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Table Number 99: Live Interpretation with Luke Bonanno
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Remember the meaning of the #9 from last week? It shows up in DOUBLE in this weeks episode "Table Number 99" .
In this episode we jump straight into Luke's dream about a Pub called "Hook and Sinker" and Aragorn the angelic bartender! Luke had this dream over 1.5 years ago, but like so many dreams, the time for interpretation is now! As we talk through the symbols in the dream and line them up with events of the last 1.5 years Luke begins to see God's common message to him emerge. One about leaning on the power of the Spirit, not his own stregnth or giftings to get him where he needs to go. God is more interested in reforming things in Lukes life, caring for his heart and preparing him for what lies ahead. Our callings are reserved and preserved for us by God- and the doors will be opened at just the right time! We can trust him.
If you need encouragement about God's involvement in your life and calling, this is a great episode for you!
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Introduction and Dream Context
00:00:00
Speaker
We were designed to hunger for the deep things of God, to thrive on faith and wonder, to seek out divine wisdom that defies human logic. We were designed to unlock the mysteries of God. This is Breathing Underwater.
00:00:28
Speaker
Okay. Let's do your dream. You know, the drill. I'm going to ask you for the date, the title and the emotions. Okay. To start and then go for it. Yeah. So, um, the date I had it was on, uh, February the 12th, 2023. So it was guess a year and a half ago.
00:00:48
Speaker
um the title of the dream i guess i just wrote down like the second i woke up so it's a restaurant table number the name is the title that i wrote because i usually write my dreams after i have them especially if they really stood out to me um and the main emotion i had during the dream was um I guess just um there weren' there weren't any strong emotions, maybe peace um ah and curiosity probably. So positive. Yeah, positive. Yeah,
Dream Details and Symbolism
00:01:20
Speaker
yeah. Great. relatively positive Yeah. this When you were, when you had this dream, were you in the States? um Yes, I was in, I can, cause my app like takes down the location I was when I took this note. So I can tell you I was, um I was in California, yet Northern California.
00:01:36
Speaker
Amazing. Okay. Let's do it. Restaurant table number. Okay. So, um, yeah, so I was, um, ordering food at a restaurant on coastal water. Um, and the name of the restaurant I was at was something called so was something like hook and sinker was the name, but, um, I can't, I couldn't fully remember if that was the correct name or not. Um, but it was something along those lines.
00:02:02
Speaker
Oh, and by the way, that did reminds me, and I wrote this down too, that name reminded me of a pub in DC called Hawk and Dove that I had been to. But in my dream, it was something like Hook and Sinker. um So it was a bit different. And so there was a guy working at the bar, um and he was a friend, um or he felt like a friend to me. um And he was a hero, and he appeared to me to be like Aragon from um Lord of the Rings, the main protagonist.
00:02:31
Speaker
Yes. And he was working the bar, he was the bartender um or like was was was taking my order. um And when I looked at him, I felt like I wasn't surprised that he was working at this hipster place. Cause he looked like my hipster a bit um with his long hair, I guess. And and he gave me a table number um and the number was 99. And he gave me a choice though. um I could choose either a pen written number or a printed number. um And I chose to go with the printed table number. um And then a crowd of people entered the tavern. um Some were only passing through. um And in the corner of the tavern, there was a TV and on the TV, um Trump was speaking, President Trump. um And then I tried to find a place to sit outside
00:03:27
Speaker
of the tavern thinking it was on the water, but when I went outside um it was bad seating, it was very tight seating. I remember it was like rows, like single rows of tables that was really backed up onto a street um and it was just very cramped out there and not nice like what I thought it would be um on the water. So I went back inside um through a clear door. So I went back into the tab tavern through a clear door that very weirdly opened from the bottom to the top. So it was like it flipped, but opening from the bottom to the top. And it slammed behind me as I reentered the tavern. um So that was that was scene one. um And then there was a very brief second scene.
00:04:12
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um So in the separate scene, um I saw like an old book that had been and opened and kind of like, I remember it being like um like a Disney animation or something where the book opens um and the book was from 2003.
00:04:28
Speaker
And the book kind of turned into, you know, and like those animated movies, sometimes the book opens and then it turns into a 3D thing like popping out from the pages. Yeah. So I saw that popping out. um But what was popping out was coastal areas that were being formed, like the coast being formed um and moving images of land masses. And I could see how those land masses were being formed and pivoted. And it was also like a coastal kind of Um, land masses, I guess. Um, and yeah, and that's where, that's where the dream ended. Yeah. I have to say I'm a little bit stumped, but I know someone who's not stumped.
Exploring Dream Significance
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Holy spirit. Wow. Okay.
00:05:11
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Let me ask you a couple questions, get a clearer picture of your, your context or some of these things. So the pub in DC that hook and sinker reminded you of, what was it called again? Dove and. Hawk and dove. Hawk and dove. Yeah. The, um, coat, like the coastal, when you said it was, um, on coastal water, did you mean like it was near the beach?
00:05:34
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Uh, yeah, yeah, it wasn't, um, I didn't, I don't think I saw sand, but it was more like cliffs going into like green cliffs going into nice blue water. Like it was a nice coastal situation. Beautiful. What is, what is like coastal land or water? What does that mean to you? Does it have a representation?
00:05:52
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Yeah, well where I'm from Australia is considered to be a coastal place just because all everybody lives on the coast and we're, we're a continent but we're also an island so um I had wondered if there was any relation to that, um or anywhere on the coast if there was some sort of geographical indication for um direct like a directional word regarding anywhere on the coast. Yeah but that it didn't seem obvious to me that was definitely Australia or anywhere specific. Okay. Yeah so and then but it was a very nice it was very nice imagery like when I was in the restaurant I wanted to go sit on the water because I thought it would be nice it turned out that what there was no water there but I wanted to sit there and then when I saw it in the book um it looked lovely.
00:06:41
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Interesting. Why don't you tell me what what part of this dream felt the most um weighty to you? um What did feel significant was Aragorn at the bar yeah and the number 99. That number 99 has stuck with me ever since, like that, when I think about this dream the stream, the first thing I think of is that number. I don't know what it means. Um, and the facts that I went with the printed version and not the, not the handwritten version, um, felt to me to be significant. The pub that reminded you of Devin Hawk felt really significant to me when you read it. Interesting. Okay. Cause it might even be more about what the place reminded you of versus what the name actually was. Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:32
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Okay. So if we're going to look at the context or try and get some context for the dream, some personal context, what area of your life do we think it's about? Usually we look at some of the symbols to see if that's going to speak to any of that. So what I see are a couple of patterns here as I see the pub in DC, right? Which is obviously a political place space. It's also the capital of our nation, my nation.
00:07:56
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yeah um And then there was a moment where Trump was speaking on TV. And even though he's not president now, you called him president Trump, which I think is interesting. And so there's kind of this political connection there. Yeah. Which lends me to think that this, there might, that this might be speaking to vocation or that kind of area of concern in your life. Cause there's a pattern there. Yeah. True, actually. Yeah.
00:08:22
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As soon as you said that there was the guy you liked the guy at the bar, I knew I just felt like I knew he was angelic. I felt like he was. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's great. a guy specifically there to give you a message, m to deliver some spiritual sustenance. I don't know exactly what, but when I think of bars or I think of bartenders, I think about what what do you usually serve at bars is spirits, right? And so it feels kind of like a ah leader in the spirit. So it really felt like he was angelic. And when you said Aragorn, I was like, Oh yeah, with that long hair. It looks like Jesus.
00:09:01
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Yeah, totally, totally could be Jesus too. Could be Jesus, could be could be angelic, but he felt really obviously positive to me as well. But you were there um to order some food, but it felt like the message was 99.
The Number 99 and Spiritual Journey
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Yeah.
00:09:19
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I think it's interesting. It's 99. So whether it's what the meaning of the number nine means, like the biblical meaning, not show up all throughout the Bible. And it's worth paying attention to how does that number show up in the Bible? And what does it mean? You know, like seven being the number of perfection because it represents God, that kind of thing. Or six, six, six is the number of man, which is not what we want in our lives.
00:09:43
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Um, so there's all different numbers. Um, the number nine, um, I didn't have a lot of clarity. I thought it was interesting. That it was 99. Was that like, ah what was God saying? I'm trying to tell you about the number nine and and so much that I want to confirm it by saying two, like two nights. Um, double. Yeah. Whatever. Does not mean grace. I'm trying to remember.
00:10:07
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Okay, what is what ah do you know are you good with numbers? I am good with numbers. Okay, great. And I just so happen to know nine because nine's showing up a lot in my world right now too. okay Nine has to do with fruitfulness, fullness, completeness. There's nine um gifts of the spirit, or I'm sorry, fruits so fruits of the spirit. Oh, okay. So think fruitfulness, it comes after new beginnings. So it's like a fruitfulness, a harvest.
00:10:35
Speaker
Okay. That makes a lot of sense to me, actually. Good. And I'll tell you why, because um I was speaking to one of my mentors, um her name's Hayley, or she's not a mentor, but she's a pastor that I know.
00:10:48
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and um And she prayed for me before, like um after we finished ministry school, you know she knew I worked in the government. And in her prayer, she said um that um it's not by might, it's not by power, but it's by the Spirit. And that's what the Lord wants to do to teach you is that you're not gonna get yourself anywhere. um It's gonna be by the Spirit of God. And you have to lean into that. And it really that really stuck with me. And when you're talking about the fruits of the Spirit, yeah
00:11:20
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um and like a double portion of that. Like actually it feels like, and that, so so I had this dream in ah early 2023,
00:11:31
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um which yeah, that was that was during the time that I was actually trying to to find a job after I graduated. And it was, wait, so 2020, do we graduate 2023 or 2022? You graduated in 23, I graduated in 22.
00:11:47
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Oh, okay. So that was actually just before all even the timing of that just felt just like in the transition time. Right. um Feels like maybe maybe the Lord was actually reminding me that it's not that it's going to be by his spirit. It's not going to be by my abilities and professionalism or whatever else. I can be very much that way. Like very, I have to pull things together. Like I listen to the Lord, but part of me always wants to do to be like excellence, you know? Sure. And I do your part. Yeah.
00:12:19
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It's interesting because before we pushed record when you and I were just catching up, you actually mentioned this very thing that like, you don't want to push any doors open. Like you really want God to open the door for you saying wow yeah to come back to our nation, to come back to step into so more of what he has for you. yeah I had to just look in Strong's because I usually look up numbers in Strong's concordance just to see what the number represents in like Hebrew or Greek. Get this.
00:12:44
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The number 99 in Greek is the name of a place, Adria, which means a place near the shore. No, it does.
00:12:57
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ah
00:12:59
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I was like, okay. Wow. We have to ask the Lord what that means. We definitely have a pattern. right What is he saying? ah but but Definitely got a pattern here.
00:13:13
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Wow. What did stand out to me was um on the theme of, um on the theme of, it's not by my, it's not by parrots by the spirit of the Lord and with the the fruits of the spirit 99, that I ended up choosing the printed version of that number and not the handwritten, because anything done by your hand is done by your own strength. um And there's that there's a human aspect of that, that I think the Lord sometimes not interested in your human effort. um And I think the fact that I went with the printed number, that was one thing that's happened was I went with the printed number, the number that was given to me and I didn't create. I didn't create that number by my own hand.
00:13:53
Speaker
Oh, it's been a crazy transition period. I still feel like I'm in transition, but um I think the Lord's trying to teach me that lessons that um I might have like different gifts or abilities, but he's not interested in using those necessarily to to get me anywhere. He wants to use his own strength.
00:14:16
Speaker
And is i that right there is him. That is him. Yeah, I feel that. That's him. That's him right there. i I mean, he's all about that. Yes. He's all about let me show off on your behalf just who I've said I am.
00:14:31
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and But how beautiful that he gave you a choice here. I'm wondering if we looked even more at that season. I was also intrigued by going outside thinking it was going to be lovely, but it didn't get really crowded and there wasn't any space. And you were like, nah, this isn't what I thought it was. Yes. Does that at all resonate with that season?
Real-life Parallels and Reflections
00:14:58
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Yeah, when I went to DC to look for a job,
00:15:00
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And this was six months before I went to do that. And this this was actually during the time the period of time when I made my first trip to DC while I was still at ministry school to try and meet some contacts, which I thought would work. But six months later when I moved there, nothing came through. But I thought it would. I was actually very confident that that that things would work out when I moved there and lived there for you know months trying to find work um just as a non on-citizen you know or whatever, for whatever reason, um nothing came through. And it was crowded. There's a lot of people trying to climb certain ladders um and it was not at all, there wasn't peace.
00:15:45
Speaker
And the coat that the coastal thing, like I think the Lord knows that um that ah you know i i'm I'm after or like I'd like to settle somewhere I'd like to um yeah he he knows what I enjoy and what I'm looking for but when I went out to find it it didn't quite end up it's just interesting with Trump speaking in the background as well like he just knows the kind of worlds that um that I'm in but um I wonder what the slamming door meant though when I came back into
00:16:19
Speaker
the tavern, like the the door opening from the bottom to the top that slammed behind me. Well, that that door did shut behind you when you left DC. It did actually. I just can't help but looking at all the correlations with the coastal space too and just like what you thought you were going to get going out there, you didn't. You came back in.
00:16:46
Speaker
And there's all these, all this homage being paid to the coast and to coastal lands. And you thinking at the beginning of the dream, like, Oh, it it could have been Australia just because everyone lives on the coast. I wonder if there's more there. I wonder if the Lord wants to, to show you more about that, or if it's even just speaking to the fact that after that season, you, you did come back to Australia for a time. Yeah.
00:17:18
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I'm so intrigued because the second dream is definitely related. Like if you had them back to back and it felt like a second scene, this is the same dream. So then the book is opening and twenty that's from 2003.
00:17:31
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yeah
00:17:33
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Does that year ring anything for you? Was that a significant year for you? I actually you know what I in my notes, I had never really knows that year until now. um I think I've always just when I've gone over my nuts to read the dream, I always skipped over it. um I can't think of anything necessarily.
00:17:57
Speaker
um There was a lot of stuff going on in my family at the time that was quite um quite hard for my entire family kind of around that same time, where there was, it was definitely transitioned my family, but not in a good way. um Okay. Yeah. um oh
00:18:18
Speaker
um But he was like reforming land. Yeah. Reforming something from your book in 2003. Yeah, ah true. Yeah.
00:18:33
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It was an old book too. And I think you could relate the um the old book also to my, I would say probably to my life, 2004 was when like, um yeah, just things happened to my family that just really my, unfortunately my family hasn't been the same since then. um And I was relatively unaffected emotionally by all of that. um But there was definitely massive changes that happened. um And I did actually feel the Lord's protection um in that time when I was about 14 years old. um Yeah. um But there was definitely a lot of transition, a lot of like, forming that the Lord was doing. For me, and that I get looking back, I can actually see that's where a lot of it started because I had to start to rely on God more actually in that from from that time, um rather than other people. Yeah. So there's a theme again.
00:19:28
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. True. You mean with, um, not having to rely on God and not. Oh, interesting. And not man, man. I wonder if there's really something where he's speaking to you about like that moment in DC is not going to be what you think it is.
Trusting Divine Timing and Growth
00:19:44
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it It's not going to be as peaceful and good, you know, which is totally what it ended up being. I'm actually shutting on the the door for that. to That for now. Yeah.
00:19:54
Speaker
um Because there's there's more being formed. There's more being formed in you. There's more being formed in the the political space.
00:20:05
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Bringing to you to a coastal space. Rely on me to open those doors. Rely on my strength and my might and my timing.
00:20:19
Speaker
You know, interesting the first, the first time you said 99, I couldn't help but think of, you know, the famous scripture that where Jesus says that he leaves the 99 to go after the one. And I just even think now as we're saying this, like how important you and your soul and your life and you being formed is to the Lord and how much more important that is than even your effect on the world or the nations or even your calling, like how, how jealousy is to go after those parts of you and reform and grow and deepen. Yeah. I, yeah, I feel like I feel, I feel a little older than that.
00:21:01
Speaker
I like you know there's sometimes you can try to analyze and provide an explanation and other times when somebody's somebody's giving you their impression but you feel covered by God um and you feel you feel God's presence um more than just the words. But yeah, and it's hard to put into words. you just feel I guess if you feel a sense of peace that um can only come from his presence. And that's definitely what I feel as you're just like giving that explanation, which is more than an explanation for me. I really feel like God's presence is on that.
00:21:41
Speaker
Well, let's just ask him if there's anything else. Cause I think, you know, like, you know, the dream is really that just the conversation starter. And then there's always more to seek out, right? It's like, we think of all the contents in that and he's like, this is just.
00:21:59
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the invitation into more conversation about it and dreams like, you know, too often are most multifaceted. And so there's probably just more to keep unfolding and that that might even unfold in different seasons. But yeah Lord, is there anything else in the stream you want to show Luke right now?
00:22:20
Speaker
I mean, I really just felt highlighted again, the, um, the setting of the pub and it's restaurant. Essentially you're going to get food. And so often restaurants are places where we're being nourished spiritually. yeah And that really just feels kind of conducive to the whole thing. Like not time to go out into that right at the moment, like you thought. Wow, that's good. Yeah. But come back in and and receive this nourishment from me and let me continue to form you. That's great.
00:22:55
Speaker
don't get He's not interested in me leaving too early from that space. Oh man. And if I know anything about God, that's what I know.
00:23:05
Speaker
We can get so on assignment and duty and he's so about our hearts. We take things so you know seriously, but he's so about our hearts.
00:23:17
Speaker
and about us being whole and us being connected to him, the the relational part of the journey, rather than getting to that certain place that feels like an achievement or an arriving to us, right? a Yeah, that's definitely been, yeah, that's my tendency is to to to leave a space to go on assignment, wanting to be faithful. um And I think the Lord can very much be part of that, but not when it's your own ah judgment and decision to, you know, when it's your timing, when you're relying on your own timing and your own impetus to get things done. You can use that, but I think he likes his timing. man And our hearts and and to have to have those actually built up and encouraged rather than
00:24:10
Speaker
go out too early somewhere, which may, maybe, maybe I did. Yeah. Wish I don't feel any like frustration about, um, but we're all on a journey, you know, and and he's teaching me things. And he's really faithful to shut a door if it's not. and Yeah. Right. Waste of years doing something he wasn't on. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
00:24:33
Speaker
I also cannot get past the fact that you're sitting in front of a fridge and I made a kind of a wise crack about it earlier, but I really, this has been actually a theme today that God preserves what he has for
Conclusion and Gratitude
00:24:44
Speaker
us. Like we think it's going to expire. We think it's going to, it's going to run away or we're going to miss it. But I mean, this has been the theme today. I've been in so Psalm, Psalm 16 preserve me. Oh God, for a new, I take refuge. I was having counsel with a girl earlier and we were both talking about how God is preserved. What is ours, even though it's been.
00:25:03
Speaker
the seasons of hardship, he's preserved the call, he's preserved the relationships for a now. and And I think that is so a part of why you're sitting in that spot. is He just wants to emphasize like all he has for you, he's preserving for the right time, and it's not gonna expire. It's not gonna go bad. When we rely on his timing, it's perfect. Our our human understanding of like, hurry, hurry, we're gonna miss it. It's just not...
00:25:30
Speaker
And you know what, I'm just looking at the the door of my unit um and the number on my door is number nine. Oh, no. yeah Did you just notice that? Yes. Oh my gosh. I just got really hot. Started sweating. Yeah. Well, it looks like I'm still in that season and that really speaks to, it spoke to 2023, early 2023 and still speaks to today actually.
00:25:55
Speaker
This is really interesting. Remember earlier when I said there's nine gifts of the spirit and I was like, wait a second. I mean fruits of the spirit. I think there's also nine gifts of the spirit because in this book he's referencing first Corinthians 12, which is the benefit. I think there are nine gifts. Yep.
00:26:11
Speaker
Yep. Four to one is given the spirit of the word of wisdom to another, the word of knowledge by the same spirit to another faith, healing miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues. Amen. And you know what? That's what I thought of when you said dove and Hawk. So those two animals actually, yeah both of those show up quite a bit for me. And then dove is also obviously the spirit. Yeah.
00:26:37
Speaker
But Hawks have um represented the prophetic or prophetic gift or call similar to angels before. So we'll just add those as little details that you can suss out with the Lord. but That's awesome. Thank you. I feel ministered to. I feel like things have been unlocked. Even the interpretation that that you gave, I actually feel an incredible piece that You don't realize you're lacking it until you get it and then you get it and you realize, oh, I was really actually lacking a bit of peace in my life about where I am right now. And that, I've got a new measure of that actually right now. And that's enough for me. That's enough for me to work with. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. I just love you. I'll see you soon. Love you, Team Margo. Thanks.