Her dream began with me and several others she recognized coming out of meeting in which we had been discussing the finances of IHOP-NW and our possible move into a larger facility. I was standing outside the door talking to her about our financial concerns when I begin to smile. In her dream she could see that my teeth and roots were rotten and this was because of my constant worry and anxiety about finances. But the good news was that I had a retainer in my mouth and we knew that meant that the Lord was correcting this. The Lord showed her and Gary that this was causing me not to be able to chew and digest the Word of God properly.

After she shared the dream I confessed that I recently had not been able to focus in the Bible and even when I read something I did not retain it for long and this really was grieving me. Also, for some time I had not had any dreams that were significant. Having this dream shared with me was embarrassing and I told no one, but the dream was so convicting that I was really humbled. I immediately went into repentance asking the Lord to forgive me. I confessed my fear and worry and asked God to release peace, which He did.

A couple of days later, I clearly heard the Lord say to me “Isaiah 57,” and I sensed that there was a connection to this dream. As I read Isaiah 57:3-13 I had revelation that the Lord was speaking to all of us about setting aside our idols. “When you cry out for help let your collection of idols, save you! The wind will carry all of them off; a mere breath will blow them away.” As I reflected on the idols the Lord brought to my mind how I had been fearful about money and that’s where I had put my trust. He started bringing to mind how I was worrying about the finances of our country and what the future was going to bring. He showed me how people were beginning to be my resource and not Him. I knew that this was the reason I was not getting the revelation and breakthrough that I had been crying out for and so I asked for forgiveness. All this happened during our recent forty day fast which was about to end.

That night I had a powerful dream. I was standing near the edge of a shallow bay and I was looking into the water. The water was beautiful and I could see to the bottom. I knew that if I drank the water it would be pure and fill me with great health. I turned to my right to see a man on all fours lifting his leg side ways in the air to exercise. Floating over him on all fours was a trainer with very large muscles. As the man lifted his leg, the trainer was lifting His directly above the man’s as if to be supernaturally causing him to build his muscles. All of a sudden I saw someone throwing big logs into the water and I was alarmed that it would stop the flow of the water and dam it up. But, the trainer – Who I now knew was the Lord – said, “Do not be worried about that person because I will take care of it, you just be concerned about building your muscle.”

I knew the Lord was saying to me and to others to stay in the Word, praying and interceding for our strength to endure what is coming and He will ensure for us that the flow of the Holy Spirit will not be stopped or hampered by the enemy. Then I woke up.

The following night I had another dream. All of the people at IHOP were in a building and we were having lots of fun. I looked outside and I saw a horrible storm like I had never seen in my lifetime. I knew it was a life and death storm and I remembered that my dog Lucy, whom I dearly love, was outside and I had to get her. There was a great body of water like an ocean and not far out I could see a very large ship like a freighter and I knew it was an international ship. Along the bank of the water was a large dock and I noticed that my dog Lucy had just been swept over into the water and was drowning. I quickly grabbed her leash as she went under. I struggled for some time to pull her up and then all of a sudden just her leash and collar appeared. I was terrified and so sad that I went inside crying and screaming for help. And then I woke up.

After praying and speaking to Gary about these dreams we both came to the same interpretation. Lucy represented things that were not eternal and we are not to hope or hang onto them because a great storm which is possibly international is coming. The Lord is saying that we must build our strength and let go of our idols, whether it be Fox News, money, our home, shopping, food, etc. The Lord will show us.

Isaiah 57:13-15 says, “But the man who makes me his refuge will inherit the land and posses my holy mountain. Build up, Build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people. For this is what the high and lofty One says he who lives forever, whose name is holy: I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Shortly after the revelation on this word, Gary and I were watching the DVD The Finger of God. Bill Johnson was speaking about the Lord multiplying the food for thousands twice and then shortly afterwards His disciples were in the boat complaining that they had no food. Jesus says in Mark 8:17 “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

Bill Johnson said we do not have “Kingdom reasoning” because we cannot see things by spiritual discernment because of our idols that we do not even know exist and inhibit our reasoning. This should really concern us because I believe the Lord revealed to me a storm is coming and we cannot be passive or asleep. But the good news is, remember in my dream those that were in prayer and worshipping together were not harmed by the storm and in fact did not seem that concerned about what was going on outside.

After a couple of weeks I finally had the courage to tell the whole story on a Friday evening at IHOP-NW Encountering God Service. I realized as I told the story how the Lord had healed and humbled me because it felt good to real this to others and to help them. The following Monday I received a call from Pastor Troy Green from Elma, WA. This was significant because he was part one of two things that the Lord had done to multiple money for us as we begun IHOP-NW and had almost no money. Well over a year ago when we needed $17,000 to purchase sound equipment he came to us and said the Lord told him to seed into IHOP and give us the money. His church is very small and in a low income area, this was miraculous.

The reason he called last Monday was to tell me about his major encounter with God as he stepped up to the pulpit to preach Sunday on the First Commandment. As he was about to speak the Lord said, “Troy your assignment is building a 24/7 prayer movement, but your passion and calling is to love Me. As he began to preach this the whole church broke down in repentance and weeping and they did not leave the church until 2:00PM.

As he told me the story I began to see the connection of my dreams, the leaders dream, Isaiah 57, Mark 8. The Lord is saying “Love me, just have a passion for me and I will add all the rest. I will take care of the logs the enemy is throwing at you.”

The stock market is up, homes are selling and people are beginning to shop again but do not be fooled by all of this. Do not be afraid either but instead do as I did. Get on your knees and pray for forgiveness and ask the Lord for revelation on what is coming and how to prepare the way. Ask the Lord for dreams and visions, but most of all begin to tell the Lord how much He means to you and how much you love Him. Tell him you cannot live without Him and nothing means anything without revelation and muscle building from Him. Let Him be in control of everything in your life. It is much more exciting and rewarding.

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I began to cry out to the Lord for myself, my family and the House of Prayer for renewal to come. Over the next few weeks I felt different inside. I was walking toward some glass doors enclosed in large plate glass windows on my way into work one day. I saw my reflection in the window and although I didn’t look any different than I have in a while… I heard a voice say in my head, “You look really good!”.  I was shocked! I kept thinking to myself that I had never heard that voice before and it made me actually chuckle out loud.

That night I went to the prayer room and after my set was over I told my team and it was solidified by my confession… I am okay with who and how you made me Lord!!! Wow!

That same night I found a small jewel on the platform during worship which I felt like it was the Lord just saying… I am His jewel, small, sparkly and clear.

Four days later on Friday night during the EGS I was sitting with some little girls who belong to a friend. My neck, which has 3 fused vertebrae was hurting profusely at the time when I heard Gary say that one of the young prophetic men in the hop had brought him a word that the Lord wanted to heal people who’s bodies were being held together by plates and screws. Would we stand for prayer? I stood, all the while thinking about how many times I had asked for prayer in the past and how nothing had ever happened. I had no faith! Some sisters from the prayer room came around me and prayed. Gary asked for people to see if they had more flexibility than before. I just still had pain and nothing had changed.  They prayed again and I felt my neck become very hot… sweat broke out and I asked one of the girls to touch my neck and feel the heat. She did and can testify that my neck had intense heat in it. Then, almost immediately the pain left and has been gone ever since.

I personally believed that the Lord wanted me to sense His emotions for me and how much He loved me… then the healing came.

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I could not even get through a deep breath without coughing and choking before arriving to the prayer room on Monday night.  That night while Kaye and Jeff prayed for me, I said ‘God I know I have an inheritance in this outpouring and I am back and I want it.  I want to be healed of my food allergies.’  God said to me, ‘tonight your inheritance is my presence as oxygen.’  I started laughing and breathing really deep breaths.  It felt so good to breathe deep after weeks of not being able to.  I am still a little congested but I have had no problems breathing since and have not used the inhaler again.

I love how Shelly said your job as the patient is to be still and let the Healer touch the areas he wants to touch.  Jesus, continue to massage the heart of your bride!  We want everything you have for us!

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After this prayer time another woman called me over to pray for me.  She said some very specific words from the Lord that hit me right in my spirit.  Then I sat down and after about 10 minutes I suddenly realized that my knee was not hurting and was not stiff!  I felt God tell me that I was healed but I didn’t believe it.  Later, I went back up with the worship team to sing and decided to test if I could kneel.  There I was, on the stage, kneeling then standing up, over and over!!  God has totally healed my knee and my depression!  During the winter I use a full spectrum light therapy lamp to ward off the seasonal depression.  I have not used it once since this night!  And God is doing a good work in other areas such as forgiveness and acceptance.  God is so good!

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As Holy Spirit was erupting Tuesday night, we went into a time of healing prayer and I raised my hand. As people were praying for me, the Lord dropped on me and I went down. Shaking on the ground I started to cry out and for first time had a new powerful revelation that I am God’s beloved that He longs to show affection towards. His voice came in my mind “Stop, stop.” So I stopped and stood up. Then an impression came on me to stretch down to my feet. “Oh God” kept coming out of my mouth as I found myself fully touching my toes! (a friend caught the moment on his cell phone) I am ecstatic, this is a true answer to prayer. I cannot stop stretching down and praising God!

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IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I am healed!!

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My name is Lucas. I sent in a prayer email several days back.

I went to a meeting at IHOP NW last night due to an amazing friend forcing me to go. For most of my teenage life, I suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, ADD, self hate, suicidal thoughts. I even tried killing myself about a year ago. I never felt loved by people or God, or felt joy in my entire teenage life.

Before things began last night, a lady came up to me and told me “God has a message for me to give you. He will take all the pain and sorrow you’ve had in your life and replace it with joy.”

When the night started my friends laid their hands on me and prayed for me. It turned into a group of about seven people or more, praying for me.

God tore my heart and took out all the crud. He filled it with so much joy and healed my heart last night. I started laughing. I laughed hard, nonstop, for four and a half hours, until I finally fell asleep laughing. God gave me so much peace and healed me yesterday. I woke up laughing five or six times throughout the night. I woke up this morning at 6am. I heard God’s voice with my own two ears. He said. “Do you know me, Lucas?”

For the first time ever, I felt God’s love. I feel joy so much right now it makes me cry from happiness. God is amazing! All the prayers have been answered. I feel peace in my heart and mind. Thank you Jesus!

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Listen to “The Wisdom of Extravagant Devotion” from Gary Wiens.

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Listen to Session 8, “The Sermon on the Mount – Becoming Peacemakers,” in Gary’s series on the Sermon on the Mount entitled “Grace-Empowered Living.”

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Listen to Gary’s message on “Leadership for a Transitional Generation” as he lays the groundwork for the growing community around IHOP-NW.

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Listen to Session 4, “The Sermon on the Mount – The Power of Meekness,” in Gary’s series on the Sermon on the Mount entitled “Grace-Empowered Living.”

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Listen to Session 3, “The Sermon on the Mount – Mourning and Comfort: The Spirit’s Groan for Life,” in Gary’s series on the Sermon on the Mount entitled “Grace-Empowered Living.”

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Listen to Session Twelve of Gary’s series on the Book of Revelation, “Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem”.

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