Night Visions

Daily Reading: Daniel 7

I saw in the night visions. (Daniel 7.13)

Devotional Thought: I received an email earlier today from a member of Momentum Ministries board of directors.  We discussed at our last board meeting how we believe that our ministry could help people establish spiritual momentum, but we are struggling on what to do to expand our reach.  My friend wrote this: "I haven't fleshed it all out, but you mentioned this yesterday and about 2:00 this morning it sunk in.  [Everything] was fine - Jane was awake and up, and so was I... So, I thought I may as well think about something positive."  He went on to share some things that came to him in his night visions.  Good things.  Positive steps we can take that will, with God's help and blessing, make a difference for our ministry.

Night visions...  We often relate them to frightening revelations and devilish provocations.  But the fact of the matter is that throughout scripture God himself spoke to people in night visions: Jacob (at Bethel); Paul (in Corinth, Troas, aboard ship); and Joseph the stepfather of Jesus (in Nazareth and Bethlehem).  All with positive outcomes.

Daniel had a night vision, and it was VERY positive:

"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed" (Daniel 7.13-14).

Hallelujah!

Prayer: Father, I do not seek a vision or even "a word from the Lord."  I seek only you.  Speak to me in the manner and place and time of your choosing, or in your silence, may I find peace and confidence.  Amen.

Psalm of the Day: Psalm 68.19-27

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah

20 Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

21 But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

22 The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

23 that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe. ”

24 Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—

25 the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:

26 “Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain! ”

27 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.