Lesson 13 – Visions from God

[Amanda]

I get visions from God semi-regularly… certainly not frequently, but frequently enough that it’s consistent. I don’t remember all of them truthfully, but I do remember my most recent one quite clearly. I should probably start keeping track of them now that I think of it. In my most recent vision, I saw two figures that I struggle to describe. Vaguely person shaped, but emitting something, almost like tendrils, and composed out of what almost looked like TV static if you were to take the glass panel off, almost fizzing. I couldn’t tell much about their surroundings unfortunately, I could only see the edges of whatever was around them, and I didn’t recognize anything that I saw because I only saw the colours of what was there. This particular vision was strange, because I could tell that whatever I was seeing was also seeing me, and normally it’s more of a one-way thing for me… I don’t get as many of the “gaze into the spirit realm” type visions. During this vision I was given the instruction to take down any artwork in my home with a face, not including the portraits of Jesus I have, nor photographs of real people. I was told that this was how the oppressive force that has been plaguing me has been watching, is through the eyes of these empty faces. There is some backstory here, but in a nutshell, I’ve been facing some spiritual warfare lately and have had to spend a lot of time rebuking evil. I was also told to anoint with oil any points of entry in our home and to pray the Lord’s prayer over them until I could get through it without misspeaking.

I know that my visions are not imaginary for a few reasons, the first being that they are accompanied by physical sensations. I get headaches during visions. Not migraines or anything, but this feeling of pressure like I need to burrow into something with my head like a cat. I also tend to feel very emotional, but nothing in particular and nearly impossible to identify. It’s almost as if the whole spectrum of emotions available is all hitting me at once. These sensations leave as quickly as they come on, once the vision concludes. I also know that my visions are from God because I don’t have inner speech or inner seeing unless I’m having a vision. I think primarily in unsymbolized thoughts and I don’t have any kind of internal monologue, so it’s not actually particularly difficult for me to differentiate between my own imagination and visions from the Lord… if I can hear it or see it, especially so clearly, then it didn’t come from me.