Part 2

After that incredible experience, my life changed for the better. I now belonged to Jesus, no longer lukewarm and my outlook on many things had changed. From that point on I noticed I began to receive certain gifts from God, specifically in the form of vivid dreams from him, and locutions. Locutions are basically visions you receive within your own mind (as opposed to seeing them externally with your physical eyes), but they aren't products of your own mind. In addition I started hearing words from him in the spirit and in dreams. I did write down some of these in a journal years ago, however I haven't kept up with everything. I'll touch on a few things revealed though.

First I was given a dream about my own salvation and the coming judgment. In this dream there was a field of people of all types. They were all caught up in this net which was moving towards a pit with some kind of grinding device in it. I was with this group of people, but instead of getting swept into the grinder, I ran towards the net and lept over it to safety. After this the scene changed and I was being chased by evil individuals. I was told to gather into the teepee (think, Native American teepee) to be protected from them. Inside of the teepee there were patches of red and blue all inside. Finally, there was a scene of a hand writing into an open book. This dream is highly symbolic and was meant for me, but I'll share it's meaning which was revealed to me shortly after. The scene with the net and the grinder was meant to represent God's coming wrath and judgment. I lept over the net to safety and avoided his wrath. The TP was symbolic of the house of the lord, I took shelter in God's protection. The red and blue colors inside represented the rays of his divine mercy seen here [link to www.theworkofgod.org] The scene with the hand writing into a book was Jesus writing my name into the book of life. This was a significant and powerful dream at the time which left me in awe, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit upon waking from it.

I had a dream when I was very young, probably under 5 years old, but it was a vivid dream that stuck with me throughout my life. In this dream I was flying on the back of a huge eagle and soaring high in the sky. A few years ago this dream started coming into my mind a lot...I just started asking God what was up with this, why was I thinking of this old dream? While at mass one Sunday morning the meaning of the dream just hit me when this song started playing. (look at the lyrics too, the message is directly connected to the previous dream I had) [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
The song itself is based on Psalm 91, which I had no idea of at the time. [link to www.biblegateway.com] After all those years, God revealed the meaning of this dream to me, which was meant to reassure me of God's promise to save me.

One example of a locution I had: ..The vision showed a scene of me with a sword and shield, swinging the sword. I had long hair, was wearing a crown of thorns, and on top of that a white crown with a blue jewel. The meaning: The words "Defender of the faith" were received (around that time I was really into defending Christianity, still am to some degree), thus the sword and shield imagery, the long hair represented wisdom, the crown of thorns meant suffering, the white crown meant purity. God was asking me which I wanted to choose or if I would choose both. Many may not know this, but we receive crowns of glory like this when we enter heaven, depending on what we did or went through while on Earth.

Another example of a dream I had from the lord was when I fell into a period of sinfulness for about a year. God sent me a dream to wake me up...in the dream there was nothing, I only heard the words clearly "Follow the three eternal nows". At first I didn't know what to think of it, though it had shaken me. Then the meaning came to me, it is a description of the Holy Trinity, or God almighty. That got me to change immediately from the way I was living. I won't try to say that I'm perfect or better than anyone, I struggle with sins all the time, but I do my best to overcome them and put my mistakes behind me.

Anyway I could go on for hours describing everything, but I think that's enough for now.