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Just this morning

I woke up once again as I have over the last couple of weeks, John, with this sense of just being a child. I mean the way the way I've woken up is actually been I'm sleeping

I'm with my wife but I feel like I'm the third person in the bed and then I'm the

child and that shouldn't there be an adult here and I'm not that adult and

There's been a persistence to this feeling of impotence and child-likeness and immaturity that I didn't know what to do with.

And my first instinct was to go after from a warfare perspective and certainly the enemy can use

something like that to just diminish and to accuse me and so on so forth and

what was so interesting is I just took these dreams and this kind of sense of waking up into this to God and because we're talking about interpretation I just asked him.

What's going on there, Lord? What is that? It was so interesting because he just

immediately said, it's okay, this is me while you're sleeping going after some very young places and I'm going after

and ministering and doing some work in untouched areas while you sleep and you're just kind of waking up from the

surgery feeling some of the effect and the impact of the issues I'm going after and it

was like, ah, okay, you know, this is God at work and he's

doing some profound deep healing as I sleep and I don't need to go to shame, battle mode, striving.

Yeah, I'm a wreck, I'm disqualified for ministry and all of that internal angst. It was great. Lord, I love when you're doing

work subconsciously while I'm asleep. Thanks for sparing me.

So I mean, again, it's just interpretation.

And the fruit of God interpreting that was

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