Dream on: a People of Prayer by Adri Roos

Published: November 19th, 2007

This past week, God has been speaking to a number of key 24-7 activists through dreams. The Bible tells us to expect the Lord to speak supernaturally in this way, and there is one particular dream we want to share because it is both an encouragement and a warning to this community.This dream was given to Tim Hewitt, a dear friend, and echoes remarkably the word the Lord spoke to us at our recent ‘Feast’ in Seville - even though Tim had not been there to hear that message.

"My wife Anna and I went to Ibiza last week, to go back and see everyone. It was also a kind of pilgrimage to seek God about moving to be part of the 24-7 community on the island. On Friday morning I woke up after having a dream. This is really unusual for me. Through the dream God seemed to be speaking about the urgent need to strengthen values and distinctives. He is calling us [24-7 Prayer] back to the core of who we are."

At the recent 24-7 Feast in Spain God challenged the 24-7 Prayer community to live up to our name as a people of prayer.  The message to stay true to our original call and to keep intimacy with Jesus at the foundation of all the fruit and good works inspired by prayer was received with passion.  However Tim’s dream goes beyond simply confirming that word to bring a sober warning: 

"I also felt like God was warning us that this could be a year of disease. Sounds quite dramatic, I know, but I didn’t feel in any way that it was physical or for anyone specific. It was warning about not letting ‘disease’ creep into and through who we are (from within or from outside), and what we’re about. By coming back to prayer we will be vaccinated. I felt that the ‘disease’ wouldn’t be a passive thing but that there maybe people attacking us, some of  those wont even know that they are doing so. I woke up with a real sense of urgency about this all, it felt quite important."

God’s word is not designed to sow fear but faith. He’s calling us to love him more, to feast in His presence so that all our mission, creativity and communities are an overflow of intimacy with Him.  The only we as a family and movement can make sure that what we are spreading is the good news of Jesus, nothing else, is to take the words of our Savior seriously in our own walk of prayer in the prayer life of the Church:

"Remain in me and I will remain in you." John 15:4

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Adri Roos originally hails from Paarl, South Africa, spent a few years serving 24-7 Prayer in the UK and now lives in and loves the walled red light district of BoysTown, Mexico.  Adri loves friends, food, live music and writing. Having travelled widely, she often finds herself at home in the forgotten places.

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