Ella Onakoya
harvestofthenations.com
 
I sense a mighty release of the power of God against storms and buffeting winds that are being released against His Saints. God’s voice, His peace and divine strategies are being released to bring you breakthroughs. You have being designed and specially crafted by the master’s hands to overcome buffeting storms the winds.
 
Fairly recently the Lord gave me a very detailed dream that showed His divine intervention in stormy situations. It also revealed specific keys of revelation in overcoming the storms of life. In the dream, I had arranged with a young couple (who I never met in real life) to go out on a fun day out in the boat. As we got into the boat, a massive storm came against the boat and soon waters began to fill this boat. This young couple became so terrified that they simply stood in the boat waiting for the inevitable, for the waters to fill the boat and for all lives to be lost. They became resigned to their fate and to all intent had given up on any form of salvation or escape from their situation.
 
However, in this dream God gave me the most immense peace and I knew we would somehow escape against all odds. This is a miracle as in real life I am not comfortable with water and cannot swim and would probably have been the most terrified! I looked around the boat and saw buckets lying around the boat and told the couple, we can do this, don’t let’s just wait around to be swamped, let’s empty the water with the buckets lying around so that we will not drown. As we started to empty the water, suddenly the storms stopped, the water abated and we saw the dawn of a new day. We were very ecstatic as we stood to welcome the dawn of a new day. As the dream ended, I teased the couple and asked them if they would ever have agreed to go on a day out in the boat if they knew we were going to face such a hard day with storms.
 
After I woke up from the dream, I prayed for anyone in a storm like situation to receive strength from the Lord and have peace that they would overcome. From this dream, I want to share this prophetic encouragement.
 
1.You might be in a path of your life where you thought you heard God and stepped out on your journey of faith. Suddenly the storm came and you felt swamped. Like the couple in the dream who were encouraged not to give up but to take steps to empty their boat that was filling with water, I believe heaven is releasing new strength to you to lift your head up and receive that extra push of faith to praise Him, worship, release decrees to your storm or receive the divine strategy heaven has for you to come out of your storm.
 
2. It was as the couple started to remove waters from the boats that the storm abated. Our efforts in the dream to empty the waters in the boat looked so little but heaven responded and the storm was still.
 
The Lord also gave me these additional revelations to share from the dream for the body of Christ:
 
The boat in the dream represents an abiding place of safety which could be a home, ministry, business, marriage or relationship. The excursion on the seas represents the journeys we all undertake in life at some point. The storms that came in the dream represents hindrances and oppositions. The instructions God gave me in the dream for the couple(it could have been anyone else the lord could have used) represents the voice of the Lord directing us to what we need to do to overcome stormy situations. I also believe in the dream, the Lord was using the boat as a symbolic reminder of how Jesus was present in the boat of the disciples He loved. I believe He is releasing a timely reminder to you ‘He is in your boat too’.
 
The Lord impressed on my heart that there are those in the body of Christ that He had given supernatural abilities, gifts, strengths and authority which they are unaware of. These abilities from the Lord were intended to provide the ways of escape from trials and temptations that represents storms against us. After all, in 1 Corinthians 10:13 He promised us that He would not allow temptations beyond what we can bear and that He is faithful to provide ways of escape from these temptations. The supernatural abilities and authority given to us by the Lord to overcome were the buckets lying around in the boat unused and unseen until the direction of the Lord came for the couple to see all the Lord had provided for them to be victorious.
 
I sense the Lord’s compassionate heart to open eyes and hearts to discern what had being given by heaven in this hour to overcome. Your buckets lying around could be a new sound the lord wants to release through you, a high praise, supernatural insight that will give you wisdom on what to do in a given situation, a new strategy for your business, marriage or ministry. The key message the lord is giving here is. ‘Arise from your ocean of despair and stop waiting for the inevitable failure that the enemy is causing you to see. Arise and press in with new strength in order to see the dawn of a new day’.
 
I had shared a testimony before on the Elijah List about how the Lord healed me of high blood pressure but I feel it pertinent to mention it again here as that was an apt situation when the Lord made me aware He was in my boat and showed me how to overcome the storm of this illness. As a leader in a healing revival ministry, I very much believe in the Lord’s ability to heal any illnesses and have seen many sicknesses healed. But just before 2017, after receiving consistent high readings of high blood pressure with the advise to start taking medication, I was initially anxious especially as I remembered some of my Dad’s family dying from this illness. However the Lord assured me that if I trust Him, He would heal me. For 4 days, I then praised, worshiped and meditated on healing scriptures without any medication (though I am by no means advocating that believers should not use prescribed medication). The doctor then took my readings again and told me that my blood pressure was back to normal and till date I have remained healed with consistently good readings of blood pressure. In that situation, the worship, praise and meditation on the healing scriptures were the buckets lying around in my boat that needed to be used to cause the storm of illness to abate.
 
God’s intervention for storms against marriages
 
Dreams are many times often multilayered. While this dream reveals strategies for the body of Christ to overcome storms, because of the deep connection I felt with that married couple in the dream, I also sense that another layer of the dream has to do specifically with God intervening on some marriage relationship that unexpected storms have come against. One of the ways the enemy tries to cause heartbreak for the body of Christ is to attack family and marriage relationships. I sense the Lord’s encouragement for families experiencing intense pressure against them to arise and speak to their storms ‘peace be still’.
 
Several years ago a married couple who were very much in love suddenly started to experience a storm of intense conflicts in their relationship which suddenly escalated into irreconcilable differences. The wife who I was mentoring told me she was going to divorce her husband as a result of the conflict. She had given up because she did not know what else to do. This might sound too good to be true, but as the lord used me to reveal to her the hidden strengths and authority she had within her, she boldly rose up in intercession and decrees to command the storms of conflict against her marriage to stop. Her ability to release her authority through warfare prayers to save her marriage were the buckets lying around that she had overlooked. A short while later her husband called her in a conciliatory manner to reconcile. Of course they still had to take steps of reconciliation but when she decided to rise up and press in to pray and push through demonic barriers was when the battle shifted in her favor and a turnaround came. Their marriage was beautifully reconciled with no further plans for a divorce!
 
Be encouraged friends, the Lord Jesus is in your boat. Partner with Him and allow Him to show you hidden strengths, strategies and abilities to release against your storms. It is His heart’s desire to stand with you to welcome in the dawn of a new day of your victory.
 
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