Recurring Dream Explained

This morning I had a dream which seems to have been very helpful.

I was on my dad’s boat, fishing with a woman. I believe she was my first cousin. I was reeling in a sailfish. I couldn’t tell what it was until it got close to the boat. It was very thin, and it was black. I had the feeling that, somehow, it wasn’t a very good fish. It was as though the fish didn’t have much character, like a junkie who only goes to detox when there is absolutely no choice.

While I was reeling it in, I noticed the boat was sinking by the stern. I told the woman to go up on the flybridge, start the engines, and get the boat moving so the water would go out the scuppers.

I had had so many dreams like this, I wasn’t afraid of sinking. Telling her to start the mains seemed routine.

I looked off to the side of the boat, and I saw the head of an enormous shark. It looked like a great white. The whole shark would have been something like 50 feet long. It was waiting for the boat to sink.

The boat started to move, and the stern rose. Everything was fine.

I’ve had many dreams in which my dad’s boat started to sink. The answer was always to fire up the engines and start moving. I never thought about the deep meaning of getting underway in order to keep from sinking.

I’ll give my interpretation of the dream.

The boat is my life. The woman is people I’ve helped to get close to God. My cousin is a person who has suffered a lot of rejection. She’s exactly the kind of person God chooses.

Fishing is evangelism. Fish are people you reach for God. The black, skinny fish was a bad harvest. It represented people who pretty much have to be dragged to the altar, whining the whole way. The dregs.

Starting the engines and getting underway is praying in tongues. Sinking is falling under the power of the unsaved world and the people and spirits who make it up. The shark is Satan, waiting for me to sink so he can have me. He can’t sink the boat, but he can have me if I let it sink.

The lesson is that if I don’t keep praying in tongues, I am going to be overwhelmed by the cursed world and sink in it. If I keep praying in tongues, I will stay afloat. I think the sailfish shows that the harvest is getting very thin, but I’m not sure.

In the Bible, the Sea of Galilee symbolized Satan’s stolen world. When Peter sank, it showed what happens to us when we don’t focus on Jesus. He was not able to stay above the water using his own faith. He made it a few steps, and then Jesus had to lift him. Only God can lift us out of the world’s clutches, and he only does it when we focus on him instead of the waves.

Noah and his family floated while everyone else sank. Moses was saved because he floated on water until he was pulled out. The Hebrews walked toward their promised land on dry sand between walls of water. Jesus didn’t just walk on water; he walked on the storm above the water.

Noah’s contemporaries sank. The Egyptian army sank. Jonah sank. He was in rebellion against God. He hid his face from him.

When you pray in tongues, the water of God fills you, and it drives out the water of the world. Water is voices and words. When you focus on the world, as Lot’s wife did, the water of the world pours into you, and you start to sink.

This is why God tells people to get rid of secular entertainment and stop using social media. These things fill you up and make you sink down to where the sharks can get you.

My first rapture dream involved floating. I was sitting on the floor, and I started rising as though water were rising under me. I can understand why God used that imagery.

I feel I should be praying in tongues whenever I can. I should develop the habit of praying in tongues all the time, except when I have to focus on something else.

The rapture and the start of the tribulation are the same thing. One person’s flood is another person’s salvation.

God has said he won’t destroy the world with water again, so the rapture won’t be a flood of physical water, but the supernatural water of filthy voices and words is now a flood, and it gets higher every day. Eventually, it will lift God’s children off the earth, and Satan’s children will stay here under the water. That’s fair, since it comes from their mouths.

The Revelation says Satan sent a flood from his mouth to carry away the woman who gave birth to the Messiah. We see that flood today all around us, from leftists and the disgusting people who contribute to the rot of our culture. Jesus said the things a man says defile him, and the same goes for Satan.

If you can defile yourself by speaking, you can sanctify yourself by speaking. That’s how the symmetry works.

I plan to try to keep speaking in tongues during the day. I am sure it will pay off, because it always has.