Spiritual Wisdom on Death Dreams,Intuition,Please

[kayte]

I'd been having dreams...this is new series about death. The dreams had images of a coffin being lowered or dirt thrown over ...just about every other night...
I thought /think God is teling me to prepare ... and then I'd get all these devotionals on making the most of time now..and every bliblical verse
on this subject would come up I posted a thread on curses and that I
had a family member warn me I could be soon....a family member who has admitted jealousy....other jealous saying the same thing ..which prompted the thread on curses

A few weeks ago a woman friend sent me an email forward that said untimely death in the subject line. It was about people who openly deny God and what happened to them. I was so upset to see that. I called someone,a dear friend, who has been a rock in my life for years, always he had the right thing to say...
I told him I planned to be 100 and he laughed and was very comforting

and he said..that he at 57 .had learned..that 50 was the new 30....and he had many things he wanted to do...go back to school...I was excited just
to listen to him and was heartened..... he was very soothing ..he said
let her know that these kinds of emails aren't for you

that was my last conversation with him. When I tried to call him the next week at work ..the voice prompt said his calls were being handled by a new person. I assumed he transferred or was on vacation.
Yesterday I tried his cell number that he gave me..it had become disconnected..and yesterday I got really scared...he's not the type that would have a disconnected phone without a forwarding number. I called his work number and everyone was evasive and refused to give me information but they could give a message to his family..and that's when it was becoming clear some thing had happend

I finally googled his name and it came up saying
that he went to join the ancestors...I am distraught...
somebody please tell me what did God mean by this
why did I call my dear friend to tell him about an email untimely death that he brushed off to comfort me and then he did have an umtimely death...
I am so stunned it. I just found out yesterday. I also found out his funeral was held on my birthday...it's hard not to connect dots and as a human ..it's the worst thing to do to try figure out God
but I don't understand......... the kindest man that ever lived
It is such a shock
any insghts ..I loved this man so much...never was there a kinder gentler honest sweet dependable human being ...everyone depended on him...he was like a father to me....the hardest thing is all the coincidences..all of it...it hurts me

 

[GypsyGoddess]

I’ve heard it said many times that when someone is on our mind, we should act on it because it is probably the Holy Spirit telling us to contact that person. The person may be depressed, upset, need to talk to someone, need encouragement, and for whatever reason, you can provide EXACTLY what that person needs at that particular time.

I’ve also heard that when you have a dream that upsets you, THAT IS NOT GOD OR THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! God would never send you something to upset you, usually the enemy does. God is a god of Peace.

As far as that email about death, if I were you, I would delete it. That was probably a trick of the devil. And if your friend continues to send you such morbid email messages, ask her to stop, and if she doesn’t, block her from sending you anymore messages.

Remember, no one is promised tomorrow, which is why we should constantly treat everyone, especially those who are nearest and dearest to us as if it is our last time seeing them because it may very well be.

Be encouraged, kayte, and look at the blessing in this: you did get to speak to your friend before he left this world, and that is a BLESSING!!!! And learn from this lesson: in the future, don’t take your loved ones for granted, tell them you love them every time you talk to them. I learned this lesson after my mom died. Now, EVERY TIME I speak to one of my sisters or brothers, or even my dad, I tell them I love them before hanging up the phone. And guess what? I can hear in their voice that I’ve touched their hearts. And remember, your older family members will have a difficult time saying it back, but KEEP ON DOING IT, because although they cannot articulate it to you, they really do appreciate it and they love you too. Eventually they will start to say it back to you and it will feel comfortable to them to do so.

As far as your dreams about death, talk to God about them. Pray and ask Him to show you what they mean. In time, you may understand this situation much better than you do today. But guess what? Even if you never understand this situation, remember, God is still a good God, He is still in control and everything will still be alright! There are some things we won’t understand until we get to heaven. That’s what that old spiritual meant when it says, "We’ll understand it better by and by."

But in my opinion, I think you were led to call your friend so you could have at least have had peace with knowing that you talked to him before he left. Thank God you don’t have to live with regret and saying, "you know he was on my mind and I meant to call him but I never got around to doing it. . . "

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

Katye

GypsyGoddess's response was SO on point! I am sorry for your loss and I pray that God will provide you with the answers and healing that you need.
Your friends death was untimely but remember your last conversation. Your friend was 57 but he said that 50 was the new 30. He didn't have death on his mind and basically he said that was going to live life to the fullest. Unfortunately death came before he completed his goals but he had the right ATTITUDE about life. He didn't sit around and wait for the end to come but was focusing on living his and enjoying his time here on earth. God provided you one last conversation with him and I think there was a message in it for you (me too!). Take your friends words of wisdom and LIVE also! I too have learned from my mom's death that life is short and everyone in my life is so important. Your friend took the time to listen to you, comfort you and give you words of inspiration. I am sure that you will do the same for a friend in need.

As far as the e-mail goes - ignore it. I hate chain emails that state bad things will happen to me just because I choose not to forward the email. Life is not based on an e-mail and what you choose to do with it! Come on now, rebuke the thoughts that has arose from that situation and move on. As a matter of fact, if you get another e-mail from your woman friend just delete it.

Katye I pray that God will provide peace for your soul. I too have had dreams of death and have even seen myself in a coffin. I was very afraid and asked God to give me insight to my dream. During that time in my life I was going thru alot of changes due to my moms passing and I realized life wasn't the way that I perceived it to be. After awhile God told me that the "old me" had passed away and a "new me" was emerging. All dreams of death aren't exactly what they appear to be. Continue to seek God and he will provide you the answers that you need.

 

[kayte]

hurts so bad.....

But in my opinion, I think you were led to call your friend so you could have at least have had peace with knowing that you talked to him before he left.

thank you...Inever thought of it like and yes I am grateful I got to speak with him

I’ve also heard that when you have a dream that upsets you, THAT IS NOT GOD OR THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! God would never send you something to upset you, usually the enemy does. God is a god of Peace.

Your friends death was untimely but remember your last conversation. Your friend was 57 but he said that 50 was the new 30. He didn't have death on his mind and basically he said that was going to live life to the fullest. Unfortunately death came before he completed his goals but he had the right ATTITUDE about life. He didn't sit around and wait for the end to come but was focusing on living his and enjoying his time here on earth. God provided you one last conversation with him and I think there was a message in it for you (me too!). Take your friends words of wisdom and LIVE also!

During that time in my life I was going thru alot of changes due to my moms passing and I realized life wasn't the way that I perceived it to be. After awhile God told me that the "old me" had passed away and a "new me" was emerging. All dreams of death aren't exactly what they appear to be. Continue to seek God and he will provide you the answers that you need.

Me too My dreams happened a year after my father died...I didn't get to see him before he passed or attend the funeral and on my birthday August 5th I put a prayer under my pillow asking God what needed to die so that Christ could live in me...and my minster wondered if the dreams had to do with not havng had closure ..I am peace with God's plan for me. I dont cling to life just to be alive...I live with an eternal view ..always doing my best to seek the Kingdom of heaven first...for its own Father Christ Spirit beauty and not for what will be added though I do pray for abundance..
my main issue is always been the bolded..to LIVE FULLY and I am grateful for that wisdom from you both

some one wrote this about him

Dear Brother you are the best of us, the strong, gentle warrior. Always steady at the wheel.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope, sometimes we cry with everything but tears. In the end that’s all there is love, and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have to hold on tight until the dawn.

For all who didn’t get a chance to know C.L. known to us as “Brother”, he was the most honorable and sweetest man I know. I can’t think of a time that I’ve seen him disrespectful to anyone arguing with anyone. One night in the Bronx some stick up crew tried us, Brother never raised his voice or even got mad, he just put in work. When he was imprisoned in Turkey, the same the one in the midnight express, after a tremendous effort to get him released when he arrive home he was so calm like nothing at all had happened, calming in spirit and manner.

I thank God’s love for Brother, not to let him suffer. The quickness of his transition, left us reeling, feeling denied a chance to say goodbye, and thank you. But I know in the depth of our hearts we’d preferred that brother not spend one minute in pain.

Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that can not die.
I can feel your peace and I am now calm.
We should feel joy because Brother will be welcomed in Paradise. He’ll be where the best people go after this life.
Close your eyes and open your heart and you’ll feel him…


my dear friend ..everyone loved you

As hurt as I am I could deal with it much better if I get my mind off the fact of that email subject and that he was the one I called the next day and that was last..and even my birthday prayer
with his funeral on my birthday and I did n't even know it
it makes it all harder but your words Natasha and Gypsy Goddess give me a little perspective .... ....the blessed guidance I'd been praying for to make some sense of this.

 

[GypsyGoddess]

hurts so bad.....

Keep praying.

Keep giving it to God.

He will comfort you and He will heal you.

One day you will remember your friend with a smile.

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

it makes it all harder but your words Natasha and Gypsy Goddess give me a little perspective .... ....the blessed guidance I'd been praying for to make some sense of this.

All is well Katye. I know that you are hurting right now and looking for some sense in all of this. As the days go by and your healing begins, God will provide you the answers that you are looking for. Love you :Rose:

 

[kayte]

Thank you all so much...
I KNOW my friend is in a sweeter place and is loved beyond what was given to him on earth and he was greatly loved so the heavenly love of God surpasses all and that gives me comfort and joy and a measure of peace. For as long as God has me here, I will do best to follow my friend's example of giving selflessly quiet profound integrity and humility... even if not perfectly
..as for the rest of it..the "coincidences"... intuitions...I just accept it...without condemning myself for receiving...

Thessalonians
16...Rejoice evermore.
17...Pray without ceasing.
18...In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
19...Quench not the Spirit.
20...Despise not prophesyings.
21...Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22...Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23...And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24...Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.


Dear Father, forgive me for attempting to perfect myself, when You have promised to attend to it. My vain efforts only quench the work of Your Spirit of grace. Lord, please carry out Your transforming work in my service of You—my entire life, in Jesus' name, Amen.


Everything you know about has already happened, so it can be very easy to view life as nothing more than what is receding into the past. Yet life is infinitely more, because life is now.

By all means, hold firmly to the goodness you've already known and carry it forever in your heart. At the same time, open yourself fully to the positive possibilities that are yours right now.

Now is the moment to live. Now is the time for all that can be.
The sun is just now rising on the bright golden possibilities of this day. Life's great and beautiful promise is now.

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

In our way (my family's) we sometimes know when someone's going to cross over. You were being prepped.... you just didn't know who, where, or why. It happens like that sometimes.... I was a child when this first happened. My cousin called and talked to me for hours. I was so happy. (We looked and acted alot alike.... people thought we were brother and sister.) the following week I heard a motorcycle..... it would idle in the same place at 2am for hours on end. It scared me so bad.... At the end of that week, we got the call. He had died in a motorcycle accident at 2 in the morning. This hasn't been the only time that this happened. I've had this happen five times... once being my older sister that I lost in November of '07.

It hurts. It'll keep you up at night. It'll worry you. But when you get close to God you don't need to fear anything or anyone. Now I won't say that God won't show you scary stuff.... because he's shown me some things I'd sooner forget. I was always told that the Universe/God will speak to you in a manner that you understand.... and you did. You knew something was going on, you just didn't know exactly what.

We are humans. Biodegradable fleshy machines with souls. We have a higher being and level of understanding (even though we don't always tap into it.)

Sometimes it's as simple as a change of perspective. Think about it.

How cool is it that his spirit wanted to connect to you before he went to be with God?

It's going to be ok. Much love.

 

[HeChangedMyName]

I am so sorry for your loss. It is amazing how God can show us something but not until we look back in hingsight can we really understand fully what he was showing us. I will be praying for you. This may be a gift that you have to pray to God about and ask him to help you to better understand it and to find out if there is anything that he wants you to "do" with it. It may be that you were being prepared(although, I don't honestly think there is any sufficient preperation for an untimely loss of a loved one).

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

Wonderful words of wisdom!!!

In our way (my family's) we sometimes know when someone's going to cross over. You were being prepped.... you just didn't know who, where, or why. It happens like that sometimes.... I was a child when this first happened. My cousin called and talked to me for hours. I was so happy. (We looked and acted alot alike.... people thought we were brother and sister.) the following week I heard a motorcycle..... it would idle in the same place at 2am for hours on end. It scared me so bad.... At the end of that week, we got the call. He had died in a motorcycle accident at 2 in the morning. This hasn't been the only time that this happened. I've had this happen five times... once being my older sister that I lost in November of '07.

It hurts. It'll keep you up at night. It'll worry you. But when you get close to God you don't need to fear anything or anyone. Now I won't say that God won't show you scary stuff.... because he's shown me some things I'd sooner forget. I was always told that the Universe/God will speak to you in a manner that you understand.... and you did. You knew something was going on, you just didn't know exactly what.

We are humans. Biodegradable fleshy machines with souls. We have a higher being and level of understanding (even though we don't always tap into it.)

Sometimes it's as simple as a change of perspective. Think about it.

How cool is it that his spirit wanted to connect to you before he went to be with God?

It's going to be ok. Much love.

 

[kayte]

In our way (my family's) we sometimes know when someone's going to cross over. You were being prepped.... you just didn't know who, where, or why. It happens like that sometimes.... I was a child when this first happened.

[quote]It hurts. It'll keep you up at night. It'll worry you. But when you get close to God you don't need to fear anything or anyone. Now I won't say that God won't show you scary stuff.... because he's shown me some things I'd sooner forget. I was always told that the Universe/God will speak to you in a manner that you understand.... and you did. You knew something was going on, you just didn't know exactly what.

me,too. but this is .....this is unbelievable pain..irreparable loss.
I called this person every other week on ANY issue..and even now
I think o... I..should check in with....and start to pick up the phone

I was on the phone with someone till 3am trying to reason it out ...and he said God is trying to get your attention in a BIG way..
I wanted to reject that premise...is that what this person's life is worth comes down to........to jolt those of us...who loved him in to some abstract wider conciousness...

I more accept your offerring...that I was being prepped and you are absolutely right... God does show me things that humanly I do not feel ready for...and scares me though Iknow HIS love is perfect

I went out for dinner Sunday with someone..actually the same man who held my hand on the phone for hours while I wept and asked questions that had no answers..

we were waiting for our outdoor table along w/huge crowds of people and he secured two chairs and placed them on patio waiting area and as I sat there was a single eyeglasses handle right at my foot. It just so happens my eyeglasses are missing one handle, and out of curiosity I picked it up.It was the handle for the left side ..the same side I have that's missing. My date went further trying to fit it in and I said that's not important. I feel like with all that's happened God is telling me the vision is yet for an appointed time..it coming closer..to completion
though I feel like fainting
My birthday meditation from Joyce Meyers was about vision and quoted Habakkuk..write the vison and Proverbs without vision the people perish and my dear friend's funeral was on my birthday and he was very involved in my vision.planning strategizing...

without my dear friend ..he was the ...steady rock that said keep going
my life is never going to be the same
I SO WANT TO GIVE UP.... I don't own my strength,today but I can hold still for God's strength...

Bless you all for being here...bless you all for wise counsel out of a heartbreaking and frightening situation
Beloved I am so so very sorry about your loss....your cousin and sister....bless you for reaching out and to share something so personal
I know God is in this .....


Jeremiah 33
1Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
2Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; 3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.


Habakkuk 2
1I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Galatians 6:9
Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest-if we do not give up.


1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear

 

[**Tasha*Love**]

Also Kayte remember:

Passage 2 Corinthians 12:9:

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 

[kayte]

Also Kayte remember:

Passage 2 Corinthians 12:9:

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me

Natasha...Below is what I posted BEFORE I read your post in this thread
even though you posted earlier...I am just now reading it maybe a few minutes beofre so I could copy ..and paste

Grateful for the Lord's strength when I falter I can rely on Him


2 Cor 12:9 says, “My grace is sufficient for you, my strength is made perfect in your weakness.”

The Lord is really speaking to us
Praise praise His Holy name