Dreamer's Watch, Part 1

For those who have been following my testimony over at The Color of Faith, welcome!! For those who want more background but haven’t followed it, I invite you to check it out. The Testimony tag will lead you to the whole series. Thanks!!

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This blog is meant to go more in-depth and isn’t for the faint of heart or the skeptical. I will let you know that right now. This blog is for prayer warriors; fellow dreamers; people of God and those interested in learning about what happens in the lives of everyday people of God. If you have a heart for God, a heart for His people, a heart to see Him at work in the world, then you’re in the right place… where the Supernatural dwells side by side with the Natural. The Eternal dwells within and works through the Mortal… He has for centuries and doesn’t plan to stop.

Dreamer’s Watch is meant to be an in-depth of some of what was discussed in Wings, Fangs, and Flight over at The Color of Faith, and the plan is to coincide it with some related posts over at Kura Kimanna, as well. This blog series will fill in some of the blanks from my testimony… the more Supernatural blanks…

In my initial testimony series, you learned about some of the more major attacks that were happening in my life: the TIRE IRON incident, Dad’s accident, relational issues with the ex-husband and how God put me through school while I was technically homeless… moving couch to couch and room to room, not having a place to call my own until close to the end of graduate school. And there is so much more…

There are the gifts of the SPIRIT OF GOD… The following results are from Gifted2Serve…

Healing, Prophecy, Intercession- 20
Knowledge, Exhortation- 19
Faith- 18
Mercy, Tongues- 17
Hospitality, Teaching- 16
Missionary, Wisdom, Giving, Leadership- 15
Ekballism, Helps- 14
Miracles, Evangelism- 13
Shepherd, Apostle- 12
Administration, Voluntary Poverty- 11
Interpretation of Tongues- 10
Service- 9

Interestingly enough, in the Network book, published by Zondervan, I came up with similar but distinctly differing results. This is IN PART because not all the same gifts are recognized between the two… lol

Word of Knowledge- 21

Faith, Intercession – 20

Creative Communication, Mercy – 19

Prophecy- 18

Encouragement, Shepherding- 17

Teaching, Discernment, Hospitality- 16

Evangelism- 15

Word of Wisdom, Administration- 14

Craftsmanship- 13

Giving- 12

Leadership, Helps- 11

****Healing, Interpretation, Miracles, and Tongues all checkmarked as YES (they don’t have scores for some reason?!)

While for many, this means almost nothing… for others, this profile of spiritual awareness and assessment is helpful in understanding who I truly am, in my ontological self as God created me to be. 

Several things have happened in my life of a supernatural nature that many would not even believe, including BELIEVERS… I know we have all lived through some things that have been of this nature… the things others see as impossible. I thought that there was something wrong with me when I was a very small child because I was SOOO different from everyone else I knew. I knew nobody who displayed the PROPHETIC gift… the SEER gift (SEERS are those whose prophetic gift come mainly through visions, dreams, and other visuals from God and the SPIRIT REALM). Some of my very earliest memories are of this GIFT… I had no name for it; I had no name for any of the gifts, really, at the age of two or three, which is the earliest memory I have of the SPIRITUAL world.

Some might look at the experience I had in the rocking chair as a child, where I was singing to God in heavenly language, and say, “But you were a child… you were likely making it up.” I’ve actually had these kind of comments. The thing is… I have always known the difference between my own imagination and what God was doing, even if I had no idea how I knew. The earliest prophetic WORDS I received from Him were at this same age… two or three years old. Many of the words have come to pass… others, I still wait for and pray over, but God is the One Who does the work for prophecy to come to pass… not man. I learned that the hard way over the years.

                                          Natasha Beddingfield- Unwritten

I look forward to sharing my journey with you through this testimony, and through life… PLEASE, don’t forget to come on back and check out what is happening… and stay tuned, because God has some amazing things to share with you… and I look forward to the future He has shown! What about you!