presenting a picture of ME as weak and incapable of assisting each and every one of them in every aspect of their lives.

MY representatives have misinformed my sheep about MY plans and intentions for their lives. They have exaggerated so many aspects of my intentions. At the same time have never focused on the major themes of MY plans to be with each of them each day of their lives. They did not explain how I want to be involved in every aspect of their daily lives.”

(Remember that I was under the pew and cringing, cowering and shaking. I can remember being able to see the unfinished wood under the pews and their mounting screws. I realized at that moment that I am in a large auditorium watching my own giant thunderstorm complete with pure note thunder and extremely bright flashing lighting.

This voice was now speaking directly to me. This voice was so perfect and pure that it frightened me more than I can describe to you. When I heard it, my heart stopped beating for a moment, my faith was thrilled but my body cringed in fear. I had never heard a voice so clear, so pure and so perfect. It was a voice that was in tune but very loud and clear. I noticed that the tone of that voice was not happy. In fact it was very upset.

It was hard to listen to this voice. To hear it was a great experience for me.)

The voice then changed His attention from MY representatives to….

“And you, my little priest. You are no better. I have set my plans in motion for your ministry and now I have to deal with pollution in your life as my little priest.”

(I have to confess my fear level went up 100% immediately from when I first hit the carpet when I heard the words “MY little priest” I knew HE was now talking to me.)

“I want you to flow with MY spirit and move in MY power but you have become polluted. You cannot handle the power and be very clear in your hearing of MY commands and instructions when you have pollution inside your heart. This pollution interferes with your ability to hear and flow in MY spirit. How dare you sit before Me with that pollution?”

I confessed my sins immediately. I was so afraid. The fear gripping me was the greatest level of fear I have ever experienced or could ever imagine. I knew that as I confessed my sins the cross of Calvary was there for me to hold on to. I held on to that cross so tight in my heart that I did not care if I got slivers in my hands and my cheek. In the midst of the terror of the Voice I was filled from my feet to my head with a most wonderful peace.

I was ready to hear more from this wonderful voice.

The voice went on to speak to me…”You think you know Me after the dreams and visions I have given you. After you spent so much time in MY WORD studying and praying to know more about ME and My kingdom, more about MY SON and MY Spirit you have missed so much about ME.”

The voice continued with ..”In your heart you are amazed I say this to you.” A short pause in his speaking then I heard…”Yes you are!”

(I was stunned that HE was correct.)

The voice continued.. “I also say this to all my representatives You all have missed so much about ME and MY kingdom.

You have missed most of all MY heart’s intentions for you and MY sheep here on Earth.

You think you know me, MY little priest. I say, you do not know me to the level that I want you to know ME at this time.

In your heart you are questioning how you can physically and spiritually know more about me.

Let Me give you an example of what I am trying to share with you. Let us look at the Ten Commandments, as I gave them to Moses. Yes, you and other have studied them to know more about Me. You have taken them as a law issued by a king with consequences if they are broken and rewards if they are kept.

I will explain more of this to you.”

(All the while I am still crying and cringing in a fetal position with my bible closed, I am holding it over my face but the vision of the pulpit with the cloud behind is clear to me. The thunder and lighting never quit during this entire speech by the Lord..)

The commandment about not coveting your neighbor’s goods is a great place to start in this lesson. You know this commandment do you not?”

I repeated it as best I could.

The voice continued… “Back in time when you lived in Rantoul, Illinois, you played with a friend and stole a US Army calvary horse and rider from his Fort Apache play set. This was in the summer before you got your own set the following Christmas. You kept that horse and rider for several days until you gave it back secretly after the Holy Sprit kept mentioning to you that it was wrong to steal.

It was good that you gave it back to your friend since he did not give it to you. However this is where I want to make sure you see the difference in what you know about Me and what I want you to know about ME.

You knew it was wrong to steal, that I had forbade you to steal as your LORD and God. You knew I would count this against you as sin since you coveted that toy in your heart and you had taken it.

However what you do not know is that the toy belonged to MY friend. I had allowed that toy to be his. I trusted him with it.

Every time he got it out and played with it, I was there with him. I watched his little eyes. I listened to his happy heartbeat as he played with it and the other toys in his set. I went to his home every day and watched him eat, sleep, play and get ready for school. I watched as he lived his life before me. I was sad that you had taken it from MY friend. I knew that for those several days that the toy was not available for my little friend to play with. I do not like to be sad when I do not have to be. Coveting that toy made us both receive less joy than what we could have had with it.”

I was speechless before this Voice’s accusation. I was so sad that I had made the Lord’s heart sad in my coveting of that toy horse and rider. I repented even more. More peace flowed into me from my feet up to my head.

The voice of the Lord went on to state…”Imagine what if that toy horse and rider was a neighbor’s wife. If you or anyone would covet her and lead her to commit adultery that would not only be sin as you know it. It would effect her physical home life, life with her husband, life with her children, and her extended family. It would effect My ability to work and move in her home with her and her husband and children. I would be very sad as I watched the wife live a lie each day as she fed her family and cheated on her husband.

I would know that the family was getting less of MY blessings and prosperity and I would be heart broken over her lack of ability to enjoy MY presence in her home and heart.

You just experienced My own words of how you made ME sad with your toy horse and rider experience. Imagine what someone would feel if they realized how upset I would be if they were coveting a wife from a home that I visited each and every day. A visit that was intimate and loving. I would be very sad that this adultery was going on and destroying a home that I knew so well.

I think you would say.

’I would not like to be the one that got between this Family and the Lord’s heart’.

You see that MY heart is a heart full of expectations for this family and all its members. My heart wants each person to be happy each day in this life with ME right besides them as they live and breathe before ME.

I was with that couple before they made their wedding vows to me. I was with them throughout the hard times and the good times. I was there each day as the first baby was growing inside the wife.

The coveting causes so many hardships. Consequences must follow. I then have to walk each step with this family.

I want to come and visit a happy home, with members that reflect MY honesty and integrity that I have in all MY relationships. I do not want to see sin and its effects tearing up any home.”

He even went on to state…”You will understand My heart better if I say it to you like this. Remember MR T the television star. His famous saying in many episode was ‘I pity the poor fool that comes between me and my friends.’

MY little priest, Do you really want to be ‘that poor fool’ that comes between ME and My little family being the one to commit adultery with the wife?

You see you know sin and its consequences from your point of view. However you have missed it completely when it comes to MY point of view from MY throne.”

The voice went on for quite awhile and went through each of the nine remaining commandments to explain how He is so involved in each our lives. I had no idea how intense His relationship was with each of us, our families, and our communities. I never knew just how personal He takes every little object or aspect of our lives.

As He spoke about this one commandment I realized that people’s property were the things He knew they needed to live before Him each day in this life. He had given them to them. He wanted them to use them to reach the aspirations He had for each person, and the family as a whole unit. The Voice was so full of love for each person that It mentioned that it was hard to physically understand a love that deep and so pure about all the people around us.

The voice went on to challenge me to live each day before Him with an understanding of His love at a much deeper level than I ever imagined before this dream.

I awoke in my bed. I immediately sat up and got my bearings. I then got out of bed and ran out to my living room. I laid on my face in prayer and repented for my pollution. I repented that I had allowed pollution into my heart. I was crying, no I was bawling before Him as I prayed. I went to my computer and before I typed any word of this dream I sent out a general e-mail to several men in whom I am in an accountability relationship with. In that e-mail I admitted that I had pollution in me and that I repented of it before the Lord.

As I share and preach from that moment on, to anyone who will listen I will bring out more of these startling revelations on the level of love that the Lord God has for all of us.