12/12/01 Renegade Soldiers

As my life keeps changing and my "I have this one down Lord" becomes clear that I really don't I press on to the high call to follow hard after Jesus.

In the last year I have felt stretched by the words I believed were from the Lord. They didn't fit the nice sounding uplifting ones that we all like to hear. With some fear I submitted them to the body, not fear of the rejection of man but fear that somehow it might not be a pure word. To indicate that God said something through me when he didn't is a fearful thing to me.

Therefore I submit this dream and what I feel is the interpretation for your discernment:

The dream was very vivid with breezy warm air, like the beginning of summer or the end of spring, dusty & even the feeling of sweating and it was in color. We looked like one huge family all working together to accomplish the task at hand. I didn't know most of those working except my oldest son Scott who was running a backhoe and the person I report to in the ministry I am a leader in. As I reported to her the events taking place it seemed as if she was not in support at first. The impression from the Lord was, this will change as fruit becomes evident.

The setting was mostly bare land that we were all working to make straight. Excitement was evident with the group. We looked very different like a bunch of miss-fits,. But happy miss-fits working side by side and fully enjoying life and what we were up to. It was very obvious those working didn't look like those setting in church services. I heard the Lord speak, you will look like Renegade soldiers. Somehow I knew this pleased the Lord even though in the natural (dream state) I really didn't understand why. It was evident He was the Foreman in charge of the changing of the landscape and large building or tent fixture going up. My son who was there using the back-hoe was as happy as a lark. This son usually isn't one for manual labor so that was sort of a real change to see in the dream how happy he seemed. There was a stirring of excitement and many coming to help and be part of this funny looking renegade army. I remember looking at this army of workers and thinking, man no one would ever believe we would all be together doing this... then I woke up..

My interpretation:

The Lord is calling those from far and wide into a new place of understanding. We will not look like the church as usual. Some will say, they have left the faith because we will no longer settle for the mundane but radically changed soldiers doing the work of the Lord as he taught we would do..."And Greater Works than these shall you do in my Name " Church without walls...We will be laughed at and mocked because we refuse to go back into pleasing man with our standard. Like David our hearts will be full of the joy of the Lord and celebration and hard work will go hand in hand. Our children who sat in Sunday school all their lives but today don't serve the Lord will want to help because this work is a tangible work that brings a great sense of joy and accomplishment.

The person who I report to not completely understanding nor agreeing with what was taking place at first, resented how the Lord will cause all things to work together for good to those who love him and are called to his purposes. We will not look like anything that you see in the church house today. Perhaps we will be the House Church my pastor speaks of and desires us to be now. Making the bare land straight has to do with making our attitudes in line with Gods. Traditions have caused us to forget how Jesus walked and His teaching about those without sin casting the first stone. The joy on the many working so hard comes from a place of freedom to be who you are and work side by side. I believe the land was bare because this is a new move of God and the planting hasn't come yet because the call is just now going out.

This morning I read Jesus vs. Jihads by Chad Taylor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rivermail_list/message/3007 and in it he speaks about the Rainbow people that are coming. Just a few weeks ago the Lord gave me a word about The Rainbow and His glory upon them. It was one of those different words that I really couldn't fully understand. Tonight I better understand (I think) more of the direction God is reveling to the church in this hour. We will look different, because we will be different. Each allowed to be who we were created to be, male and female, white and black and all tribes and tongues. We will be free and full of the joy of the Lord as we walk in the Light and do the works He said we would do.

Grace and blessing to each of us as we obey and go forth... One more thought I wonder if Jesus was called a renegade he was called the devil by the very properly dressed religious leaders of his time.

Shalom,

Lynda Bowers