On Friday I shared with you the vision I experienced at the
Healing Rooms at Bethel Church. And as I look back on that experience and reflect
on my bad attitude about going in the first place that I really didn’t think I needed
healing, I’m utterly humbled because my Papa knows me better than I know myself. I think there’s a scripture that says something to that effect.
Let’s pick up the story. Vision: Vast emptiness opens up on
my left side. Pain so searingly hot that it slices clean through my heart. I’m
in physical pain because of the emptiness, the loneliness. I see Prince Jesus
galloping on his White horse toward me.
I left you with the question: Who am I in this vision? But
before I get to me let me tell you who Jesus is.
For the first time in my life, I meet the Warrior King,
Prince Jesus. THE POWERFUL ONE!
You see, I know Jesus. I know the kind and tender man who
saves children and rescues the demonized. I know my Shepard and I follow His
voice. I know His ways and his people. But my friends, I haven’t know the
conqueror. The King of Kings, all-powerful God who is……. Now get this, my
betrothed.
When I saw the man (Christ) on this horse tearing up this
dark and painful vast emptiness of my heart that I’ve carried with me most of
my life, I was in utter awe. I saw Christ’s strength. I saw His utter power.
Darkness- the devil, all people are insignificant to His power and Royalty. Taking
in this vision, I actually felt fear.
I felt fear at the sheer awe of all that Prince Jesus is.
Now I remind you that all of this is happening in a space of time that is an
instant. Don’t ask me how, it just is. It’s like I left plant earth and entered
this vision.
The words of Sherry are still echoing in my ears. Prince
Jesus is going to date you. He is going to pursue you. He will woo you. He will
wake you in the night to talk to you…… (Still freaks me out)
If Prince Jesus is going to do this for me, then it prompts
the question, Why?
The answer is: I am the bride!
Gulp
I’m His betrothed. I will explain here that I understand
that God’s people are His bride. That Jesus is returning for His spotless
bride, the church. I completely comprehend this and understand it but in this
vision, I, Lynn Donovan, became THE (singularly) bride of Christ. Being the Bride
of Christ wasn’t a generalization anymore. I am the bride. I, me, Lynn Donovan,
I am the one who He is riding in to rescue. I am the one He is swooping up off
my feet as He swings me behind him on His horse. I am the bride of Christ.
When God made me see this truth it cracked the universe.
Life altered and my perspective on all I know about Jesus changed in that
second. Why had I never personalized the bride of Christ before? Why did I
think it wasn’t that important? Why did I not see that I am betrothed to the
Prince?
I’m now reeling from this revelation that has hit me like a
train. I’m a beautiful train wreck now and crying as the realization hits me.
I’m really that important. (And so are you) We are all this bride. We are all singularly
important to Jesus. When we begin to see our individual selves as the bride and
being pursued by an all-powerful, magnificent and masculine Prince, it alters
your reality.
The vision ends. The pain in my chest is still very real and
so deep that I am really hurting. I stumble to my feet hoping to escape this
room without needing to speak to anyone because I simply can't utter words
right now. I find myself in another room at Bethel where a class is about to
start where they instruct those of us from the Healing Rooms how to retain your
health. Of course, I can’t hear a thing because my reality has just been blasted
out of the water. I’m sitting in the class still crying under my breath, using
all of my will power to stifle the sobs. Dineen finally arrives and scoots in
next to me.
I’m so glad she’s arrived. I’m so utterly wrecked that all I
can do is grasp her hand, lay my head on her shoulder and sob. We are in the
middle of a class right now, so I continue to sob softly. I should have gone to
the car and just let myself have a snot bawl. (Sorry TMI).
I’m sure Dineen is freaked
because she has never seen me this way. I’m freaked out for heaven’s sake.
Then something begins to happen to me in the middle of the class. I began
to see the ramifications of becoming betrothed to this amazing Prince. Let me tell you
what I think this looks like. It is like dating the President. If you were to
date the President you could expect Him to send his luxury car and driver to
pick you up. You would be given a Secret Service Detail to guard and protect
you (sounds like angels to me). You
could expect to go to dinner and He might place beautiful diamond’s around your
neck (I’m not a jewelry person so this doesn’t do much for me, but for you??? A
dream come true perhaps?) You would be elevated, adored, adorned…….. You would
be special…. Above all others.
Whoa!
Blows my mind to think in these terms. After grappling with
this analogy, which I’m sure God shoved into my head so I could feel fully the
ramifications of meeting Prince Jesus, He allowed me to ponder and live in this
moment of engagement to the Prince and to my complete surprise, this is what
happened next.
A fierceness rose up in me. You see, I love this man, Prince
Jesus. I’m engaged to this man who commands all His power and might to
protect me, honor me, adore me and love me. How could I ever allow someone to
defame his name in front of me? So this fierceness rose and I can promise you
this, the next time someone uses my betrothed’s name in vain, they will deal
with me. I WILL NOT allow someone to curse His name in my presence because I
love this man and I serve Him all day long. I’m sure there is someone out there
that is going to use the words JC in a disrespecting way and they are going to receive
a serious tongue lashing from this fierce 5’4′ blonde woman because today I
know, I believe, I am the bride of Christ.
And when this fierceness arose in me to protect His name, I heard a gentle voice say to me, "Lynn, isn't that what you would want me to do for you? It is I, who fiercely protects your name."
Okay, I’m leaving you this Monday with a prayer that you will
allow yourself to step into this vision with me. Allow this Warrior King,
Prince Jesus to make YOU His Bride. Let THAT mess with your head this week, my
friends. It’s a life-altering – mind-blow!!!!!!!
See you Friday for more… Because I have so much more to tell
you. I adore you. I love you. I love this Warrior King, His Holy Father and the
Spirit that binds us as one. Lynn
Revelations 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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