God Speaks to Us Through Dreams!

Dr. Barbie Breathitt

And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: Joel 2:28

Many Christians are leery of giving any credence to their dreams, but both the Old and New Testament are clear that God uses dreams to speak to His people. In fact, on the day of Pentecost when the church was born, Peter preached in the book of Acts that the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues was the fulfilling of this scripture in Joel which includes a pouring out of Holy Spirit-inspired prophecy, visions and dreams. Peter and Paul had angelic encounters, received prophecies, visions, spoke to the risen Jesus, and even Paul was translated to heaven. 

Therefore, we as believers should not be spooked by our weird dreams at night, particularly if they are recurring. I have dreamt strange things ALL my life, some of which I still remember to this day. I also had a recurring dream for over ten years which The Lord finally revealed the meaning of once I pressed in and asked Him for it with all sincerity of heart. It has helped me immensely to understand the message He was trying to relay. I wish I had pressed in years ago.

Several weekends ago, I attended a great retreat where I heard this wonderful woman, Barbie Breathitt, speak on listening to and interpreting our dreams. She suggests digging into scripture for clues regarding symbols that appear in our dreams and of course writing them down in a journal. I've done that for years but wasn't as diligent as I should be regarding the details and specifics. 

Obviously, some dreams can be discounted due to spicy food or a rotten TV show or movie, but the symbolic, strange dreams that linger after we awake are oftentimes messages from The Lord. In the western, North American culture, our intellect and reasoning scoff at such a notion, but in the middle eastern culture, dreams are highly revered. Perhaps that is why there are many testimonies of Muslims being saved through dreams where heavenly and angelic encounters are being used by The Lord to present the Gospel. Oh, how we denominational people have put our God in a little, itty, bitty box!!

So why would God need to use dreams to speak to us? Well, maybe we're stubborn and hard-headed and our spirit-man can't seem to get through to us because our minds are at a whir, thinking and reasoning for most of the day. Personally, I'm very thankful The Lord continues to instruct us in our sleep (Psalms 16:7) and endeavors to get truth and revelation to us, even if it takes ten years! I have to say, I'm somewhat embarrassed that He needed to give me a dream for over a decade in order to share some truth with me. Oh well, better late than never! 

Check out Barbie Breathitt on YouTube or www.myonar.com. It is amazing how God has used dream interpretation through her ministry to save, heal, and set people free from the lies of Satan. 

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Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees!

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1

For many years I've studied these Gospel passages regarding the leaven of the Pharisees and being warned by Jesus to steer clear of their teachings. It's easy when the modern-day Pharisee espouses that Jesus is NOT the Messiah or that one is saved through the works of the law and NOT by grace through faith, but what about the person who is IN the church, who appears to be born again, filled with the Spirit, and walking in the gifts and anointing of the Spirit? These modern-day Pharisees can be very hard to detect and so can be extremely dangerous, particularly to the baby or fledgling Christian who is just beginning to spread his or her spiritual wings. The only way to avoid being deceived by such people is to be deeply rooted and grounded in the Word of God.

My first encounter with the modern-day Pharisee was at a retreat at a very famous Christian retreat center named after a prominent evangelist. Everything seemed to be going fine UNTIL I made the mistake of espousing that I was continuing to attend a denominational church which did not believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. In these Pharisees' minds, I was committing the unpardonable sin to continue sitting under the teaching of a pastor who did not believe in such doctrine. When I explained that I felt called to stay at this church, they looked down their long, judgmental noses. And then when I had the audacity to declare that I believed in the authority of the believer over the enemy in the name of Jesus AND that I believed in divine healing, I was labeled a rebellious heretic who was operating in the spirit of witchcraft!

At that moment, I understood exactly how the apostles of old felt when they shared their faith to a hostile crowd - I literally heard hisses and boos when I asked, "Didn't Jesus' death on the cross attain authority over Satan for His church?" Boo! Hiss! Stone her! Send the witch to the gallows! I felt like I was in a weird Cecil B. DeMille movie. While the experience was very unpleasant, I felt that the Lord had taught me a very important lesson. I stuck to the scriptures despite the manifested anointing and supposed prophetic utterances of these modern-day Pharisees.  

Now, I had no animosity toward these people as individuals, since I knew I was really battling the religious spirits BEHIND these individuals. I only have to look at Ephesians 6:12 to know that ... we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in highplaces. So it does no good to get angry or hostile in these situations. Just stick to the Word and stand your ground. And when you have done all you can do, continue to stand!  Ephesians 6:13.

Well, wouldn't you know it, but a similar thing happened to me again this past weekend. I attended a wonderful spiritual retreat, but the spirit of religion was there on the first day, waiting to pounce on me. I was invited to lunch by two supposed prophets who espoused all sorts of junk that made my head spin. None of it lined up with Scripture! They had gotten so wrapped up in signs and wonders and prophetic utterances that they had deviated from the Word of God! I felt the long, cold, hard glares of judgment dart from their eyes and down their noses when I shared my testimony and faith. It took quite a bit of strength to stand up to their condemnation, but stand I did! Later, I asked the Lord why I had felt called to go to lunch with these people, since I thought for sure they were meant to minister to me. No, I heard in my spirit, YOU were supposed to minister to them and REMIND them to get back to the Word of God and stand on Scripture. I don't know if I was successful there. 

I write this to encourage those of you who may have experienced a similar circumstance. You may be basking in the joy and delight of the Lord, excited about all He is doing in your life and the divine wisdom and revelation He is downloading into your spirit - you are eagerly awaiting for signs and wonders to confirm the teaching and preaching of the Word - and then like a bolt of lightning, you are met by judgment and condemnation from those who are supposedly mature and who have supposedly experienced great and mighty wonders of the Lord. If in that instance you get a sick feeling in the pit of your belly, then rest assured you have run smack dab into the spirit of religion! 

Test what they have to say! Listen closely and see if it lines up with the Word. John instructs us to test the spirits. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1. If it doesn't line up, then cast it out as false and don't receive it.

But on the other hand, remain teachable and be prepared to learn from those who are true to the Word and who are more spiritually mature than you. We don't want to be hard-hearted and close-minded or we risk becoming another modern-day Pharisee! Yikes! The authentic New Testament apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher may sound the alarm to a lost and dying world, but to the believer, they will always build up and edify, encouraging us in our faith and confirming what the Holy Spirit has already relayed to our own spirit. 

Receive from these true ministers of light and you will be blessed in the name of Jesus!

Abide in the Vine

I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5.

For over a week, I had my eye on this brown, withered leaf that dangled from a tree in my backyard, fluttering furiously in the breeze. Every morning, when I sat at my normal place at the end of the sofa with coffee, bible, and iPhone, I watched that leaf - all alone, flapping around frantically with the wind, brown and crinkly with no green leafy friends to provide comfort. Because I'm creative, I see the spiritual side in nature and like to personify birds and flowers and the like. I felt like this leaf had a story - it must have, or why would it, of all leaves, be ready at any moment to fall to the ground when it's neighbors where healthy and alive, living in thick clusters, and fluttering delicately and majestically as the wind blew?

I thought of this scripture and was reminded of many professing Christians, who for some reason or another, cut themselves off from the life giving force of God's Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. Maybe they were once attached to the vine, feeding from Jesus, resting in Him, and then something happens. Fear descends due to sickness or financial hardship, or tragedy strikes, or just the grind of life reveals that their faith was never real to begin with - that they were never truly born again into a new creation. Like that leaf, they become frantic and unsteady, isolated and alone, with no firm foundation upon which to rest. Unless they get reattached to the vine somehow, they are destined to fall away. 

As I watched that leaf, I wondered if nature could provide a way for it to become part of the vine again. But then a strong windstorm hit the next morning, assuring its destiny. While it hung on to the tree as long as possible, flapping about like a sail on the high seas, it eventually disappeared. Strangely, I felt sad. 

But thankfully, mankind is not like that leaf. If anyone realizes they have become detached from the life-giving vine (which is Christ), they can repent and become a born-again new creation in Him. The dead things in their life will be rejuvenated and the greenness of fresh growth will be revealed. For man, it is never too late!

Sister Clara Grace - Amazing Woman of God!

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He has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches! 

I discovered these wonderful prophecies from Sister Clara Grace, a teacher and prophet, who lived years ago. She gave these recorded teachings in 1967 and they are powerful! Oh, what a lady she was! How I would've loved to have sat under her teaching. But thankfully we have these recordings now through the Internet.

Those of you who are hungry for a greater move of the Holy Spirit and feel as though you are all alone, don't despair! He has His remnant of hungry believers out there in the world who are praying along with you! We are all praying for a greater manifestation of His glory in these last days! 

Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6

Listen to these wonderful teachings and be blessed!

Happy Resurrection Day!

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7-8.

I love a good thriller where the main character outsmarts the bad guy and causes the villain to fall into his own trap! It's even more thrilling when the audience has no clue how on earth the protagonist is going to pull off this great feat, but when it happens and everything works as planned, entertainment is at its zenith. Right now I'm thinking of the Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. My entire family loves this show, because Sherlock Holmes is always one step ahead of the antagonist--and usually the audience as well!

The same is true with our God! Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians that the princes of this world who are in allegiance with Satan (once Lucifer) had no clue that the cross would be the very instrument the Father would use to destroy their hold on mankind - to deliver us from sin, the curse, death and hell! And not only that, it would be the instrument that would annihilate sin, vanquish the curse, fulfill all the law AND be the way in which MANY would become born again, sons and daughters of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, anointed with the power and authority of Jesus Christ, and destined for a life of GLORY! 

Talk about a major duping! No one on earth or under the earth had any idea of the mystery of the church that had remained hidden by God since the foundation of the world, until He revealed it to the Apostle Paul. Jesus' resurrection from the dead PROVES that Satan's authority over us has come to an abrupt end. By faith, we have been born again in Christ, alive in accordance with the law of the spirit of life, no longer dead and subject to the law of sin and death. His ascension back up to heaven is even further proof that we are destined for a GLORIOUS life in and with Him and the Father. He has given us His Holy Spirit as a guarantee of that wonderful life to come. 

Things have just gotten started for us while we remain on this earth as sons and daughters of God. We have an eternity of marvelous things ahead. We have no idea what that exceedingly, abundantly above-all-we-can-ask-or-think life will be like, we just know it will be GOOD!

We thank Him for ALL He has done for us - much of which we still don't have a revelation of, but revelation will come if we ask and wait for it. He longs to share with us the deep things of Himself. 

Enjoy this wonderful day and bask in His love and gracious gifts - most importantly - His gift of His son, Jesus!

Sign of the Times

I just listened to a great study taught by Billye Brim at Eagle Mountain International discussing the VERY unusual phenomenon of 4 blood red lunar eclipses falling on Passover Sukkot in two successive years, 2014-2015, WITH solar eclipses occurring in the middle - one on Nisan 1 (beginning of the Jewish sacred calendar) and the other on Rosh Hashana (beginning of the Jewish civil calendar). AND they occur at the end of a biblical seven year cycle! 

The odds of this happening are extraordinarily rare! I mean RARE!! In our most recent history, these tetrad lunar eclipses have occurred in conjunction with Columbus discovering the new world in 1492-93 (after Jews extradited from Spain), Israel becoming a nation in 1948-49 after WWII, and Israel prevailing in the Six Day War in 1967-68 to gain Jerusalem back. And now! Something is about to happen! God is doing something! 

Go to billyebrim.org or emic.org to learn more! Fascinating teaching!! In addition, just Google blood moon 2014 and you'll see lots of articles. The Lord's prophets have taken note and are watching and waiting with all the saints for what the Father is doing!

Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Fully Persuaded

Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Romans 4:16-25 

These scriptures have spoken to me recently as my husband and I have pressed into our daughter's healing of a kidney stone and a few bumps and slowdowns in his new company. Unfavorable circumstances make us stagger in unbelief at the promises of God, especially when we have our eyes on ourselves and not on Jesus and His Word. But thankfully, God continues to see us as righteous!

Abraham is one of my all-time heroes! I can't wait to get an audience with him when we meet in heaven! As Paul tells us here in the Book of Romans, Abraham stood firm on the promise that God would give him a son from his body, and yet his body was as good as dead (impotent) and his wife's womb dead (menopause). So how in the world was he supposed to have a baby son with these facts staring him in the face? Answer: by FAITH!

Faith calls those things that be not as though they were! Abraham called himself a father of many nations when he and his wife were naturally far beyond the childbearing years! In today's times, we would be ready to but a couple like that in the insane asylum!

Remember the account in Genesis 18 of the three visitors who came to visit Abraham and Sarah before eventually judging the people of Sodom? One was certainly the Lord in His pre-incarnate form (He ate and communed with Abraham). The Bible doesn't give much detail, other than that Abraham dwelled in the plain of Mamre (where there were oak trees) and was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day, when suddenly the three visitors stood near. I imagine Abraham's tent was near one of those oak trees, providing shade from the sun and a comfortable place to ponder and wonder why on earth it was taking so long to have this baby and how on earth this baby could ever be conceived. Why do I think that? Because earlier in Chapter 17 when the Lord told him that Sarah would bear a child, he laughed. And then on this occasion, Sarah laughed!

Wait a minute! This was the man who Paul described as having staggered not at the promises of God in unbelief! And yet he and his wife both laughed! Isn't doubting laughter a stagger? Isn't that unbelief? Answer: God imputed righteousness to Abraham when he believed the promise years before. Any failure and setbacks on Abraham's part were not taken into account by God. Under grace, God only sees His imputed righteousness.

The same is true of us who are born again in Christ Jesus. On the day we believe the promise of the Gospel, Jesus's righteousness is imputed to us and God no longer sees our failures and shortcomings the way we see them. He loves us and sees us perfect in Christ as His precious children. As we hold fast to His promises despite our negative circumstances, our faith strengthens as Abraham's did, and we find ourselves clinging to the hope that Gods promises are sure and that He will (and is able) to bring them to pass. In Genesis 17, you will see that Abraham rose up from his doubting laughter and fulfilled the covenant of circumcision, which most definitely was an act of faith! If he had not believed God's promise of having a child, he most certainly would not have done such a thing! And yet, time went on and there was no baby.

Think of how long Abraham and Sarah had to wait for Isaac! Think of how long Joseph waited to see his dream manifested, Joshua and Caleb to enter the Promised Land, for David to become King of Israel! How about for Jesus to begin His ministry at the age of 30? The list goes on and on of our Savior, the prophets, and patriarchs who had to patiently wait in faith for the manifestation of God's promises! Read Hebrews 11 for further explanation from Paul.

Abraham's faith is the foundation of all faith in the promises of God which are in Christ. Abraham wasn't perfect in his actions, and yet the Father continued to see him as righteous! Therefore, don't condemn yourself if you slip up and stagger in unbelief or even laugh like Abraham and Sarah did - the Father doesn't see it! Like Abraham, He considers you righteous in Christ! Therefore, rise up from your doubt and unbelief and stand firm in your faith that God's promises to you are Yes and Amen!!