Campfires and Kitchen Prayer Dreams

I awoke from a dream at 4 A.M. on June 8^th, 2023.

I had just had 5 or 6 dreams, that I remember, around the same subject matter but didn’t wake up between. In the last several weeks I have had a few dreams about this same topic.

When I awoke, I remembered the dream I had written in my book, Kingdom Lessons 2, chapter 12, “Native American Sanctuary Dream.”  Copyright 2016. In that book I had been invited to a church composed of Caucasians and Native Americans, to give a word about the last days and a special ministry for small groups composed of Caucasian and Native American Christians.  Just as I was invited to speak, three native ladies, who were part of a council, all sitting at the front of a church assembly, stood up and demanded that I be removed from the room.  A chief stepped from the council table, down to where I was in the congregation, waved his hand for attention, then apologized for that decision.  He placed a buffalo robe on my shoulders and said, “Come.”  He escorted me to a hogan outside.  Ushering me in, he brought me to a fire-pit and motioned for another First Nations man to bring us beverages.  We sat in chairs around a fire pit.  The Chief apologized again but said in essence that even though I had the call from God to present my topic, that I needed more teaching and seasoning, to be accepted by certain influential people in the Body of Christ.  He also placed two chairs together in such a way that they formed a table with four legs up and four legs down.  When the native brother brought our hot beverages, they were placed on the makeshift chair table.  I am not sure what the Chief was drinking, it may have been hot chocolate or coffee.  Both cups came with stirring spoons, and I could tell that a liberal amount of sweet cream had been added beforehand to the cups. I do know, however, that the implication, or maybe the Chief said as much, was that I was being honored with a hot beverage, (and the buffalo robe) but that I was not mature enough to drink coffee or share with Native leaders. While we had our drinks, he not only brought me up to speed on certain native prophecies and traditions but allowed me to share what I felt Jesus was showing me concerning approaching end times events and a ministry where Native Americans had a special and significant role.

Back to the recent dreams.

In one of the dreams, I was sitting in front of my computer and also talking on the phone, to a Christian brother, about my recent Campfire and Kitchen prayer dreams.  He remarked that he didn’t know of anyone else in Christian circles talking about the issue but had asked if I had made an internet search concerning the topic. My computer was up and running, so I just mouse-clicked the internet icon and typed some keywords and instantly was rewarded with a couple of hits.  Two or three independent groups of Native American Christians were offering Campfire and Kitchen Prayer meetings – and were looking for co-workers or volunteers, just to let their group pray for them. Verbiage something to the effect that first nations people were preferred but that Caucasians and other nationalities were welcome, also came up in at least one if not all of the results.

Transitioned to the next dream – I was watching a group of three or four Native Americans and Caucasians sitting around a campfire praying for small groups of people.

I switched to a new dream.  In that dream I was present but not part of a group of several Christians standing around a fireplace, listening to a short 10 – 20-minute teaching before the small group of Native Americans and Caucasians offered to pray for people.

Once again, the dream transitioned and several people were in a small cabin standing around a bare kitchen table – it had a saltshaker, but no pepper.  A few people were holding Bibles and a few others were holding small vials of anointing oil.  Two leaders, a husband and wife, one looked full native, the other looked partially Caucasian in appearance, had laid hands on someone near me to pray for them.

In the final dream, I was in another cabin, it had a bare table with a salt-shaker and there was a fireplace behind the table with a small fire. I could smell the smoke and hear the snapping and sputtering of the firewood and branches as they burned.  The room was packed. In this dream I was with a Native American brother, and we were going from person to person, and for those who wanted, we prayed for deliverance and healing.

After waking, I pondered the dreams and skimmed through the Native American Sanctuary Dream, in Kingdom Lessons Two, before praying and sitting at my computer to write.

 

These are some of the conclusions I came to following last night’s dream.

• Every dream had Christians, Bibles, anointing oil, saltshakers, campfires, fireplaces or kitchen tables, short teachings and/or prayers. Most of the time the items were subtle. For example, there was a tiny saltshaker, near a used paper plate adjacent to my computer, in the first dream.
• Although the original Native American Sanctuary Dream took place in a church building, at the beginning, after that, while some of the ministering groups, usually two or three, but at most several saints, may have attended traditional churches, the meeting was always in a home or outdoors.
• The ministry teams were composed of First Nations People, Caucasians, or blended ethnicities.
• When there was a teaching, it was Bible-centered and short. Prayers were not long-winded.  They were often interspersed with queries, before continued prayer, as when Jesus prayed twice for the blind man.   The prayers also tended to be short and authoritative, like “be healed of [blank] in Jesus Name” or “be gone devils of frailty and sickness, your assignment is over, permanently, concerning [blank.]
• There was a special blessing on ministry teams who were composed of Christians with Native American heritage, whether full or ethnically blended.
• The groups often started slowly, but after a time, answers to prayer, began to be more powerful with more frequent miracles.
• In some instances, two people were sharing teaching and praying while a few others were like support staff – intercession, hospitality, word of knowledge or wisdom.
• There wasn’t one person in charge, it was definitely a plurality of elders and ministers; they were  male and female,  compassionate and humble and never lorded it over others.

1 Peter 4:7  KJV

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Matthew 7:11 KJV

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

                                         1 John 5:14-15 KJV 

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.