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SID: Dr. Charity, you teach that we are the best people to interpret our own dreams. We don’t have to go to the experts. We have the expert inside of us. His name, Holy Spirit. Explain.
CHARITY: The dreamer himself is the most qualified interpretation expert of their dream because they know what the symbols mean to them better than anyone. You know your association with whatever person or event, or thing. Number two, you know the setting of the dream better than anyone. You as the dreamer know that. The setting is what is going on in your waking life when you had the dream. Setting is everything. We don’t know anything about a dream until we know the setting. So with every dream that we have we want to go back to our waking life and say, what happened that day. What was I was thinking about as I got ready for bed? What was I praying for as I fell asleep?
SID: It’s almost like a lightbulb goes off.
CHARITY: Yes. You have an ah-ha moment. The interpretation needs to resonate in the heart of the dreamer and then you know you have the right message. It just clicks.
SID: Now Dr. Mark, tell me some famous inventions. And by the way, you’re saying, oh I couldn’t come up with an invention. Do you think God could? Does God have any problem? He’s just looking for someone to use. Just volunteer. Say what Abraham said, “Here am I, God.” Tell me some famous inventions.
MARK: Yes, and does God even care about famous inventions or does he just care about your spiritual life, or is inventions part of it all? And it is. Let me tell you about Larry Page. He was at Stanford University, 22 years of age, and he had a dream at night. And in this dream he sees himself downloading the entire Internet onto his personal computer, and he sees some algorithms that are connecting all the different articles like computer code, and it’s showing how he’s able to access and pull these articles down. He wakes up in the middle of the night. He spends two hours writing out what he can recall from that dream with these different rules as to how connect these articles and pull them down. He took it to his professor at college and told him he was going to create this in a couple of weeks and his professor laughed at him. It took him a year of working this dream out. But a year later, he had the Google search bar, which we now all use, which has become the foundation of Google Enterprises, which has made that the biggest, richest company in the world today, and made the founder of it, Larry Page, one of the richest men in the world today because he listened to a dream, honored the dream, got up and spent two hours writing about it, spent a year working it out and now he’s blessed the world with a gift that we all use every single day of our lives, and he’s become wealthy as a result of that.
SID: Tell me one more. I mean, there’s so many. Wasn’t it Thomas Edison that used to take a nap every day and God would show him inventions?
MARK: Yes. Almost every single inventor has done that. And the gentleman who came up with the sewing machine, he couldn’t figure out, he patented the first sewing machine. He couldn’t figure out how to thread the thread in the end of a needle. And he goes to sleep with that question on his mind, and he has a dream of an arrow being shot through a wigwam wall, snaring a thread on the inside of the wall and pulling it back to the wall. He said that’s the way to hook the thread to the end of this needle. And he patented it, and he became very, very wealthy. So there’s another example from recent history.
SID: Mark, what would you say to the person that’s listening to us right now and say, but Dr. Mark, I believe everything you’re saying, but I don’t remember one of my dreams.
MARK: Well that’s really, really simple to resolve. All you simply have to do is you lay there in bed at night, say, “Holy Spirit, would you give me a dream tonight.” Say, “I believe in dreams. I believe in my heart. I believe my heart wants to communicate with me revelation, and Lord, I’m asking you to give me revelation in this area that I’m exploring right now, because you’ve asked me to explore it, and you have wonderful answers.” You go to sleep asking that and wake up, and you put paper and pencil next to your bed, saying to your heart, “If you wake me up I’ll write down what you give me.” If you do that, I guarantee you, you’re going to wake up every week with wonderful stuff to write down.
SID: You know what I found out in your teaching, most people are like me and they just, I’m so pragmatic. If I can’t understand my dream, I don’t want to even waste my time fooling with it. But then what I was thinking from your teaching is there was no expectancy and I got what I expected, nothing.
MARK: Right.
SID: How important is it to believe you’re going to have this?
MARK: According to your faith, be it unto you, ask and you will receive. So if I’m not going to believe in dreams and I’m not going to ask for dreams then the Bible is clear to say I’m going to get nothing. Because he who comes to God must believe that he is and he’s the rewarder of those who seek him. If I say, I don’t really know if I believe in dreams, well you’re not believing in God speaking from your heart. So you’re getting nothing. You have to take a step of faith and say, look, the Bible covers dreams, I believe in dreams, I believe in the Bible, I’m going to practice living in dreams. It’s as simple as that.
SID: Now also we’re living in a very complex world today. What if, and God knows what’s going to happen today, and he can warn you. Give me an example of a warning dream.
MARK: A warning dream. I was on the phone with a lady who was phoning me from prison and she had a warning dream before she even got saved, from God, which shows God’s tremendous love for every single person. And she was a teenager thinking of going from Utah or Nevada over to California. In the dream, the warning was don’t go to California. If you do, you’re going to go to prison. She ignored the warning. She went to California. She got involved in the drug scene and in a drug induced stupor, she killed her roommate, and she’s now spending a life prison sentence in a California prison, which she wouldn’t have had to do had she honored the voice of God through her dream and the warning of God through her dream.
SID: Charity, you have so opened up my thinking to children having advantage over people like me, children having advantage over everyone in dreaming, and we just totally dismiss this. What would happen if you taught your children that God speaks through dreams? What would happen if your children start telling you what God has in store for them? It’s just expanding my thinking so much. When we come back I want to find, Charity, what you found out, and you have a degree in Biblical Studies. We’ll come right back.
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