I had a dream in which I was with a group of people and I was gathering wrapped presents and giving them out. As I put a couple of them up on a shelf, I noticed that one of them had the outer wrap torn and I could see different wrapping paper inside. The scene changed to the outside where I was looking at other people’s gifts. One lady was showing the long skirts she got, so I ran to get my own and said, “See, I got some skirts, too.” I wasn’t sure anyone really cared about that.
Then I looked to my right and saw a young man who was levitating a couple of feet off the ground. It reminded me of John Crowder’s books on the mystic saints and I was amazed to see it happening before my eyes. I went up to the man and asked him if he knew he was levitating, and then I grabbed him to see if he would carry me up with him.
I then looked at the sky and saw a man flying from left to right through the lower clouds. He didn’t seem to have gotten the finer points of flying, as he was flailing his arms and legs. I told the man I was with to look at that.
I wound up standing where I was and trying to lift off the ground myself, when I looked to the side and saw my pastor standing there. I laughed and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny to be walking down the street, kick up, and wind up on the ground?” He was amused and grinned a big love-grin at me.
This dream is about gifts and anointings. We know that as believers, we are given special and unique gifts to use in the ministries and assignments the Lord has for us. Although some are obvious to us and others, other gifts lie dormant, waiting to be discovered, “on the shelf”, so to speak. Some are partially revealed, as was the gift with the torn wrapping, but they are put aside for various reasons.
I believe the scene change to the outside signifies the growing paradigm of taking our gifts out of the four walls of the traditional church, into the streets. This doesn’t mean abandoning our gatherings, but rather expanding and experimenting with all the wonderful ways God has to interact with us. As I was wondering about the meaning of the skirts, I kept feeling that they symbolized joyful dancing before God. This is one of the expressions of worship we can all participate in, whether we’re trained dancers or not.
I was most interested in the man who was levitating, as I have been learning about the radical signs and wonders most of us have yet to experience. My grabbing onto him is an indication of my frequent statement that I’m going to grab onto all of God I can get. The man in the sky could symbolize those of us who blunder and make awkward mistakes as we learn to operate in our callings, yet are still brave and determined enough to press on.
The humorous part of the dream is my trying to lift off the ground in my own strength. So many times we attempt to finish in the flesh what God begins in the spirit. This has been borne out in the expectations of prophetic performance, as well as in the rise and fall of whole revival movements. Hence my observation that trying to do anything in the flesh can result in our winding up flat on our faces. Meanwhile, like a loving Father, the Lord watches us in love and laughs.
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