Are you "in the thick of it" right now? Are you stuck "in between" a rock and a hard place? Then this word is for YOU!
Ella Onakoya had a most intriguing dream that she believes is meant to encourage those stuck in those tough spots right now. She shares:
Now, I don't know about you...but I find that VERY reassuring! Be sure to pass this one along to your friends...and anyone who needs to read this...so they can be encouraged too! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
4 Days Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Fairly recently I had a dream where a man was hanging between two, long cliffs. He was in a very precarious position, as if he could fall at any time. His life was clearly in danger and in the dream I counted 4 days when he was between the cliffs. If he had made any wrong move he would have fallen and would have been killed. I and others were concerned, thinking of and looking for ways to get help and set him free. However, despite the precarious position he was in, I discerned that his heart was at rest as he focused on the Lord.
"I hear the loving caution of the Lord to guard our hearts from darts of the enemy that will attack our thoughts to cause us to doubt His faithfulness and goodness." |
Each day I would look to see if he was still there and I would think, "Thank God he's still there." By the end of my dream it seemed somehow he had been set free and he was safe. I woke up from this vivid dream and started to pray for angelic help and the mercy of God to be sent to anyone who seems to be hanging on to life by a mere thread and to be set free and lifted up to safety.
Abundant Grace for Rescue
The man in the dream became free after 4 days. It was on the 5th day that I noticed he was no longer hanging between the the cliffs. The number 5 is symbolic of the grace of God. It is interesting to note that in John 11, Scripture says that Lazarus was in the grave for 4 days. 4 is a number that seemed to signify such an impossible situation. So much so that the Jews felt even Jesus would be unable to raise Lazarus from the dead after that number of days. I believe in terms of this dream, the number 4 is symbolic of long-standing situations of great difficulty and uncertainty that are about to enter into a new phase of the intervention of God. God desires to release an outpouring of His divine grace and favor to those in the Body of Christ who are in these situations.
I sense the Lord's assurance that the tide is turning for the Church and He will arise to release justice and favor on behalf of His faithful saints, even when it seems the enemy had been winning the battle.
Daniel 7:22 has a very clear promise from God concerning the victory that is coming to God's people. It seemed as though the enemy was winning, "Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the Kingdom."
A Quickening of Victory
I believe it's the timing of Heaven for a release of an accelerated grace and favor for God's saints to inherit the Kingdom. Many are going to experience a shift from delays to a quickening of victory in various ways.
I sense a shift from delays to a victory of divine turnaround of healing for long-term illnesses. (Photo via Unsplash)
As I minister in the nations, I have witnessed many such instances of long-term illnesses being healed as the Lord has had me pray for them. Amongst those was a man in Norway who was healed after 25 years of chronic pain. Recently, another man was healed in New York after 15 years of infirmity. Because it is the timing of Heaven for God's saints to experience divine intervention in long-term sicknesses, there are those who will experience divine healing even without the human (and Biblical) intervention of the laying on of hands as the Lord, Himself, will sovereignly touch these saints.
For example, at a meeting in Norway, the sick were lined up to receive prayer for healing and I was laying hands on each person to pray for them. As I reached a particular man to pray for him, he remarked that he didn't need prayers as he was healed while standing for prayer. He said he felt an unseen hand rest on him and his pain disappeared. He was touched directly by the Lord. Heaven is declaring a shift in the season from delays to victories!
Depression and Suicide are Defeated by the Love of God
I also believe attacks of depression and suicidal thoughts will be broken by the power of God's love. I hear the loving caution of the Lord to guard our hearts from darts of the enemy that will attack our thoughts to cause us to doubt His faithfulness and goodness. This is a strategy of the enemy to cause those who are in the "in between" place of their present circumstance and breakthrough to fall on the slippery slope of defeat, instead of entering their breakthrough. Attacks of depression and suicidal thoughts are gaining a foothold in some in the Body of Christ to hinder them from receiving God's best for their lives.
"I woke up from this vivid dream and started to pray for angelic help and the mercy of God to be sent to anyone who seems to be hanging on to life by a mere thread and to be set free and lifted up to safety." |
I believe God wants me to share strategies on how to receive freedom from depression and suicidal thoughts. Begin by affirming God's goodness over your lives by speaking His promises over your lives. "For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil..." (1 Peter 3:10). Pray in tongues and in the Spirit. This disarms the enemy and strengthens your heart.
Submit your thoughts to God in your moments of intense battles and resist the enemy. Surround yourself with relationships that will form a wall of prayer around you in times of need. (In the dream, the man between the 2 cliffs was surrounded by many who cared for him and watched over him.)
The Lord is also on course to release a move of His mercy and grace for those who have made wrong decisions, which they have repented of, but are experiencing great difficulty in moving forward. Trust Him to bring restoration in unexpected ways. He is fitting the jigsaws of your life together. Regardless of any situation of calamity you might be in, the heart of God is to set you free.
A Revelation of the Attack of the Python Spirit on Some of Those in Their "in Between" Places
The "in between" place is the place between your present circumstance and your place of breakthrough. It is a very key place for several reasons: It could potentially be a place of developed maturity, wisdom and perseverance if we allow the Lord to strengthen us through various trials. As the enemy is aware of this, one of his strategies to hinder this process of maturity is to send this demonic spirit to hinder and attack the Body of Christ.
The Lord showed me in a dream how this attack of the python spirit is sent to incapacitate the strength of some in the Body of Christ. It operates by trying to stifle the strength of the Believer. Those who are under this attack will often feel a heavy, lethargic inability to pray. They would feel as if all strength has been drained from them.
It is important to note that while the man in my dream between the 2 cliffs was not making any movement to free himself, during this process his mind was at rest and focused on the Lord. Whilst fleshly decisions in our "in between" place will be of no use to us, like the man in the dream, those who find themselves in their "in between" place must remain watchful, prayerful and focused on the Lord. (Photo via Pixabay)
The strategy the Lord gave me for overcoming the demonic attack of the python spirit are found in Numbers 21:9 and John 3:14-15. In Numbers 21:9, Moses was instructed to make a bronze serpent so that whoever had been bitten by a snake could look at it and live. John 3:14-15 encourages us to believe in and look at Jesus who was lifted up as the bronze serpent was lifted up so we could have life. Those who are under this attack are to keep their focus on Jesus and on His finished work on the Cross. As this occurs, the weakening power of the python spirit on the Believer becomes broken as God's divine life through the Cross is released.
Lastly, I sense that the books of remembrance are being opened on behalf of those who have been waiting on their promises in the fear of the Lord. He will deliver you. Rest in Malachi 3:16-17. You are His and He will deliver you! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Ella Onakoya
Harvest of the Nations
Email: info@harvestofthenations.com
Website: www.harvestofthenations.com
Ella Onakoya is the founder of Harvest of the Nations. She is a full-time itinerant minister and author based in the UK who has been traveling for several years to preach a message of revival and awakening to Believers in churches; she also preaches the Gospel to the lost and unsaved in many parts of the world. The ministry also aims to equip, activate, and disciple Believers in their calling to do the works that Jesus did. As an evangelist and prophetic revivalist, Ella Onakoya travels and ministers extensively in Asia, Africa, Europe, the UK, and in America with God fulfilling His Word with signs and wonders as she speaks at crusades, conferences, church revival meetings, and equipping schools.
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