In my Father's house are many rooms: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2
Hey guys,
So I'm writing this post because God gave me some amazing revelation on some dreams I used to have and still do on occasions. When I started Christ for the Nations this past fall and began to truly study the word, fruit and gifting's just sort of came to me. The biggest change in my personal relationship was that God began to assist me interpreting my dreams. I've always been a vivid dreamer, but never truly understood them. Now God comes to my dreams regularly to give me a message or to minister to me personally through a situation. It's the sweetest feeling having Him personally interact with me in this way. James Goll and Cindy Jacobs call it the Seer anointing and manifested heavily on Samuel and Daniel in the Old Testament. The reason for this post is to share a revelation God gave me through a series of dreams and scripture. It is by far the biggest light bulb moment I've had. If it helped me, my prayer is that maybe it will help you as well!
I'm going to start by summarizing the dreams and I will end this post by breaking down the message God was trying to convey to me.
When I was sixteen, I began to regularly dream about this enormous and extravagant mansion. The house was several stories tall and was the type of beautiful house you would get lost in like in those horror movies. It was an old Victorian home with a wrap around porch. It was always abandoned, but I always had the oddest feeling like it was mine. When you first walked into the house, you walked into a large, two story sitting room that had a grand stair case. Everything was perfectly placed as if it was organized by a professional interior designer. In each dream I would explore the house and once I went upstairs I realized the hallways became a maze. That's when I realized I wasn't alone.
As I walked the halls of this house, I saw these dark beings. The only way I can describe them is this: Picture a mannequin at the mall and dye them pitch black. Instead of five fingers they had three appendages that turned into claws that went down to the kneecap. They never attacked me nor did they say a word. They would just watch me from around corners. They said enough without ever saying a word. As I continued to explore the house I found some of the rooms were decayed. I found several rooms in the house completely empty with rotting wood, bathrooms with water leaks, furniture destroyed, etc. That really bothered me. Here I was in this beautiful house and oddly enough there was this random mess! What in the world was going on?
I've had this dream at least a dozen times. And it's taken me several years to finally realize that the house represents....me. And you. Just like a house can be beautiful and put together on the outside, we can be decaying, rotting, and dying on the inside. No one knows either until they take a look inside our being.
"But I'm saved, Father! This house can't possibly represent me!" I had this conversation with God several times. I'm saved! I can't have demonic oppression in my life!
But I do. We do. Most of us do.
And we are only defeated when we can't admit it. Satan's greatest weapon is deception and denial. If you're scared to admit it that's proof Satan has a room within your pretty little home (Tweet This!).
Is there a sin in your life that you just can't get a handle on? No matter how often you try to repent you can't? That's bondage. That little area of your heart, your home, is occupied...and it's not Jesus.
Christians can't be owned by demons because we are owned by God, but demons can come into an area of our life that we haven't surrendered to God. Pastor Robert Morris gives two examples:
- You own your home, but a thief comes in through an open window. Does the thief own the home? No. Does the thief have influence? Obviously he can. He can steal...he could cause harm, he could do many things. He has the opportunity to overpower
- A Christian can choose to consume alcohol. Is he still a Christian? Yes. Is he still saved? Yes. Is it likely he could do something under the influence that is out of line? Yes.
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the peoples of the world, that enemies and foes could enter the gates of Jerusalem. Lamentations 4:12
They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows. Joel 2:9
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” John 8:31-33
In that last verse Jesus was even talking to Jews that BELIEVED Him, but Jesus said they were in bondage! Denial gives room to the enemy! Abraham's descendants had been in bondage to several empires! At the time they were in bondage to the Roman empire! Denial is a form of pride.Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD. Jeremiah 7:8-11
Have you ever been afraid? Did you do something to honor that fear? Do you trust lying words of fear above God?
I'm going to be honest. I struggle with a spirit gluttony. Yes, it's obvious I'm obese. Before I had this revelation would I say I had a problem? No. Would I say it was spiritual? No. When I stress, I don't immediately go to God right away. I go and get me some comfort food and then I'll go pray. I've honored fear before I honored God. By doing that I give the spirit of Gluttony a place in my life. I left that window open to Satan.
I don't know your struggles. It may be anger..it may be lust. I know many people who are alcoholic's who have anxiety. It's all the same spirit that wants to kill you.
Gluttony is just one of the things I personally struggle with. Now that God has given me this revelation of bondage through Christ, I can fight this. I can overcome this!
BUT BE WARNED!
Jesus says this in Matthew 12:43-45: “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
I have struggled with my weight all my life. Every time I diet I gain weight, but I have never given this part of my life over to Jesus. You can be an alcoholic or drug addict and go through rehab and become completely clean, but if Jesus doesn't fill that hole you have then Satan will come back seven times stronger! We need to submit ALL area of our lives once and for all!
Jesus is home and it's time to clean house!
-Mark S. Melton
