Dream Symbols and God's Voice

hey everybody tom scarella uh we're excited to come to you today hey listen we're doing a a series on the subject of visions and dreams you're gonna love this you're gonna be so blessed to watch this 33 if you have your bibles and oops so job 33 and we'll just see where we kind of go with this today i wanted to stretch you with that because many people don't realize how much god is speaking and as we're talking about being led by the spirit one of the ways that god speaks is through uh dreams or even visions and so in job 33 it says this in verse 14 for god verse 14 job 33 14 for god may speak in one way or in another in one way or in another he says yet man does not perceive it okay then he says and then he names one way or another in a dream in a vision of the night while deep sleep falls upon men while slumbering on their beds then he opens the ears of men it's the greek the hebrew word there is the word for dig out then he digs out the ears of men and he seals their instructions right so he digs out your ears with what with a dream in order to what turn man from his deed conceal pride from man he keeps his soul back from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword now hold your place and we'll come back go to the new testament because we live in the new testament the old testament is just a shadow but we live in the light we don't live in a shadow so in acts chapter 2 amen i want to live in the light right so acts 2 says peter standing up verse 14 and peter standing up with the uh the 11 raised his voice and said to the men of judea and all that dwell in jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words for these are not drunk as you suppose since it's only the third hour of the day but this is what was spoken by the prophet joel and it shall come to pass in the last days says god i'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters so now he's going to give us the description of the new testament we'll call it the new testament revival okay so the new testament revival he's going to give us some ear marks so number one he says your sons and your daughters shall what prophesy okay number two then he goes on to say here he says and your young men shall see visions number three he says your old men will what dream dreams okay so here he introduces what god is doing this new thing that he's doing in the world post the cross and he says and on my men's servants and i'm my maidservants i'll pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy and i will show wonders in the heavens above signs in the earth beneath blood fire vapor of smoke the sun will be turned into darkness the moon into blood before the coming great and awesome day of the lord and it shall come to pass that whosoever calls in the name of the lord shall be saved so he's talking about this day right men of israel hear these words he says jesus of nazareth attested by god to you or recommended by god verse 22 he says jesus was recommended by god to you by what by miracles wonders and signs right which god did through him in your midst as you yourselves know okay as much as i would love to stay there let's go back up to verse 17 but verse 17 it says it'll come to pass in those days says god i will okay so god says listen i'm going to initiate this sucker god says i will he will what pour out then he says now here's what you'll do he says then you will do whoops i shouldn't have taken that out you will do these three things prophesy have visions and dream dreams you will prophesy you will have visions and you will dream dreams okay so this is what peter is is i mean now the cross has taken place the resurrection has taken place jesus has gone into haiti he's taken the keys of of satan and risen again came according to acts 1 he came for 40 days and walked the earth appeared to people ate with them walked through walls preached for 40 days the gospel of the kingdom according to acts 1 3 right so according to acts 1 3 for 40 days jesus appeared then the bible says he ascended and he went and he presented the blood before the the father and as he presented the blood uh uh he he went in and and presented it and it was a propitiation for all of our sins right so he presented the blood on the altar of the the the you know the mercy seat so to speak of heaven amen and so just kind of an interesting thought now i can't prove this but this is an interesting thought okay so i'm don't make a doctrine of this but there was a man in the 1970s that went and he was like an excavator or something like that an archaeologist and and what's his name yeah ron white yeah yeah and he went and he loved to go to israel he went there many times and he discovered several different things and one of the things that he discovered is is that in jerusalem the way they used to do things is they would have this city and then they would build an outer wall outside the city so that the enemy if an enemy came they had an outer wall of resistance first before they ever came to pillage the city and so jerusalem was getting ready for the onslaught of the romans and so they had excuse me long long before that they had built this wall this outer wall even before the days of jeremiah well if you're familiar the days of jeremiah the ark of the covenant went missing it many people don't believe it went missing they believed that jeremiah went out outside the walls and buried the ark of the covenant somewhere between the city walls and the outer wall because he was afraid the babylonians would come and capture the ark and everything else so he buried it out here now what this this guy when and discovered was is that when he looked at what was golgotha which is a hill a mountain come on right and below there was this particular area and when he went digging down in there he said that he found the ark of the covenant and he said i had a revelation when i found it and reported it to the authorities of israel they they were they were already aware of it but they didn't want to take it out yet they just left it there and but he said if you look golgotha is here so as jesus bled he said literally his blood would have dropped all the way down and hit the ark of the covenant right on the mercy seat is that amazing huh so just kind of a thought all right so i'm way off topic all right so all the way back all right so here uh as as we see this here the holy spirit says listen i will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh your sons and god your daughters will prophesy uh excuse me you'll prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old mental dream dreams now let me just bring some clarity there many people struggle with that verse in the actual greek language the way it was originally said a better way to say it is the young and the old will see visions and dream dreams okay so it's not saying the old are the only ones who are going to dream dreams you say no the young and the old will dream dreams and see visions okay so now if you go and if you're a person a real student of the word and you go all the way back um you will see the very first time that we see dreams in the bible it was one of the first people that dreamed dreamt a dream was abimelech and so abimelech was the king that's why i set you up before we're talking about abimelech and uh taking as his wife sarah all right so in fact you well let's just do it let's just go there and in in genesis chapter 20 in genesis 20. verse 3 says but god came to abimelech in a dream by night and he said to him indeed you are a dead man wow what was your dream last night oh god came to me and said i'm a dead man okay you are a dead man because of the woman that you have taken for she is a man's wife and abimelech said uh had not come nearer and said lord will you slay a righteous nation also and he said to me she is uh did he not say to me she is my sister and even she she herself uh he is my brother and in the integrity of my heart the innocence of my hands i've done this and god said to him in a dream yes i know that you did this in the integrity of your heart for i also withheld you from sinning against me therefore i did not let you touch her now therefore restore the man's wife for he is a prophet now i brought this up back last year that the first prophet in the bible is actually abraham though he never prophesied okay so but his calling was prophet but his function was faith okay so you can have a calling in a different function so his calling was prophet but his function was a father of faith and that was his message right so he is a prophet and he will pray for you and you will live so we even see here what does the scripture say i'll pour out my spirit upon how much flesh oh all flesh ah and and so as a result god even appears to the lost in visions and in dreams i'll prove it to you in the scriptures in the book don't turn there but in the book of uh acts chapter 9 and chapter 10 is a story of four visions do you know that acts 9 is two visions a vision to a sinner and a vision to a saint chapter 10 is a vision to a sinner and a vision to a saint in acts chapter 9 saul was a sinner had a vision ananias was just a regular believer and he had a vision and he went in obedience to the vision and he did the vision and saul was healed and and filled with the holy ghost and and he was prophesied to is that right chapter 10 chapter 10 verse 1. it says cornelius of the italian man his last name was skerella it's not in there but we know that okay so everybody knows that okay so so cornelius gorilla there he is of the italian band it says that he went and had a vision acts 10 verse 1. he was a man who prayed to god always and gave generously right and that says and an angel came to him when in a dream right many times when you see in the scriptures angels coming to people most of the time it came in dreams or in visions most of the time it was in dreams so the angel came to cornelius and we know in chapter 10 that's when all of us gentiles came into the kingdom because of that prophetic vision that was given one to cornelius to the second the one that was given to uh peter up on a rooftop is that right okay so as a result we see that all right now um let me get back to where i was going okay um now go back here to the old testament to numbers chapter 12. numbers chapter 12. you all okay this morning okay cool all right so numbers chapter 12. i know i'm throwing a lot at you here this morning i'm going to give you so much information in these next three sessions on this um but okay so numbers 12 verse 6 says then he said now hear my words if there's a prophet among you i the lord make myself known to him in a vision and i speak to him in a dream i make myself known through a vision and i speak to him come on in a dream right so here god brings the distinction of the two just like acts 2. in acts 2 he split the two there's a vision and there's a dream now there's going to be i'm going to give you some slides of some differences between the two but one of the big differences of a vision and a dream not to be confusing right up front but we can make ourselves have a vision but we cannot make ourselves have a dream you can initiate a vision but you can't initiate a dream god has to be the initiator of a dream okay all right so we're going to open up for some questions as we go along so hold your questions till the end okay now i know there's a lot of information so i'm sorry for that but so be it okay so here's the differences between visions and dreams so in acts 2 the amplified bible refers to dreams as divinely suggested communications if you want to come up and take a photo of this you're welcome to but in acts chapter 2 in the amplified regarding visions they are divinely granted appearances okay the differences between a dream and a vision dreams are more suggested possibilities than inevitabilities okay in fact let me just add this because it's not on this chart that i gave you a dream the majority of the time speaks about your character a dream speaks most of the time about your character that's why 80 to 90 of your dreams are really about you so god is dealing with you about maturing things in your dreams come on right okay so the majority of the time not all the time but the majority of the time okay visions need more appropriation usually visions need actions sometimes dreams do but most of the time visions need you to act so acts chapter 9 the the vision came to saul he had to do something what did he have to do he had to go to simon's house he had to be led away as a blind man for three days uh ananias as the believer had to go to the to on a street called straight come on right inquire the house of simon and the bible says he had to go lay hands on someone named saul of tarsus is that right so he had to do something come on so when peter has the vision in acts chapter 10 the spirit of god says three men are coming to call you go with them doubting nothing so he had to do something so when you have a vision a vision isn't like woohoo i had a vision a vision means get the let out come on tell your neighbor say get the let out okay all right so that's what uh with a vision okay uh dreams of warning need to be prayed through so danger can be averted so you you can have a warning dream and and you can avert it by your prayers some people get excited when calamity happens and they had it in a dream it's nothing to be excited about it god is saying change it you are in authority i'm letting you know what's coming so you change it amen visions need prayer and often prophetic activation okay dreams to receive dreams the mind has to be asleep to have a dream you can't have a dream in the day but you can have a vision in the day or a vision at night not to be confusing so you can actually have a dream excuse me you actually have a vision in the day or even a vision in the night okay we'll get into that as we go along visions are received with varying degrees of mind alertness just like i don't like to use this word but i don't know a better word so forgive me i call it levels of visions or levels of dreams i'm stealing that from kenneth hagin okay because i've experienced that i have varying degrees of dreams or varying degrees of visions where i've had a minor vision where it was just a picture in my mind how many of you ever had that and something you know god is speaking to you about doing something okay that's a low level anointing on that but they're still requiring you to do something okay but as it increases you know to a uh um absolutely mind-blowing one okay that's the highest level one now the same thing is true with dreams that you can have a dream that's absolutely unbelievable the highest or you can have just a minor dream that just has a few things in it that you get out of it now i'm going to share with you some personal ones that i've had i've got my prayer journal with me and to share some of those okay now just leave that graphic i want to give you something to write down if you want to write this down you can dreams if you want to write this down like this all right lord help me dreams write this down are symbolic visions are more literal literal dreams are more symbolic whereas visions are more literal usually visions come with like an emotional smack it smacks you emotionally okay now visions can also have this i'm not going too fast am i okay so with visions you can have an internal one or you can even have an external one okay so you can have an internal vision where it's like more like a a vision of the mind or an external one which is more like an open vision like a projector like it's out there that you're witnessing okay so you can have the internal one that you just you see to yourself and you see a picture of something okay that's an internal one an external one is one that's out there and it's like you're living in it okay um visions are uh they're both eternal but visions are more eternal in that they are branded to your spirit i mean the moment you have it you'll never forget the rest of your life you understand so you could have had a vision 20 years ago and you could still remember it and relive it in a second a dream is not like that a dream is like a is like a flower that opens and closes in the same day the moment you have the dream it's already closing it's like holding an ice cube the longer you hold it the less you have you understand this is why daniel says seven times in the book of daniel and says i wrote the dream i wrote the dream i wrote the dream why because the longer you just wait to hold it you lose it that's why when you have the dream and you wake up and you're like oh my god i had this dream but if you wait to write it the longer you are holding it you're losing pieces of it it's just ebbing away it's falling through your fingers see that's what happens with a dream so that's why um a journal or a notepad by your bed is absolutely critical because you'll lose it you'll say i'll not forget it i know lord i'll remember it and how many of you forgot it or big chunks of it right okay all of us have all of us have and and we miss the message that god is divinely speaking to us and he's trying to lead us and direct us and guide us amen okay so uh so those are some of the differences uh between the two and uh if you want to write this down you can but about 80 of your dreams are all about you eighty percent of your dreams the majority the vast majority of your dreams are about character issues things in you these are things about you that god is dealing with you okay we're gonna get questions later okay because otherwise i'm gonna cover it and we'll double up over it okay now um let's go back towards visions again for a second here so there's two different kinds i talked about but there's also a couple of other different varyings if you want to write these down write the word twilight there's twilight my goodness twilight and um pictorial okay so twilight twilight is the time between sleep and awake how many of you know what i'm talking about you're not awake but you're not asleep you're either falling asleep or you're just waking up and this is an area often where visions will take place and sometimes the vision will dovetail into a dream okay so it's as you're laying there and you're just waking up or as you're laying there and you're just dozing off asleep that's called twilight you're not asleep you're not awake it doesn't matter what time of day or night it is it's you're just in that dozing it's like you're dozing and you're in between okay and that's called a twilight vision a twilight vision all right a pictorial vision is usually when you pray so you're praying in tongues ah i see a picture i see the word french uh what does that mean oh what was that that was a pictorial you understand so it's as you're praying all of a sudden you need to be expecting now let me just say this about tongues is often what happens is is many people many pentecostal charismatics when you say okay everyone let's pray in tongues and and they they go as fast as a machine gun right but there's something about slowing it down and expecting god to speak out of it okay and often it will come in a vision a pictorial vision all right this is where i get the majority of my words of knowledge it's as i'm praying in tongues so i i don't know how to pray for aksana okay but and as i'm praying in tongues and i all of a sudden i see i see something with a car or something with a car issue and all of a sudden the lord begins to lead and direct me you understand and so how did he do that well he did that through a pictorial vision as i prayed and expected remember god is a faith god in response to faith right and so that's why it's important that we expect that as we pray whether we pray with the understanding or we pray with the spirit that we expect that god speaks it's not a monologue it's a dialogue right so if it's truly a dialogue then i speak you know if i'm talking to zach and he and i are talking i talk then i wait i mean what kind of a friend would i be of allison we're talking and i just talked the whole time and he's like well you know that's irrelevant let me just keep talking here and uh i just changed this up zach would be like what the heck's up with him you know who put a quarter in him right and so um but so that's why i'm telling you it's as you learn listen this is dialogue you speak you expect him to respond come on but do i believe in praying long periods of time in tongues yes yes i do but i also expect as i'm praying in tongues i'll pause and i'll wait and i'll expect god to speak right then then i'll pray again in tongues or pray with the understanding whichever it might be and as i do so i'm expecting a response from the father i'm expecting the father respond to the son just like if i call my son right now i'll i'll call him and and we'll just you know talk about whatever and whether it's serious or it's not serious and stuff i'll speak he'll speak i'll speak he'll speak right and so it's the exact same thing so i want you to get that especially regarding visions okay um okay i know i'm jumping around but i'm trying to get some information out there and then we'll fill it all in later okay so write this word down dreamland okay this is not disneyland okay this is not where michael jackson lives all right okay dream land dream land i we i call it dreamland because what happens is is uh for example uh if art here has a dream often the same characters and places in his dreams will be in the same dream so he dreams now or he dreamt in november or he dreamt 10 years ago often it will have a familiarity with places that he's already seen before in his dreams you understand yeah so the same thing is true with pastor vitale or natalia as they dream it will be a referral things to things that they know so god most of the time will not speak in your dreams about unfamiliar things he will use metaphors because remember a dream is a nighttime parable it is not literal rarely is a dream literal please hear that because someone was like i had a dream that i saw a plane you know crash and all of this stuff i said it's not about a plane crash okay last year last year i was right here in this building i was talking to a minister in between a session and as he was telling me he said i had this dream and this is the dream and he told me about a dream that he had about a plane crash and he was buckled in and others were trying to get out and stuff and i said brother the dream is about you the dream is not about a plane crashing you're not going to die in a plane crash he said well what what do you mean i said well the dream is speaking about a ministry that's what the plane is is a ministry you are connected to that is going down and you have buckled yourself in and you won't let go and god is saying you're going to lose it all and it was a warning dream to him and sure enough by the summer that particular ministry that he was connected to crashed and burned last summer and so here god was warning him four five six months in advance come on somebody amen and so often god will do that god will give you information okay but it's not usually it's not literal again it's figurative all right so most of your dreams are figurative it's a nighttime parable okay what does god do with dreams he uses dreams prophetic dreams to speak to our hearts about eternal purposes he uses our dreams to speak to us about eternal purposes often our conscious minds are alert and awake excuse me and often with our conscious minds alert and awake it's difficult for us to hear what god is communicating so he gives it to us in dreams come on right so um i remember this one time i don't remember where we were ministering but someone uh came up to me and i just referred to how god speaks in dreams in a message and uh this young lady came to me and she was talking to me uh about uh a dream she had that was really really you know befuddled her and so i said uh well i'll do my best in between sessions i said go ahead share the dream so she shared the dream and i started to interpret the dream and so as i started to interpret the dream i said are you in a relationship that you already know is a dead-end relationship this sounds like a relationship and she said yeah her eyes got all big and i could see she was getting flush and i said god already warned you before getting in that relationship didn't he yeah and now now i can see she's like physically she's starting to back up a little bit here right now because now i can tell see her conscious mind didn't want to hear the truth so god said i'm going to smoke her in her dreams i'm going to get her in her dreams when she has no choice i'm going to light this girl up right now because she's got a you know a deadhead over here that she's connecting to right and so that's often what happens with dreams whatever it might be so he's he speaks to us in our dreams to align our hearts to his eternal purposes uh often in our dream often our dreams locate us spiritually or our thinking your dreams locate you acts chapter 10 verses 14 through 17 peter was located in a vision he was actually located in his vision of where he was so often our dreams and our visions will locate us where we really are we think we're here god says let me just show you real quick where you are revelation chapter 3 he says you say you are rich and increased with goods god says i say you are blind poor miserable and naked right so god was saying that to a body of believers why because their perception of where they were was totally different than in reality and it took a vision to locate them come on right so a vision or a dream will locate you where you are spiritually okay um and then this is where we're gonna close this session here and then we'll kind of pick up um why does god use these uh symbols okay so god uses symbols so he uses symbols to communicate his message okay so number one is impartation and i don't use that in a weird way but i use it in a way by which he uses it to impart a perspective of what he has for us number two the second thing that why does god use symbols when he speaks to us uh the hidden meaning of the symbol allows god to clarify it in stages so god will speak something metaphorically or symbolically to you that is like an onion in and it's like as you peel it it comes in layers okay i'll show you an example later in with my own life and even we'll ask some of you uh in the other sessions okay so but get this so in a vision or in a dream often god uses these symbols to speak to us metaphorically because then he can as you grow in the lord you're like oh i get it why he used that symbol because of blah blah blah blah see so it's like in your spiritual stages of growth you begin to see more of the vision or of the dream it makes more sense number three there's humility in getting the answer okay there's a humility or a dependence right we want to just say it just god i'm asking you a question just say the answer and he doesn't when i was in bible school kenneth hagin used to drive us just batty like this he would answer us with a story and it took forever for you know he's from the deep south so they take forever to talk anyway so well i'm like oh god this is gonna be a long time all right let me just sit down here for a while now you would just ask a straight question and then he would well in 1937 it was on a monday in september and you know that was a monday september 4th that was a month oh okay well that's important i guess all right yes and he would go with this story and you're like i just wanted it yes or no right but it's very very typical the way that jesus taught jesus they would ask him a question and rather than answer the question he would answer the question with a question you're like crap now i got two questions i had one question now i got i don't need more questions i've got a question already right but in the in the answer so to speak is in the question is the answer right and so so but there's a level of humility as we seek the answer number four it makes you want to find its meaning when god speaks to you in a symbolic form it makes you want to understand it like i know this means something this is like this is like uh you know uh mi5 or something like that you know this is like a mission impossible here or something you know what does this mean and jim this message will self-destruct in five seconds you know and you're like what is that what does this all mean you know and and so it's it causes you so there's there's reasons that god speaks to you and i in symbolic form is is it imparts the heart of the lord or the the gravity of it of the situation number two is it uh he can reveal it in stages to you and i like in other words if you just said it all maybe you couldn't handle it or maybe you don't want to hear it come on right maybe your flesh doesn't want to hear though you need to hear it number three is it brings a humility into dependence on the holy spirit and number four what does it do is it makes you want to know its meaning amen all right let's take it awesome i prayed you were blessed by that short teaching uh that was at our conference in february in portland and we actually have the entire series of that entire training on uh audio format and you can get that right on our website right below me sharethefire.org if you're interested in getting that the exact name of it and stuff is right below me you can get that and so i encourage you to go check that out we've got some awesome other resources there you'll be greatly blessed with don't forget check our other website out [Music] ministrytraininginstitute.com and those are some video training uh for ministry i know many of you watching this you have a calling for ministry and if you go to ministry training institute today you'll be greatly blessed by finding a ton of great resources there on that site so we love you guys bless you i pray you enjoyed that give us a big thumbs up and give us uh also click uh subscribe to our youtube channel right below me blessings [Music] you

Channel: Tom SCARRELLAministries

Views: 1,017

Rating: 4.939394 out of 5

Keywords: tom scarrella, scarella, miracles, bill johnson, bethel, sid roth, it's supernatural, prophetic dreams, gifts of the spirit, prophetic, Godtv, prophetic ministry, prophetic training, prophetic equipping, school of the prophets, prophetic voice, Jennifer LeClaire, seer anointing, prophetic words, deja vu, dream interpretation, how to prophesy accurately, how to prophesy, how to prophesy names, flowing in the prophetic, interpret dreams, understanding dreams and visions

Id: M0F-iY7L7bk

Length: 39min 23sec (2363 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 05 2020