Spiritual Dream after Watching "Girls With Swords" by Lisa Bevere

I was in a cheap small car in front of the house of my best friend growing up. 

There was a man trying to help me with the car. Apparently it was malfunctioning in some way and he was going to teach me how to get it to work correctly. He approached the car, and I was embarrassed because when he opened the door - there was trash all over. I was trying to get it in a trash bag and asking my children (beside and behind me) to do the same. [This part of the dream makes sense to my reality as we are messy with our cars and I typically have dreams about clutter. Clearly the problem is bothering me.]

Suddenly, we noticed a van with a bunch of guys causing trouble in the cul-de-sac behind us. They were rowdy and obnoxious. When we noticed they had turned their attention to us, the man suggested we go into his house for safety, just in case. This man looked like he was straight out of Israel (skin color, beard and all). 

We followed his instructions and drove the car into his driveway and parked it close to the house. (This house was about three doors down from where we were parked on the street; closer to the van; and the real house of my second childhood best friend when I grew up). 

Almost immediately after we were all safely inside, the men (about in their 20's) came around my car. In an effort to scare them away, I pushed the red emergency button on my keychain. The alarm was going off, but they did not care. In fact, they quickly and aggressively started to destroy the car. 

They were breaking the windows, jumping onto the car and denting the frame, they were yelling and clearly enjoying their work. We were all terrified to move as we knew they could see us and two or three of them had handguns they were waiving around. It was just a car, but our lives would have been in danger had we approached them.

I told the lady beside me (sitting on my right) to call the police. She did and they told her they were a minute and a half away and might be able to come. Might? I was terrified and now even more terrified that our police, who should be protecting us, were not confident they would even show up when they were so close, and it was in their power and authority to do so.

The men got back in their green van and started to drive away. I panicked. I did not want them to get away, so I told the lady to take a picture of their license plate! I jumped up to see out the window and try to memorize their license place. NJNJ is all I remember seeing. I remember thinking it couldn't be right, because it did not follow the normal license plate pattern. There was also a carved silver J balancing in front of the rear license plate. It looked like it could just fall off when they left, but it never did.

I tried to help her turn off any sound the camera would make, and we took a picture into my hand to make sure it was working. For whatever reason, when I looked up, the men had returned and they were standing in the same room as all of us. We were still sitting down with our backs up to the living room wall, and they were across the room in a semi-circle looking at us like bullies.

One particular man walked toward us and held out his hand for us to give him my expensive camera. I knew I had not taken a photo of him, and so I quickly chanced making him angry, and I told him I would after I removed my SIM card. I did not want to lose all my photos too. I took the risk and took it out right as he got the camera from my hands. 

He was screaming down at me, and I noticed how dark his eyes were.

Suddenly, something inside me rose up and I screamed back at him, "In the name of Jesus, I command whatever demon is living on the inside of you to come out!"

I surprised myself, but when I said it I half-way believed it could help the situation. As soon as I spoke it, the man made a strange noise as if there was a struggle happening inside him that was trying to come out! At first, I thought he was probably mocking me, but for some reason, I also believed it confirmed what I had said was working. I felt stronger to say it again.

This time I stood up and yelled right at him, with as much boldness as I could muster out of my belly, "You do not tower over me! I stand over you! I am stronger than you! I have more power than you! You are beneath me! I command whatever demon is in you to come out!" 

The man let out a big noise and then his eyes weren't dark any more!

That's all it took - I started yelling at every one of those men in that room. I looked them straight in the face and yelled, "I command whatever demon is inside you to come out in Jesus' name!" I was not seeing the same results from the other men. They were looking at me like I was crazy. Not one of my friends or family were moving. Even I was doubting what I was doing and if it was going to work to protect us. Even though I had doubting thoughts, I had enough faith and boldness to keep standing as tall as I could and yelling as loud as I could. I continued demanding whatever demons were in those men to come out and set them free.

I was relentlessly pursuing it to work with my faith.  I remember having a desire to set those men free. I was no longer as aware of the men being the problem, but  more of whatever was inside of them being the problem.

I woke up. I don't remember anything after that moment.

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As I realized what I had just dreamed, I knew I needed to write this one down. (I have written similar dreams over the last decade as I have seen a pattern of what I believe is the Lord raising me up through my dreams.) It has been a long time since I have had one of these "spiritual training dreams". I am thankful for it. I am amazed by it. I share it publicly for you to be aware of it too.

Rather than me just hearing what Lisa Bevere was teaching yesterday, I believe God gave me a picture of me living it out. He gave me a vision and a memory (even though it was a dream) all at the same time. Apparently, our brains don't distinguish real from imaginary on their own (learn more), so I believe it's significant that this imagery was placed in my brain. 

A few minutes after I woke up, I had an imagination of me doing the same thing towards the sickness and disease that has come upon my children. If that was all true, and I had the power to cast out "whatever demon" from that man, shouldn't I be able to cast out "whatever demon" is at the root of my children's kidney "disease" and Type1Diabetes? I felt confident and powerful it could work, and just like that they would be better...up until I imagined myself startling them by marching up there and boldly screaming at them (while they are sleeping), "In the name of Jesus, whatever demon is in your body causing sickness and disease - you come out right now! You have NO authority! I have authority over you!"

Suddenly, I didn't believe that would work at all. It would just startle them, and would be me yelling. It couldn't be that easy. After all, we have already stood in faith, proclaimed faith, publicly announced our faith with boldness, and more for their healings.  Why would today's proclamation be any different?

Mark 4:15 "And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts." 

Also, I remembered there was a boldness that rose up in me when I told that first man to be free, I believed it in my core; yet, there was a manufacturing of boldness when I approached the other men hoping it would work for them too. I woke up before I knew if it worked for them too.

Wouldn't I just be manufacturing my faith, boldness, and hope if I were to try this with my children? I've already done that so many times, with the exception of screaming it directly at their bodies. (I have yet to reconcile if it's more effective when the preacher yells it with faith versus when he just proclaims it with faith).

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I plan to continue watching her "Girls With Swords" series. We are a monthly partner with their ministry which pays for computer access to all their classes, although I was able to access it free on their MessengerX phone app.  I hope you will join me in supporting their ministry as well as building your faith and boldness as Christ-followers (scroll down for more info about it). 

Lisa talks about the target the enemy has put on our lives as Christians and as Females. I only finished the Introduction and Part 1 (about 30 minutes), and I had this dream! I can't wait to see how God strengthens my Spirit even more as I finish the sessions. 

In Faith With Growing Boldness,

Rachelle Suzanne  ♥ 

Copying the photo and text about "Girls with Swords" for you to see what it's about. Copied from MessengerInternational.org. 

For too long, women have stayed on the sidelines.

We’ve believed the lies. We’ve accepted the limitations. We’ve been confined by the labels.

No longer.

It’s time to change the narrative of your story, pick up your sword, and take your god-given place in the battle.

In the Girls with Swords course, Lisa Bevere will show you how to wield the sword of God’s Word with both precision and bravery, equipping you with the skills you need to become dangerous for God’s kingdom.

It’s not enough to just hold the line. It’s time to go on the offensive and start taking ground.

The darkness fears you. Heaven is behind you. The power of God is within you. His Word is in your hand.

The only question that remains is, how will you wield it?

Will you be content to remain a bystander? Or will you take up your cross and finally become the hero God destined you to be?

Girls With Swords Course – Messenger International