Joel 2:28;
Acts 2:16-17; Acts 9; Acts 10; Matthew 1:18-25; Lk.1; Jn.5:39; Matt.4:10 & Rev.19:10
As I consider the subject of visions and dreams, I
cannot help remembering how this has helped to shape my life appropriately to
enable me take my place in God’s big picture. I have discovered that many of
the experiences people call dreams and visions are not really what they think
it is because of a lack of understanding that has corrupted the entire human
race due to the fall of man from the glory of God because of the inherited sin
of Adam. In 1989, I received an invitation of the Lord to return to Him after
eight years of backsliding. Then the journey of destiny began for me. I cannot
say I have faithfully run on this course since that day, but I am grateful for
all the many opportunities that God has graciously given to me. My major
turning point came in 2010 when I heard the Lord say to me to come with Him to
Ghana.
Since then, I have endeavored to follow His leading as
much as possible as I have come to realize that God’s dreams for us cannot be
actualized without his guidance. The result is that three and a half years,
after obeying that call, God enabled me to plant a Church in Ghana without
knowing anyone there and to broadcast the gospel in the entire ten regions of
Ghana and fifteen Counties of Liberia through radio with a Church of a few
people. I do not think we numbered more than forty people in Church attendance
until I was called to move on from there. In addition, the Lord enabled me to
write thirteen books; six of which are in hard prints out of which two are in
audio format.
Furthermore, when I was leaving Ghana, I was enabled
by God to leave behind a growing Church with a resident Pastor raised through
the bible School we established and a Church hall and Parsonage God built for
us with these few people helping out the best they could and the support of
about nine family and friends from my home country.
Today six years later, God had taken us to four
countries and had enabled us to purchase and develop our own real estate for
His work in another two regions of Ghana and two states in Nigeria.
One of the most mind boggling experiences I have ever
had came about when the Lord told me this year in March to go to Badagry and
develop our property and build a Church hall and lodging place and fence the
property in fifty two days without having money stacked up anywhere by the
ministry or myself at this time. I promptly obeyed and called a friend who God
told me would be able to help out with the training of Ministers. Lo and
behold, in fifty two days, in spite of all the efforts of hell to stop us, the
Church hall was built up and roofed and the lodging place was also built and
roofed and our all Children Ministry now had a place of our own to meet. A week
later, the Church was planted in spite of the unfinished state of the property.
Interestingly, God opened the door to harvest as people have been coming and
abiding in spite of the fact that we are merely using benches for now.
I have taken time to share my testimony to help us
understand that we cannot doubt dreams and visions that God Himself confirms.
We do not experience the hand of God so much because we are “too good of
ourselves” to not flounder. As a matter of fact, that is far from true. We have
seen the hand of God because of the dreams and visions He has graciously put in
our hearts which obligates Him to help us because God is only obligated to do
what He has called us to do. See 1Thess.5:24.
What then
are dreams and visions?
Listening to Dr. Myles Munroe of Blessed memory one
day, I head his say these: “A vision is the revelation of a preferred future.”
He also defined it as the ability to see farther than our natural eyes can
look.”
I want to add that dreams and visions are the implantation
of God’s dream of our role in His big picture into our hearts. They help us to
discover ourselves, our source, our purpose, and our individual potential and
run successfully on the course of the glorious destiny that God has ordained
for us from the foundation of the earth. By means of dreams and visions, God
can also help us to receive understanding to strengthen us in the journey of
destiny so that we can run to finishing strong. See Job 33:14-18; Prov.8:14 and
Jn.15:11.
As Apostle Paul puts it, they help us to go up. In
Gal.2:2, he said to the Church that he went up by revelation and communicated
the gospel to those who were before Him. This was to ensure that He was right
in his destiny race. The reason for this is that Paul needed to ensure that
what He was running with gave Him a place in God’s big picture otherwise; he
would be out of order and not qualified to be part of the army of the Lord
described in Joel 1:1-8.
The eighth month usually provides us with an
opportunity for a new beginning considering that it is the first of another
seventh day. God’s numbering system of days starts with one and ends with seven
[see Gen.1:1-5, 31 and Gen.2:1-3]. Therefore, every time we have to count after
the seven, we are looking at a new beginning. In this new month, beginning
another set of seven, God wants to provide everyone another opportunity to
start to run on their destiny’s course. Another opportunity is also provided
for those who have been running on their course to reevaluate and determine to
what extent the race they are running fits into God’s big picture of His
purpose for us all. Also, those who either had missed it or have not started to
run their destiny course for lack of vision or are running but may have burnt
out, are going to receive fresh fire from God’s throne of Grace to be able to
know and fulfill their destinies.
To this end, this month, by the grace of God; we shall
be looking at a series titled: UNDERSTANDING VISIONS AND DREAMS IN RELATION TO
GOD’S PLAN. I believe that this month, many will receive new visions of their
divine purpose and the supernatural energy to run in it to its logical
conclusion. For those already running on
the right course of their destinies, God would take them up to greater heights
by divine revelations. For many, this will be a month of turning point just
like it happen for Jacob in Laban’s house when he received a dream from the
Lord that turned his economic life right side up. See Gen. 31:6-13.
From the account of Jacob, we see that there was what
he had to do to step up. There is also what anyone reading this today who does
not know Jesus Christ as their personal savior and Lord has to do to get to the
next level or start to run on destiny’s course. You must be born again to
commence this journey. Should you wish to do so, please say the following
prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus
died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore
declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the
fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you
for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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