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The Enemy Hates
Your Dreams & Visions
Why the Enemy Hates Your Dreams &
Visions & What to Do About It
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In our dreams and
visions, God reveals divine strategies to defeat the enemy’s plans, expose
generational strongholds, identify personal destiny and even shift nations - Satan
desires to stir doubt and unbelief concerning our dreams because God imparts,
equips, heals and even empowers us through them - Satan wants to block our
ability to hear God’s heavenly language
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By Sandie Freed
“It
is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out
a matter.” - Proverbs 25:2
2019 has been prophesied to be
the season for increased dreams and visions.
As I write this message to you,
I am also packing for a trip where I am speaking at a dreams and visions
conference.
While preparing to go, I heard the Lord say to me, “Satan hates
the fact that you are a dreamer. Tell My people that in this season I will
reveal many hidden mysteries during their dream times. Hidden, generational
strongholds are about to be revealed and many questions that need answers are
about to be answered. Your enemy hates the fact that I chose to speak to My
people through their dreams and visions. Tell them that I release My love,
care, direction and destiny through this heavenly language.”
When the Lord spoke
this to me it was very clear that He was alerting us of the enemy’s attempts to
block God’s children from experiencing dreams and visions.
Satan desires to stir
doubt and unbelief concerning our dreams because God imparts, equips, heals and
even empowers us through them.
Satan wants to block
our ability to hear God’s heavenly language.
In fact, he hates the
fact that you have access to God’s heavenly love language (dreams and visions),
which is God’s way of bypassing our minds and speaking directly to our spirits.
In our dreams and
visions, God reveals divine strategies to defeat the enemy’s plans, expose
generational strongholds, identify personal destiny and even shift nations!
I realize “hate” is a
strong word, but let me assure you, he goes about like a roaring lion seeking
to kill, steal and destroy!
A lion is ruthless
when it seeks its prey.
A lion is NOT meek in
its pursuit – thus the reason for the intense attacks you may be witnessing
right now!
God Cares About Your
Future
Let me hone in and
make this more personal. I have always believed that when we experience God
more on an individual level, we cannot only shift our personal circumstances,
but God can also use us to minister His perfect will to others and advance the
Kingdom.
Most of us, as
Believers, are familiar with the passage in Jeremiah 29:11, which reminds us
that God cares about our individual futures.
It’s very clear that
the Lord has a blueprint for each of our lives.
This blueprint
involves our fulfilling divine destiny and experiencing fulfillment.
“‘For
I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'” (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)
Yes, God has plans to
prosper us and not to harm us, but the enemy attempts to convince each of us of
the opposite!
The enemy
purposefully targets each of our destinies by causing us to doubt God’s
faithfulness and love, yet the Lord will speak through a dream or a vision
concerning His true identity, His direction and even warnings, all in an
attempt to draw us closer to Him.
Let me offer hope
today. If you will commit to searching out the hidden mysteries within your
dreams (search out God’s symbolisms and meanings), you will be amazed at the
revelation God is releasing to you!
Proverbs
25:2 says this: “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of
kings is to search out a matter.”
Since we are kings and priests,
it is considered “glorious” that we go on a “search” to discover
areas that are “concealed” (hidden) within our dreams.
The full
understanding of a dream/vision may be hidden from us therefore, we must press
in for greater revelation.
I believe that there
are dimensions of God’s glory that are yet to be discovered and experienced.
I also believe that
searching out Heaven’s mysteries opens up realms of His glory to us.
It’s Time to Come Out
of the Wilderness!
Have you ever
experienced a wilderness season?
In a wilderness
season you are dry, thirsty and are plagued with extreme hopelessness.
Yet, when the Lord’s
voice speaks through a dream or vision, His powerful voice literally (and
spiritually) shakes us out of that wilderness!
In a dream, God will
give direction as to how to come out of desolation, barrenness and
hopelessness.
During a dream or a
vision, God releases an impartation of life, healing and deliverance.
When God gives us a
dream concerning a stronghold that is operating in our lives, it is His intent
for us to recognize it as such and then believe for His direction to guide us
into freedom.
Anyone who knows me
knows I am all about freedom!
God’s delivering power is
available to all of us and many times He is attempting to guide us through open
doors of freedom in our dreams.
The Enemy Fears God’s
Heavenly Language
We must always
remember that when God speaks (especially in our dreams and visions) it is
always purposeful.
Yet, the enemy has
convinced so many Christians that our dreams are not important.
Satan does not want
any of us set free from his plans of destruction; therefore, he lies to
convince us that our dreams are not important.
Take it from someone
who truly knows.
I didn’t understand
the importance of dreams and visions until I had been a Christian for almost
thirty years!
Once I learned that
God was attempting to speak to me through them, I began to take them more seriously.
In fact, my life was
saved through a dream. I was literally on my death bed and God spared my life
through a series of dreams.
Because dreams and
visions are a primary way God speaks to me today, I write them down, pray over
them, and pay attention to what God is revealing through them.
Dear one, if God is
speaking, we need to be listening, right?
Unfortunately, numerous people,
especially Believers, don’t understand the importance of their dreams.
For years people have
treated them like junk mail (I was one of them) and tossed them to the side.
However, we must
begin to view dreams and visions differently.
We need to see them
from a Biblical perspective and understand that the entire Old and New
Testaments are laced with dreams and visions. It’s obvious that God still
speaks today through dreams and visions.
Dreams and Visions
Are a Part of Your Promised Land
Did you realize that
dreams and visions are part of your promise from God?
In Acts 1:8 Jesus was
promising the disciples power.
That promised power
came at what we know today as Pentecost (see Acts 2).
We are very familiar
with what happened at Pentecost, and let’s not forget about the prophecy of
dreams and visions being released which was a fulfillment of Joel 2:28, about
which Peter spoke when he addressed the crowd that had gathered at Pentecost (see Acts 2:16-18).
We are in a season
where the prophetic anointing is made manifest.
The prophetic
anointing speaks often into our futures, but it also gives vision to our
purpose and promises.
Dreams and visions do
the same! They are both instruments that God uses to empower us to fulfill
divine potential.
They both give us
power to “see” and “fulfill” our futures.
Dreams and visions are our
promises from God declaring that we will have divine encounters which will
impart the power needed to fulfill His plan, purpose and directive while on
Earth!
Satan Attempts to
Block Our Power
Satan is defeated due
to all that Jesus accomplished at the Cross. We all know that.
So why are we still
battling him? Because God has now given each of us, as Believers, the POWER and
authority to defeat Him.
We now have the keys
of the Kingdom to bind, loose and defeat the devil.
However, Satan is
making a last stand during these last days. In fact, he is standing in many
Believers’ Promised Lands!
Believers, it is time to drive
the enemy out of our land, our families, our businesses, our churches and our
lives.
We can do this! Yes, we can
defeat the enemy if we will have faith, use the power available to us and begin
to heed dreams and visions.
The dreams and
visions God is giving will bring you the hope, strategies and blueprints to
success, breakthrough and freedom.
Let’s decide now to
pay attention to His voice!
What You Can Do About
it
Understanding that God
uses dreams and visions to warn, guide, direct and communicate His heart in
certain matters causes us to need divine instruction from others experienced in
this field.
It is my desire for
you to walk in every covenant promise.
The Lord has blessed
me with my own revelation concerning dreams and visions, and He has delivered
me from much oppression and life-threatening situations through them.
Don’t miss out on
this journey with me.
You can prepare NOW
for an impartation of spiritual discernment concerning the interpretation of
your dreams, as well as an impartation for an increase in heavenly encounters.
If you are concerned
that you don’t understand symbolism and interpretation in your own dreams and
visions, I encourage you to get a copy of my new book, Understanding Your Dreams: How to Unlock the Meaning of God’s
Messages.
I go to great lengths
to empower you to understand your dreams and dream symbolism. In fact, I have
40 pages of symbols and interpretations that will empower you.
Also, I help you
understand God’s messages to you and empower you to position yourself to
respond properly to them. You will learn and discover:
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How Satan can hinder and block dreams and visions
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How God still speaks through your dreams
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Your Hebraic roots in dreams and visions
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Tools to interpret your dreams and visions
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How to understand dream symbolism
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The different categories of dreams
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The Master Potter and the Lord who “Makes You”
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How to identify generational strongholds in your dreams
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How to help your children with nightmares
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And so much more!
As I said earlier,
the devil hates your dreams and visions, and I want to teach you what to do
about it!
The enemy is a thief;
he comes to steal, kill and destroy (see John 10:10).
For years the enemy
has stolen our direction, our hope and our future – partly because we are
ignorant of how God still speaks through our dreams and visions.
Let’s halt the thief
and receive the gift of life given though the voice of the Lord. God desires to
empower you while you sleep, so let’s prepare for it.
Remember, it’s the
season for increased dreams and visions!
Sandie Freed is the Co-Senior
Pastor of Lifegate
Church International, which is a racially and culturally diverse ministry
in Hurst, Texas. She is the founder and director of Lifegate Leadership
Institute where saints (in active ministry and also the marketplace) are
trained and equipped to be effective ministers for the Kingdom of God. She has
also pioneered the School of the Prophetic Ministry since 1988 in the Texas
region. Sandie is a prolific author of over fourteen books and various articles
for magazines such as Charisma and The Voice. She has been on numerous radio programs
as well as television interviews such as James Robison's Life Today and
Celebration (Daystar) with Joni and Marcus Lamb, known for her passion for
being a "Freedom Fighter".
Sandie is an ordained prophet by Bishop Bill
Hamon and received her Doctorate Degree of Divinity from Christian
International in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. She has been in full time ministry
for over twenty-five years and continues to travel nationally and
internationally with her cutting-edge ministry. With a passion to witness God's
demonstration and power, Sandie is used by the Lord to release the miraculous
as well as demonstrate an anointing for personal and corporate breakthroughs.
Sandie is also know as a modern day Joseph as she interprets dreams and visions
as well as is a sought after speaker for dreams and visions conferences.
Prior to ministry, Sandie co-labored with her
husband, Mickey, as a custom home builder/professional designer and decorator.
When not ministering or decorating Sandie enjoys her horses on their ranch in
the Fort Worth, Texas area. She and Mickey have one daughter, Kimberly who is
married to Daniel Wheeler, and two grandsons; Elijah and Perrin. Dr. Sandie
enjoys oil painting, reading and entertaining on her spare time.
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