The swarm dream
In June of 2018 I had a prophetic dream. We were still in the beginning stages of planning for the School of Kingdom Writers, and without a doubt I knew this was a message that had to do with the vision God was placing in our hearts and minds.
I’ve sat with it for a year and half now, and processed through it at different times. God brought it to mind again recently and I feel like it’s time to share.
It was a very short dream, but with great depth of meaning.
It took place in a barn, a brand new barn that was tall but had open sides. In the very top of the barn there was a honeybee swarm. A beekeeper dressed in a white suit came along and began to transfer the swarm to a new hive. As the beekeeper moved them, the bees began to cheer in their tiny voices and were full of joy. I awoke hearing the words, “They were eager to find their destiny.”
The church is awakening. We are moving into a new era where the old won’t work anymore. Church isn’t going to work the way it has, and here are many people who love Jesus and want to follow Him with all their hearts but they just don’t feel like they have a place in the church. There might be different reasons for that, but the sentiment is the same, church is broken.
The swarm in this dream represents these people, the ones who have been sitting in church but don’t feel like they have a place. The ones who want to follow Jesus but feel like they don’t fit in anywhere. When honeybees swarm it’s for reproduction. Our churches have come up against a wall. The new barn with open sides represents the newness of this move that God is bringing. It is OPEN, there are not parameters that will define this move. People do not want to be boxed into what church “should” look like anymore and are hungry for real experiences. They are leaving to create new opportunities for evangelism; they are leaving to grow the church. They know Jesus is bigger and more magnificent than what can be felt solely inside church walls and they are hungry for it. They are eager to find their destinies.
The beekeeper represents Jesus, who is transferring these people who are who are earnestly seeking him, into the places where they fit in. We are on the cusp of a great move of God, and I believe that it is going to look radically different than anything we have experienced so far. The bees were overjoyed at the beekeeper rescuing them and giving them a new home. Just as those who are earnestly seeking the Lord are overjoyed when they finally find their place, their community, their calling and their destiny. No longer will people settle for sitting in the pews and simply listening to a preacher because they know that with the risk of Jesus comes a calling in the Kingdom. They are not willing to merely to sit on the sidelines, but instead they are in it to win it.
The School of Kingdom Writers is one of these places, a place where people are going to come to find their calling and find their destiny. A place that is outside of the box, outside of what looks like church.
God is resplendent, He is overwhelmingly majestic and as a people we are drawn to His beauty. Through us His brilliant light shines, a light that will not be put into a box. It cannot be contained, you cannot put a finger on what it is. Although He never changes, the ways He reaches the lost and changes the world are always moving, always adapting, always growing. We just have to listen to where He is calling us.
