Join Rabbi Schneider as he guides us through an enlightening discussion on the significance of dreams in the spiritual journey. With personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, he illustrates how dreams can serve as both warnings and blessings, providing direction and clarity in our lives. Listen to how God uses dreams to challenge us to ascend to new spiritual heights and how we, in turn, can engage in conversation with the divine, enhancing our relationship with God.
I want to talk now about how the Lord in our dreams at night can even speak to us verbally and audibly. In Genesis, called in Hebrew, Beersheet, chapter five, verse 22 and 23, we read about this figure named Enoch. And the scripture says that he walked with God and was no more because God took him. The prophetic picture is that here was a man that was walking so closely with Elohim that he just ascended right up into the heavens. It’s a beautiful picture, beloved, of the Lord’s destiny for us. We now, through the Holy Spirit, are walking with God. The book of Romans tells us in chapter 8 that as many as are led by the Spirit, these are the sons of God, and that we’ve been raised with Messiah and seated with him in the heavenly places. And so we’re using this type of Enoch here. We’re using Enoch as a type and a shadow to teach us, beloved, how we can walk in greater harmony with the Lord today. I want to pick up where I left off in last broadcast. We’re talking now about walking closer with the Lord by paying attention to our dreams at night, because the Lord will speak to us concerning specific details of our life in our dreams at night. So if we want to walk closer with him, And he’s giving us direction or warning us or encouraging us through our dreams at night, just like he did Abraham and Jacob and Joseph. We covered all these in the previous broadcast. If he’s giving us what we need, beloved, in our dreams at night to walk closer with him, then we need to be paying attention, as I have said, to disregard your dreams is to disregard the voice of God, because Scripture powerfully reveals to us that one of the most common ways that God speaks to man is through his dreams at night. And so I’m continuing now where I left off on last broadcast. I’m talking about that sometimes the Lord will warn us in our dreams at night, we need to be paying attention. Elihu spoke about this in the book of Job, chapter number 33, when he says the Lord speaks once, yea, twice to man while he’s sleeping at night to warn him and to keep his soul from destruction. I gave some examples of that on last broadcast. I want to give another scriptural example of the Lord warning somebody through a dream at night as I go now to the book of Matthew, chapter number 27. This has to do, beloved, with Pilate’s wife. Yeshua is before Pilate. Listen what his wife says to him in the book of Matthew, chapter 27, verse number 19. And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying… have nothing to do with that righteous man. For last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him.” Pilate’s wife was warning him. God spoke to me in a dream about this man. Don’t have anything to do with them. If you and I disregard the Lord’s warnings to us while we’re sleeping, if we’re not paying attention, we are going to suffer, beloved, much pain. I remember not too many years ago, there was a man in my congregation. I felt good about the man. I didn’t have any issues whatsoever with the man. I was glad he was part of the congregation. And one night I had a dream about this man. And in the dream, I came into my bedroom and there was this man. He was lying in my bed like he had taken over my place. And I thought, that’s strange. It’s like he was stepping into my place, taking over where I was supposed to be. I didn’t say anything to anybody about it, but I did pay attention to it because I felt the dream was very odd. And a lot of times the Lord will get your attention. He’ll cause your ears to perk up to know that it’s Him when it’s so out of the box, when it’s so forward. You think, you know what, this didn’t come from my own psyche. And so it wasn’t but a few weeks later, maybe three weeks later, this man called me and he said, you know, I’d like to get together with you. So I went to a restaurant to get together with the man. We sat down, we ordered our food and he started going on, beloved, one thing after another thing, after another thing, criticizing, complaining, criticizing, complaining, criticizing, complaining. I just sat there. I had total peace. I had total security. I knew that the Lord was with me. How did I know the Lord was with me? How did I know the Lord was for me? Because the Lord already warned me because he showed me in advance what was going to happen. Finally, after listening to him for close to 30 minutes, I just stopped him. I said, listen. As soon as I began to talk, he interrupted me like within about 30 seconds. I said, listen, I listened to you. I said, don’t interrupt me while I’m talking. After we departed from that restroom, that was the last I ever saw him that day. God spared me and he also helped me to understand I don’t want you to give yourself to this person. God showed me, he warned me in advance so I could be prepared to deal with the situation accurately when it happened. And beloved, you and I are living in a world where there are dangers on every side. But God is able to warn us because he sees what we don’t see. He understands what we don’t understand. And he wants us to be able to perceive supernaturally what we couldn’t perceive in the natural so that we can walk through this life as Enoch did, beloved, ascending, hallelujah, and victorious in him. So we’ve talked about how the Lord speaks to us to warn us, to give us direction, to give us assurance, and even to launch our future. I want to talk now about how the Lord in our dreams at night can even speak to us, listen now, verbally, and audibly. Why do I share my stories with you? Because I want you to know, beloved, this is real and this is for you. This is now and it’s for today. I’m going to the book of First Kings, chapter number three, verse five. Solomon had become king of Israel and he has a dream one night. He falls asleep. So I’m reading now First Kings, chapter three, verse five. In Gibeon, The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. And God said, listen to this, God is speaking verbally, literally, intelligibly so that Solomon actually hears the words. And God said, ask what you wish me to give you. So God speaks verbally to Solomon in a dream. I remember the first time the Lord spoke to me in a dream, verbally. It was back in the 1980s. It was after my first semester of going through the Bible school. I really loved it, but it was a big experience. It was like a baptism for me. And so it was the first semester, it had just been completed, and now we have a break. I was on vacation with my wife, my wife’s family, and I went to sleep one night, and the Lord verbally spoke to me in a dream, just like He did Solomon. And here’s exactly what the Lord said to me. He said to me, ascend the day. And I believe that’s a word, beloved, for you. It’s a word for all of us, that every day we face is an opportunity to overcome and to ascend in Messiah, to grow from strength to strength and glory to glory. The second time the Lord spoke to me verbally that I recall right now, it was so specific. His word to me, I could have never come up with the verbiage that the Lord communicated to me in one sentence that was so sharp and so concise. Here was the situation. I had just been traveling, teaching on the Christian principles from a Judaic perspective, the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. And then this particular Messianic congregation that I had spoken in a number of times, they had invited me to come and oversee the congregation. And so when I got to the congregation as the new leader of the congregation, I said to the congregation, just call me Kirk. My authority is not in my title. But after a few weeks, I started to see that this congregation was in tremendous chaos and the Holy Spirit began to impress upon me. I want you to put this place in order and I want you to tell the people to call you rabbi. Now, I know in Scripture, the Scripture says don’t be called rabbi. But, you know, the Scripture also says call no man father. I think you have to take everything in context and put everything in balance. In our generation, a rabbi is simply the leader of a congregation, just as you would call your pastor, pastor. So I said to the congregation, I feel that the Lord wants to put things in order here, and I’d like you to address me as rabbi from now on. I did it, beloved, because I felt like the Lord was leading me to do so. Well, most people received it very well, but a few people resisted. Two of the people in the congregation that resisted, beloved, they had both come, from my perception, from abusive relationships. And so they were afraid of authority because in their life, when they related to authority, it was painful for them. So they were two people that were resisting calling me rabbi. They didn’t want to put themselves in an authority relationship that they felt threatened by. Now, there was another couple in my congregation who, This couple, the woman had been walking with the Lord. The man had not been walking with the Lord. He was a real rough, tough guy. And he had just come to Jesus. And he really needed somebody strong in his life to disciple him because he was such a strong personality that he could just roll over everybody. But he didn’t need somebody that he could be familiar with. He needed a lightning rod of God’s strength that could disciple him into the direction that would lead him into health and life. So I’m out to dinner one day with these two couples at the same time. Well, the one couple that was afraid of authority, they kept on calling me Kurt. And I thought, you know, this is really unproductive because this man that had just come to Jesus, he doesn’t need Kurt. He doesn’t just need somebody that he’s familiar with. He doesn’t need someone that he could dominate by his personality. He needs a presence in his life that represents the authority of the Lord that he can respect, that can have the power in the Holy Spirit to disciple him. So I thought it was really unproductive that this couple was kind of bringing me down to a place of familiarity that was not going to produce, I felt, the type of relationship in this other couple’s life that needed to be there. But I didn’t say anything about it. That night, beloved, I went to sleep. The Holy Spirit spoke to me clearly and audibly with these exact words. I mean, razor sharp. Indeed, beloved one, I could have never thought of this sentence myself. Here’s exactly what the Holy Spirit said to me about being called rabbi. He said to me this. He said, the office you stand in is sanctified and respect for it needs to be cultivated. In other words, it’s a special office. And in order for people to receive the benefit of the anointing through the office, they need to have respect for the office. The anointing that you respect is the anointing that you’ll draw from. And so the Lord really strengthened me and gave me specific direction by speaking to me, beloved, audibly in my sleep. And this is not unique, beloved, to just a few of God’s servants. God wants to speak to all of us. That’s why he manifested himself in Acts chapter 2 as a tongue of fire, because God wants to speak. A tongue, beloved, is a speaking oracle.
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7835 or visit discoveringthejewishjesus.com and now back to Rabbi now I’ve talked about how the Lord wants to speak to us audibly but I want to go even one step further not only can the Lord speak to us audibly but we can even at times and beloved I haven’t had an experience like this for years so I don’t want to give a false impression as if this type of thing happens to me every night No, this happens every four, five years, six years, however many, however many years. But it happens. I want to talk to you now about not only how God can speak to us, but how we can speak back to him and actually, beloved, have a dialogue with God. We continue the story in First Kings, chapter number three, after the Lord speaks to Solomon and says, ask me what you will. We pick up now in the ninth through the 11th verse. Hear the word of the Lord. So give thy servant an understanding heart. God says, ask me what you will. Solomon prays back to the Lord. Solomon speaks back to the Lord, and he asks for understanding to shepherd God’s people. Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of thine? So Solomon feels overwhelmed with being the king of the whole kingdom, and he’s asking God, give me the understanding I need to be a good king. And it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. There’s this friendship. There’s this relationship. That’s what kind of relationship we have with God. We walk with God like Enoch did. It’s a real friendship. Verse number 11, And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice. Behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given to you a wise and discerning heart, so there’s not been any like you, nor shall there be any after you.” So there’s this conversation that’s literally going on that God is speaking to Solomon, Solomon speaking back to God and God is speaking back to him. Isn’t that exciting? Beloved, we can have an encounter like this with the Lord. God is real. Jesus is here and He’s now. He walks amongst His church, beloved, even today according to the book of Revelation as the lampstand. We’re the lampstand and He walks amongst us, beloved, and He wants to speak to us. But we need to give Him our full attention because John 14, 21 and 23 says He only discloses Himself when we choose to love Him by keeping His Word and making Him first. So let’s seize His Word, and when He speaks to us, let’s obey it, because as we do, He’s going to manifest more and more and more of Himself. We’re going to hear Him speaking to us one way or another, just like, beloved, these biblical figures that we’re reviewing have. I had an encounter in which I had a dialogue with God. I shared with you the first part of it a little earlier. And in this particular encounter, I was laying in my bed, sleeping one night, beloved, and all of a sudden, as I was sleeping in this mystical state that we call sleep. Do any of us really understand fully what sleep is? There’s something beyond. We don’t fully grasp what sleep is. We enter into these different dimensions, these different spiritual realities. It’s a very amazing and a very profound and mysterious thing. But one night as I lay in my bed sleeping, beloved, the Lord allowed me to experience the pain in my soul. I wasn’t aware that I had so much pain inside. It was terrible. It was horrific pain. It was years ago. I shared the first part of the story in an earlier broadcast. And as I was feeling the pain, an angel spoke to me. I didn’t see the angel. I just heard his voice. And I knew it was an angel. And he said to me, You’re on the right path. I spoke back to the angel in the dream. I said to the angel, if I’m on the right path, why does it hurt so much? And the angel spoke back to me. And he said this to me in a very kind voice. He said to me, maybe if you’d cooperate more, it wouldn’t hurt so much. A dialogue through a dream, beloved, with God through an angel. To me, these experiences that I’m sharing, I pray and I hope that they’re igniting faith in you, beloved, that we’re not just waiting to die and go to heaven so we can experience Jesus, but Jesus is here and now on earth, beloved, for you and for me. And so what do we do when we have a dream? Many people, when they have a dream, the first thing they do is they go and talk with other people about their dreams. They look to this person. I had this dream. What does it mean? They want to go ask everybody and their mother-in-law, what does the dream mean? When you have a dream from the Lord, I want to encourage you to believe this. The same person, the Lord, the same God, Yahweh Elohim that gave you the dream, the God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the same one that gave you the dream, He will also give you the interpretation of the dream. So when you have a dream, don’t panic. Don’t look to everybody else for the meaning. look to the one that gave you the dream because only he can give you the interpretation of the dream father god we just want to thank you father that you’re speaking to us today in dreams and visions father we desire to be led by your spirit we desire to walk with you even as enoch walk with you not just in broad generalities, Father God, but through the nitty gritty and through the details of our lives. Father, thank you that you can lead us and direct us through the details and the small affairs of life. So, Father, we bless you today. And we ask you, Father God, will you speak to us in dreams? Open our heart, open our ears to hear. For your word says, he that has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Paul taught us that the Old Testament was written for us, believers in Jesus today, upon whom the end of the ages has come. What we learn, beloved, from the Old Testament, which was written for our instruction, is that Father God told the children of Israel to bring their tithe into the place that He chose for them. If Father God is using Discovering the Jewish Jesus to establish his name, his son, and his kingdom in your life, I want to ask you today, beloved, to make your financial sacrifice to him through Discovering the Jewish Jesus. See, the scriptures tell us that we should financially support the ministries that are feeding us. I want to thank you for your financial gift today. And I can promise you this, as you’re obedient to the Lord, Father’s going to bless you. I love you.
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