Whispers of Peace: Ep 4: Embrace Eternal Love: Discover the Everlasting Father in Your Dreams

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Well, welcome to Diary of a Black Woman podcast with our Faith on the Go series,

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where we explore faith, growth, and transformation from a deeply personal perspective.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and today we're continuing our series on how God

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speaks to us through dreams.

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In this episode, we'll be diving into the profound, unchanging love of the Everlasting

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Father and how we can encounter that love in our dreams.

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The title of today's episode is Unchanging Love, Embracing the Everlasting Father in Your Dreams.

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As we talk about the Everlasting Father, we'll explore how God's love for us

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is eternal, constant, and unshakable.

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For everyone who has ever felt unloved, unsupported, or alone,

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today's episode is an invitation to embrace the Father's love in a new and personal

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way, even in the quiet moments of your sleep. Let's pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for your love that never changes.

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Today, we explore how you reveal yourself to us as the everlasting Father.

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We ask for open hearts, open our hearts and our minds, and help us to recognize

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your love in our lives, primarily through dreams that you give us.

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May this time be one of healing, renewal, and a deeper understanding of your unchanging care for us.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen. We see again in Isaiah 9, 6, that we are given

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one of the most comforting titles of Jesus, Everlasting Father.

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This title speaks of his eternal nature and his deep abiding love for us.

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Unlike human love, which can sometimes be inconsistent and conditional.

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God's love is perfect, constant, and everlasting.

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He is a father who never leaves, never fails, and never stops caring for his children.

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In a world where relationships can often be fragile and fleeting,

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the idea of an everlasting father can be incredibly comforting.

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It tells us that no matter what happens, we are loved with a love that transcends

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time and circumstances.

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And one of the beautiful ways God reminds us of this love is through our dreams.

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I want to share a personal story that can help, that really helped me understand

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the power of the Father's love in my own life.

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And this happened like many, many, many years ago where I went through a season

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where I felt, you know, I was in the church, I was doing my church things and,

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But I hear people say, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father.

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But in my life, my father, even though he stayed at the house,

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our relationship wasn't really a good relationship.

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I was an adult, and it was just a lot of things that happened that it made my relationship.

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My father just kind of like, I don't know if you feel that way.

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Like, why did you even have me, right?

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So relationship was really not a good relationship.

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As a young child, it was okay.

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But as a teenager and as a young adult and as an older adult, it wasn't.

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And so as I became in relationship with God, that part about God as my father

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was a hard thing to swallow.

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And so I can hang out with Jesus and the Holy Spirit all day,

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but to understand God as my heavenly father and that for a father,

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it just choked me sometimes because I couldn't really say it.

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And so I remember that particular season, I wanted to grow closer to God as

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my father, Jesus as my father, the everlasting father.

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I wanted to get to know that part, that person of the Trinity, right?

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And so I remember this for time, I was struggling to feel his presence and I

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wanted to know him in a different way.

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So I'm fighting for this new relationship.

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So sometimes I would sit and say, Father, show me you. I want to get to know

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you in this new one. I want to know you.

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I have trouble with my real father, but I know you. I want to get to know you

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as the everlasting father, as my heavenly father, right?

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So during this time, I had a dream that brought me so much comfort.

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So in that dream, I was sitting in a room feeling overwhelmed by all the things

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that are happening to me.

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And all the names, because you can get to the point where you got the names

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of God and God has many, many names.

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But I think we get over want to be the, I know all God's names,

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but we don't really know him.

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And so I was like, I just want to know you. So I put the books of the names

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down and wanted to get to know him.

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And so I remember just, I don't know if it was a dream or was it just me just seeking him in prayer?

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And I remember feeling his presence.

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And even though I couldn't see his face, I just knew that he had entered the room.

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And I remember at that moment, I didn't say anything, but I felt like he came.

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And I sensed a love and peace and security. And I felt him like,

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just give me a hug. Like, Connie, it's going to be okay.

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And that's when our relationship shifted. that I don't always have to see to

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know that he's my father.

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But to know that his presence is there and to hear that kind of I've always been here, you know.

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And so that dream or that, I can't remember if it was a dream or it was a moment,

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but it was that time when that was a turning point for me.

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And it reminded me of his love.

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And you might hear me a little teary-eyed because it was a moment of a turning

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point for me that when your real father doesn't do what he's supposed to do,

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but your heavenly father kind of sticks in for him, right?

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So reminding me that God loves doesn't waver.

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Even when I doubted it, he just showed up in his presence and just kind of gave

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me that hug that I needed. and that shifted my whole life.

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It shifted my feelings towards my real father, shifted my feeling towards the

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people who were father-like in my life.

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It just changed my whole life.

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And so I want to just share the scripture with you about God's love.

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And when we understand the power of God's love, it's found in Romans 8.

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And I'm going to go to, I think it's 830, Romans 8.30.

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When we understand how powerful this love is, I'm looking for it now. Here it goes right here.

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I don't want to go too long, but 8.35 through 39, Romans 8. It's in the King James.

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It says, who should separate us from the love of God?

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Should tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or swore?

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It says, what should separate us? Should it be tribulation? Should it be distress?

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Should it be persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or swore?

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As it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long.

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We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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For I am, one scripture, I think, I always say I am fully persuaded.

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So you got to be fully persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels.

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Look how God said, I got your back.

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Neither death can separate you. Neither life can separate you nor angels.

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If angels don't do their job, they got to get out the way or principalities

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or nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,

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nor death, nor any other creature.

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Should be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen.

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The Bible is full of stories where God reveals his love as a father through dreams.

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One example of the story of Joseph in Genesis.

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As a young man, Joseph had dreams that showed him his future.

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Dreams were filled with promise and purpose and promise, promise and purpose.

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But what's even more powerful is that throughout Joseph's journey through betrayal

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and imprisonment and hardship, God was with him as a loving father,

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guiding and sustaining him.

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Even when Joseph didn't fully understand why things were happening the way they

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were, God's love was constant.

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The book of Joseph, Stories of Joseph, is in Genesis, pretty much the latter part of Genesis.

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That love carried Joseph through the lowest moments of his life,

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eventually bringing him to a place of great purpose.

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This story shows us that even when our circumstances are difficult,

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God's love is unwavering.

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He is our everlasting father, and he uses dreams to remind us of his presence

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and his care for us. And the story of Joseph, his brother sold him into slavery.

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Joseph was sold into slavery. He was in prison.

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And that was the whole process. He became second in command.

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His brothers, there was a big famine in the land. His brothers came to buy food from him.

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So his whole story, his dreams were true that he had. they had to mature and

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they had to mature him, but God was with him all the way through them.

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He showed him that he was his everlasting father.

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And Joseph remained humble throughout that whole process. And I just always

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wonder, you know, because there was many times that he could have become better.

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And so we have to understand that God is always with us.

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Our everlasting Father, everlasting me, he's going to be around a long time,

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right? And so even in heaven, right?

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And so that we have to learn to trust him long-term.

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Everything is not going to always be perfect on earth, but if we can trust him,

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it's always going to work out for our good. Amen.

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We're going to dive deep into, it says, When we encounter everlasting father

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in our dreams, we are reminded of his eternal love for us.

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His love is not bound by time, space, or circumstances. Even in the moment when

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we feel alone or unsupported, God's love is there, steady, constant, and unchanging.

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Dreams can often be a place where God speaks to the deepest part of our hearts,

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where we are most vulnerable.

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In these moments, when our defenses are down, God can remind us of who we indeed

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are, his beloved children.

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He whispers his love into our hearts, reassuring us that no matter what we face,

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his love will never leave us.

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We have to understand as children of God that we do have Jesus,

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our everlasting father, and we do have our heavenly father, that we are surrounded

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with so much love and care, that we have to just trust that.

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And it's not just this temporary care, but it's this care that, like.

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Think about it, it's forever and ever, right? So what are some practical steps

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that we can do to embrace the Father's love in our dreams, even in our waking reality?

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So if you're longing for experience of God's love of the everlasting Father,

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more profoundly, here are some practical steps that we can take to open our

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hearts to His love, even in your dreams.

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First, you got to get in the Bible, but I didn't write that down,

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but you know that that's automatic. But let's do number one.

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Invite the Father's love before you sleep. Before going to bed,

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take a moment to pray and ask God to reveal his love to you as you sleep.

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Let him know that you want to experience his love in a new and personal way.

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And invite him to speak to your heart through your dreams.

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There's different ways that you can know that God loves you,

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right? So we know that this is a dream series.

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So we know that speaking to us through our dreams is that point.

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But how many times have you experienced God's love in a way that only he can

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touch that particular spot in your heart?

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Only he knows that that's your true intimate desire. and then he gets it to

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you and you just know beyond a reasonable doubt that that was God. Only God can do that.

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That shows how deep and intimate his love is too, right?

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So we invite him in our sleep and then we just let God be God.

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Number two, reflect on his love. Spend time meditating on scripture that speak of God's love for you.

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Verses like Jeremiah 29, I like 29, 11, but here I wrote down Jeremiah 31, 3.

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Which says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with an unfailing kindness.

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It says, can help center your mind and heart on the truth of God's love.

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Even the scripture I just shared with you of Romans 8.35.

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About nothing can separate us from the love of God.

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If you know that, then there should be no fear here, right? knowing that God's

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love is, nothing can get to you.

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I'm the oldest, so I don't have that example of being a big,

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big brother, but being a big sister, not letting anyone bother my younger siblings,

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especially my little sister who always getting into stuff and then running to

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me after she done started a lot of mess, right?

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And she can feel trustworthy that I will protect her. That's how we can feel.

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I'm the oldest, so I don't have an example of running to my older brother or

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sister for protection. But I can run to God for protection.

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He is my shield and a buckler. So I can run to him and I can hide and be safe

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with him, knowing that he will protect me.

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If he can show up and think about it.

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If he wanted me to know him as father and he shows up personally and continue

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to pursue me as the father.

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The everlasting father, what else wouldn't he do for me?

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So we have to think about that. We forget that when God shows up in our dreams,

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when he shows up in our personal lives, when we get that special trinket or

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something that only God knows that we like,

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that's showing his love for us.

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And we just need to remember that when we're feeling down, that God has his

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eyes on us, that he loves us that much.

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But remember that this world is fleeting, right? We got another home we're going to.

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So can't wait till he spoils us in our new place.

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Number three, keep a journal. Keep a dream journal. As with other episodes in

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this series, I encourage you to keep a journal by your bed.

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When you wake up, write down any dreams where you feel God's love, presence, or care.

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Even in the dream, even if the dream is simple or subtle, pay attention to how you feel.

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Often God speaks to us through emotions we experience in a dream.

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So when you keep in a journal, some things will stand out like a flashing red light.

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And most of the time, the emotions you feel in your dreams, they really come through a lot.

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Just pay attention and make sure you write, keep a prayer journal,

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how God speaks to you through each phase. And you're like, wow,

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I didn't know you knew that.

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He's keeping an eye on everything. So he might give you insight to something

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that people will be like, how did you know that?

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Sometimes it's hard to explain a supernatural experience to people who are not

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aware of a supernatural God.

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And so sometimes I just kind of, it's hard.

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It's just hard. So I can't stop explaining that. I was just like, you know, I don't know.

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I was just playing around and, you know, knowing that God gave it to you.

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But you can't say, well, I prayed and the Lord gave it to me.

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That's still supernatural stuff that people still don't understand, you know.

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And they go, she always so superficial. She always prayed. But sometimes I just

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said, I just prayed and asked God how to do it. And he gave me the answer.

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And they can look at you like you kind of cuckoo for Cocoa Pops. But it's true anyway.

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Pray for healing. If there's any areas in your life where you feel unloved or

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where past hurts have made it hard for you to embrace God's love, pray for healing.

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Ask God to use your dreams as a way to heal those wounds and show you perfect

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love in ways that bring restoration and wholeness.

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Healing, it's like surgery in your sleep, right?

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Say, Lord, just help me get over this. And many times I remember going through

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some rough times in my earlier days and you're hurting so bad during your waking hours and you wake up,

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the problem has not resolved itself, right?

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But you are slowly healing from that problem.

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And then you just kind of like, wow, you wake up. I remember it was so bad that I woke up and I gasped.

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I remember gasping for air like, oh, I made it another day because it was that bad.

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And each day, it just seemed like even though the issue didn't change, I was changing.

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And then that issue resolved itself. But wow, I think that was a two-year issue.

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And who wants to go through something like that for two years?

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But at the end, I came out whole, and then God never stops taking you to another

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level. Boom, another level happened.

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And it's because how I handle that level. So learning how to use that rest time

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as a chance for restoration, right?

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So when you're going through, a lot of times people use it as a,

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it looks like people will have a bad day and want to stay in bed all day.

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That's not how I say that. I say like a lot of times your rest and your dream

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is your restoration time.

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Learn how to use that time to get restored, spiritually restored,

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physically restored, right?

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And so using that time, even in the middle of chaos and drama,

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allowing God to restore you.

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And the last one, number five, is rest in his love before you go to sleep each night.

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Remind yourself of God's unchanging love. No matter what's happening during

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the day, no matter what tomorrow holds, his love is constant.

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Rest in the knowledge that you are deeply and eternal love by the everlasting Father.

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So if you have to get scriptures to remind you of how much you are loved by

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God, but you can rest in his love.

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And a lot of times people say, how can you sleep through that?

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Well, me staying awake is not helping it.

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God says he doesn't slumber or sleep. I'll let him handle that while I get some sleep. Amen.

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And so learning how to invite God, invite the Father's love before you sleep.

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Reflect on his love, keep a prayer journal, a dream journal,

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pray for healing and rest in this love.

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So you can also think about areas of your life where you're struggling to feel God's love.

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Maybe you've been through a complicated

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relationship or maybe you felt distant from God for a long time.

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Tonight, make tonight. I encourage you to bring those areas before him and ask

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for his love to fill those places.

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You know, I would say like if it's really that bad, just find a quiet place while you're awake.

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Like I always say in my prayer, you know, as you hear me do the podcast,

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that prayer is a continual conversation with God.

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And so a dream is also a continual conversation with God.

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So you can start out your conversation with God in a prayer and then you can

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finish it up in your dreams. Right.

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So take time out before you go to bed and just kind of sit before him and read the Bible.

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Find some scriptures on love or something that you need to ask them,

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what should I be reading to fill those places? Maybe a love story.

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We love Boaz and Esther, some good stories or just some victory stories.

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Just go ahead and fill yourself up on God's love.

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Then ask them to reveal Himself to His everlasting Father in your dreams.

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And trust He is working to show you His love in a way that's personal and powerful.

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And when you wake up, just remember and ask for remember. Can He help me remember my dreams?

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And then get up and write down what happened.

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And that would be just kind of your journey. If you didn't get nothing the first

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night, you just keep pursuing after God.

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Then one day God is going to switch and He will be pursuing after you.

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Like I said, I get dreams almost every night. Some I understand,

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some I don't, but God is talking to me, which is so awesome.

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Before we end this episode today, I want to leave you with this thought.

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God's love is not something we earn or have to work for. It's a gift given freely to each of us.

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As the everlasting Father, God's love is unshakable. No matter what you've been

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through, no matter how distant you may feel, his love remains.

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So I pray that you encounter that love in a deep and meaningful way,

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both in your waking hour and in your dreams.

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Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you for your eternal love. Thank you for being the everlasting

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father who never leaves us, never forsakes us, and never stops loving us.

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As we sleep, we ask that you reveal your love to us in new ways.

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Speaking to places in our hearts that need to feel your presence.

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Heal us, restore us, and remind us.

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That nothing can separate us from your love and from your unchanging care.

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We rest in your love tonight and always. In Jesus' name, amen.

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So thank you again for joining me on the Diary of Black Women podcast on our Faith on the Go series.

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Yes, this is the last episode for December 2024. we'll be diving into 2025 with some new episodes.

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And so I'll say goodbye on December 24,

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but I want to just encourage you to continue to pray that you encounter the

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Father's love in your dreams tonight, you know, and that you walk confidently

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in his everlasting care.

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Stay tuned for 2025. We've got some more fun and exciting episodes coming your way.

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And even more about dreams, like I would explain that God has given me lots

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and lots of dreams, warning dreams, good dreams, just some dreams and helping

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you learn how to walk through your dream.

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So until then, may you rest in unshakable love of the everlasting Father.

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And I pray that for you in Jesus' name. Amen.