Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Gazelles

Yesterday I woke up with a very strong and powerful headache. I have had the headaches before and they have left me paralyzed in the bed. After an hour or so of trying to function my heart started to stir and I began to weep and shiver. I knew and understood that I needed to pray. A part of me wasn't sure that I was up to it because of the intensity of my prayer times. It is not uncommon for me to come away from my prayer time feeling drained. I know that must sound unsettling but when the prayer involves intense grieving, crying, and aching - they can be overwhelming.

On this particular morning my head hurt with a pain that was almost unbearable. I started to weep and quickly ran to my room to fall before the Lord. I cried, groaned, and ached before the Lord. Suddenly the Holy Spirit took over and there I was praying in an unknown language. I understood that I was calling on the Lord to come and help me - help my head. The Holy Spirit was praying for me! For my headache!

Then a picture began to unfold. This is what I saw:

I saw myself kneeling before Jesus. I was on the ground and Jesus sat on a throne. The area was dark except for a fire to the right of us. I cried with great intensity. My head and forehead was bent over toward the Lord's hands. As I cried and prayed I could feel the pain and throbbing of my headache.

I saw Jesus take his hands and place them on my forehead. He took his thumbs and placed them  at the top of my forehead in the center right at the base of my hairline. He then pressed his thumbs firmly into my forehead and rubbed them down toward my nose - as if to massage my head. In an instant he took his right hand and thrust it out to the side toward the darkness and I could see a demon falling back into the darkness.

He again placed his thumbs on my head and began to press firmly into my skin making an outline of a cross on my forehead. Down and to the side he went with his fingers. Again - one more time he took his right hand and thrust it out into the air. I saw another demon fall back into the darkness. That was the last demon -

Jesus kept rubbing my forehead in the shape of a cross. I could feel the intensity of the headache leaving. The pain began to ease until almost nothing. I continued to pray in my prayer language - thanking God for delivering me and rescuing me from such pain. I saw myself still on the ground at his feet, the fire to the side, and then two gazelles began to run and bounce around me. They had long thin horns. They bounced back and forth - like a dance. I didn't understand the meaning of the gazelles. After a while the prayer was finished and my tears stopped. The pain in my head was relieved. I stood up from my prayer time and was able to function the rest of the day. There was great relief. Thank you God!


I shared with my husband about the vision and asked him about the gazelles. He suggested that I look in the Bible to see what it has to say about gazelles. I came across this scripture.

"Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net." Proverbs 6:5


I understood then that that day my head hurt because of an attack from the enemy. The Lord rescued me from the enemy as I began to intercede for myself. Like a gazelle I had escaped the enemy's grasp - thanks to the Lord God Almighty - our Deliverer and Conquering King!

Unlikely Divorce

A few weeks back I dreamt that a couple would be getting a divorce. I understood in the dream that the couple divorcing would be a couple that no one expected to divorce. I woke up and shared with my husband that someone would be divorcing - someone whom we may not expect to divorce. I didn't know who and I wasn't told who. I was just told that they would be getting a divorce and it would be an unlikely couple to divorce.

My heart ached at the thought. I have been praying for them.

Update{ Today there was an announcement that Al Gore and his wife were getting divorced. I am not sure they were the ones but it does sound strange. I also came to know that someone that I knew was getting a divorce - but that couple didn't surprise me. I'm still praying.