What is a Prophetic Journey?

By Hazel Holland

My prophetic journey began after I began receiving dreams and visions in 1995. These prophetic revelations from God not only challenged the way I had previously understood prophecy, but they completely turned my life upside down by removing me from my cherished comfort zones. I felt like I was out on a limb with no safety net beneath me to catch me if I should fall...

Having grown up in a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) home where favorite quotes from the prophetic writings of Ellen G. White were used to support Adventism’s erroneous guilt-based theology and reliance upon good works for salvation, I wanted nothing to do with the whole subject of prophecy... Besides after years of study and research into her writings I no longer trusted the source of these dreams and visions that Ellen White supposedly received from God because much of the fruit of her teachings and revelations was not good. It didn't line up with Scripture and the God I had come to know personally.

Therefore, I had built up a strong resistance to the biblical gifts of the Spirit, especially to the gift of prophecy. Receiving visions and dreams from God that would bless and encourage or even warn others was not something I ever wanted. I considered them off limits. If God wanted to give someone else the prophetic gift that was fine, but don't bring it near me, thank you!

So when God began to speak to me through visions and dreams I didn't recognize it was Him at first. He was very gentle with me because he knew of my fear and strong resistance to anything supernatural. Since I am an artist I thought it was natural for me to see "pictures" when I prayed for people or when I talked to God. I assumed most artistic people saw "pictures."

Then one day, Charlie, a friend of mine whom I had come to know and trust, told me that all my friends in the prayer group I was a part of knew that God was giving me visions and dreams. I was dumbfounded! How could God have sneaked this "gift" past me without me recognizing it. He had made it so natural to see "pictures" in the Spirit while I was awake or asleep that I had not been afraid.

Gone was the fear of the prophetic gift, because God had presented it to me in such a positive and loving light. He had helped me see that it was given to bless and encourage His children. Even when He sometimes gave warnings it was because He loved us and was a true Father seeking His children's best interests, because God disciplines those He loves. It became so clear to me that God gives these gifts of the Spirit as aides to help us get to the root problems in our hearts. He wants to free and deliver us from those things that have held us in bondage, sometimes for generations.

On this site I will share various dreams and visions that I have received from the Spirit over the years. They were given not just to bless and encourage, and yes, sometimes warn me, but they were also given to bless and encourage you in your walk with the Lord.

Perhaps God has already been speaking to you through this gift. If He has, continue to pursue His heart and share what you have received with others so that together we can continue to build up the body of Christ.

"Wherever the River flows everything will live." Ezekiel 47:9

I invite you to jump into this River! You will be swept away by the current of His love into the deep places of His heart... Through the symbolic language of visions and dreams God continues to reveal His heart of compassion and love for His Beloved bride...