Satan Uses Dreams Often

This morning I had a dear lady contact me, she knows who she is, worried about a dream she had.

Here's what I told her! I hope she and others are comforted by these comments, for sure anyone can go and pray about it.

My response: I hope it comforts others:

"It was only a dream it meant nothing. It might have been the devil trying make you insecure, or it could have come from your own doubts or insecurities. Dreams do very weird things. Unless you heard God say; "thus saith the Lord", I would not place any stock in a dream."

"I have had dreams that were so strange they were absolutely ridiculous. They never came to anything, there were not hidden lessons or messages, just weird. I wouldn't worry about it . Don't let that silly dream bother you. By the way, when God speaks He is not cryptic like that, He just comes right out and tells you.,"

I will add to these words just as a reminder, Satan is working overtime these days to cause doubt in the minds of believers. When I was a new believer in my 20's I was tormented from time to time that "I was not good enough."

There were those who believed one can lose their salvation that led me to believe I had to do certain things or I was not saved. Mostly it had to do with human rules not God's principles. These people left fear in my heart that I just didn't measure up.

Because of these fears I went to pray to ask God if I was born again and if I did measure up. Can you guess what His answer was?

God said deeply in my heart, "no you do not measure up, but my salvation is not based on how well you do or how good you look on the outside, its based on my Son Jesus Christ having paid the debt for you." That's what He said to me, then is when I realized that I had a heart to know truth and that Christ saved me with the desire to change me into His likeness. He promised that, He has done that and because of it I have grown ever since.

Philippians 3:12-21
"12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
16 however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
17 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,
19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself."

The work in us is all Christ!!! Any effort on our part is fleshly, but when God changes us and grows us, it is all His work. Stop working so hard to be good and pray for Christ to change you His way.

Ephesians 2:9-10 "…9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life."

Got that; HIS WORKMANSHIP

When He is working in us we will hate all sin and love all righteousness.