DREAMS

However vast the ocean and however small the aircraft, the unchanging factor was the
"everlasting arms." Neither was I in control of the plane, nor could I have any authority over the
sea, but I realized I was in safe hands. The hands that bled for me.
Unchanging promise....Unchanging love......Unchanging Savior....Praise the Lord.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and
ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17)
34. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
Several years back, we happened to be ministering in an area where most of the local people
were idol worshippers. The spiritual warfare was intense and we often despaired at the tactics
of the evil forces in thwarting the Gospel work that we were doing there.
During such a time, one night the Lord showed me a dream. In the dream, a wolf was following
a lamb at a very close distance, trying to frighten it. The lamb would run away from it, but the
wolf followed it stealthily and suddenly appeared in front of the lamb and frightened it again.
This went on for quite some time and then in the dream, I saw myself picking a stick and hitting
the wolf on it's head. This wounded the wolf and it was enraged and jumped at me to attack.
Surprisingly instead of retaliating, I just meditated on the name "Jesus" and the wolf
disappeared from the scene in a while. I was quite perplexed on waking up the next morning,
thinking about the dream. What could it possibly mean? I thought of telling my wife about the
dream as she brought in the morning coffee, but before I spoke she said, "I have been feeling
quite afraid these days, especially at night times. Whenever it is dark, I feel I am being watched
by someone; it's an old woman like figure with long white hair and shining eyes. It just appears
out of nowhere and then disappears when I start praying, but it keeps troubling me.
Immediately I understood what the Holy Spirit had shown me in the dream. An evil spirit
(shown as a wolf in the dream) was trying to frighten my wife (shown as a lamb in the dream).
Not wasting anytime, I rebuked the evil power (that was troubling my wife) in Jesus' Name.
I knew that the evil spirit would retaliate against me, when I rebuked it because the Lord had
shown that in the dream and it did by afflicting me with a headache for quite some time that
day. But the Lord had already shown me how to gain victory over the evil power in the dream
itself and that is exactly what I did. I meditated on the name of our Lord and Savior "Jesus
Christ" and was delivered soon.
The evil power did not trouble my wife anymore and we praised the Lord for giving us victory.
This episode made me realize that there is great power even in just uttering the name "Jesus".
No wonder, it's the name above all names. Praise the Lord.
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every
name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Philippians 2:9-11)