The language of the Holy Spirit is a language of dreams and visions.
All these involve pictures. The Bible tells us that!
This is that which was prophesied by the prophet Joel:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days,”
Aren’t we living in the last days, friends?
“says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;”
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,”
“Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.”
Hallelujah. Now, I just want to say this.
Both dreams and visions are the language of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
And both involve what? Pictures!
Faith pictures from God! Prophetic vision.
If that is the language of the Holy Spirit,
let's say you are conversing with someone of a different language,
you need to learn the person's language. If you want to
converse with him in his mother tongue, in his language,
you need to know how he speaks and what are the expressions to use
so that he can understand you. Amen.
Now, many a times, adopting a language
takes some time.
But for the Holy Spirit, it is in an instant.
You receive the Holy Spirit and you learn straight away.
Amen.
In fact, this year, the Lord will ensure that those who want Him
to really make them disciples, learners of the ways of the Lord,
they would definitely learn the language in a short time.
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus.
The moment you are filled with the Holy Spirit, the Lord begins
to speak to you in visions and dreams.
The problem is because of the voices and some voices
seem to be authoritative voices in the church, and they have said:
“Don't look for visions. It is dangerous.”
“The devil is able to give you a vision.”
And that is true.
“Other people can give you false visions.”
And that is also true. But don't let the negatives—
you know, when you embark in life, for example,
when someone gets married, the pastor does not say
to the bride and groom: “Do you know what are”
“the clauses that you can use to divorce this partner of yours?”
“Are you aware?” We don't talk about that!
Why? We are believing the best for the marriage!
We are believing the best in the things of God.
We don't look at the negatives.
It doesn’t mean that the negatives are not there
but the focus on the negative is what has caused a lot of people
to shun, disfavor, and disesteem visions and dreams.
I want you to do this from now.
I want you to really find time if you can, alright?
Maybe not this week, but in the next week.
Do find time early in this year to take a book.
When you take a book before the Lord,
what it tells the Lord is that you are in a position of faith.
You are expecting God.
That's what I do all the time.
All the sermons that I have, many a times.
And not just a book.
I have a book on standby all the time with a pen. Amen.
You can use your smartphone if you want, in your notes and all that.
But I like books and that's why in my library, there are books
and books of exercise books
that I have of different sizes. All my revelations are there.
Things I have received from the Lord are all there.
Because of this Scripture verse that I want to give you right now.
It is from Habakkuk.
And what happened is that Habakkuk has been
complaining to God. And Habakkuk says this:
“I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart,”
So first of all, position. You must position yourself!
You must find time where you let the Lord speak to you.
Listen, my friend.
You cannot expect to be watching Netflix all the time and expect
God to speak to you.
If you want God to speak to you in the areas of your marriage
your career, your studies your children, your own life,
or in terms of your walk with God and the areas that you need to know,
you need the time.
You need to spend time. Set aside time!
Having all these legitimate things on the outside is fine,
but do find time. That's what Habakkuk did.
He positioned himself.
“I stand upon my watch and I set myself on the rampart,”
So get a book that you can write on. Bring it before the Lord.
Say: “Lord, I'm watching to see what you will say to me.”
And that's exactly what Habakkuk says.
“I'll set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me.”
Actually, it's a very interesting thing that he said.
He said: “I will watch to see.”
“I will watch to see what He will say to me.”
Now he could have said: “I'll set myself on the rampart”
“to know, to understand what He will say to me,”
“to receive His Word.” But instead of that, he said:
“I will watch to see.”
“I will watch to see what He will say to me.”
And that's why in many of the places where hazon vision
appears, you will find that in the beginning of Isaiah,
the hazon vision that came to Isaiah.
“The hazon that he hazah.” The vision that he saw.
And time and time again, all the different ones in the Bible,
the prophets, they see the vision. The hazon vision.
They see the hazon vision and then they hazah it, they see it.
That’s the verb of the noun and they walk in it or they prophesy it.
Amen. Praise God. So get ready.
Watch what He will say.
So God's Word comes in what?
If you are watching to see, that means it comes to you in a vision.
On the inside.
But friend, this is the key.
You need to ask God, you need to pray.
Have you noticed that all the people that received
the vision from the Lord, even last week, we talked about
Peter on the rooftop and also Cornelius in his house,
they were all praying.
It was while they were praying, they had a vision.
While Peter was praying, he had a vision.
While Cornelius was praying, he had a vision.
Remember Saul?
Before he was Paul, God stopped him from his
deadly assignment to capture Christians and throw them in prison
and have some them killed even.
God stopped him on the road to Damascus.
He was blinded for three days.
Then God arrested a man, a good righteous man, a believer
by the name of Ananias.
And God said to him: “Ananias, there's a man called Saul.”
“And he's praying.”
This is what God said.
“There was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias.”
His name means: “the grace of God.”
“Hananiah” in the Hebrew.
“And the Lord said in a vision,”
So even for Hananiah, God said to him in a vision.
“And he said, ‘Here, I am Lord.’”
“And the Lord said to him: ‘Arise and go to the street called Straight,’”
“‘and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus,’”
“‘for behold, he is praying. And in a vision, he has seen a man’”
“‘named Ananias coming in.’”
So he is praying.
So while he is praying, while Saul was praying,
Saul, who became Paul later on.
While Saul was praying, a vision came to him.
“Behold, he is praying. And in a vision, he has seen a man”
“named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him,”
“so that he might receive his sight.”
Saul was praying. And while he was praying,
he began to see. Now notice, physically,
His eyes were blinded those 3 days.
But spiritually, that is what I am talking about.
The hazon vision.
May God open the eyes of your heart
to see what God wants you to see, the hazon vision.
He saw a man called grace of God, which will be
the calling of Paul's ministry.
And when his eyes was open, even physically, the first person
he saw was the grace of God.
who would tell him the theme of his life.
The calling for which he's called with a high calling.
It is to proclaim the grace of God.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Now notice in Habakkuk. This is what it says.
Habakkuk goes on to say:
“I will watch to see what He will say to me,”
“And what I'll answer when I am corrected.”
“Then the Lord answered me and said, ‘Write the vision’”
“‘And make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.’”
“Write the vision.” And the word “vision” here is hazon.
“And make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.”
Remember I told you just now, as you seek the Lord,
have a book ready. Amen.
When God gives you a picture, you can draw it.
Or a verse or if God gives you a statement, you can write it down.
So the book becomes like a spiritual journaling of your life.
And when you look back one day,
I have stacks of books where I journal before the Lord for many years.
And sometimes it's just edifying for me, it is so
faith-building for me,
just to go back and see how faithful God has been.
So write down what God shows you!
If the writers of the Bible did not write down
what God showed them, we won't have the Bible today.
Everything was God-breathed. They are all secretaries. Amen.
They didn't initiate those words. It was from God.
But they were all secretaries. they were all scribes.
They wrote down what God said. Learn to write down.
The younger people today need to write down things.
We have a generation, previously, that wrote down things a lot.
But today, we have lost that generation.
They only write things down when they are in school, in university,
but if you write things down,
you see, it is a form of no confidence in the flesh.
You may say: “I will remember that.”
“I will remember that.”
But friend, that's confidence in the flesh.
And many a times, you forget that very gem, that very vision,
that very revelation that God has given you,
that will strengthen you in your times of depression,
when you are feeling down.
But the word that is supposed to encourage you, you forgot
because you didn't write it down.
At times, I just go through my Bible, my wide-margin Bible to see
what I've written on the side and it revives me again.
I look at my exercise book and I see what I wrote inside there.
And there were things that I wrote 4 years ago that I have forgotten.
Don't forget. “Satan comes to steal the word,” Jesus said.
And the word there is in the form of vision. Amen.
We see many times it comes in the form of vision.
Satan comes to steal the word, the Word of God.
“So write the vision down that he may run who reads it.”
What does that mean?
Not only are you walking in the Spirit, you are running!
Hallelujah. Amen.
Make it plain! It says very clearly:
“Write it down. Make it plain on tablets.”
Isn’t it interesting that today, we are back to tablets again?
“Make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.”
Amen! It would be clear to all.
It would be clear to the one who reads it.
Amen. Especially you!
You will read it again and then you will run with it.
You will run with it.
To run is the idea of success.
Amen. You will run with it.
Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus.