Dream Lab - June 2017

well welcome everyone to our June dream lab glad to see you out glad you got to make it Michael and I just flew in today we've been in Minnesota for about eight days and we had a conference up there and we're ministering to some of our patria family and doing a dream lab up there we had about 50 people in a dream lab last night really exciting stuff so we love teaching on dreams and so I'm glad you're here I don't know how you heard about us maybe you heard about us from WD JC we're Michael's been on the radio and interpreting dreams or maybe you heard about us there Kingsway we attend church here we pastored here at this church for about 17 years and so about three years ago the Lord moved us out and we oversee about a hundred churches and different ministries all over the world really so but we're glad to be here tonight and this is our what we call home so we're grateful to Kingsway for allowing us to still meet here if you don't have a church home we invite you to join us there's some information on the back table if you want to know more about that my name is ELISA French I'm married to Michael we've been married almost 29 years this year so I'm gonna tell you about yeah that's something to celebrate today isn't it I'm gonna tell you a little bit about what what Michael has written lately his latest book and you may have heard about it his dream stories it's available out in the bookstore area in the cafe when we're finished tonight if you if that's something you're interested in we can talk about that but it's he felt like the Lord told him to write a book about how dreams have impacted people's lives as Christians and even people who haven't didn't know the Lord and maybe are led to the Lord through a dream sometimes but he felt like the Lord told him to write it out as a story it's got some really cool features it has a QR code reader so it's kind of interactive so not on every dream but on some dreams in the book there's a QR code and you can if you have a smartphone and you have an app on that phone you can get a QR code eater and so you can hold it over the QR code scanner scan it and it will actually let you hear that particular dreamers dream and they're telling the dream in their own voice so it's pretty cool you kind of get a little bit more feeling and understanding of half of the emotion of the dream so it's really interesting but it just tells a little bit of teaching along with that and how he came about the conclusion that he did and how the dream was interpreted and then he's also in the book last October he released fresh bread it's really a new I mean it's not new to God but new revelation to us that the Lord's Prayer is not something that's just a recited prayer that you say before a football game or a basketball game it has true meaning and it has life-giving meaning and it's not a bad thing that we we say that say it like we do sometimes and not even realizing the power it holds and then finally a book that he wrote with his father called the remedy just about freedom deliverance and just being set free from demonic strongholds in her life and then he's written another one that he's currently out of called the Elijah way which is about parenting fathering and mothering in the kingdom not parenting in the natural but parenting in the kingdom of God and it's beautiful it's really about current discipleship and how if we're not mothering and fathering people we're not doing what God's called us to do in the kingdom it's very important we will be teaching on color and light tonight and what colors can mean in dreams and what light can mean in a dream and so I think you'll be excited to hear and surprised to learn some of the meanings of colors and why they mean certain things we will be taking up an offering tonight so I just want to let you know that ahead of time we are we that's how we operate is just through offering so we encourage people don't take out of your tithe that you normally give to the church that's important it stays in the storehouse so be something over and above that if you felt led to give and to sow into the Ministry of what we have to do also we have if you're interested in going deeper dream labs are great because you kind of get to exercise and just the repetitive nests of practicing dreams over and over again helps you you know you get better and better at it as you hear it more and more and it took me years to learn how to interpret a dream so sometimes it doesn't just click but we have an intensive it's called understanding dreams and visions and it's in July it'll be July 27th 28th and 29th there is a cost involved but Michael they get a workbook with that and you'll get a workbook with us there's a cost involved but um we'll be glad to talk to you about that afterwards and you can register tonight there's a sign-up sheet in the cafe if you're interested you can just put your name down there and we can talk to you more about that so I'm going to ask Michael to come on up and I asked him to share on dreams and we're just gonna pray so father thank you for tonight thank you for everyone who came tonight Lord just to hear from you Lord and I just pray for Michael as a vessel that he would speak what you have him to speak tonight Lord we asked for revelation understanding and Lord just that your love will be poured out tonight and we thank you for it in Jesus name alright well I'm excited we have had a challenging challenging time this week we have been like she said in Minnesota so last night we were in Burnsville Minnesota doing a dream lab and had a great great time there but we just got up at 6:30 this morning and flew back to Alabama so I am didn't get here till a little while ago to get ready for things so it's just just been a hectic busy day so it's exciting to see what God has in store I'm gonna get a couple of things turned down here so I can kind of know what's going on with everybody else and we're going to just talk a little bit tonight then about color color and dreams and if you come to these often who's here for the first time tonight because I've been out I don't know if you asked that already okay great we always have a big group of first time folks and then and then that that intermediate mix of people who come back when they can so if you come back on a regular basis then you'll know Cathy I think has been here almost everyone if not everyone that we've done so she probably knows this will occasionally go back over things we've already done before why because we get lots of new people every time we do this so we've done some things on color before but I want to talk about it a little more tonight and talk about it in a little more depth tonight so if you want to go back and look at previous lessons where we take 15 to 20 30 minutes at the beginning of the class to to talk about interpretation then you can go to our YouTube channel or to my Facebook page of the author page Michael B French and you can find the archived videos there that have the old lessons so that's a great way to pick back up on a topic maybe we we didn't cover when you were here the other thing that I want you to be aware of is that and I don't think I told Lisa to say this did she talk about the my dream stories calm website and the blog okay good then the other thing I want you to be aware of is we have a new website called my dream stories calm and it's just just like it sounds it's the name of the book except for the fact that for some strange reason dream stories calm was not available and anything you add my in front of seems to work so I thought that'd fit my dream stories calm that website has several things on it that you might be interested in number one we do a monthly blog entry for teaching of some kind just four or five six paragraphs a page it's not a long read it's a fairly short read on different topics related to dream interpretation then each week we post one symbol on the blog and explain different things that symbol could mean now one of the lessons we are doing I think this month or next month on symbols is you can't create a dream dictionary out of those symbols we post their resources or starting points for listening to the Holy Spirit and I want but I want you to have them available to you to use so I think all this month we've been posting each week different colors and things that relate to color and so that's why we're going to take that topic up tonight to teach so that's a great resource it goes up the first day of the month the new teaching goes up and then every Monday the new symbol pops up you can find them on the front page or on the blog page itself the other thing you might find interesting on that website in addition to the QR codes with the videos from the book that Lisa talked about you can also find them direct if you don't have the book you can find all those videos with people sharing their testimonies directly on that website and the last thing that you might find interesting other than our itinerary and just information about how to order books and things like that is our forum we've got an interactive forum on the website you can log on there and log in there three forum categories one is a symbols category that's a place if you just want to suggest a symbol that you'd like to see as a symbol of the week or if you want to ask about a symbol specifically that you've just is bugging you you can't figure it out in your dream but you don't need a dream interpreted that's category is for that and for symbols that just show up repetitively in your life or something through your the Lord just drew your attention to a particular picture or a particular image or a particular particular object in waking life it might be speaking to you and you just wonder what might that mean so there's a place to ask those questions there's a category to ask general dream questions just things you might think of after you've left a dream lab or that we didn't get a chance to answer in the dream lab setting both of those categories will draw off of for future lessons when we've answered questions for you then it'll go public later if needed to make to give a lesson for folks then the third category in the forum on my dream stories comm is a dream interpretation category and that's the place if you have a dream outside of dream lab where you need some help inter you can post it there now we've had we've given great Liberty that the website opened on May 1st and through the end of June we have given great Liberty to post as many dreams as you want to as often as you want to things like that that will probably last another 30 days or so and then we'll restrict the number of dreams you can post per month just to keep us sane and secondarily to get you working on your own dreams you don't need to just have somebody interpret dreams for you forever you need to work on understanding them for yourself it's one of the reasons I love doing these labs we can interpret dreams for you but we're also teaching and helping you understand how it works so that will come up that'll that'll cut back a little bit and then I think probably around the end of July we have a panel of moderators who go go live and they'll be helping to interpret dreams and you won't be getting interpretations from me on the website in the future except for when I just happen to pop on I'll still answer the questions but won't be doing the dreams on the website and again that's just to keep my sanity I think in the first 60 days the website for me it's great I just amazing I think we've had about 2,000 hits on the website in the first 60 days and about 40 dreams posted for interpretation well that's me doing a dream of day if I get to it that quick and so we already know we'll have to cut back a little bit with the way we do it but we want it to be a resource and a help for you so those things are available to you there at my dream stories com so let's talk about color and jump right into that color and dreams is a valuable component of understanding your dreams and it's one of those places where our understanding of the symbols or the colors themselves will be relatively consistent in other words there's not massive deviation between what blue beans and my dream and what it means in your dream in our culture but it does change when we move into other cultures for example we talk about the idea that the color red relates to the idea of wisdom that comes from the book of Proverbs in which there is a passage that says the your wisdom is as rubies are more valuable than rubies and of course rubies are red however we are translating our blog every month now into Russian Chinese and Spanish and we went to translate an entry on the color red we found out the Russian Bible says your wisdom is as pearls and so it doesn't work it's not the same there although there's a second scripture in Proverbs that speaks to the color of red relating to wisdom that was translated into Russian as rubies and that did work so we just changed our scripture reference but what we found out was that different cultures will have different metaphors for even when it comes to colors and so in our culture red is going to be fairly consistently related on a scriptural basis to wisdom at other times it's going to be more of a colloquial or a cultural meaning and it might have a positive or a negative meaning so you might end up with red being connected to for example anger we get red in the face when we're angry that's a colloquialism or a stop sign is red so it may mean stop if that's a cultural meaning but when we see colors they tend to be more consistent in their meaning than almost any other symbol part of that is because colors will help you understand whether a symbol a picture an image an animal and objects whatever it is having a particular color that stands out in your drain that color will help you wrap your mind around what that symbol may relate to so by the colors being more consistent God kind of just gives us a bonus something that helps us out he still wants us to trust Holy Spirit but it is helpful right so that's how colors were can dreams the second thing I'll just say real quick it's sort of a recap of things we've said in the past is that when we look at color color and your dreams is going to help you determine whether or not that dream is from God or from your own soul or from the enemy how do we know that because God is a creator and he is the only creator our enemy our adversary the devil is a counterfeiter a thief and a Corrupter so he never creates anything fresh and new but God creates things he creates colored we'll get a little deeper into that's where we're going tonight and if he creates it the enemy can only counterfeit it then when God gives a dream you're gonna have bright vivid color in your dream and when the enemy gives a dream you're gonna have more dull or darker colors or even black and white dreams now that would be almost an absolute but for the fact that we don't always remember our dreams correctly so we don't know whether it was fully in color or muted color or bright color so we've talked about all those things in the past but let's think about how we know that God is interested in color why would he even add color into our dreams number one we all know that God is love right that's a fairly common scriptural reference reference that we feel pretty comfortable with but first John 1:5 says something that is very significant about something else God is this is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all now that's pretty amazing and he's always been light and if you think about it and go back to the book of Genesis he created the earth and all the things that are in it and there was light from about the first day of creation Genesis 1:3 says God says let there be light and there was light at the very beginning of creation light comes into existence not just in God but in his creation now why is that significant because he doesn't create the Sun the moon and the stars until Genesis 1:14 light is created in Genesis 1:3 and the light sources that we think of are not created till Genesis 1:14 several days later and what we recognize then God who is light release part of himself to create everything he created and science actually tells us today that everything created everything that exists is made up of light if you were taught principle if you were taught in school as I was that the smallest particles were protons neutrons and electrons we were all taught wrong because quantum physics has gone even smaller than that and we now know things are made up of quarks or some people even say mesons and gluons or even components of quarks and quarks the best description we can come up with for a quark is that it is light mesons and gluons in some circles are even identified as being colors and anti colors and that's why we know that God who is like created light and out of light created all things and he is a God of light so he's also a God of color and all the beauty of creation around us reminds us of that it helps us recognize it and know it that we don't just have one shade of green and the leaves on the trees we have hundreds of shades of green and we don't just have one color of flower we have hundreds of colors of flowers and so what we see is that God is a colorful God and very quickly we can walk through an understanding that God who is light created light and Sir Isaac Newton taught us something really cool when you take light and you pass it through a prism which just happens to have three sides Father Son and spirit one light source one God passing through three sided prism Father Son and spirit perdu says seven colors in a rainbow and it just so happens that God is described as being a God of seven spirits in the Book of Isaiah the seven spirits of God now we could go deeper and deeper with that to find out how much God loves color and the fact that around his throne is a rainbow and we see that when we say around his throne we're not just talking about an ark over the top of his throne like we might think today but there's light and color emanating from his throne creating that rainbow and just perchance did you ever realize how God dealt with Noah when the flood ended he put a mark in the sky at the rainbow and promised he would never flood the earth again he promised based on colors those colors produced from light that he would never flood the earth again but even more than that the Word of God tells us that God cannot swear by anything because there's nothing greater than him so that when he makes a covenant when he swears he swears by himself and he swore to know what he would never flood the earth again so in placing the rainbow in the sky he swore by himself and he affirmed he's not just a God of light but he is a God of color as well now we're not going to spend time on individual colors tonight but I want you to see just how amazing God is in his colorful nature and so I want to take you through just a little bit of a scriptural journey looking at color in Scripture in some places we don't know it's there why do we not know it's there because the English translation uses a word that doesn't convey to us the idea of color in English we see multiple scripture references that speak to things being manifold or multi okay but in Greek when they spoke to those very same scriptures that for example say in Ephesians 3:10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known we think of that and we say oh this multifaceted wisdom of God this this many different phases of his wisdom we think of it as just being plural in its nature but in reality in Greek the word that's translated manifold in Ephesians 3:10 and and you guys who've been here before know my Greek pronunciation is not that great so you just bear with me on it Polaroid kilos are POI kilos either one of them means literally translated manifold into correct translation but it literally means much variegated or marked with a great variety of colors now then think about Ephesians 3:10 and let's read it with a little more full understanding of the underlying Greek word that would otherwise be in our mind manifold so here it is so that through the church the multicolored wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places everything God does he's doing in color it's filled with colors why his white the seven spirits and the seven colors of the rainbow and the fact that he swore by himself indicates to us that every aspect every characteristic every little deep nuance in the nature of God that we identify carries a color with it the manifold multi-coloured wisdom of God how about Hebrews two for while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various in the English miracles but and by gifts but it could read and by bore witness by signs and wonders and multicolored miracles same Greek word first Peter 4:10 as each has received a gift use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied or multicolored grace of God how about Matthew 4 24 we then learned that there are dark colours that the enemy tries to duplicate or copy what God is doing he just doesn't do it very well Matthew 4 24 so his fangs spread throughout all Syria and they brought him all the sick and those afflicted with various or multicolored diseases and things James 1:2 count it all joy my brothers when you meet trials of various kinds or in other words when you meet multi-coloured trials Titus 3:3 and we ourselves were once foolish disobedient led astray slaves to various are multicolored passions and pleasures what we find out is God has always been working in color and our enemy has always been trying to counterfeit it to copy him it's just not complete not full not real and so when we dream is it any wonder that God would use color to emphasize things to point out things or to give us depth of understanding of the things he's saying to us or that the enemy would try to counterfeit that and not fully do a good job so color in our dreams is greatly significant and one of the first questions you'll hear me ask a lot of times I mean sometimes the Lord just takes me to something but a lot of times one of the first questions you'll hear me ask people after they share a dream is was there any color in it why because it tells me something about the nature of the dream and what we see and what we understand about that concept of color is it's not nests Cerie in order to hear god but it enhances our understanding very naturally because it's been a part all along everything God does and we just haven't always noticed it why wouldn't it be a part of our dream life right so when you have a dream a couple of things we'll mention before we before we move on to interpret if you when you have a dream there's color in it how might it work here's a couple of just little tidbits and Jacob some of you guys may have to turn that monitor on on the back wall because the clock is up there but the monitors not owned so there's no clock showing up I think so I can't I'm having to watch my watch and it's easier when it's up there because I want to get as many dreams as we can for you but I also want to give you some some foundations with teaching too so let's think about the color and how it interacts and dreams a couple of questions I get from time to time my dream was in color but it was just kind of normal colors it wasn't real vibrant you said God's color and dreams are real vibrant well let's define vibrant and let's define muted if you've never had a muted color dream you're gonna think every dream looks the same if you've never had a vibrantly colored dream you're gonna think every dream looks the same vibrant muted normal all is defined by us I can't see what you saw so what you tell me about a dream tells me the level of intensity of the color in it and then I have to be dependent upon Holy Spirit to give me understanding as to how it applies in that dream that's why we can't make color or no color a 100% accurate determinate determination of whether the dream was from God or not the next thing we get asked a lot is well I had this dream and it was clearly in black and white or very muted colors one of the two and the reason I know that is because right in the middle of the dream everything changed and there was these bright colors that game or a single object was illuminated with a bright color and you're seeing the commercials nowadays they'll do or the TV shows where they colorize just one thing in it people have dreams no comes what does that mean that means the enemy was doing something and God said oh no wait a minute I've got something to say about it that's what you're seeing in that type of a dream that the enemy came in and and was trying to bring attack or warfare but God stepped in and said no I'm changing that and the whole dream changed to color or that the enemy came in was trying to do something God said yeah I know what he's trying to do but one object one thing one item in that dream had color in it and brightness in it and the Lord has said yeah but you keep your eyes on this and you won't get distracted by what the enemy is doing so there's there's tremendous ways that God uses color to encourage us and to strengthen us in our dreams and you need to just learn to pay attention to watch if your watch over time how your dreams develop you'll begin to recognize the different intensities of color in your dream and in your own dream vocabulary you'll have a much quicker and much easier time determining whether that dream was from the Lord or whether that dream was from the enemy now since we've talked about color and it helping us decide whether dreams from God or from the enemy let me just say one thing here real quick dreams that come from the enemy should we be worried about them should we be scared of them no always understand every dream with a spirit-led interpretation is going to give you hope even nightmares night terrors if we get a spirit-led interpretation to that dream so that we now know what God wanted us to know from it not what the enemy was trying to say it is going to bring hope so never worry about the drainage from the enemy oh that's terrible the dream is from God oh that's great and get caught up in that concept and then you'll be focused on color for the wrong reasons you'll be focused on color to give you an answer about who's talking to you that's really for your discernment anyway but the color will help you determine how you respond to the drain and help you to be aware of how you're gonna listen some things that will help you understand what Holy Spirit may be saying about the dream so that you can then react correctly and not get in fear when it's from the enemy but be rejoicing when it's from the Lord because he's going to give you an answer that gives you some level of hope no matter what I have had I don't know how many dreams I've had over the years that people would say I had this horrible nightmare or this horrible dream and I you know I just I just want to go away well sometimes our nightmares go away when we understand what they mean you know sometimes sometimes we have to do other things to get rid of them sometimes it's good when we understand them because the enemy can't use the kids to anymore cuz then every time he gives you that nightmare you know what God was actually saying he ends up reminding you of something God wanted you to know he'll quit pretty quick if all he can ever do is remind you of what God saved he doesn't want to help God out he wants to hinder and so what happens it's a hindrance to us when we're in fear but if we gain the hope that the Spirit of God can give us it can propel us in to opportunity and insight and what the Spirit is saying to us and he won't keep that up right so with that said we're gonna go ahead and jump to some dreams from you guys tonight so we've got we'll have a good good bit of time to work on them and so some of you are new let me just outline what we do and how we look at this we're gonna take dreams tonight we're going to interpret them we didn't use a whiteboard a night I never got to it last month anyway but we didn't use a whiteboard tonight because I'm holding a mic and it's really hard to write on the whiteboard while you're holding a mic but you're gonna have better sound tonight than what we were able to get earlier because of that so we'll go for that one if you share a dream tonight be prepared that you know if I just say let's start that one don't ask quad just let it go and come ask me after the class I may occasionally do that just randomly so you don't know why but there are also times when I'll say let's not do that one because there's something about that dream that I perceive you may not want everybody in the room and on the internet to know about or to hear so there are going to be occasions when I may say let's pass on that one nothing wrong with it and it may not even be that there's something that is private it may just be I chose to say it in that moment so that nobody can ever figure out why I say it I do that good that's the way it is I don't say no to a dream very often in all the classes we've done over let's say the last two or three years I think a half a dozen times I've said no just because it was better to share that privately with somebody a second thing that you want to know tonight if you're going to share a dream tonight keep it as short as possible so in other words we don't want chapter drinks tonight if possible because we want to get to as many dreams as we can so we want to keep them relatively short if you're sharing a dream and it is long we will get finished but it will just hinder our ability to get 2 additional dreams so just on or the other folks around you with shorter dreams tonight the third thing is that if you choose to share a dream tonight then what you're saying when you begin to share that dream when you open your mouth and start sharing that dream what you're saying is I want to get an interpretation I know that's what you're saying but what you're telling me is also this and I am very comfortable with you breaking that dream apart and teaching things from that dream because I shared it publicly you can dissect it and let us help us learn something out of it is that fair enough all right with that said we're going to jump straight to a few dreams we are having internet connection difficulty tonight we the enemy is really out to keep us from interactive online work with some of our people from around the world so we're having some internet connectivity issues tonight and I don't want you to lose the broadcast so we're not going to try and do your dreams online will do all here tonight but we do have that working so we'll we'll get somebody to look at our internet and see what's going on now I've been out of town so I don't know I don't know what's going on so so who here president has a dream you came hoping to get interpreted tonight who's got one I got one right there we'll come around to several of them I'm sure so come on up we're gonna get you to come to the front so the cameras can pick you up for our folks who are online and what I'm gonna get you to do is just share your dream as you're sharing it to the folks out here who are sitting here and that way the folks who are online will get a connection as well so one other thing me tell you real quick don't give me any more any background information about the drain if possible just the just the dream sometimes I may ask a question or two but what we want you to start with is just a dream Medlen I was in the dream I was in a house it was an older big big home and I remember everything in the house was gray and I was in there alone thinking wait a minute this why am i leasing this it was pretty bright then I thought I would let them know that this is our house and then we might as well just let it go and if we sell it give it to all the people that are due some of it and the money would go and it would help all right cool now quick point technical point for you when you come up and take the microphone hold it with the point the end of the microphone pointing out to the people so that way you're talking right into the end of it so you're good I'm gonna repeat the dream anyway but that's just something for the rest of it will help get a little louder for folks so in your dream what you saw was you were in this house it was sort of a grayish house as that outside there was some kind of older just an old not really rundown okay not real bright needed repair kind of thing and you're leasing the house and in the midst of leasing it you begin to realize wait a minute why am i leasing this house because this is my father's mother's house and so I have some rights to this house and while you're pondering that are in that process somebody actually comes in and they're looking at the house and they see the bathroom and they're asking you why is that bathroom painted blue and your that's what the owner wanted to do that's just the way they just kind of answer to it and you begin to think well when this lease is up we should sell the house and then take the money that comes from the house and distribute it to the people who would do a share of the house does that get the whole thing alright good now if that dream were a movie or a book what would you title it hold that microphone now moving on moving on okay good let me stop there for just a second again sometimes I'll share lessons multiple times because I don't know who's been here before so let me let me point out something about this one why do we ask for the title when I asked for a title it's not that it has any deep deep spiritual significance itself necessarily but many times when a person is put in the spot to say here's what I would title it Holy Spirit draw something out of them that gives us a clue as to what that dream is about so what we're really looking for when we ask you for a title is you're welcome to be cute and fun and you know have think catchy things you remember if you journal them but when I'm really looking for is did Holy Spirit spark something that tells me a little bit about what you're already feeling that dreams about and this is a good example that your title actually fits what I was already seeing in the dream so it gives a confirmation to us of what the dreams about okay so in this dream you're dreaming about destiny and purpose basically the dream is about generational inheritance and generational issues in your father's long probably going back to your grandmother and it may even go back through her line further but they're issues both positive and negative that have weighed on you over the years and the Lord is saying to you that what has been sort of dull and and dingy so to speak it's time to move on and move out of it so those things that carried weight for you in a negative sense it's time to finish it out and get rid of it gaining the blessings that come from that same generational line and so that would pass not just to you but to others in your bloodline and others in your family who are due that spiritual inheritance now the interesting thing is that in that dream is that it also says that God wants to give you some revelation and you have to fight for that revelation God wants to give you some revelation on how you clean up and move past those things okay.what and what they are it really isn't even as much about what they are as to how you get rid of it how you move past it we sometimes this is not a principle of dream interpretation this is just a general spiritual principle we sometimes get way too worried about the Lord showing us what was wrong instead of just dealing with routes that cut off what was wrong and so part of this is just about the wisdom to overcome and that's where the Lord shows you here's a route that you cut out and you don't even really know what the weed that was growing up looked like but you cut the root off and now the weeds gonna die does that make sense so so that dream speaks of generational blessing and generational challenges through your father's line that it's time to move on move past and reap the spiritual reward of an inheritance you've been given with wisdom and revelatory direction from the Lord on how to clean that process up does that make any sense anything in that line that that you think of that not particular but but things in that line you think could be applicable here you want to tell me what they are so okay okay so just you want to look for things the Lord is showing you all right I'm gonna let you I'm gonna hold that for you and I'll let you go I'll hold it put it up here let you go and let's talk about that drain because a lot of times people say well you told me the drain and you tell me the interpretation how'd you get there and so what we want to look at is in this particular case some of the symbolism that's there and since we talked about color tonight why not on this stream we focus on that blue bathroom okay what does that tell us out of the interpretation of the dream because when I give you the interpretation sometimes you can say oh I see that that was right here and sometimes you're saying yeah but where did that come from because I don't see anything there that tells me that so the blue bathroom in this dream is the piece of the dream that tells us that the Lord is gonna have to give revelation he's gonna have to give insight into how to clean up and get past that generational issue why blue is a color that's often associated with revelation it also happens to be a color that's associated with depression and in this dream that color can also speak to some of the weight the owner of the house the Lord painted the room blue but it's not a full blue so the grandmother who owned the house may have had something to do with the blue that was chosen that was used there so in your case I think the blue speaks both positively and negatively there's probably some emotional issues in that generational line and some depression that has attacked the folks that you need to overcome but blue also says God can give the revelation to overcome it now why was it the bathroom that's painted blue you had a whole house why do we end up with the bathroom painted blue a bathroom in our dreams is a different you know we struggle with dreams I just hit this real quick as a great point here we struggle with dreams involving bathrooms nakedness and sexuality why because we just didn't comfortable talking about them it's not because there's anything wrong with them we just get uncomfortable talking about them and God's not uncomfortable with any of that stuff so it doesn't bother him so what are you doing the bathroom you go into a bathroom for one of two reasons usually you're either gonna take a bath or a shower which is washing and cleaning or you're going to eliminate something out of your body that didn't need to be there anymore you're getting rid of a toxin in your body of some kind so in this case what we see is the Lord is saying blue there's been some emotional issues I'm gonna give revelation on how you can get cleaned up or eliminate that toxin that stood against your family line and so the bathroom and its color combined give us some insight into what the Lord is saying about this particular drain the rest of the dream has pieces that help us understand a house is often a place that we live and therefore usually a place we live and therefore it will often have something to do with our life what's going on in our life but in this case you're leasing a house it's your not owning it though you should have owned it you should have had some ownership interest in it so that means there's something you're still paying for that your family has owned in the past but you need to let go of okay so when we see even your dream that says I felt like we should sell the house when my lease was up okay your time of hanging on your time of paying the price is almost over and so you move from the negative in that line to the money the favor we gain favored people who have more money have more favor not literally but practically in the way it looks it appears that way and that that is true in dreams in as a symbol we gain resources or money and it relates or equates to favor so what happens is if you break the lease holding on to something that's not that should be yours but that is not holding on to it the right way you're getting rid of the bad you sell the property now you've completely gotten rid of the things that come generationally as a curse and you get their money instead which is the favor to move into what your inheritance is what's due to you from God through that family line that make sense all right and sometimes when we talk about dreams like this other little I just watch them mad when I saw other the light bulbs flash you know in your eyes as we talk it through you hear the interpretation but then when we talk through some of the pieces other little things will flash with it that happens whether I'm talking about them or you're just pondering them my job is not to give you an interpretation that gives you all the answers my job is to help you see enough understanding from a dream the Holy Spirit can then enlighten you with what that dream speaks to you because remember a prophetic word is me here something from God and sharing it with you a dream is you hearing something from God and me helping you understand what you heard and that's huge because we all dream which means real clearly that we all hear from God and so many times we don't think we do but those dreams we may not understand everything he's saying but they help us to know we hear and that builds hope and confidence in us all right who else has got a dream all right I got one right back there go ahead come up come up and do yours next yeah I've been having a recurring dream of lying in the bed and mice biting my toes and I can't get them off Oh phones rings right all right let's let's ask a few questions because I can repeat that dream real simple you're having a dream with mice biting your toes you're laying in the bed and mice or biting your toes and you can't get them off okay all right lots of great symbols in that dream but let's ask a few questions and talk a little bit about it Before we jump into what is what would you title it first agitation agitation ok good title ii was there any color in the drain yes the sheets were white headboard was brown but I was not in my bedroom I was in and the mice were gray all right she white headboard brown the mice are gray now those are all could be considered kind of Dawlish colors but was it just normal colors brown gray white or did you feel it more weighty or darker or was there a feel to those colors in other words just normal okay not good now here why am I asking that question that way I want to get a feel of the perspective on this dream the interpretation of this dream really is gonna be the same thing what I hear wouldn't matter where that came from the enemy who came from the Lord but perspective on the dream as to why you had the dream helps us if we know where the dream came from okay so I actually think that dream is from the Lord which makes it a warning dream or a self condition during that's telling you something that's going on that you need to deal with or address or be careful that doesn't come to pass if it's a dream from the enemy we would approach it from a different perspective we would say okay that dream is a dream that says this is an attack I just need to be on my guard that the enemy can't succeed with it probably more of something that's already been an attack coming from the Lord to tell you deal with this the other thing that tells me that is this is a recurring dream has it been a dream you've had mole times a couple of times tell me that I've had it multiple times okay and over what period of time every so many months I'll have it and sometimes I don't realize that I've had it but my husband may tell me you were kicking in your sleep again that night and so that's something that like I'm trying to get them off and so I'm not aware until I wake up that I've been kicking in my sleep okay all right let's look at what the dream means and then come back because there's lots of great little things we can teach out that dream love that dreams good dream it's not a good dream you don't feel good about it but it's a good dream because if you get the hope of what God's saying about it you deal with it you don't dream it anymore okay so that dream is speaking to your personal relationship with the Lord you're walking intimacy with him and the fact that the enemy has been just throwing little harassing things at you trying to steal your peace and keep you from being in a place where that intimate time with him really brings a refreshing and life just keeping you stirred over constant little things gnawing at you and you probably have been experiencing that in life with just little stuff over and over again not big stuff I know you you deal with the big stuff anyway that if you know principle of interval you don't you don't you don't have to worry about her dealing with the big stuff because she's gonna deal with it it's the little stuff that the enemy's been harassing you with so the interpretation is that the enemy has been harassing you with just a knowing consistent attack to steal your peace and keep you from a real place of intimacy where you can rest and be refreshed now that doesn't sound great except the dream came from God so what he's saying to you or the dream was allowed by God as well I would put it in this case that's us it's the other way of approaching it would be more of a spiritual warfare dream and the Lord's letting this occur so you become aware of something and he wants you to deal with these little things the same way I know this is not revelation or dream interpretation it's just knowing you he wants you to deal with these little thing in the same way you would address the bigger issues and just handle them and put it into it that makes sense that fit for anything all right okay let's talk about it now I never want to make you just stand up here while we talk about it but then I start off and sort of do it don't know so let's talk about it now mm-hmm coloring this string since we're own color tonight coloring this dream pretty normal but still even if this dream is from God or is allowed by God the colors are not just full there was nothing standing out that gave a brightness to the dream so if the dreams from God and that makes it difficult for us to really know for sure and even without discernment we wouldn't know and even as we were talking I felt like it's more of a spiritual warfare dream but the Lord's wanting to call your attention to it so he's using it but he didn't give it if that makes sense so in this dream what we see is that the color doesn't help us as much because it's normal kind of colors you don't classify it vibrant you don't classify it dull but the type of colors that are there or just don't have as much life in them grays and browns Browns are muddled colors in a positive way they can speak to to compassion to pastoral and shepherding natures but in a negative way they can speak the humanism and and having to muddle through things because it's just a bunch of colors blended together you know when the kids bring home what they've done with watercolors and they blended them all together you just get a brown mass on the page yeah that's there was things are muddled together gray is is can be a great color for wisdom and for for maturity but it can also be a color in this case that speaks more to this idea of something that's dulled or something that's aging or something that's just doesn't carry all the life it could now white on the other hand is a color that it would be a great color if it wasn't just surrounded by the other elements of the drain so those sheets are white and they could speak to purity and holiness and life they probably speak more to things that are false and false senses of security or false religious things that are thrown out as the way to cover the situation okay and so so what the colors do here is once we have a feel for the dream the color can help us flesh it out and give us a little more insight into the dream but if you'll notice I don't get into all that interpreting the dream why because all we really want to do with the interpretation is give enough insight that the dreamer can see there it is and then let those things bubble out for the dreamer themselves so since we're teaching though we'll fill a few more spots here with what we can dig out of this and what you know one thing I love about this is that's a pretty short dream but it's packed with things we can learn okay how about mice mice are not pleasant creatures for most of us I look around this room and let's see there's three four or five men in here who probably deal with mice the rest you probably are on a chair somewhere as soon as the mice come in the room right okay so they're not they're creatures who just feed off of trash and garbage and decay they're found in places tearing away things of value we had some Christmas ornaments and stuff that we put in our garage a couple years ago and we didn't get the box sealed down good and I came out the next year to get everything out and these were ornaments that had a lot of value to me there were things my grandmother had made and stuff like that not opened the box up and there's only pieces of those ornaments left because the mice had just gnawed it away they they chew away at the things of value in our life so what that says to us is they're small creatures themselves and they just nah they just take little bites until suddenly it's overwhelming that this could be a big issue made up of lots of little issues and so then we have a biblical basis it's the little foxes that spoil the vine it's not the big stuff if a 12-foot horned demon walked in this room right now all of us might get a little nervous but we would know it was from the enemy and we'd start to deal with it immediately because it was so obvious but if somebody walked in and just subtly wanted to distract us and move us away from our topic what the Holy Spirit was doing we might go along with it for a little while and suddenly be way off track because we didn't see it as clearly and that's what the difference between mice and the big issues our other thing we find in this dream is and I don't know why don't I to just feel good about the the weight we talking about the symbols and working our lessons out of the symbols so sometimes we do that and sometimes we don't the bad a place of intimacy and of rest but you can't get that rest because of the distraction and the mics are constantly dealing with toes and our toes or our feet represent our feet should be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace so they represent a place we should walk or how we walk you have no balance when you don't have toes if you don't we buddy had to have their toes amputated it's difficult to keep their balance so this is about the idea that your piece is being distracted to get you out of balance and so the Lord is letting this dream come and come over and over again and we say jeez God come on please why now since I know you can take it I'm going to talk about something we probably don't want to hear and that is why is it dream over and over again if the dream happens twice particularly dreams from God you can take Joseph's statement that it is established as a good principle two times it's established but what happens when it occurs repetitively this is the place where that dream is saying to you you haven't really gotten what you need to do to deal with this yet so it just keeps coming and the Lord just keeps allowing it so that we would say oh I need to deal with it I have it and now handle it and it will probably continue to come in those kind of cases until we take a step that cuts it off so if we look at this as a warfare dream then what we find is you've missed some of your weapon tree to deal with the warfare and typically speaking when you begin to know what the dream is about and it means that's when God is saying I'm coming in with backup the big guns are coming out now because why you now get intercessory prayer cover because you know what it is and what you weren't able to notice and overcome individually now your prayer cover steps in and cuts off and all that little stuff so those repetitive dreams will always relate to that exact statement but will prepare you to recognize I haven't dealt with something I'm not just I'm not paying attention haven't gotten all I need to hear out of that situation I hope you didn't mind me saying that since yours was repetitive dream so I didn't think you would so so it's a good thing it's a good thing to know because when we recognize that then we know this is a bigger issue that I might have given it credit for and we'll begin to deal with it now what do we do in these cases how do we deal with this kind of a dream my mentor in dream interpretation and spiritual things one of my spiritual fathers was a guy named John Paul Jackson who does you know John Paul Jackson was most of you do I knew him thirty years and worked on boards with him and taught for him traveled with him and for him all over the world he was just really a spiritual father to me and I remember him sharing a dream in which he said he had this dream and he had this recurring dreams coming over and over again and his dream was wasps bees and wasps he says the house he would be in a house in the house would just get completely covered and surrounded and he couldn't come in or go out or do anything because of all these wasps he knew if he went out he would he would die because they would sting so much and and I won't go through the whole story but an angel came and showed him how to deal with in his dream and showed him how to deal with his wife's he'd had to dream like a hundred times and what I'll never forget it's his statement and the look on his face when he shares the last thing the angel told him he says the last thing that's what he said he says don't ever let this happen again so when we have those recurring dreams that speak to warfare what the Lord wants us to learn out of that is we do not have to put up with it recognize what the dream is saying then deal with the demonic assault that comes out of the dream itself so don't ever put up with that dream so let's address the dream and then you raise that warfare on your behalf in intercession and let's just pray and take authority over that dream that it not now that we know what it is we don't recur with it right so father in the name of Jesus we break the power of that warfare dream over principle of interval we say in the name of Jesus it's cut off and stop now will not continue in Lord will you raise up not only those that she calls upon but men and women even around the world who you put in their heart to pray to cover her and break off these little foxes or these little mice that would spoil the vine in Jesus name Amen amen all right good who else has got a drain I saw see now everybody's got a dream it takes a little while to get going but everybody's got one okay I'm gonna come this side and back over here and they were I saw three hands go up all at one time it's okay y'all are pointing over here so come on come on right there come on second row come on up here and tell me your name Sandra all right Sandra so what's your Dre hold it up right there close your mouth in a recent dream I dreamed that I found a bank in the middle kind of like a triangle hundreds of dazzling diamonds in the center so this was in a river on a bank of a river on a bank of a like an embankment okay alright so in your dream you were there was like an embankment of dirt not a river but an embankment and you found this triangle-shaped grouping of gemstones and there were hundreds of diamonds but okay lots of all around except ours and the blue the sapphires were in the center right okay great very good dream so tell me what you would title that drain Great Expectations have you noticed have you noticed how all three titles so far do you kind of already have a feel for where this dream is going okay all three titles have pretty much given you the heart of the dream so far tonight it's not always true but all three so far tonight have been really solid on that because that's a really cool dream that says the Lord is going to bring things to the surface in your life that had been held in the bank but are now present for you and it's full of Revelation and exciting beautiful things that the Lord is about to do and I suspect there's been some this is not so much interpretation it's just recognizing that held in the bank that's a play on words says that there's been some things that you've invested in the past and you haven't really seen the return on it yet and so God is really saying to you that what you've invested in is gonna bring its return not make any sense all right good and tell me your name again it was Sandra Sandra all right good now think about this we'll talk real quick about this one here color is significant again now the white or the crystal of a diamond has a vibrance because there's that sparkle to the diamond so it carries a little more Ewing the necessarily when you talk about colors like the diamond and the sapphire and the Blues of that you don't really have to say were those bright colors because you knew there were gemstones if they'd been really dull you probably would have described them different rocks or something but they were gemstones they had that vibrance to them and that tells us something about the feel no matter what they really look like to you and your memory of that drain but what I love about this dream is to play on words so we'll move from colors here to the play on words the play on words and I thought at first you were saying it was at a riverbank but the fact that it was not a river it was just an embankment and they were in the side of that embankment says to me that these things of value have been in the bank and when we think of that word we can use it like in the side of that dirt embankment or held in the bank like a safety deposit box without immediate access to it but now it's on the surface which means the Lord is bringing it out or what's been hidden is being revealed or what's been invested is about the Barretts return or in your case you better have some great expectations because there's some good things coming right so so I love God's plays on words they often helped me to understand dreams and I don't know why but sometimes I just I just see him like that and I love it I love the fact he has humor and he has and he just he's just fun you know you know and I could we could go through we maybe will do this one one night but we could go through dozens you know like a porpoise meaning a purpose or a deer being something that's precious not the animal there's so many different things that you can use and in case you didn't know word plays and puns are found all through the scripture too but just like our word tonight manifold are various as a translation of poi kilos the original language has the word player the pun that the English translation doesn't and so we miss them and we forget how much fun God is I'll just leave you pondering that one and maybe maybe next month or or in August we'll talk about some of these word plays and puns and I'll show you some of them from Scripture over here I had one here so and then we'll come back to this side okay mines actually a combination of three dreams it's the same symbolism okay all at one time or over a period of time over a period that's thank you the first one was there was two snakes on the path I move them out of my way but then a Cobra stopped me I mean he froze me I bet I could tell you what the other two dreams are I have great revelation tonight because I read Facebook that's very quick she posted him I saw him in fact so as soon as she started I thought oh I saw those dreams okay go ahead I'm sorry um the second one was there was a another Cobra but he was small like a worm but I knew it was a Cobra and when I reached to pick up something beside it I knew I had to back away and he attack my knee the third one was a Cobra and he got in my bedroom in my bed and I threw my blanket over him I didn't put all this on Facebook and I ran past him and got outside and there's somebody showing a light on me like showing the snake where I was mm-hmm okay all right so all three dreams are dealing with cobras and I told my wife this afternoon when I saw I happened I just happened to see that on Facebook I said I bet we get a dream about Cobras tonight so so the first dream is a dream that there were but two snakes and you were trying to deal with them but a cobra comes in and stops you the second dream is a dream in which Cobra it attacks your knee but but but in all my talking I miss a little bit of that one so I was reaching down to reach and backing away and he struck my gotcha and in the last dream it's the the the Cobra is there and the he was he was like in my bedroom getting into the bay throw the sheets go outside so my shines the light and exposes you to where the Cobra is I mean the cut where you are to the Cobra all right I got you all right so what we want to do is look at these dreams having come over various times they actually have different meanings so we'll address the meaning of the Cobra and then sort of jump through what each one of them instance they're so short we'll do that all right but but when you dream them all at the same time or like in the same night those dreams will tend to all be related to each other and have similar interpretation even when they don't seem like they relate to each other so in this when they're tied together by the common element and we see a pattern in the ones that occur frequently like two or three times two or three dreams in one night typically they're gonna be related in some fashion or a similar message just a little distinction there what would you title as the group what would you title those dreams anak panic all right and so what we see in those dreams is we're gonna start in a little bit in Reverse so rather than giving an interpretation amongst art with the symbol and see if that helps you already understand what the dreams are then okay so the symbol the Cobra that's common to all the dreams what does the snake represent typically in a dream just generally speaking do you know as lies what else well evil any other thoughts deception of some kind that's lies but what is a Cobra known for its venomous so it's a venomous lie but when you think of Cobras what's the one kind of Cobra most people jump to first a king cobra a very very authoritative lie or deception okay and then does anybody know how they use their venom typically a lot of Cobras will spit their venom first then they also bite so they attack the eyes they throw that venom at the eyes now we don't know whether those respeaking Cobras or not but that Cobra concept that concept is so engrained in how we tend to think of Cobras that it fits the king authority and the spit that flinging verbally coming against with deception so that's your common trait in those dreams so in your first dream you're dealing with two snakes when a Cobra stops you so what that says is you've been dealing with some deception and some issues that have been going on but the enemy is sent something to attack you verbally or to so or to spew venom in a negative way to stop you from dealing with something second dream again you're reaching for something you're dealing with something or obtaining something and where does the attack come on your knee any thoughts on where the knee what the knee would represent movement bowing the knee other thoughts this was just fun so we can ask some questions of you so jump in what else it's a connector and so when we bow underneath what do we tend to think of ourselves as doing praying or worshipping so you've been dealing with some things but the enemy wants to stop your ability to pray and worship to keep handling it okay and then finally where are you when the third Cobra shows up outside then like a natural area outside the natural and it follows you where it followed me out there follows you out there are you at the beginning in the bedroom in the bedroom remember from our earlier dream what's the bad dream often speak to intimacy prayer worship the things that draw us into intimacy and so then you go out and you feel more exposed because you leave your secret place and come out of it all three of those dreams speak to the enemy trying to spew verbal abuse at you to stop you from dealing with some things you recognize and entering in to the rest and honor of the Lord that would keep you safe so all of those are about that attack that tries to draw you out of the place of rest by the words spoken and probably flung at you so I don't know if that makes any sense for your situation or not does it okay very good so what we see in these dreams is the common thread gives us the feel not just of the Cobra being common to the drains but when we really think about it dealing with issues not being able to pray about it and being drawn out of the place of worship and intercession and and and and that would keep us safe the secret place the enemy's whole goal is to tear you down to break you down so that you couldn't handle the things the Lord has given you insight to handle and what I love about that God is also telling you you do have some insight to handle this stuff don't let the words thrown at you stop you from dealing with what God has given you the insight to deal with really good alright who else we can't we've been back and forth so I'll come to this side there you go right here come on there you go and my dream I was in the bathroom at the church and the worship music began to play and I knew I had to running because I was late to lead worship and as I ran in the church I was kind of shocked because our church was a lot bigger than it is now and there was like lights flashing bright lights and there was it was really loud and I got on the stage and I began saying and I was jumping up and down and I realized you're not being yourself I was like why am i jumping up and down and Kari Jobe and I was like everybody just stop playing and I was going to start singing and before I could this guy started to come on the stage and and after I had woke up from the dream I realized it was and he brought this supernatural huge egg and as soon as he did I went out in the spirit and other people on the stage cool good drink what would you title that dream walk in your own anointing do you want to know what the interpretation is while can your own anointing I could say more but that shouldn't that what we're really doing good with that tonight this is really good that really is the interpretation is you drink and and you probably already had a sense of that being what it was and just really wanting somebody to tell you that you were right that's what it was huh yeah I thought so so you don't get that good of a of a title if you don't have a little bit of a feel okay let's talk about the dream be sure I heard it right you're leading worship are involved with worship in your church and you're jumping and moving and you think comes to Kay job comes to mind and you think I'm being like her and you need to stop back up and stop everybody in the worship and step back now into a place where are you gonna be who you are and as you begin to move that direction Sean bolts comes onto the stage and he brings this huge supernatural egg over you that's sort of cut in half and put and it's put over you I take it you can see the yolk in it and whatnot and as that happens then people begin you know you begin to fall out and people around you begin to be touched by the Holy Spirit in various ways right okay cool really really good drink and and I will say this the dream is walk in your own anointing but let's expand it just a little bit for you so you do know you have an anointing to walk in that's something that's important for you to know that you don't have to pursue your worship the way others have God has created you uniquely and individually and as you begin to move more into your uniquely created calling there's gonna be prophetic outpouring over you that brings real life for you and those around you that's just a little expanded version of walk in your own anointing but it's all there in the drain okay when we look at this dream you see something I love and that is the fact that a lot of times we kind of know what our dreams mean we just get nervous with always sure or not well we'd like somebody else to affirm it and there's nothing wrong with that the the Word of God says in the mouth of two or three witnesses let a thing be established there's nothing wrong with wanting affirmation or confirmation of what we're hearing and what what so in receiving that we then are encouraged in two ways one for what we were hearing to step into and two that we're hearing so the other thing you need to know is the Lord is affirming for you that you hear him that you have insight given by him in particular you lead worship right I mean naturally do you lead worship yeah so the Lord is not just speaking to you about something generic he's not just speaking to you about personal worship he's not just speaking to you about your quiet times or your worshipful times he's saying you have an impact on the lives of others when you function the way you were created to function I tell people this on a regular basis and it bears repeating tonight there are plenty of people who can do what you do let's just be honest there are lots of people who can do what you do in fact the truth is there are a lot of people who can do what you do better than you do it with speed honest right and I know that's true in my life that's true in your life there are people who do it better but there is nobody at all who can do what you do the way God created you to do it you're uniquely and wonderfully made and when you function out of your unique gift and calling people may be able to do it better on a natural basis of evaluation but they'll never be able to release what you release doing what you were given to do so it's powerful and the egg over your head by the way speaks to the idea you begin to fall out when that come the others around you fall out the egg itself is a symbol of life a picture of life the fact that's open and the yoke is visible speaks of the idea of the Spirit being open to you your ability to see and the things that the Spirit is doing and to draw the spirit of others into a place of worship now why is that true where does that come from kind of a long teaching to get there but I think I should say a little bit about it tonight because that egg symbol is not just a practical eggs represent life symbol in your dream it's a prophetic release over you and it's open for you to see the yolk us an example or a picture that's painted for people on a relatively frequent basis of the three parts of man is that we are spirit soul and body now you can tell by me saying that I have a tripartite theology that's a fancy way of saying I believe we have three parts not - there's a die part eight theology out there that says we are a spirit and our soul and flesh or somewhat the same but I believe in the three parts Thessalonians speaks to spirit soul and body so I believe that three part creation as a three part creation you need to recognize that we are a spirit the core of who we are the yoke that is born encased in a soul the the human nature the white of the egg and wrapped up in our flesh the shell and the very description of an egg points us to a reproductive concept in Scripture where the Word of God says the seed that's planted in us is incorruptible and there's two words uses a couple of passages that talk about that seed there are two words that you are used in Greek one is spora which is the seed of a plant and the other is sperma which is a human or a mammalian see that an animal seed that is implanted and so when we are born we are spirit beings ruled by the sin nature or our soul being birthed in a physical world where we live in the flesh okay so when Jesus says to Nicodemus you must be born again he is referring to the reproductive imagery of the seed or sperm of God entering and connecting with the yolk the egg itself the spirit and his seed planted in our spirit shifts us and exposes the yolk you said that very specifically so that it has life and we now become spirit ruled instead of soul ruled so we shift the balance and that's why we change kingdoms we we are no longer of our father the devil but we are reborn or a better way of saying it might be we are reconceived and when you spoke to that picture of the yoke as the egg was cut and and open to you that's that teaching I'm aware of just jumped out at me because it spoke to God is taking you from a place where you were looking like someone else so ruled doing it the way that looks good to a place where you're flowing in your anointing spirit ruled following the lead of Holy Spirit as your spirit connects spirit to spirit and so it's a powerful dream actually far more powerful than even just walk in your own anointing does it justice to say it's really good all right who else some I saw somebody back here had their hand there you go come on let's do one of yours and we don't have a lot of interpreters here tonight so we'll just keep interpreting up here sometimes we stop at 8:30 and spread out so we can do a few more dreams but looks like I don't have a lot of my students or people who I know just two or three of us here so I'm not gonna put us in that throw us into that mix I'll just keep interpreting a few for the next 20 minutes or so we'll keep doing them up here hold it up there real close I am taking care of children that I didn't birth they're not mine Oh but I'm taking I'm raising them okay all right so you've got several trains with that theme is that what I'm hearing yes okay the individual let me teach just a little bit here I'll give you an interpretation let you go but let me teach this little bit here real quick because it's important the individual dreams will speak to individual things that the Lord is saying to you about the theme that you're talking about okay so we can interpret the theme because you've given us enough of it to know the repetitive nature of it is there in these dreams and it's enough to understand its meaning but you'll then have to go back and apply that meaning to those individual pieces similar to what Terra has to do with the three dreams and the snake you then have to do and I suspect your dreams shift a little bit more in their nature but with the common thing and so you can now go back and apply the ears so again repeating the dream has several dreams where the theme is that she's taking care of children that are not her own okay so if you were just just gonna title the this were a collection of books okay so like the Lord of the Rings trilogy each one has its individual title but you know it's got the sort of that collection title what would you give the collection as a title responsibility okay all right I was I was just waiting for you to say taking care of other people children so let's look at what that theme speaks to that thing very clearly and berry certainly speaks to the fact God has given you a love and compassion to help others gifts and calls grow and mature that aren't even your own that aren't your own in other words to sow into the lives of the gifts calls and purposes of other individuals it's sort of a pastoral or shepherding kind of a calling that doesn't make you a pastor but it says there's something in you that is willing or desires what the rest of you know all the particulars of the dream would have to tell us that we don't know okay but something that's willing or has a desire or will do because you have to you know there's several ways it could play out to care for the calls and purposes of others as though they were your own to see them meet their destiny does that make any sense all right good so what what is that things children often speak to our gifts calls and purposes there'll be other things they speak to as well but in a theme a recurring thing of Dreams like that tell me your name I'm sorry Ashley in recurring theme and dreams like yours Ashley it's probably not going to relate to specific children or specific people's children it's going to more relate to those that broad sense of gifts calls and purposes when we look at that kind of a dream and the theme since we're not looking at individual dreams you've got to remember we can't get none of us nobody in this room could get to a specific interpretation it's it's not there because we're talking about this idea or this concept but if you'll take that that understanding of the Khans Sep now and go back to look at your individual dreams with that in mind as opposed to the image theme you'll begin to see a pattern and what God is birthing in you to pour out in the lives of others now just prophetically as opposed to dream interpretation let me say to you that what I see in you is a heart of compassion and ears to hear you are a person who has compassion on others but you don't just feel sorry for them or don't just see what's wrong you have the ability to hear and to see what would bring life and support now I don't see and the dreams don't tell us how much you use that I don't know but what you need to know is that gift is in you and if you foster it and care for it it is gonna really it is going to really open doors for you and it is going to be a tremendous blessing the best way I could describe this would be you won't always know what the results are for the labor you put in for others and if you're looking to know the results you'll get frustrated but if you're accepting what that dream or that series of dream says your anointing is and walking in it because God gave it to you not to get the answer of what happened you're gonna have great joy and success out of it I'll give you a picture of how that happened is somebody in Scripture Philip is conducting probably one of the greatest revivals of the early church in Samaria when the disciples come down sort of take things over and he moves on and he's been in this great place of service where he could see every result of what he was doing and he ends up on the backside of the desert talking to one guy an Ethiopian eunuch and he leads that one guy to the Lord draws out of him his call his purpose his anointing and moves on and he never knows the best we can tell from Scripture and from history he never knows what that seed sown did he knows what was happening in Samaria but he had to leave that he gets to the eunuch and never knows what it does yet the work he did fostering the gift and call of that one individual actually had more impact than anything else he did in his entire ministry because what we know from history is the Ethiopian eunuch went back to Kansas the Queen and Ethiopia became a Christian nation as a whole because of what he took back that he received from Phillip Phillip probably never knew that so that's kind of what I see in you she share that dream you're gonna sow into the lives of others and their purpose their cause their destinies and there's gonna be a lot of times you have no idea the end result you actually just out of who you are have already done it so many times that you have no idea what has come to pass from the little acts that you consider insignificant that are really bringing life in others so I just want to encourage you in that that's not as much a dream interpretation as it is a prophetic word but your dream gives the foundation for that word so bless you Father draw it out in the name of Jesus and stir up more and more in Lord would you give the token places to see just how valuable that gift mix is in Jesus name Amen amen good all right over this side again now we're we had I got one over here come on come on here then there you go it's a short dream I just dream that I was tuning a piano oh hold rain look at that see then one of the reasons I tell people you repeat the dream there's a couple of reasons one reasons you're Peter dream is to let people know you're actually listening and if you do wander with your minds which you've noticed sometimes tonight I do trying to be sure I know what's going on in the room that you can be sure that you cared enough even though you might have missed something that you want to know what they said because sometimes listening is as important as as interpreting the dream is second reason you want to repeat the dream is to stall for time till you know what the dream means that's a fancy way of saying wait until you hear Holy Spirit speak wax that's a silly way of saying wait and do you hear Holy Spirit speak when you get a great dream like this you can't do that so you have to do something else and teach to you know what the dream means right so no such kidding so no it's a great short dream and you probably would title it tuning the piano right good dream what the Lord has said to you in that dream is he's given you insight to bring things that are out of tune into tune in other words he's given you the insight to set a chord where sound becomes harmonious and what that speaks to individually you just have to keep interpreting those layers because everything you can say to it comes back to almost a metaphor so so what that says is part of your calling is to is to impart little adjustments into the lives of others to teach or to encourage or to just provide those little adjustments that get them in tune with what God is doing in their life now it can also speak in the first instance of the Lord getting you in tune with what he's doing in your life but there's more to than that there is a calling in that area as well because what we freely receive Matthew 10 says what we freely receive we freely give away that make any sense all right good short dreams don't necessarily have short interpretations and long dreams don't necessarily have long interpretations if a picture's worth a thousand words the images of a dream surely are worth ten thousand okay so even a short dream can speak volumes and a long dream can just have repeating imagery or repeating symbolism that emphasizes things that's a very relatively short understanding so we always want to be open to what Holy Spirit is doing whether it be short or long to get what he's got in it right all right who else we got probably time for a couple more well I don't come to this side I'm gonna come right there and then who I had one over here then I'll come there and we'll probably wrap up see this is the joy of having a smaller group tonight we got we got percentage-wise we get more of the dreams right okay tell me your name Lanisha I had this dream and in the dream there were three smokestacks like it had been like some type of industry there but they were no longer in operation and it was kind of like in the heart of the city and so the air like the city was like dead because they were no longer in operation and as I was walking through the city there was like an earthquake and the smokestack started to fall and somebody said well your mother is in one of those stacks there was no nervousness like I did it Fred I was like she's okay and so there were people I don't know why but there were people on the insides of those smokestacks or whatever they were smokestacks and for people were were saved from those stacks but the rest of them that were in their parish and after the smoke stacks fell it was like the city came back to life or living life as it was it was like they were free there was freedom there after the smoke stacks okay so in your dream was there any significance to colors was there any color that stood out that I can remember okay now when you say a smoke stack like in the center of a large city you like talking about an industrial type smokestack the one you would see where the like a dark smoke billows out from from yeah okay all right okay just want to be sure I was had the same peak tree you had so in your dream you see the three smokestacks there in the center of the city and as you're you realize the whole city sort of dying around these smokestacks that are not functioning now and and as you watch an earthquake takes place and the smokestacks begin to sort of crumble and someone tells you your mom is in one of those smokestacks and you don't have any anxiety of it because you know she's gonna be okay and there were many people in the smokestacks but when they fell four were saved and came out of I assume one of them was your mom and then you see the city began to come to life again with when these smokestacks come down right okay so what would you title that train collapse the collapse all right now let me ask you what I think I perceive so just we can I can help interpret more accurately and more simply if I'm right but are you an intercessor all right so this is an intercessory train this is a call to prayer and you need to understand something let me can I stop before I give the interpretation just take a minute there there are different kinds of Dreams dreams we would call intrinsic dreams and dreams we would call extrinsic dreams intrinsic dreams are dreams about us and we're real involved in those dreams extrinsic dreams are dreams about other people places things and we tend to be peripherally involved in those most of us dream intrinsic dreams ninety percent of the time we have intrinsic dreams extrinsic dreams are far less common but I bet you have a lot more of them than most people do because intercessors tend to drain extrinsic dreams and get assignments for prayer do you know what city it was that you were looking at yep I do too I feel like that dream is is a pretty strong call to prayer for the the industrious or the real effort the enemy has produced has done in the city to call forth or to present a false perception of God and he's tried to destroy God's people in this city and in particular your generations and we know that let's just be honest I mean I'm just a real person so I hope it's okay but we know that it's your mother you're african-american I'm never real sure you know when I say this I'm gonna be okay but I hope we're all right with this generationally you're talking about the history of this city has been terribly negative for the black community so you're seeing this smokestack that I perceive in your dream to be similar to the furnaces of Nazi Germany that would destroy the Jews has been met in this city to destroy a people group okay and so what you're seeing though is that God is shaking what has been to bring down the enemy structures and there are many not just a few not just for me who are gonna be saved out of it because they're representative and they represent a creative work that God is about to do to return life to the city you saw and I believe that's Birmingham okay just like you do so that's a powerful dream of intercession now a couple of things to say about it you could say gee come on pastor Michael anybody knows we need to be praying that way for the city yeah we know that but did God give you a dream and tell you to do it seriously I know it I know I need to pray about it but you've been given an assignment to pray about it and what that means is God is giving you authority in that area of Prayer and your job is not to pray for the people to be saved because you had a confidence in those that were to be brought into the kingdom we're going to come out safe your mom not only represents generations she represents the church a mother the church that covers okay so those coming out to be safe so you had a confidence in that you weren't worried about that you were worried about what you saw at the beginning the city was dying what you saw at the end the city was coming back to life so you've been given a commission to call forth life out of past destruction specifically for the city so I would honor that and I would really focus there and I would do exactly that I would pray with regard to calling forth life not tearing down the enemy structures you see them come down you call forth the life the earthquake brings you can't make an earthquake the earthquake brings the the smokestacks down but you can observe and see where there's death and call it into life and that's that that's the assignment you've been given something sense good praise God all right bye pastors leaders prophetic individuals and intercessors are going to be the people who tend to have a higher percentage of extrinsic dreams otherwise we tend to be dreaming for ourselves and for what we need to pray for for us probably 90% of the time I'm pulling a number out of the air you understand but but it's a high percentage we have one last one come on up and do yours Lisa French are you back there if she is I asked her to come this way all right tell me your name Judy all right Gidi hold that my trot up there and tell us your dream okay if I have this am I in my dream hello dream okay all right several dreams but the theme of them your ex-husband is coming back he apologizes or he in one case he's back in the home that the basic gist of it there okay and what would you title that those trades how would you give it a title nightmare that's exactly right those dreams are about restoration for you they're not about restoration with him those dreams are about God healing you and allowing you the capacity to forgive even when you don't see a natural result him being back in the home is not him coming back that's about as you forgive as you let go and as you receive the Lord's surrogate apology okay as you receive that you're gonna walk in a place of restored intimacy with the father who's returning to your home so the great dreams that speak to restoration for you okay now that doesn't mean God can't do miraculous restorative works in families that have suffered divorce but that dream by discernment and even how you conveyed it does not speak that it speaks to a restorative work in you does that make sense that make you feel better good heart high praise God what we want to know in those kind of dreams is that the heart of that is to understand that God will use imagery and imagery sometimes has very personal meaning to us and so you never want when you're when you're having the dream it's easy to jump to the personal meanings or think you have application for it because you're so close to it so it's always important that we distance ourselves from our preconceived ideas and that Holy Spirit brings worth the life of what he's saying amen all right I'm gonna turn it over to my wife who's gonna take an offering and do whatever else she needs to do and I'm gonna slip on out and be out there outside and wait for you out there if if you want a book or something some people like to get them signed I'll be out there with that and I'll be there to do that and glad to visit what I can but I'm gonna slip on out there now well I hope you guys felt like you learned something tonight or we're encouraged in some way enlightened in some way if you like what we do if you feel like it's important and if you feel like the Lord would have you give something tonight I'm gonna pass the basket around and we just appreciate you just just your presence here encourages us because it tells us that you know people are interested and what God could say to them in the night season and the thing that's so amazing to me is you know if you think about your life you sleep one-third of your life that's a long time if you think about it if you live to be 60 years old that's 20 years of sleep and it isn't amazing that God's not gonna waste that time in the night season and maybe things he couldn't say to us or that we couldn't hear while we're awake while we're sleeping he has our undivided attention maybe we don't know what he's saying and maybe he's saying seek me a little more a little longer a little harder but seek me out you know and try me so he said if we would seek him with all of our heart that we would find him so thank you for being here tonight i bless you and let's pray over the offering and I'll pass the basket father thank you for this time thank you for just giving Michael a heart and a vision Lord to see these classes just so he can impart what we has been given to him Lord you said freely we've received so we freely give so we thank you for everyone here that I who just feels led to give would you bless them Lord would you increase them and their finances Lord and just in their home and in their love than in their family or would you just bless them and give them safety tonight as they travel home and we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen and just as you finish past in the basket you're released thank you

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