RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS
Throughout my Christian life, the Lord has given me various dreams and visions, with information and instruction, for a number of people including myself. Some of these were specific for certain individuals and some were for everyone to benefit from. The following dreams and visions are for everyone to hear and gain insight, direction and comfort from their counsel.
Open Doorway
Early in my Christian walk, I was spending the night at the house of my then girlfriend, who was not a Christian at that time. That night I had trouble sleeping, which was not like me, and I could feel a demonic presence in the house.
I started to bind Satan and the demonic presence in the name of Jesus, and before I could finish, I heard a voice clearly say, “Who do you think you are”. Whether it was an audible voice or one in my head, I don’t know, but I knew it was the enemy speaking and it got me fired up. I said to the enemy, “I am a servant of God and in the name of Jesus; I bind you and all the unclean spirits from this house”.
Immediately after that, I fell into a deep sleep and had the following dream:
I was walking through the house. When I got to the bookcase, the Lord showed me certain books and said to me, “this is why you are feeling the presence of the enemy. These are open doorways for demonic forces to enter.
I hesitate to mention the exact books, because they are going to be different for different people. Suffice it to say, that they were not Christian in nature, and lead the reader down a much darker and alternate path.
I woke up and prayed about the dream.
The next morning I told my girlfriend about the dream, and the voice, and let her decide what she needed to do, since it was her house, not mine, and she was not a Christian at that time.
I went to work and prayed for God to reveal to her what she needed to do.
That night I went over to her house for dinner and she said to me, “I don’t know what you did, but I could not stop thinking, about what you told me, all day long”. Then she asked me if I noticed anything different. I went over to the bookcase and realized that all of those books were gone. She told me that she threw them all away, and didn’t give them away, because she didn’t want anyone to get a hold of them.
She eventually accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior.
I am not a proponent of book banning or burning, but I do caution everyone to be careful of what you ingest mentally, spiritually and philosophically, because the old adage of “Garbage in/Garbage out” will always prevail.
"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:8 New King James Version).
VISION ON THE WALL
One night during a time when I was really pressing in with Christ, and getting rid of many activities that were not moving me forward spiritually, I woke from a sleep to see a vision unfold on my bedroom wall.
On my wall, I saw the image of what appeared to be an old European immigrant, or my idea of one, sitting in a chair with a scarf over their head and a blanket covering most of their body.
As I stared at the image, I saw the person rise from the chair and reach their arms toward the sky. As they did that, the blanket and scarf fell off and the person transformed into Jesus Christ.
As He looked toward Heaven, He started to rise up and disappeared into the right angle of the wall meeting the ceiling.
The Lord revealed to me that the vision represents putting off the “old self”, and becoming more Christ-like.
2 Corinthians 5:17. New American Standard translation:
Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Soldier of Christ - A Dream
The dream starts out with me working, side by side with a bunch of elderly ladies, in an outdoor clay factory. All day long we form clay into cubes, which proves to be very monotonous. One day a shipment is going to be unloaded from a hovering helicopter, being the only man there, I offer to help. The minute I reach up to grab the clay, all the surroundings change.
What was day is now night, and I’m in a big military compound that’s under attack from the air. People are running around all over the place and no one seems to know what’s going on. As I move forward, I’m met by a reporter who introduces me to her listening audience as the commander of this military installation. Well, that’s the first I’d heard of it, so I tried to double talk my way around her pointed question of “What are you going to do about it?” She was referring, of course, to the attack and ensuing chaos.
The dream went on for a while as the battle raged, and then I woke up. After my heartbeat got to a normal rate again, the Lord started revealing to me what the dream meant.
- The clay factory was the way a lot of Christians live. Ho-Humming their way through a very monotonous life. Content to just be saved, and not rock the boat.
- The military installation is what God calls His church to be.
- The reporter is the world and how they see us.
- My being introduced as the commander of the installation, is the position of authority that God has granted us, in his kingdom, through Jesus Christ
- My being completely clueless to my position, is the way we, as Christians, generally don’t understand the authority granted to us.
- The attack from the air is the constant attack we experience from the devil, who is the prince of the power of the air.
- The chaos is the result of our not taking up our positions, not exercising our authority, and not understanding that we are at war.
I then prayed, thanking God for his revelation and asked Him to show me what He wanted to in His word. I turned on the light, grabbed my Bible on the night stand (which at that time was the living bible translation) and just opened it up and started reading.
I opened to 2nd Timothy Chapter 2, which had a heading of A Loyal Soldier of Jesus Christ. Verse 20 and 21 read like this; In a large house there are dishes and bowls of all kinds: some are made of silver and gold, others of wood and clay; some are for special occasions, others for ordinary use. If anyone makes himself clean from all these evil things, he will be used for special purposes, for he is dedicated and useful to his Master, ready to be used for every good work.
In conclusion: The calling of God is real, the choice is now up to me.
BLACK DOG - A VISION
I had recently moved into a house with friends of mine. They were gone for the weekend, so I took the opportunity to walk through the house praying for each room and kicking out any unclean spirits in the process.
That night I went to bed and couldn't really sleep. I could sense that something was going to happen spiritually. As I lay there with my eyes closed, trying to sleep, I kept seeing flashes of light through my eyelids, coming from the vicinity of the foot of my bed. I had a bare window above the head of my bed that faced east, and in my minds eye, I could see the sun coming up, peering through a dark cloud and reflecting off something metallic at the foot of my bed. I raised myself up and, facing the window, looked out at the still night sky. Out of the corner of my eye, I could still see the flashes of light coming from the foot of the bed. I turned around to see what it was, and staring back at me was a big black dog, sitting upright on the floor, with light flashing from his eyes or teeth. It took me a few seconds to process everything, because we didn't have an indoor dog, the door was locked, and even our outdoor dog looked nothing like this. I knew this dog was wholly evil, and it didn't take long to realize that it was from the spiritual dimension. Summoning up all the strength I could, I closed my eyes and cast it out in the name of Jesus. Opening my eyes, I saw that it had vanished, but as I lay back down, a small shadow on my bed rose up over my head and turned into a little decrepit hand before dissipating.
I looked around the room, pinched myself to make sure I was awake, and then asked the Lord; what the heck was that all about? He revealed the meaning of the vision to me as this: Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. What I thought was reflecting the light of the sun (Son), was actually coming from an evil source. Not everything that has the appearance of Godliness is from God. You must always test the spirits.
The next evening I went to a Bible study, that I regularly attended, and told the group about the vision. After explaining it to them, one of the women (who normally didn't like to discuss spooky spiritual things like Satan and demons) stared at me and said: Scott, Satan doesn't like you. You must be very careful, God will protect you, but you must be very careful. Every time you bind Satan, you must loose the Holy Spirit. She then shook her head and said, I can't believe I just said that. When you were talking I felt like I was in a tunnel and I heard a voice saying speak. What should I say, I was thinking, and I heard the voice say just speak.
Well needless to say, that got my attention, and I was both exhilarated and frightened at the same time.
There's no need for me to go into my life's story at this time, but I will say that I didn't take the spiritual battlefield lightly from then on. My advice to all, is to know your enemy, know your authority and know the rules of engagement.
1 Peter 5: 8-9; Be self controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith. As a side note, one of my songs titled "Angel of Light/Prince of Darkness" is based on this vision.
THE DRESSING ROOM
The dream started out with me going into a dressing room at some random store. Shortly after I entered, two young ladies enter the dressing room and there was a feeling that some carnal pleasures were about to take place. But before anything got going, I felt a demonic presence and realized that these two women were actually demonic spirits and I commanded them in the name of Jesus Christ to name themselves.
One woman said LUST and the other woman said PERVERSION and I knew I we were in for a fight.
A physical altercation began, and as we were fighting, the light began a strobe pattern and my sight was impaired.
I continued to fight, and at one point, I saw a jar filled with what appeared to be jam or preserves, with a knife in it. I pulled the knife out of the jar and proceeded to stab both of the beings I was engaged in mortal combat with. That ended the battle and I woke up.
I asked the Lord for the meaning of the dream, and this is what the Lord revealed to me;
The dressing room is my life, and my allowing the women in, was me allowing lust and perversion into my life. My recognizing the demonic presence, after the fact, was my slowly acting on my discernment instead of not allowing those spirits into my life in the first place.
Because of my slow response, it was a much bigger battle than it would have been if I had just taken the thoughts captive and acted immediately.
The jar of preserves represents the fruit of the Spirit, which I needed to win the battle.
To summarize;
We need to take every thought captive, put on the full Armor of God and be filled with, and empowered by, the Holy Spirit.
The scripture reference for this is Colossians 3:5, New International Version:
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
The Power of Music
This particular dream came one night after playing a show in Palm Springs, California. I had been on the road a lot, and my Christian life had been suffering due to the lack of fellowship, Bible study and prayer.
We exited the venue at about 2:00 in the morning and the temperature outside was still in the high 80’s. We made a beeline back to our hotel, where we had left the A/C running, for some much needed rest and relief from the heat.
I went to sleep and had the following vivid dream:
It began with the band and I staying in an old two story Grand Hotel, with a large atrium in the center, and all of our rooms on the second floor.
I started to hear piano music playing from the first floor, but knew that there was no piano down there. The music was The Mephisto Waltz by Franz Liszt. I started to feel a real strong panic and fear and knew instinctively that it was coming from a demonic source. I retreated to my room and started to cower in fear.
As I sat there, I felt the Lord strengthening me and I knew that I had to face, and do battle with, these demonic forces, for my sake and the rest of the band.
As I contemplated this, I began to be empowered, and I got up and headed downstairs with a mixture of fear and ever-increasing strength and determination.
I went to the source of the music, which was growing louder by the minute. The music was coming from behind a door, and with me drawing upon my strength in the Lord, I took a deep breath and burst into the room.
In the room, there were multiple demons. They had small bodies and large childlike heads that came to a point at the top like a shrunken head.
When I saw them and they saw me, we immediately ran at each other in full war like confrontation mode. When we came in to contact with each other, I woke up in a cold sweat with my heart beating a mile a minute.
I considered, and prayed about, the dream for quite a while. The Lord revealed to me the power and influence that music has on us and on society.
There are 243 verses in the Bible dealing with music, so it is very important to God and thus very important to Satan.
God created music and uses it in powerful ways. It inspires, it points people to God, it encourages us and even changes cultures.
We know that Satan wants to be like God and will take the things of God and distort them enough to lead people astray. He has taken music, twisted it enough to entice, and used it to influence millions.
I am not saying any type of music in itself is bad, but you have to be careful of where it is coming from and what effect it has on you. Are you encouraged or discouraged? Does it give you hope or hopelessness? Does it strengthen you or weaken you, and ultimately, does it point you to God or lead you away from Him?
I enjoy many styles of music, and use many of them in my writing. I have decided to give my music to God and ask Him to bless and guide all of my writing so that ultimately it will lead people to Him.
Dragon Slayer - A Dream
The dream starts out with several people (myself included) in a beautiful country setting. We’re in a beautiful green field on the edge of a very thick and dark forest, with a small dirt road going through our land, right into the forest. The sun is shining and all of the men (myself included) are dressed in medieval knight attire, with varying degrees of armor in place. We are practicing combat moves. The women are dressed in medieval ladies attire (modest, light colored, full length gowns) and are attending to the battle wounds of the men.
A great knight comes into camp and He obviously is our leader. He opens up a large sealed clear plastic bag, with swords in it, and hands one to each man. As I get mine, I instinctively turn it into two smaller swords or daggers. I hold them in my right hand and left hand differently and start training the other men how to use them in hand to hand combat. I teach them to use one hand to deflect attacks and one hand to thrust offensively.
All of a sudden a great dragon comes fourth from the dark forest following the dirt road. He is very imposing and we jump into battle. As the other knights are inflicting surface wounds on the dragon, I know I must throw my dagger with precision to mortally injure the dragon. I throw my dagger and hit the dragon in his eye, which is exactly what is needed. As the dragon seems to fall face first in slow motion, I warn everyone to get back. As the dragon hits the ground, a huge amount of acidic bile starts flowing out of his mouth like a river. As the river threatens to overtake us and everyone is heading for higher ground, I grab a maiden by the hand and start to make great leaps in an attempt to get to the top of one of the rolling hills. As we reach the top of the hill, with the river in hot pursuit, the maiden slips and touches the liquid. I fear that it will burn her, but to my amazement, she is unharmed. Then I wake up.
Then the Lord revealed the meaning. The following is a recap of the symbolism and the lessons.
- The beautiful land is God’s kingdom, the forest is the devil’s domain and they exist very close to each other right now, so be on guard.
- The great knight is Jesus
- The dragon is Satan and his schemes
- The sword is the word of God
- The S/Word of God is pure.
- The S/Word is given through Jesus.
- The S/Word is for offensive and defensive combat use.
- You must practice with the S/Word to be victorious in battle.
- The S/Word can be used in hand to hand combat, and from afar.
- Women are by nature nurturing and men are protectors and warriors, when the roles are reversed, chaos ensues.
- Our roles are symbiotic. They are equal, but different.
- Together we can bring down huge demonic strongholds.
- Division will bring destruction.
- When a demonic stronghold is destroyed, there is always fallout.
- Try to stay out of the way of the fallout, but the Lord will protect you if you are walking in Him.