By: Leslie Phillips

What being lukewarm looks like in the spirit realm-

In my dream, I saw a pen of gazelles, peacefully grazing. In another pen, I see roaring lions. Only a thin tight rope separates the two. A baby horse, naive, is prancing along the tightrope, oblivious to its position.

In my dream, I am shouting, “Come back, stop! Please, come back,” I was frightened for the horse and started praying for mercy because it just didn’t understand.

You see- the gazelle can’t cross the tightrope. The lions cannot cross it either. The gazelle is at peace with the baby horse walking by. The lions are hungry. They never let their back feet come off the ground- so they are by law, never leaving their side-

Yet they reach out to the tightrope and snatch the baby horse and shred it to pieces.

It wasn’t pretty to see in dream state. When I awoke, I spoke to God, asking him what did I need to know.

He responded- ‘Leslie, this is why being lukewarm is so dangerous. It doesn’t matter how naive one is, or if they are experiencing confusion or not, for confusion is of the mind- and it is one of the most cunning tactics of Satan and dark spirits because if they can get control of the mind, they can control the body.

The most dangerous place is to be a believer who has reverted to becoming lukewarm, or the one who’s become convinced by the world that darkness doesn’t exist.

We live in a day of age where it is easy to pick and choose which parts of the bible or our Faith to engage in. I have been guilty of this. After a strict upbringing in the church, I went through a time of really rebelling against the Christian community and ultimately my Faith as the church had become more ‘religious’ based, creating more division, judgement, and the need to shame one another that I found it hindering to my relationship with God.

Without the community however; it became very easy for my relationship with God to be built more in my image, instead of me honoring the relationship HE had set out for me. This was dangerous because it left me marked in spirit realm as a child of God but unprotected in so many ways because of my disobedience.

To say I experienced spiritual warfare would be an understatement. I was in a constant state of spiritual warfare, it wasn’t just an occurrence from time to time. It impacted my choice in dating, in how I showed up in my marriage, it impacted my career, my self-esteem, my sense of peace, and every relationship you can imagine.

There may be a struggle that someone is experiencing, one that feels like an internal war, and maybe you’ve been walking a tightrope…..but if you are willing to open your eyes and your heart to see the timeline you are on- the trajectory of your decisions- you might come to find that at any given time, you can simply get off the tightrope. As it starts with a decision.

Jeremiah 15:19-20, Jeremiah 31:3-4, Isaiah 40: 28-31