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Our pursuit of dreams is never meant to replace our
quiet time with Him. Receiving dreams is only an additional
way in which we can get to know Him better and be more
effective witnesses to the lost.
Let me relate an exciting dream, which the
Lord gave
me recently. My husband Jack, was in Swaziland with our
friend Corey Lovers, trying to find
the man the Lord had picked
to start another Bible school. Jack said if they found the man
soon, he could come home earlier than planned. That night I
dreamed that he was at a construction site,
working on a foun-
dation with a younger man who was enthusiastic. Jack asked
me for his jacket. That’s all there was to the dream.
Interpretation: Jack had found an enthusiastic man to
help build a school and wanted my help to throw a “covering”
over this man. Covering refers to anointing, prayer
covering,
and headship. As a result of this dream, I knew my husband
would be coming home soon. The next day, I
received an email
that they had found the new director, and my husband would be
coming home immediately! Isn’t God good?
Unbelievers Receive Dreams
In the Los Angeles Times December 14, 2001, it was
reported that within the Al Qaeda, “the
recitation of dreams and
visions has become a powerful tool of conspiracy and psycho-
logical seduction. For Osama Bin Laden, the dream was a tool
to control and seduce. Relating
the dream became a ruse in-
tended to elevate him spiritually in the eyes of those outside his
inner circle. He could have even invented a dream predicting
the very act he was intending to perform. However, none of
those in the inner
circle claimed to be a prophet, because they
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