How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

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NIGHTMARES There is no direct Scripture passage or, to my knowledge, church tradition as to why at times sweet dreams turn sour. After many years of a fulltime traveling ministry, I have several suggestions from the library of personal experience. The atmosphere surrounding you If you travel much, you soon learn that all hotels and motels have their own atmosphere . The spiritual air has little or nothing to do with the type of bed, the colors in the room, or the pictures on the wall. Early in my ministry, our local church revivals would often continue for an average of two weeks, some lasting as long as eleven weeks each night—without a break. Pam and I, and later Jonathan, our son, would live in a small motel room with a bed, a round table, and two chairs for weeks on end. In the early days, few churches could afford to provide a suite or a large living space, and the smaller towns did not have contemporary facilities. Believe me, after about two weeks, cabin fever hit us, and we had to get out for brief periods to prevent the four walls from driving us a little batty! I recall in the early 1980s that there was one hotel in Calhoun, Georgia, where we camped out in one small room for three weeks. My wife and I experienced extreme difficulty sleeping, were restless the entire time, and felt uneasiness with the entire place. It took me several years to realize that in a motel/hotel setting, there were other people sleeping in the room before we