By Dk Daniel Olukoya
John 3: 8 says an interesting thing about the Holy Spirit. It says, “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.” It simply means that immediately you get born again and get filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it is impossible for the powers of darkness to trap you. They can hear the sound of your movement, but they will not know where you are going or where you are coming from. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit.
Here, we see two categories of people; the young men and the old men. The young men are supposed to see visions while the old ones are to dream. That is, visions to the young and dreams to the old.
A DREAMER
A dreamer has a lot of disadvantages. His greatest disadvantage is that he has to sleep before he collects information. For example, if a situation that requires urgent spiritual attention is happening at his place of work, he would fail woefully because there would not be time for him to go somewhere and sleep to receive a revelation. Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Christians who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit these days can be classified as “glorified dreamers.”
When you are moving below the level that God wants you to move, you will not be able to withstand the storm and waves that will come against you.
WHY VISIONERS ARE BECOMING DREAMERS
Why is it that those that God expects to be visioners are dreamers? You may think that it is impossible for everybody to see visions. In the Bible, we have the story of where Moses was praying for some people and the Lord took part of the spirit which was upon Moses and distributed it upon the elders and they began to prophesy. But there were two men who were not in that meeting but their spirits were there. Even though they were not physically present at the venue of the meeting, where they were they were following what was happening in the spirit and they caught the overflow of the anointing. Immediately the overflow got to them, they too began to prophesy.
Somebody ran to Moses and said, “Moses, stop them. They are not supposed to be prophesying like the rest of us.” Moses said, “Would to God that all of you are prophets, then there would not be problems again.” Would to God too that all those who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit are visioners instead of dreamers, there would be less problems.
Most times, dreams lack clarity. Sometimes, some people come to me to say, “Man of God, I saw myself at the back of a Mercedes Benz or with a brother sitting beside me. I was wearing a white gown, that looked like a wedding gown but I was not sure and the brother too, was wearing something that looked like a wedding suit, I wonder if God is telling me he is my husband.” I always tell them that they should be serious because they are not going to get married in the dream. These are the problems with the dreamers.
A lot of people have been confused by some people who rub charms on their eyes and claim to see visions. Sometimes the person rotates and dances under the influence of smoke, incense and drumming, circulating all over the place. Immediately the person begins to circulate, demons possess the person and use him as a point of contact to release the information already decided in witchcraft meetings about people in the congregation. They collect these evil prophecies thinking they are the words of God to them.
The reason many people fall victim is because they are spiritually lazy. If they can discipline themselves and wait more on the Lord, they would find that seeing vision is not a big deal like many people think. Many believers who are supposed to see visions are not seeing anything.
A lot of people have lost their money, cars and other things to so-called visionaries. How can a person build a house for 2 million and a so-called prophet would say he should sell it to him for 50,000.00 because he can see vision?
A man went to a church where a woman was commanded to go into the spirit to find out what was wrong with him. The woman danced round the place and when she finished, she said that the man was having problems because he was being fried in the same pot used for frying bean cakes. They tried to bring him out of the pot but could not. The man ran to the church. I made it clear to him that he had entered into some evil covenants by allowing a possessed woman to prophesy upon him. So, he had additional problem to the one that took him there.
Ignorance about the Holy Spirit causes all kinds of riots in the spirit world. Unfortunately, the Holy Spirit is a person most believers do not know.
WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?
The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Godhead. He is a person and not a thing. Many people have no problem visualising God the Father and God the Son but when we talk about God the Holy Spirit, they get lost. Many people think of God the Father as one old man sitting somewhere and looking at all of us. God the Son is easy for them to identify. Many people know that He is Jesus, the One who came to the world as the man of sorrow, man of Galilee, man from Nazareth, etc.
The Holy Spirit is not easily identified by many. But He is really a person, and since He is a personality, He can speak to you, open your eyes, and open your ears. He is the executive agent of God on earth today. When Jesus was going away, He said to His disciples, “If I do not go, the Holy Spirit will not come. I go but I will send you another comforter. This means that Jesus is a comforter, but He said, “I will send another one, that is the Holy Spirit.”
The Holy Spirit is not just speaking in tongues, which is a manifestation that you have received His baptism. He is more than that. He is not just an experience, a feeling or an emotion. The kind of spirit that you cannot control cannot be said to be the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He is a person who can give information, who can guide and direct you.
A sister prayed that God should show her the secret behind her problem. As she was praying, she saw a man of God who came to her and commanded that the wedding ring on her finger should be removed. He was so aggressive and he forcefully removed the ring from her finger, and immediately she woke up. When she woke up, the physical wedding ring on her hand was twisted like paper. This confirms the fact that a person who cannot see, would put on the material of his enemy without knowing. Such a person would use the material of his or her enemy to decorate his or her self without knowing it.
When you cannot see, you will wear things manufactured by your enemy, drink medicine prepared by your enemy and eat his food because you cannot see beyond your nose. God does not want us to operate like that. Some people come to counseling crying and saying, “I don’t know why I invested in this business. I didn’t know that the person is a dupe.” I always asked if they asked the Holy Spirit about the investment before they went ahead. They did not ask because they cannot even hear from Him. So, they end up suffering.
You must get close to the Holy Spirit and begin to talk to Him like a friend and companion. This is why we pray for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit becomes your friend then seeing visions would not be a big thing. Visions are just one of those things that He shows His friends. The Holy Spirit is now the one operating the plan of God on earth. He is the one that can reveal the hidden treasures of the kingdom of God.
God’s Holy Spirit is the most valuable asset of Christian living. So it is wrong to regard the Holy Spirit as just speaking in tongues, or shaking or twisting. It is more than that.
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