Dream: "No. 39 Redemption Street"

Redemption Defined:
noun. redemption, repurchase, buyback. the act of purchasing back something previously sold.

Last night I had a dream.
I was on a bus, sitting down, looking out the window.

I nearly missed my stop, but just in time, I heard the driver call out, "Redemption Street." I quickly rang the 'stop request' bell. The bus stopped in time.

A few others got off at my stop. They asked me, "Where are you going?"

I said, "I am going to No. 39 Redemption Street."

They asked, "Why are you going there?"

I answered, " Because 39 times I have failed Him. Many times have I failed Him. But right next to #39 Redemption Street is located #40 Redemption Street. 40 is my Redemption. I am on my way there now."

End Dream.

"There I will meet with you; and from above THE MERCY SEAT, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel."- Exodus 25:22

I woke up feeling the Presence of the Lord, and all day the Holy Spirit was brooding, speaking to my heart. I was not entirely happy with the implications of the dream. Me "nearly missing Redemption Street." Me 'failing Him 39 times." Yet, throughout the day, the Comforter began to deposit deep love from this dream.

Also, I have been having dreams of flying and of this song, "Jesus Blood" by Delirious being sung in the dreams. Jesus Blood Never fails...

"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"- Micah 6:8

I have been in a season of heavy fasting. Even 40 day fast. Heavy intercession. Sometimes, it is easy to let our hearts condemn us. But God says...

"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him
in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight."- 1 John 3: 18-22

In the city of Boston, stay here long enough and you will begin to discern the crippling influences of the spirit of religion. For the "letter of the Law kills..."

Yet, God is stirring to deeper devotion, deeper consecration, building a fiery altar of love, of prayer, of justice, of mercy. But HE ALONE IS THE BUILDER!

For our righteousness is as filthy rags. But JESUS, by The CROSS, has become MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. MY REDEMPTION! MY No. 40 Redemption Street! He alone is.

Grace. Grace. Grace. Grace. Grace.

About The Number Forty:

"The number forty has long been universally recognized as an important number, both on account of the frequency of its occurrence, and the uniformity of its association with a period of probation, trial, and chastisement—(not judgment, like the number 9, which stands in connection with the punishment of enemies, but the chastisement of sons, and of a covenant people). It is the product of 5 and 8, and points to the action of grace (5), leading to and ending in revival and renewal (8). This is certainly the case where Forty relates to a period of evident probation. But where it relates to enlarged dominion, or to renewed or extended rule, then it does so in virtue of its factors 4 and 10, and in harmony with their signification."


Forty Days

There are eight of such great periods on the surface of the Bible:

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Forty days Moses was in the mount, Exodus 24:18; and to receive the Law, Exodus 24:18.
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Forty days Moses was in the mount after the sin of the Golden Calf, Deuteronomy 9:18,25.
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Forty days of the spies, issuing in the penal sentence of the 40 years, Numbers 13:26, 14:34.
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Forty days of Elijah in Horeb, 1 Kings 19:8.
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Forty days of Jonah and Nineveh, Jonah 3:4.
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Forty days Ezekiel lay on his right side to symbolize the 40 years of Judah's transgression.*
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Forty days Jesus was tempted of the Devil, Matthew 4:2.
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Forty days Jesus was seen of His disciples, speaking of things pertaining to God's kingdom, Acts 1:2.


Probation. Wilderness. Consecration. Trial. Temptation. Overcoming. Victory. Dominion.

GRACE GRACE GRACE GRACE GRACE!

"In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them;In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them! And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old."-Isaiah 63:9

"For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION. "So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." -Romans 9:15-17

Hallelujah. Glory. For He DELIGHTS in showing us mercy. In our time of wilderness. In our time of consecration. In our time of trial. In our time of testing. HE, HIMSELF, HAS BECOME OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! Jesus Christ, died and risen again. To the Praise of the Father. The Great Love displayed. And He shows us MERCY... that we, too, may live a LIFE RAISED UP! To show forth His power displayed in our weakness.

We may only get as far as No. 39 Redemption Street. But HE HIMSELF TAKES US to No. 40 Redemption Street!
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." -Ecclesiastes 3;11