Interpreting and Understanding Dreams and Visions

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financially that are making a difference considering their crisis so we just thank you they're giving instructions on the screen here partner with us and let's get into this word and so I want us to dive into this word because I believe that God is in them there's a new thing happening in this season and God is in the midst of us and we don't want to be those that do not see what God is doing we don't want to be those that do not perceive the new thing that he's doing when he's doing it because family it's happening right now and so let us go into the Word of God and we're gonna pray if you're with me just open to joke 33 14 to 16 and welcome to activate I'm so glad to activate today with you it's gonna be an awesome time in the presence of God the scripture says for God may speak in one way or in another yet man does not perceive it in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men while slumbering on their beds then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction heavily father we thank you we thank you Lord because you are so eager to speak to us you are so eager to pour out your revelation for us O God that you don't want us to be walking around in ignorance but you want us to walk in your wisdom and a divine truth so God and Lord we thank you that in on this day you are activating our ability Laurie got to even go deeper into desiring to hear you desiring to know what it is that you're saying to us in this time because Lord you are speaking and we just say have your way Lord I submit myself as your vessel that you will flow easily through me I thank you Lord that your children would hear your voice and they would hear your conviction and they would hear your truth in Jesus mighty name amen you see family in this times like I said it's beautiful that to see people are hungry for more of God and people are eager to say God what is it you're doing in this time and in this season what is it that you're doing in my life what is it that you're calling me to do and one of the things that the Lord showed me is that many are struggling with perceiving his voice many are struggling with perceiving what is it that God is saying to me what is it that God is calling me to do in this time because you see when everything begins to shake it brings us to a place to start to consider our ways to consider what am I in and whatever what if I put my hand on and it's God with it it's God in this thing with me and you see one of the most powerful ways well not the most powerful but a very powerful way that the Lord speaks to us is through dreams and visions what I love about dreams we haven't seen the Bible through dreams you can encounter the Lord through dreams we get inside we get instructions we get divine revelation through dreams we get strategy about the things that we ought to do it is one of the ways that is one of the channels rather that the Lord ministers to us and what I personally love so much about dreams is that when we cultivate how we receive and we interpret the dreams that the Lord gives us it opens and it develops other spiritual senses and so family I want us to look into that because in the book of Job it says for God may speak in one way or in another yet man does not perceive it that when he opens the ears of men he seals their instruction and today for those taking notes I'm gonna be speaking about the interpretation of dreams you see many of you may know the story of Solomon and if you don't I encourage you to read about it Solomon had this powerful encounter with the Lord one day and the Lord said to him what is it that I shall give you ask of me anything and Solomon said lord give me wisdom and that encounter shifted his life forever Solomon was known in this time as one who was the wisest in his generation and what and one of the wisest Kings be any any other king before him he was one of the wisest Kings I mean his wisdom brought him so much so many riches so many blessings there was just a flow of the favor of God as a result of that encounter but you know what is so interesting is that that very encounter happened through a dream you see I think of Joseph Mary's husband when Mary was pregnant with the Lord Jesus Joseph was you know he was a little confused because he knew that he had not done anything with Mary and he knew that he did not even need Maury to show up to say you were not the father because he knew he was not the father and so Joseph he was he was a bit perplexed but he knew that he loved this woman and because of that he didn't want to embarrass her he didn't want to shame her and so he purposed in his heart that I'm just gonna divorce her and he's gonna be quiet is gonna nobody know that we're not gonna make too much noise about it but as he began to ponder that in his heart that night an angel came to him in a dream and confirmed the words of Mary to him and said Joseph no this child has been conceived by the Holy Spirit confirmed to Joseph that you shall name him Jesus that angel spoke to Joseph say Joseph that you have a role to play in this and that happened in a dream you see there's another Joseph Jacob son we read about his story in the book of Genesis in his time who he served the Pharaoh that he served under had a dream that he did not understand and his ability to interpret that dream was what gave him strategy for an economy in a time that there was a global famine that dream gave an early strategy in how he should go about what what is to come you see dreams it is God's divine way of revealing to us mysteries about our lives mysteries about times and seasons mysteries about the things even about the people connected to us and so when we ignore them when we just think that now this is a random dream maybe this is a Pizza dream then we miss it because it would not be that God did not speak but it would be that we did not perceive it what is it that God has been showing you in this time and then maybe you have counted it as random or you went to Google perhaps and the translation did not make any sense to you I don't know but what is it that God is speaking to you about because the Lord began to show me that there's gonna be an outpouring of Revelation and it's gonna be through so many ways but I one of the things I really clearly saw was dreams and visions and I believe it's so key that we know how to walk in the interpretation of these of dreams and visions and so there's some kids to talk down thoughts that I want to share with you there are three key key thoughts thoughts there are three key thoughts I want to share with you I think I have a bit of cutting mouth but it's gonna go away in Jesus name and the first thing is that you have the gift you see there is a common misconception about dreams and that misconception is I need the gift to interpret I need to have the gift of interpretation but as a believer when you receive the Holy Spirit that is the gift the Holy Spirit is the gift of God that holds everything that God is all that God is He is God and so when you have the Holy Spirit you have to just cross that out of your mind that it's not about needing to get a gift from God or let me talk to the people to have a gift to interpret you already have the gift the second thing family is keeping in God's presence now to play with this thought I want to talk about an angel named Gabriel you see angel Gabriel in the Bible we see him in different instances in the Book of Daniel there was a moment where Daniel was seeking wisdom and understanding about a manner that he was perplexed about and as a result the Lord sent angel Gabriel to Daniel to bring revelation to what he needed and Jaguar shows up again in the life of a man named Zachariah Zachariah has and his wife a long time ago they had pray the prayer seeking God for his son and they got older and time keeps passing by and they have no children and this angel encounters Zachariah and it's angel Gabriel and he tells them Zachariah your prayers have been answered but I love so much about that is that there is no prayer that it doesn't matter how long you you said that prayer God hears everything but in his timing he reveals the answer but this angel brings good news to Zachariah and he says your prayers have been answered the Lord is gonna give you and your wife a child that same angel Gabriel shows up again in the life of Mary when he tells Mary that Mary you have found favor in the eyes of God and that you are gonna conceive that the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will conceive a child and you shall name him Jesus the reason I give a little bit of context to this angel is that angel Gabriel is an angel of revelation you see different angels carry different attributes are they or they express different attributes to God and so this angel is when we see him in the scripture he's always carrying revelation he's always carrying the Word of God for God's people but there is something that the Bible tells us about this angel that should not go unnoticed in Luke chapter 1 verse 19 when the angel was speaking to the man named Zachariah because Zachariah will become the father of John the Baptist the very man who will baptize our Lord Jesus when the angel is having this conversation with him and he tells them hey the Lord has answered your prayers and you will have a son Zachariah says to the angel how shall I know this and his response is what blew my mind the angel says I am Gabriel I stand in the presence of God there are many things that is fascinating about that because first of all we see that this angel who is an angel of revelation what he marks his identity by is that he stands in the presence of God in the presence of God is where we get revelation in the presence of God is where we are equipped with wisdom and knowledge and understanding it is in the presence of God but then I love the fact that he says I stand in the presence of God you see the God's presence is not a location at that moment the angel was not in the throne room he was with Zachariah the presence of God is about our posture that everything I do flows from who God is you see in his response to Zechariah questioning how how shall this be he says I stand in the presence of God I flow from the essence of who God is and so if I'm saying this to you that it cannot be a lie that was so powerful to me because you see family it is our posture before God now everything we do should flow from who God is and when I say keep it in God's presence is that you cannot seek things like Google because we we have a dream and we just go to you know bishop google and we don't even know who is behind the interpretation of this symbolisms that we are dreaming about we just see random absence I mean not random apps of a random articles and we're like oh they have an interpretation but what is the spirit behind that interpretation is it the Spirit of God or is it something else that everything we do must flow in his presence when we bring our dreams and the visions and the things that God has put in our heart in his presence before him to say God show me that is where revelation takes place that is where things begin to be revealed to us you see it as in the presence of God that even forgotten dreams are revealed forgotten dreams are nothing to play with when you wake up and you've wrecked you you recognize that you had a dream but you forgot the dream and you just go about your day that is a weapon and oftentimes for and dreams is a sign that there is a lack of intimacy between you and God that your intimacy is not as strong as it used to be and it's a call to stay come back to your first love because when God is giving you a dream and is giving you a word through a dream that one message can change the rest of your life there are dreams that have shaped my life there in dreams I've encountered the Lord and dreams my first book actually I received the instruction the name and the importation to write the book in a dream it is through dreams that I mean amazing things have happened instructions from the Lord has been given to me through dreams and so imagine if there was a dream that I had and it was a health important information and I woke up forgot it and just went about my day you know one day funny enough I remembered I woke up from this dream and I knew I had this dream and I knew that it was important and the moment I woke up the first thing I did was to worship and I began to pray Lord revealed to me this mystery because there was something you showed me and I need to know what that is and as I began to worship all of a sudden the memory of that dream started coming back to me and family what came as the result of that blew my mind and so when you know that you're someone and that you have these dreams and all of a sudden you forget it and you go about your day that is a weapon being formed against you to think that that is okay because if the Lord is speaking to you and you walked away from that instruction you have missed a moment of alignment with God and it's not that we can complain and say God but what has happened in my life and he's saying my son my daughter I've been trying to find a channel to talk to you I've been trying to find a way to get to you but you are not perceiving my words you see some of the things that we sometimes struggle with is that how do I know a dream is from God how do I know it's a spiritual dream or it's a natural dream there are times that maybe you me a friend or you you talk about an event or something like that and all of a sudden that night you dream about it and then you cancel it out because you're like oh no this is probably natural because we just talked about this but could it be that because you spoke about it that you had capacity to see more into it and that the Lord was actually speaking to you could it be that the dreams that you say are random are actually concealed that there is a message concealed in it you see I would rather even if it's a pizza dream I would rather bring it before the Lord and in his presence let the Holy Spirit tell me that this is nothing to worry about than to conclude on my natural understanding you see for example there was a dream I had and I was share it with you because when you hear it it sounds random I was in this high-rise building and when I looked out the window there was water everywhere it was literally like a flood on the earth and in the dream I was aware of myself and so I'm a bit perplexed because I'm like God you know your word says that there will be no flood the whole thing about the rainbow did you forget but I'm seeing water and I understood that this water covered the earth and then all of a sudden I see dolphins and they're playing and they're having a good time swallow time now to someone this could be random why is there water and why are they dolphins in the water but when I came out of that I began to seek the Lord Lord what does this mean what are you speaking to me about and then when the Lord began to reveal it to me the first of all the water because I'm like God I mean the water why is the flood you see we have to be we have to be have this curiosity before the presence of God we cannot say no this must not be God because there wouldn't be a flood any more we have to come like children before him and the Lord began to speak to me about the times of Noah you see the time of Noah it wasn't just about a flood it was that God was bringing purification on the and not just on the land in the is to mankind because you seen the time of Noah the seed of man began to mix with the seed of angels and so mankind had become corrupted it was no longer that when God looked at what they were creating what God looked at the offspring between man and angels it was not the intention and the will and desire of God when he said I will create man in my own image because now that image had been tainted there was a corrupted seed that cook that that polluted the intention of God concerning mankind and so when God looked at the world he's like no we need to purify this thing because this is not what I created the Bible tells us that these angels had come into the women and they were having children can you imagine if that continued to mix that when God would look at us he's not seeing what he formed he's seen this new hybrid of a human being and so it was not just about a flood the water represented purification and the Lord began to speak to me that this is about what is happening and this time is about purification that I am purifying my bride that is the church I am cleansing those that would represent me that when you would represent me you would represent me with honor you will not represent me from the place you see one of the things there's a man I'm just thinking about this right now a man named David and you must have read about him and if not read about him David was a man that the Lord said I have found a man after my own heart and he would do all that I pleased when God sees David and says this is a man after my heart and he will do what I please from that place of his heart posture he could build for God you see often times we talk more about building God's kingdom than we talked to God and that already reveals that the agenda is not about God that God becomes what we used to actually build us and so when God talks about his pure find our hearts purifying our minds he's cleansing our hands is that it's bringing us back to this childlike state god I just want your heart because from that place you can use me from that place you can speak to me I don't want to build something that I have no revelation of I don't want to think about what you want me to build I want to know what you want me to build and that comes from our heart that seeks after God so the Lord steps showing me the symbolism of this that's the water and then I said but God the Dolphins well the Dolphins doing in the water and the beautiful thing he said because what is happening is not to harm you dolphins will never harm me they wanted to play they just wanted to dance around jump around and do all that stuff he said do not see what is happening in the world as that which is against you it is not purpose to harm you and I share that because when you hear a dream like this it may seem random but when you presented before the Lord he begins to unveil the mysteries behind it and so to my third points write it and make it plain and there are a few things I want to discuss with this because we engage the Spirit of God the best ways when we have the right questions when we come before the presence of God it's not just about God I had this dream what does it mean right because there is so much to who God is that he reveals himself to us based on the capacity and the room that we make for him and so when we begin to ask the Lord the right questions all of a sudden we begin to have the right answers and we begin to go deeper into what he's revealing into the mysteries that he has one of the things I always tell people is that every detail of your dream matters every single detail and there is something beautiful about when you write down their dream is the same thing that happens even when you talk about it because in that moment you are engaged when your heart is set on something whatever your heart is set on especially with dreams or with visions or when the Lord has spoken to you you're engaging the spiritual part of who you are and that is why you would notice that when if you're only just thinking about it randomly there things that you forget but when you start writing it down with intentionality when you start talking to someone you're like hey I had this dream and all of a sudden there are details that you did not even remember that starts coming to you and it's coming in it's clearer but you want to write it down every single detail what did you see in it how many times did you see it how many dolphins were in the water can you remember what what did it look like what's the water clean was it muddy because all those details when you begin to engage the presence of God and saying lord I saw this you know what does this mean you know it's what I love is that in Habakkuk 2 2 when it says write the vision and make it plain it's really talking about a vision and this also applies with dreams then as you begin to write it now you can make it plain and we make it plain by asking the right questions and there are a few things I want to show you that the Lord put on my heart and really the way he has taught me even when it comes to the dreams that I have is that pay attention to your emotional tone in the dream were you afraid were you sad were you at peace were you happy you say there was a dream I had and in this dream it was about the times that we are in right and there was something that looked like covet but it wasn't covet it was actually a bit worse than covet 19 that happened and one of the states had affected greatly was California right and in a dream like this if I just gave you that detail it would seem like something that was frightening it would seem like oh my gosh God was about to happen but in the dream I had peace that was one of the things that was that stood out to me I'm aware of everything going on but I wasn't in chaos with myself I wasn't I wasn't I'm anxious I wasn't afraid I had peace about what was taking place and that feeling of peace can actually speak to the fact that this is still in God's hands you see when God begins to show things like this then all of a sudden when it begins to unfold on the earth you're not moved when we talk about what what is this peace that comes from the Lord sometimes that peace also comes with knowing that no God you already spoke to me about this time you already spoke to me about this season and even if you didn't I'm aware that this is in your hands but when the Lord began to show that to me I understood that the peace I felt in the dream was so symbolic to know this is not something that the enemy's just having a free-for-all that this is still in the hands of God then what it does is now the conversation continues because you see a dream is God starting a conversation with you and when you begin to ask questions of the dream you engage that conversation now I can look at that and say but God what is it that you're doing with this now I can ask question when would this happen when would this be what is the time what is the season but if I ignore that then I ignore the fullness of what God wants to reveal to me and so what is your what is the emotional tone and the reason that this is so powerful is that you can Google will not tell you how you felt if you have the dream of a snake coming at you what if you had power in that moment you research that it's like WebMD have you ever used WebMD I would have just maybe like a headache WebMD will tell me that you know what I may be going in a coma but much love to WebMD I'm sure much love but but you see you can't just Google random things about dreams because it does not understand the fullness of it that yes maybe you saw a snake in the dream but what was your emotion in that dream when you're afraid maybe you felt confident and maybe that is God telling you that hey something may be rising against you but you would you would have this grace to stand still and so you write that down and you begin to engage with the Lord and say Lord okay I saw this but this is how I felt another thing is what can you what are the references what is it what is it one of the references that you can you can pull from the dream right are there things that have a biblical reference or maybe a unique reference in your life not in the natural you see when Joseph heard the dream that Ferrer had in the time of Egypt when he said okay he saw seven fat cows and seven skinny cows and all of that there was a natural reference for cows because in that time agriculture was the backbone of the economy and so when God wanted to speak about the economy he used animals so they had a reference to the times that they were in when I saw the waters in my dream it had a biblical reference so when you begin to look at your dreams you start you start asking questions is there anything in the Bible that speaks to this and as you begin to study it is a beautiful engagement with the Lord because all of a sudden the Holy Spirit starts directing your heart and your going deeper and deeper into what the Lord is showing you another thing is to ask the Lord is this literal or is this symbolic what does this message actually mean you see there was a moment where I had there was a dream I had about a family friend and I saw them dying and I saw how it happened and when the Lord showed me that I was like okay is this what is this are you showing me like something that is literal or this symbolic to something else and in in that event there was something literal that he was showing me to speak against and - and there were there were instructions that he gave me that came against that thing and so when it actually showed up in real life it did not take his life and so there are times where God would even give you and you you have to say okay God what you're showing me explain this to me because I don't want to jump ahead of myself the same way that you may see someone in a dream and they may be doing something it may seem like they're doing something weird and you're thinking that oh my gosh God is talking to me about this person and they're no good for my life but what if God is actually using that person to explain a character trait and so we cannot conclude in the presence of God God is this literal to me or is this symbolic and one of the last things and there are many things that God can teach you in in the process of interpreting your dreams but these are just some of the key things that he told me to share with you another thing is Acts the Lord is this dream giving me information or instruction and sometimes they overlap now information is that is this informing me about your plans and your purpose so that when it shows up I'm at peace when it shows up I'm ready or when it shows like what is this about is this informing me about something connected to a friend is this informing me about something that I need to press in and pray or for you see even the dream I shared that was literal in that moment I also had suppressed and in prayer to understand the strategy for it God what does this mean is this and is this just for information there many times that God will reveal things to me and it would literally just be to know what is to come it's not about saying anything it's not about doing anything it's just to know you see and that is so key because sometimes when you have a prophetic dream that comes from what when God is revealing to you what his plans are it is important to say that even when the dream is information-based God is this your will or is this a weapon against me from the enemy or weapon against my city a weapon against my loved one what does it mean because when it is the will of God then that is prophecy and when in this prophecy it is different because you see something so amazing in the Bible it says Jesus is the spirit of prophecy when we look at the Lord Jesus and say he is the spirit of prophecy then he embodies what what what the prophetic is about and the Lord Jesus what is amazing about him is that it was said that before the foundation of the world he was the lamb slain before time but not only was he the lamb slain before time that word had to be manifested on the earth and that is prophecy because prophecy is that which is sealed in heaven you cannot change it when there is a prophetic word that comes from God it must happen it is not something that can be changed it is when God is revealing unto us that this is what has already been established in heaven and so Jesus embodies the spirit of prophecy because he fulfilled the word he fulfilled what was already filled in heaven and manifested on the earth and so when God is showing you something about a prophetic message we have to in in the wisdom and this is how God trains us and family this is so key because when weeds have deeper into the training of God then all of a sudden our spiritual senses begin to open up in ways that would blow your mind because it will start with the realm of dreams and then it develops and God will use all levels because God always wants to get a message to you but he will train you first to hear him through one channel and he will continue to build it up so it would start with dreams then it would go to visions then it would go to open visions and so much more than all of a sudden your knowing even becomes stronger but why I'm sharing this is because we have to be good stewards of the word of God because the Bible says that do not cast your pearls before swine when God wants to develop you he's looking at your that what do you do it what I say how do you engage me when I'm giving you how do you engage when I start a conversation with you because it's not always about you know God walking around and pacing around your living room God what are you saying whether you saying with a you saying sometimes a dream it's got star in the conversation and how do we engage that conversation and when we're intentional about what the Lord is saying all of a sudden he recognizes you are good ground you are fertile ground and in this time family I'm telling you it is the prophetic voice that would rule it is the voice that can be connected to the heart of God and what the Lord is saying that would have authority in the land because you will not get information from the news the news is or only can only tell you what has manifested but the Word of God will tell you what is to come and how to prepare so that you're not caught off guard that you're not easily discouraged or deceived by what you see but that you are led by His Word you would have a different fire on you you would have a different peace on you you would have a different grace on you that the world will come to know what is it that you do and who is it that you serve and so when you receive a word from God and God is showing you this is my will and my plan it is not about praying against it it's not about speaking against it it is to go deeper God what do you do what are you doing with this that don't be in a hurry to even speak about it until you know God what is what is the purpose of this what exactly are you doing why are you showing me this and if it's an instruction then all of a sudden now you're asking God about the timing and the strategy connected to that word if in your dream you all of a sudden you see yourself speaking and you've never done that before you see yourself in a country that you've never been then could it be that God is instructing you about what's next but it's not to rush into it again it's a conversation that God is starting got a starting a conversation with you he's saying my daughter I see you in Germany there's a call there's something I have for you in Germany that's why you keep seeing yourself and you know you in Germany but it's the conversation is starting don't rush and conclude into it now you can say God are you you you you have something for me in Germany you have something for me in Japan you have something for me in Nigeria you have something for me in Los Angeles what is that what is it Lord what are you calling me to do the Lord wants to give you strategy God is not just some random guy there are times he can tell you some interesting things you know I've been there where you figure it out as you go but I will tell you this before God would give you an instruction that can shake up your whole life he will build you with the little things because he's also rooting for you he doesn't want you to miss it doesn't want you to fail before God will give you an instruction like hey your life is going great in LA I want you right now to move to Japan where you know no one before that instruction comes God will cultivate your hearing in the day to day things because he does not want to make room for the enemy to deceive you and send you where he did not speak and so even when you start having dreams about random things take it seriously because family were in the time that God wants to pour out his revelation to you God wants to pour out more for he years but and it's not just about creating a space where we pray because prayer may just be prayer for you may look like the grace may look like speaking in tongues but what happens after that what happens after you pour out are you waiting to receive what happens after you have this dream or this nightmare and you wake up and you rebuke it god it's not my portion did you engage him because it's a conversation and how are you engage in that conversation do you shut it down or do you say god what is it that you want me to do there's gonna be great mysteries that God begins to reveal to you at night that when you lay your head to sleep amazing mysteries and one of the things that would encourage you to do be intentional about your atmosphere even when you're going to bed because that also speaks to God I want to hear from you if you know that you're you know it you're likely to Netflix and sleep because right now ain't nobody chilling it's quarantine so if you know that you're gonna be watching this series and you're gonna fall asleep then time yourself ten o'clock god I want to set an atmosphere I want to set an atmosphere that is intentional for your presence I want you to speak to me if you know that you struggle with hearing the voice of God then begin to say God use my dreams give me something because I kid you not God will not die for you to not speak to you it is a lie to think that God does not speak to you if there's a light the thing that God does not want you to know the mysteries about your life that is a lie from the pit of hell how good of a God would he be to die for you but they're not not speak to you he wants to God loves it the truth is family God talks a lot he he is the word he always got something to say you will be shocked about the things that God finds hilarious if we're funny if we have a sense of humor and we came from him he got some jokes I mean I've talked about this before what Jesus has to be to meet the funniest person because he comes up and he's like you know hey you know I'm Jesus I'm the savior of the world I'm here to save humanity and the first miracle Jesus does it's a lip party he says you know what guys we're gonna turn water into wine I think that is hilarious I would think that Jesus if you're showing up and you're like wow I'm the Messiah guys I've been I'm the one you'd be the way therefore the first thing I would do as Jesus I would just walk to the graveyard and just say wake up Paul with you and everybody starts standing up and now I'm like whoa look at that Messiah that's me but no Jesus is on the wedding and they run out of wine and his mom is like hey Jesus we need some wine and he does it God wants to speak to you God wants to speak to you in is the desire of his heart to speak to you God is jealous for you if the Bible tells us that even he knows the numbers of hairs on our head he's so into you and he wants to engage with you and so don't take your dreams like me it is a conversation that is starting in his presence you already have the gift you have the Holy Spirit and through the holy sprit when you start asking the right questions about your dreams you will be blown away about the instructions and the revelation that will come out of it you will be blown away by the things you will begin to know you would walk and you will feel like you're walking on cloud nine because while the world may feel like this is chaotic you're like no gods in this when I was a child my grandmother she had diabetes and she was in the hospital and they needed to amputate her leg or her foot and it was known that if they do this amputation she will be just alright but my grandmother comes to me in a dream and the Lord allowed it she comes to me in a dream and she tells me my daughter it's my time to go and so in the midst of I didn't want my grandma to leave but when God used the dream to say it's her time this can be stopped it's her time it was a few days or the thing the next day or so a day or two after that that she transitioned and when I saw my family and everyone they're there they're in pain and and grief is not a bad thing grief is a sign that of the impact a person had on your life if if you had such an impact in my life I should mourn you I should be sad when I can access you grief is not against you grief is not a bad thing but in the midst of grief there was peace because I said mom it's not diabetes then take her out this is not the thing that it this disease or this illness was not what determined her life it didn't determine if she would live or die God did that he said this was her time and she went on and so there was a peace in the midst of it and God wants to give you revelation about the things to come so that you are not easily moved or easily shaken it is the Word of God that anchors us you see there's a scripture that talks about resist the enemy and he would flee from you resist the devil and he would flee but what does it mean to resist the devil the devil is the father of lies so resisting him is resist in his lies and we only resist the lie with the weapon of truth and that is why even in the even in the wilderness when the devil was coming against Jesus and he says if you were in the Son of Man bla bla bla bla and Jesus is like this is what the Word of God says because your weapon in knowing who God is and knowing his word towards you there is nothing that can come against you the enemy will try his best but when he sees that you are a son and a daughter of Revelation he would know that he has no place in your life jesus said something so powerful he said that Satan comes looking but he has no place in me Jesus was so filled with truth that the enemy knew that there was I have there's nothing there's nothing I can do that scripture is so powerful it says resist him and he would run away from you can you imagine that the enemy is scared of the person who walks in the revelation of who God is like he's literally scared I didn't say he would walk away and then say he was like you know hop and skip it said he was flee from you he will literally run away from you that any demonic assignment against your life would recognize that it is torment to me to stay here for someone to flee from you they recognize that your belief and your faith in God is actually tormenting them that every time that you stand in the truth of who God is that it's like they're burning that there are torments happening to whatever weapon is formed against you because it will not succeed and so God wants you not to just say the cute Church sayings I am blessed and highly favored he wants you to know that you are blessed and you are highly favored he wants you to walk in the knowledge we are called to be in his likeness in his image we are called to be like him we're called to walk in the truth of of the of what he's doing so we're not just dancing around God loves your family he loves you and I want to pray for those who subscribe to the lie that God will not talk to me or God does not speak to me that is a lie as you begin to engage in his presence there was a scripture that tells us that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness that they would be filled if they say blessed are the ones who thirst and hunger for righteousness for they would be filled righteousness is about right standing with God that the people that thirst and hunger for to be in alignment with God that God would honor it as you begin to seek the Lord cultivate that atmosphere when you're going to bed tonight or whatever it might be morning where you are but there is a nighttime coming when you go to bed why don't you set the atmosphere of worship if you live with people get some headphones set an atmosphere and you say God speak to me as I lay my head speak to me reveal the mysteries of my life speak to me Lord I am listening your servant is here and he or she is listening and as you do that family you would be surprised the journey you will begin with the Lord the conversations that would build with the Lord the Lord loves you and if you know that you're receiving this right now in the comments I want you to say I receive it I receive it I receive it that God you love me I'm receiving that love and I'm receiving the fact that you desire to speak to me and if you don't know the Lord and you stumbled on our page today and you want to know this God that wants to have a relationship with you it's real one of the biggest things I struggled with growing up was it was between my relationship with God and people because God became more real to me than the people around me and so I had to find this balance of you know engaging with people but that is how real God is it's real let us pray Heavenly Father we thank you we thank you for your children that right now they're receiving what you're doing they're receiving your love they're receiving the fact that you desire to speak to them and you will and as they begin to cultivate this atmosphere as they begin to put that journal by their bed to say god you're speaking to me tonight and we're gonna build this relationship and and it's gonna develop and you're gonna activate my senses you're gonna activate my hearing you're gonna activate my spiritual sight you're gonna activate my spiritual smell everything will be activated as I hunger and thirst for alignment with you and so Lord we thank you I thank you that your presence is invading their home right now I think you lord have your way in Jesus mighty name family god bless you we love you [Music] you

hey family I&#39;m pastor touré Hester Sara we just want to greet you before you get ready to watch this powerful message we believe it&#39;s going to change your life we&#39;ve been praying for you and we also want you to partner with us in changing the lives of others as you know we&#39;re invested a lot into technology so that we can continue to bring the word to you and innovative in creative ways but we don&#39;t just stop there we also believe in blessing people in a more pragmatic way that&#39;s right you&#39;re about to watch this video that is going to tremendously bless you but what you don&#39;t get to see is how we&#39;re blessing people off of the pulpit there are families that are being fed there are women who are being saved from human trafficking there are so many organizations that we are able to support thanks to your generosity so we want to invite you to be a part of changing the world with this yeah we&#39;ve been very intentional in this season to to partner with organizations and support them financially that are making a difference considering their crisis so we just thank you they&#39;re giving instructions on the screen here partner with us and let&#39;s get into this word and so I want us to dive into this word because I believe that God is in them there&#39;s a new thing happening in this season and God is in the midst of us and we don&#39;t want to be those that do not see what God is doing we don&#39;t want to be those that do not perceive the new thing that he&#39;s doing when he&#39;s doing it because family it&#39;s happening right now and so let us go into the Word of God and we&#39;re gonna pray if you&#39;re with me just open to joke 33 14 to 16 and welcome to activate I&#39;m so glad to activate today with you it&#39;s gonna be an awesome time in the presence of God the scripture says for God may speak in one way or in another yet man does not perceive it in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men while slumbering on their beds then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction heavily father we thank you we thank you Lord because you are so eager to speak to us you are so eager to pour out your revelation for us O God that you don&#39;t want us to be walking around in ignorance but you want us to walk in your wisdom and a divine truth so God and Lord we thank you that in on this day you are activating our ability Laurie got to even go deeper into desiring to hear you desiring to know what it is that you&#39;re saying to us in this time because Lord you are speaking and we just say have your way Lord I submit myself as your vessel that you will flow easily through me I thank you Lord that your children would hear your voice and they would hear your conviction and they would hear your truth in Jesus mighty name amen you see family in this times like I said it&#39;s beautiful that to see people are hungry for more of God and people are eager to say God what is it you&#39;re doing in this time and in this season what is it that you&#39;re doing in my life what is it that you&#39;re calling me to do and one of the things that the Lord showed me is that many are struggling with perceiving his voice many are struggling with perceiving what is it that God is saying to me what is it that God is calling me to do in this time because you see when everything begins to shake it brings us to a place to start to consider our ways to consider what am I in and whatever what if I put my hand on and it&#39;s God with it it&#39;s God in this thing with me and you see one of the most powerful ways well not the most powerful but a very powerful way that the Lord speaks to us is through dreams and visions what I love about dreams we haven&#39;t seen the Bible through dreams you can encounter the Lord through dreams we get inside we get instructions we get divine revelation through dreams we get strategy about the things that we ought to do it is one of the ways that is one of the channels rather that the Lord ministers to us and what I personally love so much about dreams is that when we cultivate how we receive and we interpret the dreams that the Lord gives us it opens and it develops other spiritual senses and so family I want us to look into that because in the book of Job it says for God may speak in one way or in another yet man does not perceive it that when he opens the ears of men he seals their instruction and today for those taking notes I&#39;m gonna be speaking about the interpretation of dreams you see many of you may know the story of Solomon and if you don&#39;t I encourage you to read about it Solomon had this powerful encounter with the Lord one day and the Lord said to him what is it that I shall give you ask of me anything and Solomon said lord give me wisdom and that encounter shifted his life forever Solomon was known in this time as one who was the wisest in his generation and what and one of the wisest Kings be any any other king before him he was one of the wisest Kings I mean his wisdom brought him so much so many riches so many blessings there was just a flow of the favor of God as a result of that encounter but you know what is so interesting is that that very encounter happened through a dream you see I think of Joseph Mary&#39;s husband when Mary was pregnant with the Lord Jesus Joseph was you know he was a little confused because he knew that he had not done anything with Mary and he knew that he did not even need Maury to show up to say you were not the father because he knew he was not the father and so Joseph he was he was a bit perplexed but he knew that he loved this woman and because of that he didn&#39;t want to embarrass her he didn&#39;t want to shame her and so he purposed in his heart that I&#39;m just gonna divorce her and he&#39;s gonna be quiet is gonna nobody know that we&#39;re not gonna make too much noise about it but as he began to ponder that in his heart that night an angel came to him in a dream and confirmed the words of Mary to him and said Joseph no this child has been conceived by the Holy Spirit confirmed to Joseph that you shall name him Jesus that angel spoke to Joseph say Joseph that you have a role to play in this and that happened in a dream you see there&#39;s another Joseph Jacob son we read about his story in the book of Genesis in his time who he served the Pharaoh that he served under had a dream that he did not understand and his ability to interpret that dream was what gave him strategy for an economy in a time that there was a global famine that dream gave an early strategy in how he should go about what what is to come you see dreams it is God&#39;s divine way of revealing to us mysteries about our lives mysteries about times and seasons mysteries about the things even about the people connected to us and so when we ignore them when we just think that now this is a random dream maybe this is a Pizza dream then we miss it because it would not be that God did not speak but it would be that we did not perceive it what is it that God has been showing you in this time and then maybe you have counted it as random or you went to Google perhaps and the translation did not make any sense to you I don&#39;t know but what is it that God is speaking to you about because the Lord began to show me that there&#39;s gonna be an outpouring of Revelation and it&#39;s gonna be through so many ways but I one of the things I really clearly saw was dreams and visions and I believe it&#39;s so key that we know how to walk in the interpretation of these of dreams and visions and so there&#39;s some kids to talk down thoughts that I want to share with you there are three key key thoughts thoughts there are three key thoughts I want to share with you I think I have a bit of cutting mouth but it&#39;s gonna go away in Jesus name and the first thing is that you have the gift you see there is a common misconception about dreams and that misconception is I need the gift to interpret I need to have the gift of interpretation but as a believer when you receive the Holy Spirit that is the gift the Holy Spirit is the gift of God that holds everything that God is all that God is He is God and so when you have the Holy Spirit you have to just cross that out of your mind that it&#39;s not about needing to get a gift from God or let me talk to the people to have a gift to interpret you already have the gift the second thing family is keeping in God&#39;s presence now to play with this thought I want to talk about an angel named Gabriel you see angel Gabriel in the Bible we see him in different instances in the Book of Daniel there was a moment where Daniel was seeking wisdom and understanding about a manner that he was perplexed about and as a result the Lord sent angel Gabriel to Daniel to bring revelation to what he needed and Jaguar shows up again in the life of a man named Zachariah Zachariah has and his wife a long time ago they had pray the prayer seeking God for his son and they got older and time keeps passing by and they have no children and this angel encounters Zachariah and it&#39;s angel Gabriel and he tells them Zachariah your prayers have been answered but I love so much about that is that there is no prayer that it doesn&#39;t matter how long you you said that prayer God hears everything but in his timing he reveals the answer but this angel brings good news to Zachariah and he says your prayers have been answered the Lord is gonna give you and your wife a child that same angel Gabriel shows up again in the life of Mary when he tells Mary that Mary you have found favor in the eyes of God and that you are gonna conceive that the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will conceive a child and you shall name him Jesus the reason I give a little bit of context to this angel is that angel Gabriel is an angel of revelation you see different angels carry different attributes are they or they express different attributes to God and so this angel is when we see him in the scripture he&#39;s always carrying revelation he&#39;s always carrying the Word of God for God&#39;s people but there is something that the Bible tells us about this angel that should not go unnoticed in Luke chapter 1 verse 19 when the angel was speaking to the man named Zachariah because Zachariah will become the father of John the Baptist the very man who will baptize our Lord Jesus when the angel is having this conversation with him and he tells them hey the Lord has answered your prayers and you will have a son Zachariah says to the angel how shall I know this and his response is what blew my mind the angel says I am Gabriel I stand in the presence of God there are many things that is fascinating about that because first of all we see that this angel who is an angel of revelation what he marks his identity by is that he stands in the presence of God in the presence of God is where we get revelation in the presence of God is where we are equipped with wisdom and knowledge and understanding it is in the presence of God but then I love the fact that he says I stand in the presence of God you see the God&#39;s presence is not a location at that moment the angel was not in the throne room he was with Zachariah the presence of God is about our posture that everything I do flows from who God is you see in his response to Zechariah questioning how how shall this be he says I stand in the presence of God I flow from the essence of who God is and so if I&#39;m saying this to you that it cannot be a lie that was so powerful to me because you see family it is our posture before God now everything we do should flow from who God is and when I say keep it in God&#39;s presence is that you cannot seek things like Google because we we have a dream and we just go to you know bishop google and we don&#39;t even know who is behind the interpretation of this symbolisms that we are dreaming about we just see random absence I mean not random apps of a random articles and we&#39;re like oh they have an interpretation but what is the spirit behind that interpretation is it the Spirit of God or is it something else that everything we do must flow in his presence when we bring our dreams and the visions and the things that God has put in our heart in his presence before him to say God show me that is where revelation takes place that is where things begin to be revealed to us you see it as in the presence of God that even forgotten dreams are revealed forgotten dreams are nothing to play with when you wake up and you&#39;ve wrecked you you recognize that you had a dream but you forgot the dream and you just go about your day that is a weapon and oftentimes for and dreams is a sign that there is a lack of intimacy between you and God that your intimacy is not as strong as it used to be and it&#39;s a call to stay come back to your first love because when God is giving you a dream and is giving you a word through a dream that one message can change the rest of your life there are dreams that have shaped my life there in dreams I&#39;ve encountered the Lord and dreams my first book actually I received the instruction the name and the importation to write the book in a dream it is through dreams that I mean amazing things have happened instructions from the Lord has been given to me through dreams and so imagine if there was a dream that I had and it was a health important information and I woke up forgot it and just went about my day you know one day funny enough I remembered I woke up from this dream and I knew I had this dream and I knew that it was important and the moment I woke up the first thing I did was to worship and I began to pray Lord revealed to me this mystery because there was something you showed me and I need to know what that is and as I began to worship all of a sudden the memory of that dream started coming back to me and family what came as the result of that blew my mind and so when you know that you&#39;re someone and that you have these dreams and all of a sudden you forget it and you go about your day that is a weapon being formed against you to think that that is okay because if the Lord is speaking to you and you walked away from that instruction you have missed a moment of alignment with God and it&#39;s not that we can complain and say God but what has happened in my life and he&#39;s saying my son my daughter I&#39;ve been trying to find a channel to talk to you I&#39;ve been trying to find a way to get to you but you are not perceiving my words you see some of the things that we sometimes struggle with is that how do I know a dream is from God how do I know it&#39;s a spiritual dream or it&#39;s a natural dream there are times that maybe you me a friend or you you talk about an event or something like that and all of a sudden that night you dream about it and then you cancel it out because you&#39;re like oh no this is probably natural because we just talked about this but could it be that because you spoke about it that you had capacity to see more into it and that the Lord was actually speaking to you could it be that the dreams that you say are random are actually concealed that there is a message concealed in it you see I would rather even if it&#39;s a pizza dream I would rather bring it before the Lord and in his presence let the Holy Spirit tell me that this is nothing to worry about than to conclude on my natural understanding you see for example there was a dream I had and I was share it with you because when you hear it it sounds random I was in this high-rise building and when I looked out the window there was water everywhere it was literally like a flood on the earth and in the dream I was aware of myself and so I&#39;m a bit perplexed because I&#39;m like God you know your word says that there will be no flood the whole thing about the rainbow did you forget but I&#39;m seeing water and I understood that this water covered the earth and then all of a sudden I see dolphins and they&#39;re playing and they&#39;re having a good time swallow time now to someone this could be random why is there water and why are they dolphins in the water but when I came out of that I began to seek the Lord Lord what does this mean what are you speaking to me about and then when the Lord began to reveal it to me the first of all the water because I&#39;m like God I mean the water why is the flood you see we have to be we have to be have this curiosity before the presence of God we cannot say no this must not be God because there wouldn&#39;t be a flood any more we have to come like children before him and the Lord began to speak to me about the times of Noah you see the time of Noah it wasn&#39;t just about a flood it was that God was bringing purification on the and not just on the land in the is to mankind because you seen the time of Noah the seed of man began to mix with the seed of angels and so mankind had become corrupted it was no longer that when God looked at what they were creating what God looked at the offspring between man and angels it was not the intention and the will and desire of God when he said I will create man in my own image because now that image had been tainted there was a corrupted seed that cook that that polluted the intention of God concerning mankind and so when God looked at the world he&#39;s like no we need to purify this thing because this is not what I created the Bible tells us that these angels had come into the women and they were having children can you imagine if that continued to mix that when God would look at us he&#39;s not seeing what he formed he&#39;s seen this new hybrid of a human being and so it was not just about a flood the water represented purification and the Lord began to speak to me that this is about what is happening and this time is about purification that I am purifying my bride that is the church I am cleansing those that would represent me that when you would represent me you would represent me with honor you will not represent me from the place you see one of the things there&#39;s a man I&#39;m just thinking about this right now a man named David and you must have read about him and if not read about him David was a man that the Lord said I have found a man after my own heart and he would do all that I pleased when God sees David and says this is a man after my heart and he will do what I please from that place of his heart posture he could build for God you see often times we talk more about building God&#39;s kingdom than we talked to God and that already reveals that the agenda is not about God that God becomes what we used to actually build us and so when God talks about his pure find our hearts purifying our minds he&#39;s cleansing our hands is that it&#39;s bringing us back to this childlike state god I just want your heart because from that place you can use me from that place you can speak to me I don&#39;t want to build something that I have no revelation of I don&#39;t want to think about what you want me to build I want to know what you want me to build and that comes from our heart that seeks after God so the Lord steps showing me the symbolism of this that&#39;s the water and then I said but God the Dolphins well the Dolphins doing in the water and the beautiful thing he said because what is happening is not to harm you dolphins will never harm me they wanted to play they just wanted to dance around jump around and do all that stuff he said do not see what is happening in the world as that which is against you it is not purpose to harm you and I share that because when you hear a dream like this it may seem random but when you presented before the Lord he begins to unveil the mysteries behind it and so to my third points write it and make it plain and there are a few things I want to discuss with this because we engage the Spirit of God the best ways when we have the right questions when we come before the presence of God it&#39;s not just about God I had this dream what does it mean right because there is so much to who God is that he reveals himself to us based on the capacity and the room that we make for him and so when we begin to ask the Lord the right questions all of a sudden we begin to have the right answers and we begin to go deeper into what he&#39;s revealing into the mysteries that he has one of the things I always tell people is that every detail of your dream matters every single detail and there is something beautiful about when you write down their dream is the same thing that happens even when you talk about it because in that moment you are engaged when your heart is set on something whatever your heart is set on especially with dreams or with visions or when the Lord has spoken to you you&#39;re engaging the spiritual part of who you are and that is why you would notice that when if you&#39;re only just thinking about it randomly there things that you forget but when you start writing it down with intentionality when you start talking to someone you&#39;re like hey I had this dream and all of a sudden there are details that you did not even remember that starts coming to you and it&#39;s coming in it&#39;s clearer but you want to write it down every single detail what did you see in it how many times did you see it how many dolphins were in the water can you remember what what did it look like what&#39;s the water clean was it muddy because all those details when you begin to engage the presence of God and saying lord I saw this you know what does this mean you know it&#39;s what I love is that in Habakkuk 2 2 when it says write the vision and make it plain it&#39;s really talking about a vision and this also applies with dreams then as you begin to write it now you can make it plain and we make it plain by asking the right questions and there are a few things I want to show you that the Lord put on my heart and really the way he has taught me even when it comes to the dreams that I have is that pay attention to your emotional tone in the dream were you afraid were you sad were you at peace were you happy you say there was a dream I had and in this dream it was about the times that we are in right and there was something that looked like covet but it wasn&#39;t covet it was actually a bit worse than covet 19 that happened and one of the states had affected greatly was California right and in a dream like this if I just gave you that detail it would seem like something that was frightening it would seem like oh my gosh God was about to happen but in the dream I had peace that was one of the things that was that stood out to me I&#39;m aware of everything going on but I wasn&#39;t in chaos with myself I wasn&#39;t I wasn&#39;t I&#39;m anxious I wasn&#39;t afraid I had peace about what was taking place and that feeling of peace can actually speak to the fact that this is still in God&#39;s hands you see when God begins to show things like this then all of a sudden when it begins to unfold on the earth you&#39;re not moved when we talk about what what is this peace that comes from the Lord sometimes that peace also comes with knowing that no God you already spoke to me about this time you already spoke to me about this season and even if you didn&#39;t I&#39;m aware that this is in your hands but when the Lord began to show that to me I understood that the peace I felt in the dream was so symbolic to know this is not something that the enemy&#39;s just having a free-for-all that this is still in the hands of God then what it does is now the conversation continues because you see a dream is God starting a conversation with you and when you begin to ask questions of the dream you engage that conversation now I can look at that and say but God what is it that you&#39;re doing with this now I can ask question when would this happen when would this be what is the time what is the season but if I ignore that then I ignore the fullness of what God wants to reveal to me and so what is your what is the emotional tone and the reason that this is so powerful is that you can Google will not tell you how you felt if you have the dream of a snake coming at you what if you had power in that moment you research that it&#39;s like WebMD have you ever used WebMD I would have just maybe like a headache WebMD will tell me that you know what I may be going in a coma but much love to WebMD I&#39;m sure much love but but you see you can&#39;t just Google random things about dreams because it does not understand the fullness of it that yes maybe you saw a snake in the dream but what was your emotion in that dream when you&#39;re afraid maybe you felt confident and maybe that is God telling you that hey something may be rising against you but you would you would have this grace to stand still and so you write that down and you begin to engage with the Lord and say Lord okay I saw this but this is how I felt another thing is what can you what are the references what is it what is it one of the references that you can you can pull from the dream right are there things that have a biblical reference or maybe a unique reference in your life not in the natural you see when Joseph heard the dream that Ferrer had in the time of Egypt when he said okay he saw seven fat cows and seven skinny cows and all of that there was a natural reference for cows because in that time agriculture was the backbone of the economy and so when God wanted to speak about the economy he used animals so they had a reference to the times that they were in when I saw the waters in my dream it had a biblical reference so when you begin to look at your dreams you start you start asking questions is there anything in the Bible that speaks to this and as you begin to study it is a beautiful engagement with the Lord because all of a sudden the Holy Spirit starts directing your heart and your going deeper and deeper into what the Lord is showing you another thing is to ask the Lord is this literal or is this symbolic what does this message actually mean you see there was a moment where I had there was a dream I had about a family friend and I saw them dying and I saw how it happened and when the Lord showed me that I was like okay is this what is this are you showing me like something that is literal or this symbolic to something else and in in that event there was something literal that he was showing me to speak against and - and there were there were instructions that he gave me that came against that thing and so when it actually showed up in real life it did not take his life and so there are times where God would even give you and you you have to say okay God what you&#39;re showing me explain this to me because I don&#39;t want to jump ahead of myself the same way that you may see someone in a dream and they may be doing something it may seem like they&#39;re doing something weird and you&#39;re thinking that oh my gosh God is talking to me about this person and they&#39;re no good for my life but what if God is actually using that person to explain a character trait and so we cannot conclude in the presence of God God is this literal to me or is this symbolic and one of the last things and there are many things that God can teach you in in the process of interpreting your dreams but these are just some of the key things that he told me to share with you another thing is Acts the Lord is this dream giving me information or instruction and sometimes they overlap now information is that is this informing me about your plans and your purpose so that when it shows up I&#39;m at peace when it shows up I&#39;m ready or when it shows like what is this about is this informing me about something connected to a friend is this informing me about something that I need to press in and pray or for you see even the dream I shared that was literal in that moment I also had suppressed and in prayer to understand the strategy for it God what does this mean is this and is this just for information there many times that God will reveal things to me and it would literally just be to know what is to come it&#39;s not about saying anything it&#39;s not about doing anything it&#39;s just to know you see and that is so key because sometimes when you have a prophetic dream that comes from what when God is revealing to you what his plans are it is important to say that even when the dream is information-based God is this your will or is this a weapon against me from the enemy or weapon against my city a weapon against my loved one what does it mean because when it is the will of God then that is prophecy and when in this prophecy it is different because you see something so amazing in the Bible it says Jesus is the spirit of prophecy when we look at the Lord Jesus and say he is the spirit of prophecy then he embodies what what what the prophetic is about and the Lord Jesus what is amazing about him is that it was said that before the foundation of the world he was the lamb slain before time but not only was he the lamb slain before time that word had to be manifested on the earth and that is prophecy because prophecy is that which is sealed in heaven you cannot change it when there is a prophetic word that comes from God it must happen it is not something that can be changed it is when God is revealing unto us that this is what has already been established in heaven and so Jesus embodies the spirit of prophecy because he fulfilled the word he fulfilled what was already filled in heaven and manifested on the earth and so when God is showing you something about a prophetic message we have to in in the wisdom and this is how God trains us and family this is so key because when weeds have deeper into the training of God then all of a sudden our spiritual senses begin to open up in ways that would blow your mind because it will start with the realm of dreams and then it develops and God will use all levels because God always wants to get a message to you but he will train you first to hear him through one channel and he will continue to build it up so it would start with dreams then it would go to visions then it would go to open visions and so much more than all of a sudden your knowing even becomes stronger but why I&#39;m sharing this is because we have to be good stewards of the word of God because the Bible says that do not cast your pearls before swine when God wants to develop you he&#39;s looking at your that what do you do it what I say how do you engage me when I&#39;m giving you how do you engage when I start a conversation with you because it&#39;s not always about you know God walking around and pacing around your living room God what are you saying whether you saying with a you saying sometimes a dream it&#39;s got star in the conversation and how do we engage that conversation and when we&#39;re intentional about what the Lord is saying all of a sudden he recognizes you are good ground you are fertile ground and in this time family I&#39;m telling you it is the prophetic voice that would rule it is the voice that can be connected to the heart of God and what the Lord is saying that would have authority in the land because you will not get information from the news the news is or only can only tell you what has manifested but the Word of God will tell you what is to come and how to prepare so that you&#39;re not caught off guard that you&#39;re not easily discouraged or deceived by what you see but that you are led by His Word you would have a different fire on you you would have a different peace on you you would have a different grace on you that the world will come to know what is it that you do and who is it that you serve and so when you receive a word from God and God is showing you this is my will and my plan it is not about praying against it it&#39;s not about speaking against it it is to go deeper God what do you do what are you doing with this that don&#39;t be in a hurry to even speak about it until you know God what is what is the purpose of this what exactly are you doing why are you showing me this and if it&#39;s an instruction then all of a sudden now you&#39;re asking God about the timing and the strategy connected to that word if in your dream you all of a sudden you see yourself speaking and you&#39;ve never done that before you see yourself in a country that you&#39;ve never been then could it be that God is instructing you about what&#39;s next but it&#39;s not to rush into it again it&#39;s a conversation that God is starting got a starting a conversation with you he&#39;s saying my daughter I see you in Germany there&#39;s a call there&#39;s something I have for you in Germany that&#39;s why you keep seeing yourself and you know you in Germany but it&#39;s the conversation is starting don&#39;t rush and conclude into it now you can say God are you you you you have something for me in Germany you have something for me in Japan you have something for me in Nigeria you have something for me in Los Angeles what is that what is it Lord what are you calling me to do the Lord wants to give you strategy God is not just some random guy there are times he can tell you some interesting things you know I&#39;ve been there where you figure it out as you go but I will tell you this before God would give you an instruction that can shake up your whole life he will build you with the little things because he&#39;s also rooting for you he doesn&#39;t want you to miss it doesn&#39;t want you to fail before God will give you an instruction like hey your life is going great in LA I want you right now to move to Japan where you know no one before that instruction comes God will cultivate your hearing in the day to day things because he does not want to make room for the enemy to deceive you and send you where he did not speak and so even when you start having dreams about random things take it seriously because family were in the time that God wants to pour out his revelation to you God wants to pour out more for he years but and it&#39;s not just about creating a space where we pray because prayer may just be prayer for you may look like the grace may look like speaking in tongues but what happens after that what happens after you pour out are you waiting to receive what happens after you have this dream or this nightmare and you wake up and you rebuke it god it&#39;s not my portion did you engage him because it&#39;s a conversation and how are you engage in that conversation do you shut it down or do you say god what is it that you want me to do there&#39;s gonna be great mysteries that God begins to reveal to you at night that when you lay your head to sleep amazing mysteries and one of the things that would encourage you to do be intentional about your atmosphere even when you&#39;re going to bed because that also speaks to God I want to hear from you if you know that you&#39;re you know it you&#39;re likely to Netflix and sleep because right now ain&#39;t nobody chilling it&#39;s quarantine so if you know that you&#39;re gonna be watching this series and you&#39;re gonna fall asleep then time yourself ten o&#39;clock god I want to set an atmosphere I want to set an atmosphere that is intentional for your presence I want you to speak to me if you know that you struggle with hearing the voice of God then begin to say God use my dreams give me something because I kid you not God will not die for you to not speak to you it is a lie to think that God does not speak to you if there&#39;s a light the thing that God does not want you to know the mysteries about your life that is a lie from the pit of hell how good of a God would he be to die for you but they&#39;re not not speak to you he wants to God loves it the truth is family God talks a lot he he is the word he always got something to say you will be shocked about the things that God finds hilarious if we&#39;re funny if we have a sense of humor and we came from him he got some jokes I mean I&#39;ve talked about this before what Jesus has to be to meet the funniest person because he comes up and he&#39;s like you know hey you know I&#39;m Jesus I&#39;m the savior of the world I&#39;m here to save humanity and the first miracle Jesus does it&#39;s a lip party he says you know what guys we&#39;re gonna turn water into wine I think that is hilarious I would think that Jesus if you&#39;re showing up and you&#39;re like wow I&#39;m the Messiah guys I&#39;ve been I&#39;m the one you&#39;d be the way therefore the first thing I would do as Jesus I would just walk to the graveyard and just say wake up Paul with you and everybody starts standing up and now I&#39;m like whoa look at that Messiah that&#39;s me but no Jesus is on the wedding and they run out of wine and his mom is like hey Jesus we need some wine and he does it God wants to speak to you God wants to speak to you in is the desire of his heart to speak to you God is jealous for you if the Bible tells us that even he knows the numbers of hairs on our head he&#39;s so into you and he wants to engage with you and so don&#39;t take your dreams like me it is a conversation that is starting in his presence you already have the gift you have the Holy Spirit and through the holy sprit when you start asking the right questions about your dreams you will be blown away about the instructions and the revelation that will come out of it you will be blown away by the things you will begin to know you would walk and you will feel like you&#39;re walking on cloud nine because while the world may feel like this is chaotic you&#39;re like no gods in this when I was a child my grandmother she had diabetes and she was in the hospital and they needed to amputate her leg or her foot and it was known that if they do this amputation she will be just alright but my grandmother comes to me in a dream and the Lord allowed it she comes to me in a dream and she tells me my daughter it&#39;s my time to go and so in the midst of I didn&#39;t want my grandma to leave but when God used the dream to say it&#39;s her time this can be stopped it&#39;s her time it was a few days or the thing the next day or so a day or two after that that she transitioned and when I saw my family and everyone they&#39;re there they&#39;re in pain and and grief is not a bad thing grief is a sign that of the impact a person had on your life if if you had such an impact in my life I should mourn you I should be sad when I can access you grief is not against you grief is not a bad thing but in the midst of grief there was peace because I said mom it&#39;s not diabetes then take her out this is not the thing that it this disease or this illness was not what determined her life it didn&#39;t determine if she would live or die God did that he said this was her time and she went on and so there was a peace in the midst of it and God wants to give you revelation about the things to come so that you are not easily moved or easily shaken it is the Word of God that anchors us you see there&#39;s a scripture that talks about resist the enemy and he would flee from you resist the devil and he would flee but what does it mean to resist the devil the devil is the father of lies so resisting him is resist in his lies and we only resist the lie with the weapon of truth and that is why even in the even in the wilderness when the devil was coming against Jesus and he says if you were in the Son of Man bla bla bla bla and Jesus is like this is what the Word of God says because your weapon in knowing who God is and knowing his word towards you there is nothing that can come against you the enemy will try his best but when he sees that you are a son and a daughter of Revelation he would know that he has no place in your life jesus said something so powerful he said that Satan comes looking but he has no place in me Jesus was so filled with truth that the enemy knew that there was I have there&#39;s nothing there&#39;s nothing I can do that scripture is so powerful it says resist him and he would run away from you can you imagine that the enemy is scared of the person who walks in the revelation of who God is like he&#39;s literally scared I didn&#39;t say he would walk away and then say he was like you know hop and skip it said he was flee from you he will literally run away from you that any demonic assignment against your life would recognize that it is torment to me to stay here for someone to flee from you they recognize that your belief and your faith in God is actually tormenting them that every time that you stand in the truth of who God is that it&#39;s like they&#39;re burning that there are torments happening to whatever weapon is formed against you because it will not succeed and so God wants you not to just say the cute Church sayings I am blessed and highly favored he wants you to know that you are blessed and you are highly favored he wants you to walk in the knowledge we are called to be in his likeness in his image we are called to be like him we&#39;re called to walk in the truth of of the of what he&#39;s doing so we&#39;re not just dancing around God loves your family he loves you and I want to pray for those who subscribe to the lie that God will not talk to me or God does not speak to me that is a lie as you begin to engage in his presence there was a scripture that tells us that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness that they would be filled if they say blessed are the ones who thirst and hunger for righteousness for they would be filled righteousness is about right standing with God that the people that thirst and hunger for to be in alignment with God that God would honor it as you begin to seek the Lord cultivate that atmosphere when you&#39;re going to bed tonight or whatever it might be morning where you are but there is a nighttime coming when you go to bed why don&#39;t you set the atmosphere of worship if you live with people get some headphones set an atmosphere and you say God speak to me as I lay my head speak to me reveal the mysteries of my life speak to me Lord I am listening your servant is here and he or she is listening and as you do that family you would be surprised the journey you will begin with the Lord the conversations that would build with the Lord the Lord loves you and if you know that you&#39;re receiving this right now in the comments I want you to say I receive it I receive it I receive it that God you love me I&#39;m receiving that love and I&#39;m receiving the fact that you desire to speak to me and if you don&#39;t know the Lord and you stumbled on our page today and you want to know this God that wants to have a relationship with you it&#39;s real one of the biggest things I struggled with growing up was it was between my relationship with God and people because God became more real to me than the people around me and so I had to find this balance of you know engaging with people but that is how real God is it&#39;s real let us pray Heavenly Father we thank you we thank you for your children that right now they&#39;re receiving what you&#39;re doing they&#39;re receiving your love they&#39;re receiving the fact that you desire to speak to them and you will and as they begin to cultivate this atmosphere as they begin to put that journal by their bed to say god you&#39;re speaking to me tonight and we&#39;re gonna build this relationship and and it&#39;s gonna develop and you&#39;re gonna activate my senses you&#39;re gonna activate my hearing you&#39;re gonna activate my spiritual sight you&#39;re gonna activate my spiritual smell everything will be activated as I hunger and thirst for alignment with you and so Lord we thank you I thank you that your presence is invading their home right now I think you lord have your way in Jesus mighty name family god bless you we love you [Music] you

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Interpreting and Understanding Dreams and Visions