Get prepared, the king is coming!
I had this dream a few days ago and would like to share it with you:
There was a line of women coming up to me and telling me how good I smelled. They were asking me what I was wearing because they wanted to smell like me. I was explaining to them that I wear a vanilla perfume mixed with other spices. All of the sudden, there was the awareness that the King was coming. He was about to enter the space we were at and thousands of women realized they were not ready for His. Arrival. They did not smell good and needed the fragrance that I was wearing. They began to ask me to share what I was wearing with them. They lined up as I smeared a lotion type oil on them with the fragrance that I was wearing. There were so many people waiting to be prepared for the King.
I believe this dream has to do with intimacy and being ready for our bridegroom. It’s important that we are prepared and ready with our lamps full of oil.
Song of Solomon 4:13-14 talks about the fragrance that the bride groom King is longing for.
Song of Songs 4:6-15 TPT - The Bridegroom-King
7 Every part of you is so beautiful, my darling. Perfect is your beauty, without flaw within.
8 Now you are ready, my bride, to come with me as we climb the highest peaks together. Come with me through the archway of trust. We will look down from the crest of the glistening mounts and from the summit of our sublime sanctuary, from the lion’s den and the leopard’s lair.
9 For you reach into my heart. With one flash of your eyes I am undone by your love, my beloved, my equal, my bride. You leave me breathless—I am overcome by merely a glance from your worshiping eyes, for you have stolen my heart. I am held hostage by your love and by the graces of righteousness shining upon you.
10 How satisfying to me, my equal, my bride. Your love is my finest wine—intoxicating and thrilling. And your sweet, perfumed praises—so exotic, so pleasing.
11 Your loving words are like the honeycomb to me; your tongue releases milk and honey, for I find the promised land flowing within you. The fragrance of your worshiping love surrounds you with scented robes of white.
12 My darling bride, my private paradise, fastened to my heart. A secret spring that no one else can have are you—my bubbling fountain hidden from public view. What a perfect partner to me now that I have you.
13-14 Your inward life is now sprouting, bringing forth fruit. What a beautiful paradise unfolds within you. When I’m near you, I smell aromas of the finest spice, for many clusters of my exquisite fruit now grow within your inner garden. Here are the nine: pomegranates of passion, henna from heaven, spikenard so sweet, saffron shining, fragrant calamus from the cross, sacred cinnamon, branches of scented woods, myrrh, like tears from a tree, and aloe as eagles ascending.
15 You are a fountain of gardens. A well of living water springs up from within you, like a mountain brook flowing into my heart!
Although Vanilla is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, some scholars interpret the Song of Songs 4:14 as a metaphorical reference to the sweet and fragrant qualities of vanilla. In this verse, the Bible mentions "calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices". Some scholars interpret this as representing the beauty and allure of the beloved.
I believe this dream is a call to get ready.
Although it is not the responsibility of others to make sure you have your lamps full of oil, we can help you get prepared. In the dream I was smearing the fragrance on the women and I believe this is symbolic of the equipping needed to help others learn to grow in their intimacy with God. The King is coming and He is looking for His bride to be ready with the fragrance of worship, intimacy, and praise.
He is coming for His bride are you ready?
