There’s something I really want from God… I have been praying for it for years now, nonstop, asking him for this one very specific thing. And if that doesn’t prove my remarkable tenacity I don’t know what will.
Anyway, God speaks to me through images a lot if that makes any sense? I see visions in my head of images and my mind seems to fill in the blanks enough to know what he means. And way back at the beginning of when I started asking him for this one thing I remember I was so worried that he would never be able to give me what I was asking him, because it looked hopelessly impossible from where I was sitting… and him showing me an image of my dad holding a Game Boy.
God was telling me that let’s say I was a little girl and I really wanted a Game Boy for Christmas… yes, I know I’m dating myself again. But they were all sold out at all of the stores that my dad went to, and he couldn’t get me one in time for Christmas. And he promised me that he would get me that Game Boy, but I wouldn’t know where or when… I would just have to be patient and wait for my dad to surprise me with the Game Boy. And he asked me, “Would you trust your dad to do that? Or would you keep worrying and pestering him about it?”
I said, “Of course I would trust my dad to get me my Game Boy!” Because I would. And I would just go on with my life while I waited for him to surprise me with it one day.
But I still struggled with trusting God about it. Especially because I recently came really close to getting that Game Boy– I mean with confirmations and signs and wonders and the whole bit… but then God decided to take it away again.
And later on when I sought him about it again, God once again showed me the image of my dad holding out the Game Boy. He was showing me that it still wasn’t quite time for me to have it, and that I still needed to trust him that he would come through for me, just like I would trust my dad.
Well, yesterday while I was taking a little afternoon catnap I had a dream that I was looking into a box, and there was a Game Boy in there. And I heard a voice say, “I got you that Game Boy you wanted!”
Now, I will preface this by saying that I do realize that dreams can reflect what’s going on in your life: things you say, things you do, things you think about. However, for me, in a typical dream, whatever it is doesn’t ever show up directly. Instead it shows up as something distorted. Like, let’s say I talk about going on vacation with someone, and in my dream I will see this tiny paper airplane way off in the horizon being flown by little ant people or something like that.
I will also say that this not typical for me when it comes to images I see from God. I do have prophetic dreams too– not often, maybe a couple of times a year if that– but they are their own separate thing. And God has been showing me images and visions for years while awake and never once has one of them showed up in a dream, especially so directly and clearly like that.
And I can’t help but wonder and hope…