Emotional Healing – Dealing With Bombs
This message was written by my friend Northwest Prophetic about a dream he had a few years ago. I’m posting it here as a prophetic word to the body of Christ (that means you should discern it by the Holy Spirit.) It’s also a sobering reminder of what we’re dealing with as we learn to receive healing of the emotional wounds from our past.
I had a dream. In the dream, or maybe it was a vision: I was working my way through the sparse underbrush of a very large hill. I was searching out unexploded ordinance: bombs that hadn’t gone off, and I knew that some of them were nuclear bombs.
My friends and I were cleaning out the area so that kids could play safely in the bushes and grasses there. My job was to find the bombs hidden under the bushes, behind the clumps of grass. There weren’t a lot, but it was more than I expected.
When I found one, I put it into the basket I was carrying (really? Carrying nukes in a basket?), and hand the baskets to others who took them off to other places, and came back each time for more.
As I was dreaming, while I was pulling a shiny silver bomb out from behind a clump of tall grass, Father began interpreting the dream I was still in the middle of for me. (I’ve never had that happen before!)
“You recognize these bombs?” he asked, and suddenly, I knew that these were issues in my life where offenses could grow. These were wounds, lies that I’ve believed, curses, and other detritus in my soul that could explode and cause problems. “Yes, sir,” I replied.
“And you recognize that this dream is just symbolic? That solving these issues in the real world is going to take more than just picking up the bombs and putting them in your basket?” I understood that he was right: these are real issues and they need real solutions.
The dream had prophetically pointed out that there were bombs, danger points (and I suspect we all have some). We can identify the bombs by prayer, by prophecy, by soul-searching, maybe by inviting input from godly friends.
I also recognized that he wasn’t commenting on the solutions that they needed, just that the issues needed something more than “prophetically picking up a bomb” and putting it in my basket. I was welcome to choose the solutions I was comfortable with: repentance, healing prayer, power of God, therapy, washing in the Word, and more.
I observe that God is speaking to a number of his kids in this season about getting rid of offenses, removing the stumbling blocks from our history; in fact, it’s a little freaky how many began hearing this topic at the same time. If you’re in this season, embrace it as from God, and work with him to remove the hindrances to moving forward.
We’re in this together.
What’s the fascinating story behind the photo?
Dan Villarreal
Taipei, Taiwan
Love this…Jesus is honored when we hand the bomb to Him … For we are releasing it into His finished work. With each surrender, He comes more and brings more life to you … More of Himself into the depths if your soul.
Jamie
obviously I need this word as I have been at service the last 4 weeks and it is about offense. Why we get offended the root cause? Expectation. The greater the expectation the greater the opportunity to be offended when the one we look to does not meet our expectations. Which opens the door for slander, bitterness and division. The hardest part for me but has been a healing point is that I have to look at myself and know that i put my trust in man over God. Lots of us do it, we just have to get our eyes back on Jesus, trusting Him, loving and forgiving people.
Love this. Interestingly for me it seems each bomb leads to another hidden bomb,,,, interesting also that mental and spiritual healing can cause different forms of the burning and itching that occurs during physical healing…. Really encouraged by this word. thanks PM
This is huge. Stepping on a bomb can ruin your whole day. The other day I felt like I was being baited to try and get me to walk into one over and over. Prayer and starting my day in the word helps me stay on the path so I don’t set one off but I’m still not free to walk wherever I wish. It’s just not safe. I need to put them in baskets and hand them off. Especially the nukes.