Discernment in visions and dreams

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Lafftur

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People need answers and direction.

A man working on computers gets shown some revelation concerning micro processors.
That aint in the bible.
Doesnt mean God is somehow bizarrely bound to stay out of his walk.
The meaning and message of the dream or vision will NEVER contradict God’s Word - The Holy Bible.
 

Lafftur

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I have plenty of visions seeing certain people suffering with diseases ,I believe God wants me to pray for these people.I have visions of doors opening,pregnant women and plenty of other stuff and those are not in the Bible .
I agree with you .
We can't put God in a box .He speaks however he wants and gives visions and dreams .He can use whoever and whatever he wants to say something to you ,you only need open ears and open eyes .
Thanks brother for your wisdom
The Holy Bible is NOT a box. It is God’s Word - it has no beginning and no end - the depth, height, width is without measure. The revelation knowledge and understanding in God’s Word is forever - it will never pass away - IT IS NOT A BOX!

If anyone refers to God’s Word as a box, they are without understanding of WHO God is!

Yeshua/Jesus is The Word of God made flesh and dwelt among us. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD.
 

Lafftur

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Of course it is. It is in the spirit of the WORD.

None of it is in the letter.
So when you say "it has to be in the bible",not only will he bring current wording,but things not found in the word.
He is not bound to that wording when He is revealing events/warning/encouragement or impending doom in our lives

He can bring something TOTALLY NEW.
Now doctrine is different.

When i got saved i had a question nobody could answer.
It concerned doctrine.
"Why did it HAVE TO BE Jesus on the cross. Daniel was a man without fault. And others were upright. Besides,God is sovereign,he could count a man dying as payment. So why did it have to be Jesus.
God took me to galations.
See that? A doctrine issue. Not a life/walk/personal guidance issue.

In pharoahs dream,none of it was a bible mirror. And maybe never will be again.
In fact,fat and skinny cows do not have to represent famine/plenty at all.
So interpreting it as a mirror biblically could be detrimental.
@Absolutely - Satan would love for us to abandon The Bible- The Word of God - our only weapon - The Sword of the Spirit and run after dreams and visions.

I will NEVER abandon The Word of God especially when engaging spiritual things.

Do not belittle or cause anyone to undervalue God’s Word. It is the ONLY weapon we have..
 

Nehemiah6

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Satan would love for us to abandon The Bible- The Word of God - our only weapon - The Sword of the Spirit and run after dreams and visions.
Exactly. And that is why Satan has been constantly ATTACKING the Sword of the Spirit through (1) higher critics, (2) lower critics, (3) apostate liberal scholars and theologians, and (4) evolutionists.
 

Lafftur

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Hello :)
I see images or sequence of someone or something but this sequences last only two or three seconds .I have seen an all seeing eye in the forehead of someone .I have plenty of what i call visions since i am not sleeping i am only with eyes closed laying down.One day i saw a beautiful black dress you wear for special occasion and few days after i went in a wedding and the dress was black.So i was thinking i saw what was coming in near future .Or i have seen one day a long list of books of the bible and all started with letter "J" and on top of the list was jeremiah.That day i watched a sermon and the preacher was referring to jeremiah a couple of times.But on the other hand i see demons but not often .I have these visions or dreams (not sure how to refer )everyday and many many of them and they are different each time
danja, do you love God? Do you want to know Him and love Him?

That’s what God wants - for you to know Him and to loveHim. After that, once the relationship is secure - Both if you, together to spiritual things with power and authority.

First, make sure your relationship with God is secure.
 

danja

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The Holy Bible is NOT a box. It is God’s Word - it has no beginning and no end - the depth, height, width is without measure. The revelation knowledge and understanding in God’s Word is forever - it will never pass away - IT IS NOT A BOX!

If anyone refers to God’s Word as a box, they are without understanding of WHO God is!

Yeshua/Jesus is The Word of God made flesh and dwelt among us. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD.
I am not talking about the bible . I read the word everyday and worship and pray. Of course these are my primary goal to read , pray and worship . I get revelation from those .Don’t get me wrong. I love Jesus and i gave my life to him .It doesn’t mean that my faith is hanging on visions and dreams .But God can give visions and dreams Or he can use other people .All these for different purposes. He is God .
 

danja

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danja, do you love God? Do you want to know Him and love Him?

That’s what God wants - for you to know Him and to loveHim. After that, once the relationship is secure - Both if you, together to spiritual things with power and authority.

First, make sure your relationship with God is secure.
yes I am saved and love Jesus with all my heart. Why do people assume things can’t happen to someone even though they are saved and love God
 

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danja, do you love God? Do you want to know Him and love Him?

That’s what God wants - for you to know Him and to loveHim. After that, once the relationship is secure - Both if you, together to spiritual things with power and authority.

First, make sure your relationship with God is secure.

"And, that 'quote' statement is of sound merit!" Friendly.png
Thank you @Lafftur.
'Praise God'
 

Lafftur

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yes I am saved and love Jesus with all my heart. Why do people assume things can’t happen to someone even though they are saved and love God
Tell me about Jesus........:love: Who is He?
 

danja

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Hi Danja,

I too have had visions and dreams and have felt very confused about them wondering is this from God, the devil or me. I have asked others their opinions and have got all sorts of answers. All sound logical, reasonable and have scripture to back them up. It makes it all the more confusing. I didn't want the devil to be messing with my mind nor give him any open door into my life and at the same time I didn't want to put God in a box refusing to believe that he is communicating with me.
I think in the end I am learning to commit it to the Lord and somehow he has the ability to let you know what is from him. I don't know how he does it nor can I put it into words it is just something that he privately does within you. So my advice is to ask him and not others, it will just confuse you. You will be torn between people warning it is the devil and others who will encourage you it is from God. Let Him show you.

On GG's thread today Shittim posted a video #165 about someone's dream. Might be worth a watch.
I agree. It seems we are on the same page. God bless sister
 

Lafftur

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danja, do you love God? Do you want to know Him and love Him?

That’s what God wants - for you to know Him and to loveHim. After that, once the relationship is secure - Both if you, together to spiritual things with power and authority.

First, make sure your relationship with God is secure.
Sorry for the typos, it’s suppose to read:

“That’s what God wants - for you to know Him and to love Him. After that, once the relationship is secure - Both of you, together do spiritual things with power and authority - Emmanuel.”

Meaning, our focus needs to be on knowing and loving God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Our intimate relationship with God is first priority.


Then, according to God’s Will, He takes us on spiritual adventures and certain works, gifts, callings, etc. according to His good pleasure for His Kingdom, the Body of Christ. Israel and the world.
 
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7seasrekeyed

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@Absolutely - Satan would love for us to abandon The Bible- The Word of God - our only weapon - The Sword of the Spirit and run after dreams and visions.

I will NEVER abandon The Word of God especially when engaging spiritual things.

Do not belittle or cause anyone to undervalue God’s Word. It is the ONLY weapon we have..

??????????????

I must be missing something
 
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7seasrekeyed

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yes I am saved and love Jesus with all my heart. Why do people assume things can’t happen to someone even though they are saved and love God

well this thread has certainly blown up

not sure how some are getting the impression you do not love God

I think people exhibit the fears they have themselves and put them on others...not on purpose

stay calm and stay out of the tempest in a teapot here
 

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Hello everyone.

I have a question concerning dreams and visions. Very often i have visions and dreams but I am new when it comes to discerning where they come from , God, evil or myself.
My question is , does anyone of you know how to discern dreams and visions .
For example today i had a vision of a shadow flying and then for many minutes when i was lying in my bed i felt a cooling air around my body . It was very weird but i had peace .
I want to hear from God but I don’t want to be deceived as i know evil can come as an angel of light.
I would appreciate your wisdom .
God bless you
I would say the shadow flying was not from God. However the cooling peaceful feeling was from God as God is our protector.

It's easy to get confused about it all. In my experience shadows are demonic, but seeing a lot of energy is from God. The higher the energy the more likely to be angelic.

How to tell? The energy is very high with love and peace. Could a demon give love and peace...Probably not. A demon can only lie with words and looks. (hence angel of light)

Angels are similar to us except they are like another species or even a god in their demeanor. They demonstrate the fruits of the spirit and they also are holy. So you would have trouble distinguishing between God and angels in that sense. Because they only listen to the voice of God.

They will not push for you to go to them. You have to make the decision. They may also tell you the future and it will come true.

I've had demons try to imitate angels. That's fun... You may be fooled in the moment but you'll know after that something was off. They can pull off a certain look but the words are off. The energy is also off.

Oddly you are already aware of the energy. Think about a nightmare... You may not know what they did to you but you know they want to hurt you. The energy tells you.

Interestingly I have found two ways to handle it by accident. The first is to love them. I hugged that angel impersonator and said, "I love you my angel." They hate that. Lol Haven't seen him since when I was seeing him almost nightly before. It was a command Jesus gave afterall.

Another way is to command them in God's name to leave. I usually say "In the name of the living God I command you to leave."
 
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7seasrekeyed

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I would say the shadow flying was not from God. However the cooling peaceful feeling was from God as God is our protector.

It's easy to get confused about it all. In my experience shadows are demonic, but seeing a lot of energy is from God. The higher the energy the more likely to be angelic.

How to tell? The energy is very high with love and peace. Could a demon give love and peace...Probably not. A demon can only lie with words and looks. (hence angel of light)

Angels are similar to us except they are like another species or even a god in their demeanor. They demonstrate the fruits of the spirit and they also are holy. So you would have trouble distinguishing between God and angels in that sense. Because they only listen to the voice of God.

They will not push for you to go to them. You have to make the decision. They may also tell you the future and it will come true.

I've had demons try to imitate angels. That's fun... You may be fooled in the moment but you'll know after that something was off. They can pull off a certain look but the words are off. The energy is also off.

Oddly you are already aware of the energy. Think about a nightmare... You may not know what they did to you but you know they want to hurt you. The energy tells you.

Interestingly I have found two ways to handle it by accident. The first is to love them. I hugged that angel impersonator and said, "I love you my angel." They hate that. Lol Haven't seen him since when I was seeing him almost nightly before. It was a command Jesus gave afterall.

Another way is to command them in God's name to leave. I usually say "In the name of the living God I command you to leave."

loving on a demon?

I don't think so

I would not encourage anything you are describing above

have you made this up?

smh
 
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That is... if the dream or vision is from God. :)
All healing of the mind is ultimately of God. He is not bringing new revelations in any manner . But does heal the mind of the whole corrupted creation.... in dreams . sending healing on those justified as well as those not. Just as food is necessary for this body of death so is the miracle of dreams..
 

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Sometimes with dreams, they just make no sense at all, if that is the case, then there is no point in worrying about it.

Dreams is a really tricky thing and even I don't understand them, more confusing is when you have some dreams, you sometimes realise your in a dream but only to discover you were having a dream within the dream itself, i cannot even imagine how that works, if that makes any sense. Like two dreams in one.

One thing though and this is where I would pay extra attention, if a child was to have a dream of end times. For example if a child was to dream of an event that parallels the description given, for example in Revelation Chap 13, and such a child has no knowledge of the scripture concerned, that is when you treat it seriously.
 
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@Absolutely - Satan would love for us to abandon The Bible- The Word of God - our only weapon - The Sword of the Spirit and run after dreams and visions.

I will NEVER abandon The Word of God especially when engaging spiritual things.

Do not belittle or cause anyone to undervalue God’s Word. It is the ONLY weapon we have..
Abandon is not the same as "new"
But since you think it...well it just has to be.
I already showed you paul and joseph.
Both were not any bible verses or patterns.
The prophetesses warning paul were not any bible verses or patterns.
Revelation john saw was about 75% things that were out of the bible.

Like i said before,you seem to think God CANNOT tell you something new.

Of course we do not minimize or poo poo verses.
I tell you a computer programmer get revelation through a dream. None of it is in the word,so,according to your perrameters,must tell heaven to either take a hike or show him either those words talked about in thevdream (processors,resistors,heat sinks,connectors,)or where some apostle modified a computer.

Guess what? Ironically NEW REVELATION IS in the bible.

What you are pushing is "SAMENESS"
(An extra biblical perrameter of all must walk the exact same .)

News flash. God is not a book.

The comclusion is: God tells a beliver to go to ireland and wash a certain car.
You MUST process it as either the spirit of the word or those words being written in the word.

In reality,God was responding to a non belever that said God,if you are real have a man clean my car.
IOW, He will ALWAYS speak both ways.
ALWAYS.
The book of acts ,to you ,ended. (No new anything)