I am awakened by a dream at exactly 1:44 AM. Psalm 144, Title: “Rescue Me” Psalm 144:1 – There is only one strong, safe and secure place for me; it’s in God alone and I love Him!…vs 7, reach down from your heavens and RESCUE ME from this HELL, and deliver me from these DARK POWERS… vs. 9, My God I will sing you a brand new song!
I was dreaming about “Les miserables.” I heard someone singing the song “I had a dream”…. They repeatedly sang the phrase, “and the tiger wakes at night”. I researched the play this morning, and now my heart is lamenting. I write these words as tears fall down my face.
Les Miserables:
The story takes place during a PLAGUE of Cholera. There was a poor peasant named Valijean. After spending 19 (#19 means divine order/God‘s judgment) years in prison for stealing a loaf of BREAD to FEED a starving family, Valijean, DESIRING REDEMPTION and a group of YOUNG IDEALISTS attempt to OVERTHROW the GOVERNMENT in a street barricade.
In French, Valijean means “convict” In today’s prophetic revelation/metaphor, Jesus is our Valijean! … a kind and compassionate man, falsely accused of being a criminal and unjustly punished, He RISES UP to LEAD the WAY of RESCUE.
In the play, Fantine is a SINGLE MOM that out of DESPERATION becomes a prostitute. Valijean (Jesus, in my story) has pity for her and takes her to a HOSPITAL. (Bible story/good Samaritan.) He learns that her daughter, Cozette has been kept as a servant and treated poorly by depraved CRIMINALS – that also extort money.
Valijean (Jesus) PROMISES to FIND Fantines daughter, and PROTECT her. Valijean (Jesus) meets Cosette while she’s on an errand drawing water and OFFERS the PAYMENT to ADOPT her. – Oh! This is the story of the woman at THE WELL!” – John 1, 1-26. In this passage, Jesus offers LIVING WATER to a woman who had been married five times it is now living with her boyfriend.
Last night I was awakened to a voice in my dream. She was singing the paragraph about tigers from the song, “I Had a Dream”. “I Had a Dream” Lyrics;
There was a time when men were KIND, and their voices were soft, and their words inviting. There was a time when love was BLIND, and the world was a song, and the song was exciting. There was a time when it all went wrong…I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life, worth living. I dreamed that love would never die, I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Oh wow, I just noticed the tiger coffee cup that I’m using while writing about the tigers in the Les Miserables play!
Then I was young and unafraid, and dreams were made and used and wasted. There was no RANSOM to be paid, no song unsung, no wine, untasted.
But the TIGERS COME AT NIGHT, with their VOICES SOFT AS THUNDER, as they TEAR YOUR HOPE APART and they turn your dream to SHAME.
He slept a summer by my side, he filled my days with endless wonder…He TOOK MY CHILDHOOD in his stride, but he was gone when autumn came! And still I dream he’ll come to me, that we will live the years together, But there are dreams that cannot be, and there are storms we cannot weather!
I had a dream my life would be So different from this HELL I’m LIVING, So different now from what it seemed…Now LIFE has KILLED the DREAM I dreamed…
I’ll end todays prophetic word with a SONG of HOPE that Cosette sings in the play: Cosette means both, LITTLE ONE and VICTORIOUS PEOPLE.
“Castle on a Cloud” lyrics;
There is a CASTLE on a CLOUD. I like to go there in my sleep. Aren’t any floors for me to sweep, not in my castle on a cloud. There is a LADY all in WHITE, (Holy Spirit/Mother heart of God) HOLDS me and SINGS a LULLABY. She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch.
She says Cosette I LOVE YOU I VERY MUCH. I know a place where NO ONE IS LOST. I know a place where NO ONE CRIES. Crying at all is not allowed – not in my castle on a cloud.
Well friends, it is becoming more and more clear to me who God’s Exodus rescue includes. A beautiful yield is being gathered for Jesus, even as I speak. With ecstatic JOY we lift up praises to your holy name!
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