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My dream life continues to increase and change with His
directions and I am continue to be amazed by the depth and breadth of His plans
for us. Last night I had a dream both for me as an individual, but for those
who have been struggling to see their worth in Him
In the first scene I was asleep – dreaming about a situation
– when my wife reached over and woke me up with those words that no one really
wants to hear. Honey wake up I think there’s someone in the house.
I reached under my bed to my pistol storage safe and removed
my 1911 45 ACP, flashlight, and opened the door.
There was light filtering down the hall \way from the living
room area, and as I began to step out into the hallway I saw potato chips
spread out along the carpet. I knew right then that this was serious – the
chips were meant to be an alarm to alert the prowler that someone was up and
moving. Little did they know that I had Samuel Peter – my 14 year old Sheltie
and champion chip remover (his nickname is Hoover because no food stays on the ground
long).
I quietly moved down the hallway, turned the corner and
confronted a bushy headed white male squatting down working on one of my small
safes.
I pointed the gun and light at him and directed him to stop,
put everything down, and put his hands behind his head. I then told my wife to
call 911.
Then it began to go from bad to scary…my wife froze and
couldn’t call 911, and the bad guy refused to respond, and in fact turned
around and with a smile said “I don’t think you appreciate your situation…”
He was right, but I called 911 and the voice strangely
answered “Hi Dale, what can I do for you”. First my name is not Dale, and
second this is not how 911 operators are trained to respond. I tried to give
the operator the information, but something told me that my expectation of law
enforcement showing up any time soon was overly ambitious.
As I confronted the burglar, I heard sounds to my right –
around the corner towards the kitchen, I backed up to take a better position to
cover both individuals and a youngish woman (late 20’s) came around the corner,
addressed the burglar, and then saw me.
At that point all heck began to break loose, and as if in
slow motion, I saw other members of their team out by my garage and storage
shed breaking in, and realized that there must be at least a dozen bad guys –
my next thought before I started shooting was –
But I don’t have that much stuff to make it worth this big
of a team to steal…..
Another one of their team came through the side door with a pistol
in his hand, and at that point it became a them or us situation. I told him to
drop his gun, he refused and began the motions to raise his pistol and shoot –
I shot before he could finish hitting him square in center body mass. He
stumbled but didn’t go down.
Other team members began to converge on the house and I kept
shooting, with the same results – for some reason the 45 wasn’t effective and I
needed a bigger weapon.
I moved along the back wall when another one of our dogs
(looked like a cream colored Afgan hound) came bounding to my defense – but
then began to play with one of the bad guys (ok, I’m thinking this is not
really working) I gave the “kill’ command and the dog became a bit more
aggressive but not to the level needed to protect us.
I managed to get to my hidden gun safe, pulled out the AR-10
and began to engage both the up close and far off targets. I was accurate with
my fire, but still they wouldn’t go down. And of course the police hadn’t shown
up yet – which I had anticipated.
At that point I woke up and began to have a conversation
with Holy Spirit.
The first thing He said was
“Natural weapons - no matter the size - are ineffective in
the supernatural battle. The team invading your home was not natural, but
supernatural – along with their human helpers (the 911 operator). My children
need to quickly understand a couple of things
1. You truly are in a serious life threatening battle –but
it is not against flesh and blood
2. The enemy sees your TOTAL spiritual treasure that you are
often not aware of (your current and future inheritance) and his goal is to
kill, steal and destroy
That’s why he sent such a big team into your house – your
spiritual treasures are simply beyond your ability to fully grasp – and his
goal was to disrupt the plans I have for you.
BUT I have a better plan, to take this and to increase even
more beyond your current understanding, to create a situation where your
awareness of your spiritual authority will be without question, and instead of
the enemy attacking you – YOU WILL TAKE THE BATTLE TO HIM!
The police represent the current church structure, they can
be effective in some situations when mobilized but they have to be notified.
The 911 operator represent those Pastors and leaders who have forgotten their
first love and their mandate from Heaven and willingly or not – have chosen to
hear the wrong voices and refuse to train and mobilize those I have given them.
THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE - but for now understand – that
truly the Battle Belongs to the LORD – and I’m going to be showing many of My
children new weapons and strategies for the days ahead and I’m training those
to use the BIG GUNS...”
Martin Best is a prophetic voice in the Northwest.
http://www.whirlwindministries.org/
