How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

church. She said that she had a dream that I was missing the will of God and should not be getting married at that time. She was very adamant and said she heard from the Lord a lot, and I should take heed to her warning. Herein was the clash between the dueling revelations. This woman said she was hearing from the Lord. However, the Holy Spirit had spoken to me in a fourweek revival three years earlier at the same church in Northport, Alabama, telling me that I would marry a beautiful girl named Pam Taylor. For more than two and one-half years we dated by phone. I was certain I was in the will of God and had perfect peace (which I discovered is the key to knowing you are in the will of God). I found out later that the woman who called had a teenage daughter who had a crush on me during the revival. This woman was obviously speaking out of her own spirit, since I have been happily married for more than thirty years! The point is that when a second-party person brings you warnings, you must “recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you” (1 Thess. 5:12) in order to determine the level of trust you can safely place in their words. Just as the Bible teaches, “Do not lay hands on anyone hastily” (1 Tim. 5:22), we must exercise caution in receiving a personal word . It is very possible that the Lord can and will use another person to speak a warning or an encouragement into your life, as this is one way the body of Christ can “bear one another’s burdens” (Gal. 6:2). However, the word must be judged. I know of one man who claims a major prophetic gift and continually makes predictions that are all marked as a word from the Lord . His reputation is in doubt