Got Dreams? Want Answers? We are excited to announce our first annual Dream Extreme in Charleston, SC, on July 9-11th. It will be held at the Charleston Convention Center and Embassy Suites Hotel on International Blvd. in North Charleston.
What is a Dream Extreme? Above & Beyond offers many different spiritual acceleration courses to help give you understanding. We have two levels of dream interpretation courses, “Dreamology” & “Advanced Dreamology”. In addition to those, we also can personalize workshops, events, seminars, conferences, etc. A Dream Extreme is just that…an extreme immersion into the realm of dream interpretation. The mission is to give you as much as we can, as fast as we can.
This conference will be so much more than just dream interpretation. We will be offering teams of people to give you a word from God, personal prophetic art ministry, corporate prophetic music ministry, soaking music by recording artist Cathy Mart, an amazing band led by recording artist Paul Pace, a creative dream workshop led by Artist & Speaker Janice VanCronkhite, several special guest speakers, celebrations, impartations, surprises & so much more! You will not want to miss this event! Check out the website for further information on The Dream Extreme. Registration deadline is June 25th. Hope to see you there! Tell your friends & sign up for our newletters to stay informed.
JANUARY 21ST, 2009
By ADMIN
We often wonder where dreams come from. One source of our dreams is our own soul. I believe dreams can come from the body, soul, your own spirit, the demonic realm or God. We will just briefly mention soul dreams in this blog.
Our soul is comprised of our mind, will & emotion. Often we can cause ourself to dream things our mind is focused on, our will wants desperately, or our emotions severely influence. This is documented on the ancienct Hebraic scrolls in Jeremiah, chapter 29 and verses 8 & 9. It says,
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Do not let your prophets & your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which YOU CAUSE TO BE DREAMED. For they prophesy falsely to you and in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.” (emphasis added by me)
God is clearly pointing out that, not only are there false prophets and diviners, but that there are those who dream things they caused themselves to dream. He is making a clear distinction that He did not give these dreams and where they came from.
We have to be cautious when interpreting dreams that we take into account that the dreamer could have caused themself to dream something they want. Dreams from God Himself will ALWAYS have scripture references that will agree with the dream. That doesn’t mean the scripture will be verbatim mentioned in the dream, but that the message is one God has already given in His Word. This is one thing God showed me and confirmed to me. He NEVER contradicts His nature or His Word. We will teach you how to discover dreams that come from God in upcoming articles and Dreamcasts.
“Dreams are often a reflection of the soul, revealing the inmost part of the heart.” Teresa Ward
Ever wake up with a song stuck in your head? Or have you had a dream with a song in it? I used to blow off song lyrics stuck in my head when I awoke and chalked it up to an annoying interference that I couldn’t seem to get rid of. After studying dreams and the seer gift, I’ve discovered how profoundly God uses music to speak to us.
Ancient scrolls reveal that all of creation speaks of God and we will stand before Him without excuse and we will not be able to say we didn’t know He was speaking (Romans 1:20). After discovering hidden treasures in the way He speaks, I have found He uses everything to speak to me.
When I started paying attention to the songs that were in my head, either when I awoke, when I was in a dream, or anytime they provoked me to pay attention, I discovered God was speaking in profound ways. Many times I would pray before going to sleep at night and the lyrics in the song when I awoke would be a direct answer or specific direction for me. Other times I found my spirit would be worshiping Him with a song or that He would be lavishing His love on me. Just this morning I had several dreams that revealed I was discouraged and saddened about something and awoke on two separate occasions to hear the lyrics “you can’t escape my love” by Enrique Iglesias and another Christian song which I cannot remember the title, but the lyrics were “you are a child of mine”. It’s difficult for us to truly believe how much God passionately loves us and the great lengths He will go to express His love to us. How incredibly cool to have a God who is so fun and creative.
Many of you have shared with me how instrumental (no pun intended) music has been in hearing from God. I encourage you to pay attention to those songs that are vying for your attention and no longer dismiss them. They could be offering you encouragement, direction, warnings, or the love you need for the moment. God speaks in all of creation and we will stand before Him without excuse.
Email me your examples of how God has used music to convey things to you. Dreams@gatewaytodreams.com
Dreamweaver
JANUARY 12TH, 2008
By ADMIN
O.K., we’ve been busy behind the scenes preparing to invite you and participate in your spiritual journey. The first thing we want to do is ask you what questions are most pressing for you concerning dreams, visions, or anything else spiritual. We want to answer those here and develop a page of frequently asked questions.
Email us your questions at dreams@gatewaytodreams.com.
Looking forward to participating in propelling you into your spiritual destiny! Send your friends and let us know what you would like to see on the site.
Dreamweaver
NOVEMBER 30TH, 1999
By ADMIN
The hallow echo’s of the pounding fill my heart…I can hear God pounding on the box pleading with us to let Him out. I would be rich if I had a dime for everyone who said, “Let God out of the box”, but from the same heart comes judgment of what that looks like and it confidently declares, “That’s not God”.
God has always spoken through metaphor and still does. This post is not to explain all the ways, the whys and the how’s. Instead, I hope to provoke you to consider that God can use anything to speak to us. Thinking God only uses symbols in the bible is simply religious and presumptuous thinking. The bible itself declares that Jesus did so many things that all the books in the world could not contain it.
We just held our first annual Dream Extreme conference and, knowing it would be controversial, we had an image of a Phoenix on the banner. The message of the Phoenix is simply that of bringing something back to life. In preparation for the conference, we felt that was the main message…that God wanted to bring so many of them back from a place of ashes to a place of spiritual flight. He wanted to resurrect areas of their spiritual gifting.
Just as I suspected, many judged it as not being “Godly”. I suspect the reason is because the image comes from mythology and it is not in the bible. Are we to tell God He cannot convey a message that is in keeping with His nature – that of one that He is able to resurrect things in their life – because it’s done with a symbol we’d prefer He not use? If this is the case, you will forever have difficulty interpreting dreams, visions, natural and spiritual experiences.
I want to share a few examples with you where God revealed He can speak in ways we don’t expect. He can find good in anything He wants to. I remember a friend from Stream’s Ministries who had a dream about jelly beans. I don’t remember the fullness and all the details of the dream, but in essence, she had jelly beans and people were picking out the black ones. She was sad and said, “but I like black jelly beans”…and she heard God say, “I do, too!” The message came because many were thinking that the color black was always bad in dream interpretation and God was revealing to her that it’s not that way at all. And, in fact, I have found black can represent strength, justice, & creativity.
On a more recent occasion, I had a dream and I was interpreting dreams within the dream (This happens to me frequently. This is one of the ways God shows me how to interpret…He gives me understanding of how to interpret while I am in my dream). I have long wondered about spiders in dreams and their meanings. I was taught that it meant the occult, and many times it can and does. However, I was asking God about it because that meaning didn’t always seem to fit and a dream soon followed. In this dream, someone had spiders in their dream and I was helping them interpret. They said, “It means the occult, doesn’t it”…and I said – having knowledge that I knew came from God while in the dream, “It CAN mean the occult or deception (a web of deception) but if someone has a pet spider, it may be a good symbol for them!” I woke up and knew that God was reminding me that there are no absolutes and not everything we perceive as being negative, is negative.
I was at a local event fairly recently that was led by Brad and Jill McClendon and Jill was speaking about dreams. She also offered a great example that drives this point home. We are taught that snakes are always a bad symbol in dream interpretation. She shared that Brad had been having dreams with lots of snakes in them and it clear that they were warning dreams of negative things so they prayed. He finally had a dream where a King snake ate all the other snakes! Who do you think is the King? If you look at the attributes of a king snake, you will find they eat the bad ones. This King snake was Jesus!
Throughout scripture, God used metaphor and similes to convey the attribute of a thing or situation so that you could wrap your mind around the message He was trying to make. He wants you to look at the purpose of an object, symbol, animal, etc., to convey a specific message to you. In the Hebraic Scrolls, Jesus is a lion…the lion representing the “King” (king of the jungle), courageous, bold, fiercely powerful, etc. But if you’ll also look, satan is compared to a lion…prowling around looking to destroy and intimidate. There are hundreds of examples like this. Keep all things in context and look for the attributes when interpreting – and most importantly, remember God’s nature. He is a good God – and He can do ANYTHING He wants to and use anything to convey a message…
Let God out of the box – you may think you have, but you may have just created a slightly bigger box.
