How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

was out of his body—that Richard prayed and asked Christ for help! On another occasion he actually heard a nurse use profanity and rebuke him for being in the coma. She was upset because it was New Year’s Eve, and she had to work that night and was going to miss a party! Imagine her shock when Richard woke up out of the coma and walked out of his wheelchair ten weeks later. When he recovered, he told the nurse her entire conversation in his room that New Year’s Eve! Despite the coma, Richard’s soul and spirit could still hear the words and voices in the room from time to time. The writer in Job said that when a person went into deep sleep, his “ear received a whisper of it” (Job 4:12). Even in sleep there is an inner ear linked with the spirit of an individual, which continues to hear. This is the ear that the Lord uses to give His instructions. This is the reason Christ addressed the seven churches in Revelation by saying: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7). A second passage in Job reveals several unique reasons, seldom discussed, why God gives His followers a dream:

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 seals their instruction. In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man, He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.