Timing is a difficult issue for prophetic people, times and seasons can be off in a way that makes a true word look false. Here’s one such example. In the fall of 2009 I had a very vivid dream about the stock market falling dramatically in December forming what looked like a bottom. Well anyway I assumed that this December dream was related to December of 2009. I should know better than to think that by now but when I received the dream it was so close to December that I didn’t have that much time to pray, so I took a risk and lost about $1000 when I leverage to the downside that December. It’s like Y2K, a lot of the prophets had been getting warnings about major trouble coming and when the year 2000 came it was all too easy for them to say this must have been what God was showing us all along. Well many got it wrong just like I picked the wrong December to short the market.
In the fall of 2010 however things changed in the way that I prayed and meditated. I learned to start praying month by month and year by year and sometimes week by week instead of asking God about the next major trend. If you asked for a dream or vision about a major trend, who knows where that would take you in time, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years out in the future? So it’s important to pray through the monthly and yearly cycles.
Back to what happened. In the fall of 2010 I started to pray month by month and week by week. I even made a prayer/meditation CD that prayed month by month so I could add focus to a my dreams as I slept. As a result I dream that saints that looked like the angels were preparing for a battle in London that was going to happen in December. A couple months later I watched part of a Kim Clement video where he prophesized some kind of attack in London during the month of December. Now as December 2010 approached I started to really target December with a made up December 2010 meditation CD where I called out the days of December day by day for the whole entire month. As this happened I just had repeating dreams of the market going a little bit up but not doing much of anything. This technique saved me from making the same mistake twice. I also assume that any problems in December with London would also lead to a major correction in the world markets, and that’s just my opinion.
So anyway it appears that the dream I had about London and Kim Clements word about London are going to happen in some December in the future, but who knows which one.
Anyway I hope this strategy of praying and meditating month to month and year to year helps people with their timing problems and helps them make better decisions about when things will happen.