let's talk about one that you'll probably find really exciting dreams and
visions this is one that people just really really really really love right
dream everybody loves the dreams and there's a matter of fact I'm here with
pastor Austin in our studio and you know he's a spiritual son and he's the campus
pastor here to wake any House of Prayer in and I've taught and he probably
learned this from other places before I came but I teach he's he's shaking his
head no hello back there he's shaking his head no he never heard that but I
teach to record your dreams record your visions because this is one way that God
speaks to you okay and if you don't record it if you have a dream in the
middle of the night you have a dream and you wake up and you remember and you
think wow that was awesome God gave me a solution God showed me things to come
God gave me a warning he yeah there's a blessing but then you wake up and you
can't remember it anymore but pastor Austin had his phone and he recorded in
the middle of that 3:30 in the morning and I'm not gonna tell you about the
dream but God spoke to him very clearly about the influence that he was gonna
have in his life and I'm all for it I always tell him my influence is your
influence I want to open doors for you that you know that you can then open for
somebody else because your influence becomes somebody
else's influence but I digress God speaks through dreams and visions
he's he's been doing so since the book of Genesis and he does so all the way
through the book of Revelation dreams are mentioned hundreds of time visions
and dreams hundreds of time mentioned in Scripture we see in Genesis 20 now I'm
very tempted now to go off and talk about dreams for the next hour that I
just wrote a book about it it's all in me and this is that one of the most
exciting ways God speaks but in in Genesis 20 chapter 3 God came to
Abimelech in a dream he was a king and a been like was a king and he had a dream
with wise instructions he dreams can care God in a dream can bring you
instruction can bring you a warning can bring you a revelation can bring you
something to pray about it could be for the purposes of intercession God can
reveal your gifts and your callings in a dream
I can do so many things in doing whatever he can speak through your still
smoke through his still small voice to you he can speak through a dream or a
vision so we see we see a been black had a dream it Abraham had lied right
Abraham said Sarah's my wife just just Sarah sir I just just say you're my wife
because you're so beautiful and if and if they think you're you're my wife say
you're my sister rather say you're my sister because if they think you're my
wife they're gonna kill me to get to you so sir I lied and Abimelech took her
into his harem and God brought a dream and said listen you know you're in bad
trouble here because you are transgressing and and but like I said I
didn't know she was married so thank God he came to this pagan King in a dream
and saved his life because destruction was coming on all the wombs of the
people in the nation all the women in the nation were shut up
because of this and we all know that into the story Prophet Abraham prayed
for abemolik and all of this issue was settled there so we see that all the way
the visions that John had in the book of revelation and consider these verses as
a foundation for this principle of how God speaks in dreams and visions it's in
the book of Job job 33 verses 15 through 18 and the Bible says in a dream in a
vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men in slumber on their beds
then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction that he might turn
aside man from his purpose and conceal pride from men he keeps back his soul
from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword so many times God speaks us
from when a deep deep sleep why I believe it's because sometimes we just
wouldn't hardly believe it if it wasn't in a dream if it was if you just spoke
to us we might not even believe it but dreams are symbolic largely in parabolic
they can be literal but dreams are largely symbolic and parabolic so when
God speaks to you through a dream it's a little more
sometimes to decipher exactly what he's saying people can be symbols of other
people so if you see LeBron James in your dream it doesn't mean necessarily
that you're gonna meet LeBron James it means what does he represent to you a
basketball champion a father a Laker Cleveland you know what is it that he
represents to you and that is one secret to interpreting dreams maybe another
time we'll get on here and talk a lot more about dreams but here's the thing I
believe this is one of the most pivotal ways that God is speaking to his people
in the season we are in the year five seven seven nine and in that year five
seven seven nine that decade of nine that that that that number nine it has
to do with with with opening with with with seeing and so with the decade of
the seventy it has to do with seeing and so we are in that but acts 2 acts 2
verse 17 and you can read this in a lot of different translation translations
this was actually Peter Marie prophesying Joel's prophecy and that's a
whole bunny trail I'm not going to get into many times we think we need a new
prophecy when really we need to just reprocess I the last prophecy until it
comes to pass this is what Peter did he said this is that and Jiri prophesied
Joel's prophecy and he said in the last days says God I will pour out my spirit
on some flesh no it says all flesh I will pour my spirit on all flesh and
your sons and daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and
your old men shall dream dreams now don't get this wrong this is not only
old men dreaming and young men having visions this is this is both this is
this is for everybody and remember now I'm going to say this one I'm going to
move on I'm gonna move on actually I'm gonna say a couple more things about
dreams because I know that I can just feel the pool I can feel the pool
there's almost a thousand people watching me and I can feel the pull so
I'm gonna spend just another minute on this then we're going to go onto the
next way remember that visions are more literal visions can be symbolic but
visions are more dreams are more symbolic and parabolic
you can have a vision inside a dream you can have a dream inside a dream I passed
Ross and just in his dream he was telling me about the dream he just had
all kinds of crazy stuff can happens in dreams all kind of crazy stuff could
happen in visions remember Ezekiel with the wheel within the wheel that was
crazy so there's all kinds of stuff so it's important like I began to start out
saying here that you record your dreams either get up in the middle of the night
speaking to them I've got an Alexa from Amazon in my room and so I'll say Alexa
record me and then I'll begin to get my dream and then it'll say when do you
want me to remind you and I'll say 6:00 a.m. you know and I'll
pray and study into that dream so dreams and visions here let me give you a
warning we can't assume every dream is from God yes God does speak to us in our
dreams but when we begin to assume every dream we have is from God we could be
deceived by the enemy or by our own carnal nature or how about pizza dreams
anybody ever heard of those you ever taken some nyquil when you're really
sick and just have some way far-out stuff so every dream that you have is
not just from God it could be from any of these other things I mentioned
prescription drugs so how do you know if the dream is from God then we're gonna
move on how do you know the dream is from God because you got a judge it just
like you judge a prophetic word right so some general guidelines quickly it won't
contradict the word if you have a dream it's not gonna violate Scripture it
doesn't mean that the dream will include Scripture or run parallel to Scripture
but it's not going to contradict Scripture either dreams God will give
you oftentimes at least part of the interpretation when it's from God or
he'll give you an unction and a burning heart to press into the interpretation
you'll want to know more because it's it's got that the urgency the Holy Ghost
on it or sometimes it just doesn't fade away sometimes when you have a dream
that's from the Lord you just you just can't shake it you just you just can't
stop thinking about it and so or the Lord will bring it up to you later I
call my goodness I just remembered I had a dream so at that point you'd either
either need to if you get confused you submitted to somebody who can teach you
alright let's move
yes you can't receive your calling through a dream or vision that's a great
question there are what Jean Paul Jackson used to teach as calling dreams
and you know you know I hadn't met a lot of dreams of birthing things I'm just
six or seven dreams over the last 15 years on birthing things and and then
the things that was birthing were part of what I was called to do so yes
absolutely God can give you a dream and call you
and he often does and that is one of the times when is hard to ignore God because
you know your dream life if it's really you see if we seem to pay much more
attention to our dream life so especially people who don't feel like
they should be called or they're you know not really knowing what their
purpose is sometimes there's some mental block there and so God will turn to your
dreams to show you what you're supposed to do
the Holy Spirit you know he is the giver of prophecy Jesus gave prophets the Holy
Spirit gives prophecy he's the one that speaks to us what Jesus is saying he is
the one that relates to us what the father is doing so we must pay attention
closely to our dreams now someone asked about getting foggy waking up and not
remembering their dreams this is a time when you need to press in and pray and
ask the Lord Lord remind me or give me the same dream again sometimes if you
could just grab just a just a short short glimpse of the dream the whole
thing will come back so sometimes when I first wake up in the morning and I know
that I've had a dream what I'll do is just stay in bed you know because I get
up so early 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning I had that Lobster I'm not having to
race off somewhere so I'll just stay in bed and sometimes I'll just you know set
the alarm for another 15 minutes and just lay there and ask the Lord what it
is and I'll doze off and sometimes I don't remember the dream at that point
and so that's something that you can try also being a better steward of your
dreams would be you know writing down what you do know writing down everything
studying it out the more series should get about your dream life I believe the
more often God will speak to you through your dreams and and and if you're
especially if you're a dreamer
yeah warning dreams I think we've all missed it I had a dream last April and
in the dream my foot my ankle was broken in the dream well I thought it had to do
with my spiritual walk you see that's one issue we have with dreams as we
relegate well it's a spiritual thing or sometimes we think it's a natural thing
when it's a spiritual thing now my foot didn't get broken but it did get badly
sprained over and over and over starting in July and I've been just now getting
to where I can walk without pain so the Holy Spirit was trying to warn me I
missed it so what did I learn from that I learned that I need to press in a
little deeper and ask more questions I thought it was dealing with my spiritual
walk so what did I do I did respond I did take action I prayed
more I started getting up earlier I read the word more I did everything to gird
up my spiritual man my spiritual person my spiritual being but it happened
anyway because I wasn't looking for the natural attack so I learned and that to
ask the Lord is a spiritual is this natural it's an ask questions of the
Lord so you may think you have the interpretation but you may have it
flipped lopsided it could be a natural could be a spiritual and the timing is
so important is it you know is this for now is this for several months from now
is this for several years from now where most of us miss the application is
during the timing of the dream so that's the other side of the warning question
yes you've got to start writing down your dreams of visions this is something
I pound in the heads of all my students because if you don't write it down
you're going to potentially and quite possibly miss or forget a really
important detail and the best time to write down your dreams is when you wake
up or like pastor Austin did the other night he got up in the middle of the
night went into the other room so he wouldn't wake up his wife wouldn't wake
up his son and he began and when I heard the recording I had to laugh cuz he
sounds like he's half asleep I think he fell asleep in the middle of it but he
did what I told him to do and what I taught him to do he spoke his dream into
his recorder on his phone and he didn't even remember half of it when he woke up
he's like wow that was a dream so we must record it it's part of being a good
steward God has called us to be a good steward please please please write them
down record them draw a picture whatever you have to do to preserve that
communication from God when I have dreams I tend to want to dissect and
interpret all of it right that I guess so excited about it you know if you can
record it in a phone you can save yourself a lot of time takes longer to
write it down but if you are just you know for some reason you've got to be
somewhere you don't have time to sit there for an hour if you can at least
write down the bullet points the highlights you know any significant
numbers names colors that stood out to you you'll be able to remember a lot
when you have time to go back and look at it you know there's certain dreams I
had that I was traveling I was in Europe I was in Asia I didn't have time to
dissect them and interpret them I just wrote a note on my phone or actually
dictated a note in my phone to preserve what I could remember and the Holy
Spirit is faithful you know if you give him a little bit he'll do a lot for you
it's just those who don't think enough or their dreams or don't understand
enough about the dream realm to to take the time to write it down they
lose so much and the Lord is you know the Lord is really speaking to you and
you've got to take it seriously because man there's some cool stuff you can
learn and do and understand and dreams that you might not get other ways
yeah so what do you do with the interpretation I just taught this in
sere school on Sunday night the application of your revelation you know
the same God that the long and short of it is the same God that gave you the
dream will tell you what to do with it it's not always apparent and I focused a
lot in my teaching on the timing the timing is where most people miss you can
have an accurate dream from the Lord an accurate interpretation and absolutely
blow the application but you have to understand God is a God of purpose and
he doesn't give you a dream just so you can know something or just so you can
have a cool story to tell there is a reason for everything God does so I just
recently taught a whole long lesson on that really dive deep into that seer
realm on that topic you know the beauty part about recording your dreams is
listen you may not understand anything that it might not mean anything to you
you might look up Bible symbols numbers it might not mean a thing to you but a
year two years three four years somebody you know I learned from john paul
jackson he said he would go through his dream journals with dreams and vision
journals like once a year just to just to see you know because you forget about
certain things I recently did that and I found out that wow this dream is coming
to pass right now so it might not mean anything to you now you might not have
an interpretation but just the very fact that you've recorded it sets you up for
revelation on the moment at the right time at the Kairos moment
you