How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

Having two children, my wife and I have both discovered the significance of praying with our children prior to their going to sleep each night. We have taught our children never to go to sleep without first praying. Our daughter is read a story each night, and she prays a special prayer from her heart. She sleeps very well and always gets up alert and ready to go. (I wish I could bottle that energy!) I can recall our son, Jonathan, as a young child lying beside me in the bed, and we would talk about how there were angels assigned to protect children. At times, just before he went to sleep he would say, “Dad, raise your hands and see if you can feel an angel in the room!” He nicknamed my right arm the “angel detector”! We had so much fun, and he too rested well and seldom (that I can recall) awoke with any form of troubling dream. During Christ’s earthly ministry, parents would present their children to Christ requesting Him to lay His hands upon them and bless them. In my book Breaking the Jewish Code , under the chapter that deals with how Jewish parents raise their children according to life cycles, I wrote about the importance of parents blessing their children: The Torah reveals the importance of verbally blessing your children. Isaac spoke blessings over Jacob and Esau (Gen. 27), and Jacob blessed the two sons of Joseph (Gen. 48), later passing blessings to his sons (Gen. 49). Before Moses’s death, he pronounced a prophetic blessing on the tribes of Israel (Deut. 33). Devout Jewish parents and grandparents continually offer blessings over their children and grandchildren, believing in God’s ability to transfer His favor through their prayers. Blessings are preformed on Sabbath days, feast days, and various special occasions. It is important to begin the prayers of blessing when the children are young, tenderhearted, and more receptive, as they tend to feel more