Breakthrough from a Dream

I had an interesting dream last night that I want to share with you.  There have been several times in my life where God will communicate to me through a dream along with the Devil too.  These make me confused most of the times but the dream I had last night brought clarity to a prayer I have been praying recently. I prayed that I could understand and receive peace for all the crazy stuff God is impressing on my heart to do for Him some day.  So this is how the dream went.

Through out this section of my dream I was in a town with a lot of turmoil and fighting.  People were literally killing each other.  There were no police in the city.  In the center of the small town on Main Street was a shipping container that was bombed and was now was stuck in the ground from the explosion.  I climbed up to the top of the shipping container where I was surrounded on each side by each race of people that was present in the fighting.  From what I remember there were liberal whites, poor black southerners, conservative bible thumpers of all people, and a group of Muslims from Iran.  This was a pretty interesting mix of people in the dream.  Bible thumpers? Yes.  I stood up and welcomed each group by name and made a humorous remark to each group to break the tension in the air.  After this I preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone.  I don't remember what I said I just remember I preached the word boldly and saw results.  I didn’t just preach to any one group but to all of them.  I had prayed the night before that God would bring peace to me about different things about the future and through this dream He did.  I woke up with an overwhelming feeling of boldness and excitement for the future. This has the possibility to unlock all sorts of doors because for over 21 years I have never wanted to do any sort of long-term missions over seas unless it was to Europe.  I am an Evangelist at heart and this dream spoke to me that it doesn't matter where I go on this earth or what dangers I get into but all I want to do is just want to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  After this dream all possibilities are on the table.  Asia, South America, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and of course North America.

I propose a challenge to you: Pray, seek, and shut up till the LORD answers you.  God might speak to you to you in a dream like He did to me.  He might use a friend of yours to drop that “thing” into your heart that you have been praying for. He might just speak to you by reading the Bible so pick that up and start reading. He loves seeing you delight in Him with things that bring you joy and glorifies Him. If you are in a similar boat like I was in I pray that you continue to pursue Jesus.  And in this I will also pray for clarity of what ever God impresses on your heart to do for him. Two good scriptures to read through are Psalm 37 and Acts 21.  If you ever want someone to pray and stand beside you for the promises of God just ask me and we can sit down and talk.  I hope this blessed you!

Jake Nadelin

Surrendering your old dreams so you can take up your new dreams

An Army Approaches

The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast

11 "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

   KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”

 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh."    

 --Revelation 19:11-21

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So I've really been into listening to a hardcore Christian rock band called "For Today."  There is a song on an album titled "Ezekiel."  The heavy guitar driven song starts off with lyrics "An army approaches." I have been thinking a lot about the Kingdom of Heaven recently, and what that looks like here on earth. Now I'm not talking about the movie Kingdom of Heaven, but the literal Kingdom of Heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God.  

I don't know if you know this or not but we are at war.  Not against armies of this world but against the kingdom of Darkness where Satan is king.  As a child growing up, and still to this day, i have been fascinated by the military.  I must be the testosterone inside me but i love watching war movies, playing video games, and years ago collecting GI Joes.  After accepting Jesus into my life five years ago i now realize that there is a bigger picture outside of nations at war on earth.  As Christians, we don't fight at war in the flesh but as it says in Ephesians we fight against the powers of this dark world.  Where i am with this subject now is a state of alert.

For over a year I have been leading a ministry at school, where we go downtown Friday nights. Where most of the clubs are and share Jesus with people.  Through this i have seen the works and the powers of darkness first hand.  I have seen people get into fights right in front of me.  I have seen people bleeding with stab wounds.  I have seen numerous women be taken advantage of.  The list goes on from there.  While doing this ministry you step into the midst of a deep spiritual battle where the Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of Hell collide.  The reason I chose the passage of scripture in Revelation is because it is important as Christians to know our place in the midst of this battle.  The last few times we have gone downtown as a team I have noticed a lot people seemed to be scared.  Now it can get scary sometimes being around 100's of people under the influence of alcohol or drugs or a mixture of the two but know our place in this battle will help remove some fear.

So the end of the story and where we claim our identity is that Jesus has already won the war.  So since He has done that part it is our job as believers to fight the small battles.  Let me ask you this: What battles are you facing right now? Are you going to man/woman up as a child of the living God or are you going to fall away with fear.  I know life gets crazy.  I know life and the battles we wage in the spirit and on earth are tough but JESUS HAS WON.  Will you claim that and start walking in that?  No more fear when you talk to that co-worker about the hope you have in Jesus.  No more fear when sit down next to that homeless man sitting on the ground downtown.  No more fear when you see the friends you grew up with making stupid decisions.  Have you left your mark on this earth for the Kingdom of Heaven?  

Just remember that Jesus told us in the Great Commission that He will be with always, to the very end of the age.

God's Provision

"So I tell you, don't worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.  Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds."  --Matthew 6:25-26 (NCV)

Community--The sound of a late 80’s cheesy electric guitar with a chorus effect pedal

i am a tool

Well it’s true I am a tool.  Hopefully not by worldly standards but by God’s measurement.  I what Jesus says in the book of Matthew about the harvest.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of 

the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”  -Matthew 9:37-38

I had a realization a few weeks ago.  I was downtown on a Friday night to share Jesus with people who were clubbing.  I was able to witness to a few people and continue to build friendships with familiar faces.  That Friday was unique because there was a high school dance type thing to raise money for some sort of recycling program or solar panels.  This was held in a club Epic on 5^th street and 2nd Ave.  The dance got over at 12 a.m. and soon after hundreds of high schoolers flooded the streets.  This was a crazy sight to see because kids aging from 14 to 18 were dressed far more inappropriate than people who normally are downtown Fridays.   Beside this there was just something different about this Friday night than any other.  When I go evangelize I enjoy having a partner for support.  This particular Friday night I couldn’t find anyone to go with me so I hit the streets alone.

The realization I had was that I could be one of the only professing Christians amongst thousands of non-believers.  This is the reason why I said I am a tool.  The point of this entire experience is this: It’s not your ability that counts; it’s your availability.

Around 12:30 my brain was satisfied with the job I had done but that’s not what God had for me.  I felt like God was telling me that He needed to use me more.  For the next 20 minutes or so I just walked around praying.  

I believe that spiritual gifts are alive and present in the modern church today.  I don’t believe they were just for the apostle Paul or Peter to use but they can be used by Christians today, given by the Holy Spirit.  I say this because before I started walking back to NCU I had a vision.  I saw I was going to talk to a woman somehow with blond hair outside of the center of downtown.  A vision is like in the TV show LOST where in an episode Desmond kept seeing into the future that Charlie was going to die so he saved him.   I started walking back and about half way there was this couple that was following me.  I was walking slower than them so they eventually passed me.  A few blocks later I caught up with them next to HCMC hospital.  As soon as I realized that the woman had blond hair they stopped me and asked me for directions to a hotel.  They were from Iowa and were up in the Cities for a graduation party.  I told them where to go and I simply said God Bless you guys, have a good night.  I never said the word Jesus to them all I said was God Bless.  I really felt like this was all that was needed to be said, that I could trust God to do a good work in her and bring it to completion. 

There really isn’t any glamour to this story.  I didn’t lead anyone to Christ as far as I know and I didn’t even have as many conversations as I normally have.  What I think happened to this blond haired women was all she needed to hear was God Bless.  She could have been praying to God to reveal Himself to her at 1:15 a.m. and because I was a tool available for use, God used me and I obeyed. 

What I want you to take from this simple story is if you are available for use God will use you.  You don’t have to know the Bible back and forth or be majoring in Evangelism for God to use you.  If you are like me and happen to ever be amongst thousands of non-believers, trust me, God will use you.  He will use you in the workplace, in the classroom, on the light rail, or wherever.  You just have to be available for use.  So if you ever feel a tug on your heart to go talk to that coworker or acquaintance or even offer prayer for them just do it.  You may feel like you don’t know what to say or didn’t pray fluently like your pastor does, God will use whatever you give Him.  Are you available for God to use you?

It’s not your ability that counts; it’s your availability.

God Bless!

an explanation of the background picture

So this is my first attempt EVER at writing a blog or journaling or anything outside of my classes in English.  I want to let you know that i am a horrible writer and have always been bad at writing going all the way back to elementary school.  I am a fan of blogs but what has held me back from blogging is my lack of english skills so i just never got into blogging or journaling.  But now i am at the point where i just don't care to share my horrible lack of grammar and spelling skills and i pray that through the blogging process my skills in writing and grammar will improve.  So yeah, bare with me as i write my thoughts down n junk.

The blog background picture is from a bridge near downtown Toronto, Ontario.  The bridge spans a small stream and a highway underneath and is a viaduct with cars on the top and the subway below.  The bridge is named the Prince Edward Viaduct and is on Bloor Street East near the Riverdale Neighborhood.  In April of 2007 around 33 people my youth group from Southridge Reformed Church in Kalamazoo, MI went to Toronto as part of an inner city missions trip working with Center For Student Missions, CSM for short.  The first night in Toronto the CSM staff took us on a driving prayer tour of the city.  The tour was to educate us on the needs of the city and what God was up there.  About mid way through the tour we turned onto the Prince Edward Viaduct.  There is something interesting about the Viaduct.  On each side there are these steel rods that go off in an angle.  I noticed this and thought to myself, what is up with this.  Right after this thought our tour guide explained the steel rods.  He said that these steel rods as here as a suicide barrier to stop people from jumping off the bridge.

Luminous Veil
The name for all of the steel rods are called the Luminous Veil.  Before completion of the the Veil in 2003, the bridge averaged a suicide ever 22 days.  The Veil cost the city roughly 5.5 million Canadian dollars to construct and in the time the Veil was being constructed until completion there were an estimated 60 suicides.  The Veil was created to stop suicides but a report in 2010 stated that suicides by jumping has not decreased at all.  


At at least one end of the bridge there is what looks to be an ordinary telephone booth but it is actually a suicide/crisis hotline.  In the summer of 2008 i was able to go back and intern with CSM for two weeks. The last night off the internship i had a chance to walk across the bridge.  It was dark when the team got off the subway.  We approached the bridged and walked past the suicide hotline.  We started walking across the bridge and stopped in the middle to look at the city.  There is an amazing view of the city from  the bridge.  Then i went up to the steel rods and placed my hands on them and looked over the side to the highway below.  It was at this moment when i was able to glimpse what so many people saw right before they jumped.  The though that came into my mind at this point was where is the Church.  How could there be so many people ending their lives because they are so sad, depressed, and confused? Where is the Church? Where is Jesus?

This is a very sad story but i will never forget touching those steel rods and looking over that bridge.  This is a big reason why i am called to be a missionary someday to Toronto.  I want to give the city Hope that only comes through Jesus.  It was 5 years ago yesterday that i gave my life to Jesus and i found hope.  So this story is just part of my life journey and i have no idea when i will get there but i know i will someday.

If you are sad, lonely, depressed, and need hope in your life, turn to Jesus.  If you are skeptical that God really exists and cares about you, i just want to share with you a passage from the Bible.  In the book of Jeremiah in the 29th chapter, 13th verse it says this: "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."  So what this is saying is if you don't even believe in God, search for him and you will find him.  If you draw near to him He will draw near to you.


I really appreciate you reading my first blog post ever.  I would love it if you would leave a comment and i really hope this is a blessing to you.