Episode Description:
God has a purpose with our dreams – that of intimacy and an invitation to draw closer to Him. Our dreams can be likened to a treasure hunt of searching out what God is trying to communicate to us through the third of our life we are asleep. This episode of ‘Hearing God through our Dreams’ is part 2 in a 3-part series on dreams and their interpretations and covers the types and purposes of dreams. Join Gary & Jane as they share numerous Biblical examples of different types of dreams as well as a number of dreams with the outworking that has influenced and changed the world.
Episode Notes:
1. Types / Purposes of Dreams
· Warning / guidance (a heads up. a caution, a call to intercession).
· Revelation about our future calling and destiny.
· Wisdom and insight, ideas for inventions, business plans, strategy from heaven to glorify God.
· God encounters – with God, His nature, or angels.
· Reveal secrets
· Evangelism / Salvation
· Correction
2. Modern day dreams / Inventions
· Some examples are the sewing machine, the creation of Google, books, movies, famous song lyrics, adjustments to sporting style, the arrangement of the periodic table, the theory of relativity, the discovery of both the structure of the atom and DNA, etc.
Prophetic activation:
Turn your heart and thoughts to Father God and ask Him:
· Father God, is there a strategy that you would love to download to me now about an issue in my life?
· Father God, can you please reveal to me more about that strategy.
· Father God, can you please show me something in my life I need to adjust or tweak.
Time Stamps:
[0:47] – Gary & Jane share briefly how they have heard God this week.
[2:14] – Dreams are a gift from God. Follow on from part 1 in Episode 22.
[2:59] – Some examples of dreams in the Bible.
[3:35] – Types / Purposes of Dreams.
[12:27] – Modern day inventions as a result of a dream.
[17:57] – Prophetic activation.
[19:06] – Gary & Jane both share a prophetic word for a listener.
[20:24] – Gary prays for you.
Resources / Links Mentioned:
· Website: https://garyandjane.co
· Ruth Haley Barton “Sacred Rhythms” - https://transformingcenter.org/
· Episode 22 – https://garyandjane.co/episode-22-hearing-god-through-our-dreams-part-1/
· Ben Carson “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.” Our family loved the Ben Carson book in the YWAM Heroes of History series by Janet & Geoff Benge https://www.ywampublishing.com/p-1686-heroes-of-historybrben-carson-a-chance-at-life.aspx
Bible Verses Mentioned:
· Matthew 2:13
· Daniel 7
· Job 33:14-18
· Proverbs 25:2
· Isaiah 55:11
· Genesis 41:1-39
· Genesis 20:3
· Matthew 27:19
· Matthew 1:20-23, 2:13,19-20,22
· Matthew 2:12
· Genesis 37:5-10
· Luke 2:19
· Genesis 40:5-23
· Judges 7:13-15
· Genesis 31:10-13
· Genesis 28:11-22
· Daniel 2:29
· 1 Samuel 28:6
· Acts 10:9-23
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