Newbie wrote:Standing in a very narrow elevator that held about 3 people. I decided to get off because in order to to move you had to put in money and after a few tries of trying to put in bills the machine kept spitting it out. I had a wallet filled with various bills but I was getting looks from two suspicious looking teens that looked like they wanted to rob me. I got off and went on another one. But it seemed like it forever for it to get to my floor. The elevator was doing the same until I put in a 50 dollar bill and it gave me all this coin money back for change. I recalled I escorting a "special" or mentally challenge boy upstairs. EOD
Hi Newbie,
I know you have gotten responses which witness to you but I thought I would also share my "thoughts" concerning your dream.
I wonder since you have been contemplating and seeking guidance from the Lord about getting your masters, the dream may be about this also.
You said in another post that you were praying about working with youth or adults... I was going to suggest to you to maybe volunteer some time to work with special needs children and others also in order to truly know in your spirit the directing of the Lord in this area. My daughter who was also considered a masters as you and decided to teach instead, having been educated in counseling also, to work with special needs youth. There are many areas to be able to get actual experience working in these areas, here anyway. Actually working in the area, volunteering and working for very little, helped her and might help you get a sense of working in the area and around different environments.
Perhaps the dream might be saying to trust the Holy Spirit to move and direct you [the elevator] and in doing so, your ability to change things will in also in your hands. In other words, you have the ability to change the lives of those who Christ loves and those who are in needs of people who have a gentle heart of Christ to show mercy and love to those with special needs... thus your excelling after putting in the "50 dollar bill" and then your ability to "escort the boy upstairs" with the ability to move more freely with the Holy Spirit to make a change. Perhaps to trust in the spirit more than with the mind and sight [subjected to judgment through sight - suspicion].
In this dream, it might be that working with teenagers may NOT be your comfort zone... which perhaps you feel in the spirit that you would not excel or excel in the Lord with gifting here. With them you could not "pay your way" up the elevator with them [cost was not effective]. Though the teenagers could represent other things...
An a side note of the difficulties you have been struggling with lately... please know that your value does not come from the worth established by the world, credentials, careers, financial status and/or ability but rather who we are in Him --- being a willing soul to help with the heart of Christ love to the hurting and needy. Being a child of God, desiring His heart and will, in love and charity makes you much more valuable than any esteem could give you in the world. Success here comes more with moving freely with the Holy Spirit, rather than by paying the way to excel. Being in His perfect will, molded by Him.
Please do not misunderstand, though I am not discouraging getting degrees, or being educated but...
God does not just call the qualified; He qualifies the called!!
1 Corinthians 1:26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”
1 Corinthians 2:6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
“ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
May God continue to bless and lead you. I hope this helps...