January 27, 2020 – Click here to listen
I’ve been an insomniac all my life, sleeping 2-4 hours per night. Lately I’m sleeping more, and it is a curious thing to me. I generally wake up early as always, but I continue to lay there for a while and sometimes drift right back off to sleep. I’ve been actively dreaming as of late. Last night I dreamed I got into a fight and handily won the contest. I was basking in my victory and enjoying it with several onlookers and did not want to wake up.
I have a friend who puts tremendous spiritual significance into dreams. More often than not I attribute excessive dreaming to eating too much pizza or something, but I did have one significant dream when I was forming the Jesus Alliance ministry that I believe with all my heart was spiritual in nature. I was in bed and was awakened. I opened my eyes and I saw a huge snake staring at me with serpents yellow eyes and flicking its tongue. Its head was as big as a watermelon and I could readily see it was a pit viper by its triangular shape.
Suddenly it leaped into bed with me. It was fully ten feet long and I expected to get bitten and die at any second. Strangely I did not fear it in the least and just laid still. The snake slithered its way underneath me until I was laying directly atop it. Again, I was expecting it to bite me at any moment, but I was not afraid. I kind of lost track of time but the snake laid underneath me for a long time and then it was gone. The next day I prayed about its meaning as hard as I could, and while still in prayer I received an answer. Not a spoken one, but one in my mind and heart. God told me that Satan was going to attack me, but He was not going to allow him to take my life.
That is exactly what happened. My health was ravaged and so was my wife’s for an entire year. I was slowly recovering but the Jesus Alliance which was in its fledgling stage was suffering without my leadership. I had not been physically capable due to my neck operation and the fusion of five disks and the chemo my wife and I took for months to lead the ministry in a year while I fought the health issues and there was no second in command and it was falling apart.
I was very depressed and discouraged and it looked like my dream had come true. Satan had attacked me and very nearly destroyed me. Then I received a phone call from someone in England whom I’d never met who told me he had a message from the Holy Spirit for me. The message was, “I’ve heard your prayers.” He said that it was repeated to him three times and that the Holy Spirit had sternly told him to tell me of it. He had no idea what the Jesus Alliance was or how to get in touch, but through Google he looked it up and then tracked me down. Please watch the following video to hear about this miracle first-hand from him.
I fell to my knees with tears streaming down my face and my discouragement turned to encouragement and I went back to work with fervor and The Jesus Alliance has grown and prospered and today is serving people daily.
I’m hoping that my dream last night indicates that I will win the fight against Satan, one never knows – I say dream on – God works in mysterious ways especially through old men . . .
Acts 2:17
In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.