On my homepage you find many reports and experiences connected to images. Sometimes the images come before the event, at times during or also after.
In the Acts Peter describes after the Pentecost event what we see due to the empowerment through the Holy Spirit with the words of Joel:
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out
my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your
young men shall see visions:
and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.
And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel 2,28-30
The word used for vision her eis from the hebrew word of ra'ah , meaning seeing in the natural which means, that there will be seeing in the natural and the supernatural.
If weg o on our own searching for visions and impressions we are easily caught and deceived by phantasy or other influences. We cannot force God to anything.
My experience is, that while I stay tuned into Gods talking to me, He nudges me softly, often surprisingly and suddenly.
On Monday, 22.10.2007, there happened such a moment while I was working. I looked outside into the sky and remarked the interrupted vapor trail looking like an exclamation mark. While I was still watching, another plane painted an underlining under the mark and deep joy rose in me. I had been asking the Lord for an answer as to whether or not I should undertake a flight and whether it would all go well. Seeing the exclamation mark underlined in the sky the knowledge cleared in my mind, that all was well in gods plan