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(From: NIVEA OF THE SEA! DFO 1049 15/9/81)
10. BUT ANYWAY, "WHAT ABOUT THAT DREAM, DAD? You got off to preaching us a sermon!" It's about a sea goddess named Nivea of the Sea, & it's one of the most peculiar strange odd dreams I ever did have! It was at night, it was dark; in a sense I was in the dark. We were at a junk yard full of building material & there was an old TSC sign standing there, & then there was an old Huntington Beach sign standing there. I decided to pick out the one that said, "Huntington Beach", because we needed some kind of a name for the place we were living. I thought, "Well, TSC, we've had that. Huntington Beach, that's got good memories & that's good old happy days of yore, let's take the nice Huntington Beach sign!"
11. This is exactly what some of you people are doing in going back to the States & back to Europe & back to home again. You're going back to the old things, back to the old ways, you're trying to revive old memories & old ways of doing things & old contacts, old friends, you're really going backward!
12. It was like we were trying to revive this by-gone day & revive old TSC. We put up the "Huntington Beach" sign on the TSC ranch. We used to have a sign out on the highway to attract attention there to get them to come out & hear the Gospel & join us, become new disciples. Well, in this dream, instead of attracting new disciples do you know what it attracted?--Robbers! So that we had to pick up our guns to warn'm away & shoo'm off! Instead of attracting new disciples & bearing good fruit, your going back & trying to revive the past has borne very bad fruit!
13. THE NEXT SCENE, I WAS IN THIS SORT OF A PRETTY SPANISH COURTYARD OR PATIO. It was almost sort of like in a way some of you have gotten sort of settled down, & maybe some of you have gotten settled down even on the field, because it was quite obviously a sort of a Spanish-American, Latin-American house. Suddenly two or three very beautiful native girls ran playfully through the patio topless, so I jumped up & ran after one of them! She wasn't in the bedroom, so I quickly ran on through the bedroom out the door & finally ran out of the house looking all around trying to find her. She was trying to entice me somewhere outdoors into the field.
14. Some of you have been enticed to the mission field by some beautiful, sexy appealing enticing Goddess of that field who wants you to come & help her people, but you've gotten settled down & she's still trying to entice you out into the field & preach the Gospel to all her country. There's a real danger of that happening in some places in South America--Central America & Mexico particularly which is easy to get at, where a lot of you are piling up to where you bump into each other on every street corner litnessing!
15. NEXT I FOUND MYSELF IN THIS TRAILER FULL OF WATER! A lot of you folks have at least gone mobile, but you find yourself still sort of drowning in the sea, or at sea as to what you're supposed to do or where you're supposed to go & where you should minister, & in a sense you're still trying to revive the old past, like Mom & Dad did with their little flock 15 to 20 years ago.
16. But don't drown in it! Don't get stuck in it!--Because we were drowning in this trailer! The trailer was full of water almost to the ceiling & it seemed like we were locked in, we just couldn't get out! Have you gotten into a mobile ministry that instead of leading you to the field has just gotten you locked in to where you can't get out & you're stuck with your mobile outfit? Well, we were desperate & it seemed like the water was rising higher all the time.
17. Suddenly we saw a group of native kids passing by. I said, "Quick, quick! We've got to get their attention somehow!" And I looked around & saw this sign that said "NIVEA of the Sea!" I grabbed the sign & stuck it in the window & banged real hard on the window trying to attract their attention. Suddenly they saw us & ran over to the window happy & excited & they were saying, "Grandpa! Grandpa! There's Grandpa!" And they got the idea & said, "Yes, yes! Quick! Go get somebody to help Grandpa to get out!"
18. I consider child evangelism a very worthwhile mission field--even if it's in your native country--because the children are a completely brand new fresh mission field full of native children, many of whom have never really heard the Gospel!
19. WELL, IT CAME TO ME AS CLEAR AS ANYTHING, NIVEA OF THE SEA IS SOME KIND OF A HINDERING SPIRIT that is trying to drown us & suffocate us & choke us & quench our spirit, quench our fire, quench our ministry, lock us in & bind us in some old kind of plan & program. And another thing that's hindered a lot of you people from going is that ocean, that sea between you & the foreign field has really been a hindering spirit, a real seemingly insurmountable obstacle.
20. So what you need to do is pray desperately! Put up a sign; "Nivea of the Sea is keeping me from going! Help!" Bang on the window! Knock on the windows of Heaven & ask God & His precious little angels & spirits of Heaven to help you get out of that mess & not be blocked or hindered by the sea or the evil hindering spirits or Niveas of the Sea, but to ask for help.
21. That is the dream & that is the meaning thereof, as Daniel said. "Behold, the Lord hath given the King a dream that has been revealing your present situation, & the past as well as the future!" So may the Lord bless & keep you & help you to get out of it & get going & on your way & liberate you & free you from these old traps of these old ways & the old places & the old faces & the old friends & the old jobs & the old System & all the traps of the Devil!
22. "Forget the things that are behind, press forward to the things that are before, & seek the HIGH calling of God that is in Christ Jesus!" (Ph.3:13,14) Don't settle for anything less than the best! Don't sink down in despair! Don't drown in your sorrows! Try to get out! Make an effort! Ask for help & I know God will answer--& others will answer too. Amen?
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