Hi Pastor John.
I have a question about Jeremiah 29:8.
What does it mean when He says, “Give no heed to your dreams that you are causing them to dream!”
How can someone cause someone else to dream a dream? Or is that not what is being said at all?
Thank you,
Anna
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Hi Anna.
It is easy for an evil man to cause others to dream his dream if those people are not filled with the Spirit and led by it. I will give you an example.
A few years ago, a sister wrote me, saying that God had woken her up to pray for me and that she felt compelled to warn me because I was breaking up marriages. I could not have been more stunned if she had told me that God put it on her heart to tell me to stop committing fornication with little green Martian women. Her charge, that I was breaking up marriages, was that foreign to my life.
A few years after that, in late 2007, I learned why she had called me. A backslidden brother was telling people, including that sister, that I was breaking up marriages. She took in that lie; it grew within her, and in her sincerity, she had prayed for me and then felt that God wanted her to warn me. That was not her dream; she would have never dreamed that up. It was the dream of a slanderer to whom she had listened, and he had made his lying dream hers.
That is how it works, Anna, and it happens often. Pray never to fall into such a darkened spiritual condition that God uses you to try the hearts of others by making them dream your evil dreams.
Stay happy and free in Jesus, and you will be used of God for the blessing of His people.
Pastor John