Blessed Assurance Through Visions and Dreams

Mae Bindrich Christal

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God answers prayers in sometimes radical and unexpected ways. Thats just one lesson shared by author Christal Bindrich as she recounts her many dreams and visions, including mystical experiences with deceased loved ones and even an encounter with Jesus in Blessed Assurance through Visions and Dreams. She writes her story to give voice to all those who have experienced wonderful spiritual events that give them blessed assurance of a loving God and an eternal life with our loved ones.Through Bindrichs narrative you can awaken your own spiritual awareness and encounter her explorations of the mystery of life beyond, precognitive dreams, and visions of Jesus. Some might have had visitations from those who have crossed over but have disregarded them. In Blessed Assurance through Visions and Dreams, Bindrichs dreams provide her with spiritual awareness and valuable insight into the future; your dreams could illuminate your future as well.In this inspirational testimony, Bindrich writes honestly and with heart to understand the significance of her own visions, ultimately leading her to spiritual awareness and a profound healing. Join her on her journey, and open yourself up to the power of visions and dreams.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Inspiring Voices
• Date de parution: 08 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781462404032
• Langue: English

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BLESSED ASSURANCE THROUGH Visions and Dreams
 
 
CHRISTAL M. BINDRICH
FOREWORD BY JOHN E. SUMWALT
 
 


 
 
Copyright © 2012 Christal Mae Bindrich
 
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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0404-9 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920565
 
Inspiring Voices rev. date: 11/05/2012
Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Answer To Prayer
Chapter 2 First Spiritual Encounter
Chapter 3 Childhood Memories
Chapter 4 Letting Go
Chapter 5 Trusting Self
Chapter 6 Early Precognition Dreams
Chapter 7 Saying Good-byes
Chapter 8 God’s Call
Chapter 9 Messages from the Other Side
Chapter 10 Visitations
Chapter 11 Biblical Foundation
Chapter 12 Sharing Your Dreams
Epilogue Near-Death Experience
Questions to Ponder
About the Author
Dedication
 
 
To Jerry, my soul mate, for always believing, supporting, and loving me.
Foreword
John Sumwalt
I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Rev. Christal Bindrich, who, out of a loving heart, has taken the risk to share her dreams and visions in a culture that is sometimes hostile to this kind of testimony. There is an assumption in our scientific age that if an experience is not measurable in some way, it is not real. Our society, even in many churches, is not vision-friendly.
Eddie Ensley, a Roman Catholic author, writes in his book Visions: The Soul’s Path to the Sacred, that “Talk of visions went underground, at least in polite company, with the rise of modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.” Yet, he says, people have visions all the time. Ensley tells of a survey of two thousand Christians in mainline churches in St. Cloud, Minnesota, which found that 30 percent had seen dramatic visions, heard heavenly voices, or experienced prophetic dreams. Ensley adds, “Almost everyone reports some partly remembered sacred moment—once they feel secure enough to talk about it.”
Many people have had this kind of life-changing experience, but have never told anyone. I went to the hospital one time to visit one of our older members who had received word the night before about the death of a favorite niece. I listened as she poured out her grief, and then as an afterthought, asked her if she had had any sense of her niece’s presence since her passing. She looked at me knowingly and said, “Not yet, but after my husband died six years ago, he was often in my bedroom at night. One night, after I had been in bed for a while, trying to sleep, I opened my eyes and there were my husband and my late stepson hovering over me. I was so startled that I exclaimed, ‘Go away!’”
We both laughed, and then she told me that she had never spoken of this to anyone before.
Who would you tell if this happened to you? Would you feel safe telling your family or your friends at work? Could you confide in your physician, your pastor, or the people you worship with at church? In spite of the many mystical stories we know in scripture, and over two centuries of mystic lore handed down by a multitude of saints and sinners, we moderns do not feel comfortable telling about such visitations in church or anywhere else. Many of us keep silent about some of the most profound experiences of our lives, lest we be accused of being delusional.
Ross Oestreich, a clergy colleague who was on a board responsible for interviewing seminarians seeking ordination in our denomination, remembers a student who fled the meeting when pressed for more candor about his call to ministry. Ross said, “When I found him later, he told me he dared not tell of his experience with God, because we would think he was crazy. I invited him to try sharing with me. I did not think he was crazy. I resonated with some of his experiences. He had a master’s degree in psychology and had been an instructor in that field in a small college before entering seminary.” Ross said, “What I found troubling was his assumption that a group of clergy would think he was crazy for having spiritual experiences. I could understand his fear to tell such experiences in a group of persons in the field of psychology.