How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

THE PLACE OF GOD God had a plan, but He also had the place. Abraham was to go to the land of Moriah and offer Isaac on one of the mountains that the Lord would show him (Gen. 22:2). The land of central Israel in and around Jerusalem is surrounded by mountains— but God chose a specific mountain! Years before Isaac’s birth Abraham had offered tithe to the first king and priest of the Most High in Jerusalem—Melchizedek (Gen. 14:20; Heb. 7:9). Thus, the areas of Moriah and Jerusalem were set apart as holy to the Lord and to Abraham. It was a special place, a place marked by God. The phrase “the place” is found in Genesis 22:3–4, and 9. As a believer, you can be at the right place at the right time, the right place at the wrong time, and the wrong place all of the time, unless you know God’s will for your life! When Moses was discouraged with Israel’s sins in the wilderness, he desired to see the glory of the Lord, and the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me” (Exod. 33:21). Moses entered a cleft of the rock and experienced the glory of the Lord when he entered the “place” God had marked (vv. 22–23). Hundreds of years later, a depressed prophet, Elijah, ran to the same mountain (Mount Horeb) and entered a cave, where he experienced the still, small voice of the Lord instructing him (1 Kings 19:8–12). I personally believe that Elijah found the same cave—that “place”—where Moses had met with God hundreds of years before. God’s blessing for you will be discovered when you find