Date: Wednesday, 2nd October, 2024
Text: Job 33:14-18
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
One of the ways God speaks to Men is through dreams. Many prophetically important dreams have come to Men in the times past.
The word of God says, “For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.” Job 33:14-18
We have several instances of such in the Holy Scripture. In order to save the life of Baby Jesus from the hand of Herod, the king God spoke to Joseph, Mary’s husband in a dream, saying “Get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod (the king) is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,where he stayed until the death of Herod. Matthew 2:13-14
The three wise men would have gone back to Herod as demanded by him but having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. Matthew 2:12
About twenty four years ago, there was to be a change of leadership baton and we were expecting some leadership appointments in a national evangelistic Christian body to which I belonged. I was anxious to know which position was coming to me. So on one particular afternoon I had a nap and then it was revealed to me in a dream what position I was to be given. The following day when the new executives were to be unveiled, the position actually given to me was exactly what was revealed to me in the dream.
Some say when they dream it is the opposite that happens to them. God is not an author of confusion. So if the dream is from him, his word will surely come to pass.
Prayer Nugget: Holy Spirit, speak to me when I rise and when I lie down to sleep in Jesus name.