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LittleBear:
Hi Peaceful!

I had some scary dreams like you described, in the past, when I was younger. Not lately though. If you've turned away from all that stuff, leave it in the past and move on. This is just my opinion, because I'm no expert. I have never had any visions, and am somewhat sceptical of anyone telling me about visions. Remember that God is in charge of your life. I figure that God puts enough challenges in our lives to keep us busy and overcoming, to strengthen us and conform us to His image. Rest and trust in Him, and be Eirinikos.

Kat:

Hi Eirinikos,

I've never had any visions or dreams that I believe had in supernatural meaning. 
I spent most of my life seeking God to some extent.  I was a dedicated church goer for many years thinking they would show me God.  What I realize now is that most of my life I was trying to find God by physical means, somehow by MY physical efforts I would find Him.  It was not until God open my spiritual eyes that I knew God at all. 
Now with spiritual eyes, any understanding that I may have, has not come through signs and wonders.  I thinking wanting to know and understand God by dreams and visions, now wouldn't that be the easy way to receive understanding, for it to just drop in your lap so to speak?   
What I have found is it takes a lot of effort, by staying in the Word and by that I mean taking the time and studying and contemplating on it.  I have had great revelations and received things that are profound to my understand, but it was through studying and digging for it in the Scriptures.  My personal experience has been that the more I'm in the Word the more I receive.  And if I stay out of the Word for even a day, I feel myself drifting away from God. 

My advice to anybody would be read and study all of the articles on the BT site.  That will give you a great deal of basic understanding and you will also learn from Ray many fundamental truths about studying God Word.  As you build up your knowledge this way the Scripture will begin to open up to you. 
Never before in my life have I understood the Scriptures, I always felt reading them was futile, but now it is wonderful to see the Spirit behind the words.

Here is an email where Ray spoke on this.

http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3926.0.html ----------

Dear BH:

    The more you understand God's Truths, the more you will be able to explain them to others. We don't expect that people will casually read the material on our site and become expert teachers on the subject in short order. It takes many years of study AND MEDITATION to fully comprehend even the basic of the doctrines of Christ. I meditate virtually all of the time. I THINK about the Word of God, day and night. And in my meditation, God gives me flashes of spiritual insight, as He did just minutes ago while I was sitting in my bedroom. A simple truth, yet very profound. One that I have never heard expounded by anyone in my life. Maybe I will share this one at our Nashville Conference.

    One thing you can do, is as you read a doctrinal paper, when you come to what is a profound thought and a profound Scripture regarding it, WRITE IT DOWN or at least make a margin notation in your Bible. These will become key Scriptures for you as you grow in grace and knowledge. And when the need arises, you will be able to quote the Scripture, find it in the Bible,and explain the concept to others. Don't try to memorize all the facts and all the Scriptures, not even I can do that with my own writings.

    God be with you,
    Ray

Martinez:

I've had a couple of things happen.

A few years ago I was just walking along when I closed my eyes and saw my mum contorted in pain, naked against a black background.
I quickly opened my eyes, said some choice words shook my head thinking nothing of it except why on earth was I seeing that?

A couple of days later We drove down to Sydney and I gave my mum a call but there was no answer, so I called my sister who informed me that my Mother was in hospital with a bad back.
She had been in there for a couple of days, and when it had happened she was laying on the bathroom floor naked.
the Ambulance had to be called and powerfull painkiller administered to move her.

coincidence?


Another thing that happened was that my wife and I were praying together (not a very common occurrence) when out of frustration I asked God if He could make me like Daniel so that everything would prosper in my hand as well (rather than completely fail everything all the time).
My wife then said "you will be like Daniel" or words to that effect, which isn't something my wife has anything to do with.
Years later after coming to the knowledge of the truth (not completely yet) and not having things change at all as far as me screwing things up, I finally realise that He didn't mean it in the worldly sense but in the sense that Daniel is the chosen spiritually in scripture.

I was not meant to understand till now!

Jackie Lee:
We had sold our house in 2,000 back when the housing market was booming, I really became scared cause every house we had been interested in was already sold or an offer.
I said I can't handle this God and the thought came to me *Be still and know that I am God*
The next day a house deal fell through and we were able to purchase this home.
Just the other night I was praying, why am I not getting this why can't I catch on like others, the thought came to me read proverbs so I am reading and rereading proverbs.
This is about as scary as it gets for me that I can think of at the moment. :)

MSenter:
Hi, I can really relate to your situation as I have BEEN through some of the same things as you describe! I have abused drugs and alcohol in the past and when I decided to quit these things, my mind played all sorts of tricks on me, like panic attacks, anxiety attacks, voices in my head, ect ect ect. I went to my doctor and was honest about my past practices, I learned that all the partying that I did in my past left me with a chemical imbalance in my brain. After some time under a doctors care I was put on a perscription that HELPS restore the chemical imbalance (dopimine) in the brain. Thats not all! I went to AA meetings which helped me out spiritualy ( The AA Big Book came from the Holy Bible ) AA's roots came from, 1 Corinthians 13, The Book of James and The Sermon on the Mount. YOU ARE NOT ALONE DUDE! But the power of prayer is the "BEST MEDICINE" Hope this helps you! God Bless You! Mark.

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