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A Discussion: Where in the Dream Cycle

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

In Dreams; a Biblical Model of Interpretation Jim and I introduced the idea of the Dream Cycle. This is the constantly map of how far we have gone with our dreams. This cycle has many steps starting with the process of preparing to dream, and ends with seeing the fulfillment of the dream come to pass. Obliviously this means that you could have dozens and dozens of dreams at some stage within the Dream Cycle. The question is how many dreams that you have had had stopped somewhere in the middle of this process? Common sticking points are working through a difficult interpretation, or simply forgetting the promises that are held within the dream.

Often when we see a decline in dreams it is because we have to much of a backlog of uncompleted cycles. Here are some questions to help get you restarted.

Here are some important questions to ask to help get you dreaming again.
Do you have dreams that haven’t been interpreted?
Do you have dreams that have been interpreted, but you no longer have expectation?
Is it difficult to prepare for sleep?
Have you left the interpretations unspoken?

These are just a few questions that can be asked to help restart your dream life if it ever gets stalled.

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An Exercise: Mimic

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

One of the most difficult aspects of growing in the seer arena is understanding what you are to do with what you are seeing. Without an outlet or some other practical use the gift can feel frustrating or even disillusioning. One practical step that you can take is to work on seeing things that are practically useful.

The saying goes that we become like the people that we spend time with. The root of this saying comes from the tendency that we have to mimic what we see. If we are around kind people, we tend find kindness comes to us more naturally. The inverse is also often true.

For this exercise we are going to work on seeing positive things in others. This will help us in two ways, first it helps us to focus on the positive and it also helps us to identify good behavior to mimic.

Step 1 Ask the Lord to show you who you are to focus on.

Step 2 Ask the Lord to show you a trait or behavior of the person that he finds pleasing.

Step 3 Ask the Lord to tell you how you can make this more a part of your life.

Step 4 Make a journal note of what you are going to be working on and set a date to come back and see how you have been making progress.

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An Exercise: The History of A Place

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Some locations have special history that creates a spiritual atmosphere. I love old buildings, particularly cathedrals. Whenever I have a chance I go and check them out and have on several occasions taken two or three hour detours to have a visit. One of the things that I have always found fascinating is the way that these great buildings change in the spiritual atmosphere as you stroll through them. I think that is largely due to years and years of worship that has taken place in these place.

This is an exercise to help increase sensitivity to the spiritual environment around you.

Step one: Choose a suitable place to practice. This could be a church, a mall, or even your home.

Step two: Take an inventory of what is going on around you and how you feel. Ask God what is unique about this spot.

Step three: Choose a place to compare to present environment that you are in.

Step four: With your first locations environment in mind head to your second location and compare.

Step five: Ask God how this spot is different from the first.

Step six: Keep going and notice how the spiritual atmosphere changes all around you.

Try this with variations such as at different times of day, or maybe take an inventory of how the atmosphere changes at different parts of a church service. Or, try it with a friend and compare notes.

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An Exercise in Sight

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

What do you see? Each and everyday we see things all around us that are common, interesting, mundane and most of the things that we see we don’t even notice. They are filler, just the stuff that is around us, but not worth paying any attention. I’d like to challenge you to notice something that you don’t normally ‘notice’ and ask your self a few questions such as:

1. What is this called?

2. What is it for?

3. What is an alternate use for this?

4. If this was something else, how would that change things?

5. If I could ask this object 1 question what would it be?

Come up with a few extra questions yourself. The more that we notice, the more attentive we are, the more we can notice and the more attentive we can be.

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