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   Tim Shey

   October 3, 2025

   Timeline of a Miscarriage – My First Prophetic Dream

   1987 – I began attending a church in Ames, Iowa called Great Commission Church (now called Stonebrook Community Church). I didn’t like going to that church (little to no Christian fellowship), but I knew the Lord put me there for a reason. Maybe the Lord was using me to reach out to someone. I met this young lady, Dawn Lehmann, at that church–probably during the winter of 1987-88. I ended up going to that church for one year, then I started going to another church in Ames.

   1988 – I began attending the First Assembly of God in September of that year.

   1989 – I think it was in April of that year, that the leaders of Great Commission Church kicked me out of the house I was living in. I told them that I was baptized in the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues and that I had been delivered of many demons. They didn’t like me talking about the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and they definitely did not like me talking about deliverance from demons. Three of my housemates attended Great Commission Church. The next day, I moved out of that house and moved into another house with someone just up the street; he attended the First Assembly of God.

   In August of 1989, I moved back into that previous household. The leaders of Great Commission Church that kicked me out had moved to Colorado in the past few months. I began to go to school at Iowa State University in the fall of 1989.

   I learned from one of my housemates that Dawn Lehmann had gotten engaged. I think that was in September. I phoned her and told her that she shouldn’t be getting married. I was saddened for a short while that she was engaged, but if she liked Great Commission Church that much, she was not going to be my wife. I thought Great Commission Church was lukewarm and shallow.

   In December of 1989, Dawn Lehmann got married to Gary Harris. I attended another wedding on that same day (David and Annette Janecek). It was 20 degrees below zero F. I thought it was the worst day of the year to get married. The wedding I went to was not blessed, it was not edifying. That couple whose wedding I attended had a miscarriage in January of 1990. A foreshadowing of things to come.

   1990 – A week before that couple had the miscarriage, I was in my study room in the basement of my house. All of a sudden, in the power of the Holy Ghost I stood up and pointed in the direction of that couple’s house and exclaimed, “If you don’t repent of your sin, you will lose that baby!” I didn’t know at the time that she was pregnant.

   A week or so after that prophetic warning, that couple talked to me after a church service and told me that she had a miscarriage a week before. She asked me if she had done something wrong. I didn’t know what to say. I was a bit surprised that the prophetic warning that came out of my mouth had come to pass.

   I think it was in the early summer of 1990 that I was invited to a wedding that would take place in late August or early September. My first reaction was that I wasn’t going to go to the wedding. The people who had invited me went to Great Commission Church. Then the Lord told me that I was going to go to that wedding. Obedience is better than sacrifice. God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

   I went to the wedding. While I was sitting in the pew of the church, I could feel the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up. I later learned, that sometimes when a curse is broken, the hair on the back of your neck stands straight up. I believe a soul tie may have been broken (a soul tie with Dawn Lehmann). After the wedding, people were standing outside the church milling around and talking with each other. I noticed Dawn talking with some women and she looked like she was pregnant. After we drove back to our house, I mentioned this to one of my roommates. He said that a week or so ago, Dawn and Gary had informed the church that she was pregnant; they did an ultrasound and they were expecting twins.

   A week after the wedding I had a dream. Here is the dream (this was my first prophetic dream):

   “On 7 September 1990, I saw a woman that I knew in a dream. She was pregnant with two babies. I could see the two babies in her womb and then both turned black. I saw myself vomit and the name of this woman passed before my eyes. When I woke up, I was very disturbed. She had the miscarriage on 7 January 1991.”

   For the next four months, everywhere I went I saw the word “miscarriage”. I saw “miscarriage” in newspaper articles, magazine articles; I probably heard “miscarriage” in conversations. The Lord was getting my attention. I kept telling the Lord, I don’t want someone to have a miscarriage. Why am I seeing “miscarriage” everywhere?

   1991 – I think it was January 3rd or 4th when the Lord showed me that something was going to happen on the 7th of January. At the time, I was working at Hanson Lumber Company. On the 7th of January, I was driving the Hanson Lumber delivery truck just north of Huxley, Iowa. I saw this vehicle drive towards me in the opposite lane. The vehicle’s license plate said, “DETH”. The word “DETH” hit me like a ton of bricks.

   My first thought was, am I going to die today? Or is somebody else going to die today? It was very unsettling. I was somewhat bent out of shape.

   I got off work at 7 PM and went home. As I walked through the kitchen and past the phone, the phone rang (perfect timing). I answered the phone and Vanessa, a friend of mine who later married one of my roommates, spoke to me. She was very agitated and out of breath. She said that Dawn Harris was in a traffic accident north of town and both of her babies died. Dawn survived the accident.

   I hung up the phone and ran over to where Vanessa was working. It was a print shop on Welch Avenue. We sat down in her office and we prayed for Dawn. I think it was then that I told Vanessa about the dream that I had in September.

   II Samuel 12:14: “Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.”

   Amos 3:7: “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

   Revelation 3:16: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

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   A Guest Speaker at a Church

   21 May 2025

   Last night I had a dream where I was in this church I used to attend back in 1987-88. It was Great Commission Church in Ames, Iowa (now called Stonebrook Community Church). I was sitting in one of four chairs on the platform–just behind the pulpit. I was the guest speaker at that church. I noticed two people in the congregation: a man and woman (Gary and Dawn Harris). The woman stood up and ran to the back of the church–probably to talk to someone. I was very curious as to why I was in that church, because I really didn’t have much fellowship at that church back in 1987-88. The dream was so real, I actually thought that this had happened.

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