How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

There is a difference in the vision or dream tarrying and you being the one doing the tarrying or delaying the dream. A tarrying dream is one that you do not see come to pass for an extended, rather long period of time. However, at times you can delay what God is ready to perform in your life because you are fearful of failure, short of the needed provisions to fulfill it, or uncertain of the timing. You may not always receive insight of God’s purpose into the future through a night dream. Your inspired dream may manifest in a strong inward pull that you sense in your spirit to take a journey, change jobs, or make a decision that could impact you or your family for years to come. At times the only way to test a dream or a strong inner impulse that continually throbs in your spirit is by actually stepping out in faith. For example, I have known of individuals who were burdened to assist the poor or minister in a foreign nation through a mission project. When they saw the suffering children and the heartbreaking poverty, their hearts would reach out, but their feet never left their hometown. A year or two would pass, and the desire to travel remained, but the excuses for not going outweighed the obedience of going. There was not enough time, not enough money, and not an open door. However, the only way to soothe the throb is to do the job and take a journey, even if it is only one week out of a year, and minister to those faces you continually see in your dream imagination .