3 Mysterious Ways That God Might Be Speaking to You by Teresa Ward - Identity Network

3 Mysterious Ways That God Might Be Speaking to You by Teresa Ward

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You may ask why God would use symbols and figures of speech to communicate with us. Why wouldn't He just speak plainly?

The answer is not entirely simple, but basically God uses things you understand to explain things you don't understand. He uses the physical realm to explain the supernatural spiritual realm.

To think that God does not continue to speak symbolically or metaphorically through dreams is to deny His nature throughout Scripture - from Genesis to Revelation. God uses symbols to reveal attributes and to cause you to apply your heart to understand. Did you know there are over 8,200 figures of speech used in Scripture? That is totally amazing to me! If we know that the Word of God is inspired by the Holy Spirit, then whenever symbolic speech is used in Scripture, it is on purpose and it means we should stop and take notice and learn something.

Metaphors

The entire Hebrew culture celebrates and communicates through symbolic expression in their feasts and their traditions, and even every letter of their alphabet is a symbolic picture of something! I personally believe metaphors and symbolic ways of communicating are God's preferred speech because we have to want to understand and we have to apply our hearts to understand. When we learn to think symbolically, we will discover all types of hidden treasures, not only in our dreams, but also in Scripture and in our everyday lives! You will begin to hear and see God communicating with you everywhere, every day when you begin to apply your heart to understand the meaning behind God's symbolic love language.

God says to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul and strength (see Deut. 6:5, 11:13, 13:3). How can we do that unless we apply our hearts fully to understand? When we have to gain an understanding of symbols or metaphors, it requires us to meditate and involve our minds, our wills, our experiences and our emotions - only then can we begin to understand what God is saying.

Parables

Dreams are often parables, allegories or even riddles that contain hidden treasure if we're willing to search for it. The condition of our hearts directly affects our spiritual insight and understanding. Are you distracted or captivated by the gift God may be giving you in your dreams? It may reflect the condition of your heart.

Jesus spoke in parables to the unbelieving because He wanted them to have to apply their hearts. He says:

"Therefore I speak to them in parables: 'Because they look, but do not see. And they listen, but they do not hear, neither do they understand.' In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'By hearing, you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing, you will see and shall not perceive; for this people's heart has grown dull. Their ears have become hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them'" (Matthew 13:13-15).

Jesus goes on to bless those who listen and apply themselves to understand what He is saying. Notice, too, that He explained what the parables meant to the disciples who asked (those who want to know). To be a disciple means to study and follow Jesus. When He speaks symbolically, it means there is hidden treasure to be discovered, and those who search it out will find reward! (See Matthew 7:7; Luke 11:9; Hebrews 11:6.)

Figurative Speech

E.W. Bullinger, who was a biblical scholar and theologian from England in the late 1800s, gives us the following for serious reflection in his book, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible:

"Applied to words, a figure denotes some form which a word or sentence takes, different from its ordinary and natural form. This is always for the purpose of giving additional force, more life, intensified feeling and greater emphasis. Whereas today, "figurative language" is ignorantly spoken of as though it made less of the meaning, and deprived the words of their power and force. A passage of God's Word is quoted; and it is met with the cry, "Oh, that is figurative"-implying that its meaning is weakened, or that it has quite a different meaning, or that it has no meaning at all.

But the very opposite is the case. For an unusual form (figura) is never used except to add force to the truth conveyed, emphasis to the statement of it, and depth to the meaning of it. When we apply this science then to God's words and to divine truths, we see at once that no branch of Bible study can be more important, or offer greater promise of substantial reward.

Bullinger goes on to say, referring to figures of speech, "no branch of Bible study can be more important: And yet we may truly say that there is no branch of it which has been so utterly neglected."

God is speaking to you today and desiring for you to find hidden rewards. Will you seek Him with all your heart, or will you squander your riches? It is my prayer that you will consider the condition of the soil of your heart and value how God may be communicating with you in dreams and also in everything around you. Apply your heart to understand what He may be saying, and you will be rewarded above and beyond all you can ask or even possibly imagine (see Eph. 3:20; Heb. 11:6).

Teresa Ward

www.gatewaytodreams.com

The Circuit Riders and the Lost Coin - Bob & Bonnie Jones

Editor's Note: I appreciate Bob Jones. He ministered a prophetic word to me in 1995 that at the time I thought was really weird. But lo and behold, it is now coming to pass in my life. Keep on sharing Bob Jones! The Lord loves your heart of love, and how you share His simple, and yet profound, word.

Steve Martin, Love For His People (and Bob and Bonnie too!)

Bob and Bonnie Jones:

The Circuit Riders and the Lost Coin

Circuit Riders Released With Power

I saw a white light come out of Heaven; it looked like it was a mile wide. I was looking to see where it was going to land. But it didn't land; it kept going and made a circle. As I observed the circle it became a huge circle of light and a silver ring like a wedding ring. I prayed for the meaning of this and this is what I felt the Lord was saying.

"This light has been My circuit riders that I've given small circles for them to deliver mail in. The Church is My post office and the circuit riders are the ones I send from My post office to other people that they might hear My words."

And He said that, "I have been testing the people in small things and I've given them small routes, like small rings. But now I'm going to enlarge their rings. And those who have been totally obedient, I'm going to enlarge their rings worldwide and they shall deliver the mail to the saints over the whole earth. They shall deliver the Father's message, which is the message of love."

As Bob and I discussed the circuit riders revelation, it was quickened to us that a circuit is an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. We believe these circuit riders are being released with power. That was like the line coming out of Heaven. It's the breaker anointing being released with the power of the Word. And it was like a direct power line coming straight out of Heaven.

All of our power down here on earth works through circuits. I believe the Lord is saying, "I'm turning your power on through these circuit riders and they'll reveal the power of God in greater circles than they've ever been before." Get ready to see the power of God revealed!

I saw this in the United States and I believe the United States is getting ready for a breakthrough in power. Those who have been faithful in taking their commission to different places and cities are going to go back with greater power than they've ever had before and with greater breakthrough. He's going to be releasing some of these circuit riders worldwide and now they're going in power.

"They will also deliver the message of salvation unto many. Where they have seen one salvation in their ministry in the past, now they will see a ten because I'm increasing them ten times. And I'll be with them in their circuits. They will go out like a circle and come back to the post office to be regenerated and renewed and get their mail."

Uncovering the Lost Coin

In a trance I saw earth that had been spaded up like with one spade. I looked at the earth and on top of it was a coin. I looked at the coin and it was a silver shekel. I asked, "What is this?" The Lord told me, "That which is lost has been found and it's two places in Scripture." The same coin was like two stories; the parable of the lost coin from Luke 15 and the temple tax from Mark 17.

Marriage Dowry

One was the shekel that the woman lost and she went through the house and looked everywhere to find it because it was the top coin in the marriage dowry. She couldn't get married without it. So that which was lost, she has found.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!' Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." Luke 15:8-10

I believe the woman is the Church, and we're getting ready for a marriage of Isaiah 62:3-4 because the Father is blessing the marriage. Then the Lord is taking the hand of the royal diadem (the Bride). The Church will then have the Father over it and it will be a family of Believers. And what we believe in we will receive and what we doubt, we'll do without. That doing without is coming to an end and that which we believe is getting ready to produce faith. Faith will come out of our belief and we'll see a change in things. So get ready for faith.

Peter and Jesus went up to the temple to pray. When they got to the temple the guards wouldn't let them in because there was a temple tax of ½ shekel a piece. Jesus was the Temple but they didn't recognize Him. He and Peter went outside and the Lord told Peter to go down to the lake and there will be a fish that you'll catch. When you do, take the coin out of the fish's mouth. 

So Peter did what the Lord told him to do. He went down to the lake and caught the first fish and removed the silver shekel from its mouth and brought it back to Jesus. Then Peter paid the tax for both of them and they entered the temple.

When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?" Matthew 17:24, Amplified

Get ready for the Lord to be welcomed into His temple now. Things are changing here too because He'll be recognized.

 His temple is being made now in Ephesians 2:21 on the foundation of apostles and prophets. The purpose is for cohabitation with our Father. That temple is coming into place now with living stones. It's a round temple that no wind can get hold of to harm in any way. There the Father will cohabitate with us in the spirit. Get ready now for the living stones to be built into a living temple of relationships and intimacy joining together the Body of Christ in a common purpose.

Message of the Circuit Riders

The message that the circuit riders will deliver is "the Father loves you." The Father wants to cohabitate with you in the spirit (Ephesians 2:22.) So get ready for the living temple of God and for the presence of the Father to cohabitate with His sons and daughters. The temple itself is the Lord Jesus Christ and the living stones likened to Him joined together in a total complete unity.

The circuit riders will go forth throughout the whole earth with the breaker anointing releasing power of the Word as the Holy Spirit endues them with power from on high. This power goes forth on the wind (Ecclesiastes 1:6) so everyone born of the Spirit will recognize its sound, and salvation shall be plentiful as the prodigals come home.

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. Ecclesiastes 1:6

Out of the mouth of the fish the blessings come. The coin is grace, evangelism and a spiritual marriage. Get ready to see the release of power like the earth has never experienced before. I believe the white light out of Heaven is the glory of God in power being released to touch the whole earth by these circuit riders.

Bob and Bonnie Jones
The Prophetic Ministry of Bob and Bonnie Jones

Website: bobjones.org

To contact Bob Jones send your inquiry to:

Bob and Bonnie Jones Ministries
White Horses Publishings
P.O. Box 838
Pineville, NC 28134-0838

Bob and Bonnie Jones: Bob Jones is known as a contemporary prophet with a great love for the Lord Jesus and His truth. His prophecies have spanned over four decades as the Lord has enabled him to foretell earthquakes, tidal waves, comets, and weather patterns. Like Daniel who functioned at an incredible level, Bob has often told leaders their dreams and experiences, as well as the interpretation. 

After his death experience in 1975, God sent him back to minister to Church leadership and reach the multitudes with His love and truth, and to equip the saints with understanding of the spiritual gifts. God promised Bob that he would see the beginning of one billion souls coming into the Kingdom in one great wave of the end time harvest. 

Bonnie has a great love for the Lord, the Word and the Cross of Jesus. She loves children and enjoys blessing them with a gift of joy, truth, love, and encouragement. Bonnie moves in a seer prophetic gifting as well as healing and miracles. Her passion is to see women set free from the fear of man and step into their gifts and calling. She is a great advocate of women stepping forth into their rightful place beside their husband.