09/18/2019
"Taste and see that the Lord is good!"
Had a dream night before last (Tuesday, 17th) at about 4am that kept me awake for about an hour. In the dream I sensed the Lord giving me a word, in particular for a friend and his church. I grabbed Kerry and told her we needed to go immediately. We showed up at the church during worship and went in through what appeared to be backstage doors.
The word: “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8). I heard it spoken over and over and over again. “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” “Taste and see.” “Taste and see.” I told my friend of the word I had to share, which he allowed me then to share with the congregation gathered.
From the platform, I invited the people, even pleaded with the people, to “taste and see the goodness of the Lord.” I invited them to come and receive from his hand, comfort, healing, encouragement, peace. “Partake of him. Feast on him and his presence. Receive now his love for you. Receive now his goodness.” People began coming forward to receive from the hand of the Lord.
For the hour that I lay there in bed, I kept meditating on those words. “Taste and see.” “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” I felt overwhelmed by a sense that God wanted to reveal his goodness to me in new ways (duh!). I perceived his goodness and love being poured out upon me, laid upon me like a blanket. There was a weight to it.
Many verses came to mind.
“You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, and my cup to overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalm 23).
“If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:10-14).
“I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty” (John 6:35). “I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the Living Bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world…. Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came from heaven….whoever feeds on this bread will live forever” (John 6:48-58).
“Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him” (Psalm 34:8).
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103).
I recalled the vision I had for another person where Jesus stood beckoning us to come in and eat from his table, a table spread with the choicest foods of this world and heaven. Each food represented a different aspect of God’s character and being.
All day long my heart kept being drawn back to the dream and the words. Even while typing this now, I sense his goodness and love resting on me, filling me, embracing me.
“Taste and see.” Yes, Lord!
