 Okay, welcome back after the break. Just before we went for a break, we began looking at chapter 5, the voice of the Holy Spirit. And we said the Holy Spirit speaks to us in three ways. We hear the Holy Spirit speak to us. One is the inner voice, where we don't hear the sound. Okay, but the Holy Spirit guides us and leads us. We can hear statements, but we can't hear the voice or the sound of the Holy Spirit. Then there's the audible voice of the Holy Spirit, where the Holy Spirit clearly speaks. And we see it in the case of Samuel, when you hear the audible voice of God in the case of prophets, when they hear the audible voice of God. And also, I said that the audible voice of God is a very rare experience. But the inner voice, the Holy Spirit speaks to us, the inner voice that is not a rare experience. We are constantly hearing and from the Holy Spirit bearing inner witness or speaking to our inner being, our inner spirit man. Okay, and then there is a voice of the Holy Spirit. The third way the Holy Spirit, we can hear the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit speaks to us is through the voice of the Holy Spirit in prophecy. I'm not going to be explaining it now because we will be looking at in chapter 8 and then I will explain in detail. And then another way the Holy Spirit speaks to us is, you know, he speaks to a group of people. This is answering Lucy's question as well. So, you know, while his voice could have come through the voice of prophecy, you know, when we are through the, sorry, through the collective voice of the Holy Spirit that people hear in a group. A group of people, all of them sense or hear the Holy Spirit speaking the same thing to everybody. Okay, so the collective way that the Holy Spirit speaks to everybody in a group. It can be a team, it can be a leadership team, it can be a pastoral team where in the church there are many pastors. All the pastors sense the same leading of the Holy Spirit. It can also be in a team meeting, leadership meeting, high level leadership meeting, whatever, all of them can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. And this leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit speaking the same thing to everybody in the team, in the group or in the family, whether it's husband and wife. It can come through the voice of prophecy. It can come to the inner voice. It can come even to the inner witness. But what is important is the same direction, the same guidance, the same thing where the Holy Spirit is communicating to you. It can communicate to your spouse. Now suppose as husband and wife you're praying something for your family or for your children. Or as husband, wife and children you're praying about something for you as a family, then the Holy Spirit can speak the same thing for all of you. Okay, and it's a confirmation. So for example, when we were building our own house, we were looking for a name for the house. Everybody was thinking, what is the name for the house? And then when I was praying, I got a specific name to name our building of our house. So when I told this and I explained why I got this name, everybody in my family were one. Because to the Holy Spirit conforming to all of them, that this is the name that we need to give to our home. Otherwise we will have, we are six of us in our family and all six of us are very strong in our opinions in what we have to say. Somebody will disagree about something but here we saw everybody just falling in line. So I heard from the Holy Spirit. I told it to them, the Holy Spirit conformed to them and everybody were in it for what we were going to name our house. So this can be like a collective witness where the Holy Spirit is speaking. And it also gives confidence to others that, hey, all of us are in unity in oneness we are hearing from, God. So in some cases, the Holy Spirit can speak to one individual that one individual is presenting it. But when the individual is presenting it, the Holy Spirit gives a confirmation in the spirit man of others. For example, in a church where there is a pastor team or a leadership team, in many of our main line churches, they have something called a pastor's committee. So when the pastor presents something that he hears from God and when he's speaking it, the Holy Spirit is just conforming it for everybody and everybody are saying yes and aligning to it. So it is the Holy Spirit speaking collectively to everyone and the whole team agrees on something and move forward with it. And it is good to have this and it helps ministry teams, leadership teams and also the local churches to work in one accord. I'll just give you two examples. One example is in Acts chapter 13, verses one to three, where five leaders in the early church were fasting and praying. And they were ministering to the Lord and the Lord laid upon them or the Holy Spirit spoke to them and gave them a specific leading and a direction or an instruction that they had to follow. And they acted upon that instruction. What was the instruction? The instruction was to set aside Silas and Barnabas for the work of the Lord. And all of these five people were so much in unity and oneness that as soon as they finished their fasting and praying and ministering to the Lord, they all agreed and they set apart Paul and Barnabas for the work of the Lord. Okay. There was no doubt. There was nobody saying, Hey, I don't think Paul has to go. I don't think Barnabas has to go. Paul is good, but Barnabas shouldn't go. But there was unity because they were praying the Holy Spirit would have attested, conformed it and all of them acted on what the Holy Spirit was leading them and guiding them to do. Acts chapter 15 verse 28 is another example where we see the first council in Jerusalem. And there we see in the council in Jerusalem, you know, Paul and Barnabas, they came together and they were discussing and asking the elders or the leaders in the church at Jerusalem. That is the early apostles when leaders, whether the Gentiles should also follow the Jewish traditions. Now the Jews were becoming Christians. They were coming to the church and they were telling that the Gentiles also have to be circumcised. They have to eat certain kind of food. They have to follow certain kind of rituals. So Paul and Barnabas were saying that it's not needed. Now, what is important? You are being justified or being made righteous by your faith in Christ Jesus. And it's no longer the law that is making you righteous so the Gentiles don't have to follow all these rituals. So when they presented this something that was a big debate, something that was very strong in the minds of these Jewish apostles. When they presented that it says that, you know, in the end they all issued a statement saying that this is a good thing to do. And the Holy Spirit, it's a good thing for the Holy Spirit is leading us to do. And we also agree to what the Holy Spirit is telling us. So they issued their statement as being good to the Holy Spirit and to us. Which means that when Paul and Barnabas were speaking about this very important thing which can become such a big controversy, such a big problem in the early church. The Holy Spirit was speaking to all the apostles and saying, don't let the Gentiles follow Jewish customs and laws. It's not necessary. So in the end, they all made a statement saying, hey, the Gentiles don't have to be circumcised. They don't have to follow the traditions of the Jews. They're free from all of these, but they have to follow the order of the church. So there was a collective decision that was made because of the inner witness of the Holy Spirit in each one of the leaders who were there at the first council in Jerusalem. Are you able to understand? Yes. So even as we hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, it is very exciting that we can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. But we need to be very, very cautious, careful in this area because sometimes Satan and his demons are also deceivers. They can deceive you easily. They are good imitators. They can imitate the voice of God and they can make it sound like as if God is telling you. So they can pretend to speak as though God is speaking to us and lead us astray, but we must test it. So how do we test it? We just don't go with our emotions. We have to see the facts. See the facts, see the actuals, see the reality, see in our own eyes, experience, see things and what we are seeing, what we are experiencing, what is the reality, what is the facts that we need to take into account rather than our emotions. So how do we test if it is the Holy Spirit that is really speaking to us as a voice of the Holy Spirit? I have already explained in the previous chapter. I have just explained to you. It was outlined for us in the earlier chapter about the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, how we need to test it. So the same thing holds good here as well. But as the Holy Spirit speaks, we must listen and we must also be aware that the enemy tries to imitate the Spirit of God and lead people astray. So sometimes the Satan can speak exactly like the Holy Spirit. We can make it so sure like the Holy Spirit. So that time you need to confirm it with the Word of God, spend more time in praying, speaking in tongues, waiting upon God to receive various different kinds of confirmation. So Lucy says, my daughter was so happy when you told me that we will see the next chapter over it. Okay, so did it help Lucy? Did help answer your question? Okay. Thank you. Any questions on the voice of the Holy Spirit? Now, Pastor has given quite a lot of examples about the inner voice of the Holy Spirit. I think he's even almost one, two, three, four examples, his own personal life examples. I'm not going to look at it because all of you like stories, you would surely go and read it. Rather than reading your notes, you will read these stories. So I'm leaving it to you and I don't have the time because I have to finish one and a half books. Okay, and we are rushing against time. So I'm not going to look into that. You can read Pastor's life example and it will give you more clarity and how you can discern the inner witness, the Holy Spirit and the voice of the Holy Spirit. Any questions on this chapter? Okay, no questions. Then we will, chapter six is the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now, I'm not going to do this chapter, the gifts of the Holy Spirit because Pastor Jaikumar Isaiah is teaching you about the Holy Spirit, right? And I confirmed with him. He said he will be teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So I'm not going to repeat it here because it will be a repetition. He will teach you on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Okay, we will move on to chapter seven where we will talk about very interesting things about dreams and visions. Okay, so even as we're talking about dreams and visions, I don't want you to dream now. Please, please listen and you can dream later and then you can discern and understand what your dreams are. Okay, so we will look at chapter seven. Okay, in Acts chapter two versus 17 and 18, which is a very familiar verse. We all of us know it. I think we all of us know it by heart as well. Okay, in the last days, the Holy Spirit will pour himself out on all flesh and it says, young men shall see visions and old men shall dream dreams. Okay, so dreams, visions and prophecies are a hallmark of the move of the Holy Spirit. That means we know that the Holy Spirit is moving in these days. Even as the last days, there's an increased level of dreams and visions. And this is the hallmark or the hallmark of the move of the Holy Spirit. And hence we need to be open to dreams and visions. Okay, some of you receive more dreams and visions than some of us. Okay, but it's good. God is speaking to you through your dreams and visions and we need to be open to them. Okay, now dreams have three different sources. What are the different sources of the dreams? It can be dreams can come because our mind is preoccupied with something. Okay, maybe your mind is thinking about something and that you dream because it is stored in your subconscious mind, you're dreaming about it. But don't think that it is from God. Okay, maybe you love food and now you're in a hostel and you're missing your home food. You know, and so when you dream about your home food, it's not about it's not God giving you the dream but something that you are preoccupied with. Or maybe you're in love with somebody. Okay, so much in love that all your dreams are about that person. It's not about God confirming that this is a person in your dreams is because your mind is so preoccupied with that. Okay, so firstly, the source of our dream can be something that we are preoccupied with. Secondly, our dreams, it can be also the source can be God where God is speaking to us. And the third thing can also dreams can be to demonic interference. So demons and Satan can also interfere in our dreams and put dreams or back thoughts in our bad dreams in our minds. So when when we have these bad dreams, these demonic dreams, what do we do with them? Don't worry about them. Just reject them. Don't permit those dreams to affect you. Don't believe in it. Don't let it cause any kind of fear. Okay, those dreams that Satan puts is for you to think about it be fearful, you know, so constantly thinking about it. Your mind is so engaged that you're not concentrating on God what he's telling you what he's guiding you to do. So what is the best thing to do is reject it. Don't permit those dreams to affect you. Don't believe in them and don't let it cause any fear in your heart. Okay, so there are dreams that God actually puts in your heart. Those dreams you need to pay attention to. Okay, now does God speak to us to our dreams? Yes, there are some scriptures that say Psalms up to 16 was seven. It says that God instructs us in the night seasons. He counsels us in the night seasons. Night seasons means that in the night God speaks to our heart. He's giving us instructions in the night. And how does he do it through dreams? Okay, Job chapter 33 versus 14 and 18. Can somebody read that please? Job chapter 33 versus 14 and 18. For God may speak in one way or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds. Then he opens the ears of men and sees the instruction. In order to turn men from his state and conceal pride from man, he gives back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword. Amen. Thank you. So here in this verse, we learn that God speaks through dreams and when he speaks to dreams, what is he basically doing? He's instructing us and he's keeping us from getting into wrong things and he is correcting us. So if you look at this verse, there are so many things. He keeps back his soul from the pit, conceals pride from man in order to turn man from his deed. Okay, so all these things that God gives us in our dreams is to instruct us to keep us from getting into wrong things, bad things, correcting us and warning us ahead of time. So what are dreams? So dreams are some things that we see in the night when you're asleep. You may see one picture, you might see one word or you can see a motion film, like a short film, you know, like a short advertisement. Sometimes it can be a little more longer than an advertisement, a motion film and you see things happening in your dream. Okay, now there are many different reasons why God uses dreams to speak to us. The first thing that God uses dreams to speak to us is to meet us and to encounter us. Okay, so God can use dreams to just meet us at the point of our need or to encounter us. For example, Jacob, right? Jacob in Genesis chapter 28 verse 12 where God, you know, encounters him and meets with him and tells him, I will give you and your descendants a land on which you are lying. So he meets with Jacob, encounters with him and he gives him, tells him something that is for his future. Okay, so God meets with him in his dream and how does he know that this is God who's speaking to him or sometimes when God meets with us and encounters us in our dreams, how do we know it is God? Because when we wake up, you know, we know that we can sense that, yeah, it is real. God has spoken to us and also something that we can sense that it is God really speaking to our dream was we can sense the presence of God. The presence of God so overwhelms us. It's not like a depressing thing. It's not like a saddening thing. It's not like a fearful thing that we have when we know it is from the devil. But when we know that it was God who encountered us and met us and spoke to us in our dream, you know, we can sense the presence of God just overwhelms us. We know for sure the full knowledge within that yes, this is God. His presence is so overwhelming, so good. So when Jacob woke up, he knew that he had met with God and he, you know, he puts that stone there and he pours oil and he calls it, you know, gives a specific name because he knows that yes, when he woke up, he was sure that it was God's presence that he had encountered. The second thing, God, the reason why God speaks to us in dreams is to encourage us. In Acts chapter 18, we see that Paul is being persecuted. Whenever he goes to synagogues and preaches, the Jews are persecuting him. But Paul does not stop preaching the gospel. He doesn't stop preaching the gospel. And then when there's so much of persecution, you know, Jesus appears to him in the dream, in the night and tells Paul, don't be afraid. I am with you. So it is just encouraging Paul, you know, Paul, go ahead, preach, teach. You know, don't be afraid of the persecutions that are coming or you've already faced because I am with you. So God uses dreams to encourage us. The third thing is he uses dreams to instruct and teach us. He instructs us what we need to do, what choices we need to make. For example, Mary and Joseph. Now, Joseph gets a dream, okay, when Joseph hears that Mary has conceived, you know, the Holy Spirit speaks to him because Joseph was very embarrassed about the situation and he quietly had in his mind to put away Mary, not to marry her. But we see that God speaks to him in the dream and tells Joseph not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife. So here we see through a dream the Holy Spirit of God is instructing and teaching Joseph what to do. The fourth thing that God does to dreams is he directs and guides us. The same example we can use of Mary and Joseph. Now, you know, we see that the angel of God of the Lord comes to Joseph in a dream and tells Joseph to take Mary and the baby Jesus and to go away to Egypt. And so they go away to Egypt to, you know, overcome the problem that is there. And after some time, whenever in Egypt, in a dream again, God tells Joseph to go back to Judea. So here is direction and guiding through dreams. And the same way God can even direct us, instruct us, teach us, guide us and lead us in dreams even today. The fifth thing is God also reveals future events through dreams. Now, for example, you know, Jacob was working very hard for his father-in-law, Laban. And God knew that Laban is going to cheat Jacob. So in a dream, you know, Jacob is seeing the male sheep, you know, mating with the stripe of the street sheep. And so God is actually telling him, hey, Laban is going to cheat you in the future. So I am going to increase your livestock because you have been faithful in serving him. So this is what I want you to do. Okay. So God is revealing future events, even in the case of Joseph. You know, Joseph's dream is revealing him to him in the future. And he's going to be in a place of position where his brothers are going to come and bow down and even his father and mother. Okay. The sixth one is God can even correct us and realign our choices, our will, our plans and our purpose. According to his will, plan and purpose for our lives. For example, King Abhimaleh, when Moses and Sarah go to that place, the king sees Sarah and she's so beautiful and wants to take her as his wife. And Moses is scared because he thinks that the king takes Sarah as his wife, he will kill Moses. So Moses tells Sarah, tell the king that I'm not your husband, but I am your brother. Okay. But then, sorry, Abraham, sorry, Abraham. Yeah. So God tells the king, you know, and wants him in a dream that, hey, you know, the person that you've taken is somebody else's wife is Abraham's wife. And then the king is all alarmed and he says, I never knew because, you know, Abraham told me that he was his brother. Okay. So God alerts us and warns us through dreams. Sorry, he corrects us and realigns us to dreams. This is the story of Ahi Belek. The seventh one is God also alerts us and warns us through the dreams. Okay. The wise men, when they found the baby Jesus, they were wanting to go back and tell Herod, but God in a dream tells them to go another way. Okay. We also see, you know, Joseph going to Egypt. You know, Mary and Joseph, God telling Joseph, don't take Mary and the baby Jesus and go to Egypt. So there is another alert and a warning. Okay. So God alerts us and warns us through dreams. It does not mean that God is going to say everything that will happen. He will just alert you so that he can prevent you from going through any unnecessary problems and difficulties. Okay. So these are some different seven ways why God, you know, speaks to us through dreams of why he is giving us dreams. Okay. Now, how do you know that a dream is from God and not from demonic interference? I already said that when you wake up, you can just know that it was God. You can just feel the overwhelming presence of God. You can just know in your spirit, man, your entire being that it was God. If it was demonic beings, you can feel a sense of uneasiness, tightness, you know, fear and all of those things. But if it was God, you can just know, you can feel, you just feel the overwhelming presence of God. And it was, it will not, you would know also it was God speaking to you. It was not demonic because it's not a nightmare. It's not scaring you or terrifying you. And also you would know that it is not your own subconscious mind that was speaking to you or the own activity in your mind. Okay. Okay. So that is dreams we need to be opened to receiving dreams from God. Okay. Now, the next thing that God speaks to us is also through visions. Okay. But if you note in some of these passages, which have been listed down here for us in dreams, in some cases, it says that the person saw a vision at night or visions of the night, which means that it could be a dream in which they saw a vision, or they saw a vision during the nighttime. Okay, so anything it could be. So some of the times where in these verses, you will read it as not just dreams, but visions. So you can just know that it was a vision that they saw during the nighttime. Okay. Now, when you get vision dreams, what you need to do about it is you need to write it down. If you know it is from God, write it down. If you're not able to understand, just write it down. Sometimes God can fulfill those dreams later on and you can go back and read and you can see, hey, God spoke to me to this dream and it is fulfilled. Okay. There are times, you know, when the dreams are very simple, we can understand it very clearly. Sometimes in some of our dreams can be very figurative. There are figures, there are symbols, there are colors. So what you need to do is you can go back to the Word of God. You can look at various people who had dreams, study it, various symbols in the Bible, various colors. What is it talking about? And also you can go to people who are good at interpreting dreams. And you know, you can get an explanation for the meaning of your dream. But more important, it's God who has given you the dream. It's the Holy Spirit who has given you the dream. So the best thing for you to do is ask the Holy Spirit. Say, God, you've given me this dream. You know, it's for a plan and a purpose and a reason. What are you telling me? Please explain to me. So God will explain, but you need to be open, sensitive, keep waiting on God till you receive an answer from Him. Okay. So that is dreams. God also speaks through us through visions. Okay. So visions are also something the Holy Spirit is doing in our own time. That is what we read in Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2 verses 17 and 18, that your old mental dream dreams, but your young mental see visions. So even in the times that we are living in, God speaks through us through visions. Now what is the difference between vision and dreams? Now in the vision, in a dream, you are asleep. Okay. But in a vision, you are awake. You're awake. Okay. But in a dream, you are asleep. But in both visions and dream, God is showing you something. He's speaking to you something. There could be a single picture. There could be a sequence of events. There can be like a motion picture that is happening. And all that is God is speaking to you when He's intercepting what you are seeing with visuals that He is giving you. And that is a vision. Okay. So vision is when God is intercepting your thoughts in your mind or intercepting your imagination in your mind and you're seeing something with visuals. It can be pictures. Okay. Visually, you're seeing something and that is a vision and God can give us visions to guide us and direct us. Okay. Now there are different kinds of visions that we see in scripture and we can categorize it as a spiritual vision. Now what is a spiritual vision? A spiritual vision is when you're awake and God puts pictures across your mind or a sequence of events in your mind or when you're praying, you know, God can flash something in your mind and through your mind, you're seeing these things and this is a spiritual vision. Okay. So it is all intercepting your imagination, your thoughts. It's projected on your imagination and it is coming out of your spirit, but you're seeing it in your imagination. So your imagination is like a screen on which God is projecting a movie or a picture, what he is directing you, leading you, showing you or communicating to you through that vision. Now, a spiritual vision, for example, can be Ananias and Saul. Okay. Okay. God directed Ananias and Saul, Acts chapter 10, Acts chapter 9, verses 10 and 12. God directed Ananias to go to Saul in a vision. Now Saul has encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus. He's in Damascus is blind. So God directs Ananias through a spiritual vision. And so, you know, God reveals to him, telling him where he needs to go. He needs to go to straight street. On straight street, he will meet somebody called Saul of Tassus who is praying and also Saul in a vision. He sees Ananias coming to him. Okay. So both these people are seeing a vision where God is telling Ananias, go to straight street, meet Saul. Saul is also seeing somebody coming and meeting him. So it is a spiritual vision that they are seeing. They're not sleeping, but they're able to see where God is intercepting their imaginations, their thoughts, and they're receiving it in their spirit. Man. Okay. Another example is in Acts chapter 16, verses 9 and 10, Paul sees a vision in the night where a man of Macedonia is standing before him and pleading to him and telling him, please come into Macedonia and help us. So immediately after seeing this vision, you know, Paul knows that it is God speaking to him and he is preparing himself to go to Macedonia and preach the gospel. Okay. So that is spiritual vision. Another kind of vision is a trance. A trance is, you know, when a person is not conscious of his physical circumstances, he's suddenly disconnected from this world and then he's seeing a vision. It's something like a temporary thing. Now, a good example of this is in Acts chapter 10, verses 9 to 16, where, you know, Peter is very, very hungry. There's no food. So food is being cooked. He goes up to the terrace and he is praying and then he sees something, he sees a trance. It's not a dream. He's not seeing a vision, but he sees a trance, which means he is not conscious of his physical circumstances, his physical surroundings. He's totally disconnected from this world. Okay. And then he's seeing a vision. It's a very temporary thing and he sees a white sheet coming down from heaven and on that is all clean and unclean animals and God is telling him get up and kill and eat. Okay. This does not happen. Trance does not happen only in the Old Testament. Sorry, the New Testament in the early church. It happens even today. Well, I read, you know, when I was, when I was teaching the gifts of the Holy Spirit, I read about this, you know, a man of God goes to a specific place and he's preaching the gospel there. So three or four days meeting and there was this young girl who was down with cancer and she was just skin and bones. You know, you just can't see anything in her body. Just skin and bones. So they bought her two days for prayer. Nothing happened. The third day when they brought her to this man of God was praying. Suddenly he felt he was disconnected from his old surroundings. The whole surroundings became, you know, dark and blurred. He just felt himself rising up with this girl and then he sees something like a evil thing, a small dark evil thing, you know, just holding on to that. There was a tumor in this girl's body holding on to that tumor. And it was just a temporary thing. They just see themselves in, you know, somewhere in space like this outside, not in the enormous surrounding standing. So they're not conscious of the surroundings. And then he knows that this is from the devil. He rebukes a devil and he breaks the bondage in the stronghold and that evil thing just falls to the ground. And then suddenly he feels he's come back to the ground and he sees that girl there and he's standing there and he sees this evil thing just running down the aisle. And the evil thing says, can I stay here? And he says, no, you have to leave this place right now in the name of Jesus. And that evil thing like speaks like a puppy. When a puppy is speaking, you know what kind of noise it makes. It makes that noise and it runs away. And after that, this girl, you know, is restored, strengthened and it goes to a hospital. There's no tumor. There's absolutely no cancer in her body. So this is a trans that this person experienced. So there are times when God also takes us to a trans where he shows us things so that we can understand what he is doing. Okay. So we see that even in this trans that Peter had, there was an open vision. Okay. So it's a combination of a trans and an open vision because he's seeing that open and, you know, the, you know, seeing into the spiritual realm, you know, so he's able to see that white sheet coming down. So he's able to clearly see in the spiritual realm. So sometimes in a trans, you also have an open vision and open vision is basically when you are able to see into the spiritual realm. So there is no picture or canvas that is happening in your imagination. There are no thoughts or movie that's happening in your imagination. Like it happens in a spiritual vision or in just in a vision or in a dream, but in an open vision, you're actually seeing into the spiritual realm, you're seeing into the realm of the spirit. And that is what the Bible calls as an open vision. Now for some examples of open vision is, you know, when Peter James and John was, saw Jesus at the mount of transfiguration, you know, transfiguration that happened, that was something called an open vision where they're seeing directly into the spirit realm. Also we see that, you know, I, that, you know, this, this, this mount of transfiguration was a place where they were not seeing a vision. It was not a spiritual vision. It was not a transfiguration. It was an open, sorry, open vision where they saw directly into the spirit realm. Okay. The third thing is traveling in, sorry, the fourth thing is traveling in visions. You know, sometimes when God is giving you a vision, whether it's a spiritual vision or whether it's an open vision, you're moving into a certain place, or you find yourself going into somebody else's home, or sometimes you find yourself on a mountain top where somebody is there, you know, jumping off the, going, going to jump off the cliff to suicide, or, you know, standing at a high point where they're going to suicide, or standing at, you know, rock where they're going to jump into a waterfall. So you're able to actually travel in your vision and go to that place exactly, and you're able to see what is happening in that place. But physically you are here, but in your vision, God is taking you to a certain place. Okay. Now, for example, again, when I was researching about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, I read about this man of God who was just finished preaching and God told him to pray in the Spirit. So when he was praying in the Spirit, he was praying not in gibberish language, but he was praying in a language of one of the tribal languages. Okay. And there was a mother who was sitting there and her daughter is a missionary in this tribal place, but this was a language where this pastor was speaking. And he was actually this lady, her daughter was going to die any moment. She had heard news, but they couldn't bring her to the town or anything because this was a tribal village. It was very far off. So this God led this pastor to pray in tongues. He was praying in tongues, but as he was praying in tongues, he was actually praying in the language that this this lady's daughter was ministering in that place. This lady knew the tribal language. And this man was saying, don't worry, God has healed your daughter and she has been restored. And he's telling her in, when he was speaking in those tongues, he was actually he's gone to the tribal village. He's been transported in this vision. He's gone there. He's explaining everything. How the room is, where she is, how she looks, how she's sitting up, everything. So when the person, the mother hears it, she is so encouraged. So what is happening here is this pastor is preaching, he's speaking in tongues, but he was actually traveling in his vision. He was able to go exactly and speak everything that was happening there. And the mother knew for sure that her daughter has been healed and she comes and testifies and praises God. Now we also see Ezekiel. Ezekiel, to read the book of Ezekiel, he was transported from Babylon. He was transported to Jerusalem and he sees everything. So Ezekiel's experience was traveling in visions. And the last thing is being transported in the spirit. So when you transport in the spirit, it means that the spirit is moving out within the natural realm or in the spiritual realm and you're traveling in places and God is showing you things. For example, Paul was caught up in the third heaven. John was caught up in heaven. Revelation chapter 4 verses 1 and 2. Paul was caught up in the third heaven. Second Corinthians chapter 12 verses 1 and 3. So here you are actually being transported in the spirit, which means that the person's spirit is moving out within the natural realm or in the spiritual realm and they're traveling to places and God is showing them things. Now, spiritual vision is the most common which we all have. We don't have not experience transported in the spirit or open vision or traveling in visions or whatever. But we need to, we can ask God that we like to have these experiences. So even as God speaks to us to dreams and visions, it's good for you to ask God, concentrate your minds. Even before you go to sleep, say, God, there's so much a junk that goes into our mind, so much of evil thoughts, unnecessary thoughts. Say, God, I'm concentrating my mind to you even as I go to sleep, sanctify my mind, cleanse me so that I can receive dreams and visions from you. So God speak to me through your visions and dreams. And so we need to be open to the visions and dreams because God leads us, directs us, corrects us, realigns us to his will plan and his purpose. Okay. Any questions on this chapter? Visions and dreams? Never question. Yeah. Can you take the mic please? Sometimes we are having a bad dreams in life and from morning you are sensing that something is going to happen. So this is from dynamic or something God is revealing to us. When I said when it's God revealing to us, yes, if he's something that is, he's warning us ahead of time, it will not be something that will be scary or frightening. See, you can sense the presence of God, you can sense the peace of God. So God is basically saying, prepare yourself, don't go there. Don't do this. Just pray for safety and protection. So what you need to do is you pray for safety and protection. But if you're extremely fearful and, you know, all of those things, you can, it can be demonic interference. You are saying some accident? Yes. So even if it's God is warning you about some accident, there can be peace that, hey, I know about it. It's God spoken to me. I'm going to pray about it. Maybe avoid going or you can just speak God's protection over it. In this situation, we have to pray in tongues. Yes, you can. I think it's a good thing to pray in tongues because you don't know what exactly to pray. Right. So when you're praying, you're praying in accordance to God's will. It's God who's putting the words in, the Holy Spirit putting your mouth, the words in your mouth to pray exactly according to God's will. Yes. How can we interpret? Shaker says, how can we interpret the dreams and visions? How to know the interpretation is right and wrong. How to interpret dreams and visions is basically to study the Bible, to see the different dreams and visions that people have. There's another great man of God who died recently, John Paul Jackson, who was a great, you know, was very good in interpreting dreams and visions. You can go to the website. You can get their books. You can get, you know, his sermons and his talks on dreams and visions. He has a great wealth of knowledge with God's review to him about dreams and visions. And then you can interpret that. Also, you can go to, you can ask God, you know, and the Holy Spirit has given you the dream. It doesn't mean that it's a mystery. He wants you to know what he's trying to tell you to the dream. So ask God to give you the interpretation. Yeah. Does that help Shekhar? Okay. Any other questions? Okay. If there are no more questions, we'll move to chapter eight, prophecies. Okay. Sorry. I did not give any names of the ministers who had the gifts of dreams. I didn't name them. I wouldn't want to name them as well. But just giving that as an example. Oh, you mean John Paul Jackson? Okay. I don't know. John Paul Jackson. But he no longer is alive. He passed away. I think two years back or one year back. Okay. Okay. Chapter eight prophecies. Now what is a prophecy? Prophecies actually a message from God inspired by the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit revealing a message from God. Do we see prophecies in the Old and New Testament? Yes or no? Do we see prophecies in the Old and New Testament? Yes. Do we see prophecies even today? Do we receive prophecies even today? Yes. Okay. So what is prophecy? Prophecies is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. And what is prophecy all about? The revealing God's will. What is prophecy all about? First Corinthians chapter 14 verse three. What does it say? First Corinthians chapter 14 verse three says, prophecy is for edification, exhortation and comfort. It's not about, you know, like a magic bow, you know, astrology telling about your past or your present, but prophecy is basically for edification. What is edification? Encouraging, building up a person. Exhortation means exerting them to how to live, you know, encouraging them how to build them up and comforting people. So prophecy is not about foretelling. It has those ingredients, foretelling and forthtelling, but it's basically about, you know, exhortation, edification and bringing comfort to people. Okay. That is first Corinthians chapter 14 verse three. And should we despise prophecies? Should we disregard prophecies saying, no, I don't want prophecies and all that. I don't believe in prophecies. No, we shouldn't despise prophecies. Look at verse 2, Sononians 5, 20 and 21 says, do not despise prophecies, but test all things whole fast to what is good. Okay. So don't despise prophecies, but when you receive prophecy, what should you do? You have to test it. Okay. You have to test it, whether it is from God or from the devil or it's from that the person himself just saying something for the sake of saying it. So you need to test it. How do you test it? The word of God, which is whether it's harmony with the scripture, whether it's glorifying Jesus Christ and also through the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to conform it through those eight methods, common ways that we saw through scripture and also whether it is glorifying God. Okay. We'll continue next week. We'll stop here. Anyone has any questions? Okay. No questions. Okay. There are no questions. Thank you all for joining class. Have a blessed weekend. I'll meet you next Friday. Thank you.