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SID: Okay. I’ve been waiting for you to share this, Dr. Charity. I think it must be a degree of a passion with you. Children just physiologically are better adapted to get dreams than us adults. Explain.
CHARITY: You’re right. They’re very sensitive to the supernatural world. They’re very sensitive to the Spirit because of their brainwave state. Adults, right now, we’re in Beta. It’s like a faster, logical, analytical brain wave state.
SID: Absolutely. That’s where I am.
CHARITY: But then there’s Alpha. And Alpha is a slower more meditative kind of prayerful brainwave state. And when we dream we’re in Alpha. And just as we’re falling asleep at night and just as we’re waking up in the morning, that’s Alpha, when we’re not really sure if we’re awake or asleep and the veil between the physical and the spiritual is very thin. That’s Alpha. Well the incredible thing that science has found about children is that they live continually, day and night, in the Alpha brain wave state up until seven years of age. So they’re not living logically and analytically out of their head, they’re living out of their heart.
SID: I would rather do that myself.
CHARITY: You’re right. They’re living out of Second Corinthians 4:18. They’re living to an unseen realm. They’re living to an inner kingdom. And so we know God lives in our hearts. We all want to live out of hearts and that makes us very sensitive to the supernatural realm that infuses and permeates this natural realm.
SID: Maybe that’s why so many children love our show. I’m amazed, I mean, even at young ages, they’re attracted to It’s Supernatural.
CHARITY: Absolutely. They see into the Spirit. They hear. They are young seers. They are very gifted in the prophetic. You’re right.
SID: Now you teach simple keys to understanding of dreams and the keys work for children, but they also work for all of us. Tell us a few of the keys.
CHARITY: There’s three specific questions that we want to ask about every single dream we have. Number one, we want to ask what is the setting. And we talked about what’s going on in our waking life when we have the dream. And then number two, we want to ask what is the main action of the dream. In the dream, what am I doing? Am I running? Am I hiding? Am I ministering? That’s the key action. And the third question we want to ask about every dream is in the dream, how am I feeling? Am I excited? Am I scared? Am I disappointed, grateful? That’s the key emotion. And then we take the key emotion and action from the dream, and we look in our waking life, and we match it up. Where in waking life am I feeling that emotion? Where am I doing this, and then experiencing these things? Then we overlay our waking life world setting on top of the dream. We see where it matches up. Then we know what area of our life the dream is speaking to. For example, I can share a dream. And it seems silly. It seems like it’s just a pizza [dream] but there’s really, there’s a message in it from God. I had a dream where I was on a pole vaulting team. All the people on the team.
SID: Now you see, if I had a dream like that I’d say, but God, don’t you know I’m not an athlete.
CHARITY: Yes. But then we know to translate we need to look at the picture symbolically, figuratively. It’s all in pictures. So okay, everyone on the team was able to pole vault except for me. I was too weak and I was too sick, and I couldn’t get over the high bar. So what’s the main action in this dream? Well I’m trying to get over something and the feeling is I’m struggling because I can’t do it. So where in waking life am I struggling to get over something? Well in waking life I had actually been talking to God about someone who had said something to me and I was a little bit offended. I’m like, God, should I confront them? Should I tell them they hurt my feelings or should I just forgive them, walk in love and let it go, just get over it? Well God gave me this picture at night, showing me everyone else who was on your team, they were able to get over it. If you’re spiritually strong, if you’re a spiritually healthy person you should have no trouble getting over. Pole vaulting was the picture, but getting over was the problem. So by looking at what’s going on in our waking life and matching it up with the dream we’re able to see kind of what God is speaking to.
SID: You know, another clue that you gave me is that when you have multiple dreams in a night most likely they’re all telling you the same thing.
CHARITY: Absolutely. That’s how it was for Pharaoh in the book of Genesis. He dreams of corn on the cob and then he’s dreaming of the fat cows, and that seems unrelated. They have nothing to do with each other. But Joseph is like, hey, that’s one and the same message. That’s all talking about the same famine that’s going to happen. So when we have lots of different dreams they might seem unrelated, but in one night God is usually speaking to a single heart issue and he’s just showing us different angles, different perspectives so that we can get the message. He’s showing us all different perspectives to communicate the message meaning he has for us.
SID: Mark, you say very strongly we should write down our dreams. When do we write them down, when we have them and wake up, or do we write them down first thing after we finished our sleep for the night? What do you recommend?
MARK: You do it as soon as you wake up. So if you wake up in the middle of the night, 2:00 from the dream, you write it down at 2:00 because chances are you’ll have forgotten most of your dreams by the time you wake up in the morning. And so you write the dream down as soon as you receive it. God loves you to write things down because you’re honoring your heart. You’re saying to your heart, you’re important. You wake me up and I’ll record what you give me. So your heart says, great, I’m going to wake you up because you now honor me. And it’s a way of memorializing it. It’s a way of extending it because you as you begin to write the flow gives you pieces that you forgot about, and you say, there was that.
SID: That’s what I’ve noticed. In other words, it’s almost like the Holy Spirit will bring the recall when you have the intent. I want to know what you told me. Last minute, would you pray for us. Would you pray that everyone watching have sweet sleep and people with sleep problems and remember our dreams.
MARK: Amen. Be glad to. So right now, Father, we just come to you in the name of Jesus, and Father, we just release sweet sleep and dreams into the heart of every single listener here today. And we speak to your heart and we say be at peace as you fall asleep. Give your care to the Lord Jesus Christ and receive sweet rest, deep rest from the Holy Spirit, and we speak to your heart for faith to arise within your heart that you will have the gift of faith to believe that dreams are the language of the Holy Spirit and God is speaking directly into your heart. So I speak faith into your heart right now to believe in the value of dreams, and it’s God speaking to you through those dreams. So Father, we receive those gifts right now. In Jesus’ name we thank you for them. We bless you for them in Jesus’ name. Amen.
SID: God says that he gives his beloved sweet sleep. The question is, are you his beloved? If Jesus is your Lord, if you believe Jesus forgave you of your sins and you say it out loud, and you ask Jesus to live inside of you, I’m going to tell you something, you and I want this to go deep inside of you, you are the beloved of God. You really are.
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