The Sheep In The Valley Vision- Part 1:
For 2 nights in a row I have had a recurring vision. I
had forgotten about it until I laid down on the second night and had it again.
So I got up to write down all that I saw, and all that the Lord said to Me in
it:
In the vision, I am walking on a green grassed
hilltop, I notice that there is such beauty all around me as the summer
sunshine brings everything to life around me. I am walking towards the edge of the
hill and I look down the side, and I see Jesus sitting on the hillside below
where I was standing. So I walk over to Him and He is seated with his knees up
and his arms wrapped around his legs watching something below in the valley. I
look to where He is looking, and I see many sheep all grazing and walking
around in the valley below. They are content and peaceful as they meander in
the shaded areas. Jesus was watching them and He seemed to be lost in thought.
I sat down next to Him and began to watch the sheep too.
I don't know how much time went by, but I noticed that
it began to rain off in the distance from us, and where we were was dry. The
clouds brought rain to the neighboring area next to the area we were. After
awhile the rain began to pool up into puddles and little streamlets. The
rainwater began to run towards the sheep where they were all grazing and
standing. When the rain pooled together more it moved and the sheep noticed the
water coming towards their feet. They did not like the water coming so they
began to move around nervously and they began to back up to try to avoid the
invading rain puddles. Eventually the rain caused the puddles to flow together
into the valley and the grass became saturated with the rains, even in their
area right below us. The sheep were bleating and were annoyed at the inconvenience
of getting their feet wet. Some began to climb up the mountain until they found
dry hillside and they stayed on the slope out of the reach of the rain. Others
began to walk in the puddles or run through the soggy grass trying to find
another part of the valley that wasn't wet. The rain clouds did not move into
the area where we were, only the waters from the neighboring rains continued to
flow their way. Then the rains stopped, the clouds left, and the sun dried
everything up and the sheep went back into the valley floor and grazed as
before.
The Lord didn't say anything, but He did look up and
down the valley surveying everything as he did. He smiled and seemed content.
He leaned back some and reclined along the hillside and put His hands behind his
head to look down at the sheep. I also leaned back slightly and watched the
sheep too. After a few minutes, I saw a different looking cloud system come on
the horizon. It looked like it was top heavy and smaller on it's bottom. It was
dark and foreboding, and the cloud system moved closer to the valley this time,
and it eventually blocked out the sunshine. When it did, the sheep looked up
and looked around. The cloud cover had gotten their attention. The temperature
in the air dropped and a cooler breeze began to blow. The sheep began to stir
and to group together nervously. Then a thunderbolt shot out of the cloud and
the sheep broke out and ran in all directions. Rain began to fall furiously then
and the sheep were crying out in fear and were looking for anyplace to hide.
There was no place to go as the trees in the valley were not mature or big enough to offer much shade yet. The sheep also
tried to rub up against rocks for some shelter, but the rocks were not big
enough to offer much cover. Some sheep ran away, and I did not see where they
went. Others began to huddle together as they miserably stood in the rains. The
lightning and thunder made them cry out and they frequently bolted and ran and
then huddled as they found each other again.
From where I was sitting I could see the storm clouds
dropping the rain below us. I wondered why the sheep did not come up higher
where it was sunny and dry. The noise of the thunder seemed to disorient them
and it paralyzed them with fear. I thought about calling out to them, but I
realized that they would not hear me anyways. The Lord didn't do anything but
watch. I sat there and watched. I only saw one or two sheep eventually attempt
to climb the hillside. The majority of them just wore themselves out till they
were exhausted, and some even laid down in defeat. I felt sorry for them. Then
the rain quit and the clouds dissipated and the sun came out again. The sheep
seemed to revive and gather back together from their various positions. They
dried out and then began to graze again. It then seemed like it was just as
before. I looked over at the Lord and He was watching me. I was surprised, but
He said nothing. He smiled and I felt reassured, and He again gestured towards
the valley. My gaze followed His hands. I looked and the valley was peaceful as
before.
Suddenly, I felt a rumbling coming from under the
ground. The ground vibrated with a rumble that seemed like horses were running
close by. I looked for the horses, but there were none. I waited. Soon, off to
the distance I could see something approaching along the valley floor. It was
moving fast and it was driven by wind. I looked, and then I saw that it was a
wall of water coming towards the valley, moving along the valley floor, like a
flash flood would move after a very heavy downpour. I looked towards the sheep
where they were grazing and I realized they did not know the raging water was
coming towards them. The sheep had looked up and around when the ground
rumbled, but they did not seem to be agitated in any way. Most went back to
grazing, but some looked around as they stood there. The flood came closer and
the wind picked up, and I saw that the sheep now sensed that something was
coming. They began to gather together and to bleat nervously as they milled all
around. But they still could not see the flood coming yet. I thought about
yelling down to them, but again, I knew they would not hear me above the winds.
So I waited to see what the sheep would do. The raging waters came within sight
now and the sheep started to move anxiously and looked everywhere for a way
out. They began to jump over one another as they tried to decide what direction
they were going to run in. Soon the waters came right behind them as they were
running, but the waters were faster than they were. The water hit them with a hard
force and they were swept off of their feet, tossing in the force of the flood
waters. Some were crying and trying to swim towards the edge of the hill. They
got their feet on the edge and tried to climb out of the waters, but only a few
made it. Most of the sheep were carried down stream by the waters, crying out
woefully as they went. I saw many drown. I was alarmed as I watched and
dismayed as I saw their plight. Jesus did not move or do anything but watch.
I looked back to the sheep again, and I noticed that
the ones that were smart enough to make for the sides were faring better. The
ones that had gotten a foot hold were beginning to climb up the side of the
hill away from the floods. The winds picked up even more now and the waters level
rose. All of the ones that were swept away in the waters had floated down
stream in the deepening waters, because it was too deep and fierce to stand in
or navigate. I would guess that only about 1/3rd had climbed. Of the 1/3rd that
did make it, I noticed that most of them also stopped just above the flood
level line because they were tired and they felt safe. Many laid there on the
hillside and rested as best they could in the winds and in noise of the storm.
A few kept climbing higher as they were too afraid to stop, they just ran very
fast up the hill till they reached high ground above the storm. Then they fell
down and rested on the hillside and bleated in exhaustion and huddled together shaking,
until they eventually dried off. They were too tired to run anymore even though
the storm was noisy below them, they seemed to know they were safe from where
they were above.
I looked to see where the ones that has stopped just above
the waters edge were, and how they had fared. I could see that most had stayed
there on the side of the hill shaking and crying in the rain. I also noticed
that the water level was still rising, and I knew that these sheep were not
safe where they were. I do not think they realized their impending plight. More
thunder and lightning flashed and sounded which caused these sidelined sheep to
jump and to cry out, but not many moved from their place even though the winds
blew the rain on them even more. They seemed to be paralyzed in their fear. I
saw a couple of smaller sheep suddenly bolt forth in fear and they too ran up
the hillside further in their panic. They ran till they also found the sunshine
above the storm line. The two little sheep fell down in relief and shook
nervously for awhile as they huddled together trying to get their bearings. The
others below watched the two little ones climb, but they did not get up and
make a move towards where we were sitting. I think they either gave up, or they
thought the waters would not come up any higher. Suddenly a huge surge moved
through the flood waters, like a giant wake of water would move, and the other
sheep below were swept off of the lower levels of the hillside and they were also
swept away. I could hear their cries as they were swept away. I did not see
where they went to.
I looked to
where the sheep were that had climbed the hillside, and Jesus was now over with
them and He was petting them comfortingly. I didn't even realize that the Lord
had risen from His place next to me to go to them. I jumped up and went to
where they were standing by the Lord on the hillside. He was stroking their fur
lovingly and they were nuzzling Him. He laughed and bent down and hugged some
of them. They began to relax and to bend down and to graze again on the
hillside. Jesus smiled at them and seemed satisfied. He turned and looked at
me. He waited for a moment and then He said, "The winds have begun to blow
in this season, and the new rains have begun, any yet most of the people think
this is still like any other day. The waters of adversity and the storms of
life will rise in the earth. But where are those who discern and who are wise?
Who is it that truly hears My Voice, and who is it that changes his ways, and
who is it that will climb higher while it is still calm? It is a time to awaken from your slumber, and
from your old thinking that things will remain the same. I am at work in the
earth, and I am searching every heart and mind, and the trials I allow will
reveal what is within them, to them. But few see that the spiritual weather is
changing around them, and few are climbing towards Me. Most think they have
time and can stay where they are comfortable at, and think they can still do
the things they know to do, and that they like to do. But the floods I bring will
force everyone to move. You must move towards Me in this season and begin to
move towards My Mountain; towards My House, in order to stand in My Peace, and to
be anchored safely in My Rest. The Storms are a test. I showed you this
illustration in this manner, because I want My People to understand where they
are in their relationship with Me. Most of My Children are content in the
valley eating of the world and wanting to remain in things as they are."
"I allow the storms to test your devotion to Me,
and your obedience to Me, and to show you also the areas where you are weak,
and where you are still lacking, and also where you have fallen into sin in.
These things will hinder you and will be the cause of your being swept away in
the trials and the floods of fear and stress that are coming on the whole world,
if you do not deal with them now. When I bring the various tests to you, even
in this picture of the rains, most of you are irritated and frustrated and
complain in your trials, just like the sheep that their feet get wet. Many
don't like their lives disturbed by tests or inconveniences, or by life's pressures.
But I allow these things to come, so that you can be stretched and be broken
out of your perimeters and into My liberty for you. But many will not want to
change still, and they will be swept away by the bigger trials that will come
with the winds of adversity, and the thunder and lightning of persecution, and
the sweeping rains of change. Some will climb and make it through to either
rest just above the storm line, or to go to the very top unto Me. Of the ones
that remain just above the rains line, like the sheep below, they will think
they have done enough to just get by, and this will be their downfall, as I do
not accept a partial obedience or a half hearted devotion to Me. Either they
will fully follow Me and obey Me or they too, will be lulled to complacency on
the hillside, and the rising tides will trap them too, and they will also be
swept away in the days ahead."
"The two small sheep that did break through on
that level made it to the top. These are a picture of those who learn to trust Me
even in the rising tides, and are those who break forth away from their fears
and doubts and insecurities and they realize that Mine are better. Know that I
am bringing all of My Children to the end of themselves in order that they will
tap into Me and live. I am the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life, in
this life. There is no other security in this life but Mine, and there is no
other Peace in this life but in Me, and by Me. You must put all of your trust, all
of your faith, and all of your life in Me. You must each learn to graze upon My
Mountain, on Me, and not in the valleys of men, or of the world. When you graze
in the fields of men, then you will become as them, and be content to remain
among them, and you will lose your discernment and your sensitivity to Me. You
will be lulled into a lazy attitude of independence from Me. My People must
look up unto Me, and seek Me upon the heights, and move with Me in the Spirit now.
Seek Me, and I will guide you, and I will show you what to do. I will reveal My
Will for you, and I will bring you into the place I have for each of you. You
shall feed upon Me richly and you will be satisfied. As you each climb, others
will follow that are watching you. I am watching and waiting for you."
Scriptures:
Revelations 3:10 Because you have guarded and kept My
word of patient endurance [have held fast the lesson of My patience with the
expectant endurance that I give you], I also will keep you [safe] from the hour
of trial (testing) which is coming
on the whole world to try those who dwell upon the
earth.
John 10:9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through
Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and
will find pasture. 10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and
destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to
the full, till it overflows). 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd
risks and lays down His [own] life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep
[beside these] that are not of this fold. I must bring and impel those also;
and they will listen to My voice and heed My call, and so there will be [they
will become] one flock under one Shepherd. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and
I know them, and they follow me:
John 18:37 To this end was I born, and for this cause
came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one
that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose
it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will
find it [the higher life].
Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his [higher,
spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which
is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on
earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save it [his higher, spiritual life in
the eternal kingdom of God].
Matthew 7:24 So everyone who hears these words of Mine
and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical,
wise) man who built his house upon the rock. 25 And the rain fell and the
floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not
fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these
words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who
built his house upon the sand. 27 And the rain fell and the floods came and the
winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell--and great and complete was
the fall of it. 28 When Jesus had finished these sayings [the Sermon on the
Mount], the crowds were astonished and overwhelmed with bewildered wonder at
His teaching,
-Susan O'Marra
07-31-12
The Sheep In The Valley- Vision
- Part 2:
On 8-01-12, we were all gathered at the church in the
prayer watch Wednesday evening and Patrick was leading prayer. I was sitting at
the sound table, and the Presence of the Lord began to pulsate all around me. I
then was taken back to the same vision again of the sheep and the valley, but
this time I was not on the mountain, but I was looking at it from a distance.
I saw the same tall hill covered in grass and there
were a few sheep grazing on the hillside as before. Jesus was standing on the
hilltop this time and he was looking down at the sheep. He seemed to be deep in
thought. Then He looked upwards and then a great lightning bolt from heaven
shot down and struck the hill and it broke and split into two sections. Jesus
did not move when the great lightning bolt hit nor was he surprised, but the
sheep on the hill bolted in fear and ran away. He just nodded as if in
agreement. He then looked downwards at the great split in the hill, and at both
halves that now stood apart from each other. He then smiled and I saw something
happen to His robe. His robe, or the bottom part of it, seemed to melt
downwards or flowed into the space between the two halves of the hill. It
looked like His very robe, or the part of Himself that was within His robe, was
what was filling up the space there. When the hill was full of the deposit that
came from His robe, then it changed and the hill grew. It grew higher and
denser and took on the form of the Lord, with Him molded right into the
mountain. This kept happening till it reached a new height in the earth. I
could see that it was now a great mountain, and it was filled with the Lord, or
it became His garment or the lower half of Him with His chest, arms, and head
were extending out of the top of the Mountain. Jesus was the Mountain. He
became the Head of the Mountain, the Church, His Habitation in the earth.
The I saw that His face began to shine. The rays began
to shine outward from Him like great Rock Lighthouse would. The Light went
everywhere and His Light got brighter and brighter. As I watched, I saw sheep
begin to come from every direction. They were bleating and climbing the
Mountain of great Light. They all climbed and they began to graze as they
climbed and then I knew that they were grazing upon Christ Himself, the
Mountain. They were feeding upon Him. Eating of and partaking of Him. I felt
such joy at this knowledge. Then the scripture came to me about, "When I
am lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me."
The hill was only for a season, but now the season is changing
and now the lightning or higher revelations from God that are about to be
released will strike the heart of what we think and know and currently believe,
and when it does, it will be like when the Sword of the Spirit goes into us and
it brings a division between our soul and our spirit to bring us further
insight into the truth. So also, Jesus will bring a separation within us, and
to us in our hearts and lives. He will give us understanding of Himself which
will fill in the gaps, so to speak, and bring forth the needed understanding
and we will each grow in stature and measure until we are all fully formed up
into Him. Then He will break forth out of us all a new way, just as this vision
depicts, and this breaking forth of Himself through us, will draw the harvest
in. They will see Jesus through us. He will draw them unto Himself.
Below is a
picture that I drew to show a semblance of what I saw:
Scriptures:
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto me.
Hebrews 4:12 For the Word that God speaks is alive
and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it
is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the
breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of
the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and
judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven Who reveals
secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that shall be
in the latter days (at the end of days). Your dream and the visions in your
head upon your bed are these: 29 As for you, O king, as you were lying upon
your bed thoughts came into your mind about what should come to pass hereafter,
and He Who reveals secrets was making known to you what shall come to pass. 30
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have
more than anyone else living, but in order that the interpretation may be made
known to the king and that you may know the thoughts of your heart and mind.
31 You, O king, saw, and behold, [there was] a great image. This image which
was mighty and of exceedingly great brightness stood before you, and the
appearance of it was frightening and terrible. 32 As for this image, its head
was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs
of bronze, 33 Its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay [the
baked clay of the potter]. 34 As you looked, a Stone was cut out without human
hands, which smote the image on its feet of iron and [baked] clay [of the
potter] and broke them to pieces. 35 Then the iron, the [baked] clay [of the
potter], the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken and crushed together
and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried
them away so that not a trace of them could be found. And the Stone that
smote the image became a great mountain or rock and filled the whole earth.
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son
of John, do you love Me [with a deep, instinctive, personal affection for Me,
as for a close friend]? Peter was grieved (was saddened and hurt) that He
should ask him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You
know everything; You know that I love You [that I have a deep, instinctive,
personal affection for You, as for a close friend]. Jesus said to him, Feed
My sheep.
Ephesians 4:12 His intention was the perfecting and
the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should
do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church), 13
[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the
comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we
might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which
is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the
measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found
in Him. 14 So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and
fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of
doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men,
[gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to
mislead.
Susan O'Marra
08-01-12
http://intheimageofhisgloryministries.blogspot.com/
