Angelica ~ The Postal Worker

3/22/24 

The Lord has stopped me in my tracks (literally) to get filled with a new revelation of His most well-known attribute.  To glimpse His glory in the backdrop of His peace.  To abide in a fresh illumination of His Person through affliction.  He does this by using dreams in my life to change my perspective.

.As I said, at the beginning of this series, there were two dreams that the Lord used to draw my attention to the subject of angels.  This is the second dream.

I was on a highway walking with a group of people, when I veered to the left onto a road filled with water.  The waves on the road were moving and getting deeper, higher.  I was with a woman who was a postal worker.  She walked next to me on the highway, then onto the road filled with waves.

While we were on the water-filled road getting deeper, we went under.  We both were falling under the waves, submerged.  Suddenly she pulled me out of the water and said: “We are not going that way.  We are changing direction.” 

She and I turned to a ‘right’ fork in the road.  As she strongly pulled me up so my head was out of the water, she wanted me to notice where we were.  ‘Did I recognize my surroundings?’  She asked me to open my eyes, but I couldn’t open my eyes.  I kept trying to open them and then, they opened.

As my eyes opened, we were still in the water, when I saw it was a river.  A beautiful clear river and we were floating along with the soft, peaceful current.  Above us were vines of fruit and sunshine.  Lots of bright sunshine!  I woke up.

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.  Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?  I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  Isaiah 43:18-19.

After waking, I heard the song, Part the Waters/I Need Thee Every Hour by Selah. 

I was intrigued by the woman who stuck by my side so, I asked God her name.  I had a feeling she was an angel because she was a postal worker.  What do they do but deliver the mail or messages…from God!  The Lord’s response to my question was Angelica.  Angelica means "angelic", ultimately related to the Greek meaning "messenger"!

I believe she was one of my guardian angels as she stuck by my side through the waters.  Once pulling me up from the water, asking me to see what she sees.  She helped open my eyes to a different perspective; to change direction. In other words, perspective on my situation.  I believe she was showing me that the Lord allows affliction and removal of our peace so that we might find hope and peace in Him. 

Indeed, the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.  John 16:32-33.

“Jesus wanted them to learn that their peace will not be based upon their ability to stand but upon their relationship to Him. For them to truly embrace this peace, they would have to first of all collapse. And be totally emptied of self-reliance…God has a design for our deliverance, but He also has a purpose for the delay.

His purpose in the delay is to strengthen our faith, kindle our love to new depths of passion and maturity, and impart the heart and character of Christ to us — all in order to make us a more useful vessel.”  Sorge, Bob. The Fire of Delayed Answers.

When affliction hits or a life altering crisis happens and continues, eventually nothing else will matter, except you, Jesus and His peace.  This place of drowning or being in over our head is where God can create a higher maturity, a higher purpose and a higher meditation of the soul for His greater will. 

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.  Proverbs 13:12.

Angelica brought me that message.  Look where you are; open your eyes to see you are really floating in God’s River of Peace.  

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.  They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.  It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.  It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you...Isaiah 43:2a.

It just so happened that I listened to Jonathan Cahn after this dream, and he had an interesting take on the river of God from Ezekiel 47 (The Healing Waters and Trees).  “Get deeper, Ezekiel 47 speaks about the man of God passing through the waters in the vision, and the water is coming from the house of God.  The river is the Spirit.  How do you overcome whatever happens in 2024 or in your life is by getting deeper into the river of God.  God wants you to walk into the waters deeper, the waters of His Spirit, the water of His Presence, love, prayer and worship.  Get in over your head and be submerged in the river of God.”

⁵ Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed. ⁶ He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.

⁷ When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. ⁸ Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. ⁹ And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live.