Take Your Stuff Back

There was a season I had some time ago, where I had several dreams from God. At one time, there were three different insights that seemed separate yet, they all went together – I want to share those with you today.

I felt it was God giving me revelation of the season we are in as well as instruction.

Here is one of the dreams:

In the dream, I was at a shopping mall. After purchasing some items at a particular store, I walked out of the store to continue my shopping. A few moments later it dawned on me that I had left my purse sitting on the sales counter. Immediately I turned around and ran back to the store to retrieve my purse. Thankfully, as I found the salesclerk, he explained he had already discovered my purse. “It is under the counter here. We knew you would be back,” he stated as he handed it to me. I was so relieved!

“Thank you so much!” I responded as I took it from him.

As I turned to leave, I noticed another man in the background. He had his head bent down, and I noticed he wouldn’t look at me. I knew something wasn’t right. Immediately I looked inside my purse and realized someone had been in it. My wallet was disheveled and things were pulled out of it. My heart began to beat faster as I checked my wallet for the $500 I had in cash. It was gone, along with my credit cards. It was all gone!

Suddenly, in the dream, I was in another room. In the room were several people, some I knew, some I did not. The same man who had gone through my wallet was in the corner of the room. I walked up to him and said boldly, “I know you stole my money and cards. Give them back!” He kept his head down the entire time refusing to make eye contact, but his presence was foreboding. He was a physically large man. When he refused to respond, I looked around the room and asked for help. Others watched the interaction, but they all just sat there refusing to intervene. Even the men remained in their seats unwilling to assist my need. I had enough, and that was it. I was so mad. Without further thought I walked over to the man, pulled him up out of his seat and began going through his pockets to get my money and cards he had stolen from me. Ironically, He did not resist, and I finally retrieved all my stuff. Then I woke up.

As I drove to work the morning after the dream, I contemplated why no one would come to my assistance to help me get my stuff back. It was then that God reminded me of a dream Breanne had about me a few weeks ago.

In her dream a tornado was heading our way, and we were running for her basement. As I ran, I fell. She tried to pick me up, but I said, “Go on, get the kids to safety.” In the dream she had called an ambulance to help me up, but the ambulance never came and I just lay on the ground the whole time.

As I continued to pray about what God was showing me in these dreams, He took me to the story about the man who lay beside the pool of Bethesda.

John 5:1-10 says, After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.

Finally, God began to impart to me the meaning of all three of these insights/ dreams and how they were linked together. I believe this is not only for me, but for the Body of Christ.

God is saying to us, (referring the story in John 5) “No one is going to put you in the water, although it is stirring. No one is going to pick you up. You are going to have to pick yourself up, because the water is stirring. And no one is going to get your stuff back for you from what has been stolen. You will have to get it back yourself.”

So often I get emails from people who want me to find scripture for them or find resources for them because they need healing or a financial miracle. I don’t mind doing that, but if you are not willing to dig for yourself, it may be hard for you to get your healing to manifest.

I am reminded of something I learned from Kenneth Hagin Sr. He often said that we must have “bulldog faith.” That means we don’t let go until we get it. Matthew 24 says “Those who endure to the end…” That means, if we lay hold of our promise and refuse to let go, we will have it. However, if we won’t go after our promise for ourselves, we will not see it.

This is important, for God is saying to you today, “The water is stirring. Go in and get your healing!” “The water is stirring. Go and get your stuff back!” And “The water is stirring. Get yourself up and stand firm in your faith and refuse to take no for an answer!”

This day, if YOU want it, you can have what God has promised you. You may have to take it all by yourself, but it is yours for the taking. Remember my dream? The man, who I know represented the devil, did NOT resist me at all. The enemy cannot resist the Word of the Living God. Go at him with the word and YOUR AUTHORITY and you will take back your stuff.

The time is now, the water is stirring, take your stuff back and become whole.

Father, I believe you are saying the time is now to take our stuff back. Therefore, in Jesus name, this day we take our stuff back, we release full authority in the name of Jesus and the blood of Jesus, and we take back our families, we take back our money, we take back our healing, and we take back our peace of mind, this day, we take it back, in Jesus name. Amen.