bridal dress

[jackiebauerle]

I had this dream..help
It starts with me in a Hugh 1 level house that extends out in many directions. A beautiful home…some rooms may have been in construction or being added on. I am walking through each room looking each room over and observing the people as I go through. Some I knew as family & friends and the others I didn’t recognize them but felt they were distant friends. In each room, someone I knew tried to convince me not to be so hard in my judgment on the local church because the good intentions. I listened to each argument but I came to the same conclusion each time. The conclusion was NOT to marry them. I just could not compromise certain standards. My kids were the first to question me, one by one. Then my husband almost begged me to keep them (the church) happy. Each time when they finished, I almost reconsidered…it was hard because I wanted to please everyone, but something inside would not let me do…I felt it was better for my family not to…I would repeat my reasons for the discision and each person would say was like Ok with what I decided…they just felt they needed to try one more time. When I reach the last room, I saw my dad, brother and other family members. There was one person I did not recognize or feel comfortable with. After my husband spoke with me, he came from the background looking on to being right behind when I turned to move. I almost ran into him. He spoke saying, “ You need to marry us, we need you, hurry before it is to late” I replied that I have spoked with everyone and explained my reasons and declined his offer. I tried to move on but he block and followed me to repeat the questions again. My reply was the same each time. The only difference was my answer was weakening each time…I felt like a trader to the people for saying no. The relentless requests to me caused me to scan the room of people again. I finally said ok, out of a I give up spirit. I said I will marry you.
He said hurry, we have to hurry. I followed him to the church. I walked up the front steps and followed him inside. To the left in the foliar was a small room. We went in this room and he shut the door. It was a dressing room attached to the church…but yet somehow a separate building then the church. It had a window and a door on the wall across the room to the right. The door opened to the church’s sanctuary. The window showed the out door strip between the dressing room and the church building. I could see some sunlight but the view was mostly the siding of the church building.
My Guide kept telling me to hurry…get dress…we need to get married…not much time. I asked him where is the bridal dress. He points to a small yellow Tupperware container in the right corner. I was thinking, “you got to be kidding me…that is not the proper way to store a bride dress”. I took off the lid and I could not see in the tub…it was deep inside only. Trusting…I reach down deep and pulled out of the darkness a bride dress. It was dingy and spoted and wrinkled. I shook the dress hard and some wrinkles came out but it was still bad. I began to complain about wearing a dress in this condition…I said maybe if we iron it a little it would be ok…He replied…”we don’t have time…hurry we must hurry”.
Feeling the pressure, I held the dress up to myself and tried to press it out with my hand. It helped but it still looked so bad. I held it up to the light and saw these large dingy yellow spots from storage. I just had to complain again…I said that I always wanted to get married to the church but in clean , iron, white dress…surely he could understand what I am saying…What bride wouldn’t want that? He replied again…”Hurry, we don’t have time. That is all we have..don’t you want to marry us?” It was as if I was rejecting him and the church and I was a bad judgmental person. I apologize for my repeated complaining, but it means a lot to me to be married in a descent dress and I wanted him to understand that this was not my normal nature to complain so much. It felt foreign to do it..I usually want peace and I usually give up on my desire to aid others..but I just can’t seem to get pass the condition of the dress. It was always my dream to experience the symbolism of the marriage and to do it the right way (after all..you only get married once). His persistence rushing (hurry, we don’t have time , we got to get married) got me to say to myself..ok, I will do it for them (church). Sadly and feeling defeated and a looser, I was about to put the dress on and…my mouth stopped me again…only this time it was followed by a large bomb sound.
The room shook violently. And I saw an invisible shield surrounding the inside walls of the dressing room from the blast but I could see the effect of the blast pressing again the force field that protected me. The very foundational floors vibrated and shook under my feet but I stayed standing. After the movement of the shock wave had stopped, I looked out the window in the dressing room and the church building was gone. Not even a trace of it was left. No scraps…there was even fresh green grass was planted in its place. Confused…I turn to talk to my guy..and he was not there no more…he disappeared with the church.

I stood there holding the dress thinking about what just happened. I started to rewind all the events and the understanding came for me after I asked God to explain this dream that I was currently dreaming… God’s voice spoke to me from above me to my heart through impression words and knowledge (I just knew that I knew what he was saying). He gave me impression of scriptures and the references such as the one that says God is coming back for a bride without a spot and wrinkle. This church’s dress had spots and wrinkles and it represented the condition of the church heart. That is why I had trouble wearing or getting married in it. But they just could not see the compromise in their standards. Then the thought of… If I would not have complained and I would have put the dress on and I would have entered into the sanctuary of the church… And My family and friends and I would be dead right now. He gave me a teaching lesson of many more scripture that applied to the dream with the revelation that I was having this dream right at time…and what it was meaning…It was awesome revelation at the time, but I can only remember what I told you here. I was shocked at the revelations and how they all fit together and would play out. Then the dream ended.

[prayingwoman]

Thank you so much for sharing! What an awesome dream! I just feel that this is a dream exactly for a time like this. I believe the dream contains a very important message for the body of Christ. It’s a dream for everyone who “hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches”.

I would like to quote some scriptures that came in my mind:

(Eph. 5:25-27) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

(Luke 14:26-27) If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

(Rev. 3:14-22) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

(James 4:4) Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

The Lord is calling His church to holiness – back to obedience to His Word. Many churches will fall (God himself will judge them) because they’ve made compromises. Compromises will lead us eventually to death. The Lord will not tolerate sin within His church. Jesus is our bridegroom and He is holy. His bride has to be holy too. Every bridegroom who will accept a bride with spots and wrinkles (a compromising church which tolerates sin in order to please people) is a false bridegroom and will lead us into a false ungodly marriage. I think the false bridegroom in the dream represents the “voice of compromise”.

This is my experience: If you will begin to point at sin (or just stop to tolerate it) many will turn against you, sometimes even good friends or even your own family. For example: You might have realized that one of your worship leaders is still addicted to smoking. You think it would be right to confront him and to invite him to deliverance but your friends are saying: “Don’t do that, you could hurt his feelings, you need to have more love for him”, or maybe “He can reach other smoking people for Jesus who could not be reached by a non-smoking man, God can use even that” and so on. What will happen if he is not confronted with the truth? He will still be bound by this addiction and other young Christians might think that it is o. k. to smoke and they will be mislead.

Another example of compromise: In my former church my pastor didn’t allow a deliverance minister to cast out demons in our church building because he has a great fear to be called an exorcist by the worldly press. In order of this decision many people of this church who might have needed deliverance are still bound instead of set free.

I think there is much more God wants to say through this dream. I pray that God will open up our spiritual ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

Thanks again for sharing. Be encouraged not having to please everyone but to stand on God’s word without compromise.