When I first began following God, I asked Him to help me to remember my dreams so that I could hear from Him. The next day, I woke up and remembered several short dreams. I shouldn't have been surprised but I was. I could never remember my dreams, like never. So, receiving several the very first night that I prayed about them was shocking.

The timing helped me to know without a doubt that remembering them wasn't a fluke, God answered my request immediately and the timing meant that I knew I should pay attention to those dreams so from that day on, I was very diligent about recording every dream. And as time would tell, they all meant something important.

At first, my dreams were very literal and about little things that would happen in my life. They weren't life-changing messages. Instead, they were very small literal glimpses of my future.

Journal Entry, August 1, 2005 - Link to original dream @ minute 1:57.

I took my cup to the soda fountain, stuck the cup under the spout, and pushed the lever. Nothing. I stuck my cup under the dispensers for the other flavors, nothing. I tried the machine right next to the first; and, nothing. No soda in either machine.

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

I rolled over and hit the alarm. I couldn’t believe that I remembered my dream. I had just prayed last night and asked God to speak to me in dreams and I remembered my dream!

What a weird dream, I thought, as I reached for my pad and pen and began scribbling in my brand new dream journal. This dream was not like my usual dreams, which are just jumbled bits of craziness. This dream was so vivid and normal, and I wondered what it meant.

After fixing a cup of coffee, I submitted my dream to a group of online dream interpreters and waited for a response. When I finished writing, I snapped my journal shut and prepared for the day. Not long after, I checked my messages and saw a response to my dream. Someone wrote, Your dream means that your spiritual cup is empty and needs to be filled. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

I must admit to being a skeptic. Admittedly, I didn’t know anything about interpreting dreams but I didn’t feel like the interpretation was right, so I quickly forgot about it and got on with my day.

I went to Walmart and while I was there I decided to take advantage of the McDonald’s food court. After paying for my meal, I took my cup to the drink area. Once there, I read the signs taped to the front of both drink machines:

Out of Order

I couldn’t get a drink out of either machine.

I stood slack-jawed staring at the machines. It was exactly what happened in my dream the night before last. I could not fill my cup. This is what my cup-filling dream meant; It meant that I would not be able to get a drink of Diet Coke at McDonald’s.

Did I seriously just dream about what I was going to do today, last night!?!?!

I was amazed. Flabbergasted even. I believed in prophetic dreams because of the Bible but I could not believe that God literally showed me what was going to happen today! The dream interpreters and the dream interpretation books were all wrong. My dream did not mean that I needed to be filled with the Spirit, it was 100% literal! And I was 100% shocked.

It took a while for the shock to wear off but before it did, the next night, I had two more dreams. I couldn’t believe that I could again remember my dreams. One dream was about a bunch of picture frames on the wall and the other was about my husband reformatting the computer.

After getting my coffee, I found my husband in the office. I sat myself down across from where he sat at the desk, and said, “I just had a dream that you reformatted the hard drive on the computer.”

“Yep. Just finished.” he said.

While managing to simultaneously have raised eyebrows and bugged-out eyes, I asked, “Were you planning to do something with picture frames?”

“Yep. How'd you guess? I'm going to go buy some in a minute to hang my Army achievements in”, he said with a cheeky grin, “I figured the office would be beautified by all of my accomplishments."

Holy cow. This was getting weird. I believed in hearing from God through dreams but I assumed that I would get spiritual messages like: My cup needed filling. At no point did I think that I would be

seeing things happen in my dreams before they happened in real life, and on a daily basis to boot!

This continued to happen every day for years and years. Each day, I would write down my dreams and each dream turned out to be tiny glimpses of my future. My dreams were so reliable and became so notorious that eventually people, who originally thought I had lost it completely with the dream stuff, would ask, “Have you had any dreams about me?”

Next, God Showed Me Literal Dreams Of The News

At first, my dreams were just about little things that would happen in my life. But then, I started having dreams that were identical to news stories. I would have a dream and then later that same week the exact same thing that I dreamt would become a headline news story. After this happened dozens of times, I began to post my dreams online to prove to my super skeptical husband that God was absolutely showing me things before they happened.

To prove it to him, I posted my dreams online in a Yahoo! group because once posted, I couldn’t change the details. After posting a dream in advance, and then seeing the exact same thing in the news a dozen times or so, even the skeptics conceded that there might be something to this 'prophetic dreams stuff.'

This went on for a year or so. I would post a dream and the same thing would happen in the news just days later. It was incredibly wild but I didn’t see the point of seeing news stories before they happened, but then God sent this dream.

June 17, 2006 - I post the following dream to my Yahoo! Group

July 13, 2006,

Almost a month after posting the above dream, my husband comes home from work and tells me this story:

“Joe and I went to the store, and as we were waiting to go through customs, a white truck comes flying through at 70 miles per hour. Police try to stop him, and one guy gets his hand sliced open. Twelve police vehicles flew after this vehicle. The truck slams into the back of another vehicle at 70 mph. The force was so incredible I am sure any passengers in the vehicle died instantly.” So, Joe (my husband’s boss) runs over to a field to see if he can see what is going on!”

Suddenly, I realize that I dreamed about this exact thing! So, I ask, “Was the road newly paved?”

“What?” my husband asks, confused that I would ask this strange question in the middle of his story.

“A month ago, I had a dream exactly like this story, and in my dream, the road was newly paved.”

“Wait a minute!” He gripes, “This is my story!”

Laughing, I replied. “Was the road newly paved or not?”

“Yes,” he grumbles. “Now, can I finish my story?”

When he finished his story, I handed him a printout of the dream.

To which, he says, “Well, we’ll see. If that guy survived, it will be a miracle.” He was convinced that there was no way a car could hit another vehicle with that much force and have anyone walk away.

But he did. It was a miracle.

“Many of us dream of being at the right place at the right time,” Villescas said. “Today was one of those incidents. Fortunate for us, unfortunate for this individual.”

The man not only survived, he ran away!

I was stunned. The miracle that I prayed for happened! And it blew me away.

Over the course of the previous year, I had written down dozens of dreams that became headline news but not one ended in a miracle. I had not prayed about the outcome of any my dreams because I figured that God knew what was going on, He was the One showing me these things. And I thought that a prophecy of the future was written in stone. I had no idea that any action on my part was necessary for God to do a miracle (and it probably it isn't). But after having this dream, I knew that God was using this dream to show me to pray so, I prayed, and for the first time, there was a miracle ending. The difference was that I was urged to pray.

Next: Amazing Grace - The Miraculous Results of Dreams & Intercession

Lessons Learned

1. If you can remember a dream, it is from God. Our mind's recording process is not in operation during natural sleep. If you are able to remember a dream, it's a supernatural dream and you should pay attention.
2. Prayer truly makes a difference. Pray over and diligently record all of your dreams so that you can shine God's light.

Prayer For A Baby Rescue Turns To A Miracle Exactly One Month Later!

Link To Other Miraculous Stories Involving Dreams

This very short story is one of the first steps to a full-blown gift of revelation, prophecy, miracles, signs, and wonders. God has worked through me to prophesy life after brain death, miraculous ocean rescues, exact dates of historic events, and so much more. But the first step to all that came from first pursuing hearing from God and following the inspiration in my heart.

One particular day, my prince charming and I were at odds with each other over something stupid. He was outside building something and I was inside cooking when he thought to himself, Why doesn’t she ever bring me a glass of water?

The moment that he had this thought, God put it on my heart to take him some water. But we weren't exactly at peace with each other, so at first, I grumbled, Nobody ever brings me water. Why should I get him a glass of water. He knows where the faucet it. But, exactly one second later, I decided to follow my heart by taking him some water.

Even though I decided to get him the water, I was still feeling a little emotional about the whole thing that was going on between us so I grumbled every step of the way from getting the glass, while filling it with water and delivering it to the prince charming himself.

Once outside, I handed-slash-thrust the glass at him and said, "Here."

He looked at me like I had grown another head, and with a big smile, said, "I was just out here sweating and thinking, Why doesn’t she ever bring me any water. And here you are."

"What are the odds that the first time I ever think to bring you water is at the same second you're grumbling to yourself about it?"

We both knew that it was God, and He put a big smile on both of our faces. Whatever stupid thing we were fussing over was immediately forgotten and we both thanked God for the inspiration from Him that smoothed it all over.

After years of following God, I've learned that he inspires us to do many of the things that come from the love within our hearts. When we're inspired to do something good for people, that inspiration can often be the first step toward something bigger. God speaks to our hearts and it is up to us to follow.

One of the first times that I delivered an accurate prophecy to my pastor started out as an inspiration to bake cookies for the church. I felt my heart move me to give. So I baked cookies and I took them to the church. As God would have it, I ended up running into and talking to the pastor. After just a moment or two, suddenly God gave me a word to share with him. After I was done, the pastor said, "I was just praying about that very thing with those very words an hour ago." Needless to say, he was grateful to have such an on-time word from God about something that was troubling him greatly. From the word that God gave me to share, I knew that was troubling him was very serious so I was ecstatic to see the relief on his face and to be a part of delivering it to him.

What God showed me was that He didn't give me the word until I followed the inspiration to love by taking my time and effort to make cookies and drive them to the church. God could have just told me to go to the church to give the word to the pastor but He didn't. First, He inspired me to do something out of love and only after I did the loving thing did He give me the supernatural second part. If I didn't do the normal and natural thing out of love first I wouldn't have been given the opportunity to do the fun miraculous thing second.

Following my heart, when it moves me to love people, has taught me how to move from glory to glory. I began following God by simply following the love and compassion in my heart while pursuing hearing from Him. As I did, I learned two things: One, any miracle of any sort usually begins with a kind and compassionate thought in my heart. Two, God gives us one piece at a time. When we follow the first piece, we get the second piece.

Any time that God gives me a spot on Revelation or prophecy for someone, it starts with a feeling of love or compassion for that person. Many times I don't know the person but God puts His love in me, I can feel true love, and that feeling stays present in me when I give a word or revelation.

Moving in the miraculous things of God and unlocking your spiritual gifts starts with love. If we don't love people with our natural abilities (like baking cookies or giving a ride) then we won't ever move in God's miraculous wonders. So, follow your heart. When your heart inspires you to take someone to lunch, do it. You never know, it might be God and that lunch may change a person's life.

Next: Lunch that changed a life.

and then...

Next: My favorite story about being given one piece at a time is 'Asking God for a Sign'

August 11, 2018

My whole body jerked as I entered the incredibly deep expanse of water and was plunged down into the terrifying depths.

Horrifyingly, the water went on for what seemed like forever in every direction; except up, but even up seemed so far.

The incredible expanse of the sea was terrifying. My first and only thought screaming through every fiber of my being, was, MY GOD! I don’t know if I will have time to reach the top of the water!!!

“Oh, my God!!” I thought, as my eyes snapped open, still fully aware of my heart pounding with fear in my chest.

Instantly, I was wide awake but still feeling the lingering terror from my brief experience beneath the sea. "Oh, God, help them, please!" I prayed earnestly and fervently, the feeling of abject terror still very fresh in my mind.

Knowing there was no way to go back to sleep, I rose to make a pot of coffee. As I prepared the morning brew, my thoughts kept traveling back to the sea. As always happens after I have one of these experiences, I couldn't shake the memory, so I logged into my prayer group to post a message:

I told the group that the only thing that I was certain of, is the expanse of water was enormous, like the ocean, and the person was way down deep all alone, all of a sudden, like a long fall from a cruise ship, so I am pretty certain that it is a cruise ship.

Several of the group's members assured me that they were praying with me.

A new member, Kaitlyn, asked, 'How do you know that it's a dream about someone else?"

"I've been dreaming like this for decades. Sometimes I have dreams about myself, which are like normal dreams. Other times, when I'm dreaming of someone else's life, it's like I'm there, and it's crystal clear, even clearer than real life, so it makes it easy for me to tell the difference. I'm certain that we will hear about this exact situation in the news very soon."

My heart went out to whoever would soon find themselves fighting for their lives in the depths of the ocean. Having lived a brief moment of their life, I was keenly aware of the terror that they would soon experience, so for days afterward, whenever the dream returned to my thoughts, I earnestly prayed that God would save them.

Nine Days Later

Lori was one of the people praying for this person. She knew that we were expecting to hear of a person that fell off of a cruise ship, so she sent me a message that said:

Mia, look at this: a woman survives for 10 hours in the water after falling off a cruise ship!!

My jaw dropped open as I read the words and realized that the miracle rescue we had been praying for had happened. Once I snapped back to reality, I screamed for joy and burst into tears of relief.

"God did it!! She is saved! Thank you, God! Thank you, God!

Thank you, God!" I'm not ashamed to say that I nearly screamed the roof down in absolute joy and relief.

Even my father, who maybe be the world's biggest skeptic, acknowledged that her survival was remarkable. With a somber tone, he said, "Most the time, these stories do not end like this; people do not normally get found like that."

I wanted to shout, 'But God!'

It was a prophesied, bonafide, miracle!!

Lesson Learned

Kay's miracle was not a random accident. God saved Kay Longstaff because the world needs to know that His Grace is Still Amazing.

According to 'DailyMail.com, investigators in Croatia and Italy both stated that Kay Longstaff did in fact jump 'voluntarily' in a 'determined' fashion from the seventh floor of the ship, falling 75 feet into the water and injuring her cheek from the force when she hit. The cruise boss's mother was reported to have called her a "stupid woman".

They reported that Kay's actions resulted in costs of hundreds of thousands of pounds for her rescue as the cruise ship went into search and rescue mode to find her, with witnesses stating it was a miracle she was found. (It was.)

Shortly after, reading Kay Longstaff's miracle rescue story, my joy turned to sadness as I read the comments of all the people judging her for her actions. There were thousands upon thousands of people commenting online in absolute indignation and outrage, calling for her to pay for her very costly mistake. I'm sure, to Kay, it felt as if the whole world were a village gathered together outside her cottage with torches and pitchforks.

The horror that Kay experienced in the ocean is something that most of us can't begin to understand. By the time that she was pulled out of the sea, she had already suffered quite enough, and had clearly paid for whatever mistake she made while out there on the brink of death for hours.

I thought of the 'story 'of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. The price for adultery was stoning. Since she was caught red-handed, she was dragged to where Jesus was standing to be stoned. The story portrayed Jesus intervening and saving the guilty woman by saying, 'Whoever of you that is without sin cast the first stone.'

One by one, every man dropped their stone.

Similarly, Kay made a terrible mistake and, without God's intervention, the cost of that mistake would have been her life.

Kay's story is a true example of God's amazing grace. Kay's story illustrates that God is still the same compassionate God who rescues people from paying for their mistakes.

When we make mistakes and suffer the consequences of those mistakes, we might think that God is punishing us. Or maybe we believe that we did the crime, now we have to do the time.

But God has a long history of saving people from their mistakes (and from those who want to stone us).

God doesn't let the wolf devour us because we went off the path. We're sheep. Sheep wander. Have you ever seen a shepherd beating their sheep or making them pay for wandering?

A good shepherd takes care of the sheep and doesn't blame them for being sheep. When God brings us back to the fold, he doesn't "make us pay" by secluding us in a barren section of the field where there's hardly a puff of grass to munch to "teach us a lesson." Having sickly sheep does not benefit the shepherd nor the future of the sheep. Instead, when God gets us back into the fold, He puts us back into the most nourishing situation that he can find, one that is full of fresh grass, sunshine, and freshwater, because He truly cares about the welfare of His sheep.

When we mess up as Eve did, when we follow the devil to our detriment, God devises a plan to bail us out. The Bible reveals time and time again that God is not a God who waits eagerly to give us what we deserve. A perfect example is the first example. As soon as Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden, God began a plan to restore humanity.

The wages of sin is death, but instead of making us pay, God sent Jesus to die so that we don't have to.

God, and His grace, is so amazing that even when we make destructive choices and find ourselves suffering the consequences, He comes to our rescue. He leaves the ninety-nine sheep for the one wandering black sheep, and His enormous love comes to save us from ourselves.

When it looks bad, and you know it's your fault, God wants you to know that He is still your deliverer. Kay's story is proof of that. Even though her actions brought her to the very literal brink of death, Amazing Grace walked in and carried her out.

Don't think because you've made a mess that God is sick of you and has finally had enough. Don't believe that He has decided to leave you in the big mess that you've made for you to sort it out yourself. Instead, believe that, like Kay, when we find ourselves in a mess of our own making, it is not too late for God to save us from our troubles. Before Kay stepped foot on that ship, God set in motion a plan to pull her out. Her rescue was not a happy accident, God had a plan to turn Kay's mess into a miracle in the making.

And he's ready to do the same for you.

Are you saved? Jesus died to save you. Did you spend too much and overdraft your account? He's willing to restore. Did you call in sick but shouldn't have and lost your job? He knows where you can find another. Did you get drunk and jump off a cruise ship? He is already answering prayers to save you before you even ask. He is that good, His love is that big, and His grace is that amazing.

After all the hullabaloo about how Kay found herself in the ocean died down, I wondered why God had not shown me the rest of the story. I asked why didn't He show me what led up to her fall or jump since it seemed to be rather significant to the whole story.

As I wondered this, suddenly, I felt in my heart so clearly:

"Because it didn't matter….The only thing that mattered was that there was a scared, helpless person who needed a savior."

And One showed up.

That, my friends, is Amazing Grace.

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The names have been changed to preserve the privacy of Karen, Joe, and her family.

Back in the old days, when I thought of God healing, I would think of a sudden, miraculous, spontaneous healing. I believed that getting God’s help with my health required a special kind of faith and prayer from a person with a special gift of healing. It never occurred to me that receiving help from God could come any other way. But since then I’ve seen God work in many supernatural situations and because God declared the outcomes in advance, I’ve discovered that God is behind many other less conspicuous recoveries as well.

The belief that God only works through sudden and spontaneous miracles can cause people to lose faith and miss out on the good future that God has planned for them. When we expect God to do things in one particular way, or when we expect Him to answer our prayers the way we expect Him to, our plan usually fails. When we go to a miracle conference expecting healing but don’t get a sudden spontaneous one, we leave discouraged and depressed and wondering why God did not heal us.

The real reason for the failure to receive from God is our misunderstanding of faith.

When I asked God, What is faith!? He responded by awaking me one night with a crystal clear answer. He said, 'Any issue you face can be solved by listening, believing, and following.'

Then, He showed me examples in the Bible that illustrate that faith is not a special power that some of us have and others lack. Faith is asking God for the answer, then listening, believing, and following.

A few days after the answer from God, He showed me the perfect example of listening, believing, and following when I was awoken by the Holy Spirit early in the wee hours of the morning. He showed me a vision of a person who had a mouth full of nuts and bolts. Next, was a vision of a pot of very healthy, beautiful, white, daisies.

He said the vision was for a friend of Karen who needed healing.

So I messaged Karen right away, and after a few minutes, she realized it was her uncle, Joe, who had recently been diagnosed with oral cancer and who had decided not to have surgery.

Karen explained that the doctor’s pre-surgery prognosis was not good. They gave Joe a year without surgery, but even with the surgery he only had 2 – 3 years and was told that he wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. Their prognosis had caused him to refuse the surgery and give up on life.

I told her that the vision meant to have the surgery as soon as possible.

Karen immediately called her mother to tell her of the vision and the instructions and when she did, she discovered the timing was remarkable. When her mother heard the news she explained that the family had just gotten together the night before to pray to God for help with Joe’s healing.

Less than twelve hours after their group prayer, God responded by giving me a supernatural revelation. I had no idea Karen knew anyone with cancer. Her family was very private and hardly anyone knew. But God knew.

Karen’s mother rushed Karen off the phone to deliver news to her brother who changed his mind and scheduled surgery the very next day.

Not long after, Karen posted the following testimony in my prophecy group.

Testimony… ?? by Karen in Prophetic Round Table

My uncle was recently diagnosed with oral cancer. The Doctor told my family that the cancer was aggressively spreading and surgery was needed ASAP. The Doctors told my family that they would need to remove a bone from his jaw and his chances of talking and eating regular food was slim. The Doctors gave my uncle no hope for the future. My uncle immediately refused surgery and had pretty much given up on life.

I called my mother and she wasted no time (As Mia instructed).

I am rejoicing and thankful to share that my uncle followed the instructions, and his surgery was a success. The Doctors were amazed because they did not have to remove the bone from his jaw, and was successful in removing all of the cancer. In addition to that my uncle called my aunt and talked to her for over 30 minutes two weeks after the surgery. God is so faithful!!!! We are so thankful to God for the healing miracle that took place in my uncle.

Mia, my family sends their love, and gratitude for your prayers, and obedience to God. Thank you so much!!!

_________________________________________

If Joe didn't immediately follow and have the surgery, the cancer would have spread and eventually it would have been too late to remove. When the doctors told him that it was already too advanced to remove, he had given up. But God knew differently!

God spoke and told them what to do and the result was the perfect example of faith. Joe listened, believed, and followed, and the result was better than anyone had hoped or expected.

Jesus First Miracle and the Listen-Believe-Follow Principle of Faith

 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

If this story in John is true, Mary's request for Jesus to miraculously make more wine was the first recorded miracle done through Jesus and it perfectly illustrates the blueprint for following God in faith: Listen, believe and follow.

When Mary wanted Jesus to make wine, she said to the servants, ‘Whatever He tells you to do, do it.’

Mary’s comment to the servants revealed that she was well acquainted with the 'listen, believe, and follow' principle of faith. She knew that the result would be connected to following Jesus’ instructions.

The servants followed Jesus’ instructions and the result was wine from water. And not just any wine, amazing wine.

Whatever He tells you to do, do it.

When you need a miracle, ask, listen, believe, and follow, whatever He tells you to do. Because, more often than not, when we approach God for anything, He gives us an instruction to follow.

For example, many of the miracles that Jesus did were accompanied by commands: Stretch out your arm, get up and walk, and go wash. These are just a few examples of listening, believing, and following that resulted in receiving the answer to prayers.

When we read the stories of the miracles that Jesus did almost all were accompanied by a command to follow and each one was different. In each situation, the command was different and unique to the situation. God doesn’t do things the same way every time, or even the same way twice much of the time. Instead, He does something unique in almost every situation because every person and situation is unique. When it comes to healing, sometimes He sends instant healing, other times, He tells a person to eat garlic or to have surgery. But the one thing that is always perfectly constant is the end result, it is always the same. When we follow God's instructions, He leads us to victory. When we seek Him and follow His instruction, He always provides a way of escape. When we follow God, we never lose.

Many people expect that if they didn't get sudden healing in a prayer line God didn't heal them but through seeing God work I've learned that many, many, many times God heals people when they seek Him for an answer and follow His direction.

Within this site are many examples of people being restored through following God's instructions for treatment. These stories reflect differing approaches to every problem. Sometimes, after all else has failed, people turn to God and He uses a natural treatment that works when nothing else would. God is the great physician, and He works through His creations, including plants and people. Other times, He has led people to have medical treatment which worked when it looked impossible. I've also seen Him raise people from brain death when the doctors have said there was no hope and nothing could be done. The key lies in knowing Him and following.

The following story is a perfect example of faith.

God told Karen's uncle what to do and promised good results IF he followed. If he didn’t follow, and chose not to go through the surgery based on the doctor's report, he would have died. But because he followed God, the ending turned out to be better than anyone ever expected. The doctors took out ALL of the cancer. They were amazed that they were ABLE to get all of the cancer.

If you were one of the Israelites who found yourself with the Red Sea in front, and Pharoah's army behind, you wouldn’t have a testimony if you did not follow God through the scary sea. We all think how easy it would be to walk through the sea but I think more than one person thought, What if the sea closes back up before I get through?

What if they were too afraid to follow the cloud into the parted sea? God provided an escape, but only those who followed prospered by it. If Karen's uncle didn't listen right then, before the cancer spread, he wouldn't have a testimony but he did exactly what faith is: He listened, he believed, and he followed God's promise and instructions.

Our walk with God is based upon our using our free will to follow His leading. Walking with God in a world at spiritual war is not, and never will be, free of trials. When there is a crossroads, when we come to a place where the sea is on one side and those trying to kill us on the other, God always provides a way out. Our part is to follow. All men are appointed to die once but if we follow God we don't have to die the first time death shows up on our doorstep looking for us.

Joe could have just doubted and died. Or believed the doctor's report and by doing nothing allowed it to come true but he chose to believe God. The result is victory. God directed him to get surgery right away and his outcome is amazingly better than what the doctors predicted. He has his mouth, his health, and A FUTURE instead of a certain death sentence. The best part, God was there with him through it all offering comfort, direction, and amazing results along the way. By following God the doctor’s grim report was put to naught and after more than two months on Death Row, God gave him his life back!

When God makes a way of escape, a lot of times, it’s the only way. When He made a way for the Israelites to escape through the Sea, it was the only way.

If you need something, ask. Then, whatever He tells you to do, follow!

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One day, a woman named Tina reached out to me to say she had a form of stage four cancer that is almost always fatal. Only about 2.5% of people with this cancer survive. She was told she only had months to live because people don’t recover from this cancer.

Honestly, it didn't look good in the natural scheme of things, so I felt a ton of compassion for her plight. She stayed on my mind and on my heart so when I thought of her I did the only thing that I could do and I just prayed to God.

Then, a couple of days after she found me, I came across a song. It was called "I Can See Clearly Now", sung by Jimmy Cliff.

As soon as I heard it, I thought of Tina so I prayed “God please….,” and immediately I start bawling like a baby.

Over the years, I've noticed something unusual. If I feel a lot of unexplained emotion and cry, it's a sign from God that a miracle is going to happen. Every time.

I felt an enormous amount of empathy for Tina. She was a single mom and had beautiful children who adored her. I couldn't imagine what they would do without her. I was really hoping that she would get healed because that was her only shot. In the natural, her chances were literally next to nothing.

Over the next few days, I thought of her frequently. Then one day, I felt a prophetic message for her, so I sent her an instant message.

Hi Tina, I wanted to share something with you… I have a strange thing that happens during intercession, whenever I pray for someone and weep, a miracle happens. Yesterday, I found the song that I sent to you, and I prayed... and I wept. I can’t tell you how much emotion I feel for you... and that song. I truly believe you will recover and I say recover because God sometimes heals people with medicine, but it is still Him when He says it in advance. You are going to recover. This story is going to be so wonderful.....

YOU WILL RECOVER,

your soul will not wither,
there is nothing but blue skies ahead,
HE PROMISED
keep that song on, stay in the Word, it is going to heal you!

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After I shared, her son messaged me, and said, “Thank you. That was the most encouraging thing I’ve heard about my mom so far.”

Months go by and I think of Tina often. Then, in November, I was having a pretty bad week, and I hear from Tina out of the blue.

Tina’s doctor ended up using a new type of chemotherapy and she is now cancer-free. Her recovery was so remarkable that there was a news story done.

Her message said:

“God did it!! Thank you for your prophetic word over me. I could never have made it through the darkness without you. Every time my faith lagged I thought of your words. You helped my unbelief. You my dear are proof that there’s a God!”

Her message could not have come at a better time. The day she messaged me was smack dab in the middle of the worst period of my life. I was literally going through hell at the time and I didn't realize how much I had been internalizing my feelings until I burst into tears. I felt a flood of emotions and I just cried. Her message opened a dam that needed to be opened. I didn't realize it but I needed a really good cry and once I started I didn't stop until I cried a lot of the stress I had been feeling away. To be honest, I cry every time I read it, even today as I write about her miracle.

In the end, I felt like God used her miracle to help us both. He gave me the joy of helping her and that helped lift me out of a dark pit. Hearing from her during my trip through the valley saved me too. It was exactly the medicine that I needed.

His promises are always faithful and true. What can I say, except; God is amazing. He always leaves me blown away.

God delivered. Her treatment was so remarkable that a news story was done. Tina did recover and her story IS wonderful. ”

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THE NEWS STORY

The Story

A Delavan woman thought she was gaining weight, but it turned out to be something much more serious. Tina Ferguson had 30 pounds of tumors in her stomach from a rare type of cancer.

“I just thought it was middle age and weight gain,” said Ferguson. “You have no idea you have something inside you that is killing you.

A trip to the doctor gave her a diagnosis of ovarian cancer that was possibly benign. But when the doctor’s opened her up to remove it they found something unexpected.

“I will never forget them coming in the room and saying, ‘This is stage 4. You have appendix cancer,'” said Ferguson.

On top that, it had ruptured attaching tumors to other organs and leaving a jelly-like substance called mucin in the lining of her abdomen. There were 30 pounds of it inside of Ferguson pushing on her organs.

“This is the mucin and tumor that’s present inside of the abdomen before Tina had her operation,” said Dr. Harveshp Mogal, MD, cancer surgeon, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, pointing out the mass.

It took doctors 12 hours to remove it all. The rare cancer used to come with a very low survival rate. Ferguson was first told she had months to live.

However, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin used a new kind of chemotherapy called Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to wash the tumors out.

“I basically give the patient a heated chemotherapy wash for about 90 minutes. The chemotherapy is heated to 108 Fahrenheit and what the chemotherapy does it takes care of any minute cancer cells that we can’t see,” said Mogal.

He said she is now cancer-free, just six months later.

“It’s changed my entire outlook on life. You know almost dying, you can’t take anything for granted. Every day is a gift,” said Ferguson.

God leads everyone to their promise differently. No matter how He leads you, follow! Because following is faith!

Double Blessing Confirmed

Are you praying? Or Stressing? Most of the time, I do pretty well with optimism. If there was a group that was too optimistic, I would be a member. But there are times when I feel overwhelmed, and when I find myself in a situation outside of my ability to fix, I get a little stressed.

Many years ago, my house was hit by a hurricane. I lived on a barrier island in a mobile home. Insurance doesn’t cover older mobile homes on barrier islands for a good reason; they would lose money. After the hurricane, I returned home to find my house split down the middle, water pouring in, and huge gaping holes in floors. I was disabled, and a full-time caretaker for my grandson, who was on the autism spectrum, which meant my income was minimal, daily living consumed all of it, and savings was not an option.

When the bills and basic grocery shopping needs were taken care of, there was nothing left, so I had no idea how I would pay for the repairs, and, needless to say, I was stressed. I had no idea what I was going to do, and as I thought about the problem, I felt an enormous amount of stress stirring up inside of me. I was thinking, What am I gonna do? I can’t leave it. It will get worse. But I can’t do anything about it right this second either. Normally, if a problem comes up, I just fix the problem. But I couldn’t just up and fix this problem. It was out of my control. I needed God to make a way because, without His help, there was no way. And if God wanted me to take care of this little boy, I needed help.

Fiery Darts

Thinking about what would need to be done and trying to figure it out wasn’t helping anything except for the turmoil swirling inside of me. I realized that I needed to put up my shield of faith. I recognized that I needed to do, as Barney Fife says and, NIP IT. YOU GOTTA NIP IT. YOU GOTTA NIP IT IN THE BUD. So I stopped what I was doing (laundry, happy to stop), and I prayed and remembered that GOD promised that if I seek His kingdom first, all these needs will be provided.

BUT, I still wanted Him to comfort me. I NEEDED HIM to comfort me.

Then, I remembered that God sent supernatural comfort to a person through my last week. While I was asleep, I felt a message playing over and over in my spirit: The confirmation for Zee’s funding is a yes. A little after 6 am, I realized that the message wasn’t going to go away until I sent it to Zee., so I got up and sent the message: ‘Confirmation for the funding is a yes.’ Along with a question, ‘Is this something you’re praying about?’
He said, “Sister, the Holy Spirit had me out of bed at 4:45 am to pray about this.”

And probably at that exact moment that he got out of bed to pray is when the message started playing inside of my spirit, and by 11 am that same morning, he had his funding. . Just suddenly, out of nowhere, someone messaged Zee with the answer to his prayers. God sent Zee the answer in advance so that Zee would know it was God that did it all.
It reminded me: ASK AND RECEIVE. SEEK AND FIND. KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED.”…You will call to Me and come to pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares The Lord. (Jeremiah 29)

Realizing that I have a GREAT GOD who has never let me down, Warrior Me said to Buttercup Me, ‘Suck it up, Buttercup. You know that God’s got a plan.’ I felt my heart say, If I know God will work it out, then there is no need to stay in a mess of emotions. So, I stopped thinking about the thoughts that were increasing my stress and simply asked God to please send me confirmation that I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing and that He has a plan.

That night I had a vision. I saw words written on my hallway wall. The words were about 12 inches high and looked like wooden decor hung on my wall in the hallway. It woke me up, but I couldn't remember what they said. So I prayed, God, if that was you, please send the message again. I fell back to sleep and had the same vision again. It said: DOUBLE BLESSING CONFIRMED.The next day, while peeling potatoes, the understanding of the meaning of the words in the hallway dropped into my heart. I knew God was saying I was in a place of transition, and I am almost through. Two days later, Kathleen Moore-Elliot, who knew nothing of my dream and interpretation, sends me a message that says, “I’ve been thinking about you for a few days. I feel there is a transitioning going on. You are in a place of transition.”Her message confirmed the interpretation of the vision that God gave me. I am in a transition place but headed toward double. God sent double confirmation of my double blessing.

God rocks!! He is the greatest comforter. When I'm stressed, there is NOTHING on Earth like a touch of comfort from Him, and He's never failed to send me a message of comfort, and oftentimes it's in advance. He’s always there and ready to answer. ?

I wrote all this to encourage and remind that we can ask God for comfort. That’s the Holy Spirit’s name: The Comforter. If you need comfort, ask. (It also helps to be hooked into a fellowship of people who can hear from God because He will send confirmation.)

Plus, it’s Biblical.

Hearing from God through Dreams

4 For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.15 He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.

God speaks to Man Through Dreams and Visions.

In Numbers 12:6, “If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord, would reveal myself in visions. I would speak to them in dreams.…..”

I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

God Is Waiting to Respond

“I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name.

Then you will call on me, and I will answer.

Update: Two years later.

When I wrote all of this, I had no extra money, no way to borrow money, and it was guaranteed another hurricane would be coming before I could fix the damage. My anxiety was overwhelming.

But God said that a double blessing was coming my way, and it did. After this post, I lost everything that I owned, and it looked like the opposite of doubly blessed. My life got worse, much worse before things got better.BUT! As promised, God gave me back double EVERYTHING! In the end, I have a beautiful completely renovated ranch on four acres in the most beautiful spot imaginable. The view is amazing. I have a more than a doubly better vehicle. I have a beautiful fifth wheel (waaaaay better than the one I had before). And every possession that I own, furniture included, is doubly better than it was before. PLUS, He doubled my income!! Literally, EVERYTHING in my life, including my relationships, is doubly blessed. Everything in my life is incredibly better, and so am I. Everything that I went through God used to help me inside and out. Nothing in my life is the same, including me. It’s so much better than I could ever have imagined, and it was all God. He literally just forced me to leave my home and sent me to a place where He had everything prepared and waiting for me. It was all just given to me without any searching or making it happen on my part. I still can’t get over how accurate the answer from God was. He doubly blessed me and then some!

God is amazing. When I was under attack, the comfort He gave me was priceless, and the double blessing is amazing. My home is beautiful, its location is absolute heaven, and every relationship in my life is DOUBLE BLESSED better than it ever was. He did it all. I did nothing to make any of it happen. When I needed it, it was there. He who promised is faithful. I literally walked through the valley of the shadow of death but on the other side was the table prepared before me in the presence of my enemies, exactly as he promised.

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One day, I had an unction from God to pester Vivian, a group member, to see a doctor. Every day, it seemed like she was on my heart along with a message that we won’t live to be old if we don’t take care of ourselves, and that includes medical treatment when God leads.

So, I let her know what I had heard and suggested she see a doctor.

A couple of weeks later, I started feeling the same unction again. I was showering and getting ready to walk out the door to flee from Hurricane Irma when God put Vivian and her health on my heart again. Vivian needs to see a doctor. So, I messaged her and told her the Lord put her on my heart a second time to make her appointment. I asked if she had made an appointment yet. She said, No.

I really knew nothing about Vivian's life or health. Zero. She is a very private person and rarely shares her day to day, like, never. But God was showing me something, and if He was showing me, she needed to see a doctor.

She said, “Wow, forgot it, I will make sure on Tuesday blood pressure been high, headaches, hmmm getting kinda worried now.”

“Don't worry just make your appointment,” I said, “Remember... he's telling you to get regular checkups and stay on top so that you CAN live a long life. Not because it's too late.”

A few weeks later, she posted this:

Amen!! He is good!

And that’s how it goes when we learn to follow God. He leads everyone differently. Any issue we face will be solved if we listen, believe, and follow.

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Learning to Pray

For decades, I have experienced future news headlines at night in my sleep.

When I wake up, I write what happened online in my prayer-prophecy group, and then, very soon after, I read the same thing in the news headlines.

When I first began having dreams, I did not pray about the outcome of the dreams. I just wrote what I saw because I knew that every detail would soon match a future headline news story. If I dreamed about running from a natural disaster, the news would be about people running from a disaster. If I dreamed about people in a mountain forest fire, people were caught in a mountain forest fire days later. If I dreamed of a hurricane causing significant delays and tossing ships like toys, the same thing would happen almost immediately. Many of my dreams became headline news within days of publishing them.

After more than a year of documenting these things, God took me to the next level when He sent me a clear message that I needed to pray about the outcome of the dreams.

This dream was a good example of how God uses dreams to communicate messages.

As soon as I had this dream, my daughter's insistence that I "bless the road" made it obvious that I was supposed to pray about the outcome. So, I did. Then, I waited to hear of a miraculous ending.

Next-Level Ending

Less than a month after posting the dream, Tom came home from work and started telling me a story that was identical to this dream:

"Joe and I went to the store, and as we were waiting to go through customs, a white truck comes flying through at 70 miles per hour. Police try to stop him, and one guy gets his hand sliced open. Twelve police vehicles flew after this vehicle. The truck slams into the back of another vehicle at 70 mph. The force was so incredible I am sure any passengers in the vehicle died instantly." So, Joe (my husband's boss) runs over to a field to see if he can see what is going on!"

Suddenly, I'm thinking, I dreamed about this exact thing! So, I asked him, "Was the road newly paved?"

"What?" Tom asks, confused that I would ask this strange question in the middle of his story.

"A month ago, I had a dream exactly like this story, and in my dream, the road was newly paved."

"Wait a minute!" He gripes, "This is my story!"

Laughing, I replied. "Was the road newly paved or not?"

"Yes," he grumbles. "Now, can I finish my story?"

After he finished his story, I handed him a printout of this dream.

When he was finished reading, he said, "Well, we'll see. If that guy survived, it will be a miracle."

Then, he went on to assure me that there was no way a car could hit another vehicle with that much force and have anyone walk away.

But he did.

Miraculous Ending

The police officer who apprehended the man (who not only survived but ran away from the crash) said this:

"Many of us dream of being at the right place at the right time," Villescas said. "Today was one of those incidents. Fortunate for us, unfortunate for this individual."

The man not only survived but ran away! The miracle that I prayed for happened! I hoped for a miracle. I prayed for a miracle. Then, it happened, and it blew me away.

Until I had this dream, I hadn't prayed about the outcome of any of my dreams. To be honest, I didn't believe my prayers mattered, but I knew that God was using this dream to show me to pray. So, I prayed, and for the first time in the year since God had begun to show me the future, there was a miracle ending. By the time I had this dream, God had shown me dozens of news headlines before they happened but not one ended in a miracle. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize that God used this dream to show me that I was missing it. Lesson Learned. These days, I pray, and now miracles happen.

This dream was the start of a miraculous prayer life. I followed the instructions to 'bless the road,' and ever since then, as you can see through the stories on this website, God has been turning prophetic dreams into legitimate miracles.

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For decades, I have experienced future news headlines at night in my sleep.

When I wake up, I write what happened online in my prayer-prophecy group, and then, very soon after, I read the same thing in the news headlines.

When I first began having dreams, I did not pray for the outcome of those dreams. I just wrote what I saw because I knew that every detail would soon match a future headline news story.

If I dreamed about running from a natural disaster, the news would be about people running from a disaster. If I dreamed about people in a mountain forest fire, people were caught in a mountain forest fire days later. If I dreamed of a hurricane causing significant delays and tossing ships like toys, the same thing would happen almost immediately. Whatever I saw in my dream would soon be headline news.

After more than a year of documenting these things, God took me to the next level when He sent me a dream as a clear message that I needed to pray about the outcome of the dreams.

This dream is that dream.

Next Level Ending

Less than a month after posting the above dream, Tom came home from work and started describing what I saw in this dream:

"Joe and I went to the store, and as we were waiting to go through customs, a white truck comes flying through at 70 miles per hour. Police try to stop him, and one guy gets his hand sliced open. Twelve police vehicles flew after this vehicle. The truck slams into the back of another vehicle at 70 mph. The force was so incredible I am sure any passengers in the vehicle died instantly." So, Joe (my husband's boss) runs over to a field to see if he can see what is going on!"

Suddenly, I'm thinking, I dreamed about this exact thing! So, I asked him, "Was the road newly paved?"

"What?" Tom asks, confused that I would ask this strange question in the middle of his story.

"A month ago, I had a dream exactly like this story, and in my dream, the road was newly paved."

"Wait a minute!" He gripes, "This is my story!"

Laughing, I replied. "Was the road newly paved or not?"

"Yes," he grumbles. "Now, can I finish my story?"

He finished the story, and I handed him a printout of this dream.

To which, he says, "Well, we'll see. If that guy survived, it will be a miracle." He assured me that there was no way a car could hit another vehicle with that much force and have anyone walk away.

But he did.

Miraculous Ending

The police officer who apprehended the man who not only survived but ran away from the crash said this:

"Many of us dream of being at the right place at the right time," Villescas said. "Today was one of those incidents. Fortunate for us, unfortunate for this individual." The man not only survived but ran away!

The outcome left me dumbfounded. The miracle that I prayed for happened!!! I hoped for a miracle. I prayed for a miracle, and when it happened, it blew me away.

Until I had this dream, I hadn't prayed about the outcome of any of my dreams. Unti then, I believed that a prophecy of the future was written in stone. I had no idea that any action on my part was necessary for God to do a miracle (and probably it isn't), but I knew that God was using this dream to show me to pray. So, I prayed, and for the first time, there was a miracle ending. It was a big deal because I had had dozens of dreams become newspaper headlines by the time I had this dream, but not one ended in a miracle.

It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize that God used this dream to show me that I was missing it. Lesson Learned. These days, I pray, and now miracles happen.

Jeremiah 31 says that we would not need anyone to teach us to know God under the New Covenant because all of God's people would know Him.

This dream was the start of a miraculous prayer life. I followed the instructions to pray ('bless the road'), and ever since then, as you'll see in the stories on this website, God has been turning my prophetic dreams into miracles.

This understanding of faith and my relationship with God was life-changing. It is how I began to live my life. I listened, believed, and followed... and sometimes I looked as crazy as old Noah.

Looting & Riots Coming - Time to Move

But God showed me that if Noah didn't build the boat and Pharaoh didn't store the grain, they would not have had a victory. He still leads us the same way, it is up to us to follow. Faith is listening, believing, and following.

At the time that I messaged Carol, I lived in a densely populated area and God had shown me that soon we were going to have serious problems because chaos, rioting, and looting, were going to come civil war style. He put a burden on me to prepare to remove myself from the mess, so I started planning to do exactly that. Within two months of sharing with her, God made a way for me to move. He provided everything and I moved.

My move was like when God told Joseph the famine was coming. He didn't just tell them what to do, He sent them what they needed to do it. Oh, what a great God He is

Just prior to COVID & all the looting and rioting, I was in the best place I could be. God sends the message and gives us time to prepare. He still leads us personally the same way He did for Noah and the flood, and Egypt and the famine, and Moses and the Israelites. Following Him means our welfare is His problem and He will prepare us for safety as long as we follow.