Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker welcome John Paul Jackson as he discusses the importance of Interpreting Dreams and Visions during a special service on The Jim Bakker Show.
Songs
Lord Lift Us Up
Quotes
Sometimes we need to understand the difference between an immature prophet and a false prophet. We allow apostles to mature, we allow evangelists to mature, we allow pastors to mature, we allow teachers to mature, but some how we think prophets are born instantly, full grown. -John Paul Jackson
One-third of Scripture is about a dream or a vision or the fulfillment of a dream or a vision. Interestingly, one-third of your life you will spend asleep. You can sleep it away or listen to what God is saying. -John Paul Jackson
Why would God give a dream instead of a vision? It is the Clarity of Cost Syndrome. The clearer God speaks, the more difficult it is going to be to do. -John Paul Jackson
Why would God send His Son to go through an incredible Crucifixion process if we could fix ourselves? We believe God… sent His Son… and Spirit to lead us and guide us into all truth. -John Paul Jackson
Scriptures
Joel 2:28 KJV 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 2:30-31 KJV And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Matthew 24:12 KJV And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Matthew 20:21 KJV And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Matthew 21:25 KJV The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Isaiah 60:2-3 KJV For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Joel 2:28-32 -God’s Spirit is Poured Out
Joel 2:29 NKJV And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
I Samuel 3:19 KJV And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
Job 33:14-18 NKJV For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds, Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction. In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man, He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:29-30 NKJV “Behold, God works all these things, Twice, in fact, three times with a man, To bring back his soul from the Pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life.
I Samuel 28:6 NKJV And when Saul inquired of the Lord, theLord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.
Job 33:15 NKJV In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
Daniel 7:15 NKJV “I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Numbers 12:6 NKJV Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.
Matthew 13:13 NKJV Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Matthew 13 11 NKJV He answered and said to them,“Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
John 16:29 NKJV His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech!
II Corinthians 12:7 NKJV And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
I Corinthians 2:10-11 NKJV But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Genesis 41:32 NKJV And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
This is very good. I struggled last week with a dream and I am not at all sure of what it means. I put it out there, but a man who also proclaims himself a prophet said it was too much pizza.