The Bible 3D IMAX

I really love stories like Thor, Green Lantern, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings.  They are really suspenseful. They sell out in the box office too because of all the flying quiditch balls, the action and love scenes. This past week, Harry Potters last movie came out and It really sold like usual at the box office. People have been gaga over JK rowling! How does she do it? What is she doing?

I know as a Christian I should like Harry Potter because of the witch craft. I try to tune that out and like the movie for the great directing (Lord please forgive me) But it makes wonder why they haven't had the same success with bible stories. I mean... why can they take the story of david and make it like Lord of the rings? A small little Jewish farm hobbit has to fight a huge Goliath in a pasture 300 style. That would be awesome!

The second movie in the thrillogy would be when that King wants to kill david and the third would be bathsheba. Matter of fact, we can keep going and head straight into solomon. Dude's story is great. we would do the same for Joseph and Ester and other Bible great. When I read the bible it reads better than JK Rowling  at least the amplified version does. I mean. When I watch spartacus on Starz, I feel like i could be watching Daniel in the lions den.

I watched that TD jakes movie jumping the broom. It sure was good, and it hid christian values in a really good story plot. Issues of abstinence were woven into the plot in a way that just made you say yeah some people wait and made it seem normal. It didnt shove it down peoples throat. It made people  subconsciously open to the idea.

After all they say the devil tries to make things appealing so you let him in without even knowing. Maybe we as Christians need to get off our high horse about what is acceptable ways to get out a message. More people would be open to Christ if we told his story in the way we understand it nowadays. Jesus told parables to help us understand. Now we dont speak in parables, we speak in Facebook statuses and tweets and trailers.

Check out this Manga version of the bible. Comic Book style. What do you think ? (By the way, a Nigerian is behind this idea! I think it's awesome)

 http://blog.cleveland.com/lifestyles/2008/02/new_manga_version_of_bible_tur.html

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The Lord can interpret your Dreams! Just Ask

Let me start by saying.. in Job 33:15, the bible defines a dream as "in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

Okay so those that read my blog know that I had a zombie dream. Well actually, for the past few days, I've been having really vivid crazy dreams. Some were really scary, some based on my real life, some based in fiction. Its even more weird when you have no meaning to what you are dreaming. So after church yesterday, and after talking to a friend of mine about another dream I had, I drove in my car and started praying to God. I prayed to Him, thanked Him for being my Father, a never ending God, in control of all. I thanked him for being a Magnificent All Powerful God, and all of a sudden I started praying about my dreams. I prayed and asked Him that He take control, that in the bible, there is nothing that says dreams are bad, and that, in fact;God helped Joseph and Daniel decipher dreams. So I asked HIM to reveal to me all my dreams. I told HIM that I am happy i can go to HIM and ask Him for ALL things, and that what I was asking for was that He as the Creator of dreams should also be my Interpretor. I asked that anything the devil tries to put in my head, the Lord should cast out, that I rebuke lies and deceit, because the Lord is the truth and light. I asked that dreams that have no meaning, I should be able to discern from dreams where the Lord is delivering His Word to me. As you know not all dreams are prophetic, some are just dreams, some are lies, and some are visions in sleep of things to come, changeable or unchangeable. I kept asking the Lord to reveal his message to me when there is one. That I am ready for it.


okay lets rewind back... some time ago, my mom had a dream about me, that I would get into a car accident. Before I left on a trip,  she called me when she woke and started praying for me. We prayed... and prayed............................... and prayed. And I really dismissed the whole thing. I shouldn't have because God was truly speaking. If my mom didn't pray for me, I would have had a really bad situation. Basically, I was driving, I wasn't tired and I got a great nights sleep the night before, but all of a sudden, sleep befell me, and I fell asleep at the wheel and almost ran into the median. Well actually I did run into the barrier, but only my side mirror and wheel hit. We thank God that I got a phone call that buzzed me awake and got me to have control of the wheel. If I didn't get that call, I would be road kill! We thank God for that intervention. God moved someone to WAKE me. It wasn't my time, and God warned us so we could pray for his favor.

Here's the thing, I pulled into a rest stop which was only half a mile away from where I fell asleep and I called my mom and said "don't ever call me to tell me I will be in an accident!". I was freakin' FREAKED OUT at that time! at that time i didn't realize what I was saying. it was an ungrateful statement. I was basically saying that the Lord should not reveal things to me. so my mom basically put me in check to let me know... HEY! the Lord reveals things to people in many ways and if he has revealed something to someone to give you that message, you should be ready to accept that message at ALL times. Its the difference between life and death. So i really saw what she meant and thanked God and thanked him and thanked him! God is good...

okay going back to my dreams.... so after my prayer, I went on with my day. I even by evening forgot my prayer. I was on to other things... but I am living proof that the Lord does answer prayers... lets get to what I actually want to write about... this is going to be a LONG blog...

Okay so let me start by saying that I am a geek. I love everything scifi... I love zombie movies, vampire movies, alien movies, and high tech end of the world type of movies. As a christian, I know that bad, but I never cut them out. Bad bad me. I watch shows such as Tru Blood, Star Gate SG1, Haven, Eurika, etc.

Anyway last night my favorite cast from Star Gate SG1 was in my dreams. I was there too! Basically, there was something like a virus or bug that was making things rapidly rot. It started slowly and all of a sudden would quickly take over the world without warning and rot everything DEAD! This included the people, including my SG1 cast, you and me. THEN.... We would un-rot, and have a change to try to slow, stop or reverse the "bug". We tried it several times. All sorts of science didn't work! Nothing worked. I woke up, and rather than stay awake, I went back to sleep! I went back to trying to solve it in my dream and I started to pray in my dream. As I was praying I was saying that I am a child of God and that I choose life, not death. I kept saying that the devil has no power over me. somehow the rotting passed me and a few people over as it waved over the earth. and then as usual, it refreshed and the rotting started again, but this time, I knew where it was coming from. there was a bin with maggots/termite type bugs, and they were ready to start rotting evertyhing on earth. The team was recognized with a medal and made in charge of thing, but people didnt realize that it wasnt science that stopped the rot, it was prayer, and when people didnt realize that, the rot came back and even reached the space station where the SG1 team was. Noone was safe. But in praying over and over again, I kept getting spared. and the rot could tell who was of God and who wasn't. It had no effect, and ever ran from those who were God's children. We were ministering to the rot... and I woke up...

WOW. that dream was intense. I got up to go to the bathroom and midstream... yes i started praying and peeing... but mid stream i started praying. I was praying in my mind, and all of a sudden I started praying aloud. I usually dont like to pray aloud because my mouth is not as fast as my mind, but I was moved to pray aloud and it was just as fast as my SPIRIT b/c i was trying to understand what i was praying. Man!!!! what in the world... or I should say what in the heavens... My prayers as I was hearing myself was a revelation of my dream. I kid you not. I just started crying and praying. We thank God!

That revelation was not anything I didn't know. The long and short is that all of this is God's. He is the creator. He has control of all. even the devil. The Lord will allow the devil to test us. After all we all have free will. and get this... we all get 2nd chances. We all get a chance to do it over, but if we keep doing it over the wrong way, then we are choosing death. things of this earth are of the flesh. it may look pretty on the outside, but its really rotting inside. And there is no science or rational that can prevent it. Only the Lord has that power. So why are we looking to science, money, psychics, or things of the flesh? it wont stop the rot. And remember, God only gives us so many chances until our chances are up and he calls us to be judged.

For me, I want to be among the first wave, those that reach the gates and are permitted entry, and if I live to see the End of Days, I want to be part of that Second wave where Jesus calls us up to him. I dont want to stay on this earth to be part of that ROTTING and DEATH. Everlasting LIFE is my portion !!!! We thank God!!!!

So that was my dream!...

On a side note, yesterday in church they talked about spiritual maturity and how you can't be satisfied with just being born again. That maturing in your Christian life is a must! So in my prayer, I thanked him for this step in the process to spiritual maturity. God is calling me to MATURE. Is he calling you? If so, dont let it go to Voicemail, Pick up and answer that Call! Answer each and every time he Calls. Let the Holy Spirit be that special ring tone!

Anyway sorry to get all preachy today, but that dream just moved me this morning. So there you have it. I hope you learned something from this that I'm sharing! We thank God for it....

And BTW, I just found while writing this blog a great webpage that talks about dreams and the bible... a nice read. What does Bible say about DREAMS?

Have a great and bless week folks!