We're going to share with you on how to hear God through dreams and how to understand your dreams. Let me give you a little recap. First and foremost on dreams, statistic on dreams is that we have about four to six dreams every single night. That's about a thousand four hundred sixty dreams a year. Ninety-five percent of all our dreams we forget shortly after waking up. Typical dream lasts about from five to twenty minutes. Did you know that blind people can dream as well? Animals can dream and I know because sometimes a dog sleeps in our room and you could see he's being chased by some rabbit. Yeah, a few times we actually had to wake up our dog because he was making weird noises and like moving his paws and those of you that have dogs you know that animals can dream as well. Yeah, so animals can dream as well and actually frequent dreams all around the world that are shared from different people which I believe most of this stuff is demonic but things like being chased, being chased, being attacked, falling, being frozen, unable to move, arriving late, flying and being seen naked in the public. That's kind of weird but a lot of people have those dreams all around the world who don't maybe share the same history. Dreams are the brain's way of processing data and events but often they do so in random and ridiculous ways. In the Bible we see that dreams are actually called night visions. We know that God needs no rest and is active when we sleep and also when we are awake. Therefore we may suppose that divine influences fashion our dreams as well as direct our waking thoughts. We must understand that in the old times if you study dreams you will see that in the times of Abraham, in the times of Moses, in those times every culture was obsessed with connecting with their gods through dreams. In fact the more dreams you got that were vivid made you the contact point between you and the divine being that that nation worshiped. Translating or intrepid dream dreams became actually one of very common things in the old Egypt in Egypt place and in the ancient world. In fact it was a form of divination and the first dream dictionary originated in ancient Egypt. Today there's a huge obsession with dreams especially in the occultic world. If you go to Barnes and Nobles, if you go anywhere online you will see that when it comes to dreams, symbols and colors and everything a lot of websites are packed with information by people that are not believers, by people that are pursuing new age and spirituality outside of the Holy Scriptures. And we have to be as Christians and be very careful that our obsession with dreams does not lead us into deception. Deception is very prevalent in people who are obsessed with dreams. If you study the history of the nations outside of Israel you will see huge obsession with dreams. That's why Pharaoh could hire Joseph on the spot based on the dream. Dreams was everything for them. In the scripture we see emphasis on dreams as we're going to see in the moment but not that much obsession with dreams as the occultic people and people outside of the scriptures. And so as we're going to look at today a few things that the Bible says about dreams, a few biblical history or biblical facts about dreams. Number one is that there is 120 references to dreams in the Old Testament. 52 come from Genesis and 29 in the book of Daniel. There are 21 recorded dreams in the Bible, 10 in the book of Genesis. Dreams, six dreamers were kings, one was a woman and then two were named Joseph and six were in the Gospel of Matthew. So Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew are the two places where a lot of dreams happen. The reason why we chose to talk about dreams tonight is because we're approaching Christmas and there's so much stuff that was happening around Jesus's birth that God was speaking through dreams to Joseph, to wise men, God was speaking to Joseph when to leave, when to come back, where to come back and the same thing I believe that God is speaking still today through dreams. We also know there was an approximately 1,000 year gap between Joseph's dreams and Daniel's dreams and so we know that there was a huge, in between those 1,000 gap we see really two dreams recorded. That's the Gideon hearing the dream of Midianites and the Solomon goes and God gives him a blank check in the dream and tells him he can get pretty much what he wants and Solomon chooses wins them. So in a thousand years we see two dreams recorded where God spoke to them. What I'm trying to say through that is they were not as frequent as many of us would portray dreams to be and so let's look at some dreams in the Old Testament in the New Testament and then we're going to be sharing about eight truths about dreams and then we're going to share seven truths or seven ways to understand your dreams. So I'm going to go through the dreams very quickly in the Bible.  Jacob has a dream concerning the latter in Genesis 28, 12. Then Jacob has a dream to go back home in Genesis 31. Laban gets warned in the dream not to say anything good or bad to Jacob and that is in Genesis 31. Joseph has two dreams about grain and about stars and that is in Genesis 37. Pharaoh's cup bearer and the baker both have dreams in jail and that is in Genesis 40. Pharaoh has two dreams one about cows and the other one about grain in Genesis 41. Then Medianites have a dream about the barley of loaf that speaks of Gideon and that is in Judges 7. Solomon, God comes to Solomon in the dream and then pretty much gives him a blank check in 1 Kings 3. Nebuchadnezzar has a dream about a statue and about a tree and Daniel has a dream about four beasts. So that's in the Old Testament. Dreams were focused more on prophetic, more on visitation of God, more on warning and encouragement. In the New Testament, let me go through the dreams in the New Testament. We see Joseph was given a dream not to divorce Mary that she really was pregnant from God. Wise men were given a dream of warning not to go back to Herod. Joseph was given a dream to run to Egypt. Joseph was again given a dream to come back to Israel. Joseph again was given a dream to escape not to go to Judea but to come back to Israel but not to Judea and then we see that he was the wife of Pilate was given a dream not to pretty much to warn her husband that Jesus was innocent and so and that's pretty much in the dream. Now there are visions which I'm not going to talk about visions today but just like when people were sleeping Bible clearly states when they were sleeping they had those dreams. There were some others were they're kind of like dreams and visions but they more they're more visions than dreams and stuff. So where Paul says that the Lord came to him in the night and so that could mean that he actually had a vision of the angel of God or of the Lord in the in the in the night time and stuff. So but these are the main dreams that we see in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. In the New Testament dreams were really directions and warnings. In the Old Testament dreams were given really as a prophetic future as a visitation of God as a warning and as an encouragement. Now things you should know about dreams. Here are eight truths about dreams. Truth number one. So the truth number one about the dreams. So dreams can come from three sources mainly. So source number one is God. Number two is our soul which is our will emotions in our mind mainly and also some from the enemy. And I'm just gonna really quickly let you know how to differentiate which dream is coming from which source. So demonic dreams that are caused by the enemy really include recurring nightmares dreams that produce terror fear and deception. So and the dreams that derives from our soul. They're pretty much desires of our mind of our will and our emotions and none of which involve being terrorized and paralyzed by fear. And this is how you always know if it's it's the demonic dream it always carries a terror and fear with it. Now the dreams that come from God they usually are dreams of encouragement enlightenment and a direction and for the future which none of these things our soul can produce. And we see so in the Bible in Ecclesiastes chapter five verse three it says that through much activity you know we can get dreams and so and a lot of times much of that activity can result in our soul being burdened and our soul being overwhelmed or our soul being at peace and we can get dreams that are similar to that. We see also in a lot of scriptures for example Deuteronomy chapter 13 verses 1 through 5 Jeremiah 23 verses 25 to all the way to 32 as well as Jeremiah 27 verses 9 Jeremiah 29 verse 8 Zechariah chapter 10 verse 2 and then Jude 8. It talks about actually false prophets who are deceiving people through their dreams and God was very clearly warning people concerning dreamers who had these dreams that sometimes they came true but then these people used the fact that the dreams came true as a way to entice people away from devotion to God. And so we have to be discerning toward dreams because demonic dreams not only sometimes they come to you like where demons attack you in the dream but sometimes demonic dreams come to you through somebody else where somebody who is connected to the demonic power somebody who is connected to witchcraft somebody who's operating with the familiar spirit has a dream concerning your life and they give you this dream and that dream can label it us from God yeah as from God and then this dream can bring you a sense of fear you will you will feel it usually like something is not right in your spirit there's no witness in your spirit it doesn't sit right a lot of times it doesn't line up with the scripture it produces negative feelings inside of you so when that begins to take happen you have to reject those dreams because those dreams usually are under the operation of the spirit of python or a spirit of divination and so people who operate with the spirit of divination they can have a lot of dreams you can see the verses that I just gave you and if I can have our mods drop them also in the chat on youtube and on facebook the verses that I just gave or actually I can I can drop it right here is that false prophets can deceive through dreams and if you look at these verses very carefully you will see the emphasis and the warning that God gave to the children of Israel to avoid falling prey and become too desperate for hearing God through dreams because then the then the false prophets and then people with divination the soothsayers and others can really get you entrapped for that the kingdom of darkness through dreams I've had this happen where people would come up and give me a dream and they were so certain this was from God and it was a very negative very bad dream and I'm not saying that this was a dream of warning I would have felt it you know oh this is a dream of warning that I should really just kind of pray against it no I really felt something was off about that dream and then you know later on I'm seeing this person is being delivered from a spirit of python and stuff and so we have to be very careful that we believe every single dream that people give a special negative dreams that come true because that could be operating from the spirit of divination and that could be demonic and source to bring distraction into your life and I feel like I just want to add it's so important for us to have our own relationship come on somebody with the Holy Spirit and because the Bible says my sheep they know my voice you know allow the Holy Spirit speak to you into your heart into your spirit and when you learn to hear his voice and to differentiate his voice it's going to be easier for you not to be deceived and the Lord can also and our next point is that you know the dreams are so let's let's let's hold on before this so the Lord speaks through dreams and we see that in Numbers chapter 12 and as well as in Jeremiah chapter 3 and I'm going to drop those verses right now we see that the Lord can speak through dreams in fact Moses said that the prophets that God reveals himself to a prophet through a dream and so that is one of the ways the Lord speaks through a prophet in in Jeremiah it also says that one of the ways that God will speak through people who hear his his voice is through dreams now the second thing the second truth I want to mention about dreams right now and that is this is that dreams can come through incubation now what I mean by incubation I've seen this first and foremost let me explain what incubation is incubation is actually because of the value of dreams individuals frequently attempted to induce such visions through incubation by spending a night in a temple or in a holy place the practice was commonly employed by cultic prophets of Mari and the kings of lagash and agarit and as attested as having sought having found divine guidance through incubation such may be the background for activities of Saul when the bible says that and the Lord did not answer him by dreams Solomon where he went to a particular place offered sacrifices and there God spoke them in the dream as well as Ahaz and Hezekiah so at times dreams were elicited through incubation even though the individuals had not intentionally sought them so what I mean by that is this have you ever been in a house where you went to sleep and you got attacked in that house or have you ever been in a hotel you went to hotel or maybe a airbnb something is off in that place and you get this very vivid very clear very weird dreams now a similar thing can happen when a lot of times people would go in the and fall asleep in the holy place almost like guess what happened to Jacob Jacob was in a place where the bible says the ladder of heaven was there and he started to receive these visions I know a young man who is in our ministry who spent some time in tibijashuah's church I think about two and a half years and he said he was pretty much living a floor above below tibijashuah and when he was there he started to receive vivid prophetic dreams about the future about particular things that would happen he would write them down and these dreams were accurately coming true he would see visions and he would see dreams during the night about different people back home he would record them when he would record them when he would wake up which we're going to teach you in just a moment what to do with your dreams and then he would write away write a date when the dream came true interestingly is when he came back home those dreams stopped so sometimes particular dreams can be connected to a particular place that you are in actually people in the occultic world practice that really well they would go to the temples of their gods sleep there in hopes that their god will come and visit them during the night and so this also is applicable to people who incubate for example if you watch too much movies you're gonna start dreaming that kind of stuff you know I use the example of samson fell asleep on the lap of the lila he had the world's most expensive haircut jacob fell asleep on the rock and he had a vision of god the question is when you are sleeping are you sleeping on the lap of the lila or are you sleeping on the rock of ages during the day what are you doing how are you incubating how are you preparing your mind and your soul before you go to sleep are you spending time in the word and in prayer because all of that plays a role to opening your mind to the Lord so that Lord can speak to you through your dreams absolutely absolutely and I even heard a lot of times where people were attacked in the dreams and then we would suggest them what do you do before you go to sleep read the bible pray communicate with the Holy Spirit and that's how one of the ways you will overcome the attacks as well and let's go to number three the truth number three about dreams we know that dreams are one of the ways the Holy Spirit communicates today in the modern world in the modern world if I can put it that way in the New Testament in acts 2 16 and 17 and if you want to drop that scripture it says that you know that in the last days in the last days god will pour out his spirit on his people and they will prophesy they will see dreams see visions and all of the above things and that's one of the ways the Holy Spirit speaks to his people today the objection that I hear sometimes if people say well God doesn't need to see the reason why God spoke so much in dreams was because there was no New Testament the Bible wasn't written yes I understand in Genesis it's true that God spoke a lot in dreams to establish the nation of Israel to establish the family of Abraham the covenant and all the stuff but think about in Matthew the Torah was written already the laws were given the prophets were already all of those stuff is written and God still spoke to Joseph to the wise men in dreams and the fact that if God now it is true that you don't see one reference of Jesus having a dream you don't see apostles like every night waking up and having a dream from God and and the reason I believe that there's not super emphasis on that is because we have the Holy Spirit who can guide us and lead us but then you would think that okay since we have the Holy Spirit we don't need to have the dreams and then Acts chapter 2 comes in and pretty much blows that out of the water by saying that one of the ways the Holy Spirit will in the last day speak to his people is through visions and through dreams and through prophecy and so we shouldn't just simply say well just because we have the Bible and just because we have the Holy Spirit you know the idea of dreams and visions and prophetic words no longer apply to us because book of Acts chapter 2 pretty much takes that and throws it completely out of the window though our basis is the word of God our basis is the Holy Spirit and our basis is the community of believers but the Holy Spirit still communicates to his people through dreams visions and prophecy and really quickly I just want to point something out about dreams and visions you might say what is the difference between dreams and visions you know when you are sleeping you can see a vision and you can dream a dream and we know the Apostle John he received a vision from the Lord on the island and the vision what I've heard one man of God differentiate how he differentiated the two was the vision if for example you're sleeping and you're seeing yourself in a third person you're watching yourself from from a side that that is more like a vision that is either God is giving you but if you are just dreaming you are in in the person that that's that's the difference good idea that's a very good differentiation now let's go through number four number four through dreams God can bypass our walls of self-defense and the verse for that is Job chapter 33 verses 14 15 16 and 17 and 18 and in fact let me read it to you so again Job chapter 33 verses 14 15 16 and 17 so through dreams God can bypass our walls of self-defense for God may speak in one way or any other yet man does not perceive it so sometimes God speaks and we just you know deaf and verse 15 in a dream in a vision of the night so a dream when God speaks is a vision of the night in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon man while slumber slumbering under beds so meaning like a ram sleep which actually most people say that's exactly when we get most dreams it's during our ram sleep during our deep sleep when deep sleep falls upon man while slumbering under beds then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction in order to turn men from his deed and to conceal pride from man he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword I mean that's pretty heavy that's pretty heavy words where God pretty much is saying I'm coming to you in the dream so that I can turn you from your evil deeds I'm coming to you in the dream so that I can turn your life back from the pit meaning like I want to warn you I want to protect you I'm coming to you in the dream so that I can conceal instruction meaning I want to pretty much deposit some kind of a direction or some kind of a thing that you need to do and then I want to protect you from pride meaning like it's not you're there over there over there walking around saying oh look at me I fasted and prayed you actually slept and God just came in and zapped you with his with his knowledge and with his power that is incredible okay now number five that's true number five I think you already touched on that but having dreams that come true does not mean you are a Christian and the verse that so Matthew 27 verse 19 is talking about the wife of Pilate and but in fact if we look at the bible we see that Pharaoh's had dreams we see Nebuchadnezzar had dream and and they were sent from God yeah they were sent from God and in fact they had a very clear prophetic picture yet none of those dreams were indicating that these men were from God I always like to say like this if you get a dream from God it does not mean you're walking with God yeah and if you get attacked from the devil in the dream it does not mean you're on the same path with the devil come on somebody that's come on drop number drop a fire emoji if you're receiving something already if this is blessing to you if this teaching is blessing to you already now let's go to number number six now Jesus can visit people in their dreams and we see a lot of examples actually with Muslim people how Jesus comes to them in the dream and tells them that he is the Lord and some of the testimonies that I've seen so many testimonies I've heard where Jesus shows up in the dream to Muslim people and this is how typically it happens he actually appears in the dream I have a gentleman from my Instagram who reached out to me that Jesus came to him in the dream he's a Muslim man from Malaysia Malaysia Indonesia his family is not Christian he's not a Christian and something happens Jesus shows up he recognizes Jesus and then Jesus tells him to reach out to this person or to go to this person to receive the gospel and then when they would reach out you know like then they would receive like with this particular young man Jesus you know told him to reach out to us so when he reached out you know I presented him the gospel and I led him through prayer and then he prayed the prayer and I sent him some material to start following up through and so that's how usually Jesus shows up in the dreams and this is happening in a lot of circles or a lot of places where people don't have access to the church or to the preaching of the gospel and so it's possible to have Jesus visit you in the dream but typically these things happen with people who don't have access to the gospel who don't have access to the good news or to the preaching of the gospel and so you know like if you are one of those people who like man I just want Jesus to be coming to my dreams you know like he already has given you a church he's given you already the bible and he's given you you know already so many things that you need to take advantage of right now and begin to develop relationship with those things amen number seven number seven God can minister to you in the dream God can use a pastor in the dream to deliver you or he can warn you in the dream and I'm going to mention some of the categories of the dreams for you there is a lot of them but it's going to be very interesting for you to hear let's let's let's mention them when we're going to talk about translating the interpreting the dreams I want you to share some of the delivered me in the dream yeah so like there's a few things that could happen in in your dream God can minister in the dream in three ways God can use the pastor to come in the dream to deliver you I've seen this so many times where I would meet people who would who would say you came to my dream last night and then you delivered me and I was like I can promise you one thing I was back home I was with my wife I did not come to your dream yeah in fact that happened to me actually personally I was battling I was I was battling with a lot of nightmares and demonic attacks and that was probably 10 years ago and we had this couple from UK they are actually from tibia joshua's church they are they were serving their their elderly couple that came and they stayed in their house and I was in such a need of deliverance myself I was kind of desperate but it just never happened for me for some reason and I fall asleep that night when they spent when they were spending night in our apartment and I see a dream of me manifesting and the evil spirit is speaking through me and then I turn my head I am in myself in the dream and and the couple is delivering me from that demon and it was so real in my dream now back then I thought it was what kind of nightmare that is I had no idea that you can actually receive deliverance in your dream and that's what happened to me I believe that the Lord was beginning that process of deliverance I I just never manifested in the real life I guess and the Lord is like I'm gonna deliver you in the dream and that's what happened to me and I know that a lot of people actually have these kind of experiences and they are not just dreams they're actually deliverance that is taking place in those people's lives another way that the Lord can minister to you in the dream is also he can give you warning in the dream sometimes he can give you a warning where like we read in Job where the Lord comes in and he pretty much like say hey you can't do that sometimes those dreams they're not nightmares but but they they're very they're very sober that you wake up you know that you know you gotta stop doing that right now like yeah like we read in Job where it says this is that in order to turn men from his deed Job chapter 33 verse 17 so God says I come to you in the dream in order to turn men from his deed to conceal the pride when he keeps it back his soul from the pit the same way he did with wise men the same way that the Lord did with Joseph he warned him concerning the baby Jesus being you know under attack and even though Joseph did not know that Herod is planning to go massacre all the babies and so he warned him and I think the warning dreams are huge but sometimes you know hey there is a warning you need to stop doing this you need to cut off this relationship you need to walk away from this this thing right now that you're a part of you need to do that ASAP yes yes and another one is you can get calling in the dream could you share how that happened with you yeah actually this is this is this is really huge so throughout my years actually I've been actually after I got married I started to search what is it that God wants me to do and throughout the years there was a few of the dreams I'm not gonna say I had a lot of them but I had at least three or four they were so vivid when I when I woke up I knew there the dreams were from God and so for example seven years ago first time I see a dream of me standing on a huge stage big big like thousands of people and me praying for deliverance for people and a few dreams that I had trying to pray for people that they will receive deliverance but in my dream people never actually received deliverance and that was very like frustrating to me I'm like why can I just fall back asleep so the person can receive deliverance it never happened but God was showing me what he wanted me to do now mind you guys I did not want to pray for deliverance I was telling God like I don't want to do that because it's so exhausting it's emotionally draining why do I have to get you know down and dirty to pray for somebody's deliverance I was wrestling and God would send me the dreams that I would see myself doing that and that's what he wanted me to do and then what happened one time we have this girl Indian girl coming to our church to visit for the first time and after I already said yes to God and I said okay God if you want me to I'm just gonna pray for people for deliverance and I would pray for people nothing would happen nobody would manifest and after the particular dream that I saw I saw this girl and I saw her manifest in my dream and I was delivering her again and the first time the demon left and she received deliverance in my dream you saw a dream first of that girl or you saw somebody else in the dream before I saw dreams of me praying for deliverance but people were not really receiving deliverance now I saw this dream that this girl received deliverance and the demon left that girl in my dream but it was not the same girl that you know it was not the same I just saw a girl that the demon left demon left I delivered her in my dream and after that dream we had a prayer line and the girl comes to to our service and the first service she was in the VIP room I guess she asked me to pray for her I was just talking connecting with her and I started to pray for her and she started to manifest in our small room so I was like kind of throwing back okay what do I do what do I do and I started just to pray for deliverance David my friend I'm sorry I'm going to interrupt you baby thank you for your generous gift and thank you for kind words David Diga Hernandez is in the chat sorry you just so that Indian girl I prayed for her nothing special I just prayed that God will deliver her and she manifested in the room and she received deliverance and then she was like thanking me oh my gosh I was I was struggling with this and this and that and I'm so happy that the Lord delivered me and so this is kind of how God showed what I'm supposed to be do in ministry wise in my dreams and then it started to happen and it's honestly and it's not it's in the scripture where God confirmed the calling of Gideon through the dream we see that the Lord also revealed the calling to Joseph in his dream his future what that would look like so we see that the Bible reveals to us that you can experience your calling being revealed to you in your dream you can also experience spiritual warfare in the dream and the difference between you know spiritual warfare and demonic attack demonic attack in the sense that you have like a some kind of a demonic oppression or you have a demon is the spiritual warfare first of all it's not a consistent thing you wake up and there's more of like awareness that you are in the spiritual warfare versus the awareness that you have a demon that you need deliverance and so that's and there's a difference there's a difference between the you wake up and you're like man I gotta I gotta pray more I gotta fast more versus the moment you wake up when the person has a demonic attack is that there's a sense of fatigue there's a sense of exhaustion there's a sense of like I can't do this anymore you know like a demonic attack and actually number eight is that the devil can attack you in your dreams and there's few things that he can do and I won't allow not to share a little bit because she went through that is that he can attack you through your dreams by nightmare sleep paralysis all of the all of the above nightmare sleep paralysis horror dreams snakes spiders sexual dreams attack so all of these things that I just mentioned they are attacks in the dreams and I'm pretty much experienced all of the above and especially when you feel like you're paralyzed you can't do anything you can't move you can't even speak out the name of Jesus those are the attack dreams and I remember something that happened to me and it was more recent that I before I would fall asleep I started to see these big huge spiders and it was actually after I started to pray for deliverance and people would receive deliverance and I started to see these spiders now I could not figure out if that was in my dream of that was real I would wake up turn on the light real quick and they were gone and so that would really mess with my mind and but that that was not the sign of me needing deliverance that was the sign that I'm in a spiritual warfare that I need to stay on my ground I got so sick and tired of those spiders that I I I got up from my sleep again I sat on my bed and I said devil no more this is a holy ground this is my bed this is my room you are not allowed and I revoked the axis and after I did that verbally with my mouth those spiders stopped and those attacks stopped could you share a little bit about the nightmares that you had when we first got married I know that you shared your testimony but could you mention a little bit about what they look like how you felt so that people maybe who are going through them you know to kind of just give them some encouragement oh well yeah I mean nightmare is pretty much nightmare I would experience a sleep paralysis I would see nightmares of me falling into this huge huge dark hole that had no bottom and I would just fly down and down and down without stop and that would terrorize me I would wake up in terror I would scream at night I would experience like I said paralysis and I even sometimes when you are experiencing sleep paralysis you are already half awake and you still can't move that's a pure sign that is like real demonic intrusion and so I would be half asleep half awake even with my eyes open and I still could not move I would be paralyzed and then I couldn't I would not be able to even pronounce a prayer out loud or a word or Jesus I would have to battle in my mind and those are the things that happened to me when we just got married and then when you received your deliverance and when I received my deliverance things changed things changed so I'm not gonna say that I had never had a bad dream again but this is the difference that I saw those dreams had no effect on me and I was very strong inside now to to rebuke it and they had they pretty much lost the grip and effect on me and with time they completely stopped awesome praise god a few things I want to share about nightmares or demonic attacks in the dream is that you have to understand an attack does not mean possession it does not even mean oppression the same way is that if you get a dream uh from god it does not mean salvation like if god visits you in the dream it does not mean that that's it wow you're saved um and so it and if you get attacked by a dream in or demonic attack it does not mean you gotta you you um you have a demon but a reoccurring tormenting dreams could be a sign that you have a demon I personally don't believe that you can get a demon through dream I don't believe that you can get a demon through a dream I do believe that you get demons through um generational you get demons through getting involved in the cold and then you can also get demons through um you know somebody abuses you but not through a dream because that really makes all of us very vulnerable to a demonic attack if every person can get a demon through a dream the same way I don't believe that you you know can get saved through a dream you have to you have to repent of your sin you have to do that in a conscious way now another part is that when you go to sleep you have to understand is that make sure that you go to sleep in uh if you've been having demonic attacks you know take 20 30 minutes before you go to sleep saturate yourself with god's word and with prayer pray over your house pray over your bed pray over uh and don't your house with oil a lot of times there are demons connected to people's houses or people's territory that causes people to have these nightmares and then the moment you sanctify that place and dedicate it to the lord you no longer experience those demonic torments um another one that I would encourage is that if you wake up and um uproot everything by repentance if sin during the day created the dream during the night so for example if you were involved in certain sinful thoughts attitudes behaviors and that resulted in a dream that was demonic in nature whether it was sexual dream whether it was scary dream and when you wake up and you become more entrenched in that behavior and in that pattern what you want to do is you want to repent for the sin that caused you know you to experience that dream in the first place if you've never had anything that you feel like is connecting to that demonic dream then then repentance probably is not your approach but renouncing and resisting and just coming against it and just dealing it like like cutting it off and just removing saying no and uprooting it and stuff so from your heart and from your mind so you can continue to live for the glory of god now how to understand your dreams how to understand your dreams are you guys receiving this is this helping anybody I see we already broke a thousand a hundred on youtube come on somebody we want to thank you hey guys if you're just watching on youtube or you are rewatching would you help me just take a moment just hit thumbs up hit thumbs up on youtube and just share it on your timeline if you have a youtube channel but we have 55 people that like the video but a thousand of you that are watching five five hundred i'm sorry five hundred of you so could we get it to like a thousand right now so those of you that are watching on youtube could you just help me give me a thumbs up on youtube right now what before we go on i want to ask your question have you ever had a demonic terrorizing dream oh yeah you did oh yeah okay yeah but i i never with me you never know i never knew i mean i never i did i did i i feel like i had i had demonic dreams i had before dreams that were demonic in a sense that i knew that there were sexual dreams or that there were sexual temptation dreams what about like terror and fear no not not like i had one dream i remember vividly where there was a a basement that i was in and and there was a hole by the baseboard and a snake came in and like slithered in and and i woke up and i knew there was something that the lord dealt with my heart the day before that i should not allow to tolerate in my life and um and i knew that instantly and so and that dream never repeated but i never had like repeated dreams that sounds more like a warning yeah that was more like a warning and so but like to have a demonic attack in the dream i maybe i did but i just don't remember i'm i am a less um i give i guess less emphasis to that in my life and it could be a good and a bad thing that's why i have my wife with me also sharing but i do want to share from the scripture because i do believe that god wants to speak to me through his word he wants to speak me through the holy spirit and i just i don't see huge emphasis on the dreams that i see today in pentecostal and charismatic circles i don't see that in the scriptures as big of an emphasis as we have made it though i am a fervent believer and i've seen this in my life i've seen this in other people's lives that god communicates through dreams but for people who don't have their bible open and who don't live in the word of god who don't live in prayer and who just like literally hey i just want to sleep my way into revelation i'd really want to encourage you to change that approach and so um i also think that maybe some people are more prone to to dream and that's you kind of have that and then there's approach some people will argue with me and say no vlad you're just simply because of your understanding that's why you're not getting as many dreams and um and i'm completely fine i'm not actually uh very like you know i don't go to sleep and saying lord every night give me a dream i go to sleep and i say lord give me a rest i'm like lord give me a rest but because i'm gonna be spending time in prayer and i'm gonna be spending time in intercession in the morning and everything and he's gonna speak and stuff so but that's that's mine um that's my thing i see that it's lagging and it's freezing guys it's gonna it's gonna work itself out just refresh it or lower the quality but let's go in right now to um this is all of you guys are liking the video thank you for liking the video we went for 500 to 800 818 so if you're still on youtube and you did not hit like click like to the video and if you're just rewatching and if it's going good on you let me know if it's going good on your end um thank you um everyone and uh let's just share right now on how to understand your dreams so would you like me to share my um so so first of all what i want to share before we share the categories of dreams what i want to share first and foremost is there are three types of dreams that you must understand there's three types of dreams um the the first type of dream is the message dream for which one you don't need interpretation okay it's a very clear message uh message dream and the message dream comes in like this you know god comes to joseph and says take mary as your wife right there's no um analogy there there is no allegory there it's very clear god speaks directly you don't need interpretation for that number two is that there's very simple symbolic dreams dreams that are symbolic but they're very clear to you for example stars and then heaves bowing down to joseph nobody gave interpretation to joseph on what those dreams meant why because those dreams simply made sense then there's the complicated symbolic dreams and these are the ones that you need help you need some prayer and that's what we're gonna talk about today more the more complicated symbolic dreams that you don't understand they don't clearly make sense right away but most of the dreams i believe that will make sense right away uh they will be clear you wake up you already know what the lord is saying um even with symbolism these symbols will relate to you in the way that you understand or it will be clearly the lord speaking to you in the dream now give us some of the categories of dreams and then let us know what you're reading as well so it's gonna be a lot of categories but i'm gonna go through it well not too many show people the book as well so yeah i'm gonna show you the book so i'm reading the 20 categories of dreams this book by john paul jackson based no no it's actually written by michael wise so this is how it looks like but anyways it's not a big book it's very balanced i would say i would recommend to read it but i'm just gonna tell you right now the some of the categories of dreams that are out there so dreams to reach your destiny they are prophetic and revelation dreams calling dreams courage dreams direction dreams dreams invention dreams and word of knowledge dreams so dreams so the first one is what dreams to reach your destiny for god god is helping you to reach your destiny okay now number two is dreams to change your path that is correction dreams warning dreams and self-conditioned dreams number three dreams for healing and transformation and this is what i've actually experienced it's the dreams about healing deliverance that you know you're experiencing that in your dream number four dreams from the enemy it's dark dreams it's false dreams and it's fear dreams okay number five number five dreams we cause to be dream pretty much soul from from our soul we cause those dreams to okay and they're just soul dreams that come from our desires from our mind number six dreams to train you in spiritual obedience that is spiritual warfare and intercession dreams okay number seven dreams caused by changes in our body that's true like medicine or stuff it's chemical and body dreams um number eight your soul and the dreams you have okay well pretty much similar to the solid i like that so yeah so we kind of pretty much we went down to the there's three types of dreams there is the message dreams they're clear then there's the simple symbol dreams and then there's the more complicated symbols and then lana kind of broke down the some of the the categories and then let's go over to number two number two and i believe this is probably the most important thing about uh interpretation of dreams and that is the same god who gave you the dream will also give you the interpretation of the dream both joseph and daniel are like the two dreamers in the bible joseph was like translating a lot of dreams and then joseph was actually getting a lot of dreams and then um daniel was also translating dreams and getting a lot of dreams and both of these guys when they stood in front of the king this is what they said it is god who gives interpretation and so um it's interesting that in the history of other nations around israel there are books that were written about dream interpretation israel doesn't have books on dream interpretation now i am not against books and dreams interpretation i'm also not against about books to help you understand dreams but what i think what's happening a lot of people today is they do not develop intimacy with god they want a cookie cutter without the process where the lord who gave you the dream to give you the interpretation of that dream because it could be the same dream that was given to somebody else but to you it could mean something else and so you need to develop relationship with the god that's giving you the dream and ask him to give you the interpretation he gave you the dream not to confuse you and you must say well he gave to nebuchadnezzar but he expected daniel to translate it he gave to ferro he expected joseph to translate those guys were hidden nebuchadnezzar was a hidden ferro saw himself as the raw the god of the sun he saw himself as a hidden and stuff so i mean he was a hidden he didn't see himself he saw himself as a god yeah so you're not like that you're not a hidden and you're not walking around saying that you're a god so the holy spirit lives inside of you god can give interpretation of dream come on somebody but i also just want to point out and if you don't have the interpretation please don't sweat over it just move on and don't be stuck in the dream just move on and we're gonna do that number three number three write down your dreams and your initial interpretation what they say is pretty much when you wake up from a dream and the meaning that you think it is usually is the one yeah the initial meaning the initial meaning yeah so the initial meaning of the dream and it's good to write it down write down the details the colors the the numbers write down the objects write down the people that were there write down things that happen and write down what you felt what is the feeling that was accompanied uh with that write that down and then the bible says to write the vision and make it plain and so this could also be applied to write the dream and make it plain and so yeah number four pay attention to symbols numbers colors and objects and ask god what they would mean in james chapter one you know it talks about if if you guys lack wisdom ask god for wisdom and so as we write down the dreams we have to just kind of pay attention to some of the details and then we ask the lord what does this mean now sometimes most of the things it's pretty obvious when it's a python it's probably not the holy ghost if it's a dove it's probably not a demon you know so like if you are pregnant probably it's looking like you're gonna give birth to something you know so like there's some very basic um analogies or symbols that are in the scriptures that you can see that could give you meaning to that particular dream now there are books there are websites that have a list and honestly a lot of them are uh they contradict some of them are very similar most people actually copy from other people and stuff and so and some of them look very similar to even people who are new age and new age and in witchcraft and stuff and so the world of witchcraft goes into detail and new age into detail about you know angel guides and then begin to connect with your angel love attraction universe dreams and you know spirits and all of this stuff and so we're not into that we want to make things very simple for us is that bible the bible has a lot of symbols that are kind of a basic already a point of reference for us but the bible never produced a book on dream interpretation and um and therefore because we have the holy spirit he gives us insight and most of the dreams are very clear and their symbols are very clear if you are going to simply write it down ask the lord pay attention to the symbols the numbers the colors and the um and the objects and just ask god what does this mean number five number five allow the holy spirit to assign meaning to those symbols and parables in your dreams and i think that's actually very important because many times we see a dream and we won't we think that's what it is but many times it is symbolic even though you know it's it's not very complicated usually but it's symbolic if you're pregnant in your dream it doesn't necessarily mean that you're pregnant and you're gonna give birth sometimes it might be but most of the times it it's it's a symbolic and allow the holy spirit to interpret that for you those symbols for you don't don't slap the what you think right away on it yeah and before you go to the book before you go to other brothers and sisters before you post that online hey go to the holy spirit yeah go to prayer like so many of us we become so dependent on everyone else and very little dependent on the holy spirit and stuff it's time to mature you know you're not a baby that needs a milk unless you're a baby you can get your own milk and that means that you study the word you you search in the word what is the word you know dove or horse you know what is it referenced to and so but usually your first feeling and impression about the dream is from the Lord and please understand not every dream has a me it has to have a meaning or I believe every dream has a meaning but not every dream is from God some of those there from God you will know clearly you know like this from God it's something it's just like well just a dream you know or or you can write it down and the Lord will add meaning to it later number six if you can't figure out interpretation ask someone and if the people that you asked don't know move on yeah wow thank you everybody everybody we got back to the to the live stream a hundred a thousand a hundred people guys thank you so much for hitting thumbs up let's before we end the live stream today let's break a thousand on thumbs up so if you're watching or rewatching we're taking a short little pause short little break and letting you know let us know if you're still watching with us and then hit thumbs up let's break a thousand yes we just did broke a thousand come on somebody amen amen let's we have just a few more yeah number seven pray about what what it is what is this dream trying to say to you to and what what is it what does God wanting you to do yeah you know God is not giving you dreams like cookies okay honestly I personally when I look in the Bible and today I honestly spend pretty much half of this day reading through the Bible reading through this verses studying also from theological perspective not just the people who write about dreams teach about dreams but also the guys who are dead who talked about this the church fathers and others you know like and looking through and I'm noticing one thing is that the over emphasis on dreams I don't see that in the church history and I don't see that in the scripture as the emphasis that was placed like there are people who literally every single day they have a dream from God and so and I think that every single day they have a dream but not every single day is a dream that it's that it's clearly the Lord speaking I do believe that God gives us daily manna but there's nowhere in the Bible you will see that daily manna is a dream daily manna is his word yes so God wants you to live in the world not in your bed God wants you to sleep for rest he will speak to you when he chooses to but when he doesn't you live in God's word and when he does speak I do believe that God will use those dreams to begin to bring some kind of a direction and some kind of a thing that you need to do I don't know if it's just simply me that I'm a more of an action guy let's go get it done with and stuff and so but this kind of like stuff that you know like Jesus just came and just you know hug me in the dream and stuff so well that that's good that's really good that he hugged you the question is that somebody needs it yeah somebody needs it but what's next like what's what's going to be happening what are you going to be doing about it and stuff so what is he asking you to do through this dream because if every dream you've been receiving for the last one year is the Lord hugging you and stuff so well it's it's time to go and do something with that Joseph for Joseph was get up and move come back for Joseph in the New Testament we see that of course for a wife's wife of pilot you know it was simply a description of what was taking place if you see that for Daniel it was the clear picture of the future so there were there were prophetic things now you mentioned something before we went live about people who get dreams about the nations who are not in a position to influence nations could you give an insight about that absolutely it's actually also from the book that I've read very interesting point is that he said well and some people asked already about what is this book could you could you show the book again it looks like that you guys let's see my okay take a picture yeah it's John Paul yeah John Paul John Paul Jackson he said something very interesting that stood out to me is that sometimes when God God can speak in a dream to someone to give a direction for a country or for the president's like you know for the for the for the huge picture for a for a big shot but most of the times he will not give it to just common people because you don't know the president for example and he would give it to the dream for the person who can influence that person okay and if it happens so that you receive some kind of a dream of a warning for a country or something most likely it's for you gotta show in it to you so you can intercede and pray for your country and not share with anyone this is that this is very interesting because a lot of I see that a lot when people all kinds of people and prophets they receive this huge word from God for a country and they blow a trumpet all over the social media all over the place but honestly they're not necessarily in a position to have an influence to even like share that dream that it's for them to pray for the country or well it helps to grow their social media platform yeah but that's kind of yeah I feel like a lot of people today use that to a lot of people use that today to begin to more of like it's a technique it's a clickbait for a lot of their popularity look I prophesied and it came to pass but there are people truly that have worked from God that that dream dreams that God speaks to them in the dreams very clearly I know some and they're very like you know honestly they're not seeking after it they're not eager and then God just literally just downloads it they wake up in the morning and they're like in dread because they there's some some of them I know like they're afraid to go to sleep because God speaks and God brings the very vivid very clear and their life is backed up by proof that these dreams come true but the most importantly is that they their love for the Lord their love for God's word and their love for local church is what makes these people honestly people that we should listen to and people learn from instead of but overall just pretty much to summarize everything is that the Lord speaks through dreams we have to be careful that we live walk in discernment concerning dreams if you become obsessed with them you can lose your discernment and end up in some pretty shady waters called deception the Lord can also be obsessed with the word of God the Bible be obsessed with the Bible yeah and then God can minister to you in the dream he can bring healing he could bring deliverance you can also get demonically attacked you can't get a demon in the dream but you can know that you got a demon by the things that are happening in your dreams and we also mentioned that there are certain places where people tend to dream more versus others and sometimes you can dedicate your place more to the Lord we also mentioned that there's three types of dreams where there's message dreams then there are dreams that are there are symbol symbol dreams but they're very clear to understand for you they make sense and then there's more complicated ones the ones that you need some time you need to pray about it write it down maybe do a little research and even involve the help of people like Daniel and Joseph in your life or sometimes there are books that can help you to to exploit to have those dreams and that's kind of about that that we mentioned and a lot of Muslims come to Jesus Christ because of dreams dreams and so we met few of them and it's really amazing and so the same God that gives you a dream is faithful and good to give you the interpretation so guys I wanted to ask you today if this was a blessing to you drop number one in the chat if this was an encouragement to you brought some clarity to you drop number one in the chat we want to pray tonight for people that are going through attacks and warfare right now in your dreams we want to minister to you that God will begin to bring healing God will begin to bring restoration in this area of your life we do spend one probably third of our life sleeping so to say that this area is not important it's it is I want to also pray for people who struggle with sleep people who struggle with falling asleep people who struggle with sleep apnea people who struggle with sleep paralysis maybe you have children who can't sleep and they have to take meds to fall asleep and so or maybe you are struggling with that where you have an issue with your sleep it could be caused by demons it could be caused by chemicals it could be caused by many things the Lord knows but first and foremost I want us to right now pray for people forgot to speak to people through dreams and then I'm going to pray for people who need healing in the area of sleep let's start with you start Lord Jesus we just ask you for every single person that is watching us or rewatching later God I ask you that you will begin to open up their soul their mind and speak to them through dreams God direct them through the dreams Lord I pray that you will give them prophetic dreams the dreams that boost their faith God to take the step that they need to take the dreams that will take them closer to you Jesus precious Holy Spirit I ask you for those people that desire to hear from you give them reveal yourself to them and speak to them through the dreams in Jesus name I pray Lord we come against any generational curse we come against any demon right now any spirit witchcraft we come against every spirit of loneliness I come against right now every spirit of spells that it's been cast on people that affect their sleep in Jesus mighty name I rebuke every demon that is attacking your night season in the name of Jesus incubus succubus every night terror every night paralysis every phobia in Jesus name the spirit of fear the spirit of death every spirit of immorality in Jesus name I command you to go spirit of depression spirit of anxiety I command you to go in Jesus name reoccurring night paralysis reoccurring terrors at night reoccurring night apes in Jesus mighty name where something comes on you and just and just takes physical advantage of you be free right now in Jesus mighty name be free in Jesus mighty name be delivered right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ I break that curse right now I break that demon right now off of your life in Jesus mighty name Holy Ghost fire in Jesus name and every plan of the enemy Holy Ghost fire in Jesus mighty name and every demon that has been assigned to torment you at night Holy Ghost fire in Jesus mighty name in Jesus mighty name those demons that are causing sickness those demons that are causing disease in Jesus mighty name Lord I speak healing right now to those people that are struggling with sleep if you are battling with sleep you have sleep apnea sleep paralysis or you have some kind of a sleep issue place your hand upon your head right now in Jesus mighty name Lord I bring I speak healing right now to that area I speak healing to their night seasons I speak healing to their sleep seasons in Jesus mighty name Lord restore their sleep Lord let their night season be a time of rest not a time of stress let their night season be a time of peace not a time of pressure in Jesus name I break every grip of the lila that seeks to cut their anointing and their vision as they're sleeping in Jesus name I stop every work of the enemy that seeks to sow tears as they are resting in Jesus mighty name I pray for people who have sleep issue problems people who have insomnia I rebuke that in Jesus name I pray that you will the word that says God that to your beloved you give sleep I pray that you will give them sleep in Jesus name in the name of Jesus receive healing right now receive the healing of God right now receive the touch of God right now be delivered in Jesus mighty name right now may that incubus sacubus never come back again may you be free and free indeed in Jesus mighty name amen guys thank you for watching and if this was a blessing to you I want to encourage you right now we will 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