All right, welcome to our bonus session for August.
Remember I said on Supernatural Sunday
that this fall is gonna be all about back to school.
And so we're gonna have several different mentors
coming to speak to us on different subjects.
And this is our first one and I'm very excited.
I'm very excited about tonight.
One of the tenants of the heart work is dreaming.
There's a scripture in the word of God
that says that when they came out of bondage,
when they came out of captivity,
they became those that dream.
They became like those that dream.
Meaning that when we're in bondage,
when we're in captivity,
when we're being held captive
in those counterfeit personalities,
our dreams get crushed.
Our dream life goes away in a lot of ways
or it becomes toxic.
And so one of the things that I believe happens
and it does happen, I don't just believe it,
I have proof of it and evidence of it.
When people do their inner healing with us,
our heart work protocol, they begin to dream again.
And so that's why we talk about that
in phase one of this program during heart work
is about dreaming again and about dream interpretation.
And a lot of you have partaken
of that bonus session that we had
that was part of your curriculum about dreams.
And we're gonna go even deeper
with our guest mentor today.
And guess what?
This is just the beginning.
This is a taste and see,
because once again, I said,
God was calling us back to study hall,
calling us back to class
because God is speaking to us
and he's always speaking to us.
And he wants you to know how he's speaking to you.
He doesn't want you just to think
that he's ignoring your pleas for help.
He's ignoring your requests for direction and instruction.
He's speaking to you.
And dreams is one of the ways that God speaks to us.
But how do we know what he's saying?
That is what we're gonna learn tonight.
We are going to learn some very high level stuff.
We're not gonna go in the deep, deep, deep nitty gritty
tonight, unless Holy Spirit takes us there.
But this is just a precursor or prelude
to a mini course on dreams and dream interpretation
that you will have available to you in this community.
Does that sound fun?
All right, I want you to hold all of your questions.
I really want you to pay attention
to our guest mentor tonight.
I'm about to introduce him.
I'm really excited to have him here with us.
I want you to pay attention, okay, to him.
He is going to teach for a solid 15 minutes,
probably at the beginning of this,
laying a foundation about dreams.
And then we're going to go into some frequently asked
questions about dreams.
Things like, what happens if I dream that I'm naked?
Do dreams always mean something literal?
How do I know if they're from God or not from God?
We're gonna go into a lot of different things
in the body of tonight's Taste and See.
And then at the very end, and we'll let you know when,
you can go ahead and fill up the chat with some questions.
What I don't want you to do, please listen closely.
I don't want you to put up dreams for interpretation
during tonight's session.
We will not have time to do that, okay?
As a fellow dream interpreter,
I also have the gift to interpret dreams.
It takes me a minute to look at that dream.
I wanna see it in writing,
but I wanna be able to ask a few questions.
And so we're not gonna throw those dreams
at our guests tonight, okay?
You can ask anything that hasn't already been asked.
You can maybe ask something that digs a little bit deeper
into something that we already taught about tonight, okay?
But no dreams for interpretation tonight, okay?
Does that sound good?
All right, without further ado,
let me go ahead and get my screen going here.
All right, I'd love to introduce you
to tonight's guest mentor.
Jake is so humble.
Jake, this is what he wrote about himself
when I asked him for a bio.
Jake is an entrepreneur who lives in Redding, California.
He's originally from Tennessee.
Jake and I found out that he is from a little town
in Tennessee that my grandparents lived in
when I was a kid.
In fact, before Jake, I had never even heard
another person even utter the name of this little city.
And I'll let him say the city name
because I am hopelessly a Yankee and I am hooked on phonics.
So I will say Shelbyville, but we know that that's not true.
And he'll say what the name of it is.
He grew up a Methodist.
Okay, don't judge him.
He had no idea about spiritual things
until he got baptized in the Holy Spirit
when he was 25 years old.
And he has been feasting on God ever since.
Very humble, beautiful bio.
He's a lot more than that.
He's an entrepreneur, he's a business owner.
He's an amazing husband.
Someday I'm sure he'll be a father too,
but right now he is our guest mentor in dreams.
I believe that God has given him a gift
and that is why I brought him here to you
because he's going to share that wisdom and knowledge
and that gift with us tonight.
Without further ado, Jake, take it away.
Yeah, thank you so much.
It's such an honor to be here.
Um, this is a, something I've been looking forward to do for a very long time.
Um, and the way you say it, if you're from my hometown is shovel, kind of
just mumble it all together, shovel.
And, uh, yeah, so, uh, you know, um, I've been, I'm 44 now.
So it was almost 20 years of just going after the Lord and really having
just a passion for spiritual things.
And, uh, what I've realized is like people dream all the time and often
don't know what the heck God's saying to them.
And so I just have a real passion to help people understand.
And I'm going to just lay some really quick, uh, foundation for you guys.
Um, but before we even do any of like the, the basic teaching, um, I really
feel the Holy spirit wanted to start with an activation.
So what we're going to do is, um, I'll give you the instructions because
the kingdom of heaven is active and interactive.
It's not just words.
So we want you to, I want you to interact and engage Holy spirit.
Everything that I do is going to be teaching you to consult him because he
is the one that is the spirit of truth.
Right.
And so I don't want to create a method.
I want to create relationship and intimacy.
So, um, what we're going to do is really simple.
And in just a minute, you are going to close your eyes and you're going to
ask Holy spirit, what gift he wants to give you tonight and what is it for?
Very basic.
Okay.
And when I say go, you'll close your eyes.
You'll ask what gift are you giving me?
What is it for?
And you can, you can write it down.
You can take notes on your phone, whatever you feel.
Um, but engaging Holy spirit is the most important thing.
It's way more important than listening to me.
So, uh, all right guys.
So on the count of three, you will go.
Okay.
One, two, three.
All right, guys, you can come back from heaven, come back to earth.
So that's, that's just the beginning, right?
We're just going to have a good old time.
So I'm gonna lay out some foundation for you guys.
We're just going to learn about a little bit about who we are, how available, uh,
dreams are understanding is, and it's not for a select few.
It's not for just like a special profit.
It's for everyone, all y'all.
All right.
I'm going to share, um, real quick.
Oh, maybe not.
Maybe not.
Can I, is Jackie, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I,
can I share a PowerPoint?
You sure can.
Let me go ahead and give you permission for that.
And once you're done laying this, um, I will come on and split the screen with
you and we'll go into those frequently FAQs.
Uh, let's see.
There you go.
You should be able to now.
You guys see it?
Not yet.
Sorry, minor technical difficulties.
It's fine.
It happens all the time.
I can't see what you're doing, but it did start to share and then it just.
Went away so maybe just exit out and try again.
Yeah.
I don't know what's going on.
While Jake is figuring out sharing his screen Why don't you guys just go ahead and put up in the chat what heaven told you about the gift that you are to receive tonight someone said helps.
You know what helps where you can find that in the list of the gifts of the spirit and helps is exactly what it sounds like you're the gift of help.
You know, God will send you to be, you know, his hands and his feet and his help in the church out of the church.
Being someone who's there to comfort and to instruct and to guide and to just put your hands to the plow.
Okay, look at all those different beautiful things that are coming up there you guys take a look at each other's celebrate with each other and hold each other accountable to that because it's a gift.
But once you get a gift, what do you do with it you use it.
You use it, and the way that you can the gift that God gives to you is his gift to you but what you do with that gift is your gift back to him into the world.
All right, here comes the IT department. Yep.
All those spells wife.
And is it here.
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Sorry.
All right, here we go.
See it.
Yes, I can see it. Can everyone see it.
I literally did that I have no idea why it didn't work.
But you can, it's all about.
Yes, yes, yes. So, back on track. All right. I think God wanted to demonstrate the gifts of helps. Oh absolutely. It was a life a real life experience.
All right guys. So, um, there's good news.
Everybody can understand your dreams, it like I said, it's not for the special few, it's for all Jesus made it that all get to play.
So, really just a foundation of identity. You are a son or daughter.
Hebrews 416 says that you come boldly before the throne of grace to attain mercy in your time, time of need.
And the interesting thing if you're coming before a throne, that means you're also coming at the king or a queen.
And then when you're coming as a king or a queen you also have the ability to rule and to reign and have dominion authority in the earth.
And to release heaven on earth.
You guys like want to hear some testimonies as well some stories.
Absolutely. Yeah.
So, um, Ephesians is a beautiful book, it shares really who we are in Christ it outlines our place in heaven.
Over all the powers and authorities and who we are in Jesus.
And when I was in first year of the School of Ministry here in Reading, California and 2011, I was had a few minutes before class.
Lord was like, why don't you sit down while your rides coming pick they'll be there in a few minutes pick you up.
It's okay.
Sat down and close my eyes turn on soaking music.
And I see a picture of Jesus standing before me wearing a robe made out of a rainbow.
I said, Wow, Jesus.
That's the most beautiful rainbow robe I've ever seen in my life.
And he said, Would you like a piece?
I said, Of course.
So I bowed down on one knee and extended my hand like a good Christian boy.
And I could just see him standing over me.
And I could see his shadow.
But he wasn't moving.
And I looked up, and he said, you don't get it.
You're a son.
You don't get a piece.
You get the whole thing.
And he took off his robe and put me, wrapped it around me.
And that's just such a clear demonstration of nothing
has been withheld.
We have everything.
Jesus gave us everything.
And we have full access at all times
to every spiritual gift in the heavenly realms.
John 3, 12, and 13, Nicodemus is asking Jesus,
he's like, how do I get into heaven?
And he says, well, you've got to be born again.
And he says, do I go back into my mom?
And he's like, no, no, no.
And then he says, well, how can you
understand spiritual things if you don't understand
basic things?
Then he says something very perplexing.
He says, no one has ascended into the heavenly realms
except the Son of Man.
And that's past tense, which means
that's before the Resurrection.
That's before he was crucified.
He was saying that I'm doing this already.
I am experiencing a realm of heaven
currently while I'm on the Earth.
And I'm ascending into those realms all the time.
He made that a past tense statement.
And we are spirit beings first.
Always, emphatically, we are spirit beings
having a human experience.
The heavenly realm is actually more our home.
In fact, in Ephesians 2, 6, he says
that we've been seated in heavenly places.
Like right now, we're having a dual reality experience.
We're in heaven and on Earth simultaneously.
I mean, if that doesn't get you excited,
that means that everything in heaven,
you're currently experiencing it right now,
even if you're not aware of it.
All the angels, all the glory, all the spectacular things,
we're actually seated there experiencing those things
with Jesus in heaven currently.
John 10, 27, he says very clearly,
he says, my sheep hear my voice.
So it's in our DNA, it's who we are.
How many of you know dreams is a language?
It's a voice of God, one of his many facets.
It's one of the many ways that he speaks.
Old Testament, the Bible,
it's a language of God, a voice of God.
And it's one of the many ways that he speaks.
Versus New Testament realities,
this could go on for hours, but we have minutes.
Real simple, Old Testament is a visitation experience.
New Testament is a habitation experience.
None of the prophets had Jesus living inside of them.
In the New Testament,
we have Holy Spirit living inside of us.
We have Colossians 1, 27,
Jesus, the hope of glory lives inside of us.
Colossians 3, we've been hidden in Christ.
Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father,
but if we've been hidden in Christ,
that also means that if you've seen us,
that they've seen the Father.
So a cosmic glory sandwich that we've been invited into.
Interesting thing is,
anyone who is in Christ can interpret dreams.
That means you.
That means me, then everybody.
The Corinthian church was operating
in so much gifting and anointing
that they thought that Paul had to create protocols.
Very clearly, he gave them prophecy protocols.
He gave them all sorts of protocols.
They thought that some people were operating
in certain things, like say miracles,
or healing, or word of knowledge,
or gift of wisdom, whatever.
And they thought it was all different spirits.
And Paul said, nope, guess what?
It's all the same spirit.
It's all Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit's giving the gift of miracles,
it's giving the gift of tongue,
giving the gift of interpretation of tongues,
also giving the gift of dreams
and interpretation of dreams.
It's all Holy Spirit.
We all have full access all the time,
100% unequivocally access to Holy Spirit,
heavenly realms, fun stuff that's exciting all the time.
And it never stops.
And here's an interesting thing, Joseph and Daniel both, when asked about interpreting
dreams, they both said something that's very interesting.
They said, all interpretation belongs to God.
They didn't even have Jesus living inside of them.
They didn't even have all their sins paid for, and free access to heaven, free reign
a hundred percent of the time, and they still knew that they could interpret dreams.
They knew that God would speak to them, and that the Lord would show them exactly the
answers to their mystical experiences, to the dreams, to the riddles, to the dark sayings,
etc.
How much more can we, because it says that we are, that even the least in the kingdom
of heaven is greater than the greatest, which was John the Baptist in the Old Testament
in the law.
How much more can we demonstrate the kingdom and show everyone exactly what the Lord is
saying?
Especially in our own lives.
The Father obviously wants to speak to us in ways that kind of take us on a journey.
He wants to take you on a journey.
He wants to show you all sorts of wonderful things, break down metaphors, teach you exciting
things.
He's not hiding them from you to make them complicated and scary.
So Holy Spirit, I'll say this.
God has invited us on the most exciting game of hide and seek that the universe has ever
seen.
Proverbs 25.2 says that it's the glory of God to conceal the matter, and it's the glory
of kings to search the matter out.
It is the most beautiful game of cat and mouse, hide and seek, whatever you want to call it,
that we get to experience God and learn how he speaks to us in ways that we would have
never understood.
We get to understand a facet and an expression of the way he thinks and the way he sees,
and we get invited into a beautiful dance.
And that's the foundation, real simple.
You have full access.
I'll tell you one real quick testimony, one more fun story that kind of builds off of
the rainbow robe.
A year later, I was in ministry school during a worship session, and I was having this really
crazy experience.
It was all in my mind.
It was just, it felt like I was making it up 100%.
In fact, if I didn't have somebody confirm it at the end, I would have said I totally
made it up.
And so, I was having, in my mind's eye, I was seeing myself in the halls of heaven,
and the Lord said, you get to pick your mantle.
And I was like, oh, okay.
And so he took me into this giant hallway full of light, and it was like, the ceilings
were like 50 feet high, and it was beautiful.
And he said, pick your mantle out.
I said, okay.
And I took all of them.
I took every single mantle that was available.
I said, because I learned my lesson, Jesus.
You told me that I got everything.
There's no limitation.
I didn't get just one.
I got all of them.
And he laughed, and he's like, you learned, you learned the lesson well.
So I just want to impart that to you guys.
There's no limitation, zero.
There's no lack, and everything, every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms is truly yours.
You truly get to experience it.
You get to have fun with it, and you get to have fun.
God wants his kids to have fun.
He's the most fun and exciting God there, I mean, he's just so much fun.
So that's just the basic foundation of how I think about dreams, and why everybody gets
to play.
I hope that was a little bit exciting and encouraging, and kind of make it a little
simple and more approachable.
That's the whole goal.
I love it.
I love the mantle.
I love the mantle gallery.
I love that.
Can you hear me?
I love the mantle gallery.
I love the idea of that.
I also had a vision.
In fact, I want to put on the list, what's the difference between a vision and a dream?
I had a vision when I was awake of a mantle coming upon me, and so I've had kind of an
experience with a mantle too.
For those of you that don't know what a mantle is, we take that from the Old Testament and
the New Testament, and it's like an anointing.
It's like a calling.
It's like an assignment.
It's like a, you know, it's an identifier.
Your mantle was an identifier.
identifier of what you were carrying and what it is that you were doing on
assignment for God. And so, um, that is what a mantle is.
A mantle is passed down through families a lot of times, um,
as well as different ministries. You may have picking up,
you may have picked up a mantle from a former mentor. Um,
I believe that we can impart mantles to each other during teaching.
And that's what we hope to do tonight.
A lot of you probably have believed that dream interpretation is only for
special people, but Jake just showed us, um,
as he taught us the foundation, um, for tonight.
And the foundation is always identity that has sons and daughters of God that
are in Christ,
that we can have access to the heavenly realms that we can have access to
wisdom. You can have access to dream interpretation.
And so the mantle that he's carrying, um,
he can impart that to us as well, um, tonight as he teaches us.
And so it's going to be exciting, huh? All right. I don't need any,
I don't need any junior teachers in the chats tonight.
We're going to let Jake be the teacher tonight.
And so if you know enough to be dangerous about dreams,
you can go ahead and keep that to yourself tonight.
And we're going to go ahead and listen and focus. Um,
as we dive into our frequently asked questions,
I put up a post in all of the groups that just babies basically simply said,
if we have a mentor that comes to talk about dreams,
what would you want to know?
And we gathered all of that content that you guys put up from those posts and
Jake and I went through it and we decided on what we thought would be the most
important. And then at the end tonight, for about the last 15 minutes,
we're going to go ahead and take, um, live questions,
meaning you can put them in the chat. So hold them until the end.
I'll let you know when it's time. Remember no dreams for interpretation,
just questions. Sound good. All right, Jake, are you ready?
I'm ready. I'm excited. I am very excited.
I think dreams are fascinating.
I just want to go on record as saying Jake that I don't remember my dreams very
often. I don't. And so when I do, it's pretty amazing. And I'm like, Whoa,
what does this mean? Um, so let's just start out with that question.
How can I increase my dreams if this is the way that God communicates,
but it's not happening to me very often.
What can I practically do to increase dreaming? Yeah, totally. Well, I mean,
I'll say this for last night. So right now we're in Reading.
We're having the school to province long days, like 13 hour days.
And I would dreamed all night long last night. But when I woke up,
I couldn't remember a lick of it. Like it was gone. And I tried.
And so I will say this,
that there are times when dreams are not meant to be remembered.
Um, and it's your soul processing things or just,
or the Lord is speaking to you about certain things that you're not supposed to
know yet, but your spirit is. And so that happens. Um, and then,
yeah. And then also as ways that you can practically kind of develop
that and culture that, uh, reality in your life, um,
screens limiting screen time is huge. So, um,
I would recommend and I don't do this. I'm preaching to myself right now.
I do it sometimes, uh, but we're all growing, right.
We're all growing and developing. Um, I,
I do have a blue blocker on my screen though. So that helps, but I would say,
um, two hours before bed, uh,
reduce screens to almost nothing. Um, if you absolutely have to understand,
obviously things happen, but definitely reduce a screen, a screen time.
That's huge. Uh,
going to bed consistently at the same times and getting up at the same times is
very important. Um, getting a good rest, of course,
managing stress levels. Those things will, you know, are super important as well.
You want to take care of your body, uh, eat well. You know,
if you're eating like a bunch of garbage, a bunch of sugar, uh,
drinking alcohol,
even those things will definitely affect your sleep and you don't hit the good
REM cycles and you don't have good opportunity for your body to rest and have
the good dreams. Journaling, super important,
write your dreams down. The more you write them down,
the more you will have dreams to write down. That's just how it works.
Um, yeah, I would encourage that. Pay attention to, yeah. Uh,
what time your dream happened, the dates, write those things down. Yeah. Uh,
and cause when you write them down,
it gives Holy spirit something to breathe on and bring things to attention.
And he begins to show you stuff. So those would be some practical things.
Yeah, that's really practical. And what I love about, first of all,
I love it when we have practical application to supernatural things,
cause that's really important. Um,
but what I love about what you're saying and what you're not saying is
that you're saying it without saying it, what you value, you get more of.
Yes.
So friends, if you value God speaking to you in dreams, then prepare for that.
Keep a little, keep a little, um, pad of paper and a pen, a little.
journal beside your bed, get ready for dreams.
One thing that I have found definitely, Jake,
is that if I do have a dream, which is infrequently,
and I wake up and I remember it,
if I go back to sleep, when I wake up again, I will not.
I will not remember it.
I will know that I had a dream, but I will not remember it.
You know, you think it's so poignant when you wake up,
you're like, I'll never forget this.
How could I ever forget?
And then you do, and you're like, what?
Yeah.
How did I forget?
Okay, so make sure if you do remember
that you write it down.
That is really, really important.
Okay, so let's go to the next question here.
What are the different types of dreams?
Yeah.
What are the different types of dreams?
Yeah, there's, well, there's God dreams, of course.
And then like-
Yeah.
Within God dreams, you have identity dreams,
you have calling dreams, destiny dreams,
intercession dreams, even warning dreams.
I can give you some examples.
Some dreams I've had where those things were happening,
if that's helpful.
Yeah, let's do that one.
Yeah, so years ago, probably 20 years ago,
I had a dream where I was driving a car,
and all of a sudden I pass a school bus.
School bus stops, and it's Bill Heyman,
who was like a major prophet.
But funny, he didn't look like Bill Heyman in the dream.
He just looked like a bus driver.
But I knew, spiritually, I knew it was Bill Heyman.
He stopped.
He said, the Lord is gonna train you in dreams.
Or sorry, the Lord's gonna train you in visions.
And then he said, follow me.
So I followed him on the school bus,
and I went up Windy Hill
into like an Ivy League type university.
It's very ornate and intricately architectured.
And then I started teaching about visions in the dream.
And so the interpretation is pretty simple.
And in the dream, my GPS was going crazy.
So what the Lord was saying is that you can't get there
by man's knowledge and technology.
This is not something man can do.
Can't follow the GPS.
You gotta follow the Lord.
You gotta follow the Spirit.
And then he was showing me that it was a high-level teaching
because I was in an Ivy League school,
so it was like a very prestigious calling.
And then also, I was learning as I taught,
so that was the thing,
because I was just getting thrown in.
I remember I stood up in front of the class,
and I was tucking my shirt in, and it was like, go.
And so there was this whole,
so that was like destiny calling everything,
all in one dream.
I love that, and it's so weird
because even though I don't have a lot of prophetic dreams,
I have a Bill Heyman dream too.
Do you?
That's amazing.
Yes, I have a Bill Heyman dream too.
I was just beginning to move in the supernatural.
I was just beginning to be freed up
to move in some of the gifts of the Spirit.
This is 20 years ago almost.
And I had a dream,
and in the dream, I was riding on a motorcycle.
So this can kind of segue into the dreams
that have to do with transportation,
like planes, trains, automobiles, all the things.
In the dream, I was riding on a motorcycle,
and I was just digging in and out of traffic,
and I was going all these places that cars can't go.
And when I woke up, I was like, what in the world was that?
And I asked you guys, you need to ask Holy Spirit.
And I was like, what is this?
What is this dream about?
And Holy Spirit spoke to me and said,
that's the prophetic, the motorcycle.
That is the calling of the prophetic,
and you are called to the prophetic,
specifically to be a prophet and trained as a prophet,
and you need to go to prophet school in Florida.
So the internet was a baby and Google was a thing,
and I Googled prophet school in Florida
and what popped up at Christian International
and Bill Heyman, and there was prophet school
that started the very next week.
And so I used all the money that I had,
and I jumped in the car and I went to prophet school
the very next week in Florida,
and that's where I was trained in the prophetic,
you know, 17-ish years ago.
That's crazy, that's awesome.
Isn't that fun?
Okay, so we both have Bill Heyman dreams.
You guys, if you don't know, he's an OG, OG prophet.
Yeah.
The best of the best.
Yeah, and then there's soul dreams,
and then there are body dreams and even nightmares.
So those are like the four categories.
Okay.
Yeah, go ahead.
Let's break them down.
So let's talk about God dreams versus soul dreams.
So spirit dreams versus soul dreams.
Let's talk about that.
Yeah, so a lot of times in our soul,
like we'll be processing things.
Maybe there's something that we're worried about,
or maybe there's even something like,
I know for instance, like a lot of you guys are singles,
right, and so I remember when I would go through a breakup,
I would have a ton of dreams about like an individual,
and I'd think, oh, we're getting back together.
No, we weren't. It was just my soul processing the pain or the
whatever the the heart deferred me, you know, hope deferred
means a heart sick, right? So it was like, there's things to
process. And so a lot of times, it was just the catharsis of how
to like deal with that. You can have where maybe there's
something you're stuck on, you're just kind of you maybe
have the same dream over and over. And it's maybe something
the Lord's like highlighting things like that. Trying to
think of something else. Yeah, that's the main question. Let's
take the example of because a lot of people come to me and
they say, Hey, I keep seeing this person in my dream. And in
the dream, you know, they're in love with me in the dream. It's
a romantic situation. It is either someone that they've
never met before, and they can't quite see their face. And or
it's someone that they know, that's not romantically
interested in them. As far as they know, what do we do with
that dream? You continuously, you know, dream about the
assistant pastor who single and in the dreams, he's romantically
interested in you.
Obviously, that's the Lord. No, that is not the Lord. You know,
we, we have everybody has such a desire for connection and to
find, you know, connection with people and different things. And
I tell almost everybody 99% of those types of dreams are not
about you actually having any connection beyond in your mind,
but with an individual, and I would watch them to I would
encourage them to really guard their hearts. And it could just
be the Lord showing, showing you something that is something
you're processing through, or maybe there's a part of your
heart that want is longing for something. But you know,
obviously, like, if you're dreaming about, you know, a
relationship with somebody that's married, it's like,
okay, there's something that I'm longing for, maybe I'm longing
for marriage, right? But it's not the Lord's not saying you're
gonna marry that individual. That's not even though that's
what we want to hear. That's, that's not what's happening. So
so what do we how do we invite God into, you know, if we can
interpret our own dreams, and we're having dreams, in which we
are being courted, or we're being pursued by someone who,
you know, is either ineligible, like what you're talking about,
or, as far as we know, they're not interested in us like that,
or they're just someone we don't know, how do we decide whether
that's a spirit dream, a soul dream, whether it's a demonic
dream, you know, like, how do how do we figure that out?
So usually, what I do is I tend to look for typologies of Jesus
in the dream. So let's say, for instance, like, oh, I had a
dream about a pastor that well, yeah, a female pastor, and I was
married to her. But I'm married right now, guys, just so you can
see my finger. But so I have a wife,
Mary job is Mary. Stop. Don't even think about it. All right,
go ahead.
So if I had a if I had a dream about a female pastor, that
wasn't, it wasn't sexual wasn't perverse. It was just like I was
married to them. I would say that the Lord is probably giving
me a desire for his church or for his bride. That's the avenue
that I would go with that. Because it's like, oh, well,
obviously, Jesus is married to the church, right? And pastors
are married to the church, that sort of thing. And it could be
that the Lord's given me a greater access and a greater
authority in the church. And it has nothing to do with a
relationship per se, it's more of a calling and a
responsibility. And so if anything, that's a greater call
for me to like guard my heart and be aware of those things.
So that's good. And what I've also seen too, and just coaching
singles, is that a lot of times Jesus will show up in our dreams
in a, in a package that we recognize. So if you're in your
dream, if you're being pursued, and it just if it makes you feel
good in the dream, if in the dream, you feel good, you don't
feel shamed, it's not sexual to the point where you feel shamed,
you feel you feel seen known and loved in the dream by this
pursuit of this individual. A lot of times that is just Jesus
showing up as the suitor. Okay, as your betrothed as your
fiance, so to speak, showing up in the dream in a in a package
that you recognize. Yeah, you know, the reason why Jesus came
to earth to die for us is he came as God robed in flesh in a
package we would recognize, which is flesh. Okay, and that
happens in our dreams to Jesus will show up and and and woo us
and court us and try to draw us in. And that's important to
understand that as well.
I mean, how graphic
cannot be. I had a dream where I was actually having intercourse
with my mom. But it wasn't it wasn't perverted at all. I knew
it was Holy Spirit showing me that he was inviting me into
deeper intimacy with him because my mom was a representation of
Holy Spirit. It had nothing to do with anything perverted at
all. But right, quite graphic in the sense of like, that seems
outside of the box of how God would speak, but he spoke in a
way that was very clear, without being perverted or
defiling, which was really powerful.
And I think that's important that we should let people know,
you know, how do your dreams not just what's happening in your
dreams? How does it make you feel? Oh, it's huge. How does
it make you feel? Okay, because that's important thing to look
at when you're when you're waking up from your dream, and
it has all this different symbolism, we're going to get
into that question right now. You know, how does it make you
feel? Are you coming out of it feeling like scared? And you
know, any negative list of negative things, disgusted,
scared, ashamed, you know, or you coming out saying, yeah,
that was weird. But I felt really good in the dream. I felt
really, you know, comforted. I felt loved. I felt, you know,
it's important that we take a look at that as well. So let's
talk about that, Jake, let's talk about literal versus
figurative. Let's talk about literal dreams, versus
figurative, like, for instance, say, it's an instruction dream.
You know, should I take that literally? Or is God talking to
me figuratively? And how do I know the difference? Like, a lot
of people have questions about warning dreams, something
happens in the dream, like, is it literal? Like, like, say, I
meet a new friend, and then I dream about in the in the dream,
they're gossiping about me. And they're like, they're, they're
backstabbing me, they're talking about me behind my back, you
know, and stuff. And then in the dream, you know, I confront
and, and then I'm not friends with them anymore. You know, how
do I know whether something is literal? And it's something that
I should take action on? Or it's just once again, my soul
processing, former betrayal with friends, and now I have a new
friend. And now I'm scared that they're gonna betray me. Like,
how do I know the difference?
Yeah, that's a good question. Um, so obviously, any dream
anything like that, you always have to take it to Holy Spirit
and ask, he's, he's the spirit of truth, he's gonna help you
navigate those things. How you feel in the, in the dream? Like,
did you feel like they were judging you? Were they like,
were you? Were there were really negative emotions attached to
that? super important, I would always if it's something to like
maybe intercede about, maybe, maybe there's a friend that has
a potential or a tendency to gossip a bit. Holy Spirit will
show you those things. And kind of guide you along how to
navigate that. But I will, if you have a history of, you know,
people going behind your back and backstabbing you, and
there's a lot of pain that has it's unresolved. Almost 100% of
the time, those things will spill over into your dream.
Because, and just in everyday life, you're going to project
those feelings on people, because if it's not resolved,
and so we'll, it will bleed out. So that's something that you
have to, who ascends the hill of the Lord, well, those with a
clean hand and a pure heart, right? Same thing with, with
relationships with dreams, etc.
That's good. And I think that, you know, you guys can put up in
the chat, just say, you know, me or give a thumbs up. Some of us
have recurrent, reoccurring dreams, you know, and, and, you
know, I had a reoccurring dream when I was a child over and over
again, I would dream that, that my mom was in a like a little
biplane. And we lived on the beach, we lived on Lake Erie,
and the plane would crash, and the dream plane would crash. And
I would be the first person to run out of our backyard down to
the beach, I'd be the first person on the scene. And she'd
be stuck in the sand, almost like quicksand. And I would be
trying to pull her out and save her and I never was able to, I
was never able to save her in that dream. And I would have
that dream over and over and over and over again. And in
real life, you know, my mom was in a lot of really bad abusive
marriages and situations when I was a child, I always felt
responsible for her like, like I was her mother, and she was my
child. And then at the end of her life, I also she got very
ill, and she passed away very prematurely, in my opinion, in
early 60s. And I always was trying to save her, you know. And
so in that dream, I mean, I'm sure that there's typology with
the plane and the sand and all the different things. But at the
same time, the higher the hierarchy of under of meaning in
that dream is I'm just always trying to save my mom, and I
just can't.
Mm hmm. You know, just working that out in the soul realm and
in the spirit realm, because, you know, I can't save her. I'm
not her savior. So let's see those thoughts. Let's see those
thumbs up for reoccurring dreams. Lots of people having
reoccurring dreams. So what should we do with reoccurring
dreams? If we're having a dream over and over and over again?
What should we do with that?
Yeah, that's also an excellent question. I think it would, it
would really depend on the, the type of dream, like, I think for
a dream, like your example, Jackie, I think. I think that's
one of those things where you need to invite Jesus in. And
just say, Jesus, what are you what are you trying to show me
about this and ask him where he is in the dream. And so you can
see because there's something that is, you know, when that
dream was happening, however many years ago, that your your
soul or spirit just kept going back to, and you're looking for
some sort of answer. And, and if you can invite Jesus into that
into the dream, and let him reveal himself, that can be
healed and redeemed. And then that part of our heart can be
restored, and we can move back. Because a lot of those things
are just the traumatic cycle that we're, you know, keep
getting pulled back into.
Right. And I obviously haven't had that dream in many, many
years. And so you guys heard it, if you're having a reoccurring
dream, invite Jesus, where's Jesus in that dream, and that
thing that's happening, especially if it's a dream
that's disturbing, you know, where, where, where, where is
Jesus in that dream? You know, invite him to show you where he
is in that dream. And that brings us to nightmares. And,
and really, by proxy, can the devil infiltrate our dreams?
Yes, and no. So here's the thing. It depends purely on
what you believe. You have all authority in heaven and earth.
And Jesus said, I have all authority in heaven, earth,
that's been given to me. And guess what I give it to you. We
so we we have all authority over the enemy. It's been given to
us. So if you believe that he has access to your dream world,
then guess what you have given him authority and access to your
dream world. If you believe that he doesn't, because you have the
authority, you have the ability to say no, it says in Luke that
behold, I've been given authority to trample on us
serpents and scorpions, and they shall by no means harm you. He
doesn't have access. He has to literally do what we say. And I
think we forget that a lot of times. Now, does that mean Oh,
if I had a bad dream, right? You know, maybe I was something,
especially maybe as a kid. That was very terrifying, etc. Does
that mean like, oh, he has access to me? No, not at all. It
just means that he, he bullied, he bullied his way in, he
overstepped his bounds. And now you have the knowledge, the
authority and the anointing to kick him out. Yeah, don't let
it doesn't. He only has access if we give him permission. Pure
and simple.
Yeah, amen. I used to not have nightmares, but I used to have
night terrors, but I would just just wake up kind of in a panic
attack. And so I got into the habit before I would go to sleep
of just giving, you know, giving permission to the Holy Spirit to
be in charge of me when I was unconscious. You know, so you
know, there, there's no spirit that's allowed here. But the
Holy Spirit when I'm unconscious, you know, I'm, I'm
under the protection of Jesus and Holy Spirit. And so I think
that it's important that we understand that before we go to
bed at night, you're going to be in that unconscious state, that
you are protected. Psalm 91, Psalm 91, and those things that
you want to speak over yourself and really declare that over
yourself, especially if you have a child that has night terrors,
you can lead them in that type of prayer as well. So they feel
like you can even make it fun for them, like a Holy Spirit
force field around them, you know, you can be very
descriptive with it so that they understand that that's
important. Let's talk about I know, people are putting stuff
up, because people don't follow directions. And I love y'all,
but we're going to hold those questions to the end. Okay, I
know you're getting excited, and you want to talk about all the
different things. And I want to talk about it, too. But we're
going to go in order. So we don't miss any of the fun
things that you guys already asked in your posts leading up
to this session. And that is lucid dreams. So everyone has
had these go ahead and put a thumbs up if you've had a dream
where in the dream, you literally say this is just a
dream. Like you know that you're in a dream state in that dream.
And it can be bad something happening you don't like and
you're kind of willing yourself to wake up or it can be good.
And you're like, I don't want to wake up. I'm going to
to you and you actually start having some control because you
know, you're dreaming and you start kind of manipulating your
dream, right? Maybe it's a little sexy time dream, right?
And you're liking what you're feeling in that dream where this
person is like, you know, loving you and you're like, and you may
not know who that person is, but you're like, I'm gonna stay in
the stream for a while. I know I'm dreaming, but I'm gonna
start manipulating this dream. You know, maybe your your crush
is liking you back or whatever's happening. Maybe you're winning
the lottery and you start manipulating the dream. What is
that? Jake?
Yeah. Um, so I've had that happen a couple times. That is
where your, your, your, your spirit man's fully awake, and
you're aware of it. And you are in control, you can you could
manipulate the dream. But I'll share this. I remember the
story a pastor told, he came out of his body, and he was able he
was going through walls and different houses. And he knew
for a fact that he could, he could go into somebody's
bedroom and see them naked, and they would not be able to see
him. But he regarded the gift of the Lord allowing him to do
that so highly, he would never do something like that. And so
what I'm getting at is, I'll say this, the spirit of the prophet
is subject to the prophet, you have the ability to choose, and
you have the what to do and how to operate and how to activate
it. Same thing with this, like if you're in a realm of sleep
and a dream realm, and you're actively aware of it, and you're
able to kind of, you know, like, pick and choose your own
adventure. Remember those old books? Yeah. Yeah, if you're if
you're doing that, you also you have a responsibility of a moral
responsibility to the Lord, to choose righteous and holy
things. So
you're saying basically, whatever you choose to do in
your dream that you know that you have that you're basically
exercising free will and choice over, you're gonna you're
accountable for that. Absolutely accountable for what it is that
you're entertaining in your dream. And, and let's let's face
it, a lot of times the dreams where we're lucid, and we know
that we're dreaming, and then we start manipulating the dream.
I'm not saying that we start, you know, getting into maybe,
you know, hedonistic stuff. But a lot of times we might cross
some boundaries with that because, oh, it's just a dream.
And so yeah, so that is that that's good. Going back to me on
my motorcycle. And that was, you know, a prophetic word to go
down to profit school. Let's talk about vehicles. Go ahead
and give us a thumbs up if you've dreamed about being in
vehicles, whether it's boats, or planes, or trains,
automobiles, motorcycles, all that stuff. Let's see those. I'm
sure everyone's gonna raise their hand. I was taught years
ago that vehicles are depiction of ministry or assignment in
some way, shape, or form. What do you think about that? Jake?
Yeah, I mean, that's often true. It can definitely be those
things. It can be a ministry. But since 98% of people aren't
in a quote unquote ministry, it is often our vocation, our work,
whatever career, whatever we're doing. So you often will have
and a lot of times the car, the vehicle will be indicative of
that, like if it's a motorcycle or a four door car or a van or a
bus, etc. It has to do with Oh, like, you're going motorcycle
real quick and, and undercover, maybe, whereas a car, maybe
you're taking people with you, it could be a sports car, like,
oh, you're going quick. You know, there's a bus, well, maybe
you're taking your if you're driving it, you're maybe taking
a community of people with you, you're taking a whole group,
there's, there's all sorts of different things, you could be
in a helicopter, well, it's probably a short term mission
that's very specific, short, shorter distance, shorter
interval, whereas a plane could be, you know, going long, could
be about vision and the prophetic and the apostolic,
there's a lot of things that get unlocked in that got to pay
attention to the colors, there's grace, like, if it's a blue car,
maybe there's a lot of grace for this new season, maybe it's a
red car, it's, you know, it's a warrior car, there's, there's
all sorts of things. Look at the tires is off road vehicle, can
they go all sorts of places? Or is it street only, there's
things to pay attention to, there's a lot being said
pictures worth 1000 words.
I love that. And so friends, what we're saying is, you know,
while some parts of your dream might be literal, a lot of them
could be figurative. And so it's important for you to kind of
read the signs in your dream, you know, pay attention. And
when you're writing down your dreams, try to write down as
much detail as you can. You know, when people give me their
dreams, and they want me to interpret those dreams, I asked
for as much detail as possible, not just about
what was happening, but about what, how you felt about what was happening.
And, you know, and even really what that meant to you, everything means
something different to everybody, right?
Everything means something different.
Like, for instance, if you had a dream about a blue Pinto, you know, that
might just be like, Oh, there was a blue Pinto for Pinto in my dream.
Well, that was the car that my mom had when I was a little girl.
And so if I dreamt about a blue Ford Pinto, do you see what I'm saying?
How different things mean different things to different people.
And so it's important.
Um, one fun thing, Jake, I want to say is that I show up in a lot of people's dreams.
And so a lot of people will send me and say, Hey, you were in my dream.
In fact, someone just said, that's just here.
Caitlin said, um, I was in the car with you, Jackie, and you were laying
hands on me and praying over me.
Um, people have dreams about me all the time that I'm helping
them get ready for their wedding.
And you see all different types of preparation type dreams or teaching
dreams, or I'm giving them instruction or wisdom in a dream and telling them
what to do, um, which, you know, I tell people what to do in real life too.
Um, but you know, um, what happens if someone.
I mean, obviously the people that have these dreams about me are people that
have either read my book or people who read my books or people that are in my
courses usually, but what if I start having dreams about, you know, some other
person, you know, that's kind of some, someone that people know, you know,
what if like Madonna's in my dream or like, you know, you understand what I'm
saying?
Like, what, what, what does that mean when we start having, having dreams
about people that are, you know, known?
Yeah.
Um, that's, that could definitely be a calling type dream, uh, like the
realm of influence that you're called to, um, called to minister to, um, kind
of the upper echelon of like the media and entertainment mountain.
Um, it, it depends on the context.
I mean, it could be something, it could be an impartation, you know, you could
be listening to Madonna, uh, speak a song over you and it's Holy spirit speaking
through Madonna and, you know, singing serenading you in a very fun way because
you're a Madonna fan.
It it's, it's context is super important.
Um, I had a dream of George Clooney recently, and I just realized that, uh,
JC or J is like Jesus Christ.
So it was like the, the hard G and George and the Clooney.
And I was like, Oh, it's, it's a type of Jesus Christ.
He gave me a really nice Carl Lagerfeld jacket and I was supposed to wear it and
all this stuff.
And it was, I was anyway, so, but it has nothing to do with me, you know, with
George Clooney whatsoever.
Uh, yeah.
So, yeah.
Okay.
So let's go through, let's do a little popcorn round of common dream imagery.
Okay.
So we just did vehicles.
What about a lot of people have dreams, especially women, uh, they're pregnant.
Yep.
But they're not dreams and, or they're birthing or they're about to give birth
or they're pregnant with multiples.
Like you talked to us about that, that absolutely.
Yeah.
So, uh, that's a lot of times that's literally the Lord is birthing something
in you.
It can also be intercession.
That could be something that the Lord is calling you to intercede about, and
you're going to birth it in the spirit.
Um, you know, uh, babies can be, could be all, it can be the Lord showing you
like how kind of mature the gifting is or the, whatever your birthing is, how
long, how long it's come along.
Um, you know, a lot of times you can have, uh, it could be like, so you have
like three babies in a, in a dream.
It could be like three different spiritual gifts or three different
seasons that the Lord is highlighting.
Um, it all just really, it's just comes down to what Holy spirit is saying about
it.
Um,
and I really want to encourage you that have dreams about birthing.
I want you to encourage, or being pregnant.
I want you to ask God after you wake up with those dreams, what your baby's names
are.
I remember I was pregnant with multiples in a dream.
And when I woke up, God gave me the names of each of my babies.
And it wasn't like, you know, John and, you know, uh, Laura, it wasn't like
that.
It was the name of some different assignments and different things that I
was carrying.
And so ask God the names of your babies.
I just want to do a few prophetic things right here because I'm seeing in the
chat.
So we'll, we'll, we'll move on.
But Angela, uh, I felt like God said that you're a birther.
So you're an intercessor.
You've had a lot of pregnant dreams and you're actually in those dreams.
You're pregnant with breakthrough for people, for things, for even maybe
nations and situations.
And so when you wake up with those pregnant dreams, make sure you ask God,
um, what, what those babies names are, and you'll get your assignment for
intercession, um, from those dreams.
And it could just be, um, you know, you could be praying for the, the mom and
pop store on the corner in your neighborhood.
about to go out of business, because, you know, because of
their their taxes were raised on their building, it could be all
different types of things. So ask God to really tell you what
the names of those babies are flying a lot of people flying
in their dreams, or having some other kind of superpower. What
do you think?
Yeah, so I have flying dreams a lot. They're a lot of fun,
because I've had dreams where I can jump in it. But in the air,
I can just keep jumping. That's usually the Lord is showing you
that you're, there's promotion. And there's also just an
increase of maybe that spiritual gift, or the authority, the, the
access that you have. And then also, the Lord is showing you
that he's increasing your vision, because you have a whole
new perspective when you're higher up like that. So there's
a lot of, there's a lot of fun little things with that. And
also, it could be child likeness, like, because you're
flying, you're doing things. Yeah,
a lot of people have a dream that also that they're either
there will do falling first, a lot of people have falling
dreams, they're falling. They never most of the time, they
never hit the ground. Some people may actually hit the
ground. But most of the times are just falling. What do you
think about that?
Yeah, uh, yeah, I've had I have the falling dreams. Sometimes
usually that's just like, what do they call it? Hypnotic, the
twitch or whatever the I forget what it's called.
Oh, like when you're when you're falling asleep, and you
Yeah, you have the jerk, the jerk, we'll call it the jerk.
Something like that. Anyway, yeah, that's usually when I'll
have that one. I was like, I'll maybe like, walk to the edge of
a trail. And all of a sudden, there's nothing there. And I'm
falling off a cliff. jerk myself up. But that's, I would say if
that's a frequent thing. It could be that you are hesitant
to the next season, the Lord has for you. And like, instead
of embracing it, you're, you're, you think you're just you think
you're just gonna fall into nothing. There's a lot of fun
little things that you could do with that. But
yeah, what about if you're doing something in your dream that you
wouldn't do in real life? Like, what if you're, you know, doing
something illicit, like, you know, abusing drugs or hurting
someone, maybe you're abusing a child in your dream, like
something you've something you've never done in real life,
and something that you never would do. But in your dream,
you're doing it, or you have a desire to do it in your dream,
even if you don't do it. What do you think about?
So like, I've had like three dreams in the last week where I
was smoking weed. I don't smoke weed. And I used to years ago.
And so for me, that's something that the Lord is like, Oh,
you're the old system, the old way of doing things no longer
works for you. And it could and that then that can be something
the Lord's constantly doing, because he's always taking us
glory to glory. So we're always getting shifted. And he's always
bringing us into a new thing. And then I've even had dreams
where I was like, you know, almost punishing myself like as
a like, and I was like, Oh, there's like, there's like inner
healing there, Jake, that needs to happen. Like there's part of
your like, little little guy, the little inner child, that you
haven't allowed to be emotionally healed and restored.
Like, that can be definitely something that's happening. And
it's all, it's all grace, like the Lord is so invested in our,
in our soul healing is third john, verse two, he says that I
pray that you prosper in your in all things just your soul
prospers. And so the Lord is super invested in our soul and
every area of our life having been very prosperous.
Absolutely, you guys, God, God wants you to win. He's for you.
He wants you to win. Carol, I've often found that when I dream
about houses and structures that I'm dreaming about my heart or
someone else's heart. A lot of times houses have to do with
our heart. Especially if you're going into different rooms in
the house, you know, when you wake up from a dream like that,
you know, ask God to show you what those different rooms
represent. And they can represent different parts of
your heart or your life, they can represent different memories
in your life. And in different types of houses, mean different
types of things, but I've always found them to really be
indicative of God doing construction or restructuring
our hearts. Absolutely. Or letting us visit places in our
hearts, rooms and different things that we haven't been to
in a really long time. And so that that's always good. Let's
see. Who put your hands up, put your thumb up. If you've ever
had a dream where you were inappropriately clothed, or just
straight up naked, you were naked in that dream. And you
showed up somewhere and you either didn't have any pants on
maybe you're winning the poo in it. You had a shirt on but no
pants, right?
Winnie the Pooh's got a shirt and no pants,
or maybe you're just straight up butt naked
and you're like, and no one else really seems to notice,
but you're naked, you know, or any version of that dream.
Look at all of those people.
I would just guess that that has, you know,
different fear of vulnerability
and different things attached to it.
But what do you think, Jake?
Yeah, definitely.
That's probably feeling exposed.
That's like you're not maybe ready
for the next thing that's happening,
or you don't feel prepared,
or maybe you have some anxiety towards it,
and you're just like, oh, you know,
and there's, you know, maybe you walk into a classroom,
you say, oh, I'm learning a new thing,
but I sure don't feel it
because I'm butt naked in this classroom, you know?
And it's like the Lord just saying like,
hey, there's some trepidation there.
Let's deal with that
because it's going to hinder what I'm doing in you,
that sort of thing.
But he's just, he's so kind.
Yeah.
For those of you that have dreams about being barefoot,
one of the things that comes to my spirit
when I'm reading that,
and remember, you guys, different dream interpretations,
different strokes for different folks, okay?
And that's why it's important
that we can't lump it all into,
okay, this always means this in a dream.
But a couple of you that put that up,
what I felt in my spirit when you put up,
I'm being at work or at church without shoes on,
or I'm being here without shoes on,
is that, you know, when I was a kid,
there used to be signs in the window of stores
that says no shoes, no shirts, no service.
You know, basically you had to be appropriately clothed
in order to come into establishments
and shoes were part of being appropriately clothed.
But to me, barefoot means childhood and free.
When I'm barefoot, it means like, you know,
I don't have an agenda.
I get to be free.
I get to be a little kid, a child.
And for a couple of you
that have the recurring dream of being barefoot,
I feel like God wants to bring you out of, you know,
this place where you're so structured
and you're doing everything right
and crossing the T's and dotting the I's
into a child likeness where you're not proper
and you're out of order.
And so I just want to release that
over whoever that resonates with.
Fun.
Okay, let's see what else we have here.
Can you get, and I want to tell a little story with this,
but we put down here, Jake,
we put healing and reconciling through a dream.
Yeah, totally.
Reconciling with someone, healing through a dream.
I will tell you guys, back before last year's single,
I used to teach women's groups.
One of them was my WOW Women.
And we used to have a morning prayer call
and women would come to that morning prayer call.
And one of the women that came to that morning prayer call
asked for prayer for a frozen shoulder.
She was a artist
and her shoulder had been frozen for years.
She wasn't able to move her arm.
Her shoulder was frozen.
And we prayed over her that she would be healed.
That next night, she had a dream.
And in the dream, Jesus came to her and said,
move your arm.
And she said, I can't.
And he said, try again.
And in the dream, she moved her arm and it was free
and she could move it.
And she woke up healed.
Super cool, right?
She woke up healed.
So she showed up at our next prayer call healed.
She had gotten healed in her dream by Jesus.
And so let's talk about that.
Let's talk about healing in our dreams
and reconciling maybe with someone in a dream.
What about that?
Yeah, absolutely.
This is random.
It just popped in my head,
but the guy who created the HDMI outlet
that we all use in pretty much all of our multimedia stuff,
he's a Bethel guy and he got it in a dream, the whole plan.
It all came to him in a dream.
Yeah.
Wow, that's great.
God giving us blueprints,
God giving us his instructions.
I definitely have gotten instructions through visions,
you know, being awake.
Okay, so praying, I'm praying.
And then I'm having a vision in my imagination,
in my mind's eye.
Is that like a dream?
I mean, I know that the Bible talks about dreams and visions
and your old men will see dream dreams
and your young men will see visions.
What's the difference and why?
Good question.
I think the difference is visions are simply
when you're awake and dreams,
there are such things like night visions
where you may go somewhere and, you know,
have an experience, that type of thing.
But I think the reason it says
that the old men will dream dreams,
I think it's about the maturity
and that it takes to develop and understand
the figurative and the metaphorical language.
And so that's why the young men have visions
and the old men dream dreams.
I guess that means I'm young still.
I'm excited about that.
I guess I've been old for a long time.
We're gonna go into Q and A with you guys,
but all of you have already been putting things up.
Charlotte, I believe the interpretation of your dream
is about.
But you feeling like you're behind and that you can't catch up, you're missing
out on something that everybody else already knows and you're behind and not
able to catch up, you missed your class.
You know, you missed, um, an entire knowledge section.
You can't find your class, you know, so you're just, you're struggling to catch
up and to be where you are and to get the things that you need done.
And so, um, that could be a recurring theme in your life of just always
feeling a day late and a dollar short.
And so maybe pray into that and see, um, why, where that came from, where the
root of it is, because it started somewhere and, and ask God to help
you to apply truth to that.
What could help you feel prepared in life since you feel so ill prepared.
Okay.
So that's important.
Um, okay.
What about if someone who's not alive anymore comes to us in our dreams,
someone like a grandparent or a mother, a father, friend, or former
spouse, what about that?
Is it them?
Yeah.
Um, I mean, I've had, my dad passed away like 12 years ago and I've had, you
know, dreams where, um, even within like the last year where we, him and I are
like driving a car, but it's not my real dad.
It's it's heavenly father.
It's, it's a representation of the heavenly father.
And, you know, we're going and doing things and he's showing me about us, maybe
an assignment or a calling, that type of thing.
Um, and, but at the same time, like, um, I do believe that people can
have like, there can be a visitation, that type of thing.
I mean, we do have a great thought of witnesses.
Um, and so, I mean, the Lord is faithful and he knows exactly what we need.
Um, but a lot of times it's our heart looking for maybe that loved
one or that loss when it's a longing thing.
And so are we, the, the soul creates that.
And, you know, we have like a connection that we need.
Um,
yeah.
And sometimes you guys, uh, God will once again, how Jesus shows up as
something that we're familiar with, you know, so that we are able to receive
what's happening in that dream.
You know, a lot of people might be uncomfortable with Jesus romancing
them, but they're comfortable with another human person romancing them.
Right.
Um, recently I had a dream within the last six months where my mother who
has passed away, um, showed up in my dream and in my dream, she simply
told me that my niece needed me.
That, um, my older brother's children that were being raised by her when
she passed away and an hour being raised by my younger brother, who's
in his mid thirties, um, that the girl.
They're twins, girl and boy that the girl that she needed me.
And so I reached out immediately after the dream, taking it literally and
just started like talking to her more.
I mean, I'm close to her, but she lives all the way in Florida.
And I live in Texas.
Um, and just recently she really started having a lot of issues in which, you
know, she started calling me and trying to, you know, um, and I was able to
really be helping her.
So that definitely was a literal dream.
Um, who the person is that showed up in the dream to tell me that Holy spirit.
Right.
Um, through the, through the mother figure, my mother, a lot of times, uh,
mother figures in our dreams or visions, or even words that we receive
are, are, are words about Holy spirit.
Holy spirit is like the maternal part of the Holy family of heaven.
Okay.
So just so that we kind of understand how that some of that typology can be.
If you have a block spiritually with these things and the gifts of the
spirit, you might have a mommy wound.
You might have something that you need to forgive and release, you know, in
your relationship with your mother, because a lot of people that I run into
within men within ministry, when they are really, I don't know what God's
saying and they're not really open to the supernatural and they have a hard
time with supernatural things or just with Holy spirit in general, a lot of
times it's because they do, they are holding on to some resentment, abuse,
bitterness with their mom or with a mother figure.
And so let's definitely talk about that in a different setting and in a
different session, if that is you.
Okay.
Um, what about if we, we, we dream of like what we consider demonic things
like snakes and scorpions, um, someone put, if someone put an apex predator,
I guess like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or something like, what have we, have we
been watching too much television or what?
Yeah, no, totally.
Uh, I've had, even recently I've had dreams where, um, like rattlesnakes,
um, getting bit and things like that.
Um, and it was a warning dream and the Lord showed me in the dream.
If I, if I ignored the situation, the snake didn't bother me, but when I
picked it up and interacted with it.
got zapped. Things like that. And then actually my wife recently had a Tyrannosaurus Rex dream
and of all things and I can't remember how I interpreted it but basically it was the Lord,
it was the Lord showing her that she was gonna have this big theatrical performance and all
this stuff because it like broke into a Hollywood set and different things. So context is super
important. You know how you feel. Super important. It's like if the T-Rex is making you feel
comfortable and excited then that's one thing. If it's you know terrifying you then it could
just be the Lord saying like hey there's there's something that we just need to deal with because
invite the Holy Spirit. I'm always going to encourage people. Invite the Holy Spirit into
the process. He's the helper. He's going to fix all your problems. So always ask good questions.
He has got really good answers. And you guys that's one of the things that we've taught you
to do during phase one of this program during the heart work is it's not it's not it's not about
searching for the answers. It's about asking the right questions. Not about the right answers but
the right questions. And so asking prophetic questions. Asking God to like what we're talking
about here in the chat. Asking him. Like for instance one of you said I've had I had I've
had dreams of having coins in my hands ever since I started this program. Gold and silver coins.
So you ask God what does this gold and silver coin represent? What do these coins represent?
If I was interpreting your dream I would say that God is saying that you're holding things of value
you know that you know that you can use you know for yourself and others. You're holding things
of value. You're holding things that are of value on this earth because coins are the monetary system
the value system of earth right. And so you have in your hand whether you know it or not
you have you possess things that are of value in the earth realm. And so that's what I would say
if you gave me your dream. But also changes upon you. Love it. Yes love that. So okay let me look
through here. We didn't really talk about having dreams of reconciling. I know one person wrote in
and said that they had a dream and in the dream they were reconciling with a friend that when the
when the breakup happened it wasn't a romantic situation. But when the disconnect happened that
friend said I don't ever contact me again. I don't ever want to hear from you again. I want to talk
to you again. This was years ago. Now they're having dreams where they're reconciling with this person.
Is that an invitation to reconciliation? Absolutely. It very well could be. And that's one of those
things where you it could just be the Lord. It could just be something that you're processing
in your heart and the Lord is healing that pain of the rejection or the you know the
betrayal whatever it was that caused the situation to end. But it could also be that the Lord is
preparing your heart for that very thing. And his kindness is you know showing you this is
what's going to be coming down the down the pipe soon. And so that's something possibly to begin
praying into and asking the Holy Spirit like okay what are the next steps? Like what does this look
like? Do I just hold this and pray? Do I send an email or a phone call? I mean it's all
it's all really predicated on what he's saying. Because what we love to do is we love to create
a system for everything. And Holy Spirit doesn't operate in systems like that. He's a wild
he's a free spirit. He does what and so it's always about relationship. Ask him questions.
What you know what's the next steps? What do I do? How do I proceed? And I think that's
really the most important thing. And I think that's where we can end tonight's session is you
guys it's all about relationship. It's all about relationship. A lot of people want a kingdom
a supernatural kingdom without a king. You know they they want to access that. You know there's
someone asked about these dream apps where there's all kinds of symbolism. Can we trust those things?
Well we can't trust you know wanting to idolize dreams. Okay a lot of people instead of understanding
this is one of the languages of God. Dreams is one of the ancient languages of God. He's been speaking
to people in dreams from the beginning. Sort of the ancient languages of God. But we never want
to make things an idol where it's like oh I just I just want to be about the dreams and I want to
you know get this app and figure out all the things and the symbols and you know and you know
become knowledgeable in my flesh or in my human reasoning. Because I'm just going to tell you a
lot of times dreams don't make any sense to our human reasoning at all and you can misread the
symbols completely. And that's why we can't give you a list of symbols today and say hey this always
means that because it's about relationship. And the most important thing that you need
to know is that if you are dreaming God is in
inviting you to have a conversation with him.
If you are remembering your dreams,
that dream is an invitation to have a conversation with God,
to come closer, to let him whisper in your ear,
to let him love you, to let him talk to you
about your past or your present or your future.
It's an invitation.
And so it's important that you treat it as such, okay?
It's not about trying to figure it out.
It's about trying to,
it's about allowing him to encounter you, all right?
Very, very, very important.
And there might be dreams, Jake,
I have these that you never really fully know what it meant.
But like what Jake said at the beginning,
there are things that your spirit understands
that your soul and your human mind, it bypassed that.
It bypassed your human mind, but your spirit got the memo.
Your spirit got the memo.
The spirit is speaking to spirit
and your spirit knows what it was,
even if you didn't really get it.
It was just above your pay grade in the natural,
but in the spiritual, you got it.
All right?
All right, well, if you love tonight,
then you're in for a treat
because we're gonna do some longer sessions,
a whole mini course on dreams
and really just on the prophetic and dreams
and helping you to be able to understand
how God is speaking to you
and really take advantage of that
as we go forward in these times
that we're living in right now.
The more that we can hear from God,
the more that we listen to God and we heed God's instruction,
the more that I think that we can really prosper
in these times.
And right now we have 222 participants on this call.
That is a special number to this movement.
That is the number of partnership, the number of agreement.
It's also the number of the bride,
but let's just kind of close our eyes right now
and think of it as the number of the bride,
not just the bride of man, but the bride of Christ.
That invitation to intimacy,
because dreams is about intimacy.
That invitation to be known and to know him even more.
That invitation to know things that can help others,
things that can help you to prosper, even in hard times.
I believe that whatever it is that's coming down the pike,
we can be ahead of the curve.
God can give us instructions just like he gave Joseph
the interpretation of Pharaoh's dream
to get ready for the famine that was coming,
to be able to prepare for it in advance
so that an entire people group, an entire nation was saved.
I believe that God can do that through you and through me,
through our dreams, through our visions,
through prophetic words that God gives us,
but it's all about intimacy.
Father, we desire intimacy.
We don't just desire your kingdom without the king.
We wanna know you, Jesus.
We wanna know you.
We want to listen to your voice.
You're not just our savior, you're also our Lord and master.
We wanna trust you like we've never trusted you before.
We wanna partake of all this spiritual inheritance,
all the supernatural inheritance
that you died to give us access to every day of our lives.
We don't have to live in this two-dimensional world.
We don't have to live just with what we can pick up
in our human minds and reasoning,
but we can actually tap in to that third heaven.
We can tap into all the other dimensions
that are all around us.
It doesn't have to be scary.
It can be a way of life,
and we're saying tonight that we want that.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Friends, I was really feeling that Joseph dream.
God spoke to me just recently about the Joseph dream,
and if you don't know that story in the Bible, go read it.
It's talking about the seven fat cows
and the seven thin cows,
and it was about the seven stalks of wheat or corn,
I don't, you know, different translations say differently,
that were fat and ripe and then some that were skinny
and that were windblown and just scrawny.
And so I do believe that regardless of whatever happens
in the nation that you're from,
because I know we have people here that are not from America
or in America, that we can be ahead of the curve.
I believe that God wants to give us solutions
to earthly issues and problems in our dreams,
in our awake time,
and we need to be open to hearing from him.
And so if you wanna live a supernatural life
more than you ever have before,
I want you to raise your hand right now.
I want you to say, God, give me the dream.
give me the visions, give me the understanding.
It's time to go back to study hall.
It's time to sit under mentors
and people that are ahead of us on those roads
so that we can get more instruction, more understanding
without knowledge, the people perish, right?
We don't want, and when that word perish
is not just about dying naturally,
it's about not having access to the life,
the abundant life of John 10, 10.
We can live in that abundance
that Jesus died to give us.
And this is some of the ways that we do that, all right?
Okay, well, I'm excited.
I believe that we're gonna start dreaming
more now than ever.
And we're going to actually put together
a little mini course that helps all of you
to dig deeper into this.
If you really feel God saying,
hey, I really want you to know more about this,
then that is something that you're definitely
gonna need to sign up for.
And we'll give you all the information
in your email and in the groups, all right?
Jake, thank you so much.
Let's pray over Jake.
Father, we just thank you.
Today is 8-8.
It is the number of new beginnings.
And I believe that this is the beginning
of something special for Jake and for his household
and what you're doing in his life, Lord.
I pray God that the supernatural encounter
that his namesake had in that holy place,
he said, I'm on holy ground.
That supernatural encounter that Jacob had,
that he has encounters like that in the near future.
He has encounters like that
where his identity continues to shift,
where you continue to show him things
that he has never seen or known before,
where you continue to give him favor, Lord,
where you continue to bring him to places, God,
that he has not even dreamed of going
because he has your heart and your voice.
And so, Lord, I thank you for that.
He had a word that he was going to launch something
on this date, 8-8.
And I pray God now that whatever that is,
including what's happened here,
that you would breathe on it,
that you would accelerate it,
that you would create momentum
that only can be explained supernaturally.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
All right, thank you so much for being here.
You guys, we're gonna see more of Jake and his wife.
Got some fun things in store for our community
in this school, back to school couple months.
And otherwise, we'll see you guys later.
Bye, everyone.