How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

W hen writing about the significance of spiritual dreams , I want to be perfectly clear that a person is not to live their life by dreams but by the Word of God. A true dream or vision will always be in agreement with the written Scriptures and will complement the will of God in a person’s life. The Scriptures make it clear that some selfacclaimed prophets can and will attempt to manipulate the hearts of innocent and sincere individuals with a false word and false dream. From the time of Moses and throughout the generations of the biblical prophets, one of the major thorns in the flesh of true prophets was the number of false prophets who often challenged the prophets of the Lord. In the time of King Ahab, a battle strategy was being planned in the war room, and King Jehoshaphat had aligned himself with the wicked leader Ahab. King Ahab marched his procession of prophetic puppets before his throne, all of them sounding like a broken record— predicting that if Ahab would go to battle, he would win! King Jehoshaphat sensed the hollow sound of these predictions, which sounded like a parrot repeating the same words. He demanded to hear from one true prophet of the Hebrew God. The only man of God capable of bringing a true word was being held in the dungeon to prevent his negative predictions from mixing with the positive prophets and possibly confusing someone! The real prophet, Micaiah, was released long enough to give a word, only he was placed on a verbal restriction from the prison guard to only speak a smooth, positive word that agreed with the false prophets. He played the game, until Ahab demanded him to speak the truth.