In a dream of the night ...I found my self with a mean and bitter hand on my neck ...and another on my arm . It was like when I was a child...and some mean one would grab me up by the neck ...to force me to look at something...bending my neck hurtfully ...as though to make me look at something ...and to pay strict attention ...to what was being forced on me. Yeeeck what miserableness ...
The hand on my neck and on my arm did bring an wicked force on me ...and made me to look on all the things of the world ...that I might be moved by it ...I was forced to look at ...all manner of goods and pleasures of the world ...wealth...foods ...cars... houses ...music... women.
And within the dream ...I looked at the beastly man that had ahold of me ...and I knew ...I knew ...I had the power to take his hands off of me ...like when I was a child ...and someone did this to me ...they could snatch me up ...and grab me by the neck ...and force me to look at things ...and to hear their blasting, boasting voice ...but they could NOT MAKE ME CARE...
Yet now and within the dream ...I had power ...and took his hand off of my arm ...and looked into his eyes ...to show him that I had no fear in me ...of him. And if I desired I could also take his hand off my neck ...nevertheless within the dream I allowed ...his hand on my neck ...so I could see what wickedness he wanted me to look at ...and it was much ...all the works of men ...every influence that man might have over me ...did the beastly man show me ...or tried to bend my neck to ....
Then I awoke ...and prayed of the matters of this dream ...and ask if there be any more that the Lord might have me see ...
And BEHOLD ...he showed me that the hand upon my neck was my own ...and the power of it was my own worldly thinking ...so I was in effect bending my own neck ...by my own thinking ...to look and be influenced by the world ...and the cares thereof ...
You see ...when I was a child (of the world) I thought like a child ...thought I was overcome by the power of the world and the influence of it ...(note "in" fluence ) ...yet has the Lord delivered me ...by his hand only ...Godward to right thinking ...and given me the power to see these matters plainly ... and as it is I avoid the "parlor altars" of the world ...as it is the television ...and other such devises of men ...being now more wary of the influence of the mass media ...
Thank you Jesus and thank you God my father ....
*note: "in" fluence... is "in" ...for you might take in your heart the matters of the teachings ...be it of men or of God ...chose rightly ...if you have a heart for it ...if Jesus has worked in your heart to move to it ...if not ...we have only our own thinking ...and the bending of our own necks ...
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