I want to share with you a couple of dreams that I had in regards to hearing the Holy Spirit. Now, I want to preface this by saying that the Holy Spirit is not our conscience or our intuition. But if we learn to listen to our conscience, then we can learn to hear the Holy Spirit speak to the ears of our conscience. If you learn to do that, then you can be guided by God and not misguided by managers, bosses, or parents.
In the first dream, I found myself as a child, maybe 10 years old. I was at the edge of the ocean, walking into the ocean. As I walked into the ocean, I saw a demon. This demon was a sea monster coming out of the ocean toward me.
I immediately wanted to run to the shore and go back to where my mother was, but my mother looked at me and said, "Help your sister." I thought, how could this demon possibly be my sister? But maybe this demon is actually my sister, just dressed up as a sea monster.
So, I went farther out to sea and lifted up some of the seaweed on this demon to see if my sister was under it. Immediately, this demon grabbed me and sucked me to the bottom of the ocean, where I drowned. I was killed, and that was the end of the dream.
So, you be the judge. Should I have listened to my conscience or my intuition, or should I have listened to what my mom was telling me to do at the shore?
The second dream was similar. In this dream, I found myself as a manager of a hotel or a bed-and-breakfast, maybe an Airbnb, in a city like Los Angeles or San Francisco. In this dream, there was a witch who was going to rent out this bed-and-breakfast.
I knew this lady was coming, so I chose to stay away from the property during the time she was coming because that is what my conscience told me to do. But after a day or two, my boss called me and said, "I want you to go and help this lady out at the bed-and-breakfast."
Although I didn’t want to, I went back to the bed-and-breakfast to help out this witch because I wanted to be loyal to my boss and keep my job. As soon as I went through the doors of the bed-and-breakfast, all the doors slammed shut and locked behind me. In a similar scenario, this lady killed me.
So again, should I have listened to my conscience or intuition, or should I have listened to my boss?
Now again, the Holy Spirit is not your intuition or your conscience because both intuition and conscience can be wrong. But if you learn to listen to your conscience, then you can learn to listen to the Holy Spirit speak to the ears of your conscience. That is what you need to learn to do.
If you learn to hear the Holy Spirit, who is God Himself, then you won’t be misled. You won’t fall into the pitfalls of the world. You’ll be able to defeat the devil instead of being killed by Satan. You’ll be able to stand up against him because the Holy Spirit is in you.
As Christians, we want to receive the Holy Spirit—not just good biblical interpretation, good understanding, good morality, or good intuition. We want to receive the supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit so that we can conquer the devil.
Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you won’t be able to ward off Satan. Many Christians think they can ward off Satan with just clear understanding, Bible verses, or by surrounding themselves with church members. None of this is going to work.
Many Christians will find themselves killed by Satan—whether spiritually or physically—because they listen to their managers, bosses, moms, or dads and never had the guidance of the Holy Spirit in their lives.
This dream is a warning that we need to learn to hear the guidance of the Holy Spirit and trust Him.
The question is: Have you, as a Christian, received the Holy Spirit? Have you been baptized by the Holy Spirit? Is the Holy Spirit living in you so that you can distinguish between truth and error, and between your own conscience or intuition and the Holy Spirit guiding and protecting you?
I want to encourage you to pray and ask for the Holy Spirit. Pray that you would receive Him and that sinful things would be purged and cleansed out of you. Then, you could be the temple of the living God, and the Holy Spirit would fill you with His truth and light so that you would never again be deceived by people.
I want to pray for you.
If you want the gift of the Holy Spirit:
Lord Jesus, I pray for those listening to this message today. I pray that they may hear the truth, repent of the sin in their lives, and not be misguided by other Christians—whether they are called a sister, brother, mother, or father. I pray that those listening today may receive the guidance of Your Holy Spirit, that they would be baptized in Your Holy Spirit, put on righteousness, and be guided by the Spirit of truth. May they not rely on their own intelligence or be deceived by others or the devil. I pray this in Your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.
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