On the morning of Oct 8, 2018, I had three dreams. The first was seemingly set in Texas (where my wife Carrie and I currently live), and had to do with Carrie and I overcoming fear. The second dream involved a rather large unusual flood in Virginia, an area that I specifically frequented for much of my young and early adult life up until 2005. There was a very brief element of fear during that dream, but it disappeared behind me in the flood, and as I climbed out of the murcky flood waters which covered a road at the top of a hill, I overheard a black man sharing with his two young daughters how, when things got more difficult in the times ahead, they could only trust members of their own race (total lie of the enemy there, but sadly many people feel this way). In the third dream, it was set in a large black tent, like one that might be used for a wedding reception or a outdoor revival, and there were several people gathered around a black table for some type of interview, but the only evidence of any type of recording going on was a small microphone placed between the two parts of the interviewer's lapel of his nice suit jacket. Also sitting around the interview table, was a man named Mike, and his wife, whose name I did not know in the dream, and my wife Carrie was there as well. Without getting into all the details of the dream, the basic theme of what transpired at the interview table, was a unity between Carrie and myself, and the others as I prayed and prophecied over Mike's wife along the theme of, " The phrase, 'I can't ', should not be in our vocabulary, because, 'we can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens us'". I actually woke up still prophecying over Mike's wife for about 15 to 30 seconds before I stopped.

After waking up and beginning to wonder who this woman was, I realized her facial features reminded me of another friend of mine in Virginia, whose husband's name is not actually Mike, but Peter. It occured to me that God often changes people's names, and though Peter means "stone", and God used Peter's new name to speak about the reality that upon the revelation that Peter was given, that Jesus was the Christ, the son of the living God, and upon that ROCK of truth Peter had come to understand from God Himself, the Church would be built and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Mike (short for Michael), actually means, "Who is like God".

According to Genesis, God created man in His image, and in the New Testament, we are told that we are in the process of being conformed into the image of Jesus, and that the works that He did we would do, and even greater works because He was going to the Father.

Though I do not recall when during the night or the morning I received the next word, I heard the words, "Isaiah 54", and when I looked it up, given the last dream about the interview under the black TENT, I was especially drawn to verse 2, but I have posted the entire chapter below for context.

1 “Sing, O barren, ​​You who have not borne! ​​Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, ​​You who have not labored with child! ​​For more are the children of the desolate ​​Than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. 2 ​​“Enlarge the place of your TENT, ​​And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; ​​Do not spare; ​​Lengthen your cords, ​​And strengthen your stakes. 3 ​​For you shall expand to the right and to the left, ​​And your descendants will inherit the nations, ​​And make the desolate cities inhabited. ​4 ​​“Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; ​​Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; ​​For you will forget the shame of your youth, ​​And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore. 5 ​​For your Maker is your husband, ​​The LORD of hosts is His name; ​​And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; ​​He is called the God of the whole earth. 6 ​​For the LORD has called you ​​Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, ​​Like a youthful wife when you were refused,” ​​Says your God. 7 ​​“For a mere moment I have forsaken you, ​​But with great mercies I will gather you. 8 ​​With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; ​​But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,” ​​Says the LORD, your Redeemer. ​9 ​​“For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; ​​For as I have sworn ​​That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, ​​So have I sworn ​​That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10 ​​For the mountains shall depart ​​And the hills be removed, ​​But My kindness shall not depart from you, ​​Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” ​​Says the LORD, who has mercy on you. ​11 ​​“O you afflicted one, ​​Tossed with tempest, and not comforted, ​​Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, ​​And lay your foundations with sapphires. 12 ​​I will make your pinnacles of rubies, ​​Your gates of crystal, ​​And all your walls of precious stones. 13 ​​All your children shall be taught by the LORD, ​​And great shall be the peace of your children. 14 ​​In righteousness you shall be established; ​​You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; ​​And from terror, for it shall not come near you. 15 ​​Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. ​​Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. ​ 16 ​​“Behold, I have created the blacksmith ​​Who blows the coals in the fire, ​​Who brings forth an instrument for his work; ​​And I have created the spoiler to destroy. 17 ​​No weapon formed against you shall prosper, ​​And every tongue which rises against you in judgment ​​You shall condemn. ​​This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, ​​And their righteousness is from Me,” ​​Says the LORD.

As a final thought, I found it very interesting that with the two connections to Virginia in the second and third dreams, that it just happened to be today, that facebook told me that 1 year ago, I befriended Arod Worc, who is a member of my High School (Washington-Lee), which is located in Arlington, Virgina, and when I searched for images for black tents that would be similar to the one in my dream, when I checked the web site on which this picture appeared, it turned out that the address of the company that rents this particular tent, just happens to be on ARLINGTON Avenue (though in another state). Blessings in our Wonderfully Beautiful and all Powerful and Merciful Messiah Yeshua (Jesus)!!!!