I had a dream last night…I was invited to a small church. I was not planning to speak, I was simply attending. I had to be properly dressed with a white shirt buttoned up to my neck like all the others. I remember feeling uncomfortable. The pastor and his son came in. The son was helping his dad. I knew them both. I thought to myself why his son is up there, knowing the lifestyle he has; one that does not honor God at all. The pastor got up to speak and he was clearly unprepared.
The pastor had a new book with him that he was going to find sermons in. The pastor asked an older man, that I also knew, but who was not dressed in a white shirt, but who had experience with God, to help him find a sermon in this book. I thought that was strange. While they looked through this book, the pastor asked me to speak as he was not prepared.
Before I spoke, I looked around to see that there weren’t very many people in the audience. As I began to speak, a television off to the side went on. It was loud as people were working on it. I found it hard to speak over that noise. And then I heard women screaming in the kitchen as they were preparing a meal. A mouse had run through the kitchen. They began to talk loudly with each other about the things that happen to them in the kitchen.
A fireplace was there to keep the whole place warm, and a man that was responsible to keep the place warm walked through the auditorium while I was trying to speak, shouting that he would take care of keeping the place warm, as people were concerned about it.
I believed that what I had to say to this congregation was from the Lord, but as so many distractions were happening – I was very frustrated. I woke up feeling frustrated.
As I thought about this dream, and how real and strange it was, the Lord said to me softly: “This is what I see with My church today.”
