“The Dream” Series
Today’s Focus: Introduction
Greetings Sons of God:
While I was at work I was thinking
upon things that were going on at the Capitol in Tallahassee, FL where the
Dream Defenders are sitting in at the Governors office hoping for change in the
aftermath of the Trayvon Martin verdict.
Now I am not here to even discuss that issue but as I was sitting in
silence working, the Lord spoke and gave me understanding into “The Dream”. The Dream I am referring to was “The I Have A
Dream” Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He then took me to his last speech “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” and
gave me insight and understanding into how this message is relevant today. Now as He spoke I sat there in awe and a joy
filled my spirit. After giving me
understanding He began to show me where we missed the interpretation of the
message within the speech but also how when we look at dreams in general how we
fail to respond through our lack of understanding of how dreams work.
In this series before we even talk
about the speech itself and get the interpretation we must go back and
understand to purpose for dreams and how they function in the lives of the sons
of God.
Joel 2:28: And it shall come to
pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and
daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions.
So in this Scripture we see the
Lord telling us that dreams are a way by which He will communicate with His
sons and daughters. Now the problem we
have ran into is understanding how and why He does this. So many of our people are having dreams and
seeing visions and their response to the dreams are “well it is just a dream or
it is just a nightmare”. And what many
have missed is an understanding that dreams are a way that God speaks to
us. Now if we know this we cannot just
stop there, wake up from the dream and just go on our merry way! If you desire to understand, then you must
ask the Lord for interpretation. He may
answer you plainly by His voice to your spirit or He may send someone to give
you the interpretation but you must ask for the interpretation.
Finally, dreams come in two
ways: Symbolic and Literal. If they are symbolic you ask for the
interpretation and when they are literal you obey what is shown and said. Sometimes it will require you to go to
someone and speak what you the Lord showed.
We must get a solid foundation into the concept of dreams because if we
don’t we will miss the voice of the Lord speaking to us clearly and only see it
as a mere coincidence.
In the next message we will look
at understanding the interpretation of dreams.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
