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Godly spirit. This narrow - minded attitude eventually caused think-
ing Christians to adopt secular thought exclusively and become
convinced that God could be known only through reason and not
through experience. ” So many have continued to put God in the
“ heaven or somewhere else ” box and have come to believe that
they cannot expect to have a personal experience of, or with, God.
Remember the quantum physics lesson “ We get what we think,
feel, and believe is possible ”? Well, why not practice what previous
centuries of spiritually alive believers have? If you desire and seek
God and people who are connected with the Creator and act as if
you expect this intimate spiritual connection to occur, it will build
a foundation on which your experience of knowing will grow.
I have had my most powerful, revealing dreams before and dur-
ing the greatest, most pivotal turning points in my life. The over-
whelmingly obvious confi rmation that the Creator is at the helm
of my life has carried me through every major leap I have made.
When I was eighteen years old, I awoke in the middle of the night,
knowing that my daddy had just died of a heart attack. Despite
the fact that he was only fi fty years old and no one had had any
warning that he was sick, I dreamed, or at least awoke knowing,
that he had just died. I don ’ t know whether it was a dream or I was
simply awakened by his departing spirit, but I was so sure, I tele-
phoned him in the middle of the night. The unanswered call and
the coroner ’ s report the next day confi rmed his time of death. I also
dreamed the date that I would be reunited with my husband.
I believe this was God ’ s grace so that I could bear the next nine
months of a broken engagement before we were married. In addi-
tion, I dreamed the actual birth date of my only niece, which gave
me blessed assurance of her healthy delivery, despite her forty -
three - year - old mother ’ s previous four miscarriages in two years.
As I recall the many intimate and loving connections that I
have experienced with my Creator through dreams, I realize why
I felt compelled to include them here. Dreams have been one of
the, if not the , most profound pathways for my divine revelations.
One day I raced over to see my spiritual mentor, Tommy Tyson, to
share my ecstasy of awakening with a profound, prophetic dream.