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How God Speaks through Dreams - Dr. Reginald Klimionok

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  1. Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful

  2. teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many, inspiring

  3. and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join

  4. us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom

  5. that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as

  6. we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching.

  7. I'm going to talk about how God speaks through dreams. We've got books in the back there.

  8. My wife wasn't there to share them, but they're powerful. It's a most fascinating book subject

  9. in the Bible. I want to touch on this tonight. This morning we dealt with how God makes us

  10. great. We looked at the life of David and how God prepared him for greatness or told

  11. us how God worked in his life. If you want the discs for those things, you'll

  12. find them here this morning. You can purchase them through our brother. He'll be in the

  13. back there. If somebody will, please let me have the tape of that. I felt that's a very

  14. significant message for those who want to understand how God prepares us and uses us

  15. powerfully for his glory. Dreams. I have often in my life, I just told

  16. you about 10 days ago, God warned me about this very experience. I didn't know how it

  17. would come, but I said to my wife, you're facing something, some attack. I said, I just

  18. could place the blood over her. It could be much worse, I think, if we didn't have that

  19. protection of God. I don't know, but I didn't have the strength to overcome it in my dream.

  20. That was unusual for me and I should have taken more notice of it, to be honest with

  21. you. I didn't put enough significance on the experience.

  22. In March 2004, I dreamt about a church in Brisbane that I would start. It would start

  23. small. I wrote it down long before I got this meeting here. It grew quickly and I had another

  24. dream before that, a vision about the greatness of the church here. It gave me great comfort

  25. and peace and great understanding of the ways of God and I was very grateful.

  26. My mother, before we came to this country, if you read our book, Our Life Story, you

  27. recall the fact that we were supernaturally led by a vision to Australia. We tried to

  28. go to South America and God shut the door. America and Canada, because my mother who

  29. nursed her first husband, who was one of the great revivalists of Russia, had died of tuberculosis.

  30. At a young age of 28, he was really the vice-chairman of the whole Pentecost movement at the age

  31. of 24. A very powerful man. He lived before his time. A mighty man of God. Awesome. I'm

  32. writing a book about him now in Russia at this moment. I came down here to interview

  33. my sister not so long ago to find out some details concerning his life. We tried everywhere.

  34. Every time we did so, there was always the scars on her lungs because she nursed her

  35. husband and she had no tuberculosis, but the scars were there. One night she had a dream

  36. vision of Australia. The angel gave her a Jeremiah 5150, you better escape the sword,

  37. stand not still. Remember the Lord have far often led to Jerusalem, come into your minds.

  38. It was very powerful, very significant. My mother in the morning got us all together.

  39. That's why I know how real this stuff is because we're a very supernatural family. Got us together

  40. and God's calling us to Australia. He said the angel hurried us. We're in a hurry. This

  41. was about two or three weeks before the deal was lost for black Polish. My father was in

  42. the army that could get a free passage by ship to Australia. That was in 1950. Consequently,

  43. she went to X-rays, no scars. The angel had put his hand over her body. We're in a few

  44. weeks after that. We're on a ship, the Strathmore, traveling to Australia. Amen, church. There's

  45. many experiences. Some time ago when I was living in Australia, seven years ago I used

  46. to come back for my vacation. I was in an apartment with my wife on the Gold Coast.

  47. One morning at four o'clock in my dream vision, a Roberts appeared to me. He was sitting there

  48. and he said he called me over. I went with some trepidation and I knocked beside him.

  49. He put his hand over me and said the anointing could increase seven times and he was gone.

  50. I'm still expecting more. Amen. I remember that morning, every morning after that I was

  51. up early praying in the midst of my vacation, crying out to God because God was speaking

  52. to us through a dream. He does. Can you say amen to that? He does. I remember once in

  53. America, eight months before that, Dr. Cho appeared in a dream for me and prophesied

  54. over my life. He prophesied things about my future. Dr. Cho, you're on dear from Korea.

  55. Prophecyed my things about the future. He gave me an amazing, even prophecy can come

  56. to mighty men of God and dream. Amazing words that I can't disclose to people, but God speaks

  57. through dreams. Can you say amen? Very powerfully. Elias Howe credited the invention of the modern

  58. sewing machine to a dream. A Nobel Prize winner, Neal's Boer said it was in a dream that God

  59. gave him the structure of the atom. Through a dream, God showed him what would happen.

  60. Things have always been for years. Remember when King Abimelech, when Abram had this weakness

  61. of never telling the truth about his wife, this frighten him, I do something to him,

  62. she's my sister. This guy, I think, really married her. If you read that, I was pouring

  63. over that again today. Then in a dream, Genesis 20 verse 3, God came to him and said, you're

    Genesis 20:3

  64. a dead man. That's how God taught us. He said, you've married a woman that belongs to somebody

  65. else. He soon fixed that up. God in a dream, God came to Pharaoh. God warned him and he

  66. blessed him. He came out with great riches. It says Abram came out with great riches and

  67. honor because a dream inspired the Pharaoh. Now, our rationalistic society doesn't believe

  68. that although there's a lot of people today, in more terms, the occult, believing in some

  69. of the supernatural things that they do, and there's a lot of traditionalism in the church

  70. that says the scriptures are sufficient. Have you heard that? We don't need anything supernatural.

  71. The word of God is sufficient. Only the scripture is what we need and nothing more. Well, I

  72. can show you now, I'm going to do a few minutes today, that sounds very logical, but it's

  73. contradictory to scripture. For example, remember Joseph, when God Joseph, this is the Joseph

  74. of Mary and Joseph. Remember God came to him when she was with child and she told him,

  75. so he wanted to put away privilege. She didn't believe that she was given a child by the

  76. Holy Ghost and he had a dream that says very clearly in the scriptures here in Matthew

  77. 1, 21, 22 it says, and Mary says, while he was thought on this period, the angel appeared

  78. unto him in a dream. How? In a dream saying, fear not, she shall bring forth a son that

  79. shall be called in the name of Jesus, the child of the Holy Ghost. So God prepared,

  80. now again, he didn't do it straight away. Poor Mary went through some dilemmas before

  81. it happened and God at times works in a unique way. We should tell him it was before her.

  82. We'd say without embarrassment, but God works in unusual ways at times. We expect

  83. us to trust him. Can you say amen? Now he could have turned to the scriptures and remembered

  84. that the Messiah would come as Isaiah 7, 14 says, behold the virgin shall be with child.

  85. Surely the scripture would have been sufficient quicken to his mind, quicken to his life.

  86. But you see, and then of course his name would be called Jesus, which is the Hebrew Jehoshua,

  87. which means to save. And he could have, there's a number of scriptures God could have given

  88. him, but God came to him in a dream. That's how God works. Can you say amen? Now to protect

  89. his son from the murderous wrath of Pharaoh, of Herod, you find in Acts 2, 3, in Matthew

  90. 2, 13, that again it says, and the Lord appeared unto Joseph in a dream saying, rise, take

  91. your young child. It's such a flimsy thing as a dream. He trusted the future of the Son

  92. of God. So dreams are not flimsy. Dreams can be important. Come on church. Dreams at times

  93. are from God, very powerful. And then God again, you could have read the scripture,

  94. Black Hosea 11, 1, it says out of Egypt, if I called my son, he said, well, you better

  95. go to Egypt. But God gave him scriptures was not enough. God gave him direction from the

  96. word of God, no, from a dream. In the book of Acts, you'll find when Paul went to Corinth,

  97. again people came down, Acts 18, and stirred up strife, stirred up reactions. In the previous

  98. city, you were stoned to death and God raised him up. And I think you could have been fearful

  99. about that. But in Acts 18, verses 9 to 11, it says, Lord spoke to him in the vision.

    Acts 18:9–11

  100. Be not afraid by night. These vision dreams come by night. I've had what I call vision

  101. dreams very clearly. They come in the night seasons. And God clearly gives us warnings

  102. and directions and understanding of what's going on and what we maybe should do. For

  103. example, you know, Paul could have just quoted Isaiah 54, 17, no weapon that is formed against

  104. you shall prosper. You know, surely that's enough. He's got the scriptures. He knew the

  105. Bible, didn't he? But you see, God prepared him. God strengthened him. God touched him

  106. by a dream. I believe God does that. Can you say amen? In Numbers 12, 6, because I believe

  107. dreams are the language of the Holy Spirit. In Numbers 12, 6, this is when the proper

  108. Lord is among you. I reveal myself to him in visions. I speak to him in dreams. So some

  109. of the great men of God at times receive dreams. In the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, in Joel

    Joel 2 chapter mention

  110. chapter 2, it says young men shall see visions, old men shall dream dreams. I don't like the

  111. old men business, but dream dreams. I agree with. And then in Acts 2, when Paul talks

  112. about this, he also mentions this. And when the Holy Ghost fell in Acts 2, 17, he says,

  113. your young daughter shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall

  114. dream dreams. So God seems to work in this way very powerfully. Can somebody agree with

  115. me? In Job 33, 13, it's the way that God communicates. Even these men talk to him and say, but God

  116. speaks, that speak now in one way, now another. The man that may perceive it in a dream, in

  117. a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon a man. Very exact, very exact about,

  118. it's normally about these experiences come at four o'clock in the morning and they understood

  119. this. So if you're tuned into God, maybe there's more going on in your life than you realize.

  120. Amen. Maybe more is happening in your experience than you realize, and it may be very much

  121. from the presence of God. Now what's the purpose of the dream? Maybe to warn us. I remember

  122. years ago, I was in Elizabeth and I had a lady who went to Bible college, but she never

  123. continued to walk in that dimension. And in her dream, she was in a very high building

  124. and she crashed to the ground and she wouldn't let me help her. And she, her hands were broken.

  125. She's trying to get along like this. And I said to my wife, this is very unusual. What

  126. do I do with this? And sure enough, a few weeks later, she had a very drastic accident with

  127. another friend and she married an unbeliever and she always walked on that peripheral.

  128. I went to visit her and minister to her, but she always walked on that peripheral level.

  129. And God was warning, warning us, come on church, helping us. Because for example, remember

  130. when, when Pharaoh had the dream of the, of the seven fat, fat cattle eating the seven

  131. skinny cattle, and then the seven very fat grains eating the skinny heads of grain. And

  132. then the interpretation came that be seven, seven years of prosperity and then seven years

  133. of famine. And God used Joseph who had the great interpretation of the dreams to know

  134. what to do and was exalted to the highest level in that kingdom because God spoke to

  135. him powerfully in the dream. In Genesis, in the, in the Daniel chapter four, we find that

  136. Nebuchadnezzar had an unusual dream. He had a dream of the whole nation. Remember the

  137. head of gold and so on. And then later on he had a dream about himself, a very unusual

  138. dream and none of the magicians could help him. They interpreted the dream and he said

  139. in verse 13, I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, behold a watcher and Holy one

  140. came down from heaven. He cried aloud and said, that's you down the tree and cut off

  141. his branches, shake off his leaves, scatter the fruits, the beast get away and so on.

  142. And then he asked Daniel to interpret it. And Daniel said, I wish I, it wasn't what

  143. I think it is. This is my interpretation of what he said. He said, God gives you 12 months

  144. to repent. You're too proud. You're letting this whole thing get to your head. You don't

  145. want to repent. You'll go like a beast in the field and you'll be go through terrible

  146. experiences. But it didn't repent. And remember he became like an animal and the Jew had rest

  147. upon him and for 12 months he lived in this demonic, a mental dilemma. And in this state

  148. where he grew like philis, it says, I don't know what kind of state he was in, but it

  149. was pretty bad. And then when he came to himself, he began to glorify God and he's an unsaved

  150. man. Come on church. And God warned him 12 months before to repent. God warned him to

  151. change, to humble himself and he wouldn't do so. And God then had to deal with it another

  152. way. He was a world rule. I wonder if God speaks to some of the men today. What if God

  153. ever spoke to Hitler and he could have been a different kind of man? I don't know. Whether

  154. God warns, I don't know. But I know God warns through dreams. Come on church. And unless

  155. there is sometimes repentance, you know, I remember one morning in the early days of

  156. Mount Gravatt, I had a vision of hell. The most horrendous experiences in my book I've

  157. ever had. I walked through the cabins of hell. I saw people there. I saw the, it was horrendous

  158. in my experience. And I remember I got on my knees and wept and sobbed for hours that

  159. morning in the presence of God. But God was doing something in my life and I believe in

  160. the life of the church. And God made me preach certain kinds of messages. But I believe at

  161. times God warns us how to live, how to be careful. Can you say amen? And dreams can

  162. be warnings to us. I remember when I was in Perth preaching in America, but the church

  163. called me over to be the pastor and we wanted a convention first. And I said, well, I think

  164. I'm coming, but there's some other conventions. So I came and we had a wonderful time. And

  165. without me even asking, the vote didn't mean to be the pastor. But I said, nay. And I wouldn't

  166. be here today if it was so. But anyway, a man came up to me, a prophet of God, just

  167. a gentle man, known over there. And he said to me, I saw New York crumbling. I saw the

  168. high rises of New York crumbling. He saw, I saw it flowing with blood. He saw 9-11.

  169. And I didn't, you know, I was a bit skeptical myself. I said, what's this guy singing? I

  170. said, I don't know, brother. I can't tell you why. He said, what does it mean? I said,

  171. I don't know. But he saw 9-11. I know King Clement prophesied 9-11. He saw the airplanes

  172. hitting the towers. Very cleavey, my very good friend of mine, King Clement. And God

  173. at times warns to prepare what we could have done. I don't know. I know this, that I'm

  174. just trying to remember now. King Clement, or somebody had a warning about one of the

  175. prime ministers and one also concerning the president. And the president took notice because

  176. he had with him at that time, the, what was the guy, the lawyer, the, what do you call

  177. these guys in charge of all, attorney general. And he went to him and they planned a strategy

  178. to keep the president protected. And they took it seriously. Thank God for it. Can you

  179. say amen? Then God that protects men. I know even on Bill Clinton's day, a friend of mine

  180. who was a president of a university, of a Christian university over there was led very

  181. clearly of God. And so they wrote to the president and it opened the door in every big function

  182. after that. They're always invited by the Clinton. They saw something in this man and

  183. there was some warnings giving and God gives us men. Come on church, we should be like

  184. that. Can you say amen? It's also used for encouragement, used for warning. It's used

  185. for encouragement. God encourages us through dreams. Can you say amen? Like Paul that occasion

  186. was encouraged and keep preaching here. I've got many in this city yet that are not saying

  187. Paul keep preaching. And it was encouraged by the dream that he had. And God would use

  188. dreams at times to encourage us, to say something to us that he's with us, like he did with

  189. me, with our Roberts and with Dr. Cho Young Gi and other times. He encourages you in some

  190. way to speak to our hearts. He uses it for guidance. For example, in act 16, in act book

  191. of act 16, we notice there that Paul was journeying during the work of God and suddenly God stopped

  192. and going to Phrygia, forbidden by the Holy Ghost. And then he said he'd go to the Phrygia,

  193. verse 7. Of act 16, the spirit suffered not, and then in the vision appeared to Paul in

  194. the night. That's how they come. They come in the night. They come in this vision dream

  195. form. When I had the experience of the monk of that year from the beginning of that church,

  196. there were great needs and people stand before me that were in that needy situation, in a

  197. vision. They would say, I'm the one that needs help, one after the other, about six of them.

  198. And I was able to handle it without anybody ever knowing the problem. And God gave me

  199. the vision, the dream to handle it. And God does that. Can you say amen? And God got me

  200. here, then God in the night came to him and he saw a man standing there of Macedonia and

  201. come over and help us. And he knew it was the Lord guiding him to Europe. And the door

  202. is to Europe, powerfully opening. He was guided to Europe by a dream, by a vision in the night.

  203. I believe that. It's also used for intimacy with God. Like God came, remember, to Solomon

  204. in 1 Kings chapter 3. And it says in the night, in Gideon, verse 5, in Gideon, the Lord appeared

    1 Kings 3 chapter mention

  205. to Solomon in a dream. He came to Solomon, spoke to Solomon in a dream. He said, what

  206. do you want? What can I give you? And you notice here that Solomon, he said, I need

  207. wisdom above everything else. Because you've asked for that, he said, I'll give you silver

  208. and gold as much as you want. And God gave it to him. But you see, God spoke to him in

  209. a dream. God revealed his purposes. God comforted him. God gave him great wisdom. There was

  210. an intimate moment between God and Solomon. And God can come to you in dreams. Can you

  211. say amen? And can be close to you and can speak to you. How many agree with me? How

  212. many have witnessed that at times? I'm sure many of you have had. Like to Joseph, he revealed

  213. the future to Joseph in a dream. Remember? And often relates to the places where you

  214. live or where you are. He saw the sun and moon and star bowing down to him. Remember

  215. that? And it was God showing him. And then part of it, he saw the sheaves, the grains,

  216. and bowing to him. Again, it was out of the circumstances of his life. God used this to

  217. speak to this man about his future. And of course, he became a great interpreter of dreams

  218. and a great capacity to walk with God and to do the will of God. God speaks to unbelievers

  219. in dreams. I know this, that many Muslims have had dreams about Christ. I've heard

  220. some of the great men of God that Shul had on one day, but he's a spiritual, one of

  221. the most brilliant men in America. He's an Indian who lectures at Yale often and does

  222. a lot of work in India and around the world. Brilliant man. What a message. John Rich told

  223. me he never had a message like it. He's spoken about the Shul, his church. Shul rarely gives

  224. his pulpit to anybody, but he gave it to this guy. And he spoke about it in another session

  225. he had because he works in that realm, how most Muslims have dreams about Christ because

  226. God is trying to reach them. Amen, church. When I had that experience, remember 9-11,

  227. I told you about, I was flying from Amsterdam to America on 9-11. And suddenly over the

  228. loudspeaker, the voice came saying, America is shut down, ladies and gentlemen. I was

  229. flying. And there was some thoughts that a KLM airplane had actually crashed. And my

  230. son knew I was in one of those flights. I said, oh, I don't know if my dad's alive or

  231. dead. And he rang my wife in the middle of the night. And she said, am I a widow or am

  232. I still alive? So we landed in Montreal. I was not in that lot, thank God. We landed

  233. in Montreal and they took us to a strombole in that beautiful spot where they play golf

  234. to great mountains and a beautiful spot only for one night. Experienced on his own. But

  235. the next morning there were people everywhere flying in. Because I'm very gregarious, I'm

  236. told to everybody about Jesus. So you hear these fellows call me bishop. Glad to have

  237. you here, bishop, and so on. And they talked to me. And I talked to them about the Lord.

  238. But I found myself amongst a group of Muslims. And I told you that story before. Amongst

  239. a group of Muslims. And I started sharing Jesus. All of them were Muslims, the whole

  240. table. And they were fairly apprehensive because they knew it was a Muslim, they had done this.

  241. And people were staring at them. And I found myself sitting with them having breakfast.

  242. And I'm talking about the Lord to them. And a beautiful attractive lady with a husband

  243. from Houston said, she said, my mother had many visions about Jesus. So I'm talking and

  244. sharing. And one of these ladies with a hood on her like they wear came along with an interpreter.

  245. And she said to me, I want to become a Christian. Amen. It was a wonderful experience. And I

  246. was able to lead her. What I'm saying to you is, Muslims often have dreams. You see, when

  247. I say this, if you make yourself available, people will always be there. They can share

  248. Jesus with. Get up every morning and say, God, lead me to someone. Come on. Do not ever

  249. pass the opportunity because God is looking for witnesses. They shall be witnesses. Do

  250. not ever pass the opportunity to share with somebody, Lord, who have you got that I can

  251. win to Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? Please don't lose that. Satan will do anything to

  252. stop you doing that. He'll get you busy and get you involved in great spiritual matters

  253. and the things you're supposed to do. And the wind soles for Christ. We don't do it,

  254. church. Keep alive. Keep awake. That was one of the experience in my life. But I'm told

  255. because often unbelievers have dreams. I told you this morning on the internet, my wife

  256. found this. Somebody sent it to us. There's a hundred and a half million people in that

  257. Middle East area who are Muslims who've come to Christ. Amen. Since 9-11. Isn't that wonderful?

  258. God is moving. Now, there was research done. They tell us how by many pastors. And this

  259. wasn't just a glib statement. This was done. Isn't that amazing? Praise God. God is moving.

  260. Amen. And there will be a great revival. I've heard this often with prophecies from Benny

  261. and others amongst the Muslims. They want to become the great. When they come to Christ,

  262. they will... A friend of mine once said this. He's got a great church in Ghana. He said,

  263. we need some Holy Ghost terrorists. They're so bold for God, for their understanding of

  264. God, of their background. And Christians often are timid. Make us bold. Can you say amen?

  265. And notice how God speaks to unbelievers. To ambidelech. He warned them about that. To

  266. Pharaoh. He warned them about what was going on in his future. Remember? To Nebuchadnezzar.

  267. These weren't Christians. These were unsaved people, so to speak. They weren't godly.

  268. They weren't Israelites. But God spoke to them. And then remember Pilate's wife? How

  269. God came to him in a dream? She said, the part that had nothing to do with this is just

  270. man. And she was warned of God. She was warned in a dream. So God uses, talks to unbelievers.

  271. Often in a dream. And to us too. He says in Daniel chapter 2 verse 13, what are these

    Daniel 2:13

  272. dreams? It says, as for me, and for that Bible, the secret is not revealed to me. I mean,

  273. with wisdom that I have more than one living and better in order. That the interpretation

  274. may be made known to the king. That you may know the thoughts of your heart and mind.

  275. So God does this. Dr. Wyatt used to be with us in Montcobac years ago. He was major research

  276. on this. It says we're supposed to dream in the night. Every one of us is supposed to

  277. dream. It's this, called this REM, the rapid eye movement, REM. And they place EEGs on

  278. people. And normally the dreams happen just before you awake in the morning. About four

  279. o'clock or that time, God gives you dreams. Now some of it, you know, they did the one

  280. God kept waking him up in his dream. He became psychotic after a while. Because it's not

  281. good to do that. Let people dream. Amen. Let them get through. We need dreams, psychologically.

  282. God has made us like that. To heal us, to bless us. Good dreams, wonderful dreams. Now

  283. why we ignore them is Dr. Morton Carl Schorr, who's president of Notre Dame, I don't know

  284. if he's still in the house, but when he was at home, he was. He talks about that Plato

  285. had three sources of knowledge, the five senses, reason, what he called divine madness, the

  286. supernatural realm, the visions, the dreams. And the Eastern world, they came out of Plato,

  287. lived very much in this environment. It was normal for them. They believed in it. They

  288. expected it. That's why Cho, you know, is a different kettle of fish to a lot of us

  289. here. That's why even South America, a great friend of mine, who is dead now, he passed

  290. away, but the same as a number of them over there, they were powerfully used of God. And

  291. he said that you in the Western society, they don't know much about the realms of the supernatural.

  292. He would go into a city. He'd fast four to five days and find the demonic powers that

  293. control that city. And he would go and fast in prayer and break that power. He'd have

  294. incredible healings in the name of Jesus. He built a tremendous movement for God, and

  295. his son is now in charge of it. But we at times in our Western society comes out of

  296. what is called Aristotelian philosophy. I've told you that before, but this is the guy,

  297. another guy that gave me an understanding of this, that we didn't believe in the supernatural.

  298. The amazing thing is this, that great theologian Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced by

  299. Aristotle. He wrote that great book called Summa Theologia, the beginning of theology,

  300. magnificent work, and Protestants also took notice of it, but it was mixed with Aristotelian

  301. philosophy. Thank God for the Holy Ghost, can you say amen? Thank God for the supernatural

  302. realm. Thank God for the things that God has done with us, amen. I believe in this realm.

  303. I believe God speaks to us, amen church. I believe God can talk to you. And it's, you

  304. know, like top preachers will tell you, we've lost the art of meditation. We don't know

  305. how to meditate before the Lord. To matter, I will talk about that one day. To just meditate

  306. the word of God, to chew it over, to live in the word, to speak the word, to say the

  307. word, to as you drive along, to keep speaking the word, can you say amen? Because it's very

  308. biblical, amen church. It's very biblical. We have to meditate in the Lord. That's why

  309. I chose book the fourth dimension became so powerful. How many read the fourth dimension?

  310. The power of the book, that many people reacted to it because it doesn't suit our Western

  311. culture. He went into this other dimension that God has for us, and to do visions and

  312. dreams, the language of the Spirit, the supernatural realms of God, amen church. We have the power

  313. to move and work and live it, and see the mighty works of God. Can somebody agree with

  314. me? Amen. So, every one of us were told dreams per night. We were to interpret them, to find

  315. what God is saying, then try to make out more than they are. When God speaks, it's very

  316. clear, it's very clear, often also in color. Often they are repeated, the dream in the

  317. night, not just once, you have it more than once. God often speaks to us in symbols, amen,

  318. in symbols, things that God, for example, even in the Bible, you know, in Daniel, when

  319. the nations of the world came along, God gave symbols of the nations. Remember that? Very

  320. clearly. And like, for example, England has a symbol of a lion. America is a symbol of

  321. an eagle. Russia is a symbol of a bear. Amen. And God at times does speak to us in symbols

  322. to reveal dragons, often the picture, and I know movies are made like that, but movies

  323. at times are pretty accurate, of demonic power, of demonic power, it's very clear. And you

  324. know, the river often speaks of a great river of life. So God, for example, on one occasion,

  325. this was in 19, I've got it written down, 1981 in January. We had camps those days in

  326. non-cavat, and at times, of course, I was always trying to be there, and this was in

  327. the midst of my vacation. So we only had one week off and stress wasn't there terribly,

  328. and she was, couldn't sleep, and she had a very traumatic time physically. And I remember

  329. so clearly that night, she had a dream from God, and she woke up totally transformed by

  330. that dream. But the significance was this, when I got home, the first night after that,

  331. I had a dream, I had written it down, I was playing in a park, and as we were playing

  332. both together, my wife and I, this vicious dog came along with this man, an Alsatian,

  333. a wolf dog, or whatever we call him in this country here. I don't know if he had a mouthpiece

  334. or not, but no, that I remember. And I was concerned that that animal would be let loose.

  335. But somehow, I was conscious of this, and as they passed me, no worries, and suddenly

  336. when they got past me, this man had something controlling this thing. This dog attacked

  337. Beth viciously, and I realized the dream was telling me this was a demonic attack, and

  338. God just preserved her. But you see, the dogs at times like that are a symbol of demonic

  339. attacks. Come on, church. A symbolism of an animal that comes like an enemy to try to

  340. destroy us. And I could go on sharing examples, I've shared enough for my own life, I'm sure.

  341. But what I'm saying to you is, I'm convinced that God, these days, sometimes I didn't do

  342. this, but these days I write them down and put them in a book that God showed me, showed

  343. me a church. Remember I told you 500 people, a very clean, that suddenly it would happen,

  344. it would grow like that. So we have to hold on. Satan knows that, he doesn't like that,

  345. he doesn't want this to break open. Come on, church. I was one to Jesus Christ, I found

  346. Jesus at the age of 11, I had a dream. Mom and dad went to heaven. I was under conviction

  347. for three months before that. Every mom and dad went to heaven, I got to the gates of

  348. heaven, they wouldn't let me in. And I'm telling you, talking about a young boy at the age

  349. of 11 with conviction. I used to walk down the street with these great preachers from

  350. the youth of Christ, like Daniel Postey. My dad and him were talking and I was...I'm lost,

  351. I'm lost. And I found Jesus. Come on, church. It was by my mother's dream of heaven that

  352. I began the call of God in my life. She had a dream of heaven that's so quick in me, that's

  353. so inspired me, that's so touched my life, that made me go after God and start witnessing

  354. about Jesus. But it was out of a supernatural event. Amen, church. Like by a dream, Abraham

  355. left his country. God uses this stuff. Can you say amen? He does speak. And I'm sure

  356. if I open this room tonight, there'll be many of them. How many can say that God spoke to

  357. them through a dream? Many have had it. I think many others would have had it if you

  358. would listen to what God is trying to tell you. And I often said, God, if you've got

  359. something, just speak to me in a dream tonight. Just reveal yourself. Can you say amen? God,

  360. just speak in the...I remember in Elizabeth Church, my mother was very supernatural. I

  361. mean, between...it was like mother and Jesus and me. You could never sin with my mother

  362. around. No. I mean, she had...she could go to church and say, this man is stealing money.

  363. She knew everything. I mean...and then, yes, I mean, she didn't like it actually. She said,

  364. Lord, take it away from me. She saw this other guy once in a coffin. I remember that. And

  365. he said, I'm not dead. And everybody's sitting around him and he was going through very traumatic

  366. times. There was a man in the church, I'll mention his name, but I won't. He was dressed

  367. up. He had this dirty, dirty garment on him. And she warned me, she said, be careful of

  368. that man. And I was careful. And finally I left and the next pastor wasn't careful. And

  369. he nearly wrecked the church. So God can warn us. Can you say amen? Thank you. We've got

  370. good people around you. For example, remember Joseph and the butler and the baker? They

  371. both had dreams when he was in prison. And the butler had this wonderful dream. He said

  372. he had this vine and he had three branches pressed in three days. Remember that he says

  373. he dreamt about the vine, the three branches. He took the grapes of the vine and pressed

  374. them in the king's cup. And Joseph interpreted it and said, within three days, you'll be

  375. elevated again and you'll be serving the Pharaoh. And the baker got encouraged to do it. And

  376. he said, well, I had a dream too. He said he had kind of this bread and of course in

  377. those days, that's how they would do it. And the birds ate out of the tray. It was uncommon

  378. maybe to do that, to protect it. And he said, within three days, they're beating your body

  379. in the streets. So that dream didn't help him very much, but it happened. And of course,

  380. you might remember out of it, God opened incredible doors for them all. So we are called of God

  381. in a supernatural way. I believe a lot of men, we search this, are called of God supernaturally.

  382. Expect some supernatural, men and women, I mean, expect some supernatural, this young

  383. lady, LaGranie, expect the men I mean you to get, expect some supernatural visitation

  384. in your life. He's a supernatural God. Come on church. And he leads us supernaturally.

  385. He will guide us. He will quicken us and he will show us mighty things to the glory of

  386. his wonderful name. He will warn us. He comes to us and encourages us. I believe that with

  387. all of my heart because he's a good God. Can I say amen? And he will show you wonderful

  388. things from his presence. I think I told you this story and I'm going to close tonight.

  389. In this, I'm going to get home to my wife as I can. When I had that heart operation

  390. some two and a half years ago, after the operation, I couldn't pray, try to pray. Not interested.

  391. A brother used to help me quite a bit. Michael's to come in for one week. He sort of served

  392. me and helped me through this time to help there. My wife used to put Benny Hinn's tapes

  393. beside me as I'd sit there. I just couldn't, I knew I was, finally I said Lord I'm desperate.

  394. Help me out. One night a great man, I used to have a church in Houston. Pastor Jeff was

  395. there with his wife and who else was from here? You were there. We went shopping to

  396. a Clarence sale. I was pretty new in America at that stage too. The last thing he said

  397. was Clarence, Clarence sale. I said where is Clarence? He had these deals for Clarence.

  398. He looked around and said where is Clarence? Oh you mean a Clarence sale. Remember that?

  399. We found the Clarence sale. But anyway, I had this church and God in His mercy grew

  400. it. It went through very difficult times before I came. I had about 800 there in worship and

  401. at one stage it went up and down a little bit. I had a brother there called Wes Warwick,

  402. a Dr. Wes Warwick. Remember this moustache brother? This long moustache. Dr. Wes I used

  403. to call him. He used to run the school there for me. We fought for him with prostate cancer.

  404. His PSA went up by 2500. If there were any nurses here then he should have been dead

  405. a long time. His legs became like elephant legs. Then God touched him. We fought that

  406. thing for about four or five years. He didn't know we had it. It came right down to PSA

  407. to 17 or something. Then the battle raged again. Every time I was in America I was at

  408. the right moment. I spent several days in the hospital in the night just praying with

  409. him, praying the scriptures. I was with him just before he died, the night before he died.

  410. I remember looking into his eyes and he knew the time had come. He said goodbye. He fought

  411. this thing and fought it with faith. Here I am after the operation and suddenly Dr.

  412. Wes appears. I'm driving a car and he appears in a dream. He has his beautiful suit on.

  413. He says to me, you know he says, Pastor Ray just said, heaven is rejoicing and the angels

  414. are jealous over the prayer times we used to have together. Because he and I used to

  415. play every Friday night, half nights of prayer. We'd start off and sometimes the place was

  416. packed and sometimes it was just a handful. But he was always there with his wife, always

  417. praying with me, always when I wanted to pray. He was there praying with us, believing God

  418. for miracles. Suddenly this man appeared and I was back. Amen. God lifted that feeling,

  419. that battle that I was back. I was literally back. Hallelujah. God in a dream can be. His

  420. wife used to say, oh I wonder how things are. One day in a dream her husband came walking

  421. toward her and addressed him wife and said keep yourself pure. That's all he said and

  422. he was gone. Amen church. She knew the essential nature to walk righteous before the Lord.

  423. God comforted her what he was but also encouraged her to walk before the Lord. God is good.

  424. Can you say amen? Thank God for this supernatural realm. Thank God we are supernatural people.

  425. Can you say amen? Stand with me together. Thank God that God can speak to us. Speak

  426. to us time and time again. Expect God to speak to you. Expect God to do things for you. Oh

  427. let's cry out to the Lord for a minute. Hallelujah. Precious Lord speak to us we pray. Speak to

  428. us in the night seasons. Speak to us with your presence in the meetings. Speak to us

  429. in the times of our need. Visit us oh God. Visit us we pray. We don't understand everything.

  430. I don't know why we went home. We had such great healing times and then the battle raged

  431. again. I don't understand it Lord but I know you are real. Hallelujah. I know you are faithful.

  432. Come on church cry out to God. God speak to us. Come on. God talk to us. God reveal more

  433. and more of yourself. We long to be vested under our Lord. Forgive us if we fail at your

  434. Lord. We feel at times our poor the cheapest of sinners. But your mercy is from everlasting

  435. to everlasting. Come on church. We praise you Jesus. We thank you that you are real. Hallelujah.

  436. That you are real supernaturally and in every sense of the word for your word. But speak

  437. to us Lord thank you for this vehicle. You have given us to talk to us to show us your

  438. marvelous ways I pray in the name of Jesus. We haven't prayed for people that are sick

  439. tonight. If you haven't been, if you have a need in your body, in your emotions somewhere

  440. please come that I can pray with you in the name of Jesus. Please come. I would like to

  441. pray with you in Jesus name.

  442. Thank you again for tuning in in today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald Klimanov. We hope

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