Background: All day today I had this pressing need building within me;  I wanted to go running to the Father as soon as I got home from work. I NEEDED to hear from Him, I needed to hear His Voice.

As the Lord has been training me, I came to the Lord humbling myself before Him, confessing my sins, asking for His forgiveness and pleading His blood over me. I submitted to the Holy Spirit and asked for Him to anoint my ears to hear, my eyes to see, my spirit to understand what He would have me understand this night. The Loving Holy Spirit granted me the following vision….

Apples

The vision opened with me at Heaven’s gate.  This gate was tall, so tall, made of gold bars and curved across the top in two arcs like a wave or a camel’s hump.  Angels opened the gate for me saying, “Welcome.” I entered in.  As I walked I passed people on the streets.  I asked everyone I passed, “Do you know where Abba Papa is?”  I don’t believe I received any response.  I walked for a while.

I came to an edge of a clearing, a beautiful hilly valley.  I saw Jesus sitting under the shade of an Apple tree located within a grove of trees fully green and bountiful.  I went running to Him.  I kneeled down in front of Him and saw he was eating an apple; He then handed one to me.  I took it and we ate our apples, crunching in silence.  I then was sitting next to him, our backs to this Apple tree, his one arm laid atop my shoulders still eating our apples.

He then spoke to me saying, “Sometimes, all you can see is the army before you but I would have you see a higher vision – My Perspective.”

The view then splayed out in a panoramic vision and I saw before us the front line of an army, like straight out of Braveheart or Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, lined up staring at us, ready to engage in battle.

The Lord continued speaking to me saying, “Do I look worried? Did I ever strive? I AM Lord of the Day. I AM Lord of the Night. I see what battles fray. Rest. Come to Me and Rest.” 

I then saw a quick flash of Jesus – the Lord Most High – coming down from the hill towards me with a few others on each side of Him.  He came down surrounded by clouds of Glory which were behind and beneath Him.  He came down on top of and in front of the army totally obscuring it.

I heard the Lord ask me, “So. Are you ready?”

Time passed as if I were in a trance and then I heard the Lord say to me, “My Word is a lamp onto your feet and a light onto your path.  Rest in My Word and let Me fight your battles.”

I asked the Lord, “Lord, how do I rest?”

He replied, “It’s surrender. Whom do you trust? Who is in control? It’s laying your life down for Mine – picking up the life I give you and running in the path of my commands.”  This statement made me think of Psalm 119:32 where David said, “I run in the path of His commands for He has set my heart free.”  I then heard, “I love you My Child, My Bride.  Come, come sit with Me and stay awhile.”

The vision ended.