My husband Peter had a dream which I will now break into parts and use as a springboard for discussion. When I hit a point that needs to be explored, I will stop and open the section up. Once finished, I will pick up where I left off in the dream.
Peter, who once owned an air compressor company and had been retired for six years, returned to work in the dream. He was late. I believe Peter represents Jesus coming to His people late in the hour to straighten out situations.
The company wasn’t being run efficiently. Workers were working out east and then would go on a call in Staten Island. Let me stop here. A few days before Peter’s dream, I dreamt about Staten Island. In my dream, I had to switch my thinking and pull off a road heading to Staten Island. Instead, I went to a train, where I picked up a cleaning lady named Joy.
When I was searching out Staten Island, because it came up twice in one week, what jumped out at me is it is sometimes considered the forgotten borough. We can go out east, which to me speaks of Montauk, known as “the end,” and be cleansed by coming to the end of ourselves, or go to no man’s land, the wilderness—Staten Island with all the garbage landfills.
We can meet our Sanctifier who cleans our house on the glory train and be filled with joy, or not be effective, going way out of our way into the wilderness, where we hold onto garbage.
A New Tank
In the dream, there was an emergency at a real account my husband once had, a company named Box Crafters. The Lord crafts a box for all of us to be in.
The problem the Box Crafters had was the amount of pressure was too much for the size tank they had for their compressor. The unit was shaking so badly it was making the walls tremble. Someone wanted to adjust the valve, but that wouldn’t work; the unit needed a new tank. The old tank had to be removed and replaced with a bigger tank that could handle that amount of pressure. The compressor would blow up and cause terrible damage if this wasn’t done.
The Lord once woke me up in the middle of the night and said He wanted me to write about pressure.
My people need to know that they will encounter a life filled with pressure because they are My children, and they must prevail against it.
“But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it” (Matthew 7:14, AMP).
I wrote of an intercessor’s dream that wounded Christians were getting into a submarine made of what looked like bubble gum—chewing on things and cardboard. The captain of the sub was the old man. Jesus came on the scene and said that the submarine would not handle the pressure of going deep. He assured the remaining Christians that another sub was coming that could deal with the pressure, which was the pressure of witchcraft. But the wounded Christians didn’t want to wait for it.
I know a man who didn’t get his tank changed, and it recently exploded. Shrapnel was blown in every direction hurting many, many people. I had a dream about this man before this occurred. In the dream, I saw him with patches all over his shirt.
“He told them this parable: ‘No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.’” (Luke 5:36-38, NIV)
Put on Christ
Christianity is not about fixing valve settings—getting some self-help books and making some minor adjustments to ourselves. That will never handle the pressure of the evil one against us. We have to get a new tank, garment—wineskin by putting on the new man and taking off the old.
Our walk It’s not about putting some makeup on the old man—he has to go. “…put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” (Romans 13:14, NASU). There is only immersing ourselves in Jesus through prayer, praise, being in the word, saturating ourselves in His presence, listening to Him, and obeying. There is only living and moving and having our being in Him. “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (Galatians 3:27, NASU). A regenerated life of a disciple is how one follows Christ by putting Him on. It’s time to exchange tanks, one that can handle the pressure.
